Richard in the study didn't know how cautious Jialie was. Seeing Gallie leaving, he took a deep breath, calmed down, took out numerous scrolls and papers from the space iron ring, and started working.
His eyes scanned the content on the paper, and his fingers tapped on the table, thinking about what kind of materials could be used to make energy storage materials with relatively good performance.
"Da da da… "
His fingers tapped on the table, making regular crisp sounds, and Richard muttered to himself.
"Metal palladium has a certain effect on free energy storage, but according to data, adding other metals will have a better effect... "
"Metallic silver can improve conductivity, but it also makes the stored free energy elements more likely to escape. The ratio must be carefully controlled... "
"In addition, it is somewhat unexpected that carbon element can have an impact on free energy elements. Whether it is an accidental deviation of the experimental data or the real situation cannot be determined for the time being. It seems that we need to continue testing. If the test results remain unchanged, then choose When using metallic iron, you must pay attention to removing the carbon contained in it to avoid discrepancies in the data... "
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In this way, Richard settled down in Jialan City and worked nervously and busily every day, constantly asking Jialie and the other servants to purchase various materials and ores to conduct different experiments.
At first, the place where these things were purchased was the blacksmith shop in the city, but as the materials Richard needed became more and more unpopular, the place of purchase gradually became merchants specializing in mineral trading.
Then Jialie and the other servants began to contact the owners of the major mines. When the owners of the mines could not fully meet their needs, Jialie began to frequently go in and out of auctions in the city.
Every time Jialie appears, there will be a commotion, for no other reason than because whatever Jialie wants to get, no matter how high the price is at auction, he will definitely get it.
Many people know that it is not that Jia Lie is rich, but that the wizard standing behind Jia Lie - Richard is rich, extremely rich!
Richard's wealth, coupled with Richard's weird behavior of not communicating with anyone, combined to make more and more people curious about Richard - there are wizards in Jialan City, but there have never been any A wizard like Richard.
However, Richard ignored all unimportant matters and just stayed busy in the manor.
In the blink of an eye, a month has passed.
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June, the fallow month, brings summer.
Heat waves rolled down from the high mountains, combined with the fierce sun, scorching the earth.
During the day, the most diligent miners dare not work when the sun is the strongest, as they are risking their own lives. Once the fire evil catches the body (heat stroke), even if not a whole life is lost, half a life can be lost. In order to do more work and get more money, the gain outweighs the loss.
In comparison, the servants in the Blue Lake Manor purchased by Richard were much happier. Because there are rivers, lakes, and woods in the manor, the temperature is several degrees Celsius lower than in other places, and most of the work can be done indoors without being tortured by the sun.
Such a good thing was noticed by people in nearby villages, and many people couldn't help but request to work in the manor, but they were all rejected by Gallie.
Gallie knew very well that there were not many people needed in the manor, and the thirteen servants left behind were more than enough. If Richard hadn't cared about the wages of two or three silver coins per person, he would have fired half of them.
After all, if there are too many people, things can easily go wrong.
No, two maids had just found him, crying that a manservant named Robert had tried to touch them.
Gallie knew very well about Robert. This was not the first time he had made a mistake. Suppressing his anger, he comforted the two maids, and then found Robert and gave him a severe scolding.
After doing this, Gallie walked back to his small office, drank a lot of cold water, sat on a chair and thought about whether to drive Robert away. He always felt that keeping the other party would have a bad impact.
But he didn't think about it for too long, and he got busy with other things, which was to sort out the accounts for the coming month and record every expense.
He was a commoner, and a very ordinary kind of commoner. He went to school for two years when he was a child and learned some words, but not much. He couldn't write even slightly complicated words.
Therefore, in addition to the crooked handwriting on the paper, there are also many patterns.
For example, when Richard ordered to buy two good horses for use, he would write "good", but he didn't know how to write "horse", so he had to draw a horse, and then carefully write the cost of buying two horses at the back. Fifty-two gold coins.
After I finished writing it, I couldn’t help but sigh, it’s really expensive!
Having said that, in fact, Richard did not ask him to do these things, it was entirely of his own free will. It's not "pleasant", but it's definitely "difficult".
Every time, Richard would give him enough gold coins to handle various things. He would not ask for the balance afterwards and would just leave it here with him. The level of confidence he felt in him was exaggerated. As long as he is a little thoughtful, he can easily earn dozens or hundreds of silver coins.
But he felt that it was better not to take advantage of a wizard. A series of tragic experiences in the past made him cherish the hard-earned job opportunity.
He would rather pay for nothing than earn a share that does not belong to him.
"Shashasha..."
Thinking this way, Galie began to record the cost of buying food today.
"Eggs, 50, 40 copper coins. Bread, 40 pounds, 38 copper coins. Refined flour, 15 pounds, 120 copper coins. Animal meat, 10 pounds, 150 copper coins... Four meat pigeons, 120 copper coins..."
"Hey!" Jialie suddenly stopped writing, scratched his head and thought hard, "How to write meat pigeon?"
After thinking about it for a long time, he couldn't figure it out. Jialie reluctantly started to use his own unique skill to replace the words with drawings.
One hook, one twist, one twist, one pull...
Not long after, a pigeon appeared on the paper, but it looked like a... featherless chicken.
Forget it, it’s pretty much the same anyway.
Jialie said in his heart, and quickly recorded the rest of the purchasing expenses.
After spending a while, he finally finished recording the accounts. Gallie let out a long breath, feeling that it was harder than being beaten, but anyway, it was finally done.
Standing up, Gallie looked to one side, subconsciously thinking: I don't know what my wizard master is doing.
He knew that Richard was busy in another stone building in that direction, but he had no idea what he was busy with - unless Richard rang the bell to let him in, Richard strictly prohibited anyone from disturbing him.
There's actually nothing wrong with this, after all, that's a wizard!
A wizard must be mysterious!
Gallie was thinking this when he suddenly heard a "bang", and the next moment he felt as if the outer wall of the room he was in was hit by a heavy iron ball.
With a "crash", the room shook violently, and debris from the roof continued to fall, and it was about to collapse.
"what happened?"
Gallie couldn't help being startled, grabbed the account he had just recorded, and ran out quickly. He ran outside the door, glanced subconsciously into the distance, and was immediately stunned.