Chapter 12
When Charles and Hongye came to the hotel to report the next morning, they found that this place had almost become a battlefield.
A piece of space was cleared from the open space behind the hotel, and a huge pot was placed in the middle. This pot put Charles in and stewed without any pressure. There was a cheerful flame on the wood under the pot, and white steam was constantly coming out of the pot.
Five long tables are placed around the pot like petals, and baskets and wooden barrels containing various medicinal materials are placed beside the table. Each table has numbers of 1 to 5, and strips of cloth of different colors are tied to the corresponding baskets and wooden barrels.
On the edge of the well not far away, several wooden barrels and people were waiting for it.
Chef Tonio, veterinarian Phil and many caravans cut the medicinal materials at the long table, then put the chopped medicinal materials into the corresponding basket and set aside in the wooden barrel.
At this time, Harkara was wearing a blue long-sleeved work clothes, with a white apron in front of her, and her long blonde hair that reached her waist was tied up and tied behind her head.
"Is the red table No. 1 ready?" Harkala didn't think that others could fully understand the names of the medicinal materials. If someone got the wrong type of medicinal materials, something big would happen, so she thought of this way to direct people to submit materials.
"It's ready!" Donio replied loudly.
“Table 2 red?”
"It's ready!"
After confirming that all the herbs are ready, Harkala waved his hand, "No. 1 red, go!"
Keen, next to the giant pot, immediately cast a spell, blowing the flames around the pot with a gust of wind, and then Tonio rushed up with a basket and poured the medicinal materials inside into the pot.
Halkara, who was standing in the downwind position, smelled the smell of herbs floating out of the pot and ordered Phil on the second table to pour the first basket into it, followed by tables three and four.
At this time, Harkala was like a general, directing everyone to pour various medicinal materials and water into the pot at different times.
After nearly an hour of busy work, after several people added a few buckets of water, Horeshaw covered a huge piece of land that could be used as a table on the pot, and then pulled out a lot of firewood under the pot and put it out.
At this time, Harkala announced: "Everyone rest for an hour, and the filling team is ready."
This pot of medicine consumed about one-third of the medicinal materials, and Harkala took this time to check the order of the medicinal materials for the next second pot of medicine.
When time comes, the flames under the pot are extinguished.
Someone put a small table next to the pot and stood up, lifted the lid and scooped out the steaming potion into a clean wooden barrel.
Then someone took away the wooden barrel filled with potions and poured the potions into small ceramic bottles of thumb-sized volume on another long table.
Charles helped to stuff wax corks on the mouth of the bottle, and finally, the person who cooked the wax on the side would seal the bottle with molten wax.
In the following days, Charles, like the others in the caravan, drank a bottle of this thing every half a month.
Looking at the green potion, Charles knew that this was his fate.
The last medicine residue was taken out and piled up on the side to cool down, because these medicine residues were about to become feed for horsemen.
Immediately afterwards, Harkala began to direct everyone to make the second pot of potion.
From this day on, the people in the caravan began to carry out their respective work.
Aubrey sold the horses that were no longer suitable for pulling a cart, and then bought a new horses with Phil.
A kind of horse named Parma produced on the prairie is the most powerful horse on the mainland, and the heaviest one can reach one ton. They have strong endurance, are not picky about food, and are not prone to illness. They are the best horses for private convoys.
Although the sub-dragon-powered animals commonly used by the army have high combat power and have a much higher battlefield survival ability than horses. However, they are too difficult to serve and are not easy to replenish. The most important thing is that they eat too much. Under the same conditions, the amount of feed consumed by 100 kilometers is much higher than that of horses. So only the army can use them. When the caravan uses them, they will wait for poverty.
The sales and procurement of caravan goods were conducted by Elizabeth. She negotiated with the bosses directly in the chamber of commerce, and soon negotiated the transaction of the goods to be sold and the goods to be purchased. The empty part on the truck was also filled with the goods of several dwarf craftsmen. Because the next stop was a place with a strong military atmosphere, those weapons and armor were not worried about not being able to be sold.
After buying the horse-drawn horse, Phil helped the two guards to choose new war horses and then purchased concentrate feed everywhere in the city.
Anthony took Charles to buy food in the city, and this time he had the help of Hongye. In addition, Charles had a halo of face here, so they used only one day to bypass the middlemen in the city and then went to the nearby village to buy the jerky and other food they needed. Since there was very little oat here, they purchased corn as a substitute.
Other members also do some private work when they are free, buy some interesting products on the market and put them in their luggage, and then sell them when they arrive elsewhere.
Charles originally planned to sell the necklace made of the wolf's magic core, but now it is hanging around Hongye's neck.
Cromwell, who claimed to be a bard, disappeared after entering the city, said "I'm going to collect folk songs."
Then every night, everyone would meet him playing the six-stringed talisman and singing.
He is not considered a caravan employee, but a passenger who travels with the caravan after paying the money to buy tickets.
It is very dangerous to travel far these days, with monsters and bandits emerging along the way. Most people who walk alone will choose to let large caravans along the way send themselves to their destinations, and the caravans will ask someone to guarantee the passengers, otherwise who knows whether you are a spy for the robbers.
Some adventurers will also buy tickets and follow the caravan. If they need to take action when they encounter danger on the way, the caravan will be free of charge and pay.
So there are two passenger cars in this caravan for these people to ride.
Sometimes small caravans will seek protection from large caravans on some dangerous sections, and the two sides will exchange some commercial information.
Because Cromwell had Elizabeth's guarantee, he sometimes helped the caravans to do something, so he was quite popular in the caravans.
For example, last night, a young green-skinned woman who was conquered by Cromwell's singing in a tavern chased Cromwell to the hotel, and then the members of the caravan told her Cromwell's room number very considerately.
In the end, Cromwell jumped out of the third floor in disorganized clothes.
The day for the caravan to set off is coming. On the afternoon before leaving, Hongye rode a borrowed horse and took Charles to the grassland in the north.
Then stabbed it...
Oh, of course it wasn't Charles who stabbed it.
The sky is vast and the wilderness is vast, and the wind blows the grass and sees the slime.
Hongye stabbed Slime, who was in trouble nearby, to death.
There are many small rivers and streams in the maple forest flow from south to north to the grassland.
The orcs more than 300 years ago were pure nomadic peoples. After a drought one year, a large number of victims were far away from the maple forest.
At this time, Philip, the priest of the Harvest Temple, came here with two girls.
In the next five years, he taught generations of grazing orcs to cultivate wasteland by turning over maple forests to plant pasture and drought-resistant grains, cultivate wild vegetables on the grassland, and at the same time taught everyone to raise chickens in the pasture, as well as use farm fertilizer to improve land fertility.
He also led everyone to dig earth to ramm the wall to resist the monsters on the grassland, and turned the pits of the soil taken into ponds to store the rain in summer, the snow melted in spring and the river water flowing out of the maple forest.
At the same time, he made the best plow with the craftsmen here, and later lit up the parchment technology with the orcs.
Five years later, when the Great Sage and two girls who were sacred by the Harvest Temple left, the orcs here stepped into the semi-nova and semi-farming era with one toe. In the following time, the model of Corian City and its surrounding farms was promoted in the north of the maple forest. Tribes began to establish settlements in the north of the maple forest, and then according to the plan left by the Great Sage, a road that ran across the east and west was built.
To the north of Sumi City, there is a large lake that was transformed into a pit left by the soil left when the Somi City was built to build walls and houses. From when, the small river flowing out of the maple forest brought a lot of edible fish, and then these fish lived in this lake that was called "Northern Lake" by the locals.
The parting was about to come, and Hongye did not say anything to Charles's separation, but brought him here to eat grilled fish.
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Hongye and Charles stood on the grass by the lake together. Hongye sprinkled a handful of corn on the lake surface, attracting a group of fish to grab food. Then Charles threw the largest fireball he could throw now, and after a "boom", several fish were blown to the stomach.
It's great that fish is not prohibited in this place.
In this world, spices are also luxury goods. Almost all tropical spices are monopolized by the elves in the south. Sometimes there is no place to buy them if you have money.
Fortunately, there are many plants such as wild onions and thyme in the local area. At noon, the red leaves came to the maple forest in the south and picked a lot of fresh maple leaves back. So after the two of them opened the fish, they stuffed some wild onions into the fish's belly, then applied a little salt, wrapped them in maple leaves, wrapped them with a layer of mud, and finally threw them into the fire.
There is a huge salt lake to the north of the prairie, and there is no shortage of salt on the prairie.
At this time, the sun was setting to the west, and the fiery red sunset slowly climbed up to the sky.
The two sat shoulder to shoulder by the fire, and Hongye once again told Charles about things to pay attention to when doing outdoor activities. Although she herself knew that these experiences on the prairie may not be applicable in the south.
When the two finished the grilled fish, the sun had already set and it was completely dark.
Not long after, two green spots of light appeared in the grass.
Chapter completed!