A strange world

Chapter 465 Chapter 122. Layla’s Redemption

And a luxurious life. Dragon skin carpets, eternal magic lamps, and banquets with music every night.

It's just that Annan can't do it. If there is a dragon skin, he will send it to the blacksmith and put it into the soldiers' armor. The eternal magic lamp will be installed on the street lamp. As for the banquet... the nobles in Gem City combined are not as many as the servants at the banquet.

After all, what nobles pursue is wealth, status and family longevity. What Annan pursues is to give a gift to the world.

Mr. Victor's gift was the newly renovated library. The design of Eli Gravel, who returned from the mountains of Montreal, refers to the Montreal Royal Magic Library, giving this wooden building both the grandeur of the royal family and the agility of the elves.

Evelin’s gift was her tavern—Fast was already a thing of the past. He spent all day in the harbor of Syltovis, hanging out with sailors and fishermen, hesitating and talking about the Gem City. Pick up the bait and talk.

Soruman Bronzebeard's gift is the blacksmith's shop. The stereotype of dwarves and anvils is like the stereotype of warlocks and ruthless people - maybe not everyone fits it, but it's definitely there.

Ilimoyas's gift is her crystal dragon lair, and her lair will be the envy of countless dragons of her age.

The gift of the city residents is that they built their own homes with their own hands, and everyone's gifts are condensed into Annan's gift.

As Gem City was built day by day, the residents from the Watch Territory were worried, while the old residents of Xingyue Bay were smiling: the former thought that their work was done and they would be sent back. The latter knew that these houses were for themselves and were already looking for other jobs.

Because commerce has not yet appeared in Gem City, residents can only work for the city lord's palace, including lumber mills, textile mills, blacksmith shops, shipyards, and the "tree planters" newly established by the city lord.

They didn’t understand why they had to plant trees while cutting them down, and they didn’t understand what sustainable resources were. Anyway, they would do whatever the wise lord—now the city lord—arranged.

All these will consume Gem City's finances. Like Ingrid at the time, Idilia believed that there was no need to pay wages to the residents, because all nobles would not give yellow gold to the poor, and taking care of the food was already considered the kindness of the lord.

Annan replied that the gold coins that are flowing are gold coins, and the ones that are dead and lifeless in the treasure house are just golden stones.

However, work only provides each resident with the most basic living security. If they want to live a comfortable life, they still need to work hard on their own.

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"This is my harvest today!"

At the gate of the city lord's mansion, Leila handed a bag of sea fish weighing about two pounds to Annan.

Annan tilted his head back and focused his eyes on the seven or eight sea fish in the net bag: the largest was only as big as a palm, and the smallest was about the length of a little finger... How could Leila be so cruel that she wouldn't even let go of her cubs?

Itilia came to the window pushing a wheelchair. "Are there no shells today?" the eldest sister asked curiously.

Leila blushed, explaining why the tide was too high today and the sea water was too mixed, why I usually caught a lot of fish and picked up some shells and conchs, and why I had bad luck...

"I understand." Annan said, and looked at the small fish that Lily couldn't even eat.

Fortunately, Leila had a younger brother and an older sister, otherwise she would starve to death sooner or later.

"Remember not to throw the fish into the pond."

The pond in the garden of the City Lord's Mansion has just lost its rotten smell.

Leila ran back to the house with the fishing rod in her arms. Annan raised his head and waved to the eldest sister in front of the window.

The next day, Annan was woken up by the smell that came in through the cracks in the window. In a hazy state, he thought he was still sleeping in the room on the second floor of the tavern.

A few minutes later, Annan was standing by a pond filled with dead fish that smelled of rot.

The culprits Layla and Lily are also there.

"I just want to feed the fish I caught to Lily..." Leila said aggrievedly.

Lily was loved by everyone, and she was fed by people all day long in Gem City, but she didn't want to disappoint Leila, so she took the fish into the pond and raised it.

Lily doesn't know the difference between sea water and fresh water. What can Lily do wrong?

Fortunately, it's not summer. The dead fish in the pond are only slightly rotten and can be fished out.

But that was just one of the things that made Layla uneasy. She didn't come home that night.

Annan, who thought Leila was angry, found Leila late at night on the beach carrying a nearly five-pound sea fish.

Leila caught the first big fish that moved to Gem City, but at the cost of being scolded by Annan for a long time, even the gentle eldest sister did not stop her.

Who knows if there might be some kind of spy from any force or race hidden in Gem City, but the sister of the city lord is actually running around.

After driving the pouty Leila home, Annan followed Itilia back to the city lord's palace to help her sort out today's government affairs.

"Leila is scared."

Itilia, who is wearing a moonlit dress, is sitting in a wheelchair. Her legs are graceful under the skirt, but she can't hide her thinness.

"Because of fishing?"

"Because there is no place for her in Gem City..." Itilia understood her sister.

"How could it be? She is the city lord's sister, no one can control her."

If she hadn't made a mistake, Annan wouldn't be able to blame her.

"She can't do anything, can't do anything."

Everyone in Gem City is doing their best to contribute. Even Itilia has a role to play, but Leila has nothing to do.

"Let me think of a solution..."

Fortunately, this is a magical world. A magic fishing rod that attracts fish also makes sense, right?

After sending Itilia home, Annan knocked on Mr. West's door late at night and discussed with him the feasibility of the "magic fishing rod".

It turned out to be easier than expected. Mr. Victor said that an elite could solve it, and said that doing so was simply insulting magic.

Annan opened the portal to Syltovis and asked the merchants in Diagon Alley to ask the master spellcaster to make a magic fishing rod.

As for what to do tomorrow... Annan called three water elements and threw in three copper coins to distinguish them from other water elements, teaching them to put the fish in the sea on Leila's hook when they see her going out to sea tomorrow.

After getting ready, Annan handed the fishing rod he bought casually to Leila early in the morning.

"I thought about the problem. The fish living environment in the North and Middle Earth are different, and the fishing rods that should be used are different. Try the fishing rod I bought from Syltovis, and you will thank me."

"Really?" Leila was doubtful.

"How bad can it be?"

Leila, who was born of hope out of despair, caught the fishing rod, walked straight to the beach with hesitation and expectation on her face, and pushed the boat out to sea.

The three water elements waiting in the shoal followed quietly. When the oars were retracted and a bait with earthworms hung on it dropped into the sea, the water elements began to take action.

Two minutes later, the first fish that made Leila happy was hooked, and it was even bigger than the one last night...

It was just the fishhook buried in the belly of the fish that made her confused.