Chapter 24: A Hundred Thousand Times the Value

Erica Green grew up in a happy aristocratic family, with a pair of parents who loved her and an older brother who doted on her.

She thought that she would spend the rest of her life so carefree, but God played a cruel joke on her.

Half a year ago, a nightmare struck.

The family was framed and owed a huge debt, and in order to pay off the debt, the father had no choice but to dismiss the servant and sell the title and land.

She has changed from a glamorous aristocratic lady to an ordinary commoner.

But Erica has a good mentality, as long as there are family members who love her, even civilians are very happy.

But he was wrong, when she was a nobleman, she didn't know the life of the people at the bottom, she didn't know how hard the commoners lived, and she didn't know that the commoners could be threatened with their lives at any time.

In her second week as a civilian, her new home was attacked by horse thieves.

After handing over the only remaining belongings, her parents were brutally killed by horse thieves, and her brother attracted the hatred of horse thieves alone in order to protect herself, and she saw her brother brutally killed.

She was in the weeds next to her, she didn't dare to cry, she couldn't let go of the opportunity that her brother had bought with his life.

Maybe it was luck, the horse thief left in a hurry after looting the belongings without careful inspection, maybe he ransacked the next family, or maybe he was looking for a place to be happy, she didn't know, but she knew that she survived, and exchanged the life of a family for it.

Since then, Erica has been living in exile.

She is a woman with no skills and no physical strength, and the only thing she can do is beg, and she begs with some homeless people.

She has traveled a lot in half a year.

The homeless people around her have also changed one stubble after another, those homeless people are either starving to death, or disappearing inexplicably, she is lucky, although she has a hard time, but she can barely survive by eating some food thrown down by the nobles.

But good luck will come to an end, and she is targeted by slave traders!

The slave traders didn't even waste much effort to catch her easily.

She thought that from now on, she would never be free again, and she would become a dog at the feet of the noble, or the other party would find out that she was once a noble lady, and that would end up even worse.

But I don't know whether to say lucky or unlucky.

After Erica followed the slave trader to this city called Momiji City, no one bought her!

Most of the male ** subordinates who came with her were bought, but almost all of them were left.

Her price was only fifty copper coins, and a large piece of whole black bread was fifty copper coins, which in her opinion was extremely cheap, but no one wanted it.

That's when she realized what waste meant.

In an accident, Erica hears desperate news from a slave trader's chatter.

There is no food left in Red Leaf City, or it won't be long before Red Leaf City will collapse, and the slave merchants are ready to evacuate, but if they bring so many slaves on the road, it will cost a lot of extra money, which is obviously not cost-effective, and they are ready to give up these slaves and leave them to fend for themselves.

Hearing the news, Ellie was relieved after despair, maybe she died, but she was sorry for her dead parents and brother......

Many slaves heard the news, or these slave merchants did not deliberately hide it, they had their own thugs, and they were not afraid of these thin slaves to resist, after all, they could only eat a piece of black bread the size of an egg for three days, and they had no strength to resist at all.

As for why these merchants didn't give up these slaves now, of course, to see if they could make the last money, in case the nobles who passed by needed it.

As a result, this "what if" really let these merchants run into it, but it was not the nobles who passed by, but the new lord of Momiji City.

These slave merchants didn't know why the lord of the city bought these useless slaves, and they didn't want to know, they just wanted to hurry up and evacuate.

So, just when Erica was a little confused, she met the lord of Red Leaf City.

Seeing Zhang Feng for the first time, Erica had only one thought in her heart: This city lord is also too good-looking!

If she was still the aristocratic lady she used to be, maybe she would have shyly sent a bouquet of pink roses.

It's a pity that there is no if, she is now just a dirty and despicable slave, and her only thought is to hope that this good-looking city lord will show a little mercy, buy her, and give her a piece of black bread, after all, she is dying of hunger.

Perhaps hearing Erica's inner prayer, the city lord waved his hand and bought not only her, but also all the slaves!

Erica was surprised, but more of a surprise, no matter what the purpose of the city lord was, and no matter what her fate would be in the future, at least she wouldn't starve to death now, after all, the city lord spent so much money to buy them, it was impossible to watch them starve to death.

However, there were some surprises in how things turned out.

A knight named Marlowe, on the orders of the lord of the city, set up several large iron cauldrons in front of them!

This action startled Erica, not only her, but all the slaves.

Could it be that because of the lack of food in Red Leaf City, the city lord is going to let them make a cameo appearance for food?

But it's okay, the lord of the city spoke, it's just boiling water and letting them take a bath, they stink too much!

It turned out to be a false alarm.

As for the city lord saying that they stink, the slaves didn't care, after all, it was better to survive than anything else, and it didn't matter to them whether they stinked or not.

However, since the lord of the castle asked for a bath, they naturally did not dare to disobey.

Erica found that the city lord also thoughtfully separated their men and women, after all, people still have shame, if a large group of people in this courtyard stripped naked and bathed, Erica felt that her last trace of dignity would be lost.

Fortunately, the lord of the castle is a good person.

And the process of taking a bath surprised Erica even more.

First of all, the bath turned out to be hot water, and she hadn't reacted before, but when she was really poured hot water from beginning to end, she came back to her senses.

When she was a noble lady, firewood was a very precious thing, except for cooking, no one would waste firewood to boil water, and no one would use hot water to bathe, after all, bathing represented a decrease in immunity.

And now she knows that the hot bath is so comfortable!

At this time, the maids of the castle brought in two pieces of things that exuded a strange smell, and I heard what it was called, which was specially prepared for them by the lord of the city.

When taking a bath, just pick up a piece and rub it on your body.

Since it was ordered by the lord of the castle, no one dared not listen to it.

Erica is naturally no exception, but what surprised her was that after the baptism of this medicated soap, not only the stains on her body were gone, but even the itchy skin that she had been itching many years ago was no longer itchy, and she felt that her whole person was completely new!

If someone told her now that she would get sick in the shower, she would spit on him in the face, because she had never felt so good.

It can be seen that this medicinal soap is definitely a fine collection of the city lord!

Then the lord of the castle also prepared clean clothes for them, although the fabric was very ordinary, but it was much better than the "slave clothes" that they had worn for months or even years!

Originally, she thought that she was lucky enough today, but she didn't expect that the main event was still to come.

Unlimited quantities of black bread, open to supply to their group of slaves!

You know, she's worth a lot of brown bread herself!

If it weren't for the soldiers to maintain order, all the slaves would have gone crazy.

The tall Marlowe knight told her that black bread can be eaten to her heart's content, but it can't be wasted, such as forcibly stuffing it into her mouth when she can't eat it, and throwing it out to feed the fish if she finds it!

However, Knight Marlo also said that since they were all bought by the city lord, there will naturally be no shortage of food in the future, and if you anger the city lord because of this first meal, then the countless meals after that will be lost to you.

The slaves finally calmed down, and Erica agreed with Marlowe.

Although she was very hungry, she still ate slowly with the hot water next to her, and she felt that her good days might be coming!

Even if she is still a slave now, because judging from the actions of the city lord, these slaves are valued!

Dressed in clean clothes and fed and fed, Erica met the lord of the castle again.

I don't know if it's an illusion, but she thinks that the current city lord is better looking than the city lord two hours ago!

And the first words of the city lord when they met made Erica stunned for a moment.

"Your lives are more important than you think!"

"I don't really need slaves, I just need people who can create value, and it is far more than a hundred, thousand, ten thousand, or even a hundred thousand times more than fifty copper coins!"

"And I, I think you can!"