Chapter 26 gold ring

"Okay," Gigi hadn't woken up from the scene just now, and didn't have time to sort out her thoughts, "I think... I mean... don't deliberately worry about it." "No?" Aegas said. "Yeah, you just have to think there's just something wrong." "Shouldn't it be more serious?" Aegas said. He and Aegas walked along the village road.They are standing outside the pharmacy.Gigi stopped, glanced at the window, and saw that it was full of old bottles and jars.A row of bottles contained powders of different colors, and another bottle contained a liquid with a glowing surface that looked like mercury.In the shadowy recesses of the pharmacy, only the outlines of strange things could be seen, wooden pestles and mortars, balls, and brass goblets carved with strange characters.Gigi snickered, and Sidna Tobin, who ran a pharmacy in Kenwala, was often laughed at for these things.

"What's this?" he asked Aegas. "The raw material," said Aegias, "is for alchemy." "What is alchemy?" "It's about making gold." "Really?" said Gigi, "you can make gold out of these things?" "I don't know," said Egoas, "but I think it won't hurt to try." "Can we go in?" Gigi asked. "No, no!" Agath took him by the arm, and led him to the porch. "There are a lot of leprechauns in there, and you wouldn't like to be with them." "why?"

"They're little things that can do magic tricks," "It's a gold craze," said Egeas. "And will they buy what's in the store?" "yes." Jiji looked into the window again, and asked strangely: "If there is no money here, how can they buy things?" "Buy it with gold." "Ah?" Jiji said, "How can you make money by buying things for alchemy with gold?" "Don't ask me that," Agas said, "I don't know how to make money." In the pharmacy, the leprechauns were arguing angrily with shrill voices.As Gigi and Agas walked away from the window, he noticed that the dog had been following him.It limped over and Gigi touched its ear.

"How did it hurt?" he asked Agias. "I don't know," said Aegias, "it was already like this when it appeared in front of us." "Where did it come from?" "From that side, your side." "But why doesn't anyone help it? It must have someone, right?" "It does have an owner," "It belonged to Finn McCool," said Aegas. "Finn McCool? But he's not real. He's just a legend." "No," said Agas, "he's as real as you and me." "I guess there might have been one," Gigi said, "but it was a long time ago. How old is the dog if that's the case!"

Egeas shrugged and said, "How would I know? You can count its teeth." "That's not what I mean!" said Gigi. "If it's Finn McCool's dog, it's an antique, probably hundreds or thousands of years old. When did it come?" Aegas looked up at the sky again, pointed to the top of his head and said, "When the sun was still in this position. Now, if you have no objection, I would like to have a drink and a cigarette." He went into the Buck's store, or rather where the Buck's store was located in Gigi's village.The place doesn't look like a store now, and Gigi sees only old wooden shelves covered in ivy through the windows.He was about to follow, but the dog rubbed its head against Gigi's hand again, as if seeking his mercy.Gigi scratched the dog's chin and bent over its wound.Another drop of blood trickled from the wound, and another.Whether or not the Finn McCool thing was real, his wound was real and a good veterinarian could heal it, but is there a veterinarian here?

Gigi walked back down the street, the dog shambling behind.On the pier, he approached what was supposed to be a veterinary station in his village and knocked on the door.If Buck's was still a store here, and if the pharmacy was an alchemist here, perhaps a veterinarian would have appeared in the house, but it was sleepy Maggie who opened the door. "Nice to see you again," she said. "Are you here for the music?" "No," Gigi said, "I want to see a vet." "What does a veterinarian do?" "It's a doctor who treats animals."

"As far as I know there's no one like that," Maggie said. "We have neither veterinarians nor doctors." "Don't you need a doctor?" "What do you want a doctor for?" "When you are sick, he can heal you." Maggie shook her head and said, "Doctors are no use here. If you're healthy, you'll stay healthy and never get sick; if you're sick, you'll stay sick and never get better. I don't worry about that." Dog, it's not going to get worse." Maggie hesitated, then continued, "At least, when the sun is still there," she pointed to the sky, "everything is like that."

Gigi's head started to spin. "But it hurts," he said. "Exactly!" said Maggie. "Poor Brian. Are you sure you don't want to listen to music?"