The Righteous Player(s)

Chapter 1222 One bottle after another, noisy until dawn

It's only been half a month.

In this era when the flow of information is not yet convenient...

The news that the old grandmother had woken up from Dragon Sleep had spread all over the world.

It was Noah who first discovered this.To be precise, it was the steam freighter that gathered together on Ling Dong's side.

The most important of these is the company that led the veterans to change jobs after the eldest princess failed to compete for the throne.That is, the marine company with the highest comprehensive qualifications within the Kingdom of Noah that was tendered and subscribed by the royal family.

Its original name no longer mattered after the Crown expropriated half of all shareholders.

It will receive a new, supreme name - "Noah Marine Company" directly after the kingdom, without any additional suffixes.The business scope will also expand from pure sea freight to fishery, aquatic product processing, deep-sea resource exploitation, ocean trade, tourism, etc.

After the reopening of the port in winter, the ships of Noah Marine Company will come almost every three days.

It's either transporting people or transporting goods... Although the natural resources on Lingdong's side are relatively scarce for the time being, there are quite a number of high-value commodities on Lingdong's side——

The Amber Sea in the north of Bitter Winter is the largest amber collection place in the world.It can almost be called a "bare mine". As long as you drive a civilian boat and fish it with a fine fishing net, you can scoop up a net full of amber like a small fish.

And Lindong's frost beast blood and frost beast fur are also special products sold only here.

Although this is not a rigid need, it is because Winter has cut off trade with foreign countries for quite a long time... and private breeding of frost beasts is not allowed.The frost beast products on the market have been substantially monopolized by the underground city, and their actual value has already been seven or eight times higher.

Coupled with the fact that there are plump sea fish with the best quality and the most varieties in the world in the coastal area of ​​the cold winter—it is a natural fishing ground that can feed half of the principality and still have a surplus.

During the period when the sea was sealed off in the cold winter, even Noah's great nobles had no chance to taste it at all.

Because this thing is not as good as frost beast blood, it is difficult to preserve and transport, so it is very difficult to transport it to the underground city... Even in the underground city with the most abundant commodity categories, winter sea fish is also the most expensive ingredient.

Even more expensive than the highest quality beef from Theocracy.

In the beginning, it was Noah Sea Industry Company. Every time after putting down the supplies from Lindong, in order not to return with an empty warehouse, I just brought something casually.

But they soon discovered that this item could be sold at more than ten times the price in Noah... After all, in the cold winter, fish is the least valuable ingredient.

Because Lindong's fish are "stupid".They don't hide from people at all, they eat bait when they see it, and there are so many of them that they can't catch them all-after all, the old grandmother's field also includes tradition.As the mother of ten thousand dragons, she and the cup-bearer jointly control the field of reproduction and rebirth.

On those seas that were not frozen by the blizzard, every time I came out to collect the nets, the fishing nets were full of big fat fish.

That is because not all cities are by the sea, and some places are relatively remote. When they go out to collect fish, they need to leave the small enchantment and work under the snowstorm... The result is that these fish will freeze into ice lumps in the blink of an eye when they leave the water. The former is so delicious.

But in Noah, because these things are rare, delicious and difficult to transport and preserve, it has easily become the latest trend in Noah's kingdom.

The cold winter sea fish has already increased to ten times the purchase price, and it is still rising.Among them, the price of live fish is even higher than that of frozen fish - after all, Noah's nobles are really not short of money.

After realizing the business opportunity, it didn't take long for freighters from other companies to start heading for Winter.

Soon, the number of merchant ships on Lin Dong's side increased to at least one per day.Afterwards, it increased to three to four ships per day... Even the freighter from the United Kingdom had to bypass Noah's side.

And the latest batch of freighters was still discussing business and loading goods on Lin Dong's side.

Without warning, the small barriers in various places suddenly opened at the same time—but amidst people's panic and fearful shouts, the blizzard that froze everything did not come.

The warm air was blowing in.In the sky is the bright sun.

The ice of all the rivers melted in an instant, and the frozen farmlands thawed and regained their fertility.Even wild animals suddenly appeared... as if people from one country had all traveled to another world.

People quickly realized what had happened.

Soon, the festive atmosphere of carnival swept across the country——

People in Dongdong came out of their homes one after another, ran to the surrounding fields and mountains, and looked at the green that was light but extremely real and full of vitality.

Almost every family took out all the food stored in their own homes, pieced it together and held banquets in the squares of various cities.

Soon the square was full of stands, so each household simply cooked and presented these not-so-tasty food at their doorsteps and in the streets and alleys.

For the winter people, wine is of course a must, so people took out their pockets and bought all the wine they could buy.The owner of the tavern is also not making any money, and sells directly at the purchase price, and sells all the inventory.

Even those businessmen from other places were dragged to participate in this unprecedented banquet.

When had they seen such a spectacular scene?
The so-called empty street——

People in almost a city put on their most decent clothes, eating free food and drinking free soup in squares, streets and alleys, and holding a bottle of cheap or expensive wine in their hands.

Every time I see other people, regardless of whether I know them or not, regardless of their status, whether they are male or female, old or young, I always have a bright smile on my face, clink glasses and drink with each other.

They took off their hats and saluted, saluted the Grand Duke, called each other brothers, and congratulated each other in unison.

People laughed, shouted, sang and danced at banquets and in the streets and alleys.

Bottle after bottle, noisy until dawn.

If they drink too much, they will hug each other and cry, and the strong man like a bear curls up like a baby, whimpering in a dialect that no one can understand.

——In spring, even if you lie down on the ground after being drunk, you will not be frozen to death by the cold wind in the morning.

There is nothing more reassuring than this.

This is always the number one cause of death for young adults in winter.

Then, why do these strong laborers and the pillars of the family drink all night and get drunk in the morning with no one to take care of them?
That is self-evident.

Because they lack 【Hope】.Looking up, there is not a shred of hope.

Now, those days are finally over.

Noah's merchants naturally couldn't understand those whimpering words.

But the taste of the stew, the red lights that never go out at night, the carnival songs and dances, they will definitely remember them all their lives.

After these businessmen returned to China, they immediately notified everyone they could of the "winter and spring".

They described this strange experience vividly.Someone even wrote it into a novel and adapted it into an opera.

These merchants did not bring back any special products that are in high demand when they returned home this time... they only brought ship after ship of letters.

It was one letter after another.

It was something that Grand Duke Winter personally entrusted them to bring back.

——That is [Hope] itself.

The children and the elderly who stayed in the harsh winter—the left-behind residents without the ability to work, wrote home letters one after another with the help of the priests.Calling their families back.

Every word is full of joy.Like a flame, burning the wanderer's heart.

The winter year is over.

——The beginning of winter and spring!

　This chapter is not easy to write, there is only one chapter today~
　　Ask for tickets at the end of the month~
　　
　
(End of this chapter)