Lord Helanza

The Grimm Empire people like to wear clothing made of linen. The main reason is that linen crops are grown in most areas of the empire. Most of the trading companies in Helanza City deal in linen products.

In contrast, cotton is not widely used in the Grimm Empire. The texture of cotton is softer and denser than linen, but the price is nearly four times more expensive than linen. Common people rarely buy linen. For textiles, nobles generally don’t use cotton. They prefer more expensive silk and wool. Of course, it’s more expensive than silk and magic cloth. It is said that the magic robes worn by magicians are cut from some magic cloth. .

When I went to Helanza City, Surdak bought a piece of cotton cloth habitually. In his opinion, it was the inner garment made of cotton cloth that absorbed sweat more closely.

It’s just that before the inner clothes can be sewn, Surdak rushed to mine the sulfur in the pustule mountain open-pit mine.

Pustule Mountain is a very active active volcano. The plume of smoke on the top of the mountain penetrates directly into the clouds. Near the Pustule Mountain, a large amount of volcanic ash falls like fine snow every day.

In this case, the village masons mining sulfur ore at the foot of Pyobao Mountain not only poses a certain risk, but also stays in a place full of severe dust for a long time. The volcanic ash in the air will be inhaled into the lungs. People suffer from very serious pneumoconiosis.

Surdak thought of this and hurriedly left from the old village chief's house.

He didn't want these wall masons to get this kind of lung disease when they came back from Pustule Mountain.

Surdak came home and saw Old Sheila sitting at the door with a bowl of fresh milk in her hand. And little Peter was snuggling in old Sheila’s arms, drinking milk one by one, the white milk on Little Peter’s lips, little Peter saw Surdak coming back from the outside, and excitedly wanted to get out of old Sheila’s arms Running away, Old Sheila bluffed and asked little Peter to finish the milk.

Surdak sat down next to Little Peter and said to Old Sheila: "Can you sew some masks for me?" Putting the pottery bowl aside, staring at Surdak and asked: "Ordinary needlework is fine for me, but I haven't seen a face mask...what does it look like?"

Surdak quickly took out one Parchment, quickly draw a simple pattern on it with charcoal, point to the two strings on it, and say to Old Sheila: "You can cover this like a scarf on your face, but it won’t affect your vision. And this thing is very breathable, it won’t be too hot after wearing it for a long time."

Old Sheila didn’t listen to Surdak’s explanation at all, and said: “I can try it, but my eyes are not very good. , There is no way to sew fine stitches, Rita, Natasha, you two, come here..."

Old Sheila is a bit older and her eyes are a little unclear. She found Rita and Nata. Sha, first cut a piece of cotton cloth according to Surdak's pattern and made a look. Surdak put it on her face and pointed out the shortcomings of this mask. After several consecutive changes, it was considered that two qualified masks were sewn.

When sewing the mask, Natasha was not only unwilling to communicate with Surdak, she even dared not look at him. She always shrank behind Rita, which made Surdak feel a little embarrassed.

Surdak saw that Rita and Natasha had mastered the production method, so he hurriedly left home.

Rita blinked Lake Blue’s eyes and whispered to Natasha: "You can’t do this, you should be more active. This is related to your future life, unless you plan to live another This kind of life..."

Natasha saw Surdak leave before she stretched her body. She said a little embarrassed: "What can I do, like Selena? I can Can’t learn."

Rita sighed softly, "Natasha..."

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Except for the mask, the area around Pustule Mountain Some of the ground is hot, and there is a thick layer of volcanic ash, and there is no lava undercurrent or deep pit filled with volcanic ash. Ordinary shoes are not anti-hot at all. Once you go the wrong way, The feet are trapped in the hot volcanic ash, and they are easily burned.

Surdak rode his horse away from the village of Wall and went directly to the oak forest where the bandit regiment’s weapons and leather armor were hidden. Twenty-two pairs of leather boots emerged from the hole in the tree.

These leather boots are left by the bandits. Although they are worn out, the texture of these boots is pretty good, and they are in the style of long riding boots, which can at least prevent the villagers’ feet After being scalded, in addition to 22 pairs of leather boots, Surdak also took out four alloy bows. He was impossible to stay near the pustule mountain. The villagers who stayed there to mine the sulfur mine must have some defensive methods.

Many of the villagers can hunt bows, but those hunting bows can't even kill wild boars. The standard alloy bow of the Grimm Empire is obviously a good choice.

Surdak put these leather boots into three canvas pockets, which are so full that they can be hung on the left and right sides of the saddle. The other four alloy bows could only be wrapped in a piece of tattered linen clothes, and then rode out of the oak forest and returned to Wall Village along the mountain road.

When passing through the mountain pass into Desolate Land, Surdak actually saw a Knight squad on the top of the mountain not far away. In front of them was the group of wooden crosses. The robbers are still hanging on the wooden crosses. Nobody collected the corpses, their corpses had been eaten by carrion birds as bits and pieces, and only some bone shelves were left.

Surdak’s eyesight is very good. He can see the Knight squad at the mountain pass. He is wearing Helanza city guard battalion standard leather armor. Thinking that this Knight squad is probably Karl’s subordinate, maybe Karl Among these people, they were not afraid that the canvas bag hanging on the saddle would be searched, and directly drove the horse to meet the Knights.

The group of Knights also saw Surdak in the mountain pass at this time. Two of the Knights ran down from the top of the mountain on horseback.

Surdak and the two Knights met halfway up the mountain. The two Knights saw the Knight badge on Surdak's chest at first sight. The two paid a Knight's salute to Surdak, and Surdak hurriedly responded politely.

"Are you the Knights of Helanza City Guard Camp?" Surdak rode closer and asked.

Seeing that Surdak took the initiative to greet him, the two Knights also temporarily relieved their doubts. One of them replied: "Yes, may I be...?"

Surdak quickly introduced himself Said: "My name is Surdak, I am Carl's friend, I want to know if he is here yet?"

The two Knights heard Carl's name, and they ran up the mountain to see Carl, with a wary look on their faces Suddenly disappeared.

A Knight with a small smile on his face said: "It turned out to be a friend of Carl. He is currently assigned to the suburbs of the southern part of Helanza. I take the liberty to ask, who will you be? Are these robbers hanging on this mountain pass? We came here to investigate this matter."

"When I was staying in Helanza the other day, Karl was looking for someone to help. I have something to do, so I can’t help. It turns out that you are still investigating this..." Surdak said, then shrugged and continued: "Sorry, I also just learned that there is a Knight in the structure. Yamaguchi killed a group of robbers. I don’t know many friends here, and I don’t know who did it."

The two Knights heard Surdak say this, a touch of disappointment flashed in their eyes. But immediately I said:

"It's nothing, this matter will gradually As the water recedes, the rocks appear..."

Surdak saw that the two Knights did not To continue, I said:

"Since Karl is not here, if there is nothing wrong, I will leave! If you have some free time, you might as well go to Wall Village to sit and drink a cup of lemon tea."

The two Knights responded politely, "many thanks, we have official duties for the time being, so we won’t bother."

Then Surdak rode a horse and carried Four large canvas bags swaggered down the mountain. When returning to the mountain pass, Surdak stopped his horse and turned towards the team on the top of the mountain. banner.

Surdak took these leather boots to the lower reaches of the river in Wall Village. He poured the boots out of the canvas bag by the stream, and then took out a pig hair brush to remove the bloody ones. The boots were washed and dried on the river beach one by one.

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It was already afternoon when Surdak rode his horse back to Wall Village.

A group of children were playing a game of grid jumping under the dead tree at the entrance of the village. They saw Surdak riding back to the village on horseback. The bolder children shouted: "Surdak, Surdak, Surdak!"

The children's voices are very loud.

Not far away, a group of women in the village stood up after hearing the shouts and looked towards the entrance of the village.

They can only wash clothes by the stream at the entrance of the village. This is the rule set by the old village chief. The laundry must go to the lower reaches of the entrance of the village to avoid affecting the drinking water in the village. Seeing a group of women looking over here, Surdak had to be slightly nodded to these enthusiastic women.

Riding into the village, Surdak passed under a chestnut tree along the dirt road in the village, just to see a piece of wooden stick sticking out from behind the dirt wall, a thin hand holding it tightly That wooden stick, with a small dirty face protruding from behind the wall, climbed up an earth wall with difficulty. She stood trembling in fear on the earth wall. The earth wall more than one meter high is not for Surdak. Not high, but very high for Signa.

She stood cautiously on the dirt wall, moving towards the chestnut tree a little bit.

Most of the fluffy green chestnuts in the short chestnut trees have been knocked out, and only higher areas are covered with chestnuts with hardened surface burrs.

Even if Signa stood on the wall, even if she was still holding a piece of wooden stick in her hand, she still couldn't reach it, just a little bit.

She raised her head, stared at the chestnut closely, bit her lip stubbornly, and stabbed her toes on the wall, finally stabbing the chestnut, but at this moment she was on the wall I lost my balance and watched the little girl fall towards the wall...

A big hand steadily caught the little girl, and Surdak appeared under the wall and lifted Signa up.

Signa's eyes that had been closed tightly opened all of a sudden. She thought she would fall badly, but didn't expect it was caught firmly.

"Don't be so reckless next time, it's too dangerous!" Surdak put Signa down, told her to stand honestly, and said to her while checking whether she was injured.

Signa glanced at Surdak, said nothing, stepped on her calf and turned around and ran back.

Turning around the intersection, the little girl rushed into the bottom of the woman's skirt. The woman was Selena. She stretched out her hand and pulled the little girl out of the skirt, staring angrily: " Segna, where have you been? How many times have I said that you are not allowed to run around and you are not allowed to steal other people’s chestnuts..." Selena scolded. She seemed to be anxious and broke a thorn from the side of the road. , Licked fiercely on the little girl's arm, and a red mark immediately appeared on the small arm like a white lotus root.

Siegen didn’t dodge, instead she stepped forward and took the initiative to hug Selena’s hand holding the wattle, and whispered with tears and crying:

"Mother, I really I didn’t steal it. It belongs to the mother’s house. Yesterday she told me that whoever knocked the chestnuts down on the tree in her family’s house was the one who smashed the chestnuts, but she just couldn’t help me..."

"Mother night we There is chestnut rice porridge to eat..."

Speaking, Segna opened the small cloth bag on her back and held it high in front of Selena, only to see the small cloth bag inside. Filled with prickly chestnuts.

Selena suddenly hugged Signa in her arms, tears rolling down like broken beads.

Originally, when Surdak saw Selena through the dirt wall, he planned to lead the horse back quietly, bypassing the road and leave.

But when he saw the previous scene through the earth wall, he realized that he seemed to have overlooked a lot of things. The most important thing was the lives of the villagers, which might be worse than he thought. I think that when I first arrived at Old Sheila's house, she also ate chestnut rice porridge mixed with cassava. This kind of life will probably not be better until the chestnut rice is fully mature.

Seeing that Little Segna was allowed to steal her own chestnuts by the Courtyard Master, but the Courtyard Master did not want to take the initiative to give them the chestnuts. Obviously, she didn’t want to be called Selena. Ominous women have too much involvement.

Seeing Segna's clear eyes, Surdak seemed to be pierced with a thorn in his heart.

He stopped, rode his horse and turned back the same way, and walked in front of Selena.

Surdak digs out a pocket containing a few large baked oatmeal from his magic pocket. This is the leftover dry food from his last trip. He stuffed the bag into Selena's hands.

But Selena didn't answer, she just looked at Surdak stubbornly, jade-green's eyes still had crystal tears.

Surdak slightly startled, he looked at Selena with a puzzled expression in his eyes, and asked her: "Why... don't you want my things?"

He squatted down for a while Zi picked Signa up, took the horse with the other hand, looked at the most dilapidated stone house in the village, and said to Selena who was standing in a daze:

"Let's go... I don’t seem to have ever been to your house officially!"

Selena did not follow, but while wiping her tears, she asked: "Aren't you afraid that I am an ominous woman?"

Surdak grinned, smiled and said to her: "...now do you remember to ask this?"

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