Not a Witch

A young man who was driving jumped out of the car, his white shirt already drenched with sweat.

"I'm back, Alan." Su Lisi waved her hand, then went back to the house and started cooking.

"En." The young man fetched a bucket of water from the well, drank a few mouthfuls before slowly putting it down. Although he was dressed in ordinary clothes, he looked pretty good, with a smell of sunshine.

"Brother Alun." The door of another room in the small courtyard was pushed open, and a little girl came out. She was wearing a blue and white dress, which looked good, but the edges were washed white and looked a little worn.

"Well, is little Luna obedient today?" He knelt down and stroked the little girl's head.

"Yes." The little girl nodded.

"Haha, that's good. It's a pity that you can't walk around freely now. After a few years, go out and find a good family." There was a bit of affection in his voice.

"What a nice family, I think it's better to earn some money and live on your own, so that you can live more comfortably." The little fat man walked over cursing.

"Luna, be good~" He squatted down and was about to touch his head, but the little girl hid him.

"Hello brother Terry." Luna poked her head out from behind Allen and looked at the little fat man.

"Luna didn't get close to me, obviously I rescued you from the fire at that time, hoot." Triton wiped his eyes and pretended to cry.

A small hand was placed on Triton's bird's nest blond hair: "Brother Triton, don't cry, Luna still has candies here."

She stretched out her small hand, revealing the red round candy in it, and handed it over.

Triton immediately turned from crying to laughing, and Su Lisi walked out of the room after hearing this, snatched the candy from Triton's hand, and returned it to Luna.

"You'd better think about it, how to explain to everyone tonight, almost attracting big shots, if those masters in the city know Luna's whereabouts, they won't want us wanted."

After all, this child is the only living heir of the Fulula Chamber of Commerce.

Looking at this well-behaved girl, Su Lisi couldn't help recalling the changes and fires two years ago, the crowd running in panic, the blood and sword waving, and several large chambers of commerce that collapsed overnight.

Chapter 260 Two Sects of Mage

After the three of Lorraine Hill arrived at the beach, they looked around, and soon found Letice and the others in the seaside restaurant, who were eating cold drinks on the open-air balcony on the second floor.

Niya waved her hand above, and the three people below also responded, and then walked towards this side.

"Would you like some ice cream?"

Several people turned around the dark walls and stairs, walked up to the second floor, and saw Radiss said to several people.

The location of this restaurant is very good, on a hillside, overlooking most of the harbour, on the spacious open-air balcony on the second floor, there are parasols, small tables, and rectangular wooden flower pots around it. The low flowers and plants, and a few round poles form the guardrail, which is quite poetic.

"I want to eat~" Lily likes sweets very much, she danced and answered, and walked over briskly.

After the three of them sat down, several cups of ice cream garnished with cherries were served.

Blowing the warm and comfortable sea breeze, drinking cold fruit juice, several people began to talk, telling what they saw and heard today.

"I saw a lot of new things, some of them I like very much." Lily said so, and Bu Mansha and Niya also quite agreed.

"Of course, these are all huge changes brought about by technological innovation." Letis said with a little pride, as a descendant of a mage born in Luerna, she was naturally quite proud of this.

"It's really more comfortable." Aliena also agreed, but she didn't envy Luerna's new invention, because the Southern Islands under the Young Moon Council had developed well.Both can be said to have their own merits.

"What do you think of Lorraine?" Bu Mansha looked at the girl who was quietly drinking juice.

"Me?" Lorraine Hill had experienced similar things in her previous life, so she was naturally not greatly impacted. She just felt that the current technology was not developing fast enough.

Luerna, or the country of Oz, has reached a very high level of technology such as machinery and power for hundreds of years, but it has not spread as quickly as in the previous life, but the progress has slowed down.

She was thinking about the reason just now, after all, this world is different from the previous life.

"It feels good, but why hasn't it been popularized on a large scale? This is Ubere. Although it is good in all aspects, other small places are still the same." Lorraine Hill answered.

"Probably because I can't afford it." Niya said with emotion, good things are always expensive.

"It's a bit expensive, but the cost is there." Letis said with a finger raised.

"The purchase of raw materials, refining, processing, etc. all require money and costs."

"Which links are costly and expensive?" Lorraine Hill asked with interest. She wanted to know the opinions of everyone in this world, and it happened that several of her companions came from all over the world.

"First of all, it's the materials." Lettice has a deep feeling for this point, and she herself comes from the Luerna alchemy faction.

"Metal ores are mined from various countries and then transported. Every time they change hands, every time they pass through a noble checkpoint, we need to pay money. When we finally buy it from merchants, the price will be difficult to lower."

"Manpower is also the reason." Aliena talked about her own experience. She comes from the Southern Islands, where the population has never been very dense.

"Many people want to farm, fish, do odd jobs and so on, and there are not many local people who can recruit jobs."

"Then let people from other places come." Lily asked simply and directly.

"Outsiders have to pay more money for traveling so far, otherwise they might as well stay at home, and outsiders come, the local food may not be able to support them, so they have to import food, so the asking price will be higher gone."

"That's it." Lily was a little resentful.

"Generally speaking, the profit margin is still not big enough." Lorraine Hill was thoughtful.

The high cost of materials and labor makes the profit margin of the product smaller, and the price is difficult to be cheap, and only a small number of people can afford it, so the market cannot expand.

The market is small, and the overall profit ceiling is not high.As a result, related technologies and products did not expand explosively, but progressed slowly.

"But it's better now." Lettice held the cup, looked at the busy port, and said.

"After the merger of Luerna and Verga, the resources, land, population, and market have all expanded, and it is not as difficult as before."

"If Frost Rose continues to expand and merge the resources of the entire Seven Snow Kingdoms, it must be able to break through the previous confinement." Aliena said with a sigh.

"Without the layer-by-layer card restrictions imposed by the nobles in various places, the import price of raw materials can be reduced. In addition, the population will flow, and the labor cost will also be reduced." Lorraine Hill added.

"Yeah, that's it, isn't it amazing." Letice said heartily.

"However, my favorite thing to do, Aliena, is to break your alchemy illusions." Aliena raised her finger.

"?" Letis looked at Aliena in confusion.

"Our Chuyue school is not bad. If we do it, the effect will definitely be good. It's really hard to say which side will win in the future." Aliena waved her fingers.

"Okay, okay, you two don't argue."

Bu Mansha came out to smooth things over. Although Alena and Letis had been roommates for more than a year, they were like enemies, and they always had different views on each other.

After a few people sat on the second floor of the restaurant for a while, they returned to their place of residence, and Aliena and the three also took back the musical instruments bought by each other.

At the dinner table, the two continued their previous argument.

"It's easy to cool down, preserve food, or make ice cream with alchemy props." Ledis said the advantages of alchemy.

"It's not difficult. We have a kind of conch in the Southern Islands. After improvement, it has a natural inscription pattern. It can release air-conditioning as long as you add a little magic spar. And it doesn't need metal to make it, and it's not easy to break."

"But the output is not high, and the cycle is also long."

"The output is not low. Some islands in the shallow sea area specialize in cultivating this kind of conch. As long as a few mages maintain it, there will be thousands of them a year. Your production model needs more metal and mages." Aliena retorted. road.

"What about magic locomotives, or even airships, you can't popularize these, right?" Letis once again threw out the advantages of her own school.

"Well, although vehicles are not good, our special pack animals are more adaptable to various road conditions, and can run everywhere without repairing roads." Aliena continued.

...

Lorraine Hill quietly listened to the debate between the two, feeling a burst of novelty, and at the same time slowly sorting out the characteristics and advantages of the two factions.

The alchemy school undoubtedly overlaps with the industrial machinery of the previous life. Heavy industry, large-scale machinery, unified standards, and production capacity do have advantages.

However, the Chuyueyi faction also has many advantages in biology, pharmaceuticals, coping with various environments, small and flexible, low material demand, and so on.

It would be nice to combine the strengths of the two factions.It's a pity that it still looks difficult at present.

Chapter 260 Triton's Grand Plan

"Not good~"

Early in the morning, Aliena yelled at the dining table, it seemed that she was in big trouble.

"Father can't come anymore. He said that he will have a fight with a certain pirate leader recently, and he has no time to escape. Let me figure out a way by myself." Aliena said disappointedly.

"Hey, that's it, it seems that we should go to the airship." Lettice held up her folding fan and said gloatingly.

"The airship will probably have to wait for a long time." Aliena said while lying on the table, looking at everyone like a dead fish.

Since the Young Moon Council and Luerna didn't like it very much, there were very few airships flying to the Southern Islands, basically only once a month.

"Look for another ship." Bumansha took a sip of tea and said, time is not so urgent for each other.

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On the seaside alley.

"I didn't expect the sheets in the blanket yesterday to be more valuable. I'm really lucky." Triton touched the purse in his arms and sighed softly.

That bed sheet, which is extremely smooth to the touch, is said to have been produced in the far east. It is made of silk as a whole, with flowers and birds embroidered on it. money.

Sheets are a more intimate thing, easier to get rid of than gold and silver jewelry.Jewelry and the like are worried about being recognized, and it is embarrassing to mention the origin, but the bed sheets are placed in the bedroom, except for a few relatives, no one can see them, and it is not easy for outsiders to find out.

There will be no follow-up problems after it is sold, so that special store also gave a higher price.

With this money, I can finally do something big.Triton pondered in his heart and began to perfect the long-conceived plan.

He had worked as a doorman and waiter in a hotel for nearly seven years before, and he had met many wealthy people who made a fortune.Comparing his knowledge over the years, he gradually summed up some experience.

Rigidly working for others like Sister Su Lisi, at most, you can win a well-off family.If you want to become a big shot, you must have found a lucrative business at a certain time.

He didn't want to live his whole life in such a humble way, working as a servant in a hotel in low voice.Although life looks good, but the gap in identity and psychology also makes him accumulate a lot of unwillingness in his heart.He wants to stand out, so that he can enjoy that kind of enjoyment.

Forget it, give it a try.

Although there are still many problems in the plan, he decided to give it a try. Sometimes, no matter how long the plan is, it is better to do it himself, even if there is a huge risk in it.

Pushing open the courtyard door, Triton walked in.

Alan hasn't come back yet, and he is probably helping people to buy goods again. Hey, my good brother is also overqualified.He shook his head thinking.

A Lun used to be a coachman of the Fulula Chamber of Commerce. Because of his good looks and good skills, he always drove for those noble people.It's a pity that after the collapse of the Chamber of Commerce, he was also forced to leave his original position. Now he can only go to procure goods and earn some hard money.

The two knew each other before, and after the chaos two years ago, they also sympathized with each other, supported each other, and became good brothers. Although they have different personalities, their relationship has always been good.

I definitely can't do this alone, I have to get Sister Su Lisi and Alan to help me.He sat on the bench in the yard, basking in the sun, thinking about how to persuade two 'good guys'.

Thinking about it, a little girl slowly walked out of the room, and then covered Triton's eyes with her hands.

"Guess who I am?" The voice was tender and clear.