Lord Highlander

  Chapter 749 738. Mrs. Selina in the small town

  On the eve of the beast horde, some merchants led a convoy from Wilkes City to the town of Dodan.

  They heard that the mercenary group here can hunt some monsters every day, so they came to buy monster materials.

These merchants found that the canyon outside the northern city wall was indeed crowded with monsters. Every day, groups of mercenaries went out of the city to hunt. Draw out, and the matter is half done.

However, these monsters are of course not vegetarian. Those who can be called monsters basically have the ability to manipulate magic. Except for the mane beast, which relies on the body and fangs of rough skin and thick flesh, other monsters can release some magic. Frostbolt, fireball, wind blade, sudden stone and so on.

   If you don't pay attention, if you are hit by these elementary magics, you will suffer some flesh and blood injuries, or your life will be in danger.

   There is another thing that confuses these foreign businessmen. Although there is an adventure union in the small town of Dodan, there is no adventure group.

The merchants inquired about the whereabouts of these adventure groups, and learned that these adventure groups had quietly left Dodan Town. The reason was that these adventure groups were involved in slave trade. Sent to the Wilkes House for a public trial.

This incident involved most of the adventure groups in Dodan Town. It was for this reason that before the beast horde came in Dodan Town, there was no adventure group in the entire town. The group went to Dodan Canyon to hunt monsters.

   Compared with those adventure groups, they are certainly not professional.

Even so, these mercenary regiments have gained a lot every day. It is said that in order to encourage these mercenary regiments to hunt monsters, the town even used the bed crossbows on the city wall to attack the range and draw pictures under the north city wall. Create an invisible safety zone.

  The current largest hunting group in Dodan Township is the town's garrison camp.

   Now, a large number of monster corpses are transported back from outside the city every day. Although most of them are not very valuable first-level monsters, the advantage lies in the huge number.

However, the monsters hunted in the military camp never flow out. Even the animal meat is marinated and dried. Now there are drying yards everywhere on the grass outside the town, and the sunny south slopes are full of triangular wooden frames. The blade fire wolf is not very delicious, so it can only be chopped into minced meat and poured into the intestines, and made into strips of sausage to dry.

  As for the fur, fangs, magic core, etc., they were all digested internally in the barracks.

  The merchants suspect that the cavalry battalion in the garrison camp has a caravan accompanying the army, but they are usually very low-key and are not noticed by people at all.

  The mercenary group in the town has a very close relationship with the trading firm, so a large part of the monster materials hunted by the mercenaries will flow into the trading firm.

   Only some cheap Warcraft materials will be divided up by other foreign businessmen.

  Some large caravans chose to leave early because they could not get any benefits in Dodan Town.

  Only some small businessmen don’t care about these things. No matter where they go, they still eat leftovers. At least the competition in Dodan Town will not be so fierce.

  …

  Suldak has been a bit busy recently.

   There are now 1,500 soldiers stationed in the garrison camp, and almost half of the troops go out of the city every day to hunt those low-level monsters.

Two hundred longbow archers have all received the blessing of Suldak's "Divine Blessed Body". Together with the heavy armored infantry advancing in front and the cavalry protecting the flanks, they have been shooting down in the canyon for the past few days. Lost a few groups of low-level monsters.

  The monsters that originally gathered in the Dodan Canyon felt that they might not be able to cross the city wall, so some monster groups chose to turn around and leave the Dodan Canyon.

  For this kind of large-scale hunting operation, Suldak was worried that the monsters who were good at hiding would cause some unnecessary casualties, so he had to go with the group recently.

Now the barracks has to manage more than 1,500 people and more than 1,300 war horses. In addition, there are some ordnance. With Andrew's ability, it is impossible to calculate the approximate daily consumption of supplies, so Suldak had no choice but to let Celine Nalai's barracks station is responsible for logistics management, coordination and management of all materials, and some daily chores.

  The residents of the small town almost all know that a beautiful woman has come to the town.

  Every morning, she always wears a beautiful woolen dress and walks through the main street of the town in the rising sun.

  She will stop at the bakery for a quarter of an hour, and she will chat with the bakery owner. She usually does not buy cheap baked wheat cakes here, but walks to the market in the small town.

  The only market in the small town is at the intersection in the center of the street, because there are the most pedestrians passing by here.

  She will ask the price of some vegetables, onions, tomatoes, bell peppers, carrots and cabbages and so on.

  Her behavior is not a purchase at all, but a package.

  The few words she said most to every vegetable vendor are:

  ‘How much are onions sold for a pound today? '

  ‘Well, the price is not bad. '

'Expensive! '

  ‘If it cannot be sold, two copper coins per pound will be sent to the canteen of the barracks. '

Therefore, these vegetable sellers in the town are not worried that these vegetables cannot be sold at all. They first sell them in the market here for a long time at a price higher than the purchase price of the military camp. If anyone buys them, they will sell them all. There is really no When people buy them, they load these vegetables into small carts and transport them to the military camp.

  Of course, there is another problem that all vendors must pay close attention to.

  If the price of a certain vendor's product is seriously inflated, after being pointed out by Selena, the price has not been lowered.

   Then ask the goddess to bless you, and do not flood this kind of product.

  Because if it cannot be sold, I am sorry! The barracks and the garrison refused to carry out a round-up.

   In addition, you will be watched like a dog by the tax officials in the small town. Don't do any tax evasion, otherwise you will pay more fines than you earn.

  So ordinary vegetable vendors would rather earn less, and strictly enforce the price set by Ms. Selina.

   Unless the goods are always in short supply, such as some precious wild mushrooms, herbs, etc., these ingredients will generally fall into the dinner plates of the nobles.

  Since Selina has taken charge of the logistics of the garrison camp, she has the final say on the prices of vegetables in the small town market.

  Wherever she goes, she can attract the attention of many residents.

  Although she is not an aristocrat, she is treated like an aristocrat by the residents of the town: wherever she passes, the residents will take the initiative to give way, no matter where she comes to any shop, she does not need to queue up. Every shopkeeper will come out to receive them in person, lest the poor hospitality will offend the market price maker in this small town.

  Everyone will look at her with envious eyes, marveling at her demeanor.

Signa and Nika would occasionally follow her, but after a few times, the two of them would rather hide at home than go out on the street with Selena. The feeling of looking around is actually not at all uncomfortable.

  …

  Norman Lida rolled up his cuffs, and lifted a bucket of water with his thin arms.

  The river was turbulent, and she squatted on the pier built of wooden boards on the bank, her little hands tightly grasping the hemp rope, stepping on the board with her bare feet, struggling to move backward step by step.

  The wooden barrel protruded from the river a little bit... The morning sun was a little glaring, she didn't eat last night, she only drank a little wild vegetable soup, and now her stomach was a little overwhelmed.

  She felt a little dizzy. She stepped on a small stone and couldn't stand still. She staggered and fell on the pier.

  The wooden bucket filled with water plunged towards the river. When it fell on her, Nuoman Lida was holding on to the hemp rope tightly, not daring to let go even if the hemp rope hurt her palms so much.

  She didn't dare to lose the most important wooden barrel in the house.

  The wooden barrel fell into the river, and the hemp rope pulled Norman Lida and slipped into the river.

  She lay on the ground, feeling like her chest was going to be flattened

  I heard a girl shouting: "Loosen the rope!"

  Norman Lida was unwilling to let go, just when he slid to the edge of the plank and was only one step away from falling into the river, the rope was suddenly grabbed from behind and became tense.

  She quickly took the opportunity to get up, adjusted her posture, and pulled up a bucket of water.

  At this time, she had time to look behind her. At first she thought that an adult had helped her, but she turned around and saw a girl about her age standing on the edge of the pier, looking at her with a smile.

  She is also an aborigine, but her skin is much fairer, and she is wearing a clean and tidy skirt, standing quietly on the shore.

   "Why are you fetching water here by yourself? You should ask someone to help you." The girl speaks very fluently in the local language, not the accent of Dodan Town, she should be a foreigner.

  Norman Lida thought Nika was a distant relative of someone nearby, and said to Nika, "I want to help mother wash clothes."

  Nica saw Norman Lida's pale face and weak footsteps, touched her withered stomach, and heard her belly rumbling, so she asked her, "Oh? You didn't eat breakfast?"

  The people living here are all poor people, and Norman Lida has nothing to be ashamed of, explaining:

   "I haven't got the laundry wages yet."

  Nika asked: "Then your family didn't get any rex rabbit meat?"

  Norman Lida showed a faint bitter smile, and whispered:

   "Our family didn't contribute to the hunting in the town. We only got a little bit, and we used it to make soup."

  She didn't say that all the broth was for her mother's body.

  Nika felt that she might not be able to carry such a bucket of water, so she offered to help.

  The two carried a large bucket of water to Nuoman Lida's house. Nika saw that the yard of Nuoman Lida's house was still quite large, but there was a lot of laundry in the yard to dry.

  Norman Lida’s house is a wooden frame house, and some holes are repaired with felt. Although it is a bit dilapidated, it can at least keep out the wind and rain.

  Norman Lida's mother was lying on the bed with a sallow complexion, leaning on a blanket wrapped around her body, her eye sockets were so thin that they were sunken, she looked a little scary.

  She saw a girl brought back by Norman Lida, and she thought it was a friend of Norman Lida, so she lay on the bed and said to her daughter:

   "Norman Lida, if you don't hurry up and wash these clothes out, the deadline for these clothes will be over!"

Norman Lida didn't tell about the fact that she almost fell into the river, she just turned her body slightly to prevent her from seeing her reddened chest, and replied in a low voice: "Got it, Mom. I'll wash it right away." of!"

  The woman closed her eyes and murmured, "Be careful with the neckline and cuffs. Rub them vigorously. Those parts are always very easy to get dirty. If your starching skills are not good enough, you need to use extra care."

  Norman Lida whispered: "Got it, Mom!"

   After finishing speaking, he walked out of the cabin with his head down, and said to Nika with an apologetic face:

   "Sorry, I really don't have anything to entertain you at home!"

  Nika patted her thin shoulder and said with a smile, "It's okay." She just walked around in the yard.

Nuoman Lida poured water into the tub, rubbed the clothes in it vigorously, and said in a low voice, "If I don't wash well this time, no one will give me the clothes to be washed, I have to be careful. "

  Nika saw a small wooden frame next to the wooden house, on which there were two pottery bowls with gaps, and a small piece of multigrain cake was contained in one pottery bowl, so he asked in surprise:

   "Didn't you go to town to buy bread?"

  Norman Lida looked at Nika in astonishment, and said, "The bakery? No, that's too expensive. We usually eat some multigrain cakes occasionally."

  Nika looked at the clothes in the tub, and said to Norman Lida: "You won't finish washing until noon! Then come and wait for me at the bakery in the afternoon, and I will teach you how to buy cheap bread."

  Norman Lida squatted next to the tub, and wanted to refuse, but when she raised her head, Nika had already walked to the gate of the courtyard.

  She thought that at noon, she should be able to get a sum of laundry wages, and her mother also needed something good to eat, so she said, "Okay!"

  …

  Norman Lida was not lucky at all today, and met a bad-tempered customer.

She delivered the washed, dried and neatly folded clothes to the door, but was scolded by the employer for two quarters of an hour because a silver button was missing from a piece of clothing. She clearly remembered that there was no button in that position. , but the employer just said yes.

   And there was indeed a silver button on the other side of the symmetrical dress. She couldn't afford to pay for the silver button, so the employer withdrew all the wages for this order with a wave of his hand.

  She has worked hard for three days to wash the clothes, and she has not received a penny for the clothes until now, and she was kicked out by that hateful employer.

  Walking down the street dejectedly, she dared not go home at this time. She had no way to explain to her mother.

   Then he remembered that he had agreed with the girl who saved him by the river to meet at the door of the bakery in the afternoon, but now she didn't even have a copper coin in her pocket.

  She has never been to a bakery, but she knows where the bakery is. Every time she passes by the bakery, she can always smell the strong aroma of wheat coming out of it.

  She didn't know the imperial language at the door, and when she saw a long queue at the door of the bakery, she didn't dare to go over.

  Just sat down quietly on the steps opposite the bakery, she just wanted to tell the girl who asked her out: ‘I won’t buy bread today. '

   Waiting at the door of the bakery, seeing people walking out of the bakery with bread in their hands, I felt even hungrier.

  Norman Lida was a little downcast. If he had known this, he should have helped those hunters. Although he wouldn't get much money, at least he could take home a pair of water.

The poor children on the street didn't know what they had done. They all held a piece of scone in their hand, their little faces were dirty, and they had a snot hanging from their noses. They sucked while walking. Sucking, I still don't forget to nibble on the scones in my hand, as happy as a flock of little sparrows.

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