our family is gone

Chapter 35 Workers
"Whoever picks up the guests will stand up~"

A very plain sentence made the women onlookers look weird, and the oppression they had suffered for a long time revived with this sentence.

And several of them are particularly prominent, and their faces are full of fear.

What is the punishment for disobedience?
Just thinking about it made my body tremble.

"grown ups……"

Just as Disma was about to say something, Lance blocked him with a look.

The first ones to speak were not those who received the guests, but other people who were afraid of being implicated. A few women were pushed out amidst the booing, but they didn't dare to look at Lance, they just lowered their heads and cuddled each other.

"I said to shut down the brothel, you broke the rules by picking up customers privately, it's the first time I think it will only be locked up for three days."

Hearing this, they knelt down in front of Lance and begged for mercy, but their tearful eyes dared not cry too loudly, because they were afraid that Lance would get bored and punish him more severely.

Lance was not shaken by their appearance, watching them being taken away by Susan.

Holding the few copper coins in his hand, he felt uncomfortable.

And why didn't he know what these people wanted to do, they just wanted to earn some extra money, because they didn't know how the situation would change after three days, only money was the most practical thing.

But Lance couldn't let this kind of behavior go. All the young women in the town did it, and the consequence would be to ruin the future of the territory.

This was the last thing he wanted to see as a lord.

Must be suppressed!

"Sir...I..."

Disma chased him out, trying to explain something, but was interrupted by Lance raising his hand.

"Okay~"

It's just that Lance didn't blame him, but comforted him instead.

"I know that you are under a lot of pressure and it's okay to relax. As long as you don't force others, you will pay the price after negotiating the price. I will not control it if it does not affect the reputation of our team."

Lance's words made Disma a little ashamed. He broke the rules, and the lord was still considerate of him.

Speaking of Lance, he emphasized again, "But you have to remember our mission, don't indulge in these, because evil will not relax, and corruption may erode at any time."

"I, Disma, will never insult the Lord Lord's trust."

"It's been a busy day, let's go to bed early."

Lance didn't pay too much attention to his oath, I have to go back to work overtime, why do you care about it~
This world, or the people here, actually have very fragmented reactions to carnal desires.

For example, the clergy and believers in the church are very conservative.

But ordinary people are very open. People in cities or those with status will be a little more particular, but the people at the bottom just don't care at all.

The reason is that their survival has consumed too much energy, and as a livestock and a tool, they no longer care about those things.

What's more, the long night is their only pastime.

As for Disma, who was a wandering mercenary, he did a lot of these things. It was normal for him to find someone to relax, so Lance didn't care too much.

But Lance himself has no interest in these women, not because of any feudal concepts, but simply because they don't take a bath.

Bathing is also a very expensive item for ordinary people, and it is not possible to take a bath every day.

So you can imagine the smell of a person who picks up customers every day and doesn't take a bath for ten and a half months. Just being close to it makes him feel uncomfortable, let alone touching it.

What's more, I was used to seeing all kinds of beauties in my previous life, so I really didn't have the slightest interest in these ordinary people.

…………

What happened last night was actually not a big deal. After dawn, everything was as usual, and Lance led a few people to investigate the buildings in the town.

A sanatorium is a hospital in this world, with the function of receiving and treating patients.

But this is a building that should not appear in a small town, because it is impossible for such a dilapidated small town to support such a nursing home, and it is impossible to recover the construction cost.

Lance teamed up to explore it, and found that the structure inside was very strange, and it was very different from the sanatorium in the city he remembered.

The main body of the building is made of large stones, which gives people a heavy feeling, but such a large space is not designed with light-transmitting and ventilated windows, and the whole corridor looks very dark. If it is not for the light, it really can’t be seen at all. Not sure.

The sanatorium has two upper floors and one basement, a total of three floors. On both sides of the corridor are wards with metal doors that lock outwards. There is an observation hole on the top and a meal delivery hole on the bottom...

No matter how you look at the architectural style here, it looks like a spooky prison rather than a sanatorium for curing diseases and saving lives.

However, thinking about the shitty things the ancestor did, combined with the weird environment here, Lance also understood that the truth of this nursing home might be the place where the ancestor conducted human experiments.

But few of the patients sent in may be able to leave~
It's just that this huge investment building was abandoned with the disappearance of the ancestor.

After some investigation, Lance and others withdrew, and then moved to other buildings in the town.

Dilapidated churches, roofless guilds, collapsed blacksmith shops...

These people are not fighters like Disma, but construction workers with the best reputation and skills.

When Lance counted the townspeople before, he thought it was a little strange why the original skilled workers in the town disappeared. There is no reason for the bandits to pick some people to kill.

After he took down the farm, he discovered that all these people had been selected by the farmer.

Because the town suddenly became dilapidated, everyone stopped consuming, and if their technology was not consumed, they would have no money. In addition, many of them had no land to resist the disaster, so they were the first to lose their jobs.

And David's choice to take down these people indirectly helped Lance save these skilled workers to some extent. It can only be said that he was too kind, and he was still thinking of others even after he died.

Lance deliberately transferred these workers from the farm, such as carpenters and construction workers, and it was a waste to use them for farm work.

These people already know the local area very well, and they also know the building structure.

Under their explanation, Lance knew which buildings still had the value of repairing and renovating, and which ones were directly dismantled and replaced with building materials to make the most of them.

If it is basically impossible for him to do these things normally, even if he inherits this territory, legally, as long as all the places within the territory belong to him.

But the land deeds in the hands of those townspeople can prevent the implementation of his policies, and no one will let him demolish them at will, commonly known as nail households.

(End of this chapter)