Chapter 298, Hiring!
ps: The second update today!
Early the next morning, Raymond and others followed Bono into the city. It was obvious that the serf took in Raymond and the others for no reason. At least Raymond, his old mother, and younger brother Thomas, who had had a full meal, all helped him. Carried a basket of vegetables, including tomatoes, carrots, cauliflower and corn, as well as high-quality horse feed such as soybeans and black beans. According to Bono, these vegetables are very easy to sell in the city, and many freedmen are no longer Satisfied with bread for three meals, and vegetables with different patterns are what they want.
A few people walked towards the town of Jean, the road was full of pedestrians and heavy traffic.
"Oh my God, is that a dwarf?" Raymond was carrying vegetables. He noticed a few dwarves wearing funny thick clothes and walking on the road with tools on their backs.
Raymond had never seen a dwarf, and there was only a legend among the serfs that the dwarves were mean and cruel creatures who would pour molten iron down human throats to force them to tell their secrets.
"Yes, he is our dwarf friend." Bono had already seen the strange thing, and the serf said loudly: "This is the greatness of Earl Lane. The dwarves in the mountains are also willing to be his friends, and the elves in the forest are also willing to be his friends." Willing to be his friend."
"Elves?! My God, I only saw an elf when I was a child on the way I was ordered to go shopping." The old mother murmured to herself. After a solid night of rest and a full meal, she somewhat recovered.
The pedestrians on the side of the road were full of people, and everyone was talking about what happened recently. The serfs were curious about what happened in the north. Otherwise, why would a large number of escaped slaves from the north come to Earl Ryan's territory recently?
The serfs were curious, but not flustered. They seemed to firmly believe in Earl Lane and his army. Any powerful enemy would fall before the Earl. recognized.
"Five years ago, the Holy Grail Knight and Lady's God's Chosen Champion, the Earl, came here. He promulgated new laws, and then put forward a new slogan. To be honest, we didn't quite understand what he said before. Carrying a basket of vegetables on his back, Bono said to Raymond, "But there is a sentence that firmly grasped our hearts. Our earl said that all the hard-working citizens in the territory should have You can eat chicken once!"
"Ah!" Raymond opened his mouth wide, thinking to himself that there is such a lord?
"Five years have passed, and our dream is gradually being realized. Now my family still can't eat meat once a week, but once a month is still okay. We are no longer hungry, and we have some food in our family. We can eat enough black bread. Less, more porridge and fish, and better barley bread, the days are getting better, and we thank the earl for all that he has brought us.
Bo Nuo said very seriously: "I, Bo Nuo, will be the first to disagree with anyone who opposes our earl!" "
It is said that the south is good, the south is good, but is the south really so good? Raymond just sighed. Along the way, he didn't see any drunk idlers on the side of the road, nor did he see any sallow and emaciated serfs. Everyone's faces were full of confidence and vitality, and some serfs even wore clothes. New clothes, eating rosy complexion.
Those are fine linen clothes, God knows how much they cost?
The merchants were driving the carriages. They didn't know what goods were in the carriages, but there was a rumbling sound. Occasionally, a patrol team passed by.
And a team of pointy ears! These wood elves wore single clothes even in the late winter season, but added an animal skin cloak outside. They escorted a large amount of goods and mixed with the human team. Raymond even noticed that some merchants even offered to say hello. The proud elf also responded positively.
God! My God, didn't everyone say that elves are a group of cruel and ruthless advanced creatures, as long as they hear the word elves, the Raymond family will be scared into cold sweat.
The Pointed Ears were privileged, and the Men shunned their ranks, and the Wood Elves' wagons soon disappeared in front of them.
"My God, this is the first time I've seen elves, they don't seem to hate us very much..." Raymond whispered to Bono.
"These elves are called wood elves. They have a big temper and don't like to communicate with people very much. But if you ask me, they are pretty good. Last time I was sick, the medicine used to cure the disease was traded by the wood elves. It's cheap, and wood elves will occasionally ask us to buy medicinal materials. If anyone has stock in hand, they can take the opportunity to make a small profit~ From this point of view, these pointed ears are not bad." Bono also replied in a low voice: " Of course, the earl has orders, we should speak less in front of them, it would be bad if it is taken as a provocation."
"It should be." Raymond said with lingering fear.
There are many signs on the side of the road, pointing in the direction of the prison. The earl seems to be very humane considering that most of the serfs are illiterate, so the sign is a bit strange caricature.
The comics depict a serf working hard on farming and a serf working hard, and then the knights hold bread and porridge in their hands and give food to the serf, and then write down two very simple words, "work" and "bread".
Such a simple comic can be understood by even the most ignorant serfs. It is nothing more than work in exchange for food. Seeing this, Lei Meng's family felt a little more at ease. Work in exchange for food was fair and what they wanted.
The meaning of the existence of serfs is to work for the lord in exchange for food and the power to survive. At the same time, the lord will also provide military protection for his subjects. This rule has lasted for thousands of years in the world, and will continue in the future, Earl Lane Asking these fugitive slaves of himself to exchange work for food proves that he needs fugitive slaves.
If he needs escaped slaves, he will definitely not execute and exile poor people like himself casually.
The serfs never rejected hard work, what they feared was working hard and starving to death.
After walking for several hours along the way, Raymond was a little numb to what he saw and heard.
In the distance, towering city walls and city gates appeared in front of Lei Meng, standing on the ground like gods. The five or six-meter-high city walls blocked the sight of travelers. When they saw the city gates, the earl's family crest The icon of Zhang and the fairy in the lake also appeared in front of them.
Among the red and white coat of arms is the golden Holy Grail pattern, and then a sharp sword passes through a book, two ribbons surround the coat of arms, and below it is written a family motto that the serfs cannot understand.
The gates of the city were crowded with carriages and people who wanted to enter the city, serfs, free people, merchants, dwarves, wood elves, and many knights who came to seek guidance. He is a knight-errant who wants to come to Ryan's command and become his subordinate.
Wood elves, dwarves, and nobles are obviously the most advanced people.
It's just that today, the situation is a little different. Whether it's serfs, free people, merchants, knight nobles, or elf dwarves, they all made way for a female knight and her attendants to enter the city first.
This is a very beautiful female knight, with long blond hair, a valiant figure, a stunning appearance of national beauty, and a perfect figure riding a war horse. She slowly enters the town of Jean under the respect of everyone, enters the city During the process, there were endless cheers, and everyone was shouting "Hello, our countess" and "Hello Mrs. Suria!".
"Kneel down!" Bono hurriedly signaled Lei Meng and the others to kneel down, and everyone watched the female knight slowly enter the city.
"That is?"
"That's our Countess! She is the daughter of the Duke of Winford, and also the Countess' fiancée, the future Countess! The Countess is very nice! Everyone loves her!" Bono hurriedly kowtowed, with a voice full of admiration Said.
"Oh~oh!" Raymond had seen Lord Knight's wife. She was a tricky and mean woman with a strange tone of voice. She liked to play tricks on the serfs, and all the serfs in the village secretly hated her.
It seems that things are different here, Raymond secretly thought.
After queuing for a while, a group of people entered the city, part of the sky disappeared behind the towering city walls, and there were many vendors in sight. Small vendors and shopkeepers were selling things at the door, vegetable sellers, butchers, sellers Clothes and various street vendors made Raymond's family dizzy. There were neat two-storey houses on both sides of the street, many of which were beautifully decorated.
The old mother was the most surprised. In the whole family, she was the only one who had ever entered the city when she was young.
There is no imaginary stench. In the memory of my old mother, the city is always full of stench. Both sides of the road are human feces, chicken and duck feces, and countless garbage. Residents on the edge of the city have to be with garbage all day long: " Here... it seems to be different."
"You mean rubbish? Times have changed." Bono clearly understands this all too well: "The count and his courtiers have taught us to use manure to irrigate our fields, and it works really well, if I ask you... just a bit stinky , but generally speaking, it is still acceptable. Since the first daring guy’s field has increased production, manure is now a sought-after thing, and everyone is rushing to ask for it. Human manure, pig manure, and horse manure are all treasures. , the baby of our civilians."
"Now there are toilets everywhere in the city. People use them to make conveniences, and then the excrement will be transported out of the city. Everyone wants to produce more things from their fields, pay enough for the earl, and keep the rest for themselves!"
"Hey, we're going to part here!" Bono pointed at the dark place in front of him: "That's the office."
"Okay!" Raymond put down the basket of vegetables, and tried his best to squeeze his family into the dark crowd.
There were too many people, maybe more than a hundred, almost all escaped slaves from the north. The crowd was crowded together, exuding a strong body odor from each other, like a piece of rotten meat.
But these are still within the range of Lei Meng and others, and they squeezed hard to the front of the crowd.
There were more than a dozen fully armed soldiers in the office. In addition, a man who looked like a sergeant stood on a high platform. His domineering and arrogant appearance reminded Raymond of many knights.
Behind the table were many merchants, shopkeepers, and even dwarves, all of whom came to recruit workers.
"Outsiders! I'm Deni! I have good news and bad news, which one do you want to hear?"
"Bad news!" shouted a fugitive slave. He looked very young, with a straight head and no beard.
"The bad news is that a lot of fugitive slaves from the north have poured into the town recently, and many people have been recruited for many positions. Many of you who want to be apprentices to dwarves and work in textile workshops must hurry up!"
"Then... what about the good news?" A fugitive slave shouted.
"The good news is that we have countless jobs and farmland waiting to be reclaimed. Only you can't do it, and we can't do it!!!" The sergeant took out a lot of papers from his pocket: "So, tell me, Brethren, who wants a full belly?! Who wants to work for his own lunch and dinner and a barley wine after work?!"
"I! I!!" The crowd seemed to be crazy, rushing forward.
"Who wants to work hard for the earl? In exchange for the right to settle here?"
"I! I! I!!!" Hundreds of escaped slaves in the prison had red eyes and shouted loudly. They stretched out their hands and reached out to the sergeant.
"Then let's get started!"