Chapter 104: Financial Crisis
"Whew!"
The sound of arrows breaking through the air was deafening, and the wooden arrows were like lightning.
......With a wail, a sturdy deer fell to the ground, and its companions scattered, leaving it helpless to die.
"Drive!" Karl grinned when he saw that he had successfully hit his prey, and a small attendant rode by his side to bring the prey back.
"Ha, I didn't expect to see your archery skills improve for a while." Pyne was wearing a thick wool coat, and it was so cold here that he didn't know when the damn snow was going to fall.
And today is the day when he and Carl meet to hunt, which is a small interaction between the members of the Dias family.
In the past, Carl was reluctant to hunt because his archery skills were very bad, and when he was in Blackthorn Village, he was basically the kind to stand aside and applaud.
But now it's completely different, and Carl not only accepts it, but also shows good archery skills.
"Hey, my brother, you have to know where my territory is, when I was in Sylde Manor, there were not hundreds of Flos I faced one after another, and if I didn't practice archery, I would have finished it." Carl shrugged his shoulders, this damn environment has made him practice, who would have thought that this guy with a big waist and a thick waist who can dance a sword and can ride and shoot would be a beautiful boy a few years ago?
Pine shook his head, he had to admit that Carl might be better than him in hunting now, after all, he didn't have that much combat experience.
"But I'm not weak!" Pyne's eyes tightened, and he bent his bow and arrow, and a running rabbit fell in response.
"Strong!" Karl admired that it was very difficult to shoot such a high-speed moving target, and he might not be able to do it himself.
"It's almost time for today, maybe we should go back." Carl stretched, he wanted to stay under the warm blanket in such a winter.
"The comfort of the castle will make you lose your will, it will make you cowardly!" Pine saw Carl's thoughts at a glance and couldn't help but say.
"It's been so long, what's wrong with enjoying it?"
Carl even wanted to say: "I've been fighting the world for so many years, what's wrong with enjoying it?" Then the music and the dance. ”
"I hope you'll be able to laugh when the Flo break your bones."
"I'm sure my knights won't let this terrible thing happen." Carl looked like a dead pig who was not afraid of boiling water.
"Whew!"
Pyne was about to say something, but a terrible howl made both his and Carl's faces change in an instant.
"Oh no, there's a wolf here!" Carl looked nervous, and subconsciously wanted to run away.
"What are you afraid of, just a wolf, it will only be the prey when it comes!" Pine said with disdain on his face, but the hand holding the longbow tightened a little.
"Let's go, wolves are social animals, having one means that there are wolves, we must leave immediately!" Karl turned his horse's head, in this era of cold weapons, wolves are still very terrifying, he doesn't have a Maxim machine gun!
"Let's go!" Pyne also knew the seriousness of the matter and hurriedly followed Cal.
"I knew that I had brought that suit with me." Pine said with a look of regret that if he had put on his armor, he would not have been afraid of the threat of the wolves.
"If armor can prevent death, then I will definitely use the power of the whole territory to build armor, and besides, if you wear that heavy chain mail, your war horse may not be able to carry you so fast!" Karl glanced at him, this person really thought that chain mail was invincible in the world, right? In front of the wolves, it all seemed pale and powerless.
"Whew!"
The howl rang out again, but this time it did come from all directions.
"Not good, surrounded! Quick, rush out! Karl's face changed drastically, if they were really completely surrounded, then their horror would have to be explained here.
The group desperately drove the war horses, wishing that the horses had more than four legs, and those war horses also seemed to feel frightened, and they were galloping desperately, at least this kind of speed Karl had never tried before.
"As long as we run to the castle, we are safe!" Karl said in a deep voice, the place where they hunted was not too far from the castle, and they had every chance to escape back.
Carl couldn't help but regret a little, what kind of hunting did he come to, if he really explained it here, he would really laugh to death, the earl who died hunting? That would be a disgrace to the Dias family.
The dozen or so attendants surrounding Carl and Pyne were also pale, and the horses under them were beaten desperately.
Fortunately, it was only a hunting event, and Karl didn't put the heavy and hard armor on his horses, otherwise they wouldn't have been able to gallop.
"It's too fast!" Carl looked back, and he didn't know when there was a group of black, fast-moving objects in the skyline behind him, and it was a pack of wolves!
Even if Carl couldn't see it clearly, he could imagine the appearance of those wolves, and they couldn't find food, and they were afraid that they would see the saliva of these horses and people gushing out wildly.
"When I get back, I'll take the Knights Templar to wipe out these wolves!" Pine was indignant, he didn't expect to come across such a thing when he came to hunt.
"Leave the professional work to the professionals, and I will recruit hunters, who have a unique and effective way of killing these wolves." Carl shook his head, the knights of the Templar Order are all treasures, Carl spent a lot of money to build, and even their mounts are all full of iron armor, making them real war fortresses.
This is a complete heavy cavalry, and the knightly configuration of the Knights Templar can be said to be a perfect interpretation of the word heavy cavalry, which is the Iron Floating Massacre!
And after enough time of professional training, the knights of the Knights Templar have quite strong skills, and I believe that after they come out, they will be qualified and brave knights, how can such a person Karl be willing to let them exterminate the wolves? It can't be said that the profession is not right, only that it does not matter, and Carl does not want some of them to be buried in such an area.
"Okay, okay, whatever you want." Pine spread his hands, and he just said casually, he didn't know how difficult the wolves were to deal with.
"It's almost there!" Faintly, the majestic walls of Dortmund can already be seen.
"Hurry up." If it had been before, Karl would have liked this rugged mountain road very much, because this mountain road can bury all the enemies who try to invade Dortmund, and Dortmund is difficult to defend because of the existence of this mountain road.
But now Karl wished that this mountain road did not exist, and it was better to even the land to be flat, so that his war horse would not be out of breath and lacked physical strength.
As if sensing that this was already close to human territory, the wolves that followed from a distance slowed down slightly, as if testing whether this place was dangerous.
"Open the gates!"
Carl roared, and the soldiers on the city wall looked down, and Carl's eagle flag on a blue background stood out.
"It's Lord Earl!" The faces of the soldiers defending the city changed, and they hurriedly pulled up the huge and heavy iron gates.
Karl and his party rushed into the castle without stopping, and the iron gate was quickly closed.
The wolf king led by the wolves howled unwillingly, but he didn't dare to rashly provoke this group of humans, and finally had to leave helplessly.
"It's so dangerous, I almost confessed here." Carl was apprehensive, he didn't want to face the wolves.
"The hunt is over, and it's a pity that our prey is cheaper for those wolves." Karl shrugged his shoulders, in order to be able to escape, it was naturally impossible for him to escape with those prey.
"It doesn't matter, you're not short of food here anyway." Pine didn't care at all, now it's not the same as before, hunting used to be an important source of food as entertainment, now? That's just fun, and Dortmund doesn't have a shortage of a critter or two like him.
"Thrift is a good habit, and God loves frugal people." Karl shook his head and turned back to his castle, and Pyne rode his tall horse in the direction of the Temple, which was well built and Pyne loved to stay there.
"Berg, I'd like to hire a bunch of hunters to hunt down those wolves!" Karl sat on the lord's throne and grumbled to Berg.
"Maybe you should bring the army with you, then the wolves won't dare to approach." Berg seems to have ignored the matter of hiring hunters.
"Focus on the hunter!" Carl tilted the table, and the poor wooden table was banged, as if to tell Carl's bad mood at this time.
"Lord Earl, you want to wipe out a pack of wolves? That's very difficult. Berg shook his head.
"Just because it's hard doesn't mean you can't do it, I don't remember when I turned you into a guy who was afraid of difficulties." Karl said dissatisfied.
"It's not that I'm afraid of difficulties, believe me, Lord Earl, you won't want to hire a large number of hunters, our finances can't support it!" Berg said helplessly.
"What? Can't support it financially? That's impossible! Karl exclaimed, remembering that he must have been financially wealthy.
"Nothing is impossible, Lord Earl, your actions have been too big recently, whether it is the knighthood ceremony, or the competitive tournament and the Knights Templar formed later, and more importantly, the Men in Black troops, these have consumed a lot of our funds, and now we really have no money, if we hire hunters to hunt wolves, then we may have to borrow from those merchants." Berg shook his head like a rattle, as Chancellor of the Exchequer, no one knows Dortmund's finances better than him, in fact, if it weren't for the fact that Selde Manor was profitable, Dortmund might not be able to support it.
"Okay, let me figure it out." Carl was a little embarrassed, he hadn't paid attention to his finances for a while, and he almost collapsed for himself.