As the name suggests, Ah Yuan is a person who is a little chubby.

He was five short, probably only to the chest of an ordinary strong man, but he had a big head, eyes, nose and ears...... They are all bigger than ordinary people, and they are completely different from ordinary dwarfs. Because his facial features are at least one lap larger than ordinary people, although his face is full of fat, he has not become the common kind of small eyes and small nose, but his facial features are clear, which is very wonderful.

His movements are very athletic, and he can't be seen as a fat man at all. Obviously fat makes people wonder if he can "roll" instead of "walk" to hurry, but in fact he walks very fast, even faster than the average person.

And what caught the attention of the traversers the most was the color of his name.

His name is green.

This means that he is not only a merchant, but also a slightly special character, roughly the leader of a small group of monsters, or the head of a small village.

As to why a figure equivalent to the head of the village would be a traveling merchant, and the lowest of the traveling merchants, with only an old carriage?

Ah Yuan comes to Kalipura four times a year and is very familiar with the villagers. He was most familiar with the owner of the village's grocery store—or tavernkeeper, restaurantkeeper, innkeeper...... It's the same thing anyway.

This fat man is very stingy and never wants to stay in a hotel. He always parked the carriage in the backyard of the hotel and stayed in the carriage at night. I don't know how much cargo was in that carriage, so he was reluctant to leave even to sleep.

"Dude, your wood isn't of good quality. Ah Yuan criticized the boss's goods in a somewhat sharp voice, trying to reduce the price, "And it's not a pure tree heart, there are too many miscellaneous wood around!"

Kalipura is a resource-poor village, and the only things worth buying here are hunters' skins and tree hearts, a by-product of the farmers' harvesting.

The heart of the tree is the pith wood in the center of the trunk of the large tree, and this wood can be used to make many special things, most commonly to make wands for mage apprentices. and the wand fragrant rice made from tree branches, although the pith wood staff is not strong enough, but it is better than the strong mana transmission performance, which can save mana to the greatest extent, and it is a very practical equipment for those mage apprentices who are weak in the total amount of mana.

Although there are forests in most parts of the world, and large trees that can be obtained from marrow trees can be found everywhere, except for the border area of Kalipura, which is far away from the emperor, civilians are not allowed to cut down trees - the woods are the wealth of the lords, and if civilians cut down trees privately, they will cut off their hands at least and their heads at worst.

Of course, the lords will definitely do the business of marrow wood, but that kind of business is not something that a wandering merchant like Ah Yuan can get involved in. So he had to come to places like Kalipura and buy the marrow wood that the villagers had cut and processed privately.

Although the area theoretically belonged to the domain of the Earl of Tara Khan, as the village chief complained about, the Count's subordinates only appeared every autumn when taxes were collected, and other than that, even if they wanted to look for them, they would not come to this small border village far from the city of Tara Khan. So the villagers never cared about the problem of "stealing the wealth of the lord".

In fact, many people don't even recognize this as a so-called "county of the county".

The village chief, Kalipura XIII, was one of them.

He sat in the corner of the lobby on the ground floor of the hotel, and through the back door of the room, he looked at the two people who were bargaining from a distance, and his eyes were a little embarrassed.

"In the past, when the village was not ruled by that bastard earl, we were able to save a lot of money in a year. He said, "At that time, our goods were not only marrow wood and animal skins, but also local wine. But since that bastard came to rule here, a lot of grain has been collected every autumn, and the rest of the grain, let alone brewing, is a little difficult to eat. ”

“...... I remember that Count Tara Khan was canonized, probably more than 70 years ago. Sleepless said, "You know what happened at that time?"

"I don't know when he was canonized, but the first time he sent someone to collect taxes was more than thirty years ago. "My grandfather, unwilling to admit his rule, was beheaded by his soldiers, and his body hung at the door of the village for a winter. ”

The panda's eyes darkened, and a fierce light flashed in them.

"We Kalipura family are the founders and builders of this village. Originally, there was only the temple of the Church of the Grim Reaper, and my ancestor and his fellow adventurers and a group of refugees worked hard to build this village on this deserted border. It's thirteenth generation now—what's the matter with that bastard! When my ancestors opened up this village, his grandfather's grandfather hadn't even been born yet!"

But by that time the kingdom had already been established. "Your ancestors can't be called lords if they don't get the title of king." So when the king canonized the lord here, it was only natural that he would come to declare his sovereignty. ”

The village chief snorted coldly and said nothing.

"We're going to take a trip to the city of Tarakhan in the near future to see if there's anything unusual, or if there's anything worth making a splash. "Is there anything in the village that needs to be bought?" ”

The village chief shook his head: "Thanks to you, we don't lack anything during this time." ”

"Seeing that it's going to be winter, don't you really need to prepare some cold-proof medicine or something?"

"Can those so-called cold-proof pills be better than those prepared by Dr. Anka?"

Sleepless smiled: "That's right, with Ankka sitting here, don't worry about these at all." ”

"In that case, then we are also relieved. He picked up the cup, drank the rest of the tea, chewed on the tea, got up and walked to the backyard.

Ah Yuan was a little surprised by his appearance. But this wandering businessman was originally a lively and cheerful character, and after a few words of conversation between the two sides, they soon began to talk and laugh.

After a while, Sleepless walked back and said to everyone, "It's confirmed." At least a month ago, everything was fine in the city of Tarakhan. The old count was in good health, and there was no sign of a plague epidemic in the city. ”

"So...... It should be this winter. Changsun Wu said.

"Pretty much. Sleepless nodded, "Of course it could be next winter, so that's even better." But we should be preparing for 'this winter,' aren't we?"

Everyone nodded.

"We'll leave tomorrow. The panda was silent for a moment and said.

The village chief looked at them with some doubt, but wisely did not ask anything about the "plague".

A plague is no small matter, especially a predictable plague.

This kind of thing is not something that the head of a small border village should ask about.

Let alone...... The plague epidemic in the city of Tara Khan, and the old earl contracted the disease and even died, which was good news for him......