On the eve of the beast tide, some businessmen took a convoy and ventured from Wilkes City to Dodan Town.
They heard that the mercenary group here could hunt some Warcraft every day, so they came to buy Warcraft materials.
These merchants discovered that the canyon outside the north city wall was indeed crowded with Warcraft. Every day, groups of mercenaries went out of the city to hunt. They did not have to go far at all. The canyon was full of Warcraft. As long as the Warcraft hidden in the grass was
Leading it out is half the battle.
But of course these monsters are not vegetarians. Those that can be called monsters basically have the ability to control magic. Except for the mane beast, which relies on its thick-skinned body and fangs, other monsters can release some magic.
Ice arrows, fireballs, wind blades, rocks, etc.
If you are not careful, if you are hit by these elementary magics, you may suffer some flesh injuries, or your life may be in danger.
There is another thing that confuses these foreign businessmen. Although there is an adventure guild in Dodan Town, there is no adventure group.
The businessmen inquired about the whereabouts of these adventure groups and learned that these adventure groups had quietly left Duodan Town. The reason was actually because these adventure groups were involved in the slave trade. The previous mayor of Duodan Town was fired for secretly supporting the slave trade.
Sent to the Wilkes House of Representatives for a public trial.
This incident involves most of the adventure groups in Duodan Town. It is for this reason that before the beast tide came, there was no adventure group in the entire town. There was only a group of mercenaries who often accepted mercenary tasks.
The group went to Dodan Canyon to hunt monsters.
Compared with those adventure groups, they are certainly not professional.
Even so, these mercenary groups are making a lot of gains every day. It is said that in order to encourage these mercenary groups to hunt monsters, the town actually used the crossbows on the city wall to attack the range of the crossbows and painted under the north wall.
Create an invisible safe zone.
The largest group of monster hunters in Duodan Town is currently the town’s garrison camp.
Nowadays, a large number of Warcraft corpses are brought back from outside the city every day. Although most of them are first-level Warcraft that are not very valuable, the advantage is that there are huge numbers.
However, the magical beasts hunted in the military camp are never exported, and even the meat is marinated and made into dried meat. Now there are drying sites everywhere on the grass outside the town, and the sunny southern slopes are filled with triangular wooden racks. Due to the moonlight,
Blade Fire Wolf is not very tasty, so it can only be chopped into minced meat and poured into the intestines to be made into strips of sausage and dried in the sun.
As for the furs, fangs, magic cores, etc., they were all digested internally within the military camp.
The merchants suspected that the cavalry battalion in the garrison camp had a caravan accompanying the army, but they were usually very low-key and were not noticed at all.
The mercenary group in the town has a very close relationship with the trading house, so a large part of the World of Warcraft materials hunted by the mercenaries will flow into the trading house.
Only some cheap Warcraft materials will be divided up by other foreign merchants.
Some large caravans made the choice to leave early because they could not get much benefit from Dodan Town.
There are only some small businessmen who don't care about this. No matter where they go, they are still eating leftovers. At least the competition in Duodan Town will not be so fierce.
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Suldak has been a little busy lately.
There are now 1,500 soldiers stationed in the garrison camp, and almost half of the troops go out of the city to hunt low-level monsters every day.
The two hundred longbow archers all accepted the blessing of Surdak's 'Divine Blessing Body'. In cooperation with the heavy armored infantry advancing in front, and the cavalry protecting the flanks, they have been attacking in the canyon in the past few days, killing continuously.
Several groups of low-level monsters dropped.
The Warcraft that originally gathered in the Duodan Canyon felt that they might not be able to cross the city wall, so some groups of Warcraft chose to turn around and leave the Duodan Canyon.
In this kind of large-scale hunting operation, Surdak is worried that the hidden monsters will cause unnecessary casualties, so he has been going with the group recently.
The military camp now has to manage more than 1,500 people and more than 1,300 horses, as well as some ordnance. With Andrew's ability, it is impossible to calculate the approximate supplies consumed every day, so Suldak had to let Celine
Na Lai is responsible for managing logistics at the military camp, coordinating and managing all supplies, as well as some daily chores.
Almost everyone in the town knew that a beautiful woman had come to town.
Every morning, she always wore a beautiful long woolen skirt and walked through the main street of the town facing the rising sun.
She would stop at the bakery for a quarter of an hour and chat with the bakery owner. Usually she would not buy cheap baked wheat cakes here, but would go to the market in the town.
The only market in the town is at the intersection in the center of the street, because this is where the most pedestrians pass.
She will ask about the prices of some vegetables, onions, tomatoes, bell peppers, carrots, cabbage, etc.
Her behavior was not a purchase at all, but a roundup.
The few words she said most to every vegetable vendor were:
'How much do onions cost per pound today?'
'Well, the price is pretty good.'
'Expensive!'
'If it cannot be sold, two copper plates per pound will be sent to the canteen of the military camp.'
Therefore, these vegetable vendors in the town are not worried about not being able to sell these vegetables at all. They first sell them in the market here for most of the day at a price higher than the purchase price of the military camp. If anyone buys them, they will sell them all. There is really no need.
When people buy them, they put all the vegetables on small carts and transport them to the military camp.
Of course, there is another issue here that all vendors must pay strict attention to.
If the price of a certain vendor's goods is seriously inflated, Selina points it out but fails to lower the price.
Then we must ask the goddess to protect us and ensure that this kind of product does not become too widespread.
Because if it can't be sold, I'm sorry! The military camp refused to make a full-scale settlement.
In addition, you will be watched like a dog by the tax officials in the small town. You must not do any tax evasion, otherwise you will definitely pay more fines than you earn.
Therefore, ordinary vegetable vendors would rather earn less and strictly abide by the prices set by Ms. Selina.
Unless the goods are always in short supply, such as some precious wild mushrooms and herbs, these ingredients will usually end up on the dinner plates of the nobles.
Since Selina took charge of the logistics of the garrison camp, she also had the final say on the price of vegetables in the small town market.
No matter where she goes, she can attract the attention of many residents.
Although she is not a noble, she is treated like a noble by the residents of the town: wherever she passes, the residents will take the initiative to get out of the way. No matter which store she comes to, she does not need to queue. Every shop owner will come out in person.
The reception was lest it be a poor reception and offend the town's price-setter.
Everyone will look at her with envy and marvel at her grace.
Xigna and Nika would occasionally follow her, but after a few times, they would rather hide at home than go out on the streets with Selena, where they would be surrounded by people everywhere they went.
The feeling of looking around is actually not pleasant at all.
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Norman Lida rolled up his cuffs and struggled to lift a bucket of water with his thin arms.
The river was rushing, so she squatted on the wooden pier on the shore, holding the hemp rope tightly with her little hands, stepping on the wooden board with her bare feet, and struggled back step by step.
The wooden barrel emerged from the river little by little... The morning sun was a little dazzling. She didn't eat last night and only drank a little wild vegetable soup. Now her stomach was a little turbulent.
She felt a little dizzy, stepped on a pebble on her foot, lost her balance, stumbled, and fell on the dock.
The wooden barrel filled with water plummeted towards the river. As she fell, Normanlida held on to the hemp rope tightly, not daring to let go even if the hemp rope abraded her palms.
She didn't dare to lose the most important wooden barrel in the house.
The barrel fell into the river, and Norman Lida was pulled by the hemp rope and slid into the river.
She lay on the ground and felt that her breasts were about to be flattened.
I heard a girl shouting from the side: "Let go of the rope!"
Norman Lida refused to let go. Just when he slid to the edge of the board and was just one step away from falling into the river, the rope was suddenly pulled from behind and became taut.
She quickly took the opportunity to get up, adjust her posture, and pull up a bucket of water with all her strength.
Only then did she have time to look behind her. She originally thought it was an adult helping her, but unexpectedly she turned around and saw a girl about her age standing on the edge of the pier, looking at her with a smile.
She is also an aborigine, but her skin is much fairer, and she is wearing a clean and neat skirt, standing quietly on the shore.
"Why are you the only one fetching water here? You should find someone to help." The girl's native language is very fluent. She doesn't have an accent from Duodan Town. She should be a foreigner.
Normanlida thought someone was a distant relative near Nika and said to Nika: "I want to help my mother wash clothes."
Nika saw Nomanlida's disheveled face and her steps looking a little weak. He touched her withered belly and heard a gurgling sound in her belly, so he asked her: "Oh? You didn't eat breakfast?"
The people living around here are all poor people, and Norman Lida didn’t have anything to be embarrassed about, explaining:
"I haven't received the wages for washing the clothes yet."
Nika asked: "Then your family didn't get any rex rabbit meat?"
Norman Lida showed a faint bitter smile and whispered:
"Our family didn't contribute to the town's hunting. We only got a little bit, and we used it to make soup."
She didn't say that all the broth was used to replenish her mother's health.
Nika felt that she might not be able to lift such a bucket of water, so she took the initiative to help.
The two carried a large bucket of water to Normanlida's house. Nika saw that the yard of Normanlida's house was quite large, but there was a lot of clothes hanging in the yard.
The house of Norman Lida's family is a wooden house built with wooden frames, and some holes are repaired with felt. Although it is a bit worn, it can at least provide protection from wind and rain.
Normanlida's mother was lying on the bed with a sallow face, a blanket wrapped around her body, her eye sockets were sunken, and she looked a little scary.
When she saw a girl brought back by Norman Lida, she thought she was a friend of Norman Lida, so she lay on the bed and said to her daughter:
"Normanlida, if you don't starch these clothes quickly, these clothes will pass the deadline!"
Normanlida did not tell her about how she almost fell into the river. She just turned slightly to prevent her from seeing her red chest and replied in a low voice: "I know, Mom. I will wash it right away."
of!"
The woman closed her eyes and muttered: "Be careful with the collar and cuffs, and rub them hard. Those areas are always particularly easy to get dirty. If your washing skills are not good enough, you should use extra care."
Normanlida whispered: "I know, Mom!"
After saying that, he walked out of the wooden house with his head lowered, and then said to Nika with an apologetic look:
"Sorry, I really don't have anything to entertain you at home!"
Nika patted her thin shoulder, smiled and said, "It's okay." She walked around casually in the yard.
Normanlida poured water into the wooden basin, rubbed the clothes inside vigorously, and whispered: "If I can't wash well this time, no one will be willing to let me starch the clothes. I must be careful."
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Nika saw a small wooden stand next to the wooden house with two missing pottery bowls on it. One pottery bowl also contained a small piece of grain cake, and then she asked in surprise:
"Didn't you go to town to buy bread?"
Normanlida looked at Nika in astonishment and said: "Bread shop? No, that one is too expensive. We usually eat grain cakes occasionally."
Nika looked at the clothes in the tub and said to Norman Lida: "You have to wait until noon to finish washing the clothes! Then come to the bakery and wait for me in the afternoon, and I will teach you how to buy cheap bread."
Normanlida squatted beside the wooden basin and wanted to refuse, but when she raised her head, Nika had already reached the entrance of the courtyard.
She thought that she should be able to get a sum of money for laundry at noon, and her mother also needed to eat something good, so she said: "Okay!"
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Norman Lida's luck was not good at all today. He encountered a bad-tempered customer.
She delivered the washed, dried and neatly folded clothes to her door, but because a silver button was missing from one piece of clothing, she was scolded by her employer for two-quarters of an hour. She clearly remembered that there was no button in that position.
, but the employer just said yes.
There was indeed a silver button on the other side of the symmetrical dress. She couldn't afford to pay for the silver button, so her employer withdrew all the wages for this order with a wave of his hand.
She worked hard for three days to wash the clothes, but now she hasn't received a penny for the clothes she washed, and she was even kicked out by that hateful employer.
She walked down the street dejectedly, not daring to go home at this time. She had no way to explain to her mother.
Then he thought that he had agreed to meet the girl who saved him by the river at the door of the bakery in the afternoon, but now she didn't even have a copper in her pocket.
She had never been to a bakery, but she knew where the bakery was. Every time she passed by the bakery, she could always smell the strong aroma of wheat wafting from it.
She didn't understand the imperial language spoken at the door. When she saw the long queue at the bakery, she didn't dare to go over.
She just sat down quietly on the steps opposite the bakery. She just wanted to tell the girl who asked her out: 'I won't buy any bread today.'
Waiting at the door of the bakery, I saw people walking out of the bakery carrying bread in their hands, and I suddenly felt hungrier.
Normanlida was a little dejected. If he had known this, he should have gone to help the hunters. Although he would not get much wages, at least he could bring home a piece of water.
The poor children on the street didn't know what they had done. Everyone was holding a piece of scone in their hands, their little faces were dirty, and their noses were hung with snot, and they were sniffing as they walked.
He was so happy that he didn't forget to nibble on the scones in his hand, he was as happy as a group of little sparrows.