Chapter Fifty-Five: The Owner of the Dark-bellied Bookstore and the Only Remaining Fruitful War Horse
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After waving goodbye to Huiyin and leaving the street, Caroline asked Feng Longde, "Brother, you seem to know her very well?"
"I've been in the Oriental Pit anyway, and I've also learned about one and two settings. Feng Longde nodded helplessly, "Forget it, you probably don't understand what the otaku situation is, now the most important thing is to go to Suzuna-an to buy a map, and then buy horses, instead of worrying about why I can talk to Huiyin, that half-orc!"
"As you wish, brother. β
Caroline also knows a lot about her brother's temperament: when he is busy getting things done, his tone is relatively impulsive, but this does not mean that he is in a bad mood, he is just very impatient, and as long as he is busy with things, he will return to his usual calm and calm face.
After walking for a while, Feng Longde found that he seemed to have a bit of a precursor to Alzheimer's: he actually forgot to ask where Huiyin Lingnai Nunnery was before!
After asking a lot of passers-by along the way and walking countless wronged roads, they finally found Suzuna-an, a rented bookstore in the middle of the world.
The whole Suzuna-an is an old-fashioned Japanese house that looks quite old, and the sun shines on the eaves, but it gives people a feeling of gloom, and ordinary people will feel a cold feeling in their hearts when they see it.
However, the people present were not ordinary people, and for Feng Longde, this kind of place that did not see the light of day was extremely similar to the environment when he was staying at home before, and he felt like he was home
Feng Longde gently pushed open the wooden door, accompanied by the light sound of wind chimes, the open gap allowed the sunlight to shine in, and a shadow behind the counter moved.
"Welcome to Suzuna-an, I'm the owner of the shop, Suzu Honju. Three guests, what books do you need? There are two types of books here: for sale and for rent, and the prices are cheap. The candle was lit, and a red-eyed girl wearing a red and white checkered kimono, a rattle-shaped hair ornament, and a dark orange double ponytail stood up, revealing an apron with the words 'KOSUZU' and 'Suzuna-an' written on her kimono jacket, and took down an old book covering her face.
"It's really 'no deception'. Feng Longde took off his helmet, this house was obviously not well ventilated, and he was already used to the helmet itself, he actually felt breathless, "May I ask if there is a map of the whole of Gensokyo, I also want a copy." β
"New outsiders?" Xiao Ling glanced at in surprise, then took out her eyes from the counter and put them on, slowly rummaging through the bookshelves behind her, "There have always been maps in the world, and the map of the entire Gensokyo is only a rough map, and it only has a simple location mark of each region and the distance between each other, are you sure you want one?"
"Both. Feng Longde took it and looked at the two maps given by Xiao Ling - the one in the world is the overall layout of the entire village and town, which marks the names and uses of each important building in detail in one corner; The other side and other places are basically places that living humans can't go to, so they can't be detected.,If this map is wrong and causes you trouble.,Welcome to complain.:If you haven't been eaten by a monster or played badly.γ β
Feng Longde saw that it was called a black line on his face, and it turned out that Lori, who looked very natural and cute, often had a hidden belly black attribute: this second half of the sentence is completely needless to say!
"How much?" Feng Longde put away the two maps, and then began to dig coins in the money bag around his waist - modern wallets can hold paper money at best, and metal money can only be filled with large local money bags.
"A total of 50P coins, a fixed price. Xiao Ling's left thumb rubbed her index and middle fingers, as if figuring out a coin.
"Wow. Feng Longde picked out the coins of exactly the same face value and handed them over, and after Xiao Ling confirmed that it was just right, she shrank back into her chair and stopped making a sound.
Feng Longde shrugged his shoulders, beckoned the two of them to go out, and closed the door with his hand.
Suzuna-an fell silent again, darkness enveloping everything in the room, except for the faint light of candles.
Xiao Ling sighed, took out an oil lamp from under the counter and lit it, picked up a book and began to read it slowly, muttering vaguely: "Is it another group of foreign compatriots? I hope I can live in this place for a long time, human beings live really hard here." β
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Putting aside the sigh of the shopkeeper of Lingnai'an, Feng Longde's side ran all the way away, and it can't be said that the lightning carried sparks along the way, but at least it was definitely dusty and at the same level as Zhu Bajie seeing his daughter-in-law
According to the annotations on the map, Feng Longde quickly found the location of the city of Lima in the world. But when they arrived and asked about the situation, it was a bit bottomless.
The owner of the horse market is a German, according to his introduction, the horses that can be bought in the world now are basically pack horses, which are used for pulling goods, and the number of horses of war horse breeds that can be used as heavy cavalry mounts is very small, and there are only fifteen horses in the entire horse market, and they are all male and female.
Feng Longde and Caroline were dumbfounded, but it was no wonder that they lost their temper: in Gensokyo, a place where monsters fly around every day, and only a place where strong humans can roam freely, ordinary humans will not wander in the wild as long as they are not brain-pumping or long-term, and naturally there will be no horse breeds dedicated to travel, and if there is a situation like a serious illness, Meihong can also act as a guard to bring people safely to the Eternal Pavilion.
It is a stroke of luck to have fifteen horses left: according to the Germanic bosses, their grandfathers' ancestors brought with them a number of horses when they came here, and these fifteen were the remaining breeds, if not for which the horse market would have been a pack horse market at best. Finally, according to the Germanic boss, there were originally more of these war horses, but every time there would be a short-haired white girl with a knife who followed the ghost to buy a lot of food, and by the way, most of the war horses or some pack horses were bought to pull goods, so now there are only fifteen war horses left.
This made Feng Longde break out in a cold sweat when he heard it: That girl is undoubtedly a half-human, half-spirit soul demon dream, and buying so much food is obviously to feed the gluttonous undead of Youyouzi For the sake of optimism, the best fate for those horses is to leave a complete set of bones
No matter how few war horses there are, they have to be bought, according to the price of 10,000 P coins each, Feng Longde bought all the fifteen war horses, and the result was that the boss of Germain was almost not pressed down by fifty silver bricks of one kilogram, and he said that with such a big money owner as Feng Longde, he could not open for a few years.
Someone was able to buy fifteen horses in one go, and this caused the few people in the horse market to look sideways: Are these fellows going out on horseback, are they going to burn with too much money, or are they going to die in a trick? But it is none of their business, and some well-meaning passers-by say that it is dangerous outside the village, so these 'compatriots' should not go out
Feng Longde nodded his head at this, but the Germanic boss was quite happy, and said that if he had time in the future, he would invite him to have a few drinks in the tavern here - one reason was naturally that he had made so much money this time, and the other reason was that it was too rare for a new face to appear in the village, or a compatriot of a nation, and he had to exchange feelings about anything.
Feng Longde was also happy to be like this: when he first came to the world, he bumped into Comrade FΓΌhrer and many Germans, and now he barely had a clue what the origin of these guys was, and if he had any contact with them, he could also help himself; besides, there was just an excuse to be temporarily bored in the world, and there was no need to explain to Caroline - we were trying to win over people, so I didn't have to move bricks, right?
Caroline glanced at Feng Longde, after half a year of getting along, could she not know the twists and turns in her brother's stomach? However, she didn't bother to care about these, anyway, there was no shortage of Feng Longde to move bricks and dig the soil, and there was not much Feng Longde at this stage, and there was no large amount of labor and heavy machinery to participate in the situation, and the big pit with one more person and one less person would have to be dug for three months, so it was better to simply let him hang around here. With Feng Longde at least a certain understanding of Gensokyo, he can make a few monster friends anyway, and he can be familiar with the worst of them.
Feng Longde looked at the war horse that the Germanic boss asked his men to bring over, and he had mixed feelings: he had also ridden a horse before, but it was a Mongolian horse that he rode in the zoo when he was a child, and now what he saw in front of him was a war horse specially used as a heavy cavalry mount, and that head was not of an order of magnitude.
According to the books that Feng Longde himself had read about horse breeds, as well as the knowledge query that Caroline copied in her soul, this kind of war horse came from the northern region of the European continent (Ilibu), and both the Ilibu people of that era and the Europeans of today call this kind of war horse the Northland horse.
This is an ancient war horse: the history of the Teutonic Empire records that the Teutonic invaders brought it to the northwest of Hugo (present-day France) and then to the Normans (present-day Britannica) Islands with their conquests. The horses were now widespread in the Normans Islands, north of Hugo and Bismarck (present-day Germany), and were used as hoplite horses - which is why the hoplites and knights of northern Ilib were as fierce as their southern counterparts in Ilib at that time.
Perhaps only using the word "fierce" to describe the Northland horses and the northern hoplites of Ilib may not feel so intuitive, but the numbers are more telling: converted into the current data unit, the average light cavalry war horse is about 1.3 meters high at the shoulder, the Ilib southern hoplite cavalry is about 1.6 to 1.8 meters high at the shoulder, and the adult Northland horse is about 2.2 meters high at the shoulder, about 2.8 meters high at the head, and about 2.5 meters at the waist. Most light cavalry horses weigh less than five hundred kilograms, while northland horses weigh more than one thousand and five hundred kilograms, that is, at least one and a half tons in weight
A one-and-a-half-ton war horse, and the associated horse armor, plus a heavily armed knight, what is that concept? That's nearly two tons of weight, this kind of heavy cavalry charges in formation according to the flag, and even ordinary hoplites can't stop their impact: the Northland horse is such a monster, riding the Northland horse to cut the light cavalry is similar to cutting the infantry, cutting the heavy cavalry is about the same as cutting the light cavalry, and if the Northland horse charges, it is estimated that no one wants to stand in the direction of travel of these monsters, and the effect of being hit is the same as being crushed by a car, or even worse.
And this fierce horse is naturally very fierce - not only to other kinds of horses, but also to strangers: its hooves, which are larger than a man's head, can easily kick a strong man away, and the horse's teeth are so strong that it is not a problem to bite a child to death.
Under Caroline's tutelage, Von rond quickly mastered the art of horseback riding. After confirming that the war horse he was going to ride did not have bad problems and habits such as hooves, flashes, and emergency stops, Feng Longde turned over on the horse with the help of the ladder pier, put away the reins and clamped his legs, and followed Caroline and Yarman, who were also riding war horses: I have to say that the owner of the horse market is still quite professional, and these war horses have undergone special training, at least Feng Longde, a newcomer to horseback riding, can also control the direction and speed of the war horse relatively smoothly, so that he will not be taken away by Sahuan's horse as soon as he comes up.
At the beginning, the problem was not Feng Longde, a newcomer to horseback riding, but Yarman, the black knight: ordinary humans or life races did not recognize his identity as a deceased, but animals could distinguish - compared to dull humans, animals are extremely sensitive to the breath of death that the undead cannot cover even if they have a body full of surging vitality, and as a result, the war horse does not let Yarman ride it, even if it is ridden hard, the war horse is frightened and weak, and it is not moving.
The final solution was simple: Caroline blessed Yarman with a few secondary spells that concealed her aura with dark magic, so that the living horses would not be scared of Yarman as an undead.
After successfully riding the war horse, Yarman used a long rope to connect the other twelve war horses to each other behind the war horse he was riding, Caroline led the way in front, and Feng Longde followed behind to familiarize himself with the process of riding, and the group walked through the street and left for the inside and outside of the world.
Along the way, Feng Longde and his party attracted a lot of attention: in a village and town where most of the residents were Japanese, three typical Western-style knights with horses through the streets was definitely a sight, at least enough for the residents of the village to talk for seven or eight days.
Adolf turned his head in surprise at first as he watched the galloping knights, but soon he shrugged his shoulders and continued to focus on his canvas.