Lord of Hyranza

Seeing that the candle light was too bright, old Sheila felt a little distressed, so she burned a candle like this, quickly inserted her fingers into the candle flame, and pinched off a section of the candle wick in the flame. The light in the room became dimmer, and she I was a little dissatisfied that Rita took out a candle instead of lighting the oil lamp, thinking it was a waste.

Before that, even oil lamps were rarely used in the house, but the atmosphere was a bit dull at the moment, and old Sheila didn't scold Rita.

Under the illumination of the candlelight, old Sheila's face had some obvious wrinkles, but her complexion was much better than before, with at least a layer of oil on her face.

"...You shouldered Dak's friendship, you came to our house from a long distance, and helped us overcome the difficulties before us. Our hearts are full of gratitude." Old Sheila said in a rambling manner, and then she looked at Suldak again. With one glance, he continued:

"Accordingly... whoever you want to marry is your right, and we naturally have no right to interfere, but you have taken a fancy to Selena, so I, an old woman, have to talk to you a few more times, I hope you will agree to this matter After careful consideration, since Selena married into our village, some weird things have been happening around her. She is called an ominous person in the village. Among them, many people who got close to her died suddenly for no reason, and she may bring you endless disasters."

Old Sheila's words were very pertinent, and Suldak could only rub his nose, and explained to Old Sheila: "I think maybe some things are coincidences, of course... I'm not denying anything, I saw you at the entrance of the village a few days ago But seeing Signa, I just feel that she is too young now, if the two clerks take Selena away, maybe Signa will become an orphan in the village."

Suldak glanced at the sleeping little Peter, and said: "She is different from other children, she is too dependent on Dailina, if you really want to keep her in Wall Village, she may have a very difficult life , or I won’t be able to survive, I just want to help, I think if Darke is here, he will do the same, this is how he pulled me out of the corpse and gave me a new life."

Rita held an apple in her hand and said beside her: "I heard from Sandy that Selena can do witchcraft. Once, she saw Selena quietly praying to the moon in the room..."

Old Sheila glared at Rita.

"..."

Suldak didn't know what to say for a moment.

Old Sheila gently stroked Little Peter's forehead, her eyes glowed with love, and she said with emotion: "Recently, I often dream of Duck, and he is standing on the cloud with a smile like that, with the same silly smile on his face like before. Talking to me, he asked me if Peter, Natasha and Rita are doing well recently. In fact, I have been thinking about some things these days. Now that Duck has completely left and we went to another country, We can't let him miss, we should live better."

Old Sheila looked through the window into the darkness of the night.

There was a light of hope in her eyes, and she said: "It is my greatest wish to see little Peter grow up healthy and healthy with my own eyes."

Then, she paused again, and said: "Of course Rita can save a dowry and find someone she can rely on to live happily in the future. Natasha shouldn't live so hard like me in the future. A child who pulls the child and doesn't care It's not easy, let alone you are so young..."

Rita's face immediately turned red, she was a little embarrassed, and held the apple in her hand.

And Natasha lowered her head like a quail.

At this time, Rita couldn't help asking: "When Dad passed away, were you also coerced by the census clerks at the city hall?"

Old Sheila curled her lips slightly, and said, "Old Sur died just in the year that Duck attended the coming-of-age ceremony. Who would want an old woman who is about to lie in the coffin?" There was a sharp knock on the top of the tower.

Old Sheila looked at Suldak, put Little Peter's hand in his rough palm, and said to Suldak:

"Since little Peter is your son in name, and he likes this child very much, and he is willing to bring him up, and Natasha is also your wife in name, and she is destined to continue living with us, she You really need someone to rely on, so are you willing to marry her?"

"I..." Suldak didn't know how to answer, so he paused before saying, "I will take good care of her for the rest of my life."

There was a kind of wisdom in old Sheila's eyes. She looked at Surdak and said with a serious expression: "It's not the kind of person who stutters casually, has a shelter from the wind and rain, and has clothes to keep out the cold. It is enough, in fact, everyone will yearn for a happier life..."

Suldak didn't expect the old Sheila to say these things, and he hasn't thought about it seriously yet.

He hesitated for a while, and worried that keeping silent for too long would be a kind of harm to Natasha, so he could only bite the bullet and said with a guilty conscience: "This is unfair to Natasha, I hope she can also have the opportunity to choose ?”

"Then what is fair? What choice does she have?" Old Sheila asked aggressively, and then she asked Natasha on the opposite side: "Natasha, what are your thoughts?"

Natasha didn't expect that old Sheila would discuss this tonight, and said blankly: "I haven't thought about this..."

Old Sheila glanced at Natasha with some resentment, and said earnestly: "Sometimes you have to fight for something that belongs to you, and some things don't give you too much time to make decisions. You just It just so happened that I was lucky..."

Natasha blushed and looked up at Suldak, not knowing what to say for a moment.

……

There is sulfur ore next to it. It smells a bit pungent. The old village chief compared it with his hands for a while, but finally gave up on measuring its specific size.

Back then, Charlie took out a piece of sulfur ore the size of his fist, and the caravan leader took out three silver coins to buy it for the reason. Now the sulfur ore lying in the canvas pocket is at least a hundred times that of that ore. The old village chief knew that it must be Worth a lot of money.

The five young men who went to collect sulfur mines all sat on the benches in the living room of the old village chief's house, and Suerdak and the old village chief sat on separate chairs opposite them.

The old village chief's wife came out and made some tea with lemon and a plate of boiled chestnuts.

"Are we going to sell these to the caravan?" Charlie said a little excitedly.

Suldak frowned slightly, he glanced at the old village chief, and said: "I think it is very necessary to establish a good trade relationship with the caravan, but we can't take out so much sulfur mine at once, I guess They will calculate the approximate scope of the sulfur mine based on our travel time. It is still an uninhabited land. I am worried that other people will discover the open-pit mining area. Maybe more people will compete with us for the resources there. "

"So we'd better take out some of the sulfur mines, and let those merchants think that we can find sulfur mines, but it's not worth their effort to find them..."

Chapter 258 Ownership

Surdak put a very scribbled hand-drawn map on the table, the lines on it were messy.

He pointed to a triangular mark and said: "I have checked, and the area is not that big, at best it is only as big as the river bay beach, and all the sulfur mines are associated with the stalagmites exposed on the surface, but there are some sulfur mines. The mines are difficult to mine, and some quarrying tools are necessary."

Charlie and several other young people also said in one go:

"Well, that's right!"

"At that time, we found several large pieces of sulfur ore on the stalagmites, but unfortunately we couldn't pry them off."

"If we go again this time, we have to bring enough guys with us."

The old village chief waved his hand, "Don't worry about it. Every year after the Harvest Festival, some people in the village will go to the Tazewang quarry to work as stonemasons for a few months. They quarry in the mountains over there, and mining sulfur mines should be similar to digging marble. .”

The old village head puffed on his cigarette, and said to Suldak: "The boys in our village may not have anything else, but it is absolutely no problem for them to contribute their strength."

"This matter must be done as soon as possible." After the old village chief said this, he said to the youngest son beside him: "Charlie, please inform everyone to make preparations tonight. Those who are willing to go will leave tomorrow. Don’t force yourself to go, you must find those who have experience in quarrying.”

Charlie got up from the bench and strode out.

The old village chief said to his nephew Luke: "Luke, you can go to Beigou Grassland later and get the horses ready."

Luke nodded, and said to the three partners around him: "You have to help me, if you want to drive all the horses out of the pasture, someone must help me!"

When the three young men heard that they were going to Beigou Grassland, they readily agreed to come down.

The old village chief said to Suerdak again: "Let's get together [-] stonemasons to ride horses to Pustout Mountain, wait for the first batch of sulfur mines to come back, and then transport the young people and supplies in the village there."

Then he stared at Luke and the other three young people with a serious expression, lowered his voice, and said in a threatening tone: "The news about the sulfur mine cannot be disclosed to anyone. If anyone speaks loosely, Don't blame me for breaking his leg."

Luke and the three young men put away their hippie smiles, and nodded fiercely in silence.

It seems that the old village head has accumulated enough prestige in front of these people, and his words carry weight.

The old village head tilted his head, indicating that Luke could go to the Beigou Grassland, and the four young people left quickly, for fear that they would be stopped by the old village head and scolded if they walked too slowly.

Suldak also stood up, ready to leave with Luke and the others, and said to the old village chief: "The living conditions on the pustule mountain are very poor, and I will go back and make some preparations."

The old village chief took Suerdak's arm and asked him to sit down in the slightly shabby living room again. He sat there and thought for a while, with a trace of embarrassment on his wrinkled old face: "Dak, this You discovered this open-pit sulfur mine when you were hunting salamanders, and you took the initiative to take people to investigate it. It is said that this open-pit sulfur mine should belong to you. Now you have gathered the whole village to mine it. The distribution of benefits must be determined in advance to avoid disputes afterwards. You own half of these sulfur mines, and the village takes half. What do you think of a subsidy of one silver coin?"

Unexpectedly, the old village chief thought of this. Suldak felt that since everyone discovered it together, there is no reason for him to monopolize half of the mine. Wouldn't it be unfair to others, so he refused: "Uncle Brett, I do these things. It's the same as everyone's thinking, and it's all for our village, so there's no reason to take this dividend."

Unexpectedly, the old village head waved his hand and said, "This will be your knight leader in the future, as long as you don't feel that the current agreement is a disadvantage."

He took a sip of the lemon tea on the table, moistened his throat, saw that Suldak was still hesitant, and said:

"Don't rush to refuse. Without you, the lizard hunting group in the village would not dare to go deep into the depths of Pagros Mountain. Not to mention the monsters in the deep mountains, even the sand wolves on the outskirts of the barren land, we can't afford to provoke them!"

The old village chief then said: "In addition, these sulfur mines in the land of no man belong to the Grimm Empire, and the common people have no right to mine them. Only knights and nobles have the right to develop territories..."

The old village chief said a lot, but in short, he didn't let Suerdak find an excuse to refuse. In any case, he had to give Suerdak half of the open-pit sulfur mine.

Suldak felt that since he wanted to do something for Wall Village in the future, he didn't want to be entangled in this matter, so he didn't insist in the end, so he agreed halfway.

After walking out, Suldak remembered that he hadn't looked at the concrete wall in the yard of the old village chief's house.

After thinking about it, he decided to wait until Charlie finished his work.

……

The old village chief and his wife stood at the door, watching Suerdak's figure disappear on the village road, the old village chief's wife asked hesitantly:

"Brett, will we become rich like Perezer Village in the future?"

The old village head replied firmly: "Of course, we discovered some sulfur mines this time. We need to dig up these mines as soon as possible before other villages know about it."

Seeing that he was full of confidence, and listening to the waist standing at the door, the wrinkles on his forehead faded a lot.

The old village head's wife looked at the old village head with a blurred gaze.In recent years, it has been rare to see the old village head in such a good mood. The whole village of Wall is on his shoulders, and his waist has already been bent. In the past few years, he has walked so fast every step of the way. It's difficult, and I want the villagers to live a good life with enough food and warm clothing. However, in recent years, the situation has deteriorated year by year, and everyone's life has deteriorated day by day.

The old village head's wife sighed and said: "Suldak is a good kid, he is different from those greedy knights..."

The old village chief immediately said: "Yes, after all, he is a knight who walked out of our Wall village."

"He has changed a lot in the past four years since he left, and I almost can't recognize him!" The old village chief's wife wanted to recall what Suldak looked like before he joined the army, and then found out what Suldak looked like in his memory. It can't be coincided with the present, so I can only sigh again.

The old village chief also felt that Suerdak had changed a bit. Thinking of seeing the scars on Suerdak's body by accident yesterday, he said to his old wife:

"When you came back to take a bath by the stream yesterday, you haven't seen the scars on his body. I can't even imagine what kind of battles he went through to make him covered with scars. It's hard to find them on his body. A good piece of skin!"

The old village chief felt that Suldak must have experienced unimaginable hardships on the battlefield before he was promoted from a commoner to a knight by the noble lord. This honor has never been achieved by anyone in Wall Village for so many years. "He's different from Charlie. He also served in the military for four years. Charlie spent four years as a handyman in a comfortable and peaceful plane, while Duck really came off the battlefield!"

"After all, he is a knight..."

Chapter 259 Please Steal My Chestnuts

People in the Green Empire like to wear clothes cut from linen. The main reason is that flax crops are grown in most parts of the empire. There are workshops that use linen thread to weave fabrics all over the Green Empire. Most of the trading houses in Hailansa City deal in flax. Cloth business.

In contrast, cotton cloth is not widely used in the Green Empire. Cotton cloth is softer and finer than linen cloth, but the price is nearly four times more expensive than linen cloth. Commoners generally seldom buy linen fabrics, and nobles generally do not. They know how to use cotton cloth, and they prefer more expensive silk and wool. Of course, it is more expensive than silk and magicweave cloth. It is said that the magic robes worn by magicians are cut from some magicweave cloth.

When going to Hailansa City, Suerdak bought a piece of cotton cloth habitually. In his opinion, underwear made of cotton cloth is more suitable for sweat absorption.

It's just that before the underwear could be sewn, Suerdak rushed to mine sulfur in the open-pit mine of Pustout Mountain.

Pustule Mountain is a very active active volcano. The smoke column on the top of the mountain penetrates straight into the clouds, and near Pustbag Mountain, a large amount of volcanic ash falls down like fine and fine snow every day.

Under such circumstances, the stonemasons in the village mining sulfur mines at the foot of the pustule mountain are not only dangerous, but also stay in a place full of heavy dust for a long time. Inhalation of volcanic ash in the air into the lungs will cause serious illness. pneumoconiosis.

It was precisely in this thought that Suldak left the old village chief's house in a hurry.

He didn't want the stonemasons of Wall to come back from Bump Mountain with a lung disease like this.

When Suldak returned home, he saw old Sheila sitting at the door with a bowl of fresh milk in her hand.And little Peter is nestling in the arms of old Sheila, drinking milk one gulp after another. The white milk skin sticks to little Peter's lips. Sheila ran away in her arms, and old Sheila bluffed and told Little Peter to finish the milk.

Suldak sat down beside little Peter and said to old Sheila, "Can you sew some masks for me?"

Seeing little Peter drinking the last bit of milk, old Sheila put the pottery bowl aside, stared at Suldak and asked, "I don't have any problems with ordinary needlework, but I haven't seen a mask... what kind of mask is it probably?" ?”

Suldak quickly took out a piece of parchment, quickly sketched a simple pattern on it with a charcoal pencil, pointed to the two strings on it, and said to Old Sheila, "You can put this on your face like a scarf. but it won’t affect the line of sight, and this thing is also very breathable, so it won’t get too hot after wearing it for a long time.”

Old Sheila didn't listen to Suldak's explanation at all, and said, "I can try, but my eyesight is not good, so I can't sew fine stitches, Rita, Natasha, come over..."

Old Sheila is a little old, and her eyes are a little blurred. She found Rita and Natasha, first cut a piece of cotton cloth according to Suldak's pattern, and Suldak wore it on her face. , Pointing out the shortcomings of this mask, it has been changed several times in a row before two qualified masks can be sewn.

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

Seeing that Rita and Natasha had mastered the production method, Suldak left home in a hurry.

Rita blinked her lake-blue 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 life..."

Seeing Suldak leave, Natasha stretched her body. She was a little embarrassed and said, "What else can I do, like Selina? I can't learn."

Rita sighed softly, "Natasha..."

……

In addition to the masks, some of the ground in the pustule mountain area is hot, and it is covered with a thick layer of volcanic ash. It is impossible to see where there is an undercurrent of lava or where there is a deep pit filled by volcanic ash. Ordinary shoes are not protective at all Once you go the wrong way, your feet will fall into the hot volcanic ash and you will be easily burned.

Suldak left Wall Village on horseback, and went directly to the oak forest where the weapons and leather armor of the bandit group were hidden, and dug out 22 pairs of leather boots from the tree hole.

These leather boots were left by the robbers. Although they were very worn, the texture of these leather boots was not bad, and they were all in the style of long riding boots. At least they could prevent the villagers from getting burned. Except for 22 pairs of leather boots In addition to the boots, Suldak also took out four alloy bows. It was impossible for him to stay near the pustule mountain all the time. The villagers who stayed there to mine the sulfur mine had to have some means of defense.

Many villagers know how to 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 packed these leather boots into three canvas pockets, which were actually full. These canvas pockets could be hung on the left and right sides of the saddle.The other four alloy bows could only be wrapped in some ragged linen clothes, then rode out of the oak forest and returned to Wall Village along the mountain road.

When passing through the mountain pass into the barren land, Suldak actually saw a team of knights on the top of the mountain not far away. In front of them were the group of wooden crosses. Those robbers are still hanging on the wooden crosses, and no one has been there. Collect the corpses, their corpses have been eaten up by the carrion birds, leaving only some skeletons.

Suldak's eyesight is very good. He could see that the knight squad was wearing the leather armor of the Hailansa City Guard Battalion at the mountain pass. He thought that this knight squad might be Karl's subordinates, maybe Karl was there Among these people, they were not afraid of the canvas bag hanging on the saddle being searched, so they rode their horses directly to meet the knights.

At this time, the group of knights also saw Surdak on the mountain pass, and two of them rode down from the top of the mountain on horseback.

Suldak and the two knights met on the mountainside. The two knights saw the knight badge on Suldak's chest at first glance. They saluted Suldak as a knight, and Suldak hurriedly Return the gift politely.

"Excuse me, are you the knights of the guard battalion in Hailansa City?" Suldak rode on his horse and approached him and asked.

Seeing Suldak approaching him, the two knights put aside their doubts temporarily, and one of them replied, "That's right, is your Excellency...?"

Suldak quickly introduced himself and said, "My name is Suldak, and I'm Karl's friend. I wonder if he's here?"

When the two knights heard Karl's name and ran up the mountain just to see Karl, the vigilance on their faces disappeared immediately.

With a slight smile on his face, a knight said: "It turned out to be Karl's friend. His current jurisdiction is the southern suburbs of Hailansa City. I would like to ask, who is it that you hang these robbers here?" Is it on a mountain pass? We came here specially to investigate this matter."

"When I was staying in Hailansa City a few days ago, Karl was looking for help. I had something important to do at the time, so I couldn't help. It turns out that you are still investigating this matter..." Sur Dak said, then shrugged his shoulders and continued: "Sorry, I just learned that a knight in costume killed a group of robbers at the mountain pass. I don't know many friends here, so I don't know who did it. .”

When the two knights heard what Suldak said, there was a touch of disappointment in their eyes, but they immediately said:

"It's nothing, this matter will slowly come to light..."