Bang, bang, bang, there was a violent knock on the heavy door. In the small hut, Green, who was sleeping under a shabby quilt, was instantly awakened. The cold numbness under his feet made him take a breath, but Green did not dare. Delayed, shouted: "Coming."
Ignoring his feet that were almost numb from the cold, Green quickly put on his shabby clothes, picked up the leather jacket that was covered with the shabby quilt as a second quilt, and opened the wooden door. The cold winter wind blew, mixed with ice slag, and Green's body was shaken by the stimulation. Outside the door, Old Ham was huddled on the broken wooden carriage, holding a whip in one hand and a tobacco pipe in the other, smashing it. The carriage left two tracks in the bumpy snow.
"Hurry up, the road is not going well today. If you are late, you will be punished." Old Ham muttered to Green after taking a long puff of his pipe.
"Oh, I got it." Green closed the wooden door and got on the carriage quickly. He was accustomed to everything. Basically, he heard him say this sentence every day since he took this stable job with Uncle Ham.
Ham didn't have much to say. After taking a final puff of his pipe, he waved his whip fiercely. The old horse grunted and pulled the carriage and continued to move forward in the bumpy snow. Green leaned on the broken carriage guardrail, looked at the dark sky, and closed his eyes again. Because based on past experience, it would take at least half an hour for the old carriage to reach the Viscount's Mansion in the city on such a snowy day, and it would be almost dawn by then.
Leaning on the carriage, Green smelled the familiar smell of dry smoke and felt very grateful to Old Ham from the bottom of his heart.
Green has been an orphan since he was a child. He often followed a group of orphans in the city of Bissel, living a life of begging without enough food. Until one day, the old and childless Ham was very excited when he saw Green. When he thought that he had no children, he took him to the city. Green took it back and said with a smile: "If I die, these two huts and the old horse will be yours."
To be honest, these two country huts and old carriages were really not worth a lot of money, but they made Green feel grateful to Old Ham and regard him as his reborn parents.
As for what Old Ham and Green do for a living, they rush to the Viscount's House in Bissel every morning before dawn, clean up the large pieces of garbage left after the high-ranking aristocratic gentlemen dispersed after a night of carnival, and send it outside the city. Clean it up, and then go to the viscounty to purchase all the supplies for the next night's carnival.
This time, almost half a day passed.
After more than half an hour, the road became smooth and paved with stones. Green, who was napping on the carriage, woke up immediately without Old Ham's instructions. He knew that he had arrived at Bissel City and was about to arrive at the Viscount's Mansion. He quickly swept the snow off his body and tidied up his appearance.
Although it is often said that when Green and Old Ham arrive every day, most of the nobles in the city who had a night of partying at the Viscount Mansion have already dispersed. Even if there are occasional ones who have not left, the high-ranking nobles will not look at these two. A look at a lowly servant and his appearance are of no use at all. But the old housekeeper of the Viscount's Mansion was a difficult character. He always made things difficult for Green's handyman servant, waiting to get some benefits. On more than one occasion, he used the lowly excuse of poor appearance to extort Old Ham's silver coins.
The two tall knight guards at the door of the Viscount's Mansion were exhausted after a night of guarding. They glanced at Old Ham and Green, who had become very familiar with them over the past few years, and ignored them. Old Ham smiled apologetically, and Green jumped out of the carriage, lowered his head and entered the Viscount's Mansion, not daring to look any further, and went straight to the luxurious hall that had to be carefully cleaned every day.
Green and Old Ham, who were originally listless, suddenly felt that the atmosphere today seemed different. They saw the old housekeeper of the Viscount Mansion at the door of the hall with a gloomy face and a pair of ruthless small triangular eyes staring at Green and Old Ham. After a while, they trotted away. He came to the two of them and shouted in a low voice: "Wait here, plug your ears, close your eyes."
"Yes, yes." Green and Old Ham responded quickly.
There was a faint noise coming from the hall. Although I couldn't hear it clearly, I could vaguely tell that it was a girl making a fuss. Instinctively, Green and Old Ham knew that he should be a big shot.
After waiting for nearly half an hour, it was already completely bright. Green and Old Ham were stomping their feet in the cold and shivering in the snow. The old housekeeper who was waiting at the door of the hall came over with a gloomy face and shouted: "Sure!" Don’t come here until tomorrow.”
Green and Old Ham's expressions changed. After struggling a few times, Old Ham took out a silver coin from his ragged linen clothes, stuffed it into the old housekeeper's hand, and said with a smile: "I can bear it, I can bear it."
"Humph." The old butler skillfully stuffed the silver coins into his pocket, ignored the two of them, and waited anxiously at the door of the hall, looking inside from time to time.
Green couldn't help but whispered: "Damn it, you just took benefits from us a few days ago, and now you want it again!"
"Hey, forget it, bear with it, there are a lot of people who want to do our job, and the old housekeeper is eager for us to leave." Old Ham sighed. As people get older, they are no longer as hot-tempered as young people.
At this moment, a girl rushed out of the hall. She was wearing luxurious aristocratic clothes, but her delicate face was stained with tears. She ran to Green and Old Ham, stopped, and shouted into the hall: "I only want my Ai." Brother Long, I won't go to Lilith's cabin, let alone become a wizard!" After saying that, the girl seemed to be still angry, took out a book, threw it out, and ran out of the Viscount's Mansion.
"It's against! It's against! What are you two waiting for? Why don't you hurry up and chase after me?" A paunchy nobleman turned red with anger and roared at the two armored knights beside him, but Green What was unbelievable was that the normally aloof Viscount had a look of helplessness on his face. He stood beside the fat-bellied nobleman with a smile and whispered something to persuade him.
"Huh, what does she know? She gave up the wizard I hired at a huge price for that little lover? You know, half a year later..." In a hurry, the Viscount followed the pot-bellied nobleman and left the Viscount Mansion without even looking at Green. A look at Old Ham. As for the old housekeeper, he also followed out in a hurry. Before leaving, he took all the two guards away and disappeared into the snow.
In the blink of an eye, the yard became empty and silent.
Seeing that there was no one around, Green instinctively wanted to pick up the book on the ground in front of him, but Old Ham stepped forward, knocked Green's hand with his pipe, and shouted: "Do you want to die?"
Green grinned in pain and whispered: "Is it supposed to be okay? If anyone asks, we will just say that we cleaned the trash and threw it away. Anyway, it was the noble lady who just threw it on the ground."
Old Ham thought for a while, then looked up to see that no one was around, and then nodded, acquiescing to Green. Green put the books into his clothes, and then followed Old Ham to clean the hall as if nothing had happened. The huge amount of garbage left by the noble Lord after a night of revelry in the hall was all swept into the carriage. Until before leaving, no one asked about the whereabouts of the book, so Green didn't care.
After all, in the past, there were often treasures mixed in the garbage that the nobles looked down upon but the servants were extremely happy with.
Creaking, the carriage loaded with a cart full of garbage slowly left Bissel City. Sitting on the carriage loaded with a cart full of garbage, Green was no longer sleepy. He suddenly thought of something and took out the book from his arms. Collected books.
Frowning, servants like Green who worked for noble masters generally did not know how to read. This was because Old Ham once worked as an accounting apprentice for a restaurant when he was young. Although the restaurant later closed, he still learned how to read. In order to learn how to read and write, it has been handed over to Green in recent years.
However, the reason why Green frowned was because the handwriting on the cover of this book was not commonly used in daily life. It was some unfamiliar words. After thinking for a long time, Green recognized these words.
"'Hunting Nose Transformation and Scent Atlas'? What is this?" Green stared, originally thinking it was a biographical novel of a bard. This was also the favorite book of noble ladies and young men, but he did not expect that it was a biography of a bard. A noble lady threw away a book with such a strange name.
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Green suddenly thought of something, his eyes widened, full of disbelief! Could this be a book about wizards recording mysterious magic
Wizards have always been a topic that only noble men are qualified to talk about. Ordinary people will never see a mysterious wizard even once in their lifetime. In the eyes of ordinary people, wizards possess mysterious and unpredictable magic, which is full of evil and mystery. There are often rumors that wizards have committed massacres of ordinary people, even eaten the eyes of children, and used ordinary people to do evil magic experiments. But because of the wizard's extraordinary power that can easily kill ordinary people and even knights, he is great and awe-inspiring.
Even Green has imagined more than once, how do those mysterious and great wizards master those mysterious and great powers? Why can't ordinary people master it? If you become a wizard and master those mysterious and great powers, you won't have to look at the faces of those nobles anymore, right? Anyone who dares to say that he is a pariah will be killed directly.
With a look of disbelief on his face, Green quickly flipped through the book "Nose Hunting Transformation and Scent Atlas" he had obtained, and began to read word by word. Sometimes when encountering unfamiliar words, he had to think about them carefully or even skip them temporarily. Slowly Slowly, a touch of shock began to appear on Green's face, as if a whole new world had opened!
The so-called smell is the differentiation of volatile molecules of different substances in the air through the biological olfactory system. The most pungent odor accounts for half of the taste that organisms can distinguish.
According to the "Smell Atlas", normal humans can distinguish about 30 to 400 kinds of smells. Occasionally, some people with special functions can distinguish about 600 kinds of smells. However, compared with some other organisms, this kind of smell recognition is difficult. Simply pitifully low.
For example, the crowing chicken is a kind of chicken creature that can cry like a human baby. According to experiments, this creature can distinguish at least 6,500 kinds of smells.
Another example is the Yin butterfly, a magical creature that can only survive by collecting odors. It can distinguish more than 8,200 kinds of smells...
The book mentions that the creature known to be able to capture the most scents in the air is called a three-headed dog. This is a powerful creature that many wizards dare not provoke. It is capable of distinguishing any known scent that wizards can separate from the air. There are 17,852 kinds of smells in total, which is simply incredible.
"Hunting Nose Transformation" is about the wizard using the sensitive sense of smell of certain creatures to transform himself based on his own physical condition to achieve the perfect evolution of the sense of smell. The so-called magic experiment involves many strange materials, and so far Green has no Understand the most common word in books, cell
"Green, Green!" After Old Ham shouted twice, Green came back to his senses from the wonders of the magic book, hurriedly put away the magic book, and helped Old Ham start dumping the garbage on the carriage. After dumping all the garbage on the carriage, Green followed Old Ham and began to purchase goods from the viscount's territory according to previous specifications for the consumption of the noble gentlemen tonight.
After being busy until evening, Old Ham and Green transported all the goods to the Viscount's Mansion in the city, and then hurried back to the countryside with a dozen copper coins. On the carriage, Green was still reading the book "The Transformation and Transformation of Nose Hunting" Smell Atlas".
Old Ham looked back at Green and sighed: "You kid, you are really obsessed today. Is this book that good?"
Green smiled and didn't say much, but his heart was full of longing and shock for this mysterious wizarding world. Are there really moving mountains of life in the world? A river flowing from the sky? And what is going on in those foreign worlds? What is the principle behind wizards' powerful magical power
A series of questions emerged in Green's mind, but no one could answer them.
"Hey, you are seventeen years old in a blink of an eye, right? Well, next year, renovate the house and see if you can find a girl from a suitable family nearby to be your mother-in-law. I hope that my old man can take a look at his grandson before he is buried. ." Old Ham muttered.
Green muttered casually without raising his head: "What are you talking about? You old man has a long lifespan and will last for thousands of generations. Unifying the world is not an issue at all."
"Haha..." Old Ham was amused by Green and continued to drive the carriage back to the familiar road.