Augustine's pride is for a reason, the city of Hippoa under the rule of the Arian school is indeed prosperous, unlike the order and rigor of Adrianople, Hippous is random and free everywhere. The modest streets are bustling with people, and on both sides of the street are all kinds of trading items that are randomly placed. The slope up from the low pier area is full of potholes, and occasionally a gust of wind blows, kicking up yellow dust.

"Well, Hippo City is the most prosperous and wealthy city under the rule of King Cyris!"

Merlin shook his head, frowned, and said, "I'm still a little interested in the tea leaves treasured by Lord Priest, why don't we go to the monastery!"

"Well, I don't think you've ever tasted this amazing drink, and you won't forget it once you tasted it!" laughed Augustine.

Merlin nodded, and left the bazaar after Augustine, at which point Bill entered the bazaar with several escorts. According to the plan, Merlin needed to purchase a batch of food and groceries in Hippo City.

After leaving the bazaar, after walking a short distance, the number of pedestrians gradually decreased, and about 500 meters further, a tall black tower faintly peeked out of the green trees. Suddenly Merlin asked about a familiar smell, and he stopped to look carefully, and found a low, turquoise plant planted in the field by the roadside. He leaned down and turned over a few leaves, and sure enough, he found clumps of white fluff on the north side of the leaves. This is mugwort, and mugwort was actually found here. And it's a whole whole field of mugwort.

Several monks dressed in white linen were harvesting mugwort with sickles in their hands. They gathered the mugwort together, then trapped it with hemp rope and carried it to the monastery.

"Is this the plant you planted?" Merlin couldn't help but ask.

"Yes, it was planted by the priests of the Abbey of Michel, a miraculous plant from distant East, which had a miraculous effect, and the smoke they produced after burning drove away the mosquitoes of the summer. Augustine said proudly, "So the summer at Michel Abbey is free of mosquitoes, which Adrianople can't compare." ”

MERLIN OF COURSE KNOWS THAT BURNING MUGWORT LEAVES CAN REPEL MOSQUITOES, BUT THIS IS ONLY THE LOWEST USE OF MUGWORT LEAVES, THERE ARE MANY USES OF MUGWORT LEAVES IN THE FOLK, THERE IS A SAYING THAT THERE IS CHEN AI AT HOME, AND THE DOCTOR SAID THAT IT IS NOT USED. As the women's director at the grassroots level of the empire, Mei Xiaolin has her own unique set of treatment methods for common headaches, colds and fevers, but many methods are indispensable to Ai Ye. It was a surprise to find mugwort here. And he found that the monastery actually planted a whole large field of mugwort, which was as much as a hundred acres.

But when Merlin saw what they were doing with mugwort, he was not surprised, and they separated the mugwort leaves from the mugwort branches, and then left the branches to dry in the sun, and when they burned, they only used the branches. If that were the case, Merlin estimated that the large patch of mugwort would not be enough for the monastery for a summer.

"What are you going to do with these leaves?" Merlin asked, pointing to the fresh mugwort that had been plucked off the side.

"These are useless, we all throw them away!" said a young monk next to him.

"Since you threw them away, why don't you give them to me. I can buy it with money!" Merlin held back the excitement in his heart.

"No, Your Highness Merlin, you are a friend of the Arian Academy, how can we take your money for these useless things. Take it, take it all!" said Augustine.

"I want you to see all the leaves for me later. I would come and pick it up regularly, it would take seven days to get from Hibo City to my territory, and I would come every ten days!" Merlin said.

After seeing the mugwort planted in the monastery, it was not surprising that Merlin saw a large bowl of bamboos at the back of the monastery. However, he became more and more curious about the priests of Hippo, what kind of person could do such a thing. Mugwort is planted near the monastery, and a large patch of dense bamboo is planted at the back of the monastery.

The living room of the monastery is built in a bamboo forest, the tall bamboo bamboo shelters the midsummer heat, and Augustine skillfully boils water to make tea, and a whole set of actions makes people feel calm.

"It's a pity that I didn't get to see the priests of Hippo. Merlin took the white teacup in his hand and gently smelled the fragrant fragrance, of course the tea is not a good tea, not even as good as the five yuan a bag of tea from the roadside stall. There was a rich smell of decay that couldn't be concealed, so Merlin couldn't help but his eyes turned red, and a tear fell.

"Well, this drink is also called the drink of the gods, and it is said to cure all the ills of the world!" Augustine intoxicated, gulping down a large cup of hot tea, "Maybe this is an exaggeration, but I believe it must have great effects!"

Of course, Merlin knows that tea is a good thing, this thing can not only fight cancer, but also beauty, especially the nomads on the steppe rely on this thing to provide the necessary vitamins for the human body, after the lack of tea, their combat effectiveness plummeted, but I don't know how the priest of the Michel Abbey in Hippo City got the drink from the East.

"I wonder who the priest of the Abbey of Michel in Hibo is?" asked Merlin.

"The teacher is Thomas!" Augustine looked at him with adoration.

"St. Thomas, who is called a disciple of Jesus?" Merlin exclaimed.

"Yes, the one who was revered as a saint by the Arian Academy!" Augustine had reason to be proud of, a great man known to Little Merlin, who had heard many stories about this saint in his limited life. It can be said that Arius was able to compete with the church and had a lot to do with this kind of discipleship of Jesus.

Merlin was full of curiosity about this saint, but what he was most concerned about was where the saint got these oriental herbs, at this time the Silk Road should have been unblocked, but Merlin had never seen these oriental porcelain and tea in Adrianople, just like Augustine said, the king of Celis was a good hand at war, but he was a layman in business, otherwise how could the trade center of the territory be in the hands of the saints of Arius. The prosperity of Hippo City is not worth mentioning in Merlin's eyes, but it is much more advanced than Adrianople.

Augustine kept it repeatedly, but Merlin still refused to let go, and Merlin didn't know what the situation was in the Ash Furnace Territory, and how to develop in the future must always be seen before making plans.