Chapter 161: Spring Rain

"No, Uncle Locke, I made a mistake last move, start over......" This is Bodfinger's daughter Alyssa, who is playing Warcraft with Lorlist.

Warcraft is a Monopoly-like board game in Gelintya, the chessboard is an irregular labyrinthine map, on which nearly 100 kinds of Warcraft-shaped chess pieces are placed, and its boss is a red dragon chess piece located in the center of the maze. The participants of the game are knight-shaped chess pieces, and from the entrance they throw points with dice to decide how many steps to take.

Different from the Monopoly game, Warcraft chess requires good computing power, because all Warcraft chess pieces have scores, for example, the knight's score is ten, then he takes two steps in the grid is a magic sheep, and the score engraved under the magic sheep chess pieces is five, which means that the knight kills the demon sheep without damage, and then the knight's score becomes fifteen, if it is a demon wolf, its score is nine, then it means that the combat power is similar, and the knight's score after victory is not nineteen, but eleven, and only the score difference between the scores can be added, otherwise the scores can only be subtracted and added。

There are many crossroads in the land labyrinth, guarding all kinds of Warcraft, and every step must be calculated to increase the most suitable way to increase combat power, so as to reach the center of the maze to kill the red dragon and win, so this Warcraft chess is also called the Dragon Slaying Game.

Just now, the little girl miscalculated, went in the wrong direction, and met a demon tiger, her knight's combat power is only thirty-seven, and the score of the demon tiger is forty-two, which means that the little girl's knight has become the canned food of the demon tiger, and the little girl's knight has to retreat to the entrance of the maze to start over, and all the killed monster chess pieces must return to the chessboard. This time the little girl stopped doing it, so she played tricks to regret it.

Lorist pinched the little girl's face dotingly. generously agreed to let the little girl choose a new direction to move forward.

On the chair with a back next to the window of the room. Sitting upright was the little girl's brother Schward. At the moment, he was looking intently at the books he found on the shelf. On the floor in the middle of the room, two twin brothers of the golden mercenary Fareyana, five or six years old, were eating a small snack and playing with a pair of building blocks, and they were trying to build a small castle......

During this time, Lorist was entangled by the little girl Alyssa, who had not seen her for more than half a year since she left the team and returned to the family territory, and Alyssa missed this uncle who loved her. Second, they are now in Kebo City, and it is snowing heavily and drizzling outside, so I can't go out to play. In addition, Lorist lived on the highest floor of the castle, and the room was large, so the little girl took her two little henchmen, and the twin brothers of Farea, came over to play every day.

Bodfinger and Farea, who were worried that the children would disturb Lorist, tried to stop them from coming, but were stopped by Lorlist. Winter is boring, and it is lively to have a few children to accompany you. As the lord's convoy and the affairs of the homeless are all taken care of, Lorist only needs to go on patrol occasionally to show a friendly attitude, there is no need to bow to everything.

By the way, I also happened to use this time to take the test to check whether the second disciple Schward's homework was delayed on the northbound road, so that the children would not be bored. Lorist also took a deep dive into designing some children's toys from his previous life, and instructed the craftsmen to make them for the children to play with, directly turning his room into a children's playground.

There was another knock on the door. This time it was Pat who came in.

"Your Excellency, Knight Yuri has returned, and Lord Sredder invites you to the hall to discuss the matter. Pat said.

"Uncle, if you have something to do, let's not go down. Before Lorist could speak, the little girl Alyssa stood up very sensibly and threw the chess pieces and scoreboard in her hand onto the chessboard.

Lorist opened his mouth and stammered: "Little girl, uncle will win in two more steps, you are playing tricks again this time." ”

But the little girl ignored him, cheered and ran to the twin brothers, shaking her head and commenting that the castle they had built was ugly.

"Let's build a garden. "Begin to tear down the castle.

The two brothers were not happy, and the three of them quarreled again.

"What did Yuri say?" asked Pat as he walked downstairs with Pat after closing the children's quarrel into the room.

Yuri said that the road was not easy to walk, and it was wet and muddy, and it sank into his neck when he stepped on it. Now one is thawing, the other is the spring rain, the road is really muddy, and it is impossible to pass the big car. Without more than ten days of sun exposure, the road will not be dry. Pat replied, "By the way, Yuri also said that he had been to the river and asked the old boatman at the crossing. The old boatman said that before February 25, there was no way to cross the river here, and a lot of ice and ice that had been washed down from the upstream were piled up on this section of the river, and the river could not be crossed until the end of February after the drift was clean. ”

"Alas, it's going to be another month, and my body is about to get moldy if I stay here again. Since I can't leave yet, what did Knight Schreed ask me to discuss?" Lorist sighed.

"I don't know about this, he only said that he has something important to discuss with you. ”

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Compared with Lorlist's leisure, Shi Fatzi is very busy. The northbound convoy of more than 70,000 people, the burden of the life and management of 100,000 displaced people was on his shoulders, and the trivial matters and small disputes that occurred every day annoyed him to death.

"If you don't pay it, why should he? Take the patrol guard, don't care if he is the old mayor or not, give me ten lashes, what about seventy or eighty, if you violate our rules, you will be punished, and you deserve to be whipped! Whoever sympathizes with him will get out with him, we don't need to raise such a guy who relies on the old and sells the old! Go quickly, whip ten whips, this is an order!"

Lorist and Pat were still on the third staircase when they heard Fat Smith's roar, and he didn't know what had caused him to be angry.

When I arrived at the hall, I happened to see a civilian manager under Shi Fatzi running out, and Shi Fatzi was still angry.

"What's wrong?" asked Lorlist.

"It's nothing, a seventy-year-old immortal, relying on himself to be the mayor of the town. Not only did he choose two women to be maids from the displaced people of a town in the past. He also took a tenth of the supplies we distributed from the townspeople as his own commission. Didn't he pack up and inspect the tents in the camp in the past two days? Only then did he realize that he had accumulated a large amount of supplies. We're going to confiscate. He was still scolding him because of his age, so I commanded him to be given ten lashes so that he might remember the lesson. They are all homeless and still want to be powerful, how can this be reasonable? Shi Fatzi said.

"How simple it is to hang directly, anyway, such an age is a drag, and it will only consume the waste of our family's materials and food. My lord, do you say that?" interjected Yuri, who was sitting on the side drinking hot tea.

Lorist thought for a moment and said, "Forget it, Schreid has already made a punishment, so there is no need to change it again." But remember, the convoy set off with these slippery treacherous. I will take out all the delicious and lazy things, so as not to get the bad atmosphere of the family territory, and then throw them here and let them fend for themselves. ”

Shi Fatzi discussed with Lorist about the departure, and Lorist wanted to return to the family territory as soon as possible, Shi Fatzi was relieved when he heard Yuri's report that he had to wait another month to go north, and it was only late January, even if he wanted to go north, he had to prepare, all the vehicles had to be overhauled, the horses had to be driven out to relax and move, and the clothes, dry food and itinerary of hundreds of thousands of people needed time. It's impossible to say go right away.

The most important thing is that Shi Fatzi wants to pack the remaining 170 million catties of grain in Kebo City and transport it back to the family territory. As a result, the wagons that had been carrying large numbers of people had to be freed up to transport food, and the people on foot would obviously slow down the convoy.

Lorist was very troubled, he wanted to return to the family territory as soon as possible without these grains. But Shi Fatzi persuaded him by citing a number.

Shi Fatzi said that in just these two and a half months and 80 days, 1780,000 people have consumed more than 30 million catties of grain in Kebo City, and if he didn't want this grain to only bring people back to the family territory, he would not believe that there were hundreds of millions of catties of grain stored in the family territory, waiting for these hundreds of thousands of people to come over and eat.

Lorist had to admit that what Shi Fat Man said was very reasonable, he remembered that the steward of Speer had reported to him that the family storage and the grain seized in Kitano Town added up to about fifty or sixty million catties, and he also had to provide the labor and family arms for the construction of the rock castle. This year, Beiye Town has abandoned the famine, and the grain in Fenglin Manor usually has more than seven or eight million catties of reserves every year, if you don't bring back the grain from Kebo City, the convoy of people and displaced people will really be hungry in the second half of this year.

"Take it. Lorist could only agree, and then remembered one more thing: "Don't forget the trouble of crossing the river, while there is still a month, let the artisan battalion first make small boats and wooden rafts, so that they can transport these things to build a pontoon bridge first, and then come back to transport supplies." ”

"You designed the Locke boat?"

"Uh...... Sort of, but this time you have to cross a freight carriage, the pontoon bridge has to be five meters wide, so that those craftsmen can make the boat longer, the river and the lake are different, you have to go through the wind and waves, and the green cement is coated with two more layers. By the way, the river is about 300 meters wide, and the number of boats to be built is arranged according to this length. Lorist commanded.

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On the 10th of February, His Royal Highness again rushed to the city of Kebo in a light car and Jian Cong braved the drizzle, and this time he came for two purposes, one was to borrow grain again, and the other was to hope that Lorist would postpone the trip and stay in the city of Kebo until the winter wheat harvest in April and May before setting off for the north.

His Royal Highness's reason was to ask Lorist to take charge of the city of Kebo and lead the army to suppress the territorial nobles of the province of Delemke and not to cause trouble for him in the event of a decisive battle with the Grand Duke of Madras. His Second Highness was confident that in only three months he would be able to sweep through the province of Sidgrad and make the Grand Duke of Madras bow down to his horse.

Lorist shook his head and directly rejected the request of the Second Highness, he said that he had not received any news from the family since he left in September last year, and he was really relieved, and now that the cold winter has passed the spring rain, he has already returned to his heart like an arrow, and he hopes to return to the family territory tomorrow, so he can't agree to the request of the Second Highness, and he is really sorry.

However, Lorist believes that after the convoy leaves, he can hand over Kebo City to His Second Highness, as long as His Second Highness sends more than 10,000 soldiers of the Royal Legion to guard Kebo City, I believe that the nobles of the territory of Delemke Province will not dare to act rashly. As for borrowing grain, there is no need to mention it, I am willing to give 20 million catties of grain to His Second Highness as a congratulatory gift to celebrate His Second Highness's victory in advance to the Grand Duke of Madras.

However, Rao is Lorist said this, His Royal Highness is still frowning, he said that if 10,000 soldiers are withdrawn, it will not be able to concentrate all their strength against the Archduke Madras's Haishan Legion, the best way is for Lorist to leave half of the convoy in Kebo City, and he will first bring those displaced people and supplies north to return to the family territory.

Lorist still refused, he said that he said that he would take all the convoy of people and horses home, and would not leave anyone, and he would do what he said, not to mention that he had no reason to stay here, this was not his family fiefdom, why did he stay here?

In the end, Lorist and His Royal Highness parted unhappily.

Looking at the distant figures of His Second Highness and his entourage, Lorist poked Shi Fatzi next to him with his arm: "Now I understand, he won't say anything about giving Kebo City to our family when he dies, no matter how good the other conditions are promised, it's hard enough for him to find reasons to persuade us to stay." ”

Shi Fatzi smiled bitterly: "I think we have to speed up the preparations for the trip and leave here as soon as possible." I suspect that the real reason why His Highness asked our convoy to stay behind is that he has received the news that the Second Prince is preparing to attack the province of Dramke, so he wants us to resist the Second Prince's attack here, to buy him time to prepare for war, or to wait for us and the Second Prince to fight and lose so that he can make a profit. ”

"You're absolutely right. Loris nodded: "I suspect that this is also the reason, which is why he is reluctant to send his royal legion here, and I don't believe that the loss of 10,000 soldiers will affect his decisive battle with the Grand Duke of Madras." Didn't you read what El wrote to tell us?

Our Second Highness was not idle this winter, with that 100 million catties of food, he not only replenished the 56,000 soldiers of the Tempest Legion, but also expanded the Royal Legion into a large army of 83,000 men, and completed the reconstruction of the fortress castle in Liechdana, and formed a garrison of 20,000 people. He said that he didn't have troops to believe it, and even if he couldn't send the royal legions, wouldn't he still be able to send a garrison?

"I have to admit that His Royal Highness is indeed a hero, we have done so many things for him, and helped him so much, but he can sell us mercilessly in a blink of an eye, does he think that we really don't know his intentions?" Sometimes I really don't understand why you are so kind, like a good person. You must know that you are now a lord, and you are no longer a teacher of Dawn Academy, you must have the dignity of a lord. ”

Lorist laughed and recited a poem that made Shi Fatzi feel very strange: "Ruthless may not be a true hero, how can a poor son not be a husband......"

"Then do you think it's better to follow a lord like me or a hero like Second Highness?" Lorist turned back to the castle.

"Hey, what kind of poem did you just say in the book, it's kind of interesting. Shi Fatzi turned around and hurriedly followed: "Nonsense, of course with you, you are my little brother, I have to see that you don't do anything wrong, and being a lord is always a joke." Also, I won't follow the Second Highness if I am killed, or I will have to help him count the money if he is sold one day, then it will not be a loss. ”

"I just feel sorry for those old students and silver knights who defected to His Second Highness, it's okay to follow our convoy north for half a year, and two died in less than ten days after they defected to him, it's really not worth it. By the way, Locke, you have to remind your cousin Chrisia, I think with the temperament of the Second Highness, she doesn't want to be a queen" Shi Fat kept nagging in the back.

Lorist sighed and replied, "Fatty, you talk a lot of nonsense. Forget it, everyone has his fate, and it is difficult for us to change their insistence. My cousin will remind her that it is up to her to listen or not. ”

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