Great time travel

Chapter 43, Paradise of Hypocrisy

Karn Village, three months after the Great Tomb of Nazarick traveled through another world
Another refreshing dawn fell in this village on the edge of the forest.

As usual, Enli, a 16-year-old girl from Karn Village.Emmott still got up very early, because she was going to prepare breakfast before the sun rose-in terms of the ability to make a fire and cook, she was not as proficient as her dead mother, so she had to work harder.

What's more, the breakfast she needs to prepare now is far more than the weight of her and her sister.

Since their parents died in the spring enemy spy attack, the surviving Emmott sisters immediately fell into serious life difficulties: with the poor strength of their little arms and legs, they couldn't do so much farm work in their own fields.And the rest of the families in the village also lost a lot of labor force in the massacre by the special forces of the Silian Ecclesiastical State. Now they can't even manage their own fields, let alone help the poor little sisters.

——Different from the original book, Enli, who became an orphan, did not obtain the horn capable of summoning goblins from the Lich King Ainz, and did not have a group of loyal and reliable new family members (the summoned goblins) to help, everything had to rely on Do it yourself and your sister.

Fortunately, in the next few days, many people came from the fortress city.Refugees from Lantil fled to Karn Village one after another to take refuge. Besides bringing countless chaos and bad news, it also solved the original labor shortage problem in the village at once.Sister Emmott used the coins and food left by her parents to hire a relatively honest, middle-aged refugee as a long-term worker, and finally she didn't have to worry about the farm work in the field for the time being.

But as a self-cultivator living in a remote mountain village, An Li's inheritance is naturally very limited, and she can't afford much time commission.In fact, she could barely feed herself and her sister with the little food the family had hoarded.And there will be no new income until the autumn harvest.

What's more terrible is that because of the terrible army of undead.Because of the raging in the Kingdom of Yestijie, refugees from all over the world are still pouring into the remote Karn Village one after another, making the old people in the village worry that their village will be eaten alive by so many mouths.

Fortunately, there is no such thing as a path, the great magician Ainz who sent the magic pet cat to save the village before, got the royal decree (actually, it was the imperial decree passed on by warrior Gazef during the long vacation and the follow-up procedures), and he was in charge of resettlement. and management of refugees.So, this Lord Ainz used his work as a substitute for food, imported food from the Bajas Empire at his own expense, and then distributed the food as wages, hired refugees to cut wood and quarry stones, burn bricks to build walls, and build a mage tower in Karn Village , By the way, many houses were built for Kahn Village to accommodate the increasing number of refugees in the village.

Relying on the generosity of the great magician, Your Excellency Ainz, and his project, the refugees who fled to Karn Village from all over the kingdom finally had a way out.The hard and busy manual labor also drained the energy of these people, preventing them from posing a threat to public security.

In addition, as a local, An Li also took the opportunity to take a job as a cook for the laborers. Although the income was extremely meager, she could at least subsidize the family.In addition, she and her younger sister can also eat some food together, which is more or less a little greasy.

So, it was only dawn this morning, and An Li had already crawled out of bed and started preparing breakfast for more than 50 people.

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Before officially starting work, An Li first drew the curtains and opened the windows to let in fresh air and sunshine.

Looking out from the window of my own house, today's Kahn Village has completely changed its appearance, no longer the tranquility and serenity of the past, but has become much more noisy and noisy. Rows of simple wooden houses are like mushrooms after the rain. Usually, it pops up in the original glade.

——In the early spring of this year, Kahn Village was still a small remote village with a population of just over 100. Not to mention decent streets, there were not even a single shop or tavern.But up to now, more than [-] refugees have flocked from all directions to Karn Village to seek refuge from the army of undead creatures raging in the kingdom.With such a rapid influx of people, the size of Karn Village has expanded by more than ten times.According to the standards of this world, it has far exceeded the level of a "village", at least it can be called a "town".

However, at this time, Kahn Village, or Kahn Town, although the population has increased rapidly in a very short period of time, it does not look messy, but rather regular and organized.Because the Lich King Ainz has already regarded this place as his first human territory, just like a child building blocks or an elementary school student playing a game of "Sim City", he has carefully designed and planned-in the past few months, Most of the refugees who fled to Karn Village were organized into construction teams. According to the specifications of modern migrant worker dormitories and combined with the actual level of construction technology in another world, many single-story or double-story longhouses with a mixed structure of masonry and wood were built. A dozen to dozens of families can be crammed into each longhouse at most, thus forming a neat community.An open space is reserved between each longhouse as a green belt and square in the future, and drainage ditches have been dug.

Of course, such a dense dormitory is obviously very small, and it can only temporarily shelter the refugees from the wind and rain. From the perspective of modern people, it is not so much a town as a refugee camp or a prisoner of war. and because they lived too tightly, the people in the longhouse could neither light a fire for cooking or keep warm (to prevent fires), but had to go out to have dinner in a big pot. Water was also troublesome. Obviously, the only well in the village could not meet the needs of 3000 people. , bathing and laundry can only be done in the open air by the small river outside the village. It really feels like living in a prison.

Therefore, Ainz still has a long-term plan, intending to create an alien version of the garden city... But in a short time, let's make do with this crowded refugee camp.Anyway, having a roof is better than camping or sleeping in a tent.

However, even such a simple version of the building complex is already very prosperous in the eyes of the ignorant village girl Anli.

In the past three short months, with the rapid influx of people from other places, a potential consumer market has rapidly formed in Kahn Village.And Ainz, the Lich King who actually ruled this place, never thought of collecting business tax—probably because he didn't like the small amount of money.

Therefore, under such relaxed conditions, taverns, inns, grocery stores and markets have appeared one after another, and recently even brothels have opened—among the refugees who escaped from the city, there are also some wandering prostitutes standing on the streets. Apart from laughing and prostitution, there are no other skills for making a living.Now that the sky is just dawning, this newly built town has already woken up from sleep, and the smell of cooking smoke and breakfast is wafting around.Some individual small vendors also began to move their products to the side of the road with more traffic, set up their own stalls, and officially started a day's work for the lives of themselves and their families.

However, this deformed prosperity that suddenly appeared on the desolate border was bought at the cost of the destruction of countless prosperous villages and towns!

——Through chatting with new refugees and businessmen, Enri vaguely learned that Li.A considerable part of the Kingdom of Yestij has now turned into a very terrifying and miserable world.Everywhere undead crawled out of the dirt and coffins and roamed the fields and pastures, bringing death and destruction to the living.Many villages were slaughtered by surprise, and large cities and strong castles may not be spared.

For example, the fortress city she is more familiar with.Rantel, the origin of this undead catastrophe, has now completely turned into a city of death surrounded by black mist. On average, only one out of [-] residents in the city can escape... Moreover, even if they escape After being hunted down by undead creatures, I had to bid farewell to my hometown forever with tears, because it was no longer the hometown of the living, but a paradise for the dead...

In this comparison, although her Kahn village was also unfortunately hit by military disasters, more than half of the villagers survived anyway, and they were not driven out of their homes, and they could continue to live in their original houses. Still lucky.

But thinking of her parents who were hacked to death by the enemy to protect herself and her younger sister, Enri couldn't help but feel ashamed of her heartlessness.

After stretching out her arms and taking a deep breath, An Li rolled up her sleeves, cheered herself up, and started working by the stove.

Clean the cabbage, onions, and mushrooms first, then peel the radishes and potatoes, then chop the vegetables into small pieces.Then I changed to a stronger knife, took a piece of hard bacon, and chopped it into minced meat... Although it seems to be a very common housework, if you consider that it is a meal for a total of fifty people From the weight of the meal, one knows that this workload is not so easy for a young girl.

In fact, under the pampering of her parents, Anli was not particularly good at cooking in the past, but after her parents were murdered, she is now an orphan, but under the pressure of a difficult environment, she quickly learned how to keep food on time. Texture does this tough job.

It can be seen that everyone's so-called natural talents are often forced out by the needs of the environment.

At the same time, amidst the sound of chopping meat as the kitchen knife hit the chopping board, my younger sister Nim was also awakened by the sound of her sister cooking, rubbed her sleepy eyes and got up from the bed, "...ah... good morning , Sister. Let me help too!"

"...Good morning, Nim. I don't need to help here. Compared to this, you should hurry up and fetch some buckets of water."

For a little girl, fetching water with a big wooden bucket is also quite hard work, so the younger sister's face showed a dissatisfied expression for a moment, but in the end she did not complain a word, and agreed to her sister's request dejectedly, got up Carrying the big wooden barrel, he walked out the door slowly.

Looking at her younger sister's back, Enli couldn't help but stop for a moment.I felt an indescribable pain in my heart.

Her little sister, Nim, was once a lively and willful child.However, since the massacre, the once innocent younger sister has grown a lot in an instant, and has become very obedient to her elder sister, and she no longer acts like a baby, let alone making noise. The level of "good boy" is simply sad.

The smiling faces of her father and mother flashed clearly in her mind again.

Even though several months have passed, the scar left in my heart by that incident is still far from healed.

If your parents died due to illness, then you can also make up your mind beforehand. After all, people are born, aged, sick and die.If the parents died of a sudden natural disaster or something, then at least I wouldn't resent others, and probably wouldn't leave the trauma like now.

But in fact, her parents died in the brutal massacre of the enemy in order to protect her and her younger sister.

Such an incident, obviously, cannot but cause people to feel resentment no matter what.

Moreover, the enemy who planned the massacre in Karn Village - the Supreme Council of Priests of the Slan Theocracy, who sent troops to infiltrate the kingdom to burn, kill and loot, was a behemoth that a mere village girl could not shake.Revenge for parents or something is simply a joke.As for the murderer who killed directly, he has already been killed.The only thing she can do is to try her best to live a good life with her sister, not to disappoint her parents' sacrifice...

Enri closed her eyes tightly, trying not to let the tears flow down.If someone was around, she might still try to pretend to be calm so that no one would see her weakness.But when she was alone, the boundless loneliness still hurt the scars in her heart.

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However, her busy life did not allow her to be so immersed in sadness. After only a moment, An Li wiped away her tears and continued with the work at hand: if the breakfast was cooked too slowly, it would cause the hungry laborers to complain and cause her loss. If you get this job, you won't even be able to cry!

After cutting the bacon, Anli started to light the stove, took out the smoldering wick from a special clay pot, and skillfully lit the pre-chopped dry wood, quickly turning the small kindling into a There was a raging flame.The next step is to put the big iron pot on the stove, fill it with cold water, pour in the minced bacon, and then sprinkle a few large bowls of dried beans into it, so that the pot of thick soup has some base.As for the fresh vegetables, they should be put in the pan at the end.

At the same time, she took out another small iron pot and started to cook the breakfast for herself and her sister—the same as the ones for the laborers, it was minced meat vegetable soup and pre-made black bread, and added a little extra Wild vegetables and fruits.

However, even though it was the same stove, the water in the small pot obviously boiled fast. When the big iron pot just started to emit heat, Anli and her younger sister Nim were already sitting by the stove, using a hard The black bread dipped in the hot soup in the small pot, and I ate it with gusto.

I have to admit that although life is hard today, the content on the table is more abundant than when my mother used to cook.

The most obvious change is that they now have meat for every meal.Although in the past, some meat of wild animals and birds could occasionally be distributed from the hunters in the village, but such a good fact is rare.As for the slaughter of animals, it is a grand event only once a year.The reason why they can eat so much meat now is because the range of activities of local residents in the forest has expanded than before.

The large forest around Karn Village has provided the villagers with countless blessings over the years—firewood for fuel, fruits and wild vegetables for food, animal meat and fur, and various medicinal materials that can be exchanged for money.But the problem is that although there are countless wealth in the forest, there are also countless dangerous monsters. It is not a place that ordinary people can go deep into casually, otherwise there is a danger of losing their lives.Even the hunters in the village are only active on the edge of the forest, and they will rush out whenever there is a disturbance, so naturally they will not gain much.

However, with the arrival of hundreds of refugees and a large number of adventurers, the situation has changed dramatically: the adventurers are all professional monster killers, and for the safety of the new residence, they launched a large-scale sweep fight.Those forest monsters that make the villagers fear are not worth mentioning in the eyes of these experts.Both goblins and ogres were cut down one by one by the swords of the adventurers.

Even if he occasionally encounters a powerful monster that the adventurers cannot deal with, the Great Mage Ainz will send his followers or familiars—mainly those incredibly powerful cats—to go deep into the forest to hunt them down, and every time Can come back with a big victory.

Moreover, just like a house cat would put the dead mouse it caught in front of its owner's house to claim credit, these talking cats of Your Excellency Ainz also often dragged the captured or killed monsters to the village for exhibition: A twenty-foot giant, a giant snake coiled up like a hill, and a spider bigger than a hound, all of which Enli, a village girl who has lived by the forest for 16 years, has never seen before.There is even a towering ogre tree, which makes the new refugees wonder how the aborigines of Kahn Village survived in such a place.

As a result, as the monsters in the nearby forest were wiped out, the range of activities of the hunters was greatly expanded.In this kind of forest that has been seldom visited since ancient times, the number of various types of prey is really quite rich.And when those adventurers with superb martial arts also joined the hunting team, the amount of prey they got every day was enough to be called a bumper harvest.According to the customary rules of this world, or what is left over from the traditional customs of the tribal era, after the hunters strip off the easy-to-preserve fur, minions, bones or horns from the prey, the remaining fresh meat and internal organs that are not easy to preserve are generously The land was distributed to all residents on a head-by-head basis.If the "indigenous people" of Kahn Village can also get extra preferential treatment, a little more distribution.Although the number is still small, but fortunately, the Emmett sisters don't have a big appetite, which is enough for the two of them to have a delicious meal and a toothbrush.

In addition to hunting, in order to provide sufficient meat for the surging population, the newly arrived refugees, or immigrants, began to raise pigs in the forest.These pigs basically don't need feed, but are raised loose in the big forest. Letting them eat plant roots and fallen acorns is enough to make them fat and strong.Moreover, the entourage of the great mage Ainz seemed to cast some magic on these pigs, making them fatten up unbelievably quickly, and in just a few months, they were almost ready to be slaughtered.Many people have begun to imagine the deliciousness of tonkatsu.

Then, as a by-product of the expansion of the hunting range, the range in which women can safely collect wild vegetables, wild fruits and mushrooms in the forest has also expanded a lot.Although the number of people who need to eat has increased dozens of times, this vast and fertile forest still has ample production, which can meet the daily consumption of thousands of people in the area.Who's the conflict is simply no shadow of things.

Now, fresh fruits and wild vegetables can be placed on the dining table in Anli's house every day, and there are two jars of mixed fruit wine brewed from various wild fruits in the kitchen. Just from the perspective of food, today's life can be called It is unprecedented abundance.

Although she is only a 16-year-old girl, Enli still knows very well that the reason why she can live such a nourishing life is that she did not fall into hunger, cold and embarrassment because of losing her parents, was not driven out of her home by undead creatures raging everywhere, and was not forced The hungry refugees looted everything, thanks to the powerful and generous Ainz, and his equally powerful and kind followers.

In Enri's knowledge, it was Great Mage Ainz and his followers who were guarding this territory, resisting the invasion of undead creatures, and sheltering the weak humans hiding here—except in the forest. In addition to hunting monsters, those cats would sometimes drag a few zombies or ghouls with their heads smashed to show off their achievements to the villagers; Order, to avoid the occurrence of various crimes; and he is generous, to provide work and food for all gathered here.Even the lives of himself and his sister, as well as so many people in the village who survived the massacre, were saved by the great magician Ainz and his followers from the massacre.This kindness can be said to be higher than the mountain and deeper than the sea. People don't know how to repay it, so they can only keep this deep gratitude in their hearts forever.

Therefore, at the same time of every meal, she silently prayed to the gods, hoping that the great magician Ainz and his followers, these rare and good people in the world, can always have good luck, so that Karn Village can be as good as it is today. A fairly happy life that can be maintained forever...