Vientiane Throne of Civilization

Chapter 1134: Transaction with Yalvette
Due to the influence of the environment and climate, the only places in the entire Great Zhou where lizard people can live for a long time and work stably are the southern border and the volcanic island.

Apart from the fact that the lizardmen were unable to perform certain jobs due to the limitations of their racial abilities, this wave of transfers was enough for Zhou Xu to mobilize a lot of labor to contribute to the construction of the first railway in their Great Zhou.

Zhou Xu had just finished arranging things here, when he turned around, an elf knight came running to inform him that Yalvette wanted to see him for something.

Upon hearing the news, Zhou Xu subconsciously thought that there was a problem with the fetus in Yalvette's belly, so he hurried to the other party's courtyard and was completely speechless.

"So, you came to me in such a hurry just to buy food from me?"

"if not?"

I don’t know if it’s because she has been in the Great Zhou for too long, but now Yalvette’s words and actions are obviously influenced by them.

The way he speaks no longer sounds like an ancient person.

"Although our female warrior tribe has the ability to produce food, it is relatively average. Every winter, the food supply is also relatively tight. In addition, the war with the greenskins in the past few years has seriously consumed the stored food. I see that your Great Zhou has sufficient food, so I want to buy some to fill the granary."

The grain stored in the granary can be said to be an important reserve material. Once any natural disaster or man-made disaster occurs, such as the war in previous years, these reserve materials will come in handy to help them overcome the difficulties more calmly.

On the other hand, if they had no grain in their granaries, the whole situation would undoubtedly become much more difficult, and it might even directly lead to a situation where internal and external troubles broke out simultaneously.

Although Yalvette's ability in domestic affairs was average, she was still aware of such things.

During this time, she stayed in the palace here, with nothing to do, so she simply compared it with the Great Zhou in front of her and thought about the development and construction of their female warrior tribe. Then she just thought of this problem, so she asked someone to notify Zhou Xu. After all, she has always been a person of action...

This made Zhou Xu speechless. He thought something had happened!

Looking at Yalvette's puzzled expression, Zhou Xu became even more speechless. He snatched the cup from her hand and drank the milk tea in it.

"this is mine!"

Yalvette emphasized with some displeasure.

Hearing this, Zhou Xu glanced at the warm pot next to the oven.

"Isn't there a big pot here? By the way, if you drink too much of this stuff, you'll get fat. Don't blame me for not reminding you."

As he spoke, Zhou Xu handed the empty cup to the female warrior standing beside him.

The female warrior took the cup without thinking much. She added pearls and scooped milk tea. She made two cups of milk tea very skillfully and placed them in front of Zhou Xu and Yalvet respectively.

This is a new hot drink launched by Da Zhou this winter. Simply put, it is yak milk and tea, with some tapioca pearls and sugar added in. A cup of pearl milk tea with very decent ingredients and absolutely zero additives is ready.

However, yak milk is still high in fat, and drinking too much will still make you fat.

But Yalvette has been very addicted to bubble milk tea recently. She can drink a whole pot of it in a day, so much so that Zhou Xu couldn't help but remind her.

Yalvette didn't agree with this and didn't take it seriously at all.

Seeing this, Zhou Xu obviously didn't intend to say more and directly changed the subject to business.

"Let's get down to business. You want to buy food from me? What do you want to buy it with?"

Speaking of war, their Great Zhou was also at war a few years ago, and a lot of stored grain was consumed. Now the granaries in many places are in the process of restocking grain.

The female warrior tribe has a population of tens of thousands, so if Yalvet wants to stockpile food, it will definitely not be a small number.

Although they were about to have a second child, their purpose was clear from the beginning. It was a cooperative relationship and they both got what they needed. It was obviously impossible for Zhou Xu to be given to her for free.

Yalvet was undoubtedly prepared for this.

"I have a piece of mage equipment in my hand."

Zhou Xu was immediately interested when he heard about the mage equipment. Not only because of the function of the equipment itself, but also because after getting it, he could do research and gain results!
"What equipment? What is its function?"

"That was a trophy my grandmother obtained in a war. It's a magic bracelet. As for its function."

At this point, Yalvette's voice became noticeably weaker.

"I am not very sure."

"..."

"You know, we female warriors don't have mages, and we haven't researched mage equipment, so we can't use it at all. But don't you mages like to research this kind of thing?"

Zhou Xu originally wanted to bargain for a lower price, but Yalvette changed the subject, which made him clearly feel that the other party was not so easy to fool.

However, he soon found a breakthrough from other aspects.

"Research is research, but if we don't even know the function, what if the effect is worthless?"

It was really hard for Yalvette to refute this.

"How much food do you want?"

Yalvette reported a number and Zhou Xu shook his head after hearing it.

"I can't return so much food to you with just a magic bracelet that I can't even confirm is useful."

Hearing this, Yalvette hesitated for a moment, then spoke...

"I still have some scattered mantra characters in my hand, you can add them all."

"How much is some? What are they?"

"About eight or nine, right? As for what they are..."

Yalvet roughly mentioned a few of them, but she couldn't remember many of them.

"You can't even remember which Mantra characters you have?"

Zhou Xu was speechless.

Unexpectedly, Yalvette was even more speechless.

"I can't use it, why should I remember it?"

Yalvette said this with confidence. She really didn't care about those mantra characters.

I don’t know if it’s because of their bloodline, but they, the female warriors, are not compatible with most of the mantras. All the mantras they obtained in the past that could be put together to form phrases were used by them to trade with surrounding forces in exchange for resources.

If you can successfully form a phrase, or even a complete mantra, its value can be doubled. On the contrary, individual mantra characters, which are scattered and cannot be put together into pairs, are often the least valuable most of the time.

Because you have a mantra character in your hand, it is very likely that you will not be able to put together a usable combination until you die.

This is also the main reason why these mantra characters have not been traded. The female warriors plan to trade them after they appreciate in value.

Now because of the food problem, Yalvet simply put all these mantra characters on the trading table.

During this period, for Zhou Xu, compared with the grain produced every year, the mantra characters were still worth a lot of money to him, not to mention there was also a magic equipment.

Thinking of this, Zhou Xu said "deal" very straightforwardly.

(End of this chapter)