my age of magic

Chapter 838 338. Madam Alia's Last Workshop

Mrs. Alia didn't say that, in fact, carrying bags on the airport pier can be regarded as a well-paid job. Emperor Charles would not let those poor people who lived in poverty starve to death, and of course he would not let them sit back and enjoy the rewards. The difference in this respect There are still many, such as being sent to remote areas of various planes to do mining work, or to become a lumberjack in a forest farm in the plane area.

Although the living conditions in the imperial capital are difficult, all kinds of materials are abundant, and the conditions are many times better than those in other places. Even the poor will feel that they are superior to the poor in other places. No matter where they go, they will be like those in their eyes The 'countryman' said: Lao Tzu lived in a villa in the imperial capital.

Every poor person is like a fish struggling in a fish tank. If they don't perform well enough, they may be fished out of this gorgeous fish tank and thrown into the harsh rivers where they need to find their own food. For the imperial capital For the poor here, life outside the imperial capital is very scary, full of dangers everywhere.

They called those poor people who were sent to other planes to do hard labor because they couldn't survive in the imperial capital as 'exiles'.

Every year, there will be a certain number of exiles in the imperial capital. Although the imperial capital is as big as seven Sluit cities combined, it is not an infinite city after all. It is surrounded by peaks like the crater of Mount Majaro. The central area It is another big lake. The flat land here is very limited. However, there are a large number of nobles gathered here. The living space left for the commoners is not that big. The area that finally falls on the poor commoners is only a corner of the sixth district.

Many merchants and nobles are willing to open workshops here, not only because the land here is the cheapest, but also because there are cheaper workers here, and the farther away from the Weiyang Lake, the farther away from the central area of ​​the imperial capital , the cheaper it is.

Mrs. Alia's privately opened small textile workshop is located on the edge of the sixth district, here and the outermost area of ​​the crater.

Mrs. Alia can become one of the three major tailors in the imperial capital. The largest textile workshops under the name of Mrs. Alia are not here. Those textile workshops are located in the center of the sixth block of the imperial capital. Now those large textile workshops There is no doubt that it has fallen into the hands of Billy Babington, and Mrs. Alia has no way to prove that those workshops did not use the resources of the Babington family, so she was kicked out by the Babington family. The workshop naturally became the property of the Babington family.

This small textile workshop in a remote area was built here secretly by Mrs. Alia to avoid the eyes and ears of all members of the Babington family. Usually, Mrs. Alia almost never comes here. The last way left by myself.

This weaving workshop is built on a sloping land, and there are countless workshops, large and small, lined up here. Her weaving workshop is so inconspicuous among these workshops. There are no signs and plaques, just like the townhouses in the warehouse in the airport town.

When the magic caravan stopped here, I got out of the car and looked up at the nearby Majaro crater. The towering crater was like the broad chest of a stone giant, encircling the entire imperial capital.

The flowing clouds above the blue sky are like the water of the Benma River, rolling past the top of the mountain, giving me the illusion that this ringed mountain is collapsing all the time.

It is tens of kilometers away from Weiyang Lake. Standing on the hillside, you can even have a panoramic view of the entire imperial capital. Those luxuriant street trees are green in color, like very thin green lines. Confine the buildings in the imperial capital in square grids. These buildings surround Weiyang Lake. Seven tall mage towers are scattered in seven urban areas. Standing here, I can only vaguely see As far as the three mage towers are concerned, one mage tower belonging to the sixth district is still relatively clear, while the other two are very blurry.

The imperial capital fully demonstrates the characteristics that a magical city should have. Here, the floating royal city no longer has the sense of oppression floating above the head. The royal city is more like a huge island floating on Weiyang Lake, with gorgeous palaces built on it. , the castle occupies almost every part of the floating island.

"Only by looking at the panoramic view of the imperial capital here, can I feel the majesty and grandeur of the imperial capital. This capital of the Green Empire can give me a more sense of security. This is why I miss this city and don't want to leave here. "Ai Li Madam Ya stepped out of the magic caravan, stretched her plump body, showing a hint of laziness.

She stood beside me and followed my gaze towards Weiyang Lake in the distance. A layer of mist appeared in her beautiful eyes, and a magnetic voice sounded beside my ear: "For a girl who has lived in the north since childhood For a woman in this environment, the sense of security here is unparalleled. You probably don’t know what kind of life I lived when I was a child. Every year in winter, every morning when I wake up, I will be grateful in my heart that I haven’t been raped. Those ferocious savages for breakfast, have the same nightmare nearly every night."

Nightmare, only for those who are about to become slaves.

"There are barbarians who eat people in the imperial capital, but they are more civilized when they eat people. They will tie napkins, place people on exquisite silver plates, and decorate some flowers on the table to make the environment more warm. , will pray before eating, so that the last bit of uneasiness in conscience will be eliminated, and will also look at the food on the plate with pity, and tell the sins they have committed in their lives, which will make them feel guilty. Eating is the salvation of one's soul..." I found myself smiling a bit coldly, this was originally a world where the weak preyed on the strong, and the biggest slave owner of the Grimm Empire was naturally Emperor Charles the Great, and even I couldn't remove myself completely.

Mrs. Aliya was speechless by my refutation, and she glanced at me angrily, biting her red lips gently with her pearly shell teeth, pointed to the gate opposite the stone road, and said: "I'm going to eat people now, will you go?"

"Of course, you agreed to enjoy the future feast together, how could you leave me behind!" I followed behind her and said hastily.

Mrs. Aliya's white shoulders were covered with a layer of dew-like sweat. The sweltering heat of summer turned the capital into a huge steamer in such an afternoon.

Mrs. Aliya squinted her eyes, pouted her mouth and gave me a dissatisfied look, and said, "Aren't you afraid to see my ugly face with blood on the corner of my mouth, and feel annoyed?"

I said with a playful smile: "Then wipe your mouth carefully to make yourself look better. Maybe we can draw a big cake for them. In fact, all you need for a cake like that is a piece of parchment..."

"Boring, do you need to spend any thought on those slaves?" Mrs. Alia seemed to not understand my thoughts. She probably thought that these thoughts of mine were not the thoughts that a nobleman should have, so she angrily and I argued: "Let them work hard. If they don't obey, they will be starved. If they resist, they will take out the whip in their hands. Is it necessary to worry about what they think?"

On these issues, she will not back down.

On the contrary, Katerina didn't care about our argument at all. She was enjoying this beautiful afternoon, and nothing seemed to affect her mood.

Katerina held one of my arms and looked at Mrs. Alia's face curiously. Although Katerina lived in the lower society of the imperial capital when she was a child, she was born and bred in the imperial capital. As Qige's personal maid, In her heart, she could not experience the kind of life Mrs. Aliya described.But she has half of the blood of the orc race in her bones. She blinked her ruby-like eyes and said to me yearningly: "Ji Jia, when will you take me back to El City?"

"It's winter, it's summer, it's the season for everything to grow, there is a busy scene, but no barbarians will come out to make trouble at this time. In El City, only winter is the hunting season." I almost Whispering against Katerina's crystal-clear pearly ear, it made her cheeks blush.

Katerina nodded gently, and seeing the shy look on her face, there was a fascination in her eyes, like a ripe red apple.

A wisp of breeze blows her soft red hair. Now she is still a head taller than me. It is difficult for her curvy figure to show the posture of a small bird beside me, and I enjoy being in her arms even more. Intoxicating feeling.

When I walked into the textile workshop privately owned by Mrs. Alia, I found that the building in this workshop was more than twice as large as the rune board workshop I saw at noon, and this textile workshop was not affected Affected by the event at the ball, the entire workshop is running in an orderly manner. I never thought that the tall maid next to Mrs. Alia would run over briskly like a deer in the forest holding a gauze skirt, with a reunion look on her face. Afterwards, with a delighted smile, he bowed slightly and saluted Mrs. Alia.

"What a vigilant girl. If you are trapped in that manor, I can't get you out of the Babington house with my current ability. I am very happy that you can escape from the manor. Thank you, Statue of Liberty." Mrs. Aliya stepped forward and bent down, holding the maid's fair face with one hand, and holding the maid's hand with the other, and said with great joy.

The maid lowered her head slightly, and her long chestnut hair fell on both sides of her face like a waterfall, revealing a neck like snow, and whispered to Mrs. Alia how she took advantage of Babin The manor was in chaos in the early days. After deceiving the gatekeeper of the manor, he left the first block in a carriage of an aristocratic gentleman, and successfully arrived at the textile workshop in the sixth block, waiting anxiously for Mrs. Alia to appear.

At this time, an old man wearing plain and simple noble clothes walked out of the workshop. Looking at the second-class viscount noble medal on his chest, he was known to be one of the countless low-ranking nobles in the imperial capital. I couldn't figure out his relationship with Mrs. Aliya. Seeing him walking over with a calm face, Mrs. Aliya nodded slightly towards the old man while comforting her personal maid.

Mrs. Alia's face was like a spring breeze, and she said softly: "Mr. Amos, it seems that the workshop has been managed very well recently. Thank you for keeping the workshop operating despite this turmoil."

"This is what I should do, Mrs. Alia." The old man saluted Mrs. Alia, but he was quite aristocratic, standing upright, and even in such a hot weather, he still wore noble clothes. The dress, the button on the neckline is also tied, and it looks like a very old-fashioned person.

And as soon as we met, I didn't ask Mrs. Aliya any recent situation, and I couldn't wait to start talking about the situation in the workshop: "You left a large amount of raw materials in the workshop before, enough for the workshop to work continuously day and night for three days. Count Luke Main came the day before yesterday to transport the last batch of silk, but it seems that he has no plans to renew the order..."

"...Reduce the orders of silk and fine cotton cloth in the workshop as much as possible. Recently, I plan to process a batch of more value-added fabrics." Once she entered the workshop, Mrs. Alia seemed to be a different person, with bright eyes Inspecting everything around her, with great confidence in her eyes, walking in the silk reeling workshop is like a queen inspecting her territory.

The rows of looms in the workshop spit out pure white silk from the tail outlets. It seems that silk is processed most in this workshop.

Across the steaming pool, there are countless fist-sized white silk cocoons floating in it, as if the silk is being reeled there, I pointed to those fist-sized silk cocoons and asked Mrs. Alia curiously: "Are those the cocoons of the ghost moth? "

Ali Yalu said in surprise: "You even know this? Does the Magic Academy teach this?"

I touched my nose, but I can't say that I learned the knowledge of this Symphony Ghost Moth from the old Kuru in the wasteland.

For this kind of ghost moth, the orc hunters in the wasteland can't miss it. They usually live in groups by the secluded lake covered with low white ring vines. The larvae of these ghost moths like to eat the leaves of the white ring vine. The knowledge of ghost moths is limited, but they cannot ignore the value of their cocoons. Human merchants wantonly buy these silk cocoons with silver coins, which makes every tribal orc in the wasteland know that the silk cocoons of these ghost moths are Valuable, as a qualified orc tribe hunter, one must not only know how to collect herbs and skinning, but also know all the valuable things in the wasteland.

However, the first time I saw this thing, it was as big as a fist as described by the old Kuru. I thought that this kind of silk cocoon was also like a silkworm cocoon, but it still looks very different. obviously.

At this moment, Mrs. Alia and the workshop manager, Amos, were standing by a sink, talking about something in a low voice.

I walked over and found that the sink was soaked with spider silk ingots. I don’t know what kind of potion it was, and it exuded a weird smell. I wanted to calm Mrs. Alia, what is the effect of the potion in the pool, But he held back.

Looking at the silk ingots spinning rapidly on the revolving shaft, the three strands of spider silk spun and converged into a silk thread. The faint magic breath flowing on the three spider threads converged together, and they merged together strangely. It turns out that this is the spider silk The magic thread, but I don't understand that the three completely independent spider threads are entangled together, and the magic power attached to the spider threads is magically fused together.

(End of this chapter)