The largest carriage shop in Helensa City is located in the southwest corner of the workshop area of Helensa City. It is only one street away from the South City Gate. Opposite the carriage house is the largest free market in Helensa City. It is also the entire
It is the most lively place in the city, and many citizens are willing to go here to buy cheap goods.
At the beginning of spring, a fresh and tender red cabbage appears on the free market.
This kind of fern that grows under rotten leaves is the first wild vegetable to emerge after the arrival of spring. The people of Halanza can only eat radishes, pumpkins, cabbages, potatoes and various dried vegetables and dried mushrooms throughout the winter.
There is no resistance to this kind of fresh and tender sprouts. Some mountain people put red cabbage on the stalls, and they will be snapped up immediately.
Mountain people outside the city of Halanza took advantage of this season, when the frozen soil on the southern slopes of the mountains had completely melted, and went up the mountain with hoes to collect wild vegetables and dig cassava.
Cassava is the rhizome of a tree. One cassava tree can produce hundreds of kilograms of cassava. This kind of cassava grows deep in the mountains. The cassava trees around the villages are basically the private property of nobles and knights, and many poor families are.
Rely on this cassava with trace amounts of toxins to survive the food shortage.
Every spring, a large amount of cassava is stocked in the free market in Helensa City. Some wanderers even stand outside the gate of the free market. They specialize in helping merchants carry bags in the market. They can buy a small cassava for a copper plate.
Cassava as thick as a child’s arm.
This free market has large orders of cassava transactions every day, so it is not difficult for homeless people to fill their stomachs in Helensa City as long as they are willing to work hard.
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After spring enters, the business of carriage shops in the city also enters the off-season.
This season, there will be carriages in the carriages going into the mountains to bring some cassava back to be sold in the free market of Halanza City, but the meager gross profit is not even as good as the commission for clearing snow in the city in winter.
This horse-drawn carriage shop opened a store on the street. Suldak walked into the open store door, and was greeted by a blond girl standing behind the counter, lowering her head to sort out the accounts. There was some noise in the hall of the store, a group of horse-drawn carriage drivers.
We are sitting in the rest area of the store chatting. The only people who have free time to chat at this time are basically truck drivers. Everyone is waiting for the evening bell to ring so that they can go home in twos and threes for dinner.
Through the open back door, Suldak could clearly see that the backyard of the carriage house was full of four-wheeled carriages. Some grooms unloaded the ancient Bolai horses from the carriages and carefully brushed the horses with a brush.
, then led the horse back to the stable.
There are also some people who are cutting grass next to the warehouse where the grass is stored. The grass that has been cut out has to be mixed with wheat bran and bean cake embryos and stirred evenly before it can be fed to these ancient Bolai horses to prevent them from losing weight in the spring.
Hearing the sound of footsteps, the blonde girl raised her head and saw a construct knight walking in the door. She immediately stood up and said enthusiastically to Surdak: "Hello, Lord Knight, how can I help you?
"
Suldak said to the female salesperson of the car dealership: "I want to hire a few four-wheel trucks."
“Where are you going?” The female clerk placed a parchment map on the counter and pushed a thin wooden stick in front of Suldak.
Surdak picked up the thin wooden stick and pointed to the mountainous Wall Village on the map at the easternmost end of the deserted land at the southern end of the Paglos Mountains, adjacent to the side of Helensa City, and said: "Go to Wall Village.
In the deserted land outside Paglos Pass, about a day's journey from the city of Hiranza."
“Do you want to use it now?” the blond female clerk asked Suldak with wide blue eyes.
“Hmm.” Suldak nodded.
The female clerk reminded Suldak: "Although the ice and snow in the mountains have melted and the road leading out of the mountain pass is clear, walking at night is a little more expensive than the normal fare during the day. If you don't have anything too important,
, I suggest you make an appointment tomorrow morning."
Suldak shook his head and said: "I will use it tonight, I can't wait until tomorrow."
The female clerk smiled awkwardly, thought for a while and asked Suldak: "So... what other requirements do you have for these four-wheeled carriages?"
Suldak thought about it seriously and said casually: "It's nothing... By the way, these coachmen can't be too afraid of dogs at least!"
The female clerk wrote down the request in the register very seriously, lowered her head and said as she wrote: "From the city of Heranza to the village of Wall outside the Paglos Pass, we need to cross the city's Golden Oak Mountains and hire a car.
For a four-wheeled carriage, you need to pay about six silver coins. By the way, how many four-wheeled carriages do you need to hire?"
Surdak calculated that it would be no problem to carry fifty kobold slaves in a four-wheeled carriage, so more than a thousand kobold slaves would require almost twenty four-wheeled carriages. In addition, the ogre Gulitem would need a
In addition to a spacious four-wheeled carriage, Suldak also planned to buy a batch of cheap cassava in the city of Helensa. He thought for a moment and said: "I need thirty!"
The blonde female clerk's expression was slightly suffocating, but then she returned to normal and said to Suldak:
“…Okay, Lord Knight!”
As soon as Suldak entered the carriage house, he was noticed by the carriage drivers in the rest area next to him. Although they were still chatting away, they were a little absent-minded.
The carriage drivers could not swarm around Suldak to grab the door-to-door business. They could only wait quietly in the rest area. This was a rule set by the carriage house a long time ago. According to the carriage drivers' registration in the morning,
Sorting, Miss Nellie assigns orders.
However, this time Miss Nellie took a long time to select the coachmen, and she even went to the rest area in person to ask the coachmen one by one if they were afraid of dogs. For the hard-earned job, even if the coachmen were afraid at this time,
It's impossible to tell.
Miss Nellie didn’t ask around the rest area, but ran to the backyard and went directly to the coachmen who were washing the horses, and asked them if they were afraid of dogs.
These coachmen in the backyard are the few coachmen who have received work today and are at the bottom of the queue in the carriage shop. They are sure that it will not be their turn if there is another job, so they squat in the backyard to brush the horses.
Miss Nellie asked the coachmen in the backyard:
"Aneurin, Dirk, and Flor, would you like to take on the night job? Go to the deserted land outside Paglos Pass."
One of the coachmen who was washing the leather saddle covers stood up straight, holding a wet brush in his hand, and asked Miss Nellie:
“Are you going overnight?”
The inner courtyard was full of horse-drawn carriages. Miss Nellie held the registration book in her arms, squinted her eyes against the sun and said, "That's right!"
The coachman glanced at the carriage shop and hesitated before saying: "Miss Nellie, of course we are willing, but if you come to us, won't those people in the rest area complain about you?"
Miss Nellie smiled brightly at the handsome coachman, her white teeth looking particularly neat, and she said:
“No, because they are all going too...”
The coachman next to him immediately cheered: "Wow, it looks like this is a big deal!"
Miss Nellie nodded proudly, turned around and walked back holding the register, saying as she walked:
"Yes, the guest is a knight. This time we have ordered thirty carriages. If there is no problem, just come to the store with me."
The coachman whose name was called quickly stopped what he was doing and followed Miss Nellie into the store.
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The two-horse four-wheeled wagons drove out of the carriage house one after another and parked neatly in a row on the side of the carriage road.
Suldak did not wait in the carriage shop. He walked into the free market opposite the carriage shop, casually asked about the market price of cassava, and then began to buy a large amount of goods in the free market, hundreds or even dozens of kilograms, as long as the price
He bought them all when they were suitable, but the delivery location was required to be at the door of the carriage house. He just strolled around the free market and bought a large amount of cassava.
This kind of cassava has a particularly large yield, but it contains trace amounts of toxins. If you eat too much, your lips will swell and you will have diarrhea. Even the poor do not dare to eat too much.
Soon the stall owners in the free market were carrying cassava and came to the door of the carriage house.
According to the procedure, the cassava will be weighed first, and then Surdak will pay. Then the stall owners will load the cassava into the last nine four-wheeled wagons, until all nine four-wheeled wagons are filled with cassava, Surdak
Kecai finally called a halt, and the extra cassava was packed into the carriages of the remaining four-wheel trucks.
Suldak ordered several carriages loaded with cassava to drive directly out of the city and wait beside the road outside the city leading to Paglos Pass.
Then he jumped on the first four-wheeled carriage and rushed to the airport terminal with a long line of four-wheeled carriages.
Andrew, who was waiting at the entrance of the airport terminal, saw Suldak standing in the four-wheeled carriage carriage, and then he breathed a long sigh of relief and waved to Suldak in the distance.
The kobold slaves were trapped in a string by ropes. They lined up in a long line to board the four-wheeled carriage, and finally left the city of Halanza in the four-wheeled carriage before the city gate closed.
Surdak did not let these kobold slaves walk directly out of the city of Helensa. In addition to the fact that these kobold slaves were exhausted, he was still worried that these smelly kobold slaves walking through the streets would cause unnecessary commotion.
There is a shortage of manpower here, and he is worried that the kobold slaves will take the opportunity to escape. Once there are signs of this, there is probably no way to stop it.
It is much safer to load these kobold slaves into a four-wheeled carriage, and it is also easier to control these kobold slaves.
The kobold slaves, who had been hungry all day, boarded the four-wheeled carriage, only to find that some cassava had been prepared in the carriage. They got into the carriage in a hurry, sat down silently, and munched on the cassava.
Get up, they have been hungry all day, and now they don't care about the toxins in cassava.
Looking at these short kobold slaves exuding a strong smell, the coachmen couldn't help but complain in their hearts. This big business is really difficult to do. Once the business is done, it is inevitable to move the truck from inside to outside.
The outside had to be carefully scrubbed, but when the carriage was filled with kobold slaves, the coachmen quickly inserted the box boards at the back of the carriage.
Some coachmen would even pinch their noses and walk up to push a weak young kobold slave when they saw that they were unable to climb into the cargo box...
Nanai native warrior Andrew and half-elf archer Samira guarded the front and rear ends of the convoy to prevent kobold slaves from escaping in the chaos. Once these kobold slaves without identities escaped, it would be better to be caught.
Arresting him would bring unnecessary security risks to the security of Halanza City.
The succubus Aphrodite sat obediently in a magic caravan at the airport terminal. Before she was familiar with the imperial laws, Suldak did not let her wander around outside. After all, she was a succubus...
However, Aphrodite didn't seem to care too much about this. She lay quietly by the window, her face covered with black veil, looking curiously at the street with people coming and going. Through the black veil, Surdak
You can feel the smile on her face.
Suldak stood in front of the ogre Gulitem and said apologetically: "Sorry, Gulitem, today's dinner may be a little late..."
The ogre patted his belly and said that it was okay to be hungry occasionally. After saying that, he picked up a piece of cassava and rubbed it hard on his belly twice, chewing it like a crispy radish. He awkwardly boarded the last four-wheeler.
The whole carriage made a creaking sound. The coachman looked at the ogre sitting in his carriage, stretching the sides of the carriage into an exaggerated arc. He almost cried when he saw the convoy in front of him.
Having already set off, the coachman could only quickly get into the driver's seat, and the four-wheeled truck carried the ogre and pursued it as hard as he could.
When the convoy passed a bakery on Central Street, Suldak stopped the magic caravan, bought white bread and toasted wheat cakes for sixty people, and spent twenty silver coins at a barbecue stall.
I bought two hot roasted lambs and threw a pile of roasted wheat cakes and a whole roasted lamb into the ogre Gulitem's carriage. The ogre's exclamation immediately came from the carriage.
In the magic caravan, the indigenous warrior tore off a roasted lamb leg, cut it into small pieces with a peeling knife and put it on a silver plate. The succubus Aphrodite took off her veil, stretched out her hand and elegantly pinched a piece of lamb leg meat and put it into her mouth.
While eating, he said vaguely to Suldak: "I have never eaten such delicious roast lamb..."
Facing the three people in front of her, Samira could only sit in the corner of the carriage and gnaw on an apple.
The convoy finally left the city of Halanza before the city gates closed.
The mountain road leading outside the Paglos Pass is not easy to walk. The ice and snow melted in early spring, making the mountain road a little muddy. However, Surdak hired two-horse four-wheel carriages. No matter how difficult the road was, the best it could do was walk.
You have to go slower, this kind of truck won't easily get stuck in the mud and be unable to get out.
The mountain wind at night was still so cold, but the night sky in the mountains was full of stars. The wind carried the fragrance of trees. The convoy passed quietly through the mountains covered with oak trees until the sun climbed up the mountain in the early morning.
The last carriage in the convoy passed the mountain pass.
The dazzling rising sun clearly reflected the wooden crosses on the top of the mountain. After a harsh winter, the skeletons of the robbers had completely disappeared from the wooden crosses, leaving only some lonely skulls hanging on the top of the wooden crosses.
Just on the far side of the road, Surdak could clearly see the ravine in Wall Village.
Suldak opened the door of the magic caravan, pointed to the village that was becoming clearer and clearer in his sight, and said excitedly to several of his men in the carriage: "Look over there, that's the village of Wall..."
The succubus Aphrodite looked at the desolate land in front of her in surprise. She made a tut-tsk sound and sighed: "It's unexpected that this place can be so desolate."
Suldak said confidently: "It will get better slowly..."