Lord of Rot

Chapter 10
He stood up with the help of the table, and the servant Pitchfork followed him as soon as he left the study: "My lord!"

"I'll go back and rest," Li Qi said.

At the door of the bedroom, although the manservant wanted to make Li Qi's bed but was rejected, there was a tombstone inside, which must not be favored by the Four Gods.

After closing the door, Li Qi placed his hand on the tombstone, and the crypt opened.

He lit a torch and went into the crypt.

"This smell..."

The further you go inside, the stronger the pungent smell.

The source of the smell was the corpses of the four farmers on the ground. They had been dead for two or three days, and the smell was magnified several times in the cramped, narrow and unventilated underground passage.

Li Qi really wanted to set fire to the corpse in the crypt, but considering that the only air circulation entrance was in his bedroom, the smoke would probably fill his room too.

It is not difficult to dispose of the corpse at night. Only Li Qi and his teacher James lived in the castle. When there were many people in the past, there were stepmother and younger brother Leo. When the bell rings, the servant will rush over at the first time.

So it would not be troublesome for the dead body James to dig a hole anywhere in the castle and bury the body.

Li Qi cared more about another thing than the corpse.

Corpses rot!
He opened the necromancer's handbook, which indeed recorded the problem of decay. Dead corpses without life will rot, which is unavoidable. They don't metabolize like living people, and their hearts stop beating.

However, necromancers have recorded two methods of preventing decay, one is to use embalming agents, and the other is to eat fresh flesh and blood.

Unlike the industrial preservatives of the 21st century, what is recorded inside is a magical preservative that can keep dead bodies alive, and even make dead bodies healthier and stronger than or.

The main material is still salt, and other materials include snail shells, pig's eye grass, cores of finger vines, and some random things.

Blood and meat are simpler, but the premise is freshness, that is, throwing a live pig or a living person in front of a dead body and letting it gnaw.

"Let's make preservatives. The materials for making them are not hard to find..." He denied the second bloody method. No matter if there are fewer living people or fewer live pigs in the porcupine collar, it will attract great attention. After all, here too poor.

……

Li Qi was eating breakfast at the dining table, and he was planning to go to the kitchen in the name of visiting work, to teach the chef a little cooking skills, such as soy milk, deep-fried dough sticks, and no matter how bad he was, he would teach the chef to pickle pickles and eat this greasy fried food every day. Meat, he wasn't sure how long he could last.

One cup is soup, the other is ale, and people don't drink water, because most people will excrete in water, and drinking cloudy dirty water will cause dysentery.

The servant Pitchfork came over at this moment: "Good day, my lord."

After Li Qi made the request, no one could enter his room casually, and the servant was assigned a new task to go out to collect materials for making preservatives.

If there is not enough manpower, the people around you are multitasking.

The servant couldn't read, so Li Qi only emphasized a few herbs, and if he couldn't find them, he would arrange for the housekeeper Simon to go to Iron Stone City to buy them.

"Most of the materials you need can be found in the porcupine collar, and a small part may take a little time." Pitchfork said: "I have asked the farmer to look in the direction of the pig's spine valley, and there may be some there."

From Porcupine to Ironstone City, the road is northwest.

In fact, the scope of the Pig Ridge Valley is very large, from the north of the Porcupine Collar to the northwest, and the territory of Baron Li Qi is cut off at the sharp corner of the East Gorge near the sea.

Hundreds of miles out of the porcupine collar, there are forests, where there are wild beasts, and there are also a lot of game.

"You did a good job, Pitchfork," Li Qi nodded.

"It is my honor, my lord." The manservant half knelt on the ground.

Li Qi did not emphasize that the male servant should get rid of the behavior of kneeling. Although he himself was not used to others kneeling for him, he was also not prepared to challenge the aristocratic system, especially if he was also a nobleman.

"One more thing, my lord," said the servant: "I saw Mr. Duke last night. He was digging a hole in your garden. This morning I found four more graves there."

I have to say that a "father" is really useful. Before he rewards him, even the loyal servant Pitchfork would never dare to speak ill of Warg Killer in front of Li Qi.

Rewards can be exchanged for short-term loyalty, and can strengthen loyalty.

"It was arranged by me." Li Qi didn't care if things were leaked, as long as no one discovered the most fundamental and important secret, he said, "Mr. James buried the farmers who followed me to explore the crypt. They died for me." , will also be buried in my castle, and will continue to guard me after death, anyway, the garden has been deserted, so it’s better to play some practical role.”

It is an honor in this world to use it for me in life and continue to drain it after death.

He never thought about returning the corpses of the four farmers. They had golden scars on their bodies and were shredded by sickles. There were too many problems, so they just buried them.

Pitchfork trembled slightly, but he made a big mistake in making a small report. Now he should not think about rewards, but beg for punishment not to be too severe. No nobleman likes a talkative servant.

But with Baron Li Qi's weak and introverted character, maybe...

"Good job," Li Qi said, "I can feel your loyalty, Pitchfork."

Pitchfork raised his head in surprise. Instead of being blamed, he was praised. He vowed to keep an eye on everyone from now on!And the silver moon reward that belongs to him, he will definitely get it!

"Praise be to you, my lord!"

Li Qi finished his breakfast with difficulty. The freshly baked white bread tasted very good, which was also the motivation for him to finish this breakfast.

I need a cow for my territory, but egg drop soup can also meet the demand before that, the premise is to find the chef and give him a little advice.

In his previous life, Li Qi was also considered a housewife, and he still knew how to cook in ordinary households. Now that it is autumn, maybe he can consider hanging sausages instead of the crude and unskilled blood sausages in this world. Tied with directly fried chunks of fat.

"We are patrolling the territory today," Li Qi said, "We will also visit the homes of those farmers. After all, they died for me."

The steward Simon said immediately: "You are a merciful and generous lord."

Mercy and generosity are not good words for a lord, but Li Qi accepted it with a smile. He hopes that he is really a merciful and generous lord. Well, this may be completely different from the native nobles.

The baron's reward made the people in the castle more motivated. Today he didn't see the feces in the corner outside his castle. Maybe it was because a servant who was too lazy to go to the toilet in the field was afraid of being reported, or maybe the maid in charge of cleaning was quick.

The groom has brought the horse that Li Qi often rides.

All the horses in the Clarence family were bred by Leard's strong-maned mare. Now the horse is nursing in the stable. One of its children followed Leo to East Port City, and the rest were in Li Qi in the castle.

Without the help of a servant, Li Qi stepped on the pedals and got on the horse.

As the son of a warlike baron, his physical fitness is much higher than that of ordinary people. He has mastered horseback riding, archery, swordsmanship, and spearmanship, but his mastery is not very good.

But now he has a trace of instinct from the Warg Killer, and his sword skills have improved a lot.

(End of this chapter)