Chapter 101 – The Foster Mother of the Sound Grinding Fruit
While Ada chided Sol for his presumptuous behavior, he himself looked like the weak-minded one, rubbing his hands back and forth, his face a little pale and his eyes wandering.
"What in the world just happened? Why was there a Sorcerer Lord present?" Looking at the somewhat anxious Ada, Saul was not angry, but only curiously asked after him.
"I've told you not to be too curious, being curious is not a good thing here."
At this time but suddenly someone interrupted Ada's words.
"If this little skinny guy wants to settle in the town and doesn't know something, aren't you afraid that he'll accidentally offend someone and lose his little life?"
Jaycee stepped out from under the lean-to, where he seemed to have been standing just a moment ago, staring coldly.
He scanned Saul and asked with a smile, "Do you have a sister or sisters?"
Sol shook his head, "I'm on my own."
"Oh, then don't worry about it." Jaycee explored his hand, "Our Mill Sail Town has always lived off of the Mill Sound Fruit. It's just that that Grinding Sound Fruit is not easy to grow, and it always suddenly decreases its production in large quantities. In order to ensure the town's profitability, and in order to continue to seek the shelter of the Wizard's Tower, our esteemed, great, and beloved Wizard Lord has chosen a lovely maiden every few years' time to be the adoptive mother of the Grinding Sound Fruit."
"Foster mother?" Sol confirmed in surprise.
"Yes, a foster mother. What's not a foster mom when you've taken your life to feed a bunch of fruit?"
"Foster how?"
Jaycee's face suddenly sank, and then quickly returned to its indifferent look.
"Who knows, that's the Lord Wizard's business, how can we have a chance to pry?"
If his face hadn't suddenly become so ugly just now, Saul probably would have believed it.
Looks like this foster mother is not a good one.
"Does this sort of thing happen every year? Then how can we have children in the future when there are no girls left in this town?" Saul continued to ask.
"It used to be infrequent, it only happened once every three or four years. Recently it's been a bit more, this year is already the third ..." Janis said, collapsing himself there in deep thought.
Ada finally couldn't listen any longer and pulled Saul away.
"You talk to him what, that is an old hooligan, all day long nothing to do, everywhere to take advantage of people, follow him, you sooner or later to learn bad." Ada rambled on.
"Ada, this what's-her-name foster mom thing, do you know about it too?" Sol asked Ada rhetorically.
When the two of them had walked out a few dozen meters, Ada then stopped and turned to Saul, "If you live here for a few years, you'll know sooner or later. You don't have to care about this matter, you can't care about it either. This is also something that can not be helped, after all, our town ... is all counting on that holy fruit to live."
"Then do you know why the grinding sound fruit will reduce production?"
"How do I know, that's all a matter for the big shots to manage, just mind your own business."
Thinking that Saul just wanted to wander around town, Ada tried to drag him straight to work in the fields. But Saul snuck off halfway, leaving Ada furious, and could only leave town alone, he still had a lot of work to do.
Running away, Saul doesn't go anywhere else, but back to where he was just surrounded by a crowd.
At this time most of the people have dispersed, only those who have some relatives, love to watch the fun still remain.
Several people surrounded the two couples who were still crying and took turns to comfort them.
The words are also let them resign themselves to fate, relax, the child will still have.
As soon as Saul walked over, he saw Aunt Jenny, who had been the most energetic in persuading the couple, standing outside the crowd and watching with cold eyes, without that fake sympathetic smile on her face.
Like a stone statue standing in the center of the street, only looking at people.
Saul went over and lightly coughed twice to get Aunt Jenny's attention.
The latter turns around and sees it's Saul, and her face immediately breaks into a smile and she breathes again.
"Aren't you the lad who followed Ada back yesterday, why are you running up the street on your own?" She began to look Saul up and down again.
"I just came to Mill Sail Town, I wanted to wander around town to find some work to go." Saul casually dealt with it, then asked, "Aunt Jenny, what just happened? How come there are still sorcerer apprentices out there?"
"What apprentice is not an apprentice, call the sorcerer lord." Aunt Jenny made an exaggerated gesture of silence, but her voice was not small.
She then began to tell Saul about the traditions of Mill Sail Town with a raised eyebrow. Magic Sail Town was originally just a barren town, with a population and area less than a tenth of what it is now.
It was only one day that two passing wizard lords discovered the wild Grinding Sound Fruit here, and decided to settle here.
Through their efforts, they succeeded in expanding the production of the Sound Grinding Fruit, and it became the main source of economy in the area.
With the help of the Ground Sound Fruit, Magic Sail Town successfully became a vassal of a very powerful sorcerer organization in a faraway land, exchanging for many materials they needed, and at the same time bringing wealth and materials to Magic Sail Town.
After Magic Sail Town prospered a little bit, the place was also renamed as Mill Sail Town.
It's just that this place is located at the borderline after all, and after the relationship between Kemah and the Knuckles Duchy deteriorated, the survival environment got a lot worse all of a sudden.
The military turmoil at the fortress caused most of the troops of Mill Sail Town to be transferred to Desert Border City, and the defense of this place became much weaker.
Coupled with a group of barbarians that had strayed in from nowhere and would send a few people to sneak in from time to time, it finally led to the production of Grinding Sound Fruit decreasing year by year, and it was almost impossible to guarantee the amount of tribute.
In order to increase the yield and continue to gain shelter, the Sorcerer Lord had to increase the frequency of utilizing Pure Maidens to nourish the Sound Grinding Fruit.
"But isn't that wizard organization sheltering Mill Sail Town? Why don't you ask them to exterminate the barbarians?"
Saul heard Nick say that the Sorcerer's Tower but would send third level apprentices to pick up the ripe Ground Sound Fruits regularly, couldn't they just eliminate the barbarians on their way?
It was important to know that the average barbarian was only stronger than ordinary people in terms of flesh.
In the face of a sorcerer, they were still nothing.
"This ..." Aunt Jenny couldn't say, "That I don't know. Anyway, the barbarians appear mostly to go to the villages on the outskirts of the countryside, and usually don't know where they hide, so I guess it's not easy to catch them."
As Aunt Jenny spoke, her eyes shifted towards the couple who were being helped back to their room by the crowd.
"Don't worry about staying here. As long as there's no problem with the Grinding Sound Fruit, there won't be a problem in Mill Sail Town!" She said in a single word.
After saying that, Aunt Jenny turned her face and warmly invited Saul to sit at her house, only that the look in her eyes was a bit odd anyhow.
Saul got the news he wanted and unceremoniously dropped Aunt Jenny.
"Thanks Aunt Jenny, I'll continue to look for work. I don't have any money right now." Saul grinned cheekily and ran off in a huff.
Aunt Jenny froze, glared and cursed, but her face didn't look much angry.
Saul ran down the street with small steps, the stores and street scenes on both sides of his eyes.
Although this town is not particularly prosperous, but the people walking on the streets look particularly peaceful and happy.
Even the old man sitting on the side of the street with outdated clothes was able to sit on the stone steps and discuss with the owner of the store behind him what to go back to eat in the evening with a smile and a laugh.
This seems to be a town where you don't have to worry about the future.
After all, they had the Sound Grinding Fruit.
Saul made his way around the town, listening, and finally returned to the small compound where Ada lived around noon.
A woman in the small courtyard was walking out with a wooden basin, looked up and saw Saul, startled, turned around with the basin and dug back into the house.
The door slammed shut, as if Saul were some kind of monster.
Saul quickly looked down at his hands, the effect of the magic trick has not disappeared, the other party panic why?
Ignoring the panicked woman, Saul turned left and entered the old madman's room.
The old madman came back last night and huffed and puffed, and when he left this morning, Ada pulled Saul away in a hurry and didn't have time to come over.
Now Saul came in and found that the old madman was no longer in the room.
The house was in a mess, more so than when Saul had sent someone in yesterday, and it seemed to have been deliberately rummaged through, with some things missing from it.
Saul stroked his chin, "Ran away quite fast."
First shift.
(End of chapter)