Mercenaries and Adventurers

In the spacious passageway covered with floor stalls, there are small rooms that were previously locked elsewhere.

At this time, most of these small rooms were opened, and light and human voices could be heard inside, which aroused Keel's curiosity. He squeezed through the crowded underground passage, came to a door, and poked his head to peek inside.

The inside of the room is not as mysterious as Keel thought. It is different from the crowded situation in the outer passage. The inside of the room is rectangular and the space is relatively spacious. Unlike other places, there are many small wooden tables and wooden chairs. At that time, some merchants or Kendal guards were sitting around the table in two or three, drinking something.

Keir's eyes lit up, he swallowed a mouthful of spit, and walked in directly.

When I came in and took a look, I confirmed that this was indeed a place for drinking. At one end of the room was a row of storage shelves recessed into the wall, containing wine barrels that could be carried by two people.

There is a faucet stopper on the lower part of the wine barrel, and a local villager is taking out a wooden wine glass from a wooden box beside it to make wine.

The young female villagers come and go to this small underground tavern, either to clean up the garbage on the guests' tables, or to come over and fill up the wine for the guests after the guests have handed them over.

However, Kiel found that when the people from the caravan called the villagers, the villagers responded immediately, but when the Kendals in uniform armor called, the female villagers who served them often pretended to be deaf and dumb. Dally over to serve.

After snorting softly, Keir looked around, his eyes lit up, and he saw Kayan and Zambirus, whom he had known in Grass Rat Town before. There was a town guard from Kendall City sitting next to the two of them. Although Keir didn't know him, he'd dealt with him.

He casually took an empty chair from the side, and Keel joined the wine table.

"I'll treat the three of you to a drink!" Kiel said with a smile.

The three people at the same table naturally noticed the young man in armor. Seeing that Keir was going to join them for a drink, they offered everyone a drink when they came up, and they didn't object.

"Four cups of the best ale!" The young guard Kayan didn't save Kiel any money, and asked the villagers in the back of the room for four cups of the best ale.

The villagers who served the wine moved quickly, but the female villager who served the wine was slow. However, after waiting for a while, they took the large wine glasses the size of a human head in twos.

The wooden wine glass is not small, but fortunately the table is also very strong, otherwise it will not be stable.

"Medellín Baijiu, a large glass of five copper coins, please pay the coins first." The female villager who put down the wine glass back and forth twice quoted the price coldly.

Keel pursed his lips.

Zambirus next to him reminded: "Because they are all outsiders, any service here must be paid first and enjoyed later."

Kiel nodded, grabbed a handful of copper coins from his big purse, counted twenty of them and handed them to the other party.

Seeing that Kiel gave the money neatly, and the money bag was bulging, the female villager's complexion improved a lot, and she smiled a little and said, "Wouldn't you guys have some food after drinking? In the next house The meat is being cooked, all the sheep are slaughtered when it is dark, and it can be eaten roasted or boiled."

Kiel was hungry when he heard it. He just casually ate some soup made by the chefs in the resting place.

Moreover, the water ghost meat has been eaten, even if he eats normally now, his body still feels hungry.

Either eat more meat, or find a way to fill it with monster meat.

Looking at the three guards, Keir asked if they eat?

As a result, apart from the hesitation of the unknown guard, the other two unceremoniously ordered a roast leg of lamb each.

"In addition to the two roasted lamb legs, give me a plate of boiled lamb, with enough salt!" Kiel said to the female villager serving.

"The price is seven copper coins for a roast leg of lamb, and three copper coins for a plate of mutton. Adding salt requires an additional iron coin. A total of seventeen copper coins and one iron coin."

Keir gave the money directly, urging the other party to serve the food as soon as possible.

The female villager put a small pile of coins she had counted into the leather pocket on her abdomen, and left the underground tavern neatly, and went to a temporary room next door that was specially used for meat to get food.

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The four picked up a new glass of wine in front of them and looked at each other. According to the rules, Keir spoke first, "To our Lord Baron Kendall!"

"My lord, Baron!"

"To my lord the Baron!"

"To my lord the Baron!"

The four of them sang together in a low voice, then clinked glasses and took a big gulp.

The wine entered the mouth, and the calm and moist aroma of ale filled the mouth and nasal cavity. Kiel was very satisfied. The level of this ale was still worthy of the price of this thing.

"Gulu, gulu, hoo." Keel took a breath out of the drink, as if the wet and rainy weather of the previous few days had finally passed.

Although the following grassland is not an ordinary place, at least if Keel is asked to choose between the monster and the rain, then he will definitely choose the monster.

He wasn't afraid of fighting, but he had had enough of the wet days before.

"Finally, I got rid of the continuous rainy weather." Kiel sighed.

This statement made the other three people agree.

"That's right, I felt that my feet were going to soak in my boots several times. If I didn't find a way to bake my feet and boots every night, I think I can only march in a carriage at this time." Kayan complained, But he was immediately disgusted by Zambirus.

"Okay, your feet are the most precious, okay! Who else is not like that, it's better for someone like Keel who has a horse, so you don't have to get down and walk on your own."

Kiel shook his head: "You can't say that. Although my feet don't get wet on a horse, I have to run ahead of the army with a guide. Riding through the rain, unlike you, I'm completely soaked." Kiel patted Tap the armor on your body.

"If it weren't for the tight armor and imperviousness, I would have been frozen to death by the rain all over my body. Just like this, I rode out for a while without wearing the visor on the helmet. It's all wet, and you can wring out water every night when you rest."

Keir's last words amused the three of them at the same table. They couldn't imagine what it would be like to be wet all day, at least their guards walked next to the militia team, wearing the rain gear they had issued, plus the guards' leather armor , the whole body is wet boots.

After laughing for a while, Zambirus picked up the wine glass and said, "This is a glass for us to pay homage to Mr. Crow Knight!"

"To my lord, Knight Crow."

"To my lord, Knight Crow."

"To my lord, Knight Crow."

The four of them were about to drink, when someone beside them snorted unhappily, and Keel immediately frowned and stared over.

It turned out to be a female villager who was serving wine, her forehead was still red, apparently she had been knocked down by the Rumi knight not long ago. I didn't expect to be here to help serve wine at this time.

After snorting unhappily, the female villager knew something was wrong, and immediately panicked after being glared at by Kiel. But immediately, a slightly older middle-aged woman came up with a smile on her face, and pushed her companion out, asking her to go to another room to help.

"I'll tell you guys to urge the meat next door."

The other party said so.

Keir rolled his eyes and didn't say anything, and the surrounding environment suddenly became noisy again.

It wasn't until Kiel started drinking that the other three guards at the same table followed suit. After taking another sip of delicious ale, the unhappiness just now was immediately forgotten. Similar things have happened too much along the way, and Keir never thinks about it.

Zambirus then talked about what happened in the grass rat town that he had cooperated with Keel before.

"At that time, you were locked in the trap of the mechanism. I immediately went back along the road to find Lubis and told him about your situation, but unless it was an ax specially designed for logging, ordinary weapons would not be able to deal with the blocked wood at all. "

He gestured and said, "After that, let the local knight split the door with an axe and enter inside. What happened to you when you were inside?"

Keir shrugged his shoulders and started talking nonsense: "Heh, after I was trapped inside, the whole ground opened up, and I wanted to fall down and die in the trap below, but those gang members probably never really used those traps. Killer trap, the ground under my feet opened up fast enough for me to sleep."

"I found a wooden plank and threw it down first, then jumped directly on the wooden plank, and then followed the access passage at the bottom of the trap to kill the gang's real lair!"

Speaking of this, both Kayan and Zambirus raised their spirits. After all, they were the witnesses at that time. Although they heard a little about the incident later, they did not actually go down to see it. Unexpectedly, Keir followed the trap and killed him.

Kiel snorted proudly: "Those people are also sick. I followed a small passage and found the hub of the control agency. I rushed in and killed a few gang thugs, and subdued the gang leader's apprentice."

What followed was a battle with the gang thief leader for dozens of rounds, and finally let the other party die from his own poison.

Kiel grabbed the flesh on his face with an exaggerated expression: "That thing is so powerful, he threw the poison at me when I was seriously injured, but I was not stupid, so I used a shield to block myself, but splashed most of the poison It's all over him. You didn't see it later, the flesh on that guy's face was corroded with white smoke, as if being chewed off bit by bit."

Although Kiel himself was right in front of his eyes, Zambirus was very nervous: "So powerful, are you alright?"

Kiel tapped the shield stuck on the armor under the cloak behind him with his backhand, and the elven metal shield that has not been repaired until now made a crisp sound.

"The poison seems to only be harmful to the flesh. My shield is metal, but it doesn't matter."

Seeing some strange expressions on the faces of his companions, Kiel immediately explained: "Of course, I cleaned the shield with clean water afterwards to ensure that no dangerous poison would be left on the shield. Besides, the more Powerful things are more harsh when used, and it is impossible to have useful and powerful things.”

"You're right," said Zambirus.

"It's really dangerous. If it were me, I would have waited for the follow-up soldiers to catch up." This is what Kayan said.

"No wonder Sir Knight is so optimistic about you, and let you undergo knight training and become a knight apprentice." This is what the guard who didn't know his name said.

Keel shrugged, with a dangerous look on his face that I didn't care about.

While talking, the female villager who took the money before came in from the outside holding a long wooden plate. As soon as she came in, the aroma of barbecue immediately permeated in, attracting everyone's attention.

"Ha, the meat is here. Although it's not cheap, it's quite substantial." Keel smiled.

Kayan nodded: "After all, it is a good place to raise livestock. The meat in the western provinces is relatively cheap. As long as the sheep are driven out during the day, they will be able to eat and breed. After entering the western provinces these days, I have no meat. Eat less. Feel like eating more than before."

His words made the local businessmen who were drinking around them laugh silently.

The locals are not surprised by this, and they don't correct the wrong views of the out-of-town provincials that they find it easy to raise sheep.

Although what the young guard said was exaggerated, Kendall City is located in a remote place after all, and the manpower of the farms outside the city is mainly on farming, and the number of poultry and livestock is limited.

The quantity is limited, so the price cannot be lowered. Even if Kayan is a town guard with a decent salary, he usually patrols the city and eats and eats, but he still has never imagined that he can eat a whole leg of lamb in one meal. Pass.

Having said that, he shook his head and felt a little regretful. If his parents did not settle in the remote Kendall County when they migrated, but in the western province, then he should have been able to eat meat since he was a child. .

Zambirus is tall and strong, and his need for meat is no less than that of other companions. When he saw a whole roast leg of lamb on the table, he also had a big appetite, even if he had eaten it in the underground space just now. .

"There are so many people who can't finish a meal, otherwise, let's eat with a dagger, and take the rest back for other companions to taste." Zambirus said, looking at Kiel for permission.

After all, it was Kiel who paid the money, and the ownership of the food was in Kiel's hands.

"Whatever, I guess I won't be able to finish the boiled meat by myself later, so I just take it back and share it with others. Come on, since there are so many, don't divide them up, let's eat together."

As soon as Keir said, the four of them pulled out their daggers and gently cut off the slightly oily roast leg of lamb with the daggers.

The leg of lamb was slightly browned after roasting, and it was steaming after easily cutting off a piece with a sharp dagger. Several people who opened their mouths to eat after a day of strong winds were very satisfied with it.

The meat is neither soft nor hard. On the contrary, the surface is burnt and crispy, and most of the meat is elastic. After chewing, the gravy of the shredded lamb leg explodes, and the mouth is full of aroma.

And the saltiness is just right, the skin is still slightly spicy, without any mutton smell.

Keir doesn't think his dagger has been used to kill too many beasts, monsters, and humans. He has a big heart, and he directly and neatly used the dagger to cut off pieces of lamb leg with his companions.

However, they eat quickly, but after all, it is a whole leg of lamb, which is full of weight.

Kiel grabbed the goat's hoof, cut off a joint with a dagger, and started eating the whole goat's hoof.

The other three people also let go, instead of using the dagger to cut the meat little by little, they directly used the dagger to cut off a large piece of meat, and then put it on the table in front of them to slowly cut and eat.

While they were eating, the female villager brought over a plate of roasted leg of lamb, which was too much for the Kendalls like Keel.

The surrounding locals smiled kindly, attracted by the straightforward eating of meat by these outsiders, and they all asked for some food one after another. The villagers of Mei's surrounding Tor village were elated.

After all, the sheep raised in the village are sold whole, and the price is really limited. In the surrounding human settlement villages, whoever does not raise a large number of sheep, a live sheep cannot be sold locally at all, and even if it is sold, the price is very limited, and the profit is even less.

Although Kiel and the others are satisfied with the food, the price seems not expensive, but the local villagers have made a lot of money from the food here.

The entire village relies on the business roads to earn money from these business travelers in order to build such a complex underground building. At the same time, with these buildings that can resist the Harpies' harassment, everyone can basically live here without paying taxes.

Although life in the Strange Wind Grassland is dangerous, because there is no aristocratic rule, it saves too much tax and pays. The first batch of migrants who migrated here from the empire pursued such a life.

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The female villager soon came over with another plate of mutton exuding a salty aroma.

The boiled mutton was soft and exuded warm water vapor, and the surface of the mutton sliced ​​into thin slices by the cook was slightly sprinkled with salt grains. Although Kiel was a little full, he still licked the corner of his mouth and inserted a piece of mutton into his mouth with a dagger.

Unlike roasted mutton, boiled mutton is soft and full of water. Even if you don't use ale to moisten your throat, eating this mutton alone can keep Kiel's mouth from getting too dry.

With one end of a piece of mutton in his mouth, Kiel used his teeth and tongue to chop and stir the meat in his mouth. The half piece of mutton hanging outside his mouth trembled and threw out delicious gravy. .

The three guards at the same table were so exaggerated that Kiel ate ~www.readwn.com~ and they also started to eat one after another, and then a few people couldn't empty their mouths, each holding a piece of meat in their mouths and biting hard.

The local businessman next to him looked funny, and reminded: "Several, although the meat has been cut and delivered, a whole piece of meat still has to be cut into small pieces to eat."

Shame on me.

The four looked at each other, feeling embarrassed.

But now I can't speak, so I can only wink in embarrassment. After a moment of embarrassment, Keir squinted his eyes and smiled. When he smiled, the other three laughed.

Zambirus finished the meat in his mouth first, and immediately smiled at Kiel: "You bastard, just let yourself be ashamed, and let the three of us be ashamed too."

Kayan also swallowed the mutton, rolled his eyes, and didn't know whether it was a mockery or he was really choked up: "Now the locals must think that we Kendal people have never eaten meat much."

The guard at the same table who didn't know his name coughed lightly: "Obviously our Kendall County is quite rich."

Kiel sucked the last bit of meat into his mouth, and said vaguely while chewing: "The glutinous rice **** are rich, Bu Ran, why are they so round all of a sudden."

Swallowing the delicious mutton, Keir said clearly this time: "I said, of course I am rich, otherwise, how could I go on an expedition."

As soon as the words came out, the corners of the mouths of the local businessmen who had been silently watching the excitement gradually flattened, and they realized that the group of soldiers and troops in the north who did not seem to eat meat were the real wealth, organization and strength. Super them these western provinces caravans and chambers of commerce.

Even surpassed many local western provincial nobles they knew.

This is something that a discerning person can see at a glance, but the funny looks of these people just now made them forget it for the time being.