Mercenaries and Adventurers

Zhao Ji came to the restaurant of the chamber of commerce. The restaurant and the kitchen are connected together. Next to the hall on the first floor is the restaurant, behind the restaurant is the kitchen, and behind the kitchen is the yard of the chamber of commerce.

At this time, the kitchen chef Hui Nier and his wife, Aunt Dilu, were peeling potatoes. They were sitting on a small bench, busy around a small pot of potatoes. Zhao Ji came over and greeted them with a big smile. Say hello.

"Uncle Chef, I want to trouble you." Zhao Ji knelt down beside him, grabbed a small potato with one hand, rubbed off the dirt on the potato, and said to Chef Whitney.

"Oh, Keir, what's the matter?" Chef Whitney was talking to Zhao Ji while scraping the potatoes with a small iron blade in his hand, while Aunt Dilu was using a small water basin to wash the potatoes that Whitney had peeled. Scrub it with water and put it on the table next to it.

"It's like this. The Chamber of Commerce needs to repair the roof, which requires a lot of waterproof materials. The Chamber of Commerce has prepared some slime monster envelopes. I heard that this has a good waterproof ability, but this is still not enough. " Zhao Ji said.

"Yeah, we need to get this done before the weather gets cold. Once the weather gets cold, it will be hard to do work. Many businessmen will go home to rest in winter." Chef Whitier said while scraping skillfully. with potatoes.

"That's right, I just want to hunt monsters for a while, so I plan to hunt more slime monsters. But I heard that slime monsters have a trick of spraying gastric juice, and there must be something to resist it. I still need a similar The shield thing. Do you have an old wooden pot lid here? Just use that.” Zhao Ji said while showing the wooden stick he brought.

"There are some old pot lids, but they are all good things, and they are just put together because they don't match the pots that are commonly used now. Lulu, you can get Keel a smaller old pot lid, Keele's The arm is still weak, and I can’t hold a big pot cover.” Chef Hui Nier measured Zhao Ji’s small arm, compared with his own thick arm, it was indeed too thin, even Aunt Dilu’s arm They are much thicker than Zhao Ji's.

Aunt Dilu stood up and went to the kitchen to get the old pot lid. Zhao Ji replaced Aunt Dilu's work and washed the potatoes scraped by Chef Whitier in a small wooden basin filled with water, and took out the dust and dander. .

There was a lot of clanking in the kitchen. Aunt Dilu came out with a wooden pot lid. This wooden pot lid seems to be a lid for an iron pot. It is as big as half an arm of Aunt Dilu, and it looks quite thick from the edge.

Zhao Ji stood up and took the wooden pot lid, ho, it was quite heavy, the material of this wooden pot lid was really solid. Zhao Ji thanked Chef Whitier and Aunt Dilu, and cut a section of hemp rope with a dagger from the bedding behind him. A dead knot was tied on the handle around the center of the wooden pot lid, and an empty circle was made. In this way, the left hand only needs to hold the empty circle of the hemp rope to grasp the wooden pot lid.

Zhao Ji took two steps, waved the wooden stick in his right hand twice, and lifted the wooden pot lid in his left hand to cover his body, repeated twice, and nodded in satisfaction. Next to Chef Whitier and Aunt Dilu were enjoying watching, Zhao Ji, taking advantage of their happiness, asked for two boiled potatoes for dinner, and said to Aunt Dilu that he would not come to eat at night, and that he was going to hunt outside the city slime monster. Zhao Ji waved goodbye and walked out of the chamber of commerce.

The afternoon sun is still very hot, and the two boiled potatoes in my arms are also very hot. The potatoes that have just come out of the pot are like two red-hot charcoals, which can't make Zhao Ji hot. There was no other way but to stuff two potatoes into the bedding and wrap them.

Like a warrior going out to war, Zhao Ji walked towards the gate of the town with his bedding on his back, a wooden stick in his right hand, and a wooden pot lid in his left hand.

Say hello to the four guards at the gate of the city. The four guards laughed when they saw Zhao Ji's equipment. Zhao Ji was a little annoyed, he knew that his own outfit was really bad, and he also wanted to wear something better, such as a solid leather armor, or a cloth armor with wooden armor. It is best to have a steel shield and steel sword in hand, but he has no money, even a cloth cloak he can't afford. Amid the uncontrollable laughter of the guards, Zhao Ji walked out of the town in embarrassment.

"Hmph, after I earn silver coins after defeating five slime monsters, I'll add cloth armor and buy a weapon. Let them laugh at me again." Zhao Ji muttered to himself angrily. He touched the dagger in his arms, and felt that having an iron sword would be the primary goal later. With an iron sword hanging from his waist, he should be more formal, right?

After all, many people here carry weapons with them. Farmers will carry iron farm tools. Chamber of Commerce employees, craftsmen and apprentices will carry daggers with them. As for the chamber of commerce managers and guards, craftsmen all carry swords. .

I don't know what self-defense the nobles carry with them. When Zhao Ji first came to Kendall City, he met a knight, and the other party didn't have any weapons? The pastors of various churches that I occasionally met in the city did not seem to have any weapons with them. What do they use to protect themselves?