Chapter 005 Magic Gold
"Brother, are you dating Captain Keos?" the little boy with golden hair whispered softly. "I heard from Lisa that you two might be getting married soon."
Bai Su: “…”
Keos: “…”
Bai Su was shocked. Did the rumor spread so quickly?
"No." Keos bent down slightly and ruffled the child's messy blond hair. "Don't listen to Lisa's nonsense. Go to the training ground. You're going to be late."
Several children saluted Ceos solemnly, and led by the blond boy, they lined up and ran away, not daring to play and fight as before.
Keos explained, "Olin is Lisa's younger brother and Mrs. Susan's child." He walked to the outside and let Bai Su walk closer to the inside. "These children are all Boy Scouts. My adjutant—the red-haired Centaur you've seen—is the instructor of the Boy Scout training camp."
Bai Su recalled that when he first met Keos, there seemed to be a red-haired centaur.
"I have a great connection with Mrs. Susan's family." Bai Su said with a smile, "I ran into her two children just one afternoon."
The little Boy Scout who saluted seriously was very cute. It would be even cuter if he could whisper a little more quietly next time.
Keos said solemnly: "Boeing Town is so small, it's easy to meet people who are destined to meet." It's like we just met yesterday and had lunch together today.
The handsome black-haired young man seemed to be always full of energy. Keos wondered why Lao hadn't let him get a tan. His skin was as white and smooth as a pear, emitting a clean, sunny scent.
Suddenly, Keos squinted his eyes - the narrow square pupils of horses can reach a field of vision of 340 degrees, far exceeding that of humans - and he saw a small object shining with golden light in Bai Su's bag.
"What is this?" Keos gestured to the young man to look at his bag.
"Let me see... Hmm? It's my necklace..." Bai Su took out the necklace that fell into the brown paper bag with one hand and put it back on his neck with some effort. "Maybe it was knocked out by Olin and the others just now. Thank you, Keos. If I lost it, I really don't know what I would do..."
The Centaur pulled him and took him forcefully to the back alley. He looked at him seriously and asked, "Do you know what this is?"
"Huh? This is my necklace." Bai Su was confused. Doesn't the Wenke Empire allow civilians to wear jewelry?
"Do you mind if I take a look?" Keos bent down and got close to Bai Su's face. Bai Su swallowed and felt his heart beating faster.
"Is it alright..."
The tall and handsome Centaur guard captain touched the young man's collarbone with his fingers, and with a light hook, he pulled the gold cake tied with a thin rope out of his collar.
"It's gold," he exclaimed. "An unenchanted piece of gold."
A piece of pristine, clean gold without any magical aura.
Bai Su's necklace was made by someone he had made a few years ago. When Bai Su was little, his mother once touched the two gold bracelets on his wrists and told him that when he got married, she would pass the two gold bracelets on to his wife.
These two gold bracelets were passed down from Bai Su's grandmother to her mother, and they were considered family heirlooms. However, after his parents passed away, Bai Su gradually realized that he did not like girls. So he beat the two gold bracelets left by his mother into gold cakes, engraved his parents' birthdays on them, and wore them all the time.
When traveling through time, the gold cake also came here with Bai Su. He was reluctant to hide the gold cake and clothes that represented his parents, so he kept it carefully hanging on his chest.
"I don't know what enchantment it is. This is something my parents left me." Bai Su said a little dejectedly.
Keos saw two strings of numbers on the gold, and after hearing what Bai Su said, he guessed that perhaps his parents were no longer around.
"I remember you are from the Golden Town in the Western Continent?" Keos asked him.
In order to avoid being exposed, Bai Su had already memorized the identity information on the parchment scroll.
"Well, I'm from Golden Town," he replied.
"Gold is a magical medium that can store and release magic, making it extremely precious. All of the Wenk Empire's gold comes from the Gold Town on the western continent. Farmer, no wonder you're so wealthy, able to lease nearly fifty acres of land to the east," Keos said softly. "Your parents loved you so much that they actually left you such a large piece of gold, completely unenchanted."
Seeing Bai Su looking at him with confusion, Keos continued to ask, "Have you started planting your hybrid rice?"
"No, not yet. In fact, I was planning to buy some insulation tools for breeding." The topic changed so quickly that Bai Su was stunned.
"It will definitely be a bountiful harvest," the centaur said firmly. "The next time I'm on vacation, I'll take you to the High Priest in the Vatican and ask him to enchant your gold."
"Enchanted gold possesses positive magical powers and can bless your farm with a bountiful harvest."
"Let's go." He smiled softly and said to the young man who was stunned, "Let's go buy the insulation tools you need."
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During the following purchases, Bai Su fully realized how quickly rumors spread in this world.
Keos is a celebrity in the town. Along the way, almost everyone who encounters them will cast a knowing and ambiguous look at them.
The owner of the grocery store where they were buying even pulled Bai Su aside and asked him quietly when Captain Keos was packing his things whether he would lie down and rest in private.
Bai Su: “…”
Although I also want to know whether centaurs lie down to rest, or stand their entire lives like ordinary horses.
But how can you, the residents of the magical world, be so gossipy when you don’t even have a cell phone?
And I'm really not in a relationship with Keos. I've only known him for less than 24 hours!
Bai Su went crazy.
He had given up explaining. Every time he tried to correct something, he would be met with terrifying, meaningful looks of "I know, I know." He had become numb.
Anyway... it's not a loss. Bai Su glanced at the centaur who was carrying several heavy bags effortlessly beside him, and thought despairingly that having such a tall and handsome rumored boyfriend, it can't be considered a loss for him.
Keos is a serious civil servant with an administrative system!
Before dark, Keos sent Bai Su back home and politely declined Bai Su's invitation to dinner.
"I have some official business to take care of." With this, the Centaur placed the items purchased today in the entrance and said goodbye politely.
The wooden door was gently closed.
When the pastoral two-story wooden cottage returned to silence in the evening, the black-haired young man who was still standing at the entrance looked at the pile of purchased spoils on the floor. He took a deep breath, rolled up his sleeves one by one above his elbows, and stretched his muscles.
"Come on, start working. Now is the time for agricultural research."
The young man muttered to himself.
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The rice ears brought by Bai Su are high-quality hybrid rice that have been bred for many years. One rice seedling can produce about 800 seeds.
The rice ears are now fresh and mature, and are highly active. After a simple germination treatment, they can be sown in the field.
He was doing some of the germination work tonight.
Rice seeds can be germinated in sacks. First, select seeds with full grains and dry them in the sun for a certain period of time to break the inertia of the seeds. After the sunlight kills the bacteria on the surface of the seeds, collect the rice seeds and disinfect them.
After disinfection, dry the surface moisture again, sprinkle the rice seeds on the moist sack, and cover them with straw. After waiting for a while, the seeds will germinate smoothly.
Before going out this morning, Bai Su had already peeled the seeds into a clean net bag and placed it on the windowsill to dry. By now, the seeds have been dried so that the seed coat is transparent and the enzyme activity is high.
Bai Su checked the seeds and saw that they were all intact, so he collected them all, filled a basin with clean water, and poured all the seeds into the basin to wash them.
There were only five or six less plump seeds floating on the water. Bai Su felt very distressed, but he had no choice but to pick them up and throw them away.
This only handful of hybrid rice is very precious. Every seed carries his wish to enjoy the shade under the rice, so he dare not treat it carelessly.
Bai Su solemnly brought the basin of water to the kitchen table. Feeling uneasy, he covered it with a larger basin.
By tomorrow morning, we will moisturize and germinate these seeds that have drunk enough water.
After finishing the preparations, Bai Su wiped the sweat off his forehead. The highly concentrated work he had just done had quickly consumed his energy. He quickly took out the cheese-stuffed bread he had bought at the bakery during the day from the brown paper bag at the entrance and began to eat it with the freshly brewed black tea.
Bai Su ate with tears streaming down his face - not because the bread was too delicious, but because he really missed Chinese food, the taste of stir-fried pork with rice.
Bai Su looked at the basins on the dining table with sadness, and said silently in his heart, "My dear baby rice, you must do your best. Daddy is almost starving to death in this barren alien world."
After quickly finishing the bread, Bai Su packed up the sacks, hay, etc. that he had purchased. Now he was a single man living alone and had to take care of everything at home by himself.
As for those bulky farm tools, Bai Su planned to wait until tomorrow morning to put them in the farm warehouse.
To be honest, he was worried when he saw all those farm tools... Fifty acres of land, it would take him forever to work alone! Bai Su planned to take some time to go to the square and see if there was a standardized labor market in Boeing Town...
Whoosh——
The farmer, who had worked hard all day, fell into a deep sleep.
He couldn't see, under the dim moonlight, two small figures climbed into the house through the window, groped their way to the kitchen, and stretched out their evil little claws to his precious basin...
Bang!
A heavy object fell to the ground, and Bai Su woke up suddenly.
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