Chapter 50: The Carriage and the Grain
As Clough bites into the apple chips, the apple's special aroma gradually restores from the saliva-moistened chips and then penetrates into the taste buds, making people believe that it is an apple - but it has been magically transformed into its current appearance.
"I have to admire your skills in discovering delicious food...... "After Clough chewed the chips thoroughly, he couldn't help but admire the unique taste of the girl Wolfe from the bottom of his heart. Then again, how much does that thing cost? ”
"What?" The girl's bulging cheeks vibrated so loudly that Clough could barely make out the sound. "Ah, the chips...... I forgot how much it was. Hey, hey, hey, hey......"
"Well, you can't help it—that's fooling?"
"Uh-huh!" The two stared at each other, Clough looked disdainful, while Wolf nodded desperately, his eyes wide open, pretending to be completely innocent.
"And what about the green ticket I gave you?" Clough turned his gaze back to the front and asked a question he knew the answer to.
"That's ~ not enough flowers at all!" Wolf reached to his waist and shook his wallet, "It's still a little loud, and the rest is gone." ”
50 yuan, for Clough, is more than a quarter of the estimated profit from this trade. At this moment, Clough's heart, as a businessman, was bleeding, and Clough's heart, as a man, was full of fluctuations, and he even wanted to laugh.
"Hey, whoever raises you in the future will have their property ruined......" Clough couldn't help but open his mouth to sigh when he thought of this. If you don't make enough money to eat, you might as well find a place to have your own shop. ”
Clough said, deliberately using his afterglow to look at Wolfe, who was still glued to apple chips.
Perhaps because he was accustomed to Clough's low-level ridicule, Wolf didn't take it seriously at all.
"If you don't want to raise it, don't raise it~ People can find a place to live by teaching knowledge, no matter how bad it is......"
"Isn't it just dancing? Beautiful young lady, how about dancing at night with the light of the two moons tonight? ”
"Tsk...... Poor. Wolf pouted, and very arbitrarily concluded that the flirtatious girl who had already picked up her traveling companion had already taken care of her.
But Wolfe's first half of the sentence was the real thing—she was already a well-known bachelor at the top of Garcia's list of sages at a young age. When did she begin to make a name for herself in the land of the Elta Empire, known as the "Ruby Pupil"? In fact, even Clough, who was closest to her, didn't know.
In fact, Clough only knew that her knowledge was far beyond ordinary people, and she was able to talk about poetry and songs, which made Clough suffer a lot; As for the rest of the details, he is confined to Elta's news and knows very little about it.
The carriage drove straight along the concrete-paved road, and before noon it was out of the suburban reservation of Mendong City and the satellite city area, and drove into the sea of wheat fields.
The last time the two drove into Mendong City from the same road, the wheat fields were still in the final stages before the harvest. Today, horse-drawn wagons can no longer see the entire field of wheat as they move along the road beyond the barbed wire, they have turned into whole boxes of wheat grains and straw in front of knives and barrels.
The red combine harvester drove wildly across the wheat field, spewing yellow waves from the sky, which gradually turned into a curtain of straw in the wind. Such a sight is not just the shock of one machine, but the symphony of dozens of machines that fill the horizon and shake the earth.
"Clough...... "Wolf couldn't take his eyes off the first time he saw those combine harvesters." Stop, Clough ......"
Clough immediately pulled the reins from his hand, but he could no longer hear the incomprehensible neighing of the horse—the black smoke of the machine turned the birdsong and the wind whistle between heaven and earth into a weak and powerless existence.
"People from another world are destroying wheat fields?" The puzzled Clough also looked at the combine harvester and saw God. Such a scene even modern people have to stop and watch for a moment before they continue to start their cars.
Wolf stared greedily at the combine, unwilling to turn his head for a second: "No, it's not. Let me look at it a little longer. ”
Only straw was sprayed out, and there were machines clearing the straw on the "bald" wheat field in the distance, and there were bales of straw in the wasteland farther away...... The causal relationship in this, Wolf figured it out at once.
A red machine with a hob harvests the wheat field and separates the wheat kernels from the straw...... Then spray the unwanted straw on the ground...... The grains of wheat must have been stored somewhere in the car, well, that's it, there's nothing wrong with that.
But I want to see again how the wheat grains are transferred. Although he already knows the ending, somewhere in his heart, curiosity has undoubtedly taken the initiative.
Wolfe's tongue moistened his slightly dry lips, revealing tiger teeth that looked doubly cute. This made Clough, whose interest shifted to her, look a little stupid, and even forgot to ask Wolf when he wanted to see it......
The combine harvester drove all the way to the dividing line between the wheat fields and the wheat fields, and only then did the black smoke stop emitting. Behind the hob, the towering glass door opened softly, revealing a figure in cargo pants.
"I'd love to go to him and ask him what it's like to sit there...... People from other worlds must not believe in the goddess of harvest, right? ”
No matter how sluggish Elta's news chain is, there is still time for Sielta's agricultural miracle to spread to every corner early. Of course, a large part of the Elta people will take this as a joke or a strange story, but only those who have seen it with their own eyes will be convinced that "wheat can be harvested in winter", "people from other worlds have grown lumps of grain in less than two months", "people from other worlds have had a bumper harvest of wheat for two consecutive years!" "This kind of information is absolutely true, and it is not made up.
The figure pulled out a black box and put it on the side of his head, and it didn't take long to put it back on his body, and he leaned on the huge combine harvester and began to rest.
On the other side of the wheat field, an equally strange-looking truck with a bucket arrived.
"Ah...... Is that it? ”
Wolf sighed softly. It's huge. The two of them had seen countless of these trucks with buckets passing them on the road just now, but she had no idea that they would be carrying buckets of wheat grains.
Those big landowners she has seen, how much can the year-round harvest be as much as on this truck? There is no need to calculate at all, and you can intuitively judge what the facts are......
And how many such trucks have gone to Mendong City? How many more are waiting to go? Wolf found it impossible to calculate—from here, on the left and right, the golden and brown wheat fields and the harvested wasteland stretched to the end of the horizon, and the shrub roads were a little too large to be calculated.
"Do you see what the doorway is? Omniscient Miss Bachelor. Clough asked.
When Wolf came to his senses, the combine was spitting wheat into the bucket like a hangover. The golden torrent is fascinating to watch, knowing that the average farmer's annual harvest is only a sentence long, and the serf's harvest can only last a three-syllable word at most.
"Hmm...... Suffice it to say that you'd better stop getting involved in the grain business in the future. Wolf didn't control himself to sit down on the front pedal of the wagon until the truck drove away. In other words, in the future, the commercial operation of grain and the merchants of Elta will not be available. ”
"I don't understand very well, if there is a lot of food, then it is not very convenient for us to work with the chamber of commerce with channels to transport the grain to those places that do not produce food? Even if it's not the flour that is shipped out of the otherworld. ”
"As things stand, sooner or later, the people of the other world will turn all the arable land in Elta into such a uniform and efficient wheat field...... At that time, there will only be a production channel controlled by people from another world, and you merchants will have any room to maneuver? ”
"You mean......" Clough couldn't help but be a little nervous when he heard the prospect. In the future, the Elta people will be slaves of people from other worlds, and only by working for them can they get enough food? ”
"It's as if now the Elta people don't work, and the grain flies from the land to their mouths. Ah, I forgot, you businessmen are people who don't work~" Looking at Clough's somewhat overwhelmed expression, Wolfe's smile became more and more evil.
After a few moments, however, her expression returned to normal. "In this way, the Elta people will indeed have to work in exchange for food in the future, I don't understand the purpose of the people of the other world now, but from the current point of view, the food will definitely be left, but they will probably turn the surplus food into another form, instead of letting it be manipulated by your merchants and chambers of commerce to make a profit."
"In what form?"
"Well, Clough, just look at this." Wolf pulled out her well-folded bag of apple chips, ignoring Clough's distressed eyes. "This apple crisp is all about cutting apples into thin slices and frying them in oil. So, what else is in the ingredient list above besides apples? ”
"Flour...... Cooking oil...... Sugar?! Clough was taken aback. Sugar and honey were extremely precious things, and he really didn't taste any sweetness just now, so wasn't it all apple-like?
"Well, it's sugar. How much land do you need to get white sugar? And what about 'vegetable oils'? The people of the other world will let you distribute this, not the leftover grain, and a cart of apple chips can be more profitable than a cart of grain! I know that this bag can be twelve dollars......"
Wolf hurriedly covered his mouth halfway through...... Yet she had already seen Clough's eyes. It's too late.