Chapter 314 The Best Gift (Additional Update, Please Give Me a Monthly Vote)
Halls, the defense judge of the manor court and the manager of the underground trading market, undoubtedly flattered the horse.
After being scolded by Russell, he hid behind the crowd with a red face.
Russell actually didn't care about Halls' lame flattery. It was completely understandable that subordinates and followers wanted to improve. No one is perfect, and Russell never used himself as a saint to dampen the enthusiasm of his subordinates.
He was willing to promote subordinates who worked hard.
He was also willing to promote subordinates who spoke well.
"Jimmy, these clams are all caught in the clay pond. Go to the clam pond and catch a few old clams." Back to the point, Russell immediately ordered the clam boy to go to another pond to catch old clams.
The reason why the white pearl turned into a golden pearl is worth exploring.
He distributed the golden pearls to his subordinates, especially to Eric, Grove, and Katie, the three fantasy beast knights, to carefully sense the magic of the golden pearls, find out the effects that the magic can bring, and then determine the purpose of the golden pearls.
He also played with the largest golden pearl and carefully sensed the magic in it.
"What a beautiful golden pearl!" The wild cat sisters Katie and Catherine paid more attention to the luster of the pearl itself, and their eyes were full of possessiveness.
A moment later.
Jimmy brought several other palm-sized old river clams. After prying them open, he also dug out dozens of pearls of different sizes. The largest one was still less than half the size of a glass marble, and most of them were close to soybeans.
However, these pearls were not golden, but milky white like the pearls produced by wild large river clams.
"So, clay as a pearl nucleus will cause the pearl to change color?" Russell narrowed his eyes and thought, "Clay residue also has a certain weak magic. Perhaps it is this trace of magic that changes the nature of the pearl."
No need to wait too long.
Eric and others have roughly felt the magical properties of golden pearls and white pearls.
"My lord, white pearls are not much different from the big pearls found before. They are good for the skin, which is roughly the effect of beauty and beauty." Eric said in a muffled voice, "Golden pearls are similar, but they also have a slight effect on the eyes, which can roughly improve eyesight."
That is to say.
White pearls can beautify and nourish the skin, and golden pearls can beautify and nourish the skin, plus improve eyesight.
"They are all top-notch things, sir. After the pearls can be mass-produced, they will definitely bring a steady stream of benefits to the territory." Charles said with shining eyes, "Especially women, those noble ladies, have absolutely no resistance to pearls!"
Russell thought so too.
From the fact that the wild cat sisters Katie and Catherine were reluctant to let go of the pearls, it can be seen how powerful pearls are to women.
"If they are strung into a bracelet... God, the dragon is watching, no matter how expensive it is, I want to buy one!" Catherine said with love. If there were not so many people staring at her, she really wanted to strung it into a bracelet and put it on to try it out.
Not only is it beautiful, it can also beautify and nourish the skin, and the golden pearls can also improve eyesight. Just imagine which woman can resist such a treasure.
"Okay, the effect of pearls has been understood." Russell did not generously distribute the pearls to his subordinates, but ordered, "Butler Morris, put all the pearls away, I will think about how to use them later."
In fact, he already had an idea.
Pearls are naturally made into female accessories, sold to the outside, or given as gifts.
"In the future, when attending a banquet, I will give cigars to the male host and pearl bracelets to the female host... Perfect, this is simply the most perfect gift." The more Russell thought about it, the more excited he became. He no longer had to worry about giving gifts.
The banquet at noon was particularly grand and lively.
The wheat elf Whit, the hop elf bug, and Katie were promoted to the fantasy beast knight, and there were also gold and white pearls.
There were a lot of happy events, and the people of the territory also praised the lord happily.
Because the lord has spent money again, being a serf for Master Russell is really getting more and more promising.
"Everyone, drink to victory!"
"Drink to victory!"
The banquet lasted for two hours before it ended. Russell was rarely drunk, and he did not use fighting spirit to dispel the drunkenness.
Instead, he slept all afternoon with a drunken feeling.
When he woke up from the lunch break, it was almost evening.
At this time, he suddenly realized a problem: "Moris."
"Master, I'm here."
"Where's Hape? I almost forgot. I haven't seen Hape since I came back." Russell asked with a frown. The Pseudo-Harpy Dragon was the pseudo-dragon heir of the mythical beast species that he had finally tricked home. He couldn't lose it.
The mind synchronization between him and the unicorn Polly was almost perfect, and the next step was to prepare to contract Hape.
Butler Morris smiled and said, "Master, don't worry. Since you left the territory, Hape always flew out early in the morning and came back in the evening to enjoy a roasted rat meat dinner, and then patrol the territory."
Hape evolved from an owl, so it has the behavior of hiding during the day and coming out at night.
Russell hadn't had time to correct its routine.
As he was talking, he suddenly heard a crisp cry from outside: "Quack."
"Happie is back." Russell breathed a sigh of relief and smiled, "Okay, Mr. Morris, you can arrange to roast the rat meat."
He quickly came to the terrace garden and saw the snow-white pseudo-harpy dragon Hape standing on a specially designed stand for it, tilting her head to look at Russell. Her attitude was not that close, but at least she still recognized Russell as her master.
"You are finally back, Hape." Russell walked over and touched the "stupid hair" on Hape's head - this stupid hair has the same special magic pattern as the unicorn Polly's horn.
"Quack!" Hape was a little unhappy when her stupid hair was touched.
But Russell wanted to make her unhappy, so that she could slowly accept their relationship and form a unique bond.
Especially, although Hape was unhappy, she did not avoid Russell's touch, which was a good start for a relationship.
Wait until Butler Morris brought the roasted rat meat over.
Russell tore the roasted rat meat himself to feed Hape to further enhance their relationship.
"Have you been going back to the cold spring in Green City Garden to sleep during the day?"
"Quack."
"It seems that I still miss those owl-like dragons... Well, this name doesn't sound elegant enough, why not call them owl-like dragons."
Owl is an owl.
Owl-like dragons sound better than owl-like dragons, but Hape didn't say anything about it.
In this way, the interaction between Russell and Hape was seen by the unicorn Polly who was leisurely eating tender grass in the bamboo forest not far away.
Watching Russell stroking Hape's aho-god hair and watching Russell feed Hape with his own hands, Polly only occasionally raised her head and looked at her with a smile.
It seemed that she felt something in her heart.
Russell also turned his head and looked at the bamboo forest, then looked at Polly and smiled charmingly.
Poly always had no resistance to Russell's smile. Therefore, she instantly forgot all of Russell's behavior towards Hape, ate the grass peacefully, and no longer paid attention to what happened on the terrace garden, and became contented.
"The intelligence of the phantom beasts is not much worse than that of humans, especially Polly and Happy, whose IQs seem to be higher than those of ordinary people... It seems that it is not easy to balance the contracts between the phantom beasts and achieve spiritual balance."
The more he understood this, the more he admired his father, Baron Roman.
As a 3rd-level high-level phantom beast knight, Baron Roman was about to complete the spiritual balance with three phantom beasts and then try to contract the fourth phantom beast.
Such a talent.
It is worthy of being the prodigy of the Shadow Flame Grand Duchy when he was young. It was precisely because of this that the former Earl Merlin was willing to marry his daughter to him.