Lord of Rot

Chapter 604: Pull people’s heads and get kickbacks

"If I don't surrender, dozens of people in the entire castle will be dead!"

When Aviva learned that she could move freely, she immediately found Little Heide and heard this excuse.

Will you die if you resist?
Aviva didn't know, but she knew that Little Heide was afraid of death and had no burden to abandon his own beliefs and those northern warriors who were willing to fight for their lives.

The two of them went from being intimate to becoming strangers in an instant.

In the next two days, Aviva observed the Dongxia people. They did not kill the people in the castle as they imagined, and they did not even care about herself and others who also lived in the castle.

I have only ever heard that the people in the north could not survive without food, so they had to go south to plunder.

But I have never heard of people from the south taking the initiative to go north. There is no benefit in winning.

She saw it today.

"Recruiting cooks?"

When Aviva got up, she found a group of people in the castle surrounding a soldier, who was listening to the other soldier talking loudly: "Go to the port to cook, 5 bronze stars a day, and the food is included!"

"Return the money?"

Aviva rubbed her ears, mistakenly thinking she heard wrongly.

Also unresponsive were the people in the castle. Some of them were still trying to resist the invaders and were unwilling to cooperate. Some of them didn't know how to cook. Most of them wanted to go but didn't dare. They were afraid of being beaten by their companions. Exclude.

The soldier sprayed white mist.

The beard covered the lower half of his face, while the white mist covered the upper half: "If you don't understand anything, you can raise your hand and ask!"

A boy raised his hand: "I can't cook, can I go?"

"Haha, of course!" The soldier nodded: "But don't expect us to take care of the little kid. If you can't do the job, just get out!"

"I'm not afraid of getting tired. You said I would take care of the food every day."

"We have several thousand people," the soldier said. "If a little food leaks out, it will be enough to kill you."

"Then I'll go!"

Seeing the boy join, several more people followed, most of them were the group of people who had difficulty surviving in the castle, and were generally younger.

There is no firm belief and no absolute loyalty. They just want to live.

Watching them leave with the soldiers, the remaining people dispersed, cursing.

"You betrayed the lord like this?"

"Bah! You get five bronze stars a day, but you still have to take care of the food? Humph, you're lying to a fool!"

"Those young people know what it means to not listen to the elders and suffer losses...ah, what's that?"

Aviva's life became the same as before. When she found Carrot and asked about it, she found out that it was Lord Li Qi from afar who admired her for charging for her beliefs, so he gave her freedom.

"Freedom and where to go?"

At night, Aviva saw the young people who had left to cook in the morning and came back dragging their tired bodies.

People who want to go but are afraid to leave and are still waiting to see curiously ask: "How are you doing at work?"

"It's very tiring. There is actually a chef in the team, so we are just helping out. We haven't had much rest all day."

"Where's the money? Did you give it?"

"Give it!" "Wow! Do you want to give me food? What is it? Black bread?"

"Breakfast is wheat porridge and half a piece of bread, lunch is stew and pancakes, and evening is broth and potatoes." Afraid that some people wouldn't believe it, he patted his belly and said, "Look, it's round and round."

"Suck~" I don't know who sucked the saliva.

"real or fake?"

"It doesn't matter if it's true or not, you're not going anyway." The boy said, quietly taking out a small bag from his arms: "These are some broken bread I picked up from the ground. If you don't mind, just try it. I poured a little bit of broth into it.”

Everyone's eyes lit up when they heard there was broth.

Everyone stretched out his fingers to pinch a little, and a large bag of crumbled bread was snatched up.

The young man who was wiggling his fingers came closer and said, "Can you help me talk to that adult for a few words? I want to take a look."

He fell in love with this kind of broth. After eating it, his mouth was covered with oil, sticky but satisfying.

"Me too, me too!"

In the distance, Aviva, who was listening to their quarrels and laughter, looked at the moon in the sky.

It became like this in one day. She was very curious and wanted to take a look tomorrow.

Early the next morning, the little boy led more than 20 people to find the soldiers who were recruiting kitchen workers. After a simple test, the soldier confirmed that everything was fine, and then he sent more than 20 people to work.

"This is yours. You've done a good job. Keep recruiting others." The soldier threw a small purse to the little boy. He could tell by the rattling inside that it was filled with bronze stars.

The little boy thanked him profusely and left with the money bag in hand.

"You know I hate it the most when someone lines their own pockets and takes advantage of loopholes."

"Lord Carrot, I think you are mistaken. Lord Li Qi doesn't hate people seeking benefits. All he wants is for everything to develop within the rules and towards the goals he has set."

"My lord is a very tolerant person and will not embarrass me because of such a trivial matter. On the contrary, I used my own methods to quickly conquer the residents near Heide Port. In less than a month, they will fall in love with our system, and then Be who we are from the bottom of our hearts…We have to show our good before others know our good, don’t we?”

"But people are executed for similar things every year. You are my friend." Carrot came out of the dark corner: "We participated in the training in the same period. Although you failed to persist in the end, I hope you will not cross the line. "

"The opportunity will come again." The soldier shrugged: "I will seize it this time."

"I will report this matter truthfully."

"Of course, I don't want it." The soldier changed the subject and asked, "Carrot, do you know? After the lord has completely taken control of Endor and most of the East Gorge, he has a population of several million..."

"What do you want to say?"

"I want to say that among these millions of people, except for scholars and a few geniuses who can provide results that satisfy the lord, the meaning of most of the remaining people's work is not to make money or to pay taxes. What everyone does Everything is repetitive and meaningless.”

"How could it be meaningless? Those houses, those grounds, fields, and factories..." Carrot was puzzled.

"But it's just a repetition," said the soldier: "The construction of houses, the invention of red bricks, the invention of cement, the creation of factories, etc., were all proposed by lords or a very small number of people, things that most of us do. It has no meaning in itself, and it cannot make the territory stronger. Or do you think that wandering around with a sword on your back can be worthy of the pile of silver moons that the lord gives you every month? As a retainer, you When can I follow the lord to the battlefield?"

Luo Bo was speechless. Of course he knew that he had never played the role that a follower should have.

"The only meaning of our work is that it is meaningless. It is just to keep everything running in front of us, as long as everything can continue to operate stably."

After the soldier finished speaking, Luobo nodded solemnly: "But I will still report the kickback you received."

Soldier:……

(End of this chapter)