Gao Kan, who wants to fly up a branch and become a phoenix, is speeding up.
But at the center of it all, Lux, who came to Misilver City to investigate and provide disaster relief, was supposed to be "recuperating in bed", but she quietly changed into the clothes of a common girl and set off quietly on horseback.
Fair and tender skin has now become a problem - along the way, Lux has realized that ordinary farm girls at this age simply do not have such fair and tender skin as her own.
Fortunately, the almighty Kalya always has clever ways.
He taught Lux some interesting cross-dressing skills.
Just using some berries and wheat flour with natural pigments as ingredients, Lux can turn her fair and tender skin into a healthy wheat color.
The wheat grains that have not been ground can serve as her "pimples", and the wheat bran that has not been removed can become cute "freckles".
After this transformation, Lux had completely changed her appearance - coupled with a big hat that obviously didn't fit her head, she had completely transformed from an aristocratic lady into a commoner girl.
The only thing that's a bit inconsistent is her sword. After all, ordinary people don't have swords.
For this reason, Lux designed an identity for herself as "the daughter of Orion". Although Orion prefers to use a skinning knife, she is a girl!
Choosing a more beautiful sword is totally justified in martial Demacia.
Moreover, even if Lux's behavior is slightly different from that of a rural girl, it can be explained by "she usually learns hunting and does not understand farming."
Accompanying her was the most skilled guard in the team. He changed into a hunting bow and played the role of Lux's uncle - also a hunter.
On this trip, he brought his niece from Owendale to visit relatives.
Oh, it should be "Scola's uncle". To be cautious, Lux also reversed her name.
In this way, after some cross-dressing, she finally arrived at the outskirts of Mithril City as a civilian.
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Unlike the capital city of Demacia, which is located on the seaside, Mithral City is a plateau city.
It is backed by the Dragon's Back Mountains to the north, and to the south is the endless Demacia Plains, and is located on an important transportation route.
When spring comes, the ice and snow at the southern foot of the Dragon's Back Mountains will melt and form countless streams in the mountains, and these streams will be guided by water channels and eventually poured into the lakes of Misilver City.
This half-natural, half-artificial lake gives Mithril City quite abundant water resources, which can not only irrigate agriculture, but also support shipping. Even though it takes a long time to ride from the capital of Demacia to Mithril City,
But if you do it the other way around, you can go down the river and travel thousands of miles in a day.
What's even better is that because of Misilver City's rich underground mineral resources, this large lake does not freeze almost all year round, so unless there is a cold wave that occurs once in a century, the city is protected by the lake all year round.
Mithril City is composed of two parts as a whole.
The inner city fortress located in the lake is a noble area and a military area. This inner city was built on a natural hill in the center of the lake. It has a high terrain and is surrounded by water. Even if the barbarians in the north are hungry and go crazy, they will flock to their nests.
Down below, there is nothing we can do about this fortress.
Around the lake, there are scattered other urban areas - agricultural areas, commercial areas, handicraft areas, etc. These areas have low but complete city walls, and they can also become horns in the event of a war.
It is precisely because of this comprehensive integration of military, agriculture, and commerce that Mithral City has an extremely important strategic position in the entire northern border of Demacia - it is closely connected with Forsbarrow in the west and Owendale in the east.
Together, they are known as the "Three Northern Towns" of Demacia.
Coming to Mithril City again after so many years, Lux's eyes were full of novelty.
The population here is far different from that of the capital city, but it is still quite prosperous.
The sweet lake water is like the source of life, nourishing the fertile farmland located among the mountains that took dozens of generations of Demacians to cultivate.
It was early winter, and there were almost no streams flowing in the snow-capped mountains, but the water resources in the large lake in Miylin City were still abundant; the number of farmers working in the farmland was not large, but it was full of vitality everywhere.
After Lux arrived at the outskirts of Mithral City's outer city, it was already dark.
As the bright moon rose, Lux did not rush into the city, but followed the plan and began to look for farmhouses to stay. After expressing her willingness to pay, she and her guards successfully settled in a village.
The village chief was an old man with a kind face. He accepted the introduction fee and then helped Lux and the two find a family with a vacant house and let them settle here.
This is a seemingly wealthy family.
According to the owner of the house, this empty room was originally his daughter's room, but now that her daughter has gone to work as a maid in the inner city, the room has been vacated.
According to civilian standards, this room is relatively clean - but, to Lux's eyes, this cleanliness is still very sloppy.
Lux asked herself that she was not mysophobic, but she still couldn't fall asleep when she actually lay on such a bed.
"Is this the life of civilians?" Lux held the hilt of her sword, "Karya, why don't they wash the quilt cleaner?"
"You are talking about the quilt cover, because frequent washing will make the quilt cover easily damaged." Kalya replied, "Besides, washing the quilt cover is troublesome, and most people don't have time to wash it frequently - it's okay in summer, but washing the quilt cover in winter is difficult.
Not a good idea."
"That's right..." Lacus nodded and simply decided not to sleep, "Forget it, let's go out and have a look. Go to the nearby farmland and teach me what frost disaster is."
After the owner of the house went to bed, Lux and the guard put on their coats, arranged the room to look like two people were sleeping, and left the yard quietly.
Not far from the village are farmlands.
We are now in the overwintering period of winter wheat. The wheat seedlings have stopped growing. Each wheat seedling is crawling on the ground alone, as if it is an inconspicuous weed. In this way, they will spend the low-temperature winter and wait until the next spring.
When it blooms, it turns green again, joints, and then grows vigorously until harvest.
Kalya has already told Lux about Demacian winter wheat.
Here, frost damage to winter wheat is generally divided into two types.
In most areas, the disaster is caused by sudden low-temperature frost during the regreening or jointing period. That is, winter wheat is frost-damaged when it is not very resistant to frost.
In the north, according to the news reported by these nobles, because it is close to the Freljord, if you are unlucky, the winter wheat will be directly frozen to death during the overwintering period - even when it is most frost-resistant, it cannot withstand low temperatures, so it is called
Hard frost.
The purpose of Lux's trip was to determine whether Mithril City had suffered from hard frost.
Bending down in the wheat field, Lux touched a wheat seedling.
According to Kalya, she carefully stroked the lines on the back of the wheat leaves.
The texture of the leaves is very clear, and the veins of the leaves are not hard when you pinch them with your fingernails.
Pull off a few leaves, crush them and spread them in the palm of your hand. There will be no ice crystals.
So...this wheat seedling doesn't appear to have suffered any hard frost.
Lux let out a breath, then walked a few dozen steps forward and chose another wheat seedling - still no problem.
In this way, Lux worked in the fields for almost an hour, and finally determined that the nearby wheat fields were safe and had not suffered any frost damage.
After coming to this conclusion, Lux narrowed her eyes slightly and returned to the room with her guards. She took out the map in the package and put a cross in her current location.
Continue tomorrow!
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After looking at Lux in the farmland for a long time, she finally fell asleep when she returned to the room.
The next morning, when Lux and Lux woke up, they happened to see the man of the house pulling the car back.
"Hello!" Lux waved her hand, "I'm back from work already - I got up so early!"
"Earn some money!" The other party chuckled, leaning the car against the wall of the yard, shaking his coat, "I just went to the city and delivered firewood to the car - I heard that a big shot is coming.
In Mithril City, the nobles in the city are buying firewood at high prices!"
"Big shot?" Lux put on a curious look, but she had a rough guess in her heart, "You know all this?"
"My son is the master's bodyguard!" The farmer, who was estimated to be in his fifties in Lux's eyes, looked proud. "That boy is very smart. After hearing the news, he immediately asked his sister to send a message to
I, other people are still cutting firewood, I will send it over!"
Hearing what he said, Lux was a little happy.
"Thanks to the kindness of the lord!" Without Lux taking the initiative to speak, the middle-aged man in front of him started talking nonstop, "He said that as long as we can prepare all the armored pack horses, my son can join the rangers.
Be a knight...oh, a knight's retinue!"
"Join the Rangers?" Lux recalled Demacia's legion configuration, "Isn't that to fight the barbarians in the north?"
"It's good to beat the barbarians!" What Lux didn't expect was that her very worrying words would not mean anything to the other party's ears. "As long as you beat the barbarians, with the skills of that boy of mine, he will definitely succeed."
A true knight!"
Why is this happening?
There is no need to fight or sacrifice. Isn’t this the right of civilians?
Why does the farmer in front of me seem to want his son to go to war?
"I heard that the barbarians in the north are very good at fighting..." Lux could only make insinuations, "I have only hunted, so I think it must be more dangerous to fight here..."
"Dangerous? What's not dangerous?" Hearing what Lacus said, the other party showed a very open-minded look, "Isn't it dangerous for you to hunt? Even if you farm, there was a frost the year before last, and if it weren't for that boy of mine,
Don’t worry about food...tsk tsk tsk, you all depend on the sky for food. You can become a knight or a lord by going to the battlefield, but you can’t become a lord by farming the land!”
"..."
"As long as you become a master, you will have your own retinue, and then fighting will not be dangerous. If you move to the inner city to collect rent, you will not be afraid even if the barbarians from the north come!"
"..."
Lux listened very patiently to his description and his enjoyment, even if there was an invisible wall between the two of them.
This strong man was eloquent, talking endlessly, and his eyes were full of longing.
He sincerely hoped to work more, save more money, save a pair of armor for his son, and preferably a horse - even a pack horse.
As long as they perform meritorious deeds on the battlefield, their family can transform from peasants to nobles.
The lowest knight is also a noble.
He obviously didn't know Lux's identity, nor did he know that the firewood he had worked so hard to get "inside information" to cut in advance was for the person in front of him. He was just simply very happy, happy that he sold the firewood at a high price and was still with Lux.
Her escort made an extra fortune here.
The money is not much, maybe it is only worth a leaf of beetle or a horseshoe nail.
But it was enough to keep him happy all day long.
The listening ability that Lux learned from Sona allowed him to talk endlessly - until his wife appeared and handed him a few slices of black bread and a bowl of hot soup. He was soaked in hot soup bread.
Gagged her mouth.
Then, her wife, a tall and round woman with long, smooth light golden hair, handed a bowl of soup to Lux: "Warm yourself up, little girl - don't talk nonsense with him here.
Well, he just loves to chat with people..."
Lux took the soup, followed the farmer's example, leaned against the car casually, and took a sip.
The salty soup made Lux almost vomit, but after Kalya's reminder, she swallowed it.
"It's so delicious!" Lux drank the soup in one gulp, "I feel so strong!"
"Hey, right!" The farmer didn't know when he had finished his portion. "You can gain all your strength after just one bowl of soup!"
"You're the only one who talks a lot!" The peasant woman glanced at her husband, "Why don't you go take a break and see what you can do..."
"If I don't talk much, can I send our child to be a guard for the noble master?" The farmer seemed to think that he had lost face in front of outsiders, and shouted loudly, "Being able to speak well is also a skill outside!"
"As long as you can...go and chop down the trees if you can!"
"I'm a little tired, let's take a rest..."
"..."
"..."
Maybe it's because the soup is too salty.
Maybe it's because of some other reasons.
After paying for the accommodation and saying goodbye to this family, Lux always felt a little tight in her chest.
Even though it was just one night, and even though she didn't even know the other person's name, Lux still felt like she had seen a lot and learned a lot.
Thinking of this, Lux took a deep breath and breathed it out slowly after a long time.
"continue!"
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