The largest carriage shop in the city is located in the southwest corner of the workshop area of the city of Hylanza, just across the street from the south gate, and opposite the carriage shop is the largest free market in the city, which is also the busiest place in the whole city, and many citizens are willing to buy cheap goods here.

In early spring, a kind of fresh red cabbage appears in the free market.

This fern, which grows under rotting leaves, is the first wild vegetable to break through the soil after the arrival of spring, and the people of Hailanza, who can only eat turnips, pumpkins, cabbage, potatoes and all kinds of dried vegetables and mushrooms throughout the winter, have no resistance to this fresh sprout. Some mountain people put red cabbage on their stalls, and they were immediately snatched up.

Taking advantage of this season, when the frozen soil on the southern slope of the mountain is completely melting, the mountain people outside the city of Hailanza carry hoes to go up the mountain to pick wild vegetables and dig cassava.

Cassava is the rhizome of a tree, a cassava tree can produce hundreds of catties of cassava, this cassava grows deep in the mountains, the cassava trees around the village are basically the private property of nobles and knights, and many poor families rely on this cassava with trace toxins to survive the food shortage.

Every spring, the free market in the city of Hylanza hoards large quantities of cassava, and some homeless people even stand guard outside the free market gates, where they help the merchants carry their bags, and a copper plate can buy a cassava the size of a child's arm.

This free market has a large cassava deal every day, so it is not difficult for the homeless to fill their stomachs in the city of Highlandsa as long as they are willing to sell a little effort.

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After entering the spring, the business of the horse-drawn carriage shops in the city also enters the off-season.

During this season, horse-drawn carts come into the mountains to pull cassava and sell them to the free market in the city of Highlandza, but those small margins are not even as good as the commissions for clearing snow in the city in the winter.

There is a store on the street of this carriage shop, Surdak walks in and opens the door of the store, a blonde woman stands behind the counter, is looking down to sort out the accounts, the hall of the store is a little noisy, a group of coachmen are sitting in the rest area of the store chatting, at this time can have time to chat basically some truck drivers, everyone is waiting for the evening bell to ring, you can go home for dinner.

Through the back door, Surdak could clearly see that the backyard of the carriage shop was full of four-wheeled carriages, and some grooms unloaded the Guboren horses from the wagons and carefully brushed them with brushes before leading the horses back to the stables.

There are also people who put grass next to the storehouse where the hay is stored, and the grass has to be mixed with wheat bran and soybean cake embryos and stirred evenly before they can be fed to these kubolai horses, so that they do not lose fat in the spring.

Hearing the footsteps, the blonde raised her head, saw a knight in costume walking in at the door, immediately stood up, and said enthusiastically to Surdak: "Hello, Lord Knight, how can I help you?" ”

Surdak said to the shopwoman, "I want to hire a couple of four-wheeled trucks. ”

"And where are you going?" The clerk placed a parchment map on the counter and shoved a thin wooden stick in front of Surdak.

Surdak picked up a stick, pointed to the location of the village of Wall, the easternmost part of the barren land at the southern end of the Paglos Mountains, next to the city of Hylanza, at the easternmost point of the map, and said: "Go to the village of Wall, just outside the Paglos Pass, in the barren land, about a day's journey from the city of Highlandsa. ”

"Are you going to use it now?" The blonde clerk asked Surdak with a pair of big blue eyes.

"Hmm." Surdak nodded.

The female clerk reminded Surdak: "Although the snow and ice in the mountains have melted and the road to the outside of the mountain pass is unobstructed, walking at night is a little more expensive than the normal fare during the day, and if you don't have anything too important, it is recommended that you make an appointment tomorrow morning." ”

Surdak shook his head and said, "I'm going to need it tonight, and I can't wait for tomorrow." ”

The female clerk smiled awkwardly, thought about it and asked Surdak, "So...... What other requirements do you have for these carriages? ”

Surdak thought about it seriously and said casually: "There is nothing to ...... By the way, at least these coachmen can't be too afraid of dogs! ”

The clerkess took the request seriously in the register, bowed her head and wrote: "From the city of Hylanza to the village of Wall, outside the pass of Paglos, you will have to cross the city's golden oak ridges, and hire a four-wheeled carriage about six silver dollars. By the way, how many four-wheeled carriages do you need to hire? ”

Surdak calculated that fifty kobold slaves on a four-wheeled carriage should be fine, then more than a thousand kobold slaves would need almost twenty four-wheeled carriages, and the ogre Gulitum needed a spacious four-wheeled carriage, in addition, Surdak also planned to buy a batch of cheap cassava in the city of Highlandsa, he thought for a moment and said, "I need thirty!" ”

The blonde clerk's expression was slightly suffocated, and then she returned to normal, and said to Surdak:

“…… Yes, Knight! ”

As soon as Surdak entered the carriage shop, he was watched by the coachmen in the nearby rest area, although they were still chatting without a word, but they were a little absent-minded.

The coachmen could not flock to Surdak to grab the door-to-door business, but could only wait quietly in the rest area, a rule that had long been laid down by the coachmen, and that Miss Nellie would assign orders in the order in which the coachmen had signed up in the morning.

However, this time Miss Nellie took a long time to choose the coachman, and she went to the rest area herself, and asked the coachmen one by one if they were afraid of dogs, for the sake of hard-won work, even if the coachmen were afraid, it was impossible to say at this time.

Miss Nellie asked around the rest area, and ran to the backyard to find the coachmen who were scrubbing the horses, and asked them if they were afraid of dogs.

These coachmen in the backyard have received jobs today, and the coachmen who are absolutely at the bottom of the order in the carriage shop will squat in the backyard to brush the horses because they expect that no matter how much work there is, it will not be their turn.

Miss Nellie asked the coachmen in the backyard:

"Annelin, Dirk, Flor, would you three like to take on the work of the night? Go to the deserted places outside the Paglos Pass. ”

One of the coachmen, who was scrubbing his saddle covers, straightened up, carrying a watery brush in his hand, and asked Miss Nellie:

"Do you want to go overnight?"

The inner courtyard was full of carriages, and Miss Nellie held the registration book, squinted her eyes against the sun and said, "That's right! ”

The coachman glanced at the carriage dealer's shop, hesitated for a moment before saying, "Of course we do, Miss Nellie, but if you find us, won't those people in the rest area complain about you?" ”

Miss Nellie smiled brightly at the handsome coachman, and her white teeth were unusually neat, and she said:

"No, because they're all going to ...... too"

The coachman next to him immediately cheered: "Wow, it seems that this is a big business!" ”

Miss Nellie nodded proudly, and turned back with the register in her arms, saying as she went:

"That's right, the guest is a knight, and this time I have called a total of thirty four-wheeled carriages, if it is all right, come with me to the store."

The coachman, whose name was called, hurriedly stopped what he was doing and followed Miss Nellie into the store.

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The two-horse-drawn four-wheeled wagons drove out of the carriage row one after another, and parked neatly on the side of the carriage road.

Surdak didn't wait in the carriage shop, he walked into the free market opposite the carriage shop, casually asked the market price of cassava, and began to sweep a large number of goods in the free market, hundreds of catties or even dozens of catties, as long as the price was right, he bought them all, but the place of delivery was required to be at the door of the carriage shop. He just walked around the free market and bought a lot of cassava.

This cassava has a particularly large yield, but it contains a trace amount of toxins, and even the poor do not dare to eat too much.

It wasn't long before the stall owners in the free market came to the door of the carriage shop with cassava on their shoulders.

The process is followed by weighing and paying for the cassava, and then the stall owners load the cassava into the nine four-wheeled wagons at the back, until all nine four-wheeled wagons are full of cassava, and Surdak finally calls a halt, and the excess cassava is loaded into the carriages of the remaining four-wheeled wagons.

Surdak ordered several wagons laden with cassava to leave the city and wait by the road outside the city leading to the Paglos Pass.

Then he jumped into the four-wheeled carriage at the front and rushed to the airport dock with a long line of four-wheeled carriages.

Andrew, who was waiting at the gate of the airport terminal, saw Surdak standing in the carriage of the four-wheeled carriage, so he breathed a long sigh of relief and waved his hand at Surdak in the distance.

The kobold slaves were trapped in a string of ropes, and they lined up in a long line to board the four-wheeled carriage, and finally left the city of Highlandsa in a four-wheeled wagon before the gates were closed.

Surdak did not let these kobold slaves walk out of the city of Hylanza directly, in addition to the physical exhaustion of these kobolds, he was still worried that these stinky kobold slaves would cross the streets and cause some unnecessary riots, and his side was short of manpower, he was worried that the kobold slaves would take the opportunity to escape, and once there were signs of this, he was afraid that there would be no way to stop it.

It is much safer to load these kobold slaves into a four-wheeled carriage, and at the same time to have better control over these kobold slaves.

The kobold slaves, who had been hungry for a day, boarded the carriage and found that some cassava had already been prepared in the carriage, and they got into the carriage with all their hands and feet, sat down silently, and held the cassava and chewed it, they had been hungry all day, and now they didn't care about the toxin in the cassava.

Looking at these short kobold slaves who exuded a strong smell, the coachmen couldn't help but complain in their hearts, this big business is really not easy to do, and after a single business, it is indispensable to carefully scrub the wagon from the inside out, but when the carriage is full of kobold slaves, the coachmen still quickly plug in the box board behind the carriage.

Some coachmen would even pinch their noses and push up to push the frail young kobold slaves when they saw that they couldn't climb into the cargo box......

Nanai indigenous warrior Andrew and half-elf archer Samira guarded the front and rear ends of the convoy to prevent kobold slaves from escaping from the chaos.

Succubus Aphrodite obediently sat in a magic caravan at the airport docks, and Surdak didn't let her wander around outside until she was familiar with the Imperial Decrees, after all, she was a succubus......

However, Aphrodite didn't seem to care too much about this, she lay quietly by the window, her face covered with a black veil, looking curiously at the crowded street, through the black veil, Surdak could feel the smile on her face.

Surdak stood in front of the ogre Gulitham and said apologetically, "Sorry, Gulitham, today's dinner may be a little late......"

The ogre patted his belly, indicating that it was okay to be hungry once in a while, and after saying that, he picked up a cassava and rubbed it twice on his belly, chewing it like a crispy radish. He clumsily boarded the last wagon, the whole wagon creaked, and the coachman watched the ogre sit in his wagon, stretching the sides of the wagon in an exaggerated arc, and almost burst into tears, seeing that the convoy in front of him had departed, and the coachman could only quickly get into the driver's seat, and the four-wheeled wagon carried the ogre to chase after him as best he could.

As the convoy passed a bakery on Central Street, Surdak stopped the magic caravan, bought sixty servings of white bread and baked wheat cakes, and spent twenty silver coins on two hot roast sheep at a barbecue stand, and threw one of the stacks of baked wheat cakes and a whole roast sheep into the ogre's carriage, from which the ogre's exclamation was immediately heard.

In the magic caravan, the indigenous warrior ripped off a roast leg of lamb and cut it into small pieces with a skinning knife and put it on a silver plate, and the succubus Aphrodite took off her veil, reached out and gracefully pinched a piece of lamb leg meat and put it in her mouth, and said to Surdak vaguely as she ate, "I have never eaten such a delicious roast lamb......"

Facing the three people in front of her, Samira could only sit in the corner of the carriage and nibble on an apple.

The convoy finally left the city of Hylanza before the gates closed.

The road outside the Paglos Pass is not easy to walk, the snow melts in early spring, and the mountain road is a little muddy, but Surdak hires two-horse-drawn four-wheeled carriages, even if the road is difficult, at most it is a little slower, and this kind of wagon will not easily get stuck in the mud.

The night wind was still so cold, but the night sky in the mountains was full of stars, and the wind carried the fragrance of trees, and the convoy passed quietly through the oak-covered mountains, until the sun climbed up the hill in the early morning, and the last four-wheeled carriage in the convoy passed the pass.

The wooden crosses on the top of the mountain were clearly reflected by the dazzling morning sun, and after a harsh winter, the skeletons of the robbers had completely disappeared from the wooden crosses, leaving only some lone skulls hanging on the very top of the wooden crosses.

Just on the far side of the road, Surdak had clearly seen the ravine in the village of Wall.

Surdak pushed open the door of the magic caravan, pointed to the village that was getting clearer and clearer in his sight, and said excitedly to several of his subordinates in the car: "Look there, there is the village of Wall......"

The succubus Aphrodi looked at the barren land in front of him in surprise, and sighed, "This place can be so desolate. ”

Surdak said confidently: "It will slowly get better......"