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After listening, Cecil blurted out: "Fuck, are you going to be so cruel? Even if you kill it, you still have to eat it?"

"Food will always be in short supply. Young and strong people like you will never let go." Langdon smiled and looked at Cecil's expression. "You don't look too surprised."

"Uh, how should I put it, I actually think it's normal to kill people and set fires for new technologies." When capital is born, every pore is dripping with blood. These "technologies" are the breeding grounds for the birth of capital, and it's normal to die. "I just didn't expect this leather-making technology to be so important to Ebo. Speaking of which, beef soup is also their specialty."

"Leather products have always been Ebo's key export products, and magic leather products are one of its specialties." Langdon said, "If you can research leather products that can reach the level of magic without magic, unless you volunteer Give it to the city lord, otherwise Ebo will never treat you as a guest of honor."

Cecil thought for a while and said, "What level can magic leather products generally reach?"

"The shoes on the soles of your feet are ordinary magic products. Most of the high-end products are superior in comfort and decoration, and nothing else has changed."

Cecil stepped on his foot, felt the completely inelastic leather bottom, and was silent for a moment before saying, "I think one day, I will fight against magic."

Langdon laughed.

Cecil thought for a while, and was a little worried about the future: "Is it necessary to change the franchise of beef noodles? It's a pity, this thing is easy to learn, and if others learn how to open it, don't we have no advantage? Saffron will actually come sooner or later. It was revealed, I even told the magic elk."

"So, when you go to see the saffron tomorrow, you'd better make an agreement with the leading elk." Langdon taught like a teacher, "Agreement not to tell others the gossip you tell it, in exchange, you can tell it more What a funny thing, at the same time, if he wants to eat bulgogi or beef noodles, he has to hunt meat for us in exchange. In this way, no matter how low we set the price, the cost of no meat and saffron will always be better than Ebo doing the same business The price advantage is taken by those who live here. I believe you will invent more good things from your hometown in the future. Beef noodles are just the first step. You have won the friendship of the Lord of Ebo. To us, Ebo is just a boy without underwear. "

Cecil: "..."

Always feel something is wrong.

However, Langdon seemed to be very proficient in this way of talking, which was obviously not the first time.

"After that, we have done a big business in Ebo, what will we do next?" Cecil asked suspiciously.

Langdon gave Cecil a meaningful smile.

That night, Cecil fell asleep with fear of a better future. Early the next morning, he went to wait by the puddle. The magic elk said that if you want to see them, you must wait by the puddle when the sun rises. They go there to drink water.

Sure enough, as soon as the sun rose on the far side of the horizon, Cecil saw the grass shaking, and after a while, a horse's face with complicated and beautiful horns protruded out of the grass.

"Ah, good morning, Cecil." The lead elk was already old friends and could call her by name. It greeted enthusiastically, "Are you going to see the Saffron Valley?"

"Yes." Cecil said.

"That's a long way, we have to start early."

When leaving, Cecil noticed that the number of elk had increased, and there seemed to be several more fawns. He asked the leader of the elk and learned that a group of distantly related elk moved here to mix with them due to lack of water.

"Is the food bad elsewhere?" Cecil asked strangely. "Don't you eat grass?"

The lead moose brays "ang-ang--" which means it is laughing: "Have you ever seen us grazing?"

"Uh, no." Cecil looked down at the elk's feet, which were still in the shape of cloven hooves, "Your stomachs can digest... well, I'm stupid." I've seen it with my own eyes, so what can I say!

The lead elk nodded.

"Speaking of which, don't you have a name?" Cecil asked.

"Yes, but you can't call out." The leading elk said.

Cecil became interested: "Try."

As a result, the lead elk made a series of explosive sounds similar to a donkey-like animal spitting and farting.

Cecil: "..."

"Basically, our names are all like this." The leading elk said.

"Can you give me another name?" Cecil said helplessly, "It's impolite not to call the other person by their name at all."

"Well—what you said is also reasonable, human beings' ridiculous etiquette." The lead elk shook its horn and said, "You can call me Ka'spit sound' Luo'mouthwash sound'Er'hiccup sound', how about it?"

"Carroll." Cecil said decisively, "It's a good name!"

The magic elk paused for a second, then shook his head: "It's okay."

"There is something I want to discuss with you." Cecil organized his words while recalling what Langdon taught him. "About the things I told you, can you not tell others?"

Carroll tilted his head and looked over with a very cute gesture: "Is there any reason for this?"

Cecil explained: "This is related to my great career of making money. You see, if others learn my method, I will not make money."

"Oh——" Carroll made a voice suddenly realized, "Well, generally speaking, I would not agree to such a request..."

"If you're willing to keep it a secret, then I'll tell you more gossip, like saffron, and I know a lot, even the...gossip at the end of the world." Cecil said following Langdon's description.

Sure enough, Carroll's four eyes widened suddenly, shaking the horns on his head and said: "Very tempting! Very tempting! I can see that you are an honest man and a gossip knight. Well, I agree." , I will keep a secret for you!"

Cecil let out a long breath. This was considered to be a solution to a heart problem. The rest can only depend on luck. Both Luther and Langdon said that the magic elk is very trustworthy, but they are animals after all, and they have fatal weaknesses. What if someone tempts them with gossip?

In this regard, Cecil didn't have much hope. Anyway, the beef noodles were only the first step, and there were many "techniques" he could copy.

Carroll was right. The Saffron Valley is indeed very far away. From the position of the sun, Cecil judged that he was heading southwest. However, the terrain did not decrease but rose slightly. He appeared in the Luofeng Mountains without any response. Slight altitude sickness.

Until noon, Cecil got to know almost all the fauna of this grassland from Karohe, and the valley of saffron was finally in sight.

That valley is different from the circular basin of Ebo, only that it is sandwiched by two long and narrow mountains, and the terrain has not been lowered.

"Can't a country be established in this place?" Cecil asked doubtfully.

"No, the bigger the 'country', the more it needs a strong enough 'wall'. These two mountains are not encircled, they are just parallel, so they can't be used as city walls." Caroline said, "Did you see the flowers?"

Cecil saw a large expanse of purple, spreading from one end of the valley to the other, almost occupying the entire range of his field of vision. He looked at the sea of ​​flowers in shock, and the word "sent" kept turning in his mind.

How much would such a large piece of saffron be sold in modern times? It’s still natural!

However, when Cecil came to the front and looked, he found that many stamens were broken, and some flowers were scattered, as if they were eaten by some animals, and there were many spots of red in the mud.

Only the red stamens are the real saffron, and the second is the yellow color at the base of the stamens. It is the work of profiteers to dye the petals red. Here, there is no chance to dye red.

"I can pick some." Cecil carefully walked in the sea of ​​flowers, muttering to himself, seeing a clump of saffron shaking not far away, he walked over and said casually, "Don't trample too many flowers Carroll, this flower is very delicate, I tell you—”

Cecil's voice stopped abruptly, and some kind of animal was facing his eyes. The brown hair grew like fluffy grass, and a pair of shining eyes stared at him in the fluffy hair.From the appearance, this animal looks like a dog, but from the size and location, he thinks it should be a wolf.

One person and one animal just looked at each other like this, no one moved, Cecil didn't dare, the animal in front of him didn't know why.

"Gossip Knight, what are you doing?" Caroline got out of the sea of ​​saffron. It was too short to be seen once it got into the sea of ​​flowers. "Oh, it's you."

As if the animal had been electrocuted, it suddenly let out a frightened scream, turned around and ran away, splashing stamens along the way, which made Cecil's heart ache.

"Don't step on the flowers!"

The unknown animal stopped suddenly.

Cecil was taken aback: "Can it understand? Is it also a magic elk?"

"No, but it's going to get the name of magic soon." Carroll walked over slowly, "Now, people call it a mastiff."

Um?Isn't this the Tibetan Mastiff?

Taking a closer look, the mastiff maintained a stiff posture, standing there trembling.Compared with the fat and cute magic elk, it is not only thin and long, but its belly is so hungry that it shrinks in. One paw is bleeding, and the hair all over the body is not only dirty but also knotted. It is bald from time to time, probably from a fight of.

This guy obviously had a rough time.

"Wait a minute, isn't your name Magic Moose because you know magic?" Cecil grasped an important point, "You don't know magic?"

Carroll let out a donkey laugh: "No, I am called Magic Elk just because of the improvement of IQ. Any animal that reaches the average IQ will be given the title of magic. This is the highest honor."

Cecil looked at the miserable mastiff in front of him: "So, it can understand me?"

"Yes, but it can't speak yet." Carroll blinked his four eyes, grinned his teeth, and showed a sinister smile, "As long as I eat it, the honor of magic will not be destroyed by others." snatched away."

Cecil: "..."

Mastiff: "Woo~"