The letter that Xia Zoe sent to Orville was quickly received, and the Grand Duke wrote in the reply that he hoped to visit the Territory of Desinia at the end of summer, and hoped to communicate with Xia Zoe at that time. Some experience of raising wolves.
The words in the letter are sincere and fully express the wishes of the Duke.
Xia Zoe naturally agreed.
When the end of summer is approaching and the beginning of autumn is approaching, Orville arrived at the castle with the little wolf cub and his subordinate Robert, just as a group of fluffy people went into the forest to hunt separately, and Xia Zoey was left with two The cubs play in the log cabin built by the lake, the rice cakes sleep on the soft cushions inside, and the egg cubs are energetic and run out of the butterflies and insects in the grass.
There are seats next to the wooden house, a pot of scented tea and a rose cake specially made by Xia Zuoyi on the table. Body and mind are relaxed.
The wolf cub brought by Orville has a little light gray hair from the tip of the ear to the back, and the small brush-like tail is placed on the upper of the Grand Duke's shoe. At this moment, he is lying on the side and staring at the egg boy curiously. Want to join means.
"What's its name?" Xia Zoe asked.
"Snow." After eating a whole piece of rose cake, Orville took another sip of flower tea to moisten his throat: "It's very naughty. It has already tore off three of my clothes and five pairs of shoes with its claws.
Probably hearing his name, the little wolf cub raised his head and purred twice, one front paw tugging at the hem of the grand duke's clothes.
Orville pinched Snow's little ear.
At this moment, Dan Zai suddenly snorted in the direction of the mountain forest, excitedly stepped on his little paws and stood up from the ground, his tail wagging happily.
Xia Zuoyi also smiled and pointed to the back of Orville: "It turned out that the ice cream came back first."
Orville turned around.
- A white wolf ran towards the castle in the direction of the castle, facing the sun that was not dazzling in the late summer. The sun shone through the treetops and sprinkled mottled patterns. Broken and quietly flowing, the light and shadow of light and shade climbed on the white wolf's hair without a trace of mottled, and quietly passed again with the breeze.
Orville looked at the ice cream with imperceptible wonder in his eyes. Snow couldn't help getting up and running a few steps forward, his tail swaying slightly: "Ow."
Ice-cream stopped running to Eggman, and her ice-blue eyes looked at Snow.
Snow couldn't help but whimper again.
Orville watched Snow slowly approach the white wolf, and finally began to spin around the white wolf and said softly: "Did you know that the Powell Kingdom believes in the White Wolf King on the snowy mountains? On the flag of the Powell Kingdom is a hairy white wolf. the wolf."
Xia Zuoyi nodded suspiciously, and said, "I know."
"You mentioned in your letter before that Snow is the descendant of a white wolf king in Powell."
Although he didn't say much in the letter, Xia Zoe also saw in the grand duke's simple words what cooperation or transaction he had made with the king of Powell in private, otherwise how could he get a precious wolf king? Cub.
Orville turned his head to look at Xia Zoe, his light gray eyes glittering under the sun: "On the highlands and snow-capped mountains of Powell and the extreme north, there has never been any one whose hair is as pure as ice and snow. Wolf."
"It has an irresistible charm to the people of Powell, you know?"
Xia Zuoyi understood: "The country of Powell believes in the white wolf, is the Grand Duke worried that the Congress of Powell wants to get ice cream?"
Orville is noncommittal. Faith can give birth to everything. Powell has a reputation for being fierce and savage. It is not surprising that he did something to get the white wolf.
Xia Zuoyi pondered for a while: "I understand what the Grand Duke means, but don't worry."
Orville: "It's good that you can understand in your heart."
"The king of Powell, Gena Cosmo, has great ambitions. He wants more than just being in the extreme north. The existence of white wolves is a way for him to unite his beliefs... Maybe you will be there See him at the winter meeting."
Gena Cosmo, the male supporting character in the original book.
Xia Zoe was a little surprised: "Could it be that His Majesty the King will go to the Saint Air Empire in person?"
Orville nodded.
He remembered that the heroine and the male supporting role in the original book would meet for the first time after the epidemic completely disappeared... I wonder if they will meet each other in advance in the empire.
The fluffy ones came back from the forest one by one, and it could be seen that Snow liked ice cream very much, and kept following the white wolf, causing Eggman to pounce on it several times, but Snow easily avoided it.
Orville did not stay in the castle for long, and left the Desinia territory three days later.
On the way, Robert said: "Grand Duke, His Majesty the King of Powell is a fierce lone wolf, and the cruelty of the extreme north has created his character, in case the king knows that there is actually an appearance in the Desinia territory. A white wolf king... he is likely to find it himself... "
Orville stroked the sleepy Snow and said slowly, "Don't think about it, maybe..."
He remembered what he had discussed with Xia Zoe during the few days he stayed in the castle.
Robert pricked up his ears, maybe what
The Grand Duke suddenly hooked the corner of his mouth and said nothing.
The most vicious lone wolf encounters a skilled hunter who knows how to set traps, even if the hunter did not set the trap for his own sake.
Shortly after Orville left, Segalot sent a letter to Xia Zoe with a list of famous alchemists and physicians on the Western Continent, which listed the factions and forces they belonged to.
This list plays a very important role for Xia Zoe, and immediately wrote a letter to His Holiness the Pope to thank him.
Although all alchemists belong to the Alchemist Association, alchemists are divided into different factions due to different research directions, and some factions are even hostile to each other. Of course, most alchemists are independent or look for a wealthy noble to provide support for their research, and they contribute their research results to the noble in some aspects.
Xia Zuoyi was famous in the alchemy association for his research on plant medicines and ointments. Because he was a noble lord, he really attracted many alchemists who came to defect.
The research direction of these people is similar to that of Xia Zuoyi. In alchemy, they tend to study the Philosopher's Stone, the holy medicine of immortality, which can cure all diseases and disasters.
The other factions are probably "touching stone into gold", studying all sacred things, such as some kind of stone containing powerful power... Studying alchemy to make copper and iron turn into gold in a certain way, and even send inspiration from this change mental capacity, etc.
Or alchemy research that is biased towards mathematics and physics, but there are very few physics-oriented experiments compared to "chemical-oriented" experiments.
Sometimes it's hard to tell the difference between an alchemist and a physician. An alchemist is likely to be a physician, but it is very difficult for a physician to become an alchemist.
So, even though this exchange was named after alchemists and physicians, the status of physicians was at the bottom.
Xia Zuoyi's alchemy research in the direction of medicine is actually more deviated from the doctor, which also polarized his reputation in the alchemist association.
Xia Zuoyi didn't care about this, except that he initially needed an alchemist's badge, he never paid attention to the alchemist association. Recently, he heard that the alchemist association began to form a force headed by Chebman Norton.
The main research direction of Chebman Norton is also to create the Philosopher's Stone.
Xia Zoe remembered that the other party was from the Ed Chamber of Commerce, and according to Archibald's words, he explored the formula of botanical medicine and ointment, and invented a plaster to treat hemorrhoids.
Xia Zoe thought that Chebman Norton was indeed very capable and talented. He didn't know what kind of person he was, but he could meet him in the San Air Empire.
Before the arrival of late autumn, Xia Zoe sold the craftsmanship of cement concrete pavement to the territory of Akiyayoli and the kingdom of Anas.
Cement soil pavement includes a variety of categories, including plain concrete pavement, reinforced concrete pavement, fiber soil pavement, block soil pavement...
Xia Zoe selected several types of pavement suitable for the existing technology, including plain concrete, which is an ordinary concrete pavement cast on site, with low technical requirements and fast construction.
- Cement concrete pavement is more widely applicable than asphalt pavement.
Asphalt concrete pavement can be used for some key sites, while cement concrete pavement of various traffic levels, such as roads between cities, main traffic roads in cities, etc.
Maintenance and cleanliness of the pavement also helps people develop good hygiene habits.
A long time ago, Xia Zuoyi began to ask the craftsmen's guild to study the pavement laying steps in detail, the most important of which is the concrete pavement cutting seam, and he has also tested it on one road, but the time between the cutting seams is too long or too long. It can cause road problems, such as road cracks or burrs.
Waste a lot of time in between.
But fortunately, Conrad and his eldest son Darren explored this aspect in depth and solved many problems.
Xia Zuoyi specially asked Renault to develop a small concrete mixer with iron wheels, rollers for smashing the road, etc. In view of technical limitations, many aspects of the machine have been improved and innovated, and electric to manual is a process of reducing On this basis, we should pay more attention to grasping the efficiency of work and be more adaptable to the current work equipment.
Although there was no deliberate propaganda, after the cement pavement began to be laid in the territory of Akiyayoli and the Kingdom of Anas, the stability, durability, anti-skid, cleanliness and other characteristics of the cement pavement gradually revealed, which also inadvertently made Xia Zoe’s The fame spread even further.