The valley is not big and can only accommodate a few hundred people. It is shaped like a gourd. A small stream enters from the mouth of the gourd and comes out from the bottom of the gourd. It flows through and passes through. There are cliffs on both sides of the valley that cannot be climbed.
You can enter and exit through the gourd mouth, and you can only exit through the gourd mouth. Even children cannot get out of the narrow gourd bottom.
"...This is a desperate place." Yang Fei said cautiously: "We are digging our own graves to live here. As long as a team of orcs guard the mouth of the valley and cut off the water source, we can trap everyone here."
Elizabeth also asked in confusion: "Why did you bring us here?"
Gurian smiled mysteriously. "Because I believe in God! I believe in fate! To be honest, I, Gurian, would never live here alone, but with you here, I dare to."
"...Is there any truth in this?" Elizabeth was confused by this statement.
Gurian said frankly: "Because the sage Ronis has approved your life, you will be an important person who will become rich and powerful in the future. You can turn misfortunes into good fortune. And I, Gurian, am just a small person. Don't talk about you when I live here.
I feel anxious, and I feel anxious too, there is indeed a high probability that I will be trapped and die here."
Yang Fei said angrily: "You know this and still bring us here!? It's a waste of our time and everyone's feelings."
Gurian said quickly: "But it will be different when you live in!!"
"What's different?" Elizabeth felt that he was confused.
Gurian said seriously: "You have a long-term destiny. God has decreed that you will live to be fifty years old and you will not die before the age of twenty. The tide of beasts will have no impact on you, and you will never be in danger of your life, so I will follow you."
Safety, where you are is an absolutely safe place.”
Elizabeth couldn't help but laugh angrily.
She looked at the middle-aged man carefully again, this thirty-year-old thin man who claimed to be the Assistant to the Affairs Officer. If he was really the Assistant to the Affairs Officer, then there should be no problem with his IQ, right? He is already thirty years old.
, she may have eaten as much salt as Elizabeth has eaten rice, how can she still be so arrogant in doing things? It’s unreliable!
"Uncle, you just said that I have a long-term destiny and can get through the difficulties by seeking good luck and avoiding disasters. Then let me tell you, my intuition tells me that if we live in this valley, we will surely die, but if we leave the valley, we can live. So I
My brother and I will never live here.”
Gurian was a little anxious. "Why don't you understand!? You have a tough destiny! You can survive wherever you live. Although this is a place of execution, it will become a blessed place because of your residence."
Elizabeth looked helplessly at Yang Fei, who shook his head.
So Elizabeth apologized and turned to leave, but Gurian hurriedly stepped forward to stop her.
Yang Fei said angrily: "Stop making trouble unreasonably! Why should we live here and put our lives at risk?!"
Gurian took a deep breath and said: "Because this is a gold mine, do you understand that this valley is a gold mine?"
""Gold mine?""
Elizabeth and Yang Fei looked at each other and felt even more funny.
"That's better. Let's leave here now and come back to mine after the beast tide has passed." "The gold will not run away. There is no need to risk your life to mine at this time. There is no need to be so eager for quick success."
Gurian gritted his teeth and said to Elizabeth: "Little girl... don't be anxious first, think carefully about what you have now.
Indeed, Sage Ronis has approved your destiny, saying that you will be rich and powerful in the future. You have indeed done some geocentric theory recently to make you famous in the South. But this kind of fame is limited to the nobles in the South. How many people can you get after leaving the South?
No one knows you, not to mention outsiders, not even the people in the southern border know your name."
Gurian became more and more enthusiastic as he spoke.
"You often call yourself a duchess recently, but don't forget that this title is based on the prerequisite of marrying into the Duke's family, and the Duke is already dead!
The stone castle has been besieged twice by orcs in history. The first time the stone fort was well-prepared, 30,000 orcs besieged it for a month and then abandoned it. The second time, 40,000 orcs almost defeated it. This is
The third time, there were a hundred thousand orcs!
——Which noble will value you after the death of the Duke!?
Yes, you can become rich in the future with your intelligence, but the word "noble" in "rich" has nothing to do with you, because you have no social status, and no nobleman is willing to support you, a country girl with no blood.
.In this world, it is the nobles who always have the word, and the people who control the world are also the aristocrats led by the king. Without the support of the ruling class, your boat of prosperity will be capsized."
"What does our wealth have to do with others!?" Yang Fei, who grew up with a liberal democratic education, didn't know why.
Elizabeth understood some of the meaning, and she said: "What are your intentions, you might as well say it directly."
Gurian said anxiously: "The Duke is dead. I know that his more than 10,000 troops are stationed in scattered areas within the territory. At most, there are only 3,000 people guarding the stone castle. Facing the massive orcs, they will definitely be defeated. In the stone castle,
Other established nobles who have taken refuge will also be destroyed in this beast wave.
The orcs have occupied the southern territory and robbed one-quarter of the human land. The king will definitely not sit idly by and ignore it. He will definitely send his core force of magicians to regain the lost land. By then, the orcs will be driven away, and the southern nobles will also be purged by the orcs.
Once it is empty, the king will most likely abolish the lordship system in the southern territory and replace it with a governor-general system."
Elizabeth's little mouth opened slightly, as if she understood but not quite. "Then what?"
"The land and the people have become the king's, and the governor only manages them on his behalf." Gurian said: "What does the quality of people's lives have to do with the governor? The governor only cares about how much money he can make every year."
At this point, Gurion pointed to the valley. "I have thought about it for you. The orcs are overflowing outside. We hide inside and mine gold. When the orcs are taken care of by the governor, a certain amount of gold will be mined. Leave.
If you contact the governor privately in the valley and donate money to buy an official position, you will be able to become a local affairs official. By then, if you are rich, powerful, and young, you will be able to do a lot in the vast world!"
Yang Fei: “…….”
Elizabeth frowned.
"Gold mines cannot be mined without permission. Yang Fei and I are too young to carry huge sums of money to pay bribes... I am afraid that the governor will eat us together with the money."
"The bet is on your luck!" Gurian said firmly: "If you succeed, you will soar into the sky, if you fail, you will lose your life. Isn't it just one life? If you succeed, you will be able to climb to a height that others cannot reach in several lifetimes.
Give it a try, and if you succeed in the future, you will definitely thank yourself for working hard now."
Elizabeth suddenly hesitated... She looked at Yang Fei, who had an impatient look on his face.
She could only say cautiously to Gurian: "...We need to think about it carefully."
After exchanging opinions that night, Elizabeth was a little moved by Gulian's suggestion and developed a gambler's mentality, but Yang Fei didn't, and Elizabeth was very considerate of Yang Fei's feelings, so she wanted to drop the matter, but the white mouse Mia jumped out.
Elizabeth knew about the existence of this white mouse, but Mia had been deliberately avoiding her, so she was not familiar with it.
Mia said: "Just do as that person said, the little girl is not afraid, so what are you, Yang Fei, afraid of? Don't forget, you are the 'Chosen One' (brave)."
Mia's statement played a key role. She exerted some restraint on the arrogant Yang Fei, and also fostered Elizabeth's restless heart.
Life in Hulu Valley began, and Gulian gave Yang Fei and Elizabeth a big gift.
Gurian, who had discovered gold mines here early, built several goose houses in the valley. Regardless of whether they were allowed to grow freely, there were still twenty or thirty geese in the valley. These geese were not used for food (of course,
It can be eaten now), but used to pan for gold.
Gurian discovered that there was gold mixed in the sediment at the bottom of the stream. The geese often played in the water and would eat the silt in the water. The gold sand accumulated in the goose house with excretion, and a certain amount of gold sand could be refined by just washing it several times.
The people who followed Yangfei Elizabeth to earn a living were all old people, and there was a shortage of young men working in the mines, which was exactly what they wanted to make up for.
That day Yangfei grabbed Gurian.
"What am I thinking? Something is wrong. You are so smart and have such good conditions. Why do you want to get me and Xiaobai involved? Why are you alone? You are thirty years old, you should have children, right?"
Gurian said calmly: "He was captured by the orcs... he should be eaten by now, right?"
Yang Fei frowned. "...What about your wife?"
"He was also captured by the orcs."
"Could it be that your parents..." Yang Fei's expression turned strange.
"Oh, they weren't captured."
Yang Fei breathed a sigh of relief.
Gurian said: "They were killed by the orcs in front of me."