The metal bottle looks a bit like a bottle for packaging high-end liquor, very unique.
The color is golden yellow, close to the color of a gold coin, but a little more brown. There are carved patterns on it, and some patterns are wrapped in complex patterns. It looked like an abstract drawing of the sun and trees, and bows and arrows and some kind of lyre, and a bear and an eagle in flight.
Generally speaking, this metal bottle is like a precious artwork that nobles like to collect most.
Dangdang.
He tapped on the metal bottle with his fingers, making a strange sound, which was not the sound metal should make, it was a bit like plastic. But it can be clearly seen that this brown-yellow bottle is definitely a metal product, and it has the touch of metal.
"Mr. Gao Ertai, what kind of metal do you think this is?" Liszt shook the bottle.
It should be empty inside, nothing moving.
Gao Ertai spread his hands: "Gold, silver, copper, iron, this is not any kind of metal I have ever seen, please forgive me for not knowing what it is."
"It has no mouth?"
"It seems to be a whole. I have checked carefully where it should be the mouth of the bottle. There is no gap, and it can't be screwed."
Liszt tried it with his hands, but he couldn't unscrew it. There was no cap on the bottle mouth, and it was a solid whole: "Guess what's in it?"
"A bottle of fine wine?"
"Dreams don't always come true, Mr. Galtai, I don't think there is liquid in this."
Gao Ertai laughed loudly: "Haha, you can always imagine it before it is opened."
Liszt handed the bottle to Carter, and asked Carter to put the bottle back in his study: "Store it first, and when I have time, I will slowly figure out how to open it."
"Yes, sir."
When Carter left, Liszt motioned for Gao Ertai to find a seat to sit down.
He asked: "How is the caravan transaction going?"
"Everything is going well. Since you started to develop Huahua Town and provided a lot of paid jobs, the residents of the town have gradually had spare money, and they can pick up some small commodities at the stalls of the caravan. The goods of those merchants are almost Most of it was sold, and even a few copper coins were thrown on the comedy stage."
Burlesques are generally hired by caravans and performed free of charge to attract customers.
Only when the audience is happy, will they throw some coins on the stage to reward these hard-working clowns. Huahua Town is poor, and the residents are afraid that their stomachs hurt from laughing, and they are reluctant to throw out a copper coin. I didn't expect that there were still people who really gave rewards to the clowns.
"Who threw the copper coins?"
"I've only seen one throw a coin, your kitchen maid Erin Fourfingers."
Erin Four Fingers
Liszt didn't have much contact with this kitchen maid, and basically didn't see her once a day—the kitchen maid's status was very low, and she was forbidden to go upstairs, to appear in the lobby on the first floor, and even to hang around in front of the noble lord—he I just got to know Irene roughly from Butler Carter's mouth, she is a straightforward and hearty little girl.
"Young people are always generous," he commented.
Gao Ertai wanted to say, you are also a young man, only sixteen years old, not as old as other girls. But he didn't say it out loud. The current Liszt has the maturity and stability of a middle-aged person, and his slightly immature face can almost be ignored when dealing with people.
"Maybe this is the talent brought by the noble blood." Galtai often thinks this way.
At first, I followed Liszt to Huahua Town, just wanting to be a consultant to eat and drink. At his age, he no longer expects to revive the family business and restore the glory of the nobility. Unexpectedly, Liszt changed Huahua Town, and also changed his idea of dawdling.
Freya's pregnancy was just an introduction, and Gortai knew it very well.
In the final analysis, it is Liszt's will that determines the behavior of the people around him, otherwise, he is just an illegitimate child, and there is no need to pay so much attention to it. There are few illegitimate children of the nobles outside. For the sake of family harmony, many illegitimate children of nobles can only be serfs for the rest of their lives.
"Mr. Galtai." Seeing that Gao Ertai was distracted, Liszt couldn't help reminding him.
Gao Ertai immediately sat up straight: "You say."
"As for the caravan transactions, as an official, you must supervise every transaction, and no profiteers are allowed to harm civilians. At the same time, you are not allowed to allow patrols and clerks to take things from the caravan."
"Don't worry, I emphasize this every day."
"The publicity work must be done well, publicizing that Huahua Town welcomes foreigners to come and settle, and the tax is the most favorable. And tell the people in the caravan how Huahua Town will develop in the next step, and show them the planning of the commercial area, workshop area, and residential area , let them feel the bright future of Huahua Town."
"As you wish!"
…
After seeing off Galtai, Liszt didn't take a lunch break immediately, he went directly to the study and played with the metal bottle on the desk. This drifting bottle made him very interested.
He concentrated for a moment, and called out the task of smoke.
"Complete the task and reward the drifting bottle at sea."
"Task: The bottle that cannot be opened and the text that cannot be read are due to unequal knowledge, but it does not mean that it cannot be solved. The old cobbler who was blinded by the cobbler felt that his health was getting worse and worse, so he gave him a Son, maybe he is willing to exchange a certain book. Quest reward: unknown book."
As expected, the metal bottle picked up by the fishermen is the reward for the smoke task.
The caravan's transaction task of three gold coins was completed early.
But when he saw the new task, Liszt had a dumbfounding expression on his face: "The bottle that can't be opened means that I can't open the drift bottle? The text that I can't understand means that there is a note inside, maybe it's in a foreign language? However, what is the content of the task behind this, to give the old cobbler a son?"
If the other party's wife is in her prime and graceful, graceful.
Liszt didn't mind giving the other party a son and a hat.
However, during the previous census, he had carefully read the information on the craftsmen in the town. He has the impression that this old cobbler is a widower at all, with no relatives and no reason. He came to Huahua Town by begging ten years ago, and since then he settled down in Huahua Town, picking up his cobbler craftsmanship.
Such a person, how can he give the other party a son
"Give me a son... Maybe my thoughts are a little off, let's have someone investigate the old cobbler first." He shook the rattle and called for Carter.
"master."
"Mr. Carter, ask someone to send a letter to Mr. Gao Ertai, asking him to investigate the old cobbler in the town. The information should be more detailed. If he has any difficulties, he can help him by the way."
Carter heard the words: "Master, maybe you should ask Jesse, he is very familiar with the old cobbler."
"Jessie?"
Jesse Taomishui used to be an assistant manservant in the castle, but now he has been promoted to be a manservant, mainly responsible for the castle's external errands.
After a while, Jesse, who was playing in the small town, was called back.
"Master, are you looking for me?" Even as a male servant, he was still a little embarrassed facing Liszt, and he didn't know where to put his hands.
Liszt asked directly: "Are you familiar with the old cobbler? Tell me about the old cobbler."
"You mean Uncle Phil, I met Uncle Phil when I went to the cobbler's shop to mend leather shoes. Uncle Phil is blind and it's very inconvenient to work, and now his health is getting worse and worse, so I I would visit him from time to time and help him with things.”
"I heard that the old cobbler wants a son?"