Chapter 36: Trading (4)
As night falls, the branches of the divine wood sway gently in the wind.
There were fewer pedestrians on the streets, and lights were on everywhere in Cartier. After a busy day, the blood elves began to return to their family life one after another.
Angel's mother lit up the illuminated oil lamp.
At the dining table, Angel was lowering his head and eating silently.
On the other side, Angel's father was staring at his son while eating.
His hands didn't stop and kept tearing the bread into his mouth, but his eyes made Angel's scalp numb.
In terms of appearance, Angel's father Koli looks exactly like his brother Andrew. If the light is darker, it will not even be able to tell whether they are actually two people. But in terms of image, it is much different.
Andrew has long black hair all the time, while Kouli has short black hair. Andrew is tall in figure, while Kouli is tall. There are also very big differences in clothing.
In Angel's memory, his elder brother Andrew always wore a mage robe. No matter what color it is, it must be a mage robe. Except for the night when he was about to escape, Andrew, who appeared in front of Angel, was wearing a black casual outfit that he had never seen before.
My father Kouli wore short-sleeved casual clothes every day, and there were often traces of soil on his hands and clothes.
Kouli is a gardener.
In Luo Gexian, gardeners are considered a relatively good profession. Of course, compared with gardeners in the human world, they are actually not much better. After all, the lower profession. In addition to pruning flowers like human gardeners, gardeners of blood elves also have to collect special nectar and cultivate magical flowers with special purposes... In short, they are relatively high-end. However, although they are related to magic, they are not actually a magician and cannot cast magic.
How did Kouli, who knew nothing about magic, give birth to two sons with excellent magical talents?
This is what I have to ask Angel's mother.
Angel's mother Debi was once a magic apprentice at the Magic Academy. It is said that she was admitted with extremely high scores. However, with excellent talent, she is also a "bad girl". Because she was young and ignorant, her studies were abandoned, and she did not graduate, but graduated. From a certain perspective, Andrew's rebellious character was also inherited from his mother.
After graduation, Debi still did not repent because she could use some simple magic. Her income was actually higher than that of ordinary and conscientious blood elf. This gave her the capital to continue to squander her youth.
Well... she eventually succeeded in destroying herself from a genius magic girl to an ordinary person and marrying an inconspicuous, honest gardener, the father of the Andrew and Angel brothers.
Of course, it may also be true love, who knows? Anyway, Angel's mother said that.
As for later... Debi gave birth to a son. After having a child, she finally decided to repent. She felt that although her dream could not be realized, she could still rely on her son. So she tried her best to raise her son. Andrew had received rigorous training since she was very young, and when she entered school, it even amazes the magicians. In the end...well, Andrew became the "Shame of the Blood Elf Mage".
This sounds very tragic. Daibi's life is like a downward line, and it seems that there will never be a time to stop.
After Andrew left, Debi returned to her normal life. Until today, she continued to continue some magic-related jobs and lived a leisurely life of odd jobs. Fortunately, she was not bad among the blood elves.
If there is anything particularly unpleasant, it is probably that the eldest son who has high hopes for defection is not around and the youngest son is no longer a good match. She never dared to take any further steps in her former alma mater. After all, it is really embarrassing.
Andrew can only be regarded as offending the Magic Academy once, while his mother offended twice. If I were the dean, I would definitely put all the family on the blacklist.
"You..." After a long silence, Kori stared at Angel and whispered in his thick voice: "Hair..."
Angel hurriedly said, "The fire is burned!"
"I know." Kouli nodded, then said expressionlessly: "It's good to put out the fire, which means you are brave. But you should also pay attention to safety. In addition, what I want to say is that you have no hair or eyebrows. Although it's only been a short period of time, you should also be slightly modified. Others will be very uncomfortable with it."
"Okay father, I will wear a hat when I go out." Angel nodded.
"You shouldn't encourage him to do such dangerous things." Mother Debi held the plate, pulled open the chair and sat next to her father Kouli, and started to have dinner. He said casually: "He can go to put out the fire this time, and maybe he will do something dangerous next time."
"Reputation is very important." Turning his face, Kori said to Debi: "If Angel cannot pass the first test this time and cannot enter the Archery Academy, then he will be equivalent to an adult. It is always a good thing to have a good reputation."
"I don't think a good reputation is useful, as long as you have a bad reputation," Debi murmured in a low voice.
Kouli must have heard this, but he just looked at Debi silently without commenting. Instead, he said to his son Angel: "You should take your brother as a warning and you can't become a selfish person. Selfishness will be despised. Do you understand?"
"I understand, father." Angel replied.
"How are you doing in the first trial?"
"It's OK, father."
"But I heard from your coach that your archery is very bad, and it is impossible to pass unless a miracle."
Angel lowered his head and ate silently, not daring to answer.
After a pause, the father continued, "Actually, we all know that you can't pass. My father and mother just don't want to regret it in the future. Anyway, let's try it, what if there is really a miracle? Even if there is no... that's normal. I will arrange a job for you at that time."
"Father..." Angel raised his head carefully.
"Is there any problem?" Kouli asked.
"I...I want to find a job by myself? I'll do it myself."
"Can you find it?" Kouli seemed a little surprised.
"Let me try it." Angel said seriously: "How can I know if I don't try it? What if I find it? If not, please ask my father to make arrangements for me then."
After staring at his son quietly, Kouli sighed softly: "I am very pleased that you have this idea. At least you have started to try to rely on yourself. Many children have been unable to stand on their own because their parents have helped too much. I am very glad that you do not belong to one of those children."
"So...father, do you agree?" Angel was overjoyed.
"Yes, I agree." Kouli nodded and said, "But there are time limits. If you can't find a job within a month, you have to follow my arrangements. Is it OK?"
"Okay, father! Thank you father!"
"Also, don't be too picky when looking for a job. There will be no perfect job in this world. All work must start from the grassroots level. You can envy others, but don't be jealous of others. You must maintain a balanced attitude. You must first gain a foothold and then consider the issue of development. The biggest difference between maturity and naive is that mature people will accommodate others and cooperate with others, while naive people are selfish. They only want others to accommodate themselves. If they don't get it, they will complain and have no thoughts on how to go on this path. In the end, they will only waste their time. There is no necessary relationship between age and maturity or not."
"Are you talking about me?" Debi interjected coldly.
"No, of course not." Kori quickly explained: "I'm just educating the child. After all, he's likely to be working soon."
Then Debi slowly turned her eyes toward the other side.
"Okay, father." Angel responded happily: "I understand, father!"
"Are you looking for a job? I thought you were going to go to the Magic Academy!" The devil's voice sounded in Angel's mind.
"No, I just want to go to school! So I can't let him help me find a job, I have to find it myself, even if it's fake! Otherwise, he would arrange for me to be a gardener with him, and I wouldn't be able to go to school at all!" Angel responded in his mind.
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At this moment, Jones had also sat with the Blood Elf Queen.
Location?
On one of the branches of the sacred wood, it looks like a tree hole dug from a huge branch. Under the balcony is the city. Standing on the balcony, you can overlook most of Cartier.
A long, oval table sat on the other side of the Blood Elf Queen Tini Shabas, the Blood Elf Consul Consul Consul.
Connelia put on a black dinner dress.
Queen Tini Shabas looks very young, much younger than Cronia, and even looks a little tender. Her long black hair and a crown woven by flowers. She is so delicate that she looks like a mask-like face, sharp and delicate eyebrows, smiling eyes, black gem-like eyes, and figure.
Among the elves, her figure should be considered short. She looks only a 14 or 15-year-old girl in human form, about 1.5 meters tall, and definitely less than 1.6 meters tall. She is wearing a white long dress, and her diamond-like light shining under the candlelight next to her, looking very noble.
On the other side of the long table were Jones, Belle, Dora, and William.
I have to say that this dinner was really embarrassing. On the one hand, there were more guests than the host. On the other hand, all guests did not eat.
Jones, Belle, and Dora were placed in front of them with fish blood and spoons. William also placed in front of him, but probably to show respect, the blood elf maids put a flower on the plate.
OK, I'm not empty at all, right?
However, this obviously cannot resolve the awkward atmosphere at the moment, at least it cannot be completely resolved.
Jones whispered in a low voice and communicated with Belle.
"She looks so small..."
"This is normal. However, as far as I know, she is already in her sixties."
"'Already'? Aren't the blood elf in his sixties not yet adult?
“Yes, not adult yet.”
"So we are going to negotiate with a minor 'person'?"
"Ahem!" Belle quickly coughed twice, looked at Jones, and then said to Jones with induction: "Didn't we also send out minors?"
"Uh...well, I'm underage, too. And I've been a long time since I'm a grown-up than her."
After the two sides were silent for a long time, the queen stretched out a hand and said with a smile: "Please."
Belle was shocked by this "please": "What does she mean? Do you want us to drink fish blood?"
"I think so..." Turning his face sideways, Jones saw Belle looking at him in horror. On the other side, Dora lowered her head, and the other end was almost buried under the table. She looked at Jones secretly from time to time.
"Hydra Knight, please." After shaking his ears twice, the queen repeated it again and said, "You are a guest, so you must want you first."
"Okay, OK." There was no way, Jones had to bite the bullet, pick up the spoon, and then fed it to his mouth. Of course, he didn't actually drink it. When the spoon left his lips, there was actually no less fish blood inside, but he just couldn't see clearly when he sat in the queen's position.
It was over, Jones smiled at the Queen.
The queen smiled at him, gently scooped up a sip of the soup, and took a sip.
Dora and Belle looked at each other, and immediately began to pretend to drink fish blood by imitating Jones.
William, who seemed to be isolated, silently looked at the only flower in front of him, hesitating whether to take it into his mouth to chew it for a few times.
"His Queen." Jones said, "I believe Mr. Cornelia has told you about our purpose for this trip. We want Modo Ore."
The queen glanced at Connelia and replied with a smile: "Yes, she told me."
Connelia also smiled and nodded.
"Since that's the case, I want to click directly into the topic." Jones said with a smile: "The biggest reason why I heard that the Blood Elves oppose this is because Modo ore is the raw material for making magic weapons, and our magic weapons will be possible to supply human army. Don't you agree with it?"
"Yes." The queen smiled and replied bluntly: "But it's not 'not very agree', but 'opposal', or 'very much oppose'."
"Well, it's really a difficult thing," Jones continued. "I have an idea that should solve this problem."
"You said."
Taking a deep breath, Jones said: "The Blood Elves opposed arming humans because they were worried that they would pose a threat to the Blood Elves. Although in fact, arming them is part of the important strategy of the White Bone Holy Light Vatican and the target is not the Blood Elves, I think that just these two sentences will definitely not convince the Queen. I remember that when my father Grey Grugru was still a Paladin, you once wrote a letter to him, hoping to open the Kree Martha's legacy together.
Trace. I know that Krimatha is a brilliant magical civilization. Once opened, the blood elves will gain huge benefits. In contrast, the arms obtained by humans are not worth mentioning and it is completely impossible to pose a threat. My suggestion is that I will help the blood elves open the Krimatha ruins and help the blood elves obtain the magic secrets in the Krimatha ruins. In exchange, His Highness the Queen, you allow the export of Modo ore to the Giant Snake City and increase the output. What do you think?"
Chapter completed!