The following week, their lives were quite peaceful.
Yun Wei has basically mastered the basics of alchemy and has begun to learn some more advanced alchemical theories using the notes left by Sid.
It concerns the decomposition and recombination of matter, the annihilation and fusion of elements, and the arrangement and combination of different magic patterns, etc.
Even so, he did not miss any of his daily delivery duties.
He now truly understood Sid's pain.
Day after day, they repeat tedious and boring tasks that consume a great deal of time and energy, just to cope with the insatiable demands of the Liujin family.
In just one week, Yun Wei was still lamenting that the Liujin family had stolen his life.
Without these daily orders, he could better immerse himself in the endless exploration of alchemy.
The power of insight is so wondrous, like the most precise microscope in the world, it can clearly see how the most basic elements that make up matter undergo magical changes.
Even if some materials do not react with each other, it is still a conclusion worth recording, leaving valuable experience for future exploration.
Yun Wei himself wrote down several of his own new discoveries.
Midway through, Sid sent another message.
The other person's voice sounded particularly tired, perhaps due to the long journey and unfamiliar environment, or perhaps because the immature invention itself was severely distorted.
After listening to the other party's message, Yun Wei realized that it wouldn't have been a problem if he had ordered raw materials in the form of fifty monster cores.
The contract that Sid signed with the Liujin family originally included an additional clause that required consideration of reasonable losses.
Sometimes the lab was running at a loss, so Sid had to take on some outsourcing orders, which is when he started to consider losses.
Yun Wei did not take this seriously.
Since the gold coins to be purchased would be deducted directly from the treasury left by Sid, he should still take into account the losses, as is more common practice.
However, today is a very special day.
Today is the Alchemy City's "market day," which takes place every ten days.
The Alchemy City is home to a large number of apprentices and laborers, and even though the workshop owners expect them to work day and night, they still need to eat.
However, since entering and leaving the Alchemy City required paying a hefty tax, the benevolent "Transaction Council" mercifully established this "Market Day" once every ten days.
This made it easier for farmers on the Liujin Plain to come to the city to sell their agricultural products, herbs, and various collected raw materials.
However, the reason why this arrangement received parliamentary support is actually quite simple:
Firstly, it can lower the cost of raw materials for alchemy within the city, thereby seeking greater profit margins.
Secondly, the villagers of Liujin Plain were originally the private property of the Liujin family, which indirectly increased the taxes collected that month. And the Liujin family, for the time being, still has the power to influence the decisions of the council.
Thirdly, it allows exhausted laborers and apprentices to rest for a day, making it easier to exploit them later.
However, on this day, most workshops in the city will stop work and rest.
Except for Sid's alchemy lab.
The tradition of the Liujin family is "never resting".
Their family motto is, "Every second you breathe, create wealth to match."
Because the Liujin family's workshop would still be coming to the back alley to pick up goods that afternoon, the alchemy laboratory had no choice but to continue to complete those daily orders that were making Yun Wei scratch his head.
Originally, Yun Wei had planned to go to the square with Isaac to witness the "market day" that brought Alchemy City to life.
Consider it an occasion, um...
This was probably their first proper date. Yun Wei thought to himself.
But when he glanced at the mountain of finished product boxes in front of him, he couldn't help but sigh.
Resentment towards the Liujin family +1.
My hope that Sid will get married soon has increased by 1.
However, Yun Wei also noticed that he wasn't the only one who was absent-minded that day.
Even Joseph, who was always diligent and hardworking, seemed to be preoccupied.
His mental strength, comparable to that of a level seven professional, was incredibly sharp. In addition, he naturally noticed that the other party's gaze kept falling on him.
He had assumed that the other person was also thinking about that rare market day.
But now, Yun Wei is a little uncertain again.
It's already 12:30 in the afternoon. If everything goes smoothly, they should be able to finish their work for the day around 2:00.
If it's just work-related, there's no reason for the other party to act so strangely.
So Yunwei put down the spindle in his hand, turned around and asked, "Joseph, is there something you need?"
The assistant standing by the furnace was secretly glancing at him when he was suddenly caught red-handed. He was startled, but instead swung the iron hammer, which was bigger than his head, even harder, delivering a three-hit combo on the anvil like a string of arrows.
The outline of a dagger gradually appeared on the red-hot iron billet.
Looking at the other person's clearly thin arms, Yun Wei couldn't help but admire them in his heart.
Joseph used tongs to quench the iron billet into the water tank, and with a "sizzle" sound, he walked through the rising steam and came to Yun Wei's side.
Joseph wiped his hands somewhat awkwardly on his leather apron, and finally looked at Yun Wei, saying, "Um, Mr. Claude, I've recently encountered a bottleneck in my magical training. Could you please guide me for a while?"
Beneath the other person's flaxen hair were a pair of eyes yearning for knowledge. Like all common youths of this age on the continent of Zhuyuan, the other person's face bore the pallor of long-term malnutrition.
Yun Wei looked at the thin young man in front of him and couldn't help but hesitate.
He's already busy enough every day.
Putting aside the fact that he himself is still in the learning stage in the path of magic, his non-stop schedule makes it difficult for him to squeeze out time to help Joseph...
He either had to sacrifice the time he used for cultivation, or he had to sacrifice the time he used for rest, and the latter belonged to him and Isaac.
Sadly, he's really not good at saying no.
He may passively isolate himself and reduce his social interactions, but if someone makes a request of him, he finds it difficult to refuse.
Especially when he saw the young man in front of him becoming increasingly embarrassed in his unspoken silence, and the light in his eyes gradually dimming.
Yun Wei thought for a moment and said softly, "I may not be a good teacher."
He simply used Isaac's words.
Just thinking about their first meeting filled his eyes with a smile.
But he remained quite serious on the surface, simply saying indifferently:
“I can mentor you for an hour every day, but in return, you will be responsible for completing the work that I haven’t finished.”
He now spends about four hours a day in the lab completing his daily orders, and the other four hours are spent freely exploring alchemy or studying the notes left by Sid.
In other words, if he were to instruct Joseph for an hour each day, he would only need to spend three hours completing the daily orders.
Joseph was responsible for completing what he hadn't finished each day.
This is a fairly reasonable deal.
Yun Wei looked at Joseph indifferently, waiting for his answer.
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