Mercenaries and Adventurers

The team approached the north gate of Hekou Town, and was immediately surrounded by the people who came out.

The hunters in the team had seen similar situations before, so they were prepared to chat with the people who approached, dealing with all kinds of questions.

There is nothing to say, so the hunters answered excitedly as they walked.

Dare to reveal the fierce aura of the hunters who hunted a large number of northern land wolves and retreated. Most of them are middle-aged men. They were pushed forward by their families to ask questions, and the hunters also briefly described During the battle, he told the middle-aged farmer accurately that the northern land wolf would never harass them to work again.

The people who got the correct reply were elated, and the middle-aged farmer turned around and took the gift of thanks from his wife behind him, and handed it to the hunters with both hands.

"Thanks to your hard work, please accept our gift of gratitude!"

Most of the gifts are air-dried chickens and ducks smoked by the farmers themselves, or a wooden jar of finely sifted white wheat flour.

The hunters also took it unceremoniously, laughing and handing over the gift to the old hunter who was driving the carriage, and asked him to temporarily store it in the carriage.

The children in the celebration team bravely mustered up the courage to squeeze out from their families, just to touch the huge northern wolf skin held by the hunters.

They just touched it with their hands, as if they had done something extraordinary, they quickly retracted their mouths with a grin, and excitedly described to their friends how prickly the hard dry wolf fur was.

Some people with higher status in the crowd, such as nearby shop owners or owners of some small workshops, gathered around Knight Lanisa's horse, talking loudly about their names and their family's business, While saying some flattering words.

Similar words they would say to Lanisa Knight who led the team back to Kendall City at the end of winter in previous years, but this time they did not have the teasing of the past at all, and their faces were full of sincere expressions that could no longer be sincere. How to be optimistic about Lanisa Knight, knowing that she will be able to perfectly deal with these annoying beasts.

Knight Lanisa, wearing a helmet and putting down her visor, nodded perfunctorily as they said, while she dismissed her under the visor. None of these false congratulatory voices asked whether her broken arm was in pain. This made her only bored with these people.

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Along with the crowd, the team walked into the inside of the town. Fortunately, the main road of the town is quite spacious and can accommodate so many people walking together.

The windows on the second floor of the wooden houses by the street were opened one after another, and some young women were lying on the windows, waving their arms excitedly at the young hunters who passed by.

This made the young hunters in the team howl happily, like a few northern land wolves left unattended.

This kind of cute move made the crowd laugh, making people even happier.

However, compared to the tall and straight young hunters in the team, the onlookers were more curious about Kiel who was also riding on horseback.

This warrior wearing a tight armor that wraps himself looks tall and strong, equipped with all kinds of weapons on his body, fully armed, and looks majestic.

Someone was talking to Keir, and he was so nervous that he didn't know what to say, so he nodded at the person.

'I really ought to have a mug of beer. '

On the road before, the hunters who followed Knight Lanisa to Wumi Lake Village said that the lively situation in the village was said at that time. Kiel didn't believe it at first, but now he has to believe it.

"The people in winter are really busy." He couldn't help muttering.

After finishing speaking, he lifted the visor of his helmet, and with a smile on his face, a large glass of cold wine was brought over by a person next to him.

"Thank you, thank you." Kille's eyes were narrowed, he was so sleepy that he met the pillow, the desert met the oasis, whatever he wanted.

When people saw a very young face under the helmet, they all made a sound of admiration. And Keir didn't care much, quickly picked up the wine glass and swallowed the whole glass of cold beer into his stomach.

"Go on!" After drinking, Keir called out to the middle-aged man who had just handed him the drink, and threw the wooden cup back to him.

The man opened his hand high, and the wooden wine glass that Keel threw just fell into the opponent's palm honestly. This hand made the people nearby celebrate in unison.

Seeing Kiel on the horse drank the wine they gave him, someone immediately took out all kinds of home-brewed wine from the passing house and gave it to the hunter team that was slowly advancing.

The hunters were not polite either, they had long starved to death of the drinks in the tavern in the forest, and when they saw the people bringing them over, they were not too polite, just took it and drank it.

Someone else tried to pass the drink to Knight Lanisa, but the female knight waved her hand and politely refused the drink: "My arm is still hurt, so I can't drink for the time being."

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The team walked slowly towards the central area of ​​Hekou Town, where the main management building of the town and the residence of the local knight lord were located.

Someone had already reported the news of the arrival of Lanisa Knight's team in advance. At this time, in the small square in the center of the town, the local knight lord had already put on a dark blue cloak with water ripples, leading the town's The priests of the main churches and the main management personnel of the town greeted Knight Lanisa together.

Low-ranking priests had already stood in a line on the side of the square to block the people who came to watch the excitement. They stretched out their hands and pressed down, and the people who respected the priests of the church quickly fell silent.

Knight Lanisa led the team to move forward and stopped at the very center of the square.

She patted her war horse, and then jumped off the horse with one hand supporting the saddle.

Kiel also climbed off the horse carefully. He didn't want to embarrass the knight and everyone in front of so many people, almost half of the town, here and now.

The hunters behind them put the dry wolf furs in their hands into the carriage, and immediately gathered behind Knight Lanisa. The old hunter who was driving the carriage also got down from the carriage, and handed over the reins of the carriage to the attendant of the local knight lord who came over.

The tall Knight Elisa opened his arms and laughed and walked over to hug Knight Lanisa, and the sound of armor clashing sounded: "Jenny, congratulations, so many years of hard work have finally succeeded this winter. "

He stretched out his hand to check Lanisa Knight's broken arm: "Hey, you have suffered a bit. If you don't insist, call the big guy, what's the use of this."

Knight Elisa complained, then turned around and waved to signal a senior priest of the local church named 'Warrior Hall' who was closest to him to come forward.

"Let the old Cook come and show you. He is very good at dealing with this kind of common injuries on the battlefield, and he will be almost healed the next day."

Knight Lanisa nodded to the trainee priest Cook, smiled softly, and then lifted his helmet visor: "Then I wonder if he is also very skillful about this?"

Under the lifted visor was half a face scalded by the high temperature, which was terrifying and evil.

The face of Knight Lanisa startled many who stood before her. The priest Cook who walked in frowned and took a careful look: "With all due respect, Knight Lanisa. Your injuries are not so light and need to be treated as soon as possible. Otherwise, these wounds will only continue to consume your vitality. .”

Knight Eliza patted Knight Lanisa's armor and said: "Then don't delay, and deal with the injury first." Having said this, he turned around and said loudly to the hunter team and the people not far away: "Everyone Don't be stunned, everyone, let's celebrate! How can there be a battle in the world that can be won without pain? I believe that the cold weather will not stop the people of Hekou Town from celebrating this."

"Raise the fire and warm up the square!" He shouted loudly to the owner of a shop in the town who handled and sold firewood.

Then he yelled at the owners of several taverns: "Take out all the tables, chairs and benches in your taverns! Roll out the barrels and let everyone drink freely!"

He then shouted to several fishing boat owners among the people who gathered from the wharf and ferry: "Bring out the freshest big fish. We have the largest iron pot in Kendall County. Let us stew it in a pot to feed it." Hot soup that satisfies the whole town!"

In addition, there is also a choir organized by the local God of Wealth Church, who was also asked by him to come out and have fun. There are also a few slippery bards in the town who have nothing to do in winter, and they also show their true skills, organize the story of Lanisa Knight and their trip, and simply compose a song for everyone to sing.

Finally, he stood in the center of the square, surrounded by people who were getting excited and impetuous, and shouted loudly: "Haha, everyone, don't be stingy, I will be responsible for all the expenses, everyone, let's have fun! This is worth celebrating thing, let's give color to a long winter boring day for that!"

"Oooo!"

"Oh oh oh!"

The people are so fast, they've been waiting for this! Because everyone knows that their knight lord is a very lively guy, the kind who usually drinks three cups when he has nothing to do, how can he not make everyone lively when he encounters such a thing?

The people instructed by the lord knight got busy with a smile. The attendants ran in and out of the knight's mansion, carrying all kinds of things that would be used: the rope bunting used for celebration during the harvest festival every year. The magic lanterns bought from the provincial capital, as well as various foods and high-end drinks.

The chef of the knight's mansion immediately received the warrant from the butler, and went to the butcher in the corner of the town to buy a whole beef cattle with his assistants.

The owners of the tavern personally lead the waiters and bartenders of each family to move the tables, chairs and benches in the tavern, and roll out the largest beer barrel in the tavern. The drunkards who had been drinking in the store pulled them out of the tavern and let them go directly to the square to drink in the open air.

The owners of the fishing boats took the idle sailors and fishermen to pull the fresh fish that had just been dug out of the holes in the river with a snowmobile, and set up a stall on the spot to deal with the fat river fish that was half a man tall.

The priests of the Church of the God of Wealth ran quickly and called the choir members who lived in various places in the town. Everyone was wrapped in a thick cold-proof coat outside the solemn and luxurious robes, and directly faced the cold wind with clear and beautiful voices. The singing voice sang the most appropriate hymn of joy among the psalms of the church.

"The gods in the sky will visit the clouds today."

"Just because I have joy in my heart and need to share it with believers."

"Looking at the bustling land in the distance."

"He's more open."

"Everyone gets new clothes, and the roads are full of cars and horses."

"The houses are row upon row, and the hymns resound through the heavens and the earth."

Other churches are not far behind. The young men and women who are the best dancers among the believers of the Saturnalia Church all dance together in the square and on the road. And called on all households to take out some of the food prepared during the spring festival. Here, this winter, a lively celebration dedicated to Ms. Dong, the **** of the Saturn system. After all, it is said that Ms. Dong is the master of cold and snow God, but it seems that he likes to be lively in private.

Even the priest of the Church of the Sun God, who came only by one person, secretly hid from the other church priests, and kept casting magical spells to send glowing white light **** hanging in the sky more than ten meters away, making this gloomy winter cloud The sky also has a bright light like summer.

Of course, only around the square in the center of the town, this middle-aged priest is not yet capable of lighting up the entire Hekou Town like daylight.

The original cold winter seems to be less difficult. People's enthusiasm and happiness show the best side of their hearts. This makes Knight Elisa happily waving his hands and shoulders, and dancing together when he catches someone. One circle, regardless of the other party seeing him at a loss.

Ha ha.

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Knight Lanisa shook her head with a smile. Regardless of the bustling plaza behind her, she chatted with Priest Cook who was walking beside her and discussed the treatment.

Under the guidance of some attendants from the knight's mansion, the hunters like Kiel followed Lanisa from the main entrance of the mansion, which occupied a large area. According to those attendants, they had to wash their bodies first. After many days of fighting and traveling, everyone's body smelled very bad at this time.

The bad breath and body odor that haven't been washed for many days are nothing more than that, the main reason is that everyone has been splashed with the blood of the northern land wolf more than once. Helping the elite hunters, but it would be inappropriate to participate in the celebration.

After counting the number of hunters, the old housekeeper of Eliza Knight's house immediately arranged for someone to fetch the same amount of clean clothes for the washed hunters to change into.

The male and female attendants in the mansion were busy, those who carried firewood for the fire, those who carried the bath barrels, and those who could cut hair and shave were all busy. The mansion's blacksmith also obtained everyone's consent, took everyone's weapons, and directly found a stone table in the yard to clean and wipe their weapons.

The bow of the hunters, the armor-piercing rapier of the knight Lanisa, and the longsword of Kiel hunt.

These weapons that can be carried with you have to be cleaned quickly.

As for other things, they don't need to be cleaned up, let them take them with them and put them in the guest room prepared for them.

Kiel took off the armor on his body. He didn't need to wear the armor to go out to participate in the celebration later, so after taking off the armor, he put it together with other things, picked up the new clothes sent by the housekeeper, and rushed to the Side yard steaming place for bathing.

Multiple large wooden tubs have been prepared in the house, and the maids are going back and forth to pour buckets of hot water into larger bathing wooden tubs.

The fast-moving hunter has already jumped in and scrubbed naked.

Not to be outdone, Keir immediately took off his smelly clothes and put them in a wooden box next to the bathtub. He jumped into the bathtub, first plunged into the warm water to soak his hair, then grabbed a handful of hair cleaning powder from a clay pot on the ground next to him, sprinkled it on his hair and rubbed it.

This cleaning powder is obtained by local people by boiling and evaporating the flowing juice from the stalk of a water-loving plant by the river. The original viscous juice is steamed into dry powder and then mashed and ground into powder, which becomes a kind of bath product that can clean the hair and body.

Keel has used this kind of thing before, and it has a strong ability to remove human skin oil. It is most suitable for cleaning hair and scalp full of oil. The local people basically use this kind of thing.

But this thing only grows raw material plants by the river, so some village settlements that do not rely on the river, UU reading www.uukanshu. com can only spend money from merchants to buy these things.

The locals are not primitive mountain forest dwellers. They basically migrated from empires with highly developed civilizations. Therefore, they cannot give up all kinds of conveniences in life.

After Keir finished washing, he quickly and neatly put on the clothes prepared by Elisa Knight's housekeeper for their hunters amidst the laughter of the maids and aunts next to them.

These clothes clearly reveal a dressing preference similar to Knight Eliza's. The overall color is mainly gray, with dark blue stripes as an auxiliary.

Warm and comfortable after wearing, obviously not a cheap thing.

After asking the maids, they found out that these were originally custom-made sets of clothes left by Knight Eliza for his servants of the fighting knights.

However, Knight Eliza's knight servants are still young, and it's not time for them to wear these adult-sized clothes that have been prepared.

Keir didn't care so much, he was not as cautious as other hunters for fear of wrinkling and tearing his clothes, and directly picked out some important items from his original clothes, including the money bag of course. Please leave the rest of the clothes to the maids waiting at the door.

"Please, sisters." As he spoke, Kiel blinked and slipped a few copper coins to the maid who took his clothes.

The maids burst into laughter, especially the one who took Kiel's clothes.

Keel walked out of the room and rubbed his face, then wiped his damp hair with a dry cloth.

His hair wasn't long, but it wasn't short either. Fortunately, he is really young, and the beards of other hunters have nothing to do with him.

Seeing everyone cutting their hair and shaving after washing, Keel went to the front yard to watch the blacksmiths clean their weapons.