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Chapter 426: Candles

 "Oh, Erina-chan's imagination is really rich." Nao smiled and pulled her to her side, looked at the ice under her feet, and couldn't help but sigh: "When you said that, I started to think too.

Oh? What if the ice beneath our feet suddenly disappears, will we be able to penetrate it beautifully?"

"Haha... it must be very miserable anyway."

Erina said this, feeling a little nervous.

"But it's not like the injury was serious. The spikes on the top of the fence don't look very sharp... Now, speaking of which, I've seen it on a TV show before. Some people would put glass shards up and wipe them with cement.

On the fence, it will become a homemade anti-theft wall. If you are stabbed by that, you will be seriously injured..."

"Oh, that wall really feels like a wasteland punk! It seems like an obstacle that would appear in a doomsday world! The guy who lives here must be a very cute blue-haired mermaid girl, right?"

"Just say it's Saye. When it comes to doomsday movies, the first thing that comes to mind is an uncle with a dog and riding a motorcycle. Then get a revolver or a shotgun! In short, Mad Max and radiation are combined.

That’s pretty much it.”

While Erina was complaining like this, she looked at the ground again and said nervously.

"By the way, Nao, you are good at high jumping, right? Can you jump over a fence of this height?"

"Yes. I stopped at the top just to pull Erina-chan out."

"...Then you should jump down first." Erina finally couldn't help but offered: "Catch me below! I don't dare to jump!"

"Hehehe... Erina-chan is really timid."

"I'm not timid! This is... I'm afraid of heights, I'm afraid of heights!"

"Hey? Erina-chan, are you afraid of heights? But I don't think you're that scared at high places."

"Those places are just not high enough! Speaking of places where I need to jump by myself, I will be scared if it exceeds three meters! Pick me up!"

"Okay, okay. Why don't I just take you to jump down!"

"Whoa!"

Nao picked up Erina and jumped off the wall.

This made her exclaim. But she immediately realized that she had to keep quiet, so she closed her mouth tightly and became quiet.

"Don't be so sudden!" After landing, Erina finally touched the safe ground and immediately complained half-irritatedly: "Tell me before you hug me!"

"Huh? Is this the point? Ah, you have to keep your voice down! Don't let them see us? Otherwise, everything will be ruined!"

Of course Erina knew this very well, so she immediately shut up and became quiet.

The two began to move toward the warehouse quietly.

Of course... before leaving, she didn't forget to disperse the ice cubes to make them disappear.

If an outsider sees such an ice cube stuck in the wall, it will definitely arouse suspicion.

At this time, the other side.

Yoshiyuki looked at the house numbers around him, compared it with the address written on the paper, nodded, and prepared to knock on the door.

...Just when he was about to do this, the button on the door attracted his attention.

Therefore, Yoshiyuki stopped his fist and pressed the doorbell with his finger. Soon there was a slightly harsh sound.

The use of electricity is still relatively widespread in this world.

But its application form is not

Moreover, civilian homes usually do not use electric lights for lighting.

The reason is that it is more expensive than kerosene lamps and candle lamp options.

Although the church has money, it often does not use electric lights.

They prefer beeswax.

Seems like beeswax has some special place in their religion.

Yoshiyuki has never studied the difference between the Tianyi Sect here in Jiuyuan Township and the one on Earth.

All he knew was that beeswax was not cheap anywhere.

This thing is made of honey. It is the brightest of all candles.

There is no smoke when it burns, and the light is stable without shaking. It even has a little sweet taste.

So beeswax is considered the cleanest and most advanced candle.

Among the candles used by common people, the cheapest ones are made of rushes dipped in specially treated and added lard.

This is the most primitive and cumbersome method of making candles - dip rushes with a hollow center in a layer of lard, and when it cools, a layer of wax will solidify around the grass.

Then, use it to dip into lard. After cooling, the lard that solidifies into wax will form an additional layer.

Repeat this several times until a candle is ready.

It can be said to be very complicated.

Many candles are made by hand.

Yi Xing did see a candle factory in Haiou Port, so handmade cheap candles are rare here.

However, the candles coming out of the factory cannot meet everyone's needs, and it is impossible to ensure that all areas without factories can use mechanized mass-produced candles.

Both transportation and raw materials are under great pressure, so in most areas, handmade candles are mainstream from low-end to high-end.

Because lard is used as raw material, even the cheapest candles are not as cheap as they are on the other side of the earth.

Whether it's lighting candles or kerosene lamps, for civilians here, they are expenses that need to be carefully controlled.

Yoshiyuki came to this mansion today just to talk about work.

These days, he often visits the mercenary guild to see if there is any suitable commission. It seems that because he is familiar with him, the person in charge of the guild introduced him to this mission.

"I'm sorry, Miss Maekawa. Someone is paying for your head."

"Huh?" Yi Xing snorted.
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