"It's so tiring to act!" Looking at the back of the knight who had disappeared into the country lane, Ainz grumbled softly.

Just pretending to be this X is tired, Nima's show hasn't started yet! Old drama bones must learn to be dedicated, love and dedication, and know how to understand!

"Hey, hey, hey, can you not complain in the public channel, just now you pretended to be full of majesty!"

Anz complained weakly in the channel: "Hey, hey, I was just a small employee of the company before, an office worker with a super low monthly salary." Playing such a thing as a leader, I can't play it anyway. Isn't this kind of scene where the leader needs to speak is what a director of a large company like you is best at? ”

"The guild leader looks like you, right? Since I have passed on the throne to you, then you are the leader. You're going to give me my part. AER YOU REAIIY!” Oroboros looked at the old bone with encouraging eyes, "Give you a chance to perform, hurry up!" ”

If there is only one person here, then there is nothing for the old bone to be X, after all, Yalbed does not know his brother and daughter-in-law. But it's very shameful to pretend to be X in front of someone who knows you well. But there was no way, the old bone could only walk to the villagers with a scalp that he didn't have.

Ainz counted the remaining villagers, and there were only seventy or eighty people who were unharmed, and even if the wounded were included, there were less than a hundred.

Although the person in front of him was a benefactor who had saved him, the villagers did not have any expression of joy. As the old bones got closer and closer, the faces of the villagers kneeling on the ground gradually showed a look of confusion and uneasiness.

The villagers' uneasiness made Ainz stop, and he looked at the villagers' uneasy expressions with some bewilderment. Ainz quickly understood the villagers' feelings—he was the strongest, the one who could drive the demons of terror and kill the knights with ease, and the one who could decide whether they lived or died.

Ainz thought for a moment about his former director's attitude towards his subordinates, and then chose to give up this option...... They are not their subordinates now, and it is obviously inappropriate to speak to them in the voice of a leader.

After thinking carefully for a moment, he stood motionless in his original position, and spoke in a slightly gentle tone: "Don't worry, you are saved!" ”

"You, you're ......," replied a man who looked more dignified among the villagers, but his eyes occasionally focused on the terrifying death knight beside Ainz. This knight not only brought great terror to the knights, but also made the villagers feel very terrible. They are just farmers who have no quarrel with the world, and they live a life of rising and resting at sunset on weekdays. A bloody scene like this has never been seen in this small village.

At this moment, Auroboros stood up, dressed in a white robe, standing in front of the old bones, not as restrained as Ainz, and Oroboros just spoke to them in a calm tone: "We are monks from the Far East, and we can be regarded as adventurers from all over the world. Because I saw someone attacking the village, I came to help. As a condition for helping you, I need to be paid a certain amount, and I will be paid three-tenths of the tax revenue of your village. ”

Hearing Oroboros's words, the villagers couldn't help but feel frustrated and disappointed. Three-tenths of a tax, if placed in a normal year, is not an unacceptable figure. But now the village is in a catastrophe, and many houses have been burned down. Property, food, and even family members are gone. This is undoubtedly a fatal blow to some of these villagers.

In the original book, the old bone only symbolically took a few silver coins, and did not ask for more wealth from the village.

"Why, do you feel anything dissatisfied with the remuneration I offered?"

As soon as Oroboros finished speaking, the Death Knight beside him stirred slightly, and pressed the snake-shaped sword that had been put away on his waist as if he was ready to attack. Oroboros took one look at it, and it obediently retreated.

"Well, I don't like to pick up dead people's things, and if you look at them well, I'll reward you all!" Auroboros pointed to the corpse on the ground, "If you can't repay me, you can pick up these remnants of the armor on the ground and sell them in the weapons shop in the city." Before you get it back, use it to offset my reward! ”

The originally depressed villagers showed happy faces, and they happily kowtowed to Oroboros, "Oh, thank you so much, my lord! Even the most righteous knight in the mouth of the wandering poet is not as generous as you! ”

"So, what about the knights' horses?"

Oroboros didn't blink an eye, "You can take it with you, I said I didn't want to touch the dead man's body!" ”

Asking people to feel disappointment and pain first, and then giving them appropriate kindness and care, is the best way to quickly gain the loyalty of others.

Looking at the large pile of broken armor on the ground, the old bone was very puzzled, "Orobroth, why did you let them exchange these rags for money, they would be so happy!" ”

"Tattered? I don't think you know how much these armors are to the lowest villagers, and a pair of iron swords for gold may even be worth a year's worth of their fortune. ”

"Is it that expensive?" Lao Gu was very puzzled, in his eyes, the value of this iron sword was simply rotten on the street, and it was estimated that it was only a few gold coins......

"Hmph, do you think a set of knight's armor is cheap? The price of a knight's armor in the Middle Ages was so high that you couldn't buy a set even if you sold your ancestor's property! ”

"Are there so many?" Old Gu glared at his eyes...... Alas, red dots in the eye sockets.

"We take as a reference the price of equipment from the time of Charlemagne in the middle of the 8th century:

Helmet - 6 Soridas (Gold)

Armor - 12 Soridas

Sword and scabbard - 7 Soridas

A sword without a scabbard - 3 Soridas

Leggings – 6 Soridas

Spear and shield - 2 Soridas

War Horse - 12 Soridas. ”

"At that time, the price of an ordinary war horse was about 12 pounds, and a farmer earned about 3 pounds a year. In other words, it took three years for the farmer to be able to afford an ordinary war horse without eating or drinking. If it is a normal expense, it may take a farmer more than ten years to be able to afford a war horse. At that time, the price of a sturdy bull was about 2 solidas, so a set of armor equipment for an average knight could buy about 23 bulls. This is simply astronomical for the average European family. Many yeoman farmers can't even afford to buy a cow. For example, in 761 a landowner in Alemania used his ancestral estate and a slave in exchange for only a horse and a sword. ”

"It's so expensive!" In the real world, the old bone, who was already used to being poor, widened his eyes, he didn't expect that these scrap copper and rotten iron in his eyes could be exchanged for so much money. Imagine yourself living in poverty in the past, with access to computers and the Internet, but basically eating liquid synthetic foods sold in stores. Fresh vegetables, delicious meats, these fresh ingredients are expensive foods for people in the 22nd century. In his former life, he would only put it on his table on his birthday.

In the final analysis, the old bone has not fully entered the identity of his current application. Therefore, on the one hand, he will see the world through the eyes of games, and on the other hand, he will also see the world through the eyes of his own poor years.

In the original book, this aspect is not described in detail, but the reason for the village's rapid revival is attributed to the help of Ainz and the goblins. But in fact, what really made the village quickly revitalize was the equipment and horses left behind by this group of knights, and there were about thirty knights who invaded the village. According to the calculation of three to five people in a household, each family that survived could share in the wealth of the knights. Equipment can be sold for money, as can horses left outside the village, enough for the farmers to rebuild.

Not counting equipment and horses, how can a knight also carry a few gold or silver coins? As everyone knows, a gold coin or a silver coin is equivalent to a villager's hard-earned income for several months or even a year.

Of course, for Oroboros, this money is really a sprinkle. The property in Nassalik's tomb could easily buy the Empire, the Kingdom, and the Church.

You must know that in the later stages of the game, if you kill an ordinary monster casually, you can get tens of thousands of gold coins, and a non-krypton gold game item is tens of millions, after all, these are all in-game currencies, and they are not worth anything at all. The Aziwurgong Guild has been fighting for so many years, and there are not a trillion gold coins in the guild, but also a hundred billion. Therefore, there is no way to count the gold coins in the Great Tomb of Nassalik, but to weigh them by ton.

Guided by the village chief, Anzi Urgon and Orobros arrived at the village chief's house. The chief's house was not far from the square, and as soon as you entered the house, there was an open space large enough for work, and there was a kitchen next to it.

Although the village chief's house is quite simple, it can be said to be very large in terms of area. Just the size of a yard, the total area is more than the house that Lao Gu lives in another world.

Generally speaking, the area of rural housing is basically more than 150 square meters, and it is quite common to have more than 200 square meters. The room where Lao Gu used to live was about 30 square meters, and this area was in the countryside...... It's probably the size of a pigsty, right?

I really don't know what those people who bought a small house of 30 square meters for nearly 1 million in Beijing think that they can live like a person in a second- or third-tier city, but they have to go to Beijing to live like a pig......

Entering the village house, Ainz took a curious look at his surroundings. For Ainz, a young man in the 22nd century, it was the first time he had ever seen such a spacious but shabby room. If he had a house like this in the 22nd century, he would have to spend money on electricity and decorate the interior of the house to marry a beautiful daughter-in-law......

Don't think that Japanese people don't need a house when they get married, Japanese women need a house just as much when they get married. You don't need a house to get married, that's impossible, that's impossible, that's impossible......

Compared with Oroboros, a real single aristocrat, Lao Gu is a pure single Wang, and all his belongings are made of krypton, and there is nothing of value at all. Oroboros has been to Lao Gu's house, his house is only a chair, so poor that he doesn't even have a bed, and he sleeps on the floor!

In contrast, Oropolos felt that the village chief's family could be called rich!