The advent of the rainy season means that the water of the Benma River will begin to rise slowly, and the water flowing down from the Pai Plateau will fill the entire Xinghu grassland, when the entire Xinghu grassland is saturated, the excess river water will rush downstream along the Benma River, and the south bank of the Benma River, which belongs to the territory of the Grimm Empire, has a dam that winds for nearly 700 kilometers, but the north bank of the barbarian tribe territory is a vast grassland and wetland. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info

The abundant rain saturated the mud, and the barbarians hated walking on the wetlands very much, they hardly had the habit of wearing shoes, and staying in the wetlands for too long would soak all their feet, so the summer was northern, and the barbarian tribes would continue to migrate north, and they would avoid the rainy season of the Praunma River.

For the city of El Eyre, such a summer is full of life.

The caravans that came down from the Pai Plateau breathed new life into the city of El, and the great wealth they brought with them would be shared by the merchants of the city of El, and it would also bring some new business opportunities to the city of el, and at the same time mean that the civilians living in the city of el had more employment opportunities. In such a summer when everything is in full swing, the industrious people will not starve to death in the city of El, and of course it is a different matter if they are foreigners, at least they will do the hardest work.

This year's summer seems to be extraordinarily long, and standing in the shade of the trees, you can feel the heat emitted by the scorching stone slabs in the street.

The outside of the five stalls of Spee's ice shop was crowded with people buying red bean smoothies, but I didn't expect the business of red bean ice to be so good. A month ago, Spee was only carving out a small corner of the grocery store, but because I learned the skill of the 'ice wall', Marven rented the backyard of the grocery store and converted the empty house there into a simple ice store, the most valuable thing in the ice store was the four Ice Gathering Scrolls, which gathered water and ice in the ice store day and night.

If Tutor Heidi knew that I learned to draw ice scrolls in the first place to open an ice shop, I wonder if she would have frozen me into an ice sculpture in anger and placed it in front of her office.

With the abundant ice source and the huge business opportunities that followed, Marven also took down the shop next door to the grocery store, and after a simple renovation, it became the premier ice shop in the small market outside the War College. Today, Si Pei, who is in charge of the operation, has twelve employees under him, but he is still very busy. The red bean ice here is inexpensive, you can buy a small fruity cup with just one copper plate, a large cup with three copper plates, and a red bean paste is piled on top of the shaved ice and drizzled with a large spoonful of honey.

In the hot summer, some students in the academy would rather skip lunch at noon than rush over to eat a bowl of red bean ice to relieve the heat.

Considering that it was unpleasant to stand on the street and be sunburned in such a hot summer, Si Pei set up a pergola outside his stall, and set up some benches and square tables for people to rest under the pergola.

Towards the end of the semester, many students in the college began to prepare supplies for summer field training, and the fire-gathering scroll has been the best-selling scroll in the grocery store recently.

Si Pei put a bowl of red bean smoothie in front of me, and glanced at Marven, which meant to ask him: You see Jijia has eaten it, don't you want to eat a bowl?

Marven pointed to the owner of the ice shop who was waiting a little anxiously outside, and said to her, "People have been waiting for you for a long time, you go and get him ice." ”

Seeing that the diligent Si Pei was almost so busy that his feet didn't touch the ground, his ruddy face was covered with a layer of crystal sweat, and he didn't even have time to drink a sip of water, and he also looked obedient to Marven, and said enviously to Marven: "It's a little envious to see how happy you are now." ”

Marven pouted and looked at me with disdain, waved his hand and said: "Come less, I envy you is true, in the past, Ying Li was too low-key in our class, everyone looked away, now everyone is familiar with each other, even if you can't determine her identity, at least it is clear that she must be a wealthy lady, Jia, you tell me the truth, are the girlfriends around Ying Li her personal maids?"

Looking at the fire of gossip burning in his eyes, I really don't understand how he usually maintains a serious appearance.

Seeing that I didn't answer, he was not discouraged and continued to ask me: "I heard that some of the wealthy ladies in the big nobles are very reserved before they get married, and they have to take into account the honor of the family, and some old aristocratic families have a lot of rules, so have you ever kissed her?"

Impatiently tapping the plate with the red bean ice with a silver spoon, Marven smiled and waved at me to say that the matter would not be mentioned.

He carefully examined the stack of fire-gathering scrolls to make sure that the magic circle in each scroll was working normally, and then re-tied the scrolls with a straw rope made of Ma Lian leaves, and then carefully packed them into a beautiful strip of cardboard boxes, this is the middle of the grocery store, where Marven usually rests, and there is a set of women's light armor hanging on the hanger in the corner, which should be Si Pei's training uniform in the academy.

Seeing that I had almost eaten, Marven turned to the topic and said to me: "The three magic rune plates on the counter were bought by the fat boss of the magic shop on the street corner yesterday, Jia, the price of our rune board seems to be set a little low, you don't know how obscene he was when he wanted to laugh but didn't dare to laugh, I went to other shops to observe, those blank red copper-plated metal plates can be sold for about fifty silver coins, we only sell seventy silver coins, are you sure there is a profit?"

Not only is it profitable, such a one-foot square iron plate is bought back from the blacksmith shop, it only takes five silver hammers, take it to the alchemist's workshop, and let the alchemist plate thin a layer of magic red copper on it, which is only the price of twenty silver, such a copper-plated metal plate will be sold for fifty silver in the magic shop, there are many reasons for this, in short, this business itself is a huge profit, in addition, the underground world of Xinliu Valley has provided us with a large amount of magic red copper, so that the cost of making rune metal plates has been greatly reduced。

"There's still a big surplus. "I explained the reason to Marven and casually told me something about the magic rune board.

The magic rune board is a new thing for Marven, and many magicians don't deliberately understand this kind of thing, let alone Marven, who has just been a magic apprentice for less than four months.

Magic rune plate is a mixture of inscription and magic metal, magic rune metal plate usually only appears in magic item crafting workshops or inscription master's workshops, it can be said that its market is very small, and its use is only used to make some magic tools, such as magic caravans, or magic lamps, or magic doors, etc., and so on can use rune metal plates.

When the Yerkes scholar brought me into contact with the rune metal plate, it was originally to remake his magic puppet, at that time he used a lot of magic metal, so on the skeleton of the magic puppet, you can draw a lot of special magic runes, used to improve the performance of the magic puppet, later, the real drawing of the rune metal plate is because of the magic apprentice Theresa's magic pet, Yerkes had a whim, wanted to make a combined magic pattern structure for Rock Gaolun, and then we were busy day and night for nearly a month, and finally made a combined shoulder pads, the effect was also very good, but due to the high cost, we were forced to abort the experiment。

Later, although I brought back a large amount of magical red bronze from the Valley of the Willows, it was a pity that I was unable to complete the rest of the magical pattern construction until the Yerkis scholars left El City.

Originally, the Yerkis scholars wanted to bring those runic metal plates to the imperial capital, but considering the long distance, they gave up. Some belong to the Academy, and some belong to the Academy, and others belong to us, and Yerkes left those rune plates to me.

I didn't have a place to dispose of the metal plates covered in magic runes, so I simply took them to the grocery store and tried to sell them, but a week later, the rune metal plates in the corner of the counter were actually sold.

"His family makes magic phonographs, what's the use of asking for those three metal plates of the anti-gravity magic pattern array?" I asked Marven a little confused.

Marven shrugged his shoulders, indicating that he couldn't understand it, and then said casually: "Maybe it's because it's cheap?"

"Maybe!" I said, somewhat absent-mindedly. "Those rune metal plates can be installed on the magic caravan if they are slightly changed, and a magic crystal groove is inlaid in the core, but the current large magic caravans are too heavy, and there are no magic pattern circles such as 'anti-gravity field' and 'light body technique', and it is difficult for ordinary horses to pull them. ”

"Maybe we should hire an alchemist......," Marven suggested.

I suggested to Marven, "You have the final say, but why don't we hire a potions master?

He was a little embarrassed and said, "Jia, I want to try to learn magic potions, although I know that my talent is a little worse, but if I want to open a potions shop, the potions master will take a large part of the profits, rather than sharing those profits with outsiders, it is better for us to learn how to make magic potions ourselves......"

It wasn't until I came out of the magic grocery store with those thoughts of Marven that I thought: this guy was born to be a great businessman.

Marven also told me about what happened in the academy today, it is said that a group of warrior apprentices in the academy seriously injured a fourth-year student named Abel, this fourth-year student is said to be an excellent student who has just been promoted to a full-fledged soldier, the academy is dealing with this matter seriously, but the specific situation has not been publicly stated, it is said that the guard battalion has come forward and officially brought Abel back to the guard battalion.

In addition, last night, a group of civilian students actually broke through the manor of the former city lord, and engaged in a fire fight with the acolytes of the noble students inside. Some of these civilian students who trespassed into the aristocratic manor were caught by the knights of the Knights of the Guard Battalion, and others took advantage of the chaos to escape. Now the whole of El is arresting the students who took advantage of the chaos to escape.

Things got very complicated overnight.

Many citizens initially felt that the glory of the nobility was inviolable, and that those commoner students who trespassed on the noble manor should be severely punished, and that they should all be sent to the border town to repair the city walls. But things seem to have taken a turn for the better, some people say that it is a trap set by the aristocratic teenagers, who directed and staged a farce, and set a trap for this group of students who have never been in the world, the purpose is to force this group of outstanding students of civilian nationality to join these aristocratic families and become the servants of these aristocratic teenagers.

The key figure was the organizer of the event, Abel, who denied adding hallucinogens to the golden cider and giving it to the civilian students.

However, the professional magic apothecary in the guard camp found hallucinogens in the remaining golden cider, and the tavernkeeper denied that the hallucinogens came from the tavern, for the simple reason that the hallucinogens themselves were more expensive than the golden cider, and the tavern had no reason to do a loss-making business.

All the signs pointed to the aristocratic boys in the manor, and the prestige of the nobles in the city of El fell to the lowest point ever.

Originally, the parents of the commoner students who committed the crime were still running around in the morning, ready to ask a certain noble lord to take his son as a servant, so as to avoid the punishment of being sent to a small border town to repair the city wall, but I heard that all this was a farce written and performed by the nobles themselves, in order to make the outstanding students of the commoner become the servants of the nobles.

Many backbone commoners said that they would rather go to Puli to repair the city wall than be a subordinate to such a nobleman. Some of the students who managed to escape from the manor spontaneously went to the guard camp to confess their guilt and asked the guard camp to send them to Puli to repair the city wall.

Originally, in the morning, the guard battalion still needed to mobilize a large number of troops to search for the escaped students in the city of El, but in the afternoon, these knights returned to their original posts with nothing to do.

It was a dramatic day, the commoners were severely punished, but their reputations were not damaged, but what reputation did the commoners want? The aristocratic boys who shot themselves in the foot, were severely reprimanded by the family, although in the academy, the nobles and commoners fought against each other, and the aristocratic students won the victory, but this victory tarnished the reputation of the nobles, which was simply a stain that the nobles would bear for the rest of their lives.

Many people said that this group of noble children had done something stupid, but before the matter had subsided, another big incident happened in the city of El......

When I returned home in the evening, I found that there were many knights of the Knights of the Guard Battalion gathered in the distance on the central street, and they were all already on their horses and ready to go out of the city...... (To be continued.) )