Lord of Hyranza

"To be honest, no matter which plane you conquer, you will encounter difficulties of one kind or another. The beast tide is definitely not the scariest thing. I hope you can gain something here."

"Let me see what the Marquis Luther's favorite candidate is capable of."

Chester Great Swordsman raised the beer glass in his hand and touched Suldak.

Then Chester Great Swordsman said:

"Your place should be the best among the five passes."

"But after all, it is a border town and it is located in a remote place. It is also the favorite place for some wanted criminals and exiles to gather. You must pay attention to safety here. If something out of your control happens, you will immediately withdraw to Will. Come here, I'll help you deal with it later."

Suldak nodded and agreed: "Yeah!"

Then he said: "I will complete the garrison mission."

……

The great swordsman Chester came to the town hall, and accompanied by Mrs. Luna, the group walked around the town of Dodan again.

Chester Great Swordsman found Dodan Town and made full preparations for this beast horde.

The large-scale hunting operation launched on the eve of the beast tide allowed the town to have enough meat reserves, and the furs of rex rabbits and guinea pigs were all hung out to dry in the streets.

There are still some dried snow chickens and grouse hanging in the attic of some residents' homes.

Not only that, according to Mrs. Luna, the town also took out one-fifth of the tax revenue to subsidize the town's per capita rations.

That is to say, the wheat flour is uniformly purchased by the town of Duodan, and then handed over to the bakery in the town to bake wheat cakes and whole wheat bread of uniform size.

There are strict requirements on the material, diameter and thickness of this standard bread. Basically, a white bread needs about a pound of wheat flour, and a whole wheat bread is enough for an adult to eat for a whole day, and such a bread has only a little salt. The price of whole wheat bread in Dodan Town bakery is only two copper coins.

As long as the residents of the small town have [-] copper coins, they can have enough food within a month.

Even those aborigines living at the bottom of society will not starve to death because of lack of food in the most difficult period.

When this measure was first introduced, there was a long queue at the door of the bakery every day, and the bakery owner had to limit the supply according to the number of people.

In the next week, when everyone found that the price of baked wheat cakes had been maintained at such a low price, they stopped looting.

It is that almost everyone in the small town has to go to the bakery to buy toasted wheat cakes and whole wheat bread.

This had to force the bakery to build five large ovens one after another and employ twenty bakers to satisfy the bread supply of the whole town.

Of course, this kind of welfare is only for the existing residents of Dodan Town. Those outsiders can enjoy this cheap scones and whole wheat bread only if they get the tax payment certificate stamped by the tax officer of Dodan Town.

Although the nobles in the town were dissatisfied with this matter, the taxes in the town would not fall into their pockets, so they did not speak out against it.

Chester Great Swordsman only stayed in Dodan Town for four nights, and then left Dodan Town on horseback with four entourages.

The carriages brought by Chester Great Swordsman accepted the employment of some local nobles, carrying the property they had accumulated over the years, and took the opportunity to leave Dodan Town and rush to Wilkes City.

Chapter 748 Mrs. Selena in the Small Town

On the eve of the beast horde, some merchants took a convoy from Wilkes City to the town of Dodan.

They heard that the mercenary group here can hunt some monsters every day, so they came to buy monster materials.

These merchants found that the canyon outside the northern city wall was indeed crowded with monsters. Every day, groups of mercenaries went out of the city to hunt. Draw out, and the matter is half done.

However, these monsters are of course not vegetarian. Those who can be called monsters basically have the ability to manipulate magic. Except for the mane beast, which relies on the body and fangs of rough skin and thick flesh, other monsters can release some magic. Frostbolt, fireball, wind blade, sudden stone and so on.

If you don't pay attention, if you are hit by these elementary magics, you will suffer some flesh and blood injuries, and your life will be in danger if you are serious.

There is another thing that confuses these foreign businessmen. Although there is an adventure union in the small town of Dodan, there is no adventure group.

The merchants inquired about the whereabouts of these adventure groups, and learned that these adventure groups had quietly left Dodan Town. The reason was that these adventure groups were involved in slave trade. Sent to the Wilkes House for a public trial.

This incident involved most of the adventure groups in Dodan Town. It was for this reason that before the beast horde came in Dodan Town, there was no adventure group in the entire town. The group went to Dodan Canyon to hunt monsters.

Compared with those adventure groups, they are certainly not professional.

Even so, these mercenary regiments have gained a lot every day. It is said that in order to encourage these mercenary regiments to hunt monsters, the town even used the bed crossbows on the city wall to attack the range and draw pictures under the north city wall. Create an invisible safety zone.

At present, the largest hunting group of monsters in Dodan Town is the town's garrison camp.

Now, a large number of monster corpses are transported back from outside the city every day. Although most of them are not very valuable first-level monsters, the advantage lies in the huge number.

However, the monsters hunted in the military camp never flow out. Even the animal meat is marinated and dried. Now there are drying yards everywhere on the grass outside the town, and the sunny south slopes are full of triangular wooden frames. The blade fire wolf is not very delicious, so it can only be chopped into minced meat and poured into the intestines, and made into strips of sausage to dry.

As for the fur, wolf teeth, magic core, etc., they were all digested internally in the barracks.

The merchants suspect that the cavalry battalion in the garrison camp has a caravan accompanying the army, but they are usually very low-key and are not noticed at all.

The mercenary regiment in the town has a very close relationship with the trading firm, so a large part of the monster materials hunted by the mercenaries will flow into the trading firm.

Only some cheap Warcraft materials will be divided up by other foreign businessmen.

Some large caravans chose to leave early because they could not get any benefits in Dodan Town.

Only some small businessmen don't care about these things. No matter where they go, they still eat leftovers. At least the competition in Dodan Town will not be so fierce.

……

Surdak has been a little busy lately.

There are now [-] soldiers stationed in the garrison camp, and half of the troops go out of the city almost every day to hunt those low-level monsters.

Two hundred longbow archers have all received the blessing of Suldak's "Divine Blessed Body". Together with the heavy armored infantry advancing in front and the cavalry protecting the flanks, they have been shooting down in the canyon for the past few days. Lost a few groups of low-level monsters.

The monsters who had gathered in the Dodan Canyon felt that they might not be able to cross the city wall, so some monster groups chose to turn around and leave the Dodan Canyon.

For this kind of large-scale hunting operation, Suldak was worried that the monsters who were good at hiding would cause unnecessary casualties, so he had to go with the group recently.

The barracks now have to manage more than 500 people and more than 300 war horses. In addition, there are some ordnance. With Andrew's ability, it is impossible to calculate the approximate daily consumption of supplies, so Suldak had no choice but to let Selena come The barracks station is responsible for managing logistics, coordinating and managing all materials, and some daily chores.

Almost everyone in the town knew that there was a beautiful woman in the town.

Every morning, she always wears a beautiful long wool skirt and walks through the main street of the town in the rising sun.

She would stop at the bakery for a quarter of an hour, and she would chat with the baker's owner, usually not buying cheap baked oatmeal here, but walking to the market in the town.

The only market in the town is at the intersection in the middle of the street, as this is where the most pedestrians pass by.

She will ask the price of some vegetables, onions, tomatoes, bell peppers, carrots and cabbages and so on.

Her behavior was not a purchase at all, but a package.

The few words she said most to every greengrocer were:

'How much are onions sold for a pound today? '

'Well, the price is not bad. '

'Expensive! '

'If it can't be sold, two coppers per pound will be sent to the canteen of the barracks. '

Therefore, these vegetable sellers in the town are not worried that these vegetables cannot be sold at all. They first sell them in the market here for a long time at a price higher than the purchase price of the military camp. If anyone buys them, they will sell them all. There is really no When people buy them, they load these vegetables into small carts and transport them to the military camp.

Of course, there is another problem that all vendors must pay close attention to.

If the price of a certain vendor's product is seriously inflated, after being pointed out by Selena, the price is not lowered.

Then ask the goddess to bless, and this kind of product must not be flooded.

Because if you can't sell it, I'm sorry!The barracks and garrison refused to carry out a round-up.

In addition, you will be watched like a dog by the tax officials in the small town. Don't do any tax evasion, otherwise you will definitely pay more fines than you earn.

Therefore, ordinary vegetable vendors would rather earn less, and strictly enforce the prices set by Ms. Selina.

Unless the goods are always in short supply, such as some precious wild mushrooms, herbs, etc., these ingredients will generally fall into the dinner plates of the nobles.

Since Selena has been in charge of the logistics of the garrison camp, she has the final say on the prices of vegetables in the small town market.

No matter where she goes, she can attract the attention of many residents.

Although she is not an aristocrat, she is treated like an aristocrat by the residents of the town: wherever she passes, the residents will take the initiative to give way, no matter where she comes to any shop, she does not need to queue up.Every shopkeeper will come out to receive them in person, lest the poor hospitality will offend the market price maker in this small town.

Everyone will look at her with envious eyes and marvel at her demeanor.

Signa and Nika would occasionally follow her, but after a few times, the two of them would rather hide at home than go out on the street with Selena. The feeling of looking around is actually not at all uncomfortable.

……

Norman Lida rolled up his cuffs, and lifted a bucket of water with his thin arms.

The river was turbulent, and she squatted on the pier built of wooden boards on the bank, holding the hemp rope tightly with her little hands, stepping on the wooden board with her bare feet, and walked backward step by step with difficulty.

The wooden barrels protruded from the river water little by little... The morning sun was a little glaring, she didn't eat last night, she only drank a little wild vegetable soup, and now her stomach was a little overwhelmed.

She felt a little dizzy, stepped on a small stone with her foot, couldn't stand firmly, staggered, and fell on the pier.

The wooden bucket full of water was plunged into the river, and Nuoman Lida was holding on to the hemp rope tightly, not daring to let go even if the hemp rope hurt his palms.

She didn't dare to lose the most important wooden barrel in the house.

The wooden barrel fell into the river, and the hemp rope pulled Norman Lida and slipped into the river.

She lay on the ground, always feeling that her chest was going to be flattened.

I heard a girl shouting from the side: "Loosen the rope!"

Norman Lida was unwilling to let go, just when he slid to the edge of the plank and was only one step away from falling into the river, the rope was suddenly grabbed by someone from behind and became tense.

She quickly took the opportunity to get up, adjusted her posture, and pulled up a bucket of water forcefully.

Only then did she have time to look behind her. At first she thought that an adult had helped her, but she turned around and saw a girl about her age standing on the edge of the pier, looking at her with a smile.

She is also an aborigine, but her skin is much fairer, and she is wearing a clean and tidy skirt, standing quietly on the shore.

"Why are you fetching water here alone? You should ask someone to help you." The girl speaks very fluently in local language, not the accent of Dodan Town, she should be a foreigner.

Norman Lida thought Nika was a distant relative of someone nearby, and said to Nika, "I want to help mother wash clothes."

Nika saw Norman Lida's pale face and weak footsteps, touched her shriveled stomach, and heard her stomach gurgling, so she asked her, "Oh? You didn't eat breakfast?"

All the poor people live in this neighborhood, and Norman Lida is not ashamed, explaining:

"I haven't got the laundry wages yet."

Nika asked: "Then your family didn't get any rex rabbit meat?"

Norman Lida showed a faint bitter smile, and whispered:

"Our family didn't contribute much to the hunting in the town. We only got a little bit, which was used to make soup."

She didn't say that the broth had nourished her mother's body.

Nika felt that she might not be able to carry such a bucket of water, so she offered to help.

The two carried a large bucket of water to Nuoman Lida's house. Nika saw that the yard of Nuoman Lida's house was still quite large, but there was a lot of clothes drying in the yard.

The house in Norman Lida's family is a wooden frame house, and some holes are patched with felt. Although it is a bit dilapidated, it can at least keep out the wind and rain.

Norman Lida's mother was lying on the bed with a sallow face, leaning on a blanket wrapped around her body, her eye sockets were so thin that they were sunken, she looked a little scary.

When she saw a girl brought back by Norman Lida, she thought it was a friend of Norman Lida, so she lay on the bed and said to her daughter:

"Norman Lida, if you don't wash these clothes out quickly, the deadline for these clothes will be over!"

Norman Lida didn't tell about the fact that she almost fell into the river, she just turned her body slightly to prevent her from seeing her reddened chest, and replied in a low voice: "Got it, Mom. I'll wash it right away." of!"

The woman closed her eyes and murmured, "Be careful with the neckline and cuffs. Rub them vigorously. Those parts are always easy to get dirty. If your starching skills are not up to scratch, you need to use extra care."

Norman Lida whispered, "Got it, Mom!"

After finishing speaking, he walked out of the cabin with his head down, and said to Nika with an apologetic face:

"Sorry, I really don't have anything to entertain you at home!"

Nika patted her thin shoulder and said with a smile, "It's okay." She just walked around in the yard.

Nuoman Lida poured water into the tub, rubbed the clothes in it vigorously, and said in a low voice, "If I don't wash well this time, no one will give me the clothes to be washed, I have to be careful. "

Nika saw a small wooden frame next to the wooden house, on which there were two pottery bowls with gaps, and a small piece of multigrain cake was contained in one pottery bowl, so he asked in surprise:

"Didn't you go to town to buy bread?"

Norman Lida looked at Nika in astonishment, and said, "The bakery? No, that one is too expensive. We usually eat some multigrain cakes occasionally."

Nika looked at the clothes in the tub and said to Norman Lida: "You won't finish washing until noon! Then come and wait for me at the bakery in the afternoon, and I will teach you how to buy cheap bread."

Norman Lida crouched next to the tub, and wanted to refuse, but when she raised her head, Nika had already walked to the gate of the courtyard.

She thought that at noon, she should be able to get a sum of laundry wages, and her mother also needed something good to eat, so she said, "Okay!"