"Your Highness, please forgive me that I still can't get out of bed today and can't accompany you to see the granary." Wile smiled apologetically at Werther.
"Well, okay, I'll go find Lina."
Werther left Wile's bedroom and walked to Lina's bedroom door, and found that Lina's door was locked.
Werther knocked on the door gently: "Lina, I'm going to see the granary. You go with me."
Linna's lazy voice came from inside: "Your Highness, the sun is too bright today. I really don't want to go out, and I need to catch up on sleep during the day."
"Huh? You were very energetic when you woke me up just now. Why are you so sleepy now?"
"I like sleeping during the day."
"Lina, Linna."
However, Lina had fallen asleep and did not answer Werther again.
"Oh my god, I, a lord, can't find any servants to follow."
Werther was walking in the corridor with a bit of resentment when he met Ivan carrying an iron basin.
"Ivan, where are you going?" Werther called to Ivan.
"Your Highness, I am going to treat the horse." Ivan turned around and said.
"Are the two horses still recovering from their illness..."
"Actually, it's already healed, but I really don't have anything to do in the castle right now, so I just want to check on them more."
"Oh?" Werther's eyes suddenly lit up, "Since you have nothing to do, then you can be my follower and accompany me to check the granary."
"I'm very happy, Your Highness." Ivan smiled brightly.
The granary was only one mile away from the castle, and the two of them walked for a while before arriving.
The granary in Dawn Town has leaked several big holes, and part of the top has collapsed. The door of the granary is open, and there is not a grain of rice inside. After the cold wind blows in, it bounces out from the inner wall of the granary, with a few broken leaves. Look.
It's chilling.
Witte raised his hands in despair, covered his eyes, and said to Ivan next to him: "I can't see it anymore. This granary is like this. Is there really no food to store in Daybreak Town?"
Ivan said: "Your Highness, since the grain output in Dawn Town is very low, there is no food to store at all. After Wright took over Dawn Town last year, he even grabbed a lot of grain from the people and filled his own granary.
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The granary in front of His Highness has always been in a state of neglect. Years of wind, rain, and hail have turned the already fragile granary into this condition."
"Well, that's it." Werther looked at Ivan with approval, "Ivan, I only know that you grew up in Daybreak Town, but I didn't expect that you know so much."
Ivan embarrassedly scratched his golden curly hair, his face was a little blushing, and he smiled like a child: "Well, it was actually Lina who investigated this. Your Highness also knows that Lina was supposed to take over Wile's work, but
Lina doesn't like the sun, and she was worried that she wouldn't be able to accompany you to the granary, so she informed me of the situation in the granary in advance and asked me to tell His Highness."
Vittor nodded: "It turns out to be Lina~ When did she investigate, I don't even know. Her ability is worth ten Wiles... But, Ivan, why are you shy?"
Ivan bowed his head shyly and smiled: "Your Highness, Lina is really a very mysterious girl, isn't she? I really envy Your Highness. I feel that Lina is very kind to Your Highness, but is cold to us."
I don't know why, when Ivan said these words, Werther felt a little uncomfortable in his heart, because he also had some kind of affection for Lina without knowing it.
"Well, Lina is also cold to me." Werther concealed his inner turmoil and said nonchalantly, "Stop talking about her. What we need to pay most attention to now is this granary."
Werther walked around the granary and it looked really
It has actually been abandoned for many years and has been ravaged by bad weather all year round. It is obviously no longer usable. However, the foundation and skeleton are still there. As long as we try our best to repair it on this basis, it may be usable.
This granary is of average size, just suitable for the small town of Dawn, but it still requires a lot of manpower and financial resources.
"Ivan, try to start the construction tomorrow. You can ask the financial officer for money, and for manpower, you can choose from the people first. Ivan, let's recruit workers to build the granary first."
"Okay, Your Highness."
After the recruitment notice was posted, people came to apply the next day.
There were twenty people who applied for the job that day, and Witt hired them all. One of them, a young man named Taylor, impressed him deeply.
When Taylor came to apply for the job, he took out a piece of paper with blood-red traces on the back and prepared to write something on it.
"What happened to your piece of paper?" Werther asked worriedly, "Are you bleeding?"
"This is the paint I accidentally dropped. Your Highness, please forgive me. I only have this piece of paper left. I can only draw on it."
"Well, it's okay, just go ahead and draw."
Taylor took out his pen and drew a structural sketch of the granary on the spot.
"Your Highness, I am very good at granaries and often help build granaries in other villages."
Werther stood up excitedly, stretched out his arms, and put his hands on Taylor's shoulders, his eyes sparkling like stars: "Taylor, it's so great. I have searched for you thousands of times among everyone, but you can't find it."
Thinking that you are right in front of me, I finally met an expert like you. To be honest, I don’t know much about granaries. I hope you can try your best to help me. The reward will not be small. "
Taylor couldn't resist the look and tried to move back, but Werther's hands were tight and Taylor couldn't move at all.
"Your Highness, although I can't understand some of what you said, I have understood your kindness towards me. Can you let go of me?"
"Oh, I'm sorry." Werther let go and said, "When can you start working?"
"Is it okay to start work tomorrow? Your Highness, I have been through a very tragic experience during this period and need to rest. You don't know that I was framed and sentenced to death more than ten days ago. I was just acquitted yesterday. I left my neighbor's house at six o'clock this morning.
We set off from the city center and just returned to Daybreak Town."
Werther was surprised by these unusual experiences of Taylor. His lonely eyes and weak body in the cold wind made people feel sad.
"I really sympathize with your situation. If you survive a disaster, you will be lucky. Be more optimistic, Taylor. Then you can lead others to build the granary tomorrow, and you will do the construction. Every day I will send someone to deliver food to you, and you will each
Your working hours can be determined according to your own situation, and I will pay you accordingly according to your work."
Werther gave some instructions and sent the workers back. He himself also returned to the castle.
"Your Highness, have the arrangements been made?" Tom came up with a towel in his hand.
Werther took the towel from Tom's hand and said, "It's been arranged. They can start work tomorrow." As he said that, he wiped the towel on his face for a while.
"Uncle Tom, this towel feels really bad against your skin."
"Your Highness, the hot towel is used to clean your shoes... Your shoes are covered with dust."
"Ah, it's true, the uppers of my shoes are extremely dirty." Werther looked down at his shoes, then at the towel in his hand, and asked, "Has this towel been used to clean shoes before?
"
"This is a stable towel, but I've already washed it."
Werther stood messily under the chandelier for a while.
At this time, Ivan came over and said to Witte: "Your Highness, I made a strange discovery. I checked carefully just now. There is blood on the back of the paper Taylor used."
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Te said: "But Taylor told me just now that this is paint, are you sure it's blood?"
"Based on my many years of medical experience, this is blood, and it is blood vomited by people who were poisoned." Ivan said with certainty, "It looks like this blood stain was left more than ten days ago, but Taylor's
He looks good, and it doesn’t look like he has been poisoned recently. So I’m afraid the blood stains belong to someone else.”
Werther was shocked. Thinking of what Taylor said about being executed, he not only felt chills on his back.
"Your Highness." Ivan continued, "I just heard the conversation between you and Taylor. Taylor was going to be executed some time ago, but now he is back. I am worried that Taylor is related to the murder."
Witte frowned and said, "Tyler's eyes don't look like a villain. Maybe the owner of the blood was not killed by Taylor. I think Taylor should have been framed before, otherwise he would not have been released."
"I also feel that Taylor will not do anything poisoning. I am just worried that there is something fishy about Taylor's return. I am afraid that he will do something detrimental to you."
After hearing this, Werther recalled a detail that Taylor had said. He set off from the city center of the neighboring city at six o'clock and rushed to the castle to sign up before eight o'clock. The journey took less than two hours.
Witte once looked at a map. The only place that can be called a city adjacent to Daybreak Town is Duck City. Duck City is named after the Duke of Duck. It is the largest city in the Kingdom of Notland.
It's relatively far, and it takes about ten hours to get to Dawn Town from the city center, which is inconsistent with the time Taylor said.
"There is indeed something fishy here, Ivan, thank you for reminding me." Witte said, "It's all too coincidental. As soon as I posted a notice recruiting workers to build the granary, a man who was very familiar with the granary came from other places.
He came to apply for the job, and this person also used a tool that was much faster than a carriage to return to Daybreak Town. I remember Lina said that Mrs. Agnes’s elf can fly.”
"What do you mean, Your Highness?"
"If the time Taylor said is accurate, then he may be an informant sent by the Duke of Duck. He originally worked in the city center of Duck City, but was later framed and was about to be executed. The Duke of Duck rescued him and threatened him
He helps him do things.
After Mrs. Agnes learned that I was recruiting workers to build a granary, she sent the elf to fly to inform Duke Duck. So Duke Duck sent the elf to the center of Duck City to find Taylor, who was proficient in granaries, and sent Taylor to the city center.
Come to Dawn Town and deal with me specifically."
"But Your Highness, how can the elf carry such a big person on his back?" Ivan said doubtfully.
"It's possible that this elf can grow in size, or that it may be strong enough to hold a person in its mouth. But these are just my guesses. I hope we are all wrong." Witte took a deep breath, feeling a little worried.
Melancholy.
Ivan shook his head and said: "His Highness's guess should be right. Moreover, even if you guess wrong, there must be other traps waiting for you. Everyone knows that you and Duke Dark are already incompatible.
I'm worried that you will be treated badly by Duke Dak in the future, and you might even die young. Also..."
"Ivan! Stop talking." Tom reminded sternly.
However, Ivan did not realize that he had said the wrong thing. He looked at Tom in confusion and said, "Uncle Tom, why can't I say it? Your Highness may be lucky to die young. If he is imprisoned in a dungeon and tortured for the rest of his life,
, is the worst."
As soon as he finished speaking, he was violently attacked by Werther - scratched eighteen times at extremely fast speeds. Not only his armpits, but also his waist were scratched all over.
"Your Highness, please spare your life!"
"I have a total of eighteen rounds of this extremely fast tickling, eighteen times in each round. It's the first time in my life that I'm using this, so it's a bargain for you."