Why did the lord rebel

Chapter 76
The senior spy of the Grand Duchy of Rosario, Karim Lodge, sat on the edge of the Phoenix Terrace, leaning against the wooden fence wall named "Green Dam", slowly playing his lute.

In the cold wind of the evening in the wasteland, the sound of the violin was like a complaint and a cry.

Mr. Donald and a few young men under him banged on the nails on the fence wall hard, connecting the vertical wooden fence with strips of horizontal planks as reinforcement.

The sound of the master's hammer gradually matched the rhythm of the lute.

However, Rocky is not here to pretend to be a literary youth when he has nothing to do. The senior spy is using the usual means, using the sound of the piano as a cover, to observe the residents of Shuangfengling.

The result of the observation made him secretly startled.

To be honest, this evening, when Rocky followed the lord back to Shuangfengling from Huafang Town, the first thing that came up in his chest was a sense of loss.

The Igor family used to be one of the most famous nobles in the western border of the empire. The Eagle's Rest Castle, which is close to the sea of ​​salt, is also a famous salt and trade capital;
Although the Igor family was abruptly relegated to the southern wasteland where birds don't shit because of a sudden murder case, as the saying goes, a skinny camel is bigger than a horse. The century-old Igor family must have some wealth in their hands.

But when they boarded the Phoenix Stage, Karim Lodge, who had been in the not-so-rich Huafang Town for three months, only witnessed once with his own eyes. The top poor households that consume food for rats!

——In the entire territory, not even a decent house could be found!
All the residents live in makeshift tents!
Even the lord with a superior status, his extra large tent was sewed together with the fabrics of two tents, and the criss-cross stitches at the seams of the fabrics were enough to kill the mildest obsessive-compulsive disorder!
In addition, other materials available in the territory also seem to be challenging the minimum limit of human survival:

Since there is no furnace, all the welding work of the craftsmen is completely done by the white-bearded old mage with a slightly wretched expression, chanting "Flame Technique" with his fingers!After one night, the old man not only lost his energy due to excessive consumption of magic power, but even his large white beard was blackened by soot!

Moreover, according to Rocky's observation, these Igor family members are in short supply of clothing. When he saw more than one person, they were dressed in blood and smoke, and they looked a little too thin in the cold season of winter. It's obvious that the Igor family can't even get the funds to purchase a batch of winter clothes!
What makes Rocky feel most indignant is that the quality of the food on Shuangfengling is also extremely poor!
Since Rocky was a "guest" of the territory, Xia Houyan specially asked someone to send him a box of dinner at the same time as the meeting. As a result, Rocky opened the pitted tin lunch box and found only a dry and hard one. Bread that can be used as a brick to beat people, and a few suspicious leaves of wild vegetables that look like they have been snatched from a horse's mouth.

He could understand why that petite and pretty girl was so happy eating roast chicken in Huafang Town;

——Dare to eat when you return to the territory!

The task given to him by Archduke Rosario before was to assist the Igor family in building their territory;
Rocky originally thought that this legendary family famous in the Western Region would have some extra money left after the catastrophe, and he could take the opportunity to make a fortune and make some extra money;

But the bleak scene in front of him suddenly made Rocky's great dream burst like a false soap bubble.

He has even begun to be vigilant, will the lord care about the task cost of his fifty gold coins!

However, after a short period of disappointment and frustration, the spy Rocky took a closer look at the residents of Frost Maple Ridge.

This observation, immediately found anomalies.

Yes, the territorial people of the Igor family did look yellow due to short-term malnutrition. The heavy workload at the beginning of the territorial construction also cast a very obvious weariness on their brows. ;

But the eyes of these toiled people did not show the same humble and numb emotions like those poor peasants that Rocky had seen!
There is hope in their eyes!

This group of people in Shuangfengling, even in the face of this difficult situation of shortage of materials and heavy labor, still seems to have an undisguised joy in their hearts!

As if even today's fucking life seems to them like a reward from the Holy Spirit!

Rocky is really puzzled!
He really couldn't understand why the unfortunate members of the Igor family were still rejoicing in this wasteland of yellow sand and dead bones!

In general, there can only be one explanation for such a situation:
That is the members of this group of Igor family, who have been to worse places, experienced worse things, and survived in worse circumstances, so that they can settle down on the wasteland, which is enough for them Celebrate the crown!
But is there any place on the continent that can be worse than the land of the broken souls filled with corpses?

Rocky felt that he couldn't understand the blind optimism that pervaded the Phoenix Terrace camp!
What surprised Rocky most was the attitude of the lords towards the Lord.

Whenever the black-clothed boy walks somewhere, the nearby lords greet him with a bright smile, and the lord will stop and say a few words to the lords;

Rocky even saw the Lord Lord sitting by the bonfire and telling stories to the children in the camp!

For the time being, regardless of how absurd the story of a giant ape, a porcupine, and a water ghost protecting the monks on a pilgrimage in the Lord's mouth is, but looking at the expressions of those children, the Lord has almost regarded the Lord as a close big brother next door!

This kind of happy scene between the lords and the lords made Karim Lodge, a senior spy in the Grand Duchy of Rosario, deeply suspect that the noble lords he had heard before beat the lords, sent levies to fight to death, and went crazy in the territory. Are all the stories about exercising the right of the first night made up by his mother?

But even Archduke Rosario, who is known for his kindness and love for the people, is not so close to the ordinary people in the territory!

Rocky clearly felt that among the people on the Phoenix Stage, there seemed to be a kind of mutual trust that could only be cultivated by going through hardships and life and death together!

What's going on here?

This territory is just as wrong as its lord!
Rocky, who was too surprised, didn't even realize the real secret in this camp - in a corner of the Phoenix Terrace against the wall, there was a large iron cage covered with oilcloth and the contents could not be seen clearly. The disturbing noise of creatures.

A sudden labor horn interrupted Rocky's thoughts: it turned out that it was Master Donald and several other craftsmen, pulling the rope and working together to erect the wooden tower of a watchtower.

The shirtless, sweaty artisans circled around their builds, clapping their hands and laughing triumphantly.

With his back to Green Dam, Rocky continued to play his lute, then turned his head slowly, and under the moonlight, he looked around the poor and sour camp for a week.

He has a strong hunch that within a year, this place, and even the entire wasteland, will be turned upside down.

(End of this chapter)