Chapter 483: Healing

The place was really nice, the air was fresh, the view was wide, and I couldn't help but feel refreshed, and Lorist was genuinely satisfied with what Arridori said about the mountain keeper's hunting house. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info

This is a mountain pass in the Garrigues Mountains near the Barony of Dinah, and the reason why Arridori built a hunting house on this pass and sent two mountain guards was to create a lush mangrove forest halfway up the mountainside. In the Gelinthia continent, red oak wood is a precious wood, and its natural curved wood grain has always won the favor of nobles and wealthy families, and is in short supply as a high-end decoration material for palaces and villas.

Arridoli was overjoyed to find that there was such a large mangrove forest on the mountain next to the territory, and immediately included the area in the middle of the mountain where the mangrove forest was located into the jurisdiction of the family territory. In order to avoid being secretly cut down, a hunting house was built in the mountain pass, and two people were sent to guard the mountain. Nominally to prevent wild wolves from descending the mountain into the territory and harming people and animals, the two mountain guards were tasked with preventing others from entering the mangrove forest, cutting wood or collecting cranberries and red mushrooms from the mangrove forest.

When it comes to mangroves, we can't help but mention its two associated productions, one is the cranberry, which is almost half smaller than the blueberry, with thin skin and juicy, sweet and fragrant, and has always been known as the best of the fruits. Cranberry is a fruit that grows only in the associated shrubs of mangrove forests, and the cranberries ripen in August and September every autumn. Cranberry wine is very expensive, and it has always been popular with the aristocracy because it is said to be effective in healing and improving certain aspects of male ability.

The second mangrove specialty is the big red mushroom, which is a bright red mushroom that is non-toxic and delicious. Whenever heavy rains are over, these red mushrooms grow all over the mangrove forests. If not picked immediately, the red mushrooms will dry up and turn into a maroon dried mushroom after three days. In this famous dish of the popular stew in the mainland of Guelinthia, if you can throw in a few large red mushrooms, it can effectively enhance the umami and absorb the oiliness on the soup. At the same time, the big red mushrooms are very delicious whether you cook soup or cook.

For Arridori, owning this mangrove forest is equivalent to giving the Dina family a small coffers, before the mangrove forest is cut down before it finds a good buyer, these two specialties produced by the mangrove forest alone can make her earn an extra twenty or thirty gold fords a year, which is also a flying fortune, and it is not an exaggeration to send two mountain guards to guard this mangrove forest.

The hunting house is built in a small col next to the mountain pass and mangrove forest, and it is still a three-story attic structure, the lower floor is made of mountain stones, the upper two floors are made of logs, and a small beacon tower is built on the third attic. This hunting house can be regarded as a small fortress, and Arridori saw that Lorist was a little confused, so she explained that the wild wolves that roam in the mountains every winter habitually go down the mountain to forage for food, so this hunting house is to prevent the attack of wild wolves or demon bears in winter, and secondly, when these monsters are found coming down the mountain, they will light a fire to warn the territory, so that the territory garrison will send out to surround and kill these monsters.

The stone house on the first floor has five rooms, one large, four and five rooms, the middle large room is mainly a grand staircase up to the second floor, and the four rooms on both sides are stables, warehouses, utility rooms and repair rooms, and there is a small iron-striking stove in the repair room, which is used to repair or make some rudimentary tools and weapons. On the second floor were four rooms of about the same size, two bedrooms, a kitchen, and a lounge or dining room up the stairs, with a clumsy log table and four tree stumps in the middle, and two small squirrel skins and a deer's head hanging from the walls.

Different from the one-story stone house, the four rooms on the second floor have windows, but the windows of the two bedrooms and the dining room are thick wooden boards, only the kitchen windows have four green glasses, but there is also a wooden window for protection on the outside, which is a double-layer window structure. Without the windows, there would be insufficient light on the entire second floor, so there is a large dark stain on the wooden wall left by the smoke and fire, which are the marks left by the oil lamps and torches in the interior lighting.

The leftmost bedroom on the second floor is separated by a quarter, which is the staircase up to the attic. The attic on the third floor at the top is also made of logs, but it is the most lit place in the whole hunting house, because the attic has two large windows on one side, which can also be called window doors, and it is also a double-layer structure, with eight green glass windows and doors on the outside, and two thick wooden doors outside. When the four windows were opened, they led to the small beacon on the roof, which was used for alarms.

The water of the hunting house is a few big bamboo poles to get through from the high place of the mountain stream next to it, about sixteen or seventeen meters away, using the height difference of the mountain stream, these big bamboo poles are buried in the ground and then connected to the water tank of the kitchen on the second floor, at the same time, the water tank is connected to a water outlet, the excess water that reaches the height of three-quarters of the water tank is also discharged to a small pool in the yard of the hunting house through the drainage pipe made of bamboo poles, this small pool is also used to clean and drink horses.

"It's a nice place, we stayed here. Lorist said to Reddy with satisfaction as he stood on the roof platform on the third floor. From here, you can see the fields below, the wooden castle of Arridoli, and the town of Barony Dina called Red Walker in the distance.

"But Your Highness, this place is too shabby, and there are many things missing. Why don't I go down the hill and get some cutlery, candles, and clothes and bedding from the castle. Reddy said.

"Nonsense, have you seen a few mountain guards with gold cups, silver plates, and candles? Since we pretend to be mountain guards, we have to look like mountain guards. I didn't have the cutlery to make myself, so I would cut down a miscellaneous tree and make some wooden bowls, pots and spoons by myself, and use torches for lighting at night. Clothes, bedding, these things are very simple, you go to the mountains in the past two days to see, get some deerskin wolf skin or something, we make it ourselves. Also, didn't Aridolly say that the two great swordsmen who were pretending to be apothecaries would come over in two days, and we would go around the woods around here tomorrow and the day after tomorrow, digging up more herbs for them, so that we could coax them away as soon as possible. Lorist said.

"Yes, Your Highness. Reddy nodded.

What Lorist didn't expect was that three days later, the couple who were pretending to be apothecaries actually went up the mountain to the hunting house in person, accompanied by Aridori. Fortunately, in the past two days, Lorist and Reddy have dug up a lot of herbs that have been piled up in the yard, these herbs have not been washed and dried for the most basic treatment, and at the same time, a wild wolf skin covered with holes is still drying in the yard.

"Well, these herbs are very good, I want them. The male pharmacist, named Jack, took all the herbs piled up in the yard without looking closely, and at the same time went into the hunting house to look around. The female apothecary dragged Lorist around the courtyard and asked questions, as if she were interested in the wolf skin.

"Your Excellency, this wolf fell into the trap we set and was stabbed to death by the spikes buried underneath, so it is full of holes. Otherwise, a good wolf skin would be worth at least three or four large silver coins, but now it is not worth a penny. I can only tinker with it. "Lorist behaved like a greedy and obscene farmer, except that the hole in the wolf's skin was pierced by Reddy with a branch, otherwise the good wolfskin would have been taken by the lord at a low price or sold to a grocery store, and no mountain keeper would be willing to use it for his own use.

"Well, it's a pity that this wolf skin is a pity. By the way, what about your companion?" asked the pharmacist.

"Well, isn't that right? He just went on patrol in the mangroves, and I have to stay here to feed the horses and make lunch. Lorist pointed behind the apothecary.

The apothecary turned to see Reddy coming down the mangrove path, carrying a hunting bow and three pheasants and two hares.

Aridolly broke out on the spot: "Okay, Climato, you secretly went hunting under the pretext of patrolling again, and I caught you this time." Don't you want to get paid this month, you must know that everything in the mangrove forest belongs to our Diner family, and I will confiscate it if you bring it over!"

Reddy walked over dejectedly and argued, "But these prey are not hunted in the mangrove forest! I am hunting in the back mountains, which is not part of our family territory!"

Aridolly was even more angry: "I paid you to take care of this mangrove forest, but I didn't let you go hunting in the back mountains. I didn't say it, the salary is gone. And how do you prove that your prey wasn't hunted in the mangroves, or that it didn't run out of our mangroves?"

How can this, how can this be proven...... Reddy couldn't help it, so he had to hand the prey to Aridori, who also picked and chosen, threw a pheasant and a hare on the ground, and said in disgust: "So thin, leave it for you to make soup." ”

The female apothecary was stunned to see Arridori triumphantly hanging the prey she had stolen to the saddle of her mount, her eyes were full of respect, it turned out that this is what it is like to be a lord! At this time, the male pharmacist named Jack came out of the hunting house and shook his head slightly, obviously finding nothing.

Since they had not found anything here, the two couples who were pretending to be pharmacists were also ready to go back, but they had to pay off the money for the herbs piled up in the courtyard before they could go back. Arridori was shrewd in bargaining, and in a short time the two hundred catties of fresh herbs in the courtyard were sold for fifteen large silver coins for one goldford.

Aridori was very satisfied with the gold and silver coins paid by the apothecary, and then took out two small silver coins from her purse and threw them to Lorist and Reddy: "Well, good job, this is a bounty for the two of you, enough for you to go to the tavern in town for five glasses of ale......"

Lorist smiled bitterly and picked up the small silver coin from the ground and rubbed it in his hand, this time he finally had a deep understanding of how the nobles of the territory exploited their own people. In fact, Arridoli Ken was quite generous with two small silver coins. Because in the eyes of the nobles of the territory, everything produced in the territory belongs to them, just like these herbs belong to the Diner family, and it only takes two or three days for Lorist and Reddy to collect so many herbs. And the labor of the people is the least valuable in the eyes of the nobles of the territory.

Aridori and the imposter couple had come up the hill on horseback, so the fresh herbs had to be delivered to their town. Arridori was very generous with this, and said that she would send someone else to deliver these herbs to the Horseshoe Tavern in Dapanhe Town.

"Wouldn't it be okay for the two of them to send it over?" said the female pharmacist, pointing to Lorist and Reddy.

"No, let the two of them send it over to ensure that they will play outside for two or three days before coming back, now that they have money on them, they will definitely go to gambling, they won't come back if they don't spend all the money, I don't want the two of them to have an excuse to go outside again." Arridori refused.

The imposter apothecary and his wife were speechless, thinking that two small silver coins were also money, but they didn't care who sent the herbs, and originally wanted to let the two mountain guards bribe them to act as spies when they delivered the herbs to their doors, so that they could inform them if they found out that the Barony of Diner had guests or abnormal information. Now that Aridolly refuses to let these two people send medicinal herbs, and considering that these two people live on the hill and don't know anything about the castle, then forget it.

It wasn't until the backs of the three of them turned into small black dots at the bottom of the mountain that Reddy breathed a sigh of relief: "Your Highness, I'm really glad that Miss Dina is not the matriarch of our Norton family......"

Lorist laughed, "Didn't you notice that Aridorie acted very well? I'm going to get ready to heal tomorrow. Remember if I gave you the names of those herbs, tomorrow you can go to the mountains to see if there are any of them, and make me a wooden bath, I need a medicinal bath to recover from the injuries inside my body. ”

Lorist prepares to use Danhai Qi Deduction with Reddy's help to restore the internal meridians and dantian injuries in his body. Compared with the golden water duel, the Danhai Qi Induction Technique is more neutral and peaceful, especially since it is improved from the Taoist health preservation technique, and it has a more healing effect on the recovery of the body, the first two layers are easy to get started, which will be easier for Lorist, the meridians inside the body and the dantian are almost destroyed by the fighting energy contained in the long sword stabbed into the chest by the Storm Sword Saint, only the Danhai Qi Induction Technique is used to slowly recuperate, and when it reaches the third layer, you can turn around and practice the Golden Water Duel to restore your strength.

Lorist and Reddy stayed in the hunting house on the hill and began to heal their injuries, and summer turned to autumn, and time passed quickly. Occasionally, Aridolly will take the maid Suni Lulu and her baby son Triek to take the opportunity of supervising the servants and servants to go up the mountain to pick big red mushrooms after the heavy rain to come to the hunting house and meet Lorist for a long time, the little fat dun Triek does not recognize this bearded man as his father, but he knows that this man is very good to him, will help him make toys to play with him, and will cook a lot of delicious things, so he is very close to Lorlist.

The days passed like this, and by the time of October, Lorist had already practiced to the third level of the Danhai Qi Induction Technique, and now he had recovered to the strength of the Golden Swordsman, even if he met the Great Swordsman, he would have the power to fight back, and Lorist thought that at the end of the year, he would be able to re-practice the Golden Water Duel, and in another half a year, he would be able to restore the strength of the Sword Saint and return to the Northland with a swagger.

On this day, Lorist was fiddling on the roof with some of the herbs that Reddy had picked up, and the cleaned herbs had to be dried. But I saw Arridori riding a horse up the mountain in a hurry, and when she got to the yard, she looked up and shouted to the top: "Locke, I have news from the Northlands, something happened to the Norton family!"

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