Black Iron’s Glory

Chapter 37 Sullivan Gold Coins

Claude spent over an hour cleaning himself up in a spring pool not far from the ruins. Fortunately, he had another set of clothes in his backpack and underwear socks, which he had replaced when he was about to go into the water. Although it was the end of May, the lake was still a little cold, Claude was considerate, and brought his spare clothes just in case, he took a boat to Bailuanzhou, and no one could possibly get off the boat to swim...

The changed dirty clothes were simply rinsed with fountain water and the adhesive sludge was rinsed off. As for the stains on those clothes, you can take them home and ask your mother to find a laundry lady to wash them, without having to wash and dry them yourself in this wilderness.

By the time Claude had cleaned himself up and changed his clothes, Verricolo and Boquer, Ericsson, had also stripped the python skin and had taken the python skin and python muscle back to the camp to dry up in preparation for the sea breeze to blow overnight.

The rest of the python meat was cut off from the back to prepare for dinner, as required by Claude. The rest of the python meat was picked out by Vericulo and salted in the shape of a good growing strip. It was also hung on a wooden shelf to prepare for bacon at night. There was also snake gallbladder and a pair of snake eyes, which were carefully removed by Vericulo and placed in an empty bottle. He said that it was an expensive medicine and the pharmacy was happy to buy it at a high price.

Neither Bok Al nor Eriksson dried for nothing, and they had Verikero pull those two sharp fangs out of the python mouth, cleaning them up and splitting them one at a time. Old people in White Deer Town say teeth with venomous snakes are effective against the plague. This is a folklore, but now both Bok Al and Eriksson are convinced of it.

Dark blue stars on the night scene.

Under the night, four teenagers were eating python meals surrounded by a bonfire.

“I never knew Python meat was so delicious and delicious...” Bok Al was full of oil: “It's delicious, Claude, you're so fried...”

“I forgot something.” Claude said, then came to his backpack and pulled two bottles of Gandhi out of the backpack: “Actually, I should pour some wine on it when it's fried, and it tastes better. ”

“Ha... Gandhi?” Bok Alci couldn't help but say: "Did you bring it? This is an unexpected surprise...”

“Well," Claude nodded: “My father gave me a riazo, and I thought there was nothing to buy, so I bought you two bottles of Gandhi to try. But be aware that drinking this can easily cause headaches. ”

In fact, Claude took a silver tower from his father and a riazo, and then gave them all to Bok Al to pay off. However, I was somewhat embarrassed to think that the debt was owed by a Silver Tall three riasos, who themselves paid the money and owed two riasos. It's better to wait for the harvest when you get to Baiyuzhou and pay it all off once more. So Claude didn't pay back the money. Think about his three partners who wanted to buy Gandhi, and then borrowed the money to buy the wine, and simply bought two bottles of it to make them happy.

Without a cup, everyone had a wooden plate as a tableware, so four people sipped at the bottle and passed it on to the next person.

“By the way, Ike, I forgot to say something.” Claude found the short rope and handed it to Ericsson: “I'm sorry, but your short rope got bitten by a python when I was fighting with it. Look, here it is. Please let me know how much you need to pay when you get back. ”

Eriksson's eyes were straight: "Well, how did it get bitten here? Claude, how the hell did you kill this python..."

“It's all because of you...” Claude exclaimed: “At that time, the python had wrapped me around, and I planted the whole person in the mud, trying to grab the python can't even grab it, it was all too slippery. When I saw the python pounding at me with its big mouth open, I had to use this short shovel to block my eyes. I didn't expect the python to bite on the short shovel.

... Fortunately, it bit on the short shots, and I also knew afterwards that it bit a hole in the butt of the gun, and the short shots got stuck in its mouth. I grabbed the short one, and it shook its head, trying to take the short one off its mouth. At that time, the snake's head was only one arm away from me, and it shook and tossed right there. If I hadn't held my finger tight in the trigger button, I might have let it go.

At a critical moment, I saw a torch sticking in the branches of the shrub next to me, and I stretched out my hand to get it, and when I got it, I pressed the torch over the short tape. Bless the god of war, the fire rope on the short one was finally lit. As soon as I saw the fire rope had arrived at the medicine box, I caught the plate machine dead. The python fought for a while and finally stopped moving. I pulled out of the snake's teeth and climbed up the rope ladder. When I climbed out of the underground entrance, I finally took a breath break. This was when I reloaded the gun and fired a message at you. Then you came back... ”

After listening to Claude's story and Python's life and death struggle, the partners were silent. They can imagine how dangerous the scene was at that moment, and a slight mistake would most likely never see Claude again.

“Actually, it's all my fault...” Verricolo finally said after a while: “I was too careless to leave Claude here alone because I had been with my father twice in the winter, so I thought there was no danger in the site. I forgot that now is the time to socialize in the spring and summer, when the Python needs winter hibernation to be inactive, and now is the time to be active. If Claude hadn't killed it, maybe we'd have been attacked by it tonight. This site is actually where it preys...”

“Are you saying that this site is actually the site of this python?” asked Bok Al.

“Yes, actually, when we came here, if we were careful, we should be able to see some signs. For example, how could there be no snakeworm sparrow activity in this site, that is, how many seabirds could be seen landing on the rubble pile over there? This site is so big that no seabird has ever set foot, which is already suspicious. But I still have the impression in my mind of the winter, when a snow covered, no life, naturally take it that way now...” Verricolo answered with some annoyance.

“It's not your fault.” Claude laughed: “Things are over, and the python is dead, and I'm not hurt, but we got a great harvest. I blame Boa Fei for asking me to drink that bottle of antidote, and saying that my body is not injured does not mean that I am not poisoned, and that it is good to say what I drink and prevent. Do you know how bad that antidote tastes? It tastes weird, bitter and spicy and astringent. My tongue is numb. ”

“Drink some safety, Boa did the right thing.” Erickson said. He took out the python fangs and stuck them in the hole in the barrel, and he whistled, “Cool, Claude, I don't need you to pay for any repairs. In fact, having this fang is enough to compensate. You see, this fang stuck so steadily in the gun holder, I went back and told people that the hole in the gun was bitten by this fang, see who else they dared not believe. ”

Vericulo took a look and said, "You and Boa, it's best to throw those two teeth in the pot for about an hour. Although you have washed it with clean water, no one can guarantee that the fangs are free of poison, boil it with water to make it safer. Otherwise, you accidentally scratch the skin and get poisoned when you hold it, which is really a problem for you. ”

Verikero was right, and Bok Al and Eriksson went straight to cook those two python fangs.

By the time the two of them were done sitting down, Claude and Verricolo were already drying up the python.

“By the way, Boa, I want to ask you something.” Claude said, "When you saw that Sullivan gold coin this afternoon, you said it was not a magic Sullivan gold coin. What does that mean? Is there any more magic in the gold coin? ”

Bok Al nodded: "Do you know how the earliest gold coins appeared? Who made it? ”

“I don't know...” Claude was going to say that it should be made by casting molding. I saw a video on the computer in my previous life saying that ancient gold coins were made from dirt, then poured molten gold solution into the mold, and then crushed the dirt mold after it cooled down, and finally finished making a gold coin by trimming it. It took time and effort, and there was a slight difference between each coin, because it was impossible for two dirt molds to make exactly the same...

But think of it as a different world, so Claude admitted honestly that he didn't know.

“The earliest gold coin is said to have been made by a magician more than 4,000 years ago.” Bok Al said, "Don't look at me, it's a record on the whole coin. People were said to be accustomed to barter at the time, which caused great trouble for the magicians' material trade. Later, a magician made a small pie out of precious dark gold as an equivalent to trade between magicians.

But the dark gold was magic material, and the yield was not high, so the magicians made a gold coin out of a gram of dark gold, and the pattern was the magician in the cloak, named after the magician who made the dark gold pie, which is the magic Sullivan gold coin.

Because this magic Sullivan gold coin contains a gram of dark gold, many magicians have melted it out to extract it as a material for magic experiments, so that there are fewer and fewer such magic Sullivan gold coins, and so far only the Kingdom of Hicks in the northern part of the continent is said to have kept one, which is considered a national treasure.

The earliest gold coins were all forged by magicians, and they could easily and accurately forge the exact same magic Sullivan gold coin, as long as they had dark gold, as long as they wanted to, and as long as anyone could.

But as magic materials became scarce, their prices began to rise, and the mining of dark gold became increasingly difficult, and magicians were reluctant to cast dark gold into gold coins. So more than 2,000 years ago, no dark gold coins appeared, also known as Sullivan gold coins, just without the word magic. At that time, a magic Sullivan gold coin tends to convert dozens to hundreds of Sullivan gold coins.

The advent of Sullivan Gold coins soon entered the trading market for ordinary people from the magician's world, initially popular among magical aristocrats, but soon became widespread throughout the continent, and almost all large transactions were settled using Sullivan Gold coins.

But at that time, all the gold coins were forged by the magician through alchemy to ensure the exact gold content of each coin, which became an unbearable burden for the magician, who was reluctant to spend magic and alchemy materials to make these human gold coins. So one way was to make seven sets of gold coin molds and give them to the seven magical nobles to specially cast gold coins for human use.

These seven sets of gold coin molds inspired ordinary people, so silver coins and copper coins also emerged, improving the high school and low three value systems of the entire market currency. But since the seven gold coin molds were awarded by the magician, the gold coins in circulation on the continent were the same in the dark calendar years. Instead, there are a wide variety of variations and choices in silver and copper patterns.

In general, there were only seven types of coins, but there were 143 types of silver coins and more than 800 patterns of copper coins. Basically every nobleman who owns a copper mine, the merchants themselves cast a pattern of copper coins for circulation in the market, which makes currency exchange very difficult.

It was not until the establishment of the Amslan dynasty that the variety of gold coins began to increase. It was not until later that the countries fought for their independence and formed the current continental pattern that countries gradually realized the importance of the currency market, collecting mint rights to the treasury, regulating their respective gold and silver copper currencies, and stabilizing the domestic financial market order.

Seven sets of gold coin molds handed over by the magician to the magical aristocracy, in the pattern of seven plants and animals. Sullivan gold coins, on the other hand, become special gold coins for magicians, specially forged by magicians using alchemy. Among the gold coins, the Sullivan gold coin stands out as the king of the gold coin.

But after the establishment of the Arms Lang dynasty, Riggs... Emperor O. Hill has ordered the banning of Sullivan gold coins on the Farea continent, and has found that all melting has been recast to create other gold coins, and this ban is still in force, even in our kingdom, so that Sullivan gold coins are increasingly scarce.

So, Claude, these Sullivan coins you found, we'd better be collecting them for ourselves, not using them outside. ”