Night falls

The rooftops of the city of Bena are covered with a thick layer of snow, which is divided by the city's criss-crossing streets to form a well-defined square.

Pedestrians on the street walked briskly in the cold wind, the temperature dropped quickly, and no one wanted to stand on the street and chat.

The three of them sat side by side on the sofa, with a caravan of hot tea in their hands, looking out the window at the city of Bena, and everyone didn't speak, just sat quietly, watching the darkness spread like a tide......

There were no candles, and the light in the room slowly dimmed.

In the faint darkness, Hathaway's eyes were bright.

She was listening to Surdak's account of returning from the maca plane, buying a group of kobold slaves in Bena City, and the slave trader Daxikin dumped a whole shipload of kobold slaves on the airport dock in the city of Highlandza, and finally had to transport these kobold slaves back to the village of Vol, and opened a sulfur mine in the territory, where a large number of kobold slaves mined every day.

Beatrice rested his head on Surdak's shoulder and said to Surdak, "I really want to go to the village of Wall to see the big dam, maybe I don't have to come back." ”

Beatrice's mood was a little depressed, she drank some wine, and her face was slightly red.

"Sorry, I haven't been able to convince your dad yet." Surdak lowered his head and looked at the enthusiastic round-faced beauty, thinking that she probably wanted to escape the city, as she and Hathaway had originally planned.

Surdak does not approve of such an approach, how can the most important thing in life be without the blessing of his family?

His hand rested on Beatrice's waist, which was softer than Atrice's, and he hugged it a little harder.

"Did you fall ill because of me?" Beatrice rolled her eyes wide and looked up at the side of his face.

Surdak hesitated, didn't say anything about the keel, just smiled slightly: "It has nothing to do with this matter, even if there is a little, but I can do something for you, I am also willing, thank you Lady Luck for letting me meet you." ”

"Neither Beatrice nor I want to see you sick." Hathaway sat on the other side and said coquettishly.

Surdak could feel his body slowly recovering, and the sunset outside the window was only a dark red, and he said, "It's going to be fine, it's just that it's been hit hard, but the good news is that I'm not completely stupid, and I should be able to recover, this time I'm sick, and I am reminded of a lot of things from the past." ”

Hathaway turned around, curled up on the couch, supported her head with one hand, and said to Surdak, "I remember the first time I saw you, you were an infantry captain, and you had a stinky face, and I was so angry that I wanted to stand behind you and kick you hard. ”

"Haha, now you can kick if you want, it's a rare opportunity......" After speaking, he hooked Hathaway's delicate neck with one hand and kissed her on the forehead.

Hathaway's blue eyes narrowed into a line, and she turned into an octopus to wrap around Surdak, and whispered to him, "For your illness's sake, let you go." ”

The room was too quiet, and the butler and the two maids waited uneasily outside the door, and he anxiously wiped the sweat from his forehead.

Although Baron Surdak's marriage proposal was successful, he was afraid that the young people in the house would stick together and make some outrageous moves, for the old-fashioned Luthor family, some rules could not be easily overcome, which involved the face of the Marquis of Luther. He saw that it was getting dark, so he went up and knocked on the door, stuck to the wooden door, and reminded inside: "Miss, we should go......

There was not much time, and footsteps could be heard in the room.

After the wooden door opened, Hathaway and Beatrice came out of the room, although their pretty faces were slightly red, and the long skirts on their bodies were pressed with many folds, but the middle-aged butler's heart was still relieved.

This style of long skirt is very complicated to wear, and the tunic and petticoat alone cannot be worn in half an hour.

They walked out of the room so quickly, and although it must not have been just a simple chat, it would not have been too out-of-the-ordinary.

Hathaway and Beatrice walked down the stairs of the hotel, their faces already restored, and they returned to the Marquis of Luther in the magic caravan with the middle-aged butler.

……

Shander participated in a magic material auction held at the auction house yesterday, he knew that crystallized salamander meat was very expensive, but he didn't expect that crystallized salamander meat would be pushed to such a high price by bidders, when the auctioneer cut a piece of crystallized salamander meat on the spot, and scraped the fire element grains on it with a blade, those fire element grains burst out on the booth, and the entire auction scene was boiling.

After a few rounds of bidding, the crystallized salamander meat was pushed to a height that other attributes of crystallized meat could not reach.

Then the two boxes of crystallized salamander meat were auctioned off at a high price very smoothly, and the auction house even offered to reduce the commission by one point in order to have a chance to cooperate in the future, and also handed over the bidding money to Shande as soon as possible.

Shande, the owner of the butcher shop, lay on the wooden bed with a bag of magic crystals in his arms, and didn't sleep well all night.

Early in the morning, I got up from the bed with dark circles under my eyes, and considered whether to go to the city hall of Bena City and deposit this large amount of money there, although I had to pay a part of the storage fee, but at least it was safer there.

He got up from the bed, washed his face, pushed open the wooden door of the butcher's shop, removed the partition of the window, took out a magic box, put the meat of the demon antelope on the meat table, and hung the frozen mola fish on the wooden shelf, and when he had done all these things, he sat down on a chair at the door of the wooden house to rest.

At this time, the door of the wooden house of the shop next door was pushed open, and a street girl wrapped in a thick wool cloak came out of it, she was wearing leather boots, revealing a snow-white calf in the cold weather, and took a big stride, and quickly walked out of the magic free market, and there was not much time, and out of the room came a strong man with a shirtless body, this guy had a thick layer of chest hair on his chest, a beard, and his body was like a strong big stupid bear.

Shande stared at the strong man twice, smiled at him and asked, "How does this long leg taste?" ”

The strong man walked over, and he was not polite, shaved a piece of raw meat on the deer leg of the ice blue deer with a knife and stuffed it into his mouth, and said vaguely: "That's it...... Why haven't I seen you open for the past two days, ready to do something else? ”

"What else would I do besides cutting meat?" Sander cut another large piece of the deer's leg and handed it to the neighbor.

The strong man was not polite, took it and cut it into slices with a knife and put it in his mouth, and then said: "In the past two days, some magicians have always come to look for you, probably for the salamander meat you got back last time, you should be careful lately......"

The strong man patted Shande on the shoulder, then stretched his strong arms, grabbed a handful of snow from the eaves, and rubbed his hands and face vigorously until his skin was red, and then walked back to the cabin.

Shande stood up and sorted out the frozen meat on the meat table, ready to raise the small stove in the wooden house, boil less water, and fill his stomach with scones.

Sensing someone behind him, he turned his head sharply and saw Surdak standing in the doorway, leaning on the door frame, his face looking a little pale.

Since yesterday, Sander had been hoping that Surdak would appear soon, and now he was also surprised to see his weak appearance.

But he knew what he should and shouldn't ask, so he said, "Lord Surdak, why did you come today, you missed yesterday's auction." ”

"All those crystallized salamander meat for sale?" Surdak sat down on a stool by the door and asked Sander.

"It's a shame you missed yesterday's auction, those salamanders are very popular, oh, here's the auction house's record of each transaction and the commission breakdown, you see, these are all the proceeds from the salamander meat auction."

Surdak looked at it carefully for a while, ready to look in the account book to see if there was any miscalculation, he didn't really care about the little money, he just wanted Sander to know that he could read the details on this parchment. However, Sander calculated every transaction very clearly, and Surdak could not find any problems for a while.

According to Surdak's estimates, even if there is a premium for crystallized salamander meat to be auctioned, it will not be 20% higher than the value of the salamander meat itself, which means that the auction proceeds should not exceed 300 magic crystals.

But when he took the money bag in his hand, he realized that his estimate was very different from what he actually received.

Turning to the last page of the account book, Surdak saw that there were five hundred and thirty-one magic crystals written on it, such a crystallized salamander can actually change three sets of magic pattern structures, no wonder there are so many adventuring groups going deep into the mountains of demonic beasts, risking their lives to hunt those valuable demonic beasts.

Surdak thought that when he was looking for Sander, he wanted to sell these crystalline salamanders for one gold per pound, and if he really sold them like that, it would be a loss to his grandmother's family.

Surdak counted out thirty magic crystals from his pocket and handed them to Shande, who held these brilliant crystals in both hands, his mouth grew up, and he was a little speechless with excitement, although he sold Warcraft ingredients in the magic free market, and he also had an income of twenty or thirty gold coins a month, and his annual income was always more than thirty magic crystals.

But in one transaction, he earned the income of the previous year, counting the magic crystals in his hand, Shande was still a little excited in his heart.

He had never sold ingredients for high-grade Warcraft, not having so much capital was one of the reasons, and not being able to find a reliable source was the second reason, he never thought that this kind of good thing could still be his turn, but now, the facts are in front of him, and Shande suddenly found that he was actually lucky.

"When will I get the next batch of salamander meat?" Shander asked with some excitement.

Surdak thought for a moment and felt that it should not be a big problem to let Gulitum go to the lava cave to cut leeks once in a few days.

He said: "I probably don't have to wait too long, I've been in Bena City recently, and we can still trade in Bena City, I'm afraid it will be a little more troublesome after a while, you may have to take a magic airship to Hayllanza City to buy goods." ”

Sander didn't expect Surdak to be from Hylanza, he was not familiar with the Tarapakant region in the north of Bena Province, and repeated: "The city of Hylanza?" ”

Surdak smiled and nodded.

Leaving the Magical Free Market, Surdak found a restaurant, ate a casual stew and baked wheat cakes, and headed for the 'Charr' tavern.

……

The 'Charr' tavern is usually open in the evening, Surdak went a little early, the door of the tavern was open, but the tables, chairs and benches were still piled together, two waiters were cleaning with handles, and several wine girls were sitting on the high stools in front of the bar, facing a delicate look and delicate makeup.

They weren't very afraid of the cold, and despite the low temperature in the tavern, they were still wearing only black stockings and short skirts, chatting together.

When Surdak reached the door of the tavern, he was stopped by a waiter, who said apologetically, "My lord, I'm sorry we haven't opened here yet, I'm afraid you'll have to come late!" ”

Surdak looked inside, smiled at the waiter, and said, "Can I sit in there for a while?" I don't have anywhere else to go. ”

As he spoke, he took out a stack of copper plates from his pocket and stuffed them into the waiter's hand, who grabbed the stack of copper plates and said to Surdak with some embarrassment, "...... This doesn't meet our rules, and when the manager sees it, I'm going to be scolded! ”

"Let him in!" The bartender yawned and stood inside the bar, scrubbing his glasses.

The waiter then moved out of the way, hunched over and invited Surdak into the tavern.

The bartender poured Surdak a glass of ale, put a plate of nuts on the bar, and invited Surdak to sit down, and the group of wine girls looked at Surdak with a smile, and a bold and big wine girl sat down on a stool next to Surdak. In a funny tone, he said to him, "Lord Baron, could you please give me a drink?" ”

Surdak nodded, motioning for the bartender to pour her a glass of wine as well.

At this time, the beer girl took the opportunity to put most of her upper body on Surdak, and blew in his ear, "Do you want to sit with me?" ”

At this time, the bartender pushed a glass of ale over and reminded the wine girl: "Hela, he is Sophia's customer, you can find someone else to pull business!" ”

The wine girl pursed her lips when she heard the bartender say this, but she didn't dare to refute it, turned around with her glass and left.

"You wait a while, Sophia shouldn't have gotten up yet, just tell me what you want to drink......

The bartender said to Surdak.

Surdak raised his glass, and the bartender nodded.

He eats salted cat's claw nuts, a nut that needs to be cut open with a dagger to get the crispy and sweet kernels inside, which is just the perfect thing to kill time.

Taking a sip of the cold, mellow ale, his mind seemed to drift back to a summer in his previous life.