Chapter 29: Pirates
The cold winter is coming to an end, and in the last period of time, people on and off the mountain still have to wear bloated fur coats to dare to go out.
Fortunately, there are not many important things in every household, and many things can be done at home.
Even with enough food and fuel stocked, there are some things that can only be solved by going out.
For example, the excrement in the barrels is poured into the designated area, and the water is fetched from wells that have not yet frozen.
There are four wells in the town of Phumisiu.
The first is in the public well house, which is used by most of the people in the town themselves.
The second is in the church location, for the exclusive use of the people in the church.
The third is in Lawrence's new home.
The fourth is at the public bathhouse, which is also responsible for supplying the water source to the hot water room, and is used here to get water to drink when working as a group.
For example, the family members of Fryce and some soldiers can go to the church and the hot water room to fetch water and avoid queuing up with others.
The rest of the residents share a well, which is barely enough, and there are many people in each household, plus every household has a water tank, so as long as the time for fetching water is specified, daily life problems can be solved.
I don't do laundry in winter, and I usually go to the public bath when I take a bath, and there is not much water except for cooking and water for people and animals.
In spring, summer and autumn, you can wash your clothes by the river, and if you don't want to queue up to fetch water, you can also use it directly from the nearby stream.
Lawrence plans to build two more wells this year to solve the problem of daily water use.
In addition to the well, Lawrence rebuilt the mill where he grinded flour and built a library that is currently useless.
There are not many Bhumixiu people in the town, and in order to prevent problems such as language slowness, Lawrence consciously divided some new young people into the Bhumexiu family when he was grouped.
This family-like integration, as well as the small group model, allows those people to learn their language quickly.
Especially with the shield women's guards, the superintendent of the nuns' team, most of them do not speak their original language, even if they do not speak.
While Lawrence was calling for people to learn the culture and communicate in the same language and script in the realm, the expedition soon reached the Stormy Sea.
A three-masted ship more than 20 meters long is slowly floating in the offshore sea.
It is more than 10,000 meters away from the land, and only a lone large ship can be seen from the land.
At this time, the sea breeze was calm, and there were only a few Durellas on the big ship who were watching something boredly.
It didn't take long for two twenty-meter sailboats to come quickly downwind from the rear of the big ship.
The people on the big ship also spotted two boats in the rear, and those people's ships were flying the flag of the Kingdom of Gran and looked like merchant ships.
After more than ten minutes, the small boat in the rear caught up with the larger boat, and the two boats were on the left and right sides, not one in front of the other.
Soon the distance was shortened to fifty meters, forty meters!
"Hey! We are in business! The sailors on the ship in the rear shouted: "We are selling bottles, what are you selling?" ”
The Durella soon shouted in the Durella language, "Who are you?" ”
Bobo, the sailor, smiled and said to his companions, "Chief, it's the Durellans, and I bet they must have wine on board!" ”
The strong man beside Bobo smiled sinisterly.
"Little ones, get to work! Let them know the cruelty of the Clippers! ”
The nearby sailors quickly cheered.
Soon several people climbed up the nearby mast like monkeys, these men were lean, thin but looked like fierce and bloodthirsty bandits.
"It's time to eat! It's time to eat! Come out and work! ”
Bobo quickly shouted to the people in the cabin, and after a few seconds came out of it one after another.
The planks on the deck were erected, and someone with hooks and ropes was staring excitedly at the few Durellas on the ship.
The Durella soon noticed that the pirate ships were slowly approaching on both sides to the left and right.
"Catch them! I want this boat!! Waien yelled excitedly.
With the captain's shout, more than a hundred or dozens of sailors on the two ships let out a monkey-like roar of excitement.
The chaotic roar of excitement like a monkey did not make the Durella people on the merchant ship jump ship in fear and escape, not even entering the cabin.
At this time, several Durella men with shields came out of the cabin, and when they came out, they found that the pirates had no bows, arrows, javelins, or even axes.
The sailors on the two pirate ships quickly threw their hooks out, and more than twenty hooks were hung on the left and right sides of the merchant ship, and some of them were attached to the sailing ship's sail ropes.
As the pirates on both sides began to tighten the hook locks hard, the three large ships traveling side by side soon began to approach.
Because of the relationship between dragging the side of the merchant ship, the pirate ship itself began to tilt towards the merchant ship.
The thin men who were standing and holding on the mast more than ten meters high quickly jumped out of their own masts.
The monkey-like skinny men quickly jumped onto the boat, or the heavy sails, and then took the knife from their mouths and looked at the Durella men cruelly.
The sides of the ship were also connected by planks laid down by the pirates, and a large number of pirates scrambled to run up.
At this time, the Durella people quickly dispersed!
"For the Prophet!"
This time, it was no longer the Durella language they spoke, but the barbarian language that made the Clippers Waien mind a little.
Just as Vaun pondered what they meant, he saw a giant crawl out of the cabin of the merchant ship.
Under the stunned gaze of the skinny monkeys, the bald man in bearskin armor and a bearskin hat stood up from the deck, showing his huge height of two meters, three or four.
Behind the giant, a burly man with a giant sword came out.
The man has a brown beard, a burly and muscular figure, thick and powerful arms, a height of nearly 1.9 meters, and a pair of cold and cruel eyes.
Behind the man, one by one, the cruel savages who looked as sloppy and excited as the pirates came out.
With axes and shields in their hands, even though there were only a dozen of them, they had no fear in the face of a tenfold enemy.
Generally more than 1.8 meters tall, there are two team leaders who are obviously not ordinary people, plus those Durella people who don't look like businessmen at all, more like elite soldiers.
"Die!"
Andrew didn't have any nonsense, and with a big sword in one hand, he directly cut off the two skinny monkeys who came over by stepping on the plank!!
Grace did not lag behind, picked up a one-meter-eight long stick from the ground, and with a strong swing, he knocked a one-meter-five-six thin man into the air.
The body of the thin man flew onto the sails of the pirate ship, from where a large amount of blood and flesh fell.
Waeen trembled and shouted, "Kill them!" Let's go together!! ”
The number of pirates is obviously higher, and as long as one hundred and sixty or seventy people go together, they will definitely be able to kill these dozen barbarians!
Grace and Andrew couldn't understand these people's words, and the two of them didn't want to listen to any words begging for mercy at this time.
They just want to vent their violence.
Every time Andrew swung his sword, one or two people would die.
Even if the nearby pirates rushed up without fear of death, they were cut in half before they could get close.
Grace was even more invincible, and with a wave of the huge wooden stick, he slapped five or six people into the sea.
The rest of the Durella and Vakiri were not good either, and soon hacked those who did not dare to approach to the deck.
Andrew killed a few more people and looked at the nearby Vakiri and Durella, which were almost full.
Soon Andrew ran two steps and jumped onto the plank that the pirates had built, stepping on the corpse and jumping directly onto a pirate ship.
The three ships had already collided together, and Grace couldn't use it with his own people, so he quickly chose another pirate ship.
"I'll leave it to you!"
Grace shouted at the Durella and jumped into the Clippers' boat.
Sou!
Grace directly swung the big stick at the short and thin men who didn't dare to approach nearby, and the huge force made the short knives, long knives and daggers that these people stretched out fly directly out of their hands.
Rumble!
Like a peasant woman washing clothes, Grace raised his stick and slammed it down on the wheat as tall as his waist.
Waien quickly retreated, and his loyal follower Bobo also retreated in fright.
"Who are you?" Waien quickly questioned Grace in the language of a barbarian.
However, Grace had not yet learned the language of the barbarians.
After seeing the man yelling at him, Grace quickly killed Waien! (End of chapter)