As soon as she heard that Zhang Li was actually the lord here, the old lady was so expressionless that the little girl was angry, and her eyes when she looked at Zhang Li instantly became crackling.

Zhang Li doesn't care, who doesn't have a hatred for the rich and the noble in these years.

He said to the old man kindly: "Since the old man's legs and feet are inconvenient, then go back to the house to rest quickly, by the way, listen to your cough sound is coming from the throat, there must be some symptoms, I will treat you." As he spoke, the power of nature began to gather in Zhang Li's hands, and then the old man felt a warm current suddenly appear in his body, like the scorching sun of early spring shining all over his body, the inflammation in her body quickly subsided, and even the bone hyperplasia in her legs was much lighter.

"This ...... Thank you so much, but ...... I don't have the money to pay you......"

"No need, it's just a gesture, you don't have to take it to heart. Zhang Li shook his head and said, "Okay, let's go back to the house and rest, but I don't know if I can go in and sit, I want to get acquainted with this village with you." ”

"Of course, everything here is yours. ”

Zhang Li smiled and didn't say anything more, and followed him into the house.

Next, Zhang Li got a lot of useful information from the old lady.

The life span of this village is not long, only a dozen years, the first lord is a knight who fought in the orc World War II, and the village he led his followers to establish was only forty or fifty families at its peak.

Under his protection, the villagers can fish in the Crystal Lake for a living, why do you say the right amount, because the Crystal Lake is actually the territory of the fish people, in the Storm Kingdom, fish is really a rare resource, often sold in the market more expensive than meat, on the one hand, because the fresh fish is not easy to preserve, a dead fish will stink for a day or two, and they here do not know how to pickle, so it has caused the situation that the fish is expensive,

On the other hand, it is because almost all of the watersheds are the territory of the fishmen.

The Zhishui River separates several major areas of the Storm Kingdom, and it stands to reason that the fishing industry should be very developed, but otherwise, at the water's edge, the fish-people will always have an advantage over the terrestrial race, although the individual fish-people are very weak, and they are only equipped with knives made of coral or shells, but the fish-people are often able to lay hundreds of eggs in a litter, and the fertility is too strong, and humans are really asking for trouble when they fight with them.

So these two reasons have caused the situation that fish is very expensive.

The knight is still very strong, with his protection, the villagers can catch a moderate amount of fish, but the good times do not last long, a few years ago after the knight was forced to die, people's lives plummeted, due to the lack of knight's protection, the fishman's revenge followed, the fishermen could not continue to fish for a living, those young people had to give up here to find another livelihood, and then just like that, they scattered and scattered, and finally there were only some helpless old people and orphans left in the village.

Although you can't fish, you can survive in all kinds of land, and if you don't have a lord on your head, you don't have to pay taxes, and there is less threat from beasts near Shining Gold Town, and in general, although there are many inconveniences when you are a black household, but there are still few black households in Azeroth?

This situation lasted until Defiya came, although many people were forced to be helpless to become Defiya, but there are also many people who were forced to be helpless by Defia, the situation here is like this, it could have been okay to live, although without the guardian, life will be a little more dangerous, but be careful to live, but now they are all about to gnaw the bark one by one.

"You said there was a secret den of Defiya nearby, how many people were there?" Regarding the safety of his territory, Zhang Li had to ask in detail.

"I don't know. The old man replied, "But there are at least a few hundred." ”

"Hundreds of people......" Zhang Limo rubbed his chin, this number is a bit much, although he is an ant in front of the kingdom army, but he can't treat the kingdom army as his own private soldiers.

His own territory must be guarded by himself, and if the public soldiers use it privately, he will be despised if he speaks out, and he, a controversial parliamentarian, will face a lot of impeachment.

"Hmm...... A few hundred people is still a bit tricky, so let's wait a while, and then I'll come and purge them after I recruit some people, as for you...... It's too dangerous here, why don't you get there first......" Zhang Li was only halfway through his words, when Jerry suddenly shouted outside: "My lord, a group of children came outside, looking like people from the village who had gone out to look for food, they were anxious when they saw us, and now they are confronting us. ”

"Oh, wait until I go out and have a look. ”

Zhang Li took a look outside, only to find that this was a confrontation, more than a dozen ragged half-grown children trembled in front of Rubers, but they did not escape.

"Who are you!What did you do to Alina and Grandma Mary!?" asked Tom, the eldest child, who looked to be no more than thirteen or fourteen years old.

"Don't wait for the idlers to come closer, we adults are talking to those two!" Tom said with a serious expression, and his voice was very frightening.

"Really, you look like I'm interrogating the prisoner Yes, those little guys over there, don't worry, the two of them are fine. ”

At this time, the old lady also walked out of the house with difficulty with the help of Alina, and she said to the children outside: "Don't be rude to the adults, from now on this lord is the lord here, why don't you come and pay a visit." ”

"Lord?"

"This ......," the group of children muttered quietly.

At this time, the leading young man suddenly shouted, "Grandma Mary, let him go!

"Ahem, cough, cough, cough!" Zhang Li, who said this, didn't take a breath, and coughed at that time.

The old lady's face turned pale instantly: "You little bastard! What are you talking about!? You can decide whether people should be lords or not! Why don't you kneel down and apologize to your lord!"

"I!I!" The young man's emotions were very excited, and he wanted to be stubborn, but the old lady was directly anxious.

"You little bunny, you can't kill us!" she shouted, her voice bursting, you can see how hard she roared.

"But ......" The young man also regretted his impulsiveness very much at this time, and he also had the intention of kneeling down and begging for mercy, but when he looked at the giant wolf of Rubos, he didn't dare to move at all, let alone run to Zhang Li and kneel.

In fact, Rubes never paid attention to this group of little children, and this group of weak people did not deserve its eyes.

"Ahem, okay, okay!" Zhang Li waved his hand indifferently: "Children, unintentional words, don't worry, I won't take it to heart." ”

"Thank you, sir...... Thank you, sir," Grandma Mary knelt down directly to thank her, and Zhang Li smiled and helped her up.

"Don't worry, I used to be a poor peasant, I didn't break so many rules, I won't be disrespectful to me, I will kill someone, you can rest assured. ”

Grandma Mary thanked her again in a series of ways, and after that, because it was getting late, Zhang Li already had the intention of leaving.

"You eat this every day?" When Zhang Li first went out, he noticed that these children were only holding a few fish and shrimp, some tuber plant roots and wild fruits, and the amount was very small, I am afraid that it would not be enough for a few people to eat.

"Yes, my lord, since Defia has robbed us of all our food, we have to find these things to eat every day......"

"How can we just eat these things? It's time for the kids to grow up, Tom! go and bring us our rations to them. Tom answered and ran to the horse, and took out large pieces of bread and cheese from his backpack.

"But what did we eat you and your men?"

"Don't worry, it's not far from Shining Gold Town, we'll leave in a while, there's always something to eat there." ”

"Hurry up, thank you, sir!"

"Thank you, sir......" The children who saw the cheese and their greedy eyes lit up perfunctorily thanked.

Zhang Li smiled speechlessly: "By the way, I said before, I will bring someone to clear the robbers here after a while, if you don't want to continue to live such a hard life during this time, then leave with me, I will arrange for you to live in Shanjin Town for a while, and when I finish cleaning up the robbers, you can come back if you want, if you don't want to, it's okay to leave, you are free people, you have the right to decide your own future." ”

"This ...... My lord, we don't want to leave ......."

"Well, I respect your decision, and when I get back, I'll have some food and clothing for you, and when I'm done cleaning up the robbers, your life will be settled. ”