Chapter Twenty-Eight: Iron Feet

The inside of the manor has become a large warehouse

Countless barrels, chests, and bags were piled up beside the wagons, and the horsemen were testing the wheels, listening carefully to the sound of the wheels, and at the slightest mistake they would unload the wheels to polish and oil them for the East, and the peasants who were ready to go to the east set up improvised huts on the edge of the castle, and they were not ready to go back to their villages

Before they left, they had sold out what they could not take with them, and exchanged them for supplies to the East: a plow was equal to two hoofed sheep; Two bags of wheat are equal to a large bag of flour; Fifteen sticks of wood are equal to one ham or one small bag of salt

Those who did not want to leave went around buying what was left behind by those who went east, and the farmers and craftsmen who stayed were ready to defect to the adults, and the Romanovburg was divided into four small estates, and for the farmers who were willing to stay, the lord who came would pay each of them twenty silver coins, which was a drop in the bucket compared to the loss of the lords

Two of the lords who accepted the manor were former officers of the Eastern Army of Svadia, one of whom was a viscount named Lagrange and the other was a canonized baron named Colin, who was so poor that they could not even afford the silver coins, and they could only provide some rudimentary armor and weapons, to which the Count of Kalinin expressed his indignation and sent a letter to Lagrange asking for more material compensation

The two lords were poor, but they were well-behaved, unlike other tyrant lords, and Count Kalinin heard that the two lords were not actually poor, and Lord Lagrange had a territorial income on the heights of Dehrim, but he was stripped of his domain due to the defeat in the battle and the fact that he was said to have had a close relationship with a certain traitor, Sī

This time when the territory was redistributed, Lagrange had to wait for the emperor's gift with the other landless lords For these lords, the emperor will offend the vast majority of people no matter how he distributes them, because there are many lords, but the territory is very small, and in the end only a few lords will get the land, and the emperor will lose this task to his minister, Sdrant, and the people with the background of the pioneer have rumored that the contradiction between the emperor and the pioneer is getting bigger and bigger, but at least on the surface, the relationship between the emperor and Sderant is very good

Steprant carefully studied the eligible lords, and then made a decision that surprised everyone: he decided to hold a competitive tournament in the capital, in which the best people could get territory, and for some lords who were not good at martial arts, Strant simply let them draw lots to decide: let a priest hold a wooden stick, and draw the longest one to get the land, this rule caused an uproar, and the opponents of the pioneers attacked each other's policies. Calling this a child's play makes Sdelant ask them to give a fair approach, a demand that leaves opponents dumbfounded

Eventually, the race for territory began

The Eastern Army needed a grand event to boost morale after the crushing defeat, and in the space of two months, the competitive competition was held in three towns, and at this time the front was still at war, but it did not affect the enthusiasm of the officers in the slightest, and after hearing about the territorial reward, all the landless lords were eager to try

Eventually, the Knight of Colin picked out all of his opponents with his riding spear, and Lagrange drew the longest stick

The officers complained about Lagrange's victory, and it was said that Lagrange always had 'dog luck', which was not at all fair, but Lagrange regained his territory

It is said that the Emperor had the same concerns about Lagrange and Colin, and could not trust them for a short time, and was unwilling to leave them on the front line of Deherim or Uxhall, so he sent them to the countryside around the capital as minor lords

The man who made Longrange and Colin lose trust was an officer, he had a territory in the Dehrim Heights, and Colin was his lieutenant, but now, Colin was appointed to another person's whereabouts is a mystery, no one knows where he went, some say he defected to Harlaus, others say he went to Rodok to join his father-in-law, but in recent months, news about that man has been obscure

After the officer's disappearance, Colin returned from the battlefield to the officer's territory in Deherim, helped him take care of the manor, and waited for him to return, but the officer did not return after all, and Colin was soon ordered to go to the capital to participate in the territory competition, and the people in the small estate voluntarily followed Colin to the capital, and soon Colin waited for the news that the officer's territory was deprived, and after Colin himself was made a lord, those people turned into his lords

It stands to reason that Colin should have had some extra money, and he inherited all of the officer's fortune in Deherim

Vladimir's father said that Colin was a miser, and Alexei heard that Colin did this to help the officer guard his property, Vladimir dismissed this statement, "Hmph, Colin's previous master is eighty percent dead, who is he guarding it for?" Not yet for himself."

Regarding the materials requested by Count Kalinin, Colin politely replied with a letter saying that there was really no extra money, and he asked Count Kalinin to just take the people away

This letter angered Count Kalinin, who thought that Colin was mocking the Romanovs, but not long after, Colin sent eleven pack horses, two military horses, and seven sets of harnesses, and Count Kalinin stopped pursuing it

I told Alexei what I thought, and he didn't reproach me, but told me not to jump to conclusions too early: "Uncle Kalinin also had a debauched life when he was young, just like me Yuri, but when he became a lord, he had to care about these things, and a person who usually cares about his own territory, can cope with it when needed"

The horses that came made my stable lively, and the pack horses were led away by the farmers, and the two horses, though young, were wounded: one was missing an ear, and the other was lame with a front leg, and Tom named them 'Mei'er' and 'Iron Foot', and several knights of the family came to look at it, and they all shook their heads, saying that they didn't want such a burden, and the two horses were too arrogant and too fierce to pull the cart camel bag, so they were handed over to the shì slave, and the 'beautiful ear' was given to Alexei's shì slave,' Iron Foot' gave Yuri's shì from Kinov, who rode the 'Iron Foot' for a walk, jumped off his horse in disappointment, threw the reins to me, and asked me to take care of it

"When will you see it?" I asked Kinov, "I'm already going to brush five horses, when are you going to take the horses away?" ”

"Later," he said, and he was gone, and I drove Iron Foot into the stables with the whip he had lost to me

The next day I found a drunken Kinov under the table, and I asked him when he was going to lead the horse, which was always kicking other horses and had a bad temper

Kinov drunkenly told me to get out of here, I kicked him, he scared me, asked me if I dared to kick again, I immediately kicked him again, he tried to get up and grab me, but his foot slipped and fell to the ground, and several equally drunk farmers and craftsmen around laughed

Kinov lay down for a while, and now it was impossible to drive me away, so he said: "Don't you want a horse yourself, Vidor?" ”

I hadn't thought about that

Jack and Hyde share a horse, and when Jack is not happy to ride, he will let Hyde ride it, and Herman has no chance to ride a horse at all, he can only follow behind and drive the horse with a whip, but the horse is not Jack's, but it is just a shì from the knight to take care of him, if I can have a horse, maybe I can become a shì slave

"But it's a lame horse," I pointed out

"A lame horse is a horse after all, uh, I asked Yuri-sama, he said that this horse can be disposed of casually, and you can kill and eat meat, and Yuri-sama heard that when you were learning to ride a horse with me, he also asked about you, and he seemed to have a good impression of you, and this horse is no problem for you," Kinov said something drunk in a daze, sang Tom's "Ode to Oak", and then fell asleep foaming

I was stunned and didn't know what to do next

The carpenter from Kudan was eating a piece of salted meat, and at first, no one wanted to talk to him, except Tom, but now, he had a lot of friends and was going to the East, and no one wanted to talk about his past life, so he turned his head to me and asked, "Congratulations, you have your own horse."

"The adults haven't agreed yet," I shook my head

"Didn't you listen to Kinov, Mistress Yuri agreed," he said, taking the beer from his cup and burping, "your horse is lame?" ”

"Well, the front leg is lame, and the front right leg seems to have been hammered"

"Are the bones rotten inside? I mean, did it break into the bone? ”

"How do I know"

He touched his nose and said, "Let's go, take me to see"

A quarter of an hour later I took him to my stable, and I took out Iron Foot, who had a beautiful neck, which Kinov said had the blood of a Salander horse

The joiner squatted down, pinched the horse's legs, slightly forced, Iron Feet' nostrils gasped, his legs kicked the ground and retreated, staring at the joiner vigilantly When the joiner suddenly twisted the horse's feet, Iron Feet' eyes widened in horror, and he let out a long hiss, and took off the reins in my hand I calmed down for a long time, and then Iron Feet quieted down, hung his head, and drooped his ears

The earth dog came and added the lame leg of Tim Iron Foot, and Iron Foot sighed, ignored it, and the earth dog stuck out his tongue for a while, and went to chase a beetle to play

"No," the joiner shook his head, "the bones are misaligned, I'll make you two splints and tie them up, but to cure the leg, you need to boil the herbs that invigorate the blood with salt, and you can apply it to the leg for a month, and I guess there is no time."

I said, "No problem, you give me the splint first"

"Okay," he nodded, "come to me this time tomorrow, I'll be waiting for you in the workshop."

The next day, I went on time to get the plywood, and he made six pieces out for me to clamp two at a time, and wrapped them in a cleaned white cloth, and I had to wrap them tightly, and if there was any medicine, I applied them to its feet first, and he asked me if I had written them down, and I said that I had written them down, and then I walked away with the six planks

I hung the wooden plywood around my neck and went to Mr. Goth to help him throw away a large bag of garbage: rotten pen heads, torn parchment, dusty notes, broken seals, dried candles, broken strings, and all sorts of stuff, and after more than an hour of busyness, Goth sat down on his desk, took out his handkerchief and wiped the sweat from his forehead, "That's pretty much it, Victor"

I nodded, and carried the large cloth bag of garbage on my back

Goth poured himself a glass of kvass and looked at me with slanted eyes: "What do you have around your neck?" ”

"Oh the splint," I told the goth the story of the joiner helping me make the splint, "and he said that by holding the horse's leg it would heal it."

"Without medicine, the horse still ends up lame"

"There's no way around that," I shook my head, "I'm going to ask the doctor today if he has any more ointments and he said it's not enough for people, where is there anything for horses"

"Why don't you ask me?" Goth said with a smile

Goth didn't sell much, he dragged out a packed box from under the bed, and as soon as he opened the lock, the contents popped out: sheets, shirts, cloths, books, all sorts of things, and he pulled out a jar from the bottom, and in it was a sticky liquid like asphalt, and as he shook the bottle, the liquid flowed slowly inside the bottle

"This is the best bone-setting medicine," Goth carefully placed the bottle on the table, pried open its cork with a dagger, "a secret recipe from the Salanders"

During the war, the ancient family whose main business was music, fell into an embarrassment, and he sold the family's ancient musical instruments, dynastic scores, and beautiful singers, but he still couldn't stop the family's decline and demise from scattering and making a living in a completely unfamiliar trade, but Goth could only play the piano and end up on the streets

A Salander ended up helping the Goths

The Salander man was a pharmacist who sold cough potions, his own shop was booming, he couldn't be busy, and when he saw that Goth was young and capable, he invited him to join the gang and relied on bottles of cough drops, and Goth slowly went home One day, the Salander accidentally healed someone, and hurriedly escaped with two Vecchian orphans, and before leaving, he kindly left the potion formula for Gothic Goth to run to the countryside to avoid the limelight, and at the same time help people see a doctor, and also help play music and sing hymns when making Mass

Once, an old woman brought a dying boy and asked Goth to see a doctor The boy had diarrhea for two days in a row, and the priest said that it was a demon with poisonous blood, so he bleed the boy three times, and the boy couldn't even walk, and the priest was shocked, and drew a cross on his chest, and then burned a small pinch of white ash, and finally concluded that this demon was Satan's true body, and the poison was so great that mortals could not save it, so he took care of himself and hurriedly ran away

The old woman only has this one son, the old man has a son, the son is already very weak and Goth said that he can only make cough drops, and he can't cure this disease, the old woman said, "It doesn't matter, anyway, try to say, the child is dead, and I don't want to live anymore"

So Goth gave the boy a bottle of cough potion, and Goth felt that the boy was pitiful, so he gave him a little bitter tea, and after the boy drank it, he vomited and diarrhea, and cleared his stomach; Goth felt that the boy was dying, so he made porridge for the boy to drink, and the boy had to eat his last meal

The boy had just eaten wild mushrooms and broken his stomach, and then he had lost too much blood and was weak, and the Gothic cough potion didn't work, but his next few actions were almost the right medicine, and after three days, the boy returned to the village alive

The priest was taken aback, came over and examined the Goths carefully, and finally concluded that the Goths were descendants of a certain saint, born with medical powers, and the villagers came to buy cough potion: a sheep, two jī, a bag of wheat, and a ham, and the villagers used everything they had to buy the Gothic potion

Gothic rich

The old woman said she didn't have the money to pay for the potion, and Goth said it didn't matter, the old woman thanked her and went back, and the next day she came back, "Doctor, although I don't have any money, I have a daughter"

A month later, Goth got married with a garland as a crown, a hundred herbs as clothes, and Siye ended his life of exile for Goth

I've only met his wife once, a red-faced Wikibian, very kind Goth always said that his wife was exchanged for two bottles of cough drops

"This bottle of potion is very precious, "Goth" Do you know what you can get in exchange for it? ”

"Half a wife?"

"Don't be serious, just like Tom"

"Aren't you just making cough drops?"

"That's just one aspect, I also make a lot of potions like this one, there was a farmer who cut off his thumb when he was cutting wheat, and I smeared this plaster on him, do you know what's wrong?"

"Fingers growing again?"

"Not really," Goth shook his head, "after applying this plaster, his wound healed beautifully, and the other farmers were envious, and everyone wanted to give his thumb up."

I have nothing to say

"Victor?"

"Give me the medicine"

That night, I used a brush to drugged the iron foot, wrapped it with a splint and wrapped it in a splint It was very irritable at first, but then I bandaged it and fed it a handful of oats, and for the first time it didn't glare at me, and after eating the oats, it added my hands

I pulled it and tried to take it out for a walk, and it limped behind me, snorting and sniffing every suspicious stone on the ground

A bonfire was lit in the distance, and it was said that there would be a rally tonight, and Count Kalinin would go in person