Chapter 54: The visit of the wandering merchant

Chapter 54: The visit of the wandering merchant

As the name suggests, Ah Yuan is a chubby and round person.

He is short in stature, only about the chest of an ordinary strong man, but he has a big head, eyes, nose and ears... are bigger than ordinary people, completely different from ordinary dwarfs. Because his facial features are at least one circle bigger than ordinary people, although his face is full of fat, he does not have the usual small eyes and small nose because of this. Instead, his facial features are clear and wonderful.

His movements are very vigorous, and it is not obvious that he is a fat man. Obviously fat people wonder if he can use "roll" instead of "walk" to hurry, but in fact he walks very fast, even faster than the average person.

And what caught the attention of the travelers most was the color of his name.

His name is green.

This means that he is not only a businessman, but also a slightly special character, probably equivalent to the leader of a small group of monsters, or equivalent to the village chief of a small village.

As for why a character equivalent to the village chief becomes a traveling merchant, and he is the lowest among traveling merchants, with only an old carriage? Then no one will know.

A Yuan comes to Kalipura Village four times a year and is very familiar with the villagers. The one who knew him best was the owner of the grocery store in the village—or you could call it the tavern owner, the restaurant owner, the innkeeper… it was the same thing anyway.

This fat man is stingy and never wants to stay in a hotel. He always parked the carriage in the back yard of the hotel and stayed in the carriage at night. He didn't know how much cargo was in the carriage, so he was reluctant to leave even to sleep.

"Dude, the quality of your wood is not very good." A-yuan criticized the boss's goods in a shrill voice, trying to lower the price. "And it's not pure tree heart, there are too many miscellaneous wood around!"

Kalipura Village is a resource-poor village, and the only things worth buying here are basically the hides of hunters and the by-products of the farmers' logging - tree hearts.

The heart of the tree is the pith wood in the center of the trunk of the big tree. This wood can be used to make many special things, the most common of which is to make the wands of mage apprentices. Compared with the magic wand made of branches, the pith wood rod is not strong enough, but it is superior in the performance of magic power transmission, which can save the magic power to the greatest extent.

Although there are forests in most parts of the world, and large trees that can be obtained from pith can be seen everywhere, except for the border areas where the sky is high and the emperor is far away, such as Kalipura Village, civilians are not allowed to cut down trees. -The forest is the wealth of the lord. If the commoners cut down the trees without permission, they will be chopped off their hands and heads.

Of course, the lords will also do the pith wood business, but that kind of business is not something that a wandering businessman like A Yuan can get involved in. So he can only come to places like Kalipura Village and buy pith wood that the villagers have chopped and processed privately.

Although the local area is theoretically the territory of Earl Tarahan, as the village chief complained, the subordinates of the earl only appear every autumn when taxes are collected. In addition, even if you want to find them, they are not at all. I wouldn't come to this small border village far away from Tarakhan City. So the villagers never cared about "stealing the lord's wealth".

In fact, many people simply do not admit that this is the so-called "County Territory".

The head of the village, Kalipura XIII, is one of them.

He was sitting in the corner of the lobby on the ground floor of the hotel, looking through the back door of the house, looking at the two people who were bargaining from a distance, his eyes were a little sighed.

"Before the village was not ruled by that **** earl, we were able to save a lot of money a year," he said. "At that time, besides pith wood and animal hides, our products also included local wine. But since That **** rules here, and he comes to collect a lot of food every autumn, and the rest of the food, let alone wine, is a little difficult to eat."

"...I remember that Earl Tarakhan was canonized. It should have been more than seventy years ago." WuMian said, "You know what happened at that time?"

"I don't know when he was canonized, but the first time he sent someone to collect taxes was more than 30 years ago." The village chief's voice became lower, "My grandfather is reluctant to admit his rule. , was beheaded by his soldiers, and the body hung on the door of the village for a winter."

Panda's eyes darkened for a moment, and there was a slight flicker of fierce light in it.

"Our Kalipura family is the founder and builder of this village. At the beginning, there was only the shrine of the Church of Death. My ancestor took his adventurer companions and a group of refugees to hard work in this inaccessible frontier, and it was finally built. This village has been passed down to the thirteenth generation—what the **** is wrong with that bastard! When my ancestors opened up this village, his grandfather’s grandfather wasn’t even born yet!”

"But the kingdom was already established at that time." Wu Mian said, "Your ancestors could not be called lords if they were not able to get the canonization of the king. So after the king canonized the lords here, he came to declare sovereignty, which is a matter of course. ."

The village chief snorted and said nothing.

"We're going to go to Tarakhan City in the near future to see if there's anything rare, or if there's something exciting to do." Wu Mian said, "Is there anything I need to buy in the village? We can bring some by the way. return."

The village chief shook his head: "Thanks to you, we don't lack anything during this time."

"It's almost winter, do you really need to prepare some anti-cold medicine or something?"

"Can those so-called anti-cold medicines be better than those formulated by Dr. Anka?"

Wu Mian smiled: "That's right, with Anka sitting here, you don't have to worry about that at all."

"If that's the case, then we can rest assured." He picked up the cup, drank the rest of the tea, chewed the tea leaves, and stood up and walked towards the backyard.

A Yuan was a little surprised by his appearance. But this wandering businessman was originally a lively and cheerful character. After a few chats between the two sides, they soon began to talk and laugh.

After a while, Wu Mian came back and said to everyone: "It's confirmed. At least a month ago, everything in Tarakhan City was normal. The old earl was healthy, and there were no signs of plague in the city."

"Then...it should be about this winter," said Changsun Wu.

"Almost." Wu Mian nodded, "Of course it could be the next winter, that's even better. But we should prepare for 'this winter', right?"

Everyone nodded.

"We will leave tomorrow." Panda said after a moment of silence.

The village chief looked at them suspiciously, but wisely did not ask about the "plague".

Plague is no small matter, especially one that can be predicted in advance.

This kind of thing is not something that the village chief of a small border village should be concerned about.

What's more... There is a plague in Tarakhan City, and the old earl fell ill and even died because of it. It's really good news for him...