At the entrance of Tadi Village, the bearded man was shouting loudly.

"Your lord is merciful, and promises to give you two days, and when the sun rises in the east for the third time, you must pay for the necessary food."

As he spoke, the bearded man lifted the notice in his hand and shook it a few times in front of people's eyes.

"Those who fail to pay the full amount after the expiration date will bear the wrath of the lord..."

"Lord Thoth, we have already paid the Nilfgaard food, where is the money to pay taxes..."

"Shut up, have you forgotten who you are? You are Temerians, and if you feed the invaders, I should hang you all..."

The burly man with his beard interrupted the elder's words and scolded fiercely:

"Lord Baron is starving his enemies in the forest with the valiant warriors of Temeria, now let you cowards get some food..."

After scolding for a while, he saw that everyone was drooping their heads, and no one said anything anymore, and he himself felt a little tired, so he stopped.

After looking around at the crowd, Sauter raised his left hand, raised two fingers, and shouted at the villagers:

"Listen, you lazy, dirty, lowly pigs, two days, you have two more days to prepare food.

If anyone dared to report the man in black, then everyone in the village would be punished for treason. ”

Hearing the menacing threat, the crowd suddenly stirred, some people looked uneasy, some people had faces full of horror, and some women began to cry.

"The lord didn't stop the Nilfgaards, do you blame us?"

"That's right, we've done our part! Poor Bot died on the battlefield. ”

"We also have to live, the fishing dock is occupied by monsters, and we haven't seen who cares..."

"That is, asking for money and food every day is really deceiving..."

"What should I do?"

"All the food is given, what will we eat?"

"Village Chief, you have to think of a way..."

Listening to the villagers' discussions, Soden's face was ugly, but he didn't attack on the spot, just looked around the villagers with a fierce gaze, and then snorted coldly, turned around and walked towards Huck.

The witcher began to think that it was a bandit rebel or something, but when he saw that it was someone under the lord, he immediately knew that there was nothing wrong with him.

However, he still had some strange feelings in his heart, Temeria had been completely occupied by Nilfgaard, and there were still lords to collect taxes, what was the situation?

"Demon Hunter, Lord Lord, you might be interested..."

The bearded man walked up to the witcher, looked up and down for a moment, and then said loudly.

......

"So, you're trying to get me up against a couple of water ghosts, right?"

Ten minutes later, Huck came to the village chief's brick house and sat in the living room.

"yes, the monsters that took over our fishing docks."

Frank smiled and looked a little excited.

Looking forward to the stars and the moon, I finally waited for the witcher.

Huck glanced at the "affectionate" elder, a little amused in his heart, but continued unhurriedly:

"I need to hear about the monster first!"

"I know, I know~"

A childish and excited voice sounded behind the village chief, speaking from a blonde boy with an agitated face, dark skin, and a little thin.

"Hart, get out~"

Seeing the elder's serious expression, Hart pursed his lips and glanced at the witcher again before reluctantly walking out.

"I took this task, now let's talk about the issue of remuneration, my principle is to take half of the deposit first..."

After understanding the situation, the young witcher decided to take on the task and began to bargain.

......

After listening to the Elder's description of the monster, Huck already had a general idea of the situation.

The village was not far from the river, so he left his horses in the elder's yard.

The villagers of Tadi village gathered around the village chief's courtyard, and they did not dare to enter the courtyard, but they all stood and watched from a distance.

Seeing the demon hunter come out, the noisy crowd suddenly fell silent, and all eyes with different expressions looked at it together.

The blonde boy who had been kicked out was discussing something with his friends at the moment, and as soon as he saw the witcher come out, he immediately ran over.

"Is it true that they say witchers will kidnap children and turn them into monsters through some horrific blasphemy ritual?"

"Fake."

"Wow, your sword is so cool, can you touch it?"

"No way!"

"I heard that the silver sword is made of pure silver, isn't it very valuable?"

"Yes!"

"And, and..."

The blonde boy's mouth is completely idle, and he is full of curiosity.

He is not afraid of the taboo demon hunter at all, and he keeps asking questions as soon as he goes out.

On the short road to the entrance of the village, he kept talking in Huck's ear, and the questions kept coming up in a variety of ways.

After answering a few questions, Huck wisely shut his mouth and stopped talking to the boy.

"It rained heavily, and Emperor Enhil snored loudly; I was not afraid to touch my head before going to bed, and I wet the bed in the morning..."

Seeing that the witcher stopped talking, the boy didn't care, and began to sing a song to himself.

"What are you singing? Who taught you to sing this song? ”

The witcher was surprised to hear that Hart was actually joking about the Emperor of Nilfgaard.

"Chati!"

"Who's that?"

"My best friend, two days ago I saw him go with a few men in black, and then never came back, I miss him so much..."

"Heavy rain, heavy rain all the time..."

"Shut up!"

"But..."

"Shut up~"

This time, it was a large peasant woman who angrily grabbed the boy's ears and pulled the boy back to his begging for mercy.

"I told you not to sing this song a long time ago..."

"Ouch, it hurts..."

Following the road at the entrance of the village, Huck quickly returned to the vicinity of the hillside where he had stayed before.

The road crosses the avenue at the bottom of the hill and then bypasses the hillside from the left side and continues in the direction of the river.

Less than half a mile past the hill was a small grove of sparse trees, but unusually lush with shrubs and grasses.

The road passes through the woods, the road is overgrown with weeds, and a handful of dandelions stand on the road and also follow the road all the way.

Waist-high bushes covered both sides of the road, clumps of green Lanoglin grass mixed in, and in the dense bushes and grasses, there was an unknown sound of rustling from time to time...

Walking out of the woods, a rushing river immediately appeared in front of me.

In the distance, there is a boat dock by the river, many small boats are parked by the wooden trestle, and there are several small wooden houses on the bank of the trestle.

Looking at the river, there was no trace of the water ghost, it should be that the light was too strong, and he hid in the mud in the water.

Thinking of this, I lightened my pace and slowly touched the river.