The Troublesome Hero Among the Heroes

After traveling in the mountains for two days, Charles followed the carriage team to a small village located in a col.

This village is small, with a population of 20 households. A three-to-five-meter-wide stream flows by the side of the village. The few fields outside and the cultivated hillsides are planted with corn ready to be harvested. .

The village occupies a small area, and there is no open space like a square inside. Charles set up a stall on the open space for food drying outside the village.

But his business is not good. Those villagers who seem to be malnourished basically have no plans to buy anything. Only a woman who seems to be in better health exchanged a few animal skins for a catch. Beast clip.

Charles chatted with her for a few words and learned that her husband is a hunter and is considered a rich man in the village.

At the other end of the open space, Kuluoai was talking to the village head, and the old village head, who was about to die at the next moment, listened respectfully to Kuluoai's instructions.

In the past two days, Charles has been acquainted with a few people in the carriage team by relying on the pressure cooker stew, and learned that this carriage team was hired by Kuluoai, and the old man that night was the boss of the carriage team. .

Kuloai is the illegitimate daughter of a Viscount in Messina and an ordinary person in the city. She usually does things for the Viscount.

This year the viscount and his Knights pooled together money to build a small wool textile factory, so they sent Kuluoai to the village in their territory to recruit workers.

Charles basically had no business this day. In addition to the trap, some people also exchanged some linen for a thigh that was air-dried and did not know what devil beast was.

The sky gradually darkened, and the villagers who worked in the fields and hunted out returned to the village one after another.

At this time, someone took some potatoes and radishes and exchanged some needlework with him.

The helpless Charles can only accept the barter bargain. He asked and learned that there are really not many families in the village with copper plates. They are all trump cards for emergency use, even the lord. To collect taxes is to collect in kind.

When the smoke was rising in the village, Charles carefully washed a large piece of meat from the devil beast leg by the small stream next to the village. The ghost knew that the meat was dried How long it has been hanging in the room, and after washing it, it will be cut into diced meat, peeled and diced potatoes and radishes are put in a pressure cooker and stewed in a pot.

In the usual way, Charles and the carriage team would spend the night in the village, but the village is too poor, and the house is in dilapidated condition, not as clean as the tent.

After everyone had dinner, Kuluoai asked people to light a bonfire in the open space, and the sound of gongs rang out in the village. Before long, all the villagers came to the open space outside the village. .

Kuloai is obviously not here for the first time. Many people in the village know that she represents the lord, so the villagers stood quietly in front of the fire.

Charles, who had just returned from washing the pot by the river, sat on his carriage and drank cold water to watch the excitement.

Kuloai announced the recruitment and wage conditions to the villagers, which surprised the villagers. The villagers thought she was here to collect taxes or recruit soldiers.

Charles listened to the villagers' whispered discussions for a while and found that they were very tempted.

Many youngsters in the mountain village will follow the caravans or adventurer parties passing by to go out to enter the world. Some people have no news from now on, some return home in good clothes, and some come back to marry honest people. It can be seen that They don't mind leaving this place with many mountains, many devil beasts, and little arable land.

It's just that the villagers used to go out to find a workshop or something to work in. It was the first time that the workshop took the initiative to recruit people.

Those teenage girls are obviously more excited, and now they are also asked to do work in the workshop. This job is obviously better than those who "work during the day and work at night" like tavern waiters. .

And this can be considered to enter the city. It is better to marry outside in the future than to marry from this side of the mountain to the other side of the mountain for a lifetime. It is always better to live in the mountain for a lifetime.

Kuloai didn’t talk too much to the villagers, and let them disperse after saying the key content in a few words. With the understanding of these villagers, the more they said, the easier it was to get their minds. confusion.

At this time, Charles on the carriage started to think about a problem that he hadn't noticed before. With the development of the wool industry, the outflow of young rural labor force will surely break the original economic structure.

It’s okay to say elsewhere, but in the Bischberg Kingdom, where there are many mountains and devil beasts, the departure of young adults in the countryside will definitely cause the village’s defensive ability to devil beasts to decline, and devil beasts will occur. This kind of tragedy in Tucun is not surprising.

Like this village, the devil beast paw prints on the fence are old and new, and there are many big guys.

For those factory owners, they would not spend money on the overall relocation of the village. Villages are also the core of their feudal lords' territories. The rule and taxation of territories are based on these villages. Moving a village is no different from depriving them of their territories.

Even though Charles gave Altria and Gawain the territory, Charles helped them build a small dirt fence in the territory. Usually there is no who lives there, so in spring it is a place for people who go to gather maple syrup to stay. Now Altria's Tuweizi has become the warehouse of the white jade meat cannery, and Gawain occasionally uses it to store wool.

As a result, the decline of the countryside and the damage to the interests of the feudal lords at the grassroots level will cause Charles to be unclear. He decided to throw this problem to Linda, although this problem is still not there. It's a long time.

"What are you thinking?"

Kuloai suddenly appeared beside Charles' carriage.

Charles shook the head and said: "Nothing, but business is not good today."

Kuloai asked: "I will hire you to help me carry things in the next few days. How?"

Charles asked curiously: "What do you want me to transport?"

Kuloai replied: "It's our luggage and food. People in the village today reacted Yes, it is estimated that more people have been recruited than expected."

She looked at the goods in Charles' car and said, "Otherwise, I will buy all your goods."

Charles thought for a while, anyway, he brought the goods as a cover, and sold it to everyone the same, but there was a problem with the distance.

He asked: "I'm going to Catania next, don't you know the way?"

Kuloai thought for a while and said: "We will pass by Salo, where it’s adjacent to Catania, you can follow other caravans there."

She paused for a while, and then said: "It’s just from Cesaro to Catania. There are a lot of bandits on the road in Nia City. There is no Count Megadon there. I suggest you follow us and go forward. You can take the waterway and make a circle on the way."

Charles thanks Ku Loai, then decided to accept her employment on the way to the town of Cesaro.

He went there just to use those bandits for reputation.

Next, Kuluoai asked Charles to drive his carriage to the carriage team, and after the payment was settled, he had the stuff from Charles' car removed.

Then Kulaai took the goods and exchanged food with the village chief, and got back a lot of food such as jerky, cornmeal and potatoes.

When they hired workers, they included food on the road. They consumed a lot of food along the way, and they had to be replenished along the way.

Kuloai apparently used an "executive order" and relied on strong buying and selling to get back the food.

Charles can do nothing about this, he can't control Koloai.

Not to mention Charles. As the saying goes, "The vassal of the vassal is not my vassal." Even if Linda comes, it is useless. You can only issue orders at different levels.

The night in the mountains is not peaceful, from time to time there are beasts calling from far away, and people who are accustomed to mountain roads are accustomed to this.

And the little sound made in this village made Charles very curious, so he sneaked into the village.

In the middle of the village is a well, and there is a circle of stone pavement several meters wide around the well.

At this time, an oil lamp is hung on the canopy of the well. Several children from five to six to ten years old are holding wooden swords and practicing the sword technique under the guidance of an adult. The basic actions.

The adult Charles met in the evening, he was a hunter, and he came back with a few hares.

Although many people in the village are suffering from malnutrition, the health of these children seems to be quite good, basically reaching a normal level.

Charles watched the children practice sternly, feeling that the sturdiness of the mountain people in the Bischberg Kingdom is one of the reasons for the harsh environment, and the other is the determination and fierceness to "see the children as a dragon".

The parents of these children obviously eat less in order to make the children full, so that the children have enough strength to survive in this ghost place.

Looking at these hard-working children, Charles's mind began to liven up, and he happened to have a skill attached to the Reimu gift package that he played with. Now you can try it.