Riding and Slashing

Chapter 31 The Handy Farmer

For modern people, what Li Ang taught Sarah is indeed an effective marketing method.

This camp is useless to Leon, but it is very important to the Horn Call Rangers.

Selling the right things to the right people is an empty-handed white wolf... um... it's the basic logic of 'resource integration'.

The next day, Li Ang began to inspect the construction site.

That is, the unfinished wooden bridge.

Two rows of wooden piles have just been laid in the river, and the wooden piles are connected with each other for reinforcement.

The stringers connecting the stakes have also been erected.

It's just that the bridge deck has not yet been paved with planks, and it cannot be passed normally - unless the bridge is crossed from the longitudinal beam like a balance beam.

Li Ang stood by the bridge and thought for a long time, but he didn't order the bridge that was about to be completed to be demolished.

Instead, he sent a dozen carpenters together to make minor 'technical adjustments' to the bridge.

After carefully explaining to the carpenters, Li Ang let Klose and his stormtroopers stay in the camp to guard the captives, and continued westward with the crossbowmen and the remaining carpenters.

Since this camp is going to be sold to Ralph, he will build another Jatu nomadic camp in the area under the jurisdiction of Lion Lake City.

That is to complete his last deal with Ralph.

No matter how you squeeze the wool, what you promise to complete must be completed, and the customer must be satisfied.

This is the principle.

The hunks of Mettenheim are useless for things like construction, and half of them are wounded.

This is different from the game. The wounded in the team will not heal automatically. They need medical treatment and rest.

Probably the only advantage is that the injury will recover faster-this has been verified when Li Ang just crossed, and this may be the biggest benefit that this semi-hanging subsystem brings to the team.

……

From the camp to the west, there is wasteland everywhere.

Similar to the fog-shrouded no-man's land south of Changhe Town, this side is also a vast wilderness, but the altitude is higher and there are more hills and gentle slopes.

On the map provided by Ralph, this place was not originally a wasteland, and there should have been many villages—a lot of small circles were drawn on the map.

But Li Ang didn't see a single village. The road was full of verdant grasslands and gentle hillsides, with occasional jungles, which were very suitable for the survival of nomads.

After walking for half a day, guessing that the convoy had already entered the jurisdiction of Lion Lake City, Li Ang finally found an abandoned village.

Like Changhe Town, Lion Lake City is also a large county. It was the largest county in the entire continent decades ago.

However, the significant difference from Changhe Town is that Changhe Town has been expanding outwards these years, while the outer territory of Lion Lake City has been encroached by Jatu people in the past few decades.

Because Brave Shield blocked the Jatu people's footsteps, the Jatu people could only plunder in the direction of Lion Lake City for decades.

Lion Lake City, a county originally located in the northern center of the Sarleon Kingdom, has almost become the front line now.A hundred miles away from the main city of Lion Lake City, there is not a single village left, and all of them have become uninhabited lands.

This abandoned village has only ruined walls and weeds all over the ground. It seems that no one has lived in it for at least ten years.

After confirming that this place belongs to Grand Duke Alma's Shihu City jurisdiction according to the extremely crude 'detailed map', Li Ang ordered to build a Jatu nomadic camp in this abandoned village.

This ruined wall was probably a relic of the Jiatu people's iron hooves.

It's just right for planting.

Two mercenaries were sent to stand guard on the nearby hillside, and the others started unloading, and the team became busy.

"I'm sorry, my lord, what does the nomadic camp of the Jatu people you mentioned look like?"

I thought everything was going well, but I didn't expect that the carpenters who were the main force in the construction of the camp were a little troubled—they had never seen the camp of the Jatu nomads.

In fact, very few people have seen it.To be precise, few men have seen it.

After all, there are basically no survivors under the Jatu people, and most of the men who have seen the Jatu camp are already dead.

And those women who were taken away, they can see, but they can't come back.

After all, Li Ang came from the era of information explosion in the 21st century, and his way of thinking has not been completely reversed. At that time, he subconsciously thought that many people should be familiar with the appearance of the nomadic camp...

But people in this era don’t have the Internet, so how can they know so much—a traveler like Sarah already belongs to the most well-informed top intellectuals in the whole continent.

The problem is, Sarah is not here, and she definitely doesn't know what the Jatu camp looks like—she, a woman, would not dare to travel on the Jatu territory, otherwise she would definitely become a unit of value.

For example, one Sarah is equal to ten horses or two iron pots...

The mercenaries in Changhe Town also looked at each other in blank dismay. They had seen most of the Jatu people, after all, they were enemies who had been fighting for a long time around Fort Yongshield.

But when asked about the camp...all could only shake their heads.

Just when everyone was at a loss, two timid figures stood in front of Li Ang.

"My lord...we have seen Jatu's camp..."

Li Ang raised his head, and there were two men wearing leather hats and some messy and inferior equipment standing in front of him.

He carried a light crossbow on his back, which was the equipment that Ralph had 'sponsored' before.

These are the two bastards who lied about being crossbowmen, the only 'farmers' on the team list.

Probably due to a life full of hardships, the skin of these two farmers is very rough, and basically they can't tell their age. It is possible to say that they are in their 30s, and it is quite similar to say they are in their fifties.

Li Ang was a little surprised: "Have you seen it?"

One of them nodded, pointed at the ruined wall beside Li Ang, and said in a very low voice, "My lord, this village... used to be our hometown..."

"My lord... I still remember that more than ten years ago, the day before the village was robbed, the knights just came to collect the tax... After we paid the tax, we didn't have enough food, so we went to the mountains to hunt... I didn't expect..."

The eyes of the two farmers were red, and their whole bodies trembled when they talked about the past. This is definitely not something that can be faked. People with this kind of acting skills are basically either Oscar winners or president-level bosses.

Li Ang spat and scolded: "Whose territory used to be this village? They collected taxes but didn't protect the village, what a damn thing!"

From the mouth of two farmers, I learned that this village, which has become a wasteland, was once called 'Holden' - the meaning of gray settlement.

Also, it used to be where the Houghton family got their start hundreds of years ago!

The Duke of Alma's surname actually came from a ruined wall that had been completely destroyed and overgrown with weeds.

These two farmers are considered to be the last group of villagers in Holden Village.

More than ten years ago, this place was looted by Jatu's army, and the two villagers were hunting in the nearby mountains.

The Jatu people had temporarily camped near here, and it was because they discovered the Jatu camp and hid far away in the mountains that they managed to escape.

The families of the two farmers have long been buried in the ground, but the deep hatred makes them remember everything about the Jatu people.

Li Ang felt that his fortune seemed to be changing, and the goddess of order, Eunomia, was probably taking care of him.

Originally, he accepted these two bastards, intending to use them when growing food in the territory in the future.

Farming is, after all, an innate skill that all Chinese people will never forget.

Farmers, aren't they just good at farming? They can also be regarded as two subjects - when the House of Nobles examines a territory, it needs a certain number of subjects and fields in the territory.

And, you know, he distributed weapons to these two farmers.

However, after these two men received the light crossbow and infantry sword, the team list still displayed as 'farmer'.

So Li Ang thinks that these two people are probably very talented in agriculture, so their combat effectiveness is too sloppy—or if they are all equipped, they should be upgraded to a 'militiaman' anyway, right?

But unexpectedly, these two people showed their special value so quickly.

But when the two of them unloaded their equipment, took off their hats and coats and began to work profusely with the carpenters, Li Ang suddenly realized.

——After these two people took off the objects wrapped around their bodies, they became 'refugees' in the team list...

Okay... the lower limit of counterfeit and shoddy goods these days is really beyond your imagination...

(End of this chapter)