Chapter 496: The First Pot of Gold
It was still an hour before dawn, but there was already a noise in the tavern rooms, and the adventurers were basically up and ready for the day.
Charles got up early, and went to the public restroom at the back of the tavern to empty the memory before everyone could grab the toilet.
The tavern owner was a little surprised that Charles, a young man who looked like a newcomer, was the first to come over for breakfast.
Charles spent all the copper plates on his body to buy a hearty breakfast of rice crackers, broth, and boiled eggs, and the pheasant head floating in the broth felt a little familiar to Charles.
After breakfast, he filled his kettle at the boiling bucket by the counter and left the tavern that had given him insomnia.
It was only dark when Charles arrived at Baker's caravan, and it wasn't long before all the adventurers hired by the caravan arrived.
In addition to Charles, Baker hired two swordsmen and an archer.
Berg is the highest-ranking adventurer of all, his card has two suns, the other three adventurers are one sun and one or two stars, and Charles is the lowest, with two stars on three moons.
So Berg became the commander of this temporary team of adventurers, and before setting out, they put it together, and in the event of a battle, Berg was at the front, with two swordsmen on his flanks, the archers in the back row, and Charles in charge of covering the rear, protecting the archers, and supporting the front with throwing knives as appropriate.
The arrangement is decent, and everyone has never cooperated, so they don't seek merit, but no fault.
Charles was placed in the last carriage, which was driven by a twenty-year-old man named Adun.
Ah Dun is very talkative, he said that his father was a stonemason, and he originally wanted to grow like Shidun in the future.
However, Charles felt that Adun's father was going to be disappointed, because this guy was thinner than himself.
Baker traveled to nearby towns and villages to buy furs and ship them to the royal capital to sell them to the fur merchants of the Great Chamber of Commerce, and he occasionally sold some magic cores of Warcraft.
Ah Dun is very familiar with the customs and customs of the neighborhood, especially which village has an unmarried girl who knows everything about it.
In just one morning, he talked about the village flowers in several surrounding villages.
The weather in June is not yet hot, and the trees on both sides of the road are very thick, and long stretches of the road are often walked in the shade.
Charles was lying on a slime tarp, with a cart full of fur underneath, soft and comfortable.
He was just such a dun chatting with or without a match, and he had indescribable comfort for a while.
In the middle of the cart, the archer watched his surroundings carefully, and if there were small animals such as pheasants and rabbits, he would shoot them over, and then jump out of the car to pick up the dinner he had hunted.
Just after noon, there were three rabbits and a pheasant hanging next to the carriage in which he was sitting.
Charles frowned slightly, in the previous caravan Tonyo said that the smell of blood of these prey would lure the wolves over, but the abnormal convoy was not afraid of wolves at all, and Artoria also needed to lure the wolves over to replenish food after joining, but now the strength of this convoy is not easy to say.
Berg could only block one side, and if there were too many wolves, he wouldn't be able to take care of it. The other three can only be said to be at an average level, and it's okay to deal with three or two per person.
But Charles is not easy to talk about people, this encounter with wolves is a probability event, if the character is good, it will be unimpeded along the way, and it is easy to cause contradictions if there are too many words to cut off people's financial routes.
Besides, if you really encounter wolves, you will send him money.
The first day was uneventful, and at supper the archers gave the rabbit to everyone, and he himself roasted the pheasant and ate it.
The next morning, the archers actually hunted a deer, which made him laugh uncontrollably.
Charles had only a written understanding of the diversity of species in the world, and lacked practical experience.
The smell of the blood of the prey will not only attract the wolf, but also the bear couple.
June to July is the season when bears begin to courtship and mate, and pairs of bears are often seen.
The bears were not slow to run, and at noon, when the two black bears suddenly rushed out of the woods not far from the front of the convoy, many people did not react, and when they reacted, the two black bears had already rushed to the side of the convoy, grabbed the carcass of the deer hanging on the side of the carriage in the middle, and ripped it off.
Berg was relieved to see that the bears were not coming at horses and people, and did not stop them.
The archer had nothing to say about it, and he didn't pay anyone else, so there was no need for anyone else to help him protect his property.
The two bears were clever enough to grab the carcass of the deer and drag it on, quickly crossing the back of the convoy and running past Charles.
This sudden accident startled even people, let alone horses.
The convoy stopped, and Adun calmed the frightened horses, while Baker and Berg and a few other adventurers watched the carcasses of the two bears.
Berg looked carefully at the head of a bear, a black throwing knife was inserted through the bear's eye, and then the wind magic attached to the tip of the knife exploded, blowing the inside of the bear's head to a mess, and the other eye was blown out.
To Berg's greatest surprise, the other bear died in exactly the same way.
In the midst of everyone's astonished gaze, Charles found Baker.
Charles said to Baker, "Boss Baker, how about I sell these two bears to you now?"
Baker looked at Charles curiously and said, "You can't sell them to me for a good price, and if you take them to Saarbrücken and sell them, they will definitely sell for a high price." ”
Charles had a bit of a headache, when he patronized the killing of bears and sold them for money, he forgot for a while that he should transport these two big guys with hundreds of pounds to the city.
He spread his hands and said, "You can't let me carry them to Saarbrücken, can you?"
Baker was stunned for a moment, then stood there with his head down and thought for a few minutes.
Then he said to Charles: "In that case, we will rush to the city of Saarbrücken, and I will find a relationship to sell them, and we will get half of the money." ”
Charles agreed without hesitation, even if he put the two bears in the storage ring and transported them away, there was no way to sell them, and they would be slaughtered, so it was better to take them when they saw it.
The caravan was expected to take five days, and because Baker didn't have enough furs to buy in that town, he decided to make a detour to another village on the way to stop for a day to receive the goods, and if he turned directly to the royal capital of Saarbrücken at the next junction, he would be able to reach the outside of the city in the evening.
So Beck immediately ordered the fur from the five wagons to be evened out on three, and two to be set aside for the bears, and then drove all the way to Saarbrücken.
At about eight o'clock in the evening, the convoy came to a few kilometres outside Saarbrücken, and Beck pulled the convoy to a clearing away from the roadside.
Charles was impressed by Baker's next move, only to see him ride into the city alone, and an hour later he brought back a team of less than ten men.
Seeing that the young man at the head of the team was wearing a sassy hunting suit, and the subordinates who followed him also looked like hunting, Charles knew what Baker's idea was.
The client was so pleased with the two bears that he gave Baker a bag of gold coins on the spot, as well as hush money of one gold coin for everyone present.
When Charles took the hush money, he heard the young man laugh and say, "Look at this time, he also said that my Charles is not as good as that Charles!"
Charles looked confused.