Chapter Twenty-Eight_ The Normal Road to the Shopkeeper [Yougong
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Rick can only run into Yez when he goes to the Dragon's Magic Library to borrow books. She is still the appearance of digging for light in the dark mire of knowledge, and she should always remain that way, as if it were eternal. Xi Ke was a little envious of her lifestyle.
She will establish the law again and again until she attains enlightenment.
"Chaowen said, you can die at night. This sentence is perhaps the best description of the spirit of Master Aethero. Of course, Xi Ke wanted to cherish life a little more, but he fully understood that this was the desire of him, Yez, and countless other mages throughout the ages.
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So in the alley next to the main road, a potions shop opened.
The potions shop sign depicts a black bear standing on his feet and leaning against his head with a potions bottle in his hand. The bear has a last quarter moon hanging from its chest, and stars are painted on its black fur. It looks like the night sky is framed in the shape of a bear.
The name of the potion shop is: Ink Bear Potion Shop.
All the bears in the store have a multiple of three stars on their bodies, which is specified by Xi Ke. "The Tao begets one, one begets two, two begets three, and three begets all things. In the Altharau culture, three means infinity.
This shop is made of wood. Beneath the clean glass of the storefront is a decorative wooden board cut into the shape of a rolling mountain, the highest point about waist. Through the glass, you can see the medicinal herbs in the window and the wood carvings of various animals: cranes, turtles, deer, etc.
Next to the door, there was a small blackboard on a children's easel with special items written on it, and another ink bear was drawn, and the probe reached in from the right side to show its face. It reads in large letters: A safe potion certified by the dragons. I also posted a photo of Ampatron in the shape of a dragon and Rick at the door of the store.
There is a gourd hanging by the door. Looking inside, there is a dark floor, and an electronic scale is placed on the log counter. A few low wooden shelves less than the height of a person's neck, on which were placed bottles of potions, as well as ointment. Some potions were presented in clear glass bottles, with small labels bordered by vines tied with star ribbons. Some potions come in dark glass bottles with a circle of dancing bear stickers attached to the outside of the bottle. Some snacks for children are served in special bottles that are not broken. To the surprise of Xi Ke, the adults also liked this bear bottle and asked for more money to replace it with this bottle.
A new 10th generation of Mini Cute Mushroom Essence (one of the important differences from the original one is that it brushes its own teeth and bathes) walks around the store. There is hawthorn candy in the basket under the mushroom hat, and if a guest comes, he runs up to deliver the candy.
On the shelves on the wall are some conservation leaflets on endangered animals, as well as new potions and poisons journals. Cork bulletin boards are nailed with health rules such as bedtime, which change according to the season.
There was the smell of Ataro's potions in the air.
Further inside, there is a glass-enclosed area where potions are made. The walls are covered with wooden lattice drawers, and the neat appearance is beautiful in itself. The small brass name tag on it was stuffed with a small red paper card, on which the names of medicinal herbs were written in calligraphy, and a shelf was full of glass bottles that had passed the inspection of the Staff of Light.
Not a single dent, clean and shiny stone workbench, fireplace for potions and cabinets for stuffy potions, stainless steel tool racks hanging from your head, detection tool cabinets with wheels to drag along...... Standing in the center of all these things, busy picking grass stalks, the man with black hair is the store manager, Rick Trig. He wears a steady grass-green mage robe with white and light yellow flower and grass totems on it.
It's work time and there aren't many guests. It will not be until everyone is off work or after school that there will be more guests. There is no one else in the store now except for Rick.
Rick wiped the shelves, mopped the floor, and decided to take a break. He sat behind the counter, eating steamed buns with eggs and soy milk, flipping through an expired magazine, with a little smile on his face.
This issue of the magazine featured an interview with the Ink Bear Apothecary.
Xi Ke didn't know how the news got out, this kind of thing seemed to grow its own legs. Anyway, after he opened the shop for a while, there was a Potions magazine that wanted to interview him. Xi Ke was still worried about whether it was a new form of fraud, but it turned out to be true. And the other party has a good reputation, and does not belong to those media that have already written the content of the report before the interview.
It was only a quarter of a page, but he was satisfied. The photographer worked very hard to photograph Xi Ke as an upright and good young man. Wearing an apron with the ink bear logo, he stood by the shelf and smiled.
The interview really had an impact, shortening the word-of-mouth establishment period that the store needed to lose money to survive.
But what Rick didn't know was that a very bad person had seen the report.
His first boss in this society, Miss Hanna.
Seven years ago, Hana was arrested by the police on suspicion of killing 22 people.
According to past sentences in the country, the perpetrators of such serious crimes could only be sentenced to death, and it would not take a long time, at most, to a year and a half, from the verdict to execution.
But because the judiciary is full of supporters of the abolition of the death penalty, the principle of the "rule of law" that these people call it has not changed a single word, but the verdict has been very different.
The main offender in this case is Mrs. Youlan, and according to Hana's degree of involvement, she should be classified as a co-principal offender, but after the abolition of the death penalty, the practice of "joint principal offender", which leads to an increase in the number of people who are subject to heavy punishments, has been abolished by the judges.
Therefore, in this case, only Mrs. Youlan committed the murder (Youlan is dead and cannot come forward to prove whether Hana participated in the murder), and Hana, an important helper, only committed the crime of mutilating the body.
The offence of mutilating a corpse is punishable by imprisonment for a term of not less than six months and not more than five years. She mutilated as many as 22 bodies and warranted a heavy sentence.
Considering that Hana herself has a criminal record and is difficult to find employment, she cannot lose Yulan's financial support for this, and she has a reason to assist Yulan.
Hana is nothing more than a poor mage who can't find a job and has to work under the bad guys because she is starving to death.
As a result, he was sentenced to four years' imprisonment.
She's free.
She saw an interview with the store, which had the address of the shop.
Xike sat in the store, and Hana appeared in front of the store.
He was startled and immediately stood up.
Sakok Prison is known for its fact that prisoners come out fatter than before they enter, and Hana has become one of them. She looks much better now than the thin Xike she had when she was a mage's assistant. She was dressed in clean clothes, but not mage robes. Her license was finally pulled out and she was not allowed to take the exam for life. The court was going to let her go, and the Staff of Light wouldn't.
"Are you doing well?" said Hana in a snarky tone. Xi Ke saw that her face was wrinkled, as if she had written a bad piece of waste paper, and her whole temperament was like waste paper. She can't be a mage anymore, her education is just waste paper.
Hana sniffed, walked over to the medicine cabinet and reached out to touch Rick's goods.
Syk immediately raised his vigilance, and after Hana left, he was going to throw away the whole cabinet of medicines and replace them with new ones. It's better to close the store and disinfect it, and God knows what she'll do with Xike's goods.
The mini cute mushroom spirit walked to Hana's feet, opened the mushroom hat to show off the candy inside, and was kicked by Hana, and the candy fell all over the ground. After it hit the wall, it fell into the large water tank that Xike raised the aquatic demon grass, which was also used as a decoration in the store, and quickly sank.
Nick decided to walk out of the counter and blast her out, "Get out, you're not welcome here. 」
"You're not up to decide whether or not you want to welcome me!" Hana pushed hard, knocking the cabinet over and shattering the potions vials to the ground. Hana proudly waited for the potions to interact, only to find that the potions were mixed up and nothing happened. This is the "finishing" effect, and the Syk precisely limits the potion effect, so it does not interact with other potions, and there is no danger of spilling the potion anywhere.
The finishing touches are the foundation of potions, but they are also the hardest, and Syk does it perfectly, which makes Hana, who could never do it, even more angry.
Hana pointed at Xike and scolded, "It's all your fault! If it weren't for your relationship, Lady Yulan wouldn't have died, and I wouldn't have to! I don't have to live this life!"
You're doing so much better than I was back then!" thought to himself. He knew that those who liked to forgive would take special care of people like Hana, so he had never heard of such people being poor.
Xike growled, "I have an account to settle with you, too!" He later learned what Hana's history of fraud was. She mixed the Altharo potion with Western medicine. "It's because of people like you! it's because you're in such a hard situation for Potions Science!"
Hana continued to scold: "There are so many bad people in this world, why are you targeting me? It's just a mix of things that don't kill people, how can it be so serious?"
Rick already knew that it was useless to reason with such people. He didn't argue with Hana about morality, and directly ordered, "Get out of here!"
"You're responsible! you're not qualified not to welcome me!" Hana kept yelling at Syk.
Rick just looked at her. A long time ago, she would be very angry and excited about the existence of someone like Hana, but now he found that he was still very angry, but unusually calm. It's like a flame that changes from red to a very cool blue, but it's actually hotter than a red flame.
Maybe it's because he finally understands that people like Hana will always live and enjoy in this era, always be protected by society with taxpayers' money, always live a life without being blamed, and never have to know what conscience is.
What do the foreigners say, Righteousness exalts the nation—this is the time when personal rights exalt Hana.
Xi Ke didn't say a word, and walked directly to the magic cage, intending to call the police station's special line for reporting. He had barely turned around when a fireball struck. Hana's spell improved, and there was no incantation.
It was a compound spell, not just fire. Nick twisted his body in a thrilling way and dodged, and the fireball hit the counter. The magic cage was flattened, and the counter shattered in two on the spot, and the flying pieces of wood hit Xike's flank. He was so hurt that he bent over and took a step back. Fortunately, the emergency wall has an effect, only the impact injury, if you insert it, it will be bad.
He didn't expect Hana to show up. Ash was cultivating in the swamp, the sacrificial knife was not at hand, and the finished potions for combat were no longer in his carry-on medicine bag.
He drew his staff and waved it, setting up the parapet. A second fireball erupted again, and instead of dissipating, it rolled to the side, swallowing all three rows of medicine cabinets into flames. The walls also burned,
"Stop!" Rick couldn't help but shout.
"I just want to see you like this! you deserve it!" Hana laughed aloud. The glass in the Syk studio shattered, and the stone workbench inside was split.
Flames spread throughout the store. Xi Ke obviously used a lot of fireproof spells. I heard that if you go to prison, your ability to commit crimes will increase, and it is true. The offender will exchange his methods with other criminals in prison, and Hana must have learned these spells from a professional arsonist.
Rick coughed violently, and smoke slowly filled the space. Hana blocked the doorway, kicked down the signboard by the door, and stepped on the mascot's face.
If you don't go out, you'll die! It's been a long time since I've felt this sense of crisis. He cast a spell to give himself a mass of fresh air, strengthened the wall again, and then rushed to the door.
"This is what you deserve!" Hana condensed her spell and attacked at Syk.
Using a spell he wouldn't normally use, he enchanted his right hand and threw a punch at Hana, and the lightning formed by the mana stream shattered Hana's spell, splashing the spell fragments back on Hana. Immediately, there were many burnt holes in Hana's clothes, and she screamed and pressed the wounds. Nick took the opportunity to rush out of her and roll onto the sidewalk across the street.
There were already a lot of people coming out to watch, and some people called the fire brigade. The crowd walked up to Rick and covered Tick.
Hana couldn't find Syk and screamed, "I'll never forgive you!"
Hana cast one last spell, and with a loud bang, a large number of sparks exploded from Syk's potion shop, and the flaming leaflets and shelf fragments were blown into the sky by the updrafts caused by the flames, and then slowly floated down. The tongue of fire pierces the roof and then pulls it down and eats it.
Hana yelled and ran away. She's a mage, and no one here can stop her.
His whole body ached, and he barely sat up and looked at the pillar of fire that had once been his potions shop, his mind blank.