Chapter 281 arrives

The fish soup is very tasty and the fried fish is delicious. Pen ~ fun ~ Pavilion www.biquge.info Viscount Timba and Carrick drank all the pot of soup.

Lorist began to throw the rest of the fish into the stone pot and cook it in a second pot, and went to pick a lot of wild vegetables and mushrooms.

Viscount Timba was very strange: "Why are we still cooking when we are all full?"

Lorist pointed to the slave man named Hannu and the old man named Dumb Slave.

Carrick disagreed: "The two of them are slaves, so they don't need to be fed. We'll just eat the rest of the fish heads and give them ......."

Tugger smiled and shook his head: "Carrick, we're on the run now, not going on a wild outing. Taking care of everyone in the team is key to keeping us safe. Look at that Hannu, to put it mildly, he is the mount of the Viscount, and we have to feed and drink even a horse, so that we don't cause us trouble on the way. If we don't let him eat, if he doesn't have the strength to carry the Viscount, we don't know when we'll be out of danger......"

Viscount Timba nodded: "Targer is right, these two slaves are cheap, and they can eat the same food as us, they are lucky." ”

Since he had to wait for the two slaves to eat before going on the road, Tagger found out that the bag was nominally from the Osian knight, but it was actually the fried flour that Lorist had stuffed into the bake and baked it into small cakes as dry food for the journey. By the time everything was packed up and back on the road, it was already afternoon.

It was one thing for no one to be the Ossian knight who was groaning in pain and cries for help, as if he hadn't seen it. Broken by Lorist and stripped of his clothes, the former Golden Knight has become a waste, and can only lie there waiting to die......

Before going on the road, Lorist stopped Viscount Timba from riding on the shoulders of the slave man named Hannu, and did not speak, but made some gestures. Viscount Timba was puzzled, and turned back to Tagger, "What does he want to do?"

Targar said, "Lord Viscount, Locke thinks that it is very inappropriate for you to ride on the shoulders of this slave, it is too conspicuous, it is easy to be spotted and become the first target of the enemy's attack, and he thinks it is better to carry you on your back......"

Viscount Timba said, "Then why doesn't he speak?"

Targar replied, "Lord Viscount, Locke has always been taciturn and does not like to speak. ”

Here, Lorist had already torn the clothes off the Ostic knight's body into strips and woven a basket like a soft pocket, took it and motioned for Viscount Timba to lie on Hannu's back, and then tied him and Hannu with the soft pocket.

Viscount Timba was pleased with the soft pocket, and he asked Tagger if he could give him the guard named Locke, and he was willing to pay a large price.

Tugger shook his head: "Lord Viscount, Locke is not a slave, and he is not my bodyguard. He is an elite force that has been carefully cultivated by the Chamber of Commerce for more than ten years, and only obeys the orders of the elder. Don't look at the fact that he is with me now and obeys my orders, in fact, when he is really in danger, he can decide whether to flee first depending on the situation. For the Chamber of Commerce, it is better to lose me than to sacrifice him, and a Chamber of Commerce like him will spend a lot of money to train him to become a great sword master so that he can become the pillar of force of the Chamber of Commerce in the future. ”

"Oh, then how did they come to be?" Viscount Timba was interested in the topic.

"Lord Viscount, it's not just us in the Peterson Chamber of Commerce, it's the same for the seven major chambers of commerce in the Business Alliance. They adopt the young orphans, and then train them to learn literature or martial arts according to their talents, and when they grow up, they will become the backbone of the chamber of commerce. Guards like Locke are already considered one out of a thousand, and when they are promoted to the Golden Rank or the Great Sword Master, the Chamber of Commerce will spend at least a dozen to hundreds of thousands of gold coins on them. Tugger replied.

"Why don't you hire those great sword masters and cultivate them yourself?" Viscount Timba was puzzled.

"Lord Viscount, we also hire great swordsmen externally, but this is rarely the case, unless you know the roots. Tugar sighed and said, "Our chamber of commerce is different from your nobles, because we need to do business, so we need to keep it secret. It is difficult for us to trust their loyalty if we are not trained by our own chamber of commerce, and if we leak trade secrets, it is easy to cause significant losses to our business. ”

"I see. Viscount Timba nodded in agreement: "Indeed, it is also very troublesome to hire a great swordsman to hire a foreign country, and the great swordsman I hired at a large price knows that he wants money and treatment, and he asks him to do things and give me a look." It didn't work when I actually went into battle, and none of the five people came back in the past......"

Viscount Timba was grumbling, and Targer asked Carrick in a low voice, and soon found out.

It turned out that when Lorist landed, the second-level great swordsman hired by Viscount Timba took four golden knights and a slave hunting team of 300 people under the Viscount to participate in the anti-landing operation, but the whole army was wiped out, and not even a single messenger returned. As a result, the Viscount had no high-end combat guards around him, and only two slaves fled.

Lorist followed behind and listened to the laughter, daring to love that the second-level great swordsman he met when he landed and had a good time fighting with Ingjerek was sent by this Timba viscount, and the last second-level great swordsman was shot by a steel crossbow when he escaped, and died like a rabbit with an arrow.

Viscount Timba became interested in the plan of the Chamber of Commerce to adopt orphans and train them to become talents, and he hoped that his family could also cultivate a group of useful and loyal talents like the Chamber of Commerce, and as for orphans, he did not need to collect them, he just used the family slaves.

Targar didn't understand what it was. Carrick next to him explained. It turns out that domestic slaves are small slaves born by pairing male slaves with female slaves, and some are illegitimate children born to female slaves who have been raped. Because these little slaves were born slaves, they did not have the spirit of freedom and resistance as the slaves they captured, and it was easy for them to obey and recognize their slave status.

Like the old man's dumb slave, he is a second-generation domestic slave, and the slave Dahan Hannu is a third-generation domestic slave, and his parents, like the old man's dumb slave, are second-generation domestic slaves. In the slave market of the original Port Nubit, domestic slaves were about twice as expensive as slaves caught from outside.

Viscount Timba had a good idea of raising a family slave to become a talent, but Carrick also pointed out an omission on the part of the Viscount. In the kingdom of Haneabada, slaves were not allowed to carry weapons, and they could learn to awaken their fighting spirits, but they were never allowed to carry weapons, because that would pose a threat to their masters......

As they walked, Targer, Viscount Timba, and Carrick chatted happily. Lorist had received a lot of information about the kingdom of Haneabada and the royal city of Hamidas. For example, the current king of the kingdom of Hanea Bada, Luther III, is a knight with a golden star, and the level of the three great swordsmen enshrined by the royal family is much higher than that of the great swordsmen hired by the nobles......

Dinner consisted of four hares and three pheasants caught by Lorlist, each with a mouth full of oil.

According to the descriptions of Viscount Timba and Carrick, they had now reached the edge of the hill, and would walk another morning to climb two small hills to the plain of the Intramuros. Viscount Timba said that he had hunted in the area with his brother-in-law, Luther III, and that he had a rough idea of the terrain, and that it would take him half a day out of the hills to reach a royal estate, at which point he could return to the royal city of Hamidas by carriage or horseback.

The next morning was a good one, and soon he had climbed two small hills to the edge of the hilly area and the plain of Wangcheng, and then walked another afternoon, and after passing a large wheat field, he saw a manor in the distance.

Viscount Timba kept urging and cursing the slave man named Hannu who was carrying him forward, telling him to go faster. Although Viscount Timba had been carried on his back by Hannu, he felt that he had traveled a long way, and he was very tired, and what he wanted most at the moment was good food and wine and a large soft bed so that he could have a good night's rest.

Lorist, who had walked in front, suddenly stopped, listened intently, turned around and made a few gestures, then bent down and hid himself in a half-man's wheat field, and soon disappeared.

Tagar grabbed Viscount Timba's clothes and scolded him softly to make Hannu squat down.

"Don't go, Locke said that there was something wrong with the manor in front of him, and he went to investigate first. ”

Carrick said suspiciously, "I think it's normal, what's wrong, it can't be that you're suspicious, right?"

Viscount Timba also said: "Go early, we can catch a sumptuous dinner, and then take a hot bath to get a good night's sleep, and tomorrow we will get in the carriage and arrive at the royal city at noon, don't toss around now, okay......"

Targar said solemnly, "Lord Viscount, Carrick, I believe in Locke, he has a natural alertness to danger. Just now he said that the wheat is ripe, but we have not seen a single harvesting slave along the way, which is very abnormal......"

Carrick's face changed when he thought about it: "Yes, my lord, if everything is normal, we should have seen those slaves harvesting and working all the way, and now we don't see a person, it is likely that something happened to the manor in front of us." Have you forgotten that the enemy has cavalry, and I doubt that they have entered the plain of the royal city, and that the manor in front of them will be occupied by the enemy and waiting for us to fall into the trap?"

Viscount Timba was also frightened at this time, and the five of them hid behind a mound of dirt and waited anxiously for Lorist's arrival.

It took more than an hour for Lorist to return, and he gestured to Tagle and said a few brief words. Viscount Timba and Carrick heard it clearly, and their hearts suddenly cooled. Because Lorist is talking about cavalry, hanging, rioting......

Sure enough, Targar said, "Lord Viscount, Carrick, I think we're in trouble. Just now Locke went to inspect the manor in front of him, and he said that there were more than ten cavalry there, and the equipment was our enemy, the scout light cavalry of the Norton family. There were many gallows erected in the manor, and the hanged people on them were probably the stewards and slave overseers of the manor. And that's not the worst thing, the worst thing is that the slaves have rioted, and they are going to besiege the city of Hamidas with iron forks and weapons......"

Viscount Timba's face turned pale all of a sudden: "Then can we go back to the royal city?"

Targar said, "Don't panic, Lord Viscount, Locke said that the people in the manor are making preparations, and I heard that they are going to other manors to join the slaves there, so they should not go to besiege the royal city immediately." We'll wait here until it's dark, and then the people in the manor won't find us, and we'll be able to rush to the royal city overnight, so that we'll be there tomorrow at noon......"

Carrick also said hatefully beside him: "Yes, Lord Viscount, we will wait patiently here until dark, and when we arrive at the royal city tomorrow, we will report to His Majesty the King that there is a riot in the manor here, and His Majesty will naturally send his army to kill all these slaves who don't know what to do, thinking that the latecomers will be warned!"

With the comfort of Targar and Carrick, Viscount Timba finally calmed down, and then the six of them rested behind the mound for an hour, and the sky began to darken. Only then did the group get up, secretly bypassed the Wang family manor, which was full of people and laughter, and fled into the distance.

After walking for more than four hours without stopping, everyone stopped by a small river to rest for a while.

Carrick said, "Lord Viscount, I remember that there is also a royal manor along this little river a little longer, why don't we go there and have a look?"

It's just that Viscount Timba will have become a frightened bird, shaking his head and saying no, the manor here is very close to the manor where the slaves rioted, and it is only about an hour to ride a horse, it is likely that the slaves here have also been instigated to riot, and Viscount Timba does not want to become one of those unlucky people who are hung on the gallows.

Targar asked, "Lord Viscount, are there many royal estates in this plain?"

Carrick replied in place of Viscount Timba that the plain had no name, and was later called the Plains of the Plain of the Castle because of the location of the royal city. When the Kingdom of Haneyabada was first established, because the pirates did not produce and had a wide range of ******, they barely survived by fishing. So at that time, the biggest purpose of the pirates to attack the golden coastline was to plunder the grain, but the coastal countries were on guard and the walls were clear, so that the cost of the pirates to obtain food became higher and higher, so that the gains outweighed the losses.

When the second king of the kingdom of Haneyabada, Luther I, came to power, he stopped raiding the coastal countries, reached an understanding and opened up trade routes, which solved the dilemma of food shortage. Immediately after that, Luther I vigorously developed the Wangcheng Plain and established dozens of royal granges in this plain, making this Wangcheng Plain the granary of the Haneyabada Kingdom, which could basically meet the food needs of the kingdom.

Now there were 1230,000 slaves on this plain, who were responsible for the development of the farmland of the various royal estates, and if they were all instigated by the Norton family to riot, the consequences would be unimaginable, and both Carrick and Viscount Timba were worried.

After another half an hour's rest, everyone continued to hurry, and when the sky dawned, everyone was exhausted.

At this moment, the shadow of another manor appeared in the hazy front, and Lorist went to inspect it, and said that the manor looked normal, and that the slaves were already under the supervision of the overseer and were preparing to go to the field to harvest wheat.

Viscount Timba and Carrick were overjoyed and hurried to the manor. When they arrived at the manor, they were served and entertained very warmly and thoughtfully, after all, Viscount Timba was the younger brother of the most favored princess, a veritable royal relative, just as the head of the manor said, the Viscount could come to it that was full of brilliance, although the Viscount looked so embarrassed......

Viscount Timba did not have the heart to accept the courtesy of the Steward, and he hurriedly ordered himself to prepare a carriage and leave the manor at once, for fear that if he delayed for a long time, he would be besieged by the cavalry of the Norton family and the slaves of the rebellion. It wasn't until he left that Carrick reminded the hospitable manager about the riots and told him to prepare in advance.

By the time the carriage had departed, the manor had already sounded the alarm bell to inform the slaves who had gone to work in the wheat fields to return to the estate.

It was already dark, and it would be more than an hour before the city of Hamidas would be reached, and the carriage had turned onto the main road, and now there was no need to worry about the pursuit of the enemy. After half an hour's journey, the horn sounded in front of him, and the coachman pulled the carriage to a mound beside the road to make way for the avenue.

Banners were waved in front, and an earthy army wriggled like a long serpent from a huge castle in the distance, and at the front were nearly a hundred knights on horseback......

Carrick raised his arms and cheered: "That's the royal city! That's our King's Praetorian Guard, they're on their way! Hooray! Our Praetorian Legion! Hooray!

...... (To be continued.) )