Chapter 012 Western Fantasy Town 3
Saying goodbye to the enthusiasm of several people who wanted to accompany him, Xie Yunsui went out alone.
What comes into view is a green meadow.
It didn’t look very real last night, but when the sun shone during the day, it looked full of life and filled with the fresh scent of green grass.
It reminded Xie Yunsui of his childhood, the fields, the village, the stream, the chirping of cicadas in summer, and the watermelons in the well.
The village has a low population density and looks rather backward.
Each house is made of wood and is far apart from each other. Each house has a large lawn surrounded by wooden fences in front and behind the house, which is used to develop vegetable fields or medicinal fields.
As we walked along, we found that the vegetable fields opened by each family were not very big, and some vegetables were planted neatly.
Xie Yunsui walked to the stream surrounding the village in the breeze. He saw that the water was extremely clear and the bright stones in the river were clearly visible. Occasionally, small fish swam along the flow of the river, their tails swaying and stirring up a little splash of water.
The sunlight shines through the treetops by the stream, like broken gold on the ground.
Xie Yunsui found a small slope and lay down comfortably.
I seemed to have fallen asleep again in a daze, but was suddenly awakened by a scream.
Xie Yunsui half-raised himself to look over, and could only see the back of a young girl, her flaxen twin ponytails drawing a wave in the air.
Did I scare her?
Xie Yunsui felt embarrassed to lie down again, so he went to find something to eat.
No, he should go back and see if the adventurer team has returned. He is penniless now and it is not a good idea for him to eat for free.
On the way back, I met the village chief with white beard again. He said, "Finally I found you, adventurer."
It turned out that the adventurers had returned half an hour ago. They couldn't find Xie Yunsui, so they asked the village chief to find him.
As soon as Xie Yunsui returned, the young boy Locke rushed over: "Master Charles!"
Xie Yunsui looked around and saw that everyone had happy expressions on their faces. He guessed that they must have gained a lot from this trip.
Sally smiled and said, "When we went to the Adventurer's Guild in town, we happened to meet someone who wanted to buy a Flame Winged Beast. The one that Lord Charles hunted was in perfect condition, with no extra wounds and plenty of energy. Since the other party wanted it urgently, we offered fifteen gold and successfully sold it."
"But that person didn't have enough gold coins. He only brought thirteen gold coins, and the remaining two hundred silver coins were just collected."
She handed out a small bag of gold coins and a large bag of silver coins, and everyone else's attention was unconsciously drawn to the bag of gold coins.
"As agreed, I will give you half of the gold coins, plus the guide fee, a total of seven gold coins and sixty silver coins."
Xie Yunsui took out the corresponding coins from the bag and placed them on the table.
Matthew stepped forward and said, "How can this be possible? We didn't even put in any effort."
Sally also said, "We originally predicted ten gold coins. The only reason we were able to sell it for such a good price was because Lord Charles was so decisive. The monster was intact. If we had come here, we would have left a lot of scars, and it wouldn't have been chosen at first sight."
Sally didn't expect that the Flame Winged Beast was so difficult to hunt. There were several other teams that went to the Adventurer's Guild to hand in the task with them. They either didn't hunt any monsters, or most of the monsters they had were in a miserable state. Some didn't even have a piece of good meat, and the appearance was very poor. That's why the other party was so anxious to get the almost intact monsters they brought.
Even Harold hummed, "Lord Charles, I, I still owe you one gold."
Even though these people were genuinely anxious and not being polite or pretentious, Xie Yunsui still insisted on their agreement, taking only the one gold coin for his own medical expenses. He said, "You've all been up all night and it's been very hard. This will settle all the deals between us."
"Praise you, Lord Ciel."
The adventurer team pounded their chests again, bowed and half-saluted Xie Yunsui.
The adventurer team hurried home and left together in the afternoon after dividing the money.
Xie Yunsui temporarily settled down in this village.
The adventurer team was actually composed of two fixed teams. After they separated, they were all very grateful for Lord Charles' generosity and couldn't help but brag about it to the team they were familiar with.
"He's a very good pharmacist!"
"I went to the pharmacy after I came back and checked. The exorcism potion used to treat the fire breath left by the monster can only be made by a mid-level pharmacist. One bottle costs three gold! But Lord Charles only charged one gold!"
"What's true or false? If you don't believe me, go ask Harold. Maybe you can find some scars on him. Hahaha."
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"Char!"
A clear male voice sounded behind him, and as footsteps came over, the blond boy sat down next to Xie Yunsui.
"Sleeping here again. Here are some pancakes."
The boy was not very old, only eighteen years old, with very fair skin and a few light brown freckles next to his nose. He always had a bright smile every time I saw him, but his golden hair was always unkempt and looked messy.
Theodore is the village chief's grandson.
Xie Yunsui took the pancake and asked, "How much?"
"This is what I want to treat you to." said Theodore.
Xie Yunsui looked at him quietly, as if he would not eat it unless he told him the price.
Theodore compromised: "Okay, just ten coppers."
Xie Yunsui counted out twenty copper coins to him, and the remaining ten were the agreed travel expenses.
Pancakes are a town delicacy, but they are not available in this village.
Theodore put the copper coin in his chest pocket and asked curiously, "Char, have you never eaten food like this?"
Grandpa said that Charles is a pharmacist and an adventurer, and he should be from one of those big families.
Theodore scratched his head. People from big families should be able to eat whatever they want, right?
Xie Yunsui had no intention of revealing much about his past; he didn't have a past in this world, so he changed the subject and asked, "How's your volunteer work going?"
Theodore was taken away all of a sudden: "Grandma Vanessa said I did a great job! She said she hoped I could stay forever. The children in the orphanage like me very much. Of course, I like them too."
“Are there many children in the orphanage?”
"Alas, Grandma Vanessa said that there are many every year, and most of their parents are adventurers."
The blond boy lowered his head.
Following that group of adventurers, Xie Yunsui also heard a lot about this world from Theodore in the past few days.
There are two very important groups on this continent, one is adventurers and the other is pharmacists.
There are no requirements for adventurers to join. As long as you are eight years old or above and can run and jump, you can join the Adventurer's Guild, where you can take on tasks and earn coins.
There are few pharmacists, but they play a very important role in the entire continent, because only people with magical powers are allowed to refine potions here.
In the past, potions were almost monopolized by the elves. They were the darlings and protectors of nature, and they knew how to make and use potions from birth.
Later, when the Warcraft wave came, the reason why so many people were killed and injured was that there were too few pharmacists and a shortage of healing potions. Many injured people could not receive treatment and bled to death.
After the Warcraft wave passed, the remaining elves opened a pharmacist academy, recruiting children with an affinity for magic from all over the continent and training them to become qualified pharmacists.
There are many adventurers but few pharmacists, so the potions they make are always in short supply.
A junior pharmacist is enough to support a family of non-productive people.
Pharmacists can cure diseases and save lives and are highly respected.
Unlike the glamorous pharmacists, adventurers are people who live by their belts. They can do anything, and as long as the Adventurer's Guild assigns a task, someone will take it.
Most of the orders are for hunting monsters. The first-level monsters are not very lethal, and adventurers can successfully hunt them in a team of four. Most of the hunting methods of first-level monsters have long been passed down by word of mouth. However, since many people hunt first-level monsters, these monsters cannot be sold at a high price. If adventurers want to make money, they have to hunt more first-level monsters, win by quantity, or challenge second-level monsters.
Second-level magical beasts like the Flame Winged Beast have high lethality and can kill you if you are not careful.
Most of the orphans in the town come from here.
The age limit for child labor in this world is eight years old, so the orphanage will only raise them until they are eight years old. After the age of eight, the children will be kicked out and have to make a living on their own. Most of them choose to be adventurers.
This situation is common across the continent.
He finished the sweet pancake in his hand, stood up and brushed off the grass debris on his body. Suddenly he heard a noise and looked in one direction out of habit.
Still the little girl with flaxen twin tails.
Theodore also looked over: "It's Graya. She often comes here to wash clothes and fetch water."
Xie Yunsui asked, "Is she timid? I think I scared her the first day I came here."
"Well... she's just afraid of adventurers." Theodore scratched his head and said embarrassedly, "Occasionally, adventurers appear in the village. Some of them have bad tempers. There was once an incident where two adventurers got into a fight and injured a villager. So my grandfather told the children in the village to leave immediately if they see a stranger."
Xie Yunsui chuckled.
Recalling the first time he met Theodore, this enthusiastic young man was returning home after finishing his volunteer work. He heard that there was a very famous pharmacist living in the village, so he came to the hotel to secretly see him that day.
It was said to be secretly, but in fact he was just watching openly through the window.
Xie Yunsui couldn't pretend not to see it.
When he finally looked over, the person on the other side suddenly smiled and greeted him.
This doesn't look like the village chief's advice at all: "Leave quickly if you see a stranger."
It seems that there is no one in the world that Theodore cannot make friends with. His smile and enthusiasm can infect everyone. In front of him, it seems that everyone can let down their guard. Xie Yunsui has unknowingly gotten used to chatting with Theodore.
Theodore took Xie Yunsui back to the hotel and passed by Graya's house. Her house had the most cultivated fields in the entire village. Vegetables were planted in the front and back yards, and there were two rows of pear trees beside the fence.
"We'll be able to eat pears in two months. Graya's pears are the sweetest."
Xie Yunsui stared at the cabbages, tomatoes, and lettuces on the ground and asked the same question he had wanted to ask a few days ago: "Does her vegetable... sell?"
After eating bamboo shoots for a thousand days in the deserted island world, he really wanted to eat some other vegetables.
There is no restaurant in the entire village except the hotel, and even many people in the village will go to the hotel in groups to eat at mealtimes.
It is both a hotel and a restaurant.
Mrs. Anita's vegetable soup...the taste is really not good.
Xie Yunsui wanted to ask several times, why is it necessary to put onions?
Unfortunately, people here seem to like this spicy and flavorful vegetable soup very much.
Only Xie Yunsui had a different taste, so naturally, Anita couldn't change the taste of the vegetable soup just for his taste.
So these days, apart from some delicious food that Theodore brought back from town, Xie Yunsui still ate apples the rest of the time.
"Yes, Graya's uncle Nelson brings the best vegetables to sell in the town every few days."
Theodore obviously knew everything about the village.
"The best-selling items right now are cabbages and tomatoes. But besides Uncle Nelson, many people from other villages also come to the town to sell vegetables, so Uncle Nelson has to stay in the town for at least three days to sell all his vegetables."
The ones in town have not been sold out yet, and they have grown again in the fields.
Xie Yunsui couldn't help but smile.
Half an hour later, Xie Yunsui cleared all the cabbages, tomatoes and lettuces from the field and left.
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