Chapter 7: The Art of Licking
"Are you running out?" There were not only books on the shelves, but also several different wooden boxes, and Arthur opened one of them and pulled out a glass bottle with a light blue color.
Deodorant, also known as the Ooze Monster Odor Neutralizer, is a special product of the town's alchemy shop, specially used to remove the stench brought by the Ooze Monster, a bottle of 2 silver coins, cheap and good-looking.
Okay, don't advertise, Arthur scratched his head, just this little weight in his hand is enough to deodorize his body, let alone clothes.
"It's a work uniform, but it's not cheap." This is a magical world with backward productivity, and light and heavy industrial products are all handmade.
Even if Arthur has enough money to prepare a few more sets of clothes for himself every year, the entire wardrobe adds up to only 5 sets of clothes, which is divided into four seasons of spring, summer, autumn and winter.
But even so, compared to ordinary civilian families, he already has more clothes.
These families often have only one set per person, and some of them are in better condition, and it is very difficult to even change them.
If you want to make clothes, it is even more troublesome, and good clothes can only be made to order by the tailor, and from the order to the body, I am afraid that two or three months will pass.
There were only two tailor shops in the town, one for the business of the nobles in power, and the other for yeoman farmers and small merchants.
The grades seem to be different, but they have the same characteristics, that is, expensive.
Arthur didn't have that much money to spare, and three of the five sets of clothes were made by Ade's mother, Aunt Ledna.
One set was his father's old clothes, which he used as work clothes, and the rest were also his father's warlock robes with a large hood.
"Looks like we're going to have to go to town, and I'm going to have to buy the barbed wire fence back."
Arthur didn't want to wear a mage suit to shovel cow dung, there was no smell of deodorant, and he took a few more baths a day, maybe it would be clean in ten days and half a month, but the clothes couldn't be washed repeatedly, and barely wearing them would only get more and more smelly the longer he wore them.
No matter how you wash it, there will be a faint smell wafting out, and until the clothes are washed, it may not make the smell disappear.
"Boy, you wait for me, I will ......"
Ignoring the big demon in the house, and changing into another set of clothes, Arthur turned around and went out, took off the grass and hemp rope hanging on the wall, and turned around and walked towards the warehouse on the side.
"Let's chirp, chirp ......" The little greenskin's clear licking sound can be heard from afar, and it is still so relishful and overflowing.
"Haven't you finished yet? Belch! …… It seems that I really underestimate your intelligence. "Arthur has been out for hours now, and with the gluttony of the goblins, let alone one sweet potato, ten have been eaten.
Looking at the opening of the warehouse door, Little Greenskin stopped his licking movements, turned his head to look at his master, and hesitated whether to put down the rotten sweet potato in his hand, which was about to be licked clean.
In most cases, summons will not disobey the orders of their masters under the constraints of the Abyss Contract, especially since Arthur is far more powerful than the Goblin, and it is impossible to have a special 'accident' like the demon lord Aragorn.
The sweet potatoes in the warehouse have been divided into two piles at this time, one pile is where the rotten sweet potatoes were stacked in the morning, with dirt and a broken appearance.
The other pile was next to the little greenskin, and there was no dirt on the rotten sweet potatoes, and even the black rotten flesh was licked clean, and the pale yellow flesh could be seen through the cavities of the moth, as if it had not rotted.
Apparently it was the "credit" of this little greenskin, it did not disobey Arthur's orders, nor did it eat those intact sweet potatoes, but only licked off the mud and those ** rotten meat.
The first sweet potato had been eaten clean by Arthur when he first went out.
The little greenskin, who had nothing to do, could only watch a large pile of sweet potatoes and drool with greed.
Perhaps it was the appetite that stimulated what little intelligence it had left to make it do such an 'amazing thing'.
Even if it was only a part of it, there was a lot of rotten sweet potato meat, and the little greenskin's belly was already round, and if Adam had come a little later, I was afraid that his summons would have been killed by his own greed.
"Quack?" Seeing the hemp rope on his waist, Little Greenskin showed a puzzled look again.
"Put down the sweet potatoes and follow me." Arthur blocked his nose slightly, the smell of the goblin was not much better than that of the stinky sludge,
Even though he had washed it with water twice last night, when he got closer, Arthur could still smell the strange stench of goblins mixed with various substances.
Compared with the single taste of the soft mud monster, this smell is not inferior to the stinky ditch.
Tie the rope not to fear that the goblin will escape, but to tell others that this is a monster with only its owner, otherwise this farmland destroyer will not enter the city, and will be wiped out by the peasant uncles holding the pitchfork halfway through.
Getting into the city had to pass through a lot of farmland, and there was no public transport or convenient transportation, and it took Arthur a lot of time to complete the journey.
It takes more than ten kilometers east along the river to reach the bridge, and for Arthur, who lives in a remote area, if he follows the regular route, he may have to spend a whole day to go to the city.
His dead ghost dad had lived near a mountain stream if he hadn't been drinking water.
Otherwise, just to bring water from the same river as Ade's house, you would have to dig more than 300 meters of canals.
The nobles had their own land close to the upper reaches, but they did not build any bridges upstream that could cross the river, although they could cross the river from the land on the other side, and Arthur had to walk at least two hours to get to the bridges downstream.
But in reality, if you want to cross the river, there are only two options but to take a long detour.
Boating, or wading across the river!
The Morador River is not deep or fast, and during the dry season, homesteaders fill in many hidden paths near their homes with large rocks.
In many places, the water level is only waist-high, and if there is an emergency, you can directly wade across the river.
Arthur was going into town, not bathing in the river, and he didn't want to cross the river with this dirty, smelly goblin.
Wading across the river was not an option for him.
Then there is only one way left, rowing!
In recent years, Arthur has cultivated a lot of new land, and after several stable harvests, his income is not small.
But compared to this part of his income, his expenses are not low at all.
"Build warehouses, irrigation canals, extra fertilizer, and the cost of studying and magic stones." When Adam was free, he crossed his fingers and did the math, and finally found that it was a miracle that he was able to make ends meet.
So even though he had the highest yield per acre in the entire town, he still didn't have the money to buy himself a boat that would allow him to cross the river with his goods.