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Chapter 87 Lazy is a bad thing!

Mrs. Xiangqi is a well-known civilization judge in Toto Port. She has a full understanding of various civilizations, countries, and types of magic, and even knows many masters in the magic kingdom. Invitation to "Thermal Bath Therapy".

In fact, Mrs. Xiangqi didn't believe that this little clerk could know the Templars of the Gay Knights at first. They were Templars, and she remembered every name, until the other party reported Langdon's name and It looked like she was still dubious, and then she contacted a "friend" of the Gay Knights, who confirmed the news before agreeing to participate.

Mrs. Xiangqi knows soap, which is not an easy task. Only some long-lived races and knowledgeable magicians will read these things from a long time ago. Her knowledge comes from the experience of traveling far and wide and the vast collection of books in the family. , that is "readable gold" made of various leathers, cloths, and special magical compounds, which is very expensive.

Who brought back the ancient things?

In Yuecheng, Mrs. Xiangqi met the inventor, a fairly handsome young man. His expressionless face showed that he was a human being, but the joy and slightly artificial tone still showed the other party's business literacy. "Hot bath therapy" opened her eyes, and at the same time, she discovered some other things carefully.

The roads in Moon City do not use magic, but they are clean, hard and smooth. Such roads are very suitable for transport vehicles, and are suitable for commercial transportation.The knight commander named Cecil stated that the cost of these roads is extremely low, and he is even willing to pave the roads outside Moon City for free, as long as it is convenient for travelers to travel from south to north.

Ho, what a shrewd boy!

There are no magic cleaners in Moon City but a public toilet has been built. This method of centralized treatment of excrement and urine should be unbearable, but the city is very clean, and the public toilet is more acceptable than Mrs. Xiangqi imagined. You won’t step on feces when you go to the toilet, and the ground is actually dry without urine stains—thanks to the Ebo staff who clean the toilets every day.

Mrs. Xiangqi has a doubt: Where did the excrement go?Was it concentrated by magic?

And paper, which was something she cared about a lot.

The feeling of use is not bad, light and soft, although slightly prickly, it is refreshing. Usually, she either uses cloth, magic cloth or wool, not to mention the touch, which is too expensive. She also tried to let the servants carry buckets with them. But after washing, it is either wet and uncomfortable, or it still needs to be dried with a cloth, so it is better to use the cloth directly and throw it away after use.

In contrast, paper is not only cheap but also very clean, and Knight Commander Cecil also said that the raw material can be improved to make the paper harder and tougher, so it can be written on?

Just bind it and it's a book!

Mrs. Xiangqi's heart pounded when she thought of this. Compared with hot baths and soaps, this is more important!She thought of the collection of books in such a large room at home. As a professional manager with business acumen, she knew very well that if "paper" succeeds, it will cause great waves in the collection of books and the education market, but as a person with selfishness, she really Don't want the "readable gold" in your home to be worthless.

That was a great fortune!

Do you want to report to the family?

Mrs. Xiangqi has the status of a professional manager in a cross-civilization business family, and she is already very unhappy to be sent to the ghostly place of Toto Port. If she reports the discovery of the paper, she may be able to restore some impressions, but, in this way, she It is really tangled that private property may depreciate greatly!

Forget it, let's repay the "hot bath treatment" first. This is also a worthwhile investment. If it can attract people to Toto Port, maybe her local power will also expand?

While reporting the news to the family, Mrs. Xiangqi held a "Lady's Afternoon Tea Party" in Toto Port. The female mercenaries going north, yes, they are all female.

At the party, Mrs. Shanzi's opening remarks were as follows: "Ladies, here is an opportunity to make a fortune. We can monopolize this market. The generous gay knights are willing to cooperate with us. It only needs a small promotion. We will be able to make clothes out of pearls."

While Mrs. Shanzi was promoting "hot bath therapy" to the ladies, Cecil was worrying about the drainage problem.When designing the public bathroom, he thought that in the future, he would have to dig out all the pipes and replace them with copper ones. It would be better to drain the water directly into the ground. Find an empty place and put it away. Come on, how much sewage can be produced, and besides, the soap is also pure natural, it doesn't matter.

"Why not put it in the compost pond?" Russell asked.

"Do you want the feces to flow with the soapy water?" Cecil said angrily, "That pool is not big enough."

So, the sewer pipe of the public bathroom found a nearby place with no houses and directly drained it. The consequence of being lazy was that after almost all the people in the city came to take a bath, the place where the drain was drained turned into a quagmire.

Cecil was dumbfounded when he went to the scene, and he didn't recover for a long time after stepping on the mud that didn't reach his calf.

How the hell is this waterlogged? !The soil here is also too shallow, right?Oh, no, is there groundwater below here? !

As a result of digging deeper, a shallow pond appeared here, and Cecil stared blankly at the slowly falling sewage mixed with soapy white.

This... is it polluting the groundwater?

The groundwater layer here won't pass through, right?

What the hell!

After observing for a few days and making sure that there was no soap smell in the other wells, Cecil was relieved, and at the same time quickly deactivated the bathroom.

"You can't do this, and there will be problems with this one and that one at a time." Oakes complained, "The magic bits of the knights are wasted."

If you want to say who likes to take a bath the most these two days, it must be Oakes and Russell. Not only do these two take a few hours of bathing, but they also drive everyone else out and take a mandarin bath alone, making them take a bath. Users strongly demand to change the water after finishing.

Cecil knew that these two guys were the ones who liked the bathroom the most, and they couldn't be in a hurry if it broke down, so he said calmly: "Oh, then close the bathroom, and wait until the flame goblins come. Bar."

Oakes' expression twitched slightly, trying to maintain his aloof image, and muttered in a low voice: "Just find a magician to fix it."

"It's impossible to talk about magic!" Although knowing that it might be a waste of words, Cecil couldn't help explaining, "Drainage is not a big problem, as long as the plumbing is done well in the future, and by the way, you can also get up and down in the city. Water, laying the foundation for the future urban drainage system. I heard that there is still a rainy season in this place. The main problem is that there is no power, understand? Power! It is the way to send water to the water storage tower and get it out of the well. Now the power is people and magic, but I want something that can continue to generate power without these two things. For example, a river flows in one direction all the time, and this flow is a kind of power. If you can solve it for me I would be grateful for that question!"

"Yes." Oakes opened his mouth and came.

Cecil said disdainfully: "What is it? Don't tell me it's magic."

"Of course not." Oakes raised his chin in the direction of Ebo, "Isn't there a ready-made dragon heart there?"

Cecil: "..."

Damn, it really is!

It is very troublesome to involve Ebo, after all, from the "legal principle", Ebo has nothing to do with them. It is okay to build Moon City, but the dragon heart who covets Ebo can be said to be beaten by everyone. Yes, it doesn't matter where you go in this world.Besides, how this dragon heart came from is still a question, and Cecil doesn't want to get burned.

On the third day after the "Hot Bath Therapy" sales promotion, Langdon received an order from Mrs. Shanzie. One hundred guests will come to experience the "Hot Bath Therapy". patient!

Looking at the order, Cecil was in a bad mood.

"Patient? What disease?" First of all, being a liar doctor is too easy to expose. If it can't be cured, it can't be cured. It's impossible to treat it with perseverance. "Did you tell me?"

"It seems that after getting an arrow in the knee before, it hurts every winter." Langdon looked at the letter sent by the griffin, and the griffin was used to send the letter. This Mrs. Xiangqi is considered rich and powerful, the clerk The beautiful lady did not live up to the expectations of Cecil and Langdon, nor did she live up to the "promotion fee" that was collected privately. The customers she attracted were indeed high-quality and high-volume. "Can you treat this?"

Hearing the cause of the disease, Cecil immediately breathed a sigh of relief. Luckily, this "disease" is tailor-made for "hot bath therapy", and it is definitely cured from the "bath" to the "disease". What he needs to worry about is something else.

"One hundred people? Come together?" Cecil said anxiously, "Can't they come in batches? Come ten today and ten days tomorrow, and treat them in installments!"

Langdon looked over with a funny expression: "Don't worry, 100 people will come and go in three days. Mrs. Xiangqi has used the bathroom. She knows how much capacity there is, and men and women need to be separated."

"I'm not worried about this!" Cecil said helplessly, "Where does the water go!"

Now that area is completely unable to drain water, and if it continues to drain, it is very likely that the soil layer will become more muddy, and if it pollutes the underground well water, it will be over.

"And now we are losing money!" Cecil tugged at his hair. After using the soap, the hair that had grown to a certain length was finally no longer greasy, and it felt much more comfortable. "You have to use the magic bit Use is factored into the cost."

"Don't worry." Langdon said with a smile, "It's not free this time. Mrs. Xiangqi raised a price, and she will take a third of it."

"What?!" Cecil yelled, "Why didn't she grab it?!"

"Ten gold coins for a customer." Langdon said calmly, "She is willing to let Leigh take three gold coins, and the rest will be ours. If the customer is willing to buy soap to take away, she hopes that the price of the high-quality soap will not be lower than five gold coins , it is best not to sell ordinary soaps. If you insist on selling them, claim that these ordinary soaps have no healing effect, they are just ordinary cleaning items, and the price should not be lower than one silver coin, and any guests she introduces buy and take away To share her [-]% of the profit, she specifically indicated that it is gross profit."

Cecil's "angry" arrogance was instantly extinguished before the money offensive, and he was stunned for a while, before whispering: "There is no healing effect."

Langdon laughed and pulled a deflated Cecil into his arms.

If this kind of passenger flow can be maintained, the economic crisis will definitely be solved, but Cecil always feels that this is not a long-term solution: "I still prefer to spread the goods out, this way of selling goods through tourism is too unreliable, let alone using In the name of liar therapy."

"No way, if you want to go through civilian channels, the traffic here is too bad, and the location is remote, how can you expect others to understand these novel things immediately?" Langdon said clearly, "We don't have the advantage of celebrity, and There is no geographical advantage, and every product is suspected of being a foreign civilization, so this method is already very suitable."

Langdon's words were very reasonable, and Cecil couldn't fault it, so he could only sigh: "Then let's renovate the bathroom and drain the water, it's a big headache, oh, is the flame goblin coming?"

"They have already replied to the letter. The monthly salary is one gold coin. Come back in the spring, they will take Might and Magic Gate and Griffin, and include board and lodging." Langdon reported the conditions fluently.

Cecil was silent for a while, then murmured softly: "Why do everyone look like robbers? What about the conditions of the dwarves?"

"Dwarves don't work for civilizations and realms less than ten years old."

"...Then you told me seriously back then?"

"Give you a little choice."

"Do you think I'm a three-year-old child?"

Langdon ruffles Cecil's hair while laughing, and leaves calmly.

In the end, Cecil mobilized all the knights and Ebo residents overnight to dig a sloped open channel leading to the outside of the city, and then reinforced the surface of the channel with the magic of house building. Although it could not achieve the waterproof effect, it could barely let the water Go out along the canal, as to whether the mud outside will subside, I don't care so much, let's make the money first.

23 beautiful ladies arrived as scheduled two days later. To Cecil's surprise, the adventurer who took an arrow in the knee turned out to be a woman. She was beautiful in appearance but not inferior in stature to that of a man. She was very strong. Huo Shuo, she has a head of romantic blood-red hair, walking over from a distance like a banner.

The ladies began their tour of Moon City with chatter, and the female adventurer met Cecil and Langdon privately, thanks to Mrs. Shanzi's special attention.

"Your Highness Langdon, Knight Commander Cecil, it's an honor to meet you." The female adventurer bowed down in full manners, "My lord, Aviana Nobezichell, may the holy light shine on your path."

Cecil: "..."

What kind of weird surname is this?

"May the magic bless your descendants, Miss Aviana, nice to meet you." Langdon said politely, "I heard that your knee is not very good?"

"It's true." Aviana showed a look of pain on her face, "Every time this weather comes, my right leg is sore and painful, and every step I take is torture for me. I heard that 'hot bath therapy' particularly effective for this?"

"Of course." Cecil immediately started the "old people's sales" mode on the spot, chattering a lot, "...Don't worry, although it can't cure you, it will definitely give you the most comfortable experience."

Aviana nodded: "I believe Mrs. Xiangqi's recommendation. Before that, I want to talk about other things."

"Okay, would you like to try smoked beef jerky?" Cecil said with a smile.

"Mrs. Xiangqi said that you have something called paper... food?"

"Yes, special flavor, definitely not sick!"

"Emmmmmm... It's good to have a taste first."

Facts have proved that adventurers are not the right person to talk about business. After tasting Yak smoked beef jerky with peppercorns, beef noodles with saffron, and grilled mushrooms with steaks, Miss Aviana has a surprisingly large appetite, by the way. , ate more than Langdon and Cecil combined—she had long since forgotten about the paper, and leisurely changed into light clothes and enjoyed the "hot bath treatment".

After watching Aviana leave, Cecil said to Langdon, "Are you sure you want to save the paper first?"

"It's not time to talk about it yet." Langdon nodded. "Now, let's talk about it after earning the gold coins."

Cecil couldn't help sighing when he thought about the lack of power: "No amount of money can buy a power source."

"Dragon heart?" Langdon really knew everything, "Well, if you really want it, I can think of a way."

Cecil's eyes lit up, but then he was a little tangled up. He always felt that he was too dependent on Langdon. This was not a good sign, it was too unmanly!

Langdon quickly made a decision: "Let me figure out a way."

After the first batch of customers returned satisfied, the overall gross profit reached an astonishing 315 gold coins. After excluding Mrs. Xiangqi's commission, the net profit was enough to reach an amount that ordinary people would never earn in their lifetime.

"By the way, don't forget that we can continue to make tanned leather products." Langdon said, "Bills, who signed the contract with us, has died, and Ebo's beef soup franchise is gone. We have the right to take this Get the technology back."

Cecil asked reflexively, "How do you know Bills is dead?"

There were Oakes, Russell and Moyer in the room, including Langdon, all four of them looked at Cecil with a delicate expression.

"Well, pretend I didn't ask." Guessing that there was something shady about it, Cecil decisively admitted, "Can those Ebo people who believe in the tanned leather god reopen the workshop?"

"They still want to go back to Ebo." Russell said sarcastically, "Wait until spring."

This is the truth.

As the weather gradually warmed up, the cash flow in Cecil's hands also rapidly increased, not only paying off the terrible loan sharks of the Gay Knights, but even paying off Langdon's money.The Temple sent a commendation letter for this, and claimed that it would provide additional assistance if necessary, "The Gay Knights will always support brothers who love each other", and so on.

However, when Moyer, who had been soaking in the bathhouse or on the heated kang all winter, heard the news, he took the letter as if he had been stung by a bee, and as soon as he glanced at it, he cried out in pain: "Oh, no, how come it's not the letter again?" coming?!"

Cecil didn't mind the population, it was never too small. Moyer's attitude made him feel baffled, and he looked at Langdon.

Langdon rarely showed an expression of uncontrollable gloating: "The 'holy' knight is coming."

"Oh—" Cecil sighed.

The only paladin in the Gay Knights, who was born in a formal paladin team, sacrificed his soul to a half-blood devil at the risk of being burned at the stake.

Legend!

"This paladin has been chasing Moye?" Cecil asked enthusiastically.

"Of course." Langdon laughed, "He has always claimed that it is his mission to save Moyer. In order to prevent Moyer from falling again, he must always follow Moyer's side. When Moyer was transferred last time, this guy was on a mission elsewhere. Now, it’s obvious that they’ll follow as soon as the mission is over.”

Sure enough, those who are willing to come to this remote ghost place have various reasons.

"Hahaha..." Cecil stopped suddenly, and Moyer looked over with a terrifying expression, the fundus of both eyes turned completely blood red, and he finally had the demeanor of a devil, "Cough, then you ...Do you want to go?"

"No, I can't go, the temple didn't give me a transfer order!" Moyer howled for a while, clutching his two horns, "God hell, why should I be tortured like this?! Ahhhh!" One side rushed out.

Cecil couldn't help laughing when he heard the howling that was fading away.

"Do you know what the most interesting thing is?" Russell completely revealed his gossip side, "According to the law of wills, Moyer's behavior is actually restricted by the moral standards of paladins, so no matter how evil Moyer is, he can't do it." Anything against paladin morality, he can say but can't do it himself, and paladin morality... you know, even I can't stand it, very very flimsy, like Moyer trying to run away Yes, but the paladin must obey the organization, so he can't go without a transfer. However, there is a huge loophole in this testament law, do you understand? As long as the paladin is also depraved, Moyer can be released, because the paladin Dedicated his soul to Moyer, so what Moyer can't do to others, he can do to the paladins."

Oakes nodded: "Moyer has tortured that paladin for a long time. You know, I am not a moral model, but what Moyer did still makes me shudder. In short, these two people have been in a rivalry. We are not only gambling When will the Holy Knight Alliance send someone to capture the Paladin, and they are still betting on when this Paladin will not be able to stand Moye's fall, and the latter's odds are relatively low at present, because Moye does look a lot more normal."

Cecil thought for a while and said, "Isn't the biggest loophole in this testament law that as long as Moye kills the paladin, everything will be fine?"

The four faces showed that meaningful expression at the same time.

"Emmmmmm..." The four people made such voices at the same time.

Cecil: "..."

You are really getting more and more annoying!