The Viridescent Crown Chapter 014 (Elf)

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Happy rollout!

Time passed. The people sent by Lai Weili appraised several sets of jewelry of the mother and settled the money to us.

Lan repays the debt to Wilder and Baron Lance. Both barons said they would not have to repay, but they both seemed relieved.

' She borrowed so much money. ' It must have been troublesome to the two clerks.

Brian looked uncomfortable and asked, "You sold jewelry," but Lan smiled.

But in the mansion, rumors spread quickly.

Among the employees, there were rumors about the Duke's financial situation, and along with the rumors, word spread that Lian Lan had disposed of all the jewelry belonging to the former Duchess.

'I didn't expect this to happen. ' Lan murmured to himself; And Yoss snorts.

"Didn't you know the rumors would spread?"

"No, I thought it was just a rumor that the duke's family was selling off gems to raise money. I didn't expect the rumor that the duke's family was going bankrupt. You don't want such rumors, do you?"

Lan stuck out his tongue slightly. People's ideas and expectations are different.

The way she repays the debt by selling her mother's jewelry is a normal phenomenon for a mother to repay debts, but it may be very shameful in this world.

"what should we do?"

"Pretty good."

Ran looked at his face in bewilderment at Yos's response, and Yoss looked back at her.

"Can't you really understand? Is it still a paralyzed face that has nothing to do with you? Your sister's dignity..." "Ah!!!"

Lan reacted quickly and made a short noise. "I see! This way we can pick out talents!"

"That's right."

"Well, that's really good, isn't it?"

"Anyway, after the ice crystals are disclosed, the rumors will disappear."

Lan nodded in agreement.

'You had an unwanted dump' and this time clearly divides the employees into two categories.

A person who bends his waist for money [is at risk of defection] or not.

Of course, that doesn't mean working for money is bad. But the bad thing is that they don't recognize their employers.

If there are people who do not pay attention to these, the employer should provide corresponding treatment.

'The hardest thing in the world is finding someone you can trust. ' Lan decided to gamble on getting all possible in a way she wasn't going to use.

' But it's annoying, so leave it to Yoss. '

At the same time, two magic [cleaners] [manga version engineers? 】 Arrive at the mansion.

One is a woman in her mid-40s, and the other is a young boy. I wonder if this is a rare combination of magic [cleaners].

"To the perfect blue flame. I am Lydia, the humble warlock."

"[I am] Frankie."

Wherever they found it, the two artisans gave Razia a greeting.

Ran was greeted by a visitor from far away.

"May Qingyan be blessed. Although presumptuous, what is the relationship between the two of you...?"

"It's not a mother-child relationship." As if this was a question she had heard several times, Lydia answered with a smile. With a mix of brown and gray hair tightly tied back, she looks more like a literary historian than a [work of art] mechanic. [The translation is a bit fidgety... The sentence framed in front should mean a work of art, and no other interpretation can be found. 】

"Welcome to Lazia, the journey was hard, right?"

"Will not."

"I've already asked someone to prepare the room, and the maid will take you there, just leave your luggage there. You can ask if you need it."

"Thank you."

"What we will do from now on is confidential."

"I'll keep that in mind," Lydia said gravely.

Lan bet his eyes on Frankie. Do you think he is 13 years old?

The little boy also responded with a blushing face: "...will keep his mouth shut." When Lan blinked, he signaled that the butler [English translation note: butler, the top position among female employees, the person who leads all female employees. 】Standing politely beside Lan, he spread out the fabric on the tray.

"Do you know what this is?"

Regarding Lan's words, Lydia picked up the mana stone on the plate, and held her breath with a cautious expression. "Why, how could it be...!"

Lan smiled and said to Lydia who was stuttering, "I want you to cast a spell on it."

Lydia's fingertips trembled. "Are you going to give me such a valuable thing?"

Lan responded with a grin: "It's not rare anymore."

"what?"

"We have a lot of magic stones like that."

Lydia looks like Mu Chunfeng. A lot of this magic stone? I can't even imagine getting used to it. My heart was so mixed that my soul went blank.

"As long as you have money, you can use our magic stone. Let's spread it everywhere! This is my goal. Its name is the ice crystal, not the magic stone."

"That's it." I [should be Lydia] could barely make it out.

Lan grinned and said, "The guild sent you here because this is Razia, right?"

Lydia blushed at the words. Wizards cannot approach Razia within a 10km radius.

This is the wizarding code. Magic tax is completely exempted by law.

In any case, no magician wants to come to Razia. As long as you are a magician.

So he sent them, a woman, and little French. Lan put her hands on her chest and said:

"I'm a woman too. So shouldn't we help each other? Please do a good job, Lydia. And be the only guest."

"I will reward you for a job well done."

"That's what I want." Ran lowered his voice. Lydia also restrained her voice.

"tell me,"

"I want to order an item first." "Is it possible?"

"Electric blanket—no, it's a tool that warms the bed."

Lydia's eyes widened at Yinlan's words.

Winter is coming. September is the season when the temperature is getting colder. Although there are still cases where the residual heat does not subside, basically September is the season when you need to put on a coat, in Lazia.

Come October, all the leaves will drop, and come November, winter is officially upon us.

Then it will be in the cold winter until April...

'So I really need a heater and an electric blanket! '

Even if this is a wizard mansion, stone is stone.

Cold weather is extremely cold. It's hard to get used to. The stove only warms the area around the stove but does not spread the heat to the whole room.

It can be improved by putting hot water bottles between the mattresses, but it is far from enough.

'I'm going to use the electric blanket through the winter! '

Then I'm going to make this product popular throughout the empire!

There was a light knock on the door, when Lan Fa was ambitious.

"Please come in."

"You don't even ask anyone."

Lan grinned at Yoss as he entered. "I always thought it was Yus."

"Like me?"

"[Unless] there are many people looking for me after dinner."

[The English translation uses at the words many times. The translator thinks that the translation is different from at a word (=at once), but the Chinese definition of at the words cannot be found. This translation is tentatively understood as "the discourse about...", at least so far Still usable. 】

Responding to Ilan's words, Us looked at her for a moment and said, "We have visitors."

"Visitor?" Ran looked at his head.

"Why did Us come to announce?" Many people told me that there were guests.

"It's a rather special guest."

Ran raised his head a little higher at Uss' words. "Special guest? Who is it? Could it be that His Majesty the Emperor is here?"

"No." Said the words with a distinctive accent, and a tall man entered the door, behind Yoss.

You Si stepped aside, leaving Lan to meet the guests.

When the man took off his hood, Ran's eyes widened. He has pointed ears.

Elf!

The elf, with his dark blue hair cut neatly, was tall.

[English original sentence: Did you hear I called you? The success of the English translation gave me another headache. According to the manga version, why is the sentence more normal? I still typed it to everyone:] "Listen, you are looking for me?" head! ? 】

"Yes, it's me."

"And this, you sent it?" The elf grabbed something in the air and showed it to Lan. [Take medicine from space~]

Crimson magic stone.

[English translation... Speechless, if you are interested, check the original sentence by yourself, and read the comic version again:] Lan chuckled.

That's it. You are hooked. "Yes, that's what I sent too."

"Where did this come from?"

"Do I have an obligation to answer?"

The elf frowned. Lan stretched out and said, "I just want an equal dialogue."

"Haresh."

Lan was taken aback by his words. Elvish? still…

'Aha! ' "I'm Ran Romia de Razia. You can call me Ran. May I call you Haris?"

Harry nodded in agreement. Lan stroked her chest inwardly.

When I glanced at Yoss, he stood with an unusual expression. Apart from fiddling with the red mana stone aimlessly.

'Oh, I haven't told Us yet. ' I can't think of an excuse when Yoss asked how I knew about the mine.

But I didn't expect the elf to appear suddenly.

Lan took a deep breath inwardly. This is the independent trade of the Duke of Lazia.

While the magic stone has been mined, the selling rights have been handed over to the Golden Rose Head. It is impossible for the Duchess to travel across the continent.

However, there are differences in trade with different races such as elves and dwarves.

Lan plans to conduct high-end transactions with them under the name of the Duchess of Lazia, and set up a small business group within the Duke's house.

If this is the case, the target sales group is the nobles, so it does not need to be as large as the original business group.

This is the first step of the plan.

"Sit down, Haris. Would you like some tea?"

"Water is fine. Human tea is of low quality."

Lan held back a smile and looked at You Si. Maybe he was thinking the same thing as her, and his face relaxed a little.

A way of speaking that does not consider the feelings of others. That is, they do not have the idea that they must be kind as businessmen.

In this way, the transaction is easier. Lan smiled. ﹡ ﹡ ﹡

Ha Ruixi seemed to be sweating secretly. The human girl, in front of him, knew more about elf culture than he thought. "But the amount of herbs we can make is also limited—"

"Of course I know this. So, if you can make an ointment with World Tree ingredients, I can give you ten times the price of other medicines."

"How do you know this?"

"Although you can only make ten doses a year, there is no place to use them, so you have a lot of them stored up, right?"

"What is this—?!"

"We can also get handicrafts from the elves. After all, no one can compare to the elves in processing wood."

Harry is full of energy. In any case, the content of what he said was correct, and he was not trying to make excuses.

If she asks too much, he can still leave the negotiating table without saying a word.

However, Lan didn't use force or say anything that was clearly pompous, she just offered sound advice. 'But why does it always feel like a trap? '

Ha Ruixi inadvertently pulled her upper body back slightly. Lan stopped speaking when he saw this situation.

At the moment when Ha Ruixi was exhaling for his own death, Lan added [more violent words. 】

"We have the idea of making a deal with the dwarves."

"And those dwarves?"

Ran corrected him with a noticeable wrinkle of the nose. "While I'm talking..."

Harry was full of anger, so he took a shallow breath. You want to trade with the dwarves?

"Are you going to send them mana stones? But their magic system and their spirits are not strong. You can't touch their hearts with the same kind of mana stones."

"Of course we know that." That's why the Cyan Power Stone exists.

Harry narrowed his eyes.

Lan smiled visibly and said, "I already know that elves and dwarves don't get along very well. But isn't it because they don't know each other? You can have a comfortable communication with me as an intermediary."

"..." Harui crossed his arms and stared at Lan.

Lan faced him with a business-like smile. This deal is important to her.

'I'm going to build a personal fortune as a result. ' I'll make a fortune with the Power Stone.

In addition, Lan has to earn another kind of property. But that's just the tip of the iceberg.

'If you are deported or leave voluntarily, your money will be cut off at any time. '

And all property derived from estates will be taxed.

Even in terms of the magic stone business alone [we] don’t know whether the emperor will finally achieve a comprehensive sales and stable realization.

Even if the tax rate application is completed, the existence of this magic stone mining industry, this huge output will be used for the empire.

But this tripartite trade is different. Ran's concern wasn't purely selling the Philosopher's Stone itself to elves or dwarves. It is difficult to start.

Compared to the self-sufficiency of the two tribes, their distinction between humans and themselves is the biggest problem in business transactions.

Digging for mana stone is just the beginning. Most important is the tripartite trade between humans, dwarves, and elves. That's it.

This means that no matter what happens, the wealth of the owner of Razia can be preserved. It is truly personal property.

Of course, in this era, money from the industry = money from the Duke is the best, even so, there are still obvious restrictions. Anyway, that's limited to the owner of the house.

Money never goes to anyone for nothing, except for the eldest son. But personal property is a different story.

It can be used for various possible private purposes.

'The previous duke was a man who squandered his house and kept the land'

So Lan wanted to increase his personal wealth differently from that of the Razia family. In short, we need a money bag, the kind that can be done at will without the consent of the accountant.

Rumors must have appeared among the nobles. After all, not working is the advantage of this limited class.

Anyway, second pocket! wallet! This is important. Please tell me you would like to do [transaction].

Don't say that Deng's allowance can't be increased?

You need a magic stone, right? you want it, don't you?

Maybe the extremely longing heart worked, Ha Ruixi used the handwriting with a sigh【It’s not for eating. It's a gesture with hands folded over the chest] and said: "This is not something that I can decide on my own."

"Naturally, please consult with your elders when you go back."

"No problem." After answering, Ha Ruixi asked sharply: "What do you think? Do you pay mana stone for the doctor's [diagnosis] fee? How is the patient's condition?"

"Oh, the patient is my fan's daughter. But it's late at night, so can I inform and continue this matter tomorrow?"

"You want to visit her?"

"Because she's sick, I can't tell her to move," Lan said.

"Yes." Harry nodded and got up from his seat. Lan got up and said, "Where are you staying—?"

He replied, "I hate human houses because they are so stuffy. I will be back at dawn tomorrow."

"Of course, please." Please enjoy the forests of Lazia territory. With this in mind, Lan saw Haruishi and disappeared before she finished speaking.

click.

As soon as he turned around, there was the sound of Yusi putting down the red magic stone, and the sound of putting it on the table was louder than usual.

He looked up at Lan. "Then let me listen to the explanation, sister."