Chapter Thirty-Nine: There is a mine at home
"The eldest young master is ready, ready to go at any time," Li Tianlong said to Liu Lei, wearing a simple armor and standing next to five set carriages with a sword.
On the wagon was a month's harvest since the valley was opened, two wagons of nitrated animal skins, one cart of herbs, and the remaining two were empty and ready to pull supplies when they returned. In the past month, everyone has repaired the wall on the back side, and at the same time widened the front wall to two meters with mud, and now the wall at the mouth of the valley on the front side of the valley is three meters high, two meters wide, and five hundred meters long, and the attacks of wild beasts and thieves are no longer a threat.
In a month's time, a living place composed of dozens of simple houses has been built in the valley, and a lot of precious medicinal materials have also been found in the valley.
This time Liu Lei and others are going to the town is also the fiefdom of the Liu family, it is the Muhua Town under the jurisdiction of his third uncle Liu Tianzheng, Li Tianlong with five family members, five expedition members, and twenty people escort the car, this time the materials are all the income of Qingfeng Town in the future for a period of time, Liu Lei and others dare not have a trace of mistakes, this time Liu Lei also took Xiao Cui who had recovered from his injuries, since he was driven out of Liu Lei in embarrassment, he has not had time to accompany Xiao Cui well, this time he brought her, it is to let her scatter her heart and make amends.
"Good! Here comes Liu Lei heard Li Tianlong's urging, and hurriedly instructed Zhu Dezhi and others to say two more words, and then rode on horseback, Liu Lei has learned to ride a horse in a month, although it is shaky, but it will not fall, it has become a first-order Warcraft War Bear, it is too eye-catching, he doesn't dare to ride out again, and it is also a killer feature in the town.
Li Tianlong saw Liu Lei get on the horse, waved his big hand, and the convoy slowly walked out of the gate surrounded by everyone, Zhu Dezhi sent out of the door, and watched the convoy go away and whispered: "God bless, young master, they have a good journey"
The carriage walked on the mountain road with difficulty, because there was no road near the inaccessible area, and the carriage could only choose a slightly flatter ground to walk, and only after reaching the thief's cottage did there be a simple mountain road.
Xiaocui sat in the carriage, uncomfortable, had to ride on a horse with Liu Lei, this is bitter Liu Lei, a young man who guarded himself like jade in his previous life, and was a young man with strong blood in this life, smelling the body fragrance of the girl's body, feeling each other's body temperature, Xiaocui's hair was blown by the breeze, like a little hand constantly scratching Liu Lei's heart, Liu Lei's face was flushed, and he couldn't help hiding back, trying to hide his physiological reaction, only to see a group of people around him who couldn't stop covering their mouths and snickering.
After suffering all the way, Liu Lei finally arrived at the resting place when it was dark, and Liu Lei was relieved.
When he went to bed at night, Xiao Cui specially boiled some boiling water to wash Liu Lei's feet, looking at Xiao Cui's slightly red cheeks under the firelight, Liu Lei's heart was ape, and he forcibly suppressed the anger in his heart, the common sense of his previous life told him that Xiao Cui is still young now, and it is not good for his body to break too early, anyway, it is in his own bowl and keep it for later, it tastes better, Liu Lei comforted himself like this.
I don't know the effect of comfort, but Liu Lei had a spring dream all night. Early the next morning, everyone came out again, and finally arrived at the cottage at noon.
The blacksmith who received the notice led people to greet him at the gate of the village.
Liu Lei saw the blacksmith hurriedly turn over and dismount from a distance, and often let out a sigh of relief, which made Xiaocui unhappy and pouted.
"Big Young Master"
Seeing Liu Lei coming over, the blacksmith led people to kneel down in a hurry.
"Get up! All up"
Liu Lei is still not used to being kneeled for him.
Seeing that the convoy had entered the cottage, Liu Lei asked the blacksmith on the side, "How is it?" We've been gone for a month, what's the matter? ”
Although the cottage and the valley have always been in contact every few days, Liu Lei is still a little uneasy, after all, there is an iron mine here that will lay golden eggs, if it weren't for the new construction of Qingfeng Town, Liu Lei would like to pull everyone over to open the mine, and the hard days of mining Qingfeng Town as soon as possible can end early.
"Don't worry, young master, nothing has happened for more than a month, good news but there is one" the blacksmith said flatteringly, with a hint of excitement in his tone.
Liu Lei turned his head, his expression was also very excited, and he asked eagerly: "Is the iron ore proven?" What do you think? ”
"The Great Young Master is Wise"
The blacksmith complimented again.
"After the villain's sleepless efforts for a month, it is basically certain that the mountain behind us is all iron ore."
"It's all iron ore?" Liu Lei was shocked, although this mountain is not high, it is nearly 100 meters in a radius of dozens of miles, this is all iron ore, how many reserves there must be.
Seeing Liu Lei's expression, the blacksmith obviously misunderstood, and said with some sincere fear: "Young master, don't worry, although the reserves are a little smaller, it can only be regarded as a small mine, but this iron ore is indeed a medium-quality red crystal iron ore, and its affinity for fighting spirit is only a little worse than that of the high-grade Yaojing iron ore, and now the common weapons in the mainland are generally made by it." ”
Is this still a small mine? Liu Lei roared in his heart, but he also just figured out that the area of the Mixed Yuan Continent was originally tens of millions of times larger than the earth, and the property was also many times larger than the earth, and after thinking about this, Liu Lei suppressed the joy in his heart and nodded.
The blacksmith still thought he was not satisfied, and continued: "Young Master, according to past experience, iron ore will have associated ores, and the value will not be too inferior, and the most important thing is that there will be some essence ores inside each iron ore, these ores will not be too many, and the quality varieties are also random, but generally speaking, the value of these essence ores should be about two or three times that of the entire iron ore." ”
Well, Liu Lei has been completely stunned by the news, although there are a lot of iron ores in the mainland, but if you divide the area, there is not everywhere, plus because of the superb craftsmanship of human beings, there are not a few kinds of metals sold to other races every year, so the price of ore in the sphere of influence of human beings is not low.
Liu Lei walked to the side of the car that was loading ore, picked up a piece of silver-white ore and looked at it, this thing was now a shining gold coin in his eyes.
"Young Master, look at this"
The blacksmith took out a ruddy stone from the small corner of the car and handed it to Liu Lei.
"What is this?"
Liu Lei looked at the stone in his hand and was a little puzzled.
"Young Master, this is red crystal iron ore, the one you just saw is just the associated ordinary iron ore, which was mined by the previous group of thieves, they didn't know how to explore, and only dug the shallowest iron ore, these red crystal iron ore was only dug out this month, only about fifty catties"
Liu Lei touched the strange stone in his hand, his heart was hot, and he pretended to ask casually: "Do you know how much red crystal ore is worth?" ”
The blacksmith thought that Liu Lei was testing himself, and said modestly: "This fifty catties should be worth about fifty gold coins, if this is in a country bordering the grassland, the price will be even more ............."
Before the blacksmith finished speaking, Liu Lei turned around suddenly, his eyes were red, and the blacksmith was startled.
"Dig! Dig fast! Liu Lei said excitedly that a pound is worth a gold coin, which is faster than grabbing money.
"Young master, this ...... Not enough people? The blacksmith hesitated.
"If you think of a way, I support it" Liu Lei waved his hand.
"This ...... Young Master, then you can buy some slaves," the blacksmith began.
"Slaves?" Liu Lei was stunned for a moment.
"Yes, slave, as long as you have the strength, if you have enough manpower, the mining speed can come up, if there are professional talents, I can't keep myself busy."
Liu Lei lowered his head and groaned, although he came from a civilized society, he was very repulsive to the existence of slaves, but he was powerless to change it, and the blacksmith was really a good way, maybe he could buy more people and expand the manpower.
"Okay, you go with us this time, I heard Uncle Li say that there seems to be a slave market in Muhua Town, and you can pick it up when the time comes."
The blacksmith nodded yes again and again.
"By the way, what's your name?" Liu Lei asked suddenly.
The blacksmith who had just been talking eloquently suddenly looked a little entangled when he heard Liu Lei, and stammered a little and said, "I...... The villain's surname is not worth mentioning...... Call me a blacksmith."
Liu Lei glanced at the blacksmith and didn't say anything, although he didn't know why the blacksmith didn't say what his surname was, but he didn't plan to delve into it, everyone has their own secrets.
"Okay, I'll call you later, blacksmith!"