Chapter 82: Returning Home
After passing the second ring assessment, Halumi and Kaya, at the insistence of the old woman, arranged the carriage for the return journey as soon as possible, pulled a batch of simple goods, and prepared to return home.
As the wife of the manager of the Chamber of Commerce, the woman can be said to take good care of the two girls who are still half the age. All kinds of foreign procurement negotiations are also carried out through her. So before leaving Wulian City, they left a sum of money for the old woman.
But it's not all hard work. Since Lin transferred all the remuneration he received from the Xijia branch to the Richzak Archmagician Fund, he did not have any funds to operate here. The cost of buying the house had already been settled, but the salary for the regular cleaning of the house was owed for some time.
Fortunately, the woman's husband was the manager of the Chamber of Commerce and knew a lot about Lin's ability to make money. The employer didn't say much nonsense about making his wife earn this easy money. The housekeeper's family is still grateful to Lin, a big customer.
Therefore, they did not force the repayment of the arrears in a vicious manner. For the care of the house and the care of the two apprentices here, it has not been reduced at all.
The money left by the two girls before they left was nominally an arrears and advance payment for future house management and cleaning, but in fact there was also some bonus for the hard work of the day. Because it is customary in the world of the Lost Land, no one advances a salary and will pay an amount of several cents in advance.
Since there were not many items to bring back to the Great Sage's Tower this time, the two girls simply squeezed into the same wagon with the goods. It's not a body for people, but it's not covered with a padded blanket, and it's even more uncomfortable to sit on. But for those who are like arrows, it's no worse. It's important to get home early.
And at the tower of the great sage, today during the day as during the day, there is no one in the tower, so the gate is closed. The tower master, who was training two dogs, came to a strange place in the forest.
For many days, in the middle of the night, people would come to this place, and they would radiate a ratio of mana power that they had never seen before. Lin You tried to simulate the use of this special proportion of mana power, but failed again and again.
It's like on Earth, knowing the chemical formula of a certain compound doesn't mean that it can be made. There are a lot of processes and reactions to consider, and if you want to commercialize large-scale manufacturing, there are many more things to consider. In terms of the magic of the Lost World, there are certain rituals and certain conditions that must be met.
So for this place that will exude a strange proportion of privilege and energy, Lin is more or less curious. In fact, after taking two dogs to see it, Lin couldn't see anything special here. The white nose is sniffing east and west, but he doesn't pay much attention to it, and he looks lazy. Gray Hoof is even more direct, running around, peeing as a mark.
Regarding the situation of coming to the scene and finding nothing, Lin took it with a normal heart. As the saying goes, no news is good news. In the same way, no discovery is a good discovery.
Someone doesn't want to be alive as if they have paranoia about being victimized, thinking about who is going to harm them all day long. Since there was nothing to do, he didn't have the heart to dig three feet into the ground, and led the two dogs to go elsewhere.
This matter is left behind. Lin has been back for the past two months, and the only thing he has thought about is how to play with it...... How to train two unsuccessful dogs.
Some of them have seen the appearance of military dogs or police dogs, but some people are still not satisfied, because the spirit has not yet been trained. The current appearance of the gray hoof and the white nose is compared to the human image, which is a fat boy with the same waist circumference and height, flowing with a hara, staring at other thin little animals, making him tremble.
The block is there, but the reason for the scary is the unpredictability of the stupid, who knows what strange things the idiot in front of him will do, so it makes people shudder. But that's not what Lin wants. You have to train to look like a tyrant in the castle of evil spirits, just standing still, it will still make people feel that their lives are threatened, and it can be regarded as passing.
In a sentence of the ancestors' great work on the art of war, it is said: its speed is like the wind, its speed is like a forest, aggression is like fire, it is not moving like a mountain, it is difficult to know like yin, and it is like thunder. can practice the essence of seven or eight points, and only then can you be considered to be a dog in someone's eyes.
So the suffering of the two dogs continues. It's not like they haven't tried to resist, but someone with full access to the Tower is more brutal than a dog can imagine. At every turn, just bounce and bang, or use the giant palm technique, pinch the dog's neck with one hand and lift it, and slap it with the other. Sometimes two dogs come together, and even the rhythm of the slap is the same.
How can this make the dog endure! But if you can't bear it, how can you ......
Just when he felt that the dog was bored and the future was bleak, the gray hoof and the white nose ushered in the dawn. The two hosts are back.
Not surprisingly, it was another saliva welcome ceremony. The girls are also happy that they are finally back in a familiar place.
But the two horses that came with the cart and the birds on which the guards rode were different from usual, and they kept stirring, as if they wanted to escape. There's no way, these days of practice, the momentum of the two dogs has increased to a lesser extent, and the murderous aura has increased with hatred, but it is a state that can be put away and cannot be contained.
These are still two girls and two big dogs, and they have been close since they were pups. After that, they got along day and night and grew together. So although I felt the change, there was no unhappiness.
The guards who came with the team were not so easy. The warrior who led the team assessed that if he encountered these two magical beasts in the wild, even if the other party did not rely on sneak attacks, he could easily wipe out his team in a head-to-head confrontation.
I really don't know how such a monster was domesticated by the tower owner. He didn't ask this face to face, otherwise someone would definitely say: You came to take a look two months earlier, just two stupid dogs who sell cuteness, they must have the blood of Earth Erha.
The return of the girls has made this magic tower, which has a low atmosphere and is gradually covered by the aura of slaughter, new. Because I thought about how to torture the dog all day long, I could let a guy who thought he was a former fat house, and got himself into it. Looking back on these days, Lin just wanted to say to himself: Could it be that I have a hidden S attribute?
Looking in the mirror and looking at his hateful expression, Lin couldn't help but think of the infamous psychological experiment on Earth, the Stanford Prison Experiment. Power makes people perverted.
But the girls are back, and it's not appropriate to wrinkle their faces again.
I looked at the solid abdomen, although I didn't train six muscles, or a mermaid line or anything. But it's much better than the oily, fluffy and fluffy appearance of the past. That's the only thing to be happy about.
Dinner was handled by Lin himself. He went to the town outside the tower to collect a temporary tax, and collected three little lambs.
Anyway, in the world of the lost land, there is no fixed time for collecting taxes. When the lord was in a good mood, he sent a tax collector to scrape a wave; owed money, and sent a tax collector to scrape a wave; If you want to buy something but don't have enough money, you send a tax collector out of the house.
There is also no fixed amount of tax charged. The tax collector looked at the rich place, so he took more; If you are poor, you will take less. If you really don't have anything, you will take away what is still valuable. If the little girl in this family is beautiful, she only needs people, not property.
In the end, the lord only watched the tax collector hand over a few bags of coins or other items of value. If you pay a lot, you must be rich in territory, and the tax collector is good. If you pay less, you want to exchange the meaning of the tax collector.
Therefore, whether ancient or modern, Chinese or foreign, local fans and locals, tax collectors are a tiresome profession. The difference is that in the fandom, the tax collector has to have a good skill. Otherwise, that lord was very powerful, and he went into the mountains alone to fight against the demonic beasts, and he didn't come back. In that case, it will reach the ears of the lord.
As for the lord personally coming forward to collect taxes, it also depends on the situation. Otherwise, the rumor that 'that lord is very powerful' is also possible.
And Lin, as a magician lord, the townspeople are quite polite to him, and they can even be said to be enthusiastic or in awe? Originally, the three little lambs were bought with money, but for some reason they became a temporary tax agreed by the residents. Someone was forced to look like this, was forced to live taxes, and led the three lambs back.
All three lambs were killed and bled out, intending to make a whole roasted lamb. Of course, one sheep is enough for the three masters and apprentices, but they can't stand two dogs to eat. Lin Ke didn't plan to pat his chest and say to the dog that he was full. If you have a bite to eat meat, please be grateful and cry, otherwise it may turn into meat.
Sheep blood, sheep intestines, etc., are made into blood sausages after washing. Of course, lamb tripe and lamb heart are also delicious delicacies. Other haggis is disposed of only after being inspected for parasites. Find a way to cook what you can eat; If you can't eat it, you will be burned to ashes. Lin didn't want to risk swallowing parasites, that kind of disease could be regarded as a terminal illness in the Lost World.
This night, the three of them and the two dogs were happy to let go of their mothers to eat and drink. It is also a celebration of the success of the girls' apprentices in the second ring.
At night, stargazing and documentation continues. It's just that tonight, looking at the starry sky, the mood is very different from the previous day. It's like breaking free from a layer of shackles, and it's like letting go of a burden. That deep ocean of stars is also different from the past in someone's eyes. It was as if he had seen the sun that belonged to the earth and was calling to himself.
For several days in a row, the people and dogs who lived in the Magic Tower were adjusting to their lives and regaining their pace.
The changes of the two big dogs finally saw in the eyes of the girls. The dog's temperament has changed, and he no longer sticks out his tongue and pants and drips saliva at every turn. I don't get instructions, and I don't change poses at will. Once it quiets down, it is like a stone clay sculpture, not moving.
But I want the girls to touch me more than before. The chin, the dog's head, the legs, the back, the belly, everywhere is good. They will lick back with attachment. Although the feelings are less expressed, they are deeper and stronger.
As a teacher, although he was tense for a few days, once he relaxed, he returned to his original shape. The fat house is the house in its bones, and the fat is just the appearance. Even if he loses weight and fitness, he is still a homebody.
Just as a few people began to feel idle, and gradually moved towards idleness, Lin remembered that the last part of the golden skull that had been delivered, the part of the left arm.
But all the parts are thrown somewhere in the tower, and the teacher has to think about it.
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