Lord of Rot

Chapter 114 The Kidnapped Slave
In the next few days, Li Qi's life returned to the rhythm before going to Greenwood Castle.

In the stables, the groom told Li Qi that the female Lie's mane horse was in very good health. She ate a lot of food and took good care of her, making her fat and strong.

When Li Qi asked about the calving date, the groom gave an approximate time.

autumn.

The horse's gestation period is about [-] days, and the blood of the griffin may have some influence, but it will definitely give birth this autumn.

Li Qi emphasized to the groom that he would get a generous reward for successfully giving birth, and if he failed...he would not want to fail.

The next itinerary is to inspect the three villages, inspect the water mill, especially the commercial area under construction.

A brick kiln is being built.

Clay can be dug by the river, and the masons and slaves will use the clay to make red brick embryos. They will make many attempts to fire bricks, because Li Qi only has a general idea of ​​bricks, and as a lord, he really only needs to propose The concept needs to be perfected by its own people with its own technology and smart materials.

beekeeping village.

Some seeds suitable for summer planting have already been planted.

Flower trees and fruit trees are also planted around the beekeeping village.

Li Qi sat under the tree to enjoy the shade, drinking cold honey beer.

Akeke stood beside him. She was a humanoid mosquito repellent lamp, and no insects would come near her.

In fact, Li Qi also underestimated the people in this world. Although people do not have mosquito nets, there is a summer grass similar to mugwort, which has large leaves and burns after drying to produce a pungent smell, which can repel mosquitoes.

But like wormwood, the smell is too strong, and ordinary people can't get used to such a pungent smell.

Pitchfork, the personal servant, refilled Li Qi with iced honey beer, and gave Akeke a flaunting look. He would never allow a maid to get too close to the lord, so that the male servant can enjoy the glory of serving the baron personally!

Li Qi didn't care about the small movements of his subordinates, because he was thinking about another thing: "According to the time, it should be here?"

The slaves who had set out with him from Greenwood should have arrived.

"grown ups!"

The soldiers trotted over: "My lord, the slave team from Greenwood Castle has arrived."

"It's finally here!" Li Qi stood up abruptly.

That's 500 people!
It almost doubled the population of the porcupine collar. With enough manpower, he would not have to stop some work and draw manpower because of lack of manpower.

However, when Li Qi felt it while riding the horse, his expression became extremely bad.

"Who is the person in charge of escorting!"

The two young servants following behind Li Qi heard the anger of their lord, and immediately drew their swords.

Why is Li Qi angry?Because my grandfather promised him 500 slaves, there are about a hundred less!
Not only that, the slaves were mentally sluggish, with injuries on their bodies, and some of them looked extremely poor, with only one breath left, but were urged to go on their way by the whip.

This is completely different from his previous request, everyone is the wealth of the porcupine collar.

One of the people who took the lead in escorting the slaves knelt down on the ground: "Master, please listen to me!"

"You'd better give a reasonable explanation for harming the interests of a lord." Li Qi looked down at him.

The words don't have to be spoken completely, but they will have enough deterrent effect when they fall into people's ears.

"Yes! We encountered an army when we passed the water stream"

"army?"

"It's a militia team, no, they're just a group of farmers!" The man argued loudly: "They took hoes, axes, and some carried pitchforks and iron rakes. They said they wanted to turn slaves into soldiers. We resisted. , killed some, but also killed some slaves."

Li Qi sighed, if it was the messy place of Shuijian, it would be perfectly normal for this to happen.

"And then? They took the slaves?"

"No, they can't take away the slaves." The man continued: "You are the master of the slaves, but... the man who calls himself the Baron of Vodou, he said that he would pardon the slaves who followed him and give them the land for free. They took dozens of slaves."

"An illegitimate child again."

Li Qi didn't want to deal with illegitimate children, but he didn't expect this group of guys to be so arrogant that they dared to snatch a baron's slave.

But thinking about it is also true, if this group of people were not arrogant, they would not claim to be the illegitimate son of Baron Vodo.

"Ake"

"Adult" Ake's life is very good recently. He put on a new crutch and has several strong slaves as bodyguards.

Without his children to take care of him, his complexion is getting better and better.

My two sons are the backbone of the beekeeping village, and my daughter has even gained the attention of the lord. Who in the entire porcupine collar can compare to me?So what if he is just a slave.

"Arrange this group of slaves to rest and count the number of people." Li Qi looked at the dazed slaves and said, "Let the pharmacist heal them, prepare soup and rice for them, let them rest well, and ensure that everyone is as healthy as possible." After surviving and registering the information, tell them the rules of living here."

Ake said, "Yes! Praise be to your kindness."

"Come with me," Li Qi said to the stewards of the slave escort team kneeling on the ground.

This is the first time the porcupine collar has clashed with the outside world.

All the stewards of the porcupine collar were present.

That is all, but in fact there are only Grenn, Joe and Quick Blade.

Li Qi asked: "What do you think should be done?"

Porcupine Collar had been robbed of dozens of slaves. If he pretended nothing happened, others would laugh at Porcupine Collar and that Lild's son was a softie.

But to send troops for dozens of slaves, as long as one soldier is injured or injured, it will be a loss.

Quick Blade clenched his fists: "You should kill him directly! My lord, I will personally take off the head of that bastard Vodou illegitimate son for you!"

Robbing a baron, the humiliation that only war can wash away.

But Joe said, "My lord, I don't think war should be fought."

"What did you say?" Kuai Ren was in a hurry.

Li Qi stopped Quick Blade and said to Joe, "Tell me what you think."

"Yes!"

Qiao nodded, and after sorting out his thoughts, he said, "According to part of the information I learned when I went out to do business, the situation in Shuijian Land is very complicated. There have been a lot of illegitimate children there recently. Even if we kill one illegitimate child, another one will pop up later." , and it would drag us into that vortex of chaos."

The current porcupine collar needs to develop quietly and avoid war as much as possible.

If the porcupine leader did something to the illegitimate child, the outside world would think that he would step in, regardless of the reason.

It is very common for the nobles to find an excuse to go to war.

"What do you think should be done?" Li Qi asked.

"This one……"

Joe is only the son of a businessman, not proficient in military affairs and diplomacy.

The same is true for Glenn. He is suitable to be a big steward of the development of the territory, but he is not good at war and diplomacy.

Li Qi said: "This breath can't be swallowed by yourself, porcupine, it's full of thorns."

He swallowed it down, and the flag of the porcupine collar will encounter more and more obstacles outside. The porcupine family motto set by his father Leard is "full of thorns", and he can't throw it away.

Noble face is more important than anything else, but he hasn't figured out how to do it yet. The best way is to directly send the ghoul Aina to kill Wodu Shiba, but this will also expose Li Qi's trump card.

The reason is that he doesn't know much about Wodu [-]. If he can know more detailed information, he can create more detailed countermeasures.

Only by knowing yourself and the enemy can you be victorious in all battles, otherwise a group of people sitting here discussing wars will only use their own imaginations to fight.

"grown ups"

Follower Luo Luo came in, lowered his head and said, "There is a female messenger. She said that she is from Longship Fort and hoped to meet you."

"Longship Fort... This came with the slave team."

Li Qi said, "Ask her to come in."

　Thank you [Xuan Yuan Zhi Yuan] for the reward of 300+300.

　　
　
(End of this chapter)