Lord Highlander

  Chapter 493 492. Go home

The largest carriage shop in Hailansa City is located in the southwest corner of the workshop area of ​​Hailansa City. It is only one street away from the south gate. Opposite the carriage shop is the largest free market in Hailansa City. The busiest place in the city, many citizens are willing to buy cheap goods here.

  It was the beginning of spring, and a fresh red cabbage appeared in the free market.

This kind of fern that grows under the rotting leaves is the first wild vegetable that breaks out of the ground after the arrival of spring. The Hailansa people can only eat radishes, pumpkins, cabbages, potatoes and various dried vegetables and dried mushrooms throughout the winter. There is no resistance to this fresh and tender vegetable sprouts. Some mountain people put red cabbage on the stalls, and they will be snatched up immediately.

  The mountain people outside the city of Hailansa took advantage of this season, when the permafrost on the southern **** of the mountain completely melted, and went up the mountain with hoes to collect wild vegetables and dig cassava.

Cassava is the root of a tree. A cassava tree can produce hundreds of catties of cassava. This kind of cassava grows deep in the mountains. The cassava trees around the village are basically the private property of nobles and knights. Many poor families are Rely on this kind of cassava with trace toxins to survive the food shortage.

Every spring, the free market in Hailansa City will stock up a large amount of cassava. Some homeless people even stand outside the gate of the free market. They specialize in helping merchants carry bags in the market. One copper plate can buy a small cassava Cassava as thick as a child's arm.

  There are large orders of cassava traded in this free market every day, so as long as the homeless are willing to work hard, it is not difficult to fill their stomachs in Hailansa City.

  …

  After entering the spring, the business of the carriage dealers in the city has also entered the off-season.

  In this season, there will be horse-drawn carts in the car dealership going into the mountains to pull some cassava and sell them back to the free market in Hailansa City, but those meager gross profits are not even as good as the commission for clearing snow in the city in winter.

This carriage house opened a store facing the street. Suerdak walked into the open store door. A blonde girl stood behind the counter and lowered her head to sort out the accounts. There was some noise in the lobby of the store. A group of coachmen Sitting in the rest area of ​​the store and chatting, the people who have free time to chat at this time are basically some truck drivers. Everyone is waiting for the evening bell to ring, and then they can go home for dinner in twos and threes.

Through the open back door, Suldak could clearly see that the backyard of the carriage house was full of carriages. Some grooms unloaded the Gubolai horses from the carriages and carefully brushed the horses with a brush. , and then led the horse back to the stable.

  Some people are cutting hay next to the warehouse where the forage is stored. The forage that has been cut out has to be mixed with wheat bran and bean cake embryos and stirred evenly before being fed to these Gubolai horses to prevent them from losing weight in spring.

Hearing the sound of footsteps, the blond girl raised her head and saw a constructed knight walking in from the door, she immediately stood up and said enthusiastically to Suldak: "Hello, Sir Knight, how can I help you? "

  Suldak said to the female shop assistant: "I want to hire some four-wheeled trucks."

   "Then where are you going?" The female clerk placed a parchment map on the counter and pushed a thin wooden stick in front of Suldak.

Suldak picked up the thin wooden stick, pointed to the easternmost point of the barren land at the southern end of the Pagros Mountains on the map, and the mountain land next to the side of Hailansa City - the location of Wall Village, and said: "Go to Wall Village, Just off the Paglos Pass in the wilderness, about a day's drive from Highlander."

   "Are you going to use it now?" The blond shop assistant stared at a pair of big blue eyes and asked Surdak.

   "Yes." Suldak nodded.

The female clerk reminded Surdak: "Although the ice and snow in the mountains have melted and the road to the outside of the mountain pass is unimpeded, it is a bit more expensive to travel at night than the normal fare during the day. If you have nothing important to do , I suggest you make an appointment tomorrow morning."

  Suldak shook his head and said, "I'll need it tonight, I can't wait until tomorrow."

  The female clerk smiled awkwardly, and after thinking about it, she asked Surdak, "So... what other requirements do you have for these four-wheeled carriages?"

  Suldak thought about it seriously, and said casually: "It's nothing...by the way, at least these coachmen can't be too afraid of dogs!"

The female clerk carefully recorded the request in the register, lowered her head and wrote while writing: "From High Lansa City to Wall Village outside the Pagolos Pass, you need to cross the Golden Oak Mountain in the city, hire a car For a four-wheeled carriage, you need to pay about six silver coins. By the way, how many four-wheeled carriages do you need to hire?"

Suldak calculated that it would be no problem to carry fifty kobold slaves in a four-wheeled carriage. Then more than a thousand kobold slaves would need twenty four-wheeled carriages. In addition, Suldak also planned to buy a batch of cheap cassava in the city of Hailansa. After thinking for a while, he said, "I need thirty!"

  The blond-haired female clerk had a slightly suffocated expression, and then she returned to normal, and said to Suldak:

   "...Okay, Lord Knight!"

  As soon as Suldak entered the carriage shop, he was noticed by the carriage drivers in the rest area next to him. Although they were still chatting without a sentence, they were a little absent-minded.

The coachmen can't swarm up and surround Suldak to rob the door-to-door business, they can only wait quietly in the rest area, this is the rule set by the coach shop long ago, according to the registration of the coachmen in the morning Sorted, order assigned by Miss Nellie.

However, it took a long time for Miss Nellie to choose the coachman this time, and she went to the rest area to ask the coachmen one by one if they were afraid of dogs. Impossible to say.

  Miss Nellie asked around in the rest area without saying a word, and ran to the backyard, went directly to the coachmen who were washing the horses, and asked them if they were afraid of dogs.

  The coachmen in the backyard are the few coachmen who have received work today, and they are definitely at the bottom of the carriage shop. They expected that no matter how much work they have, they will not be their turn, so they will squat in the backyard to brush the horses.

  Miss Nellie asked several coachmen in the backyard:

   "Aneurin, Dirk, and Flor, would you like to take over the night's job? Go to the barren land outside the Pagros Pass."

  One of the coachmen, who was washing the leather saddle covers, stood upright, holding a dripping brush in his hand, and asked Miss Nellie:

   "Do you want to go overnight?"

  The inner courtyard was full of four-wheeled carriages. Miss Nellie held the registration book, squinted her eyes against the sun and said, "That's right!"

  The carriage driver glanced at the carriage shop, hesitated before saying: "Miss Nellie, of course we are willing, but if you come to us, won't those people in the rest area complain about you?"

  Miss Nellie smiled brightly at the handsome coachman, her white teeth were very neat, and she said:

   "No, because they're all going too..."

  The coachman next to him immediately cheered: "Wow, it looks like this is a big deal!"

  Miss Nellie nodded proudly, turned and walked back holding the register, saying as she walked:

   "That's right, the guest is a knight. This time, we have ordered thirty carriages. If there is no problem, come with me to the shop."

  The coachman whose name was called quickly stopped what he was doing, and followed Miss Nellie into the store.

  …

  Two-horse four-wheeled trucks drove out of the carriage house one after another, and parked neatly in a row on the side of the carriage road.

Suldak didn't wait in the carriage house. He walked into the free market opposite the carriage house, casually asked about the market price of cassava, and then began to scour the free market for hundreds or even tens of catties. They bought all of them if they fit, but the place of delivery was required to be at the door of the carriage shop. He just walked around the free market and bought a lot of cassava.

  The yield of this kind of cassava is very large, but it contains a small amount of toxins. If you eat too much, your lips will swell and you will have diarrhea. Even the poor dare not eat more.

   It didn't take long for the stall owners in the free market to carry cassava to the door of the carriage house.

Weigh first according to the process, and Suldak pays again, and then the stall owners will load the cassava into the last nine four-wheeled wagons until all nine four-wheeled wagons are full of cassava, Sulda Ke Cai finally called to stop, and the excess cassava was packed in bulk into the compartments of the remaining four-wheeled trucks.

  Suldak ordered several carriages loaded with cassava to drive directly out of the city and wait beside the road leading outside the city to the Pagros Pass.

   Then he jumped into the front four-wheeled carriage and rushed to the airport terminal with a long line of four-wheeled carriages.

  Andrew, who was waiting at the gate of the airport pier, saw Suldak standing in the wagon carriage, he let out a long sigh of relief, and waved to Suldak in the distance.

  The kobold slaves were trapped in a string by the ropes. They boarded the four-wheeled carriage in a long line, and finally left the city of Hailansa in a four-wheeled wagon before the city gate was closed.

Suldak didn't let these kobold slaves walk out of Hailansa City directly. Apart from the lack of strength of these kobolds, he was still worried that these smelly kobold slaves would cause some unnecessary disturbances if they walked through the streets. There is not enough manpower here, and he is worried that the kobold slaves will take the opportunity to escape. Once there are signs of this, there is no way to stop it.

   It is much safer to load these kobold slaves into a wagon, and it is also better to control these kobold slaves.

The kobold slaves who had been hungry for a whole day boarded the four-wheeled carriage, only to find that some cassava had already been prepared in the carriage, and they hurriedly got into the carriage, sat down silently, and chomped on the cassava Wake up, they have been starved all day, and now they don't care about the toxins in the cassava.

Looking at these short kobold slaves exuding a strong smell, the coachmen couldn't help complaining in their hearts, this big business is really difficult to do, once the business is completed, the truck must be transported from the inside to the back. It was enough to scrub the outside carefully, but when the carriage was full of kobold slaves, the coachmen quickly inserted the box boards at the back of the carriage.

  Some coachmen saw that the frail young kobold slaves could not climb onto the cargo box, and even went up to push it while pinching their noses...

Nanai native warrior Andrew and half-elf archer Samira stood guard at the front and back of the convoy to prevent kobold slaves from escaping in the chaos. The arrest will bring some unnecessary safety hazards to the public security of High Lansa City.

  The succubus Aphrodite obediently sat in a magic caravan at the airport pier. Before she was familiar with the imperial laws, Suldak didn’t let her wander around outside. After all, she was a succubus...

But Aphrodite didn't seem to care too much about it. She lay quietly by the window, with a black veil on her face, and looked curiously at the busy street. Through the black veil, Suldak You can feel the smile on her face.

  Suldak stood in front of the ogre Gullitum, and said apologetically, "Sorry, Gullitum, today's dinner may be late..."

   The ogre patted his belly, expressing that it’s okay to be hungry once in a while. After speaking, he picked up a piece of cassava and rubbed it on his belly twice, chewing like a crispy carrot. He awkwardly boarded the last four-wheeled truck, and the whole carriage made creaking noises. The coachman watched the ogre sitting in his own truck box, stretching the sides of the carriage into an exaggerated arc, almost When he was about to cry, seeing that the convoy in front had already set off, the coachman could only quickly get on the driver's seat, and the ogre in the four-wheeled truck chased after him with all his might.

When the convoy passed a bakery on Central Avenue, Suerdak stopped the magic caravan, bought white bread and baked wheat cakes for sixty people, and spent twenty silver coins at a barbecue stand, I bought two hot roasted sheep, threw a stack of baked wheat cakes and a whole roasted sheep into the carriage of the ogre Gullitum, and the ogre's exclamation immediately came from the carriage.

In the magic caravan, the indigenous warrior tore off a roast leg of lamb, cut it into small pieces with a skinning knife and put it on a silver plate. The succubus Aphrodite took off her veil, stretched out her hand and elegantly pinched a piece of leg of lamb into her mouth In the middle of the meal, he said vaguely to Suldak while eating: "I have never eaten such a delicious roast lamb..."

   Facing the three people in front of her, Samira could only sit in the corner of the carriage and nibble on an apple.

  The convoy finally left the city of Hailansa before the gate of Hailansa city closed.

The mountain road leading to the Paglos Pass is not easy to walk. The ice and snow melted in the early spring, and the mountain road is a little muddy. However, Suldak hires four-wheeled carriages with two horses. Even if the road is difficult, at most it is walking Slow down, this kind of truck will not easily get stuck in the mud and can't get out.

The mountain wind at night is still so cold, but the night sky in the mountains is full of stars, and the wind carries the fragrance of trees. The team passed through the mountains full of oak trees quietly until the sun climbed up the mountain in the morning. The last carriage in the convoy passed the pass.

  The dazzling sun clearly reflected the wooden crosses on the top of the mountain. After a severe winter, the skeletons of the robbers had completely disappeared on the wooden crosses, leaving only some solitary skulls hanging on the top of the wooden crosses.

   Just far away on the road, Suerdak had clearly seen the valley in Wall Village.

  Suldak pushed open the door of the magic caravan, pointed to the increasingly clear village in sight, and said excitedly to the men in the car: "Look over there, there is Wall Village..."

  The succubus Aphrodite looked at the barren land in front of her in surprise, clicked her tongue, and exclaimed, "This place is actually so desolate."

  Suldak said confidently: "It will get better slowly..."

  (end of this chapter)