Lord of Plenty

The cold wind, mixed with ice crystals, blew continuously towards the direction of Fengrao Territory.

Those people at the edge of the forest were naturally the first to bear the brunt. The Ever Dark Forest, which stood on the Yongxu Continent for thousands of years, seemed to be coldly mocking the incompetence of these tiny humans.

"Ha!"

Joel imitated the actions of the sheriff and the lord's guards, and chopped a cold fir tree that was as thick as two people hugging.

The stone axe made a crisp sound, but only left a shallow mark on the trunk.

Joel was not discouraged. The hardness of these cold fir trees that grew to a certain age was no less than that of stone. Even a beginner warrior could not split it with an axe, let alone him.

Joel continued to swing the stone axe in his hand, carefully expanding the gap on the trunk bit by bit. The stone axe was too brittle and would break if the force was not used correctly, so he had to be extra careful when using it.

When the gap on the tree trunk expanded to a certain extent, Joel wiped the sweat from his head and retreated, and the other two members of the logging team immediately followed.

Holding a strange logging tool consisting of two pieces of wood and a hemp rope, sprinkled a handful of sand, and just pulled it, I pulled it, and began to grind the fir tree little by little.

Joel walked to another tree and continued to repeat the previous work.

The two hundred lumberjacks here were all assigned different jobs, and everything was in order.

As long as enough trees were cut down, the guards under the sheriff would stamp his merit card with a small stamp, and stamps of different colors represented merit points of different values.

Like the blue stamp in his hand, it was worth one point, that is, five copper coins.

Five copper coins, Goddess of the Sky!

It’s not that Joel’s family didn’t have these five copper coins, but that Lord Tate, who was said to be the butler of the castle, had clearly told everyone.

The money earned from contribution points can be exchanged for all living materials at the castle, such as food, salt, firewood, herbs...

And these are all good things that cannot be found in the current farm.

No matter how rich you are, no one is willing to exchange food for things that can't fill their stomachs, unless it is barter.

Joel estimated that as long as he worked harder, he could stamp two blue stamps before the end of the night, which is ten copper coins.

Earning so much money in a day is something Joel didn't even dare to dream of before.

Although that's what he said, Joel estimated that the wages would probably only be given to them in some very harsh and cunning way.

For example, the price of food was multiplied several times, and one copper coin could buy a large piece of black bread, but it would cost five copper coins to give one piece, and it was the kind that couldn't fill one person.

But even so, Joel was left with full gratitude in his heart.

The work team provides two meals, breakfast and lunch. As for why these two meals are provided, according to Sheriff Dawn, it is not appropriate to go to the battlefield on an empty stomach.

As for dinner, you can solve it yourself.

But which poor family will have three meals a day? They all have two meals, or even one meal, and it is good enough to fill their stomachs.

The money he earned from working in the logging team is just enough to buy food for his mother and sister.

In this case, he can feed his family without stealing or robbing, so he naturally won't complain about anything. He is only grateful in his heart.

Besides, today is only his first day in the work team, and he is not familiar with the working environment here. Joel is confident that he can save money by stamping one more blue stamp tomorrow.

When he saves enough money, he will ask the pharmacist to see his mother for her cough. Joel is always coughing like this and he is worried.

Thinking of this, Joel feels full of energy all over his body, and even his sore arms are covered by the joyful emotions overflowing in his chest, and he doesn't feel tired at all.

"Oh my god!"

"How did you do that?"

Another logging team in the distance suddenly cried out in surprise, as if they had seen something magical, which immediately attracted the attention of many people.

Joel also looked up at the source of the riot and frowned immediately.

Nia, who was surrounded by everyone, stared at her hands blankly and couldn't say a word for a long time. She, just now, probably, maybe, used the legendary fighting spirit?

Dawn, the sheriff who was responsible for preventing wild animals from harassing and was also the biggest supervisor of the logging team, noticed the movement here, strode to Nia's side, looked around, and asked:

"What happened?"

The people around him said:

"My lord, Nia seemed to have used her fighting spirit just now."

"Yes, I saw it too, just like when those guards cut trees, the axe shone, but not so bright."

"Your name is Nia? Do it again for me."

Nia nodded, swung the axe in her hand, and chopped it hard in the direction of the tree trunk, but nothing happened this time, and the people around couldn't help but sigh.

Dawn held Nia's shoulder and said in a deep voice:

"Don't be anxious, feel the heat in your body carefully, imagine a thread passing through the needle, and operate it to condense on your hands, slowly, do it again."

Nia closed her eyes and began to try to mobilize the power in her body as Dawn said.

When he opened his eyes again, the axe in his hand was covered with a layer of faint red light. The red light collided with the hard fir wood, and immediately splashed into a piece of debris.

Dao En couldn't help but became speechless when he saw this, and asked curiously:

"Have you ever learned how to use Dou Qi from anyone?"

Nia shook her head in confusion. She was an orphan and grew up eating the food of everyone in the village.

Cuiyu doesn't even have a warrior in her heart, and it's even less likely that she has any fighting spirit training methods. Where can she learn it?

Dawn understood immediately, and couldn't help but be secretly surprised by Nia's talent as a warrior.

Just by watching the guards use their fighting qi once, did you master the basic use of fighting qi?

There are still such people in this world?

Dao En has naturally seen a lot of geniuses. In the royal capital, there are heroes from all over the country. There are so many geniuses that even Lord Kun is his disciple in a sense.

The children in the Marquis's family are outstanding enough. Not to mention the youngest, the other children are not worthy of carrying shoes compared to the one in front of him now.

Dawn, who has a love for talent, said:

"You should stop doing logging work and join the security team from tomorrow. I will send someone to teach you how to use Dou Qi correctly."

"Can I learn from you?"

Nia, who had neat short hair and a conspicuous scar at the corner of her mouth, seemed not to be afraid of the man in front of her at all, and said carelessly:

"If you want to learn from nature, you have to learn from the strongest one."

Dawn was a little hesitant. He had already promised Kun that he would accept the guy with skinny arms and legs as his disciple. How about accepting another one?

Dawn's soldiers suddenly reminded in a low voice:

"Captain, Butler Tate is here to 'inspect' again."

The fart inspection, holding chicken feathers as arrows, obviously came here specifically to cause trouble for him.

When Dawn raised his eyes, he saw an old man wearing a mink hat standing on tiptoe behind the crowd, looking furtively around the crowd.

Dawn immediately changed his mind. He chased one duck and two ducks. They were almost the same, so he said:

"Okay, but besides you there is a senior brother, and I will teach you two together.

You need to wait a few more days before he comes back. Before then, don't practice secretly on your own. Although you have successfully awakened your fighting spirit, the method of using fighting energy is wrong and you can easily hurt yourself. "

"When the lord comes back, I will help you ask if I can give you a fighting spirit book suitable for your practice.

My fighting spirit is wind, yours should be fire, and you can't practice the one I created. "

Although Lord Kun is a mage, he is a ruthless man who emptied half of the Marquis's treasure house before coming here.

With the Lord's long-term vision, he wouldn't believe it if he didn't have a few interesting Dou Qi secret books in his hands.

"It's over, it's over, let's go back to work."

The soldiers of the security team dispersed the crowd watching the excitement, but they could not stop the burning in these people's hearts.

The little girl was lucky enough to succeed in becoming a master to Dao En, a powerful and powerful official. This was called reaching heaven in one step.

Even with the scar on her face, she probably won't be noticed by the Lord and become the Lord's wife. It's a pity.

In the crowd, Joel was sincerely happy for Nia.

Although Nia hasn't said a word to him since last night and is obviously still angry with him, Joel is just happy. He doesn't know why he is so happy, as if he is the chosen one. .

Ledo, who has a hooked nose and a slightly sinister face, but is a tall guy about 1.8 meters tall, looked down at his hands.

Although he thinks he is not behind others, it is still impossible to be like Nia. It seems that he has to find some other way to sneak into the security team!

Old Tate was first frustrated by Dawn, and then declined by Nia. Nia did not join the lord's guard as Old Tate wanted.

The twenty soldiers who originally belonged to Kun's bodyguard were divided into two, with half continuing to serve as Kun's bodyguard and the other half joining the security team with Dawn.

Although the guard team used to be under the control of Daun, Daun, who is now the territorial sheriff, has no relationship with the Lord Guard in name, so the guard team was temporarily handed over to Old Tate by Kun.

Old Tate had long been dissatisfied with Dawn for transferring all the elites from the escort team to his security team, even though the young master had personally promised to Dawn.

But the young master said it was the young master who said it, but it is not the reason why Dao En did such a great job!

Which is more important, the young master's safety or the security of the territory? Don't you, Dawn, have no idea at all?

What's more, this time it was to repay the little girl he met first. Logically, this little girl should join the escort team.

In short, I came to pry a corner, but failed.

When he first saw the old Tate, who seemed to be fearless of the little girl, he had a gut feeling that this must be a talent, so he was willing to talk to the kid more.

But he didn't expect that this kid was so talented. He showed up on the first day he joined the logging team, but he was caught off guard.

The young master is right, man's calculation is not as good as God's.

Sighing and wondering if he was really old, Tate swaggered to the place where the logging team was distributing lunch, and directly picked the lunch box that was piled with meat and had the best performance.

"Well, Mr. Butler, the lunch you took is the security officer's lunch."

Old Tate said with a smile:

"Oh, really, that's really embarrassing. Let the Sheriff take my share."

The guard in charge of distributing the meals didn't dare to stop him, and could only watch helplessly as Old Tate took away Dawn's lunch.

As for what Old Tate said to tell Dawn to eat his share, hell, how could Lord Dawn leave a lot of people here to go back to Jade Heart to eat Old Tate's lunch?

Old Tate happily took the lunch and walked around, trying to find a place with less wind to enjoy this hard-won trophy.

Suddenly, behind a pile of felled fir trees, I saw little Joel eating alone.

Raising his messy eyebrows, Old Tate turned around and headed straight for Little Joel.

He naturally remembered this little guy. There were only seven people from the original residents of Jade Heart who came to register with him, and he was deeply impressed by every one of them.

Or was he responsible for the young master's entrustment? The work of recruiting people in the village has not been progressing smoothly, which has greatly slowed down the young master's original plan.

Old Tate sat down and shocked Joel. Why did such a big shot come to him?

Old Tate narrowed his eyes and stopped Little Joel who was about to get up.

"Sit, sit, sit. We're not in the castle, so we don't care about that."

The young master is a person who really hates those complicated rules. Otherwise, why would he let such a vulgar groom serve as his butler?

An old man and a young man, facing the ice, snow and cold wind, in the old and solemn forest, they ate wheat rice when they were hungry, and stuffed their mouths with snowflakes when they were thirsty. They were silent and immersed themselves in eating.

There is really nothing to talk about. What common topics can a slave born in a Marquis's mansion and a young farmer from the border of the kingdom have in common?

Old Tate suddenly asked:

"What do you think, Lord?"

Little Joel, who was stunned for a moment, hurriedly swallowed the food in his mouth, and then said a good word.

Joel, who had never been to school and lacked vocabulary, thought for a while and added:

"Very good, he is the best lord I have ever seen."

If the previous lord who deceived the men in the village and sold them as slaves was a villain who deserved to go to hell and be skinned by cramps, then the lord who came this time was the envoy specially sent by the sky goddess to save them.

Old Tate grinned and spoke a little leakily:

"Don't be so nervous, I'm just asking casually."

After taking a look at the job in the other person's hand, Old Tate asked:

"Why don't you eat meat? Don't you like it?"

After saying this, Old Tate himself laughed. How could anyone not like eating meat?

All workers will be given a small piece of meat for lunch, and the three who work the hardest, do the best, and make the most progress will be rewarded with an extra chicken leg.

"..., I want to leave the meat to my mother."

Joel lowered his head and looked at the piece of meat in the corner of the rice bowl, which was no more than the size of a thumb joint. The delicious food suddenly became a little salty.

"That's it."

Old Tate's tone was a little erratic, he looked back, but didn't say much.

That's right, after all, it's the first day on the job and I don't understand the situation yet.

Although the work team does not provide dinner, there is a newly built small canteen in front of Blackstone Castle. People in the work team like to buy dinner there, which is delicious and cheap.

From the beginning, the young master personally set the price of the meals there. He did not provide free dinner, but set the price of the dining hall meals very low.

Vittorio, who was in charge of the money bag, had some objections.

But the young master asked, do you know what is the most delicious dinner in the world?

Once you eat it, you will never forget it for the rest of your life.

If you still want to eat, then you can only live in Fenghuo Territory with all your heart.

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