My Magic Age

At this time, people in the caravan camp had already walked out one after another, and it seemed that they were also heading to the town. I could find the nobles of the Star Adventure Group in the crowd from a distance. They walked into the town with a group of gorgeously dressed dancers. This made me feel that sometimes this caravan was really small. No matter what you do, you will inevitably meet them.

When we stopped by the well to talk, the nobles passed by us and sneered at our strange group of four. There were even a few young nobles who came over curiously and exaggeratedly looked at me and Katarina, and made a throat-cutting gesture to me, with an obvious provocation. Ming Qian's face was gloomy, and he raised his head proudly when he passed by us. Dai Yi hugged a short-haired beautiful dancer wearing an exquisite short leather skirt and stopped in front of Qi Ge. When the beautiful dancer saw Qi Ge, she seemed a little surprised, and smiled unnaturally. Her big eyes seemed to be able to speak. When she looked at Qi Ge, it was as if she was saying: Hey, what a coincidence, you are here too!

There was a light and ethereal taste between her bright eyes and white teeth. Qi Ge was also a little surprised, but she didn't say anything. She just nodded to the short-haired beautiful dancer lightly. After all, the moment of passing by was short. In a blink of an eye, the two people's sight had staggered and went their separate ways. Dai Yi seemed to have not seen Katarina and walked past expressionlessly.

I couldn't help but feel curious about the identity of this dancer, and turned to ask Qi Ge who she was.

Qi Ge looked at me and said meaningfully, "She? The fifth lady of the dance troupe."

Ah, she is actually a big girl in the dance troupe. I didn't expect that she would be in the mood to go shopping, and she was so close to the nobles like Dai. I can't mess with such a big shot in the dance troupe. I'll just stay away from him when I meet him in the future. Anyway, a child like me will be easily forgotten.

We then left the well and walked into this shabby town dominated by blue-white and earthy yellow. The buildings on both sides of the street were painted with blue-white lime. On the street, which looked relatively clean, there were many orcs carrying huge packages on their backs. Most of them carried longbows and short spears with hunting knives hanging on their waists. Kuz told me that most of these people were hunters. The big packages on their backs should contain some leather and precious bones. They kept going in and out of the shops along the street. Some of them walked out with joy on their faces and empty hands, while others continued to open the curtain of the next shop with helpless faces and carrying big packages on their backs. Some simply set up small stalls beside the street, put some goods on the stalls and wait for people to come forward to buy.

When you look at this town from a distance, you don't think it's so lively, but when you are really there, you will find that it is really lively. Before you reach the central market, just walking on the main street, you can see that the shops along the street are really diverse, with everything from food to clothing and daily necessities. Bundles of leather and magic antelope horns, wheat flour, and salt are the most popular commodities here. Many merchants are very willing to purchase these scarce goods. There are even some orcs who keep squeezing through the crowd and asking us if we have wheat flour or salt to sell. After getting our definite answer, they leave with a disappointed look and go to find the next target.

Most of the orcs who set up stalls on the street are selling some exotic animal bones, homemade dried meat, tendons that can be used to make bowstrings, some are even some wild animal horns, miscellaneous herbs, and some coarse grains of various colors. The goods on the stalls on both sides of the street were very mixed. Most of them used a piece of broken cowhide to spread on the ground, and placed the goods in front of the stalls in different categories. Most of these items were raw materials, and there were all kinds of things. I even saw a very well-preserved primary magic herb ground cloud grass on a carpet, but unfortunately there was only one.

We stopped in front of a grocery stall with some broken herbs and a pile of rotten stones. Qi Ge squatted in front and refused to move. He used a small stick to poke the stone fragments in the pile of stones. I also stretched my head to look curiously. I saw that the herbs on the stall were some common hemostatic herbs, but the means of collection were too crude. There were obvious bruises on the roots, stems and leaves of the herbs, which would affect the medicinal properties of these herbs. Maybe it was because of this that the owner of the pharmacy refused to accept them, so the stall owner put them on the stall to sell. I saw that there was not a single intact herb in the pile, and I thought that maybe the good ones had been picked up by others. There was a pile of sharp stones next to it, which looked like stone fragments knocked off a large stone wall. The big ones were almost as big as plates, and the small ones were as big as my fist. Because there were only rotten grass and rotten stones on the stall, almost no one stopped in front of it. Seeing our group of four stop in front of the stall, it was a very strange combination. The human children and the half-grown children of the beast tribe stood together with their arms around each other, followed by two tender young human girls. It looked like they were strolling in the market.

However, the stall owner seemed to have not been approached for a long time. When he saw someone stop in front of his stall, his eyes lit up. But I definitely didn't mean to say hello to him. Seeing that his short coat made of hard cowhide was worn out, he looked very poor. The things on the stall were also tattered. Would anyone really buy my goods?

The stall owner is a middle-aged orc tauren dressed as a herb collector. Just looking at the rusty nose ring on his big nose, it is not difficult to guess how miserable he is. There is also a large basket behind him. , there is also a broken medicine hoe in the basket. His eyes as big as copper bells looked at us and found that we had not even glanced at the herbs, only two girls squatting in front of the pile of stones, so he asked angrily: "Do you want to buy a whetstone?"

"How do you sell this thing?" Qige asked casually, throwing the gray stone as big as a fist around in his hand.

The stall owner scratched his head with his big, thick hands, and uttered four words from his plump lips: "Twenty yuan each." He didn't want to say more.

"Hey, did you bring any money?"

Qige actually grabbed me from behind. I was a little confused. I thought to myself: When you go to the market, don’t you bring money to buy a hammer? So he nodded and said, "I brought some with me to buy a bow for Kuz, but I don't know if it will be enough."

"How many did you bring?" Qige asked me curiously.

I shook the cloth bag tied around my waist in my hand and said, "Thirteen silver coins, the trophies we killed the dwarves last time, weren't you and Sister Guoguo collecting them for us?"

Qi Ge then said: "Well, I didn't collect the money bag. I don't know how much money you collected. But that's it! I want to discuss something with you two. I usually like to collect stones, but I didn't expect to meet you here. , I’ve been looking for this thing for a long time and haven’t bought it yet. I forgot my money when I went out today. Why don’t you lend me the money?”

"OK."

"no."

Kuz and I said it at the same time, and I naturally disagreed. Kuz has been planning to buy a bow for a long time, and the two of us have been working hard for it. We came to this free market today just to buy a better bow. , in order to gain something in the following wilderness hunting. Where is the spare money to lend to Qi Ge to buy stones?

But I didn't expect that Kuz agreed generously, looked at him strangely, and said with his eyes that we only had such a small amount of money, what should we do if we lend it out? But Kurtz stood in front of me sincerely, patted my shoulder and took the money bag from my hand, and then said to me: "Your friend, we have taken good care of you so well these days, and we haven't had time to express our gratitude." Well, they need help now. As friends, aren’t we at the forefront at this time?”

"But we still need to buy a bow." I said reluctantly. I thought to myself how Qiniang of the Tangtang Dance Troupe could not have any money. Maybe I forgot to bring my money bag when I went out this time. Can't I buy those broken stones anytime? ?

Instead, Kurtz patted the mountain ax he was carrying on his back and comforted me by saying, "What does it matter? Let's exchange this ax for a bow."

I nodded in agreement and said to Qige apologetically: "This is all our belongings. That's all, and it may not be enough."

"It's a bit not enough, oh! Forget it, I won't take advantage of you. If you buy the stone this time, you will be counted as a share. The thirteen silver coins will be counted as your four shares. Linna, you can also contribute a little, and we can join in the purchase together. Stone." Qige turned around and went to persuade Catalina.

Catalina dared to go against Qige's wishes and quickly took out her money bag. It looked shriveled and there wasn't much money in it. Qi Ge took the money bag playfully and opened it with a smile. , I'm so short that I can't even see inside the money bag. How much money was packed in the money bag? Qi Ge struggled to pick out seven silver coins from it, then threw the money bag to Catalina and said: "You can take two shares, and the remaining four shares are mine." We have ten shares in total. When I make money from buying the stone, I’ll share it with you later!”

I asked a little strangely: "Are these whetstones sold in Imperial City very expensive?"

Qi Ge looked at me with disdain and said nakedly: Being uneducated is terrible.

I said to myself that I am just a little kid who has never even seen the imperial capital. What do you want from me? With the money bag gone, there was no way to choose a Neti bow. Now I had to find a weapon shop and sell the mountain axe, so that I might be able to exchange it for a bow. So I said nonchalantly: "It's up to you."

Kurtz and I also started to look around the shops on one side. Most of the orcs still bartered. It was only when human merchants opened up trade routes to the Pai Plateau that the orcs also learned to use Coins, but remote border towns still retain the habit of bartering.