289. Portrait
A trumpet-shaped bladder, a bag of salty baked biscuits, a dark red scimitar, and a sleeping bag sewn from raw cowhide were all the robbers carried, along with a set of tattered leather armor and a pair of riding boots, and if you were lucky, you could find a dagger in the riding boots.
The four robbers sneaked in from the Grand Canyon and did not ride horses, but the rest of the luggage was very complete.
In the process of escaping, they discarded all their belongings along the way, and now they have all been picked up by the young men of the first group, and a money bag containing dozens of silver coins has been found from the robber who was caught at the end......
In the end, the robber also knew what would happen if he was captured alive, so he took his last breath and hit his chest against the firewood knife of a young man from Diego Village, the leather cuirass was not cut by the firewood knife, but the young man with the firewood knife was so frightened that his face turned pale, and he once thought that he would be killed by the fierce and vicious robber, so he was so frightened that he stood in place with his eyes closed.
It wasn't until the robber was shot through the throat by an arrow from the young hunter who had caught up from behind, and the robber fell in a pool of blood with a strange smile on his face, that the young man from Diego sat on the sand and wept, probably deeply aware that life and death are often only a moment.
The trophies of the water bladder, sleeping bags, riding boots, and even scimitars were placed in front of this group of young people, but they did not let everyone take a second look, but in the end, the dozens of silver hammers on the robber's body made these young people exclaim in unison, as if they had seen something terrible, and everyone began to discuss whether to divide the bag of silver coins privately, and they felt that these silver coins should have been everyone's own. As for the loot they had picked up, the young men planned to bring all of them back and hand them over to the village.
Surdak glanced at the horn-like water bladders, which cost at least 5 silver coins in the leather shops of Highlandsa City, and the value of the raw cowhide sleeping bag was about 8 silver coins, and the pairs of riding boots would be more expensive, at least 10 silver coins per pair, of course, these were far from the value of the scimitar, this dark red sharp scimitar with blood stains, each would definitely not cost less than 30 silver coins, these young people probably didn't know that these trophies on the ground were more valuable.
Surdak stood silently with a piece of parchment, which depicted a portrait of a woman with a half-length sketch of a woman resembling Selena, a lifelike and professional sketch, and the calm smile on his face obviously captured the unique charm on Selena's face.
This parchment was accidentally found by him from the last robber, and he originally thought it was a magic scroll of 'Gathering Fire' or 'Gathering Water', but he didn't expect it to be a portrait that resembled Selena.
He carefully rolled up the parchment, and no one noticed the parchment portrait in his hand, and all eyes were focused on the bag of silver coins, so he quietly tucked the portrait into his magical fanny pack.
Surdak had been wondering how the bandits had come to find Selena, and they hadn't seen Selena, so could they find her accurately just by describing her in words? It was only at this moment that he found the answer: it turned out to be this highly realistic sketch portrait, and Selena in this portrait was still in the form of a girlhood, and he did not know where the robbers got it.
Regarding the seized booty, the young man ran to Surdak for his opinion, he had little interest in the boots and water bladders, after all, it was a collective action, although he was the most contributing, but he could not monopolize anything, so he only said: it is okay to follow everyone's ideas, he has no opinion at all.
These young men could see that Surdak didn't care too much about the bag of silver coins, but they didn't expect the Surdak knight to be so talkative, this time a total of forty-four silver coins were seized, and there were a total of thirty-five young people present, so everyone discussed it, and each of them got a silver coin, and the rest was still put into the money bag and handed over to the village along with other loot.
Surdak also got a silver coin, and seeing that he didn't say anything, he simply put the silver coin in his backpack, and these young people completely put their hearts down, thinking: this Surdak knight doesn't seem to be difficult to get along with......
A total of twelve young men in the first group suffered some injuries, but none of them were fatal, and a simple bandage was fine.
The four robbers were buried on the spot, and the villager from Diego village, who had been killed by the robbers, was carried back to the village by young people from the same village.
More than 30 young people walked back to Diego Village from the Grand Canyon, the sky had already completely darkened, the village chiefs of each village did not leave Diego Village, they had already received the news that four robbers had infiltrated the Grand Canyon and robbed a villager of Diego Village.
Although some people in the team were injured, no one was killed because of this, and the village chiefs were a little relieved.
Prior to this, although the old Bright of Wall Village raised the potential threat of this group of robbers to the village chiefs, but few village chiefs paid attention to this matter, otherwise they would not have sent some young people to make up for it, and now seeing that these young people killed four robbers in one go, and more than a dozen young people were injured, the village chiefs of each village felt that these robbers who had quietly infiltrated the mountains could not help but be on guard.
The chiefs of the villages finally began to take the matter seriously, and agreed to the proposal of the chief of Bright to completely clean up the bandits in the mountainous area......
In fact, as long as everyone has such a sense of prevention, then these bandits will not do much in the mountains, and the villagers who can survive in this barren land are far more tenacious than they seem, they are the mountain people of this Paglos Mountain, no one is more familiar with this mountain than them, for them, these robbers are a group of outsiders.
No one has noticed these robbers before, because everyone didn't realize what threat these robbers pose to everyone, and the village chiefs have always felt that the impoverished mountain villages will definitely not be the target of these robbers' plunder, but they didn't expect these robbers to secretly arrest people, so that the robbers can be regarded as touching the final bottom line of the villages.
As a result, a patrol and escort team organized by each village was set up that night.
In fact, each village is only responsible for patrolling the area around its own village, if the bandit group is weak, it will be cleaned up directly, if you feel that you can't clean it up, then ask for help from other villages, and everyone will kill these bandits together.
After reaching such a consensus among the villages, Chief Bright and Surdak returned to the village of Wall overnight.
The people who went into the mountains to collect mountain goods have long returned, the eaves of the stone houses of each family are full of all kinds of mountain mushrooms, and some unshelled chestnuts are dried in the dustpan in the yard, and there are some other kinds of mountain vegetables......
At least none of the villagers in the village of Wall are worried about food in winter.