After two or three days, the sun came out outside.

The sun was accompanied by flying snow slag, cold and harsh.

Lawrence took a broom and shoveled aside the last piece of snow in front of the door, and let out a long sigh of relief.

"It's finally done."

Sariel and Sophia are using sticks to knock off the ice slag from the eaves of the sheep house and the firewood house, which is not too dangerous because the snow melts, but it is better to knock it off.

"This year's winter is warmer than last year, not as cold."

Lawrence doesn't think so, "It's cold in the winter, it's mainly about looking outside." ”

"The market hasn't opened yet, and it's still snowing in the morning," Saliel said. ”

Lawrence wanted to wait for the day to clear and go to the market to sell things for money and buy something, but now he had to wait a little longer.

"Looks like there's not much to do in the morning." Lawrence sighed and looked at the mountains in the distance, not knowing what was going on with his house.

While wondering what would happen to the stone house under the snow, Sophia shouted, "Master, Emma is here again!" ”

Lawrence walked to the other side and looked down the hill, where Emma was leading the sheep and two children in the mountain road near the foot of the mountain ahead.

She held one herself, and one sat on the back of the sheep.

Did you come from a doctor? Lawrence just felt a lot of pressure, he wasn't a pediatrician!

Lawrence wanted to go to the mountains to hide, and he didn't want to take on such a lack of ability.

Emma came over quickly.

Sariel shouted from a distance of more than ten meters, "Emma, why are you here?" We were planning to wait for the weather to get some good things at the market. ”

Emma walked over with the sheep in her hands, looked apologetically at Sariel, and then at Lawrence.

"Sariel, Mr. Lawrence, can you give me something to eat?"

Lawrence thought it was healing, but he didn't expect to ask for food.

Lawrence quickly said, "Of course, let's go into the house and say, what's going on in your house?" ”

Although it is Sariel's home, Lawrence has already called the shots.

Emma said gratefully, "Thank you! Mr. Lawrence! ”

"I'm going to cook." Sariel didn't think there was a problem, so she left the matter to Lawrence and went to the kitchen with Sophia to cook.

Lawrence usually prepares some jerky and pastries to eat out, and after taking Emma's mother and son into the house, he goes back to the room and brings three pie crusts that have been sitting for three or four days.

"It's a pancake I made, and it's very hard now, but it fills my stomach a little."

Lawrence handed the biscuit-like bread strips to the adults and children, and asked, "Emma, don't you have anything to eat at home?" What's going on? ”

Emma took the bread strip, took a bite of it, put it in her mouth and chewed it, and told the truth with a painful face.

The new baron was not a good man, and when he came he went on a rampage in the village, taking away the bread and meat of many people's homes, as well as pigs and dogs.

Except for not setting fires, everything else is no different from bandits, and if anyone resists, they are immediately killed by the Vakiri, and then hung on a rack where the furs are dried to warn the rest of the people.

The town's winter reserves were already missing, and now Baron Avari has taken some of them as this year's winter tax, and the rest of them can only find ways to do it everywhere.

Lawrence was very helpless after hearing this, it's not that these people don't know how to resist, it's that those Vakiri people are stronger than here and can't resist.

"So what do you do now?" Lawrence proposed, "Do you want to move to the mountains?" With the help of your family, you should be able to build a new house in no time. ”

"It's definitely not okay to live here, this is Andrew's house, we can build another house on the hill."

Lawrence has a good piece of advice, at least he thinks it's good.

Emma quickly shook her head, "As long as winter passes, it will be fine, the village will go to the beach to fish in a few days, and we will avoid the territory of the Vakiri and go to the place where no one is to catch fish." ”

"Doug will take us hunting, and this winter will soon pass."

Lawrence nodded, "Well, that's fine, if you can't stand it anymore, you can come up and have a full meal." ”

Emma quickly thanked the two children and asked, "Mr. Lawrence, do you still need slaves here?" um he's smart. ”

Lawrence looked at the ignorant barbarian boy next to him, "No, no, I'm fine here now, and I don't have time to worry about that." ”

Emma looked disappointed, this time she actually wanted her son to follow Lawrence to eat.

Lawrence didn't have any extra food here, but fortunately, when Sariel learned of the situation, she generously gave them half a sack of barley, at least more than thirty catties.

Emma soon took the child down the mountain again, and although their family was not strong compared to the rest of the villagers, they had one more way out, and they could come to the mountain to borrow some food to eat.

Lawrence sighed, "As soon as I started paying taxes, I couldn't get enough to eat. ”

Sariel did not participate in or intervene in this kind of thing, and quickly put one hand in front of her, touching her chin with the other and thinking for a while.

"It seems that we can't get anything to the town of Phumesius, so we'll go to another place tomorrow."

Lawrence wondered, "Why?" ”

Sariel was like a wise man, squinting at Lawrence, who didn't understand things.

"Now that the town of Phumixiu has started to collect taxes, we will have to pay taxes when we go to exchange things, you don't understand this?"

Lawrence didn't expect this, he didn't have to pay taxes before, but he didn't expect that after Baumixiu was managed by the nobility, all kinds of things had new rules.

Saril continued: "Tomorrow we will go to the mountains to find the village of Kloda, who lives in the mountains, and the people there will accept our exchange of goods and can exchange salt and iron and copper ore for animal skins and meat. ”

Lawrence hadn't heard of this, but he did know that there were many mountain barbarians in the Agama Mountains.

Mountain and forest barbarians, ice sea and ice barbarians, and plain barbarians, these are the three major categories of barbarian kingdoms.

At first, the mountain and forest barbarians were the strongest, and those who failed to compete went to the northern seaside and the southern plain, forming the other two categories.

Now the strongest are the southern business barbarians, followed by the sea of ice and sea who have made a fortune.

Although the barbarians of the southern plains relied on robbery to obtain wealth, they also had fixed trading locations, and many barbarians were actually considered merchants.

The Ice Barbarians are pure bandits, not only do they have no land or fixed port, but they are also suppressed and governed by the Kingdom of Loven.

The mountain barbarians are now quiet and honest, and can be called the law-abiding peasants of the barbarian kingdom.

Barbarism is relative, so is law-abiding, and Lawrence is wary and suspicious of any good citizen of the country.

The Kurs, who seemed to be honest before, bullied the Bhumixiu people as mountain people.

In general, the comfortable mountain people had relatively low combat effectiveness, and the further north they went, the stronger they became, and the further south they went, the closer they were to the core of aristocratic rule.

Sariel saw that Lawrence was thinking, and said with a big grin: "Don't worry, the people there are very vigilant about the outside world, but they will be very relieved to those who know, my father and I have a very high status there!" ”

Lawrence nodded, "That's right, you're that strong. ”