Mercenaries and Adventurers

Zhao Ji set off again holding the ordinary wolf skin that had been processed.

After the wolf fur is processed, it is no longer a hard piece, but a big soft ball, the volume is really not small, the head, body, limbs, and tail are all beaten into a ball, and the tail is exposed. Ji caught it with his hands, so that it would be easier to hold.

There are not many people in the wild grape market. The peasant women who came out to buy fruits and vegetables in the morning have all dispersed, and the stalls selling fresh vegetables are closing down one by one. At this time, some of the regular shopkeepers opened their shops vigorously. Start the official business day in the cold winter.

It's not that they don't want to open the door earlier, but in the morning, the market is full of housewives who come to buy non-staple food that goes with the staple food. Many people's hands and feet are not clean, and they don't want to lose it in vain due to the chaos caused by too many people. some merchandise.

Although the ground of the market has been paved with fine gravel, some sewage and garbage are still left on the ground. Zhao Ji carefully avoided these places to prevent the trouser legs from getting dirty with the splashed sewage when they were stepped on.

Some cleaners hired by the market are using wooden rakes to pull together some rotten leaves and vegetable roots, and then pick them up on carts specially placed for garbage. Zhao Ji has seen it before, the garbage will be poured into the pit outside the city gate, and if there is too much, it will be dumped directly to the edge of the swamp in the south of the city.

Anyway, those scavenging birds and small animals will deal with all kinds of garbage generated by humans.

Interestingly, these garbage cannot be dumped into the underground sewers of Kendall City, because the garbage is not directly discharged by humans, and they all have a strong aggregation.

The population living in the city is very average, but the garbage is not. The market and the artisan area are large households that produce garbage. If the garbage is allowed to be dumped into the underground sewer, the sewage in the market and the artisan area will be blocked soon. Living.

When they came to a civilian tailor shop with a wooden patterned signboard, the owner of the shop saw Zhao Ji's wolf fur, and immediately guessed Zhao Ji's plan. Taking out a measuring ruler and unfolding the wolf fur on the table, the shopkeeper began to measure the size of the wolf fur.

Zhao Ji, who had nothing to do, sat in the small shop and looked around.

The shop is not big, and only after asking the busy shop owner did he know that the shop is just a facade, and the main work is done by him afterward contacting a few handy peasant women who work at home in the slums.

His shop is not very big, because he doesn't live much, mainly because as long as he is a married family, the clothes he usually wears are made by himself. He is mainly responsible for selling some cloth to make a profit. Of course, he is always willing to come to the door to make clothes.

After all, the profit of this kind of work is much higher, more than the cloth he sells in a busy day.

In addition to the high piles of all kinds of rough cloth and simple ready-made clothes in the store, another highlight is a tapestry with amulets of gods.

After asking, I found out that this tapestry is a rune symbol of the God of Weaving. Because everyone knows that the church does not allow the establishment of unauthorized **** statues, so each believer has to draw the exclusive runes representing the gods and pray to the runes.

Zhao Ji knows why it is not allowed to build statues of gods without permission, because it is really useful. The gods will really come down to their idols, but there are too many gods and it is not conducive for the gods to contact the church, so the church will not allow believers to build statues privately.

Zhao Ji felt that the statue was like a phone number, and talking to the statue, maybe the **** would know it. It is estimated that the gods are too disturbed, so I only tell my church the 'phone number', and the believers pray to the gods, just like writing letters to the gods. Whether the gods read it or not, it is the gods' own mood. .

You ask how the gods and the church know who is secretly building idols to pray?

Haha, someone calls the gods, and the gods answer, so they will know, right?

After the owner of the tailor shop measured the two wild wolf furs brought by Zhao Ji, he recorded all the sizes and specifications on the two wooden signs. Zhao Ji told the shopkeeper all his requirements for the wolf fur cloak, and the other party nodded, saying that it is not difficult, and it will be made soon, and it can be done before dark.

After paying the deposit, Zhao Ji took away the wooden sign with the size and weight of the fur recorded on it as a voucher, explaining that he would come to pick up the finished cloak before dark.

Crafting the fur into a proper cloak doesn't cost much, just a few coppers. Once again, Zhao Ji felt that having money in hand was the most important thing, otherwise things wouldn't be so convenient.

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House of Lord Kendal.

Knight Crowe walked around the garden with Baron Kendall. On a cold day, Knight Crow rarely came to talk to him, and Baron Kendall was quite happy.

Baron Kendall is a fat middle-aged man in his forties with an ordinary appearance. He usually works in the capital of the province. Apart from being the lord of Kendall County, he is also the supervisor of farmland and water conservancy in the northwest province of the entire kingdom. Therefore, he only returns to Kendall City with his family every year after the winter work is over. home rest.

He kept telling Knight Crowe about the interesting things he met in the provincial capital, and after he finished telling the interesting things he knew this year, the two sat down in a pavilion in the garden of the mansion.

Baron Kendall is mainly unable to walk. He usually seldom exercises. He sits in his office reviewing documents, checks the field water conservancy models sent by his subordinates, or attends banquets of nobles, and rarely exercises. Opportunity.

Only at this time did Knight Crowe take out the wooden box he had brought, and handed the letter inside to the baron.

"You should take a look at this. My colleague sent it. I think this matter is very important to Kendall City." Knight Crowe said.

Baron Kendall flipped through the letter quickly. He skipped the reminiscences and complaints of Knight Crowe's colleagues in the letter, and directly looked at the key matters on the southern border of the kingdom.

"Well, the big iron mine was invaded, hey, cryptic help and sharing. It's a bunch of useless things, and the scale of this battle seems to be not small." Baron Kendall briefly browsed and expressed his opinion.

"What do you think of this upcoming war?" The baron then began to read the letter again, this time more carefully.

Knight Crowe touched the lambskin gloves on his hand: "The adults in the south will definitely not give up such a large batch of benefits. After all, what has been eaten in the mouth cannot be snatched back. As long as you negotiate with the royal family Afterwards, the iron ore will be divided, and sending a knight order should be able to take back the land on the iron ore soon."

The baron smiled: "In that case, the iron ore will be divided, and the land and the mine will be theirs, but can they take the majority of the overall benefits? It will all belong to our royal family."

"You mean, the adults in the south will not ask the royal family for help?"

He raised the letter in his hand: "Isn't it? They came to us for help. Hey, the country bumpkins who always call us on the border, never thought they would be able to praise us when they asked for help."

Knight Crowe frowned: "Without the royal knights, the scale of the war will be very large, and ordinary soldiers can only be used to fight for the disputed area. Do we really want to participate in this matter?"

Leaning on the stone pillar of the pavilion, the baron squinted his eyes and considered for a while, his brows gradually furrowed, but his eyes opened brightly.

"It's not that simple behind it. It's standing in line for the future throne."

Knight Crowe was confused. How did this change from a battle for iron mines to a future throne?

The baron did not answer Knight Crowe. After receiving the letter in his hand in the wooden box, he returned it to Knight Crowe: "This winter's militia training has been strengthened. It is full of moves, and at the same time, take out all the weapons in the arsenal for inspection. Clean up. By the way, by the way, we will eliminate a few bandits during the training, so that the militiamen will have some combat experience. Next spring, we will participate in the battle for the big iron mine."

While nodding in response, Knight Crowe put away the wooden box and asked, "Then what qualifications do you need to respond to the letter?"

"You reply with a letter of agreement, and I will reply with a letter at the same time and send it together. The time is set for next spring. The size of the army should not be too large, or the county will be empty and affect the grain harvest next year. But it can’t be too little, we have to make some achievements, we need more iron ore production and price concessions, craftsmen have always been short of enough iron to make enough farm tools and metal tools.”

"Then how about six hundred people? Five hundred people will fight, and one hundred people will be your guards?" Knight Crowe said after some consideration.

Unexpectedly, the baron smiled embarrassedly: "I won't go, let my son accompany you out? I will be busy for a long time with the land reclamation plan in several counties next year."

Knowing that this generation of Baron Kendall doesn't like war, Knight Crow didn't insist. After all, the baron's eldest son has reached the age to go out and have a look. The future heir must have the experience of participating in the war.

The two returned to the study of the baron's mansion, and spent a while writing the letters they replied. Knight Crowe was not good at writing, and the baron corrected the knight's grammar and words a little bit, so that the letters he wrote were more like a well-bred letter. Something written by nobles.

After all, it was written for the great nobles in the south, and Knight Crowe didn't want to be looked down upon by those nobles in the south, so he wrote this reply letter over and over again.

It was not until the afternoon that I finished the final copy, and then sealed the letter in the letter box and handed it to the baron.

The baron had already written his own, and had been waiting for Knight Crowe to complete his letter. But he was a little surprised why Knight Crowe didn't take off his gloves when he got inside the house.

Although thin lambskin gloves are thin, they are not convenient for writing letters.

Asked curiously, Knight Crowe insisted that his hand was injured while practicing knight skills, and it was not easy to contact the outside world.

When Knight Crowe returned to his home, Jamura had been waiting for a long time. The two exchanged pleasantries for a while, and then ate and talked about things together in the knight's study.

Sure enough, as expected by Knight Crowe, a young man like Keel is the same as he was when he was young. He doesn't care about money, status and power, and only likes powerful power.

Crow Knight agreed, but he had his conditions. It's not easy to explain to Jamura about next year's battle directly, so I have to tell him that there are so many things this winter, and I have to wait until next spring to carry out the preliminary training of knights with him.

And Kiel needs to provide some elemental crystals in small quantities for his use. Of course, in order to reassure Kiel, they can meet up later, fix the conditions, and let the power of a third party witness.

At the same time, Knight Crowe also asked Jamura to give Kiel a word, which can be regarded as a reminder. He needs Keir to do sufficient strength training first, and the basic requirements of the body must meet his certain standards.

This winter, Kiel should exercise his body first. A thin body cannot become a knight-level fighter, and he can't even meet the basic requirements for preliminary training.

Jamura nodded. He knew that Crowe was a man of his word, and he was not afraid that he would take the elemental crystals and not teach Keel something.

The young man Keir is also very good. I believe he can meet the basic training requirements of Crowe and improve rapidly in next year's training.

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Zhao Ji brought back the repaired full body armor from Ganna at noon.

The two also discussed the full-body armor he wanted to build. Ganna's master didn't think his apprentice could safely build a qualified full-body armor.

After all, Ganner has been in contact with the armor of the guards before~www.readwn.com~ and roughly knows the structure and construction method of the hard leather armor. But he has never seen the iron armor, so how to build it.

This also stumped Zhao Ji. In his last life, he had only seen some drawings and pictures about ancient iron armor. He knew what it looked like, but he didn't know about the interior of the armor and how it was made.

If you think about it, iron armor is at least three to five times heavier than hard leather armor, and the overall weight distribution and the style of moving parts are definitely different.

It's hard to guess just by guessing.

And Ganner, who is not very knowledgeable, can't say one, two, three, four, five. During the discussion with Keir, he can only give answers such as um, um, yes, yes, probably should be possible.

Seeing that there was nothing to discuss, Zhao Ji returned to the Foxtail Chamber of Commerce with the armor box in his arms.

After putting away the armor, Zhao Ji put a long sword on his waist and walked towards the home of the missing girl that he heard from Todd yesterday.

The family of the missing girl was a poor but large family, occupying an entire alley in an area under the stone walls of the slums near the upper quarters.

The whole alley was the house of their family members, so when Zhao Ji approached, he was stopped by several young people of this family just at the entrance of the alley.

Seeing that the eyes of these young people were bloodshot due to fatigue, Zhao Ji knew that they must be looking for the missing cousin of the family recently, and they have not had a good rest.

Zhao Ji told them his purpose. But the young people guarding the alley didn't believe it very much, but under Zhao Ji's insistence, he still asked someone to ask the male owner of the missing daughter's house, that is, one of their relatives and elders, if he went to find someone famous in the city Gere came together to find his missing daughter, cousin.