The five captives were tied around their necks with hemp rope and tied to the same wooden pole.

The pole is more than two meters long and the arm is thick, and it needs to be carried by at least two people.

Five ropes were linked to it, and five captives sat on the side ground of Doug's tavern, sitting on the ground with their trunks on their laps.

All around is a cheerful atmosphere, and both adults and children are happily moving around and busy.

A few children had come here out of curiosity, and had just come with simple eyes and axes to try it, when they were spotted by Lawrence, who was feeding the Dom sheep on the side.

"What do you want to do to my captive?!"

When the blind children saw Lawrence, they quickly dispersed and fled back to the adults.

Lawrence was troubled by these wild children, some of whom had parents who had died in several wars and were now the town's cooks, but lacked education and guidance.

The Pumishu people were heavy on plundering and neglecting life and death, especially the warriors who went out to fight brought back captives and goods, and all kinds of gains made the children eager to kill and plunder.

This is the guidance of adults.

Lawrence has no ability to change these children for the time being, and many children are not able to become kind with a few words.

"Lawrence, what are you doing here? Come inside and have a drink. ”

Doug comes out and calls for Lawrence, who urges him after seeing him feeding the sheep.

Lawrence said: "I ran a lot of roads today, how can I not give me something to eat? I'll go in later, Doug, you do me a favor. ”

Doug said cheerfully, "What's the matter?" ”

Lawrence looked at the five captives and told Doug about the child's desire to be as brave as an adult.

It doesn't matter what those kids do, just don't touch Lawrence's booty.

When Doug heard this, he smiled and said, "It's simple. ”

Soon Doug grabbed a twelve or thirteen-year-old boy from nearby who was wandering around town looking for food to eat, slapped him and made him stand next to the Dom sheep and look at Lawrence's property.

Then the matter is simply solved.

It's not that Lawrence can't teach children, it's that it doesn't have much effect.

This kind of thing is most appropriate for Doug to do, he teaches the children a lesson, so as to have a deterrent effect on the rest of the children.

Doug was the leader of the Beumethees, and Lawrence was an outsider to most of the children.

Children who are bullied by outsiders will immediately resist and retaliate, and they will tolerate being beaten by their own adults.

Lawrence currently only brushes the prestige of the children of Freesson, Blacksmith, and Emma, and the children of these three families are slightly more obedient, and the children of the rest of the families basically have no contact and are not very obedient.

Walking into the bustling tavern, the young girls were dancing in it, while the men who had returned this time boasted loudly about the heroic deeds of the ship.

Emma belonged to the elderly women, and although she was just twenty years old, she was cooking soup with the rest of the Bhumixiu women.

Sariel and Sophia were also in the large wooden house, which was more than twenty meters long, and they did not like the noisy atmosphere of the tavern, and sat at the free table in the distance to check Andrew's loot.

There were only about 300 people in the Pumixiu now, and there were only a few dozen people who were qualified to sit near the table, and the rest of the old people, women, and children were busy in other places.

In some families, only the men came to drink and celebrate, and the women and children were at home to collect the spoils and watch over the new slaves.

Basically, the fighting power of the village is here, and the people who are qualified to share and decide the fate of this town are also here.

Doug quickly joins the bragging game, and Lawrence glances at the young girl dancing or serving a drink, and quickly walks over to Saryl and Sophia.

It must be too late to go back today, Lawrence sat down and said, "Sariel, go and bring in the slaves from outside, there is just a place for them to squat." ”

Those five captives were of great value, more important than a few hundred pounds of food and all kinds of lamps, decorations, cloth and clothes, and they should stay in the house.

"Okay." Sarriel closed the boxes, and could tell she liked the boxy chests.

Usually the boxes for food and clothing are made casually, but these five boxes are the kind of carefully carved wooden boxes, each with iron sheets and locks on them.

Although it wasn't very good in Lawrence's opinion, it was an attractive case for Sariel that she wanted to put to good use.

Sophia also went over to help, and together they brought the five captives from the outside into the tavern.

Phumesius's adults and children are in awe of Sariel, who is Andrew's daughter.

Bring in five captives, let them sit by the wall and rest, and then leave it alone.

There are so many people here, and they are not afraid of what the five of them will do, so they are not tied somewhere, or tied their hands and feet.

Sariel walked over to the table and sat down, bored and said, "Where are you sleeping tonight?" ”

Lawrence didn't want to go to Doug's house, or Emma's house to sleep, or even preferred to sit here all night without sleeping.

"Let's play cards, if you're tired, sleep here for a while, and we'll go back tomorrow morning."

Lawrence took out the playing cards he had made from his pocket and began to shuffle them.

Saliel and Sophia looked at Lawrence happily, especially Saliel, and directly raised their hands and shouted, "Here's a glass of ale!" More fruit! ”

The men in the tavern were busy showing off loudly, and after drinking, they talked a lot, and the place where Sariel sat was very far inside, and the busy women outside did not hear it.

When Emma heard this, she quickly shouted, "Good! Here it is! ”

Lawrence and Saliel soon began to draw cards, and it wasn't long before Emma and another woman came over with a large bowl of apples, pears, and berries.

Late summer and early autumn are the time when wild fruits are abundant in the mountains, and there are many trees in the area where the Pumixiu people live, and in order to expel the curse from the sea, the people of the village have collected a lot of mountain fruits and wild vegetables today.

The Bhumishu believed that eating raw fruits would make them sick, so they ate vegetables raw and fruits hot.

Emma placed the boiled fruit bowl on the table, several of which had been boiled into unpalatable jam.

After the things were placed on the table, Emma looked curiously at the three people who were playing cards.

"What is this?" Emma had never seen this kind of night game.

Lawrence only has time to play cards at night, and the rest of the time he would rather sleep than play cards.

"It's a war game, it's fun," Saliel explained. ”

The playing cards made by Lawrence started out as digital cards, and then they were made into cards of various identities when he was idle.

Slaves, serfs, freemen, craftsmen, citizens, merchants, warriors, knights, manor owners, lords

Barons, counts, dukes

Kings, popes

There is only one for the king and the pope, and the rest of the cards are four, for a total of fifty-four.

Each badge has four suits and represents the four main industries of society.

Among them, spades represent spears, symbolizing military personnel.

The plum blossom represents the three-leaf flower, which symbolizes agriculture.

The square pieces represent the bricks and tiles used by craftsmen.

The hearts represent red hearts and symbolize priests.

Four cards of the same type can be promoted to magic cards, the higher the status of the magic cards, the more powerful the magic cards, the king and the pope can suppress the magic cards, is a higher magic combination.

Sequential slots can be used to create a coherent war effect, requiring a higher combination of slots to suppress a revolt at the lower levels, or to use magic cards.

Whoever finishes playing his cards first wins.

Lawrence, Salyl, and Sophia quickly concentrated on playing cards, while Emma stood by and watched curiously.

After watching three or four games in a row, I roughly figured out the rules.

Doug walked over at this time, "Lawrence, what are you doing?" I just had a drink and I couldn't find you. ”

"I'm playing a game." Lawrence said casually.

Doug also stood by and watched the game curiously, and soon sat down on the last side of the four-sided table.

"Can I join? How do I play this? ”

Doug felt that this game was quite fun, and he also happened to find it a little boring just drinking, and he had heard the things that those drunkards said hundreds of times, and it was not new for a long time.

Lawrence briefly explained the rules, this game is actually more suitable for four people together, otherwise it is inconvenient to hold more cards.

Even though it's a wooden card, it's easy to remember, but as long as you don't pay attention to it, there's basically no problem.

Lawrence is currently the only person who can remember both the cards and the body of the cards, because of the lack of desire to win, many times only look at his own cards and not look at other people's.

Sariel would like to remember, but her brain is overloaded and she is caught trying to cheat.

After Doug played cards here, the rest of the Bumishians also came over to watch the excitement.

Emma's husband, Craig, slowly realizes that no one is listening to his heroic deeds of killing three people, and a bored Craig comes over to see what is going on.

After struggling to squeeze through the crowd, Quigg saw four people playing cards.

"Two serfs."

"Two merchants."

"No matter."

"Four knights! War Magic! ”

First-time players always like to play big, and Doug just likes to play the big cards in his hand, as if he knows how to do magic.

Quigg looked at it for a minute, and then quickly said disdainfully, "What's so fun about this?" ”

With that, he left.

After a few minutes, a bored Quigg returned, standing on a nearby bench and looking down, trying to learn how to play.

***

The dull atmosphere made Lawrence extremely uncomfortable, and he was not very addicted to the game, and he was blocked by a group of people for almost an hour.

"Doug, play with it, don't break my card, or you'll buy it with a slave."

When Doug heard this, he said happily: "I have a lot of slaves, you take one, give me this deck of cards." ”

Lawrence stood up and said, "Okay. ”

Sariel was upset, "We have a lot of slaves, so we only have one set of wooden cards. ”

Lawrence soothed, "It's okay, I'll wake up tomorrow and do another set." ”

Sariel could only sit down sullenly, because there was no playing cards, and she soon felt bored.

Backgammon has long been gone, it's boring.

Doug quickly went to the fire with the playing cards and the crowd, a game that could be played while drinking, which suited them well.

Barbarians' palms are generally wide and powerful, and the cards are drawn more steadily, and the wooden cards are just right for them.

Men and women gathered on Doug's side, concentrating on learning advanced technology.

Lawrence was idle, so he came with tools to make a second deck of wooden cards.

The deck is not stained, it is not clearly drawn, and the size is justified by simple scratches.

The largest thirteen scratches, the smallest one, the rank is clear.

But it's not liked by everyone.

Whether it's Sariel or Sophia, or the Bumishians, they all think that the tablet characters are more complicated.

(End of chapter)