Chapter 148 Caravan Matters
He quickly went to the third floor of the castle. When Gervis walked into the room, he saw two green elf insects eating broken amber. Gervis walked closer and observed them carefully. Then he skillfully made a small cut on his finger and dripped blood on the amber fragments.
"Although I haven't mutated, I hope you two little guys can be more powerful and open up two acres of paddy fields for me!"
Mutation is impossible. Now Gervis only hopes that the two green elf bugs can be more powerful and open up better land to grow wheat, which can also be a good space.
The two elf insects had no time to pay attention to Gervis. They didn't even blink and continued to gnaw on the amber fragments in front of them, which made Gervis feel quite bored.
"Eh? Has the recognition of master been completed?"
As the saying goes, five blessings come to a door, which describes Gervis's situation today. He now has a unicorn, a herd of horses, tri-colored venison, and then these two elf worms were born. Now the purple elf worm that Pat gave to Gervis has just finished eating and has recognized its master. There is a strange mental fluctuation in Gervis' mind.
Gervis quickly picked up the jade box containing the purple elf worm. After opening the jade box, the purple elf worm was staring at Gervis with its big watery eyes.
Squeak~
The purple elf bug was quite well-behaved and not shy. When Gervis opened the jade box, it immediately squeaked and greeted Gervis.
"Although the space you opened up is a bit dangerous, don't worry, little guy. Others are afraid of orcs, but I am not. I am just worrying about how to keep the orcs out of my territory in the future!"
Looking at the sensible appearance of the purple elf bug, Gervis stroked the little guy's head with his hand.
His main purpose in accepting Pat's purple elf insect was certainly not for collection or to take it to the arena to gamble with others, but for the future of his territory.
As the saying goes, the enemy you don't understand is the most terrifying. Although Gervis is a bit content with his small fortune, he will not allow others to sleep soundly beside his bed. Storm Territory has to suffer invasions by orcs every year. It didn't belong to him before, but now it is his land, so he has to deal with it. At the very least, he has to find a way to keep the orcs out of his territory.
Gervis even wanted to imitate the First Emperor's method of building the Great Wall to see if he could stop the invasion of orcs, but due to lack of money and population, his method could not be implemented at present.
Every year, the orcs would invade from the Dark Forest. In addition to Gervis and Pat, Lanny's territory was also invaded by the orcs. However, Lanny and Pat's territories could allow them to live a wealthy aristocratic life thanks to the minerals, while Gervis's territory was only separated by a mountain, but there were no minerals, and he could only survive by relying on serfs to farm and pay taxes.
Squeak! Squeak! Squeak!
Feeling Gervis's affection for him, the purple elf bug chirped even more happily, and Gervis continued, "Your brothers and sisters all have names, and now I'll give you a name too!"
After looking at the appearance of the purple elf bug, Gervis thought for a moment and immediately came up with a nice name in his mind: "Eve! Little guy, you will be called Eve from now on!"
Squeak! Squeak! Squeak!
Each elf worm is obedient to the owner who signs the contract, and because of their high IQ, their expressions are very human. When Gervis said the new name of the purple elf worm, the little guy first thought about it seriously, then shook his head and shouted happily to express his happiness.
"Haha, Eve, you are more lively than your brother Wall-E. Now come and meet your sisters and brothers!"
As he spoke, Gervis opened Betty's and Wall-E's jade boxes and placed the three elf bugs together.
“Squeak!”
“Squeak, squeak, squeak!”
"squeak!"
The three elf bugs looked at each other, each with a different expression and a different tone of squeaking.
The first to squeak was Eve, then Betty, and finally Wall-E.
Eve's squeaking tone sounded like she was saying hello to her brothers and sisters, but Betty didn't seem to appreciate it and squeaked a few times aggressively. As for Wall-E, he had basically been sleeping in since he opened up the space. His eyes were still a little hazy at the moment, and when he heard Eve's call, he squeaked a little lazily.
Gervis often asks the maid Anna about the recent situation of Betty and Wall-E. He learns from Anna that Betty is no longer hostile to Wall-E for taking her master away. However, Betty has a bit of a hot temper, so she acts like a real big sister. As for Wall-E, he has replaced Betty's title of the goddess of sleep, and he sleeps soundly all the time except when he eats rose powder.
When Anna took them to play, Betty would play various small games with Anna, but Wall-E would fall asleep while playing.
"Anna, I've given them to you now. Let them get familiar with each other for a while before putting them back into the jade box!"
Seeing that the three elf bugs were together and there was no conflict like last time, Gervis asked Anna to go forward and look after them.
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The caravan will set off tomorrow morning and head directly to Winterfell to help Gerves earn his first pot of gold.
The caravan's personnel list has been finalized, with a total of 26 people. Among them, the caravan's manager is butler Thomas. Since it is the first time to travel for business and Gervis has no available talents under his command, Thomas has to lead the team. Following Thomas are the butler Johnny and the maid Eula, who are being trained to be the next manager of the caravan.
The selection of the two of them for training was the result of investigation by Gervis and Thomas. Johnny was honest and loyal, and the Benny incident was prevented because of Johnny's warning, which prevented Benny from running away with the gold coins and letters. And Yura's character was because of her character. Yura's character is lively, bold and careful. Moreover, she almost missed the opportunity to become a maid in order to let her good friend Anna come to apply for the maid. It can be seen that Yura is also very reliable.
Anna has also used her free time to teach Yura to learn to read. Although it will take a long time for him to learn well, as the tallest among the short ones, the two of them are the best choices for Gervis at the moment.
In addition to Thomas and the other three, there were two more people in the castle who were going to follow the convoy. They were Jimmy's apprentices. They had already learned how to grill golden oysters. The grilled oysters that Baron Pat tasted yesterday were made by them.
Long before becoming apprentices, both of them had gone through layers of inspection. Thomas personally investigated their family situations and visited their neighbors to learn about their usual conduct before selecting them.
There were 7 other people in the caravan who were serfs recruited from the territory.
A total of 12 people are the main members of the convoy, and the extra 14 people are guards responsible for protecting them. It is no wonder that Gervis arranged so many guards to accompany them. It was okay when they left, as the cars were loaded with goods, but it was different when they came back.
The goods sold this time have been tasted so many times. Whether it is the astonishment of Thomas, Anna and others, or the high praise of Baron Pat, it shows that the caravan sent by Gervis will definitely reap a lot this time.
One gold coin can make a robber crazy, and ten gold coins can make a lord greedy. Gervis felt that it was important to take precautions before it happened, so he simply sent out a small team of guards. Anyway, there were only a few people in his territory, and there were no patrols for the time being, so nothing would happen.
Thanks to the book friend "Blame Myself" for the reward!!!
(End of this chapter)
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