Lord of Rot

He stood up holding on to the table. As soon as he left the study, the footman Pitchfork followed him: "My lord!"

"I'll go back and rest," Li Qi said.

At the door of the bedroom, although the valet wanted to help Li Qi make the bed but was refused, there was a tombstone inside. This thing was definitely not the blessing of the four gods.

After closing the door, Li Qi placed his hand on the tombstone and opened the crypt.

He lit the torch and went into the crypt.

"This smell..."

The further inside, the stronger the pungent smell becomes.

The source of the smell was the four corpses of farmers on the ground. They had been dead for two or three days. In the cramped and airless underground passage, the smell was amplified several times.

Li Qi wanted to burn the body on fire in the crypt, but considering that the only air circulation entrance and exit was in his bedroom, the smoke would probably fill his room.

It is not difficult to dispose of the corpse at night. Only Li Qi and his teacher James live in the castle. When there were many people in the past, there were stepmother and brother Leo. The housekeeper, chef and servants were resting in several wooden houses outside the castle. When the baron shook The valet will rush over as soon as the bell rings.

Therefore, it was not troublesome to let the corpse James dig a hole anywhere in the castle and bury the body.

Compared to the corpse, Li Qi cared more about another thing.

The body will rot!

He opened the necromancer's handbook, which indeed recorded the problem of decay. Lifeless corpses will decay, which is unavoidable. Unlike living people, they will not metabolize and their hearts will no longer beat.

However, necromancers have recorded two methods of inhibiting decay, one is the use of preservatives, and the other is the consumption of fresh flesh and blood.

Different from the industrial preservatives of the 21st century, what is recorded in it is a magic preservative that can keep dead bodies alive and even make them healthier and stronger than before.

The main material is still salt, but other materials include snail shells, pig's eye grass, the core of finger vine, and some random things.

Blood and meat are simpler, but the prerequisite is that they must be alive, that is, throw a live pig or living person in front of the dead body and let it gnaw it alive.

"Let's make preservatives. The materials for making them are not hard to find..." He rejected the second bloody method. In the Porcupine Territory, whether there are a few live people or a few live pigs, it will attract huge attention. After all, here Too poor.

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Li Qi was eating breakfast at the dining table. He was planning to go to the kitchen in the name of visiting the work to give the chef some pointers on cooking skills, such as soy milk and fried dough sticks. Even if it didn't work, he would teach the chef how to pickle pickles. He would eat this greasy fried food every day. Meat, he wasn't sure how long he could last.

One cup contained puree and the other cup contained ale. People would not drink the water because most people would poop in the water and drinking turbid water would cause dysentery.

The footman Pitchfork came over at this time: "Good day, my lord."

After Li Qi's request, no one could enter his room without permission, and the valet was assigned a new task to go out and collect materials for making antiseptics.

When there is not enough manpower, everyone around you has to take on multiple roles.

The manservant didn't know how to read, so Li Qi just highlighted a few herbs. If he couldn't find them, he would arrange for the butler Simon to go to Iron Stone City to buy them.

"Most of the materials you need can be found in the porcupine collar. A few of them may take a while," Pitchfork said. "I have asked the farmer to look for them in the direction of the Pig Backbone Valley. There may be some there."

From Porcupine Leader to Tieshi City, the road is northwest.

In fact, the scope of the Pig Back Valley is very large, from the north of the Porcupine Territory to the northwest, cutting off the territory of Baron Reacher on the seaside tip of the East Gorge.

There are woods for hundreds of miles beyond the Porcupine Territory, where wild beasts roam and there are also lots of wild game.

"You did a great job, Pitchfork." Reacher nodded.

"It is my pleasure, my lord." The footman half-knelt on the ground.

Li Qi did not emphasize asking the male servants to change their kneeling behavior. Although he himself was not used to others kneeling for him, he was also not prepared to challenge the aristocratic system, especially when he was also a noble.

"One more thing, my lord," the footman said, "I saw Mr. Duke digging a hole in your garden last night, and this morning I found four more graves there."

I have to say that a "dad" is really useful. Before he rewards him, even the loyal servant Pitchfork will never dare to speak ill of the Warg Killer in front of Li Qi.

Rewards can buy short-term loyalty and strengthen loyalty.

"I arranged it." Li Qi didn't care if the matter was leaked, as long as no one discovered the most fundamental and important secret, he said: "Teacher James buried the farmers who followed me to explore the cave before. They died for me. , will also be buried in my castle and continue to protect me after death. The garden has been abandoned anyway, so why not play some practical role."

Being used by me while alive and continuing to drain them after death is an honor in this world.

He never thought about returning the bodies of the four farmers. They had golden scars on their bodies and were chopped into pieces by scythes. There were too many problems, so he might as well just bury them.

The pitchfork trembled slightly. He had made a big mistake by snitching. Now he should not be thinking about rewards, but should be begging that the punishment should not be too severe. No noble likes a talkative servant.

But with Baron Reach's weak and introverted character, maybe...

"Well done," Reacher said. "I can feel your loyalty, Pitchfork."

Pitchfork raised his head in surprise. Instead of being blamed, he was praised. He vowed that he would keep an eye on everyone from now on! And you will definitely get your own Silver Moon reward!

"Praise be to you, my lord!"

Li Qi finished his breakfast with difficulty. The freshly baked white bread tasted very good, which was also the motivation for him to finish his breakfast.

He needs a cow in his territory, but before that, egg drop soup can also meet the demand. The premise is to go to the chef and give him some guidance.

In his previous life, Li Qi was considered a housewife, and he could still cook ordinary household dishes. Now that it is autumn, he might consider hanging sausages instead of the crude and unskilled blood sausages in this world, which involve kneading the meat together and using a rope. Tie the fat pieces directly fried.

"We are inspecting the territory today," Li Qi said, "and we will also visit the homes of those farmers. After all, they died for me."

Steward Simon immediately said: "You are truly a compassionate and generous lord."

Compassion and generosity are not good words for the lord, but Li Qi accepted it with a smile. He hoped that he was really a compassionate and generous lord. As long as his own rights and interests were guaranteed, he would not mind the lives of the common people in the territory. Well, this may be completely different from the local nobles.

The baron's reward made the people in the castle more motivated. Today, he didn't see the feces in the corner outside his castle. Maybe it was because a servant was too lazy to go to the toilet in the field for fear of being reported, or maybe the maid responsible for cleaning up was very quick.

The groom had already brought the horse that Li Qi often rode.

The Clarence family's horses are all sired by Liard's female fierce mane horse. Now the horse is being raised in the stable. One of its children followed Leo to Eastport City, and the rest are in Liqi. in the castle.

Without the help of a servant, Li Qi stepped on his feet and climbed onto his horse.

As the son of a militant baron, his physical fitness is much better than that of ordinary people. He masters horse riding, archery, swordsmanship, and spearmanship, but his mastery is not very good.

But now he has gained a bit of the instinct of the warg killer, and his swordsmanship has improved a lot.