Lord of Rot

Chapter 290
The body is there.

Soon scavengers ate the carcasses.

Those birds were also controlled by the vines, and flowers grew out of their eyes.

Fortunately, the soldiers on the castle reacted quickly and killed the vine birds in time. Otherwise, if they were allowed to fly into the Iron Wall Fortress, a terrifying magic plague might be triggered.

Li Qi could only add one more thing, all corpses must be cremated, including the militiamen killed in the Iron Wall Fortress.

After finishing his busy work, Li Qi finally had time to go back to the inner castle to rest.

"Ellie?"

"Yes, my lord!" Ai Li, who was cleaning with a broom, heard Li Qi's voice, and immediately turned her head: "Do you need me to pour you a glass of beer?"

She really doesn't know how to do maid work, but she has a clever mind, and it is easy to remember compared with other little maids.

Li Qi asked: "Do you know the church in Tiegu?"

Holding the broom in one hand, Ellie turned around and said, "Church? You mean a monastery, right?"

The monastery is the residence of the ascetic monks of the church, but according to Li Qi's memory, the monastery has a part of the function of imprisoning nobles under house arrest.

Li Qi nodded: "It should be."

"The monastery is in Beech Village," said Allie. "I went there once with my sister. It's very big, but life is very hard."

"Beech Village"

Li Qi still remembered the map of Iron Valley that he saw. The Beech Village was in the northeast of Iron Wall Castle, the farthest from the castle.

The church that the black king saw in his memory should be that monastery.

After the dead bird is bred, you can fly to the beech village first to see what's going on there.

Li Qi said: "Please bring a glass of beer over."

"Yes! My lord!" Allie stroked her chest and bent over.

"That's a man's etiquette," Li Qi said helplessly, and had a more intuitive understanding of the 'reckless' Allie that Liton said.

"If you want to learn about etiquette, you can go to Butler Litton, I think he will be happy to teach you."

Ellie hugged the broom and nodded quickly, she also knew that she had made a stupid mistake just now: "It's my lord, I will go to ask Mr. Leighton for advice!"

……

The old white hair grasped the blunt bastard sword with both hands and polished it, splashing sparks.

After a busy day, he repaired three swords and two helmets, which is the heaviest workload among blacksmiths.

The reason why he is so desperate is because he still has a little grandson to support.

If you don't work hard, the grandpa and grandson will starve to death in the Iron Wall Fort.

In the first half a year since I came to Iron Wall Fortress, I can say that the food can support me, but who knows that there are more and more things outside.

And those things are smart enough to hide from the army.

They were completely trapped here, afraid to go out.

As for the flag of the castle being changed to a porcupine flag, not many people care about it, whoever is the lord is good, they just want to hide in the city wall and live well.

"You said the new lord, can you stop those things?"

"Even if it can't be stopped, what are the walls afraid of?"

"The city wall may not be able to stop it. If we attack in the future, the lord will definitely let us go to the battlefield!"

People chatted while working, and everyone expressed doubts about whether the porcupine soldiers could hold the Iron Wall, but after all, this team was stronger than the Black King's militia team, and their lives were much safer.

Only half of the sun's head was left to hide on the west side of the city wall, and the sky was burning red like a red blanket.

Today's work is over.

The craftsmen did not leave immediately, but waited for their salaries.

"Come on, get paid." The fat steward Hayao came over: "Old white hair, a total of 25 copper stars!"

Such a large workload would cost 3 silver months at least, but the old white hair was very content.

With this money, I can buy a lot of food to feed my grandson.

Today is different from the past. In the past, buying a piece of brown bread with 1 Bronze Star can make people full, but now a piece of brown bread costs 5 Bronze Stars!

It is better to have food than to have money, and everyone has not yet starved to death. Otherwise, without the army coming in, the people in Iron Wall Fortress will go crazy and kill each other first.

A person lined up to get the money, and soldiers in shining silver armor made them the first people to know the line.

"Ah, that's right." The obese steward seemed to suddenly remember something, and said, "The lord knows that everyone is short of food, so he is going to open a store to sell food."

"Sell food?" Old Baifa's spirit shook.

Food is always cheaper than bread, and it lasts longer.

The fat steward chuckled and said, "Everyone knows that food prices are not cheap. In the past, you could buy a pound of coarsely ground flour with a few Bronze Stars, but now you need more than a dozen Bronze Stars, not to mention meat and beer."

"There is still meat and wine?" The blacksmiths were completely shocked. The new lord was willing to take out all these good things?
"Listen to me." The fat steward scratched his stomach and said, "Don't think that these things are easy to buy. They are limited every day. You are lucky, because you help the lord repair the armor, and he asked me to give you some benefits! I Here are some food stamps, a pound of oats for 4 Bronze Stars, a pound of finely ground wheat flour for 15 Bronze Stars, a pound of meat for 15 Bronze Stars."

That means 4 Bronze Stars can buy you a pound of oats.

15 copper stars can eat meat.

The price was outrageously high in non-war times, but now many people in Iron Wall have no meat to eat.

Fat Steward Hayao shook a stack of papers: "Do you want anything?"

"Can we really get meat?" Old Baifa asked.

He thought of his little grandson who was crying with the smell of porridge cooked with lard next door, and he didn't want to give up the opportunity to buy meat this time.

"Of course." The fat steward patted his belly and assured, "With the lord here, who would dare to lie to you in Iron Wall Fortress?"

The old white-haired man said, "I want a meat ticket and an oat food ticket."

The fat steward said, "It's better to buy more. The price of food goes up every day. After today, the price of food stamps will not be the same."

"That's all!" Old Baifa said through gritted teeth.

Of course he has part of the savings, but all the money is used to buy food stamps. What if the food stamps cannot be exchanged for food?
"A total of 19 copper stars." The fat steward didn't force it. After collecting the money, he handed the two pieces of paper to the old white hair, and asked: "Don't dirty the red seal on the front. If the pattern is worn out, you can't exchange it for food." gone."

"Yes!" The old white-haired man looked down at the two pieces of paper.

There are patterns carved on it, one depicts oatmeal, the other depicts meat, and the words are written on them respectively, but he doesn't know how to read, but the paintings are very vivid, and it is not difficult to tell what type of food stamp it is just by looking at the pattern.

There is also a delicate red seal stamped on the paper.

This is food stamps.

Not many people bought food stamps on the spot, and only Lao Baifa bought meat tickets, and the others bought at most one oatmeal food stamp.

When they left, the blacksmiths went home in small groups, chatting in small voices: "Isn't it good to buy with money? What kind of food stamps, I think, are just a piece of paper. When the lord runs away, we will have nothing left. "

"Who said no!"

"Didn't you say you're selling food? I'm going to buy some."

"I am coming too!"

People who bought food stamps were uneasy, afraid that the fat steward would cheat them.

When they arrived at the store selling grain, they found that hundreds of people had already blocked the entrance of the store. If it weren't for the porcupine soldiers in armor to maintain order, this group of people might have rushed forward.

The old white-haired blacksmith who came a step late could only obey orders and line up to buy.

The team moved forward inch by inch.

The old white hair watched from the sidelines, and some people just bought a small handful of oatmeal with wheat bran and left, but they were also happy.

Some were carrying a bag of grain, but they were cursing: "10 copper stars and a pound of oats, why don't you grab it!"

10 bronze stars?The old white-haired shivered, what the steward said just now seemed to be 4 Bronze Stars?Prices go up too fast!

"Don't buy so much if you think it's too expensive!" A person behind him said, "You bought more than 100 pounds, didn't you just want to hoard food and sell it for money?"

Being exposed by someone, the man was not angry but said with a smile: "I just want to hoard food and sell it. After a few days, the food will become more and more expensive, and then you will know how cheap I am selling it."

The old white hair didn't care about that. There would be no shortage of such damned merchants at any time. He was afraid that he would not have his share if the food was sold out today.

The team moved forward little by little, and finally it was his turn.

"How much is the oatmeal?"

"10 Bronze Stars a pound."

"I have this." Old Baifa took out the food stamp, worried that he would be tricked by the fat steward.

"A pound of food stamps? Wait!"

Soon a small bag of oats with bran was placed in front of the old white hair.

It can really be exchanged for food!

It only cost 4 Bronze Stars to buy food stamps by myself, but now the price of oatmeal has risen to 10 Bronze Stars, what a bargain!
(End of this chapter)