The Divine Hunter

  Chapter 4 Newcomers on duty

  At the same night, the old Moores were pleading with Roy and agreed to his request to be an apprentice to a butcher.

  The two couples are so familiar with the son they saw when they were young. Only on this day, since he woke up to now, his behavior has been very different from the past: from a quiet and shy boy, he has become cheerful, lively and talkative.

   But Roy’s words and demeanor of the old couple’s ardent concern for the old couple cannot be faked. So this didn't think much about the simple parents, but was sincerely pleased with the change of the child. They feel that the child has survived a catastrophe and has grown up a lot all of a sudden.

  The next day, many villagers in Kaye Village were surprised to find that Fletcher, the burly and rude butcher, had a thin apprentice beside him.

  "The old Moore’s child was hit by a horse. Could it be possible that he was suffering from madness, just like his maiden temper, how could he come to slaughter livestock?"

"What do you bunny know? You almost didn't get killed. It's strange that you didn't change your temperament. But I bet little Roy lasted for less than a week. Not everyone can do the job of a butcher! And this job is lucrative, why is the butcher? Want him to be cheaper?"

  No matter what the villagers talk about, Roy follows Fletcher with all his heart. After a day of contact, he found that the content of his work was different from what he thought.

  After large livestock such as cattle and sheep are brought over, Fletcher will first feed the livestock with a yellow powder to paralyze the animals’ nerves and avoid the painful struggle before the animals die.

  According to the butcher, these powders are anesthetics given to him by the herbalist in the village.

  After killing the livestock, it is the most difficult part to deal with. To cut the meat just right, how to cut the flesh and bones without destroying the texture of the muscles, you must have a good understanding of the body structure of cattle, sheep, and pigs.

  The butcher’s literacy level is impossible to draw a picture of his physiological structure for Roy to remember, so he can only guide him through demonstrations of movements.

   "Oh..."

  Roy watched as Uncle Fletcher calmly skinned the steak, took out the internal organs, and split the flesh. His nose was full of a strong stench, and his eyes were full of steaming bright red.

   "Oh..." The stomach rolled violently, and I couldn't resist bending over for a while of retching. The first cut to kill the cow was okay, and the subsequent division was a test.

"Hey..." the butcher joked, "I didn't see your hands soft when killing the cow yesterday, so I am afraid now. I am not talking nonsense about this craftsmanship. Otherwise, after so long, there will be no exception for the ignorant little Roy. No one else in the village wants. Of course, I don’t want to bargain for outsiders casually. See if you have the perseverance and perseverance to take my class!"

  Roy recovered from the retching, only feeling a little dizzy head and soft legs, but the butcher did not give him more rest time.

  "Come and take the knife. I will teach you how to cut along here."

   "I told you to go up, where do you cut your knife?!"

   "Fuck, you haven't eaten enough?"

  There was something wrong with Roy, and he was immediately scolded.

  He lamented in his heart that this apprentice butcher not only had to adapt to the mess and blood in the yard, and endure rude insults, but also wielded a knife for a long time, and soon his arms became sore. His physique is less than 5, which is inferior to normal adults and is more prone to fatigue.

  The physical and psychological pressure made him feel slightly uncomfortable instantly.

  "I really made my own mind. I have to come to be an apprentice butcher."

   kept complaining, Roy still meticulously completed the task of the butcher, he still prioritized.

  Of course, the most important reason is that all the animals to be slaughtered were robbed of a lethal knife and harvest experience.

   "People are under the eaves. Exercising, learning experience, and eating meat, it's perfect...uuuu...what am I not satisfied with..."

  The first day of apprenticeship passed with difficulty. The butcher’s family slaughtered two beef cattle from other villages and collected ten crowns from the villagers. According to the butcher, not every day has such a good business. Kaye also has a hundred residents, even if he adds customers from other villages, he is not invited to start work every day.

After finishing the work, the butcher was not stingy and generously gave Roy a palm-sized piece of fresh meat. As for the wages, the butcher did not treat him as free labor, and the apprenticeship gave him one crown a week, which is only a dozen a day. Roy is not dissatisfied with a copper coin. In the early days of learning a craft, he naturally couldn't care about income issues.

  "Uncle Fletcher, how do you deal with the internal organs?"

   "Take it away later."

  The wizarding world is similar to the habits of CEIBS in the previous life. Not everyone accepts animal offal. After the beef and mutton are processed, the offal is often sent to the wild to be buried and burned, or thrown directly into the small river not far from the village to feed fish.

  "Give me these things..." Roy can't control that much. He was born in a country where all kinds of delicious foods can be enjoyed in his previous life. He didn't eat less pork, beef and sheep offal. These things are all meat...

  He is at the stage of growing his body, so he can't let go of these foods.

   Approaching the evening, Roy cleaned up the blood in the yard, brought a heavy **** cloth bag, ten experience points, and left the butcher’s house with black eyes.

In Kaye in the setting sun, the gray chimneys puffed out white smoke, the men after a busy day came back from the fields with their hoes, and the dirty children chased the chickens and dogs in the small yard in front of their house. Run around. Candles light up quietly in the small wooden houses.

  Roy took a deep breath. "How long can this peace be maintained?"

  ...

Some distance from home, Roy faintly saw two sturdy soldiers with yellow cotton armor and long swords carrying several heavy linen bags to the entrance of the village, and then got on the cart and left quickly. The villagers took it for granted during the whole process. Any response.

  This Roy knows. Every month, the village of Kaye must hand in a certain amount of agricultural products to the lord of Posada, which is used as a tax. Taxes account for about 30% of the total harvest, which is quite "kind". Old Moore's family grows silt and hops, and this month they harvested it and turned in two sacks of dried silt.

  The silt grass is similar to the tobacco leaves on the earth. The villagers who are okay on weekdays like to hold the silt bucket in front of their homes, so that they are very uncomfortable.

  Going back to taxation, the entire Kingdom of Aden, including its vassal states, levied peasants a lot higher than the other three northern countries. Therefore, Aden has always suffered from the "peasant revolution".

  Roy learned from the villagers’ chat that at this time, a peasant uprising broke out in Edsberg, southwest of Aden.

   "I don't know what the senior officials of the kingdom think about. It is no wonder that in the future, Aden will lose both the north and the south and become a broken kingdom."

   "It's too dangerous, we must hurry up."

  The urgency in Roy's heart can only be relieved by food. There are still some roosters killed yesterday. He brought back beef tonight. Aunt Suzy unceremoniously stewed a large pot of broth. Although there are no seasonings, the taste is faint and fishy, ​​and finally there is some oily water.

  As for the entrails that the butcher didn’t want, he cleaned it without too much dirt, then looked for some season celery and wild vegetables, and asked the old couple for a little bit of precious salt, and stir-fried them randomly.

  Fried a plate of meat and offal with oily aroma and a lingering smell. In the past, Roy would never be able to swallow it, but now this body does not dislike it. On the one hand, food is precious and meat is scarce. On the other hand, people here only eat two meals a day. A child with a long body will not let go of any opportunity to eat meat.

  But it’s a pity that this meal only gave Roy an experience point of 0.1. He understood that killing was the best way to level up.

   "Even if the livestock is decapitated every few days, the upgrade will be much faster."

  Roy is full of expectations for this.

  (End of this chapter)