This place is really nice, the air is fresh, the view is wide, and he can't help but lift up his spirits. Lorist is sincerely satisfied with what Aristoli said about the Mountain Keeper's hunting house.
This is a mountain pass in the Garrigues Mountains, which is close to the Barony of Dina. The reason why Aridoli built a hunting house on this mountain pass and sent two mountain guards is for the lush mangrove forest on the mountainside. In Galintia, red oak wood is a precious wood. Its natural curved wood grain has always won the favor of nobles and wealthy families, and it is in short supply as a high-end decorative material for palaces and villas.
Aridoli was overjoyed when she found out that there was such a large mangrove forest on the mountain next to the territory, and immediately brought the half-mountain area where the mangrove forest was located into the jurisdiction of the family territory. In order to avoid being secretly felled, a hunting house was specially built on the mountain pass, and two people were sent to guard the mountain. The name is to prevent the wild wolves from the Garrigues Mountains from descending into the territory and harming people and animals. In fact, the task of the two mountain guards is to prevent others from entering the mangrove forest, stealing wood or collecting red berries and red mushrooms produced in the mangrove forest. .
When it comes to mangroves, one cannot fail to mention its two accompanying products. One is red berries, which are about half the size of blueberries. They are thin-skinned, juicy, sweet and fragrant, and have always been known as the best fruits. Cranberry is a kind of fruit that only grows in the accompanying shrubs in mangroves. The ripening period of red berries is in August and September every autumn. The picked red berries are not durable for storage. Basically, they are dried in the sun or used to brew fruit wine. . The price of red berry fruit wine is high, because it is said that it can effectively treat and improve the ability of men in certain aspects, and has always been welcomed by the aristocracy.
The second specialty of the mangrove forest is the red mushroom, which is a bright red mushroom that is non-toxic and delicious. After the heavy rain, this red mushroom grows everywhere in the mangrove forest. If not picked immediately, the red mushrooms dry up and turn into maroon dried mushrooms after three days. In the famous dish of stew, which is very popular in Galintia, if you can throw in a few dried red mushrooms, it can effectively enhance the umami taste and absorb the oil on the soup. At the same time, red mushrooms are very delicious whether they are cooking soup or cooking.
For Aridoli, owning this mangrove forest is equivalent to adding a small coffers to the Dina family. Before the mangrove forest finds a good buyer and is cut down, the two specialties produced by the mangrove forest alone can make She earns an extra 20 or 30 gold blessings every year, which is considered a windfall. It is not an exaggeration to send two mountain guards to guard this mangrove forest.
The hunting house is built in a small depression next to the mountain pass and the mangrove forest. It is still a three-story attic structure. The lower floor is made of rocks, the upper two floors are built of logs, and a small beacon tower is built on the third attic. This hunting house can be regarded as a small fortress. Seeing that Lorist was a little confused, Aridoli explained that the wild wolves that wander in the mountains every winter habitually go down the mountain to look for food, so this hunting house is to prevent the winter The attack of wild wolves or devil bears, the second is to find these monsters going down the mountain and light the fire to warn the territory, so that the territory defense team will dispatch to surround and kill these monsters.
The stone house on the first floor has five rooms, one large, four small, and five rooms. The large room in the middle is mainly the grand staircase to the second floor. The four rooms on both sides are stables, warehouses, utility rooms and repair rooms. There is also a small Blacksmithing stove, used to repair or make some crude tools and weapons. On the second floor are four rooms of about the same size, two bedrooms, a kitchen, and the lounge from the stairs, or the dining room. There are two small squirrel skins and a deer's head for decoration.
The difference from the one-story stone house is that the four rooms on the second floor have windows, but the windows of the two bedrooms and the dining room are all thick wooden boards, and only the kitchen has four green glass windows, but there are also one wooden window For protection on the outside, this is a double window structure. If the windows were not opened, the light on the entire second floor would be insufficient, so there was a large dark stain left by the smoke on the wooden wall, which was the imprint left by the oil lamps and torches for indoor lighting.
The leftmost bedroom on the second floor is separated by a quarter, which is the stairs to the attic. The attic on the top third floor is also made of logs, but it is the place with the most light in the whole hunting house, because there are two large windows on one side of the attic, which can also be called windows and doors. It is also a double-layer structure. Inside are windows and doors made of eight pieces of green glass, and outside there are two thick wooden doors. After opening these four windows and doors, it leads to the small beacon tower on the roof used for warning.
The water for the hunting house is taken from the height of the mountain stream next to it by a few big bamboo poles. It is about 16 to 7 meters away. Taking advantage of the height difference of the mountain stream, these big bamboo poles are buried on the ground and then connected to the water tank in the kitchen on the second floor. At the same time, a water outlet was connected to the top of the water tank, and the excess water reaching three-quarters of the height of the water tank was also discharged into a small pool in the yard of the hunting house through a drainage pipe made of bamboo poles. This small pool was also used for cleaning. and where the drinking horses are.
"This place is good, we will live here." Lorist said to Reddy very satisfied standing on the platform of the third floor roof. Looking from here, you can see the wilderness below the mountain, the wooden castle of Aridoli, and a small town called Red Walker in the Baron of Dina in the distance.
"But Your Highness, this place is too simple and lacks a lot of things. How about I go down the mountain to get some tableware, candles, clothes and bedding from the castle." Reddy said.
"Nonsense, have you seen how many mountain guards use gold cups, silver plates and candles? Since we pretend to be mountain guards, we have to look like mountain guards. If you don't have tableware, you can make it yourself. Later, you can cut down a miscellaneous tree and make some yourself. Wooden bowls, wooden basins and wooden spoons, and torches are used for lighting at night. Clothes and bedding are very simple, you go to the mountains to see these two days, and we can get some buckskins and wolf skins for us to make ourselves. Also, Aristoli is not Are those two great sword masters pretending to be pharmacists coming over in two days? We will walk around the woods around here tomorrow and the day after tomorrow, dig more herbs for them, and coax them away earlier." Lorist said.
"Okay, Your Highness." Reddy nodded.
What Lorist didn't expect was that three days later, the pair of great swordsmen who pretended to be pharmacists went up the mountain to the hunting house accompanied by Aridoli. Fortunately, in the past two days, Lorist and Reddy have dug up a lot of herbs and piled them up in the yard. These herbs haven't been washed and dried for the most basic treatment. At the same time, there is a wild wolf skin full of holes drying in the yard. .
"Well, these herbs are very good, I want them all." The male pharmacist named Jack didn't pay much attention to the herbs piled up in the yard, and took them all in one gulp. At the same time, he went into the hunting house to check around After a while. And the female pharmacist was pulling Lorist in the yard to ask questions, as if she was very interested in the wild wolf skin.
"Dear Your Excellency, this wild wolf fell into a trap we set and was stabbed to death by the spikes buried below, so it is full of holes. Otherwise, a good wolf skin is worth at least three Four big silver coins, but they are worthless now. I can only repair them for myself." Lorist acted like a greedy and wretched farmer, except that the hole in the wolf skin was made by his name Reddy. The branch was punctured, otherwise the good wolf skin would be taken away by the lord at a low price or sold to a grocery store. No mountain guard would be willing to use it for himself.
"Well, this wolf fur is a pity. By the way, where is your companion?" the female pharmacist asked.
"Here, isn't that right? He just went to patrol the mangroves, and I have to stay here to feed the horses and make lunch." Lorist pointed at the female pharmacist's back.
The female pharmacist turned around and saw that Reddy was walking from the mangrove path, with a hunting bow on his back, and three pheasants and two hares in his hands.
Aridoli burst out on the spot: "Okay, Clemento, you went hunting secretly under the pretext of patrol again, and I caught you this time. You don't want to get paid this month. You must know that the mangrove forest Everything in it belongs to our Dina family, I will confiscate it if I bring it over!"
Reddy walked over dejectedly, and argued: "But these prey were not hunted in the mangrove forest! I hunted in the back mountain, which does not belong to our family territory!"
Yali Duoli became even more angry: "I paid you to take care of the mangrove forest, but I didn't let you go hunting in the back mountains. I didn't say anything, the wages are gone. Also, how do you prove that the prey in your hand is not in the mangrove forest? Hunted in the woods? Or not run out of our mangroves?"
This, how to prove this... Reddy had no choice but to pass the prey to Aristoli. Aristoli even picked it up, threw a pheasant and a hare on the ground, and said disgustedly : "So skinny, I'll leave it to you to cook the soup."
The female pharmacist stared dumbfounded at Aridoli triumphantly hanging the legitimately robbed prey beside the saddle of her mount. Her eyes were full of respect. It turned out that this is what a lord looks like! At this time, the male pharmacist named Jack came out of the hunting house, shook his head slightly, and obviously found nothing.
Since the two couples posing as pharmacists were not found here, they are also planning to go back, but before going back, they have to pay for the medicinal materials piled up in the yard. Aridoli was very shrewd in bargaining. Not long after, the two hundred catties of fresh medicinal herbs in the yard were sold at a price of fifteen silver coins per Jinford.
Satisfied, Aridoli pocketed the gold and silver coins paid by the female pharmacist, then took out two small silver coins from her purse and threw them to Lorist and Reddy: "Here, good work, this It's a bounty from you two, enough for five glasses of ale in the town tavern..."
With a wry smile, Lorist picked up the small silver coin from the ground and rubbed it in his hands. This time, he finally had a deep understanding of how the territorial nobles exploited their own people. In fact, the reward for Aristotle willing to pay two small silver coins is quite generous. Because in the eyes of the nobles in the territory, everything produced on the territory belongs to them, just like these medicinal herbs belong to the Dina family. Lorist and Reddy collected so many medicinal herbs and paid only two dollars. Three days of labor. And the labor of the people in the territory is the least valuable in the eyes of the nobles in the territory.
Aridoli and the fake pharmacist couple came up the mountain on horseback, so these fresh herbs had to be delivered to their towns. Aridoli was very generous in this, saying that he would send another person to deliver the herbs to the Horseshoe Tavern in Dapanhe Town.
"Isn't it okay to let the two of them deliver it directly?" the female pharmacist pointed at Lorist and Reddy.
"No, send the two of them there to ensure that they will play outside for two or three days before returning. Now that they have money, they will definitely go to gamble. They won't come back until they spend all their money. I don't want them two Another excuse to go wandering outside." Aridoli refused straight away.
The fake pharmacist and his wife were speechless, thinking that two small silver coins count as money? However, they didn't care who sent the medicinal herbs. They originally wanted to let the two mountain guards buy the medicinal herbs casually and act as spies for them when they found that Baron Dina had guests or abnormal information. Let me know. Now Aridori refuses to let these two people deliver the medicinal materials, and considering that these two people live on the mountain and don't know the movement of the castle, let's forget it.
It wasn't until the backs of the three of them turned into small black dots at the foot of the mountain that Reddy let out a sigh of relief: "Your Highness, I'm really glad Miss Dina is not the mistress of our Norton family..."
Lorist laughed: "Didn't you realize that Aristoli is very good at acting? Now I have finally fooled the two great sword masters pretending to be pharmacists, and they will no longer doubt us. Starting tomorrow I will Get ready to heal your wounds. Remember the names of the herbs I reported to you, go to the mountains tomorrow to see if there are any of these herbs, and make me a wooden bath tub, I need medicinal baths to restore the internal injuries of my body."
With Reddy's help, Lorist is going to use the Danhai Yinqi Jue to restore the body's internal meridians and dantian injuries. Compared with Jinshui Jue, Danhai Entraining Qi Art is more peaceful and peaceful, especially since it is improved from Taoist health preserving art, it has a more healing effect on body recovery, and the first two layers are easy to get started. It would be easier to say, the meridians inside the body and the dantian were almost destroyed by the battle qi contained in the long sword pierced into the chest by the Storm Sword Master. Only use the Danhai Yinqi technique to slowly recuperate, and wait until the third level Then you can turn around and practice Jinshui Jue to restore your strength.
Lorist and Reddy just stayed in the hunting house on the mountain and began to recuperate their injuries. Summer and autumn came, time passed quickly. Occasionally, Aridori would bring her maid Sunilulu and her precious son Triek to the hunting house to meet Lorist for a long time by taking advantage of the opportunity of supervising the servants and servants to go up the mountain to pick red mushrooms after the heavy rain, little chubby Triek didn't recognize this bearded man as his father, but he knew that this man was very kind to him, would help him make toys to play with him, and make a lot of delicious things, so he and Luo Rist is close.
The days passed day by day, and in October, Lorist had already practiced the third level of Danhai Yinqi, and now he has recovered to the strength of a golden swordsman, even if he encounters a great swordsman, he still has the power to fight back Yes, Lorist thinks that by the end of the year, he will be able to re-learn the Golden Water Art, and in half a year, he will be able to recover the strength of the Juggernaut, and return to the North without hesitation.
On this day, Lorist was on the roof playing with some medicinal herbs that Reddy had picked, and these cleaned medicinal herbs were still to be dried. But I saw Aridoli hurried up the mountain on a horse, and when she reached the yard, she raised her head and shouted at the top: "Locke, I have news from the Northland, something happened to the Norton family!"
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