Mercenaries and Adventurers

Kiel carried the fainted Batar priest through the spacious carriage passage, and entered its backyard from the side of the hotel. The hotel clerk who guarded the passage didn't even dare to look up at Keel as he walked by.

In the backyard, Bloodyaster was leaning on the carriage and waiting for the arrival of the two.

"It's really busy up front, but is it okay? Keel."

Blood Fangster looked worried, because he probably heard what happened just now, and he just left Montorka City, and such a big thing happened, he was afraid that Kiel, a teenage knight squire, would not be able to hold on to the scene .

It would be fine if he was a knight, he could use absolute force to determine the tense development, but Kiel is not a knight yet, isn't he?

Carrying the people, Keel saw that the horses had already entered the stables and were drinking the clear water in the trough, purring.

"Is there any problem? The matter is already like this." Kiel patted the Batar priest on the shoulder armor: "To be honest, I thought he was not a person who dared to do things, but I didn't expect to be able to really do things in the street just now." Release the blessing ability, haha, I think the experience in the future will be very interesting?"

"To be interesting is to have a life."

Blood Fang curled his lips. He felt that these two young people were really crazy. Keir was a reckless guy who was not afraid of big troubles, and this 20-something-year-old resident priest of the Saturnalia Church, who looked gentle before, And there is a little melancholy and fragile, but looking at it now, he is also a hot-headed teapot character.

Put the lid on once it's hot.

"So tonight, as discussed earlier? Modifying the hood or something?"

"Well, you look at our carriage first, I will arrange the fainting priest to lie down, and then come to help you, you take the money and go out to buy the leather, tarpaulin and sewing tools you need, the two of us will take turns guarding the carriage tonight , and change it."

After making arrangements, Keel walked towards the back door of the hotel building, while Bloodfangste jumped into the driver's seat of the carriage, leaned on the seat, held a dagger and began to polish it with a millstone.

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With a sound from Kuangtang, the back door of the hall was pushed open vigorously, everyone in the hall was startled, turned their heads to look over subconsciously, and then fell silent.

The originally noisy hall was extremely silent.

The merchants who toasted and drank froze in place, the glasses in their hands couldn't be up or down, and the waiters and waiters in the hotel were all startled, and the words they made were stuck in their throats.

"What's the matter? Come and arrange two rooms."

Kiel walked carelessly into the middle of the hall, the comatose priest on his shoulder was particularly eye-catching.

"Oh, my companion fainted just now after releasing the divine blessing bestowed by the gods. I need to quickly find a soft bed and have a good rest."

As Keir hummed, many people curled their lips inwardly. It was obvious that you knocked your companion unconscious, so don't act like everyone didn't see it.

But the steward of the hotel was still secretly pushed forward by his subordinates to lead the way: "Guest, what room do you want? We have two upper-class rooms for nobles and lords, and how many middle-class rooms for merchants. What do you need?" kind?"

When Kiel's combat boots stepped on the wooden floor of the hall, they made a creaking sound, obviously due to the pressure of weight.

"A medium room will do, two."

"But I heard from my staff that you have three people?"

"Oh, don't you have to leave someone to watch the carriage at night, right? He is asleep, and I and the other take turns to watch the carriage."

While talking, the two went upstairs on the relatively spacious wooden stairs.

This is a newly built three-story building with human-style wooden floors. The guest rooms are all on the second and third floors. It is the house where every merchant who is more than a little smaller often lives.

"Well, give me a medium room with a window overlooking the street. No problem?"

"No problem, no problem, look at what you said, we have seen the great deeds you and this priest have done just now, it is really amazing, the great **** of agriculture is watching everyone, my grandma often does this when she is here I said. I didn’t believe it before, but now that I think about it, it’s because I’m just an ordinary person. Only a knight like you and your companion as a priest can truly see clearly and have a real impact on changing the world.”

The manager of the hotel is a middle-aged man with a mustache, and he has been talking good things since just now.

"You can really talk, haha."

Kiel coped casually.

It wasn't until the two people who went upstairs disappeared from the sight of everyone in the lobby that the entire hotel lobby regained its vitality.

The merchants touched another glass of wine silently, and then sipped the tasteless wine in silence. Some people are thinking about whether to leave the hotel with their luggage now, while others are thinking about whether to go up and get to know these two people. Seeing that some of them have extraordinary backgrounds and whereabouts are unknown, maybe some can make money?

The male and female waiters were chattering again, and some of them watched carefully as the streets outside were separated again so that they would no longer be in the way, and they were discussing with each other the many refugees in the southern provinces who were exchanging the god-given food.

They were afraid that those people would attack their hotel because of these two young people with backgrounds.

"Do you want to block the door with a dining table? Or close the windows for light?"

Someone made a suggestion like this, but today the boss is not here, and the manager also went up to greet the guests. They couldn't make up their minds, so they had to send some people to guard the door, and others spread out to greet the guests.

If refugees attacked the hotel, they had to quickly block the door, close the doors and windows, and then escape into the yard through the back door of the hall.

The hotel is not their property anyway, so there's no need to go all out for it, just fool around and deal with it.

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The hotel steward found Keel two medium-sized rooms facing the front and back, one facing the street with a window, and the other facing the door without a window.

"However, there are oil lamps prepared with kerosene inside, and the smell will not be unpleasant after being lit, and there is not much smoke. The house also has transom windows that exhaust the smoke into the aisle, so it is no problem to light the oil lamps all night!"

Facing the bragging of the hotel steward, Keel smiled perfunctorily.

He placed Priest Batar in the room with a window near the street. He lay on his back on a bed filled with soft wool, took off his boots and put them away. The equipment on his body was just like that, and the amber staff was unloaded from behind the priest and leaned against the wall beside the bed.

Walking to the window, Kiel looked out carefully, and found that the refugees were no longer gathered on the street. The soldiers at the checkpoint saw no risk of gathering riots, so they left a few people to monitor the notification, and the others left Under the leadership of the soldier captain, he returned to the barracks in the checkpoint.

The performance of the refugees also reassured Kiel.

Things didn't slip into the abyss of badness. Maybe these people who fled their hometowns under bad circumstances might not be brave enough or cowardly. Disaster in the countryside. Instead, they fled the dangerous area and came to the safer western provinces.

They are all ordinary people who can’t be called bad people, and they didn’t intend to gather most of them in this small checkpoint to be trapped, but this is the situation now, the local nobles don’t want to let too many people from other places come in, so as to impact local order.

Perhaps, after Kiel’s observation all the way from Cavinland to Montokaland, he felt that maybe the local nobles who mastered the checkpoint of the Whitestone City Wall also did not want to provide enough cheap labor force for Cavinland, which is upgrading the livestock industry. inside?

After all, I can't see my brother suffering, let alone see my brother driving Lu Rover.

Keir still understands this reason. Cavinland and Montokaland live next to each other. It has always been Cavinland that provides cheap primary products of animal husbandry and agriculture. The transaction price difference.

It can be said that it has severely suppressed one end of the brother's territory.

In this way, no matter how the future develops, the Cavin collar will never surpass the Montoka collar, after all, the big head was taken away by others.

But now there is an opportunity in front of our eyes, and it is possible for Kavinling to use sufficient cheap manpower to upgrade the agricultural product processing industry. Although the dried and air-dried meat strips are not as fresh and delicious as live animals, they can be sold farther!

In the past, Montoka City could only take advantage of the advantageous traffic location to prostitute them for a large part of their sales revenue. The actual livestock transshipment trade is controlled by the large and small chambers of commerce in Montoka City. But now, the products of Cavin collar have become cattle and sheep hides, wool and shelf-stable meat, and they can cooperate with larger chambers of commerce in the distance to sell the products to all parts of the kingdom, and even to other small kingdoms in the south.

Montoka City can no longer take advantage of the trade, and takes the bulk of the trade income, and can only make a small amount of tolls and taxes to finish the job.

Based on the fact that the money I don’t earn is the loss, Keel thought that Montoka City would definitely block the opening of the Whitestone City Wall checkpoint. I would rather let all the current and future refugees rot in this level than let more people pass easily.

After all, there are not many refugees who can afford to pay 50 times the customs duty. With this small population, the Montoka area can digest and accept it by itself, and there is no need for the refugees to go to Cavin to take the hardships.

Turning back his thoughts, Keir saw the hotel steward standing cautiously at the door of the room and did not leave.

"What?" Keel asked.

"House keys, look, these are the keys of two houses." The steward took out two keys that he had already picked out from the key chain on his belt, took them out neatly, bent down and handed them to Ji. you.

"This room is Medium No. 7, and the opposite one is Medium No. 16. You take it. Then I won't disturb your rest. Our waiter and I are in the hall, whether it's washing and eating, or taking care of the horses, You can find our people for running errands to buy clothes and mending clothes. Of course, you only need to pay a small amount of coins."

"Well, let's go down."

Kiel took the key and saw that Priest Batar would not be able to wake up to eat for an hour or two, so he took out a piece of folded paper from the leather pouch hanging on the metal belt, and took out a piece of paper wrapped in a long wooden strip. The charcoal strips in the box, Kiel wrote a paragraph to explain the situation to Priest Batar, put the paper on the priest's chest, walked out of the room, and locked the room.

Of course, Keel took the key himself. He opened the opposite room and checked, and found that it was also a single room, and the furnishings were lacklustre, but at least it was clean and tasteless.

Relocking the house, Keel went downstairs.

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"Here, medium room No. 16 on the second floor, here is the key." Keel threw the key of the house to Bloodfang.

"You go to the hall to have dinner first, and then go out and buy what you need as soon as possible. Although the night in this level is similar to the day because of the white stone city wall, it is impossible for the shops to be open all the time. Buy things earlier before they close Come back. Come back and give me something, you go to rest for a while, and check to see if the priest is awake, I locked him in the room opposite the door."

Kiel said so much in one breath, Xueyasite patted his chest and agreed.

After his companion left, Keel climbed into the carriage and got into the hood of the carriage.

The bows, arrows, bows and crossbows on horseback and the long and heavy metal double-edged spears are all here, and I don't know how Bloodyaster got these things in alone.

Regardless of these, Kiel went directly into the lady's dreamland. By the pond of the water of memories, he took off the full set of metal armor and came out in a suit of ordinary clothes. The ax was placed in the dream, and on the newly changed leather belt, hung the long sword hunting and the heart fire magic dagger on the left and right.

After staying in the hood for a while, Keel came out and jumped out of the carriage. He tied the curtain on the hood with a rope, and then picked up a bristle brush in the stable to brush the four horses' hair and dust, feed them and clean their ears. Check the condition of the teeth and horseshoes on the soles of the feet.

The order of taking care of the horses, of course, starts with his main horse, Bloodlicker.

The bristles can not only detangle the horse's hair, but also detangle some hair that has become tangled due to saddles and leather ties.

Every gesture of affection from the horses shows that they enjoy it when humans do it.

Not only that, but the bristles are also an effective means of cleaning up horse ectoparasites.

When horse lice were found on the brush, Keel crushed them to death.

After brushing, Keel slapped each horse with a sackcloth in turn to remove the dust they had been contaminated with after running for a day.

If you don't want to spend more time washing the horse, it is also possible to slap the dust like this.

Then there was feeding, and Keel went to the inn clerk who was taking care of the horses of other accommodation merchants next to him, and asked for a bucket of dried beans and bundles of dry pasture promised by the hotel.

Of course, the dried beans were eaten by his blood lick, but Keel secretly grabbed three handfuls of beans while the blood lick was not paying attention, and secretly fed them to the other three horses.

"Hush!"

When feeding beans to other horses, Keel saw that they were going to put their heads over to rub against him, so he made quiet gestures and voices, so as not to expose his behavior of stealing food to feed other horses.

The main food is of course dry pasture, which is specially planted on this kind of pasture, which is rich in nutrients and is the forage that all kinds of livestock like to eat. Of course, other plant tissues are actually eaten by livestock, but all have to consider the efficiency and scale.

Grass is good for large yields, so where conditions permit, feed this to livestock as much as possible.

In other areas where there is no open grassland, it is natural to feed whatever is available. Straw, grass, leaves, shrubs, etc. are generally eaten by cattle and sheep, and horses can also eat them.

Many plants that humans can eat, of course, can also be eaten by livestock.

This is still a nutritious fine grain for livestock!

However, when Keir was feeding the horses, he thought that before the checkpoint, there were still many refugees who had to worry about food every day. They either sold their valuables locally at a low price for money, or went to beg for food, or found a job to sell coolies , Just to give my family and myself a meal that will not starve to death.

Some people may even choose to join forces and take risks while they still have physical strength, stealing and robbing locals, or doing business.

"Hey, if you can eat enough, most people won't do this, right?"

Bloodyaster's voice came over: "I don't think so."

Keir put the dry pasture in his hand into the manger, let them eat slowly, and walked out of the stable: "What do you think?"

"What do you think?"

"It's about which path they will choose if life is okay."

Keel came to the carriage and took several large rolls of thick cowhide with hair removed from Bloodfang.

These things aren't cheap, but they're not terribly expensive either.

In addition, there are a large number of iron nails and strong long strips of wood, which are used to strengthen the inside of the carriage hood.

There are also thicker metal needles and a coil of strong fine linen thread specially made for sewing leather goods. It is said to be fine hemp thread, but it is actually mixed with many kinds of plant and animal fibers and hairs, so that the special needle thread that is twisted out in the end is quite tough and reliable.

"How is it? I went to a few well-known local shops and bought it ~www.readwn.com~ Fortunately, I have been here before, and I still have some impressions of what is sold there."

After finishing speaking, Blood Fangster helped Kiel cut the thick cowhide with a knife while answering Kiel's question. As a result, although the knife is sharp, it is still very difficult. Keir took out the magic dagger from his belt, and with a strange smile, he used the expensive magic weapon given to him by Baron Kendall to easily cut thick cowhide.

Although it doesn't look very sharp, it miraculously can easily cut through the thick cowhide, and the edge of the cut looks faintly burned.

"I think that even if everyone lives peacefully, those who should do evil will still do evil, because they get too much benefit from doing evil, and kind-hearted people always accept losses in the process of being bullied, while evil people get more Benefits. At this time, we have to rely on just laws and law enforcers to punish evildoers."

Keir squinted his eyes: "Law enforcers? Those soldiers on the streets outside who have overturned the tariff fifty times? If that's the law enforcers, then don't think it's strange that bandits are rampant everywhere. They simply send everything It's useless."

"At least they can clear up the bandits everywhere? And let those lawless bandits and horse bandits dare not approach the urban areas. Places with good law and order, such as the Montork collar here, even the rural areas are safe. It's not too much. These 'useless' vigilantes."

"Laughing, where did the bandits come from? The young people who committed crimes in the city ran outside, and they didn't even have to go outside, and they directly joined some bandit teams. You said they wiped out the big evil, such as those Bandits are effective. But the great evil itself is the accumulation and transformation of the small evil."

Blood Fangster couldn't say anything to Keir, so he stopped talking, and forced the topic to the topic of strengthening the carriage hood.