Chapter 268 Winter Veil Festival

Winter Veil is the last festival of the year in Azeroth. People will celebrate the arrival of this festival for more than ten days from December 15th to January 2nd.

When the snow covered the earth, the dwarves and the tauren sang an ancient legend and celebrated the moment of bidding farewell to the old and welcoming the new.

Different races have different understandings of this legend, and the way they spread this story is also different because of the differences between different races.

The word "Winter Veil" comes from a supernatural thing: Grandpa Winter.

Grandpa Winter will appear all over Azeroth at the end of the year, accompanied by a biting cold wind. His awakening means that the earth will be covered in snow, so some people say that Grandpa Winter covered the earth with the winter veil.

Although most of the Azeroth continent is covered in snow, it breeds rebirth.

People in the world of Azeroth gather together to revel at this time to celebrate the beginning of new life.

There is no snow in the barren land all year round. Even at the Winter Veil Festival, there is still no snow on the ground, but this does not affect people's enthusiasm for celebrating the Winter Veil Festival.

When Yang Yi rode the cargo kodo beast into Deadwater Village, he found that many adventurers had also joined the celebration of the Winter Veil Festival.

Adventurers have been in this world of Azeroth for more than two years, and many people have gradually integrated into the life of this world.

Adventurers don't care too much about the origin of the festival itself, and rarely care about the various traditions and legends about the Winter Veil Festival. For them, the Winter Veil Festival is just a festival of celebration.

Adventurers only care about celebrating during this festival, tasting delicious food and exchanging gifts, which is the custom of the indigenous people during the Winter Veil Festival.

Goblin merchants have seized the business opportunities of this festival. They use the image of Grandpa Winter, an incarnation of the Titan in the dwarf legend, for commercial purposes and become a mascot for them to sell various products.

Compared with the last time Yang Yi left Deadwater Village, Deadwater Village has not only built a lot of new buildings, but also built a circle of village level 3 log walls outside the town's level 3 city wall.

Two walls completely separated the inside and outside of Deadwater Village. When Yang Yi entered Deadwater Village, the inside and outside were two completely different scenes.

Compared to the lively celebration outside, the fishmen in Deadwater Village gathered in groups of three or five, looking a little bored.

Some fishmen heard the noise outside the wall and wanted to go out curiously, but were stopped by the fishmen specially arranged by Slark.

Without Yang Yi's permission, Slark would not let any fishman go outside Deadwater Village.

"Slark, you did a good job. Deadwater Village is built very quickly." Yang Yi praised as soon as he arrived.

"Lord, Deadwater Village has built a circle of walls, 100 fishman huts, five warehouses, an inn, a grocery store, a barracks, an armory, an arena and an auction house." Slark reported.

Yang Yi bought the blueprints of the arena and auction house from the goblin merchants. The two buildings were built between the log wall and the earthen wall. This area will be a commercial area open to the public in the future.

Yang Yi built these two buildings in the commercial area to use them as a weapon to attract people to Dead Water Village.

Yang Yi nodded and said, "Very good. Next, we will find a piece of land in the Dead Water Oasis to reclaim farmland and build a seaweed and seashell farm in the lake to cultivate seaweed and seashells. We will strive to make Dead Water Village as self-sufficient in food as possible in the future."

"Yes, Lord!"

"Slark, why do the fishmen in the village look listless?" Yang Yi asked.

"Lord, these fishmen wanted to go out to participate in the Winter Veil Festival, but I stopped them." Slark answered.

Yang Yi saw that the gate of the log wall and the gate of the earthen wall of Dead Water Village had been closed all the time. They were only opened for a while when he brought the team in, and now they are closed again.

"Slark, go and ask the murlocs to open the gate of the wooden wall. Invite the goblin merchants outside. The area between the wooden wall and the earthen wall is now open to the public." Yang Yi said.

Deadwater Village is open to the public, and the murlocs in Ratchet Town will sooner or later come into contact with the natives and adventurers.

Yang Yi decided to take advantage of this Winter Veil Festival to move the celebration venue to the open area, so that the murlocs can communicate more with the outsiders during the festival carnival.

This is also to pave the way for the inauguration ceremony of Deadwater Village two days later.

The long-closed gate of the wooden wall was opened by the murlocs. The adventurers and natives outside the wall found that the murlocs did not intend to close the gate again immediately after it was opened.

A murloc ran out and posted a notice on the bulletin board outside the gate, announcing that the commercial area of ​​Deadwater Village was open to the public.

The curious adventurers first surrounded the bulletin board.

Slark ignored the adventurers surrounding the notice board. He led a team of murlocs out and, following Yang Yi's instructions, spent some money to invite all the goblin merchants outside to the wooden fence.

After seeing the coins, the goblin merchants smiled and carried their stalls and goods into the commercial area of ​​Deadwater Village, and soon found a place to continue their business.

The adventurers followed the goblin merchants in, and they found that the commercial area of ​​Deadwater Village was very large, but only four buildings were built.

They were the auction house, the arena, the inn, and a small grocery store.

The auction house is a level 1 auction house in the town, and it is also the lowest level auction house. This is actually an open-air auction house. Except for the roof on the top of the auction table, the people who participate in the auction can only sit on the benches in the open space.

Yang Yi didn't want to spend money and effort to buy blueprints and build an auction house, but the native auctioneers must have an auction house to work, so he had to spend money.

Many adventurers came to Deadwater Village this time not to attend the opening ceremony of Deadwater Village, but to attend the auction.

According to the natives, Orgrimmar and Thunder Bluff near the Barrens will hold large-scale auctions regularly.

However, these two cities are the main cities of the Horde orcs and the Tauren, respectively, and adventurers are not allowed to enter easily, so adventurers have no chance to participate in the auction.

The auction held in Deadwater Village can be said to be the only one that adventurers near the Barrens have the opportunity to participate in. More importantly, the fishmen in Ratchet Town have already posted the list of items to be auctioned on the bulletin board.

There are many good things on the list, which attracted so many people.

In Deadwater Village, the fishmen curiously surrounded the goblin merchants who were selling snacks and small gifts. The goblin merchants who sold food were the most popular among the fishmen.

The goblin merchants then discovered that the fishmen in Deadwater Village were not only rich, but also willing to spend money on food, which was completely different from the adventurers outside.

Most of the adventurers' money had to be saved and used to buy equipment, and they rarely spent too much money on tasting delicious food.

The food merchants brought gingerbread, candy bars, and beer, which sold well, making the gift merchants, who had a quiet business, very envious.

Seeing that there was a lot of business to do here, the food merchants began to buy meat, eggs, fish and other ingredients from adventurers and prepare to make food on the spot.

Even the gift merchants joined the ranks of the purchase market, and they also wanted to get a piece of the pie.

The Winter Veil Festival celebration in the commercial district of Deadwater Village soon turned into a food festival.

Yang Yi saw that the commercial district of Deadwater Village became lively as soon as it opened, so he asked Slak to arrange some patrol fishmen to maintain order.

After that, Yang Yi took two of his followers, Benbol Ba and Mojimus, to the Dead Water Taurens Village on the small mountain opposite the lake.

Yang Yi learned from Slark that Bain was on the mountain, so he picked a snowman doll from the goblin merchant as a gift for the Winter Veil Festival.

There is a tradition of exchanging gifts during the Winter Veil Festival, and Yang Yi followed the local customs.

On the steep mountain road leading to the Taurens Village, several big black bulls held big wooden sticks to guard the intersection and did not allow any outsiders to approach the village.

Benbol Ba stepped forward to report Yang Yi's identity and told them that he was looking for the Taurens Bain.

Several big black bulls discussed for a long time, and then one of them went to the village to inform Bain.

Not long after the black bull entered the village, Bain walked down from the village on the mountain.

"These big black bulls are really ignorant. They don't let us enter the village, but let the chief's son Bain come out of the village to meet us." Seeing Bain coming down, Benbolba whispered to Yang Yi.

Yang Yi chuckled and didn't say much about it.

He has heard about the situation inside the Tauren. He knows that these big black bulls of the Dead Water Tauren are all Taurens from the Wild Totem Clan, and the Taurens of this clan have a close relationship with the Taurens of the Terror Totem Clan.

It is said that the Wild Totem Clan and the Terror Totem Clan are both derived from the second largest clan of the early Tauren, the Glorious Totem, and can be said to be of the same origin.

The common characteristics of the two Tauren clans are the same dark skin, the same opposition to the Alliance camp, and both are very warlike.

But compared with the Wild Totem Clan, the Terror Totem Clan has a narrower and more stubborn racial tribal consciousness, and is more warlike and barbaric. They often attack other Tauren tribes, and believe that Cairne Bloodhoof's friendship with the orcs is a big mistake, so they are excluded from the Horde.

The Wild Totem Clan is actually a moderate faction in the Radiant Totem Clan, while the Terror Totem is a radical faction that has deviated from the peace-oriented purpose of the orc chieftain Thrall and the Tauren Chieftain Cairne.

"I heard that the leader of the Wild Totem Clan is a female Tauren named Magatha Wild Totem, who actually controls the warlike Terror Totem Clan, and the Tauren Chieftain Cairne asked Magatha to stay in Thunder Bluff to monitor her."

"These big black bulls don't look like good guys no matter how you look at them, and Baine seems to be trying to change their minds by trying so hard to help these Tauren, hoping to maintain his father's idea of ​​uniting all the Tauren clans."

Yang Yi thinks Baine is still too young, so he has such an idea. .