The tavern was a bit noisy, and the ladies had large trays of ale overhead, nimbly shuttling among the tavern guests.

Only near the bar is a little more regular, the wine sellers put the empty wine glasses on the bar, the proprietress behind the bar quickly served the wine glasses full of ale, gathered a large tray, and chatted with the wine sellers, and then saw these wine girls shuttle among the drinkers again, if you want to have a drink with these wine girls, you not only have to pay double the wine price, but also buy the glass of wine that the beer girl drinks, which is considered a treat.

Apparently no one in the bar had deliberately poured alcohol on the Bird Tax Collector, and Surdak glanced at the Bird Tax Collector and saw that he was smirking at the glass of ale in front of him with his head down, apparently having drunk too much.

Surdak likes to drink with a plate of nuts, preferably charcoal-grilled and coated in salt.

When the tavern lady saw Carl's friend coming, she stood aside to clean her glasses and stopped talking to Carl.

Karl will go out of the city tomorrow with the support squadron to inspect the villages and towns around the city of Highlandsa and the noble estates.

After the heavy snowfall, some bandit groups often come out, taking advantage of the inconvenient transportation of the heavy snow, taking the opportunity to plunder some marginal villages and towns, and the guard battalion support group will be busy for a period of time at this time.

If it weren't for the fact that Surdak still had to take classes at the Knight Academy, he would also want to follow Karl out of the city, after the heavy snow closed the mountain, some demonic beasts hidden in the depths of the mountain would also run out, and at this time, it was the best time for some witchers to hunt.

The two attendants at the door of the tavern pushed open, and Mrs. Christie walked in from the outside, and even the drunken drinkers, seeing Mrs. Christie's powerful aura, would avoid and silence one after another.

Mrs. Christie walked up to Carl and sat down on a stool in front of the bar, and the tavern lady quickly and skillfully poured a glass of golden cider and brought it to Mrs. Christie.

"Why does he drink so much?" Mrs. Christie looked at the sluggish Bird Tax Collector and asked Karl suspiciously.

In her impression, although this somewhat obese tax official likes to have a drink, he is usually very self-disciplined, and rarely drinks like this.

Karl also rubbed his forehead a little distressed, and explained to Mrs. Christie with an innocent expression: "Who knows...... Christie's Castle had been in a very low mood, and we hadn't been sitting here long before he got himself drunk. ”

"How's today's luncheon? How do you think you're in a bad mood? Carl asked Mrs. Christie.

At this moment, Surdak is completely transparent, the tavern lady next to him turned around and pushed a plate of small dried fish to Surdak, the plate is very small, the small dried fish looks very exquisite, and the narrator also puts half a lemon, Surdak glanced at the tavern proprietress suspiciously, pointed to his nose, and asked suspiciously, "Is it for me?" ”

"Please try the new appetizers in the tavern." The proprietress said to Surdak with a smile.

Her voice is soft and relatable.

Surdak hurriedly replied with a thank you, no wonder this tavern was full in the afternoon, it seems that the proprietress in the tavern is very good at business.

Mrs. Christie, who was sitting on the other side of Carl, was also complaining to Carl at this time: "It's a terrible day, a bunch of self-righteous guys, Bernard should get them all out, those guys!" Belch...... Is! ”

The tavern lady seemed to be familiar with Mrs. Christie, and couldn't help but turn her head and ask, "What the hell is going on?" ...... make you so angry."

Mrs. Christie was on the bar with her arms propped up, her glasses in her hands, but she was not busy drinking.

"What else can there be, in the past two days, Hoyle's mood has been very low, in order to cheer up Hoyle, Bernard specially invited some young nobles to the castle as guests, who would have thought that those young people would run in front of Dacy and try their best to behave, show off their talents, but put Hoyle aside, Bernard's original intention was to make Hoyle happy, but he didn't expect it to make Hoyle's mood worse, and he didn't insist on leaving the venue early until the end of the luncheon." Mrs. Christie complained.

The tavern lady said with a sympathetic expression, "How could they be like this? ”

Mrs. Christie sighed lightly and said, "It may be that they think that Hoyle is involved in the Dark Arts Order, and if they marry her home, it will bring disaster to their family." ”

Carl asked with a look of surprise, "So...... Even if Hoyle was sitting on a rich dowry and a knighthood, no one wanted to try to have a relationship with her? ”

"Hmm!" It was only then that Mrs. Christie looked at Surdak, raised her glass to him, and said, "...... Surdak, I haven't thanked you yet. ”

"It's nothing, it's just a coincidence." Surdak smiled modestly.

Mrs. Christie asked, "I heard you want to participate in the auction?" ”

That's why Surdak gets together in the tavern in the afternoon.

If not, Carl is about to travel, and this time must be with Mrs. Christie.

Some of the high-level auctions in the city of Highland are usually only attended by nobles, and Karl rarely participates in such auctions, so he can't give Surdak any good advice, so he asks Mrs. Christie to recommend it.

Surdak said directly: "I want to buy a few magic herbs, I have almost searched all the magic herb shops in Hailanza, and I can't buy those magic herbs everywhere, so I can only find a way to try my luck at the auction house." ”

Surdak wanted to ask Scholar Ferdinand to concoct a magic potion that could suppress the Black Curse, otherwise the sacrifice of the sand wolf's head alone would not last long.

Mrs. Christie frowned slightly, and between her eyebrows and Darcy . Christie is very similar, they are both strong personalities, and they are usually not too tactful when talking to familiar people, she said to Surdak: "It is not easy to buy magic herbs in the auction house now, many magic apothecaries have their eyes on the auction house, as long as there are magic herbs in the auction house, no matter how outrageously expensive, they will definitely buy them at a high price in the end." ”

Obviously, Mrs. Christie is talking about the current situation in the city of Highlandsa, the current market of magical herbs in the city of Highlandsa is controlled by several magic apothecaries, so that several potions shops in the city can no longer operate, and they have closed down one after another.

Mrs. Christie didn't say something thoroughly, but Surdak had already understood the meaning of the words, even if he spent a lot of money in the auction house to grab those magic herbs, it was useless, and if he offended those magic apothecaries, he would not be willing to prepare magic potions for Surdak.

Surdak smiled a little distressedly, thinking that he might either buy some low-level sacrifices such as sand wolf heads, or simply follow Karl's support squadron to the wilderness, and maybe hunt other magical beasts.

Seeing that Surdak was silent, Mrs. Christie said: "I know that there is a special trading firm that can accept commissions for the purchase of magic items, although the commission is a bit expensive, but there are many rare magic goods that can be ordered from him, and the most special thing about that trading firm is that it advocates barter, if you have some rare magic materials, it is recommended that you try your luck there." ”

"Where's that trading house?" Carl also asked Mrs. Christie with a curious expression.

Mrs. Christie looked at Surdak and said to him, "It's in the underground market, and if you decide to go, I can be your referee." ”

Thinking that the Magic Waist Pack still contained some magical herbs for the Dark Mage Cyrus Hicock, and that he might be able to exchange them for the magic herbs he needed, Surdak said, "I'd like to try my luck, Lady Christie." ”

Mrs. Christie said to Surdak, "You can call me Mary or Mariana." ”

Now that he had decided to go to the trading house and was ready to set off immediately, Karl looked at the drunken Bird tax collector and said with some distress: "I have to send this guy back first, you take Surdak to the trading house first, and then I will rush over to meet you." ”

Karl's servant carried the Bird tax collector out of the tavern and boarded Karl's carriage.

Mrs. Christie's squire led Surdak into a magic caravan on the side of the street, and Mrs. Christie sat in the carriage and gave a command to the coachman, and the carriage slowly drove down the street that had not yet been completely cleared of snow to the underground market, while Surdak's Gubolai horse was tethered to the carriage and followed the carriage slowly.

The carriage was very relaxed, and Mrs. Christy sat opposite Surdak, but her eyes kept falling on Surdak, constantly looking at him, and after a moment of silence, Mrs. Christie took the lead in asking, "How did you and Darcy meet?" ”

Surdak knew that Mrs. Christie would find an opportunity to ask this, so he said calmly: "When I was serving in the 57th Heavy Infantry Regiment of the Bena Legion, our infantry regiment happened to be stationed in the camp of the woodland in the southwest of the hilly meadow. Miss Christie's Swordsman Academy organizes the Plane Training Troupe......"

There is nothing to hide about these things.

Mrs. Christie seemed to hear this for the first time, and her mouth opened into an O-shape, and with what she knew about her niece, Darcy. Christie is definitely not the kind of person who does not take revenge, and she asked Surdak with a surprised expression: "So...... Although you and Darcy knew each other before, they weren't friends, but they had some grudges? ”

Surdak continued: "That's pretty much it, before I left Handanar City, I taught Norton a lesson......

Mrs. Christie couldn't help but laugh and said to Surdak, "Ha! I had heard about Darcy's experience before, and her decision to return to the city of Highlanza and teach at the Knight Academy had something to do with it. ”

Then he said with emotion: "I didn't expect you to meet again in Hailanza City, and you have successfully resolved those previous grievances. ”

“……”

Surdak suddenly felt that Mrs. Christie's gaze had changed, and when she looked at him, she looked more like an amiable elder, which made a cold sweat break out on his back.

……

Fortunately, the underground market is not far from the tavern, although the streets in the city of Hylanza are not too smooth, but the Cristi family crest is hung on the outside of the carriage, and it has the right of first place wherever it goes, and the carriages on the road have avoided it, so it does not take much time to reach the door of the underground market.

Surdak had been to this underground market more than once, but he didn't know that there was a trading house here.

The magic caravan stopped, and Mrs. Christie got out of the magic caravan and walked into the gate of the underground market with Surdak, and the burly janitor saw Mrs. Christie, and actually respectfully clenched his fist on his chest and performed the standard warrior salute.

Instead of going straight into the underground market, Mrs. Christie asked the gatekeeper, "Is Magician Daller there......"

This trading firm is located on the second floor of the underground trading market, if it were not for someone to lead the way, Surdak actually did not find that there was another staircase behind the strong man guarding the door, walking into this trading firm on the second floor of the building, a trading house manager hurriedly walked to Mrs. Christie's side, and greeted Christie very warmly: "Good afternoon, honorable Mrs. Christie, welcome to the White Elephant Trading Company, is there anything you need to help you?" ”

At this time, Surdak saw that there was actually a row of bulletin boards on the walls on the left and right sides of the trading house hall, and the bulletin boards were filled with rows of information, most of which were some demand purchase information, and these bulletin boards also had a small amount of information about the sale of strange magic items.

After hearing Mrs. Christie's explanation, the manager of the firm introduced Surdak and said: "Knight of Surdak, our firm specializes in the trading of rare magic items, you can store some magic materials or magic weapons that you want to sell in our firm, and we will sell them for you, if you want to exchange for magic crystals, you can also trade directly with our firm, if you are not satisfied with the price given by our firm, you can also specify the price and store it in our firm for sale, Or you can exchange it for any other magic item you need. ”

Surdak said directly to the merchant manager, "I need a few magic herbs, and now I can take out some magic herbs in my hand. ”

Hearing Surdak say this, the manager of the trading house immediately showed a happy expression and said: "You come to our trading firm, it is definitely the wisest choice, our trading house has a professional magic material appraiser, who can price your magic herbs, and then according to your needs, you can estimate how many magic herbs you need, exchanging magic grass for magic grass, it is indeed much easier than using magic crystals to purchase, please follow me." ”

The three of them did not stay in the hall on the second floor of the comptoir, the manager of the comptoir took Surdak and Mrs. Christie directly to the third floor of the merchant, the manager of the comptoir stopped in front of a room door, knocked cautiously, and a calm voice came from the room: "Please come in!" ”