At the moment of crisis when the two sides were tense, a person who was very familiar to the village chief ran out from behind this group of knights, and his appearance eased the atmosphere at the entrance of the village a lot.

"Oh, I'm sorry, village chief, I didn't see you, these knights are walking in front, and I don't dare to approach them casually!"

A young man who looked very young took off his hat and said to the village chief with a hint of apology.

The village chief immediately understood that these people were not a group of uninvited guests, but probably knights sent from above.

The village chief leaned on crutches and said to the young man with a sullen face: "As a tax collector, you don't go ahead, forget it, and don't come to introduce these adults, how do you work?"

The village chief's words immediately woke up the tax collector, who hurried to the knight and introduced him to the village chief and Russell.

"These lords are the Guardian Knights sent from above, they have come here on a special mission, and they are here to understand the situation around them, and to remind the villagers to be careful lately. ”

The village chief's years of experience in handling things made him immediately capture the key point in his words.

"Wait! You mean there's danger around the village! Could it be that there have been bandits here lately?"

The tax collector smiled bitterly, for he was only hearsay, and did not know much about the situation, and he was just a messenger.

"Village Chief, if you want to know more, please talk to the knights, I don't dare to talk to them anyway. ”

The tax collector looked like he couldn't be provoked and couldn't hide, and said softly to the village chief beside him.

The village chief couldn't help but hesitate when he heard this, he had never met these knights several times in his life, and if he rashly asked what happened, it would be easier to anger them.

Russell, who was beside the village chief, also heard the whole conversation between the two of them, and he knew the timidity in the village chief's heart, this was something that could not be helped, after all, the village chief was also a civilian, and it was normal to be cowardly towards this group of powerful and majestic knights.

"Leave it to me, and I'll talk to them. ”

Russell walked out directly, stretched out his hand to stop the village chief behind, and walked straight in front of the group of well-dressed knights.

Russell stood at a suitable distance, he looked at the knights in front of him, nodded slightly and saluted to introduce himself to them,

"Honorable knight, my name is Russell, and I am a relative of the village chief, and our village is not far away from welcoming you to the arrival of your lords!

The knights looked at this young man who was neither humble nor arrogant in the face of them, the villages they went to before, the villagers there were either panicked or nodded their heads, but they also met a young man who advanced and retreated freely, which really made people look up at him.

However, the villager named Russell had already asked them about their intentions, and they, as knights of the cathar, could not ignore this person's question.

At this moment, a tall knight, who was obviously the leader of the team, walked out, he stood in front of Russell, and observed Russell to tell him what he meant,

"We are cathar knights from the kingdom, and we are here to pursue a group of ruthless orcs, who are rumored to have come to the nearby mountains to escape our pursuit, so we are here to warn you to be careful of these orcs.

It's unlikely that they'll be here, but you'd better get some rest and report to the lord of the town if there's any situation!"

Russell nodded to indicate that he already knew their intentions, and he couldn't help but feel a little turbulent in his heart,

"There are orcs in this world? This means that there are also abyssal forces in this world? not necessarily, it may be a species native to this world. However, you still have to be careful and be sure to pay attention to the news that may appear. ”

"Hey, why are you suddenly stunned?"

The knight asked with some confusion when he saw that Russell suddenly stopped talking.

Russell reacted immediately, and hurriedly replied, "I don't know if you have anything else, do you want to come into the village to rest?"

The knight hurriedly waved his hand and refused: "No need, thank you for your kindness, it's just that I need someone who is familiar with the nearby environment to tell us about the terrain distribution, I wonder if you have such people here?"

Seeing this, the village chief hurriedly stepped forward, he could be counted as the most familiar person with his surroundings in the nearby villages, and he explained the situation in the vicinity to the map unfolded by the knights.

After a long time, the village chief finally explained the terrain to the knights, and the knights also declined the invitation of Russell and the village chief, bluntly saying that they needed to go into the mountains to encircle and suppress the orcs.

However, in order to thank the village chief and Russell for their doubts, the knight at the head of the group still gave Russell some silver coins as the cost of asking for directions.

Not long after, Russell looked at the backs of the tax collectors and knights in the distance, and felt a little helpless.

"These knights are stubborn at times. ”

Russell suddenly thought of something, and put a bag of silver coins in his hand in the hands of the village chief

Looking at the village chief's surprised eyes, Russell smiled and explained: "This bag of silver coins also has the credit of the village chief, I can't swallow it alone, and I also borrowed you a piece of clothing, just treat it as my spending in the village in the past few days!"

The village chief gently opened the bag containing the silver coins, and his eyes almost glowed as if they were glaring at the sparkling silver coins.

However, the village chief was entangled in his heart for a while, and still said to Russell: "I can't be greedy for ink with these silver coins, if you don't talk to those knights, I'm afraid I won't be able to get the rewards of the knights." ”

The village chief thought for a while, and then said to Russell: "Then let's decide like this, you first take half of the silver coins here as expenses, and I will help you keep the remaining half, so that's okay, right?"

Russell saw that the village chief had said this, so he didn't bother about it anymore, and nodded and agreed to the village chief's request.

It was all a false alarm, and the weather was very hot today, so the two of them immediately walked to the village.

On the way home, Russell asked suspiciously, "Village Chief, you see that the knights have come to inform us of the vigilance, should we send more people from the village to patrol the vicinity of the village?"

The village chief shook his head decisively and rejected Russell's opinion,

"Our village of Seth is really too small, it is such a big place, and there are not too many people, and there is not too much money, what do you say these runaway orcs are here for?"

"Can't you send some men to guard the entrances and exits of the village?"

Russell came up with an easier approach.

The village chief replied helplessly: "Now it's almost the harvest season, you asked me to send a man to guard the entrance of the village, then who else can harvest grain? Russell don't think about it, no one in the village wants to take the initiative to guard the village for this little ethereal idle thing!"

When Russell heard this cruel reality, he could only sigh, indeed as the village chief said, how could any villager give up harvesting this year's fields in order to prevent the unlikely escape orcs?

Maybe he thought too much, Russell thought secretly.

My heartstrings have become much tighter because of the months of war, and when I think about things, I always think of the bad things first. In any case, he was out of the war, and it was important to soothe his mood.

After returning to the village, Russell soon started a new country life, and after experiencing the shock of Betty's parents about his sudden awakening, Russell has become much more familiar with Betty's family.

Russell didn't have anywhere to go now, and even if he wanted to go to the town to get in touch with more aspects of the world, no one would have time to lead the way for him, so he decided to rest here for a few days, just in time to recuperate his body.

In order to repay Betty for saving him, Russell took out a lot of silver coins to thank her, and of course these coins were collected by Betty's parents.

Betty's parents were disappointed that Russell was not a wealthy aristocrat, but it was a surprise that they were able to get enough silver to cover the family's expenses for several months, and Russell was able to live in Betty's home.

Although Russell lives here, he has always been treated as a guest by Betty's family, for example, Russell saw Betty and her mother tidying up the room and wanted to clean the house with them, but they both resolutely refused.

The next morning, Russell saw that Betty's father wanted to go out and plow the fields, and he also wanted to go to the fields to help Betty's father with his work.

Betty's father did not refuse this request, for him, it was a matter of course for the men in the village to go to the fields, and since Russell wanted to help him plow the land, then simply let him go.

But for Russell, plowing the fields was the first time for him.

Russell, as a nobleman, grew up under the care of his father, and he grew up learning nothing more than aristocratic etiquette and simple fighting methods, where to touch the work of ploughing, these are all things that farmers do.

At this time, Russell, who was carrying a hoe, looked at the endless fields and fell into deep thought.

However, Betty's father didn't talk nonsense, so he took off his shoes and transferred to the field and started working.

Russell pondered for a while, and then shouted to Betty's father, "When will we finish plowing so much land?"

Hearing this, Betty's father raised his head, wiped the sweat on his forehead and replied, "It won't take too long, and you can plow back and forth in about a day." ”

Russell was amazed and said, "Don't you have oxen and horses in your village?

Betty's father laughed,

"At first glance, you are a young master who does not know how to plough the land, and ploughing oxen and pulling horses are livestock that can only be bought by lords! I already know that these livestock have eaten much more food than adult men in a year, and the land in our village depends on us men. ”

After saying that, Betty's father said no more, and began to work on the land, and it was not a good habit to talk while working.

Russell, who had no choice but to follow Betty's father's example, took off the boots on his feet, jumped into the field, and began to work with his hoe.

The facts hit Russell's original abundant information hard, and it didn't take long for Russell's palms to be worn out by the friction of the wooden handles, and once he swung the hoe again, his hands would be painful.

On the other hand, Betty's father, his figure Russell can no longer be seen clearly.

Betty's father also saw Russell's details, he had never done farm work at all, and letting him stand in the field would hinder his work, so Betty's father simply begged Russell not to plow the land, and he could work faster alone.

Discouraged, Russell sat on the stump of a tree and watched a group of village men plough the fields under the scorching sun, with a lot of thoughts in his heart.

The place was very peaceful, but it was not suitable for him, Russell still had concerns in his heart, and he had to find time to go to the town to catch the market, otherwise he would have little way to return to his own world here.