002.The East China Sea Wind Rises - Giant Shangluo (1)
"Honorable lord, we are a small remote village, under the royal domain, because the new king came to power, we have just paid the tax, the crops and vegetables in the barn are empty, you see outside, even the horses and cattle can only eat half full, there is really not much food to spare, please ask if you are from ......"
This shows that the village is very poor, but there is nothing rich, and if the bandits come to explore the way, don't make up any questions about what they can rob.
What the village chief said, Bran really didn't have time to listen.
Many of the eaves were smoking, and there was a lot of smell of wheat.
Bran spoiled in his mouth.
"Give me food, food."
Latin, Italian, German, the language that ringed in his head, Bran used it all once.
And he took off one of the precious rings in his hand.
"Food to eat."
Bran said it again.
The shiny Ruby Ring looked valuable, and perhaps the Fallen Knight just needed food. Nothing else.
The village chief nodded in agreement and asked the child to bring water, light beer, porridge, milk pancakes, and some fruit.
Let the knight feel the sincerity of the village as much as possible.
The water was ok, nothing polluted, and Bran asked to be boiled and kept clean.
But the wine tastes like urine, a foul smell.
Bran sniffed it and lost his appetite.
As for the porridge and bread, there was no taste at all, and the bread Bran took a bite and spit it out.
It smells musty and hard as stone.
Over the years, Bran has not been a little bit bent on his stomach, although he is very hungry, but the food he has tasted in his body directly rejects this thing instinctively.
When the child saw Bran like this, he was distressed and picked up the bread and ate it. But don't dare to blame the knight.
It's just hard work.
"Give me more porridge, I don't want any more cakes, give it to you."
Bran came and drank a lot of porridge.
The smell of wheat made him feel better.
But when he regained some strength, he asked the village chief for an empty room, a broken wall, and a simple straw quilt on the ground.
For the next few days, Bran lived like this.
And he took off the ring of his right hand for food and lodging, and when he had nothing to do, he looked at the clouds of the heavenly firmament, which sometimes drifted to the east and sometimes to the west, and the birds of heaven and all the people of the earth had their place.
So where are you going?
Bran also practiced swords, I don't know why, but when he picked up this seven-star sword, his courage seemed to increase, and he could do many things.
Crucifixion, Upper Section, Roman Fighting Sword, Knights Templar......
With a sword in hand, Bu Neng naturally remembered a lot of tricks.
In less than an hour, he became a master of swordsmanship.
Bran's sturdy body, unlike these rough men who farmed, was fair-skinned but thick, and very beautiful.
Bran practiced his sword under the tree.
There are many women who even secretly look at the back of him practicing swords, and the reason why it is the back is because Bran's frontal appearance is too vicious......
"Look at the back, he is really a handsome knight, but he looks fierce."
"I think it's okay, or we'll go ...... in the evening."
The villagers often talk about Bran.
Bran didn't notice.
His heart twitched sometimes, and he would think of a woman with a pair of sad eyes, and when he thought of it, Bran's headache began to fare up.
When he had a headache, he locked himself in the house and couldn't get out.
"Wood frankincense!"
Bran shouted about it.
What is wood frankincense, the village chief does not understand, and he can't find it here, and when he heard that this thing is produced in the Aegean Sea of Byzantium, the village chief shook his head even more.
Bran could only endure until the pain passed.
The village is close to a branch of the Rhine, and a boat used to come up to resupply it when it passed by.
It was filled with groceries, needles and threads, wheat, coarse cloth, and even pots and pans, as well as some heavy metals (iron, copper, etc.).
It was a cargo ship from the south, without badges, and it was a civilian four-cornered sailing clipper.
Such boats are prevalent in the areas where the Rhine River is divided.
It can carry six to eight sailors and more than thirty barrels of cargo.
Ship owners who had previously done business in the Aegean Sea, but had recently suffered heavy losses due to the blockade of sea lanes, switched back to trading in the land shipping lanes of Central and Northern Europe.
They exchanged goods from the ports of southern Europe, traded along the way, and went all the way to the Viking region of northern Europe to exchange various raw materials, and then followed the same route back.
As long as you don't encounter bandits and other accidents, you can basically earn more than 6 to 80% of the profit.
When the merchant ships came, the villagers would be able to take everything they could take, and the dilapidated tavern was crowded with villagers as a trading place.
Bran heard a tributary of merchant ships coming. Check it out.
It's all groceries, and they eat some dried fruits and dried meat, and Bran is not interested.
"I want wood frankincense?"
Bran naturally used Latin.
The sailor didn't understand, only the captain could, Bran, who spoke fluent Latin, almost as if he had grown up in the Aegean Sea, asked politely.
"The nobleman is from Rome?"
The noble man and the Roman (Dongluo) were the orthodox honorifics of the Byzantines.
"No, I want wood frankincense, do you have it?"
The captain has some of this thing, and some noblewomen who pursue the enjoyment of life will use this thing, and the captain has also added some of it.
But he saw that Bran's companion, though he was armed with a sword, and wore long boots and light leather armor, did not look like a rich knight, so he replied tentatively, "A little, but the price is not cheap." Rumors are rife about coming in 'Giant Shangluo'......"
Bran pulled off the last ring from his body, "Take it." ”
The sapphire ring, Lan Can's glow, is very precious.
This is an ornament of the great nobles. The captain took it and looked at it a few times, and after judging that it was genuine, he immediately took out his treasured wood frankincense and treated it carefully.
Bran was like a hungry ghost who took a bite of the food, but then he spat out and spit out the unpalatable part.
"Inferior goods."
This spit out is worth the cost of a strong man's meal.
The captain sensed that Bran had some origins, so he was careful to talk to him.
Bran just ate and didn't pay attention to it, the aroma slowly made his lips and teeth deeper, and his head felt less painful.
The majesty of the superior began to return.
"What did you just say?"
"Yes, Your Excellency."
"Explain clearly."
"The fleet from the Aegean Sea, mighty, has gathered in Greece a few days ago, and has blocked all the shipping lanes in the eastern Mediterranean, and it is rumored that it is preparing to go north to Rome. Do you know Taeyon, by name? ”
"Falsifier, go on."
Originally a pagan in the steppe region east of Asia Minor, Tae-yuan was captured by Byzantine soldiers at an early age and entered the castle to study, where he learned the full range of Orthodox teachings, and where he met Aschuklai's father.
At the age of twenty-eight, he joined his family as a lord priest and taught Aschuclay, who was only eight years younger at the time.