Mercenaries and Adventurers

In the afternoon, Zhao Ji ate the last bread in his room, and then went to the owner of the hotel to explain that he wanted to take a hot bath.

Hearing that Kiel wanted to take a hot bath, the owner of the hotel was very happy, and said to Kiel with a smile: "Kiel warrior, you know, your accommodation fee will be waived in the village, but the hot water used for bathing water?"

Zhao Ji heard what he meant, and waved his hand: "It's okay, you can just collect the money that should be collected, but the water must be boiled hot, it's late autumn, and the weather is getting colder every day down."

"Okay, do you wash it yourself? Or should I find a girl from the village to wash it with you?" The owner of the hotel said so quickly.

When Zhao Ji heard this, his claws went numb, so he had no choice but to say, "It's fine to be alone. Hurry up, you're still splashed with goblin blood."

As soon as Keel said that he was still splattered with blood, the hotel owner quickly asked his son to watch the front desk of the hotel. He and his wife went to the hotel's own kitchen to boil hot water.

Zhao Ji found a wooden pier at the door of the hotel and sat down and talked to the son of the hotel owner.

Soon, the hotel owner who was ready returned again and took Zhao Ji to a room specially used for bathing guests in the hotel. This room is located on the edge of the backyard of the hotel and is a separate room.

As soon as he entered the house, Zhao Ji found that the floor of this room was not the wooden floor in other houses, but the floor paved with fired bricks.

"Your bathing place is well prepared. It's not too different from the big bathhouse in Kendall City." Zhao Ji praised. He also went to the big bathhouse in the slums to take a bath when he was in Kendall City. I took a bath once or twice, but then I gave up because there were too many thieves there.

"Hey, this is specially prepared for those city people who come to the village with caravans. They say it's okay to use it. You can enjoy it slowly, Kiel warrior. The hot water has been poured into the big bucket for you With that said, the hotel owner closed the door of the room.

Zhao Ji locked the door from the inside of the house, tried the temperature of the water in the big wooden barrel, it was okay, the temperature was just slightly hot. He immediately took off all the clothes and equipment on his body, and slid into the big wooden barrel with a plop.

"Hiss, it's a little hot. But it's okay, the temperature of the water is really cool in this weather." Zhao Ji immediately scooped up water with his hands and washed his hair. His hair was not too long when he first came to this world, but after He hasn't trimmed it for more than half a year, and his pale blonde hair has grown to shoulder length.

Zhao Ji usually tied his hair up with a piece of string. Now he was touching his long hair, thinking whether he should ask someone to trim it shorter?

Fix it when you get a chance.

Zhao Ji took a bath until the water temperature cooled down a bit, and then he came out of the big wooden barrel in which he took a bath. As soon as he came out, he was shocked by the surrounding temperature, and he quickly wiped his body with the dry sackcloth prepared by the boss.

Once his body was wiped clean, he no longer felt cold, and even felt slightly hot. After a deep stretch, Zhao Ji regained his energy.

Zhao Ji also used the pig hair brush in the house to simply dip the clothes with the still warm bath water, and brush them all where blood was stained on the clothes. His clothes were all made of good materials, and the blood only stained the surface of the clothes. After drying, he wiped them off with a brush, leaving only faint, inconspicuous blood stains.

Zhao Ji didn't bring a change of outer clothes, so he had to deal with it in such a simple way. As for the layer of underwear next to his body, he brought a change of clothes, so he went back to his room and changed quickly.

After a while, Zhao Ji reappeared clean, all the fatigue from traveling and fighting disappeared from his body, he found the hotel owner who was doing the billing at the front desk of the hotel, and asked him how much he paid for the bath.

After making a gesture of seven, he felt that it was wrong. The hotel owner finally made a gesture of five with his hand, and then said: "You only pay five copper coins. Don't be too expensive. The main reason is that our village does not use wood like Kendall City. conditions. The usual burning wood used in the village is harvested from a small lumber camp in the north of the village. As you know, those goblins outside always attack us, and the lumber camp is the same. The wood used in the village is not very convenient."

Zhao Ji nodded. It turns out that the road from the north of the village to the forest in the north leads to the lumber camp, and it should be so. After all, the usual cooking and making tools are all made of wood, but because of the raging monsters around the village, the villagers cannot go out of the village to collect firewood for daily use. In this way, the construction of a lumberyard is necessary and important that's it.

It is estimated that Doral Forest Village should deploy a lot of forces at the logging field in the north to protect the important logging field.

Zhao Ji didn't even negotiate the price, so he handed the five copper coins directly to the hotel owner, and after leaving the hotel, he went to the blacksmith shop in the village to maintain his long sword.

The blacksmith's shop is right next to the square in the center of the village, where all the important buildings of the village are gathered, and the blacksmith's shop related to farming is no exception. It was just that Zhao Ji noticed that the blacksmith shop was at a safe distance from other wooden buildings around it, and even the warehouses in the village that stored a large amount of grain were built directly opposite the blacksmith shop, with an entire square between them.

It seems that Dorallin Village has done a good job in preventing fires. After all, it did not develop directly from a small village, but a mature village established from the migration of imperial immigrants, and even has the scale of a small town.

There was no black smoke coming from the chimney of the blacksmith's shop, because it was not the time for farming. As a large agricultural village, when the farming stopped, the blacksmith shop also had no business. Usually, the respectful expressions of the blacksmiths were seen on the faces of the farmers, but now they could not be seen on the faces of the farmers.

Blacksmith Bodell thought of this when he was sitting on the wooden steps at the gate of the blacksmith shop, looking at the goblin who had died for a long time in the wooden cage in the center of the square, thinking about something. A well-dressed young man with a long sword hanging from his waist walked straight towards him.

Seeing that he was looking for something to do, the blacksmith Bodell quickly stood up to greet him: "Is it the Kiel warrior? I saw your demeanor in the morning, and you did a great job."

"Thank you for the compliment, what's your name, Mr. Blacksmith?"

"Bodell, you can just call me Bodell blacksmith. There are only me and a few other craftsmen in the village. They usually call me Iron Hand. You are a warrior who can fight monsters, so just call me Bodell."

"Uh, Blacksmith Bodell, I want you to help me clean and maintain my long sword. It has just experienced a bit of a fierce battle. Now it needs a little polishing and cleaning." Zhao Ji and Blacksmith Bodell were talking Then he came to the blacksmith's shop. The blacksmith's shop in the village was not as shabby as he imagined, but had all the tools.

After receiving the long sword with a sheath from the Kiel warrior, Bodell blacksmith pulled out the long sword and inspected it with admiration: "It's a beautiful long sword, I seem to have seen a long sword with a similar shape before. The mouth is a little worn, just sharpen it. There are still some blood stains on the grooves of the sword that haven't been cleaned, is it the blood of Goblins?"

Zhao Ji nodded: "It's from the goblins. After killing more than a dozen goblins in a row, I couldn't wipe off the blood stains in the groove with a soft cloth."

The blacksmith sat down and took out a small pot: "Of course, simply wiping with a cloth won't clean it. You have to use other things to help it. Wood chips, bread crumbs, animal oil, and special sword oil are all fine."

After finishing speaking, Bodell blacksmith dipped a piece of black sackcloth with a little grease in the jar, and carefully wiped the groove of the long sword: "Does it have a name? I heard that you soldiers like to name your weapons. name?"

Zhao Ji smiled awkwardly: "Yes, because this sword has not experienced any battles before, so I didn't give it a name until after fighting the goblins. It's called hunting."

The blacksmith who cleaned the long sword carefully said the name of the long sword: "Hunting? It seems that this is not only its name, but also its mission as a sword."

"There is such a meaning in it."

"Okay, I've cleaned up all the blood stains in the grooves on the sword body, and then I'll sharpen it." The blacksmith Bodell took out a whetstone, sprinkled some water on it, and carefully searched for it. Start to push and pull the long sword at a good angle.

Clang, clang, clang, clang.

Every few times, Bodell blacksmith picked up the long sword and carefully observed the edge of the blade with his eyes. And Zhao Ji leaned against the door with his arms folded, carefully observing the blacksmith's techniques, and learning how to deeply maintain a battle-tested long sword.

Because the hunting sword is quite heavy and very strong, it actually wears very little in battle, and it doesn't need much grinding to be as sharp again.

The blacksmith cleaned the long sword, wiped it dry, and then applied a thin layer of anti-rust sword oil. When he was about to insert the long sword back into the scabbard, Zhao Ji hurriedly stopped him.

"Wait a minute, the inside of the scabbard also needs to be cleaned. I inserted the long sword into the scabbard several times before with blood and minced meat on it, so I guess the inside of the scabbard also needs to be cleaned." Zhao Ji explained to Blacksmith Bodell one time.

The blacksmith suddenly realized that he gave the hunt to the Kiel warrior, and then he checked the scabbard. After knowing how the scabbard was reinforced, he picked up a flat-headed awl and pried the metal and wood of the scabbard at once. seams.

Pressing the scabbard with one hand, prying the awl hard with the other. With a click, the scabbard of the long sword was split into two. However, only the front end of the scabbard was separated. The blacksmith was using the same method to pry the metal and wood from the tip of the scabbard.

Holding the scattered parts, the blacksmith inspected them: "Well, there is indeed some dried blood and minced meat inside. These are easy to deal with."

He picked up a dark muslin cloth, soaked it with clean water, passed it through the narrow gap of the scabbard, and cleaned the inside of the scabbard a few times back and forth. Re-moistened blood dripped from the air in droplets of muslin and dripped onto the floor of the large stone bricks of the smithy.

Very quickly, Bodell blacksmith cleaned the scabbard, and he dried the inside with a dry cloth, and reassembled the scabbard with a few clicks.

"Okay, to thank you for eliminating a lot of harassing goblins in our village, I won't charge you this time." Blacksmith Bodell handed the scabbard to Kiel, patted him on the shoulder and said .

"Thanks, I will find a way to kill more goblins in the future. Then if I kill the goblins and ask you to maintain the weapon, will you give it back for free?" Zhao Ji joked with a smile.

"Anyway, I've been busy recently. As long as you can continue to help the village eliminate the troublesome goblins, I'll maintain your weapons for free." Blacksmith Bodell said, patting his chest. "Also, if you can wipe out a whole hundred goblins, I will give you a weapon passed down from my father as a reward."

"What kind of weapon? What type?" Zhao Ji didn't expect such a good thing, so he hurriedly asked.

Blacksmith Bodell shaved his beard with his fingers, and made a crackling sound: "Let's talk about it after you kill enough goblins, I have to find time to repair my father's left weapon, it is all I haven't seen the light of day for more than ten years."

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After bidding farewell to Blacksmith Bodell, Zhao Ji came to the police station. He originally wanted to come back tomorrow, but anyway, it was still a while before dark, so he just had a meal here, and then told old Domo what he said about those brothers. The ownership of Brin's head, after all, these goblin's heads can be exchanged for money.

The food in the security station is still very ordinary, mostly wild vegetables, beans and roots. Of course, there is no problem with eating enough. Although Zhao Ji wants to eat meat, it is still okay to eat these, as long as he is not allowed to eat the mushrooms in the village.

During the meal, the attitude of the people in the public security station towards Zhao Ji was quite different from before. Everywhere I go, people greet me, and my attitude of speaking is no longer indifferent, but more respectful.

Zhao Ji saw Lao Duomu, and came to Lao Duomu's table with a bowl of hot vegetables and a bowl of roasted root plants that he could not name.

Seeing that it was Kiel, Old Domo moved his wooden bowl so that Kiel could put his food on the table.

"You did a good job today. I heard from my subordinates. You took the Taka family and brought back the scarecrow that was snatched by goblins?"

Zhao Ji started to eat, and while eating, he answered old Duo Mu's question: "Ah, yes, it's mainly Elder Barry's idea. He thinks that nothing should be given to those goblins, lest the goblins make more progress."

"It makes sense, why didn't I think of it." Old Domo murmured while rubbing his head.

"By the way, there is one more thing I have to tell you first. The heads of those goblins were all cut off after I defeated the goblins one by one. You have to watch it for me, I just want to store it here with you. If it weren’t for the hotel, I would definitely not be able to store these things, and I would like to put all these goblin heads in my own room.”

"Got it, got it. No one in the village wants the heads of those little green monsters. I'll put them all in the basement prison of the security station. It's okay. I usually have the keys with me, so I won't lose them." Already." Old Domo patted Kiel on the shoulder and assured him.

Hearing Lao Duomu's assurance, although he didn't know whether he was reliable or not, he had no choice but to trust the other party first. After all, what Zhao Ji was doing now was very powerful and the people in the village developed. As the actual manager of several people in this village, Zhao Ji believes that the other party can understand what is best for the future development of the village.