Mercenaries and Adventurers

Pick out all the fat from the venison and put it on the leaves. Zhao Ji carefully wrapped the leaves and put them in his arms.

After saying hello and farewell to the craftsmen and apprentices in the leather shop, Zhao Ji decided to leave the city early while the weather was fine. If it was dusk, the city gates would be closed and people would not be able to enter or leave.

Returning to the city gate square again, the sun was no longer warm at this time. Many farmers and women who had finished their day's work returned to the city from the farmland outside the city, carrying their farm tools and bringing their children.

Near the town of Kendall is one of the rare flat places in the county, a floodplain of the Kendall River. The river water brings fertile nutrients from the upper reaches, and the Kendall River, which flows continuously throughout the year, brings sufficient irrigation water. There are a large number of people living on agriculture in the city, and they are all crowded in the slums in the central area of ​​the city.

Zhao Ji estimates that 80% of the city's population is agricultural. Some people grow wheat a little far from the water source, and some people grow a local water-loving crop near the irrigation system, similar to taro and potatoes. Zhao Ji often sees this plant. It has the water-loving nature of taro, and farmers pour a lot of water every day. It also has the yield of potatoes, and it even looks like potatoes. It tastes crunchy and nutritious.

It was already halfway through the afternoon, and soon it would be dusk. The farmers returned home one after another, and no one would think about staying overnight. Zhao Ji didn't know why before, but now he knows that the local area has a swamp in the south of the city and an irrigation system that relies on the Kendall River, so the slime monsters are flooding.

Zhao Ji chatted with a few talkative farmers. The farmers were very angry at what the slime monsters did. They were left there in their own size and couldn't eat much crops. But the slime monsters will overwhelm the positive crops in order to eat the crops, just to eat a little bit, wasting a lot of food.

The farmers each rented either the Baron Kendal's field or the Church's field. Every year, they have to pay fixed taxes and grains according to the size of the land they rent. The slime monster didn't just ruin the crops and food, it ruined the life of the farmer's family.

Fortunately, the farmland near the swamp in the south of the city, where the slime monsters are most infested, is the private land of Baron Kendall, not the land rented by farmers. The farmers only need to randomly select a few people to plant the land according to the requirements of the baron's mansion. How many crops will be produced in the specific land is none of the farmers' business. That's what the baron's mansion should worry about.

However, from the perspective of the baron's mansion, the slime monster has never been taken seriously, and the baron has never regarded the crop output of these fields as a major event.

No one cared, and the slime monsters were allowed to develop. Only occasionally will the town guard be organized to clean up the slime monsters flooding the sewage pipes.

After chatting for a while, Zhao Ji saw that it was getting late, and if there was any further delay, the city gate would be closed at dusk.

After bidding farewell to the chatty farmers, Zhao Ji greeted the four guards at the gate as he passed through the city gate. The guards were busy guiding the farmers into the city, so they ignored Zhao Ji, nodded and continued to guide the farmers into the city.

Stepping towards the wilderness outside the city again, Zhao Ji quickly walked a few steps. Only then did he worry about the bedding and equipment he had hidden, and hoped that no one would be free to go to the drain.

After a while, Zhao Ji heaved a sigh of relief looking at the intact bedding, but when he was arranging the bedding, he found something was wrong. He had one of two cooked potatoes left for dinner, and one was missing. Other things are still there, but there is less food.

Needless to say, some small animal must have stolen his food. Zhao Ji looked around vigilantly, and searched around the place where he hid his things, but found no trace of the wreckage of his potatoes.

Zhao Ji stomped his feet fiercely, cursed, and hid the remaining cooked potato in his arms, putting it away carefully.

Fold a few thick sticks with forked branches to make the trunk of the torch,

Then use the small vines everywhere on the ground to tie some dry twigs to the branches of the big branches. Zhao Ji carefully took out the animal fat wrapped in the leaves, and stuck them carefully in the center of the torch to fix them firmly.

Such a torch is ready.

Zhao Ji struck while the iron was hot, and made several more similar torches until the animal fat was used up.

At this time, the sun is already hovering above the horizon, and it won't be long before it gets dark. The night in the other world is not very dark, as long as it is not cloudy and cloudy, the moon shines in the sky at night, the stars are dotted, and the gods of the gods also hang in the sky to shine, there is still some lighting effect.

If the three moons in this world come out together, it will be even brighter. I just heard Jamura say that three moons come out together in March, and they only meet once or twice a year or two, not very often. Anyway, Zhao Ji has not seen him since he came here for half a year.

-------------------------------------------------- ----------------------------------

Remarks: As an aside, local people can recognize which ones in the sky are the moon and which ones are the kingdom of the gods. Although they all look similar on the surface, the moon is a real celestial body after all, with a huge size. Although it is a little distance from the planet in the alien world itself, it can reflect more sunlight and is brighter at night.

Although the kingdom of the gods hangs in the sky with the same size as a few moons, it is closer to the planet's atmosphere and is affected by the arc of the planet, which reflects less sunlight, so it is not very bright at night, and the kingdom of gods It also emits a faint light.

Secondly, although the volume of the Kingdom of God is closer to the planet, its mass is very small. It is relatively open, and the gods can use power to maneuver and change the trajectory, so the trajectory of the gods' kingdom of God often changes, and the locals are used to it. The orbit of the moon is fixed and will not change.