Chapter 188: Contract (3)
Wright and Alice led Shen and the three of them through the market, all the way out of the inner city gate to the caravan's assembly place.
Herds of wildebeest and white camels, carrying bundles of goods on their backs, were marching towards the outer city amid the shouts of the caravans.
The wildebeest and the white camel are similar in appearance to the zebra and the camel, but they are twice the size, the wildebeest has a black horn on the top of its head, and the white camel has a pure white mane.
The wildebeest and the white camel are both first-order magical beasts known for their endurance, and they are gentle in temperament, hard-suffering and heat-tolerant, making them the preferred means of transportation for merchants.
And after thousands of years of domestication, these two kinds of demonic beasts have almost become domesticated, and their numbers have also increased exponentially, so the price is not very expensive, generally around two hundred gold coins.
Wright found a medium-sized caravan, consisting of twelve men in total, and the number of wildebeest was probably about thirty.
"Grandpa Hopps, long time no see!" Wright said with a smile as he greeted an old man in the caravan.
The old man had long brown hair slightly curled, a large beard, a shabby leather jacket, and a pair of old-fashioned riding boots on his feet.
When Hoppes saw Wright, his little eyes suddenly narrowed into a slit, and he said with a smile: "Yo! Isn't this little Wright! Why do you think of my old bones today?"
"Haha, Grandpa Hopps, look at what you said, Wright has been thinking about you all along," Wright said affectionately, "I'm still looking forward to running away from home with you!"
"Hahaha, you little bunny, I don't dare take you away, Kane's kid almost made me anxious last time!" Hopps laughed.
It turns out that Wright peed in a neighbor's pot when he was seven years old, and was beaten up by his daddy Kane. Wright sneaked out of the house while his father wasn't looking, and ran away with Hopus's caravan.
Afterwards, Hopus, who learned what happened, sent Wright home again, and since then Hopps and Wright have become old friends.
"Grandpa Hopps, I'm here for something to ask you for. ”
Wright said, introducing the three Shen Chai to Hopus and explaining their intentions to go to the Hammer Tribe.
"No problem!" Hopps replied with a wave of his hand, "just on the way!"
Bidding farewell to Hopps, Wright and Alice returned to the City Lord's Mansion, while Shen Chai and the three stayed in the caravan, waiting to go to the Hammer Tribe with Hopus.
However, Shen Chai and the three of them waited for more than an hour, but Hopus's caravan had no intention of leaving, and the guys of the caravan gathered around to drink and talk nonsense, and even the wildebeest and the white camel were lying at the base of the wall to bask in the sun.
"Grandpa Hoppers," Shen Chai couldn't help it, he was afraid that if he delayed any longer, he would really not be able to reach the Hammer Tribe on time, "When will we leave?"
"Going, what's going on?" said Hopus, smoking a dry cigarette leisurely, snorting two puffs of white air from his nostrils.
"Go to the Hammer Tribe!" Shen Chai said suspiciously, at first glance he thought he was on the wrong set.
"Hey, what is the young man anxious about!" Hopps smacked his lips, "The border land from Saitu City to the Hammer Department is a primitive landform that belongs to the uncultivated wilderness, do you know how dangerous it is?"
"How dangerous is it?" Shen Chai was interested when he heard it, and it was a good choice to learn more about the situation on the road.
After Hopps finished smoking a bag of cigarettes, he knocked the dry tobacco stick on the sole of his shoe, knocked out the ash in the smoke pot, and looked at Shen Chai with a glance:
"I'll tell you, this road is not far away, exactly two days and two nights, but it has to pass through four landforms: wasteland, grassland, mountains and forests, not to mention that there are often demonic beasts infested, just the bandits on this road are enough for us merchants to drink a pot!"
Shen Chai and Tang Shishi nodded when they heard this, and Shen Xiaohe blinked his big curious eyes, and he didn't know if he understood.
"So that's it!"
Hopes refilled the pot of cigarette and took a puff and narrowed his eyes in comfort: "We must hire a magician to protect the caravan, otherwise, it will be impossible to move an inch!"
Hire a magician? Shen Chai is happy, isn't he a magician? By the way, making extra money is not a beautiful thing!
Shen Chai said happily: "Grandpa Hopus, I'm a magician!"
"You?" asked Hoppus in surprise, his cloudy eyes flashing with a gleam, "You're a magician?"
"Yes! Genuine Fire Magician!" Shen Chai saw that there was a door, and immediately leaned forward, and then shook the hair on his forehead heroically, "Do you think you can hire me?"
"You?" Hoppers looked at Shen Chai carefully when he heard this, and then pouted, "No!"
"......" Shen Chai immediately withered.
"Hahahaha!" Tang Shishi smiled and leaned back, the flowers trembled, "Shen Chai, the old man didn't take a fancy to you!"
"Alas, no," Shen Chai was a little anxious, "why can't Lord Ben?"
"Didn't you listen to the ancients," Hopus snorted calmly, and stretched out his finger to point at Shen Chai's mouth: "There is no hair on the mouth, and the work is not firm!"
Tang Shishi and Shen Xiaohei laughed so hard that their stomachs hurt, and the two of them hugged each other and supported each other and laughed until they couldn't stand their bodies.
Shen Chai's face darkened directly.
There is no hair on the mouth, and the work is not firm? Which of the ancients said this!
You crawl out of the graveyard for me to see if I don't smoke you!"
"Is it okay to have a lot of hair?" Shen Chai muttered angrily, "Then you might as well go and invite a hairy ape!
"Oh, don't be unconvinced, little doll!" Hoppes replied with a smile, "You can go to the city walls and have a look, there are rules for caravans to recruit magicians!"
Shen Chai turned all the way to the other side of the city wall with a dark face, and saw that there were many caravans there, and there was a table in front of them, and a sign was hung next to the table, which read:
XX caravan recruits guard magicians, and the commission starts at fifty gold coins!
And there are a lot of people in mage costumes going back and forth at these recruitment offices, some are asking for prices, some are negotiating the details of employment, and some are already signing employment letters.
When Shen Chai found the sign that said "Hopus Caravan", he saw a brown-haired girl sitting on the table, and she was obviously the person in charge of recruiting magicians from the Hopus Caravan.
The girl was about eighteen or nineteen years of age, of slight stature, wearing a short animal skin blouse and a brown linen dress, her long brown hair curled slightly over her shoulders, and a few light freckles on her wheat-colored face.
At this moment, her hands were clasped in front of her chest, her plump breasts towering, and a pair of large brown eyes were looking back and forth at the magicians of the past.
Shen chased down to see if their Hops caravan was going to recruit a magician with Mao Duochang!
(End of chapter)