Chapter 137 Twelve Days
Nobles are related by blood and interests.
So when Russell proposed to use the output of 1,500 acres of magic potion fields as a reward to attract investment, Fluorescent Castle agreed without hesitation.
The family invested 1,000 gold coins. In the next few years, half of the output of the 1,500 acres of magic potion fields will be sold to Fluorescent Castle at 80% of the market price every year until the investment of 1,000 gold coins is exhausted.
"In fact, the family can invest more gold coins. You can consider it." The eldest brother Roland said with regret after the contract was signed.
If possible, he even wanted to buy out all the output of Russell's 1,500 acres of magic potion fields, and the term was as long as possible.
After all, for Fluorescent Castle, gold coins are nothing. You can earn them back by killing more times in the snowfield. Only the indispensable magic potion is difficult to obtain by spending money. Russell's investment is exactly what he wants.
If the contract can be signed for a longer and larger period, the fluorescent mushroom bird Rosie, although nominally belongs to Russell, is actually serving Fluorescent Castle.
Russell's mushroom bird is his mushroom bird.
"When I need money, I will continue to attract investment. Let's talk about it then." Russell rejected Roland's request for additional investment.
Fluorescent Castle needs to train knights, so why doesn't he need to train knights?
Black-waisted snake manor is just his starting point. He wants a larger territory and a higher title in the future. All of these require real swords and guns to fight on the snowfield. And ordinary snow ghosts are not considered military merits at all, only hunting snow demons.
The ice soul beads picked out from snow demons are the only proof of military merits.
In addition, there is another very important point.
If you want to train Xiao Menglong, I'm afraid that there will be no shortage of ice soul beads in the future. It is far from enough to rely on his own strength. A large number of knights must follow him to charge and fight, so that he can continuously obtain ice soul beads.
So no matter what, he needs to keep some magic potions to train his own knights.
That night, Russell stayed in the castle.
Unfortunately, Xiao Menglong still did not show up.
"It's been twelve days. Two ice soul beads actually need twelve days to digest... and I don't know if the ice cream will continue to sleep tonight." Russell got up early in the morning, feeling a little emotional. After a hearty buffet breakfast, he left the Fluorescent Castle.
The baron and his wife have decided to go to Sanchahekou to visit their grandfather, Count Merlin Yujiuhua, three days later, on September 2.
During these three days, Russell needs to handle the affairs of the territory, after all, he will stay in Bluebird Castle for a month.
Including the ten days of rushing, this is nearly forty days away from home.
After two hours of running, he returned to the familiar Black Waist Snake Manor and the familiar manor villa.
Butler Morris, with male and female servants, stood on both sides of the gate and warmly welcomed Russell's return.
In the past, Russell always felt that this kind of ceremony was very dull, but now, he felt a lot of sense of accomplishment from this ceremony.
There is a triumphal atmosphere.
"Master, welcome home." Butler Morris bowed.
"Yes, I'm going home." Russell entered the gate and signaled to Tom, the knight's squire, to bring the gold coins and ice hail beads.
He smiled and said, "As usual, I won't give you the ice hail beads. I will directly exchange them for gold coins... Eric's reward is eleven gold coins..."
"Thank you, sir!" Eric took the gold coins and kept them close to his body.
After distributing the gold coins one after another, Russell looked at James again and said seriously, "James, you advanced me three gold coins for this trip to the snowfield, so there are only two gold coins left for the reward... You haven't married yet, so you have to save some money."
James smiled and said, "Your Excellency is right. I will save these two gold coins when I go back."
Russell leaned back in his chair and waved his hand lazily, "Okay, the rewards have been issued, you go home and have a good rest."
"Sir, then we'll say goodbye first."
After everyone left, Russell asked Butler Morris to put away the remaining gold coins. Nearly a thousand gold coins were not a small amount.
"Master, how come you have so much money?" Butler Morris was a little surprised.
"Don't worry about the investment of Fluorescent Castle in me. It's just the output of my 1,500 acres of magic potion fields, and the money is exchanged in advance."
"I see."
Morris accepted the money calmly and deposited the gold coins into the small treasury in the manor's courtyard, keeping the key close to him.
When the news of Russell's return spread, Charles came before noon.
"Teacher Charles, I won't keep you for lunch. I want to stay alone for a day." Russell waved his hand, "Tomorrow you call all the officials here, and we will have a meeting to discuss the territory affairs for the next month or so."
Charles asked carefully: "Sir, are you too tired?"
"Not too tired, but I just came down from the snowfield and will soon go on the trade route again, so I need to relax."
"Are you going to fight in the snowfield again?"
"No, I'm going to Sanchahekou to visit my grandfather."
"Oh, so that's the case, haha, this is what I should do." Charles smiled and took off his hat. "Then I won't disturb your rest, relax and enjoy the warm sunshine outside, sir."
For the whole afternoon, Russell did not leave the manor villa, but stayed by the window with sunlight, reading quietly.
Enjoy the rare relaxing and leisurely time.
Occasionally, he would raise his hand, look at the mark on his palm, and then summon the amber thorn worm to let the thorn whip dance in his palm.
"Can a thorn seed that has turned into an amber worm still breed a complete thorn, and can it still bloom and bear fruit?" Russell asked himself.
The only answer he got was the monotonous muttering of the thorn amber worm.
"Sunshine, sunshine", "Comfortable, comfortable", "Growing, growing"...
"Can you grow by basking in the sun?" Russell put the thorn whip in the sun, and after an afternoon, he did not feel any changes. "Obviously, you are no longer a thorn, you have become a 'worm', and you can't grow by sunlight alone."
"Sunshine, sunshine...comfortable, comfortable...growth, growth..."
"Alas, maybe this is the amber worm in plant form, and there is no way to communicate." Russell took back the thorn whip in disappointment.
At night, Russell washed and went to bed early.
Waiting for Xiao Menglong, who didn't know whether he would return.
After a long time, in a daze, a "click" sounded, and Russell suddenly shuddered and found himself in a dark dream.
"Twelve days, twelve days!" Russell, who had turned into a cartoon man with short arms and legs, waved to Xiao Menglong who was slowly flying over, "Xue Gao, do you know that I have been waiting for you for twelve days? I miss you so much!"
"Click?" Xiao Menglong flew over and tilted his head to look at Russell, not knowing why.
"Still as stupid as before... That's great." Russell patted Xiao Menglong's head, and did not rush to ride on him, but looked at Xiao Menglong carefully.
He wanted to see if Xiao Menglong had changed after digesting the power of the two Bingpo beads.