Volume 2 Wild Ambition Chapter 11 The Poor Employer (Part II)
The old farmer was still in shock, he slowly crawled to the severed green stem, poked it with his trembling fingers, and then raised his head and hugged Avi's leg and shouted, "Thank you so much! Thank you so much!"
Avi withdrew the knight's sword from its scabbard, and he lifted the old peasant to sit down on a wooden bench that lay out outside the house. Avi didn't actually think too much, he just couldn't accept an old man dying in front of him like this, and he believed that others would not sit idly by if they were replaced, but he was one step faster.
The Marcus brothers all surrounded Avi, and they patted each other on the shoulder while praising Avi's bravery, "Let your kid take the first step, otherwise Lao Tzu's golden axe will have cut it off!"
"yes, but it doesn't seem to be dead yet, and I see that the blood-red head has retracted into the ground!" Marcus could see clearly, though he only had one eye.
The rest of the group were either touching the severed green stem or gathered around Avi, with only Patrick and Ayana standing beside Fidel.
"Field, you see how we're going to deal with this, this man has already deceived us by default. Patrick hated the liar, and had drawn his sword to defend himself because of the critical situation, but now that the danger was over, it seemed that he did not want to stay here.
Feder looked around, and there was no sign of any living person or living creature except for his own people and the old peasants. If the old farmer is just deceiving himself as an employer, and everything else is true, then it is very likely that the farmer here has fled elsewhere, and the green-stemmed plants will definitely come back here again in search of "food".
It's just that judging from the situation just now, a green-stemmed plant is so aggressive, so there should be a lot of such terrible green-stemmed plants in the employer's place. In this way, fifteen hundred gold coins is indeed a reasonable price.
"Let's get out of here and go back to that three-way intersection. Fidel said to everyone.
"Then this village... And what about the old peasant?" asked Kess.
"Let's decide on a plan for the greenstem plant first, and then we can make a plan," Fielder said, glancing at the farmer who was covering his face with his hands, "You take the fallen stem bark with you, and this old man can't stay here." ”
They returned to the fork in the road with the old farmer and his ploughing ox, and Avi only found that neither the horse nor the old farmer's ploughing ox had neighed just now after riding the "king", and it stands to reason that animals should be more sensitive than humans, so how could they not react at all?
The old farmer led the oxen by the hand, and he confessed to Fidel that he was not really an employer, but that he was also a victim of the green-stemmed plants, but he was so poor that he had nothing left but a dilapidated house and a ploughing ox. The old farmer said that the green-stemmed plant had already eaten all the grain it had grown, and then switched to livestock, and now even people wanted to eat it, which was really terrible.
He also said that other farmers had moved out to take shelter for the time being, but he was an old man with no one to rely on, so he had to sit at the intersection all day long to see if he could meet someone to help him. Not to mention fifteen hundred gold coins, he couldn't pay even half a gold coin, he just hoped that Fei De and his party wouldn't arrest him in the church to stand trial.
The papal states were rich and well-off, but this poor old peasant was a counterexample, and Phylla began to wonder if the Papal States were really as rich and powerful as they seemed.
Kesi saw the old man crying as she spoke, how could she stand it, she pulled Field's arm, hoping that the other party could help the old farmer.
But Greif said, "Those greenstem plants are bigger and faster than we thought, and we don't know where they're hiding, so we can't get rid of them!"
Bowen, who has been panicking since seeing the huge green-stemmed plants, also said that he didn't want to confront these huge plants head-on, and God knows if these strange things would suddenly come out of nowhere and pierce his crotch.
"We can try to attack their cores. Fed said to the crowd.
He had been observing the movements of the green-stemmed plant just now, and the blood-red sharp cone on the head looked extremely sharp, but the material of that thing was obviously not steel or iron, but a very soft and smooth substance, and the green-stemmed retracted its head as soon as it encountered danger, proving that the core was the key to the green-stemmed plant.
Fed placed the severed greenskin on the ground, and he tried to burn it in front of the crowd, but the greenskin was not burned, and it seemed that the fire that caused fatal damage to the carnivorous flower could not damage the strange plant.
Avi also said: "When I cut the green stem plant just now, I could feel something like a snake shrinking and wriggling inside, and after the sharp cone was retracted into the ground, its green skin became less strong. ”
But Fan pulled the topic back all of a sudden, "Shouldn't we discuss how to deal with this liar first?"
Others also instantly focused their attention on the old farmer, like the Marcus brothers, Blake, and Leonard, who were not the kind of people who were willing to spend their physical strength on unpaid work. Their faces now show distrust of the old farmer, not to mention the strange plants that will help the old farmer get rid of their home.
"Well, let's go to our original employer first, and find out the situation before making a decision," Noor suggested, in fact, he sympathized with the old farmer, who himself was from a poor background, and of course could understand the feeling of helplessness, "Maybe we could easily get those plants with Fidel's method?"
This proposal was agreed to by most of the people, and the old farmer was willing to take the initiative to take everyone to their original destination as compensation.
Led by the old peasant, the group followed the right path to the three wooden houses. All three wooden houses were fenced in the same area, and an old woman in a brown hooded robe was sitting outside, watering some plants.
"She must be your employer," the old farmer pointed to the old woman, "although we don't live far away, this old woman is very eccentric and does not want to communicate with others, we only know her name as 'Kulan'." ”
The old woman didn't seem to hear everyone's footsteps, so Noor stepped forward and asked loudly, "Hey!
The man placed the watering bottle in his hand steadily, then took off his hood, revealing his true face. The old man's face was wrinkled, she looked to be in her seventies, her eyes were sunken, her cheeks were sunken, and her thin body was almost unable to support her robe.
"You... Are you mercenaries?" asked the old woman, opening her mouth.
When Fei saw the old man in front of him, he didn't feel that the other party was the real employer. Although this old woman has two more houses than the old peasant just now, the wooden house is also dilapidated and old, and there is nothing of value in the garden, how can such a family pay fifteen hundred gold coins? Although she is not a money-seeker, she still has a mercenary group behind her to support, and the question of remuneration cannot be seriously considered.
"Yes, we're mercenaries, and we're here for fifteen hundred gold, old man! can you really afford it?" shouted Matthews.
"Yes, if I can kill all those plants, I'll give you an extra 300 gold coins as a reward!"