Regardless of whether the corn grass worm or the rubber worm evolved into a sprite, the smoke mission must be completed.
Liszt had no time to go to Black Horse Island again to observe the mutant rubber trees. He gave the task to Captain Kosto to complete. If he could find a mature rubber tree, it would naturally be good; if not, the rubber tree must have sprouted around the new cordyceps.
In any case, these newly sprouted rubber trees were worth promoting.
"Levis is getting married on September 12. There is still a week to go. I have to go to Tulip Castle to help, otherwise I will be gossiped about." He asked the servant to pack up and prepare to go to Tulip Castle early the next morning.
At night.
The Port of Flowers finally welcomed two old brigs, and Gort returned with them.
"Sir, two cargo ships have been purchased, one from the Tulip fleet and the other from the Beer Castle fleet. However, the damage is a bit large and we need to repair it again. The two old ships cost a total of 652 gold coins. These are the remaining gold coins. "
After taking the gold coins and handing them over to Butler Carter for counting, Liszt said, "The task of repairing the cargo ship is also given to you. With rubber and thorny ironwood, it will not be very difficult. Try to update it to its best state. In addition, one is called the Mangrove, and the other is called … The Pearl. "
The names of the ships were just simple code names, and he did not think much about them.
Then, he began to ask, "Adviser Gort, did you get any interesting information outside when you bought the ships this time?"
Gort suddenly said, "Sir, I almost forgot, there is good news that you will like!"
The content of the smoke mission came.
Liszt smiled and asked, "What good news?"
"Viscount Jonas of Gravel Castle found two newly born sprite worms in his territory, one is a black nightshade sprite worm and the other is a Venus flytrap sprite worm. He is going to sell them to compensate for the losses of the Iron Hoof Island campaign. " Gort said excitedly, "These two sprite worms, one for 1,500 gold coins and the other for 1,200 gold coins. Sir, do you need them?"
Black nightshade sprite worm?
Venus flytrap?
Liszt raised his eyebrows. He was determined to get his hands on the black nightshade worm — the most recent batch of black nightshade was about to mature. Although its effects were still unclear, it was a type of magic ingredient and its value would not be too low. The territory only had one Black Nightshade Bug, and it only had a hundred acres of land.
With another black nightshade bug, he could farm another hundred or so acres of land.
No matter how many magic ingredients were planted, they would always feel that it was too little. Therefore, the greatest value of sprite worms lay in whether or not there were magic ingredients to be planted.
"One thousand five hundred gold coins for a nightshade bug. That's a bit expensive. Teacher Gort, put down the repair work on the Mangrove and the Pearl and focus on this Black Nightshade Worm. I want to buy it! My bottom line is 1,200 gold coins. Once you reach my bottom line, for every 10 gold coins you cut, I'll let you take one gold coin! "
After hearing this, Gort's eyes lit up. "Rest assured, my lord. I'm the best at this kind of thing. I can definitely get the black nightshade worm for 1200 gold coins!"
"I look forward to you bringing back the black nightshade bug."
"Right, Sir, do you need a Venus flytrap?"
"If I can buy it for 800 gold coins, then I want it. If not, then forget it … Similarly, for every 10 gold coins I cut, you can take one." Liszt thought for a moment and said. He knew what a Venus flytrap was. Some aristocrats would place one or two Venus flytraps in their bedrooms to catch mosquitoes.
But in fact, the efficiency of a Venus flytrap simply did not have any effect on clearing mosquitoes. At most, it looked like a rarity.
Although sprite worms were beautiful little creatures, he still felt that spending more than 800 gold coins for this useless sprite worm was not worth it.
For the sake of completing the smoke mission.
That was why he was willing to spend gold coins to buy this Venus Flytrap.
However, after making the decision, he quickly rubbed his temples. "The Black Nightshade Bug costs 1,200 gold coins, and the Venus flytrap costs 800 gold coins. That means I have to spend 2,000 gold coins … Where do I get so many gold coins? Do I really have to borrow money from my grandmother? "
It wasn't easy to ask for money.
If Lvera had not taken the initiative to lend him money, he would have decided to sell the Redblood Sword. No matter how rich the Tulip Castle was, he was only using the income of the estate as collateral to withdraw gold coins in advance, that's all. He was not borrowing money. Deep down, he was not used to borrowing money from others.
However, the Black Nightshade Bug and the Venus flytrap were not to be missed.
"Phew." After spitting out a mouthful of turbid air, he instructed the butler Carter, "Mr. Carter, prepare some powder conch meat for me. One for the count and countess, and one for my grandmother."
"Master, how much do you think is suitable?"
"Five catties … Forget it, ten catties each." Ten catties was almost the size of a washbasin, and it was the entire flesh of a powder conch. Giving away a powder conch the size of a washbasin was very distressing.
However, he was too embarrassed to do the same thing again and only gave five catties of the six-headed sea serpent king, which weighed several tons, to the count.
The count was so angry that he repeatedly ridiculed him with this matter.
"In addition, pick out the smallest black pearls and wear them into a necklace as a gift for my grandmother, to thank her for providing me with the fig worm."
Carter bowed and left, "As you wish, Master."
…
The task of finding the rubber fruit tree was given to Kosto; the task of negotiating the price of the Black Nightshade Bug and the Venus flytrap was given to Gort; the repair of the Mangrove and the Pearl was given to Isaiah.
Liszt early the next morning.
With two gifts, he went to Tulip Castle.
After meeting in the study, the count joked, "How many catties of World of Warcraft meat are you giving me this time?"
"Ten catties … But it's not World of Warcraft meat, it's sea monster meat, a low-level sea monster called the powder conch. This ten catties is all the meat of the largest powder conch." This was, of course, a white lie. The largest were three powder conches the size of a bathtub.
The count had no shortage of low-level World of Warcraft meat to eat, he just needed to taste it.
"It seems that you have had a lot of harvest recently." The count was quite satisfied with the ten catties of powder conch meat.
"I haven't had any harvest recently, not even a sprite worm. Moreover, I even borrowed eight hundred gold coins from my sister."
"Do you think sprite worms are like wheat that can be found everywhere?!"
"In fact, I don't think sprite worms are that rare. Father, according to my observations for more than a year, I found that the probability of sprite worms being born can be influenced." Liszt decided to reveal some information to his father in order to increase the number of sprite worms in the family.
The stronger the family, the better protection he could obtain. Therefore, his ideas had been changing.
He knew how to share some less important experiences to help the family develop.
"How?" The count was moved. He sat up straight and listened with a humble attitude. The importance of sprite worms to the territory was deeply understood by every lord.
Liszt did not speak nonsense.
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