Chapter 1318 Windless Village

"The magic train is not drawn by animal power, but by a device called 'magic locomotive' to provide traction. This locomotive is equipped with a new type of magic steam engine and uses magic crystals as fuel to generate very powerful power."

"In addition, the rails themselves are very smooth, and vehicles traveling along the rails experience much less friction than ordinary roads, so the magic locomotive can drag a long string of carriages along the rails with ease."

At the end, Joan couldn't help but add a little guilty: "These are all what I read in the book, but in fact, I have never seen a real magic train."

"Brother Joan! Let's keep walking along the railroad track. Sooner or later we will meet a passing train, and we will know what's going on then!" Ruby said excitedly.

"Then let's go north. Just now I vaguely saw that there seems to be a village in the north." Medea said.

Joan nodded, fluttered his wings into the air, and flew north along the railway.

Medea and Ruby also followed. The three of them flew north for about ten minutes, and they saw a row of tall and undulating buildings between the railway and the stream flowing through the forest. The village was much larger than they expected.

Surrounding the village is a wheat field, and the ears of wheat sway in the wind like golden waves.

Joan, Medea, and Ruby landed next to the railway and walked along the field ridge. After a while, they saw a platform made of red bricks.

A small wooden house was built on the platform, which looked like a ticket office. Next to it was a large house under construction. A group of shirtless young people were busy on the construction site.

Medea gathered up her turban, walked to the construction site, and asked someone about it. It turned out that this place was called "Windless Township", and it was one of the stations along the northern railway.

This place was originally just a backwater. With the founding of the Far East and the opening of the railway, the local economy also ushered in an opportunity for vigorous development. In order to facilitate passengers, a waiting room was specially built, which is the big house that the workers are building.

Medea also found out that the train passed Windless Township and continued northward, and the next stop was Gudi Village.

If the train timetable provided on the platform does not have too much error, wait another half an hour, and the next train will arrive at Wufeng Township platform.

It was less than a hundred miles from Wufeng Township to Gudi Village, but the locals said that the train would take nearly four hours. Medea couldn't help being surprised by the slow speed of the train.

"Converted in this way, the train can only travel 25 miles per hour on average, and the speed can't even catch up with the cross-country speed of a thoroughbred horse. It's really slow."

After hearing Medea's complaints, Joan also felt a little surprised. Judging from the power data of the magical locomotive, driving on such a flat field, the speed should not be so slow, almost doubled.

But having said that, although it is faster to teleport directly to Gudi Village, considering the unfamiliarity of the place, if there is a deviation in the teleportation, it will be more troublesome to plunge into the deep mountains and old forests.

The three of them discussed it, and finally decided to wait on the platform for a while and take the train to Gudi Village. Anyway, everyone is not in a hurry, so they can enjoy the roadside scenery while taking the train. It is also a summer vacation. A good pastime.

The waiting room hadn't been built yet, so Qiao An and the others could only wait on the platform. They accidentally saw someone selling fruit on the platform, so they went to buy a bag of yellow pears.

When paying, an unexpected episode happened.

The pear seller looked at the silver coins that Joan handed over, smiled and shook his head: "Sir, are you a foreigner?"

Joan froze for a moment, then asked, "Why do you say that?"

It would not be surprising if the peddler recognized his accent as a foreigner, but it would be a little surprising if he could tell at a glance that he was from outside the Far East.

"Last winter, the entire territory of our Kingdom of Kolas abolished the currency that was circulated in the era of the former empire, and replaced it with the currency newly issued by the government. You probably don't know about this?"

Joan looked at the Silver Duga with the portrait of Emperor Charles V in his hand, and realized that it was the coin that revealed his identity.

As the fruit peddler said, he came from the New World and was completely unfamiliar with the current affairs of the Far East. What surprised him even more was that this country, which had been independent for less than two years, had completely abolished the previous currency system and issued a new set of coins.

Although Joan doesn't quite understand the need for the Kolas government to hastily reform the currency system, it is not difficult to see the authority's ability to govern swiftly and swiftly.

"Sir, if you don't have new coins, I can exchange them for you. You can exchange 3 old coins for 2 new coins." The peddler grinned, "Don't think I take advantage of you. The gold and silver content of 3 old coins is It is only worth 2 new coins, and there is no need to change the copper coins, the old and new are the same."

Considering that he will stay in the Far East for a period of time, it will inevitably cost money, so Joan exchanged some silver coins at the fruit vendor. As for gold coins, hawkers have limited capital and cannot exchange a few.

The new coin issued by the Far East government is in the unit of "thaler" - Joan doesn't quite understand what this word means, it sounds like someone's surname.

The peddler said that the silver content of silver thaler was higher than that of silver durga, but Joan was dubious at first. After exchanging the coins, I checked carefully. The peddler really didn't lie to him. The fineness of the silver thaler is indeed much higher, and the casting process is also more exquisite, showing strong industrial capabilities, which surprised Qiao An.

A silver thaler in exchange for a bunch of pears that look beautiful.

Joan picked up a pear and gnawed a couple of bites. It was crunchy and sweet at the beginning, but the more he chewed, the more sour it became. After eating half of the pear, his teeth were about to become sour, so he had to give up.

Medea was a little better than him, she insisted on eating a pear, her cheeks were so sore that she lost consciousness.

There were three pears left, and Ruby gnawed them all. Afterwards, she licked her lips unsatisfied, expressing that they were delicious, and wanted to buy another bag of pears to eat on the way.

Joan watched her eat pears, and her mouth couldn't help but sour water, and she couldn't help admiring this little loli's good teeth.

When he went to buy pears again, the peddler casually reminded him to buy a ticket before getting on the bus.

Only then did Joan realize that she hadn't bought a ticket yet, so she hurried to the ticket booth and asked the uniformed conductor sitting behind the window how much the ticket to Valley Village was.

"One silver thaler, as long as you get on this train, no matter where you get off, the fare is all one silver thaler."

Joan paid for three tickets, and as soon as he got back to the platform, he heard a distant horn sound from the south, indicating that the train was about to arrive at the station.

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