Lord of Hyranza

Ke Lita disagreed with such an arrangement and insisted on following Suerdak to the underground black market in Hailansa City.

Suldak came to that alley again. A group of people were waiting outside the big black iron gate. Among them were many mages wearing magic robes and some businessmen. They saw Suldak walking over in a knight's attire. , followed by young women in plain clothes, all turned their heads aside one after another.

Everyone didn't wait too long, the iron gate was opened from the inside, and these people walked in one after another. When Suldak walked in, he was stopped by a strong man at the door, "Mr. Knight, you can't go in!"

"I was here last time, Karl brought me here..." Suldak explained to the strong man guarding the gate.

But the strong man was unmoved at all, without any expression on his face, he just said: "You can ask him to take you in again, but you can't do it now, sorry, that's the rule here."

His body blocked the door like an iron tower, and it was impossible for Suldak to force his way in. He looked up at the tall buildings in the alley, and could only say: "...Okay!"

After finishing speaking, he was about to take Rita and Natasha to leave. At this moment, a voice sounded from behind Suldak: "Wait a minute, knight, are you here to ship?"

Suldak was slightly taken aback, and turned around to see a middle-aged man in a gray robe coming out of the yard. There was a trace of electric magic in his eyes, as if there was a violent force in his body, so He nodded honestly.

He stood in front of Suldak, sized him up for a moment, and asked, "What are you going to sell?"

"Sand wolf meat." Suldak said, the middle-aged man in front of him was about the same height as Suldak.

"Can I have a look?" the middle-aged mage said again.

Suldak took out a sand wolf leg wrapped in oiled paper from the magic pocket, and handed it to the middle-aged man.

The middle-aged man held tens of pounds of sand wolf legs in his hands effortlessly. He put it under his nose and smelled it, and said with some emotion: "It's sand wolf meat, but the smell of earth-type magic elements inside, Much better than those ordinary sand wolf meat, could it be the meat of the sand wolf king?"

Suldak nodded again and said, "It's a sand wolf king."

"You can go in. The price of this kind of monster meat will probably not be less than five silver coins per pound. Don't sell it too cheap." The middle-aged man threw the wolf leg wrapped in oiled paper back into Suldak's arms , stopped and asked again: "Oh! By the way, are you from the North?"

Suldak shook his head in a daze.

The middle-aged man waved at Suldak, signaling him to go in intentionally, and then told the tall and strong man guarding the door: "The business has not been booming these days, I think you will sell monster materials like this." This is not in line with the Earl's original intention..."

Suldak didn't hear what was said later. He took Rita and Natasha into the underground market. The market seemed to have just opened, so there were not many people in the hall. Suldak brought the wolf meat and The spiritual bone with the magic pattern of life was placed on a piece of raw cowhide, and it sat silently behind the stall.

It was the first time Rita and Natasha saw that the street stalls were to be set up in a hall, and not everyone was qualified to come in to set up stalls. They were full of curiosity and kept looking around like dirtbags.

Suldak priced the sand wolf meat at five silver coins per pound. Not long after setting up the stall, two buyers came over and bought the two hind legs of the sand wolf king. It's a pity that Warcraft meat is very popular in Hailansa City, and the wolf meat was sold out in a short time.

As for the wolf leg bone of the magic pattern of life, it was bought by a magic apprentice at the price of three magic crystals. After the magic apprentice bought the magic pattern spirit bone, he ran out of the underground market almost in a blink of an eye. Well, Suldak was going to wrap him in oiled paper, but he yelled several times in a row. The magic apprentice obviously heard Suldak's shout, but ran even faster...

Chapter 272 A Gift for Karl

Seeing the figure of the magic apprentice leaving quickly, even if Suldak didn't understand the market situation, he knew that this magic pattern spirit bone must be sold too cheaply.

Originally, Suldak priced this magic-weave bone at five gold coins, but before he could say the price, the cute-looking magic apprentice stood in front of the booth and told Suldak that he was willing to take it. He offered three magic crystals to buy the leg bone, and asked Suldak if he would sell the wolf leg bone to him.

Seeing that the magic apprentice bid almost four times his asking price, Suldak sold the leg bone without hesitation.

As for those wolf meat that sold for nearly fifteen gold coins, it seems that people who buy monster meat ingredients in the underground market are not short of money, and they can’t find any silver coins on them, and almost all settlements are made with gold coins. From setting up the stall to the end of the transaction, Suerdak stayed in the underground market for less than an hour.

After rerolling the raw cowhide spread on the ground and putting it into the magic pocket, and paying the tax at the entrance of the underground market, he took Rita and Natasha and left the underground market.

Natasha and Rita followed Suldak, walking on the stone street of Hailansa City, looking at the small attics with high rock bases on both sides of the street, countless blue rubbles covered the sky of the city , some were still running around on the street, and Natasha could understand that when these children looked at herself and Rita, there was clearly a kind of contempt for the country people in their eyes.

The women in the city will also gather by the pool, doing laundry and chatting, and they will also chat about some family affairs. They wear some dresses that Natasha has never seen before. Those styles are novel and bold. Natasha looked down at herself The long gray burlap dress on her body made her regret that she didn't wear the dress that Suldak gave her when she went out.

Just thinking about the tightness of the skirt on her chest made Natasha blush a little.

"What do we have for lunch, can we still eat the cheese patties from last night?" Rita approached Suldak and asked expectantly.

There is actually a cold drink shop at the crossroads of this long street. The owner set up a few long tables under the street trees. Several couples of young men and women sat at the long tables under the trees and drank cold drinks leisurely. They were eating small refreshments and whispering with smiles Well, it was late September at this time, and after another month, this kind of cold drink shop might have to change to other businesses.

Suldak walked side by side with Rita, and Natasha stood on the other side of Rita.

Looking at the syrup and red beans piled on the snow-white crushed ice, Surdak said to Rita:

"Cheese patties or other delicacies are up to you, but I suggest you try other delicious foods... Oh, you can miss all the others, but you must try this one when you see it, otherwise it will be after this season , we will have to wait until next year to eat it.”

The shopkeeper was digging a piece of ice with his head down, and Suldak said to him, "Please give me three servings of red bean smoothie, with fruit and maple syrup."

The red bean smoothie with fruit is not cheap. Three servings of smoothie cost Suldak one silver coin and five coppers. Afterwards, Suldak took Rita and sat on a bench by the street, with his hands resting on a wooden board. On the table, leisurely looking at the scenery on the street.

The owner brought up three bowls of shaved ice, along with a small plate of pastries dipped in soy flour.

Rita carefully looked at the beautifully shaped ice cream for a long time, and asked Surdak with some uncertainty: "This...is ice?"

Suldak handed her and Natasha two silver spoons, and said with a smile, "Well, try it, it tastes very good."

Rita dug a big spoon and put it into her mouth without hesitation. Immediately, infinite surprise appeared in her eyes. Her big eyes were bent into crescent moons. Looking at the satisfied face of the girl in front of her, Suldak couldn't help but Live in the bottom of my heart and sigh softly.

Natasha was still eating small bites, she was always so quiet.

At this time, Suldak heard a somewhat familiar voice behind him, as if he heard it somewhere before, but he couldn't remember it: "Knight Suldak, I didn't expect to meet you here, you came to Hailansa City , are you looking for Karl?"

The voice was very low and soft, and the pronunciation of the Grimm Empire language was correct, a very standard aristocratic accent.

Turning around, I realized that it was Karl who took him to the Viscount Emmett's ball. The lady who had been with Karl all the time was wearing a gorgeous long dress and a hat full of flowers on her head. Staring at Suldak, there were two female companions beside her, one of whom was a tall slender girl whom she had contacted on the day of the prom, but now she ran into him on the street, that tall slender girl didn't even want to look at him more.

Suldak stood up, gave a standard chivalrous salute to the lady, and then said with a straight face: "I came to the city for some private business, and I am planning to visit Karl."

The lady smiled slightly and said directly: "Then it's a coincidence that you came here. Karl and Llewellyn are still performing official duties in the southern suburbs of Hailansa City. If you go there, you may meet them. If it's just for Karl Greetings, maybe I can convey it to you."

Suldak didn't expect that Karl was still in the southern suburbs of Hailansa City after he had killed the bandit group for more than ten days.

"Oh? Thank you for telling me the news. Of course, it's more than a greeting. I also prepared a gift for him this time." Suldak said.

He could feel the perfunctory in the noble lady's tone. He was a country knight friend of Karl's, and this was probably the only reason why she stood here to greet him.

The noble lady didn't pay much attention to Suldak's words. After greeting her, she didn't continue to talk, and left with her two female companions, followed by several maids and servants.

"Are they your friends?" Rita asked Suldak after they were gone.

Suldak thought about it seriously, are he friends with them?

Of course not friends.

In fact, among this group of nobles, the only person who can think highly of him is Karl. No matter what his purpose is, he has been helping himself selflessly and has no demands on himself, even if he is in deep trouble. He didn't take the initiative to ask himself for help.

So Suldak said: "It's not really a friend. To be precise, it should be a friend of a friend. They are nobles, so they won't treat a reserve knight as a friend."

"Oh!" Rita stopped asking after hearing what Suldak said.

……

Earls of Casement, Highlander

Suldak handed the name card in his hand to the guard at the gate. Not long after, a housekeeper in the Earl's Mansion came out and told Suldak that Master Karl had gone to the southern suburb of Hailansa and hadn't returned yet, so he asked him to stay. Address, and send a letter to Master Carl as soon as he returns.

Suldak hurriedly said that he also rushed to Hailansa City in his spare time, and he would not stay in the city for a long time. Since Carl Casement was not there, he asked the housekeeper to hand over the gift he had prepared to Carl, and then he took the gift from the magic pocket. He took out a sealed thumb from the box. The box was long and narrow and very heavy. The butler called two servants to carry the box into the mansion.

Afterwards, Suldak left Earl Casement's mansion...

Chapter 273 The Village Under the Night

Five four-wheeled trucks pulled by two horses were slowly driving on the mountain road on the outskirts of Hailansa City. A team of guard battalion knights rode along the mountain road to stop the carriage. Two guard battalion knights rode on horseback, seriously After thoroughly checking the identities of the coachman and Suldak, he said to Suldak:

"Recently, there are always robbers on this road. You must be more vigilant and pay attention to safety when you travel."

Suldak didn't expect that the carriage had just left Hailansa City, and he met the patrol team of the Hailansa City Guard Battalion. It seems that robbers have been rampant recently, and the knights have no way to sit comfortably in the chairs in the office. , but to inspect everywhere outside the city on horseback.

"Okay, everyone!" Suldak waved to the knights of the guard battalion who were about to leave.

"I will, my lord knight!" The coachman stood aside and said respectfully.

"There will be a period later!"

The team of knights waved goodbye to Suldak and the coachman at the fork in the mountain road.

……

The carriage had just left Hailansa City, and the mountain road was lined with trees on both sides.

The sunlight came in through the leaves, leaving mottled marks on the mountain road. Natasha and Rita sat on a large wooden box full of apples with their backs to the coachman, like this one full of bright red apples. There are three large wooden boxes in the carriage.

In addition, the carriage was also filled with twenty bags of wheat flour that Suldak bought from the free market. Natasha was holding a light yellow silk scarf tightly in her hand. She and Rita One person, and each has a comb, although these are not worth a few dollars, but the two are still excited for a long time.

Natasha thought that last night when Suldak took out the horn comb and silk scarf, she actually imitated Rita and kissed him on the cheek, her face became a little embarrassing, she secretly looked Taking a look at Suldak sitting in the carriage, he saw that he was drawing back and forth on a piece of parchment with a charcoal pencil.

As the two horses trotted behind the wagon, she hugged her knees and tried to keep her feet hidden in her long linen skirt.

Rita was sitting next to Natasha, gnawing on an apple in a very disfigured manner.

The most valuable thing on this four-wheeled carriage is not the apples, nor the twenty bags of wheat flour, but the more than 200 steel bars at the bottom of the carriage, which are [-] feet long.

These steel bars were bought by Suldak with fifteen gold coins from a trading firm in Hailansa City. Half a month ago, this trading firm accepted Suldak's commission and ordered a steel bar in Bena City. A batch of steel bars, this batch of steel bars has just arrived in Hailansa City in recent days.

Suldak hired five trucks to pull away all the steel bars, and the trucks passing in file left several deep ruts on the mountain road.There are also some other vegetables and fruits in the truck behind, as well as some living supplies that are in short supply in the village.

When the convoy arrived at the mountain pass, it was completely dark, because there were always robbers in the mountain recently, the coachmen did not dare to camp overnight in the mountain, so they could only light up the lanterns at the four corners of the carriage, and hurried to Wo Seoul Village.

By the time the truck arrived at Wall Village, it was nearly midnight.

Five carriages were parked on the grain field, and the old village head came after hearing the news, arranged accommodation and dinner for the carriage drivers, and arranged for manpower to feed the horses. As for the goods on the carriages, it was planned to unload them after dawn.

Natasha and Rita led the horses back home. The old village chief grabbed Suldak, frowned and asked Suldak, "What did you buy? It takes five carriages to pull it." return."

Suldak motioned for Rita and Natasha to go first, and he took the old village chief to the side of the carriage, and took off a rear box panel from the truck. Under the bright moonlight in the night sky, the interior of the carriage was dark. When Suldak jumped onto the carriage, a wooden box happened to crack open, and immediately a bunch of round onions rolled out.

"This is... an onion?" The old village chief didn't expect that this was what Suldak bought back.

Embarrassed, Suldak quickly pushed the onions aside, exposing the bundles of steel bars inside, and said to the old village chief with a smile: "These onions are just brought back by the way, I told you before, I want to build a reservoir upstream of the village, and I even built a section of wall in your yard with volcanic ash."

The old village head suddenly remembered that the women in the family still don’t forget to water the walls every day. If they knew it was such a trouble, they shouldn’t have built the lime wall in their yard. The wall looks fine now, and it's getting stronger with water."

Suerdak pulled out a steel bar about the thickness of a little finger, and said to the old village chief: "It is not enough to have a concrete wall alone. Some keels made of iron bars must be added to the concrete wall to make the reservoir stronger. I bought them all from Hailansa City."

"These are all iron bars?" The old village chief rubbed his eyes vigorously. He is no stranger to this kind of iron bars. Many blacksmith workshops make arrows by burning these iron bars red and rolling them in forged tires. Now Suerdak actually uses this kind of iron bars to weave the keel and build them into the wall. The old village chief asked with a distressed face: "You bought these iron bars to be clamped in the lime wall?"

"That's right." Suldak nodded indifferently.

The old village chief looked at the huge black bundle of steel bars in the carriage, and could only sigh softly: "It's really extravagant to buy so many iron bars all at once!"

Why do we have to build a reservoir? There is no shortage of water in the village all year round, but it is difficult to irrigate in the early spring of the dry season. Isn’t it just like this for so many years?

The old village chief secretly thought in his heart that he didn't understand this matter.

Then he shook his head with his hands behind his back, thinking that Suldak became a knight, and this Wall village will be his property sooner or later. Now Suldak wants to do something in the village, especially if he pays for it himself. It's really hard to say anything else.

It was already midnight, and the old village chief looked to the right, and he could see the whole village. A dirt road stretched out far away, which could be seen far away under the moonlight.

Everything fell into a deep and silent sleep. There was no movement in the village. It was unbelievable that nature could be so quiet. Looking at the village under the moonlight, dirt roads, thatched huts, haystacks and chestnut trees full of chestnuts, the old man The heart of the village chief suddenly became very peaceful. The night was so gentle, sad and beautiful. The village was in a valley, surrounded by green fields on both sides.

In the wheat field full of moonlight, the ears of wheat bend the stalks that are about to wither. The life here is slowly changing, and everything is thriving.

The old village head looked at the young man who jumped out of the truck. His shoulders were broad and his waist had inverted triangle abdominal muscles. His eyes were piercing in the night, and many plans were realized step by step in his hands. up.

But now, the compartments of these trucks are filled with supplies that I didn't even dare to think about before, so I am not satisfied.

"Hurry up and go home, you've been busy all day, and it's so late now, you should get a good night's sleep!" He looked up at the bright moonlight, and said, "Tomorrow will be another sunny day..."

Chapter 274 Carl's Letter

Suldak wanted to build a large reservoir upstream of Wall Village, and word spread throughout the village within a few days.

He and the old village chief have been measuring the land around the spring in the uppermost valley these days.

The village of Wall lies in a ravine among the mountains of the Badlands of Pagloss Mountains.Because there is a spring in the upper reaches of the ravine, the ravine is gurgling all the year round, so both sides of the ravine also present a piece of lush greenery.

It is like an oasis in the desert. As long as you climb out of the ravine, the hillsides on both sides are still limestones full of gravel. Those limestones were originally a large piece. Like a dry river bed.

Surdak was standing next to a mountain wall, holding a piece of parchment in his hand. On the paper was a drawing of the reservoir clearly outlined in charcoal. He wanted to use the mountain wall here to build the reservoir. , As long as a semicircular dam is built, a huge reservoir can be formed. As long as the spring water is introduced into the reservoir and the reservoir is filled with water, it will probably be able to survive the dry and rainless spring.

After several days of upstream surveys, the village chief finally approved of Suldak's plan. He has been helping Suldak determine the location of the reservoir for the past few days.

Originally, Suldak wanted to intercept a dam in the upper reaches of the ravine, so that the uppermost area of ​​the ravine could be intercepted as a reservoir. This idea is relatively large, and the upper reaches of Wall Village will almost be intercepted into a Yansai Lake.

But in this way, the entire Woer village is in the river downstream of this reservoir, and the upstream reservoir is like a sharp sword chosen over the heads of the whole village. The old village head is worried that the rainy season will come next year, and the reservoir The dyke can't bear so much water, and a little carelessness will ruin Wall Village to the bottom of the water.So he decisively rejected Suldak's first plan.

At present, this plan is already the third set proposed by Suldak, and it has finally been approved by the old village chief.

But now it is only necessary to level the place a little bit. According to Suldak's idea, within the five-acre range of the entire reservoir, another five feet will be dug down, and the excavated limestone will be rolled into lime powder, so that the limestone Powder can be obtained locally, but if you want to get volcanic ash, you have to bring it back from the distant pustule mountain area.

Suldak made some calculations in his mind, stood on a big rock and said to the old village chief: "It seems that we need a few carriages, um, at least ten..."

The old village chief was worried that Suerdak was used to being extravagant, and he would not be able to hold back anything in the future.

He pondered for a while: "I don't need so many cars at once... There are carpenters in the village, so it's relatively easy to pull up the frame, but the axle part needs to be customized by Hailansa City, and a cheap two-wheeled truck can be made , if there is no need for magic inscriptions on the axles, a set of axles should not be too expensive."

Suldak heard the old village chief introduce the truck. It turns out that the wheel axles have two types of inscriptions with magic inscriptions and those without magic inscriptions. So the truck that transported the steel bars for us has magic inscriptions? "

Seeing Suldak jumping off a big rock, the old village head followed, "Yes, the trucks have magic inscriptions on the front and rear axles, and a set of axles with magic runes costs about ten gold. At the beginning, Wall Village also thought about making a cart, just for the convenience of travel, and I even inquired about it at the car dealership in Wall Village, but unfortunately it was a bit out of budget at that time, and I had to raise a horse .”