401. Shopping
The waiter at the door pushed open the heavy carved oak door, and Surdak led Natasha into the magic lamp shop, and as soon as he entered the door, he saw that the ceiling of the shop was covered with all kinds of gorgeous magic crystal chandeliers, each wick blooming with a soft light, reflecting the room of the magic lamp shop in a golden light.
Natasha walked into the magic lamp shop and looked up at the chandelier overhead, her eyes full of surprise, she had never seen such gorgeous lighting in her life.
There are also three rows of neat wall lamps installed on the surrounding walls, most of these wall lamp bases are bronze, these hand-made bronze bases have their own characteristics, from maid figures to all kinds of magical beasts, Surdak even saw a double lamp base wall lamp is the appearance of two winged people with winged wings spreading, the two winged people raised high with their hands is the lampshade of the wall lamp, and the wick inside exudes a soft brilliance.
In the impoverished village of Wall, not every household can own even kerosene lamps, and the villagers will take an early break in order to save some lamp oil. Natasha followed Surdak's side, her face was full of admiration and surprise, a female clerk walked over from the store, her eyes showed a slight disdain, although Natasha was wearing a beautiful dress, but the female clerk could tell at a glance from Natasha's demeanor that Natasha was a countryman, and people in the city would not show the expression on Natasha's face.
However, her eyes only flashed by the sight of Surdak in salamander leather armor, her gaze turned to Surdak's chest, and she saw Surdak's chest. Wearing a silver shining knight badge in front of him, he immediately showed a subtle smile, slightly tucked his abdomen and inhaled to keep himself in the most decent standing posture, so that standing can not only make the waist appear more slender, but also make the chest. The preserved appears even higher. Excite.
It's a pity that the knight in front of him didn't set his eyes on the ditch he had worked so hard to squeeze out, but on the copper sconces.
The female clerk immediately adjusted her mentality, and it was good that the knight in front of her could buy a lamp, so she smiled sweetly from the bottom of her heart, and asked in the gentlest voice: "Knight, is there anything I can do for you?" ”
Surdak's eyes fell on the wall lamps on the shop wall, and he slowly turned his head to the female clerk and asked, "Do you have any lamps in your store that are engraved with magic patterns?" ”
The female clerk glanced at Surdak in some surprise, few customers would specifically ask for this, she hesitated slightly, and immediately said: "We do have magic lamps with magic patterns in the store, but there are only three in the store, and the brightness of this wall lamp with magic pattern circle is far less stable than that of moonstone wick lamps, and the cost of magic crystal fragments also requires an additional cost." ”
Saying that, the female clerk took Surdak into the store, and there were three table lamps in the shape of swordsmen on the display shelves in the corner of the store, Surdak really felt the faint magic fluctuations from the three table lamps, he lowered his head and carefully looked at the magic pattern engraved on the bronze statue, a dark magic crystal fragment was inlaid behind the pedestal at the feet of the bronze man, here is the source of energy of the table lamp, the magic crystal fragment continuously released a faint mana, through the magic pattern circle on the bronze man's body, so that a glimmer of light around the bronze man lit up.
Seeing Surdak look so carefully, the female clerk said: "The price of this magic pattern magic array type table lamp is a little more expensive, you can actually take a look at these moonstone wick wall lamps, and compare them a little, you can appreciate the advantages and disadvantages of the two forms of lamps." ”
Then she stood under a wall lamp in the shape of a maid, and introduced this wall lamp very hard, and she couldn't help but think about it, so she easily and fluently recited the characteristics of this wall lamp: "This moonstone wick wall lamp can not decay in brightness for five years, and usually except for wiping the dust of the lampshade, it requires almost no maintenance and no other cost." ”
Surdak, who was just standing in front of her, was unmoved, and turned his head to ask her, "Can the magic pattern circle on the lamp of this magic pattern circle be changed a little, such as engraved on a narrower piece of magic metal?" ”
"I can't answer this question, please wait, I'll go and ask the manager of our store." The female clerk said with a blank face.
She felt that Surdak didn't really want to buy the wall lamp, and she felt that her expression had been wasted, and she turned around and left with a depressed face.
It wasn't long before a store manager walked briskly, but the female clerk didn't reappear in Surdak's eyes.
The manager seemed to be a little mentally prepared, and when they met, he asked Surdak: "Mr. Knight, do you have any questions that need to be answered?" ”
Surdak repeated the question he had just asked, and the manager's eyes lit up after listening carefully.
He asked Surdak, "Are you going to prepare a custom magic lamp?" We undertake this kind of custom order, but you need to provide me with the style of the lamp base, or provide a detailed description, our shop will customize a base for you, and then ask the inscription master to draw a specially designed magic pattern circle for you on this base, but the cost of this custom magic lamp is slightly higher, and the production cycle should be as much as possible to cater to the inscription master, it is conservatively estimated that it will take at least half a year to customize such a wall lamp. ”
"Half a year is a bit long...... I've prepared the lighting style. Surdak frowned and said, "I hope I can talk to the inscription master face to face before drawing the magic pattern!" ”
"I'm sorry, but I can't give you information about the Master Inscription in the shop." The manager of the lamp shop said to Surdak with a wary expression.
Walking out of the largest magic lamp shop in Highlanza City, Surdak rubbed his forehead, he didn't expect that without even talking about the price, the custom enchanted shimmer weapon would be completely ruined.
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The snow has been cleared of the main streets of the city of Highlandza, the magic caravans are driving unimpeded on the streets, there are few pedestrians on the sidewalks on both sides of the streets, Surda is roaming the streets with Natasha, this mountain town is very compact and the terrain gradually increases from south to north, standing in front of the town hall The large square can almost see the whole city, the rows of roofs are now covered with a thick layer of snow, but it is full of winter atmosphere.
Natasha had never had the experience of walking the city streets in a relaxed and leisurely manner, she pulled her scarf so that it covered her somewhat red face, her eyes were full of yearning for the city, she would secretly look at the attic-like buildings on both sides of the street, guessing what the people in the window were doing at the moment, or the restaurant with delicious roast chicken, housewives cooking delicious mushroom soup, winter, there must be a lot of leisure time.
She squinted her eyes and looked up at the blue sky and the glare of the sun, her eyes chasing a flock of white doves away.
The smell of fried fish came from the street, and Natasha was a little curious about what kind of food could be made so fragrant, and looked in the direction where the smell came from, only to see a small stall car parked at the corner of the street, which was steaming hot at the moment, and the stall owner was throwing the batter-covered yellow croaker into the oil pot.
Surdak followed Natasha's gaze and asked her with a smile, "Have you ever eaten fried fish?" ”
Natasha shook her head slightly, and Surdak pulled Natasha over and said to her, "I heard that this is a delicacy from the elven world, and it tastes good. ”
The stall owner is an old man with a gray beard, wearing a thick cotton coat, a leather apron, and a very neatly trimmed beard, standing next to a large iron bucket with a wooden clamp is pouring fish into the oil pot, and there are several customers waiting to buy fried fish.
Seeing Surdak and Natasha coming over, he stretched his eyebrows and asked Surdak, "Lord Knight, what do you need?" ”
"Two fried sage, fry a little burnt!" Surdak saw that it was not bad to have a few yellow croakers tumbling in the oil pot, so he also chose two.
"Great!" The stall owner agreed, and then took out two pickled sage from the plate, expertly coated them in batter, and slid them into the pan.
Natasha stared at the stall owner's action of frying fish, as if she wanted to keep every step in mind, seeing that Natasha was very curious about fried fish, the stall owner actually enthusiastically told her how to marinate fish, what spices such as nutmeg rosemary pepper Natasha had never heard of at all, but she was still very attentive to memorization.
Surdak stood and looked around, and looked around along the street to see a number of people gathered in the alley not far away, and looked at it curiously.
"There's a thrift market over there, and if you want to buy some cheap second-hand thrift, it's definitely a good choice to go there." As he spoke, he patted his big hand with his hand. Legs, showing the leather boots on his feet to Surdak, said proudly: "These suede boots were bought from a destitute drunkard in the North, and they have not faded after three years of wearing. ”
A regular customer next to him smiled and said to the stall owner, "Hey, old Sam, this is the first time I've seen you recommend the thrift market to customers, and it seems that I want to talk to those people in the market and ask them to come to your fried fish stall more often." ”
The stall owner named Sam smiled and said optimistically: "Hehe, it's snowing so hard, the thrift market hasn't opened for a few days, so I just said casually, and I won't lose anything." ”
Soon the fish was fried.
The stall owner put the fried fish into a paper bag, Surdak paid fifteen copper plates, Surdak didn't want to eat the fried fish in the cold wind, and felt that the alley over there was quite sheltered, so he pulled Natasha and continued into the alley, and the two of them leaned against a stone wall, basking in the sun, eating the crispy sage and smiling at each other.
Looking at the noisy second-hand market in the distance, Surdak said to Natasha, "Why don't we go over there too?" ”