Chapter 837 - 834 Mid-Autumn

Chapter 837: Chapter 834 Mid-Autumn

After Lucas finished making the soap, he returned to the study. The cat-eared girl followed behind him, holding her self-carved mold in her hands. Looking at its shape, it somewhat resembled a crooked little cat.

Helen put away her soap mold and left. She still had to go back to teach class, and the recitation contest was starting tomorrow, so she needed to hurry back and make some preparations.

The stage was currently set up on the school’s playground. The poems and texts for recitation were all prepared by the students themselves. Helen merely taught them how to recite and what tone to use for which adjectives, letting the students practice over these few days.

Ayesha also left. She had only come back to mooch a meal. Now that she was full, it was time to go back and continue patrolling.

Nicole, however, held a notebook and carefully wrote down the soap-making process. She planned that tomorrow, once the soap had formed, if it was successful, she would try making some different varieties of soap herself.

"Right, I can add some pearl powder to it. That way, it can nourish the skin. Although this would increase the cost, it could be supplied to those nobles and merchants..." Nicole muttered to herself. Recalling Lucas’s entire operation just now, she continued writing.

Lucy, on the other hand, returned to her room. She had suddenly been struck by inspiration and was going to start writing the second volume of the City of Miracles series. She decided to include the soap in her story—though, of course, the production process wouldn’t be described.

As for Amelia, she returned to the air force base to practice and simultaneously wait for her Big Sister. Even though she knew that at Rhea and the others’ speed, they shouldn’t have reached the valley yet, she still intended to wait there anyway.

Rhea was going to slay a dragon this time. Even with the military crossbows and anesthetics provided by Lucas, she would still feel somewhat worried internally.

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After Lucas returned to the study, he flipped through his books, looking for the characteristics and identification methods for alkali mines. Since he planned to open a soap shop, certain problems had to be resolved.

Between oils and alkali, the hardest to find was alkali. The best solution, naturally, was to find an alkali mine.

As for oils, Lucas planned to have someone experiment with peanut oil to see if it would work. If not, he could only wait until the captive wild boars were domesticated before making further plans.

"Alkali mines mostly appear in lakes and..." Lucas flipped through the books, holding a pen and writing on paper, trying to express the characteristics of alkali mines using the simplest descriptions possible.

Mina sat on the chair, swinging her legs, looking at Lucas with gentle eyes from time to time.

After more than half an hour had passed...

"Mina, have someone send this to the underground Bounty Guild to see if they can find a natural alkali mine," Lucas said, holding the paper he had just finished writing. After reading it from beginning to end and ensuring that people of this world could also understand it, he finally handed it to Mina.

"Okay," Mina nodded. She remembered that alkali was a component in making soap.

Lucas was taking a ’give it a try’ attitude. Natural alkali should exist in this world; he just didn’t know if they could find it. If they couldn’t, they would just have to find another substitute.

"Is the master planning to mass-produce soap?" Mina asked curiously.

"Yes. Right now, we’re only short on alkali. If we can find a large amount of alkali, we can mass-produce it," Lucas nodded. If soap was promoted widely, it could earn him quite a sum of money.

Mina nodded. She didn’t understand much about this, but she hoped the underground Bounty Guild could find the alkali mine the master spoke of.

"By the way, master, Helen asked me to remind you before she left that tomorrow is the opening day of the recitation contest," Mina remembered something and said to Lucas.

"Alright," Lucas leaned against the back of his chair, gave a lazy response, and stretched out.

Mina came behind Lucas, placed her hands on his shoulders, and began massaging them rhythmically.

"Have they found a suitable place to build the vegetable greenhouses yet?" Lucas tilted his head back, looking at the cat-eared girl who was looking down at him.

"N-not yet. We’ve already intensified the efforts to have people look for it," Mina’s cheeks flushed slightly red, but she didn’t avert Lucas’s gaze.

"Mhm. Tell them to pay closer attention to it. The vegetable greenhouse project cannot be delayed any longer. If it’s not completed before winter arrives, there won’t be any fresh green vegetables to eat this winter," Lucas reached up and stroked the cat-eared girl’s cascading long hair.

"Understood," Mina replied softly.

"Have the nobles cooperating with us set off yet?" Lucas remembered summoning those nobles previously.

Otherwise, if the dwarves arrived and they didn’t have enough linen for trading, it would be a bit awkward.

"They have set off. Anyone who was sent an invitation is already on their way," Mina nodded. She had just received the news from the Security Department yesterday.

During this time, some nobles who were closer had already arrived in Sedona City early. Those further away would still need a few days to get here.

"Have people keep an eye out. If those nobles have any cooperation with the inland, send the intelligence back in advance," Lucas nodded. Since they were coming, it meant the linen required by the Deepstone Dwarf Kingdom was secured.

He estimated that in a little over a month, Dahlia and the others would also be returning. He would have to celebrate for them when the time came.

"Yes," Mina hurriedly agreed.

Thinking of celebration reminded Lucas that the Otsukimi was approaching. His half-reclined body immediately sat up straight. Autumn was arriving very soon, which meant the Otsukimi wasn’t far away. Perhaps he could bring the Otsukimi to this world. Celebrating the Otsukimi in this world was something Lucas placed great importance on.

"Mina, what do you think about adding an Otsukimi to our Sedona City?" Lucas asked softly.

"Master, what is Otsukimi?" Mina asked in confusion.

"Otsukimi is a holiday. On this day, we eat Momoyama and admire the moon..." Lucas’s eyes held a look of reminiscence.

"Eh? A festival? Momoyama? Admiring the moon?" Mina’s eyes flickered with curiosity. What were Momoyama?

"You’ll know when the time comes. Momoyama is very delicious," Lucas kept her in suspense.

There was still quite some time before the Otsukimi, which was more than enough time for him to make preparations.

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