Baroness Goss said with a smile, "You can recruit more cavalry fighters from Goss family and some logistics materials in the future, and then occupy those white forests to expand the land. The Green Imperial Code is a four-three-three distribution law for nobles to expand their territory. I hope you can occupy some land belonging to Goss family."
"I’m sorry, Baroness Goss, but I can’t accept your proposal. I’d rather you raise the price of your war horse than this."
Surdak decisively refused without thinking.
Then Baroness Goss left without talking for long.
Looking at the magic caravan slowly leaving the camp, Surdak couldn’t help thinking that the Marquis of Lu Se gave him that gift and hid it in the forest of Warcraft in the north of Duodan Town. How could he talk about it at this time? Even if he wants to talk about it, he will talk about it with the Lu Se family, the Song Philo family, or the casement family. The idea of talking about it with a few horses is not too big …
Chapter 693 Kieran Town Slum
The poor area of Kieran Town, the rich area of Jingwei, is divided into two sides of the street. To be precise, the two most prosperous streets in Kieran Town are located in the boundary of the rich area.
The dividing line between the slum and the rich area is the high courtyard wall on the south side of the long street and the south side of the shop, just like the warehouse in the courtyard will lose things if the courtyard wall is not built higher. Almost all the rich people in Kieran Town have immigrated from Bena City. They have lived in Kieran Town for so many years and have accumulated some wealth.
People living in slums are almost all local aborigines. At first, they were deprived of their land by the army and forced to move to small towns. At that time, all of them are still owned … except for some rain leaks in summer and wind sheds in winter.
The rich build their houses on sloping hills, and the more they look at the mountainside, the more gorgeous they will be. The poor build their shacks at the foot of the mountain, the more humble they will be. When those shacks spread to the Bailin River, even a few twisted pieces of wood will form a four-corner frame, and then straw mats or blankets will form a simple shack. These aborigines will live on the ground in the shack.
Many poor families don’t even have an iron pot. It is common for several poor people to share a pot. Usually, this pot will always boil boiling water. Everyone eats a meal every day, that is, lunch at noon. The poor families will put some food into the iron pot, broken rice, vegetables, leaves and animal meat, as long as they can cook it anyway.
If you don’t want to put food in the iron pot, don’t come running with a wooden bowl for food when you eat.
Usually, the person guarding the wok is the most respected old man in several poor families or the real owner of the wok.
Nika, the aboriginal girl rescued by Surdak, lived in a shack by the river. She was carried home from the square by her mother and was already in good health. It was her punishment stone that was chained for nearly three days, and her physical strength was already overdrawn. She was extremely weak and could lie in a wet shack when she got home.
It’s summer in the Bailin River. There are always some white-scaly fish camps in the river. The poor people can get by. There are always some children who are good at water and can fish some white-scaly fish out of the river and throw them into the iron pot to cook fish soup. At this time, there are inexhaustible wild vegetables in the grassland. Guinea pigs and rabbits, snakes and lizards can also be found in some underground holes. If you are willing to make some efforts, you can always get some food back.
At ordinary times, those friends who envy Nika to be a maid in Baron Goss’s manor are sitting beside Nika in silence at this time. At ordinary times, Nika always takes care of them and brings back something they haven’t tasted from Baron’s manor. This time, Nika was tied to the punishment stone and almost died in the sun, which was a great shock to them.
A girl gave Nika some water with a wooden spoon.
Only then did a boy say
"Nika, you are so lucky. If it weren’t for Baron Surdak today, you might have been burned to death. Although there are so many people on our side, once the infantry regiment is deployed in the garrison camp, even no one dares to stop the infantry spear."
He told the truth. Although everyone sympathized with Nika, she was willing to run to the square to demonstrate, and she was willing to raise the plank to block out the sun. But once the infantry in the garrison camp ran to the square to disperse them, no one would hold out in front of the spear for long.
Once the local garrison judges that the aborigines are rioting, Nika will not be the only one who will die.
Another girl also said, "We know that you didn’t take the vase, but what does it matter?"? The Goss masters decided that it was you, and no one could argue. "
The girl with a wooden spoon in her hand said
"Nika, I think you and your aunt should thank the baron. Maybe this is what he wants. He is willing to save you from the punishment stone. We should thank him."
Nika looked at the girl with her eyes open, and there was some conation and timidity in her eyes, but she was too weak to get up.
Just then suddenly there was a child shouting outside.
"Carnica saved you at noon. The baron is coming to your house."
The shanties in the slums are closely linked, and the child’s voice almost made many poor people in the surrounding shacks hear it. Many people ran out of the shacks to watch the excitement.
The girl with a wooden spoon in her hand said happily, "I told you that the baron must have taken a fancy to Nika before he would be willing to save her from the punishment stone."
The boy sitting next to Nika looked gloomy and secretly bowed his head and stopped saying anything.
It’s an aboriginal middle-aged woman sitting at the door of the shack-Nika’s mother was at a loss for a moment. She put two handfuls of linen dresses in a panic and said absently, "What can I do? There’s nothing decent at home …"
The girl with a wooden spoon got up and said to Nika’s mother at the door, "I’ll see if lunch is ready, or we’ll treat the baron to wild vegetable fish soup."
"If he is a baron, he will be willing to eat your cauldron of chowder. Save it!" Some of the friends said
……
Surdak and Samira walked along the river. Besides the foul smell, the road here is also very muddy and difficult to walk.
Although these aborigines in the slums seem to be very poor, sometimes they can’t blame the imperialists for their cruel exploitation. There are also reasons for their poverty, especially their attitude of muddling through life, that is, they don’t consider whether it is cold in summer or inertia in winter if they have food today, which is another reason for their poverty.
Fearfully, the aborigines ran outside the tent and watched Surdak pass by their door.
Surdak asked a child about Nika’s house. I didn’t expect that child to take Surdak all the way to Nika’s house with enthusiasm. There were some onlookers on both sides, and everyone made a way to Nika’s house.
The child pointed to a shack surrounded by some felt rags and linen and said, "My Lord, that’s Nika’s house."
Surdak and Samira looked at each other and approached slowly, only to find that Nika’s mother was bending over and waiting outside the shack to see her prostrate. Surdak said to her, "Get up quickly. Let’s just look at Nika’s situation."
Nika’s mother got up from the ground and said respectfully to Surdak, "Thank you, Baron, for saving Nika."
Surdak glanced at the shack and the girl lying on the mat was so shy that she covered her face with her hands.
There is almost nothing in the shack except two clay pots and a wooden basin in the corner. All linen cloth, felt and straw mats are covered in the shack, and some red plant roots are piled up in the corner of the shack, which is about the size of a little finger.
Surdak said to Nika’s mother outside the shack without getting into the low shack, "I’m here to invite you and Nika to come with us. We’re leaving Kieran in the next day. I’m afraid Baron Goss will still give you trouble. We’ll go to Dodan town. If you want to come with us, please meet me at the cavalry camp earlier …"
Chapter 694 Choice
A group of aboriginal boys and girls at the door of Nika’s house watched Surdak and Samira leave, and they got into the tent one after another, watching them barely get up from the straw mat. Nika said with envy, "It’s so gentle that Baron Nika wants to take you away from Kieran!"
In the slums, some weeds grow on both sides of the street sewage cross-flow road, and the road surface is full of dirty puddles.
Surdak and Samira both walked slowly when they left.
Samira hates being followed by someone like a tail for a half-elf archer who is too keen on sight and hearing.
She looked back at the aboriginal child hiding behind the shack, and the boy who secretly hid behind the shack and followed the aboriginal boy all the way was scared and fled.
Sami pulled back and walked on, ignoring the boy with a horrified face.
Panting, the boy ran back to Nika’s house and put his hands on his knees and said to Nika, "I secretly took a look at the archer who was with him. I’m sure she was an elf. I saw that she had ears in her hat pocket, as crystal clear as it was in the smell. I could see the skin capillaries in her ears …"
The slum is very close to the river, and some shacks build rivers.
A group of young men and women will sit on a wooden raft. Nika will sit together even though she has some injuries. She looks at the dim sunset in the distance and her eyes are shining with hope for the sky.
A girl who is very good with Nika looked a little uneasy and Nika comforted her and said 2
"Nika and Baron should learn more from him, and it’s best to be one of them. He also invited some horses in his barracks. Since we are willing to take you away, we will probably not hate you."
"Well," Nika nodded seriously, and her eyes became more determined.