Chapter 49: The Ring
Later, everyone became casual chit-chatter, as if everyone used to sit around and eat together in the circus. The five dragon singer candidates here probably have a long, long story behind them, forming alliances with each other, spying on each other, but cooperating with each other.
Deirrando chatted with them with great interest, and each one reverted to his former circus image, the heartwarming kitchen aunt, the bright and touching female troupe leader, the knowledgeable old scholar, the taciturn giant, and the inconspicuous juggler. They never talk about their past, nor do they talk about their future, and they quietly plot their own interests in a new situation.
After this meal, the sun had already set a little to the west. Shaklin's voice came from the door, and Dearlando allowed him in.
The Governor of White Moody hurried in, glancing at the crowd but not speaking. Seeing this, Diarlando knew that he had something to talk to him alone, so he asked everyone to go back and rest first.
As Zoya left with Dino, her hand lingered on his shoulder for a moment, and Deirlando patted her gently and looked up to tell her that he would go to her later to pick up Dino.
Seeing that everyone had left, Sha Kolin began to report on the current progress in all aspects: "Your Highness, we have opened the three-story gate underground, and there is no living mouth inside, it can be seen that there has been a fight between them. Strangely enough, the people who were controlled were also dead, and looking at the wounds seemed to be suicidal. ”
"Well, if Fekelen still has a chance to escape, he may continue to control these people to work for him. But now that he has no hope of leaving, it doesn't matter to him to kill a few more. ”
"Those corpses, I have been disposed of in accordance with the orders of His Highness Ruidan, and it is a bit troublesome to freeze the entire underground cell as you ordered. The mixture of wine and oil there is about twenty-five feet deep, and these two things are hard to freeze in the first place, so why don't you drain them and change them to water?"
Diarlando asked rhetorically: "Weishenme doesn't directly irrigate water, anyway, water is heavier than oil, and it will sink on its own." ”
Shakolin immediately nodded: "Your Highness, what you said is that we should fill it with water first, and then gradually drain the floating liquid on it." Prevent the contents below from leaking out. It's a pity that I have more than 400 barrels of haode wine. I've lost a lot this time!"
The soldiers under Fekron's control smashed open the door of the wine store, rolled the barrels and oil barrels out, and then smashed open in front of the lowest level to let the liquid flow on its own.
Time was limited, and they only had time to do so much, but that's all. The cellars of the Doge's Palace also lost nearly a fifth of their stock. You must know that the fine wines here are of the highest quality. Converted to the market price. The loss in this field will not be less than tens of thousands of gold coins.
"Are you going to make amendices with me?" Diarrando narrowed his eyes and looked at Shakolin crying with amusement.
"No, no, what does this have to do with Your Highness, it's all the enemy's fault. I just think that there is so much less good wine all of a sudden, and I should raise the liquor tax a little bit to make up for the loss. Seeing Dearlando's disapproving expression, he immediately changed the subject.
"Your Highness, actually...... I'm coming to you this time...... There's a good thing I want to give you. I hope you'll take it and you'll think of me when you see it later......" Shacorin squirmed and took out an inconspicuous small box from behind him, and gave it to Diarrando with a red face.
"......" looked at the box handed in front of him, and Dearlando felt a feeling of not daring to open it. With Shakolin's personality, the "good things" in it are estimated to be enough. Thinking about the last dress, Diarlando still feels like a lifetime of shame when he recalls it. However, the length, width and height of this box are no more than three inches, and there should not be any diamond dresses or the like, at most one or two pieces of jewelry.
After a stalemate for a while, Diarlando Zuihou still reached out and took it.
It was a small box made of black sandalwood, very lightweight, simple in appearance, without any decoration, except for some parallel fine notches of different lengths on the four sides of the lid, and it was impossible to see what the pattern was, as if it had been scratched with the tip of a knife.
The box didn't have an inner card, and when I flipped through it, I opened the flap, and a bright thing appeared inside the box - it was a huge diamond ring.
Or women's......
Shaklin hurriedly said before Dearrando raised his eyebrows and was about to get angry: "This is the space ring!"
"Huh?"
"It's the Space Ring! Let me show you it, and you'll get it. After speaking, Shacorin took the ring from Dearrando's hand, then pointed to the ring and said: "This is the activation button, you only need to rotate it, you can open the entrance to the compressed space inside the box, although this space ring cannot put anything more than the size of the box mouth, but the capacity is extremely large, and it is most suitable for carrying the food of the Starlight Dragon." ”
As he spoke, Shaklin turned the small square box he was holding in his other hand upside down, and a pile of pure magic crystals poured down from it, quickly filling an empty fruit bowl.
Looking at the endless stream of pure magic crystals pouring out of the ring box, Dearlando's face showed a happy smile, he didn't expect Shakolin to have such a treasure in his hands!
Generally, space magic can probably expand the usable volume of a container by three to five times, and the last time Kenda gave him the box containing the Moonlight Fish Stone was five times the space, which was already a very precious treasure. I didn't expect this small box to be able to store things that were far more than ten times its own volume.
Ryses now eats at least two hundred pure magic crystals a day, and the thought of sneaking in secretly with several large boxes of luggage is unimaginable, and this treasure delivered to the door really solves the biggest problem at present.
Diarlando stood up, hugged Shakolin tightly and said happily, "Great! It's amazing, you're so thoughtful!"
"Your Highness......" Sha Kolin was so excited that he couldn't speak, and immediately hugged him back, "You are finally willing to let me hug you!"
Then the next second, he was punched out by Deerrando again. Diarlando covered the right side of his face, feeling goosebumps rise on half of his body, and just now Shacorin rubbed his green stubble chin against his face, it felt so disgusting!
“...... His Highness ......" was pushed out, and Shakorin immediately shouted out complainingly. Diarlando lazily ignored him, snatched the ring and the box with his hand, and took it in his hand and looked at it carefully.
The box looked like it was made of ordinary black sandalwood, but when I checked it myself, I found that it was not wood at all, but metal. It was lined with a layer of crimson velvet. At this moment, the original ring in the velvet was unfolded into a circular hole close to the inner wall of the box, with a diameter of about two inches, and nothing could be seen inside that was swarthy.
Switching to Jackie Chan's perspective, Diarlando found that the inside of the box was indeed densely populated, and the further to the bottom, the more closely distributed the Qi became, and then formed a strange twisted pattern, and the center of the pattern was a small black hole, not knowing where to go.
"How much can this hold?" Cutting back to normal human vision, Diarrando asked Shaklin if he had tested the limits of space as he twisted the gems on the ring to test the way to close and open the space.
Shakolin scratched his chin and replied, "I used to make shiyan with wheat, and it should be able to hold whole wheat for about six stones." However, it takes a lot of time to put it in or pour it out. Now there are about twelve boxes of pure magic crystals in the box, which is equivalent to the volume of half a stone wheat. We've collected a total of one hundred and ninety and a half boxes of magic crystals these days, and we should be able to fit them all. ”
Shaklin, who was good at calculations, didn't even think about it, and began to calculate how many other gems and gold coins could be placed in the remaining space. There were about four or five boxes of gems and gold coins in the gifts from the merchants and nobles who had been interviewed before, and it was estimated that there would be enough space to fill the ring when put together.
"Hmm...... Not bad. You have made a great contribution this time, and when I complete my mission, I will definitely reward you for promoting you, do you have any requirements?" Dierlando looked at the ring for a long time, the style was exaggerated and eye-catching, and it really couldn't be carried directly on his finger, Zuihou still put it back in the box and put it in his arms.
"Is it okay to ask for anything!?" Shaklin's eyes lit up, his lips opened slightly, his face flushed, and he clenched his fists girlishly, looking at Diarlando excitedly, and almost jumped around on the spot. This expression has been seen on Luna several times, but it is really unbearable to change it to a strong man who is eight feet five inches tall.
Diarlando felt a cold wind blowing behind him, and immediately denied it: "Of course not, it must be reasonable! I will never agree to excessive demands." ”
"People just want to be your personal guard! wake you up every day, wash you, serve you to change clothes, prepare horses for you, and accompany you to practice martial arts......" Shakolin said with a pink light in his eyes, and said with a yearning for his future plans.
“...... Aren't you Governor of White Moody?"
"I can follow your side, what is it to be a governor!"
"Then your salary will drop sharply, and you won't be able to collect taxes, or you will be able to do business, or you will not be able to make money, because you will not have time for anything else. ”
Speaking of Qian Sha Kolin, a look of struggle appeared on his face, and he thought bitterly, and after a while, he said with a resolute face: "For the sake of Your Highness, I can hand over my business to my younger brother, and it is enough for me to collect the rent of the fixed property and the interest on the loan." ”
"......" Dearrando was completely speechless, he patted Shacorin on the shoulder and said, "I know your heart, and I will remember you." Then he walked past the Shark Rider, pushed open the door to the restaurant, and quickly left.
"Your Highness, have you agreed?" Shakolin asked loudly, following two steps.
"I ...... I'll think about it again......" After saying this, Deirlando's shadow was no longer visible. (To be continued......)
PS: I finally had some time to write this morning, and I hope that the original update time can be slowly restored later. But I have to go on a business trip next week, so I'm tangled!
Thanks to Lao Tzu for the tip that I forgot again, xiexie!