When Sophia woke up, she saw the light shining next to her bed from the window.

The room was filled with heat mixed with the sun.

Sophia looked down at the bacon that hung like the woods, and saw the iron pot hanging from the fire.

The steam was steaming from the iron pot, and the minced cured meat was boiling in the boiling iron pot, and the smell of broth was also emanating from the room.

Two domes lay not far away, squinting quietly and chewing on something, and a new layer of wood was laid on the corner of the room.

Creak~

Lawrence moved through the wooden door and entered, his nose breathing in a lot of heat, white frost hanging from the rim of his fluffy hat.

Sophia quickly sat up from the warm bed, "Master! ”

Lawrence looked at Sophia, "It's almost time to get up, I just checked the outside of the house, set a trap to catch mice, you get up first, go to the toilet, wash your hands and face, and after eating, we will go down the mountain." ”

Sophia obediently came out of the bed, although it quickly became cold, but it was enough.

It's much warmer here than there is, not at all as cold as expected.

It was also hot when I slept at night, and I slept very comfortably.

Sophia quickly got dressed and went to the corner to squat down to go to the bathroom.

Lawrence squatted down to collect the ashes that had accumulated for a day and a night, which could be used as a good fertilizer.

Accumulation of manure attracts bugs and beasts, and Lawrence himself didn't want to leave a dung pit on purpose.

The feces of two or three people only need to be thrown into the river, there is nothing polluted in this era, and the stream not far away converges into a large river leading to the sea, which is nothing at all.

Whether it's laundry stains, excrement, or unusable garbage, you can use the power of nature to remove them.

The main problem is that the stream has frozen recently, and the snow water that has not melted down the mountain naturally has no transportation capacity.

Lawrence followed Sophia as she went out with the urine jar and said, "I'll tell you where the traps are, be careful not to break them." ”

"After we live here, some rats and bugs will also gather here, so be careful not to let the first mouse in."

Sophia said solemnly: "Yes! I clean my master's house every day! ”

Lawrence prompted: "In the future, you do something simple, manage the new slaves for me, and we need more people to help us do things." ”

"Hmm!" Sophia obediently agreed.

She was also a former aristocratic and had a high acceptance of slavery, and she didn't see anything wrong with it.

The tragic fate of a man is that the barbarians and civilized people of this era, even the slaves, have no concept of a state, no concept of a human civilization, let alone human rights and free thought.

In such a barbaric and backward era, will the barbarians care about your human rights?

It's not even a war year here.

Because everywhere there is war, danger, death.

If people can't live independently, they can't have an independent personality, and people who need to rely on the strong to live, even in modern society, are still slaves of the strong.

There is also a difference, the law in peacetime will protect the lives of those slaves to a certain extent, and at the same time rely on the strong for profit, not for survival.

Now there is no such law, and the people here are slaves mainly because they cannot live alone, rather than money and power.

For the time being, the people of the Kingdom of Luofen did not have the habit of robbing passers-by, because there were no mature caravans here, and they could only rely on a very small number of villagers who went out to do business to help them in trade.

When a normal traveler enters a village, not only will he not be robbed, but he will also be entertained by the villagers who do not see outsiders once a year and ask about things outside.

Usually if they know you're going to the next village, they'll ask you to do something and send something to a relative in another village who hasn't been around for a long time.

Of course, there is also a premise, that is, don't steal, don't show fear.

Once the other party does not treat you as a decent person with knowledge, but as an untrustworthy thief, it will be miserable.

Lawrence and Sophia led the goats down the hill, and when they reached the outside of the house, they found the goats gnawing grass roots in the field.

"Sophia!"

Lawrence quickly rushed over and shouted at Sophia again.

Sophia also quickly ran over and shouted loudly to the sheep in the field.

"Damn it!" Lawrence punched the goats and drove them out of the field with sticks after eating for an unknown amount of time.

Herding sheep is not a troublesome task, even a child can do this job, but if a child ignores it and lets the sheep run to the field to eat the crops, it is not a trivial matter.

This had never been the case in Sophia's time before, and Sariel herself would never make such a low-level mistake.

Lawrence thought of the three slaves, and Sariel must have given the sheep herding to the little girl or the woman with the baby.

The beaten sheep began to disperse in disorder, and Lawrence did not dare to make a heavy hand, and said with anger: "Take the sheep back." ”

"Yes!" Sophia ran back and took Dom the sheep Nala.

Sticks and shouting alone don't have much effect, it's easier to lead the goats and sheep with the head.

Lawrence approached the house with a stick, and he looked around, but there was no sign of anyone at all.

It's almost noon, and Sariel and Andrew may be cooking, but are the three women in the house?

Lawrence looked inside as he approached the kitchen and saw that it was a mess, as if a wild beast had come in and rummaged through something.

"Andrew? Sariel? ”

Lawrence shouted.

After two or three seconds, there was no response.

"Andrew? Sariel? Is there anyone else in the house? ”

Lawrence shouted again cautiously.

After a few seconds, there was still no response.

Lawrence walked softly into the kitchen, where there was not much room to hide, and soon Lawrence saw the bacon that had been thrown on the floor, and the flour that had been poured on the floor.

Lawrence looked through the firewood and some corners, and noticed that the jar where he was putting butter had been opened, and there were obvious traces of butter on the nearby box, as well as chicken bones on the ground.

Not a beast.

Lawrence was sure that this was something that humans do.

Soon, he checked Andrew's cabin and the main house with trepidation.

"Master? What's wrong? ”

Sophia drove the sheep into the fold and came back and said, "Saliel's chicken is one missing, and the sheep are two less, and Andrew's big sheep is not there." ”

Lawrence has already determined.

"Andrew took his weapons and leather armor and shoes, Sariel should have gone to find Andrew, and the three slaves should have escaped."

Sophia looked stunned and asked in a panic, "Then what should we do now?" ”

Lawrence said, "Saliel should be looking for Andrew down the mountain, let's go down the hill to find Sariel." ”

Sophia nodded quickly, "Hmm! ”

The two rode sheep down the mountain, and when they were halfway there, they saw a haggard and lonely figure walking slowly towards the mountain with his head bowed.

Seeing this, Sophia shouted, "Sariel! ”

Sariel looked up and saw that it was her own Dom the Sheep Nala, and Sophia and Lawrence running briskly towards her.

At this time Sariel began to cry again, and his father had suddenly said goodbye to her the previous afternoon and left the place.

At first, Sariel thought he was just going down the hill to drink, but the more she thought about it, the more wrong it became, and it was only when she ran down the hill to look for him in a panic that she learned from some people that Andrew was gone.

"Sophia! Lawrence! Saliel watched Lawrence and Sophia come down from the sheep's back and walk towards her, her voice full of tears.

Lawrence walked over and picked Sophia in front of him with her hands like a doll and faced Sariel.

"When you're uncomfortable, you can hug Sophia."

Saliel quickly cried and stretched out her hand to hug Lawrence and Sophia in the middle, "Lawrence, Sophia, my father doesn't want me anymore......"

Lawrence knew that Salil was in need of a hug, and reached out to hug her after letting go of Sophia.

"No, he's just going to pursue the glory of the berserker, it's not that he doesn't want you, and Andrew asked me to take good care of you before he left, Sariel, you used to be two people, and now it's three."

Sophia, who was caught in the middle, also said with a sideways face: "Yes, Sariel, we are still good friends, will we sleep together in the future?" ”

"Hmm!" Sariel quickly agreed, hugging the two of them tightly.

Sariel, who felt lonely last night, finally found a partner who cared about her.

She has Andrew's strong strength and physical fitness, but because Andrew has always taken her to live a stable life, she has not inherited Andrew's psychological quality.

Lawrence believes that if she doesn't care about it and leaves Sariel alone, then she believes that Sariel will also become a strong female warrior.

But neither Andrew nor Lawrence, nor Sariel herself, wanted to do that.

After calming down a bit, Lawrence gave up the sheep to Sariel and Sophia and walked ahead on his own.

"Sariel, you can live with us in the mountains in the future." Lawrence didn't comfort too much, and changed the subject to talk about the future.

Sariel stopped crying at this time, but still looked at Lawrence with some weakness.

"Isn't it good for us to continue to live with me?"

Lawrence told the story of the destruction of the house by three women after Salil left.

"I didn't set fires or take away much, but there weren't many crops left in those fields."

"And Andrew won't be back for a long time after he goes out, and now the Pumixiu are making weapons to prepare for a new war, and they will definitely come to the mountains to collect ore when the time comes."

"That house is for the people of the town, and let's go live in a quiet place in the mountains."

"Don't worry about food, the rest of the food is enough for us to eat, the sheep can be raised, there are a lot of sheep to eat in the mountains, and the pigs are counted."

Lawrence spoke in detail what he thought, Andrew should go to that Avari trouble.

Lawrence intends to obtain information from Doug on the one hand, Avari and the Earl, and on the other hand, to protect Sariel and Sophia.

With the deterrence of the nearby mountain barbarian tribe and the poisonous witch, it is believed that the hut at the foot of the mountain is already the limit, and those people dare not approach the area where the witch is active.

Then there is the time to practice archery, and if necessary, eliminate some hidden dangers in advance.

There is no law to back it up in this day and age, so don't believe in justifiable defense.