NCCnovel Chapter 262 The Expeditionary Envoy Makes His Move
Chapter 262 The Expeditionary Envoy Makes His Move
"It is truly an honor for Lord Xu Ning to deign to patronize my humble shop."
Kapila Adam came out first, smiling and flattering Xu Ning.
Xu Ning was also sizing up this Capilia.
This girl with soft blonde hair had a delicate and frail appearance.
It's impossible to associate her with the strong woman who abandoned Mondstadt's crumbling foundation and resolutely expanded into overseas markets.
Xu Ning cupped his hands in greeting and said with a smile, "It's a pleasure to meet you. Although this is my first time encountering the Wind of Voyage, I have heard stories from your subordinates about your past and I greatly admire Miss Capria's decisiveness."
Xu Ning didn't engage in the usual pleasantries or empty words like "I've long admired your name." Instead, he frankly admitted that this was the first time he had heard of the Far Voyage Wind. This pragmatic attitude immediately won over Capilia.
"Lord Xu Ning, please don't laugh at me. If you don't mind, please come in and try our bar!"
Xu Ning didn't stand on ceremony and led Qingyi and Wendy into the shop.
Capilia sent her servants outside to solicit business, while she herself took several large wine glasses, filled them to the brim with her homemade dandelion wine, and placed them in front of the three of them.
"To paraphrase Liyue, a defeated general has no right to speak of bravery. I am actually just a deserter. I have dared to compete with the Cattail Tavern in Mondstadt and Dawn Winery for many years. First, I waited for that little cat, and then I waited for your Thousand Winds. Now it is said that I can completely stand on equal footing with Angel's Gift in Mondstadt."
As Capilia recounted her story, Xu Ning picked up the dandelion wine in front of him and slowly savored it.
The wine is of good quality; you can taste the care taken in its production.
However, it wasn't as amazing as the wines I tasted at the Dawn Winery banquet. They were the kind of wines that you couldn't find fault with, but it was also hard to say what was good about them.
Xu Ning was still carefully considering the words to make a good evaluation when Capilia had already spoken with a smile.
"You don't need to comfort me. Only we know what's going on in our own lives. Even I drink wine from the Morning Light Winery after work!"
"However, I originally wanted Clemens to bring back some Thousand Winds Wine this time, to study what was so special about your wine, but unexpectedly, this young man drank it all on the ship..."
Wendy, who was also drinking nearby, looked completely unconcerned. She finished her drink, pushed the glass towards Xu Ning, and chuckled.
Xu Ning glared at him, but still poured him a cup of Qianfeng tea.
He poured a glass for Capria in front of him and for Clemens standing beside him.
After taking a sip, both of them couldn't help but exclaim, "This is what Mondstadt wine should be like!"
Xu Ning said seriously, "Store owner Capria, if I may ask, do you think the future of the Voyage Winds should be based on wine or on Mora?"
Kapila immediately understood what Xu Ning was saying.
Xu Ning's meaning was clear: I'm here to cooperate with you now.
If you want to earn Mora, let's cooperate. I'll provide the alcohol, and you can sell it.
But if you want to make even better wine and are prepared to continue the battle with Château de la Dawn, then I don't have the time to play along.
"Of course it's Mora. Only after we've earned a lot of Mora and kept the voyage going can we talk about the future."
Xu Ning smiled and took out several large jars of Thousand Wind from the Hidden Dust Cave and placed them on the table.
"This is compensation for the farce my partner caused on the ship. Let's discuss the next steps of our cooperation in more depth after the thunderstorm in Inazuma has subsided in a few days."
Capilia was taken aback. The lockdown order was personally issued by the country's Thunder God, and even the thunderstorm was personally set up by her. How could Xu Ning be so sure that the thunderstorm would disappear in a few days?
On the way away from the Wind of Voyage, Wendy asked Xu Ning with a smile how he knew when the thunderstorm would disappear.
Xu Ning casually said, "I don't know either, but it will disappear eventually, right? Can Thor keep using his divine power to withstand it forever?"
Wendy joked, "That's hard to say. After all, Thor is after 'eternity'!"
What is eternity?
What remains unchanged is eternal.
It is neither born nor dies, neither increases nor decreases; all things are constant.
If thunderstorms can achieve eternity, then it wouldn't be a big deal if Thor remained indefinitely.
Does this mean I really have to have a fight with that otaku?
No, what am I thinking? I'm just here on a paid vacation, not to reform Inazuma. I don't care about thunderstorms or eternity.
As he was pondering, two groups of warriors suddenly appeared, wielding weapons, and surrounded Xu Ning from the front and back.
"Halt! Temporary inspection!"
Xu Ning turned around with a smile and asked a samurai with a long sword behind him, "I wonder what you need me for?"
The samurai stepped forward and said coldly, "Someone reported that you have no permission to land on the island or any stay permits. You were able to stay by bribing the inspectors through improper means. We can fully suspect that you have ulterior motives for staying here. Please put down your weapons and come with us for an investigation."
Xu Ning shook his head and said, "Whoever sent you, let him come and invite me himself. You small fry are far from qualified."
A samurai stepped forward and shouted, "How dare you! Who do you think you are to warrant the arrival of the Commissioner of the Imperial Censorate?"
"So it was someone personally sent by the Commissioner of the Imperial Household, huh? I heard that the Commissioner of the Imperial Household is in charge of all the wealth in Inazuma. Your master wouldn't happen to have his eye on my precious gourd that can pour out Mora, would he?"
Xu Ning mockingly poured out a few more Mora coins, the clinking sound of the coins hitting the ground seemed to instantly stimulate the nerves of the surrounding soldiers.
The lead warrior shouted "Charge!" and the group immediately charged forward with their spears.
Thomas, who had been observing Xu Ning from a dark corner, touched himself upon seeing this and was about to rush out to help Xu Ning avert the disaster.
But before he could make a move, Thomas immediately saw that the soldiers around him were all like drunkards, staggering and swaying after a few steps, then dropping their weapons and collapsing to the ground.
This startled Thomas.
Although intelligence reports had already described that Xu Ning possessed a Wine Elemental God's Eye that no one had ever seen before, very few people knew how he used this power.
Seeing it up close now is truly breathtaking.
Without a sound, he took down all the soldiers around him. If such a divine eye were used on the battlefield, it would be a deadly weapon that could kill without leaving a trace.
This move was the "Gentle Paradise" that Xu Ning had demonstrated to the young master.