Chapter 14: The brother-in-law who eats rice
After waiting in line to receive his salary, Dill happily rented a donkey cart with his companions to bring back his food.
Three months' military salary is 6 kits, and Dil is all exchanged for copper coins, the silver coin unit is a bit large, and it is inconvenient for small citizens to use it, 6 kittes of silver are exchanged for 6000 Signe's copper coins, of course, not all small copper coins, that amount is too much, Dill mainly exchanged some copper plates worth 10 Signe.
In addition, there is a ha'er of food, enough for the whole family to eat for a month, and now there is finally no need to starve.
Dill returned home excitedly, and as soon as he entered the door, he saw Pentaval sitting at home teasing his little daughter.
When Penteval saw Dill coming in, he hurriedly stood up and said, "Brother-in-law, why have you just come back?
Pentewar is Dil's brother-in-law, who lives in the opposite state of the ram god Knum, because Dil's wife died early, so the brother-in-law rarely interacts with each other on weekdays.
Penteval looks like a talent, but he has never been married, and he is all over the world and messes with unserious women.
Dill was also very enthusiastic when he saw his brother-in-law's visit, and hurriedly asked his daughter to go out to buy some meat and drink to entertain his brother-in-law.
Penteval saw Dill take out a pile of money, and said in surprise, "Yo, how did my brother-in-law get rich, where did you get so much money?"
Dill smiled honestly and said, "Hey, what kind of fortune is made, it is the military salary owed by the army, and it will be reissued today, but fortunately, it will be reissued, or you will have nothing to eat when you come to me!"
"How can you lords show kindness, and you have money?" said Penteval, fumbling with the money that Dill had poured on the table.
Dill smiled and took a few big copper coins and handed them to his daughter, and asked him to buy more delicious food and a piece of cake for himself, and the little girl rushed out happily.
Dill put the money away, put it in the secret compartment under the bed and said, "Let's go, let's go to the roof, the room is too dark!"
The two climbed up the wooden ladder to the top of the building, and sat under the pergola on the roof, where Dill poured Penteval a glass of ale and drank only water himself.
Penteval took a long sip of ale and said, "Brother-in-law, I heard that your lord's son Menes has been resurrected and brought with him a group of working mummies?"
Dill nodded and said, "yes, it's back, it's good!"
"What's so good about the Great Demon King's return?" said Penteval disdainfully.
"It's good, really, everyone says that Menes is a big demon king, why do I think it's okay, you see it's only been a few days since he came back, and he sent us all the food we owe, isn't that good?" Dill was satisfied.
"This money was sent by Menes? where did he get the money?"
"It was sent by him, saying that it would be given for three days, and he was a good man who counted! As for where the money came from, I don't know, this is the matter of the lord, the lord has money, and there is no shortage of this!"
"In addition, I think the lord is actually a good person, he must be blamed for the previous things, you see that a new military order was issued today, and in the future, we will pay back money for military merits in wars, and what medals will be issued, and if we die, we will be given a pension, and if the merit is big enough, we can be promoted. Dill squirted out with delight.
Dill explained Menes' new rules to his brother-in-law as they were.
Pentewal was stunned when he heard this, there is such a good thing? Rich, can be promoted, take care of his family when he dies, and can he get land while he is alive? Can a common man be a general? Joke, how can a commoner be a general, I don't know a few people who are still generals, that is, the trick of the aristocratic lord to fool the common people, deceive people and make you work hard, and when you want him to fulfill his promise, he will ignore you!
Penteval didn't believe it, but he still had a little hope in his heart.
The little girl bought vegetables, mutton, bread and wine back, Dad said to entertain his uncle, insisted on buying wine, it was really expensive, Uncle used to come to eat, the family did not come after no money, every time he came Dad was kind to him, but Uncle never brought gifts.
The little girl had an idea in her heart, but after all, it was her own uncle, and her father could do whatever she said, and her father finally had money, and the little girl happily bit the small cake she had just bought and went into the kitchen to cook.
The children of poor families are in charge of the family early, and they already know how to take care of their father at the age of ten!
When the meal was ready and served on the table, Penteval unceremoniously grabbed the mutton and stuffed it into her mouth, so that the little girl had no food and looked at her uncle with a blank eye.
Deere people are very good, and they don't care about saying to their daughter, "I told you, buy more, you see you buy less, remember next time!"
Pentwalpi is very thick, and he can still swallow it after hearing this!
The little girl had no choice but to eat bread with vegetables, and Dill smiled and picked up his wine glass and said, "Come, be happy today, let's pray together, may your mother be favored by Olisses in the Misty Swamp!"
The little girl bowed her head and prayed silently.
Penteval drained the wine in his glass in one gulp, smacked his lips and said, "Good wine! Brother-in-law, you have a good lord!"
Dill smiled and didn't speak.
"I heard that your lord is still cultivating the swamp to the south, but there will be a lot of grain harvest?" asked Penteval continued.
"Well, yes, Lord Menes said that as long as we kill the enemy with our hearts in the future, we can distribute the land over there with military merit. ”
"Oh, he's cultivating the land for you, so generous?" said Pentval, not convinced.
"That's what Mistress Menes said, it's only now that work has begun, and I don't know if it can be reclaimed. ”
"Has there been any recent change in your army? No new soldiers have been recruited?"
"Recruit new soldiers? No, we can't feed our people, it's impossible to recruit any more soldiers, and you know that our weapons are not available!"
"That's right, Shengmao State has always been very poor, just a little land, unlike Ram State, where there are copper mines, and there is a lot of income from copper mines alone every year. Pentval dried his wine again, and instructed the little girl to add it.
"How about that group of mummies, who are said to be very capable and energetic?"
"I didn't see the mummies, but I heard from the villagers who worked in the swamp that the mummies were very powerful, with great strength, strong endurance, and they were not tired of working all day, and they were mainly very obedient!" said Diel.
"That's really earned, I didn't expect Lord Menes to be blessed by misfortune this time and become the king of mummies, it's really good luck!"
"Hey, this is all a blessing for the lord, we little people just do our own work, don't worry about this, anyway, when the land is reclaimed, if I have a military function to divide my land, I don't have to exchange my life for money in the future!" Dill said with a sigh.
It was not too early to finish eating, and Penteval decided to stay at his brother-in-law's house for a few days to find out how Menes was doing, after all, Lord Ankotifi was waiting for him to report the news!