Alien landlady

Chapter 223
After entering the country, Bai Tongtong and Ah Huang realized that they had gone through the exit procedures, so they had to go back to Lessos in the dark, knocked open the gate of the border office, and asked the guards to find the border officer to stamp her with an exit stamp. After crossing the river, call the domestic border officer to stamp the stamp before leaving.

At noon the next day, Farrell saw that Ah Huang was still delivering lunch, and was surprised that Bai Tongtong came back in one day.

Ah Huang's tail slapped the floor of the attic, and a few words appeared above his head, 【Experimental analysis in progress. 】

Farrell sipped his soup, blinked, and returned to the file.

In the end, the news of the suspected mine in the small town of Toto in the country of Lysos was not announced to the public, so Bai Tongtong was allowed to eat alone, and she had this serious business, so she just used it to politely decline those invitations, except for going to the elders' home in November Apart from attending the year-end meeting attended by the presidents of the Wizards Guild for a few days, she basically never left Fabao Town if she had nothing to do.

Bai Tongtong's experiment was a bit complicated. This is a substance she has never seen before. She thinks that this mysterious mineral may belong to the rare earth category, but the existing conditions are limited. Without those sophisticated experimental instruments, accurate data cannot be obtained. She can only try to smelt steel and mix it into magic metal materials to see what happens.

Seeing that the New Year is coming, the Magicians Guild has put up festive decorations inside and out, and at the same time, the work is getting busier. The various work summaries are almost draining people's brains. Burrow is still a newcomer, so he can't help Bai Tongtong wrote this as a ghostwriter, but in the end she had to do it herself.

The summaries of the presidents are to be handed over to the general guild for archiving and used to evaluate the work achievements of the past year. The documents handed in by other guilds across the country are all beautiful handwritten versions, except for Bai Tongtong’s printed copy, which is still bound into a book This made the clerks who sorted out the documents feel very strange, wondering if President Bai paid too much attention to it, and such a thick summary was still printed.

The general guild is still lamenting that President Bai is serious about his work, while Bai Tongtong himself is carrying a newly made sample, and during lunch break, carrying a basket of food delivery, he comes out of the teleportation array and goes straight to Farrell's house. office.

Standing at the door of the office, the assistant sitting downstairs and Farrell sitting in the attic looked at her together, the three of them stared at each other for a while, Bai Tongtong grinned, showing a mouthful of beautiful white teeth, sweet and greasy He said with a smile: "Dear senior, I have brought lunch."

The assistant's legs trembled a couple of times, he pulled himself together and walked towards Bai Tongtong, took the basket in her hand and carefully placed it on the empty table aside, and then wanted to go out to get some tea for Bai Tongtong.

With sharp eyes and quick hands, Bai Tongtong knocked his heels, closed the door first, and glanced at the assistant, "Go eat your meal, I won't look for you."

Without further ado, the assistant quickly slipped back to the table, took out his share of lunch from the basket, and sent the basket to the attic, then lowered his head down, sat down and ate in silence.

Standing on the attic, the corner of Farrell's mouth twitched like a toothache. He didn't know what Bai Tongtong was doing. His intuition was that something must be wrong, but her behavior was so strange that it made people feel uneasy from the bottom of their hearts.

"Dear senior, are you planning to let me stand here until the lunch break is over?" The lady lasted for less than a minute, and Bai Tongtong stared impatiently.

Farrell had no choice but to hook his fingers to let Bai Tongtong go up, and he pulled his chair away to sit down.

"Since you delivered the meal yourself, do you want me to listen to you first, or should I eat first?"

"Of course you eat first. The golden roasted chicken legs will taste bad when they are cold. I am not here to spoil your appetite." Bai Tongtong sat down on the chair opposite the desk, put his hands on the edge of the desk, and looked at Farley with a smile. Er, look at the basket again.

Seeing her like this, Farrell really didn't dare to eat, and would rather listen to her before going to eat a cold and stale lunch.

"I'd better listen to you first, otherwise I won't have such a good appetite if you stare at me like this."

"It's really nothing important. It doesn't matter if you eat first." Although Bai Tongtong said so, she stood up again, moved the chair behind the table, sat side by side with Farrell, and stared at him.

Farrell sighed, put a barrier around the basket to prevent the food from getting cold, then sat sideways and looked at Bai Tongtong, "I'd better listen to you first."

With an eager expression about to show something, Bai Tongtong took out a piece of paper from the ring and handed it to Farrell.

Farrell took it and opened it, and there was a line of printed characters on it, "How do you sell the mine in Toto Town? Huh?! The experiment is over? Do you know what mine is underground?"

"It's like magic magnetite, a new variety that I haven't seen before."

"Oh, no wonder it took you so long. Lessos' envoys have urged you several times. In the past, mine exploration and analysis only took a few days."

"That's because they found common minerals before. You can reply to them now. If His Majesty allows it, I want to buy the entire Toto Town."

"How big is the mining area?"

"I don't know. I only drilled one cave at that time, and the testing experiment was done at night. I didn't have time to go to other hills to drill holes and take samples. Before I came back, I just asked Ah Huang to circle the boundaries of the possible mining area, probably Bitoto. The total area of ​​the town is a little smaller. I can only say that the experimental results of the sample I have are good news. If I spend more time on it, I may be able to find associated mines. If I am unlucky, It’s worth it if you only find that little mineral.”

"That is to say, the main purpose of the money you used to buy a town is the mountain where you have already discovered the minerals, because the value of the minerals on that mountain is far greater than the money you paid for? As for what happens if you find other minerals in the future , is that considered a side benefit?"

"Far, far beyond your imagination, I pay more, I am willing."

"Really? Are there such valuable minerals? Worth more than gold?"

"Hey, there are many things in this world that are more precious than gold, but everyone generally recognizes gold as a general equivalent."

"I'm curious, did you bring a sample? What does it look like?"

"It looks like clay, and it looks like clay after purification. It's brown powder, non-toxic and tasteless." Bai Tongtong took out a sample jar and put it on the table.

Farrell picked up the pot and looked at it in his hand, "If you really don't see anything special about it, some people may even wonder if you just used ordinary soil to deceive people."

"If there are people in the elders' house who like to show off their ignorance, find an opportunity to fire them. Don't keep them. It will simply lower the average value of normal people. If you work with such people for a long time, you will also become stupid."

"Your mouth is really poisonous." Farrell put down the sample jar, "What's the use of this thing? It's impossible for you not to study it after doing so many experiments, right?"

"Didn't you see it?" Bai Tongtong opened his eyes innocently.

"what?"

"I just gave it to you. Isn't it on your desk?" Bai Tongtong pointed to the piece of paper she gave Farrell earlier.

"You mean this? Used in papermaking?"

"What, this is the mid-grade writing paper bought on the street."

"The font on it looks like it's printed. Could it be the printing?"

Bai Tongtong grinned like Puss in Boots, her eyes were shining, she patted one end of the table, signaling Farrell to clear the table.

Farrell swiftly moved all the documents on the other end of the table to the other end of the table and to the bookshelf at hand, eagerly waiting to see the good things that Bai Tongtong was going to bring out.

Bai Tongtong took out a cardboard box from the ring and put it on the ground, opened the box, and inside was a strange box made of resin.

She placed the box on an empty table, opened the front half of the box like opening the cover of a piano, revealing a row of standard keyboards, and a magic water screen appeared inside the flipped cover, and then Bai Tongtong turned up the lid of the second half of the box again, forming an angle between the two lids, she put the previous piece of paper in, straightened the chair and sat down, put her hands on the keyboard and clicked, Quatrains appeared on the water screen, and then I pressed the print key on the keyboard, and I heard a rattling sound, the paper was rolled into the box, and then spit out from the back, leaving behind the little poem.

"Understood?" Bai Tongtong smiled triumphantly like a child showing off his baby.

Farrell was dumbfounded.

Bai Tongtong turned the paper over, put it back into the paper slot, got up and left the chair, and pulled Farrell over to let him sit down.

Only then did Farrell suddenly come to his senses, let Bai Tongtong hold his hands, place each finger on the specified key position, and press his fingers to type out all his keys one by one. name, and then press the print button, the name is printed on the paper.

"Oh! God! What's the principle?" Farrell fumbled around the machine excitedly.

"The principle still needs to be studied. I just tried to mix and smelt it with the metal material used to make the magic circle, and a new change occurred. It has a bit of magical properties but is like ordinary metal. It is very malleable and can be molded at different temperatures. shape, to obtain different metal properties, to be elastic and flexible, to have toughness and toughness, to have hardness and hardness, and to have strength and strength.”

"But I think your machine can be explained by more than just this new type of metal."

"Without this thing, my magic typewriter really couldn't get out, and I was stuck in the printing process. It wasn't until I connected several magic circles with different functions in series with this metal wire that I finally made my idea a reality. With this, I can finally not have to handwrite documents and letters so hard.”

Farrell looked at the rough prototype, rubbed his chin and pondered for a moment, "Do you really want to buy the whole town by yourself?"

"I'm not short of money. And in my hands, such precious minerals can be better utilized than in the hands of others. At least I can guarantee that the local environment will not be damaged when mining. If other miners are allowed to do it, that The town is finished, but the scenery there is quite beautiful, deep in the mountains, forests and rivers are singing birds and flowers."

"This news has not been publicly announced so far. Letting you go to mine exploration and experimental analysis by yourself is already a one-time meal for you. If you want to completely monopolize it, be careful that it will cause dissatisfaction among many people."

"I know that mining is as simple as eating and drinking for me, but it is a business opportunity for miners. If I monopolize it, it means that this business will not even have a chance to go public. Some people will be dissatisfied, but there is no way. The technical gap lies here. The ore layer is under the ten-meter soil layer, and there are rocks underneath. The large rocks that look complete in texture may have half of them containing ore, and the other half of them are ordinary rocks. How do miners distinguish the mined ones? Every stone?"

"Do you want to mine by yourself in the future?"

"Fast and accurate sorting of ore is a high-end technical task, especially this is the first time a new type of ore has been discovered. Instead of letting miners come here to mine randomly, it is better for me to ponder slowly and work intensively."

"It makes sense for you to say that. I can help you mediate, but you want to give me another... um typewriter?"

"I'm going to give it away? I wanted you to keep looking for the shortcomings for me, especially the arrangement of the main keyboard. I always feel that there are a few keys that are not in the right position. When I type too fast, the keys get stuck. .”

"It's like giving them a decoration, and the envoys have to take this thing to show their majesty. In Lessos, it is very serious for foreigners to buy mines. Even if you are the partner of Shadowless Cat, you can Follow the laws of their country, right?"

"Okay, I'll go back and make another one, and you can give them the sample jars too."

"Then I will write a letter to their messenger in the afternoon, and then wait for your new machine."

"Yeah. Take your time to study how to use it. I'm going back. Oh, by the way, if you want to use a typewriter to write a letter, the signature must be written by yourself, and you can't use a typewriter. This is also an anti-counterfeiting method." Bai Tongtong urged In a word, wave your hand, go downstairs and leave, and use the ground escape technique to escape to the palace in the corridor.

Farrell's assistant, wiping his oily hands and mouth with a handkerchief, ran up to the attic and stood at his desk marveling at the typewriter.

"Miss Bai is really the best magician in our country. Everyone has had this idea for a long time, but until now she is the only one who has come up with the real one, and the size is still so suitable."

"If you finish eating, help me get a stack of high-quality writing paper. I will use this typewriter to write letters to the emissary of Lysos."

The assistant nodded, turned around, went downstairs and left the office.

That afternoon, the envoy of the Kingdom of Lessos received a letter from Farrell. It was printed in a strange font, and only the signature at the bottom was handwritten. It said that Bai Tongtong had confirmed that the town of Toto contained precious minerals, and that This is the raw material used to make the first practical sample, and this letter is the final result. If the envoy is interested, you can visit the elders' home on site.

Farrell wrote this, of course, aroused the interest of the envoy, and immediately wrote back to make an appointment to go there the next afternoon, and he was relieved from the bottom of his heart, and he would be able to explain to his majesty, otherwise he would be pushed hard, Toto town There are many aristocrats in Lessos who are watching the suspected mineral matter. If it weren't for his personal relationship with Farrell, Bai Tongtong would not be the first to intervene.

But in fact, this afternoon, Farrell's office was already very lively. Many people saw Bai Tongtong ostentatiously delivering lunch in person. As she walked forward, someone came to inquire about the magic typewriter. The news spread throughout the four buildings of the Elder's House, but anyone who was qualified to come to the chief clerk's office came to visit for a while, and all the personal assistants around the minister came to see it.

Farrell's letter to Lessos' emissary was typed out word by word with the awkward two-finger Zen technique under such circumstances.

(End of this chapter)