Lord Highlander

  Chapter 260 259. Please steal my chestnuts

People in the Green Empire like to wear clothes cut from linen. The main reason is that flax crops are grown in most parts of the empire. There are workshops that use linen thread to weave fabrics all over the Green Empire. Most of the trading houses in Hailansa City deal in flax. Cloth business.

In contrast, cotton cloth is not widely used in the Green Empire. Cotton cloth is softer and finer than linen cloth, but the price is nearly four times more expensive than linen cloth. Commoners generally seldom buy linen fabrics, and nobles generally do not. They know how to use cotton cloth, and they prefer more expensive silk and wool. Of course, it is more expensive than silk and magicweave cloth. It is said that the magic robes worn by magicians are cut from some magicweave cloth.

  When going to Hailansa City, Suerdak habitually bought a piece of cotton cloth. In his opinion, underwear made of cotton cloth is better for sweat absorption.

   It’s just that before the underwear could be sewn, Suerdak rushed to the open-pit mine on Pubbag Mountain to mine sulfur.

  Mount Pustule is a very active active volcano. The smoke column on the top of the mountain penetrates straight into the clouds, and near Mount Pustule, a large amount of volcanic ash falls down like fine snow every day.

Under such circumstances, the stonemasons in the village mining sulfur mines at the foot of the pustule mountain are not only dangerous, but also stay in a place full of heavy dust for a long time. Inhalation of volcanic ash in the air into the lungs will cause serious illness. pneumoconiosis.

  Suldak left the old village head's house in a hurry just because of this thought.

  He didn't want these Wall stonemasons to suffer from this lung disease when they came back from Bump Mountain.

  Suldak returned home and saw old Sheila sitting at the door with a bowl of fresh milk in her hand. And little Peter is nestling in the arms of old Sheila, drinking milk one gulp after another. The white milk skin sticks to little Peter's lips. Sheila ran away in her arms, and old Sheila bluffed and told Little Peter to finish the milk.

  Suldak sat down beside little Peter, and said to old Sheila, "Can you sew some masks for me?"

Seeing little Peter drinking the last bit of milk, old Sheila put the earthenware bowl aside, stared at Suldak and asked, "I don't have any problem with ordinary needlework, but I haven't seen a mask... what does it look like? "

Suldak quickly took out a piece of parchment, quickly sketched a simple pattern on it with a charcoal pencil, pointed to the two strings on it, and said to Old Sheila, "You can put this on your face like a scarf. but it won’t affect the line of sight, and this thing is also very breathable, so it won’t get too hot after wearing it for a long time.”

  Old Sheila didn't listen to Suldak's explanation at all, and said: "I can try, but my eyes are not very good, and I can't sew fine stitches, Rita, Natasha, you two come over..."

Old Sheila is a little old, and her eyes are a little blurred. She found Rita and Natasha, first cut a piece of cotton cloth according to Suldak's pattern, and Suldak wore it on her face. , Pointing out the shortcomings of this mask, it has been changed several times in a row before two qualified masks can be sewn.

  When sewing the mask, Natasha not only refused to communicate with Suldak, but even dared not meet his eyes. She always shrank behind Rita, which made Suldak feel a little embarrassed.

  Suldak saw that Rita and Natasha had mastered the production method, so he left home in a hurry.

  Rita blinked her lake-blue eyes, and whispered to Natasha: "You can't do this, you should be more active, this is related to your future life, unless you plan to live another life..."

  Natasha stretched her body when she saw Suldak leave. She was a little embarrassed and said, "What else can I do, like Selena? I can't learn."

  Rita sighed softly, "Natasha..."

  …

In addition to the masks, some of the ground in the pustule mountain area is hot, and it is covered with a thick layer of volcanic ash. It is impossible to see where there is an undercurrent of lava or where there is a deep pit filled by volcanic ash. Ordinary shoes are not protective at all Once you go the wrong way, your feet will fall into the hot volcanic ash and you will be easily burned.

  Suldak left Wall Village on horseback, and went directly to the oak forest where the weapons and leather armor of the bandit group were hidden, and found twenty-two pairs of leather boots from the tree hole.

These leather boots were left by the robbers. Although they were very worn out, the texture of these leather boots was not bad, and they were all in the style of long riding boots. At least they could prevent the villagers from getting burned on their feet, except for twenty-two In addition to the pair of leather boots, Suldak also took out four alloy bows. It is impossible for him to stay near the pustule mountain all the time. The villagers who stay there to mine the sulfur mine must have some means of defense.

  Many of the villagers know how to hunt bows, but those hunting bows can't even kill wild boars. The standard alloy bow of the Grimm Empire is obviously a good choice.

  Suldak put these leather boots into three canvas pockets, which were actually full. These canvas pockets can be hung on the left and right sides of the saddle. The other four alloy bows could only be wrapped in some ragged linen clothes, then rode out of the oak forest and returned to Wall Village along the mountain road.

When passing through the mountain pass into the barren land, Suldak actually saw a team of knights on the top of the mountain not far away. In front of them were the group of wooden crosses. Those robbers are still hanging on the wooden crosses, and no one has been there. Collect the corpses, their corpses have been eaten up by the carrion birds, leaving only some skeletons.

Suldak's eyesight is very good. He could see that the knight squad was wearing the leather armor of the Hailansa City Guard Battalion at the mountain pass. He thought that this knight squad might be Karl's subordinates, maybe Karl was there Among these people, they were not afraid of the canvas bag hanging on the saddle being searched, so they rode their horses directly to meet the knights.

  The group of knights also saw Suldak on the mountain pass at this time, and two of the knights ran down from the top of the mountain on horseback.

Suldak and the two knights met on the mountainside. The two knights saw the knight badge on Suldak's chest at first glance. They saluted Suldak as a knight, and Suldak hurriedly Return the gift politely.

   "Excuse me, are you the knights of the guard battalion in Hailansa City?" Suldak rode on a horse and approached and asked.

  Seeing Suldak approaching him, the two knights temporarily let go of their doubts, and one of them replied, "That's right, is your Excellency...?"

  Suldak quickly introduced himself and said, "My name is Suldak, and I'm Karl's friend. I wonder if he's here?"

  The two knights heard Karl's name and ran up the mountain just to see Karl, the vigilance on their faces disappeared immediately.

With a slight smile on his face, a knight said: "It turned out to be Karl's friend. His current jurisdiction is the southern suburbs of Hailansa City. I would like to ask, who is it that you hang these robbers here?" Is it on a mountain pass? We came here specially to investigate this matter."

"When I stayed in Hailansa City a few days ago, Karl was looking for help. I had an important matter at the time, so I couldn't help you. It turns out that you are still investigating this matter..." Sulda Ke said, then shrugged his shoulders and continued: "Sorry, I just learned that a knight in costume killed a group of robbers at the mountain pass. I don't know many friends here, so I don't know who did it. "

   When the two knights heard what Suldak said, a touch of disappointment flashed across their eyes, but they immediately said:

   "It's nothing, this matter will slowly come to light..."

   Seeing the two knights, Suldak had no intention of continuing, so he said:

   "Since Karl is not here, if there is nothing else, I will leave! If you have free time, you might as well go to Wall Village and have a cup of lemon tea."

  The two knights responded very politely, "Thank you for your kindness, we have official business for the time being, so don't bother me."

Then Suldak rode his horse and swaggered down the mountain with four large canvas bags. When he returned to the mountain pass, Suldak stopped his horse, turned around and waved to the team of knights on the top of the mountain. One of the knights even waved the banner of the guard battalion at him.

Suldak took these leather boots to the lower reaches of the river in Wall Village. He poured the leather boots out of the canvas bag by the stream, and then took out a pig hair brush to clean one of these **** boots. The only ones are scrubbed and dried on the river beach.

  …

  It was already afternoon when Surdak rode his horse back to Wall Village.

A group of children were playing hopscotch under the dead tree at the entrance of the village. When they saw Suerdak riding back to the village, the bolder children shouted: "Suldak, Suldak, Suldak !"

   The voices of the children are loud.

   Not far away, a group of women in the village stood up when they heard the shout, and looked towards the entrance of the village.

  They can only wash clothes by the stream at the entrance of the village. This is a rule set by the old village head. The laundry must be done downstream of the entrance of the village, so as not to affect the drinking water in the village. Seeing a group of women looking this way, Suerdak could only nod slightly to these enthusiastic women.

Riding into the village, Suerdak passed under a chestnut tree along the dirt road in the village, just in time to see a stick protruding from behind the dirt wall, holding the stick tightly with a small dry hand , a dirty little face was exposed from behind the wall, and she struggled to climb up a dirt wall. She stood on the dirt wall in fear. The dirt wall more than one meter high was not high for Suldak. But it was very high for Cygna.

  She stood cautiously on the dirt wall and walked towards the chestnut tree little by little.

  Most of the fluffy green chestnuts on the lower part of the chestnut tree have been knocked off, and only the higher places are covered with chestnuts with burrs and hardened surfaces.

  Even though Signa was standing on the wall, even though she was still holding a wooden stick in her hand, she still couldn't reach it, only a little bit short.

She raised her head, fixed her eyes on the lump of chestnuts, bit her lips stubbornly, stood on tiptoe on the wall, and finally poked the lump of chestnuts, but at this moment she lost her balance on the wall, seeing the little girl The girl fell to the outside of the wall...

  A big hand firmly caught the little girl, and Suldak appeared under the wall, lifting Signa up.

  Signa opened her tightly closed eyes. She thought she would fall badly, but she didn't expect to be caught firmly.

   "Don't be so reckless next time, it's too dangerous!" Suldak put Signa down and asked her to stand obediently, while checking whether she was injured, he said to her.

  Signa glanced at Suldak, didn't say anything, turned around and ran back with her calf.

Turning the intersection, the little girl jumped into the bottom of the woman's skirt. The woman was Selena. She stretched out her hand and pulled the little girl out from under the skirt. She stared angrily and said, "Signa, where are you going?" Already? How many times have I told you, you are not allowed to run around, and you are not allowed to steal other people’s chestnuts..." Selina scolded, she seemed to be in a hurry, she broke a thorn from the side of the road, and hit the little girl's arm hard With a sharp twitch, a red mark immediately appeared on the small white lotus-root-like arm.

  Signa did not dodge, but stepped forward to embrace Selena's hand holding Vitex, and whispered with tears in her voice:

   "Mom, I really didn't steal it. It belongs to Mammy's house. Yesterday Mammy told me that whoever knocked down the chestnuts in her house will own it, but she just can't help me..."

   "Mom, we have chestnut rice porridge to eat tonight..."

   Saying that, Signa opened the small cloth bag she was carrying, and held it high in front of Selina, only to see that the small cloth bag was full of thorny chestnuts.

  Selena hugged Cygna in her arms all at once, tears rolled down like broken beads.

  Originally, when Suldak saw Selina through the earthen wall, he planned to lead the horse back quietly, and go around the road here.

  But when he watched the previous scene through the earthen wall, he realized that he seemed to have overlooked many things. The most important thing was that the lives of the villagers might be worse than he thought. Thinking back to when I first arrived at the old Xila's house, the old Xila's family also ate chestnut rice porridge mixed with cassava. This kind of life probably will not be better until the chestnut rice is fully mature.

  Seeing that Little Signa was actually allowed by the homeowner to steal her own chestnuts, but the homeowner was unwilling to take the initiative to give them the chestnuts, obviously because she didn't want to have too much involvement with Selena, a woman who is called an ominous woman.

   Seeing Cygna's clean and clear eyes, Suldak felt as if a thorn had been pricked in his heart.

  He stopped, turned around on his horse and returned the same way, walking in front of Selina.

  Suldak dug out a bag containing a few large toasted wheatbreads from his magic pocket, which was the leftover dry food from his last trip. He stuffed the bag into Selena's hand.

  But Selina didn't answer, she just looked at Suldak with a stubborn face, and there were still crystal tears in her blue eyes.

  Suldak was slightly taken aback. He looked at Selina with a puzzled expression in his eyes, and asked her, "Why... don't you want my things?"

  He squatted down and hugged Signa, holding the horse with the other hand, looking at the most dilapidated stone house in the village, and said to Selena who was standing there in a daze:

   "Let's go... I don't think I've ever been to your house officially!"

  Selena didn't follow, but asked while wiping her tears, "Aren't you afraid that I'm an ominous woman?"

  Suldak grinned and said to her with a smile: "...you just thought of asking this now?"

   "..."

   In the future, when it meets Sunday, it will probably be updated at this time,

  (end of this chapter)