Chapter 82: The Wanderer (Sorry, I Mistyped the Chapter Name)

Jose was silent for a while, he was looking at Gould in front of him, the fat man's face was the same, and then he slowly spoke:

"Gould, I can agree to this deal. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 But one thing you have to be clear, I can't serve you in your army indefinitely...... Well, since you estimate that Macedonian reinforcements will arrive in these days, I can help you in the next battle.

As for the ruins you mentioned, if you wish, you can take me to see it after this battle is over. Of course, it doesn't matter if you don't want to...... To be honest, I'm not even as interested in these things as I am in gold and silver jewelry. ”

The corners of Jose's mouth turned up slightly, and he smiled casually.

When Gould heard this, the brow on his face relaxed, and he slapped his thigh violently:

"Well, since you say so, then do as you want. Well, let me think, tomorrow we're on the road, and we'll be able to get to our station in two or three days. ”

José nodded, closed his eyes, and said no more. Seeing this, Gould grinned and walked straight out of the tent.

After a few moments, Little Maudon walked in from outside the tent. Seeing Joseph sitting on the felt, he wanted to reach out and clean up the cup on the table, when he suddenly heard José sigh softly:

"What do you say, what is the meaning of us in this world?"

The little guy was stunned for a moment, as if he didn't quite understand Joseph's words, and he saw that his teacher seemed to be talking to himself, closing his eyes and not knowing when he had opened them, but he was a little confused and empty:

"I don't belong to this world, here, I don't have any purpose, although I have made friends and had a few teachers, but I ...... I don't belong here!"

Joseph's heart fluctuated a little, and he was also a little confused. Since leaving the elven tribe, this feeling seems to have become more and more intense. When Lan Hill asked him to leave the tribe, he didn't have any special explanation, just let him travel to the mainland, and there was not even a fixed place.

"Raise your strength to the Holy Rank...... At the very least, it has to be high-level, if you feel like you can't improve your strength anymore, or if you want to take it even further...... Come back here, and maybe I'll get some revelation from you about that damn oracle. ”

Lanhill said.

But I'm afraid this guy is also a little confused, right?

Jose shook his head: "Although I decided to go to Moxi to find Su Ya next, but what can I do after I find it? I don't belong here, but I can't go back to the place that originally belonged to me."

Xiao Maoton, what do you think we should do next, such a big empire, such a big world, but there is no place for us!"

José picked up the teacup casually, took a sip of cold tea, and sighed with a wry smile. But what surprised him a little was that the always taciturn little Mao Dun suddenly opened his mouth:

"Teacher...... Are you worried about what we're going to do in the future?"

Little Maudon seemed to struggle a little, but continued:

"In the past, when we were on the grassland, one pasture would be grazed and then it would move to another. No one will think about what to do tomorrow, today is still in the grassland, the women will milk and make tea, and the men will graze and hunt.

I remember my father...... Abba once said that there is no mountain that horses can't climb, and there is no grassland that grassland people can't graze. One piece of grassland is gone, and another one is next!"

Jose was stunned for a moment, looked at the little guy with a serious look, couldn't help but smile, and muttered for a moment:

"One piece of grass is gone, and the next one is ...... Hehe, you prairie people are rough and bold.

But...... A little child understands the truth, what is there to complain about, but Lao Tzu is hypocritical. Hmph, since you can't go back, you can just break through this world......"

The more he spoke, the quieter he spoke, but there was a glint in his eyes!

............

The next day, Joseph and Gould set out at once, and a group of a dozen horsemen entered the valley corridor.

Upon entering the valley, José quickly sensed the difference between this and the vast grassland. Although there are many mountain ranges on the grassland, the two sides of this river valley are even more mountainous, the terrain is quite steep, full of green peaks and circuitous, but the road is accessible in all directions, and it is not difficult to walk.

After getting Joseph's promise, Gould was naturally quite happy, and seeing that Joseph was coming to the northwest for the first time, he simply acted as a guide on the side and explained the customs of the northwest to Joseph.

According to Gould, although the terrain of the entire northwest is higher than that of the eastern part of the empire, the terrain is very flat and single, showing a situation of low and wide in the middle, surrounded by mountains.

They took the road from the northwest and western frontiers, where only one river valley corridor led to Moxi, and the rest were surrounded by towering and precipitous mountains. However, it is precisely because of the closed terrain in the northwest that the two major enemy countries in the southwest and northwest borders of the empire are blocked.

With the natural terrain conditions, as long as the empire holds the northwest, it is difficult for the flames of war to burn into the empire. The area of the river valley is an important grain-producing area and commercial area in Moxi. Because of the inconvenient terrain, it is a major east-west route connecting the three empires and even the entire continent, and commerce has been very prosperous since ancient times. It was only because of the war, and the sparsely populated northwest and inconvenient farming, that the annual tax was much lower than that of other provinces.

And according to Gould, the northwest is far from the imperial capital, and it is bitterly cold and barren, and even those military moths are reluctant to interfere. This is also the reason why Heru was able to sit in the northwest for twenty years, and there was no other specialty here except soldiers and bandits and horse thieves.

Along the way, José and his men passed through a number of towns, but most of them were occupied by rebels or Macedonians. It didn't take much to get along the way before you encountered a large number of refugees. Nowadays, there is already a great chaos outside the Moxi Pass, and there are many people affected by the war, they are all going to the Moxi Pass, and only there are imperial troops stationed there.

When Jose heard what Gould said, he was not so impressed, but when he actually saw these refugees with his own eyes, he couldn't help but feel a little complicated in his heart.

Most of these people, both men and women, were unkempt, ragged, and most of them were clumsy, and they looked like the kind of peasant women who worked all year round. Some of the refugees used ox carts to pull tattered clothes and bedding and other miscellaneous items, while others dragged their families and families along with great difficulty.

Most of the refugees along the way are in groups, which is much safer than going on alone, and at least they can unite to resist if they encounter horse thieves or bandits. Most of the men of these homeless people are shirtless, and they also have farm tools such as hoes and sickles, although they are not as sharp as swords, but they can also have some effect when encountering danger.

Some of the homeless people saw that Qiao Se and the others were all tall horses, and their clothes were also very conspicuous in the ranks of these homeless people. I couldn't help but stare at them with some wariness, thinking that I thought they were horse thieves or something. However, Gould had no intention of communicating with these displaced people, and the group of more than a dozen people kept their distance from them.

The number of such displaced people also varies, ranging from a few hundred to a few. Because of the many days of travel and famine, most of them were yellow-faced and thin-skinned. José saw with his own eyes that there were many children about the same size as Maudon in the group, all of them emaciated.

Seeing that the children were pitiful, José simply took out some dry food from the storage ring and asked Maudun to distribute it to the children.

Xiao Maodun was naturally willing, and took a bag of dry food and sent it to these children, who were still a little afraid of Xiao Maoton at first. But when they saw the dry bread in the bag in his hand, they couldn't help but come forward.

By the time Maudon gave the dry bread to the children, most of them immediately devoured it. Some of the timid children ran into the crowd as soon as they got the bread, but their eyes were full of vigilance and caution towards José and the others.

Joseph could only smile bitterly at this, but there was a complication in his heart.

However, Gould, who had not said a word, looked at the refugees coldly, and said to Jose in a somewhat strange tone:

"Your heart is not bad, but my magician, isn't it a wise thing for you to do this......"

(Happy Chop Hands, I don't chop hands, I want code words) (To be continued.) )