Chapter 3: Slaves

"Karl, go kill them, what are you waiting for? Cal! ”

The shouting brought Carl back to his senses, and the confusion gradually dissipated, and he gasped.

He took a deep breath, calmed down the restlessness in his heart, and tried to make himself the Carl of his memory, at least to fit himself into this era, he shouted loudly: "Father, brother, don't kill them, we captured them alive!" ”

"Carl, what do you say? These devils deserve to send them to hell! Pine retorted.

"No, brother, we need slaves, our Black Thorn Village has a small population, and now they have killed some of them, we have to make them pay, how can we just let them die? We want them to be our slaves and reclaim the wasteland for us! ”

"What? Slave? No, I don't need these lowly guys to be my slaves! Pyne refused, he just wanted to kill all the bandits now.

"Pyne, your brother has a point, we do need some slaves to fill our vacancies." Sir Dias supported Karl's decision.

"Thank you, father."

Then Karl glanced at the robbers who were still fighting with the peasants, and shouted: "Those who surrender will not be killed!" ”

For a while, the robbers looked at each other, and gradually some people couldn't bear the pressure and chose to surrender, and with the first to surrender, the rest also chose to surrender.

Seeing this, Pyne was a little dissatisfied, tugged at the reins, and led the horse to the side.

"Carl, count the losses, Pyne, don't look unhappy, thank your brother, your brother saved your life today." Sir Dias patted Pyne on the shoulder.

Pine pursed his lips, looking a little reluctant, but walked over to Carl and whispered a thank you.

Karl was stunned for a moment, and then smiled, he suddenly understood that his soul was a modern person who had never killed a chicken, but he had the courage to swing a spear like a scarface, this body, after all, blood is thicker than water......

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"Carl, I heard from your father, and this time you were very heroic." At the table, Mrs. Aisha was very happy and praised her second son.

"I could have rushed out on my own, and that guy couldn't have done me any harm." Pine seemed a little jealous.

"Pine, you are a knight, and you will inherit my title as a true knight in the future, and honesty and humility are the qualities of a knight, and you are not good enough of this." Sir Dias criticized.

Pyne's neck shrunk, and it seemed that he hadn't dared to speak up since he had been reprimanded by Sir Dias last time.

"Carl's performance this time I think he is fully qualified to be your squire, at least he can protect your back." Sir Dias expressed his acknowledgment of Karl.

It's rare that this time Pine didn't refute, let alone ridicule his brother.

"But I didn't see that Carl was so brave before, it seems that the whole person has changed a lot since that injury." Lady Aisha said suddenly.

Carl's pupils shrank, his whole body stiffened, and there was a faint cold sweat running across his head.

"I guess it's not going to be seen...... Carl said in his heart.

"Maybe I just didn't have a chance to show him before." Sir Dias didn't care.

"Yes." Lady Aisha shrugged.

Carl breathed a sigh of relief, seemingly unsuspected.

"Carl, tell me how much we've gained this time? And how much was lost? Sir Dias asked.

"Father, we have nine slaves this time, all of them young and strong, and I have them all go and help us with the farming, and we have also seized some pitchforks, a somewhat damaged long sword, to fill our arsenal. But four people died in our village of Black Thorns, three of them farmers and one woman, two farmhouses were burned, and a lot of crops were lost, and I am afraid that we may not have enough food this year, and we may even need to distribute some food to the farmers so that they can survive the next winter. Carl thought for a moment and gave a rough report.

"Well, there's not enough food, it's a big problem......" Sir Dias pondered.

Although they are nobles, they are only the lowest rural nobles, and the food is not very abundant.

"We can just levy more taxes and let those lowly peasants give more grain, and that will be solved?" Pine said nonchalantly.

"Nope." Sir Dias did not hesitate to reject the suggestion, he was an upright knight, and he would never allow such behavior.

"In this case, you have people go to Lensburg to buy some food and come back, and I will take care of the money." Sir Dias made a decision.

"What are you going to do, my dear?" Lady Aisha asked.

"I'm going to borrow a sum of money from our distant relatives, and we just need to get through the year to get around." Sir Dias thought for a moment and said.

"Okay." Lady Aisha frowned, but there was no other way.

The relatives of the Dias family are not very powerful, at most Mrs. Aisha's brother is also a country nobleman, and he does not even have a fief, so it is even poorer than him, so it is not easy to borrow enough money.

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"Grinding, give me a hard job!"

Walking through the fields in the countryside, Pine drank loudly, driving the new slaves to keep them toiling.

Pyne didn't like them in the first place, so he really spared no effort to arouse them, as if he was afraid that they would get a rest.

And the surrounding farmers also looked at these slaves angrily, these slaves had burned and looted them before, destroyed a lot of farmland, and killed their lives, and now it is okay not to kill them.

The slaves were also helpless, tortured to the point that they could not resist, and they were all handcuffed to their feet.

Karl did not follow his brother to show off his might in front of the slaves, in fact, with the soul of the Celestial Empire of the 21st century, he was not used to enslaving others like his own brother, even if the slaves were made slaves at his suggestion.

"Smack...... Smack......"

Carl walked along the small river, occasionally kicking down a stone in boredom, and the stone made a pleasant sound as it hit the water.

Suddenly, with the sound of "gurgling", a pig rushed over, startling him.

You must know that these pigs now are not the domestic pigs that have been completely domesticated in the previous life, these semi-domesticated pigs still retain a lot of fierce nature, and they are afraid that they will lie in bed if they come like this.

Carl quickly dodged, but the pig seemed to have his eye on Carl, snoring and rushing again.

At this time, two peasants appeared, trying to catch up, it seemed that they had been chasing for a long time, and the panting appearance could be seen clearly from far away Carl.

Carl instantly understood what was going on, the feeling that the pig had escaped, and it had succeeded.

Karl let go, hunched over, and stared straight at the pig.

And the pig seemed to be enraged by Carl's behavior, and slashed the ground with his foot a few times, and rushed at it.

"It's now!"

Carl seized the opportunity, turned over, and pressed firmly on the pig's back, I have to say that although Carl's body is not as good as Pine, compared to him in his previous life, he is definitely strong.

After being ridden by Karl, the pig seemed to want to struggle, shaking around.

By this time, the two peasants had arrived, but they recognized Karl and were stunned for a moment.

"What are you doing? Let's take control of this pig together! Carl couldn't help but be anxious when he saw the two of them like wood.

Only then did the two of them come to their senses and pounce, and the combined efforts of the three of them finally controlled the pig.

"Bang Bang ......"

Carl patted the dust on his body to make himself look cleaner, but the dust was not so easy to deal with.

"Master Karl......"

The two peasants were terrified, they didn't expect the pig to actually run into Carl, and they didn't dare to think what the nobleman would do with them.

"You guys were too careless, why did you let it escape, if you didn't meet me this time, but other villagers, I'm afraid something would really happen." Karl reproached.

"I'm sorry sir, it's our fault, spare us." The older one knelt down directly, and the other knelt down as well.

At this time, Carl was stunned, reacted and hurriedly helped the two up.

"What are you doing here, I didn't say I was going to punish you?" Karl said suspiciously.

The two looked at each other, a little incredulous.

"What's your name?" Karl pointed to the old man.

"My name, my name is Kono." Curnow was scared.

"What about you?" Karl looked at the young man again.

"My name, my name is Kendo." Kendo was also worried, wondering why the noble nobleman suddenly asked for his name.

"Kono, Kendo, bring the pig back, don't worry, it's not your fault, remember, don't let it get out next time." Karl patted the young man on the shoulder and said with a smile.

Curnow and Kendo were genuinely shocked, and a little incredulous, until Karl was gone.

"This noble lord is really a merciful man." Kendo couldn't help but say.

"yes." Kono didn't say anything, but there was a slight ripple in his slightly cloudy eyes.

On the way back, Carl thought about their performance just now, and couldn't help but sigh, he knew where the problem came from, in this era, if these peasants offended the aristocracy like this, it would definitely be a dead end, that is, the servility after a long period of oppression and slavery, but his own values made him unacceptable.

"I want to go home...... Carl muttered, sighing at the thought of his comfy bed and air conditioning.