Chapter 30: Departure
It's been half a month since that happened.
"Brother! Small wooden box! Brother, have you seen my little wooden box? In a two-story cabin in the village outside the Ice and Snow Village, a little boy with short blue hair jumped up and down between the first and second floors with a worn cloth backpack on his back, and from time to time shouted and spoke to the people above.
At this time, a handsome young man with blond hair and blue eyes slowly walked out of the house on the second floor, with a ruddy face and a sunny smile, even Scott from Erinas couldn't believe that this was a sick man working in his shop.
Right! That's right, this young and handsome guy is none other than Michal! Or rather, advanced repair. And it is naturally the nebula that runs around in the cabin.
Gao Xiu stood on the staircase on the second floor and shouted to Xingyun, who had just run to his room on the first floor, and said loudly, "Didn't I confiscate the little wooden box last time?" What's going on down there? ”
In less than three seconds, I heard "Knock knock!" When Gao Xiu finished yawning, Xingyun had already blinked his big eyes and came to Gao Xiu with his hands in hand.
Gao Xiu smiled and put the small wooden box on Xingyun's hands, and when Xingyun opened the wooden box with joy, the little face that should have been smiling became as if he had taken bitter medicine.
The small wooden box contained Nebula's favorite candy, not one. I heard that it was a high-end candy imported from Toy City, and Gao Xiu only gave a small box to Nebula on his eighth birthday, and Nebula has always saved to eat, until now there are three left.
Xingyun questioned Gao Xiu: "Brother! What about sweets!? My candy! Seeing that Gao Xiu didn't say anything, Xingyun still didn't give up and pulled Gao Xiu's pajamas and shook them.
Gao Xiu said to Xingyun with a straight face: "All your things have been packed by me, take this and let me go!" Just know how to eat! When you become a real magician, I'll buy you whatever you want! When will you be able to pay off the 5,000 gold coins you owe to the store manager Scott and come back! ”
A spherical candy made Nebula's small mouth swollen, and Nebula could only nod his head a few times when he heard Gao Xiu's preaching, and the candy was so stuffed that Nebula couldn't even make a whining sound.
After listening to Gao Xiu's preaching, Xingyun quickly went down the stairs and opened the door to prepare to leave, when he found that he seemed to have forgotten something?
Nebula stomped his feet with candy in his mouth, tilting his head and frowning, as if Nebula was thinking about some esoteric theory of magic.
"Derpy! You can forget your backpack when you go out, can you forget yourself at home? Gao Xiu said at the staircase on the first floor as he slowly walked towards the nebula with a gray worn backpack.
Xingyun was obviously hit by Gao Xiu's taunt, and after muttering a few words angrily, he picked up the backpack in Gao Xiu's hand and trotted away!
When he walked under the big tree not far from his home, Xingyun suddenly remembered what he had forgotten, so he immediately turned to Gao Xiu, who was standing in front of the cabin, and shouted, "Brother! Good bye! I'll miss you!! ”
Nebula turned around again and moved forward, only this time Nebula was not jumping with the pleasure just now, but one step was heavier and slower.
After a few steps, the nebula gradually stopped. Although Nebula felt as if the snow-white ground had suddenly blurred, Nebula remained in a trance until tears fell out of his eyes, and Nebula knew that he was in tears.
This is the first time he has gone far away, unlike running away from home, this time my brother will not come to look for him again.
I am going to be separated from my only loved one for a long time!
And during this time, no one will buy candy for themselves
Looking at Gao Xiu, who was waving his right hand at him in the distance, Xingyun secretly made a decision in his heart.
I'm going to be an amazing magician! I want my brother to be proud and proud of me! I'm going to marry a princess sister who is more beautiful than all the girls!!
I swear!!
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After a while, Nebula walked to the vicinity of the inner village of the Ice and Snow Village.
When Xingyun walked to the entrance of the inner village of Ice and Snow Village, he found that the guards at the gate of the inner village on the east side were gone, and the first thing Xingyun thought of was that today was a tenth-day holiday, so the guards were relatively loose.
Immediately, Xingyun immediately shook his head and denied his guess, because today is a very important day for him, so he remembers it clearly, tomorrow is the tenth day off.
Hey! What's going on? How can there be sunlight outside the inner village at this time?
Nebula didn't know that because of himself, he caused the fall and destruction of a force, and also contributed to the addition and strengthening of the Scattered Light Magic Array.
In fact, the magic stone veins mined by the Iris family and the Gretel family are not as rare as imagined, although the mining volume is less than 30% of the heyday, but if 10% of the 30% can be used to supply the lighting of the inner and outer villages of the Ice and Snow Village, then it will not make the villagers of the outer villages of the Ice and Snow Village live so hard.
And because the entire magic vein belongs to Treasure Island, and after a large number of magic stones were mined, the four major forces of Treasure Island signed a series of magic stone sales contracts with the underwater world, toy city, sky city and other forces.
Even if the magical veins in the depths of the frozen snow have been abandoned, even if the mining volume is far less than in its heyday, the contract signed between Treasure Island and the rest of the forces will not be invalidated.
The Iris and Gretel families are the managers sought by Treasure Island to mine magical veins. Together, the two families supply the Magic Stones needed for the Underwater World, Toy City, and Sky City, while the rest is given to the elders of the Elder Mansion.
Of course, who would want to take the initiative to do this kind of thing that has no interests and helps others? It is not easy to have several overseers sent from Treasure Island during mining, but the ore warehouse is different.
In the beginning, the two families started out of ore warehouses to make a profit. It is nothing to have so many Philosopher's Stones, after all, the Philosopher's Stones needed for the Underwater World, Toy City, and Sky City have already been transported. If there is only so much ore left for mining, the elders in the elder mansion can't blame anything, after all, the basic requirements have been met.
As for lighting the entire ice and snow inner and outer villages!? For the benefit of all the villagers!? It's so nice! Thinking too purely! Who wants to do such a lucrative thing? Even lighting up the entire inner village is because his family is in the inner village, and as for the commoners who have nothing to do with his family, how can they love it.
The hands of the two families then stretched out longer and longer, and the overseers sent by Treasure Island fell to their money and beauty one by one.
In recent years, the most basic magic stones handed over to the elders of the elder mansion by the two major families have actually begun to withhold, because there is no obvious evidence, and Treasure Island also needs the manager of the ore vein, so the elders have no choice but to turn a blind eye and treat it as if they didn't see it.
Fortunately, the two families knew that they could not touch the fundamental interests of Treasure Island, that is, they must ensure the supply of the magic stones needed by the underwater world, Toy City, and Sky City.
Otherwise, the elders who were stroked would have taken action a long time ago, and even the ten-day holiday, which seemed to be the elders' move to scatter their wealth in order to redeem everyone, was actually because of the elders of the elder's mansion after warning the two families, and the two families made a soft expression.
And why did the two families add magic arrays that could scatter light?
No! It is no longer possible to say that there are two major families, because the Iris family, one of the two major families, has been destroyed!
When the patriarch and elders of the Iris family disappeared for many days and did not return, in fact, many large and small forces were ready to move, and even the Glitter family was ready for everything.
The patriarch of the Iris family took all the elders and more than a dozen snow dogs out to go out, and as long as there are several forces in the ice and snow village, they all know a little, and spies are not the patent of the Iris family.
And the Gretel family knows more comprehensively because they have installed a senior spy in the Iris family.
The whole incident is a young master hidden in the outer village who deposed the heir of the Iris family, and then took the family elders to kill him in order to establish his authority or cover up his ugliness.
When I first heard this, the patriarch of the Gretel family, Gretel. Yuri also thinks that the result must be the triumph of the Iris family, after all, Yuri and Shuro have been fighting openly and secretly for many years, and it can be said that Yuri is the one who knows Shura best in the world except for Shura himself.
Shurot never does anything that he is not sure of, otherwise one of the two major families standing in the Ice Village would not include the Iris family.
When Glitter learned through the spies that Shurot had not returned to the family for three days, he was excited, and Glitter knew then that there was no one percent chance that Shurot would be able to come back safely.
In fact, when Shurot went out with all the elders, Glitter didn't think about doing anything, such as taking advantage of the absence of Shura and the elders of the Iris family, and when Shurot came back, the raw rice was already ripe - it was too late. Or take the family elite and the elders, follow the patriarchs and elders of the Iris family, and when the time comes, they will raid and leave them in the ice and snow forever.
But these two ideas are unrealistic, one is that the two families are still allies, although Shurot and Yuri would like to skin each other and eat each other's flesh, and the other is that the strength of the two families is about the same, if they really find an opportunity to invade the Iris family or leave them outside, even if it is a victory, it can only be regarded as a disastrous victory. At that time, the rest of the forces will not wait for the Gretel family to recover, maybe the meat in their mouths will be eaten by mouth, and they are even afraid that even the Gretel family will become a piece of meat in the eyes of the rest of the forces at that time.
After another three days, when Yuri couldn't bear it anymore, Yuri's arrival alone made Yuri so excited that he couldn't even sleep well that night.
A blue-haired man holding a badge of the Holy Land and wearing a monocle arrives at House Gretel, and tells Yuri that the patriarch and elders of House Iris have died for offending people who should not be offended. He also hinted that the Glitter family could take over everything from the Iris family, and the only requirement was to ensure the safety of Erinus and all the employees, and by the way, the blue-haired man complained about the slightly cold and dim outer village as he left.
What is the requirement? The people of this holy place are simply the lucky stars of their own Gretel family! It's like a rich man who sent a cart of gold for himself, then waved his hand and left, just meaningfully taking a gold coin as labor expenses before leaving.
Immediately after the blue-haired man left, Yuri announced a strange request to the rest of the family: from this day forward, neither the elders nor the guards could clash with the people of Erinus under any circumstances.
And Yuri guessed from what the blue-haired man said that there was a person in Erinas who was important to the Holy Land, and combined with the information from the high-ranking spies of the Iris family, it was very likely that that person was a young man named Gao Xiu who lived in the outer village.
This man has something to do with the Holy Land? Although it may be an extra move on his own, the chance of being able to connect with the behemoth of the Holy Land is very slim, even if it is very slim, I have to work hard.
As for his original home, Treasure Island? Treasure Island is a ball compared to the Holy Land!?
So the employees of Erinas are very wonderful, why are there two guards at the gate of Erinas every day? Could it be that the boss hired him? Since the boss has the money to hire guards, is it possible that the boss is going to raise his salary!? Oh! Yes!
The employee's request for a wage increase bothered Scott for a long time, but fortunately, the Gretel family did nothing but arrange for guards.
And what he didn't know was that in addition to arranging guards, everyone who belonged to Erinas, including the store manager and the store manager's wife, would be escorted home by a high-level spy with good strength, and Gao Xiu was the focus of the focus, with three high-level spies trailing him.
It is naturally impossible for Gao Xiu not to find out, but they are not hostile, and they have the intention of protecting themselves, so let's treat it as if they haven't seen it!
As for the magic array for adding light, it wasn't Yuri who got the Iris family's property and did good deeds, and if it weren't for the hint of the blue-haired man, Yuri wouldn't have been able to do such a loss-making deal.
It's a little cold and dim in the outer village!? How can it be!? The strength of that blue-haired man was unfathomable in his opinion, and I was afraid that even the elites and elders of the entire Glitter family plus himself would not be able to defeat him. How could a person of such strength still feel the cold?
Isn't this obvious to add a magic circle for lighting yourself?
As for the reason, nine times out of ten it was the young man named Gao Xiu.
Gao Xiu can be said to be the lucky star of his family, but if he doesn't restrain the people in the family, he may inadvertently offend him at some point. By that time, he will be the scourge of the entire family! And it's the kind of disaster of the broom star, even the four major families of Treasure Island can't protect themselves.
No, no, no! A few more bans need to be issued! Never offend anyone who has anything to do with the Holy Land!
If you can hold the big tree of the Holy Land through this matter, then it will be the time for the Gretel family to rise!!