In the center of the square outside the castle there is a circular pool made of bluestone, the center of the pool is stacked with gray rockery, and at the top of the strange stone there is a magic fountain constantly spitting out clear spring water, and the splashing mist forms a colorful rainbow in the dazzling sunlight. www.biquge.info The apple trees on the edge of the pond have spit out new shoots, and each apple tree looks tender and green, and if you look closely, you can see that the bunches of stamens on the treetops are budding to be released.

Kig and I walked aimlessly around the square, and we would always meet some young orcs who came out for a walk, dressed in fine leather armor and with delicate swords at their waists, and greeted Kig with a smile and a smile. I don't think they're really in the mood for a walk, they just want to take the opportunity to meet Qige and say a few words.

At lunchtime, Kut sent a letter back, saying that it was a matter of appointing Kuz as the leader of the edge of the Death Swamp, and the presbyterian council had unanimously approved it, and the letter of appointment would be reissued after Kuz attended the coming-of-age ceremony, and the territory of Kutz's territory was north of the entire Death Swamp, and the edge of the swamp was deep to the north, thirty kilometers wide, and five hundred kilometers long from east to west, west to the Baipu Cliff at the confluence of the western mountains of the Pai Plateau and the Urutu River, and east to the southern section of the Yelian Mountains.

Now that the matter has been decided, we need to make some preparations before we go. Originally, we wanted to cut a few pieces of the magic antelope skins we hunted into palm-sized squares and turn them into magic parchment paper to make scrolls. However, Caterina's words inspired and reminded us, and she said when I was about to cut the whole Antelope skins: What a shame it is to cut such a complete sheepskin into pieces! When we first made the scrolls, we were all useless scraps of skin that we had picked up from Uncle Fred. That thing costs almost nothing.

We have enough Antelope skins right now, but that's not a waste! Once again, we thought of selling these antelope skins, and the largest number of merchants in Gurudin's town were leather and herb sellers. Although the price of the Antelope skins drops a little bit every day during the spring hunt, there is no shortage of buyers in Gurudin.

We asked Kidd about a workshop in the east of the town that specialized in making magic parchment, so we decided to try our luck there, the magic parchment made is usually an unconventional one-foot square white paper, the value of each magic antelope skin, the general pricekeepers need to take a tape measure and carefully measure one by one, to see how many magic parchment papers each magic antelope skin can produce, because the size of the magic antelope skin is very different. Therefore, the number of parchment papers that each Magic Antelope skin can produce has become the standard for the constant value of the Magic Antelope skin.

After cutting the magic parchment paper in this way, the remaining magic antelope skin scraps will be sold cheaply to leather shops by paper makers, and some leather makers like to use the leftovers of the magic antelope to piece together some magic antelope skin light armor, these magic antelope skin light armor made of scraps of scraps, although in terms of defense compared to the light armor made of complete leather, but it is better than the price.

So. We wanted to go to the Magic Parchment Workshop and find out if the offcuts were worth anything. We want to sell these whole Antelope skins and buy some leftovers.

The seventy-six pieces of demon antelope skins stored in the warehouse were rolled into two large rolls with a diameter of one meter. It's very heavy. In the afternoon, Kuz brought a mule, and we tied two large rolls of demon antelope skins with rope. Tied to the mule's back, Kuz led the mule slowly out of the castle gates.

On the way out of the castle gates. I happened to meet the young orc who was sitting across from me at dinner yesterday, and when he saw Kig standing side by side with me. His swarthy face immediately turned purple again, and he stood there helplessly, watching us as we walked by, and he woke up when he saw Kuz walking out of the gate with a mule with two rolls of demon antelope skins.

He trotted forward a few steps to keep up with Kuz's pace, and asked Kuzi on the other side through the mule: "Uncle Seven, didn't you say yesterday that you only caught three demon antelopes on the edge of the saltwater pond? How can there be so many skins? My God, have you caught a small group of demon antelopes?"

"I hunted these sheepskins with the orcs of the Raitu tribe I met on the way, would you like to go with us to the workshop to the east that makes magical parchment?" asked Kuz, turning to the young orc nephew in a beautiful yellow sheepskin coat.

When the young orc heard that he was going to the magic parchment workshop, he shook his head again and again and said, "Oh my God! I don't want to go there, it stinks, even flies can't survive there, Uncle Seven, I think you should let Kidd steward invite that master to us, how good it would be to talk here!"

Kuzi smiled and said, "I want to go and see their workshop, maybe I'll open one in my territory in the future!"

Walking east along the bluestone brick streets, through three streets, in the outermost ring of the town, we find the magical parchment workshop. The workshop for making imitation parchment paper covers an acre of land and is surrounded by adobe walls, and we saw the heat steaming inside outside the yard, and a sour smell spread from the inside, which was mixed with other strange smells and irritated my throat a little.

A few of us covered our faces with scarves and came to the outside of the workshop, and at that moment, a human craftsman in cowhide bib trousers ran out of the workshop, about forty years old, one hundred and eighty centimeters tall, with a bald head, and a pair of black tortoiseshell glasses. With a ruler in one hand and a paper cutter in the other, he said to Kuz, who was leading the mule, with an excited expression on his face, "Didn't you say that it would take at least a little more than a week? ”

"Ahem!" Kig covered his mouth and nose and coughed lightly, signaling that the guy had asked the wrong person.

However, it seems that this master craftsman knows how to read people very well, and when he saw that the person asking the question was squeaking and couldn't speak, he knew that he had found the wrong person, and he followed Kuz's gaze to find Qige behind him. He opened his mouth in surprise, and immediately realized the gaffe again. Hurriedly closed his mouth and said, "You also came here from the Grimm Empire to pan for gold? I'm sorry, you look so beautiful." I lost my temper for a moment. Is there anything I can do to help you?"

"Do you want to collect these demon antelope skins here?" asked Qige casually, rolling his eyes to the side, fanning the stinky mist that filled the area with his small hand.

"These ...... You don't plan to ship these demon antelope skins back to Grimm to sell them?......" the craftsman asked in surprise.

Kige waved his hand impatiently and asked, "Are you the shopkeeper?"

"Ah, you're a magician, forgive me! I'm the owner of this magical parchment workshop, and I've been running it here for five years......" Maybe it's because the shopkeeper hasn't spoken to anyone for a long time, or maybe he's a natural chatter, and anyway, as soon as he opens his mouth, he wants to keep talking endlessly. But this guy still has a little bit of a look. When he saw the black and white striped style of the devotion magic suit and trousers on Kige's body, he quickly reacted that the girl in front of him should be a magician.

From time to time, his eyes drifted to the two bundles of demon antelope skins on the mule beside him. He began to explain how he had ordered a batch of Devil Antelope skins at the beginning of the month, but the batch of Devil Antelope skins had not been delivered so far, and if it was two days late, the workshop would have stopped. But the door of the leather dealer was closed, and it was said that the owner had gone to the depths of the wasteland with his work to buy the skins of the Devil's Antelope, and the message left for the shopkeeper was that he would send the Devil's Antelope skins in a few days. So. The owner of the workshop would mistake us for someone who delivered the goods for the firm.

However, to the delight of the shopkeeper, we also came to sell the skins of the Devil's Antelope, and we did not sell the Devil's Antelope skins to the leather dealer, but to him. This made the owner of the workshop very happy, and then he told us at length about the current form of the leather market, so to speak. Any hunter who comes to Guruddin to sell leather, when they first enter Gurudin. They will be firmly watched by countless leather merchants, who will constantly persuade the hunters to buy the leather for them.

The tannery and magic parchment workshop in the town of Gurudin can only be found in a leather dealership. to buy a magic antelope skin.

Our appearance just solved the problem of the workshop owner's magic antelope skin running out of raw materials, so we sold it to the workshop owner very smoothly at an average of sixty-six silver pieces per magic antelope skin. Then we brought it up and asked us to buy some magic parchment leftovers, and the owner of the workshop readily agreed, and soon asked an orc fellow to take all the leftovers from the paper cutting room to the reception room.

Looking at the mountains of magic paper scraps, Kuz and I really saw magic parchment for the first time. In fact, the magic parchment is very different from the magic antelope skin. First of all, the flatness has been carefully processed, and even the offcuts of the magic parchment paper are very uniform in thickness. The second is that it is more resilient and soft, according to the workshop owner, these parchments also have some preservatives added to them, which will allow the magic parchment to be left for a long time without rotting. Last but not least, the magic parchment was soaked in the juice of the white-ringed vine, which repaired the subtle wounds caused by the skinning knife to the leather during the skin-making process.

Usually, for the inscriptionist, there are many reasons why a magic scroll fails to be made, including the lack of stability of the ink, the poor magic perception of the inscriptionist, the complex structure of the magic circle, the unstable mana control of the inscriptionist, and the excessive broken lines on the magic parchment.

Among them, the broken grain refers to the fact that during the leather making process, the peeling knife hurts the texture inside the magic parchment, causing partial breakage. This kind of accident is the most difficult for the inscriptionists to accept.

As a result, many potions began to look for potions that could repair parchment breaks, many magic potions had this effect, but they were very expensive, and then slowly found several economical ones in these magic potions, one of which was the juice of the white-ringed vine.

Looking at the parchment scraps scattered on the floor of the room, Kuz and I looked at each other, it turned out that we used to use semi-finished products, and those things were not parchment for making scrolls at all, but some magic antelope skin trimmings. Qige picked up a palm-wide and foot-long parchment trim from the ground and asked the workshop owner, "How do you sell these scraps?"

"What is the value of these trimmings! Only the people in the leather shop always come to me to buy, and we usually sell them in bags, and a sack is a gold coin......

When we came out of the magic parchment workshop, the mule not only did not have anything missing on its back, but added a sack of parchment trimming, and we spent a total of three gold coins to buy from the shopkeeper a full three-sack of trimming. The purse around my waist was filled with heavy gold coins, forty-seven in all. I didn't expect these demon antelope skins to be so valuable, Kuzi and I regretted very much that we couldn't hunt a few more demon antelopes at the beginning, and only waited until the food in the tribe was sufficient, and then gave up hunting demon antelopes, it turned out that the demon antelope skins were so valuable!

Qige quietly pushed twice behind me and whispered, "These gold coins are enough to buy a small courtyard around the Grimm Imperial Capital!"

"Jijia, let's go hunting the demon antelope again, I don't think we should just keep our eyes on those worthless sweet potatoes!" Kuz's eyes were also a little straight, he had been sleeping with old Kuru for all these years, and he had very little money on him, an ordinary Naiti bow, which only cost fifteen silver, made us almost lose our pants when we were in Yemen Town. Until now, it is still difficult for me to regard this guy as a noble child of the most powerful Ku family in Guruding Town, and this kid is full of dirt bags from the mountains.

As I walked down the street, I finally dared to take a deep breath and complained about the bad smell in the magic parchment workshop.

At this time, we saw one of the chamberlains in the castle running towards us from afar, telling us that the arms merchants had arrived and were waiting in the castle, and that Kidd steward had asked Kuz, me, and Kig to hurry back as soon as possible. The arms merchant, who had been waiting for more than a day, finally came to the door when we walked out of the castle to run errands.

In order to get back to the castle of the Kuz family as soon as possible, we didn't continue to let Kuz lead the way, this guy's memory of childhood is very unreliable, the squire led us through the streets continuously, the magic parchment workshop is at the easternmost edge of the town of Gurudin, this time, we returned to the castle, different from the way we came, first walked along the streets on the edge of the town, and then saw a straight road leading to the castle.

Along the way, I passed by many shops, and what made a big impact on my vision was the airport that docked two kilometers away from the small town of Gurudin. It was a lighthouse-shaped building, with twelve huge stone towers standing at the east end of the town, each lighthouse was 100 meters apart, and on the left and right sides of the top of the lighthouse, a wooden suspension bridge more than 20 meters long stretched outward. There are five magic airships nearly 100 meters long docked in the airport at this moment, the huge rugby-shaped airbag at the top of the airship is sprayed with this colorful pattern, and the large wooden ship-shaped pod is hanging under the airbag, and when the airship docks at the airport, the drawbridge of the lighthouse is on the side of the ship-shaped pod.

At first, like me, Kig always liked to look around curiously when she walked down the street, but as soon as we passed the airport, she began to become cautious, and her beautiful face began to look anxious, and she hurried towards the castle.

"Hey, what's wrong with you?" I hurriedly chased after and asked with concern.

Kig glanced nervously down the street before saying, "It's nothing, I just think we should speed up our progress and not continue to stall here in Gurudin, we need to rush to the Death Swamp as soon as possible." ”

"But we don't even have the scroll ready!"

"Tonight, no, no, we'll start preparing in the afternoon, I'll mix the magic ink first, and this time we'll do a little more, and try to be as prepared as possible. "Kig looked nervous when he spoke, it was the first time I had seen such an expression on Kige's face. She seemed so anxious that Kuz, who was behind, had to hand over the mule to the attendant who led the way, and he chased after us, and when he saw Kig hurrying ahead, he asked me, "Jia, how is Miss Qi today?"

I shrugged my shoulders and said helplessly, "How do I know?"

Turning to look at Caterina and seeing that the girl was also bowing her head in frustration, I realized that they were hiding something from me, but at the magical parchment workshop, Miss Qi was still haggling with the shopkeeper with great interest. In this short period of time, she became flustered, and it was the airships in the airport? )