Chapter 96: Soft Rice and Hard Food, My Tanuki is the Queen!
Like most Birgewater buildings, the Fortune family's workshop is a patchwork of shipwreck wood, hard shells of marine life, and hardened coral reefs.
From Josh's point of view, the Fortune Workshop doesn't look too big, just a decent two-story cottage.
However, looking at Bilgewater, where supplies are scarce, this workshop is already considered a high-class building.
Pushing open the wooden door, the bluebird wind chimes at the door made an ethereal soft sound.
The Fortune Workshop is a small shop that combines a merchandise shop and a forge workshop, and the first floor is filled with a variety of guns with strange shapes.
There are flintlock pistols, repeating muskets, and even Seiko rifles, and even fist-sized calibers, which cannot be called "artillery" of pistols at all.
In the open area in the center of the first floor, there is a wooden staircase that spirals to the second floor.
It was the workshop where they forged and produced guns, and even through the hard-shell floor, the Josh and the three could hear the metal clashing of the ping-pong parts.
This is also how shops are currently operated in most areas of Runeterra.
They had only entered the door for two or three seconds, and a little girl ran out of the back room, "Welcome to Fuqiong Workshop~~ What do you need ......?"
The little girl wore a knee-length reddish-brown off-the-shoulder dress, and her long red hair was scattered over her shoulders like a flame.
She was about seven or eight years old, and she was cute, with a little round face with a little baby fat dotted with a few innocuous freckles.
Sarah Fortune.
Despite her young age, Josh still recognized her at a glance.
Before Sarah could finish her words, when she saw Ahri and Gwen under the hood, the little girl froze on the spot, "Okay, what a beautiful sister......
"The little girl's mouth is so sweet, my sister likes it."
Ahri giggled and pulled a mint out of her pocket, "Would you like a candy?" Produced by the Piltover Giraman Factory~~"
Sarah's eyes sparkled with longing, apparently having heard of the mints in the Gillamane family.
But soon, her expression was covered with hesitation, and she shook her little face like a rattle, "Daddy told me not to eat strangers' things."
At this moment, a middle-aged man dressed in a delicate manner, with his hair waxed back combed and a thin beard on his cheeks, walked down the stairs.
At first glance, men are not only dressed up, but also have an elegant and aristocratic demeanor.
The first thing the man did when he came down was not to entertain Josh, Ahri, and Gwen, but to scold the little girl with a serious face:
"Sarah, how many times have you said that there are customers in the store who want to call us, and you are not allowed to contact customers."
Despite her young age, Sarah is a complete beauty.
Bilgewater doesn't have a lot of good stubble, and those gangs do everything for profit, and abducting and selling women and children can only be regarded as a common thing.
As a father, Fu Qiong naturally strictly educates and asks his daughter not to rush into contact with customers who come to buy guns.
Sarah put her hands behind her back, lowered her eyes and pursed her mouth, with an unhappy look of grievance on her face.
Ahri broke the siege in time: "Don't blame her, we just entered the door, and your daughter is very vigilant." โ
Ahri then tossed the mints in her hand twice and looked at Sarah.
"Come on, your dad has come down, can you pick it up now?"
Sarah stared eagerly at the mint candy, and then stole a glance at her father.
Fu Qiong took out a monocle from his jacket pocket, fixed it in his right eye socket and tidied it up for a while, until he saw the packaging of the candy clearly, and was stunned for a moment.
"Candy from Gilamane? It's not cheap! โ
Although the mint was only sold for a copper ring in Piltover, the monetary value of Birgewater was nowhere near as good as that of the progressive city of commerce and technology.
Combined with Planck's taxes and fees, and the labor costs required for transportation and storage, it would take at least 20 copper herrings to buy such a candy, which is enough to exchange for a silver sea snake!
Rao is a relatively wealthy family of Fu Qiong, and they are not too willing to buy this kind of mint candy from Piltover for Sarah a few times a year.
"Don't worry, it's just a piece of candy, it's nothing to me." Ahri said indifferently and threw the candy directly to Sarah.
The little girl grabbed the candy at once, but instead of unwrapping it in a hurry, she looked at her father again.
Seeing that the guests didn't care, her daughter took the candy again, and then asked her to return it to the designated meeting to refute the guest's face.
Mr. Fu Qiong, who has been in business for more than ten years and is experienced in dealing with all kinds of customers, sighed silently in his heart, and looked at his daughter with a look of tacit approval.
Sarah was overjoyed, opened the package directly, and sent the dark green candy into her mouth, the sweetness exploded in the taste buds, and a refreshing and transparent feeling rushed straight to her mind.
But before she could savor the happiness of eating mints, she only heard her father's inquiry, and Sarah's face immediately changed: "Have you finished the lesson of adjusting the wheelbase of the trigger today?" โ
"Not yet, there is no ......"
"Why don't you go soon?"
Sarah stuck out her tongue at Mr. Fuqiong, grimaced, and immediately turned and ran back to the back room, not giving him another chance to reprimand herself.
"This girl......" Fu Qiong was very helpless, walked up to the three of them, and bowed gently, "Please forgive Sarah for her rudeness, she has been spoiled by me and Abigail since she was a child." โ
"I like her a lot, if only I could have a daughter like that."
Ahri raised her head slightly, and glanced faintly at Josh, who was standing next to her.
"Ahem...... cough cough cough ......"
Josh didn't catch his breath, choked on the swallowed liquid, coughed violently, and looked quite embarrassed.
Naturally, Lunicia will not let go of this opportunity to ridicule: [Hmph! Speaking of which, you've been busy for three days, you should hit the target, right? ใ
"Don't talk nonsense, now is not the time to think about this." Josh replied to Lunicia in his head.
Fu Qiong saw their relationship at once, and laughed heartily: "Hahaha...... Miss's wish will definitely come true. โ
After a moment, Fu Qiong restrained her emotions and returned to a polite smile, "Looking at the three of you, you should be sentinels of light, right?" โ
"That's right."
Ahri took off his hood directly, and his hidden appearance was completely revealed in Fu Qiong's eyes.
Surprised by the girl's appearance, Fu Qiong's face was shocked, and he immediately reacted with sharp eyes, "You, you are...... Sentinel Commander? โ
"I haven't shown my face in public for more than a decade, and I didn't expect you to recognize me."
"Oh, a beautiful lady like you with a completely different temperament from ordinary people, how can I not recognize it even if I am clumsy?"
Fu Qiong saluted again, her attitude was more respectful, "Miss Ahri is here, and I am ashamed to miss the welcome below......
"Mr. Fu Qiong is serious."
"No, no, no, it's not important at all, all of your sentinels are heroes against the Black Mist, and you have protected many people, and you deserve our respect." Fu Qiong sighed, "Besides, just call me Jeffrey." โ
Jeffrey paused, then turned back and shouted upstairs, "Abigail, we're here!" โ
"Wait a minute, I'll be right here!"
Then, Jeffrey turned his face and apologized to the three of them apologetically: "I'm sorry, we have a big order recently to be delivered, and Abigail is putting the finishing touches on it, and it's busy. โ
The Workshop is known for the outstanding skills of the Fortune Couple, but it is much less skilled than his wife, Geoffrey, who was once a captain.
While Jeffrey does most of the work of serving customers, the actual person in charge of this workshop is Abigail.
Ahri didn't reveal his thoughts to Jeffrey for the time being, and planned to wait for Abigail to finish his work and talk to her in detail.
Jeffrey made a gesture of please, "Let me introduce you to the products of the Fortune Workshop first!" โ
Ahri nodded, and Jeffrey was the first to walk to the nearby shelf, picking up a small self-firing pistol and a large-caliber musket that was common with Bilgewater, loaded with pellets.
"We have here a dozen Copper Herring pistols that can be bought, a few to dozens of repeating muskets that range from the price of Silver Serpent Coins, or Seiko rifles worth the value of a Golden Siren......
"I can guarantee that all the guns in Fuqiong's workshop are worth the money, and in the entire Blue Flame Islands, our technology for forging firearms is second, and no one dares to call it first!"
Jeffrey put the two pistols back on the shelf, then held up a dark green rifle and said:
"The Thundering Seiko rifle, currently the longest-range and most powerful sniper rifle in our shop, is like a thunderous roar when a gun is fired, hence the name......
"Of course, this is just my own name, if you like, you can change it separately."
Jeffrey smiled confidently, "I dare say that the rifle we have built is definitely better than the Hex Seiko rifle of the Piltover Philos family!" โ
However, Ahri was not interested in this inconvenient rifle, but Josh stared at a long pistol on the opposite shelf, and Jeffrey immediately went to take down the pistol he was looking at.
It was a large-caliber pistol with an orange-red body and six muzzles, a faint red glow from the drum position, a thick round barrel about 15 centimeters long, and a very fine workmanship.
"This gun is called a rapid-fire artillery! It has an ultra-long range that even a rifle can't match, and borrows the advantages of the Hex-focused vinyl gun, using the magic orb bred by the Abyss Demon Shell as the power core, which automatically refills magic bullets and fires them with just a pull of the trigger! โ
The rapid-fire artillery turned out to be invented by the Fuqiongs?
Josh was surprised, and an interested expression appeared, "What about its bullet capacity?" โ
Jeffrey was enthusiastic, "It is divided into two excitation modes, single shot mode and power mode, which can fire six magic bullets at once!"
"We've spent a lot of money on the finest Magic Shell Orb, which has the effect of automatically restoring energy, and I've heard that the same is true of the Holy Stone Pistols used by the Sentinels, right?
"If you use only the single-shot mode, the rapid-fire gun can be fired continuously all the time, but if you use the powerful mode......
"After our test-firing test, it took about 15 seconds to cool the barrel and recharge it briefly after six consecutive firings."
"Of course, if each firing interval of two or three seconds in Power Mode is intervened, the burst will not need a 15-second cooldown."
Jeffrey handed Josh the rapid-fire cannon, "This is Ebigail's meticulous craft, and this is the only one at the moment!" โ
As Josh looked back and forth, Jeffrey smiled again and said, "If you like it, this gun is for you!" โ
The price of the rapid-fire gun is not cheap, and the price on the gun rack is 3,000 silver sea snakes.
It's cheaper to pay with gold, only 233 gold sirens instead of the 250 gold coins that would have been calculated.
That's enough money for a captain to buy a dhow that can go out to sea for fishing.
As of now, this is the most expensive firearm in the Fuqiong Workshop.
Although it is not clear who Josh is sacred, since he can make the leader of the Sentinels of Light fall in love, he must not be a simple character.
If you spend a little money to give gifts and sell favors, if you encounter any accidents in the future, you can also beg him for help.
What's more, this rapid-fire cannon has been in the store for a long time.
There are many captains who have their hearts and minds on this magic pistol, but most of them have to keep a large group of people, and they may not always be rewarded when they go to sea, and they are persuaded to quit by its price.
"This gun is not cheap." Josh noticed the price tag, shook his head, and excused himself, "Forgive me for not accepting such a valuable gift." โ
Just as he was about to put the rapid-fire artillery back on the shelf, Ahri said indifferently: "If you like it, you can take it, but I will pay at the market price, and it won't be expensive anyway." โ
[Tsk, I want a woman to pay for you, your soft rice is so delicious. ใ
"Heh, let's not say that we have been trapped in the gap of time for two hundred years, even if we eat soft rice? Many people can't eat it if they want to. โ
ใYou...... It's cheeky. ใ
"Thanks for the compliment."
Josh was right, and Lunicia was speechless for a moment.
"You are so generous! I'll give you a 20% discount...... No, 7% off! Sir, are you going to test launch? We have a shooting range in our backyard. โ
Josh shook his head, "We've got something important to do later." โ
"Alright, you can rest for a while, and I'll go get some matching holsters."
Jeffrey took the pistol, pointed to the bench against the wall, and then turned and entered the back room.
Taking advantage of this emptiness, Gwen, who had been silent since entering the store, finally couldn't suppress her curiosity and asked, "Are these 'guns'?" I have the impression that the gun is similar to the spear and halberd, and it is still a melee weapon. โ
"This 'gun' is not the other 'gun', and although it is pronounced similarly in the Kamaviaya language, their functions are very different."
Ahri smiled, "Well, do you have a favorite style?" โ
Gwen raised an eyebrow and wondered, "Or ...... Forget it? I don't use these weird things, I prefer my scissors and flying needles to this. โ
Josh advised, "You should really try Gwen, to be honest, it's a lot better than magic." โ
Ahri followed up and said, "But it seems that there should be no new magic guns in this shop, so let's wait for the Holy Stone weapons." โ
Within a moment, before Jeffrey came out, the ping-pong banging upstairs stopped.
As the "click" of hard-soled shoes on the wooden planks of the staircase approached, a woman with a somewhat similar face to Sarah walked downstairs.
She was wearing a beige long skirt with an extra layer of protective apron on the outside, her long brown and red hair was coiled behind her head, and a few strands of hair were stuck to her sweaty face, and the whole person was a little tired.
"I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I've got to finish refining those parts, or they're going to die."
Abigail took off her apron and threw it on a chair to the side, staring intently at Ahri and Josh.
"Have you already chosen your favorite gun?" She noticed the gap in the gun rack and looked surprised, "You guys really have a vision! โ
"Fancy the rapid-fire artillery is only incidental, we actually have more important things on this trip."
Abigail probably guessed part of what Ahri was trying to say, "Do you want to customize your guns?" โ
"Well, I do have the idea, but ......"
Ahri restrained his smile and gentleness, and the Ling Ran temperament of the superior suddenly appeared, quite a queen's style.
"My name is Ahri, the pearl of Vasani, one of the founders of the kingdom of Demacia, a friend of the Winged Sisters, and the leader of the Sentinels of Light and the bloodline of Fuguang Island.
"I'd like to speak with you about joining the Sentinels of Light."
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It's the beginning of the month.,Ask for a monthly passยทยท *
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Wake up from the prison cell, I am Silas Yeyer, and I will go forward for freedom!
Magic was innate to me, but Demacia beat me into a sinner.
Civilian mages can only be restrained, but nobles can be safe and sound, Demacia, status supremacy.
I, Silas, want to climb from the pauper, step by step, to the top, to marry Miss Crown, and to live in the royal capital!
Everyone in Demacia can be king, and I am no exception.
Galen: Are you my sister's mentor, or my brother-in-law?
Govin IV: If you give birth to me, why give birth to Silas!
Bobby: You're the hero I'm looking for!
Galio: Little one, the magic in you is the most dangerous I've ever seen.
Lux: Silas.
Silas: Call me sir!
(End of chapter)