Baron Pitland the Elder was a very good nobleman, and his domain was a mountainous area, with two villages in the col and a manor house where he lived.

On a sunny morning, our old Baron de Pietran choked to death while eating a sausage.

When the news spread throughout the territory, the people were so happy that they put two more grass roots in the pot.

At the funeral of the old Baron Pitland, the relatives and friends who came to see off the old Baron were all taken aback by the extraordinarily wide coffin.

The funeral had to be postponed for a while, because the gravediggers, according to their previous experience, had dug a grave that was not wide enough to fit the old baron's coffin.

Faced with the gravediggers who demanded more money, the new Baron Pietran decided to rotate his father's coffin horizontally 90° before stuffing it into the tomb.

Fortunately, the tomb was dug deep enough that the coffin could fit in.

After the funeral, the eighteen-year-old Baron Pietran was in a cold sweat within two minutes of his family's financial situation.

The family's coffers were empty, and there was no longer any money left in the territory, and merchants and adventurers had long since blacklisted it because of the high taxes. But at the end of each year, the tax to be paid to the king has been paid for a long time, and not a single copper plate can be missing, otherwise the king will be very angry, and the consequences will be very serious.

Baron Pietran remembered that he had heard that he was making money as a merchant, so he sold many of his treasures, bought four sets of medium-sized four-wheeled carriages, recruited coachmen, and began to learn from merchants to buy a batch of goods and prepare to pull them to the west to sell.

Fortunately, he was still quite smart, and knew that the wound medicine in Saarbrücken was very popular, and that there were many adventurers there on the edge of the forest to the west, so he found the nephew of his grandmother's cousin, and came back with two and a half carts of wound medicine wholesale from him.

It's not that he doesn't want to buy more, but that's all he has.

Before the caravan departed, it was necessary to recruit adventurer guards, but Baron Pietran, who already had little budget, could only offer a low price.

Although he had no hope of treating the adventurers recruited at such a low price, he was still taken aback by the five adventurers who came to apply in the end.

The five adventurers were clearly divided into two groups, on one side were three girls of fourteen or fifteen years old, a swordsman, an archer, and a magician, and on the other hand, a woman with a veil and a faceless face, and a very young boy.

Pitrando glanced at the fat woman twice, he didn't discriminate against the fat man, because he himself was fatter than the fat woman, but such fat adventurers are really rare.

In the end, he said a little helplessly: "You are from the Adventurers' Union, so I will hire you." ”

"I'm Baron Pietran, so please introduce yourself. ”

The blue-haired mage girl among the three sisters first introduced herself: "My name is Bi Li, and I am a junior magician, good at water and ice. ”

The blonde swordsman girl beside her continued, "My name is Ellie, and I'm a junior swordsman. ”

Then the orange-haired archer said, "My name is Healy, and I'm a junior archer. ”

After the third sister finished introducing herself, the fat lady on the other side said, "My name is Maria, and I am a musician. ”

Pietran and the three girls looked at Maria in amazement, for her voice was so good, like heaven.

The last one said, "Charles, swordsman." ”

Pietran glanced at Charles, the young man didn't say the grade, but it wasn't that high.

He finally said: "Everyone knows each other, we will leave tomorrow at dawn, no problem, right?"

Naturally, everyone was fine, so they dispersed and went back to make final preparations.

It's just that Pietran found that Charles didn't leave, but frowned and looked at the carriage pulling supplies.

He asked Charles, "Is there anything wrong?"

Charles had already judged that the other party was the kind that was new to him and Meng Xin, who was on the road for the first time, and he asked, "Boss, you didn't prepare a few barrels of wine?"

It was the first time someone had called himself the boss, which made Pietran feel very curious, and he asked, "Why do you have so much wine?"

Charles explained to him: "Because we are likely to have a rainy day when we can't boil the water, we have to quench our thirst with wine that can be stored for a long time, and we have to change it to new wine along the way." But the wine doesn't have to be too good, you go to the store that sells supplies and say you want two barrels of bad wine, and they'll know. ”

Pietran rubbed his three layers of chin with his hand, thought for a while, and asked, "You've run a caravan before?"

Charles nodded.

So Pietran immediately pulled Charles to the side of the supply cart and asked, "Could you please help me see what is missing?" ”

Charles took a look and found that Pietran was almost ready, but he had not thought about some of the issues and lacked some ropes, consumables such as slime tarps, and tools such as shovels.

After reporting what needed to be added, Charles said: "It's better to sell two more sets of temporary toilet shelves and curtains, and the curtains should be of different colors, after all, there are ladies in the team now, and it's better to separate." ”

"There is also a bit less salted meat, there is no guarantee that you can hunt demonic beasts and have enough supplies on the road, I suggest going to the shop opened by the elves on the road of the adventurer's union to buy some white jade meat, that can be eaten for a long time. ”

"If you still have space in the car, you can buy some of the cheapest daily necessities and exchange them for food with the village on the road," he concluded. ”

Pietran had a good memory, and he quickly recounted everything Charles had said.

When Charles walked out of the camp of the small caravan, he found Maria waiting for him outside.

He hurriedly trotted over and said, "Ma'am......"

Maria interrupted Charles in a complaining voice, "Isn't it good to call my sister?"

Even though he knew that the other party was going to act, Charles still felt that he was bullying her by calling him Ms. just now.

"Okay. Charles said helplessly, his sister who is more than three hundred years old has it, and there is no pressure for his sister who is less than thirty years old to scream, "Sister Maria, how did you recognize me just now? ”

As she walked back to the city, Maria looked at the pedestrians around her from time to time, and said, "Because I have a good memory, I have never seen your face, but I remember your voice." ”

Charles was stunned for a moment and asked, "I was just listening to the sounds of heaven in the audience at the wedding that day, but I didn't say it out loud?"

"You forgot?" said Maria, "and you cried 'wow' when you were caught by the demon." ”

Charles scratched the back of his head, there was indeed such a thing, and he cried quite badly at the time in order to act like a normal child who had been caught. It was the demon who had bankrupted Artoria's plan to eat Poor Bad.

The two parted after entering the city, each with a little more to prepare.

Charles went to an elf-owned shop on Adventurer's Street and bought several large bundles of stockings and short-sleeved underwear made of spider silk at a discounted price. When you're away from home, these pieces of armor to protect against mosquito bites are a must-have, as well as a consumable.

In addition, Charles bought a good batch of consumables such as throwing knives and arrows from a weapons store, a pile of canned white jade meat and wine, and various commonly used medicines.

His instincts told him that the road would not be easy.