Chapter 790 Distiller
After Thomas left, Gervis continued chatting with Laci and Zenia for a while.
They both knew that Gervis had a guest to talk to, so they said goodbye immediately.
After seeing the two off, Gervis came to the door of another hall in the small building.
There were two people in the hall at this time. One was naturally Lolita, the eldest daughter of the Holy Merchant, and the other one surprised Gervis a little, it was the fishman Vaodin.
Gervis felt that he had seen Lolita several times, and the fishman seemed to be following him all the time.
At this time, Lolita did not sit down, nor did she notice that Gervis had come to the door. Instead, she gritted her teeth, looked at the scenery outside the floor-to-ceiling window, and muttered softly.
"This shameless bastard actually left us here like this. After all, our Sacred Trading Company helped him auction off magical potions twice!"
“Ahem!”
Gervis just happened to hear Lolita's muttering, and he coughed twice and walked in.
"Ms. Lolita! What is the matter with you coming to see me this time?"
Gervis knew that he had a grudge against this girl, so he didn't pay attention to what she just muttered, but got straight to the point.
"Shameless... Gervis! I came to ask you why you didn't keep your promise and hand over the wine and magical potion to our Holy Business for sale!"
Lolita was startled when she heard the voice behind her, and she didn't know whether the god of death had heard what she had just said.
However, she came here to call for an explanation, so she forced herself to calm down, pretended to be aggressive, and turned back to question Gervis.
"Ms. Lolita, I'm afraid you made a mistake!"
"Regarding the wine and the magic potion, we did have a verbal agreement! But we didn't say that we must sell them to your Holy Company!"
Gervis looked at the angry Lolita with interest.
Lolita was wearing a shoulder-baring, waist-hugging long dress today. Her two white arms hung on both sides like jade lotus roots, and her curvy figure was very pleasing to the eye.
"The problem is..."
Lolita opened her mouth to retort.
"Also, Miss Lolita, I wasn't planning to sell the wine myself, but the problem is that your Sacred Trading Company has stopped the caravans from coming, so we have no choice but to sell it ourselves!"
"Ms. Lolita, since you are unwilling to buy the wine, you can't let me keep the wine and not sell it. I have tens of thousands of civilians waiting for supplies! We can't afford to delay."
Gervis didn't even give Lolita a chance to refute and interrupted her directly.
After Lolita's words were interrupted by Gervis, her pretty face turned red!
Moreover, what Gervis said reminded her of what her second brother had said before. They were exactly the same. She couldn't help but glare at her second brother fiercely.
To be honest, Lolita had a shadow in her heart when facing Gervis. Even though she herself had not realized it, it was real.
Otherwise, with her previous style, she would have started a fight in such a situation, but she didn't have the confidence to do so when facing Gervis, and the same was true even when facing Alonso outside the manor.
"Ahem! Miss Lolita, why don't we go back first!"
Vaodin knew that his sister's visit would be useless, and would only make him angrier, because the other party was completely right.
Moreover, this is the City of Hope, and they have no way to deal with the God of Death.
The only way to solve the problem by force is to start from the Sacred Forest, but there are still elves in the Sacred Forest, so the pros and cons will have to be considered at that time.
"Then you give me back my conch!"
Lolita ignored Vaodin and changed the subject to talk about other things.
"What conch, Miss Lolita?"
Gervis pretended to be confused and looked at Lolita and Vaodin with a strange look for a moment.
He has now figured out whether the eldest daughter of the Sacred Trading Company is together with the young man from the sea clan, otherwise why are these two always seen together?
"It's the beautiful conch you stole from me last time!"
Lolita suppressed her anger and spoke, this killer was the most shameless man she had ever met.
"Sorry! I don't remember this happening!"
Gervis shook his head and denied it calmly.
"You...you shameless bastard, I will bite you to death!"
Seeing Gervis playing tricks, Lolita finally got angry, her eyes faintly glowed red, and then she screamed and grabbed Gervis' arm and bit it! Hiss~ "Fuck, you're crazy!"
Gervis never expected that the eldest daughter of the Sacred Trading Company would suddenly do this, and his arm was immediately bitten hard.
Gervis immediately raised one hand and pushed towards Lolita's shoulder, and Vaodin also reacted and immediately stepped forward to pull Lolita away.
In this way, with the combined efforts of the two, Lolita was finally separated from Gervis.
"You shameless bastard, you just want to bully me! I will never let you go!"
After being pulled away by Vaodin, Lolita shouted at Gervis with red eyes, then rushed out of the hall door with dignity.
Vaodin looked at Gervis and seemed to be hesitant to speak, but finally he quickly chased after Lolita.
“This woman!”
Seeing Lolita leave, Gervis looked at his arm which still had a row of small teeth marks on it and was speechless.
There was actually no use for him to have this little conch, but he thought it seemed to be very important to her. Lolita had always caused trouble for him in the past, and Gervis wanted to take revenge.
Maybe I could return it to her when I was more angry, but I didn't expect her to be so extreme.
…
"Little sister, why don't you wait for me!"
Following Lolita to the outside of the small building, Vaodin saw her quickly get into the carriage. He then followed her into the carriage with a helpless look on his face and spoke.
"You didn't say a word to help me just now. I don't want to pay attention to you!"
There was still some redness in Lolita's eyes, but her words were not polite at all.
"Isn't my current identity a member of the sea clan? If I openly clash with this God of Death, what if your identity is exposed?"
"And my father told me when we entered the Land of God's Fall that I should try not to cause any trouble during this period!"
Vaodin was reluctant to speak, but seeing that his sister was still angry, he immediately spoke up.
"How about this, let's find out where the city of the Killing God is in the Land of the Fallen God, and then let father and eldest brother bring people to help you avenge! Then we can kill this Killing God!"
After saying this, Vaodin stared at his sister.
However, Lolita fell silent at this time, while Vaodin felt a pang in his heart.
"Lolita, tell my second brother what's going on between you and that killer god?"
Vaodin frowned and continued to ask.
In fact, not long after he arrived in the City of Hope, he noticed that something was wrong with his sister.
The arrogant and cold sister in the past often started to daydream.
At first he thought his sister was in trouble, but after observing for a while he found that there was no such thing.
After several encounters with the God of Death, Vaodin actually began to suspect whether it was related to the God of Death.
Because he thought that if anyone really offended his sister, he would be ready to die.
Lolita would definitely send Alonso to solve the problem as soon as possible. Even if Alonso could not solve it, this willful sister would tell her brothers or ask her father for help as soon as possible.
But when facing this killer, Lolita cursed him as a shameless bastard, but when it came to really wanting to kill him, Vaodin didn't see any active action from his sister.
What’s even more bizarre is that my sister’s conch was stolen and I and the others didn’t even know about it.
"What's going on? That shameless bastard stole my things!"
Lolita's heart tightened immediately and she replied casually.
"Lolita, you can't fool my second brother! Although my second brother is not as strong as my eldest brother in fighting, I dare say that my second brother is the smartest among you brothers. Otherwise, father would not have left me here to watch over you!"
Of course Vaodin didn't believe it, but he also prepared to take this opportunity to ask for clarification.
"There's really nothing else..."
Normally, Lolita could lose her temper with her brothers, but when it came to the critical moment, such as when these two got really serious, she would lose her confidence.
Vaodin just stared at her quietly, and Lolita felt guilty and couldn't tell a lie.
Finally, Lolita bit her lips lightly and pursed her lips for a long time before she spoke softly.
"That bastard has seen my face..."
…
"Your Majesty, I have brought back the things you asked the blacksmith to make when you entered the city!"
Not long after Lolita and others left, Gervis was sitting on the sofa to rest. Thomas walked in again and reported to Gervis.
"Oh? You've got it back? Then I'll go take a look!"
As soon as Gervis heard the report, he stood up immediately.
What Thomas was reporting now was the simple still that Gervis had been planning for several days.
That day in Saint Di City, after hearing Johnson say that dwarves liked strong liquor, Gervis had the idea of brewing the liquor of his previous life - wheat wine.
Gervis believed that as long as he could really make strong wheat beer, he might be able to kidnap a lot of dwarf blacksmiths.
The main reason why the alcohol content of liquor is so high is the distillation process.
So after Gervis arrived in the City of Hope, he immediately sent people to the blacksmith shop in the outer city to forge the distiller.
With the help of money, this simple distiller was forged in just half a day.
When Gervis arrived at the square outside the small building, several direct guards were carefully unloading the distiller, which was only one meter high, from the carriage.
This distiller Gervis was just a forged prototype, so in order to obtain it as quickly as possible, its size was deliberately reduced several times. Otherwise, a distiller would be at least two meters high, and even a dwarf would need a day or two to forge it.
"Thomas, go light a fire! And you, fetch four buckets of water!"
Coming to the distiller, Gervis observed it for a moment. The dwarf's craftsmanship was impeccable, but he had little confidence in his own design.
After all, it was just designed according to imagination, and he didn't know if it could really be used, so he must give it a try first.
There is actually no technical content in the distiller. It is just an iron can. After putting the liquid in, light a fire underneath to heat it.
When the liquid in the iron can boils due to heating, steam will naturally form.
At the top of the iron can, there is a small hollow iron pipe extending to the side, and the rising steam will come out along the hollow iron pipe.
When the steam enters the hollow iron pipe for a certain distance, as the temperature drops, the steam will slowly turn into liquid, then condense in the iron pipe and flow along the small iron pipe into another prepared container.
The condensed liquid from the flowing steam is the essence after distillation. If the distilled substance is liquor, then this is the high-proof liquor after storage.
Soon, several direct guards brought four buckets of water, and Thomas also brought a stove and lit it.
After placing the distiller filled with clean water on the stove, Gervis began to wait.
Gervis didn't have to wait long. After about seven or eight minutes, he saw hot steam coming out of the iron pipe which was more than one meter long and seven or eight centimeters in diameter.
Gervis approached the distiller and observed it carefully for a moment, making sure that there was no leakage at the joints. Then he nodded with satisfaction.
"Great, now you can put it away!"
"Thomas, come in with me, I have something to tell you!"
After saying that, Gervis walked directly into the small building, and his men naturally helped him clean the distiller.
"Yes! Your Majesty!"
Thomas responded immediately, then quickly followed Gervis into the small building.
"Thomas, take two people to the place where the caravans gather in the outer city and ask who has the dwarven fire wine!"
"If you have any, buy me at least ten barrels!"
After Gervis arrived at the lobby of the small building, he sat on the sofa and began to explain things to Thomas.
"Remember, when you buy it, don't let others know it's sent to us. Cover the carriage with cowhide!"
"Okay, Your Majesty! I will definitely keep this in mind! Do you have any other instructions?"
Thomas responded solemnly.
"No more! Go ahead!"
Gervis waved his hand, then watched Thomas walk away quickly. He then began to recall the process of brewing liquor in the countryside in his previous life.
Gervis originally planned to try to brew a batch of wheat wine himself, but brewing wine is not something that can be done overnight, especially white wine, which is much more complicated than wine. Gervis is not sure if he can really brew it correctly in a short period of time.
More importantly, it takes at least twenty days to brew liquor, but Gervis can't stay in the City of Hope for that long.
He wanted to spread the reputation of the liquor quickly, and it would be best to do so in the City of Hope because that was where the largest number of dwarves gathered.
The dwarves also have a base in the City of Hope, the purpose of which is to communicate with humans.
Therefore, Gervis urgently needs to make a distilled liquor that is stronger than firewine and make sure that the distilled liquor is really effective on dwarves. Then he can return to St. Ann with peace of mind and wait for the dwarves to come to him!
So he planned to use the dwarves' own firebrew to distill a batch first to test the effect.
The City of Hope is so prosperous and has so many caravans. Gervis believes that there must be a caravan that has just returned from the dwarf tribe.
"Since you like strong liquor, let me see if this strong, choking liquor can make you addicted!"
A smile appeared on Gervis's face. In fact, he was very confident in distilled liquor.
…
Except for the first day when Gervis made some noise when he arrived in the City of Hope, he stayed quietly in the manor for the next three days.
During these two days, almost all the city lords of the Holy Alliance received the news brought back from the City of Hope by the Rainbow Bird.
These city lords were drooling over the potion that cost 10,000 gold coins per bottle. They immediately wrote a reply letter and asked the rainbow bird to return to the City of Hope to convey the order.
In addition, the representatives of the Holy City in the City of Hope were not idle during this period. They were constantly collecting funds and preparing to make some purchases from Gervis when the time comes.
Therefore, in the past two days, carriages of representatives from the Holy City can often be seen passing through the streets of the City of Hope, and the place they visit most often is the Holy Trading Company.
Because the Holy Trading Company not only engages in trade, but also provides temporary loan services to these holy cities.
(End of this chapter)
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