Wear to the Middle Ages to engage in construction

"Tuya, the small town on the other side of the valley is recruiting laborers..." In the cave in the deep mountain, a man whose age cannot be seen through the vicissitudes of life said hoarsely to the woman in front of him.

The woman with withered yellow hair and a blackened coarse cotton robe shook her head in horror and said loudly, "Joe, please, please don't think about it..."

"But you are too weak. I can't find anything to eat. It's cold and dirty here... If this continues, you and the child will have accidents..." The man's voice was low, and he was obviously in despair, but still The woman cheered herself up and comforted herself, and kept saying, "I looked at it from a distance today, and it looks like a real adult, with his entourage and knights, looking very impressive from a distance... They seem to be Planning to build a castle here, maybe they really need manpower..."

"But Joe, we were exiled here. If that lord knew your crimes, he might kill you indiscriminately!" Tuya was very excited. She didn't want her man to take risks anyway. Life in the midst was very painful. Although she felt occasional clamminess in her lower abdomen, she still didn't want Joe to go down the mountain and get in touch with people who were not easy to mess with at first glance.

Those high-ranking nobles are not so easy to talk to, and they won't really listen to your explanation, just like Joe and her, just because they made a slight mistake in serving the adults, they were whipped and thrown into prison.

In the past few years, Tuya has been wondering whether it was better for her to be hanged or exiled.

She and Joe met on this wild land, and they were different from those truly vicious murderers and those truly depraved people. Although Tuya and Joe were exiled, even though they came to this strange place, even though it was so hard, they were still alive. I also don't intend to join those gangs that kill and rob.

Although it is said that those people with bloody hands have bought indulgences and are able to return to their hometowns, but Tuya and Qiao are both law-abiding people, they just want to live.

Fortunately, this continent seems to be favored by the gods. It is not only good for hunting, but also has a lot of edible fruits. Because Qiao and Tuya are always in the mountains, they will not go to the pier, and they have some friends with the local aborigines. Neighbor-like friendship, they quickly learned to look for edible food under the guidance of the aborigines.

They wouldn't have had such a hard time.

But I don't know whether it is happiness or misfortune, Tuya is pregnant at this time.

Joe saw that Tuya couldn't eat anything, was swollen and couldn't sleep well, and it was cold at night, so Joe carried Tuya on his back and took the prey to the market not far from the pier.

Many mountain people who lived in the mountains like Qiao and Tuya lived in this way. Qiao also went very smoothly. He sold his prey and furs, exchanged salt, cotton, and even a small bag of sugar.

These things are very ordinary, and they wouldn’t be much of a problem at first, but on the way back, Joe happened to meet people patrolling the pier—those people were not good sheriffs, but real vicious ones, and they would deceive everyone. They are small businessmen who are familiar with each other, and then kill and rob goods; they will also be hired by big businessmen to capture the local aborigines and sell them as slaves. Their hands are full of blood, but in this place where no one is in charge, they are the most nourishing. people.

Joe hid aside peacefully, but still failed to escape the catastrophe. The leader jumped off the horse drunkenly. , hit Joe directly.

Joe, who already knew that life was unfair, immediately apologized in panic, but the leader saw the things in his arms. As an apology, the man ordered Joe to hand over all the things to make amends.

If it was any other time, Joe who could calm down would definitely hand it in without saying a word, because Joe already knew that he had come to the land of hell without laws, how could he pray for the coming of the true God?

But at that moment, Qiao refused to let go, because Tuya was still waiting for her. Tuya was pregnant with a child, and her nutrition was insufficient and her body was weak. Ya needs nutrition and food, otherwise not only the children, but even Tuya will have a hard time getting through this summer.

But Joe's silent resistance angered this person, and all of Joe's things were taken away. Not only that, Joe accumulated meat and some furs for the second time and went down the mountain again, but he was told early on that he would never want to trade again. , because he has entered the blacklist.

For the mountain people living in the cave, this is almost a death sentence.

People cannot live without salt. Although the sea is right in front of them, if they make salt privately, they will be killed if they are found; other daily necessities such as cotton, bedding, clothes, and cloth... If there is no Can't survive.

Joe returned to the mountain in despair, seeing Tuya's lips getting paler... Qiao knew that Tuya needed a more comfortable illusion, peace of mind and comfort, but he couldn't help it.

Then one day, when Joe was hunting in the mountains suddenly, he saw a huge team entering the valley.

Joe nervously hid on the side of the mountain and peeked, and saw that on the mountainside of the valley, knights and adults in full body equipment lined up and followed a gorgeous carriage, and then two people came down from the carriage. After a long time, the knight galloped around again. Joe didn't understand at all. How could this noble man, who looked like a nobleman, whom he had never seen before he was exiled, set foot on this land where criminals were exiled?

And not long after Joe was puzzled, more people suddenly came to this place, and they started digging the ground, digging rocks, and even firing bricks and stones not far away, and then started construction in such a vigorous way .

Joe had served the nobles as a low-ranking servant before, and he was exiled because the senior servant broke a silver spoon and dared not stand up, and wronged Joe for stealing the silver spoon.

Rather than trusting the senior servant he likes, the master chose to trust the senior servant and put Joe directly in prison.Joe was never given a chance to appeal, nor was he a decent, personable, educated senior manservant, without the knowledge and eloquence to exonerate himself, so he was brought here wrongfully.

So naturally, Joe couldn't understand the meaning of the words posted at the public notice, but fortunately, everyone was illiterate, so a well-dressed man stood at the foot of the mountain and read it aloud on the wooden board where the notice was posted, and Joe knew—— His Excellency Duke Edward of the Nat Empire, ordered by the Queen, will establish a territory in this place, and at the beginning of its construction, this place will accommodate everyone, no matter if it is a person with manual labor or someone with other abilities, as long as they are hired , will be paid.

But there is an addition below - those who are exposed as murderers will not be accepted, and those who are exposed as committing heinous crimes will not be accepted.

Other people who were charged with theft and other crimes, or some people who were exiled because of the crime of contempt for nobles, could get a resident certificate when they got a job.

Those who have obtained this resident certificate will receive the protection of the Black Duke and enjoy the rights of freedmen.

Qiao's heart was shocked when he heard it, but unlike other people who heard it with joy, besides the mountain people, people who can still live normally in the New World, besides businessmen and exiled people, there are also a group of people. Batch are exiles.

They are not charged with any crimes, and most of them are free people who can't live in their hometown, but refuse to be sold as serfs. They paid money to follow the merchants to the New World to find a chance to survive. The desperadoes are blackmailers, but because they always live together, they are not the same as the weak mountain people, they are not easy to be bullied, and they live better.

This order was a surprise to them, but for mountain people like Joe, what they were most afraid of was whether there would be discrimination and murderous intentions hidden under this order.

After all, some nobles pretended to try to pardon their sins before, but after some mountain people went down the mountain, they were hanged.

But Joe couldn't hesitate any longer. The manor at the foot of the mountain was being built in full swing, and the salary was calculated on a daily basis. Not only that, some people had even started shifts to build sheds at the foot of the mountain, and even planned to gather around the manor in the middle of the mountain.

And Tuya was getting weaker and weaker during this period, and Joe couldn't bear it anymore.

He held Tuya's hand and said seriously: "Tuya, if you die, I won't be able to survive, so I'd rather fight!"

Tuta looked at his man with tears in his eyes.

She lowered her head, tears dripping down the back of her skinny hands.

The next day was a sunny day, and Joe went down the mountain early. He walked slowly all the way to the place where the man-hours were counted halfway up the mountain, bowed his head to the well-dressed man, and said cautiously: "Sir, I want to come here Work……"

"What's your name, where are you from, why did you come to this place... Are you a mountain dweller?" The person in charge who was doing the statistics asked casually, and was shocked when he looked up. The skinny and severely malnourished man was different from the previous batch of free men!

Joe felt his heart beating, he felt he couldn't hear anything at all, Joe thought he was yelling, but he just trembled and said softly: "... yes, I am a mountain man, and I was arrested for theft. Exile... I was wronged!"

Joe finished speaking in a hurry, feeling all the blood in his body went to his brain, his mind was blank, his limbs were cold, and then he heard the person in charge say softly: "Oh, theft, Joe, pack a lunch a day, a shilling, you have a problem ?"

A shilling!

Joe's eyes widened, and he felt that he suddenly came alive again at this moment!He froze for a while, then nodded before the person in charge got impatient, and replied loudly: "No problem! Can I start now?!"

The person in charge was startled by him suddenly, muttered, and recorded Joe's name.

It was five years later that Joe had bread and a shilling again.

He hasn't received any money for a long, long time. It's not barter, but a shilling. Joe's body hurts badly. In fact, his body is already in short supply. Mountain people don't live long, and Joe even thought he would die before. in the mountains.

But this evening, Joe got a solid piece of black bread at noon. In previous years, he thought the black bread was dry and unpalatable. Today, Joe devoured it, thinking it was delicious in the world.

As for that shilling, Joe carefully put it together with the leftover half of the black bread at noon, then carefully avoided everyone, and walked on the mountain road for more than an hour before returning to the cave where Tuya was.

That night, because of her pregnancy, Tuya couldn't eat boiled meat with bloody boiled water and baked potatoes. She took the half piece of black bread and swallowed it in big mouthfuls. Too gluttonous.

And Joe was very happy, he handed the shilling to Tuya, Tuya touched the shilling, the two looked at the money, and then looked at each other, gradually there was a light of hope in their eyes.

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Thanks to glutinous rice balls, sweeping monks and mines from 19394168