Mercenaries and Adventurers

Zhao Ji patted the hemp bag on the trolley while pushing the trolley and said, "This is for hunting slime monsters. If there are too many slime monsters, people can't carry them." Zhao Ji patted the car again: "That's why we need a car."

Tutuge nodded, and asked again: "Then what should be used to defeat the slime monster? I don't know if a long stick is okay."

Wiltz pointed at Zhao Ji's spear and said, "I think this spear should be used for hunting. That's right, Warrior Kiel."

Zhao Ji nodded, indicating that yes, he did use a spear to hunt slime monsters.

A group of four people walked along the fence outside the field in the south of the city. The rain in the past few days made the ground here very wet. Although it was autumn, the weeds outside the field were still growing vigorously. Fortunately, Zhao Ji was wearing thick trousers recently bought, and the jagged edges of the weeds could not do anything to him.

But the rest of the team couldn't do it. Weltz shepherd and his two little assistants were wearing short robes, the hem of which only reached the knees. Although all three of them were wearing suede boots, the leather boots The part of the calf that I couldn't reach was cut by the edge of the weeds, which was very painful.

The delicate skin of Irina's calf was even cut. She cried out in terror, and the procession had to stop.

Wiltz's shepherd inspected the wound and found that the skin was only slightly scratched by the edge of the weeds. Although there was a little blood, there was no major problem.

I patted Irina on the shoulder and encouraged her a few words, what is this test of the God of Saturn? Sooner or later, I will have to go to the fields to touch the crops and the like.

Zhao Ji dug his ears with his fingers, and felt that what Wiltz shepherd said was all nonsense, and did not solve practical problems. When Zhao Ji saw the short robes they were wearing, he knew that the three of them had no experience in the wilderness. The shepherd Wiltz was a little older and might have some experience in the fields, but he must have been surrounded by farmers from all sides. They surround tightly. As for the other two little assistants, Zhao Ji probably lived in the town all the time and rarely went out of the city.

Zhao Ji guessed that the children who can enter the church must at least have some savings and status in their families. The two of them probably haven't suffered much since they were young. It is completely different from the life in farmers' homes where children were raised from childhood.

Seeing that his partner Irina's calf was cut by grass, Tutuge also felt that his calf was itchy, so he unconsciously scratched his calf.

Zhao Ji clapped his hands to attract the attention of others, and said to Wiltz shepherd who looked over: "This is a small problem, just find a few big leaves and wrap them around your legs. I think this one is good. You can try it." Zhao Ji pointed to a few clumps of wild flowers growing under the fence next to him.

The leaves of these clusters of wildflowers are wide and long leaves with smooth leaves and blunt edges. It is estimated that they can be wrapped around the legs to protect the calves.

Wiltz shepherd thanked Zhao Ji with a smile, and the three of them walked over and pulled out many leaves from the wild flowers. Irina still had some poor wild flowers, and she couldn't bear to pluck the leaves, so Tutugo handed her the leaves he plucked.

The pastor of Wiltz taught the two that the protection of the God of Saturn was concerned with the crops in the field, and these wild grasses and wild flowers were not the plants that the Church of the God of Saturn needed to pay attention to. On the contrary, it needs to be cleaned frequently. When weeds and wild flowers grow in the fields, they will compete with the crops for the fertility of the land and for water. The water that the farmers worked so hard to transport to the fields was all robbed by wild flowers and weeds. This is not acceptable.

He patted Irina on the head, telling her not to pity the wild flowers and refuse to pull the leaves because they think they are beautiful, but to pull the leaves of the weeds if they are sharp. The basis for judgment should not be whether it is just a good-looking appearance, but whether it conforms to the teachings of the Saturnalia Church and whether it is beneficial to the activities of the church.

Irina also squatted down and plucked the leaves of the wildflowers after being taught by the shepherd Wiltz.

Zhao Ji didn't expect that Wiltz's shepherd would be able to say something about such a trivial matter.

It seems that this Wiltz shepherd is at least an eloquent person. I don't know if he can do it in other areas. I hope the three of them don't bring more trouble to his hunting.

After each of them grabbed a handful of leaves, Zhao Ji taught them to put the leaves in their boots one by one closely to cover their calves, and then gave them two sections of hemp rope for each of them, and asked them to use the rope to tie the leaves together. The leaves on the lower legs are fastened.

After the three of them were done, the group of four continued to head south.

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Zhao Ji's method is still very effective, and the speed of the entire team has obviously increased. After they were no longer hindered by the weeds to walk in the grass, the two little assistants became more lively.

From time to time, Irina would pull out a few small flowers next to them, grab them together, and then tie them together with soft grass stems.

Tutuge caught a small insect, pinched the insect's hind legs with his hands, and watched happily as the insect fluttered its wings in panic but couldn't escape. Then he went to use this to scare Irina next to him.

After the shepherd Weltz was no longer infested by weeds, he walked calmly while looking at the vast fields that had been harvested.

He walked two steps quickly, caught up with Zhao Ji who was pushing the cart at the front of the team, and said to Zhao Ji, "Do you know who owns this large piece of land next to us?"

Zhao Ji glanced at Wiltz's shepherd's hand, not knowing why he asked this silly question, and said, "I know, it's Baron Kendall's field. Although I'm not from Kendall City, I've never worked in the field before." , but I've heard people talk about it."

"The baron's field is the closest to the swamp, and there is only a short section of wild grass between the two. Do you know how many monsters in the swamp every year take advantage of the annual rainfall to cross this distance? Hurting people in the fields?" Wiltz asked Zhao Ji.

Zhao Ji shrugged: "I don't know, probably not too many."

"It's not much, but it's not too little. But you know that the nobles' fields require the farmers to work every year. Every year, the farmers will rotate their labor, so every year different farmers will be called slime monsters or something like that." Monsters are injured, and occasionally people who are unlucky will die due to injuries." Wiltz shepherd said sadly.

Zhao Ji secretly complained about Wiltz's superfluous acting skills, and then replied: "No one cares? Farmers work for the baron. The baron must at least provide enough security, right?"

The pastor of Weltz coughed awkwardly and said: "Ahem, the baron entrusted this matter to our church. Our church has been working hard to treat the injured, and has organized many people to take the swamp and A half-person-high waterproof dike was built between the fields to isolate the sporadic invasion of monsters."

"Isn't this very good, but I haven't seen anything like a water embankment." Zhao Ji looked around, but he didn't see any water embankments half a person's height on the road they passed.

"Hey, hey. That was built twenty years ago. I still remember seeing it when I was a child, but every spring the Kendall River floods from the upper reaches, and the water embankment only lasted for a few years. It was washed away by the flood in the first year. After that, it was very difficult to organize manpower to rebuild one, after all, no one wants to make something that can only be used for a few years.” Wiltz shepherd gave it to Zhao Ji Pointing to the front and back, it indicated the location of the water embankment that might have existed before.

Zhao Ji shrugged, feeling that he had nothing to say. The underground waterway in Kendall City has been used for decades without any problems, while the waterproof embankment built by the church organizers is finished after only a few years. Where is such an obvious gap between the two, he thinks the church doesn't know. Of course, he didn't dare to say this kind of slap in the face in front of a god of agriculture and shepherd, so he had to say it in a tavern to be safe.

Seeing that Zhao Ji just shrugged and didn't say anything. Shepherd Wiltz continued: "Since then, it has been like this for more than ten years. Until a while ago, someone in the church heard that there was a person who could go to the swamp to hunt slime monsters alone. At the beginning, we all felt that This is some drunken bragging in a tavern, and no one believes it until someone sees a slime monster that has been made into a thin layer."

"You didn't believe it until you saw the slime monster with your own eyes, right?" Zhao Ji continued. "For so many years, no one thought about finding someone to clean up the monsters in the swamp?"

Showing a bitter face, Wiltz shepherd said: "The knights don't care about these things. Those rude guys, they put more thought and energy on their respective fiefdoms and enjoyment. And Ken The vicinity of Del City is directly under the baron's territory, and the baron himself doesn't take good care of it, so who else would dare to intervene."

Zhao Ji felt strange why Baron Kendall didn't care about it. The monsters in the swamp were a big hidden danger after all. If it were him, he would have to clear the swamp every year. Zhao Ji asked, "Why don't you leave it alone? After all, it is a field that produces grain. The farmers who come here every year to do hard labor must have a lot of grievances, right?"

"Resentment? In fact, it's okay. There will be a compensation in the city. As long as they are not dead but injured, the farmers can barely accept it. Well, I think the reason for it is that the baron's mansion is not very good. Accumulate wealth from the harvest of these fields. By Saturn, it is unwise." Wiltz returned.

Feudal lords did not rely on land and fields to make a living, and this place was just a frontier, not an arterial road, so how did this baron rely on to accumulate wealth. Zhao Ji couldn't figure it out. There are also a lot of guards in the city, so they also get a lot of salary every year, right? The construction of the city is also very good, especially the underground waterway. Zhao Ji does not believe that other cities in this different world can also have such strong engineering infrastructure capabilities. And these are all built with a lot of wealth. Where did the money come from?

I can't figure it out, but I happen to have a church pastor with a high social status in the city by my side, so it won't be long before I ask him.

Zhao Ji then asked Weltz the Shepherd: "If you don't rely on the land endowment to accumulate wealth, how does the lord maintain the operation of the entire Kendall City? Do you know?"

"Don't you know? Oh right, you forgot that you are not a local. As long as your ancestors are from Kendall for several generations, you know that the Baron family has a lot of strange knowledge. I heard from the elders in the family that it was very early. At that time, the baron family had the strange knowledge when they were nobles in the empire. Relying on that strange knowledge, the workshop area in the city would produce some strange engineering originals and sell them to other places. Otherwise, you don’t think the craftsmen in the city Why is the district so big?" Wills shepherd slowly explained to Zhao Ji.

That's how it was, and a lot of things became clear in this way. Zhao Ji wanted to understand some of the strange things he saw in Kendall City.

Why does Kendall City have such a high-level urban underground waterway.

Why is there an artisan district in the city that is far beyond the size of an ordinary city.

Why the local lord and his family never care about the farmers.

Why can the Saturnalia Church intervene in such a vital matter as agriculture.

Why are there many large and small chambers of commerce in the city.

It turns out that Baron Kendall has relatively advanced engineering technology in the kingdom. Considering that Baron Kendall moved here from the empire when the kingdom was founded, then the empire must have more advanced technology and knowledge. Presumably this empire must be very powerful, right?

Zhao Ji wanted to go and see, at least the places with advanced civilization could live better than the frontier areas of this frontier kingdom. At least the top of the food must be much stronger.