The operator of the food stand is a murloc, fat and strong like a shark.
The stall sells fried fish on a hot plate, which is the kind of fish whose appearance is indistinguishable from slugs. It can be eaten after simply frying until half-cooked. The taste is similar to that of abalone, but it is more creamy.
Kewen once rejected this kind of fish very much.
Afterwards, Wei's persuasion failed, so he tried to taste it.
As for after...
Steamed, minced garlic, braised...
The food stall in front of me is to fry it on an iron plate, and then mix it in the thick condiment soup.
Seems a bit off topic...
Closer to home.
It wasn't the food stalls or the food that caught Ke Wen's attention, but a small pendant hanging on the waist of the murloc boss
The pendant was made of wood, and it was carved into the shape of a wind bird that inhabits near the coast, but the color is blue.
Although the craftsmanship of the pendant was poor, Ke Wen felt the magic from it.
He looked at the pendant for a long time, but finally he held back and didn't use his strength to perceive it.
Because he already guessed something.
Blue Bird Amulet, this is Zaun.
In this way, behind the talisman is the Avatar of Wind—Janna!
And the reason why he noticed the miraculousness must be that the amulet contained the power of faith in Janna.
This made Cowen interested.
Even a series of plans in his mind had new patches.
Ke Wen couldn't help walking towards the food stall.
However, after walking a few steps, he stopped again.
Because Ke Wen found that the magical feeling on the pendant suddenly disappeared.
This made him slightly taken aback.
Could it be that Janna noticed something and avoided it
But it's not right.
He didn't do anything...
Just as Ke Wen was thinking, something surprised him happened.
There was a sense of wonder on the pendant again, but the feeling it conveyed to him was very slight.
"Gulu Gulu Ji Gu."
At this moment, the stall owner found Ke Wen standing in front of the stall, and the murloc suddenly showed a hideous but honest smile.
The murloc grinned his fang-filled mouth and spoke a string of murloc words to Cowen.
And Ke Wen's inherent supernatural nature made him understand the meaning of the other party without using any power.
The murloc was asking him to try the other's handicraft.
In this regard, Kewen turned his gaze from the pendant to the murloc's face.
He thought for a moment, then nodded with a smile, and stepped forward to sit on the chair.
There was another burst of murloc chatter, and the boss was asking what he wanted to try.
Cowen glanced at the box of fresh ingredients, then pointed to a squid and then to a boneless fish, the slug-like fish.
The murloc smiled and said wait a minute, then quickly picked out the biggest squid from the box, and grabbed a handful of boneless fish with his open hand.
"Bless the Naga." The murloc prayed in a low voice while handling the squid familiarly: "Bless me to make a fortune from this stupid idiot, so that I can go back and feed the pile of fish at home."
The muscles on Ke Wen's face twitched, pulling the corners of his mouth up.
He glanced at the blue bird pendant, which was a little more mysterious, and then looked at the back of the murloc boss and said with a smile, "I can understand your language."
Click!
The blade was embedded in the cutting board, and the murloc's movements stopped in astonishment.
He opened his mouth in surprise and turned his head, looked at Ke Wen and asked, "Can you understand?"
"I understand." Ke Wen nodded with a smile.
"Oh haha... how rare..."
The murloc boss showed a troubled look, and after hesitating, he reluctantly said: "Okay! Then I'll take two less copper teeth from you, and you'll be fine with thirty-three copper teeth!"
After uttering the preferential words with difficulty, the murloc boss hurriedly turned around and continued working, as if he was afraid that Kewen would try to get along with him to ask for some discounts.
Cowen was delighted to see it.
After a while, he restrained his smile, and said to the back of the murloc boss: "A silver gear, as long as you answer my question."
Snapped!
The cartilaginous fish was slapped on the cutting board by the boss. He quickly turned around, wiped his hands with the torn apron around his waist, and asked, "What does the guest want to ask?"
"That." Ke Wen stretched out his finger and pointed at the blue bird pendant: "Tell me the story about it."
The boss of the murloc looked down at his waist, and carefully pinched the blue bird pendant with his big hands: "This?"
"Yes." Ke Wen replied.
"No problem!" The murloc showed a ferocious and honest smile again.
He didn't hesitate, and said directly: "This is passed down from our family, and there is also an ancestral precept that was passed down together."
"My great-great-great-grandfather was the first to run snacks here. At that time, people believed in Janna, the god of wind. My great-great-great-great-grandfather found that as long as he brought this, people would be more willing to come to his food stall. "
"So the tradition has been passed down and it's been passed down to me."
Scratching the back of his head foolishly, the murloc grinned and said, "I will continue to pass it on, and I discovered more than my great-great-great-grandfather."
"what have you found?"
Ke Wen took out a silver gear from his pocket, pressed it on the table with a click, and pressed the silver coin with his finger and pushed it to the other party.
When he withdrew his fingers, the murloc immediately pinched the silver coin carefully with two sharp nails.
Putting the silver coins into his pocket, he smiled and said, "Thank you boss, I found that I can pray more to the God of Wind. Every time there is a gray warning in the lower city, I will pray to Janna."
"And whenever I pray, there will be a breeze around me, blowing away the haze around me, so that I can breathe well."
"I also prayed a lot to Janna, which made my business here more and more prosperous. I even ran some business selling information besides running snacks."
"Guests, you might as well give it a try." The murloc boss sincerely suggested: "The next gray warning is only a few days away, and the visibility of the poison haze is only an arm's length away. Try praying, and Janna will help You blow away the poison haze, really! The people of Zaun do not lie to the people of Zaun! Guests, please join me in believing in Janna!"
Hearing this, Ke Wen looked at the blue bird pendant again.
He felt that the supernatural power on it had increased again.
Thinking of something, Kewen took out a silver gear from his pocket again and pushed it along the table to the other party.
"What else does the boss want to know?" The murloc quickly collected the silver coins, and he said more enthusiastically, "Are you interested in all kinds of information about Bottom City? I can tell you everything I know."
"Need not."
Ke Wen shook his head slightly, and pointed to the blue bird pendant: "I need you to pray sincerely until I say stop, pay attention, it is sincere prayer."
"Pray?" The murloc boss was taken aback.
He looked down at the pendant, and then tapped his neckless head forcefully.
"Okay!" He said with a naive smile, "The money the boss paid is enough for me to earn for a month! I'm just praying that I won't receive other guests today!"
After finishing speaking, the murloc boss put his palms together, and clamped the blue bird pendant between his palms.
He began to pray in murloc language in a 'grumbling' voice.
The first few prayers did not come from the heart, so Kewen did not feel the increase in the supernatural power on the pendant.
But after a while, the murloc boss followed the inertia and entered a state of concentration.
He really began to pray with his heart.
From this moment on, the supernatural power on the pendant has increased again!
Ke Wen silently did not disturb.
After about a quarter of an hour, the mysticism on the pendant suddenly disappeared again.
Cowen immediately looked up.
Eventually, he spotted some changes over the Rift Valley.
A boundless wind blows from above the rift valley, blowing away a little of the black smoke and dust that covered the sky, reducing the concentration of the smoke and dust.
But it seemed like a useless effort, because the thinned smoke was soon polluted by the new black haze to the original concentration.
Cowen, however, laughed.
"Okay." He woke up the murloc boss, and stretched out his hand and said, "Can you lend me the pendant?"
The murloc boss hesitated, but he still handed over the pendant.
Ke Wen took the pendant and turned it over to check it, and returned it after noting the style.
Looking at the uncooked seafood ingredients on the cutting board, he stood up and said, "Thank you for your cooperation, continue to believe, Janna will continue to protect you."
After the words fell, Ke Wen turned around with a smile and walked towards the place where the books were sold.
The murloc boss stared at Ke Wen's back and scratched his head.
He couldn't understand what Cowen was thinking.
But he didn't care at all.
Putting the blue bird pendant back on his waist in a precious manner, the murloc boss hummed a little song with a weird accent, while packing up the ingredients while secretly delighting in his heart.
He chuckled and continued to pray, praying that Janna would bless him and let him meet some big fools like Kewen again.
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the other side.
Ke Wen moved forward while supplementing the plan in his mind.
After he determined his future plans, he had already arrived at the bookstore selling books.
He stepped through the open door into the bookstore without any other customers.
"Welcome." The boss who was sitting at the long cash collection table didn't look up, and asked while reading a book, "Does the customer want to buy books or news?"
"Buy books."
Ke Wen stepped forward and tapped on the table with his fingers: "Alchemy technology, mechanical technology, gear technology, formal and illegal ones, I want them all."
These words made the bookstore owner finally raise his head.
He looked at Ke Wen with one big and one small eyes, and only after seeing Ke Wen's flawless downtown outfit, he took out a blank piece of paper from under the table.
Shyly tearing the white paper in half, the bookstore owner pushed half a piece of paper and a marker pen from the table to Ke Wen.
Pointing to the back door, the boss said softly, "Go to the library at the back and pick it out yourself, and then give me the number."
Ke Wen turned his head to look at the back door, then picked up a pen and paper and walked over.
Pushing open the back door, a musty smell hits the face.
Cowen walked in without hesitation.
In front of him was a library of over 100 square meters, with many books lined up on dilapidated wooden and iron shelves.
Ke Wen stepped forward to check, and pulled out a book marked "Introduction to Gear Power" from the bookshelf.
Opening the book, Ke Wen only saw two pages, which were the introduction and the table of contents.
This made him laugh a little bit, this book seller did a good job of preventing prostitution.
Shaking his head, he put the book back on the shelf.
Then he began to walk slowly along the bookshelves.
After walking around all the bookshelves, Ke Wen started to write.
He wrote all the book numbers he had memorized on that half of the paper, and finally filled both sides of the paper.
Back in the front hall, Ke Wen put the pen and paper on the table, and tapped the table again with his fingers.
The bookstore owner raised his eyes from the books.
He glanced at Cowen, then at the numbered paper.
He was stunned at first glance.
The owner of the bookstore began to look bad, and he threatened in a deep voice: "Boy, are you making fun of me?! I don't mind letting one more corpse float in the pool of alchemy wastewater!"
Snapped!
A gold coin was pressed on the table by Kewen like a Go piece.
He said softly, "Check out."
The boss who found the gold coin suddenly changed his face. He showed a warm smile and quickly grabbed the half piece of paper.
After doing the addition for a long time, the boss finally settled all the book money with a wooden stick with a metal ring.
However, he did not report the number immediately, but started the second addition operation.
This time, every time the price was added to a hundred gold gears, the bookstore owner would only fiddle with the metal ring on the wooden bar.
After a while, he looked at Ke Wen suspiciously: "Guest, knowledge is the most expensive, are you sure you can afford the price of these books?"
Ke Wen didn't say much.
He immediately started picking out gold coins.
More than 800 gold coins were piled up in a pile on the table.
When Ke Wen dropped the last gold coin, the boss who blocked the door with his back ran back quickly.
He greedily counted every gold coin.
After a while, all the gold coins were collected.
"Guest, please wait a moment!"
The boss bent over and rubbed his hands, and he said flatteringly: "I'll get some helpers to carry it for you, don't worry, I'll pay for the hire for you!"
With a look of great affection, the bookstore owner immediately ran to the door and opened the door again after receiving Ke Wen's nod in response.
He stood at the door and glanced left and right, then put his fingers into his mouth and whistled twice.
He raised his hand and attracted eight teenagers and half-children, and the bookstore owner took the child workers to the warehouse to pick up books.
After more than half an hour, Ke Wen left the bookstore with the hired workers who were carrying backpacks.
He dropped a gold coin in exchange for a cart in a shop not far away.
Let the employees put the books in the car, and then he continued to browse the black market.
Next, Ke Wen bought a lot of building materials and hired more than a dozen hired workers to help him carry them.
It was evening when I got home.
Instructing the employees to unload the goods, Kewen distributed ten copper gears to send the employees away.
After that, the work can only depend on yourself.
But there is also Wei and three friends to help.
But the four little bean dings miscalculated their own strength, and they lost their strength after mixing for less than half an hour.
Ke Wen hilariously suspended the carrying work and prepared a dinner for the four little bean dings.
For the remaining books and building materials that had not been moved, he moved them into the house by himself after the meal.
Although it was troublesome, he had to do it.
Otherwise, if you put it outside the door, I am afraid that many pickpockets will take it out overnight...
(end of this chapter)