my age of magic

Chapter 120 121. The Orcs Digging Wild Vegetables

Gluding Town is located at the westernmost end of the Pai Plateau and is the first fortress guarding the west gate of the Pai Plateau.

This place is very different from the town of Yemen. The Yemeni fortress guards the northern gate of the Pai Plateau. Because there is a dangerous road of death there, even when a powerful army faces that road of death, they will lower their proud heads. It's a passage to hell.Although the mountain road between the mountains on the west side is not much shorter than the road of death, the mountain road is not difficult to walk. Several tributaries of the Ulutu River also pass through the mountains. Travelers can walk freely in the mountains. Find a source of water that can be quoted. For thousands of years, the war between humans and orcs will always spill blood on this long road. Therefore, this road leads from the town of Guluding at the western foot of the Pai Plateau to the human race Green Empire Sluit. The trade route of Sloit City, the largest city in the province, is known as the Road of Blood.

For hundreds of years, with the gradual development of the age of magic, the magic controlled by the elves has slowly spread to every corner of the world. With a stronger learning ability, the human race has quickly mastered the power of magic. The essence, in just a few hundred years, dozens of powerful four-turn great magisters appeared, which allowed the people to completely occupy the most fertile land on the Roland Continent, and the northwest corner of this land is dominated by powerful fire The Grimm Empire, which is the entire continent of the magic civilization.

80 years ago, the Grand Duke Xiatun Aili of Sloit Province, the northern province of the Green Empire, completely drove the orcs back to the Pai Plateau, and led the North Wind Legion to kill Gludin along the Blood Road. Town, in order to prevent the invasion of humans, the orcs built a large number of fortifications along the town of Gludin. At that time, the high priest of Kulpaulos, who was still in the younger generation, led the strong men of the blood wolf clan to kill the humans. Standing outside Gludin Town, at the last moment, he understood the most powerful magic of the shaman witch doctor "Gift of the Soul Walker", and guarded the shaman with the four-element totem, and finally drove the North Wind Army out of the Pai Plateau.

Now, the supreme executive officer of the northern province, the Grand Duke Xiatun Aili, has passed away 50 years ago, but the high priest Kulpaolos who became famous in the First World War, the spiritual leader of the blood wolf clan has become the most powerful member of the Orc Presbyterian Church. With the strength of the Great Elder, Gludin Town has also become a large town that can accommodate tens of thousands of people. Over the years, the relationship between humans and orcs has gradually eased, and private businessmen have begun to come and go between the two places. Gludin Town It has also become the most important trading town in the western plateau. Trade has brought huge wealth to Gludin, and it has also made the blood wolf tribe continue to grow stronger. It seems that it has the strength of the largest tribe in the western wilderness. When I was in the auction house, I would always walk with my head held high, and even if I entered the auction venue, I would keep my waist straight.

Raitu, a small tribe without any name, belongs to the vassal tribe of the Blood Wolf Clan. Every year, as long as they hand in some local specialties symbolically and report the population of the tribe to the Elders' Council of Gludin Town, they will have a The elders are free to live on the edge of the death swamp, and they can have a piece of land of their own. Not every small tribe in the orc tribe can get it. Most small tribes still live a nomadic life.This is also one of the reasons why the old witch doctor Gribasqin didn't want to go to the Gludin Presbyterian Church for help. Once the Presbyterian Council decides that their tribe has no strength to live on the edge of the Death Swamp, other nomadic tribes will grab their heads and squeeze in. Come.

After our group followed the leader of Raitu out of the valley road of Yelian Mountain, we saw more orcs digging edible grass roots in the wasteland along the way, and there were also stronger hunter teams trying to cross the mountain range and reach the hinterland of the northern foot of the wasteland. Going to hunt the one-horned bison, those sallow-faced orcs will involuntarily stare at the bulging breasts and even more exaggerated luggage bags of those female orcs when they see our group coming out of Yelian Mountain.

About a few hundred meters away, those hungry orcs could smell the aroma of cooked beef emanating from the tribal women.

In the beginning, Miss Qi would still sit on the high mountain of medicinal materials, and as Yagui beast walked forward, her waist like a thin willow would continue to swing. Whenever she saw some When there was a skinny orc child in the team, he would pull out a piece of dried meat the size of a brick from his backpack, call out to the child in broken orc language, and then throw the whole piece of dried meat to him.

"Hairy crabs! Hairy crabs!"

Then there will be such constant thanks, the transliteration of thank you in orc language is almost "hairy crab".

Whether it is a surprise orc child or a strong orc walking silently on the road, they will thank Qige sitting on the pile of medicinal materials.

But gradually, as the number of hungry orcs on the main road continued to increase, Miss Qi's food package quickly ran out.

On the side of the road, I could see a few orc children sitting in a row. They were skinny, looking at the adults in the wilderness digging up the roots of various wild vegetables with bone tools. Katerina and I were walking on the side of the road, seeing those children staring at the vegetables and trying to swallow their saliva. When I couldn't help it, I took out the water bag from my arms. He took a big sip of water, and continued to watch the adults dig wild vegetables in the depths of the pasture.

"Doing this is too damaging to the pasture. If there is less rain this year, the alfalfa will not be able to grow enough for this pasture. When the soil layer is frozen in winter, the fertile soil will be blown away layer by layer by the north wind in winter. Hey! Quench your thirst by drinking poison!" Every time the old orc Gribaschin came across such a scene, he always sighed like this, and his feelings for the pasture were so deep that he couldn't express it.

I complained in my heart, didn't you dig grass roots in the northern foot wasteland, what would they eat if you didn't dig grass roots?
"I'm afraid it's a large piece of land north of Yelian Mountain. It's hard to see hares, pheasants and the like. I'm afraid the yellow sheep have also migrated to distant places. This pasture can be cultivated for a whole summer, it doesn't matter." An old orc Walking slowly from the west side with a cane, he was wearing a white linen robe. He came to those orc children, squatted down his old body with difficulty, and stretched out his withered arms to constantly rummage through the pile of wild vegetable roots. His movements were so slow and strenuous, and there was a hint of sadness in his eyes.

The group of orc children hurriedly surrounded them, the leading big boy wanted to stop, but he didn't say anything, just wanted to gather together, pick some fresh and tender wild vegetables as much as possible from the pile of wild vegetables, push them to the old orc and said : "You must have not eaten for a long time. This is picked by my mother. You can try it! This purslane is very fresh and tender, and it tastes better when boiled into soup, but it is difficult for us to find firewood here. The buffaloes on the farm have all moved away, and I haven’t been able to pick up cow dung recently.”

"Is this your share?" The old orc looked up at the orc child with kind eyes.

The orc child bowed his head in silence, then raised his head after a while and said, "I only have the right to give you my share."

Pointing to the other skinny orc children, he said, "They haven't eaten anything since last night! We walked a long way all night to get here. I didn't expect wild vegetables here to be hard to find!"

"Hehe! I seem to smell the aroma of cooked beef. It seems that spices are added in addition to salt. It tastes so good! It seems that we don't have to eat these bland wild vegetables, hehe! Since you invited me to eat yours Wild vegetables, then I invite you to eat their beef!" While speaking, the old orc had rummaged through the wild vegetables in the pile of wild vegetables one by one, and quickly put all kinds of wild vegetables together by category, and then looked at the big orc boy who was a little surprised. Said: "Look carefully, I will only teach you this once."

When the old orc man was talking, it was when Qige passed by on the Yagui Beast. She was looking around with the mentality of watching the excitement. The last piece of meat brick was also thrown to the last orc child, so he could only withdraw his hand regretfully and listened silently to the conversation between the old orc and the older child.

Gribaschin also stood there thinking about the old orc's words, and it was obvious that he had some insights.

"It looks like a wild radish, but there are knots on the rhizome and few roots. You can see that its leaves grow in the shape of a palm. This thing is not a wild radish. It is a herbal medicine. It tastes bitter and is easy to produce. Xuhuo, this thing is called kudzu root, and a plant of this size is sold to human merchants in Gludin Town, and it is worth at least twenty copper coins." The old orc clenched his withered hands into fists, and compared them in front of the older child, yes He said: "It can be exchanged for such a large piece of beef."

Then he pointed to a pile of kudzu root picked from a pile of wild vegetables on the ground and said to the big orc boy, "These are all!"

Unexpectedly, rotten wild vegetables can be exchanged for beef. The children didn't quite believe what the old orc said, but there was a clear sound of swallowing saliva.The older child opened his eyes wide and looked at the pile of kudzu root on the ground, and said with some surprise: "Originally, my father said that he could take me to the wilderness this year to learn how to gather medicine and hunt, but the food stored in winter is not enough. He and The other adults in the village went to find the herd of magic antelopes, we were starving in the village, so we went out with the grannies to dig wild vegetables to eat, I don’t know them very well, is this kudzu root?”

Sitting on the medicine bag, Qige saw this scene clearly, not only this pile of kudzu root, but also three plants of Ningshencao, and a small pile of Hemostatic Grass, all of which were neatly arranged by the old orc , exclaimed in surprise: "Oh! Why didn't I think of that!"

Said, Qige wearing the magic antelope leather light armor slid off Yagui Beast's back. When this leather armor was worn on Katerina before, it was so sexy and beautiful, but now Qige wore it After wearing it, it became dignified and gorgeous, it was lightweight and protected Qige's whole body very well, and wearing a wide belt made her look very heroic.

Qige walked briskly past me in long moccasin boots, and skillfully dug out a square brick of meat floss from my satchel. Even if we were not too many of this thing, I put some dry beef into it. Beating meat floss into fibers is a very hard work. Just pounding meat floss is not enough. This thing is not easy to carry. It is only convenient to put the finished meat floss into a wooden box and compact it with a wooden pole. carry.

Only Kurtz has the patience to do this. These meat floss are still in stock when we were in the salty water pond, and we ate them all along the way.

The old orc pointed at Qige and said with a smile to the older child, "Look, here comes the meat delivery man!"

Then I saw Qige carrying the piece of meat floss square brick, put it on the ground and said to the older child: "This piece of dried meat can be exchanged for these herbs, can you exchange it?"

(End of this chapter)