Chapter 62：White River City (1/2)
Chapter 62 White River City
Author: M_W Cancer
Grammar Checker: M_W Nomral
It didn't took a long time for Leo to finally exit the Yellow Forest, specifically around one and half hour. Looking around the area, he then realized that he had arrived in an unfamiliar road, which he doesn't know where to lead him to and fro. Fortunately, a wagon carrying some wheat sack was slowly coming towards his location.
”Excuse me sir, which place is this road leading to?” Leo quickly asked the chauffeur driving the wagon as soon as the latter arrived in front of him.
”To the west is the Will city, and to the east is the White River city. Are you perhaps lost, young man?” The chauffeur replied and asked after whether Leo was lost or not.
”Hehehe, unfortunately, I'm indeed currently lost. I just got out of the Yellow forest...” Leo truthfully answered. There was no use hiding anyway, since there was no one to hide anything.
The chauffeur let out a short chuckle before saying, ”I'm Karl! You can ride on my wagon, since I'm heading to White River city to deliver my harvest. Hope you don't mind my wagon's inconvenience.”
”No, no, no, your wagon is...” Leo suddenly paused, 'the wagon was a... wreck!' was what he was going to say. Fortunately, he was able to quickly pause or else he would be somewhat insulting the chauffeur. ”Your wagon looks great! Hahaha, no inconvenience at all!” He finished before hopping on the wagon.
”Hahaha, you don't have to worry, kid. I know that my wagon is a wreck!” The chauffeur replied as he didn't mind how Leo view his wagon.
”Unfortunately, selling wheat this year is not as good as the past years. No one really knows the exact reason why, but someone had said that it was due to the yellow soil of the Yellow Forest spreading around the nearby lands, hence affecting the soil in all the fields of the cities nearby the Yellow Forest!” Karl suddenly explained.
”What's wrong with the yellow soil?” Leo curiously asked. Base on what he had observed while inside the Yellow Forest, the yellow soil of the forest could still grow plants, although yellow in color, but it was still possible to use it to plant wheat and the likes. However, just base on what Karl had said, it actually affects the yield on the fields...
”The yellow soil can indeed grow plants, but it would add a property to those plants that is harmful to Humans. So, every plant that grew on the yellow soil cannot be used immediately. It needed to be refined first in order to cleanse its impurities. That would in turn cost the farmers' more money. Thats why, instead of keeping all the harvest, we could only separate those plants planted in brown soil from those planted in yellow soil. Though, it would still decrease our income...” Karl explained as he could only shake his head in helplessness.
”Ohhh...” Leo replied, finally understanding the situation. So, the harvest that grew on the yellow soil is harmful if not refined, hence they can only dispose of it instead of using money to cleanse the harvest, which in turn decreases their total yield.
Along the way to White River city, Leo and Karl continued talking about a topics related to farming.