Chapter 044: Les Miserables

An hour later, next to the big bed where the Nord veteran was lying, there were two more basins of washing water that were completely stained red with blood, and the sheets and quilts on the bed had also been soaked in blood.

After surgical steps such as cutting, disinfection, burning, suturing, medication, and bandaging, the Nord veteran's wounds have been cured, the bleeding has been completely stopped, and it is only a matter of time before it heals.

Looking at the piece of firewood that was stuffed into his mouth, there were two deep bite marks on it and below!

The Nord veteran's face was no longer a little human at this time, but turned completely pale, but he looked at Avril's gaze with a look of admiration:

"You are the best surgeon I have ever met, not even the royal physician who stayed in the palace of Sarkos and diagnosed our great King Ragnar with such exquisite surgical skills!"

The peasant woman, on the other hand, looked at Avril with a completely hell-eyed gaze, as if she couldn't believe what was happening before her eyes!

Avril just smiled politely and said, "It's a pity that there is no penicillin here, otherwise your injury will heal faster." ”

Su Hao asked the peasant woman, "Madam, do you have anything to eat here?" ”

The peasant woman nodded, and said, "I have bread here, and cereal porridge......" She paused, a look of pain flashed across her brow, and then she gritted her teeth and said, "I can also cook two fresh North Sea fish for you!" ”

Su Hao immediately bowed slightly and said, "Thank you, madam." He gave her another silver dinar and said, "We have caused you a lot of trouble, and I am afraid that we will stay here for a few days, so please take it." ”

The peasant woman hesitated, but took it into her pocket, and then prepared breakfast.

"Thank you, thank you for saving your life, I can't repay you, but before that, can I know the names of the two? Let me introduce myself first, my name is Ken Ronnie, a native of Odasan, and I am a military soldier by profession and an infantryman. ”

Su Hao replied: "My name is Su Hao, a McCann, an adventurer, and I have no occupation at present, this one is called Avril, a native of Paraven, who is my maid and a part-time doctor." ”

Like Loire Village, Odasan is a village in the port city of Wocheze on the north coast of the mainland, while McCann is a village in the center of the continent and south of Nord, so even if Su Hao lied about personal information, he would not be able to investigate.

Ken glanced at Avril curiously, and wondered, "This one, it must be a student of the imperial physician under the throne of King Harlaus, otherwise how could the medical skills be so exquisite?" ”

Haraus is the king of the Swadia kingdom and has the capital of Paraven, so the bald pirate will make up the brains of Avril Avril is the maid of the Paraven royal palace.

Avril gave him a blank look and said, "Although I am only a lowly maid, I also have my own ** and secrets, and I hope you can maintain a minimum of respect for me, Mr. Ronnie." ”

Ken hurriedly waved his hand and said, "I'm sorry, I have no intention of inquiring into your secret, Miss, I'm just a little curious about your past." ”

Su Hao smiled and said, "Mr. Ronnie, please don't care about the rudeness of my maid, her temper is indeed a little weird, and sometimes I, the master, will be blamed by her inexplicably." I remember the first time I saw you, you were still being hunted by pirates, but looking at your armor, you look like a veteran soldier of the Nord army, what is going on? ”

Ronnie listened, smiled bitterly, and said, "I'll make a long story short. ”

"I am a warrior under the command of Iaya, Lord of Wocheze, and in a week I will report to Sagos to become a glorious royal guard of the Nord, guarding our palace and serving our king. Last night I followed our general on a routine patrol of the precinct, but I ran into Vigia's elite troops! They went to war without declaring it! ”

"Caught off guard, we were defeated, and my two brothers and I barely managed to break out of the siege, all the way west along the coastline, intending to return to the general's fiefdom, but we encountered a group of pirates on the way."

"There are three of us brothers, two of whom died in battle to hold back the enemy, while I barely managed to break out of the encirclement, but there are still three pirates who haunt me to the death."

"The rest is what we went through together."

After he finished speaking, he closed his eyes helplessly, but looking at his expression, even with the strong will and hard-hearted heart of his royal guard, he could not help but be sad and shed tears unwillingly.

When Su Hao heard this, he could only say good words to persuade him, but at this moment, he suddenly heard a burst of rude scolding from outside the house:

"Really, my lord, please intercede with your leader, and reduce it a little!"

"Phew! Relief? So what do we eat? ”

"My lord, I beg you to forgive me a few more days, I can't get together such a large sum of money today!"

"Okay, Mr. Village Chief, I'll give you three more days, and if you still can't make it up, don't force us... Set fire to the village! ”

"My lord? My lord?! Don't go, sir!! ”

By this time, the village woman had already moved over a wooden table, and the women's table was already lined with vegetable salad, boiled fish, cereal porridge, and bread, which was fragrant. Su Hao hurriedly helped Ken to get up and said, "Can you still sit?" If not, I can ask this maid of mine to feed you. ”

Ken smiled and said, "Although I am injured, I can still sit and eat, and I don't need to be fed!" ”

Su Hao took a piece of bread, took two bites, and then asked the peasant woman, "Madam, is the door closed?" ”

The peasant woman was stunned for a moment, and wondered: "It's closed, what's wrong?" ”

Su Hao said: "I heard the insult just now, and it doesn't seem to be from your village to listen to the accent, what's going on?" ”

The farmer sighed and said, "It's the Haikou." ”

Su Hao listened and continued to ask, "Haikou? What's going on? ”

The farmer put down his bread and sighed, "Recently, in Beihai, there have been a new batch of pirates, and there must be about thirty or forty of them. Because once a group of young men in our village were about to go to the nest to sell some seafood, but they ran into two of these gangs of pirates. The two pirates demanded our goods, and an argument ensued, and as a result of some physical collision, they stabbed our village to death, while our boys killed them both in a fit of rage! ”

"When that group of pirates heard the news, they united with two other groups of pirates, totaling more than 100 men, to attack our village! After a fierce battle, we lost. And they... They... Twenty of our good men were beheaded, and every week after that, we were asked for 200 gold dinars! ”

After she finished speaking, she was also filled with righteous indignation, and even smashed her fist on the table, spilling some of the fish soup in the clay pot! But after the anger, there was only a weak sigh and two cold tears.

Avril asked, "Then why don't you resist?" The Nord people in the North Sea are fierce, advocate force, and have always had a character of revenge, so why not gather a group of militia to defeat this group of pirates? ”

The peasant woman looked at her and said helplessly, "Of course, of course we have tried. We have secretly formed a group of militia, and we have found two veterans from our village, who have been in the service until the Nord light infantry, and even half a foot into the class of skilled infantry, only the kind of soldiers can fight under the general! ”

"But somehow, on that day a month ago, our militia had not been fully trained, and they came to 'collect taxes' as usual, but this time, they actually came from afar with more than 100 pirates, and they met and started the massacre directly! Even though we fought with all our might, we lost because we were not prepared. ”

"This time, they beheaded 30 strong men and 20 children from our village, dug out their skulls, and then raped (harmoniously) all the young girls and young women under the age of 40 and over the age of 15 in our village, and also took away 30 of our women between the ages of 20 and 30 as prostitutes for their army, and as for the tax, hehe, it was adjusted to 500 gold dinars."

"Even if our people are strong, even if we are unwilling, we dare not gamble with the lives of our relatives and the future of the village... We have lost, we are no match for them, the lord's taxes and the extortion fees of the pirates have hollowed out the foundation of our village, and we have nothing left to bet on. ”

Su Hao, Avril and Ken listened and looked at each other, Ken was extremely angry, Su Hao was also sad and angry, as for Avril, there were no mood swings, as if what happened just now just happened to a group of dogs.

"I said before that these pirates are weeds and strong warriors, but that's a miscalculation. Now it seems that they are just weeds that squeeze out the living space of other pastures, plunder all water and nutrients in the soil, and do whatever it takes to survive! Su Hao put down the spoon and continued, "What do you think? ”

Ken Huoran got up, then felt pain again, and sat down slowly with a frown. In a resolute tone, he said, "I'm going to help them." ”

Avril smiled and said, "How can I help?" Not to mention that you are injured now, it is not suitable for strenuous exercise, even if you are in your heyday, can you pick thirty pirates? ”

Ken was stunned for a moment, but still said very unwillingly: "Then I can't sit back and watch like this, we Nord people have always had revenge, not to mention that I am a Nord soldier?" I'm going to slaughter these crumbs! ”

"This Nord man has such a strong sense of honor." Su Hao looked at the angry Ken and thought so in his heart.

He coughed twice and suddenly said, "Three, don't you think something is wrong?" ”

Ken and the peasant woman looked at each other, not knowing what Su Hao was talking about, while Avril took a sip of water elegantly and said, "Of course I know that there must be a ghost here, but I don't know if this Mr. Ronnie wants to think about it." ”

Ken wondered, "Miss Avril, what exactly are you trying to express?" ”

Su Hao smiled and said: "That group of pirates has attacked the village twice, both times they came together with the other two groups of pirates, the first time was just that, he got the news in advance, but this second time, you are secretly preparing to form a militia, but they just teamed up with the pirates, not to mention the attack... Don't you think, what's the mystery in this? ”

The peasant woman was still meditating, and Ken was thinking all about it, when it dawned on him, and he cried out, "Could it be..."

Before Ken could say the word "mole", Avril covered his mouth. She whispered, "Mr. Ronnie, why are you so reckless? Since you have thought of this, are you not afraid that the wall has ears? ”