Even though it's only early summer. But the midday sun was already a little spicy, and the light shone on the river.

This is the port of Enke, about 30 miles downstream of the Lancang Grand Canal. At the same time it is an important auxiliary port around dìdū.

The Lancang Grand Canal traverses the east and west of the empire, and it took several generations of emperors of the empire to work hard and work for several generations to open up several major rivers in the Roland continent from east to west, and then open them to the sea, forming the main artery of the east and west of the empire. It became an important conduit to the heart of the empire "dìdū".

However, with hundreds of years of peaceful and prosperous life, the prosperity of the land of dìdū surpassed that of the mainland. Although the original port terminal of Dìdū City has been expanded several times over several generations, the capacity is still not enough to meet the throughput of the busy ships coming and going. So. In order to alleviate and differentiate the burden on the port of Dìdū, as early as a few decades ago, such an Enke port was built about thirty miles downstream of Dìdū to share the throughput of Dìdū port.

After decades of development, and the tax revenue of the port is two percent higher than that here, some small and medium-sized caravans are often willing to dock their fleets here, although the goods have to be transferred from the land to the dìdū here, but fortunately, the local tax here is slightly cheaper, and the cost of land transportation is somewhat alleviated. In the past few decades, a town of tens of thousands of people has spawned around this Enke port, and there are actually several cargo transportation carriage shops in the vicinity of Dìdū.

At this moment, next to a merchant dock in Enke Harbor, a large ship has just been moored, which is a standard ground sea ship, with a three-masted shape, so that such a ship can be raised to a very fast speed when the wind is full at sea.

The ship was already steady, and two businessman-like guys had already jumped out of the ship. He waited on the dock for a while The official tax official of the empire whispered and laughed for a while, and after paying the tax, he took out a gold coin and stuffed it into the tax official's hand with his sleeve, and immediately the other party smiled, and even saved the inspection, and signed the document directly.

Behind them, a large group of coolie porters waiting on the dock for work surrounded them, and for a while they begged loudly and noisily, hoping to get a little work.

"Sir, sir. Hire me! Hire me! I'm very manpowered! If you have any valuable goods, you won't let them damage your goods!"

"Hire me, respectfully sir! I have twenty men under me. Two copper horns per person! Two copper horns!"

In the midst of the noise, a plank had already been laid down on the other side of the ship. Two tall women stepped down from the ship side by side, one in light knight's armor. She is as beautiful as a flower, especially a pair of slender and sturdy long legs, which is even more admirable. The other one was even more surprising, he was actually wearing a set of white sèdi mage robes, but he was originally wearing a simple mage robe. It was modified beyond recognition by herself. A robe was changed into a long robe in two, and a light leather armor was put on the body, look at the texture. I don't know what kind of Warcraft turf manufacturing place it is, and there is a bright red cloak behind him. Even more strikingly, the sorceress had long hair that was dazzlingly silver, and she would shine in the sun. It's just that it should have been on a coquettish and lovely face. But his face was indifferent, especially a pair of eyes, which made people look at it, and they couldn't help but feel cold in their hearts!

Such a rare combination of a female knight and a female magician stepped off the boat. It immediately attracted the attention of others, but as the famous female magician snorted coldly, the people who were close to the place couldn't help but shudder, and quickly withdrew her gaze and didn't dare to look at it again. Joanna, you see. It seems that everyone is afraid of you. Ruolin smiled slightly, and she looked at the busy scene below. sighed, and casually summoned a subordinate on the ship: "Find someone to take a look, hurry up and unload the goods, there are still Xindi goods to be on the ship tonight, so grinding, if you don't have time to load the ship at night, be careful of your legs!"

These two are none other than Ruolin, the first female knight under Du Wei, and Joanna, the violent female magician. Du Wei originally sent the replica of Captain Jack Sparrow to take his henchman George Bush to the north to find the Snow Wolf Mercenary Group, and the two lived up to expectations, and soon found the Snow Wolf Mercenary Group and handed over Du Weidi's own letter. When Beinrich, the head of the mercenary group, received the letter, he was worried: he had just hunted a batch of goods from the frozen forest, but the smugglers who were willing to take over were so black-hearted that they actually pushed the price down by two percent lower than the average price! Beinrich was worried about this matter, and he happened to receive Du Weidi's letter, and when he read the contents of the letter, he couldn't help but be overjoyed, and immediately decided to sell all the goods in his hand to Du Wei.

At the same time, Beinrich also contacted a few friends of small and medium-sized mercenary groups who had a good relationship with him, and after discussing it, they decided that as long as Du Wei's bid could be maintained at this level in the future, then all the prey of several companies in the future would be willing to sell all of them to Du Wei.

The pirate captain returned with a full load, and there were ports in the north anyway, so he contacted Ruolin to send three ships to the north and pick up the goods. After receiving the goods of the three ships, Ruolin was also a little anxious in her heart, this kind of trafficking in Warcraft was illegal after all. I have to wait for the little master Du Wei to find a way to get the legal approval. However, Du Wei had already left the Lorraine Plain and came to Dìdū, so Ruolin had no choice but to leave for Dìdū to find Du Wei to discuss.

After all, this woman was a person who had once traveled south and north with a small adventurous group, and she naturally had plans in her heart, she thought: Under the banner of the Duwei Di Luolin family, this kind of legal approval must not be difficult to get, in this case, it is better to simply take a shipload of goods and go directly to dìdū! After getting the approval, in dìdū, this kind of demonic beast earth demon core and fur bones and other things are more expensive than other places, and then you can make a lot of money by the way, isn't it a good thing?

Therefore, a total of three ships of goods were bought from the north, two of which went south, and one entered the Lancang Grand Canal from the mouth of the East China Sea. Then head all the way west to dìdū.

It's just that things like the skins of these monsters are illegal, and unless you have an imperial document in hand, these things are expressly forbidden. In order to hide people's eyes, the ship also deliberately trafficked a batch of ordinary land goods on the ship, which was the land goods of the land merchant who had a good relationship with Du Wei on the plain of the Luo Linjia family, and happened to take this downwind boat to transport the goods to dìdū, and also saved a lot of freight, and the ship arrived after dìdū. After unloading the cargo, when I returned to the destination, it was an empty ship. It also happened to pass through the Lorraine Plain, where the site of the Cotter Xingsheng. Ruolin promised that when the empty ship returned to the destination, he could lend the ship to the leather boss to deliver the goods, and it just so happened that he also had to buy a lot of things in Dìdū. In this way, a lot of freight is saved. It's just that the joints in the customs clearance place along the way have been handled by this leather merchant and local people.

Such a boat. However, a small half of the land goods are from the decomposition of the corpses of the Frozen Forest and the Demon Beasts, and there is also a small bag of magic cores, which Ruolin carried with him.

The two beauties got off the ship, and the matter of the unloading place next to it had already been handled by the leather boss all the way, but the sailors on the ship were originally from pirates. Although it is still more than 30 miles away from dìdū, the bustling town of Enke Harbor has already dizzy everyone's eyes, and there are hotels and inns not far from the port, as well as well-dressed women who come and go to solicit customers, making a group of pirates itchy and scratching, and they can't wait to jump down immediately to spend their time drinking.

Ruolin already has a rìzi with this gang of pirates, and knows that these guys are vulgar. Although the management is strict. Seeing this, I couldn't help but laugh and scold, and ordered the people on the ship to get off the ship in batches and go to the port to rest, but they were strictly ordered not to cause trouble.

When the pirates heard this, their eyes lit up green, and they thanked Ruolin for their kindness, and then took the money. Change of clothes, less than a moment. Halfway through the run, only those unlucky ones who happened to be on duty couldn't help cursing as they watched their cheerful companions leave.

"Hmph!" Looking at the happy appearance of a group of pirates, Joanna naturally knew that these guys got off the ship and went to the port town to have fun, I'm afraid they have to drink ** and other underground things, thinking of this, I was annoyed in my heart, if it wasn't for the fact that she had been staying with these pirates these days, she had already been used to these people's vulgarity, I am afraid that a "Ice Rain Storm" magic would have blasted over, even so, she couldn't help but have a cold face, and said angrily in a low voice: "A bunch of nasty men!"

Ruolin has long been accustomed to seeing it, when she traveled from south to north, she knew the rude men of the mercenary group. And most of the time. She looked at Joanna and smiled, "Miss Joanna, now we're here too." After a while, when the carriage is ready, let's go to Dìdū to see Master Du Wei. ”

"Phew!" Joanna had a strange look on her face. But he said disdainfully: "What am I going to do to see that little bastard! Hmph, you can go by yourself! I came with you to dìdū, first, to help you press the boat, and second, I have something to do with dìdū myself." Well, right...... You help me pass on a message to that little bastard, and say that I have done what Joanna promised him! I will not owe him anything from now on! If I meet him again next time, I must let him suffer a little!"

Speaking of this, Joanna glanced at Ruolin and couldn't help but say: "Ruolin, we get along, although you are not good at magic, but you are not good at learning martial arts, but you have not met any good teachers since you were a child." Although I have taught you some of these rìzi, I know that I am not a teacher, so I can't help you much. You are such a person, why do you want to follow Du Wei's little bastard? Why don't you just follow me, my teacher is a first-class powerhouse in the world, martial arts and magic, all jīngtong, you go back with me, I beg him to accept you as an apprentice......"

Before she finished speaking, she saw Ruolin looking at her with a smile on her face, and couldn't help but sigh: "Okay, I know you want to refuse again." In that case, let's see you again!"

With that, Joanna took a deep look at Ruolin. He said in a low voice: "Although I have a younger sister, but I have never been all the way with her, every time I see her, I get angry, but you make me like it very much, if I can have a sister like you, it must be good." ”

** hugged Ruolin, Joanna said goodbye and left, she is a magician, and she has always been born and arrogant. He did whatever he wanted, regardless of the people around him, he flew up, and then turned into a light breeze in the direction of dìdū. It was gone in a moment.

At this moment, the surrounding crowd immediately rose up. The people on the Roland Continent are most in awe of magicians, and suddenly a magician flew up into the sky here, casting magic far away. I couldn't help but scream. Ruolin frowned and looked in the direction where Joanna left, sighed lowly, and raised her head. He shouted to a few stunned sailors behind him, "Haven't you seen Joanna magician at work!

Then Ruolin said a few words to the subordinate sent by the leather merchant. The Lorraine Plains landseller seemed to be determined to hold on to the big tree of Du Wei. Among the people in charge of the delivery place sent with the ship this time was his own brother, a middle-aged man in his forties.

This man's name is Hebang, and he has traveled south and north for half his life. It's a very jīng Ming capable guy, all the way to the car and boat dock, everything is done in front of Ruolindi, very thoughtful. Just now, without waiting for Ruolin's instructions, he had already found a cheap warehouse on the port of Enke (because it is backed by the large port of Dìdū, and there are many low-cost leased warehouses around the port town). arranged for someone to unload and transport a shipload of goods into the warehouse, and found a car and horse shop non-stop to negotiate the price.

Ruolin was very grateful to him, but this Hebang smiled and said, "When I came to the land, my brother had already ordered it. Miss Ruolin is a knight, how noble, where can she do these mundane things with her own hands. Naturally, I will do the work for me. ”

Ruolin thanked her twice, and Hebang asked again: "The goods on the ship have been taken down, Miss Ruolin, are you going to dìdū today?" It just so happens that I am also going to go to dìdū to go to a few trading houses to purchase, and I have already sent someone to rent a carriage, so let's go on the road." ”

"It just so happens that I also have to go to see our young master, and when the young master orders, the goods here will also be shipped out, otherwise they can't stay in the warehouse. ”

The two of them were walking on the dock when they suddenly heard a loud horn from the canal!

Ruolin looked back. Above the wide river, the main channel was occupied by a flotilla of a dozen merchant ships. This vast fleet of ships laden with cargo. Obviously, unlike the scattered merchant ships that came and went on the river, the head of this fleet had a flag embroidered with green oak leaves, and it occupied the main channel as if no one was around, and even the merchant ships in the surrounding areas knew the flag and avoided it from a distance.

On top of this fleet, there are also regular emperors wearing uniforms and armor, and looking at it like that, it is actually a regular dìdū guard! This is obviously a merchant ship, and the hanging ground is not an official flag, how can there be a dìdū guard escort? Such a wide river, but it has to be occupied alone. Don't let people be in parallel with them, it's so domineering!" Ruolin frowned.

"Miss Ruolin is the first time to come to Dìdū, right?" Hebang glanced at it and said in a low voice, "Don't say more!

"Oh?"

Hepon secretly pointed to the oak-leaf flag on the ground at the head of the fleet, and whispered, "See? That's the flag of House Solomon." This is the merchant ship of the Solomon family. The family is backed by the royal family, officials and businessmen, and the family business has His Majesty the Emperor's land in it, and they have to earn a lot of gold coins for the royal family every year, and they also help take care of a lot of royal properties!

Hebang stared at it for a while, and said: "The waterline of the ship is very deep, it seems that there are a lot of heavy goods transported on it, and it will be the Xia Rì festival soon, probably the Solomon family brought from all over the land to offer to the royal family." ”

Ruolin shook her head: "It shouldn't be an offering, the Xia rì festival is coming soon, if it is an offering, I'm afraid it should have been prepared a month ago, and it's too complete to send it now......"

Hebang smiled and said, "What does it matter what he sends the land, what does it have to do with us." ”

Ruolin nodded, but she couldn't help but look at the fleet twice, she was a warrior, and she could see at a glance that the fleet far away, excluding those guards, even those sailors, were all strong and strong. jīng god is full, and biao defends jīng violently. Ruolin couldn't help but feel a little weird in her heart......

It was already afternoon when I took the rented carriage and galloped to the dìdū land, and this rented carriage was naturally far less luxurious and comfortable than the carriage of Luo Lin's family, and it was okay to bump all the way, but I didn't know what seafood the carriage had originally carried, and there was a salty smell in the carriage. Ruolin is used to going out of the sea, so it doesn't matter. Hebang couldn't stand it, he was the boss's younger brother. It is also a noble status in the family industry, and it is usually served by others, and it is stuffy in the carriage for a while. I almost didn't throw up. When she arrived at the east gate, looking at the vast queue of cars and pedestrians at the east gate, Ruolin sighed: "It's just that there are so many people, when will it be?" ”

"That's a good place. Hebang covered his nose and smiled bitterly: "I heard that the gate tax of dìdū has been raised again...... Alas, where we do business, goods cannot be transported directly to the port of dìdū, but can only be disembarked at the port of Enke, and they have to be transported by horse-drawn carriage to the dìdū. There was already an extra freight, and if the gate tax was raised again, we would lose another ...... It's getting harder and harder to do business. ”

When I entered the dìdū land. It was already evening, Ruolin really didn't want to take the carriage anymore, she thought she was a knight, how could she always ride the carriage? I first took someone to buy a few horses in the horse market in the city. tidied up his appearance, and took two old subordinates, who were also taken over by Du Wei at the beginning, and Ruolin used to have two followers in the adventure team, an archer, and a barbarian warrior. Three people and three horsemen, inquired all the way, and came to the Earl's Court.

The out-of-town servants of the Earl's Court saw someone coming. Seeing that the three of Ruolin were actually wearing the armor style of the Luo Lin family's own private army. It's just that I've never seen it before, so I can't help but feel strange.

Ruolin strode forward and identified himself as a subordinate directly under Young Master Du Wei. The people inside reported it, and after a while, Mader ran out and immediately went in with Ruolin and the three of them.

Du Wei was hiding alone in the room studying a pile of demonic beast earth bones. After returning from the room, Du Wei closed the door and only fiddled with his own things in the room.

He's gotten a lot of good stuff from that old madman like Erik. At home, he wrote out the recipe that was said to be a substitute for "Mithril", and counted the goods according to his inventory, and found that he had already collected more than 20 kinds. It's just that there are seven or eight more things. but there is no land in his hand. I guess Ariq doesn't have much stock there. If you want to get the local talk, you have to find another way.

Du Wei didn't worry about anything else, as long as he could get a seed, he could successfully cultivate it by magically "time passing".

While carefully studying the mysteries of the formula, Mader had already reported it, and then brought in with Ruolin.

Du Wei put away his things, closed the door, and met Ruolin in the reception room outside.

I haven't seen her for a few months, Ruolin's face looks like she was scared of the beginning, and she has become more and more mature, tall and tall, showing a bit of delicate curves, and her full chest is more and more curved and rounded, especially the long legs that Du Wei admired, showing more and more green chūn unrestrained aura.

Living on the sea made her skin sunburned, and although her face was slightly thinner, it was more jīng.

"Sit down. Du Wei dragged his chin with one hand, leaned lazily on the chair, looked at Ruolin, and smiled: "You have worked hard." I will remember your deeds. Say, why did you come all the way to Dìdū to find me?" Ruolin sat down on the chair next to Du Wei, calmly, and reported the matter. When it comes to the Snow Wolf Mercenary Group, they have united with several other mercenary groups and are willing to sell the goods to themselves together. And when he wanted to cooperate for a long time, Du Wei immediately said: "Take it! Why don't you accept it, there is nothing to hesitate about." We now have ships and people, and the lack of land is cargo. Head Beinrich is a good friend who has experienced life and death with me, and he is also a person I respect, and I have saved the lives of more than 100 of them, and he is a person who can be trusted. ”

"Yes. Ruolin nodded: "I think so too, before I came, an agreement had been drafted, please look at it, if there is no problem." I'll send someone to the north this time. One more thing......"

After Ruolin finished saying that she had brought a shipload of goods to Dìdū this time, Du Wei frowned slightly and thought for a while, and said, "This is a problem, but it shouldn't be difficult to solve, you wait for two days, and I will find a way to get this matter done." ”

"Then there's the issue of money and land. Ruolin smiled bitterly: "You didn't have much money to bring to the north on the Jack Sparrow ship. Bought so many goods this time. We don't have any cash on hand. However, the Snow Wolf Mercenary Regiment Beinrich trusts you very much, and with his help, we only have a deposit of 10,000 gold coins. I shipped the goods back first. So, I'm here to ask you for money. ”

Du Wei immediately called into Made, and asked Ruolin to follow Made's money. After thinking for a while, Du Wei said: "This time all the goods." Pay 10% more to Head Beinrich. He's a good friend of mine, and I'm grateful for his help this time. This favor can't help but be repaid!"

Ruolin immediately nodded, and after thinking for a while, the female knight suddenly said, "Young Master Du Wei, when I was in Enke Harbor, I saw a fleet of the Rohman family on the canal...... But that fleet, it seems to be a little weird......"