My farm does not raise idle dragons

All the injuries on his body were treated, he put on new clothes, ate food, and regained a lot of strength.

Therefore, after watching the two guards leave, Lu Weide was able to sit up with his body propped up, climbed to the door of the carriage, and took stock of the situation outside.

Leaning on the carriage door, Luvid looked out and found that at some point, the carriage he was in had followed the entire team down to the underground cave.

Luvid couldn't remember what the scene was like when he first entered the underground cave, but he could guarantee that it was definitely not what he saw now.

The loose soil on the walls of the underground cave was cleaned up with the power of the wind element, revealing the clean stone walls underneath. The original uneven traces on the ground were also consolidated again with elemental magic by the earth elemental mage.

At this time, the ground was very smooth and neat, and the piles of debris that were originally on the ground of the underground cave were also cleared and thrown out of the underground cave.

You can't smell the stench of the decaying bones of various monsters or humans at all. Instead, there is a faint fragrance that is spreading in the underground cave.

Lu Weide looked in the direction of the scent and saw a wind elemental mage holding a handful of burning beeswax in his hand. The scent spread throughout the underground cave along with the wind elemental power in his hand. .

It is a plant that emits a strong fragrance after burning. It is often used by nobles as perfume or aromatherapy products. If Lu Weide's memory is correct, it should be an extremely expensive noble product.

At this time, it was being used so carelessly to get rid of all kinds of odors in the underground cave. Lu Weid couldn't help but sigh, this Miss Lucy is really a generous person.

Then he turned around and looked around. The underground cave was in the shape of an irregular gourd, and the entrance was the mouth of the gourd.

The innermost one was the large circle of gourds, and Lu Weide was within this range at this time. He looked around and saw a group of guards uniformly dressed, with obvious patterns on them that he could not identify.

Lu Weid looked at it for a long time but didn't recognize which family it was, or which famous force it was.

This made him a little strange, because he had seen all those famous forces or family patterns, so there shouldn't be anything he couldn't recognize.

And to say that the other party is just a small powerful family, this posture is not like it.

Or is it some new powerful family that has emerged in recent years? Luvid thought about it, his eyes not stopping.

More than twenty carriages formed a semicircle surrounding the middle carriage, and Luvid himself was on one of them, not too close but not too far away.

It seems that the status of this carriage is not low, Lu Weide made a judgment, and the woman named Fiona obviously has a low status as well.

There is no doubt that the carriage in the middle must be that of Miss Lucy. There are more than a dozen intermediate elemental warriors with thick auras guarding it.

The importance of "Miss Lucy" was clearly written on the surface, which made Lu Weide more sure that this must be a figure from a big family.

Lu Weid only glanced twice, and then two guards turned and looked back. Their eyes were undisguised and had "Don't look around" written all over them.

Even though Ludwig immediately averted his eyes from looking at the frame of Miss Lucy's carriage, the two people opposite him did not relax their vigilance. They looked away openly, but they could feel that their peripheral vision was still looking at Ludwig. Be alert to what he might do next.

Lu Weide was even more impressed. Ordinary people couldn't bring out such loyal guards.

Lu Weid took advantage of the situation and looked to the side. Farther away, there were a dozen large cooking pots that had been set up. The flames were burning brightly. He could see several huge kitchen utensils that were probably like soup buckets, and they were gurgling inside. It was steaming hot.

More than a dozen armed guards were busy in full swing. Some were washing vegetables, some were cutting meat, and some were stir-frying in a red-hot cauldron. The sound of hot oil sizzling made people subconsciously swallow. Swallowed.

Unrecognizable spices were put into the pot regularly, and a strong aroma exploded as they were stir-fried. Then, various cooking methods that Lu Weid had never seen before were put into place, and the large pot dishes were formed one after another.

Suppressing the growl in his stomach, Luvid quickly turned his head and looked to the other side. He didn't know what the purpose was, but two strange-shaped round tents were set up.

From time to time, you can see men and women walking in with a wooden basin full of things, and then walking out clean and refreshed with water mist all over their bodies.

……bath? Lu Weide was stunned. When a wave of monsters broke out in the wilderness, someone would actually care about the guards taking a bath. He couldn't help but be confused.

What's the point of taking a shower and cleaning yourself? Then it will still be dirty after setting off.

With full of incomprehension, Lu Weid saw some scattered guards nearby who were busy. No one was idle, except for him, the inexplicably wounded person.

Then Luvid felt something was wrong. The number of people he had seen before was obviously more. Why were there only half of the people here?

And this half of the people have completed all the functions required by a team, so what happened to the remaining half?

He turned his head and looked at the small gourd in the underground cave gourd. Sure enough, he saw another number of people, even more than he had guessed.

The entire underground cave has a large area, so even if more people are within the smaller gourd, it does not seem cramped and the space is completely sufficient.

Luvid looked carefully and found that the more than 400 people there were actually a group of businessmen and mercenaries.

Merchants and mercenaries are actually easy to identify. Looking at the carriages with the words "Caravan" on them and the huge caravan imprint, basically no one can mistake them.

This is also a characteristic of caravans. When they travel between various human cities, they will inevitably pass through some human villages on the way. The caravan sign allows them to accept the reception of those villages and receive better treatment.

You only need to trade part of the goods.

Or occasionally meet some sporadic mercenaries, and at this time, the identity of the caravan is relatively a kind of protection. Even the kind of black mercenaries who block roads and rob, most of them will not directly attack the caravan when they see it, but will send someone to talk to them first.

As long as the caravan is willing to pay a portion of the toll, they can pass here without any harm.

Although robbing the entire caravan may seem like a bigger profit, in fact, the black mercenaries can only do business once, and next time the caravan will hire other mercenaries to deal with them.

And if they negotiate amicably with each other, they only need to pay part of the toll, the caravan does not suffer much loss, and the black mercenaries gain enough benefits, which can be regarded as a win-win situation.

Therefore, when caravans go out, they will make their trademarks large and obvious, so that people can see at a glance that we are businessmen, we do not fight, and we do not use force to solve problems that can be solved with money.

Of course, if the caravan itself has strong enough security capabilities, they can completely refuse this kind of extortion of tolls.

In other words, if the black mercenaries feel that the caravan is too weak, they may attack directly without negotiation.

That's why the caravan must seek Miss Lucy's protection. This is also the reason. The threat from monsters is only part of it, and the real threat is the interest.

As for mercenaries, it's easier to get to know them. They have tattered clothes, are in groups, or are walking alone in the wild. Even if such a person is not a mercenary, you can still regard him as a mercenary, because there is no difference.

So, while Miss Lucy was traveling through the wilderness, she was also bringing along these burdensome merchants and mercenaries? ? ?

No wonder the other party was willing to rescue me who had an unknown origin. I am afraid that in the eyes of the other party, there is no difference between myself and those businessmen and mercenaries.

I have seen many kind-hearted aristocratic ladies, Luvid, but it is rare to see someone as kind as this Miss Lucy.

Only one with greater strength can provide this kindness.

In this world, no matter how kind-hearted the weak are, they will only be exploited and cannot afford this title.

Luvid sat half-reclined at the door of the carriage, relying on his good eyesight to look at the merchants and mercenaries without being too polite.

Although he was seriously injured, he was still a mid-pole elemental warrior who had reached the threshold of promotion. No one among the group of businessmen and mercenaries had the confidence to retaliate against him.

The more he looked at the merchants and mercenaries, the more interesting details he noticed.

For example, the group of merchants and mercenaries were imitating what Miss Lucy's guards were doing.

The several large caravans led by each built a bathing tent with a similar shape. After being used by their own people, they lent it to the group of mercenaries for free.

There is no extra charge, as long as they go outside to fetch water and find someone to help heat the water.

Although it is okay to take a bath directly in the river outside, the feeling of being able to take a bath with hot water is definitely different from taking a bath with cold water.

Coupled with Miss Lucy's various popular sciences, this group of businessmen and mercenaries are more willing to learn to act based on principles, rather than dealing with the past as before.

Female mercenaries obviously prefer to bathe in a closed environment. Although they don't mind being seen by others on special occasions, they are not willing to expose their bodies to others at ordinary times. As an ornamental object.

The structure of the bathing tent is actually very simple. It mainly uses gravity. However, no one thought about this before Lu Xi. After all, no one else would think about how to make bathing in the wild easier.

Those who have the conditions cannot use it, and those who have no conditions cannot afford it.

Lu Xi didn't come up with this method on her own, but she had seen it before in rural areas on Earth. Before independent toilets were built in rural areas, most people used this method to take baths.

Build a small wooden house outdoors and put a water bag for bathing on top. After being exposed to the sun all morning, the water inside will be hot and you can use it for bathing.

You don’t even need to boil water, which is very convenient.

Here, although there is no sun to heat the water for a long time, elemental mages with fire attributes can come and heat it at any time, which is more convenient.

The bag used for bathing has multiple uses. When taking a bath, it can be filled with water and used as bath water. When on the road, it can be filled with water and used as a water storage tool.

And because the shape is not fixed, it does not take up as much space as a bucket or something like that. Any corner can be stuffed in as long as there is enough space. However, the quality is not as stable as a bucket and is easy to break.

Wait a moment... Lu Weid later discovered that there should be no sunlight in this underground cave, so why did he see things so clearly?

And there are no torches lit here for lighting.

Luvid looked up to the sky.

A huge orb of unknown purpose is being hung on the top of the cave using elemental magic. Like a small sun, it emits pure white light and illuminates the entire cave.

——The first island treasure that Lu Xi obtained during his previous adventure on the island, the Moonlight Orb.

(End of this chapter)