074 Andrew comes home
The kingdom of Rofen, a mighty army of barbarians, successfully occupied the southern kingdom.
At this point, most of the northern territory was returned to the kingdom of Loven, and the raiding teams brought back a large number of people and treasures, as well as wheat and potatoes and other grains loaded with hundreds of large ships.
The slave firms in Pigtrotter City began to buy slaves from the barbarians at low prices, and the rest of the firms also digested the treasures brought back by the warriors according to their own level.
Knights' armor, precious stones, iron swords, iron helmets, anklets, silver cutlery, jeweled necklaces of noble ladies, blood-stained rings, torn noble leather boots, delicate iron bows and arrows......
In the cheerful celebratory atmosphere of Pig's Trotter City, a team of more than ten men also quietly entered Pig's Trotter City.
Like hillbillies, Redbeard and the others looked around at the women and vendors in the neighborhood, as well as the palace buildings carved in stone.
Andrew reminded: "Hurry up and find a place to sell these things, our copper is not enough to live, let alone pay the second entrance fee!" ”
Redbeard was here for the first time and was unfamiliar with it, "Who are we going to go to?" ”
Andrew looked around, "Let's go find a place to sell these things first, I don't think there will be a shortage of such places." ”
These days, the city is full of bandits who have come back from raiding.
The kingdom of Rofen was fiercely strife, and some powerful tribal leaders gradually conquered their neighbors by waging wars and formed their own tribal organizations.
This is how the kingdom of Lorfen itself was founded, and those who are unwilling to merge in this process will flee here.
In addition, the inheritance system is that the second son and the concubine have no right to inherit the land, and if there is no land, they will be reduced to the lower class of society.
These people became a destabilizing factor in society, either going out to work as pirates or resorting to force and power against their brothers and fathers.
In the midst of this fraternal rivalry, most of the losers died with their families and joined the pirate expeditions.
Coupled with the strong social atmosphere in the local area, those who successfully return will be welcomed by everyone, and will have status and power, which will gradually influence and inspire others who want to pursue a career in piracy.
Compared to the social atmosphere of ancient China, the struggle here is more intense.
Uprisings and rebellions are all pediatrics, and the kings, chieftains, and powerful nobles here are often assassinated, and there is no long-lived king to be found.
Savagery and bravery are celebrated here, and no one cares about morality, nor does it care about kings or royal families.
A person's achievements are only related to his fists, but the lower classes advocate bravery and duels, but the king and the nobles do not play like this, and the nobles all go together.
Neither Andrew nor Redbeard had the ability to provoke Count Vakiri.
Andrew's team, which looks like a barbarian, is very normal here in Translantahoof City, which is full of this kind of barbarians who have successfully robbed and retreated with their whole body or arms and legs but come back alive.
It is easy for a group of murderous barbarians to form a tacit understanding when they gather together, and although some friction and fighting cannot be avoided, everyone follows the most basic rules and does not provoke people who are stronger than themselves.
Andrew didn't want to get into trouble or he would be attacked.
The security in the city is very good, there are no thieves these days.
Redbeard's men were quickly attracted by the bustling city, especially the men who had been holding back for a long time, and when they saw the women standing outside the nearby houses or outside the merchants' tents, they couldn't move.
These are fresh widows.
The coast of the kingdom of Lorfen is littered with miserable widows, and when the ships return, hordes of widows stand on the beach, gazing in vain at the sea.
Relying on the strong violence index, Andrew and Redbeard quickly led people to sell things for a price that I don't know if it was cost-effective or not, but at least they were satisfied with it.
This time, the fleets assembled by the Lorfen Kingdom from all over the country were all going to the southern kingdom in the south, while Redbeard and the others went east to the territory of the Morning Light Church and brought back different goods.
The pirates who got the money soon went to the slave house, drinking wine, eating meat and playing with women, while Andrew took the money he had received and went to the slave house, leaving only Redbeard alone at the inn, and the guards had to pay the Earl's taxes when they returned.
The town of Bhumixiu
Lawrence led the sheep down the hill and pulled behind the Dom sheep a four-wheeled wooden cart loaded with three baskets of charcoal.
The wheels were made of round wooden blocks with only a hollowed-out hole in the middle, without lubrication and wheels.
The sticks that support the plates are held in place in two wheels, which roll forward under the pull of the dome sheep and the pressure of the body.
There is a penetrating cavity in the outermost part of the stick, which is used to hold the awl-shaped wooden pegs to prevent the wheels from rolling off.
It won't take long for this kind of car to break down, but as long as you have a few more wheels and card slots, it can be easy to repair.
Lawrence successfully found the blacksmith to deliver the goods, and chatted at the blacksmith shop for a while.
"Lawrence!"
Lawrence heard someone shouting to him, and when he looked back, he saw that it was a hunk riding a sheep that he hadn't seen in a long time.
"Andrew!" Lawrence excitedly stood up and walked over, "Great, Andrew, you're finally back!" Is it okay outside? ”
Andrew smiled and said, "We're winter here, it's autumn when I go east, and when I come back, I went to Tranda Hoof, and look, these two are my slaves!" ”
Lawrence looked behind Andrew and saw four women, two large and two small.
The temperament of the four people is a little different.
A haggard woman in her twenties, a timid village girl in her eighteen or nineteens, an ordinary girl around ten years old, and a woman holding a toddler more than a year old.
It should be five people.
Andrew also looked at the women and said, "I bought a total of five, and one died on the way." ”
Lawrence asked, "How did you die?" ”
Andrew said casually: "I can't walk, I'm frozen to death." ”
Andrew quickly asked with concern, "Is Sariel okay?" ”
"Very well, now let's eat bread with Sophia by the stove at home." Lawrence said casually, "You're going to put them all in your house?" Then I should go to the mountain hut and stay there. ”
Andrew smiled and said: "I see that you are not married yet, so I specially bought you one that can have children, and the other few see which one Salil likes, and if you don't like it, give it to my friends in the mountains, and I will take you to see it another day." ”
Lawrence said, "I've seen it, and Sariel took me there a while ago. ”
Andrew looked surprised, "Well, let's go back first, I can't wait to meet Sariel." ”
As soon as he had finished speaking, Andrew ran out on his majestic dom sheep.
"Lawrence, take them up the mountain!"
Lawrence shouted anxiously: "Raising so many people, you don't have enough food at home!" ”
"Hahaha!" Andrew laughed arrogantly: "It's okay, it's not enough, I'll go out and grab it!" ”
Lawrence looked at the four women helplessly, and said to the woman holding the child, "Let's eat something first, and then we will go to the mountain after eating." ”
Lawrence entered the blacksmith's house with four women, and the blacksmith's women and children were roasting around the fire.
When the cold wind blew in, the blacksmith drove his daughter and child to the bed, giving up their place to Andrew's four slaves.
The food that the blacksmith gave to these people was very simple, cold coarse bread and hot water from the hanging oven.
All four of them wore cloaks dyed with blue grass, and they were all dressed in thick clothes.
The slaves in the general slave house are much better dressed than normal people, and they are commodities in themselves, and they have a certain purchase value.
Andrew was a slave bought for Sariel, and considering Sariel's dislike for men, he naturally bought a docile female slave.
"My name is Lawrence, I'm Andrew's friend, we'll go to Andrew's house when you're full and warm, it's not very far, it's probably about that long to tann a piece of sheepskin."
Lawrence looked at the four women, and they all looked okay, but it wasn't certain whether Sariel would like it.
The four women obviously suffered a lot with Andrew, and quickly warmed up in front of the fire at this time.
Warmed by food and hot water, Lawrence also learned the names and general circumstances of the four men.
Twenty-six-year-old Hagrid, a farmer's housewife in the countryside of the Southern Kingdom, whose husband and children were killed by robbers.
Eighteen-year-old Beatrice, the daughter of a serf in the kingdom of Loven, learned various working skills from an early age, and was sold to a slave house when she grew up.
Serfs and the children of serfs were still serfs, like lambs, and their masters managed everything about her.
If a serf marries a freeman, the offspring will be a freeman, but they will have to pay half of their land and property to the slave owner as compensation.
The descendants of serfs and masters are considered to be the result of the hard work of the slave owners, so they are still coolies.
Nine-year-old Tara was sold to a slave house by her parents because of her good looks.
Daisy, a seventeen-year-old girl who looks like a woman with a cloak, has had to sell herself when her husband went to sea to engage in a career not long after she got married.
It is not that they can eat in the slave house as long as they are alive, these women are either beautiful or have some skills, otherwise the slave house will not buy them.
Lawrence soon led these poor women up the hill, some of their men were victims and some were perpetrators, but none of that mattered.
As soon as she returned to the house with the women, Sariel, who had been waiting here, strode straight over.
"Lawrence! You send them back! I don't want slaves! ”
Lawrence looked at Salil speechlessly, "I don't know where their home is. ”
Saliel was angry and said, "Then send it to the town!" ”
"It's getting dark......," Lawrence grumbled, "I'm hungry, how am I going to sleep tonight?" ”
With Lawrence's non-cooperation, four women and a child were soon left in the house.
Andrew was like an old father who had done something wrong, sitting dullly and not speaking.
His relationship with Sariel has always been like this, there is no common language.
At night, Sophia slept with Sariel, and the other four women were placed in the same place where Lawrence had slept before.
Lawrence slept in a hut with a foul-footed, manly Andrew, enduring an unprecedented inhuman torture.
Lawrence was out of the covers a few minutes later.
Andrew quickly woke up and was relieved to see Lawrence, remembering that this was his home.
"Lawrence, are you out peeing?"
Lawrence said, "No, you sleep, I will keep vigil at the fire today, or I will worry about something going to happen to those slaves by the fire." ”
Lawrence divided several paragraphs in one breath, but without any breath, he told his reasons.
He couldn't take it anymore.
Andrew was a lot more relieved, "Okay, I'll leave it to you, call me if you have something." ”
"Hmm." Lawrence quietly walked out of the cabin, his neck red.
Call......
Lawrence took a big breath of fresh air and went to the mountains after dawn to fix the roof!
It wasn't Sariel or his own manly dignity that forced Lawrence out of his comfort zone, but he didn't want to sleep with Andrew, who hadn't showered for a month or two.
Lawrence, who was making tools with a dagger by the fire, also went into the house to look at the four women in the room.
It used to sleep two people's bed, but now it still sleeps two people.
Twenty-six-year-old Hagrid and eighteen-year-old Ectricy slept in their beds, while the other two slave girls slept on wooden frames in fur blankets.
Lawrence ignored them and went outside to the fire to continue making tools.
Before dawn, Lawrence said hello to Andrew, who had gotten up early, and then led the sheep to work in the mountains.
The previous roof is almost complete, but now the main problem is the snow and capping.
This time Lawrence brought a fur bedding and a woolen blanket, as well as a clay pot for boiling hot water and tools for making a fire.
The biggest problem was fuel, so as soon as I arrived at the mountain, I began to prepare to collect the dead branches and leaves nearby, and put the frozen dry trunks near the fire to roast, and then I began to work.
In the afternoon, after a little hesitation, Lawrence extinguished the flames and went down the mountain.
Spending the night in the mountains is not a good thing until the roof is built, and until enough fuel is prepared for heating.
Back near the house in the evening, Sophia was grooming the sheep with two women.
Seeing Lawrence returning, Sophia happily ran over and said, "Master, is our house ready?" ”
Lawrence sighed, "It will be two or three days, maybe tomorrow will be about the same, but it will be the day after tomorrow at the earliest." ”
Sophia nodded, tilted her head again and said: "Today Andrew sat in the house, went out to sit again, and then said that he would go down the mountain to drink, and he would not come back today, and Sister Sariel is very angry now." ”
That's great! Lawrence couldn't help but smile happily, he could finally sleep tonight.
"I stayed up late yesterday, and today I'm very sleepy, I'll sleep after eating something!" Lawrence said happily, and then asked Sophia to help take care of the Dom sheep, and went to the hut to lie down for a while.
As soon as I entered the house, a strong manly smell came to my face.
"Vomit ......"
Poor Andrew, when he came back, found that he did not belong here, and found that he did not really like a peaceful life.