The afterglow of the setting sun revealed only a golden line on the mountains, and this golden line soon became silent among the mountains.
There is still a small townhouse vacant in Wall Village for the time being. Although the reserve knights of these guard battalions are as weak as a pile of scum on the battlefield, their accommodation needs to be properly arranged in Wall Village.
These fifty reserve knights have already joined the guard camp. As long as there are no special circumstances, they will all be converted into full knights in a short time.
Although they are currently in the security squadron of the security battalion under Surdak, this is only the starting point of their life path.
With their superior status as knights, they could not continue to live in tents in Wall Village, so Samira led them into Wall Village and assigned rooms to these young reserve knights before it got dark.
Well, the housing is limited and only four guards can live in one room.
Wearing a salamander tight armor, Samira hid her face in her hood and led fifty knights from the guard camp leading their horses into the village of Wall.
These young reserve knights began to look at the village again, staring at the salamander leather armor on Samira's body, and whispering about what kind of person their commander was.
The village was noisy, and the veterans of the cavalry battalion needed to maintain law and order in Wall Village. There were many of them, so Andrew led them to live in a row house in the market at the entrance of the village.
This townhouse was originally a kobold slave camp. There were four rows of large bunks built with wooden frames. Some reed mats were spread on the wooden frames. The kobold slaves were not afraid of the cold. The room still looked like a rough house. There was air leakage everywhere.
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The room was a little cold, and some fire pots had been lit for heating. Several villagers were temporarily nailing a piece of felt to the frosty north wall.
Such a barracks can house at least several hundred veterans. The veterans of the cavalry battalion have won several battles in the desert and accumulated some wealth. Sleeping bags and warm camel hair blankets are essential items for marching in the desert.
If you spread these luggage in the barracks, even if there is no fire inside, you won't feel cold if you lie down in the sleeping bag and sleep.
Andrew led a group of veterans and was planning to build a temporary stable before dark so that the horses and camels could be enclosed in the stable.
The old village chief came to his senses and arranged for several cooks in the village to prepare dinner for the cavalrymen in the cavalry battalion.
This time, Surdak led the cavalry battalion on an expedition. Not only did they drive away the bandits in the desert, they also brought back so many war horses and more than a hundred camels. Many villagers gathered around the cavalry battalion's horses and looked at the war horses eagerly.
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In order to support Surdak's expedition, almost all the horses in the village were mobilized. This time Surdak brought back so many horses that the team in Wall Village could resume work. Some villagers even couldn't wait to take the horses away on the spot.
, the veterans who were looking after the horses naturally could not let the villagers take the horses away, so they caused some disputes outside the village.
Someone found the old village chief. The Bright village chief was instructing the cooks to prepare dinner. Someone had already brought five large iron pots from the village and was setting up a stove under the big tree at the entrance of the village.
The old village chief heard that some villagers had gone to the stable to pick up their horses without authorization. As he ran towards the temporary camp of the cavalry camp, he cursed angrily: "These lazy people usually act like turtles when things happen, but now they are picking fruits."
If you don't want to fall behind, Val, go and tell the others that if anyone extends his claws here again, I will break his legs."
Val is now doing odd jobs with the old village chief, and he is considered to be the most courageous and intelligent among the young people in the village.
The old village chief led Val to the temporary stables, and saw a group of people still gathered here. Several coachmen from Wall Village were surrounded by a large group of people, still clamoring to take the horses away. Andrew was talking to
The villagers negotiated, but it was clear that the villagers did not buy Andrew's account.
A villager with a short riding crop in his hand, who was quite drunk, pointed at Andrew's nose and cursed angrily: "Andrew, you are a biting dog under Duck's feet, why do you stop in front of us?"
As he spoke, he pushed out his fat belly with all his strength, trying to make himself stronger than Andrew, but found that he always had to raise his head to look at Andrew, but he shouted with a sense of superiority.
: "Dak and I have been wearing the same pants as Dak since we were young. How dare you control us? What did we do wrong?"
"...What did we do wrong?" he asked in a high pitched voice.
He patted the neck of an ancient Bolai horse with some excitement and said loudly: "We are just taking back the horse that was lent to Dake. Is it wrong to take back the horse that belongs to us..."
Before he could finish speaking, he felt his companion pull hard on his clothes and secretly poke his ribs with a riding crop.
"Don't stab me, I haven't finished speaking yet!" The villager, holding a riding crop, shouted to his companions while still drunk.
At this time, the crowd split to two sides. The old village chief strode up to him with an angry look on his face, stretched out his hand to pull his ears, and pointed at several tall ancient horses that they had led out of the horse pen.
Bo Lai's war horse went from beginning to end, almost tearing his ears apart.
"Casuo, tell me, that horse belongs to you, and which pair of pants you are wearing is also worn by Duck?" the old village chief asked angrily.
The villager named Ka Suo held the old village chief's wrist with both hands and did not dare to break away. He could only beg for mercy and said: "Uncle Bright, you hurt me. I was just trying to make a metaphor!"
The old village chief hit his forehead hard with his index finger, causing Kasuo to lean back repeatedly.
"What you eat now, what you wear on your body, and the house you lie down and sleep in are all obtained by Dake who did not fund the village with his own money. How can you have the courage to come here to make trouble? Is there an adobe house without a roof in the past two years?
You haven’t lived enough, and you still want to go back to the days when you had nothing?” The old village chief shouted, and Ka Suo suddenly broke into a cold sweat.
The old village chief dragged Caso to Andrew again, kicked him to the ground, and angrily said: "Andrew is the captain of the security squadron of the Hellanza Guard Camp in the deserted land. When will you see the knight?
How can you be so brave? Did you receive too few whips on your body, and your whole body is a little itchy?"
Kasuo was kicked to the ground. He covered his ears with one hand and touched his thigh with the other. He said with infinite grievance: "Uncle Bright, look at what you said. I just saw that Dak brought back so many good horses.
I’m happy for him from the bottom of my heart. I have no other purpose in choosing horses here. It’s just to improve the foundation of our village’s team!”
Only then did the companion next to him react. He quickly came up to hold Ka Suo up and said repeatedly: "Uncle Bright, we just came to take a look. We really don't have any other meaning. This guy Ka Suo drank a little too much. We are here."
Just pull him away."
The old village chief roared with an angry look on his face: "If you let me see this kind of thing again, you guys will go to Pussy Mountain and work as kobold supervisors!"
When the villagers heard the old village chief's stern shouting, they were so frightened that they ran away with their tails between their legs...
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Some young people in the village gathered around the female captives, laughing and joking while making comments.
Some of the women who were robbed by the sand thieves were young women who were robbed by the sand thieves from villages in the desert. There were also mountain people in the mountains in the central part of the desert and nomads in the Salta province in the westernmost part of the desert.
, women in different regions have obvious differences in appearance and clothing. These young people gathered around some nomadic women boldly. They had totem patterns on their faces. Some young people even curiously inquired about these women.
The meaning of totem decoration...
The female prisoners had followed Surdak around in the desert for the past two months and suffered a lot. Now they returned to Wall Village. They were afraid that Surdak would sell them as female slaves to the slave market, so they hid after setting up camp.
Entering the tent, I didn't dare to move around at all.
Several young people from the village secretly went to the female prisoner camp to see the women. Seeing that the camp was too quiet, no matter how they teased and teased the female prisoners, the women did not dare to resist. At first, they stood in the camp and took advantage of the conversation.
It was an advantage, but later it was discovered that the female prisoners seemed to dare not resist if anything was done, and they became more and more courageous, and some even wanted to get into the tent of the female prisoners.
Before they could lift the blankets and use their bodies to measure the female prisoners' bodies, they saw the tent being opened from the outside.
The old village chief stood outside the tent holding a cane, jumping on his feet and yelling at the young people:
"Do you see what you are like now? What is the difference between you and those sand bandits? You are just as dirty as them! All of them only know how to lift women's skirts, but they can't hold a knife. Get out of here!"
Several young people from Wall Village escaped from the camp of the female prisoners in despair.
The old village chief's angry scolding came from behind: "You guys go to Helensa City tomorrow to sign up for military service. Even if you are used as cannon fodder on the battlefield, it is better than staying in the village!"
Hearing what the old village chief said, the cooks who were cooking at the entrance of the village stared at the running young men with worried faces.
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Surdak let little Peter sit on his shoulders and, surrounded by a group of people, walked along the flat village road upstream of the village.
Surdak's home is located at the uppermost reaches of the village, next to the low dam of the fifth-level reservoir. It is still a long way from the village entrance to Surdak's home.
Little Peter hadn't seen Surdak for a long time, so he naturally refused to jump off Suldak's shoulders easily.
Suldak greeted old Sheila, asked Rita and Natasha about the current situation at home, and then introduced Viru to the family.
Viru was considered a guest brought back by Suldak, and was invited to live in his home. When Natasha and Rita saw the guests coming to the house, they quickly plotted to rush home first, preparing to move the dusty house.
After the guest room was cleaned, they quickly walked out of the crowd.
The group of people stopped at the central square at the entrance of the village, and the villagers and other people crowding behind dispersed.
Old Sheila walked slowly and was out of breath after walking only a short distance. Her body had weakened rapidly in the past two years, and she was not so energetic at ordinary times. She often lay on the rocking chair in front of the fireplace and dozed off throughout the winter. She arrived at the village
Not wanting to take another step in the middle square, he took little Peter's hand and asked Suldak to take Viru home first.
The last time Viru came to Vol Village, Surdak introduced Viru to the current situation of Vol Village.
Vilu looked coldly at Natasha's back in the distance, with a strong and strange emotion in his heart.
It was as if there was a cold, sharp arrow behind him that could be shot out at any time.
No matter who is stared at by Vilu, he will feel as if he is suffocating. Fortunately, there is a turn in the road ahead. Natasha endures her physical discomfort. After turning the turn, she immediately feels much better.
He reached out and patted his swollen chest. He didn't understand why he was so flustered when Suldak came back.
Suldak walked upstream, looking at the snow on both sides of the village road that had been cleared very cleanly, and thinking about how to divert water into homes.
I heard Weiru standing aside and asking Surdak: "Is she your wife?"
Surdak knew he was asking Natasha and didn't even raise his head.
"Yes." Suldak paused and said calmly.
"That's your son?" Viru didn't look back, but he could make Suldak understand that this sentence referred to little Peter.
"Yeah!" Suldak answered briefly.
He could feel that Viru was in a bad mood, as if he was holding a rage in his heart and was about to explode at any time.
Surdak didn't know whether the temper of a second-level powerhouse would change after he advanced. He only felt that Viru's mood was a bit dull when he entered Wall Village.
Weiru lowered his eyelids and nodded lightly.
Even if I have seen the five-level reservoir above my head before, I still feel that it is very grand when I see this large upstream reservoir again, just like an artificial stone cliff and waterfall. However, the dry season is coming, and the reservoir is very majestic.
The water in the pool is strictly managed, and the creek is usually dry.
It wasn't until they walked home dullly, and Natasha and Rita entertained Viru very warmly, that the ice color on Viru's face gradually melted away.
After running around outside for so long, the first thing he did when he returned home was to lie down in the bathtub and take a comfortable hot bath. As for the veterans of the cavalry camp and the knights of the guard camp outside, Suldak believed that the old village chief could make arrangements.
, immersed himself in a bathtub filled with hot water, Suldak held his breath until he was about to faint from lack of oxygen before getting out of the water.
Natasha and Rita were busy preparing dinner in the kitchen. Suldak reached out to pick up a letter from the side of the bathtub, cut a slit in the envelope with the paper knife in the tray, and pulled out a cover from the inside.
It comes on parchment paper with the seal of the Marquis of Luther.
This letter was handed to him by Natasha herself when he returned home.
Natasha said that a messenger from Bena City made a special trip to Wall Village before leaving.
Surdak originally thought it would be a letter from Hathaway, but when he opened it, he discovered that the letter was written by Marquis Luther. The amount of information written on it was quite large. Surdak held up the parchment and read it for a long time.