Chapter Seventy-Six: Overnight
After identifying the quality, Yelena threw a bag of counted gold coins directly to López.
"It was a pleasure to work with. With that, López took the gold coin and turned to leave, but his gaze was nowhere to be placed when he accidentally caught a glimpse of the two rings lying quietly on the table.
I don't know what kind of gemstone the ring is made of, simple and indescribably gorgeous, elegant and noble, the sun shines, emitting a faint luster, and a soul-stirring fragrance, as if it has a soul.
Not to mention whether he understood the appreciation or not, but what he could be sure of was that if the ring was on Aya's hand, it would be beautiful.
But the price discouraged him a little, and eight thousand gold coins pulled him and his hopes away.
Yelena, of course, saw the irrepressible affection in López's eyes, but she didn't care, because she didn't think López could afford such an expensive price.
"Oh, dear, this is what I just made, and I'll be able to use it for two years, and if you really want it, I can give you a discount. But she still asked casually, of course, this is just to tease the young man in front of her to spice up the boring life.
As she expected, López really showed a helpless smile, this price was indeed not acceptable to him, although he was desperate in his heart, but he had to dispel this idea.
Scratching his head in embarrassment, López turned around again and walked out: "Fortunately, I don't need money, otherwise I'm afraid I'll have to leave my pants here." ”
On the way out, an old man with a wide-brimmed hat happened to enter and pass by him, but López didn't care, all thanks to the deep regret that haunted him.
Still, Lopez shook his head vigorously in order to get himself out of that damn abrupt loss as quickly as possible.
On the way afterward, López went to the restaurant again to ask for ten catties of Tibetan mutton, and then quickly headed for Kutler Mountain.
For some reason, though, there were a lot of animal carcasses in Kuttler Mountain, which of course didn't catch López's attention, and he also got two dog whips along the way.
After walking for a while, López came to the place where the first trap had been placed, and he had already cleaned the loot, so after removing the trap, he hurried to the next place where the trap was laid.
By the way, the dog has a keen sense of smell, and can smell blood from a long distance, which it will then use to determine whether the area is dangerous or not, but the cautious dog rarely goes to the place where they have determined that it is dangerous, and this is why López had to dismantle the trap.
The interval between the traps was not very far, so soon, López was on the way to the next place where the traps were placed.
But the scene in front of him was exactly the same as the previous one, and the corpses of wild beasts were everywhere, which finally alerted López.
Sighing, he walked forward briskly, and began to observe the carcasses of the beasts, which had obvious scratches and bite wounds, and showed signs of knife wounds, but the knife did not look like a hunter's knife, and the scratches and bite wounds did not look like those caused by hunting dogs.
This made López a little confused about what kind of thing could be so tough, but he didn't want to be nosy, he was just an ordinary hunter who came to hunt the dog.
Thinking like this, he crouched down and began to look for the corpse of the ghostly dog, and when he found it, he skillfully cut off the dog's whip.
After sweeping this area and retracting the traps by the way, he got up again and headed for the next area, and so on, and the ten places where the traps were placed were quickly cleared by López.
The scene in every area was almost the same, with the corpses of wild beasts everywhere, and he really couldn't figure out what was going on.
However, apart from the first area, there were no large beast carcasses, which made him a little disappointed, and López wanted to make a good fortune with it.
Of course, it was just an expectation, and by the time he came back from his work, it was getting dark.
But López didn't have any sense of urgency, because he had already decided to spend the night on Mount Kutler tonight, and the direct cause of this situation was that López found it extremely troublesome to travel back and forth from the town of Sivir to Mount Kutler.
Smiling helplessly, López raised his feet and continued to walk upward.
After a while, he found a relatively flat place, which was the camp where López spent the night, and casually threw the two pockets on his body aside, he immediately drew the long sword at his waist, and began to cut at the Ultong tree on the side.
The branches of the Ulton tree are not so thick, so they are relatively easy to cut down, but when it comes to cutting, the sword is still not comparable to the axe, which also leads to a waste of López's effort.
I wonder how the old blacksmith would have felt if he had known that López had cut down trees with his proud sword.
Fortunately, an entire tree would be enough to support López through the long night, but before that, he had to do something with the tree first, after all, he couldn't just set the whole tree on fire.
When the trunk was crumbling, López stretched out his hands and hugged the trunk hard, and then laid the tree flat on the ground.
After a general observation, he took out the dagger and chopped it open one by one.
After the above steps were completed, López got up and found a place and began to dig a circle of ravines that were somewhat wide and shallow.
Seriously, he didn't want to set Kutler Hill on fire in his sleep.
When the distance of the ravine was enough to block the flames, López raised his arm and picked up the leaves beside him, covering the inside of the circle around the ravine.
The rest is where flint and steel come in.
The leaves of the Urtong tree are highly flammable and burn quickly when they come into flames, but the leaves burn unusually quickly and extinguish as well, which causes López to keep filling the leaves until the wood burns.
Luckily, he was surrounded by fallen leaves from the Ultong tree, so López didn't have to worry about running out of leaves.
It took a long time for the branches of the Ulton tree to succumb to the scarlet flames, much to López's relief.
Then he took out a few pieces of Tibetan mutton from the bag beside him, stuck them directly into the dagger, and put them into the fire to be roasted.
He was hungry for a long time, and he brought too little dry food with him, so he didn't have enough to eat at noon, plus he was tired from a long day, oh, damn life.