"Oh? Stealing something to eat? ”

Gervais was a little surprised, petty theft was understandable, but could it be that so many people were stealing at one time, because his own territory had suffered a disaster? However, I only walked around the road outside the three villages in the morning, and I didn't find anything unusual.

"My lord, these people are not from our territory, the village chief said that he had never seen them, the village chief interrogated them, they seem to be miners who ran out of Lanny's territory!"

Thomas spoke quietly, took two steps forward, and replied in a voice that only Gervais could hear.

"Miners from Camp Nelani in the buffer zone?"

Gervais was a little puzzled, these people couldn't be lost, if they wanted to run, they should go to Viscount Lanny's territory, how could they run to their own territory.

"Yes, my lord, according to their confessions, these people should have been forced to become miners, and they have no wages to work, and they have no families, so they want to come to your storm territory to see if they can become serfs."

Thomas nodded at Gervais, affirming the miners' origins.

"I see." Gervais finally understood that these people were not lost, but deliberately escaped, and he didn't know that these miners who ran to the Storm Territory were lucky, most of the miners who ran back to Lanny's territory, or waited in place, were used by Lanny to vent, and killed them all.

Gervais looked at the serfs who were still kneeling in front of him, and said to them all:

"Heads up."

All the serfs knelt on the ground with their heads bowed, including the Storm Leader villagers who were in charge of escorting them, and when Gervais saw that the villagers were still kneeling on the ground, he said to them, "You guys get up first!" ”

"Yes, my lord."

When the villagers got up, there were only about twenty miners left on the ground, and when Gervais looked back at them, he saw that one of them had his head bowed and his whole body was trembling.

"Huh?"

"The one with his head down, look up!"

Finding something unusual, Gervais thought of a possibility, and ordered the man without hesitation.

At this time, several villagers who had just stood up also noticed the abnormality, and the lord also spoke, they were thinking about behaving well, so two villagers who were close immediately walked into the crowd and lifted the man up, and the person who was trembling with his head down knew that he had been found, and hurriedly shouted: "My lord's life, my lord's life!" The villain doesn't know anything. ”

Carried by two villagers, Gervais finally saw the appearance of this person, wasn't this the captain of the miners that day? The man who was ordered by Gervais to take him to see the mines.

"Thomas, lock these people up in the mineral space."

After making sure that some of these people knew him, Gervais didn't think about it anymore, and an order locked them all in the ore space, anyway, there was enough space inside, just to lock up these people, as long as they sent someone to watch at the door, no one could run away.

"Yes, sir."

"Tell them that as long as they are honest, I won't kill them, by the way, Thomas, yesterday I told you that the miners don't have to look for them!"

Although the arrival of these people made Gervais a little surprised, but this is also just right, his territory is very short of people now, since these people have people who recognize him, he can just arrange to use them, as for killing them, he didn't kill them last night, and Gervais will not kill them today, he has a better arrangement.

"You can reward these villagers later."

"Yes, sir!"

Receiving the order, under the leadership of Thomas, all twenty-one miners were escorted to the castle, and the miner, who had just begged for mercy, knew that he had saved his life for the time being, so he cowered and followed the team to prevent further incidents.

To be on the safe side, Gervais looked at the two guards who were following him.

"You go to the city wall and watch, if anyone dares to step out of the space half a step, shoot directly."

Although the courtyard is surrounded by a wall, and there is also a guard on duty, but the internal situation can not be seen, in order to prevent there are people who do not obey orders inside, or people with ulterior motives will go out of the space, so let these two guards go to the city wall to monitor, if any miner really does not obey the order and runs out of the space, Gervais will not be soft, just can kill the chicken and make an example.

After all the orders were given, Gervais walked alone towards the gentle slope of the mountain, and on the edge of the clearing under the gentle slope, all the recruits hid in the shade of the trees to rest, and when Audry and Laurie saw Gervais's figure, they hurriedly shouted at the guards to get up and line up, and some of the recruits who got up slowly were even whipped by Laurie and Audrey.

Under the urging of the two of them, the thirty guards quickly stood in formation, divided into three columns, arranged in order of tallness and shortness.

"Your Excellency!"

When Gervais approached, Laurie and Audri took the lead, beating their chests with their right hands, and bowed their heads to Gervais.

"Very well, it looks like you've learned how to salute!"

Although the soldiers of the small lord are not strong in combat, they will not be sloppy in terms of etiquette, this military etiquette is learned well, and it is the same as the salute of the guards under Alice, and this military salute is unified throughout the principality.

Gervais didn't have to ask to know that it must have been taught by Audri and Laurie.

"Obey my orders, everyone take twenty steps forward!"

The spirits of the thirty recruits at the moment are different, and the best spirits among them are Alec and the other ten, because not only are they full of food for lunch, but they also eat rare pieces of meat, and they are full of energy and fighting spirit at this moment.

Of course, the worst spirits were the five people at the tail of the crane who had not even eaten, and in addition to eating a few mouthfuls of food when they came in the morning, they only drank a little water at noon to quench their thirst, and their faces were sluggish.

However, Gervais will not care about them, and only let them experience the taste of hunger, and these people will train hard in the future.

After Gervais's order was given, all the guards immediately moved and walked forward, although the formation was not very neat, but it was only the first day, and Gervais was not in a hurry.

When the recruits had walked twenty paces, and everyone was completely exposed to the sun, Gervais walked up to them and said to them: "Before starting the training, I will tell you one thing, I am going to select 10 of you as my personal guards, and they will follow me in the future, so I hope you can behave well, the personal guards are not only the best equipment, but also the best treatment!" ”

When Gervais spoke, the eyes of the recruits below lit up instantly, and even the guards who looked exhausted because of hunger began to cheer up, and they all looked at Gervais with longing eyes.

They originally thought that they would be lucky to be a guard, but they didn't expect that the lord was also ready to choose a personal guard, although these serfs didn't know what it meant to be a personal guard, but they could understand what Gervais said to follow him, better equipment, and better treatment.

As long as people will have the heart of comparison, everyone wants to live better than others, stronger than others, now this opportunity is in front of them, no one will give up, especially after the lunch reward and punishment event, they are deeply aware that if they want to live well, they must be stronger than others.