Chapter 85: Flame Cross
An hour later, two of the three carriages parked outside the castle had been loaded, including fine furniture and cutlery. Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info
And the harvest of this trip was much more than that, they found a large number of coins and valuable jewelry from the dead people.
Payne guessed that they must have visited the castle before, but they only took the valuables on the surface, and had no intention of killing people.
Originally, Hawk and the others planned to hand over all the scraped items and divide them equally after they were sold, but Payne did not agree, he thought that this should be private property, after all, it was not easy to take valuable things from the smelly dead, at least not himself.
In fact, these people just can't do it.
Payne's proposal was quickly accepted, and Booker gained the most, he got a beautiful gold bracelet, and he had to have at least three gold coins, so the things in the car were sold and everyone split evenly, and the spending tonight will be taken care of by Booker.
Naturally, he had no opinion.
By the time I got back to Kulsterburg, it was already four o'clock in the afternoon, but the business district was still bustling.
Payne found the underground through the mercenary group and wholesaled all the items to the other party.
Probably because of Payne's fame, the gang that sold the stolen goods offered a fair price, making a total of sixteen gold coins, the most expensive of which was the gold bracelet, which sold for a full four gold coins.
Booker burst into tears when Payne handed the gold coin to the other party, he had seen it for the first time in his life, and there were four of them at once.
Roy's luck was also good, the ring with gems sold for two gold coins, and the others basically didn't exceed one gold.
As for the pile on the car, it only sold for two gold and seventy silver in total, which also included a brand new set of silver cutlery.
It is not difficult to see from the expressions of everyone that everyone is quite satisfied with the harvest of this trip.
When night fell, they splurged in the taverns, and although the city was a good spend, all their spending added up to only fifty silver coins.
For this reason, Booker is afraid that he will have to bleed profusely once.
While the gang was all down in Gentle Township, Payne was alone practicing in the backyard of the liaison office.
He had to hurry, and in three days, they would leave here and go to the northern front.
This is the mission assigned above, and this mission is to escort a batch of materials to the frontline fortress in the north.
Of course, Payne didn't want to take on such a dangerous mission, but he was still a mercenary after all, and the mercenary camp was really understaffed at this time, of course, the reward for this trip was also quite generous, and each person could get eighty silver coins.
As a Captain, the pay will be doubled, and the Commander will be paid more.
But the captain of their detachment was not him, but someone else.
The commander-in-chief of this mission is a lieutenant colonel in the mercenary regiment, and the adjutant is two majors, and the total number of people in this mission will exceed five hundred, which is equivalent to the strength of an entire battalion, and an additional hundred knights will follow.
This was the largest shipment since the beginning of winter, and it was rare for the frontline forts to stock up on supplies throughout the year.
This also shows that the situation on the front line is not very optimistic.
In fact, Payne did not have the authority to learn about this in advance, and it was Captain George who found him at night.
George originally wanted to do ideological and political work, but in the end he was persuaded by the other party, and finally when he was leaving, George told the news. And he instructed him, 'After entering the north, it is better to sleep with your eyes open, and the north is no better than the south, where the greatest enemy is not demons and beasts, but the cold.' ’
The next day, Payne gathered everyone together again and recounted the Captain's words. Fortunately, he didn't see an anxious look on everyone's faces, which was unexpected.
After lunch, Payne headed to the trade area alone.
When he came to the pipe stall, he saw the little girl selling pipes again.
"You're here," said the little girl excitedly.
"Are you afraid I won't come?" said Payne with a smile, "let me see my pipe." ”
"Yes, sir. The little girl bowed her head and took out two pipes wrapped in thin cloth from her bosom, and handed them to the noble man in front of her with both hands.
When Payne opened the thin cloth, he couldn't help but exclaim when he saw the pattern carved on the side, "Wow, it's better than I thought." "He had already imagined the bright side, and when he saw the real thing, it was even better than he had imagined before.
It's a cross pattern made up of four arrows, and the overall look is simple yet sophisticated, and it's surrounded by a flame with a fiery halo effect around it, and the overall effect is not too good.
The key is that the carving is simply subtle and slightly warped, and the flame presents a three-dimensional effect, which is very visually enjoyable.
"If you're satisfied," the little girl's eyes smiled into a line, "yes, old Frank said, if you like it, I'll give you this, and he says you might use it." ”
"Huh?" said Penn, taking a white cloth from the little girl's hand, with a pattern drawn in black ink on it, which was the flaming cross on the pipe.
"Very good," said Payne, putting away the white cloth and pipe, and taking five silver coins from his fanny pack and placing them in the little girl's hand, "the extra silver coins are the extra reward I promised earlier." ”
"Thank you for your generosity!" the little girl hurriedly put away the silver coin, her face full of excitement.
Payne nodded, pressed the new pipe into the paste, lit it and took a puff, and he felt that the smoke didn't smell the same as before.
"Goodbye. Payne got up and left, turning his back to the little girl and waving his hand.
"Goodbye, my noble lord. The little girl pressed the silver coin in her arms, and then took away the sackcloth stall and left the place at once.
Old Frank told her that if the man gave him an extra payment, he could close the stall to-day, and told her to fetch him a barrel of ale when he returned. -- She has not forgotten her grandfather's instructions.