Chapter 193 White House Manor

Joan carefully read the precautions for hunting diggers twice, and then copied the entire page into a notebook.

Glancing at the clock, only half an hour had passed, he didn't want to waste the five gold coins, and continued to read the other worm-shaped monsters recorded in the book.

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Joan sat in the reading room for four full hours, until he had finished reading "Vares Monster Illustrated Book" (Volume 9) from beginning to end, and took notes and excerpted a full book, then returned the book, and left the book contentedly museum.

It was almost five o'clock in the afternoon, and Joan went to the playground to exercise as usual.

While jogging, he was thinking about how to deal with the diggers that were making trouble in Custis Manor.

The book suggested using enchantment spells to deal with this kind of huge monster insects. Joan happened to have just learned two mind-controlling spells, "Colorful Spray" and "Sleep", which would come in handy tomorrow.

After running ten laps in one breath, Joan wiped off his sweat and collected a bag full of clean fine sand on the playground.

Then he walked around to the flowerbed across the playground and asked the gardener who was pruning the bushes if he could collect the withered rose petals.

"Sir, do you want these petals as materials for casting spells?"

After all, this is the Austrian law branch, and the gardener has long been familiar with Joan's request.

After getting an affirmative answer, I personally helped Joan collect a lot of fallen rose petals, and gave him a cloth bag to store the petals.

Joan thanked the gardener, and then left the flower garden with a cloth bag. When passing by the grocery store, he went in and bought a bundle of smoked mosquito grass, a large piece of cockscomb stone—also known as "realgar", a dozen empty milk bottles, and There are three colors of red, yellow and blue paint... I didn't even bother to eat dinner, and hurried back to the dormitory with this big bag of sundries to get busy.

Joan first cleaned the empty feeding bottles one by one. There is still a lot of powder left over from the previous preparation of insecticides. Qiao An skillfully prepared the medicines, divided them into glass milk bottles, dissolved them with water, and covered them with corks.

Digger bugs are ten thousand times larger than cockroaches. In order to deal with this huge and ferocious monster, Joan spared no expense in the insecticides he prepared this time.

The concentration of the newly formulated medicine is a hundred times higher than that used to deal with common pests, and it may not be able to withstand it even if it is as strong as a digger.

Joan didn't pin all his hopes of winning the bounty on pesticides, he relied more on his spells.

After dispensing the insecticide, Joan then took out the fine sand collected on the playground, grabbed a large handful and put it in an iron basin, dyed the sand red with newly bought fuel, performed "magic tricks" to dry it, and poured it into A small pocket.

Next, he poured a large handful of fine sand into the basin, dyed it yellow and dried it.

In the end, he dyed all the remaining fine sand blue.

This process was repeated three times to complete the dyeing process, and Qiao An obtained fine sand in three colors of red, yellow and blue.

Joan mixed the three kinds of fine sand together in equal amounts, and the colored fine sand made was the material required for casting the 1-ring arcane spell "Colorful Spray".

Joan packed the prepared colored fine sand into a storage bag, and mixed the remaining undyed sand with dried rose petals, and put it in another pocket as the material for releasing the "sleep technique".

In fact, most spells do not necessarily use only one material to cast.

For example, the "sleep technique", in addition to the mixture of fine sand and rose petals prepared by Joan, can also use a live cricket as a material for casting the spell, which can also have a hypnotic effect.

However, Joan felt that collecting fine sand and rose petals was far more convenient than catching crickets, and he had to use live crickets to successfully cast spells—such spell-casting materials were not only cumbersome, but also difficult to store for a long time.

Everything was ready, and the sky was completely dark.

Joann cut two slices of bread, sandwiched cheese to make a simple sandwich for dinner, and hastily filled his stomach.

There is still a period of time before going to bed, which Joan uses to study spells. The focus is of course "sleep" and "colorful spray", these two key spells will be used to deal with diggers tomorrow.

After concentrating on studying the spell book for two hours, Joan tried to cast these two 1st-level spells.

He consumed all the spell slots and "power of myth" in one breath, and released 5 "colorful jets" and 4 "sleep spells" respectively.

At first, the rehearsal was a bit jerky, but after one or two rehearsals, she gradually became proficient, and finally managed to control the casting time of these two spells within 3 seconds, and Joan ended the practice with satisfaction.

It was getting dark outside the window, and Joann considered that he would get up early tomorrow to go out of the city and ride to the Custis family's manor. He washed up and went to bed an hour earlier than usual, and fell asleep peacefully with the longing for the high bounty.

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Early on Sunday morning, Joan took a public carriage to the west gate of Leiden City.

At the post station near the city gate, he rented a horse with his student ID card as collateral.

Joan rode out of the west gate and rode along the north bank of the Iffin River for more than an hour before arriving at the "White House Manor" where the Custis family lived.

Joan's journey along the way can be said to have opened his eyes, and he really realized how magnificent the large plantation in Alfheim is!

Custis Manor, built on the banks of the Ivene River, covers an area of ​​more than 20,000 acres and has more than 300 servants. It is a typical large plantation in the south of the New World.

The owner's castle-style mansion lives in the center of the manor. It is painted white and looks beautiful and generous, so this place is also called "White House Manor" by the people of Port Leiden.

The lawn surrounding the castle extends to the small pier by the river.

Next to the castle are two smaller houses, one is the kitchen and the other is the office.

Along the two sides of the mansion, there are many indispensable functional buildings in the manor.

These outbuildings include a laundry room, a washing room, a weaving room, a sewing room, a waxing room, and small workshops for making soap and candles, a workshop for tanning leather and making leather boots, a carpenter's shop, a blacksmith's shop, and a gardener's room. , as well as a chapel, clinic, warehouse and ice cellar.

And finally, of course, the rows of log cabins where the sharecroppers and slaves lived.

There are vegetable gardens and orchards in the manor, and the vegetables and fruits are self-produced and sold.

On the periphery of the fruit and vegetable garden, there are arable land and pastures that are so large that you can't see the side. Large tracts of grain, tobacco and indigo are planted, and flocks of cattle, sheep and horses are raised.

A typical southern plantation is like a small independent kingdom, a small self-sufficient society, where people's food, clothing, housing and transportation can basically be solved in the manor.

Joan rode along the ridge for a long time before finding the road leading to the inside of the manor.

Going straight along this spacious avenue paved with gravel, when he was approaching the gate of the castle, he was stopped by a guard in servant uniform, who politely asked him where he came from and what he wanted to do.

Joan got off his horse and said the words he had prepared:

"I saw a reward notice signed by your master in the 'Red Tomato Tavern', saying that he was recruiting an exterminator. I came to visit the house today precisely for this purpose."