Chapter 483 Healing

The place is really nice, the air is fresh and the view is wide, which makes me feel excited. Lorist is sincerely satisfied with what Aristol says about the mountain guard's hunting house.

This is a mountain pass in the Garigues Mountains near Baron Dinner. The reason why Aridori built a hunting house on this mountain pass and sent two mountain guards was to make the lush mangrove forest on the hillside. Red oak in the Garinthia continent is a precious wood. Its natural curved wood grain has always been favored by noble families. Its high-end decorative materials are in short supply as palace villas.

When Aridori found that there was such a large mangrove forest on the mountain next to the territory, he was very overjoyed. He immediately included the half-mountain area where the mangrove forest was located in the jurisdiction of the family territory. In order to avoid being secretly cut down, a hunting house was specially built at the mountain pass, and two people were also sent to guard the mountain. In fact, it was to prevent wild wolves from going down the mountain in the Garigues Mountains from entering the territory to harm people and animals. In fact, the task of the two mountain guards was to prevent others from entering this mangrove forest, stealing wood or collecting cranberries and big red mushrooms produced in the mangrove forest.

When it comes to mangroves, we must mention the two kinds of products that are accompanied by them. One is cranberries, which are about half smaller than blueberries. They have thin skin and are juicy, sweet and fragrant. They have always been known as the finest of fruits. Cranberries are a fruit that only grows in companion shrubs in mangroves. The autumn months of each year are the ripening of cranberries. The picked cranberries are not durable and are basically dried into dried fruits or used to make fruit wine. Cranberries are expensive because they are said to be able to effectively treat and improve some aspects of men's abilities and have always been popular among the aristocratic class.

The second specialty of mangroves is the red mushroom, which is a bright red mushroom, which is non-toxic and delicious. Whenever heavy rain comes, this red mushroom grows everywhere in the mangroves. If you are not picked immediately, these red mushrooms will dry up and turn into brown-red dried mushrooms in three days. In this famous dish that is very popular in the Galintia continent, if you can throw a few dried red mushrooms in it, it can effectively improve the flavor and absorb the greasiness on the soup. At the same time, the red mushrooms are very delicious whether they are cooked or cooked.

For Aristol, owning this mangrove is equivalent to giving the Dina family a small vault. Before the mangroves was found, the two specialties produced by the mangroves alone could earn her more than 20 or 30 gold couriers a year, which is also a huge fortune. It is not an exaggeration to send two mountain guards to guard this mangroves specifically.

The hunting house was built in a small valley next to the mountain pass and mangroves. It was also a three-story attic structure. The lower floor was made of rocks, the upper two floors were built of logs, and a small beacon tower was built on the third floor. This hunting house could be regarded as a small fortress. Seeing that Lorist was a little confused, Aristol explained that the wild wolves wandering in the mountains in winter would habitually go down the mountain to find food. Therefore, this hunting house was to guard against the attacks of wild wolves or demon bears in winter, and the second was to find these monsters that went down the mountain and ignite the fire to the territory to warn the territory, so the territory garrison was dispatched to surround and kill these monsters.

The stone house on the first floor has one large, four small and five rooms. The large room in the middle is mainly a large staircase on the second floor. The four rooms on both sides are stables, warehouses, utilities and repair rooms. There is also a small iron stove in the repair room to repair or make some simple tools and weapons. The second floor is four rooms of about the same size, two bedrooms, a kitchen, and the lounge where the stairs come up, or a restaurant. There are also a rough log table and four tree studs in the middle, and two small squirrel skins and a deer head are hung on the wall for decoration.

Unlike the first-story stone house, the four rooms on the second floor have windows, but the windows of the two bedrooms and the dining room are thick wooden boards, and only the kitchen windows have four green glasses, but there are also wooden board windows for protection outside. This is a double-layer window structure. If the windows are not opened, the light on the entire second floor is insufficient, so there are a large area of ​​dark stains left by smoke and fire on the wooden walls, which are all marks left by the indoor lighting of the oil lamps and torches.

The bedroom on the leftmost part of the second floor is divided into a quarter, which is the staircase to the attic. The attic on the top third floor is also made of logs as walls, but it is the place with the most light in the entire hunting house, because the attic has two large windows on one side, which can also be called window doors. It is also a double-layer structure, with eight green glass windows inside and two thick wooden board doors outside. After opening these four window doors, the small beacon tower on the roof used to alert.

The water used in the hunting house is to open several large bamboo poles and take it from the height of the mountain stream next to it, about sixteen or seventeen meters away. Taking advantage of the drop of the mountain stream height, these large bamboo poles were buried on the ground and then connected to the water tank in the kitchen on the second floor. At the same time, a water outlet was connected to the water tank. The excess water reaching three-quarters of the height of the water tank was also discharged into a small pool in the yard of the hunting house through a drain pipe made of bamboo poles. This small pool is also used to clean and drink horses.

"This place is good, so we live here." Lorist said to Reddy with satisfaction standing on the platform on the rooftop of the third floor. From here, you can see the fields at the foot of the mountain, the wooden castle of Aristol, and the town called Red Walker further away.

"But your Highness, this place is too simple and lacks a lot of things. Why don't I go down the mountain and get some tableware, candles, clothes and bedding in the castle?" Reddy said.

"Talking about it, have you seen a few mountain guards who use gold cups, silver plates and candles? Since we pretend to be mountain guards, we have to look like mountain guards. There is no tableware that can be made by ourselves. I will cut down a tree and make some wooden bowls, basins and wooden spoons by myself, and use torches for lighting at night. Clothes and bedding are very simple. You can go to the mountains these two days to take a look, and we will make some deer skin and wolf skin. Also, didn't Aristol say that the two great sword masters who pretend to be pharmacists will come here in two days? We will go around the nearby woods tomorrow and the day after tomorrow, dig more herbs for them, and coax them away early." Lorist said.

"Okay, Your Highness." Reddy nodded.

What Lorist did not expect was that three days later, the great swordsman who pretended to be a pharmacist actually went up the mountain to the hunting house accompanied by Aridoly. Fortunately, Lorist and Reddy dug a lot of herbs in the yard in the past two days, which had not been washed and dried for the most basic treatment. At the same time, a wild wolf skin covered with holes was drying in the yard.

"Well, these herbs are very good, I want them all." The male pharmacist named Jack took all the herbs piled in the yard without looking at them carefully, and at the same time, he went into the hunting house to look around. The female pharmacist pulled Lorist in the yard and asked, as if he was very interested in the wild wolf skin.

"Dear Your Excellency, this wild wolf fell into a trap we set up, and was stabbed to death by the thorn buried below, so it was covered with holes. Otherwise, a good wolf skin would be worth at least three or four large silver coins, but now it is not worth a penny. I can only repair it and use it myself." Lorist acted like a greedy and vulgar farmer, but the hole on the wolf skin was pierced by Reddy with a branch. Otherwise, the good wolf skin would either be taken away by the lord at a low price or sold to the grocery store. No mountain guard would be willing to use it for himself.

"Well, it's a pity for this wolf skin. By the way, where is your companion?" asked the female pharmacist.

"Here, isn't that? He just went to patrol the mangroves, and I have to stay here to feed the horses and cook lunch." Lorist pointed behind the female pharmacist.

The female pharmacist turned around and saw Reddy walking over the mangrove path, carrying a hunting bow on her back, and carrying three pheasants and two hares in her hand.

Aridori burst out on the spot: "Okay, Crimento, you secretly ran to hunt with a patrol again. I'll catch you this time. Don't think of getting your wages this month. You have to know that everything in the mangroves is owned by our Dinner family. Take the things over and I'll confiscate them!"

Reddy walked over dejectedly and argued: "But these prey were not hunted in the mangroves! I was hunting in the back mountain, and it did not belong to our family territory!"

Alidol even more angry: "I paid you to take care of the mangrove forest, but I didn't let you go to the back mountain to hunt. I didn't say that the wages are gone. Also, how do you prove that the prey on your hands was not hunted in the mangrove forest? Or did it run out of our mangrove forest?"

This, how can this be proved? Reddy couldn't, so he had to hand the prey in his hand to Aristol. Aristol also picked it up and threw a pheasant and a hare on the ground, disgusted him and said, "I'm so thin, I'll leave it to you to make soup."

The female pharmacist looked at Aridori with amazement and proudly hung the prey that had been robbed to the saddle of the mount, his eyes full of respect. It turned out that this was the way he was a lord! At this time, the male pharmacist named Jack left the hunting house and shook his head slightly, obviously finding nothing.

Since we didn't find these two couples who pretended to be pharmacists here, they were also ready to go back, but before going back, they had to pay the money for the medicinal materials piled up in the yard. Aridoly seemed very smart in bargaining. Soon, the two hundred kilograms of fresh herbs in the yard were sold at a price of fifteen large silver coins of Jinfude.

Aridori was satisfied with taking the gold and silver coins paid by the female pharmacist, then took out two small silver coins from her purse and threw them to Lorist and Reddy: "Here, it's a good job. This is the reward for you two, enough for you to go to the tavern in the town to have five glasses of ale."

Lorist picked up the small silver coin from the ground and rubbed it in his hand. This time he finally had a deep understanding of how the territorial nobles exploited their subordinates. In fact, Aridolican was quite generous in paying the rewards of two small silver coins. Because in the eyes of the territorial nobles, everything produced in the territory belonged to them, just like these herbs, all belonged to the Dinner family. Lorist and Reddy collected so many herbs and paid only two or three days of labor. The territorial nobles were the most valuable in the eyes of the territorial nobles.

Aristol and the fake pharmacist couple both rode up the mountain, so these fresh herbs had to be delivered to their town. Aristol was very generous and said that she would send someone to the horses to the horseshoe tavern in Dapanhe Town.

"Can't let them both come here directly?" said the female pharmacist pointing to Lorist and Reddy.

"No, let them send them over and guarantee that they will play outside for two or three days before coming back. Now they will definitely gamble when they have money. They will not come back if they don't spend all the money. I don't want them to have an excuse to go outside and wander around." Alidol refused.

The fake pharmacist and his wife were speechless, thinking that two small silver coins were considered money? However, they didn't care about who gave me herbs. They originally thought that when the two mountain guards gave me herbs, they would bribe them as spies, so that they could inform them when they found that Baron Dinner had received guests or abnormal information. Now Aridori refused to let these two men give me herbs. Thinking about the fact that these two people lived on the mountain, they didn't know the movements of the castle, so let's forget it.

Reddy did not breathe a sigh of relief until the three of them turned into small black dots at the foot of the mountain: "Your Highness, I am really glad that Miss Dinner is not the mistress of our Norton family."

Lorist laughed: "Don't you notice that Aridori is acting great? Now I finally fooled the two great sword masters who pretend to be pharmacists. They will no longer doubt us. I will prepare to heal my wounds tomorrow. Remember to report those herbs to you? Tomorrow you go to the mountains to see if there are any of these herbs, and make me a wooden bathtub. I need to use a medicinal bath to recover the internal injuries."

Lorist is preparing to use the Danhai Qi-Tempering Jue to restore injuries to the body's meridians and dantian with the help of Reddy. Compared with the Golden Water Jue, the Danhai Qi-Tempering Jue appears more central and peaceful, especially since it is improved from Taoist health care techniques, which has a more healing effect on the body's recovery. The first two levels are easy to get started, which will be easier for Lorist. The meridians inside the body and the fighting qi contained in the long sword pierced into the chest by the Storm Sword Saint were almost destroyed. Only by using the Danhai Qi-Tempering Jue to slowly condition it. When it reaches the third level, you can turn around and practice the Golden Water Jue to restore your strength.

Lorist and Reddy stayed in the hunting house on the mountain and began to heal their injuries. Summer went to autumn, and time passed quickly. Occasionally, Aristol would take his maid Sunilulu and his baby son Trieke to take advantage of the opportunity of supervising the servants and maids to go up the mountain to pick big red mushrooms after the heavy rain to meet Lorist for a long time. The fat man Trieke couldn't recognize that the bearded man was his father, but he knew that the man was very nice to him, and would help him make toys to play with him, and he could also make a lot of delicious food, so he was very close to Lorist.

The days passed day by day. By October, Lorist had already practiced the third level of Danhai Qi-induced Technique, and now he had recovered to the strength of a golden swordsman. Even if he met a great swordsman, he would have the power to fight back. Lorist believed that he could practice the Golden Water Tribulation again by the end of the year, and he would be able to restore the strength of the Sword Saint in half a year and return to the North with a swagger.

On that day, Lorist was fiddling with some herbs picked by Reddy on the roof, and the cleaned herbs were still to dry. But Aridori rode a horse and hurried up the mountain. He went to the yard and looked up and shouted, "Locke, I have news about the Northland, something happened to the Norton family!"
Chapter completed!