Chapter 022 Western Fantasy Town 13
Although I was forced to get up early, I earned two gold coins and 45 silver coins in the morning, and there were more than a dozen transactions, which dissipated my bad mood.
The adventurers who had saved a lot of money were also very happy and took the initiative to promote Ciel's store.
Xie Yunsui looked at the quiet space again and went upstairs to change out of his pajamas.
Then he picked up the heavy book next to his pillow and went downstairs, reading while eating breakfast.
The title of the book is "Pharmacy Encyclopedia", but the first volume is aimed at beginners. The first third of the content is about teaching what magic is, how to use magic, and how to improve magic.
In this world, only a very small number of people have magical affinity attributes. There are six types of affinity attributes: wood, water, fire, earth, wind, and thunder.
Elves are mostly associated with Wood. Dwarves are mostly associated with Fire and Earth. Orcs, due to their different origins, are most associated with Magic.
However, before the great intermarriage, the human race did not possess the attribute of magical affinity.
After testing your own magic affinity, you can use magic crystals with the same properties to practice. Magic crystals come from monsters. Almost all monsters have a small magic crystal the size of a fingernail in their bodies.
No wonder Matthew's team proposed to use magic crystals as compensation at the beginning.
However, magic crystals cannot be used so casually. Most magical beasts have violent personalities and are highly aggressive. The magic crystal energy in their bodies is also powerful and cannot be used lightly. Only magic crystals from beasts with milder attributes can be used, or they can be handed over to powerful pharmacists to remove the violent aura of the magic crystals.
Gentle monsters like to live in groups and hide deep in the Vilanstei Forest, making them difficult to capture.
The price of magic crystals processed by pharmacists went up.
As a result, the cost for pharmacists to increase their magic power increased, and the prices of products that required pharmacists' magic power to produce and research also went up, which is why those healing potions are so expensive.
Xie Yunsui quickly scanned the previous information and tried to use the magic methods in the book to use the energy given to him by the Wanjie Shop.
These energies allowed him to measure his wood affinity in the Apothecary Guild, which should be able to perfectly simulate magic.
No, magic itself is a manifestation of energy.
Xie Yunsui attached magic power (energy) to his palm, and a layer of lustrous white light gradually condensed into a solid object. He had just finished eating an apple, and the image of the apple was clearly imprinted in his mind. The ball of white light gradually condensed into an apple.
It’s a bit like the Wanjie Store using energy to simulate shelves.
Xie Yunsui couldn't help but think of that sentence - if the mission fails, all the owner's energy will be taken away.
These energies are given by the shops, so you can take them back if you want.
Because the previous owner was a troublemaker, Wanjie Shop has added extra restrictions?
Without this reminder, he would have regarded the energy given by the Wanjie Shop as his own. As time went on, the energy became more and more. Xie Yunsui thought he had become strong enough, but with just one word from the Wanjie Shop, he would fall from heaven to hell.
Xie Yunsui was shocked and suddenly realized that he could only use the Wanjie Shop but could not rely on it.
If one day the Wanjie Store fired him and he was stranded in an unknown world, could he survive on his own?
He must always remember that he is just an employed shop owner who can be fired at any time.
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Theodore came back from the town after finishing work. He first went home to say hello to Agnes, and then walked towards Charles's shop.
Charles was hoeing the ground outside the yard. He was wearing a dark suit suitable for work. His long sleeves were rolled up, revealing the solid muscles on his arms, which was really inconsistent with his overly handsome face.
Theodore thought Charles was the kind of man who never had to work.
"Char, do you want to grow vegetables?"
Theodore asked, clinging to the fence.
Xie Yunsui looked up and said with a smile, "These are medicinal fields. I want to grow some medicinal herbs."
Theodore walked in: "It's hard to grow medicinal herbs. Let me help you."
"Okay, I'll make tomato beef noodles for lunch, and you can eat here." Xie Yunsui really wanted to open up the medicinal field as soon as possible.
Theodore didn't pick up the hoe first. Instead, he took out a bottle of milk from his pocket and said with a smile, "Charles, a store canceled their milk order today. I bought it for you at a very low price."
Xie Yunsui was stunned: "I don't need it."
Theodore insisted to him: "You bought me new clothes, this is a return gift, but I don't have money to buy expensive gifts."
Xie Yunsui bought him clothes as a return gift for borrowing the clothes. How could there be a return gift for a return gift?
Xie Yunsui said helplessly: "I don't lack milk to drink."
Theodore looked disappointed.
Charles usually doesn't like to eat, but he always likes Theodore to bring back some new and novel food. Theodore thought he would want to try the milk, so after hearing that someone had canceled the milk order, Theodore happily bought it.
In fact, milk was not cheap. It cost Theodore a day's salary.
Don’t you like milk either?
Seeing that even the hair on Theodore's head was drooping, Xie Yunsui felt quite sorry for him. He rubbed Theodore's golden hair and took the bottle of milk. "But thank you for the gift, Theodore. Theodore, I'm not short of money or expensive things. If you want to give me a gift in the future, just pick a flower from your yard and give it to me."
Flowers growing casually in the yard, they don’t cost any money, right?
Theodore's eyes lit up and he smiled again: "Okay!"
Not long after the medicinal field was cultivated, Nelson came over carrying two baskets of vegetables. The other families followed suit and picked half a basket regardless of how many vegetables were ripe at home.
Although it was said to be an acquisition, they had not seen it with their own eyes.
Xie Yunsui first weighed Nelson, calculated the money in public, and paid it directly to Nelson.
A transaction information quietly appeared on the cash register notebook.
[Spend 2 silver coins to purchase 100 kilograms of vegetables.]
Xie Yunsui glanced over and revealed a barely perceptible smile. Sure enough, as long as it was a transaction in the store, whether buying or selling, it would be counted as transaction volume.
How can it not be considered buying money if you use vegetables to buy it?
Nelson's eyes welled up as he held the fresh and hot 2 silver coins. It was so easy to get this money!
Just by picking the vegetables from the fields and bringing them to Charles's shop, without having to carry a hundred pounds of vegetables for an hour to the town of Laize, without having to scramble to find a good stall, and without having to sit there and watch the stall for three days without being able to move, you can get 2 silver coins?
When the other villagers saw Nelson get the money immediately, they also took out their vegetable baskets.
Xie Yunsui was too busy for the moment, so Theodore came to help weigh the money while Xie Yunsui counted it.
"56 jin."
Xie Yunsui took out a silver coin and counted out 12 copper coins and gave them to the villagers for settlement.
"28 jin."
"43 jin."
"78 jin."
"10 jin."
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All the villagers received money, even those who hurriedly picked two cabbages from the field received more than a dozen copper coins.
Never before had anything they grew brought them such direct benefits. The villagers immediately bought another bag of seeds and took them home, planning to open up a few more fields.
In the following days, the whole village was busy hoeing the fields.
This back and forth brought Xie Yunsui nearly forty transactions.
But this is still far from Xie Yunsui's daily goal.
Seeing the villagers leaving excitedly with their freshly harvested [Planting Bonus], only Theodore was busy cleaning the ground and arranging the vegetables. Xie Yunsui looked at him busying about and asked, "Theodore, would you like to come work in my shop? The weekly salary is 3 silver coins."
The average weekly salary of residents in Laize Town is about 2 silver coins, and the average weekly salary of residents in Klein Town is about 4 silver coins. Xie Yunsui took the middle value.
After hearing this, Theodore waved his hands and said, "I come to help when I have nothing to do. You don't have to pay me."
Theodore always thought that Charles was his friend, and he did not expect that Charles would come to his village to open a shop. He was secretly happy about it and always paid attention to Charles' needs.
He hoped that Charles would be happy living in Ika Village.
Xie Yunsui, however, felt that even among friends, accounts had to be kept clear.
Theodore is kind and sincere, and his enthusiasm should not be exploited.
Xie Yunsui explained it to him carefully and clarified the working hours and scope, hoping that Theodore would take it seriously and be worthy of the salary.
Theodore was stunned and somehow accepted the job.
Starting tomorrow, after delivering milk in the town of Laize in the morning, he would come back to work in Charles' store. Lunch and dinner would be provided, and if he skipped meals, the money would be converted into money and added to his salary. There would also be an extra meat allowance every month.
The job requirement is to trade with the villagers, and he is responsible for selling seeds and purchasing vegetables.
Xie Yunsui left a lot of scattered silver and copper coins in the cash register drawer and handed them over to Theodore.
"By the way, can you read?" Xie Yunsui suddenly thought of an important question.
Theodore nodded. "Well, I went to school. I went to school for two years. I can recognize most words."
Xie Yunsui didn't ask why he only attended school for two years. He just nodded and showed him the notebook on the cash register: "After each transaction, the notebook will automatically record the content and amount of each transaction. You just need to check it."
Theodore: “Uh-huh.”
"All the purchased vegetables are packed into this red and black bag."
"OK."
"When you have nothing to do, you can sit here and read a book. I'll build a bookshelf here later. By the way, what kind of books do you like to read?"
"Any book will do."
"Okay, I'm going to go make dinner. Do you want to go back and talk to Agnes? Maybe we can invite him to lunch."
Theodore went back in a daze, and came back with Agnes after a while.
Xie Yunsui kneaded the dough with sifted fine flour, cut it into strips and put it into the pot to cook. Next to it was the tomato beef soup that had been stewed since morning. The beef was stewed until soft and tender, and the sweet and sour fragrance of tomatoes made people's appetites open at first sight.
With the addition of Agnes and Theodore, lunch is no longer just a simple bowl of noodles.
Xie Yunsui steamed a few eggplants, and simply made a garlic sauce with garlic and some seasonings and poured it over the eggplants. The garlic-flavored eggplants were ready.
Cut the cabbage in half, soak half of it in salt water, remove the hard core in the middle, cut into thin strips, add shredded carrots to adjust the color, then add some salt, a little sugar and black pepper and mix it. The refreshing vegetable salad is ready.
Xie Yunsui's cooking skills were limited, so he marinated the steak sent by Mrs. Anita with black pepper for a while, fried a few pieces, and served it on the table as a main dish.
"Woooooooooo!"
Theodore swallowed unconsciously.
Even Agnes stared at the table with her eyes fixed on it, forgetting the words of thanks she had prepared for so long.
They are obviously just common vegetables and seasonings, so why do Charles’ dishes taste better than Anita’s?
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