Armill Boots

Author: polarisa

The sunset has set in the west, the sky is still bright, towering in the ancient city of the east, in the afterglow of the sunset, it seems more and more vicissitudes and thick.

The ancient city pass leans on the left side of the mountains, the north city wall plunges into the steep cliff, the right side is adjacent to the swamp, and the south city wall runs into the boundless expanse. Guarding the danger made this pass the only land passage into the Muhai Principality. At this time, it was already evening, and there were still hundreds of caravans waiting to clear the customs in front of the city pass, stretching for a few miles in a chaotic manner.

The angry screams of anger in the ranks were one after another, occasionally accompanied by the restless neighing of the mules and horses. This is the edge of the Southern Death Swamp, and there is no fear that snakes and insects accustomed to the swamp ecology will crawl out and attack. It's just that at this time, it is still early spring when the hunting of fierce beasts is difficult, and in the Beidou Mountains on the other side, the hungry beasts are hard to guarantee that they will not come out of the mountains to forage.

The people in the team waited anxiously, waiting for the soldiers stationed in the ancient city pass to come out and check the seal of the customs clearance. This situation is not usually seen today: although this ancient city is guarded by the main road, there are about forty or fifty caravans that usually pass through the customs every day, and God knows how today it suddenly ushered in hundreds. The ancient city of Guanli is usually cleared all day, but today I don't know why, there has been no switch.

Many people couldn't bear to come forward to inquire about the soldiers guarding the city pass. Those people either don't speak, or they mumble impatiently, and after a whole day, no one can ask who is ugly.

Lu Ercao is an ordinary guy in a caravan, he is calming the somewhat irritable pack horse in front of him, occasionally looking up to see if the document office that reviewed the customs clearance seal in front of the city pass has come out, and he is very worried that he will not be able to pass the city pass tonight.

Ruhr grass has been walking around the swamp for seven days, camping in the wild for seven nights. The sleep of the luer grass is not very good, and after sleeping at night, I can't hear the slightest sound, and I will wake up at the slightest noise. The seven nights were really hard for him, and the daytime trek to endure sleepiness and tinnitus was the hardest experience in the twenty-five years since he was born.

The caravan where Ruhrgrass was located came from Black Rider City, a small country where caravans and city-states were combined. Located on the thousand-mile straight road leading from the Cangwu Empire to the Muhai Principality, the Black Horse City maintained its prosperity by extracting taxes from passing merchants. This straight road was a daily stream of seafood for the Empire, as well as merchants who exchanged goods for the surrounding states.

The Black Horse City supports a gang of horses, known as the Black Flag Army. This horse team is ostensibly the official army of the Black Riding City, and it is their responsibility to maintain the safety of the merchants on this straight road. Secretly, he may turn into a horse thief at any time and go to other trade routes to plunder and maintain the prosperity and stability of the straight road. Legend has it that the original leader of this horse team founded the Black Horse City in order to make his horse team have the purpose of existence and pass it on for a hundred years.

Lu Ercao is a native of Black Riding City, ten years ago he was sent by his father to the restaurant "Emperor of the Sea" manor as an apprentice, and has been doing chores and changing knives in the kitchen for a living, with only sixty copper per month, which can only barely make ends meet in Black Riding City. The humble life will not affect the inheritance concept inherent in his bloodline: every citizen of the Black Horse City has the obligation to cover any action of the Black Flag Army, just as the Black Flag Army has the obligation to protect every citizen of the Black Horse City, no matter where they are.

There is no arable land for planting around the Black Horse City, except for the vast swamps and boundless grasslands, and the food and daily necessities have to be transported from the Cangwu Empire or the surrounding principalities and city-states, and the price of grain is relatively high. Ruergrass's only dream for many years was to become a chef, and even the lowest-level trial chef could get ten silver coins a month. For this reason, after others leave the store to rest, Luer grass is still practicing basic skills in the kitchen.

A few days ago, the Emperor of the Sea's Caidong was said to have received inside information that the Black Horse City was about to open up the sea passage and occupy a seaside territory three thousand miles away. The price of seafood in Black Horse City is about to plummet and will remain low for a long time. If the Emperor of the Sea can't get first-hand high-quality seafood in the future, the high-end customers that have been maintained for many years will be diverted.

Zheng Caidong, the Emperor of the Sea, decided to send his eldest son, Zheng Shuo, to this territory to open a branch and take care of the supply of the main store in Black Riding City. In order to maintain the taste and style of the dishes of the main store, the branch naturally needs its own special chef to achieve it. No one who is a mid-level or above chef in the head office wants to leave home for thousands of miles to go to a branch whose business is destined to be light and unpredictable, not to mention that his salary has only doubled.

So, the opportunity for Ruhr grass came, and he was promoted from a knife to a chef overnight. After a week of trial cooking, the craftsmanship of Luer grass was recognized by Zheng Caidong and Shopkeeper Li, and they directly mentioned low-level chefs. Shopkeeper Li even publicly said that if he didn't have to transfer people to the branch, he would leave Luer grass in the store and let the senior chef take him for a month, and he would definitely be able to be a middle-level chef. You must know that there are five levels of chefs in the main store, which are special level, high level, intermediate level, low level and trial kitchen.

With the glory and commitment of a mid-level chef, Ruercao left the main store in the face of the envious gaze of a large group of chefs who changed knives and tried the kitchen. Before that, he also received his first month's salary, forty silver coins for nothing. The promise is the return time promised by Zheng Caidong and Li Shopkeeper: if Lu Ercao's cooking skills reach the intermediate level, they can return to the main store after three years of abstinence, and if they can't, they can also return to their hometown as long as they have survived for five years.

After seven days of torture, Ruer grass survived with these glory and promises. If he can't clear the level today, Ruercao is very worried that he will wake up tomorrow morning and will be as anxious and crazy as these pack horses.

Not only the merchants like Lu Ercao wanted to know if they could clear the customs today, but also the spies who were hiding in the business team, and even the dozens of scout teams lurking in the cliffs in the north and the swamps in the south, everyone was paying attention to the Black Horse City.

This ancient city is the Jingxiwei of the Muhai Principality.

In order to hold the dangerous points, the narrow Great Wall pool built by the Jingxi Acropolis is not big or small, the widest part of the north and south is about ten miles, and the dangerous city pass is only more than three miles, but the east and west stretch for more than 20 miles.

The Acropolis is divided into two parts, the west is the front city, a military fortress, and the back city is a huge fang market, where the merchants stay, rest, and trade, either return directly or continue their journey. There are three holes between the front and back cities, the left and right holes are military passages, and the middle hole is a closed passage that passes through the front city but is completely isolated from the front city.

Looking down from the sky above the front city, the north and south parts of the front city are like two **, and close together small twin cities, each city has only one city gate located on the east side, and can only enter and exit through the back city. The middle gate is the west gate of the back city, which is pressed by the former city, but has nothing to do with the front city.

The twin front cities are connected by the city wall, and each has a first-class command organ and military organization, which can support each other in wartime, and can also work independently, both of which are supplied through the back city, and it is a symbiotic relationship. This simple layout of the twin front cities seems redundant, but in fact, it can form three lines of defense for the Jingxi Acropolis, and the main roads are impassable.