Chapter 683 672. Letters
The afterglow of the setting sun revealed only a golden line on the mountains, and this golden line soon fell silent among the mountains.
There is still a small townhouse vacant in Wall Village for the time being. Although the reserve knights of the guard battalion are as weak as scum on the battlefield, they need to properly arrange their living places in Wall Village. These fifty reserve knights have all joined the guard battalion, and as long as there are no special circumstances, they will all become formal knights in a short time.
Although they are currently in the Security Squadron of the Guard Battalion under Suldak, this is only the starting point of their life path.
They have the superior status of knights, and they cannot continue to live in tents in Wall Village, so they are led by Samira into Wall Village, and before it gets dark, they allocate rooms to these young reserve knights. Well, housing is limited and only four guard battalions can live in one room.
Wearing a salamander tight armor, Samira hid her face in her hood, and led fifty knights from the guard battalion leading horses into the village of Wall.
These young reserve knights began to look at the village again, staring at the salamander leather armor on Samira, and whispering about what kind of person their chief is.
The village was chaotic, and the veterans of the cavalry battalion needed to maintain the law and order of Wall Village. There were a lot of them, so Andrew led them to live in a row house in the market at the entrance of the village.
This row house was originally a kobold slave camp, and four rows of Chase shops were built with wooden frames. Some reed mats were spread on the wooden frames. The kobold slaves were not too afraid of the cold. .
The room is a bit cold, and some braziers have been lit for heating in the room, and several villagers are temporarily nailing a piece of felt to the frosted north wall.
Such a barracks can accommodate at least a few hundred veterans. The veterans of the cavalry battalion have won several consecutive victories in the desert and accumulated some wealth. Sleeping bags and warm camel hair blankets are essential items for marching in the desert. Spread these luggage in the barracks, even if there is no fire inside, you won't feel cold if you sleep in the sleeping bag.
Andrew, with a group of veterans, is planning to build a temporary stable before dark so that these war horses and camels can be put into the stable.
The old village chief came to his senses and arranged for several cooks in the village to prepare dinner for the cavalrymen of the cavalry battalion.
This time Suldak led the cavalry battalion to go out, not only drove away the robbers in the desert, but also brought back so many horses and more than a hundred camels. Many villagers gathered around the horse team of the cavalry battalion, looking at the horses eagerly. .
In order to support Suldak's expedition, almost all the horses in the village were mobilized. This time Suldak brought back so many horses, the team in Wall Village could resume work, and some villagers even couldn't wait to take the horses away on the spot Naturally, the veterans in charge of the horses couldn't let the villagers take the horses away, which caused some disputes outside the village.
Someone found the old village chief here. The village chief Brett was instructing the cooks to prepare dinner. Someone had already brought out five large iron pots from the village and was building a stove under the big tree at the entrance of the village.
The old village head heard that some villagers ran to the stable to lead the horse without authorization, and while running to the temporary station of the cavalry battalion, he scolded angrily: "These lazy people usually encounter things like turtles, but now they are picking fruits." Lest you fall behind, Val, you go and tell others, whoever stretches his claws here again, I will break his leg."
Val is now doing odd jobs with the old village head, and he can be regarded as the bravest and brightest among the young people in the village.
The old village chief took Val to the temporary stable and saw that there was still a group of people around here. Several coachmen from Wall village were surrounded by a large group of people, still clamoring to take the horse away. Andrew was talking with These villagers negotiated, but apparently they did not buy Andrew's account.
A villager holding a short horsewhip in his hand was slightly drunk, pointed at Andrew's nose and cursed angrily: "Andrew, you are a biting dog under Dake's feet, why do you stop in front of us?"
As he said that, he tried his best to push out his oily stomach, trying to let his aura overwhelm Andrew, but he found that he had to keep his head up in order to meet Andrew's gaze, but he yelled with a sense of superiority. : "Dak and I grew up wearing the same pair of pants with Dak, how dare you control us? Besides, what did we do wrong?"
"…what did we do wrong?" he asked in a raised voice.
Patting the neck of a Gubolai horse with some emotion, he said loudly: "We are just taking back the horse that was lent to Dak. Could it be that there is something wrong with taking back the horse that belongs to us..."
Before he could finish speaking, he felt his companions pull his skirt hard, and secretly stabbed his ribs with a horsewhip.
"Don't stab me, I haven't finished yet!" The villager holding the horsewhip shouted to his companion with a third of his drink.
At this time, the crowd split to two sides, the old village chief strode up to him with an angry face, stretched out his hand to pull his ears, and pointed to the tall ancient horses that they had pulled out from the stables. Bo came to the war horse, from the beginning to the end, almost tearing the ears apart.
"Ca Suo, tell me, that horse belongs to you. Which pair of pants do you wear, Duck also wears?" the old village chief asked angrily.
The villager named Ka Suo held the old village head’s wrist with both hands, but he didn’t dare to break free. He could only beg for mercy and said, “Uncle Brett, you hurt me. I’m just using this as a metaphor!”
The old village head slammed his forehead with his index finger, causing Ka Suo to fall back again and again.
"What you are eating, what you are wearing, and the house where you lie down and sleep, which one was not obtained by Da Ke's pocket to subsidize the village, how dare you come here to make trouble? Is there an adobe house without a roof two years ago? Haven’t you lived enough, and want to go back to the days when you had nothing?” The old village chief asked, and immediately scared Ka Suo into a cold sweat.
The old village head dragged Ka Suo to Andrew, kicked him to the ground, and angrily said: "Andrew is the captain of the security squadron of the Hailansa Guard Battalion stationed in the wasteland. When do you see Lord Knight? How dare you have such a backbone? Is it because you have received too few whips, and your whole body is itchy again?"
Ka Suo was kicked and fell to the ground, covered his ears with one hand, touched his thigh with the other, and said with infinite grievance: "Uncle Brett, look at what you said, I just saw that Duck brought back so many good horses, I'm really happy for him from the bottom of my heart, I don't have any other intentions to choose horses here, it's just to improve the foundation of our village's team!"
The companion next to him only realized it at this time, and quickly came up to hold Ca Suo, and said repeatedly: "Uncle Brett, we just came to take a look, there is really no other meaning, this guy Ca Suo drank a little too much. Just pull him away."
The old village head roared angrily: "Let me see this kind of thing again, you guys will go to the pustule mountain and become a kobold supervisor!"
The villagers heard the old village chief sternly shouted, and ran away with their tails between their legs in fright...
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Some young people in the village surrounded the female captives, chatting and laughing constantly, commenting.
The female captives followed Suldak around in the desert for the past two months and suffered a lot. Now they are returning to Wall Village. They are afraid that Suldak will sell them as female slaves to the slave market. Once inside the tent, he dared not move around at all.
Several young people from the village sneaked to the women's prison camp to see the women. Seeing the excessive silence in the camp, no matter how much they teased and teased the female prisoners, the women did not dare to resist. At first they stood in the camp to take some verbal It was cheap on the market, and later found out that the female prisoners did not dare to resist, and they became more and more courageous, and some even wanted to get into the tents of the female prisoners.
Before they lifted the blankets and measured the female prisoners with their bodies, they saw the tent being lifted from the outside.
The old village head stood outside the tent with a cane in his hand, jumped up and down and cursed at the young people:
"Do you see what you have become now? What is the difference between you and those sand robbers, you are as dirty as them! All of you only know how to lift women's skirts, but can't hold a knife, get out of here!"
Several young people from Wall Village escaped from the camp of the female prisoners in desperation.
The old village chief cursed angrily from behind: "You guys go to Hailansa City to sign up for military service tomorrow. Even if you are cannon fodder on the battlefield, it is better than staying in the village!"
Hearing what the old village chief said, the cooks who were cooking at the entrance of the village stared worriedly at the young men who were running.
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Suldak let little Peter sit on his shoulders, and surrounded by a group of people, walked along the flat village road to the upper reaches of the village.
Suldak’s home is at the uppermost reaches of the village, next to the low dam of the fifth-level reservoir, and there is still a long way to go from the entrance of the village to Suerdak’s home.
Little Peter hadn't seen Suldak for a long time, so he naturally refused to jump off Suldak's shoulders easily.
Suldak greeted the old Sheila, and asked Rita and Natasha about the current situation at home before introducing Vilu to the family.
Viru was regarded as the guest brought back by Suldak, and was invited by Suldak to live in the house. When Natasha and Rita saw the guests coming to the house, they quickly plotted to rush home first, and prepared to move the dusty house to the house. After the guest room was cleaned, they quickly walked out of the crowd.
A group of people stopped at the central square at the entrance of the village, and the villagers and others who were crowding behind all dispersed.
Old Sheila walked slowly and was out of breath after only a short walk. Her body had weakened rapidly in the past two years, and she was not so energetic at ordinary times. She would often lie on the rocking chair in front of the fireplace and doze off throughout the winter. Reluctant to take an extra step in the central square, he held Peter's little hand and asked Suldak to take Vilu home first.
The last time Viru came to Wall Village, Suldak introduced the current situation of Wall Village to Viru.
Viru looked coldly at Natasha's back in the distance, feeling a strong strange emotion in his heart.
It seems that there is a cold sharp arrow behind him, which may be shot out at any time.
No matter who is stared at by Viru's eyes, they will feel as if they are about to suffocate. Fortunately, there is a turn in the road ahead. Natasha endured the discomfort in her body, and immediately felt much better after turning the turn. He reached out and patted his swollen chest, not understanding why he was so flustered when Suldak came back.
Suldak walked upstream, saw the snow on both sides of the road in the village was cleared, and thought about how to divert water to the house.
Hearing Viru standing aside, he asked Suldak, "Is she your wife?"
Suldak knew he was asking about Natasha, so he didn't raise his head.
"Yes." Suldak paused and said frankly.
"That's your son?" Viru didn't look back, but he could let Suldak understand that this sentence refers to little Peter.
"Hmm!" Suldak replied very briefly.
He could feel that Viru was in a bad mood, as if there was a burst of anger in his heart that was about to explode at any time.
Suldak doesn’t know if the temper of the second-rank strongman will change after he advances. He only feels that Viru’s mood is a bit dull when he enters Wall Village.
Viru lowered his eyelids and nodded slightly.
Even if you have seen the five-level cistern above your head before, when you see this super-large upstream cistern again, you still feel that it is very well-built, just like artificial stone cliffs and waterfalls, but the dry season is coming. The water in the pool is strictly managed, and the creek is usually dry.
It wasn't until Natasha walked back home dully, and Natasha and Rita entertained Vilu very warmly, that the ice color on Viru's face gradually melted away.
After traveling outside for so long, the first thing to do when returning home is of course to lie in the bathtub and take a comfortable hot bath. As for the veterans of the cavalry battalion and knights of the guard battalion outside, Suldak believes that the old village head will definitely be able to arrange them , Immersed himself in the bathtub filled with hot water, Suerdak held his breath until he was about to faint from hypoxia before getting out of the water.
Natasha and Rita were busy preparing dinner in the kitchen. Surdak reached out to pick up a letter from the side of the bathtub, cut a slit in the envelope with a paper knife in the tray, and pulled out a cover There is a parchment letter with the seal of the Marquis of Luther.
This letter was handed to him by Natasha when he returned home.
Natasha said that the courier from Bena City made a special trip to Woer Village before leaving.
Suldak thought it would be a letter from Hathaway, but when he opened it, he found that the letter was written by Marquis Luther. The amount of information written on it was a bit large. Put the letter in your hand aside...
(At the end, I still have to mention the matter of rewards and updates. Well, the boss who needs it will probably have to wait for a month or so. The boss of the last month and the last month is too good, and the debts caused There is no update, I owe a lot, and I am afraid that I will not be able to repay the owed update recently, so be careful when rewarding)
(end of this chapter)