Although it was the most joyful thing in recent days, they finally bought the entire ruby pendant. When Yalayliga walked out of the tower with the corners of her mouth turned up high, Jing Huang, who was taken away by her, seemed confused and didn't understand how his behavior, which he completely imitated from Yalayliga, made the tower guard angry.
"You can't just buy the chain," she explained. "If you just ask for the gems, he might agree."
This explanation failed to make Jing Huang better understand how this mage business operates. From Jing Huang's point of view, it seems that the magic gem embodying the skills of the mage is no different from a purely decorative chain casually crafted by an elf. They are also small decorations with interesting effects, and they are also placed on the containers. Of course, they can all be purchased, whether they are worth a thousand gold or not.
She could not assert that Jing Huang's logic was wrong, because this concept did work in some places. However, most wizards of the White Tower maintain a very traditional sense of pride alongside a healthy dose of greed. They always use their own secret arts - they can't even accept the word magic - to obtain the benefits they want, so that they and the dealers of the elves, who even know nothing about the mysteries of the ether, can obtain the benefits they want. Distinguish mediocre people who are qualified for their positions. Naturally, the focus is on profiting from the "mage's secret art" rather than selling insignificant groceries.
This concept, at least in Yaleriga's memory, is quite easy to understand for the law class, but Jing Huang once again showed his weird concepts caused by his mysterious origin. He has a tenuous concept of money, and has difficulty connecting the price of things with their value to the public. He seems to think that no matter how much something is priced at, it has nothing to do with its actual value. This attitude seems to imply that he comes from a place where commerce and money are extremely underdeveloped, or at least a place where he does not need to use these.
Yaleriga has been speculating about his life experience for quite some time. She had asked him directly, but Jing Huang was silent, so she didn't mention it again. In the past, she had traveled with many people who had secret pasts. Some of them, even if they expressed their love to her, still chose to leave in order to keep their secrets. She was not offended by this and was happy to give her fellow travelers the necessary personal space. But this time she found that she wasn't doing as well as she had in the past. Somehow, the question about Jing Huang's origin hung in her mind, and she always began to analyze it unconsciously. Sometimes she realizes that this curiosity may lead to danger, but her instinct still tells her to explore deeper and deeper.
There is no need to rush, because they still have many days to get along. Even aside from this interesting traveling companion, the Silence itself was a wonderful subject for her study. This composite boat combines modern materials with ancient magic. Although Jing Huang is not an owner who is good at maintaining ships, thus making the ship very simple in details, she can also pay attention to the huge potential it contains, especially its core parts for sailing in the ether—— The part of the White Tower that is usually called the "Magic Helm" has never been found by Yaleriga. She could neither find records about it in the system, nor could she deduce its location based on the ship's power structure. These frustrations led her to formulate a new hypothesis in recent days, that is, the Suspicious Silence might not be There is a structure similar to the magic rudder. It's made in a completely different way than general-purpose composite boats. In view of the various cases of strange alien ships, that is not something worth making a fuss about, but when such a ship is combined with Jing Huang, things seem to become complicated.
She planned to spend more time figuring out the secrets of the ship, getting clues and answers with her eyes instead of from Jing Huang's often closed mouth. In order to achieve this goal, she planned to take advantage of the time before Jing Huang's arm transplant to visit a famous figure who had lived in Mencheng for a long time. After she and Jing Huang settled down in the hotel, she told Jing Huang her plan.
"I want to see Qiaoqiao Tianyi." She said to Jing Huang. At that time, they were sitting in Yaleriga's room enjoying lunch. Jing Huang, who had the same vegetarian habit as the elves, chewed on a slender sweet and green branch and slowly turned his head to look at her. His mouth was still rumbling, and his eyes showed a vacant and thoughtful look. Needless to say, he obviously knew nothing about the term "Qiaoqiao Tianyi". Yaleriga had no choice but to tell him that it was a columnist who had a long-term cooperative relationship with Baita. Its most famous work, just as they needed it at this moment, is an acclaimed popular science book on odd-shaped ships. Yaleriga had read a lot of this type of information, and there was even someone who wrote it in her memory. However, compared with the series "Famous Ships", similar works always pale in comparison.
She asked Jing Huang: "Do you want to come together?"
Although they always acted together, this time Jing Huang shook his head and expressed that he preferred to stay in the hotel. When Yaleriga asked him why he didn't go, he shook his sleeves and a chain hung down from inside.
"Deal with this," he said.
Yaleriga recognized that it was the trinket they bought from the tower guard. The pendant chain was only worth three and a half cents. It was probably mixed with a certain proportion of fine gold and moonlight silver, but there was still nothing real. strength. She originally wanted to buy it together with the ruby pendant and give it to Jing Huang, but the latter paid the bill with unusual persistence, using a string of small and cute gold shells (looking like some kind of jewelry wrapped around the limbs) , and a few jade beads with cloud texture. The tower keepers appraised these items and deemed them to be worth the value of the Passion Curse. The process was troublesome, but the tower keepers didn't complain at all, probably because they were used to the ancient law's stubborn preference for bartering.
In any case, Jing Huang independently completed the first fair transaction since he met Yaleriga, and was neither thrown into prison nor tied up with ropes. This made Yaleriga feel a sense of accomplishment, although she still didn't know why Jing Huang bought the chain. As for the gem that matched the color of his clothes, it was undoubtedly chosen to fit on the chain. Even though its color matched so well with Jing Huang's clothes, Jing Huang never wore it on his front or even once. Just hold it in your hands and play with it.
Yaleriga couldn't contain her curiosity. She asked directly: "Why did you buy this chain?"
Jing Huang shook his head. His eyes flickered towards her like a dragonfly, and then quickly looked away. There was no subtle desire with a dampness or anxiety that Yaleriga was used to seeing in that expression, but she was sure that she saw a guilty conscience. The guilty conscience felt familiar, just like the look after he spit the fruit core into Debovelaar's nostrils. He put the chain back into his sleeves like he was hiding the leftover fruit branches behind his back.
All this was clear to Yaleriga's eyes, full of suspicious yet fascinating suspense. She had various speculations in her mind, but she said nothing on the surface and allowed Jing Huang to walk out of her room. Then she dressed up carefully and went to the famous writer's residence.
