Mercenaries and Adventurers

Zhao Ji came to the masonry workshop on the edge of the artisan area, and it was quite busy here. Zhao Ji turned around, and the craftsmen and apprentices were busy making a batch of stone carvings of the temple. A priest of the sun god and two shepherds were telling the busy craftsmen some legends about the sun god. And some stories of the heroic knights of the Order of the Sun.

An apprentice saw Zhao Ji coming in and asked what he wanted.

Zhao Ji had no choice but to say that he came to find Master Lian Xiude to settle the payment. The Punika craftsman in the leather workshop sent four acid sacs of the slime monster the day before. He came today to make the payment.

The apprentice scratched his head, so he had to ask Zhao Ji to wait at the door for a while, and he went in to check with the old master Lian Xiude.

Zhao Ji put the weapons and shields by the door of the workshop and leaned against the door, watching the priest of the sun god in the workshop tell the craftsmen legendary stories and some ideas on the stone engravings. A craftsman also took a piece of rough paper and asked the priest whether the image of the characters in the story should be consistent with the spirit of the sun god in the priest's hand.

After waiting for a while, the apprentice who went to inquire came back, saying that Master Lian Xiude is free now, and he can go in to find Master Lian Xiude, but the weapons and equipment have to be placed outside, so he can help watch.

Zhao Ji nodded in agreement, and handed him the spear and shield for him to keep temporarily.

The apprentice said that he could go in and find the room at the end of the workshop where Master Lian Xiude walked.

After nodding and thanking the apprentice, Zhao Ji walked through the hall of the workshop and the corridor between the rooms to the room at the end. The door was open, and an old man inside was sitting on a chair drinking purple flower tea.

This old man should be Master Lian Shude, he looks really old, all the hair on his head has become white, the hair is thin, but the eyebrows are white and thick, and the beard is also very thick and long. Wearing cotton and silk robes that look high-end in the local area, they are intricately patterned and shiny.

To be honest, if he didn't know that Master Lian Xiude is a skilled stonemason, Zhao Ji really thought that this is what an old magician should look like in his impression. An overly thick parchment, that would really be a magician.

Zhao Ji politely greeted Zhao Ji with local etiquette, and then Master Lian Xiude realized that Zhao Ji was here. He rubbed his eyes, muttered a few words in a low voice, and then asked Zhao Ji's purpose of coming.

It seems that the apprentice just came to inform Master Lian Xiude that someone was looking for him, and did not say anything about Zhao Jilai. Zhao Ji had no choice but to tell Master Li Anxiude his reason for coming again.

Master Lian Xiude nodded after listening, and asked Zhao Ji how he got the slime monster for Punica, Zhao Ji answered truthfully. It was the slime monster that he went out of the city to hunt in the swamp in the south of the city. The Punica craftsman found four intact slime monster acid sacs from the slime monster's corpse, which was given to the stone workshop that needed acid.

Master Lian Xiude nodded in satisfaction, and asked Zhao Ji if he could capture some live slime monsters. When their masons make some complex sculptures or deal with some high-hardness stones, they must use acid to assist in carving. But acid has a wide range of uses, and in a remote place like Kendall City, these things are hard to come by.

But if you can catch one or two live slime monsters, you can get a steady stream of acid, which is very important for improving the local stonework skills.

Speaking of this, Master Lian Xiude told Zhao Ji that if you use a carving knife or chisel to make complex and beautiful sculptures, it is easy to produce defective products, but if you use acid to deal with the production of easily damaged parts, It can greatly improve the yield of difficult sculptures.

Although there are places where magic is used to make sculptures, they are a minority. The vast majority of masonry are ordinary craftsmen without magic.

Therefore, people who use magic to make sculptures often mock and ridicule ordinary craftsmen.

He wants to fight for this by making a difficult stone sculpture that does not use magic. hope him.

Speaking of this, Master Lian Xiude asked Zhao Ji's name.

Hopefully Keel can find him enough acid or hunt down a few live slime monsters to help him complete this sculpture that's worthy of a work of art.

Speaking of this, Master Lian Xiude took out a silver coin and handed it to Zhao Ji, saying that it was his small reward. He then paid twenty copper coins for each of the acid sacs, and today's silver coin was his encouragement.

And if Zhao Ji can bring him slime monsters that can produce acid in the future, he can provide a reward of one silver coin for each one. I hope Keir can try his best to help him. This is the last time an old mason rose up in his life.

Zhao Ji nodded heavily, and patted his chest to reassure, but Zhao Ji asked again if it was urgent, he had to finish the encapsulation first, could Master Lian Xiude's matter be used first when he was hunting slime monsters? Get the acid sacs instead.

Master Lian Xiude said that there is no problem, he can use acid first. As for the matter of catching the slime monster alive, Kiel is sure to do it. If he is not sure, he can wait for a while.

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After bidding farewell to Master Lian Xiude, Zhao Ji retrieved his equipment from the apprentice at the door, and returned directly to the chamber of commerce.

Now it's time to eat.

Speaking of which, the only people here who work in the chamber of commerce and other people with some money eat this meal at noon. Even the guards only eat twice a day, and the farmers who account for the largest proportion of the population also eat twice a day, while the craftsmen don't necessarily eat twice a day. Some busy craftsmen have to have enough physical strength Also three meals a day.

As for nobles and priests, it is uncertain. I heard from the drinkers serving the nobles in the tavern that the nobles have their own noble etiquette. There are detailed etiquette regulations on when to eat, what to eat, and how much to eat, and specific foods must be eaten on specific festivals.

As for the priests, it is even more exaggerated. A drinker who delivered goods to the temple said that the priests have fixed recipes for each level, and there are detailed regulations on when to eat every day. As long as the environment permits, no one has ever violated it.

After eating at the restaurant of the Chamber of Commerce, Zhao Ji ran to the leather shop with his equipment and bedding on his back. Pushing a borrowed cart and pinning a borrowed ax, Zhao Ji went out of the city to hunt.

Tonight's moonlight must not be as good as the big full moon the day before yesterday. So Zhao Ji will make more ordinary torches in the afternoon, considering that there are sewage outlets and drainage outlets in the north of the swamp, the smell is not good, and they are all filthy. Zhao Ji decided not to place today's hunting location in the north.

After thinking about it, Zhao Ji decided to set the hunting location on the west side of the swamp, and this time, the tree path in the swamp should not extend to the center of the swamp as much as possible, but try to build a larger area.

The strange plant that Zhao Ji saw on the day of the full moon made Zhao Ji feel a little scared in his heart, feeling that he was not the opponent of that weird plant at all.

The west side of the swamp is close to the forest west of Kendall City, and the short distance is also convenient for Zhao Ji to cut down some small trees to build tree trails.