Mercenaries and Adventurers Chapter 327

The center of Yemei Town may have seemed more prosperous in the past. On the hexagonal town center square, there were built the baron's mansion, a church of the Church of Saturn, a church of the Church of Sun God, as well as the government office and an exchange. , there is also a four-story brick and wood hotel on the south-facing side.

These buildings are all majestic and tall architectural forms, showing the power, strength and wealth of the rulers, various churches and merchants.

However, the center of the square was quite chaotic at this time, with several carriages parked scattered together and guarded by the town's guards.

Next to the carriage are a series of tents with different styles and patterns.

From the vents on the roof of the tent, hot water vapor and black smoke from burning wood merged with each other and poured out. Outside the tents, countless foreign or local villagers and townspeople were crowded.

These villagers were all holding their own bowls in one hand and a small wooden stick in the other. Keir glanced over and saw traces of blue paint on the small wooden sticks from a distance.

"What are you doing?"

Kil asked. Of course he understood that this was to help the people in the blocked town. In order to control the entire town and prevent some residents and villagers who had nothing to eat in the town from causing trouble, the town manager used the method of being controlled by him. relief measures to control the stability of the town.

If some eat it, people will not rebel or riot no matter what. As for where to live, you either sleep directly on the street, or you dig a hole among the villagers outside the town and live there simply. After all, the weather is getting warmer day by day, and it's not impossible not to sleep in the house at night.

Hearing the young knight's inquiry, the youngest government office official walking with him, a middle-aged fat man, immediately replied: "Knight Kiel, this is the grain that the generous young Master Sasse asked to use. We are providing relief to the common people who have no money in their pockets and no food to eat.”

"Looks like you did a good job?" Kil said with a smile.

The gentlemen from the government office all laughed happily, and they were still the same people as before: "Of course, Master Sasse is really smart. After doing this, the tense atmosphere in the town gradually eased, and the public security became better."

"Can the people eat enough of the relief food?"

Faced with this problem, the gentlemen from the Government Affairs Office smiled coquettishly, and then the middle-aged fat official said proudly after the smile: "There is a mage's wisdom in this! The wheat porridge that was rescued was heavy. It has to be just right.”

The man stretched out his hand and made a pinching gesture with his index finger and thumb. The **** were very close to each other but did not touch.

Kil was a little curious, so he asked: "Oh? What wisdom is there? Could you please tell me? I'm just curious, and I understand the people who came to receive relief food, holding bowls in their hands, What's the other one with paint? I remember that brightly colored oil paints are not cheap, right?"

Several officials from the Government Affairs Office discussed in low voices, and finally the one with the highest status nodded to the middle-aged fat official, and then this guy smiled and explained: "Let's answer the last question first, to be fair to Knight Kiel. , our Saas Territory still has some specialties. There is a mine in the north of the town, and some blue stones are easily mined in the mountains and forests of the territory. This thing is not of great value. It is not a magical material or the like, but it is It can be processed into a beautiful blue pigment!”

He pointed to the exchange on one side of the square: "The exchange called [Sky Color] is the only place where foreign pigment merchants can buy and trade this blue pigment. Not only does this pigment come from our entire province, If you buy and use it here, even several provinces from north to west to east, and even several small countries in the south and southwest, all rely on us to provide it at low prices."

"So although this kind of bright blue is rare and expensive in other places, we can't use it up here. It just so happens that the trade routes are closed during these days, and there is still a lot of paint in stock, so we will take it It is used to mark people who have received relief food. It is easy to distinguish who has received relief food today and who has not."

Kil clapped his hands, which was regarded as simple appreciation, but the clanging of the steel gauntlets on his hands was not loud, but the metal friction was sharp.

"What about wisdom? You said it is the wisdom of a mage. Is there anything strange in it?"

The officials from the government office gathered around Kiel and pushed the surrounding guards away a little. Then someone lowered his voice and said: "The daily cooking amount of the relief food, as well as the thickness, are all We gave it a just right degree after judgment and calculation.”

Another person pointed to the carriages in the square: "Those carriages contain old grain transported from underground grain depots in previous years, but not all of them contain grain. After calculation, one carriage of grain per day is enough to receive relief grains today." The people have eaten.”

Keir raised his eyebrows: "Well, what about the other carriages?"

The officials all smiled, and someone gave the answer: "They are all packed with guards. There is no need for those guards to do anything. They just stay in the carriage all day to guard against sudden riots and bandit attacks in the past few days." You are a foreign knight, we won't hide it from you, but please don't say it.”

Keir applauded: "Of course I won't tell. After all, you have satisfied my curiosity with your secrets."

The fat middle-aged official continued proudly: "There is also wisdom in the daily supply of relief grains. Although our Sussex County is a grain-producing county, the grain in the Baron's granary cannot be sold at all. We can't finish it, but with the current situation, this year's food harvest seems to be gone. Not only that, we also have to feed the villagers who come to the town, as well as the townspeople.”

"This food must be used sparingly. After all, the food in the granary is fixed and is decreasing every day. And relief food cannot keep these people full!"

"Oh, this is..." Keir pondered for a moment and guessed: "To prevent the people who have nothing to do from having too much energy?"

The middle-aged fat official snapped his fingers: "You are right. Although the bandits outside the town are a big problem, since the baron has led the knights in the territory to join the war, the town also needs some additional stability. of."

He said with a smile: "Not only can't we give more relief food, but we can't give too little. Let the people go hungry, and they will do whatever they want. They don't dare to steal and rob. Here in the square, the townspeople or some businessmen are facing a lot of problems." The pressure will increase.”

Then he sanctimoniously adjusted his expensive-looking government office official's robe. I heard that the style of this thing was modeled after the robes of officials from the Empire by the Noble Council of the Kingdom of St. Holes. The middle-aged fat businessman finally said proudly: "After all, for the safety of the townspeople and the normal operation of the loyal merchants' shops, the daily distribution of relief grains contains the wisdom of the mage."

Keir chuckled, clapped, and said nothing more.

Since these guys are so frank, he can naturally guess the hidden meaning of the other party's words: If people are fed, how can the prices of grain merchants' grain stores be raised? How to make money?

Keir even wondered how the food stores of various merchants could provide a steady stream of food since the town had accommodated so many outsiders these days. They should have been sold out early, right?

So where does the food sold in food stores now come from? Where in Yemei Town has the most food? To whom? Can officials at the Government Affairs Office handle this kind of thing? Did it benefit the town's true ruler?

He smiled. After all, the villagers outside the town who came to seek refuge have lost weight, and the ordinary residents of the town have also lost weight. Who has gained weight?

But these have nothing to do with him. He is not a local, he is just a passerby.

They had been talking for a while at the door of the Baron's mansion, and even the small door next to the mansion's main door was opened by someone inside, who stuck out his two heads to look at what was going on outside.

The people in the mansion greeted him, and then the officials from the government office surrounded Kiel.

Seeing that they had no intention of going in, Keir asked, "Why don't you all go in together?"

The leading official finally spoke for the first time: "Knight Kiel, the temporary manager of the town and the heir to the baron, it is you who Young Master Sass has summoned. We all have our own jobs, please." Forgive us for not accompanying you anymore.”

After speaking, the man waved to his subordinates and walked to the government office not far away.

Kil looked at them, then at the people receiving relief food in the central square of the town, sighed, and walked into the open side door of the baron's mansion at the signal of the town guard next to him.

He didn't have any objection to taking the side door. After all, he was just a foreign lone knight, and there was no way that the Baron family would open the gate of the mansion to welcome him.

His arrival must have been beyond the expectations of the town's ruler.

However, as soon as he walked into the side door, he saw several tall and strong elite soldiers in the room inside the side door, wearing iron armor plates covering their entire bodies. These soldiers wore chainmails inside and simple armors connected in series with iron armor plates on the outside. Each one seemed to be covered in metal, and the weapons in their hands were mostly two-handed weapons. They were equipped with iron-wood shields and two-handed crossbows on their backs, and each one was armed to the teeth.

Kil glanced around and saw several church priests sitting up from chairs on one side of the room.

What's special is that these priests dressed in different styles actually come from several different churches. I don't know how these priests from different religions who usually wouldn't even speak to each other were gathered in a room.

"What does this mean?" Kil frowned. Even so, he did not sense any danger from these people.

Faced with his question, a well-dressed old man walked quickly from the side of the room. This man had gray hair and was wearing a servant's clothing that was more expensive than most businessmen.

Walking up to Kiel, he bowed and saluted, and said, "Knight Kiel, please don't be nervous. You came from outside the town. You must have met those 'robbers'."

The old man specifically emphasized the word bandit.

After saying this, Kil understood. He loosened the hilt of his sword and said, "Is that the one who calls himself 'The Hanged Ghost'? Are they actually a group of flesh-and-blood demon parasitic monsters? My team and I came from the front. Starting from the mountains, we have killed about ten of them in the past two days. Are you guarding against this?"

The old man saluted again and pressed his palm down: "Please lower your voice. It's best not to spread this matter. It will cause panic among the people in the town. Oh, I haven't told you yet, I am the second housekeeper of the Baron Mansion. , the name is not noble, you don't need to bother to know it, Sir Knight. Please come here, the young master and the family have been waiting for you for a while."

Keir shrugged: "That's the opposite. I should have been waiting for you for half a morning."

The second housekeeper led the way, and everyone else in the room also stayed in their respective places. The elite armored soldiers took two steps back and leaned against the wall, while the priests looked at Kiel and sat back down to rest. Chair.

Kiel glanced at these people before walking out of the side door. Those elite soldiers looked well-armed, but they didn't feel like much to Kiel. Before the knight training, he felt that he was stronger than every one of these elite soldiers. As for now, if these five elite soldiers come together, they will not be his opponent.

Of course, it would take some effort to actually fight.

And those priests, after just taking a glance, there were priests of the God of Agriculture, the God of the Dead, the Sun God, and the priests of the Church of Fortune. They are all church clergy with the widest distribution in various places, that's nothing.

Even after he entered the room, the Saturn priest followed him with his eyes, and his expression changed again and again. He didn't know what this middle-aged priest who didn't say a word wanted to say or what he meant.

Kil laughed to himself. He felt that this Saturnine priest might have seen the huge Saturnine power brought by the two blessing abilities in his body, not to mention that one of the blessing abilities was personally given by the Saturnine. That person I guess I was stunned.

Ha ha.

The Mansion of Baron Saas is very large. After entering from the main entrance, there is a small maze garden on the left. It is the good season at this time. The tall shrubs and hedges of the maze garden are covered with specially planted vines and flowers. The bottom is shorter and smaller than There are large clusters of flowers that are slightly taller than a normal person. These flowers have bright flowers of various colors and shapes, and bees are flying around buzzingly.

The second housekeeper who led the way also heard it. His expression twitched but did not change. He just said apologetically to Keir: "I'm really sorry, Sir Knight. Some young people in the master's family have been restrained from leaving the mansion during this period, and outside. Some entertainment shops on the street have also closed their doors, which makes those young people a little restless."

Keir waved his hand: "It's okay, it's okay, I understand, I understand. It's spring, it's like this in this season."

Even though he said that, he kept looking in that direction, as if he wanted to pry into it.

Although many young people in his team do this kind of thing almost every night, he is still a little curious. Is it interesting to do it in the middle of the maze garden in broad daylight, filled with the fragrance of flowers and the buzzing of bees?

On the right side of the gate is a small pond in the mansion. It is probably an artificially dug pond, so it is not very large. There seem to be fish in it. When Keir, the second housekeeper and a few servants walked by the road next to the pond, there were a lot of fish in the pond. All the fish jumped out of the water excitedly, making a splashing sound.

A dragonfly flapped its wings and dodged in front of Kiel. He reached out and subconsciously caught it, and he caught a huge red and blue dragonfly.

This little thing vibrated its wings vigorously, making a squeaking sound.

Kil moved the guy's belly a few times, which seemed to arouse the insect's dissatisfaction. Several limbs on its abdomen tugged back and forth, but nothing could be done about the steel armor on Kil's fingertips.

With a sigh, Keer released his fingers, and the dragonfly immediately flew away, flying to the other end of the pond without looking back, looking for its mate.

The ground under Kiel's feet was made up of tightly knitted rocks. The ground was very hard and flat, and in the middle of this neat rock road, there was also a noble coat of arms of Baron Saas made out of colored rocks.

It was a square noble coat of arms, with only a colorful triangle inside, and a simple human figure holding a pickaxe and a long sword next to it.

This noble heraldry can be seen everywhere in the mansion. Keir couldn't understand the meaning of the coat of arms, so he asked as he walked.

"Second Butler, may I ask what the noble coat of arms of Baron Sasse means?"

Facing Knight Kiel's question, the second housekeeper of the Sass family was about to answer when the main hall door of the mansion in front was pushed open by a servant inside. A young man dressed solemnly said: "As the heir of the family, I feel that it is up to me. It is most appropriate to answer Knight Kiel's question.”

The young man smiled: "After all, I have answered this question more than once since I was a child, hahaha."

The young man strode down the rocky stairs outside the hall building, followed by an old man and a middle-aged woman. Behind these three people, the elite soldiers Kiel had seen before walked out one by one and stood one by one along the rocky stairs. , staring at Keir without saying a word.

Keir raised his hand to signal to the other party, UU reading www. uukansｈhu.com The second housekeeper took two quick steps and stood beside the young man, but did not block the figure and sight of the middle-aged woman and the old man.

The young man coughed lightly and then said: "The square base of the heraldry represents that my family is a noble status entrusted to the Noble Council, and the colorful triangle on the heraldry represents the groups surrounding our Sars County. The mountains, and the resources in the mountains are rich and easy to mine, which is different from other noble territories."

After a pause, seeing that Keir was listening intently, the young man raised his head and continued confidently: "The people beside the mountain are our Sasse family. They hold a sword in one hand, representing us to defend everything with force, and a pickaxe in the other. It represents that my family has the qualifications and ability to mine mineral resources."

Kil nodded when he heard this, but he didn't expect the young man to continue: "But more than that, the man holding the sword and pickaxe also represents another meaning. I heard that the family's land has not been established in the holy Kingdom of Saint Holes. Before, it was a large excavation site for the alien dwarves. The legendary rich mineral deposits here were once an important source of minerals for the dwarves."

"But these are just the legends of our ancestors. In fact, our family's Sars County does not have those mines all over the place. The easiest things to mine in the mountains are the colored rocks with special functions. The buildings left by the dwarves , actually not much.”

After hearing this, Kil subconsciously reached out and touched the buckle of the metal belt around his waist, which had a huge dwarf coin embedded in it.

He had put this thing on a belt before, but he took it off after leaving Dorne Town. He used a small hammer to hammer it and embedded it in the front of the metal belt of the armor.

This dwarf coin is not only gorgeous and beautiful, but also made of solid materials. It is also surprisingly hard and not easy to be worn or bumped. It is very suitable to be used as a belt buckle.

Chapter end