Chapter 001: A Glimpse of Poverty

Eagle Cliff Castle!

The northwest gateway of the Weilong area, which is also one of the three main roads into Weilong, towers over the limestone mountains with strange peaks, and is the most majestic fortress to enter Weilong. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info

Luo Xiaohu is now standing at the entrance of Eagle Cliff Fort with a fur ball.

"Is this also going to be called a fortress?" Luo Xiaohu said as he looked at the dilapidated small city tower in front of him a little incredulously. The difference between legends and ideals is also a little too big, so big that Luo Xiaohu thinks that legends are nonsense.

The small city tower in front of me is a bit exaggerated to say that it is a city tower, let's put it this way, one meter and five tattered stones and mud stacks, if this thing can still be regarded as a city wall, then Luo Xiaohu's house in White Tree City is the Palace of Versailles. If it weren't for the words Eagle Cliff Fort twisted on a tree with a big crooked neck next to it, as well as the towering peaks on both sides, Luo Xiaohu would have thought that he was standing on the ruins of violent demolition.

"It's indeed a fortress, I guess it used to be quite majestic!" Ke Sug shook the reins in his hand, and the forest spirit under his ride walked forward.

Luo Xiaohu heard Ke Suge say this, and took a closer look at the surrounding situation, and sure enough, he could see some traces of some remnants of the castle wall, just looking at these ruins, you can see the majesty of the original fortress, but that was the original, not the present.

"Who are you?"

Just as Luo Xiaohu was looking at the dilapidated 'Northwest Gate' of his territory, a lazy voice sounded.

Luo Xiaohu looked at the visitor, and was even more disappointed at this time, the person who came seemed to be wearing a military uniform, why did he say it seems, because the clothes on this person didn't know how many days had not been washed, and he couldn't see what color it was, only a few remaining rusty nails on it also showed that this was a military uniform.

The person who came looked to be at least sixty years old, the whole person was lean and lean, because malnutrition was not only the cheeks but even the eye sockets were a little sunken, and the beard on the chin was also sparse and pulled, there were not a few left, and the whole person's arms were half as thick as a normal person, not to mention meat, even the skin was not a normal color, and the whole person just interpreted an idiom: skin and bones!

The old man shouted, and then glanced behind him and saw the 'Crab Flag' behind Luo Xiaohu's mount! The old man rubbed his eyes and looked at it for a long time, and then he was sure that the new lord had arrived.

But I'm still a little unsure in my heart, I think the new lord just brings a few people? And looking at this group of people, there are not one or two faces that are similar, except for the lord, there are orcs, dragons and elves, what kind of shape is this?

The veteran didn't know whether to ask a question or say to himself in the direction of Luo Xiaohu: "His Royal Highness Sepitro has arrived?"

Ke Suge, who was walking in front of him, couldn't help but be happy: "Yes, your Royal Highness has arrived."

There was obvious suffocation in Ke Suge's words, such a dilapidated fortress, coupled with the title of duke, was indeed a great irony in the eyes of ordinary people.

Luo Xiaohu's heart was also shocked by the 'fortress' in his own territory, such a fortress, there is no need to attack at all, it is unimpeded for anyone, where does the fortress come from.

However, seeing that there was another veteran, Luo Xiaohu immediately drove forward, and when he reached two or three meters in front of the veteran, he turned over and dismounted: "I am Darafael Sepitero."

"Your Highness!"

When the veteran heard this, he immediately wanted to bend down and salute Luo Xiaohu.

However, the dress of the veteran and the appearance of a refugee, this military salute is quite funny.

Luo Xiaohu didn't have any expression on his face, but instead smiled and asked kindly, "This is a ...... You're alone here?". Luo Xiaohu originally wanted to talk about the fortress, but his skin was not thick enough to spit out these two words, so he had to replace them with the two words here.

"Back to Your Highness, there are three other people besides me, I am the captain here" The veteran lost a few teeth, spoke a little revealingly, and his words were a little unclear.

Luo Xiaohu asked again: "Where is your camp, take me to have a look."

The veteran took Luo Xiaohu and walked two steps, and about a hundred meters into the so-called 'fortress', he saw a hole that seemed to be a kiln or something, and when he looked inside, it was still black, and he couldn't see what was inside.

"His Royal Highness the Duke of Veron has arrived!"

The old soldier howled at the entrance of the cave, and then heard a sparse grinding sound from the hole, and after about three minutes, three unclothed teenagers, about fifteen or sixteen years old, all of them were in the same shape, all of them looked malnourished, and they looked almost like bones, and one of them could not even cover his buttocks.

Luo Xiaohu looked at these people and couldn't help but sigh in his heart: This is also called a soldier? This is the fortress in his territory, the so-called Northwest Gateway?

After controlling his mood, Luo Xiaohu asked thoughtlessly, "Why don't you run?"

If Luo Xiaohu had encountered such a thing, he would have run away a long time ago, and he had walked down from his own way, and there was no place like his own territory, so poor that it was an eye-opener!

"I ......"

One of the children seemed to be a little bolder, and opened his mouth to say something, but was stopped by the veteran's gaze.

Luo Xiaohu gently shook the horsewhip in his hand, and after glancing at the veteran, he asked the child, "What's your name?"

"My name is Uwa, Your Highness," the child said as he looked at Luo Xiaohu.

"If I lived a day like yours, I wouldn't be able to stand it for a day, I would have run away a long time ago, why didn't you run" Luo Xiaohu said.

"Unless we run into the mountains, we will be sent back, whether we run to Zararosso or the Kingdom of the Starfall. And when we get back, Mr. Hassan will immediately send our family to the forest farm to cut wood," Uwa said.

This sentence sounds like nothing, but if you think about it carefully, the information revealed in it is not a star. Luo Xiaohu naturally noticed it, but he didn't show it.

"Didn't you say the fortress, how did it become like this," Luo Xiaohu asked.

"Originally, ten years ago, this was still a West Cypriot, although there was no protective ability, but the ten-meter-high stone city wall was still there, and then Lazarosso's army came once and knocked down the city wall, and then if the nearby Lazarosso people wanted to build a house, they would also come here to get a lack of stones to build a road or something, and after ten years, the entire Eagle Cliff Fort fortress was left with these," the veteran said to Luo Xiaohu.

Luo Xiaohu nodded, thought for a moment and asked, "What is the salary of your guards here now?"

The veteran couldn't help but be stunned when he heard this, and then said, "One silver coin and thirty copper coins."

"A month?"

"One Season"

"Who sent it?"

"Lord Hassan, Archon of Veron," Uwa said.

"Archon?" Luo Xiaohu couldn't help but be stunned for a moment when he heard this, and then couldn't help but have a playful smile on his face.

You must know that the name of the consul on the mainland is not small, and this name is not used casually, either the lord is young, or the lord is a puppet, and the powerful vassals under him can call themselves consuls.

But now that I'm not too young, I can't see the appearance of being a puppet, and there are people in my own territory who call themselves consuls, which is so fun!

"No, Archon, it's Lord Hassan," the veteran hurriedly corrected Uva's words.

Luo Xiaohu couldn't help but look at the veteran again, and the veteran immediately stopped and swallowed the rest of the words back into his stomach.

Luo Xiaohu knew that the veteran was probably very afraid of this guy named Hassan, and an ordinary civilian, like Uwa, didn't say anything else when facing him, just by looking at his appearance, he knew the fear in his heart, although what he said at this time was not 100% credible, but at least 80%.

"Okay, I know, you guys continue like this" Luo Xiaohu pondered for a moment, and after saying to these so-called guards, he turned over and got on the horse, and directly urged the horse into his territory.

The veteran looked at the back of Luo Xiaohu and his party and disappeared, reached out and slapped Uwa's head violently, and directly slapped Uwa's ass and squatted: "You don't want to die!"

"I think this is good," Uwa admitted.

The veteran stretched out his foot and kicked Uwa again: "It's all a bird, haven't you heard, this one may die in the ghost abyss in a few months."

After speaking, the veteran looked in the direction where Luo Xiaohu was running again, and then said to a few boys: "Go back, the wind is still quite strong today, and it's really cold outside."

Luo Xiaohu and his entourage walked out of the fortress, directly along the avenue towards the center of their territory, to be honest, if you don't see the Eagle Cliff Fort Fortress, Luo Xiaohu is in a good mood now, it is a standard avenue, you can run four four-wheeled carriages in parallel, although some stones have been damaged, but the basic appearance of the road is still there, both sides of the road are drainage ditches, and this ditch is not small, each is four or five meters wide, some are in disrepair, but the appearance is still there, with tall trees on both sides of the road, it will make people feel better all of a sudden。

It's a pity that Luo Xiaohu has seen the fortress now, and he is so poor that he has no mood at all.

In addition, after passing through two small towns, it is estimated that more than 30 houses can be regarded as small towns! Luo Xiaohu's mood went directly to the bottom.

As soon as he left the town, he walked for less than a quarter of an hour, and Luo Xiaohu found that a team of four-wheeled carriages came to meet him, and there was a noble flag hanging on the carriage, and Luo Xiaohu didn't know which family this flag represented, but just looking at the flag, this guy was just a viscount, and he was still several levels away from himself.

There were about a dozen carriages, all of which were made of wood, and they were all cut planks, not to mention the length of the planks, and the width of the board alone was not less than one and a half meters.

Think about the 1.8-meter-tall tree, how many years does it take to grow like this, and it was cut down like this, and it was especially without knowing it.

Because not long after leaving the fortress, Luo Xiaohu had already put away his flag, so now the people in the convoy don't know that they have met the Grand Duke of Weilong now, and maybe even if Luo Xiaohu has played the flag, these people may not take any Grand Duke Weilong in their eyes.

"Where did you come from, where did you transport all this wood?" Luo Xiaohu asked as he turned to the two knights at the front of the convoy.

The knight who took the lead saw that Luo Xiaohu's temperament was good, and he didn't want to offend, so he opened his mouth and said: "We are the subordinates of Viscount Gastel, and this wood is transported to our Lazarosso."

"I think this wood is good, if I want to open a lumber mill, it's good to make money," Luo Xiaohu said.

One of the knights smiled and said, "It's easy to open a lumber mill, but if you don't have enough status, it's a matter of whether you can cut down wood and sell it."

"Oh, what else is there here......" Luo Xiaohu wanted to continue to investigate.

The knight who began to speak glared at his companion and said with a smile: "No, anyway, our knight is driving to make money, and others are not necessarily driving, if you don't bother, give way, we still have to hurry here."

When Luo Xiaohu heard this, he immediately smiled and let go: "Please, please!"

Seeing Luo Xiaohu's smiling appearance, the gas bag muttered happily to Lu Ji: "There is another fight to fight!"