The halfling leader was stunned for a moment, and thought seriously for a few seconds, "I shouldn't have refused this kind of invitation from Lord Lord.

But we have adapted to it and loved it very much, taking refuge in the winter in Lake Sebe, summer in the Yavon Pond, spring in the upper reaches of the Ashaba River, and a busy autumn life in the Lingyu Valley.

Even if we are settled, our hearts can't be settled, this is our halfling's nature to love wandering and change, and it is difficult to change.

If the lord invites me to do so, there is no time limit for it, and one day, when I get tired of this wandering life, or I don't fit used to it, I'm ready to settle down.

I will definitely choose the Vizeme Manor, choose the Land of the Three Rivers, choose the Lord Lord, and I believe that the rest of the Anbao Boat Village has the same idea as me. ”

Gavin was a bit of a joke when he asked such a question, because he knew very well that the wanderlust of halflings was as serious as the escapism of the elves.

The kind of halfling who permanently lives in a village or town for a lifetime, he has never seen it in his life.

But after Avery said this, Gavin couldn't help but get serious and said: "This kind of invitation of mine is not only valid permanently for your Anbao Boat Village, but also for all good halflings.

As long as they are willing to come to the estate of Vizeme, to the land of the Three Rivers, men, women and children, I will guarantee them their own land and houses, their safety, and their clothing and food.

You can spread the news throughout the Ashaba River valley and throughout the valley. ”

Gavin has a very good impression of this small race, they are sleek but not annoying, optimistic by nature, hardworking and simple, although legend has it, there is a habit of petty theft, but most of them are also forced by life, only take necessary living items.

Other intelligent beings, in the same situation as them, do not see that their hands and feet are cleaner than they are.

"We will." Avery replied solemnly, "I believe that when we come to the summer habitat of the Yevon Pond again, there will be our own halfling settlers in the territory of the adults, and I only hope that when the time comes, we will still be able to find a subsistence job here." ”

Gavin laughed and said: "Although don't worry, when the time comes, I will lack everything here, and there will be no shortage of places for people to work, you have to believe that my development rate will exceed our population growth rate, and speaking of work, I really have a new job to hand over to you." ”

"What job?" As soon as he heard about the work, Avery suddenly came to his senses.

"I heard that the early cotton in Lingyu Valley has begun to be picked now, can you help me run to Lingyu Valley and purchase two boats of early cotton back." Gavin hasn't been idle for the last ten days.

Most of the time, I spent most of my time with Nicole in the manor's textile workshop.

Through Nicole's analytical skills, she can improve the textile tools.

Later, with the addition of Daphany, the imprisoned soul of Drow, the progress has been greatly improved.

There is no shortage of textile masters among the drow elves, and the drow silk they spun with spider silk is not only famous underground, but even on the ground, it is also famous and expensive.

The textile tools have a clue, but the raw materials have not yet been clued, and the little cotton and twine sent by the Lord of Virginia is a drop in the bucket.

It has been tested by them in the process, and the scourge is gone.

The key is to find large quantities and stabilize the origin of raw materials.

"It's not a difficult thing, I'm in Lingyu Valley, there are a lot of familiar farmers, not to mention two, ten ships of early cotton are not a problem." Avery kindly reminded, "But the early cotton of Lingyu Valley belongs to coarse wool, not to mention the low yield, the fiber is thick and short, and it is not very suitable for weaving.

The real advantage of Lingyu Valley is autumn cotton, which is fine staple cotton, with strong adaptability, high yield, long fiber and good quality, which is the best choice for weaving all kinds of fabrics, especially canvas, which is woven with this cotton.

It's just that it is difficult to buy autumn cotton in Lingyu Valley, and those large manor owners have their own textile workshops, small farmers or ordinary farmers, who have already signed a purchase agreement with them, and will not sell them to outsiders easily. ”

The perennial life of a helper who travels north and south has made the halfling leader more knowledgeable and knows a lot of things.

"Thank you for the leader's reminder, but we are still in the experimental stage, and the difference between coarse and fine staple cotton is not very big." Gavin thought for a moment and said, "If you can buy some of the two kinds of cotton, it would be better, they won't sell it, that's because the temptation is not big enough, when the time comes, I'll load you with a boatload of ghost wine, and you can see if you can exchange it for cotton?" ”

Avery suddenly brightened his eyes and said with a smile: "If you give me a bunch of gold coins, I really can't guarantee that I can buy you back autumn cotton, if it is exchanged for a unique commodity like ghost wine, it will be easy to do."

I do know a few big estate owners who are very heavy drinkers and have a collection of wines, and I'm sure they must be interested in unique ghost wines.

Not to mention fine staple cotton, even if it is a relatively precious and rare long-staple cotton, I am confident that I will change a few boats for the lord to come back.

Just a matter of pricing for this ghost wine......"

"It's easy to do." Gavin revealed slightly, "In a month, I'm going to hold a ghost wine auction at Vizeme Manor, and the starting price is fifty gold coins per bottle, and you can exchange it according to the starting price." ”

In Faerun, wine has never been prepared for ordinary people, and the most ordinary mellow is a bottle of ten gold coins, even for those who are more valuable, they are also drunk by the glass.

Ale is the most popular drink, it only costs two silver coins per gallon, and even the most ordinary farmer can go to the tavern and order a full mug.

The starting price of ghost wine, which has been advertised all over the world, is really not high at a starting price of fifty gold coins per bottle, and now it is already at this price on the market.

At that time, it is likely to rise wildly, and as for how much it can rise, it depends on Regina's influence and operational ability.

"Isn't it too much of a loss to do this?" The halfling leader immediately sensed the potential deficit in this deal, the bidding deficit.

"No loss." Gavin shook his head and said, "In addition to buying cotton, the most important thing for you to make this trip is to open up the relationship and ensure that in the future, we can use the wine of the Vizeme estate to exchange more cotton from them, as long as you can get this promise, you will not lose anything." ”

"Okay, I'll try it as much as I can." Avery was a little excited, he had been running on the Ashaba River for so many years, and he had not been less involved in trading, but they were all small and small, like the one commissioned by Gavin, it was a big deal of tens of thousands of gold coins, and he really hadn't run before.

I couldn't help but calculate for a while, if I really bring a boatload of ghost wine over, how much cotton can be exchanged for back, and it is appropriate to bring a few boats over.

"When the chief's side is ready, send someone to inform me, and I will bring the wine over and load it for you." After finalizing the matter, Gavin shifted the topic to An Baochuan Village, "The kobold I sent you, can the leader use them easily?" How is the ship overhaul progressing? ”

After seeing the ship's grave, Gavin made good on his promise and sent half of the Dragonblood Kobold to the village of Anbao Boat to assist them in repairing the ship.

It's okay not to mention this, but when I mentioned this, the halfling leader was a little excited, and said in a loud voice: "I haven't had time to thank the lord yet, why is it so simple?" I never thought it would be so easy to overhaul a ship.

Most of the damage can be repaired directly from the inside, without the need for the boat to leave the water at all.

The most difficult thing now is not how to repair it, but to find the damaged part.

In another ten days, the internal overhaul will be basically completed.

For the rest, you need to send someone into the water and carefully inspect it to see if there is any external damage that is difficult to find inside. ”

In the past, they lived in the Yavon pond, and the maintenance of the boats was their most important and heavy work.

Lifting a houseboat is not something that one or two halflings can do, but requires the collaboration of more than a dozen people to build a special lifting tool, which takes several days to do.

Every year they spend at least one or two months on this, with the whole village doing their best.

Even if they were guarding the land of the Three Rivers, such a fertile soil, they didn't have more energy to cultivate and plant a lot here.

It's been a good year.

Originally, the work was extremely heavy, and those dragon blood kobolds who were about the same size as them, one complete repair technique would basically be completed, and there were very few who needed to use two complete repair techniques.

If the damage is too severe, it will not be able to open here.

They were able to hold frequent banquets this year, thanks to Gavin and these kobolds.

In previous years, the daytime ship repair work made them tired like dogs, how could they have the mind and energy to sing and dance.

"Say, how about I open a boat recycling and repair shop in the Yevon Pond?" Gavin had a whim.

It's not a whim, either.

He had pondered before about opening a kobold carriage recycling repair shop on the high road.

It's just that over there, the dragon-blooded kobold is too eye-catching and doesn't put it into action.

Now it's nothing more than a horse-drawn carriage replaced by a boat.

"If your lord does this, it will be a blessing to all the ships of the entire Ashaba." The leader of the halflings said with an excited face, "I can't guarantee the others, but the ships of our Anbaochuan Village will definitely be repaired here in the future, provided that, my lord, can allow repayment with work, or exchange with goods." ”

"This is easy to do, I am running out of manpower here and going crazy, and some of them have jobs to do." Gavin is now full of money-making ideas, but he is limited by the number of people in his hands, and there is no way to carry it out.

"Speaking of recycling boats, I helped the lord and contacted five human scrap ships on the side of Lake Sebe, the prices are all very cheap, the problem is that the damage is serious, there is no way to rush over, so I can only send someone over there to repair it." Avery hadn't forgotten another commission from Gavin.

Before and after, at least ten clippers were sent to the surrounding area to inquire about various scrap ships and old ships, and now there is the first batch of news feedback.

"This matter, for the time being, wait until I recruit some sailors first." In this matter, Gavin was a little anxious.

As the halfling leader said, if you have a boat and no sailors, you will be in vain.

As for the sailors, he was somewhat eyebrow-raising.

Hope has to be pinned on the agreement with Regina ten days later, a refugee from Tesser.

Tesser is a multi-river coastal country with a well-developed water transport and navigation industry.

In particular, eighty percent of these refugees came by sea.

Since there is a doorway in this area, it will definitely have something to do with it, and many are sailors, even fishermen.

After all, the Ashaba River is not too violent, strong winds and waves are relatively rare, and the requirements for sailors are not too high.

"Okay, let's follow the lord's arrangement, lordship......"

Oh! Oh! Oh!

Wolf howls interrupted Gavin's communication with the halfling leader.

Around the Vizeme Manor, there are no idle wild wolves at all.

All of them were co-opted by the Dog Demon and became their guardians.

Even those who don't know wolf language can hear the eagerness, which is a warning call to spot the enemy.

Gavin didn't dare to slack off, said hello to Avery, and ran in the direction where the wolf howls were most dense.

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