After Father Anduin walked out of the door, he glanced at the farmland in the distance outside the village that had become barren due to the harvest and was waiting to be reclaimed again. He hesitated for a moment, sat down at the door, took out his homemade hookah and smoked it vigorously. After a few mouthfuls, his brows furrowed deeply. ?. .
"Eh? Old man, why are you sitting here if you don't go to the fields?" Aunt Vera was about to go out for a walk. As soon as she stepped out of the threshold, she saw Father Anduin sitting on the steps at the door, and she immediately wondered.
"I'm thinking about something." Father Anduin tapped the hookah pole on the ground next to him and motioned for Aunt Vera to sit down. "You said... what should we do with that field?"
"How to deal with it? Plant it, of course. If you don't plant it, don't you want to be idle?" Aunt Vera glanced at Father Anduin inexplicably.
But this time she saw that Father Anduin seemed to have a few more gray hairs on his temples than yesterday. Then she looked at the wrinkles on his face, and her heart suddenly softened.
"Of course, if you really don't want to farm, that's fine. Anyway, our two boys and daughter have found jobs in the city now, and they get a lot of salary. Let each of them take out some of it, which is enough to support both of us. Yes. We have raised them up so much, so they should have this kind of filial piety." Aunt Vera tried to persuade her, but was scolded by Father Anduin, and she immediately became displeased. He glared at Father Anduin fiercely: "Then what do you want?"
"I didn't think anything of it, I was just a little hesitant. Tell me... should our land be planted with wheat as in previous years, or should it be planted with something else?"
"Replant? What to plant?" Aunt Vera asked in shock.
"Didn't the Cantona Chamber of Commerce come to our village a few days ago and said that they wanted to contract the land in our village to plant fruit trees. I thought about it. Instead of contracting it to them, I might as well plant it myself. How can we say that we used to I have been growing fruit trees for several years and have experience. If I grow them myself, I will definitely make more money than if I outsource it to the Cantona Chamber of Commerce.”
Aunt Vera rolled her eyes at Father Anduin: "If you really want to make money from the land, you might as well follow other people in the village and hand over the land to the Cantona Chamber of Commerce. Our family has more than ten acres of land. , there is a minimum of thirty gold coins a year. After you are free, you can find some work in other chambers of commerce, and you can make a lot of money in the end." Aunt Vera couldn't help but sigh.
Based on what she knew about Anduin's father after being married to him for more than thirty years, generally speaking, although he seemed to be hesitating at this time, he had actually already made up his mind.
"Well, since you want to do it so much, then go ahead. Anyway, it's good to make more money. Even if you lose money, you won't lose much, and you won't die." Aunt Vera said to Father Anduin as always support.
"Hey, since you said so, it's decided."
Got support from Aunt Vera. Father Anduin suddenly made up his mind, and immediately felt his heart brighten. He knocked the homemade hookah on the ground hard and stood up.
"I'm going to the city again to find out how the fruit saplings are sold now. If everything goes well, I'll start planting them tomorrow!"…
Seeing Anduin's father looking very angry, Aunt Vera said angrily: "You don't even know what time it is now? Are you going to the city?"
"What are you afraid of? Our village is now connected to roads anyway, as well as the Magic Motorcycle Bus operated by Filson Motors. I took the bus this time, and the round trip only takes less than two hours, which is very fast."
Father Anduin has always had a temper that leaves at a moment's notice. After saying a word, he strode out of the village.
Although their village of Plana, which is 70 to 80 kilometers away from Bangta City, was opened to a road last month, and Filson Car and Horse Company immediately opened a bus to here, but in order to satisfy the surrounding people at the same time, Despite the needs of a village, the bus station is still located on the road outside the village, and you still have to walk a few steps.
Unexpectedly, before reaching the entrance of the village, several beeps suddenly sounded at the door. Father Anduin followed the sound and looked over, and saw a medium-sized magic bus driving in from the narrow gravel road at the entrance of the village.
Father Anduin was startled for a moment, wondering if the bus stop at Feilson Coach and Horses Station had suddenly been changed to the village? The Magic Bus Motorcycle actually drove in!
Taking a closer look, I found that this medium-sized magic bus did not have the Filson Horse Racing logo hanging on it at all. Instead, there was a sign hanging on the front with the word "for rent" written on it.
After Anduin was stunned for a moment, he realized that this must be the medium-sized magic bus that has become very popular in Bangta City in the past two months and can be freely rented. People in the city call it a taxi.
But I heard that the cost of renting this thing is much more expensive than the bus, so now only the rich people in the city can afford it.
And now this taxi actually traveled from the city to the village of Prana, which is so far away, and it costs a lot of money.
Thinking of this, Father Anduin quickly gave way to the roadside.
Although the nobles and big businessmen in Bangta City were more honest than other places in the kingdom when Count Satsuma was the city lord, now that Her Royal Highness Princess Sevigny has become the city lord, they are even more honest. But compared with these gentlemen, he, an ordinary farmer, has a humble status and does not dare to block their way.
However, the strange thing is that this medium-sized magic bus stopped right next to Father Anduin.
The car window close to Anduin's father opened, and a beautiful young girl with a sweet appearance and quiet temperament, who looked like she should not appear in such a remote place in the countryside, stuck her head out and showed her face to Father Anduin. Sweet smile.
"Hello. Is this Prana Village?"
Father Anduin looked inside the car in shock and found that in addition to this young and beautiful girl, there were actually two dwarves and a male elf in the two medium-sized magic buses. There were also three human males and one Relatively young. The other two looked to be at least over forty.
"Ah. Yes, this is Prana Village." Father Anduin nodded. "Are you from Bangta City? What are you doing in our village?"
"We are here for inspection." The young girl responded and thought for a moment. He turned around and got out of the car from the other side, and then told the driver in front of him: "Find an open place to stop, we are already there."
After the driver drove the medium-sized magic bus away again, the young girl walked to Father Anduin again and said with a smile: "Hello. My name is Evita. I am here for inspection from the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce. What do you do? call?"
"Just call me Anduin." Father Anduin looked Evita up and down, and couldn't help but admired: "If you were sent out for inspection by the New Flight Chamber of Commerce, you must have a high position in the New Flight Chamber of Commerce. Right? It’s really not easy for someone so young and beautiful to be so capable. By the way, what are you going to inspect here? We don’t have anything special to inspect in Plana Village, right?”
"Thank you for the compliment." Evita smiled slightly. "We are here to inspect the magic crystal mines nearby. Dad Anduin. Are you a local of Prana Village? Then you should know the situation of the magic crystal mines nearby?"
"Well, I have lived here all my life, and I dare say that few people know this place better than me. The magic crystal mine you mentioned should be in that direction..." Father Anduin pointed to the southwest outside the village. "The Falcao Chamber of Commerce used to mine this magic crystal mine for several months, and I even worked there as a part-time worker for a period of time."
"It would be great if you are familiar with it." Evita smiled happily: "Then do you have time now? Could you please take us for a field trip? We are short of a suitable guide. If it delays you We are willing to pay you a certain amount of time, which should satisfy you.”
Father Anduin laughed and waved his hand: "It's not a reward, it's just a guide, no big deal. Okay, I don't have anything urgent to do now anyway, I'll just take you there."
"Really, thank you so much." Evita turned around and waved to the people who had chosen an open place to get off the car, motioning for them to come over.
When everyone came over, Evita tapped the ground with her toes and said to one of the middle-aged men with beards: "Director Dussa, it seems that the village-to-village highway project of your Amli Chamber of Commerce has not been completed yet. Ah, the road doesn’t extend into the village at all, that’s not okay.”
The middle-aged man known as Director Dusa immediately yelled: "Miss Evita, you can't say this nonsense. This project was proposed by Chairman Xu of your Xinfei Chamber of Commerce, and then our Chamber of Commerce received the approval from the city lord's palace. The construction team did not cut corners at all. The reason why the road was not laid into the village was to ensure that there was a road connection near every village. In the future, the road must be laid into every village. Went inside.”
Father Anduin on the side heard the conversation between the two and couldn't help but interjected: "Yes, this little girl, the Amuli Chamber of Commerce has done a good enough job. When our village didn't have roads before, we wanted to To go to Bangta City, you can only walk there, and you may not be able to go back and forth in one day. Now that there are roads, even if I don’t take the bus from Filson, I can just ride a bicycle in one morning. It’s much more convenient than before.”
"These are two different things." Evita shook her head and continued to tell Director Dusa: "Anyway, this road is definitely not good now. If the magic crystal mine starts to be mined in the future, such a road will be very unfavorable for the magic crystal to face outward. transportation."
"It's easy to say. As long as your Xinfei Chamber of Commerce is willing to invest, we can not only lay roads into the villages, but also directly into the mines." Director Dusa said proudly. "Of course, your Xinfei Chamber of Commerce has a lot of money, but it shouldn't be a big deal just to pave more roads."
Evita shook her head slightly, but didn't say much.
After Father Anduin explained to Aunt Vera, the group of people walked towards a mountain in the southwest outside the village under his leadership. )