Chapter Seventy-Nine: The Messenger
Parud's eyes were full of bitterness, and even the person he once saw as high and extraordinary in his eyes inevitably seemed a little stumbling when he encountered such a bad situation.
Perhaps the infantrymen were unaware of the accidents that had taken place in the upper floors, wrapped in everything they could wear to keep warm, and fantasized about being able to live in a comfortable room after a while, and bury themselves in soft hay by a hot campfire. But as a knight, he had heard a little about the children of the nobles in the Order.
Since Tian Sen himself resigned as the king of the North Sea, the relationship between the North and Abbasquia has always seemed a little strange.
Although the Beihai Kingdom was still nominally part of the Empire, from time to time the Empire sent some officials and even pioneer militias to the Northlands, ordering them to establish villages and urban remnants in the north
This is no ordinary thing.
Any member of the empire must carefully consider the filth between those upper nobles, only in this way can their status be long-lasting, and no one can get out of the mud without staining.
At the moment, there are some very bad rumors in the army, and the kings of Beihai are not very interested in the empire's rash northern expedition, and they are likely to fight alone. Right now, Grand Master's attitude also confirms his judgment.
"Your Excellency...... Me,"
"Listen, I know you may have had some bad rumors, those things, don't believe it, and don't lie about the military in the army, understand?"
"Yes, sir. ”
Sword looked around the noisy barracks again, the soldiers were gathered in twos and threes, there was no sense of queue at all, the knights were chatting on horseback, and they were making a lot of jokes, which made him feel faintly uneasy, if an army came to attack them at this time, I am afraid that the whole team would be choked by the surprise attack.
"I have a letter here for you to hand over to the King of Hyde City. Go to the quartermaster and bring a few more soldiers, and then take a sum of money, don't ask me how much, let him give you everything he can take. These things are just a confirmation of the friendship between the empire and the kingdom, understand?"
"Yes, sir. ”
"Then what are you doing in a daze?"
"I don't know the way. ”
"Then go find someone who knows the way and take you there, do you want me to teach you this?"
"Yes, sir. ”
Parud put on the animal skin again, and left Ward's sight in a davine, Zheng This job is not easy to do, but the oil and water are also very large, if it is done, then he can keep at least half of the money, if it is not done, wait for his head to lose. Very fair trade. Anyway, his life is not worth a few pieces if it is broken, and it may not be as expensive as the skin on his body.
He is already a little accustomed to this kind of work, and if it weren't for the big gambles again and again, he wouldn't be able to get mixed up today. This is also the rule of those nobles to play, if a person like him wants to be a real equal to them, he must first give them his life, if his luck is good enough, when his son or grandchildren are ready, he can be completely cleaned, and when the time comes, he can also be angry with others.
Thinking of this, Parud only felt that his steps were a little lighter, no matter what, it was better to do something than to wait here for death.
There has always been a strange atmosphere in the barracks, a peculiar air that can drive anyone who is still delusional to keep their sanity crazy.
Now Sword binds the knights with a sense of honor, and Perris uses the infinite loyalty of civilians to the empire in lieu of the salaries he should give to his soldiers.
Even a low-ranking officer in Parud knew that this was definitely an ill-prepared expedition, and His Majesty the Emperor took a group of old soldiers and peasants into battle without a reasonable pretext for war, adequate supply preparations and military mobilization, and without even the most basic training.
Perhaps he hadn't read a biography of the Red Lion Emperor that analyzed Felipe the Great's military achievements, but just by what he saw, he felt that he was losing the victory in this war.
But in any case, probably thanks to the experience of the first emperor, they still have a system of manipulating the army to restrain this unruly marching idea.
Even as a knight, Parud had to find a quartermaster to report to him if he wanted to leave.
At this moment, their quartermaster was lying limply on a roof wagon, which was full of munitions, and the quartermaster was lying on the top, half-squinting, constantly shaking his body as the two horses pulled him. It wasn't until Parud rode up to him that he opened his eyes a little listlessly.
"Mr. Willyden!" called Parud.
"Okay...... Are you?" the quartermaster rubbed his eyes vigorously, but the knight in front of him didn't show his face at all, and he couldn't tell who it was.
Parud had no choice but to take off the skin again, cowering in the cold wind to reveal his face.
"Oh,,, it's you. I don't know if Willidon really knows the true identity of the knight, but after seeing Parud's face for a moment, he immediately thinks of him as his own.
"What are you looking for me?"
"Lord Sward has sent me as a messenger to Heidelberg. ”
"General Sword. When the quartermaster heard that Parud was going to work for the general, he immediately straightened his body again. "Do you have a certificate?"
"Only one of his handwritten letters, which I had to hand over to Orlof in Heidelberg, could be opened...... But you can look at the envelope, can you?"
Willidon didn't take the letter Paroud handed him, but after a moment's scrutiny, he nodded slightly.
"What else did the General command?"
Parud blinked a few times, until Willidon showed a somewhat impatient look, and then he said slowly.
"With your authority, how much gold can be transferred from our army?"
Willyden scratched his chin a little helplessly, and a layer of stubble had accumulated on it.
"You're adding to our paperwork. ”
Parud didn't say anything, just let the cold wind blow on his face, and the damp cold wind quickly formed a layer of frost that froze his eyebrows.
Looking at Parud's cheeks, which were about to freeze into statues, Willidon raised his hands as if in surrender.
"Alright, alright...... The brothers of all Great Purus know that you Rainbow Knight are the most resilient warriors in all of Great Prus. I'll prepare the gold with you now, and put your hides on, knight, for I don't want to see a messenger freeze to death in his tent. ”
After Parud still pulled on his fur cloak with a blank face, Willidon took out a piece of paper and drew some inexplicable and wonderful symbols with trembling handwriting, and murmured as if complaining:
"You and you, good nobles, have to suffer this sin here, I tell you, if I were a young man of noble birth like you, I would not go anywhere except my own territory, I would lie in bed and do whatever I wanted, it would be no better than suffering here. It's just going to be a toss. ”
The Imperial Scribes had a surprising ability to complain about their work while completing it quickly, and after a vague complaint, Willyden handed Paroud a crooked manifest.
"Is that how you plan to go to the king?"
“......”
"In fact, I'm going to mobilize a few guards, a few farmers who can help me carry the goods, and at least a guide, so it shouldn't be too difficult, right?"
"There's nothing to be embarrassed about, I mean, Knight, I don't mean to belittle you, but, as a messenger, I thought maybe you should take a thicker garment from me. It's not just you, I'm everybody over there. Willidon asked, staring at Parud with his brownish-gray pupils
"Didn't Lord Sword tell you to do this? You're going to freeze to death on the road, if you're not prepared. ”
A hint of sarcastic self-deprecation flashed through Parud's mind. This is the kind of detail that a duke heir of his kind can think of. What's more, this life of his own is just like that in his opinion, even if he dies, what can he do, just negotiate again when the time comes.
Of course, no matter what was in his heart, his face did not lose his manners, and he listened to the chatter and grumbling of Willden and the kindness of those true noble knights.
They don't say anything about anything, as if they don't have feelings in the first place.
Willden wasn't annoyed, but just drew a few more strokes from the dispatch list, which made the already somewhat messy list even more crowded. Parud took the list, read it as if it were a pretense, and then put it away.
He couldn't read, he looked at the various symbols drawn in ink, but he felt a little aggrieved for them, and being stuffed into such a space, presumably no one would be in a good mood.
There are many spiritual things, listening to them can not only express the meaning, but even the mood can be conveyed, but now squeezed on such a narrow strip, isn't this worse than him.
"Where am I going to get these things? ”
"It's in the back of the convoy, and any driver anywhere will be happy to help you, as long as you ......," Willyden made a subtle gesture, and then smiled self-deprecatingly. "Blame me for talking too much, it's their lifelong honor to serve the knights, how could they ask you for money?"
After learning about the pick-up area, Parud turned his horse's head and turned around.
The baggage area was arranged in the second half of the army, immediately adjacent to the driving position of His Majesty the Emperor. Originally, they were all horse-drawn supplies, but since entering the Northlands, the army has begun to use manpower.
The military horses of the Great Pruss were very delicate, but the value of civilians was cheap. His Majesty the Emperor disposed of a large number of military horses before entering the Northlands, and exchanged them for more civilians. To tell the truth, a horse has to eat dozens of catties of forage, and a person has a maximum of two or three catties of rations.
In order to make the peasants in the army sound less miserable, everyone called them coachmen, as if they were a group of people riding in the car.
Parud wasn't far from that area, and he himself rode a horse.
A few of the high-spirited overseers saw a horse running from afar, and immediately changed their faces, and to Parud's surprise, the overseers, though they were as illiterate as he was, could quickly find what he wanted through the symbols on the paper.
"It's not difficult, my lord, each of us is responsible for a few of these things, and then, though I am not as noble as you, I can still write down what it means. ”
One of the overseers smiled. "It's all cheap tricks, you want to know it, you don't want to know, you just think it's dirty ears. ”
This flattery caught the attention of Parud, who, as far as he knew, would never flatter an unknown nobleman, even though he was shameless enough in the face of his lord.
"You're from the Northlands?"
"I had the pleasure of doing an errand at Sea Castle. "The overseer had a smug look on his face as he recounted this history.
"Then why did you come back here? ”
"I'm at odds with the director over there. Did you know......"
"You're a thief, and your hands aren't clean. But Parud directly penetrated his lie, and he said coldly: "Maybe I should send you to the abyss right now, so that you can explain to the ghosts inside." ”
The overseer, who had more than his mouth, suddenly fell to his knees as if he had been struck by lightning.
"Spare me, sir...... I won't do it again. ”
The rest of the overseers hid in amusement, smiling, and then quickly ran away, still muttering about the munitions they were about to propose.
Parud looked at the running workers with great interest, but he did not care about the overseer who knelt before him.
The Overseer's desperate expression suddenly regained a glimmer of life, and he made a long mark on the snow, and leaned down in front of the knight's horse, kowtowing several times in succession.
"I know that my sin is incurably sinful, and I am willing to let you deal with it, which is the last wish of my sinner. ”
What a righteous and awe-inspiring look.
"What do I want your life for?" Paroud asked with a little disdain as he slowly exhaled a long white breath from his nostrils
"Do you really want to die, or do you want to live?"
When the overseer heard the knight in front of him say this, his heart was relieved, and he swore aloud in the snow
"Just command, I'm Alan's life. ”
Everyone