Chapter 23: Festivals

World of Shards, Wisteria Town.

Since it is the place where the world's first (smashed lattice) was born, the morale of the people of Wisteria Town is very high.

Then they successively completed "the world's first bridge", "the first town connected to the Emerald City", "the first specialty building (brewery)", and the first special product "fruit wine Lao Baigan", and other world achievements, the kind of world announcements...... Although the last one is not very reliable, it has undoubtedly made Wisteria Town more widely known, and even overshadowed the obscure Jade Main City for a while.

They made the people of Wangbee Town, who are mainly in the honey industry and have never made headlines, envious and jealous, and even complained that they could cheat!

It's only been two weeks since you came up with a special fruit wine, who are you fooling? It takes two weeks for the wheat sprouts to grow and the height of the palm! God, you have fruit to make wine......

It was also "Archon Shen Yan" who told them through holograms how Wisteria Town accomplished this feat - the people of Wisteria Town gathered the strength of the people of the town, and used the awakened elven talent and relay method to ripen the grapes of half an acre of land. I didn't eat any of these grapes, and all of them were used to make wine, so I was able to complete the development of special products before everyone else - it can be seen that as long as you have a heart to make headlines and work hard for it, there is nothing wrong with it.

The doubts of the other towns did not bring down Wisteria, but only made their prestige even more prestigious.

However, at the moment when the people of Wisteria Town are thriving and "everyone is like a dragon", there are a small number of people in the town who are doing things that everyone is very disgusting...... Slack off.

Remember those "smart people" when they opened up the wasteland? Those people were all kinds of slippery and lazy when they were clearing the wasteland, and all kinds of things were enough, but as soon as the opening period (the first seven days) ended, they were dumbfounded! People who have negative money can't buy anything! This condition is not high, and it can be said that as long as you are a little more serious during the period of land reclamation, it is not difficult to wipe out the money for the purchase of means of production and tools in the past.

However, when you go into the town with negative money, not only can you not buy food and fruits, but you can't buy furniture, tableware, daily necessities, farm tools, and livestock, which are obviously cheap, but you can't buy them at all! I can't take out a loan to buy a permanent plot of land for myself, so I can only continue to live in a tent!

What's more, these people don't even have a share of the land. They want to make money by helping others anyway...... Shen Yan sneered secretly, I can't cure you yet?

These people are either second-generation elves or third-generation elves, how can they stand this!

Immediately put on a picture of the privileged class, and asked the low-class elves to offer to them. Most of the city elves scoff at this, but there are also those who have been fooled in their brains, or who love the heart of Our Lady of the World, and obediently give away the food they buy to these people.

As a result, they found that the food could indeed be given, but after the process was over, another statistic on their body, "Merit", immediately plummeted! Although the merit value has not yet been used, just watching the hard-earned numbers being cut in half is enough heartache! At this point, most people choose to give up. No matter how much they threaten or plead, they will never be heeded again!

As for the remaining elves who are stubborn and would rather be hungry than feed the masters. As soon as the merit value fell to a negative number, they immediately found that the price of their own supplies and houses instantly became several times that of others! Loan interest too!

Or to put it another way, in fact, the people who are positive in merit buy goods at discounts, and those who are negative no longer enjoy these benefits.

By this time, everyone finally understood the meaning of those two numbers: money represents accumulated wealth, and merit represents personal status.

Benjamin was one of the previous Madonna, and although he stopped in time, he also lost half of his exploits. The number of his merits is far greater than others, and the result is also a big loss, which is painful.

No way...... Just when these people were struggling and looking hungry, "Archon Shen Yan" added a new policy - you can buy bread even if you have negative money, and you can buy it for an unlimited time!

By the way, those who don't eat what they eat can die.

That is, if someone doesn't work all the time and lives on three loaves of bread a day...... Then even if the amount of money owed reaches 100,000,000, it will not ask you for it, and you can still continue to enjoy the "free" bread. And the policy goes further, as long as the second and third generation elves wear the "status badge", they can also buy additional fruits and even alcohol!

At this time, the high-level elves couldn't say anything, and the other elves also felt that the Bronze Kingdom was a benevolent country.

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"Why don't you just throw these black sheep out? Even if these people don't get in the way, they will affect the city's appearance! It's boring to look at! Penny went to ask Shen Yan that she was the queen.

Shen Yan smiled, he learned the wisdom of his predecessors - when the revolution overthrew the Manchu Qing Dynasty, he didn't even kill Pu Yi, and of course he wouldn't do anything to liquidate those seven kings and eight masters. Anyway, the Republic of China is democratic, and if you still want to hang the title of the prince, then hang it. As a result, with the further turmoil of the current situation, these Manchu nobles who did not have anything to do and ate empty mountains soon lost their family property and became a princess setting up a stall and the prince pulling a rickshaw.

With these people as an example, the last bit of decency of the Manchu Qing Dynasty was quickly ruined! Later, when I talked about what the prince and Gege, it was a joke.

Shen Yan wants to replace the elven tradition of the city elves with a new, more positive cultural tradition, and needs some more effective means - otherwise, distance produces beauty, and if you haven't seen what elves look like, maybe you can imagine how good elves are! Now raise these high-level elves who don't fit in with the style of the whole town, but just wear badges and swagger through the city, they are like a group of walking advertisements, telling everyone how different from what you want and elves.

If this effect can be achieved, it is an acceptable price to pay a little bit of efficiency and amenity, and in any case agricultural societies do not expect to be very efficient.

The person who was really depressed was Benjamin, who only helped those people buy food because of his face, and as a result, he lost a lot of money! Then began the appointment of the first mayor of the town - Benjamin was expected to be successful, but lost to another by a few points...... He felt like he was being fished for.

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In March, the first batch of vegetables and fruits from the fragmented world went on the market, and the whole world was jubilant!

Ladies of the family unit walk the streets in groups, carrying baskets full of their own vegetables and sharing the food with those around them. Feeling this, "Archon Shen Yan" announced that March 8 would be designated as Women's Day, a day for men to work and women to have a day off!

In April, the queen's cat died, crying, Qingming.

May, harvest season! The first batch of summer grain was harvested, peeled, and dried...... It wasn't until the grain filled the granary that the hearts of countless people who had been hanging for half a year finally let go! The Fragmented World has finally stopped buying food from the outside world.

And then, of course...... Universal celebration! Labor Day, a seven-day holiday!

In June, the queen invented a new way to eat rice, zongzi! So there is the Dragon Boat Festival......

(The bears weep bitterly, always feeling that they have lost an important holiday.) )

In July, in anticipation, the queen said that the weather was too hot to celebrate the holiday...... So everyone had a hard time all over July.

In August, a few second-generation elves who had nothing to do opened a cave by mistake while playing in the wild (actually looking for food)! The underworld and demons have finally appeared before the eyes of the city elves! Although only a few cowardly demons came out, it caused a wide range of panic!

At the call of Queen Penny, each town began to build walls and organize militia training. August became the day when the Emerald City was armed, Army Day.

In September, the Bronze Dwarves appeared in the area of the Emerald City and stationed in the blacksmith shops in each town, officially establishing the "Bronze Chain Blacksmith Shop". The blacksmith provided high-quality bows and swords to the elves, which were greatly welcomed by the panicked elven community, and the two clans merged smoothly.

The two special bows available in the Blacksmith - the Hunting Recurve Bow and the Pulley Bow - require merit points to purchase. That's when you discover another use for merit points.

By the way, the queen invented a kind of stuffing food with sugar and preserved fruits, the Mid-Autumn Festival. The elves unanimously support, long live the holiday! Although they are an agrarian society, they are not particularly busy on a regular basis......

October, Second Harvest! After that, the land will "rest" for two months, and will not be cultivated again until next year. On the last day of harvesting, the old man took his children to the field to pick up the fallen wheat grains to show that the grains were returned to the warehouse, so this day was designated as the Chung Yeung Festival.

In November, I didn't say that Double 11 was set as a chopping day...... Men's Day. On this day, women shop, men take the holidays.

However, the men didn't seem to be very happy, and there was a hole in their wallets......

In December, to celebrate the successful end of the year, the queen invented a new food - dumplings!

Then there was the New Year.