Chapter 8: Sweetwater
Durrouin was an excellent tour guide and gave Kommid a detailed introduction to him.
His family was in the town of Sweetwater, east of the Trikali Mountains, named after the sweetness of the mountain stream, and he had three brothers and an older sister, the elder sister was married to the clerk of the town, the eldest brother was an apprentice in the blacksmith shop, the second brother was apprenticed with the caravan, and his father farmed, and he collected Rorossonuts in the desert fifty miles from the Trikari Mountains.
Luo Luo Suo is a unique plant in the Sunset Desert, cold and drought and heat tolerant, the fruit is the top spice, very expensive, but the yield is very low, it is not easy to collect, each Luo Luo Suo can only bear a small handful of fruit.
Roseau is tenacious and can grow in the desert, but it only bears fruit when there is enough water, so the people who pick it need to carry a lot of water and water it while picking.
Fruit pickers set up wooden huts in the growing area of Roso and lived here temporarily, and special merchants came from the Trikali Mountains every night to transport water by camels, sell it to the collectors of Roso fruits, and then transport the precious spice back to Sweetwater.
There are no four seasons in the Sunset Desert, and the harvest will bear fruit again a month later, and the townspeople will carry out a group picking activity that lasts three to five days every month, and can harvest twelve times a year.
Not every family in the town is eligible to pick Rorozo nuts, they need to buy a piece of land in the desert from Baron Henry of Sweetwater in order to pick it. Durruin's sister was the clerk's wife and bought a piece of sand.
Duruin harvested five catties of spices each month, sold them to merchants for one silver coin, paid a tax on one silver coin to Baron Henry, and spent one silver coin to buy water from merchants in the desert, eventually earning three silver coins.
As for Rokang, he is a famous adventurer, and five years ago, he discovered the spice of Rocrosso.
As they spoke, the two walked to a wooden house in the desert, which was not small in size, and there were ten beds in it.
The wooden houses are very simple, with no floors, and the walls and roofs only serve as shelter from the wind and sun.
Duruin took out bread and water to entertain Komund.
"Duruin, can you take me to Sweetwater?"
"That's not good, I just picked a little bit of Rolosso, and I can't sell it for a price. β
Kommad took out the money from the ruins, counted four silver coins, and handed them to Duruin.
"I've had enough of being in the desert, and the money should be worth your harvest for the past few days. β
"Three is enough......" Durrouin excused himself twice, but put it away.
"Do you want to go now, or tomorrow evening? Leave now, and you'll be there tomorrow morning, and it's not too hot then, and you should know that you can burn people in the desert at noon. β
"Now, I can't wait!"
It was dark and a black mountain range lay in front of him, and Durrouin told KomΓΌnd that it was the Tricari Range.
Legend has it that more than a thousand years ago, when the sun reached the earth, thousands of miles of fertile land turned into a desert, and the desert expanded day by day, encroaching on the fertile land of the farmland, Lord Trikari and his disciples cast Trikari's famous spell "Voice of the Earth", creating a mountain range one thousand meters high and stretching for hundreds of kilometers, preventing the expansion of the desert. Hence the name of the Sunset Desert and the Terikari Mountains.
"There's a statue of the Holy Mage in Sweetwater!" said Durruin.
Approaching the Tricari Mountains, Kommid's shock was overwhelming, the entire mountain range was made of rocks, extremely steep, and the surface had been polished by the wind and sand to be very smooth, and there was no grass. The mountains are tall and majestic, and birds are difficult to cross.
"How are we going to get there? It's impossible to climb such a steep mountain!" asked Komingde.
"You'll know when you get there!" Durruin pretended to be mysterious.
When I got closer, I found that there was a cave, the cave was deep and long, but it was very wide, about three meters wide and two meters high, with torches on both sides, barely illuminating the road, and the two walked for seven or eight minutes before they walked out of the cave.
"This is the tunnel opened by the Holy Mage's disciple Dadaric casting a spell, and Baron Henry is his descendant. β
Walking out of the tunnel, Ko Mingde narrowed his eyes and saw two soldiers in red sitting at the entrance of the cave.
"Truin, you're back so early?" said one.
"Durruin, who is this?" asked another.
"He got lost in the desert and met me and took him out. Duruin replied, handing over two coppers.
"That's lucky!" said nothing, and put away the copper coins.
When the two men left the checkpoint, Durrouin told him that the two men had been sent by Baron Henry to collect taxes, and that each person who went through the cave had to pay a copper coin, and that he would have to charge more for goods.
The entrance to the cave was still two or three miles away from Sweetwater, and Durrouin took Ko Mingde home.
Durrouin's mother was the only one in the family, and Durrouin's father and brother were working in the fields and did not return until noon. His mother enthusiastically boiled a pot of bath water.
After taking a shower, Ko Mingde noticed that his clothes had become dirty and smelly, and Duruin turned out his brother's clothes and asked him to put them on. Fortunately, it is already early summer in this world, and the weather is not cold.
At noon, Duruin's father, Abel, returned, and Duruin's mother prepared lunch.
Bring water to a boil, cut the bacon into small pieces, tear the dried mushrooms, sprinkle a handful of salt, and cook into a pot of fresh soup.
The family and Ke Mingde sat around a round table, serving soup in a porcelain bowl, and in the middle of the table was a large stack of wheat cakes, about 30 centimeters in diameter, dry and hard.
Ke Mingde followed other people's actions, took a piece of cake, broke it, broke it, and soaked it in the soup. Watching them skillfully use chopsticks, I was a little speechless, didn't I say that people from other worlds don't use chopsticks......
After taking a sip of the soup, Ke Mingde's eyes widened, a fresh fragrance permeated his mouth, the bacon was very chewy, the umami of the mushrooms was completely integrated into the soup, and the most attractive thing was the crisp numbness from the tip of the tongue to the throat, swallowed it, and warmed it all the way to the stomach.
"Delicious in the world!" Ke Mingde praised, he has a lot of money on the earth, what kind of food has not been eaten, and he still carries a bowl of soup on his back to conquer.
"Haha! It's all thanks to Roroso," said Durrouin's father, Abel, laughed, "I was like this when I first tasted Roloso, I couldn't imagine it, it didn't smell at all, but it tasted so good!"
Abel laughed, and his fluffy beard shook as well, looking very ridiculous.
Abel's family is yellow-skinned and brown-haired, Abel's eyes are green, his wife has light brown eyes, and his children have brown eyes.
From entering Sweetwater to entering Duruin's home, Ko Mingde also saw many residents, some of them were yellow-skinned, some were white-skinned, some were dark-skinned, and their hair and eyes were also of various colors, which was not the same as the situation on Earth.
After eating, Ke Mingde said: "Thank you very much for taking me in and helping me, but I only have a dozen copper coins left on me, and I don't know how to repay you for your help." β
"It's right to help others, who doesn't have a time when they're in trouble!" Abel laughed, "I don't know what you're going to do next?"
"Just call me Cominde, Mr. Abel. Ke Mingde pondered for a while, "I have fallen into such a predicament, most of my money has been lost, and I plan to find a place to settle down first, and then find a livelihood to support myself, and wait for enough money to return to my hometown." β
"Then you can stay at my house first, after Asuna got married, his room was still empty. "Abel was very welcoming.
"Thank you very much, I want to sell this ring to make some money, where should I sell it?" Ke Mingde took out the emerald ring from the desert ruins.
"It's so beautiful!" Abel looked at, "You don't have to sell it, my family has food and clothing, and when you find a job, you will naturally have money." β
Ke Mingde shook his head.
"Well, when Gru comes back in the evening, you can ask him, his blacksmith teacher is also a silversmith. β
Ke Mingde temporarily stayed at Abel's house, sold the emerald ring, obtained eight silver coins, ordered two sets of clothes and shoes, spent four silver coins, and handed over two silver coins to Abel as room and board.