Mountain and Forest Kingdom

Play cards all night and into the early morning.

Lawrence, who had stayed up all night, picked up Sophia, while Saryl woke up the six sleeping prisoners.

Sophia opened her eyes drowsily.

Lawrence said gently: "Go home, you continue to sleep."

Sofia wanted to continue sleeping, but she soon lost sleepiness and got out of Lawrence's arms to walk.

"Go back and sleep." Sophia still liked the big bed at home.

Lawrence led the people towards the door of the tavern.

Doug was still playing cards, and when he saw Lawrence was about to leave, he said: "Lawrence, help me make two more sets of cards, and I will use slaves in exchange."

Lawrence raised his hand and said, "No problem, I don't want the slave anymore. I'm short of some salt. Give me fifty jars of salt."

"This is simple." Doug smiled and said: "I will send someone to Donglim Mountain to bring back salt later. Pickling fish also requires a lot of salt."

The Pumixiu people have a fixed salt lake where they can get salt, not at the seaside, but in the mountains to the east.

Pickling vegetables, bacon, and cooking all require a lot of salt, so I go there every once in a while.

This time they brought a lot of loot, including a cabin full of food and cloth, and the food problem of the Pumi Xiu people for more than a year was solved.

Meat still has to be obtained from the mountains or nearby, so enough salt will be prepared.

After completing the transaction, Lawrence returned home with his newly purchased slaves.

Lawrence led the sheep forward, and six slaves pushed the cart behind. On the cart were the gifts from Andrew.

The five boxes weighed 700 to 800 kilograms in total. The two Dom sheep had just run a long distance yesterday, and after a night's rest, they were dragging heavy objects up the mountain. At this time, they were very weak.

Lawrence said: "Two sheep are still missing, we need to buy some mounts."

Salil nodded, "Yes, Nora also needs to rest. If she keeps working, she will fall ill and fall down. Let's find Doug to buy cows!"

Lawrence was not so optimistic, "It is easy to buy slaves from the Pumixiu people, but it is troublesome to buy livestock. They will not sell those livestock at this time, especially special animals such as cattle and Dom sheep."

Chickens, sheep, and pigs are fine, but cows and Dom sheep are not. If they can't survive, they won't be sold.

Salil felt the same way, "What should we do?"

Lawrence said helplessly: "Let's do this for now. When it becomes more convenient to go out in winter, we will go outside with Doug to exchange supplies and see if there are any cattle and sheep for sale in the distant towns."

"Deer and pigs will do, too," Salil said.

Lawrence didn't feel it was that easy.

Livestock in this area are very valuable, and a good mount is ridiculously expensive.

Prices are inherently unstable, and food, livestock, and other things all have their own needs.

The mount can not only speed up the journey, but can also take people away at critical moments.

In this turbulent and barbaric area, the role of mounts has been magnified several times. A good mount can be exchanged for ten beautiful women, even at a slight loss.

The current price of slaves is also low, and this area cannot support a large number of slaves for a long time.

It can be raised now because it has just gained weight. Once it fails twice in a row, the number of slaves will be reduced rapidly.

Lawrence soon became confused.

Good mounts can only be found in big places, such as Telanthoof City.

The northern border is actually not that far from Telandatho City. If you have a mount, you can get there in three days.

But Lawrence didn’t have much money and didn’t want to go back to that place.

"Think about it carefully, the mountain roads here are difficult to walk, so we don't really need mounts?"

Lawrence quickly convinced himself, "Just buy two Dom sheep. In a few days, I will go to the village to see whose Dom sheep are about to give birth and reserve one."

Sophia said happily: "Okay! Give me the lambs and I will raise them!"

Lawrence and Saryl both had mounts, and Sofia wanted one of her own, so that was why she was so excited.

"No problem." Lawrence agreed readily.

The group of people continued walking towards the mountain. Lawrence looked at the six slaves and then at the nearby mountains and forests.

"Sariel, do you have any mounts at Delen's place?"

Salil shook her head, "No, they had raised bears and wild boars before, but those things were out of control. When they grew up, they began to bite and eat people. After that, they kept them and killed them, instead of using them as mounts."

"But I heard that the Valkyries can raise large wild boars."

Sariel talks about the rumors she heard from her father.

Lawrence said speechlessly: "Well, I know this too."

Tran Big Hoof City is also called Pig Trotter City, and the main force of the barbarians there is the Wild Boar Legion.

The Earl is a noble who belongs to the Kingdom of Luofen. Naturally, he has a close relationship with Tran Big Hoof City. It is not surprising that he has mastered wild boar-related technologies.

Taming wild boars is a skill of the royal family of the Luofen Kingdom. Lawrence is not qualified to observe and knows nothing about it.

Not only is it about technology, there is not much technology to speak of in things like mounts, but the most important thing is variety.

Horses with good pedigrees have always been a status symbol.

The main carrying capacity in the north is still dogs, followed by Dom sheep and cattle, and then people.

Wild boars are for fighting, not for work.

Six slaves were not made to work, and they were exhausted as soon as the cart arrived near the house.

Missionary Kenny saw three nuns in nun uniforms from a distance and ran over quickly.

"Mr. Lawrence, are these three your prisoners?"

Kenny took another look at the three nuns and three other people nearby, all of whom looked like typical Western Kingdom figures.

The main difference is in their clothing. The appearance and dress of the Western Kingdom are much cleaner than that of the Pumixiu and Ug people.

Lawrence said: "They are trophies brought back from the other side of the sea by the Pumixiu people. There are more than a hundred people at the foot of the mountain. These six are my slaves."

Kenny said quickly: "Can you please let them go? Or let them live here with me, and we will find a way to raise the ransom."

Lawrence shook his head, "Not for now, wait until you are free and then negotiate a deal with me, or after you get candles and honey for me, go back to your hometown and let the people there pay the reward."

Lawrence is not afraid of revenge, neither are the Pumixiu people, and the Kingdom of Luofen is not afraid either.

If the Western Kingdom dares to come to retaliate, the barbarians of the Luofen Kingdom will quickly set their sights on this fat sheep that jumps out.

The only people who can keep the barbarians from taking revenge are those who are poorer than them and less afraid of death.

There is none at the moment. There are only snow bears and big fish in the polar ice sea farther north, but no humans.

Lawrence ignored Kenny's anxiety and continued on his way with four women, two men and six slaves.

Kenny couldn't save anyone, but he took the initiative to help push the cart.

When the convoy was delivered near the manor, Kenny took the initiative to come near Lawrence.

"Mr. Lawrence, this lady is a resident of Durilla. She is a believer in the Lord of the Morning like me, and is good at making linen clothes."

Kenny looked at Lawrence, "I know you are a kind gentleman, so I told them what happened here. They are willing to serve you. I hope you will not beat them or give them to those ignorant savages." .”

Lawrence smiled and said: "Okay, I happen to be short of a tailor, what about the other five people? What are they good at?"

Kenny quickly introduced the other two men.

One is a driver who can feed and take care of livestock, and the other is a farmer in his thirties with thirty years of working experience.

The names of the three women were too long and I didn’t write them down.

Kenny said: "They are good at copying books, documents, and dogmas. They can also clean the house, wash clothes, change candles, inspect the rooms, and carry bread and wine from the kitchen or cellar to the table."

Lawrence was silent.

Twenty beautiful women like this could not be exchanged for a big wild boar that could be ridden.