When I actually stood in front of the only castle in Vierlatzen, the passion for a new business was completely extinguished, as if someone had poured cold water on my head.

How so......

I thought that after seeing the dilapidated country wooden towns like Colenn, I would not be unfamiliar with such a humble castle, but this castle built in Neustadt still shocked my self-righteous perception.

It is said to have been a Danish pirate camp that flourished with hundreds of people, but when Otto the Great was captured decades earlier during his war against the Danes, the castle became an outpost fortress guarded by the direct vassals of the royal family.

However, Verlatzen was too close to Denmark for the pirates to take a trip to the sea, and the castle's weak defenses were no longer able to withstand the vicious pirates, the soldiers fled, the lord was hanged, and the place became a wasteland that no one cared about.

There's nothing to complain about the castle's rugged Scandinavian-style wooden walls, but it's too much of a disrepair to rot from its roots buried in the earth, and the gaps between the fences are big enough for a bull to get into, let alone heavily armed enemies!

The fact that the main tower had long since been destroyed by the invading Danes, and the half-rotten remains of wooden stakes on the ground can illustrate this fact, the yard was overgrown with weeds and tattered and littered, and it was understandable as a perennial uninhabited castle, and the most odious thing was that in the middle of the collapsed room, there was a bubble of dried excrement! It's just too deceitful!

"How do you live here? Not even the most dilapidated dwellings in Nijmegen! ”

The bull had a straight temper and did not hide his anger, and roared at the top of his throat: "His Majesty the Emperor is obviously doing this on purpose, and it can't be put into use right away here, isn't it waiting to see our jokes?" ”

I'm also angry enough, but as a lord, I must maintain a certain level of self-cultivation and demeanor in front of the soldiers, although most of the lords and nobles in this era are of very poor quality, picking their noses and ears and drooling, and their image and conversation are similar to the street gangsters of later generations, but I am determined to be a personable nobleman.

So I squinted my eyes and held back my anger, and it was not my style to sit on the ground and roll on the street and scold: "Don't complain, I also want to thank His Majesty the Emperor for giving me such a good opportunity, if there is no fulcrum of Verlatzen, how long will I have to work to pry the trade tilt of the entire north?" It is said that there is a lot of strength in numbers, and besides, we have sufficient supplies to prepare, so we will camp on the spot today, and from tomorrow we will start repairing the castle, and before the weather becomes completely cold, we will build ourselves a place where we can spend the winter. ”

The bull looked at the optimistic lord, pouted and stopped squeaking, and got up to beckon the soldiers to prepare for camp.

In this expedition, Kohler was not around, and the bull undertook his daily work, becoming the chief of the general staff of the entire army, responsible for the dispatch of materials, the arrangement of the march, the uploading and issuing of government orders, and the encampment, and other trivial things, which made the usually reckless man with a big personality about to go crazy, just calculating the distribution of materials, it was enough for the bull, who could not even break ten numbers, to be busy, and to check the accounts with the clerk was even more important to his old life.

I witnessed the bull jumping up and down and running away in embarrassment, rejoicing in his imperceptible progress, this elm lump finally has signs of old wood spring, in my spare time I also know to find a clerk to recognize a few words to learn arithmetic, or patiently listen to my nonsense, enrich their experience and knowledge, as the oldest descendant who follows me, the bull will inevitably be entrusted with important tasks in the future, just stay in the role of the vanguard is definitely not enough, since he himself does not want to progress, the lord who is eager to seek talents, I can only pull the seedlings to help.

This night became the hardest night of my life, I was awakened by nightmares countless times, I always felt that something was peeping in the dark, only to see the guards standing guard in the night sentry burning bright eyes can sleep peacefully, the sky just revealed some light, I got up with swollen dark circles and dressed, stretched the sore old waist to prepare for the new dawn.

The soldiers of the Valangian Guard, the main task of the day is to cut down timber and repair the wall, the Ravenna pikemen are in charge of guarding the perimeter from being attacked by other hostile forces, and the scouts are scattered ten miles away, but if there is any trouble, I can get the news early to start arranging the defense.

Under the guard of the attendants, I stood on the shore opposite the castle, staring at the undulating ebb and flow, imagining that I was Cao Cao who was facing the Jieshi in the east to watch the sea.

These waves that give their lives to the rocks without complaint are like moths willing to put out a fire, and their bumpy love road is just as ridiculous, unreasonable but quietly devouring the entire brain, and then filling the whole body with blood, penetrating into every cell.

The heroic female knight with a slight frown, the noblewoman who insisted on never bowing her head even in a damp and dark cell, the girl who was cruelly stripped of her back skin by the enemy, and still chose to stand strongly, carved herself into my heart again and again, and wrote unforgettable feelings on the old scabs.

Although she now has a legal wife and lives a fairly happy life, every time she thinks of the person who doesn't want to mention her name, her heart still ripples, imagining countless ifs, if it weren't for these erroneous passes, would she be slim and slim not far away, with a warm smile on her face?

The incomprehensible chirping of the seagulls pulled my thoughts back to reality, a dark cloud on the horizon hid on the edge of the sea and the sky, some mountain rain was about to come, the wind was full of wind and the wind was blowing from the sea with damp water droplets, and poured into the neck along the neckline, which made people can't help but stand on end, and the weather was already very cold.

The climate from Nijmegen to Denmark is roughly the same, far less cold than Scandinavia across the sea, although the summer is also short, but the winter climate is quite mild, the precipitation is mainly concentrated in autumn and winter, especially by the sea, after nightfall from the ground from the cold air, can force people from the bed alive, like a very thin needle, faintly drilling the bones pain.

I wrapped my expensive fur tightly, this is a gift from the Bolesławtław people a while ago, as a life-saving thanks, about the cooperation mentioned before, he did not say a word, but understood that the silent is better than the sound between people, instead of the pale verbal promise and written contract, he did not want to be held by others, simply come to know that you know I know, cooperate when it is time to cooperate, turn his face and be strange.

"Too much thought." With a light snort, he shook his head and drew conclusions to the Polish prince who had only met once, but no one who was thoughtful had a good end, the so-called organ was too smart, and it calculated Qingqing's life, and the second grandmother Lian, who called for wind and rain back then, was only a miserable and miserable relative.

"I'm afraid it's hard to put up the fence today, just tell the bull to let the Valangian guards bring back the timber they have." I peered over at the approaching dark clouds, which were churning and clamouring in the air, swallowing up one cloud after another, and then becoming larger and larger, and it seemed that the expected winter rain would turn into a monstrous and violent rain.

"Move my main tent into the castle, and move in as many of the remaining soldiers' tents as possible, and it's better to have some tattered walls to protect from the wind and rain than to soak in the mud in a daze."

When the rain was pouring down, I was already making a fire in my tent, and the bull opened the curtain and came in, took off his shirt that was wet and stuck to his body under his armor, wrung it out, sat down by the fire, and said in disgust:

"The rain in winter is the most annoying, the kind of cold that cuts into the bones can't be driven away no matter how you bake the fire, and after a long time, you will sit down and get sick, I wonder if the dark sentry guarding in the forest can be withdrawn, even if the enemy will not choose to attack us in such bad weather, right?"

"Huh?"

Hearing this, my mind suddenly moved, and I ordered the bull: "No, none of them can come back, you can send more scouts out to expand the patrol area." ”

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Although I have always paid great attention to the maintenance of my injured waist, in this troubled world, I often have just seen the injury improve, and then a busy battle will follow, followed by bumps on horseback, climbing ice and snow, excessive fatigue for a long time, etc., will make the waist injury more serious, coupled with quacks who can only pound herbs and bloodletting, so that it gradually becomes an old injury that is difficult to heal, and it will be faintly painful when it is soaked by the moisture on a rainy day.

"My old cold...... "I moaned in frustration every time I rolled around in pain.

At this moment, I was lying on the shore of the rough waves, hiding in the middle of the rugged rocks, the cold sea water rushed into the cracks of the stones from time to time, wrapped me from head to toe, and almost dragged me into the sea, I was already shivering from the rain, wearing a wet shirt sticking to my body, the armor covering the outside seemed to become heavier, and I could crush myself at any time, the water droplets on the helmet that were broken like beads flowed down, I couldn't open my eyes blurryly, and my trembling lips must have frozen purple, The breath that I breathed into my lungs was all cold to the heart.

"Isn't this asking for trouble?" I wiped my face with the palm of my hand and smiled bitterly in my heart.

"Look, my lord, they're coming!" Rollo, who was standing beside me and supporting me, suddenly lowered his voice and pointed to the distance where a figure loomed in the rain curtain.

I lifted my helmet up, reached out to cover my eyebrows, and squinted my eyes in the direction that Rollo was pointing, but the pouring rain was so dense that it completely obscured my vision, and I didn't even see a shadow feather: "Where?" "I eagerly sprinkled left and right, trying to see the enemy in front of me.

As if answering my question, several dark figures appeared in the rain curtain, and with the roar of the rain smashing into the ground, it slowly became clear, it was the Slavs!

The samurai at the head of the group, the cat's waist was holding a shield painted with fancy totems, carrying a beautiful little hand axe in his right hand, his long messy hair was soaked by the rain, and he was soft and clumped on his face, and his tall and burly figures formed an impermeable wall, and even the rain was much more restrained because of his awe of their might, and I finally saw the number of people who came when I was hiding in the shadows.

(End of chapter)

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