Chapter 426: Candles

"Oh, Erina-chan's imagination is really rich." Nao smiled and pulled her to his side, looked at the ice under his feet, and couldn't help but sigh: "After you said that, I started to think about it too. Oh? What if the ice beneath our feet suddenly disappears, will we penetrate it beautifully?"

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

Erina said this, feeling a little nervous.

"But it won't be a serious injury. 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. Someone would put up broken glass or something and wipe it with cement. On the wall. That would turn it into a homemade anti-theft wall. If you get 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 a motorcycle. Then get a revolver or a shotgun! In short, Mad Max and radiation are combined. That’s pretty much it.”

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

"By the way, Nao, you can jump very high, right? Can you jump over a fence of this height?"

"Yes. This is to pull Erina-chan out, so I stopped at the top."

"...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? Are you afraid of heights, Erina-chan? 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 is more than 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 he immediately realized that he had to keep quiet, so he shut his mouth tightly and became quiet.

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

"Huh? Is this the point - ah, you have to keep your voice down! We must not be seen by them? 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 quietly toward the warehouse.

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 them with the addresses written on the paper, nodded, and prepared to knock on the door.

... Just as he was about to do so, the button on the door caught his attention.

Therefore, Yoshiyuki stopped his fists and rang the doorbell with his fingers. Soon there was a slightly harsh sound.

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

But its application form, there is no

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 churches have money, they often do 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 stuff is made of honey. It is the brightest of all candles.

There is no smoke when burning, and the light is stable without shaking. There's even a little sweetness to it.

So beeswax is considered the cleanest and most advanced candle.

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

This is the most primitive and tedious 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 it in 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 like this.

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 there is no way to ensure that all areas without factories can use mechanized mass-produced candles.

There is a lot of pressure on both transportation and raw materials, 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 is 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 union to see if there are any suitable commissions. It seemed that because he was familiar with him, the person in charge of the guild introduced him to this task.

"Excuse me, Miss Maekawa. Someone is paying for your head."

"Huh?" Yi Xing snorted.

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