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"Guest, you haven't paid the bill yet!"

Seeing that there were no shiny things on the table, the waitress became anxious, but the tavern owner stopped her.

"He paid." The tavern owner swallowed and said.

"Paid?" The waitress looked at the table suspiciously, and then she was stunned like the tavern owner, only to see a small pile of pepper on the table, forming a hillock, which made her cover her mouth in shock.

"Pepper, lots of pepper!" she murmured.

"Quick, hurry up and get the jar for storing pepper!" The tavern owner came back to his senses and hurriedly ordered.

While the waitress was in a hurry to get the jar, the tavern owner breathed lightly and carefully counted the peppers on the table, lest he breathe too hard and blow them away.

The owner of the tavern was concentrating on counting the peppers, but the tavern suddenly exploded, and an extremely heated discussion broke out.

"Did you hear that? Pepper, it's pepper!"

"That's right, it's pepper!" A man raised his neck, confirming this with his good eyes.

After being confirmed, the scene in the tavern became even more heated.

"He gave so much pepper, Uncle Tom made a lot of money today!"

"That's right, for a half-max gold coin, he can just give a grain of pepper. If you give this much at once, it's enough to buy this tavern!"

Amidst the discussion among the crowd, two people had already exchanged glances, left money on the table and then slipped away quietly, but the people who were indulging in shock did not notice them.

Because of the 'unrestrained' behavior of the man in black robe, people in the tavern started to speculate about his identity. Some people thought he was a traveling prince, some said he was the first heir of a certain grand duke, but no matter what, One thing they all agree on.

This man must be a nobleman.

Because only nobles waste food.

As for civilians, they are not entitled and cannot afford to waste food.

Look at what else is on the table where the peppers are.

Except for the plate of roasted pears and boiled apples that were half eaten, the man in black only ate a whole boiled egg.

As for the meat, only the grilled chicken had a small bite, and a wing was cut off with a knife, and the other parts were intact.

He didn't even touch the other meat like pork and roast sparrow.

Not even a baron would have had such luxury in the face of spiced pork.

Therefore, they agreed that the man in black was a nobleman, and a great nobleman at that.

However, Mr. Noble left, what to do with his leftover food?Anyway, it will definitely not fall down.

So, the guests of the tavern began to encourage the tavern owner to share these things with them, anyway, he had already earned so much today.

However, the tavern owner just gave them a supercilious look, and waited for the waitress to bring the jar, he carefully put every pepper in it, and after making sure that nothing was missing, he waved his hand in a good mood and called the waiter to bring the intact dish Take them all back to the kitchen.

Wait for the next order to be served.

When everyone protested against the stinginess of the tavern owner and asked him to buy each of them a glass of wine, Nadeko Toyama had been away for a long time, but two tails were quietly attached to her back.

Two hungry wolves with evil intentions.

Adrian and Madeira are the servants of the same lord knight. Because the lord was in a good mood, he gave them a few days off, and they went to the tavern to have fun, but they didn't expect to encounter such a explosive thing.

A nobleman with a large bag of pepper dared to wander outside alone without his attendants.

Isn't this rushing to get people to grab it!

Given that they don't rob, there will also be greedy brigands who rob this negligent nobleman.So, they decided to make the vote, and after the robbery, they killed people and silenced them, and no one knew that they did it.

After making up their minds, Adrian and Madeira took their equipment and followed the man in black silently.

out of town

The horse moved slowly through the dense forest. Even though Nadeko Toyama urged it vigorously, and the poor animal was trembling with fright, it still couldn't run very fast.

No way, even though the roads leading to various small towns and villages will be cleared under the order of the lord, over the years, lush trees still cover the roads, so that people who pass these roads have to take it easy.

Therefore, Toyama Nadeko also gave up the plan to gallop the horse.

In such a broken place, it's too fast to think about it.

Nadeko Toyama rode a horse and walked in front, but these two attendants were locals who were familiar with the road, so after a lot of effort, they also caught up with the man in black who was one step ahead of them.

"Who?"

Nadeko Toyama tightened the reins, turned the horse's head, and patted the trembling horse to a stop.

There was a whirring sound in the dense forest behind, and it seemed that there were only the sound of wind and leaves. However, she was sure that she heard the sound of a branch breaking just now, so instead of continuing on her way, she carefully observed her surroundings.

Covered by layers of branches and leaves, large shadows cast on the ground, blocking Nadeko Toyama's sight.

This made her unable to find her target.

But soon she will not need to continue her search, for her stalkers are more restless than she is.

One wielding an axe, the other a short spear, they charged at her with a shout.

"They followed me."

"for what?"

The two were neatly dressed, obviously not like robbers in the green forest, and she remembered seeing them in the tavern, which meant that they must have followed her all the way.

However, the background of the two people is clear, what is their motive?

Toyama Nadeko didn't quite understand.

In fact, Nadeko Toyama knew too little about the Middle Ages. At some point in the Middle Ages, the value of spices was equivalent to the same weight of gold, especially pepper, which had grown to be more expensive than gold.

Because of the monopoly of Eastern trade, these Westerners had to be exploited by Eastern merchants to buy spices from them to prevent food from rotting and store precious meat resources.

And to cover up their strong body odor that could kill a donkey for not taking a bath.

Due to the wide range of uses of spices, even if the price is expensive, these Western nobles have to pinch their noses to recognize it, but of course they are not willing to be exploited by these cunning Eastern businessmen. spices.

However, the cold and humid climate in the west is not suitable for growing spices at all. Therefore, except for a few spices produced in the local area, they have to continue to endure the extortionate prices of Eastern profiteers, and exchange a lot of gold coins for a little bit of pitiful spices. their daily life.

Under such circumstances, one can imagine the value of a bag of spices.

In particular, the black pepper brought by Nadeko Toyama is the king of western spices, surpassing all spices and attracting countless nobles.

It is precisely because of the pursuit of the nobles that the price of black pepper is more expensive than other spices, and it is even raised to an incredible level-a pepper is equivalent to a gold coin.

Yes, a pepper is worth as much as a gold coin, and even the seller is more pleased that the buyer pays for the pepper instead of the gold coin during the transaction.

Because black pepper is much more precious than gold coins.

You should know that another name for black pepper is pepper coins!

Money touches people's hearts, and under the huge benefits, Adrian and Madeira gave up their chivalry, and would rather be ashamed, and they would do this vote to snatch the pepper in the bag.

However, Nadeko Toyama would never have thought of this.

Who would believe that these natives would do such a thing for a bag of pepper?

Unable to think of the motives of Adrienne and Madeira, Nadeko Toyama simply stopped thinking about them. These two people will be cleaned up by her immediately. Who cares about the thoughts of a dead person?

The dense forest is not suitable for fighting on horseback, so when the two of them howled and rushed forward, Nadeko Toyama turned sideways at an angle, avoiding the axes and short spears that were swinging towards him.

However, even though the two of them couldn't stop the car under the action of inertia, they turned back quickly and continued to chop towards the place where the distant mountain was.

There is no escape.

The dense forest is too crowded, and it will take a while for the horse to turn around. If you stay on the horse, you will undoubtedly eat an axe.

So, she simply stepped on the horse's back, and then stepped on the nearest tree trunk with a counterforce, and then, taking advantage of the time to vacate, threw a silver thread across the necks of the two of them steadily.

What?Is it a woman?

While in the air, Nadeko Toyama's hood slipped back naturally, revealing a head of long black hair, scattered in all directions. At the same time, Adrian and Madeira also saw the true face of their opponent.

The aristocratic master they had always thought was a weak oriental woman?

Underestimating the enemy, their ability to wield weapons unconsciously weakened.

However, before they thought about how to deal with the oriental woman in front of them, they felt unable to swing their axes.

Because as they rushed forward, Nadeko tightened the silver thread, and in an instant, there was a line of blood on the necks of the two of them.

Immediately afterwards, in the unbelievable eyes of the two, they watched their head and head separated from the body, and fell to the ground following the rules of free fall.

"thump!"

After two heavy objects fell to the ground, they finally completely lost consciousness.

"Cut off."

Kneeling down to observe the incisions on the necks of the two, Toyama Nadeko came to a conclusion.

Compared with swords that require the user to exert their strength, the silver thread mostly uses the strength of the attacked. Sometimes they will put themselves to death if they calculate the angle well.

The more force you use, the worse your death will be.

That's why Nadeko chose it as a weapon.

The physical strength of girls is not as good as that of boys. Despite the strengthening of the dimension space, she did not get many dimension points in the first few rounds, only enough to restore her physical fitness to the level before beating the lizardman, and the remaining points were all It was used by her to buy weapons and auxiliary props.

Even the silver thread, she used supernatural powers to transform the ordinary silk thread into this look.