On the eve of the beast tide, some merchants ventured from Wilkes City to Dodan Town with a convoy.

They heard that the mercenary group here could hunt some magical beasts every day, so they rushed to buy magical beast materials.

These merchants found that the canyon outside the north city wall was indeed crowded with demonic beasts, and every day a group of mercenaries went out of the city to hunt, they didn't have to go far at all, the canyon was full of demonic beasts, as long as the demonic beasts hidden in the grass were lured out, the matter would be half successful.

However, of course, these monsters are not vegetarians, and those who can be called monsters basically have the ability to control magic, except for the mane beast, which relies on a thick-skinned body and fangs, other monsters can release some magic, ice arrows, fireballs, wind blades, turpents, and so on.

If you are not careful, if you are hit by these primary magic, you will suffer some flesh wounds at the least, and your life will be in danger at worst.

There is one more thing that baffles these foreign merchants, although there are adventure unions in the small town of Dodan, there are no adventure groups.

The merchants inquired about the whereabouts of these adventuring groups and learned that they had quietly left Dodan Town because they were involved in the slave trade, and the last mayor of Dodan Town was sent to the Wilkes House for a public trial because of his covert support for the slave trade.

This matter involves most of the adventure groups in Dodan Town, and it is for this reason that before the beast tide comes, there is no adventure group in the entire town in Dodan Town, only a group of mercenaries who often accept mercenary tasks, and a small group runs to the Dodan Canyon to hunt monsters.

Compared to those adventure groups, they are certainly not professional.

Even so, these mercenary groups have a lot of gains every day, and it is said that in order to encourage these mercenary groups to hunt demonic beasts, the town actually used the bed crossbow on the city wall, and used the bed crossbow to attack the range, drawing an invisible safety zone under the north city wall.

And the largest Warcraft hunting group in Dodan Town is currently the town's garrison camp.

Now a large number of demonic beast corpses are transported back from outside the city every day, although most of them are not very valuable first-level demonic beasts, but they are a huge number.

However, the monsters hunted in the military camp station never flow out, even the beast meat is salted into raw jerky, and now the grass outside the town is full of drying grounds, and the sunny southern slopes are full of triangular wooden frames, because the moon blade fire wolf is not too delicious, it can only be chopped into minced meat and poured into the intestines, making sausages to dry.

As for the fur, wolf teeth, demon cores, etc., the inside of the barracks is actually all internally digested.

The merchants suspected that the cavalry battalion in the garrison camp had a caravan with the army, but they were usually very low-key and were not noticed at all.

The mercenary group in the town has a very close relationship with the trading firm, so a large part of the magical beast materials hunted by the mercenaries will flow into the trading firm.

Only some cheap Warcraft materials will be divided among other foreign merchants.

Some of the larger caravans made the choice to leave early because they did not make much profit in the town of Dodan.

Only some small merchants don't care about this, no matter where they go, they are all eating cold soup leftovers, and the competition in Dodan Town will at least not be so fierce.

……

Surdak has been a bit busy lately.

There are now 1,500 warriors stationed in the garrison camp, and almost every day, half of the troops have to go out of the city to hunt those low-level magical beasts.

The two hundred longbow archers all received the blessing of the gods of Surdak's 'Divine Blessed Body', and together with the heavy infantry advancing in front and the cavalry protecting on the flanks, they have been in the canyon for the past few days, destroying several low-level demonic beasts in a row.

The demonic beasts that had originally gathered in the Dodan Gorge felt that they might not be able to cross the wall, and some of the demonic beasts chose to turn around and leave the Dodan Canyon.

With this kind of large-scale hunting operation, Surdak was worried that the sneaky monsters would cause some unnecessary casualties, so he had to operate with the group recently.

The barracks now has to manage more than 1,500 people and more than 1,300 war horses, as well as some ordnance, with Andrew's ability, he can't calculate the approximate daily consumption of materials, so Surdak had to let Selena come to the barracks to be responsible for managing logistics, all materials overall planning and management, and some daily chores.

Almost all the residents of the town know that there is a beautiful woman in the town.

Every morning, she always wears a beautiful woolen thread dress and crosses the town's main street against the rising sun.

She would stay at the bakery for a quarter of an hour, and she would make small talk with the bakery's owner, and instead of buying cheap baked wheat cakes here, she would go to the town's market.

The only market in the town is at the intersection in the middle of the street, as it is here that the most pedestrians pass by.

She would ask about the price of some vegetables, onions, tomatoes, bell peppers, carrots and cabbage, and so on.

Her behavior is not buying at all, but wrapping up.

The few things she says to every greengrocer are:

'How much do onions sell for a pound today?' ’

'Well, the price is okay. ’

'It's expensive! ’

If it can't be sold, two copper plates per pound are sent to the canteen at the barracks' station. ’

Therefore, these vegetable sellers in the town did not worry about not being able to sell these vegetables at all, they first sold them in the market here at a price higher than the purchase price of the barracks for most of the day, and if anyone bought them, they sold them all, and if there was really no one to buy them, they loaded these vegetables into small carts and transported them to the barracks station.

Of course, there is also a problem that all vendors should pay strict attention to.

If a vendor's goods are seriously inflated, Selena pointed out them and did not lower the price.

Then ask the goddess for blessing, and this kind of commodity must not be overflowing.

I'm sorry if I can't sell it! The barracks refused to carry out a round-the-beaten-thrust.

In addition, you will be targeted by the tax collector in the town like a dog, and you must not have any tax evasion, otherwise you will definitely pay more fines than you earn.

Therefore, ordinary vegetable vendors would rather make less money, and they all strictly enforce the prices set by Ms. Selena.

Unless the goods are always in short supply, such as some precious wild mushrooms, herbs and the like, these ingredients will generally fall on the plates of the nobles.

Since Selena was in charge of the logistics of the garrison camp, she also decided the price of vegetables in the town's market.

Wherever she goes, she attracts the attention of many residents.

Although she was not an aristocrat, she was treated like an aristocrat by the townspeople: wherever she passed, the residents would voluntarily get out of the way, and she did not have to queue up at any store. Each shopkeeper would personally come out to receive him, lest he might anger the town's market-maker.

Everyone will look at her with envy and marvel at her demeanor.

Signa and Nika would occasionally follow her, but after a few times, the two of them would rather hide at home than go out on the street with Selena, and the feeling of being stared at from front to back and left wherever they went was not at all uncomfortable.

……

Norman Lida pulled her cuffs up in the air, and her thin arms struggled to lift a bucket of water.

The river was turbulent, and she squatted on the dock made of planks on the shore, her little hands tightly grasping the hemp rope, stepping on the planks with her bare feet, and grinding backwards step by step.

Little by little, the barrels peeked out of the river...... The morning sun was a little dazzling, she didn't eat last night, only drank a little wild vegetable soup, and now her stomach was a little upside down.

She felt a little dizzy, stepped on a small pebble on her footboard, did not stand firmly, stumbled a little, and fell on the dock.

Wooden barrels filled with water plunged into the river. Falling down her, Norman Lida dragged the hemp rope to the death, even if the hemp rope grinded the palm of her hand to the pain, she didn't dare to let go.

She didn't dare lose the most important barrel in the house.

The barrel fell into the river, and the hemp rope pulled Norman Lida and slid into the river.

She lay on the ground, feeling like her chest was going to be smoothed

I heard a girl shouting, "Release the rope!" ”

Norman Lida refused to let go, and just as he slipped to the edge of the plank and fell into the river with only one step, the rope was suddenly grabbed from behind and became taut.

She hurriedly took the opportunity to get up, adjusted her posture, and forcefully pulled a bucket of water up.

At this time, she had time to look behind her, and she thought that an adult had helped her, but she didn't expect to look back and see a girl about her age standing on the edge of the dock, looking at her with a smile.

She was also an aborigine, but her skin was much fairer, and she wore a clean and neat dress, standing quietly on the shore.

"Why are you here alone? You should get someone to help you. "The girl is very fluent in Tuyu, not with a Dodan town accent, she should be a foreigner.

Norman Lida thought that Nika was a distant relative of someone's family in the vicinity, and said to Nika, "I want to help my mother do the laundry." ”

Nika saw that Norman Lida looked a little weak and weak, touched her shriveled belly, heard the gurgling in her belly, and asked her, "Oh? You didn't eat breakfast? ”

The people living in this neighborhood were poor, and Norman Lida was not embarrassed, explaining:

"I haven't been paid for washing clothes yet."

Nika asked, "Then you don't get any rabbit meat at home?" ”

Norman Lida showed a faint bitter smile and whispered:

"Our family didn't contribute to the hunting in the town, only a little bit was allocated, and they were all used to make soup."

She didn't say that all the broth was for her mother.

Nika thinks she might not be able to lift such a bucket of water, so she offers to help.

The two carried a large bucket of water to Norman Lida's house, and Nika saw that the yard of Norman Lida's house was still quite large, but there was a large pile of clothes drying in the yard.

Norman Lida's house was a wooden house made of wooden shelves, and some of the holes were patched with felt, which was a little dilapidated, but at least it was still sheltered from the wind and rain.

Norman Lida's mother was lying on the bed with a sallow face, leaning against a blanket around her body, and her eye sockets were so thin that they were sunken, looking a little scary.

When she saw a girl brought back by Norman Lida, she thought it was a friend of Norman Lida, so she lay down on the bed and said to her daughter:

"Norman Lida, if you don't hurry up and wash these clothes out, these clothes will be past the deadline!"

Norman Lida didn't say anything about how she almost fell into the river, but leaned slightly sideways to prevent her from seeing her reddened chest, and whispered, "Got it, Mom." It will be washed in no time! ”

The woman closed her eyes and muttered: "The neckline and cuffs should be carefully rubbed and rubbed hard, those positions are always extra easy to get dirty, and your pulp washing skills are not yet at home, so you need to use extra snacks." ”

Norman Lida whispered, "Got it, Mom! ”

After saying this, he walked out of the hut with his head down, and then said to Nika with an apologetic face:

"I'm sorry, but I don't have anything to entertain you at home!"

Nika patted her thin shoulder and said with a smile, "It's okay. She just walked around the yard.

Norman Lida poured water into the tub and rubbed the clothes vigorously as she whispered, "If I don't wash well this time, no one will want to give me the clothes to be washed, I must be careful." ”

Nika saw a small wooden shelf next to the hut, on which there were two clay bowls with missing openings, and one of the clay bowls contained a small piece of multigrain cake, so he asked in surprise:

"Didn't you go to town to buy bread?"

Norman Lida looked at Nika in amazement and said, "Bakery? No, that's too expensive. We usually eat some multigrain cakes once in a while. ”

Nika looked at the clothes in the tub and said to Norman Lida, "You won't be done until noon!" Then come and wait for me at the door of the bakery in the afternoon, and I will teach you how to buy cheap bread. ”

Norman Lida crouched beside the tub, wanting to refuse, but by the time she looked up, Nika had already walked to the courtyard gate.

She thought that at noon, she should be able to get a salary for washing clothes, and Mom also needed something good, so she said, "Okay! ”

……

Norman Lida had no luck at all today and met a grumpy clientele.

She delivered her laundry, dried and neatly folded clothes to the door, but was scolded by her employer for two quarters of an hour for missing a silver button on a piece of clothing.

And there was indeed a silver button on the other side of the symmetrical dress, and she couldn't afford to pay for it, so the employer deducted all the wages of this order with a wave of his hand.

She had worked hard for three days to wash the clothes that had only been washed, and she had not received a penny until now, and she had been kicked out by that hateful employer.

Walking down the street dejectedly, she didn't dare to go home at this time, she had no way to explain to her mother.

Then I remembered that I had agreed to meet the girl who had saved her by the river at the door of the bakery in the afternoon, but now she didn't even have a copper plate in her pocket.

She had never been to a bakery, but she knew where the bakery was, and every time she passed by the bakery's door, she could always smell the thick smell of wheat wafting from inside.

She also didn't know the imperial Chinese at the door, and when she saw the long queue at the door of the bakery, she didn't dare to come over.

Just quietly sat down on the steps opposite the bakery, and all she wanted was to tell the girl who had asked her out, 'I'm not going to buy bread today.' ’

When I waited at the door of the bakery, I saw that the people who walked out of the bakery were carrying bread in their hands, and I suddenly felt even hungrier.

Norman Lida was a little depressed, she knew that she should go and help the hunters, although she didn't get much pay, but at least she could carry it home and go into the water.

The poor children on the street didn't know what they had done, but each of them had a piece of scone in their hands, and their little faces were dirty, and they had a snot hanging on them, and they sucked and sucked as they went, and they didn't forget to nibble on the scones in their hands, and they were as happy as a flock of little sparrows.