Hearthstone Farm Lord

Chapter 351 Playing Cards (Thanks to wyrmpoi for the monthly ticket)
This is Sean's first trip to Water Pines.

But Sean didn't take the main road, because the main road from Hetan Town to Shuisong Town is a "V" shape with a total length of 42 kilometers.

In order to save time and prepare for road construction in the future, Xiao En and his team went to Shuipong Town along a nearly straight path covered with weeds.

Although the path is rough and there are beasts and low-level monsters appearing from time to time, the path is very short, only 30 kilometers.

Seeing Shuipong Town looming on the horizon, Xiao En asked his subordinates to take a break and enter the town later.

Then, Sean said to Windsor:

"Wendsor, take some guards to Shuipong Town first, tell the local forces about my arrival, and let them come to the town to greet you."

"Good sir, alas!"

Windsor sighed after answering.

When Wen De Sole heard Sean announce a temporary rest just now, he hurriedly took out something from his backpack.

Before he could use it, he received an order from Sean, so he had no choice but to reluctantly throw this thing to Anduin, and then got on his horse and rushed towards Shuipong Town.

After Windsor left, Sean looked at the path he had just walked, and said to Anduin:
"Anduin, this small road is very good. We will build a new road based on this small road in the future, but the beasts and monsters on both sides of the road should be properly cleaned up. Wait, Anduin, did you hear that? Am I talking?"

"Got it, got it!" Anduin perfunctory Sean: "My lord, come and play 'Fight the Landlord'! If you are missing one, you will be missing!"

Sean: "."

What Wen De Sole threw to Anduin just now was a deck of playing cards.

The story about playing cards starts from the day before yesterday.

With the help of Mossoni the day before yesterday, the mechanical papermaking was a great success!
Then, Sean made some cardboard and planned to make it into playing cards.

After all, there are too few entertainment methods in this world, and playing cards can provide you with one more way to have fun.

But the hard paper is not durable and is easy to wear and tear, so Sean asked Vivienne to help with enchanting to make the hard paper tougher and more elastic.

In the end, Sean made a decent deck of playing cards.

At first, Sean handed over the rules of "Fighting the Landlords" to Anduin and Windsor, who expressed extreme disdain.

After all, they have a lot of work on hand, and they don't bother to play with such gadgets.

But once you really get started, it's out of control.

Poker seems to have a special magic power. When you don’t usually play poker, you feel that playing poker is a waste of time, but when you really play it with your family and friends, it’s extremely easy to get used to it.

Especially Anduin, now he doesn't play cats anymore, besides work, he just wants to play poker.

Sean could hear the orange cat's plaintive cry every night.

……

After stopping to rest for an hour, Sean lost all the gold coins on his body.

So he put the playing cards directly into the backpack:
"I'm here today!"

"Don't!" Anduin was still thinking, "Isn't it just a loss? We can all lend you the money! Right Thor?"

Anduin grabbed a handful of gold coins in front of him and threw them to Sean.

Thor, who was playing cards together, didn't say anything, but followed Anduin's example and threw a handful of gold coins to Sean.

Sean: ". Let's go to town first. It's already seven o'clock. If we don't leave, it will be dark."

Sean pointed to the gradually darkening sky.

"Okay then!" Anduin stood up: "Thor and I will play cards with Windsor at night. I have to say, my lord, your luck in playing cards is really bad, and there is no challenge at all."

Sean: "."

Regardless, the group continued on their way.

……

Shuisong Town is similar to Hetan Town, they are both beautiful towns.

The architectural layout is also similar, the west side is the manor and castle of the mill family;
The center of the town is a church and a commercial area. In the commercial area, there are hotels, taverns, blacksmith shops, grocery stores, etc.

Other places are where civilians live.

But the big difference between the two towns is the "population composition".

River Beach Town is next to the Morning Star River, next to Thorn Ridge and the Forest of Elves. Besides farmers, there are many fishermen and hunters.

Shuisong Town is different. Except for a small number of hunters, almost all of them are farmers. It is a veritable grain-producing town.

Seeing Shuisong Town gradually appearing in front of him, Sean patted Thor on the shoulder:

"Thunder God, Shuisong Town and the 12 surrounding villages will all be handed over to you in the future! You don't need to take care of it, just follow the rules and regulations I left behind."

Sean is very relieved to hand over Water Pine Town to Thunder God. After all, he has managed a huge Mogu Empire (although it was a high-handed rule) before, and managing a town plus a dozen villages is still easy.

"No problem, but." Thor glanced at Sean's backpack: "The playing cards must be kept."

Sean: "."

At this time, in Shuisong Town, Windsor led the residents of the town to welcome Sean at the entrance of the town.

After the active propaganda of more than 200 farmers headed by Old Sam, the residents of the town knew what kind of lord Sean was.

So after learning that Sean was about to take over Shuisong Town, the townspeople had no fear, and instead welcomed Sean with colorful lights.

Old Sam hurriedly informed his comrades after hearing the news, and everyone brought their relatives and friends to meet Sean outside the town.

The news of Sean's arrival spread from ten to hundreds, and soon the entire Shuisong Town knew the news of Sean's arrival.

Everyone came out of the house to see Xiao En's demeanor, and the road in the south of the town was crowded.

Unlike the cheerful townspeople, there was a group of people who were very anxious.

This group of people is the remaining nobles in Shuisong Town.

In addition to the mill family, there are four baron families of similar size in Shuisong Town, who usually assist the mill family in managing their subordinate villages.

News of Brodie Mill's death from malaria on May 5 spread quickly to the town of Tippine.

After Brody's death, there was a power vacuum in Water Pine Town. The four baron families immediately took the opportunity to compete for power and expand their territory.

However, the strengths of these four companies are similar, so they can only organize an institution similar to the "Senate" to barely manage Shuisong Town.

Now that Sean is here, God knows what Sean will do to them, so the faces of the four baron family members are full of anxiety and fear.

But after a full hour of uneasiness and fear, they discovered that Sean hadn't shown up.

So a baron boldly asked Windsor:
"Master Windsor, why hasn't His Highness Sean arrived yet? Could it be that something happened on the way?"

"It's okay, just wait!"

Windsor answered impatiently, and aroused the vindictiveness of the silver class, and the barons who were so scared that they wanted to continue asking questions quickly shut their mouths.

Windsor's face was also a little ugly. He could tell with his toes that it must be the lord playing cards that delayed him for such a long time.

It's disgusting not to bring him to play cards!

(End of this chapter)