Chapter 394: Gathering Day
Qiu Xuan didn't quite know what the concept of six liters was in this world's unit conversion standard, anyway, when she took the cloth bag in Barens's hand, she thought for a moment that she had fallen for a devil.
The two bags are very pitiful, and they are probably only a few taels in my hand.
“…… Are you sure you're really the most conscientious merchant in Drow? ”
As soon as this came out of Barrons' displeasure, he strode out from behind his stall and opened the bag in front of her.
"Look at me, take a closer look." He grabbed a handful of wheat and opened his fingers to let the grain slip from his palm. "Each one is ripe, basically not broken, and there is not a grain of sand in it...... Cough. ”
He coughed and rubbed the crushed dirt and gravel stuck to his palm and threw it on the ground, looking embarrassed for a moment, but soon returned to his usual smile. "This is inevitable, after all, I harvest it by hand, and there will always be mistakes in the labor, which is normal and normal...... In a word! You know, I'm not like those merchants! When we come out to do business, the first thing we need to talk about is integrity, and I can't ...... this integrity."
Qiu Xuan didn't have time to listen to his now, but fortunately, in a few moments, another deal had just been made at a stall a few stalls away from Barrens. She probably glanced at it a few times, and found that the so-called liter of polished rice that the man had in his hand was probably less than a slap.
So she wasn't going to bother with Barrens.
"Got it, let's go."
Quickly dropping this sentence, Qiu Xuan stuffed the two bags into her coat and put them away. Behind her, Barrens was still saying something like "I'll be back next time" as she quickened her pace away from the Drow Marketplace.
Along the way, she could visibly feel that some of what she thought was a subtle part of her gaze was looking in this direction, or rather, at the bag wrapped in her coat. Some of these people had seen her come out of the bazaar, and they thought they knew they were carrying food with them.
She didn't have time to spend time here with these people who coveted food, so she glanced around at the moment, and simply left the road at full speed.
Her movements were so fast that the people hiding in the corners of the street did not even touch the last trace of their shadows, and when she came back to her senses, the prey she had been eyeing had disappeared without a trace.
……
Qiu Xuan went around to the old position where she came out of the wall, ready to climb in again.
As soon as she stepped on her toes, she heard a very distinct sound of horses' hooves stomping on the ground, and she stepped on the wall and looked back, and there was a carriage parked outside the Gemma mansion. Several knights on horseback gathered in a neat formation, except that instead of a black horse, they were ordinary brown domestic horses.
A maid was the first to step out of the carriage, and then she stood outside and opened the curtain, drawing a hand from within.
Her waterfall-like golden hair fell down just as the sun was rising, but the light that fell was not as dazzling as hers.
Qiu Xuanhuo squinted at the girl like a pervert riding on the wall and peeping into the women's dormitory, the lord who just got off the car may not be so delicate and outstanding, but her blonde hair is shining.
The girl turned her head sideways as if to say something to the attendant on the side, and then the steward of the Jima family came out to greet her, and after greeting them, he led the group in.
The lord, who should have been the first to arrive, walked in the crowd with the moon in her hands, she raised her hand and pinned the strand of blonde hair that fell in front of her eyes behind her ear, and suddenly as if she sensed something, she suddenly raised her head and shot towards the wall at the back door!
There was nothing on the high wall, except for the breeze blowing lightly, and a small unknown plant growing in the crack of the wall swayed slightly.
"I just saw that a lord is coming."
Kaya still didn't show up when Qiu Xuan returned, and she handed the redhead one of the cloth bags that she had been hiding in her arms, and then took a silver penny from her. "Isn't the party going to be very early, why is she here so early?"
"Either I have a good relationship with Jima, or I want to kill Jimma and divide the granary." The redhead dragged her under a tattered canopy behind a wasteland, a place where not even the servants of the Gemma family usually came.
Then Qiu Xuan watched her take out an iron pot from the space, the pot was not big or small, but it always looked tattered.
There had been a heavy rain in the previous time, so it was stuffy under this dilapidated canopy until now, and everything was damp. The redhead cursed and struggled to light the fire, but tried for a few minutes but failed.
"Why don't I go to the kitchen and borrow a fire?" Qiu Xuan looked at it and was afraid that she would directly the canopy, so she hurriedly grabbed the red hair, only to find that the red hair was a little wrong with her eyes at the moment.
She quickly recalled that the redhead must have been like her, and the last time he ate was at yesterday's breakfast. So I haven't eaten for almost 24 hours now.
Qiu Xuan shook her head, and found that except for the inevitable hunger in her belly, her sanity declined better than that of the red hair.
"Generally speaking, you or other executioners, how long do you not eat to have this happen?" She grabbed the redhead and asked.
The redhead closed his eyes and barely calmed himself down, and thought for a moment, "Normally, it's about a day, but as I stay here longer, I get hungry faster." ”
"Is it a side effect of the proving ground?"
"I don't know."
"Okay." Qiu Xuan quickly ended the topic, patted her and asked her to continue trying here first, and see if she could mix into the kitchen and get some spices. After she said this, the redhead shook his head at her, and said, "It's impossible to let you into the kitchen, the level of guards in the kitchen and warehouse in this place is even higher than the security level of Jima. ”
"Can't you just borrow a fire?"
"I don't know, no one has tried it, you can try it."
So Qiu Xuan walked to the direction of the kitchen of the main house again. I don't know if everyone in the Jima family was so stressed by the afternoon party or something, but almost everyone she saw along the way was trotting by, either with words in their mouths or constantly tidying up their clothes and hairstyles.
No one stopped her, she made it to the kitchen, and after a glance, she knew what the redhead meant by "absolutely impossible".
Starting from the location of the connected corridor, there are three steps and a knight standing guard, each of them is fully armed and ready to go, if people who don't know still think that this is an important treasure house of the Jima family.
In the end, Qiu Xuan couldn't get in, and she was stopped by the bodyguards as soon as she approached the corridor. Haruka glanced inside the kitchen, and she noticed that the chef she had seen when she came out last night was now shaking her wrist into the milk pot with some seasoning.
The cook's face looked very pale, and she was still vibrating as she added spices, and finally she barely calmed down by forcibly holding down her trembling left hand with her other hand.
Qiu Xuan was driven out by the knight after watching it for a while, and she could only dig a few pieces of dry grass on the nearby turf that was still dry to the touch, and took it back to the location of the canopy.
That morning they had a meal of barley porridge, although because there was no rice and the red hair was very picky, they poured a lot of water into it, and it was almost boiled into barley soup, although there was no seasoning at all, and even there was a smell of earth when they ate it, but it was hot food.
Qiu Xuan licked the last bit of soup, put down the bowl, and experienced the depth of life for the first time after eating.
To be honest, she didn't eat at all, not only did she not eat enough, but she also felt that after eating this meal, it was even more uncomfortable than being hungry. The redhead didn't even look at her, put the pot into the space, and said casually, "It's good to get used to it." ”
Okay.
She stood up, and anyway, there was something in her stomach, and after half an hour, Kaya, who had disappeared for a long time, finally returned. As soon as I saw them, I started to shout something again as if the sky was falling, and then pushed them to change their clothes.
Of course, this kind of "performance costume" Jima family can't help them out of these circuses, but fortunately, except for the two fake executioners, the people who eat this meal professionally are generally prepared. The clothes they took out were all bright and flamboyant, just like the previous Miss Turkey.
Qiu Xuan symbolically gave Kaya a little face and changed into a coat, although Kaya didn't look very happy.
"Seriously, what are we going to do then?"
The redhead stood next to her, dressed in one of those troubadour-style riding breeches, and the two of them pretended to rehearse the show against Kaya's murderous gaze.
"I don't know, I actually have a phobia of stranger communication." Qiu Xuan said this without squinting, and the red hair immediately scolded her, and then said: "I don't care, we will be the first to play at that time, if we are swept out of the house directly, you will compensate me for a job?" ”
Qiu Xuan thought for a moment, "As long as you don't mess with those lords, there will generally be no big problems." We're going to go up and talk about it and make it look boring, and then they'll tell us to get out of here and let the next one play. ”
Redhead: "Makes sense. ”
By noon or so, the carriages parked in front of the Jimma Mansion began to increase. At this time, Kaya didn't have time to watch them rehearse in person, and she, as the head of the Gemma family, needed to greet the guests at the door herself.
And as perhaps the most relaxed two people in the entire mansion, Qiu Xuan and the redhead quietly touched the side again, and found a corner that was not easy to be found to observe the big and small lords who came.
"It feels like it's the same people before." The redhead looked at it for a while, pouted and commented, "They are all small characters, although they are called 'lords', but in fact, many of these people's so-called territories are just small villages. Except for a few with great ambitions, most of them came to the foolish landlord's house to eat. ”
Since he knew that Jimma was likely to be eaten by those big and small lords who stared at meat for a period of time, the redhead's title to Jimma changed from "dead fat" to "stupid landlord".
"Actually, I've been thinking about it all the time," Qiu Xuan's gaze slid over the lords who had disembarked from the carriage one by one. "It's likely that Jimma isn't completely ignorant. Based on his previous drunken speech, it is very likely that he is also aware of his situation, and even ...... He also knew that Petunia and the others were just being put in to spy on his eyes. ”
"He knows all this, and at the same time he has been enduring it, because he is not able to say it now, so he can only choose to make himself 'invisible'."
Redhead sighed, "Anyway, none of this has anything to do with us. ”
This time, the day of the meeting, Limbug also came.
Qiu Xuan squinted her eyes and saw the short figure like a child walking on the road in the crowd, and to be honest, she was not surprised that Lin Buge came to the party. After all, many people know that although he is not a lord, in this world, the resources he holds in his hands are enough to match any nominal lord.
"Can Jimma get out of bed?" Suddenly thinking of something, Qiu Xuan turned around and asked.
She hadn't seen the girl named Nadja who had assassinated Jima from among the people Limbug had brought with her today, and she didn't know how she ended up now.
"Yes, yes, but I've seen it from a distance before, and it looks very empty." The redhead shook his head, "It's like this, and I still want to have a party, it's really a shame to die." ”
Finally, at three o'clock in the afternoon, the party day started on time, and Qiu Xuan realized that the blonde girl she had seen before who came early in the morning was actually the only one on the scene who accepted the invitation to arrive.
And she is not an ordinary lord, it is said that her subordinates are in charge of one of the raw material suppliers of the Gluttony Contest on the side of the beam, and it is also rumored that she has a relationship with the group of people in the city law enforcement team, which is considered half of the official force.
Her name was Lilia, and she sat next to Jimma at the party, and the two talked from time to time, looking like they knew each other.
"Hahaha......" I don't know what a little lord next to him who is not named said something, and made Jimma and Lilia laugh as the initiators. Immediately, Jimma waved his short, fat hand and summoned Kaya, who was standing aside.
Kaya understood, gesturing toward the circus' position.
The redhead pulled Qiu Xuan and signaled that it was time for them to play.
The two of them stood in the center of the hall without any emotion, surrounded by all kinds of lords who were toasting loudly and noisily. As soon as Jimma came up, she looked like she was drunk, and she blushed and yelled for them to get started.
n.