Chapter 136: The Loss of Population

"Jonas, the purpose of my visit this time is actually related to the three of me, who may want to stay with you for a while. “

Nader's statement is very straightforward, if you change to a person who is not very good-tempered and thin-skinned, he may turn his face on the spot, because the fundamental meaning of Nader's words is that these people are going to send people under the fence now, which is a very impatient thing for a nobleman.

However, Jonas didn't look like the three of them were angry, and they didn't make any movements, but they were still standing there, silent, except that in the black robe that was supposed to be a boy, the eyes were still motionless on his body.

And Andreas and the others behind Jonas didn't speak, they still haven't figured out who these three people are, they have such a great ability to let His Excellency Bishop Da Vinx use Teacher Nader to send them to Jonas, just in this matter, although they are not very old, but politics has been immersed in it since childhood, and they always feel a little weird, but their current identity will certainly not speak before Jonas.

So after looking at each other, they turned their eyes to Jonas's back, and their bodies were also a lot closer to Jonas, as if they were a sword behind Jonas, protecting Jonas.

"Mr. Nader, is this what Da Vinx's Godfather meant?"

Jonas didn't ask the three men directly, but asked Nader another question.

He wasn't stupid enough to ask such a stupid question, and of course he knew that Nader wouldn't have brought three people he didn't know to his home without any problems, and then let himself take in the three strangers, and there must have been something magical about it that made this impossible happen.

And the person who can make this wonderful thing happen, after sending Jung and Sandra, Jonas can only think of Da Vinx, and if this matter involves His Excellency the Bishop of Milan Da Vinx, it is not a thing that can be guessed by Jonas.

If something involves something that you can't control, you don't know it, and sometimes you can survive better than you know.

As for whether these three people just came here as Nader said, or if they came here with Da Vinx's ulterior secrets, Jonas didn't want to know at all, unless they took the initiative to tell themselves, or when Mr. Ill became the Duke of Susa, maybe he wouldn't ask this question himself.

"It's what Bishop Da Vinx meant, he wants you to let them live here for a while, they can work, they can help you feed the horses, they can help you collect taxes, these three people are literate, they will not be useless like commoners, and all you need to pay is to make these two children educational. ”

Nader's answer was interesting, as it seemed to tell his student Jonas that these people were just ordinary people, but the other information revealed in the words allowed Jonas to guess the approximate identities of these people.

For example, tax collection, that is, it means that these people have a certain mathematical foundation, literacy, for two children, their family must be in a wealthy family can make them literate, even if the average family makes their children literate after the age of ten, in order to let him write his name when he signs a contract in the city, he only goes to study for a few months.

These two details at least told Jonas that these three people were born into aristocratic families.

"Teacher Nader, how could I let them do what those servants should do, they are the distinguished guests arranged by His Excellency Bishop Da Vinx, please tell His Excellency Da Vinx, these three friends, they will definitely get the best treatment here during their time here. “

Jonas smiled and said to Nader and the three people beside him, since Nader had told himself the approximate identities of these three people in his own way, Jonas of course understood what Nader meant, and naturally put aside the work and said that he would take care of them.

"That's great, I hope it doesn't bother you, Jonas, and you get to know each other. ”

Jonas nodded, walked over to a tall man, and whispered, "Hello, I'm Jonas Ruger, nice to meet you." “

"Hello, Mr. Jonas, my name is Katya, and I am the butler of these two. “

After speaking, he didn't hold Jonas's outstretched hand, but bowed to him, expressing the humility of a servant towards nobles, at least in Jonas's opinion, there is no flaw, there is no trace of aristocratic temperament between the boards and glances, and he looks like an ordinary person.

Jonas also nodded, and took his hand back, although he didn't quite believe that this person was just a simple housekeeper, but since people said so, of course Jonas would not poke it, this is his principle of life, especially in the face of the unknown mixed with danger, when an ostrich buries its head in the sand is a reasonable way for Jonas to deal with it.

Shrugged his shoulders, walked to the opposite side of the second person, and stretched out his hand again, since the tall man in front of him said that these two people were his masters, then they should be nobles, so Jonas, after calming down for a while, stretched out his hand to the boy who had been staring at him all the time.

"Hello, I'm Frederick, and I hope we can get along happily in the future. “

Frederick's voice became a little hoarse through the black cloth robe, which didn't sound quite in line with the impression given by his height, and added a bit of mystery, but he could still feel that the owner of this voice must be a cheerful person, so Andreas and the others behind Jonas also looked at him curiously.

"Mr. Frederick, since we have become friends, shouldn't you let us see you a little more clearly?"

Of course, Jonas is also very curious about this person, but he has been targeted by this stranger for a long time after he came out, and Jonas is not a person who likes to suffer, since you have seen me for so long, I don't even know what you look like, which is too unfair.

Frederick heard Jonas's teasing, and there was obviously a little fluttering in his eyes, he obviously didn't expect that Jonas, who had always looked decent, would suddenly become lively, but he quickly turned to pick up his black hat from his head with his hand and put his appearance into Jonas's eyes.

Hawkers, it looks a little thin, and the facial features don't look like Italians, in Jonas's opinion, they are more three-dimensional than the people here, the eye sockets are very deep, like eye shadow, the nose is very small, but it's very straight, plus that small face, if it weren't for his movement habits, Jonas would have been a young lady.

But the skeleton can be seen to be very large, even a child can feel that this boy will definitely be 1.8 meters tall in the future, Jonas looked at it a few times, nodded with a smile, and walked in front of the last person.

"Hello, I'm Euphelia, and I hope it won't cause you any trouble. “

After Euphelia finished speaking, Jonas's eyes straightened, compared to Frederick next to him, this young lady was still very crisp like a lark in the sky even if it happened in the cloth robe, so that this kind of vulgar man was captured at once, and when Euphelia took the initiative to take off the black robe on his body, including Beagle and the others, they all blushed.

In their opinion, Euphelia is like a piece of porcelain from the East at the moment, exquisite, every part of her body is as if it was designed by God, carefully built, coupled with the special temperament on Euphelia's body, which made Bigg and the others restrained all of a sudden, and instantly became gentlemen one by one, and shifted their eyes to other places as much as possible, but the little surging in their hearts still made them keep looking at this princess like a fairy tale with squinted eyes.

"Hello, nice to meet you. “

Jonas was also shocked by this beauty of the country and the city, he has never been a star chaser, so he has never had close contact with stars, so he doesn't know how beautiful those modern stars are, but at this moment, the moment he saw Euphelia's real face, Jonas seemed to feel like he was sitting on the sofa, watching a star through the TV, and there was no special effect.

Shaking Euphelia's hand, Jonas didn't dare to think about it, immediately took his hand back, then took a few steps back, and said to Nader Please come in, let everyone enter their house first and then talk about specific things, the gods were slightly flustered, compared to Euphelia is much better, she is a real child, she has been very well protected by her father since she was a child, but she doesn't have such filthy thoughts, and she followed Katya and the others without blushing.

Frederick witnessed all this, and kept snickering in his heart, according to his observation in this short period of time, Jonas should be a more gentlemanly person, and now he lacks a shy look, and Frederick should not be eliminated in a short time, which makes him a person with a bad taste very happy, but on the surface he still looks like a good son of the world and follows everyone into this place where they will live in the future.

At this moment, Monferrato was also shrouded in darkness, except for the bright and starry sky in the sky, only in the courtyard of the rich and noble, there was a faint light from the diffraction of torches and candles to light the road at his feet.

Jung looked at the list of people on the table in his temporary office at this moment, and was very puzzled, as for the reason, there was only one point, the town that was originally given to him by Il should have a population of 4,000 people, and now there are only 2,000 people.

It all started two days ago, when Jung and Sandra had left Rango, the capital of Montferrato, and were about to march towards Ruger's territory, but in the process of hurrying, they thought that there was a town in Monferrato that had been given to his family by the Count of Il, and that the butler said that the town was close to the sea and could enjoy the blue scenery of the Mediterranean, which just struck Sandra's girlish heart.

Don't look at Sandra, who is already a mother of 5 children, and her age has reached the state of a middle-aged woman, but she still has a little princess living in her heart, so after hearing that her family has such an excellent tourist attraction, she pleaded with her husband, and Jung came to this port town that is half mountains and half sea.

After a day of walking, it took a long time to reach this slightly famous town because the road was really rough and its geographical location was in the lower left corner of Monferrato, which was not in a straight line with the location of Luger's territory, and it took a turn to reach it.

On the first day of their arrival, Sandra and Jung were very happy, the quiet town had not many inhabitants, the plants were luxuriant, and the occasional fishermen could get a good harvest on every net, and for the Jungians who came here for work and vacation, it was of course even more intoxicating.

You can imagine the feeling of a long-time resident of an inland city seeing the Caribbean Sea for the first time, the beauty of the sky and the blue of the ground makes the two mainlanders completely immersed in this blue crystal box in an instant, not to mention that it has not been developed at all, so the whole beach completely retains the original appearance.

Rotting and dry wood, rampant crabs, small conch whelks everywhere, smooth soft mud beaches, scorching sunshine and a loving couple were the first feelings Jungs had on their first day in this town.

It was only on the third day that Sandra sensed something was wrong, for the two of them were cruising around the seaside city in a carriage only to find that there seemed to be very few people in the town.

According to his housekeeper, the population of the city plus the rural population is about 4,000 people, and the population living in the town is about 2,000 people, which is not a lot, but it should not be so deserted, even if you leave here for the war and go to other places, it will not be ten days after the war has ended, and you have not returned to your hometown.

In this world, it is against the law for the people of one lord to flee to another lord, and those who are hiding from the war are most likely to hide in the mountains and forests in order not to be discovered by the enemy, and it is impossible to disappear for that long, so when they returned to their temporary mansions, Sandra and Jung asked the town magistrates here to take all the information about the population of the town in front of themselves, which became the current situation.

The population had doubled!! which was a serious problem for a viscount, and even when they had just joined their territory, Jung and Sandra still felt incredible.

"What the hell is going on, Mr. Administrator, where the hell have my people gone. “

Jung took the information in his hand and asked loudly to the administrator standing opposite him, although there were no unclean words, Jung's heart was actually boiling.

"Great, my lord, I don't know where they went, they seem to have disappeared out of thin air. “

The weather was already very hot, coupled with the oppressive atmosphere, the magistrate's body was sweating, but he did not dare to dry his sweat with his hands, so he could only let the sweat drip to the ground.

"You don't know, Mr. Administrator, don't you have any explanation?"

"My lord, we have sent all our soldiers to find out the whereabouts of these missing people, but they have not been found in any corner of our town, my lord, we can only guess that these people have left the administrative division of the town and gone to the places of other lords. “

Jung's answer calmed Jung, in wartime, robbing the population is not a very honorable thing, but for those poorer nobles, it is a very normal thing, the population can be exchanged for a large amount of money or labor, so it is possible that these people are really transported away.

Thinking about it this way, the fire in Jung's heart could only be depressed, but another one was born in his heart, who bought these people? )