It's amazing to be able to get a donkey. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info Cheng Qianxun trotted all the way with her clothes, and after passing, Regel took the clothes from her hand, because her eyes were all on the donkey.

The best way to look at the age of the animal is to look at the wear rate of the teeth. Rudolph, who was combing the donkey's hair, replied first: "About seven or eight years old." ”

Donkeys that don't work can live for 20 years, and those who pull mills and carts can only live for more than 10 years, and seven or eight years old is equivalent to old age, but what they lack is money, and the price of three- or four-year-old donkeys will not be bottom. Look at the body of the donkey, it is quite tough, the ribs are slightly protruding, it is definitely not good to pull the mill and pull the cart, and it is still okay to carry things.

She estimated the price: "Let's say it also costs ten silver coins, right?" ”

"Seven." Rudolph replied. Seven silver coins were simply too cheap and unexpected, but Rudolph added later: "I helped him kill an old donkey." ”

Uh, no wonder. Three silver coins counted as slaughter fees, and Rudolph's craftsmanship must have satisfied the other party, so he let such a large discount, such as the donkey's skin was not damaged, and the whole piece was peeled off or something. It was wise to let Maria stay by the river just now, otherwise the guy would have to say a lot more.

Looking sideways, Gordon was processing a piece of meat, cutting it into strips and stringing it with straw rope. The color of the meat is blood red, like beef, and it is fatter than beef.

She nodded her chin: "And gave you a piece of donkey meat?" ”

"Well, the donkey is too old, the meat is worthless, it may taste a little harder, and the skin and skeleton should be able to sell for a good price." Rudolph's words confirmed what she had just thought, and after brushing the donkey, her teammates began to salute the donkey. This time there is obviously more flour than when I first arrived, so I think I bought some more. There are many other things, such as bamboo tubes for water, sheepskin pouches; Three rolls of sheepskin, some miscellaneous stuffed into a bag made of cloth, probably salt, cloth, and whatever.

"Okay, no?" Gordon asked Regel, who was making meat next to him.

"That's it!" Legel carried four skewers of meat in both hands and walked over and tied them all to the donkey. Originally, I was going to make jerky, but there was not enough time, and I had to hang it, and if it was stuffy, the meat would be easy to spoil.

Everything was ready, the blacksmith family said goodbye, and everyone left the town.

"We're leaving, thank you for your hospitality." Maria waved her hand and said a friendly goodbye to the townspeople along the way, showing kindness.

In fact, what is entertained is not bad for them, but it is all exchanged for labor or materials by themselves. Anyway, they have thick skin, and it's not the first time this kind of thing has happened, so let her go.

Stop at noon for lunch or take a break. The food was also simple, black bread and slices of meat bought in the town. There are not many people in this town, but it is still quite wealthy, and there is basically an animal slaughtered every day in the town, and although the meat is limited, at least you can eat a little. In medieval Europe, the aristocracy did not necessarily eat meat every day.

There is a lot of bran in bread, just like flour. There is a lot of flour and bran, so naturally things are coarse, but Maria is good at this, and never complains that the food is too coarse, she is used to eating it.

Cheng Qianxun bit down the bread little by little, chewed it hard, held the wooden bowl with water in his other hand, and drank a sip of water if he couldn't swallow it.

What came to Maria's mind: "Did you buy paper, pen and ink?" ”

"What do you want this thing for?" Gordon frowned slightly, you must know that these three things, except for the pen can pluck a goose feather and a duck feather, the other two are terrifyingly expensive.

"I'm going to record this great journey!" Mary proudly said, "Just like my ancestors, I wrote down what I saw and heard along the way, and left it for future generations to see." ”

In the future, looking at her like this, which normal man would dare to marry her. It's like marrying a saint to worship at home, and the child she gave birth to may also have her crazy thoughts when she grows up.

Writing this page full of absurdity is like an adventure novel, but wouldn't it be a sin if any brainless child read it and believed it to be true, just like Mary?

Sneijder could only coax: "Why didn't you say it earlier, what a good idea, but it's already a long way coming, let's talk about it at the next stop." "It is impossible to say that there is no paper and ink in the town, there will always be someone who has it for the sake of official documents.

"Then buy it in the next town... Mary remembered something: "The question is, will there be a town next?" ”

"There will be." Everyone laughed, it was useless to have it, the money was spent.

After eating, continue to hurry, it rained yesterday, and today's sun is very good in the afternoon, and it is a little hot while walking.

Cheng Qianxun pulled up his cloak and hat to cover his face, and the hotter he was, the more he had to cover his head, just like a desert nomad. And not yet, just to block out the sun.

A cloak was also bought for Maria, and although there were a few patches, at least it worked. Her clothes were all given by the villagers in the past, the peasants were all in civilian clothes, few would go far away, and women would not, so naturally there would be no cloak.

Mary put her hat on as well, and after a while complained, "I've been gone for three days, and I'm tired." ”

Regel joked: "The great journey has just begun, and you are tired?" ”

"Of course, I've never come that far. The night before yesterday, both legs were sore, and last night two died of pain. Mary looked at the donkey, who was holding the things and followed them step by step: "Let me get on the donkey and sit for a while." ”

"Yes." Gordon, who was leading the donkey, said, "You sit on the donkey, and the things on the donkey are unloaded and thrown away." ”

Mary pursed her lips and continued to follow, when she was heard muttering, "Can't you carry it first?" ”

Holy Maiden, so many things, almost equivalent to the weight of a person, let them carry it, but she rides a donkey, and she can come up with it... Everyone was silent, just moving forward.

After walking for about two hours, the sun was already setting in the west. Mary panted and cried out, "Hey, can you stop?" I used to stop at this time to prepare dinner. ”

Rudolph said coldly: "In the past, it was because I needed to go hunting, but today I have something to eat, and I will walk a little longer." ”

"Oops, I can't walk." Mary sat down on the ground. It's completely lost when it first came out of town, and now it's only a mess.

Everyone rolled their eyes together, in fact, they were all tired, at the beginning, which ordinary person was not tired? They all gritted their teeth and survived.

"Don't want to continue the great journey?" Reeger asked.

Mary retorted, "If you're tired, you won't be able to get there." It's so tiring, it's not at all what I thought it would be. ”

Cheng Qianxun frowned: "What do you imagine it to look like?" ”

Mary sketches a majestic epic: "Like my ancestors, with loyal knightly guards by my side, riding on horseback, all the way to our destination... ”

Still dreaming, still riding a horse, your ancestors are not as losers as you. At that time, they were either relatively well-off, so they rode out to do things or play, or they didn't ride horses at all, and most likely they were donkey carts and donkeys. You must know what the price of a horse is, it is comparable to five donkeys, even if the cart is twice the price of a donkey.

It's really funny, Snead sighed, it's really a big gap between dreams and reality.

"It's not a good place to camp." Cheng Qianxun deliberately looked left and right, and pointed to a small forest in the distance: "You hold on a little longer, and you can rest when you walk there." ”

Maria didn't want to get up: "It's not bad here, why not here?" ”

Rudolph helped, "There aren't many trees here, and if you don't have them, you can't hide in them if you encounter a wild beast." The beasts usually go away at dawn, and when they see that there are many of us, they dare not be too arrogant. So we all set up camp in a place where there were many trees. ”

There is a certain effect for concealment, and it is also for the convenience of picking up firewood, but it is not interesting to talk to Maria in too detail.

It was already a place to see, and Mary got up and continued on her way when she heard the flawed reason.

If the place is big, look close, but in fact it is far away. After walking for another half hour, they reached the woods, and everyone began to get busy, but it was still early anyway, and Rudolph and Gordon went out again to see if there was anything to eat.

Reeger was in charge of the firewood, and Sneijder was in charge of lighting the fire and preparing the roast.

Cheng Qianxun said to Maria: "Holy Maiden, come with me to get some grass and paving." ”

"Huh?" Mary sat on the ground and cried out, "No, I'm tired... I, I'm going to communicate with God, and I haven't done it today. ”

When Mary crossed her legs and began to "communicate" with God, she could only laugh and cry.

"I don't need any grass, I bought sheepskins." Sneijder went up from the donkey's back and lowered three sheaves of sheepskin.

The sheepskin is not whole, but made of broken skin, at least a dozen pieces of broken skin put together, so that the price will be much cheaper. The teammates know how to buy things very well, and the sheepskin bag they bought is genuine, made of a whole shaved sheepskin, so a bag, not big, but enough to hold four or five catties of water, the price should not be cheaper than the sheepskin spliced with broken sheepskin on the ground.

If the water leaks, it will die, and when you sleep, what does it make if the sheepskin under your body is whole or broken?

Spread the sheepskin, then the sheets, and the floor is done. The bonfire was lit, and the donkey meat, which had no moisture on the surface, was forked and roasted on the fire.

There was a lot of black bread, and I bought two large ones, each full twenty catties, enough for them to eat for two weeks.

Rudolph and Gordon returned, this time with bad luck and did not bring back prey, only some wild vegetables. Chop the wild vegetables, put them in a pot to cook the soup, add a little salt and start the meal.

Nibbling on the black bread little by little, the bran inside needs to be chewed for a long time, and when you swallow it, it feels like swallowing sawdust. People who have never eaten coarse grains will not understand that the stick noodles are not like those in the restaurant, they are fine and milky, and they are very coarse. Brown bread, on the other hand, is probably the hardest of all coarse grains to swallow.

But there are two sides to a thing, there are bad and there are good, and without saying the comforting words of pure nature, the best place to eat brown bread is to pass the time.

"The meat is ready." Snead carefully cut the meat with a knife, but he didn't cut it even a few times, and then saw that there were no deep marks on the meat, and smiled bitterly: "So hard." ”

"It's an old donkey for more than ten years, with skin and bones, and it's strange that the meat is not hard." Rudolph nibbled on the bread: "I forgot to tell you, if it is fresh, you should knock the meat first." ”

When the meat is dry, there is no need to knock it out, it is hard anyway.

"So what now?" Snead looked at the roasted meat on the branch, tried to bite it with his teeth, and bit it several times before he bit off a small piece and chewed it in his mouth: "Well, it's so hard, it's like chewing rubber." ”

Rudolph advised: "Put it in water and boil it, then cut it into small cubes with a knife, the main thing is that there is no meat grinder, otherwise you will eat the meat sauce." ”

"Can you still be crispy after cooking? I'll try. Cheng Qianxun walked over, took a string, and bit down a piece hard. This is the hardest meat she has ever eaten, just like eating beef tendon, she chewed hard: "Cut it into small pieces, give each person a serving, it's hard, but it's fragrant and chewy." ”

Maria took a piece and bit down hard, chewing and frowning, "Why did you buy such unpalatable meat?" ”

"It's not a bought, it's a gift." Rudolph didn't bother to look at it: "It's a full twenty catties of meat, you don't want to have the ability." ”

It's all good, not to mention meat. Snead reassured, "It's still quite fragrant to bite slowly, pass the time at night." "Anyway, the night is long, and there is time, although it is eaten slowly.

Mary was silent, not because she didn't want to say anything, but because she had to chew hard in her mouth, and she didn't have time to speak. Of course, there should be no distance between this aspect of eating and her imagination, because she doesn't think about eating at all. The only improvement was that she didn't say anything like meat couldn't be eaten. If you say that, you can also go back, that is, donkeys also eat grass.

Everyone took a piece of meat and ate it little by little. Lying on the floor, eating the meat, looking at the stars in the sky, it feels pretty good, although the meat is a little harder.

Rudolph said softly: "I have asked the people in the town, and after that, the surface will become more and more barren, and it will be shown on the map." The more you go over, the people there are also off-road. ”

This is normal, the closer man gets to the beast when he struggles on the poverty line, when he starves to the point of dying of starvation.

Rudolph continued: "It is said that beyond that, it is a place controlled by magic, and humans will hardly enter it. ”

Legel should also inquire together: "Someone once saw a magical beast the size of half a room, and bit a big living person to death in one bite, and then bit off his head and swallowed it. ”

"Huh?" Mary exclaimed, "So terrible? ”

"Not what you imagined?" Regel's mouth began to get bored again: "What do you think it is, to kill a kitten and a puppy, and your heroic paladin draws his sword to defeat them?" I don't have that much ability, and when I encounter this kind of monster, the best way is not to fight, but to escape. (To be continued.) )