novelraw Chapter 247
Chapter 247
Chapter 247: Let Her Give Birth, Let Her Give Birth
The Lyon Empire’s plan to capture the pureblood young dragon had failed.
The fleeing Dragon Knight squad brought back a piece of news.
Eighth-order magical beasts had appeared in the Osiris Forest, and they were even in groups.
This news made the entire Royal City restless.
You know, in Azure Continent, magical beasts that reached the seventh order were already considered high-level.
The harm they brought was enough to make any force treat them with caution.
If the magical beast was as high as the eighth order, then one must be mentally prepared to sacrifice a town to perish together with it.
Further up, ninth-order magical beasts were existences on par with pureblood giant dragons.
To eliminate magical beasts of this level, not only was the appearance of a divine artifact needed, but the holder of the divine artifact also needed to have a strong physique to cope with it properly. Of course.
The magical beasts were all lies.
This news was nothing more than an excuse for the captain of the Knights to avoid taking responsibility for this operation.
Frankly speaking, they were just ‘bounty hunters’ who took money to do things. Compared with real bounty hunters, they only had an extra official identity that sounded prestigious.
These knights were not very loyal, so when they encountered danger, they were always the first to retreat.
Speaking of which, it was also thanks to these people who brought back false news.
That made the Lyon Empire give up the idea of continuing to capture the Silver Dragon.
Because of this, Lucia safely passed the most dangerous age stage.
Although the young dragon had no idea about it.
“Coo-coo-coo…”
The speeding carriage galloped across the narrow road of the canyon, dust flying in the air.
After being blocked for seven days, this only carriage road that crossed the Osiris Forest was finally reopened.
The original one hundred carriages had merged into three hundred during the seven days of congestion.
The dense line of carriages snaked down the road, winding into a long dragon of dozens of kilometers.
As agreed, Xia Li paid the coachman forty-two gold coins.
The coachman had long been thinking about Xia Li, this distinguished guest, so even though the road had been opened in the middle, he had wasted time and blocked the road until the seventh day. He only set off after Xia Li got on the carriage.
How much were those goods on his carriage worth?
The money he earned from this distinguished guest was pure profit without any cost.
“How long until we arrive?”
Xia Li lifted the wooden window of the front of the carriage and asked the old coachman who was flicking his long whip on the tall horse’s back.
The old coachman thought that the distinguished guest was urging him, so he swiftly swung his long whip, ‘smack, smack’, hitting the round buttocks of the tall horse.
“Soon!”
The coachman looked old, but his voice was very strong.
For this kind of merchant who often traveled long distances between two places, age was not a problem at all.
“My horses have had a good rest these past few days, and they are very fast now!” The coachman said loudly.
“Of course, my distinguished guest, if you are in a hurry… pay two more gold coins, and I am willing to feed my horses an exciting potion, which will make them go faster!”
The old coachman said, turning his head to look at Xia Li with a smile.
His cheeks, which should have been wrinkled due to old age, were full of fat due to his obesity. The wrinkles on his face were piled up with fat, making him look less old.
In Xia Li’s eyes, his ‘gentle’ smile was like the personification of the word ‘profiteer’.
Xia Li looked down at the front and then lowered his gaze.
Because he paid a high fare, the coachman directly arranged him and Lucia in the first carriage.
It was said that there were knights patrolling the second half of the journey, and there was no danger.
So Xia Li could enjoy the scenery along the way.
Xia Li didn’t care whether the scenery was good or not.
It’s just…
At this speed, the wheels were about to smoke.
If the horses were given more stimulants, it would be easy to have an accident.
“No need, just go at your normal speed.”
Xia Li withdrew his gaze and asked the coachman with some concern.
“Are you sure we can get into the city smoothly?”
“Don’t worry!” The old coachman patted his chest and assured.
“You have proof of departure from Taro City, and there is a town seal on it!”
The coachman turned sideways and gave Xia Li a fake but sincere smile.
He had been a merchant for most of his life, so he naturally knew how to read people’s expressions.
The distinguished guest in front of him was obviously not a local of the Lyon Empire.
They were from out of town, so they were very concerned about whether they could enter the main city smoothly.
The coachman didn’t care about the identities of the distinguished guests. Whether these people were spies from other countries or rebels who wanted to sneak into the Royal City to assassinate the emperor…
None of this had anything to do with the coachman. He only cared about how many gold coins his distinguished guests could give him.
In this world, money might not be able to make the devil push the millstone, but it could definitely make him push the millstone.
“If you are worried, I still have several carriages of servants who can act as certification, proving that you came from Taro City in the south, not from the rebellious land in the east.”
The coachman finished speaking kindly, then narrowed his eyes slightly, adding.
“Of course, the content of our transaction is only to transport you to the outside of the Royal City…”
“If you want to sneak in using other methods…”
“You have to add money.”
Xia Li: “…”
After going around in circles, it was still about money.
People die for wealth, just as birds die for food.
That was what these people were like.
“…Let’s talk about it when we get to the Royal Capital.”
Xia Li waved his hand and got back into the carriage.
He still had to get to the Royal City first and see the current level of vigilance before making a decision.
It would be even more convenient if he could buy two-way teleportation scrolls and magic stones outside the city.
“Hehehe…”
Back in the carriage, as soon as Xia Li closed the window, he heard the dragon girl behind him muttering something.
Lucia was lying on the carriage floor, her two smooth little feet hooked up, her body bumping up and down with the swaying of the carriage.
She was playing with a pile of gold coins on the ground.
Xia Li shook out the gold coins for her to play with.
Aside from Xia Li himself in the carriage, the only thing that could attract Lucia’s attention was this kind of shiny and beautiful little gold coin.
Lucia could play here by herself all day without getting tired.
She stacked the gold coins together, making a pile ten centimeters high.
When the bumpy wheels suddenly jumped, these gold coins would scatter like rain, and then Lucia would happily pounce on them, stretching out her two arms to hug all the rolling gold coins.
It was a bit like a cat playing with a ball of yarn.
“Xia Li, I’ve figured out what local specialty I want to give to Aunt Fang!”
Lucia let go of the gold coins and circled them with her long, fat Silver Dragon tail.
“What are you going to give her?”
Xia Li’s eyebrows twitched.
When he saw the scattered pile of gold coins on the ground, he actually already had the answer in his heart.
“Give her gold!”
“…”
As expected.
“You are so practical.”
Xia Li laughed.
He reached out, hooked a small strand of Lucia’s long hair, and smelled it in front of his nose.
As a person from Earth, this behavior was actually not a habit for Xia Li.
The way couples interacted on Earth was more about hugging and kissing.
But at some point, Xia Li had also gotten used to smelling Lucia’s scent, and sometimes he even wanted to take a bite of her tender and smooth arm.
Subtly, not only was Xia Li influencing Lucia, but Lucia was also influencing Xia Li.
‘Couples look alike’, probably referring to this kind of behavior becoming more and more similar.
Lucia didn’t mind Xia Li doing this.
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She even generously grabbed a large handful of her hair and put it into Xia Li’s hand, letting him touch it properly.
“Gold is so good!” The dragon girl sighed.
“It can be exchanged for a lot of small money on Earth. When Aunt Fang has so much small money, she can buy anything she wants!”
“You are right about that…”
Xia Li had enough of touching the dragon hair, so he hugged the dragon and put her in his arms. The two sat on the bench.
“But, if we go back and take out a pound or two of gold for my mom, I guess she will be shocked.”
Xia Li said helplessly.
“Remember when we went to the gold shop to sell gold coins last time? At that time, the clerk gave us a buyback price of 450 yuan per gram. Although it was considering the age and collection value of the gold coins, they gave us a very good price for our pure gold… but the actual price per gram of gold is actually about the same.”
“Assuming that one gram of gold is 400 yuan, then how much is a pound of gold worth if we give it to Mrs. Fang?”
Speaking of this, Xia Li suddenly had a whim and gave Lucia a math problem.
Lucia’s little face froze.
Then she cleverly took out her phone, ready to start calculating.
Calculator!
This was the only mathematical formula she had learned since she came to Earth!
However, when she saw that the phone screen was completely black and there was no response no matter how she pressed the power button, Lucia’s little face became completely quiet.
Oh no!
It’s out of battery!
Then her top math formula couldn’t be established either!
“A lot of money.”
The evil dragon loved face and was unwilling to admit her terrible math.
Her reaction was within Xia Li’s expectation.
“Two hundred thousand.” He answered for Lucia.
“Two hundred thousand?!” Lucia was surprised.
Two hundred thousand, she could buy… Lucia tried to divide two hundred thousand by the unit price of three yuan for fried rice cakes, and found that the number became more complicated.
So she said with a cold face, “You can buy a lot of fried rice cakes.”
“If my mom sees that we brought back a pound of gold for her after a trip, she will only think that we did something illegal. If Old Xia finds out about this, I won’t be able to explain it clearly even if I had a hundred mouths.”
Xia Li brought the topic back and concluded.
“About choosing local specialties… gold coins are out of the question. Just bring my mom some small gadgets, or even pick up a leaf from the roadside and bring it back, she will be very happy.”
“Oh, okay…”
Lucia reluctantly wagged her tail and looked down to find a gold coin rolling behind her, so she quickly stretched out her tail.
The dragon tail slapped on the gold coin with a ‘smack’, and the hard gold coin was directly embedded into the wooden board by her tail.
Xia Li: “…”
Seeing the fate of this gold coin, Xia Li thought of himself.
They weren’t even married yet!
Why did she have a tendency for domestic violence!
Not good, not good.
He hugged the dragon girl and smoothed her hair, finding a topic that the dragon liked to hear.
“So, if the gold coins are not used up when we go back, these gold coins can only be secretly digested by ourselves…”
“Oh!”
Lucia was indeed very interested in this matter.
In this world, if she was most interested in Xia Li’s matters, then gold coins would be ranked second.
“So, we will be rich when we go back.”
“Yes.”
Xia Li was amused by the dragon’s slow reaction.
“What do you want to do when you have money?” He asked again.
“I want to…”
Lucia raised her fat tail, the tip of her tail trembling slightly.
This action was similar to a rattlesnake, making Xia Li’s heart itch.
“I want to buy a lair first.”
“Hmm, and then?”
“And then…”
Lucia paused.
Her world used to be very big, big enough to swallow the entire Azure Continent.
But now, her world was very small.
Small enough to only hold Xia Li.
Therefore, when asked about this kind of future, Lucia couldn’t imagine it for a while.
She didn’t seem to have any special dreams.
The only thing she wanted to do was to get the lair, and then… press Xia Li in the lair, and then live a stable life!
“When I have money, I won’t even lick the lid when I drink yogurt!”
The evil dragon suddenly clenched her small fists and said her great wish.
Xia Li: “…”
Xia Li felt that Lucia’s answer was unexpected, but also expected.
It was indeed something Lucia could say.
“What about you, what do you want to do when you have money?”
Lucia asked Xia Li back with some interest.
Xia Li’s answer was straightforward, as if he had already thought about it in his heart.
“When I have money, I will use it to marry a wife.” He replied.
Lucia looked at him sideways.
As Xia Li spoke, he also clenched his fists.
When he spoke, his eyes were burning as if with flames.
Xia Li’s tone of reply was three parts firm, three parts longing, and the remaining four parts seemed to be cheering himself up.
“And then have ten children!”
“…”
“Of course, just giving birth is not enough, we also need to gain a firm foothold in our careers.” Xia Li continued.
“The gold coins we bring back are only a temporary solution, and we can’t exchange too much, otherwise we will be suspected of smuggling or something, which will affect our lives.
Gaining a firm foothold in work and career is the real thing I have to do. This is not only to stabilize the source of income, but also to consolidate one’s position in society… It is also the responsibility of a man.
It just so happens that when I get my veterinary qualification certificate, we will directly use this money as start-up capital, so we don’t have to rely too much on my mom, and let my mom keep the money she saved for me for retirement…”
Xia Li analyzed it clearly and logically.
He had already sorted out the path he would take next.
However, Lucia’s thoughts had already drifted to the other side when she heard half of it.
She lowered her head and looked at her smooth feet.
She shook her calves and then her tail, finally placing her hand on her lower abdomen.
It seemed that she…
Had never told Xia Li.
Dragons had one baby at a time.
Having ten…
What was the difference between that and giving birth to piglets?!
Sigh…
Why was she thinking so much!
These were just the bad hero’s own fantasies!
Why should she follow the rhythm of his fantasies and think deeper?
It was as if she was looking forward to these things too.
She wasn’t looking forward to it!
She was just… a little bit curious about that kind of scene.
“Knock, knock, knock.”
Just as Lucia was dizzy and immersed in Xia Li’s ‘dream’, unable to extricate herself.
The carriage slowly stopped.
There was an intermittent knock on the door from outside the carriage.
The coachman’s respectful voice came from outside the door.
“Distinguished guests, we have arrived at the Royal Capital.”