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Chapter 491 Meeting the Hero Caitlin Again

After Bolcha left, Zhang Qiang and Yatiman continued to wait in the corner of the tavern.

At this time, the tavern owner, that fat woman, came over, "Two, fresh cheese, don't you want some?"

Zhang Qiang looked up at her, and carefully hid his face under the cloak, but Yatiman didn't have to, he said boldly: "Okay, but I think, can you give us a cheaper price? I can buy I can’t afford too expensive cheese. When I travel across the mainland, I have to pay city taxes in addition to transportation fees. You know people like me don’t have enough money to enjoy such good food. A little black bread is enough to fill us up If you have a belly, you can have a glass of malt wine at most, it’s still watered down.”

"Haha, this guest, your words are really humorous, but I assure you, although the malt wine we brewed by ourselves is not very good, we will never sell it to you with water, by the way, won't your partner eat some? "The obese tavern owner looked at Zhang Qiang.

"Oh, if your price is right, I don't mind buying some." Zhang Qiang said hoarsely.

"Okay, fresh cheese, absolutely enthusiastic, is definitely more popular with you than cold dinar gold coins." The rough voice of the tavern owner echoed in the tavern.

"Yeah, we like your cheese, and we like your big bread even more. If you agree, we will definitely pay more." A drinker said to the tavern owner jokingly.

"If you can afford it, I don't mind going upstairs to let you eat once, but I think you have to have enough lung capacity." The tavern owner said with a smile without hesitation.

"Hahaha" Her words caused the drinkers in the tavern to burst into laughter.

Eating the cheese brought by the tavern owner, Zhang Qiang nodded to Yatiman, who smiled and said, "Don't tell me, this cheese is really delicious. I've had enough of the taste of black bread these days. It’s not bad to change the taste, but I don’t have extra money to buy more.”

Yatiman has a loud voice and is very open-minded. He has often traveled to the mainland to find out where the buildings are more beautiful and how the construction technology is. This is his specialty.

The tavern owner said: "If you can't find a better job, I can tell you something, if you can have a few more glasses of malt wine."

"Miss Boss, why do you always sell us your malt wine and food, don't you have anything to say to us besides business?" a drinker said loudly.

"Hey, now that the city is in turmoil and the city is under siege, if I don't make more money, maybe I won't have the money to pay the tax collector. Since the relationship with the Kingdom of Swadia became tense, we have paid taxes many times.

But those tax collectors are still greedy. Today you can eat cheese, but tomorrow I may not even be able to afford brown bread. This is all for the expansion of the army.

I heard that the city lord has ordered that anyone over the age of 15 and under 65 must report to help the lord defend the city.All their military expenses come from taxes, and the lord is unwilling to spend a single copper coin on his body to pay the new recruits. "

"My lord, how much do you plan to pay the mercenaries?" A drinker asked.

"I heard that the daily fee is one dinar gold coin, but the conscripts only have [-] copper coins." The tavern owner sighed.

"A gold dinar a day, does he have so much money?" asked another female alcoholic.

Before the tavern owner could answer, a drinker laughed and said: "You still want to get money, I heard that the Swadians' trebuchets have a super long range, and they always launch those that can hit us. The stones exploded on the top of the head, the survival rate of the recruits defending the city is less than one day, so, he said to give you a gold coin, but in fact, you don’t need to send it, you will die, they put the elite in the barracks and streets Go up, and then recruit those recruits who have not fought in battle, and go to the city to die."

Zhang Qiang frowned. If he hadn't entered the city, he really didn't know. This would mean that they had fought for three days in vain, wasting their siege supplies for nothing, while the enemy had only lost some cannon fodder, and the main force was still in the barracks. .Lana has tens of thousands of citizens. Even if he surrounds them for another month and consumes a lot of materials, stones, and arrows, he will not be able to destroy these tens of thousands of cannon fodder. The Kujit people really treat people badly.

The owner of the tavern said: "It's not all like this. I heard that they sent their own elite up there on the first day, but they suffered heavy losses. About 2000 people were lost, and they didn't even touch a single hair of the enemy. They sent the militiamen and city guards up, and the new recruits were sent up on the third day, that is, today. Maybe this kind of days will last for a long time."

The drinker just now said: "You mean they have lost a lot of elites, and they still need to recruit mercenaries?"

The drinker who made fun of the tavern owner at the beginning said: "Could it be that you want to apply? I think it's fine. Maybe the Swadians will fight for a few days and see that they can't get in. They will withdraw. And I heard that Kujit's The expeditionary force was almost at the mountain pass.

At that time, they will have to withdraw if they don’t retreat. The army from Halma will come back, and there will be another expeditionary force from Kujit. Including the army of Kujit City, there will be almost 1 soldiers. The sub-kingdom has only [-] people, how can it deal with the Kujit kingdom.

And the news said that even the lord of the Kingdom of Swadia had no confidence in the territory of the Kingdom of Swadia here, and was eventually wiped out, and it would be a matter of time before they returned to the embrace of the Kingdom of Kujit. "

The female drinker said: "I heard that the current lord in this territory is very powerful. He once defeated the [-] army of the Kingdom of Salander with [-] elite troops."

The drinker who made fun of the hotel owner said: "Haha, it's just a legend, how could it be possible with such a disparity in numbers, and even if he was so powerful at that time, but now there are internal and external troubles, let him bear the entire kingdom's army with the strength of a lord, how is it possible, Then he will become a god and fly into the sky. I heard that only the dark forces that used to make trouble in Calradia have that strength. It doesn’t take [-], even if there are [-] dark knights and [-] dark hunters , Kujit’s [-] troops will be chased and beaten, and they will be powerless to fight back.”

The tavern owner said: "Have you heard about the incident in Bazek Village? The [-]-strong army of the Sultanate of Salander was wiped out by less than [-] dark soldiers."

The previous drinker said in a deep voice: "Let's not talk about that, let's talk about the fact that Lana's city lord wants to hire people, and whether he will pay for it."

The tavern owner said: "I advise you not to choose this time to die, otherwise you can only be smashed into meat paste by Swadian catapults and bed crossbows like those cannon fodder soldiers. What can I do if I have been recruited, why not be sent as cannon fodder to the city wall?"

The drinker said: "But now I can't even give you the money for the drink."

The tavern owner said: "This is not allowed. If you don't pay for the wine, how can I pay the tax official? If I don't pay the tax, I have to go to jail, or do those dirty things like the corpse collectors outside. work, maybe I can get a laundry job in the camp of the military merchants, but what about my children? I have six children, and they are still young. If I do those, they will follow me within a few days. will die."

The female drinker said: "Maybe we can work for you, okay, we don't want to, but we are stuck in the city, and we can't get out."

The tavern owner said: "No, don't you see that I only invited one guy? I don't have that much money to hire any more people. If it weren't for so many people coming today, I wouldn't even invite a guy." .”

Zhang Qiang looked over quietly, and he saw that the one among the two drinkers in the corner was very familiar, with a sturdy body comparable to that of the proprietress of the tavern, wrapped in a tattered flaxen cloak, with her The old man is also wearing a tattered flaxen cloak. Looking at their waists, they are bulging. They must be carrying weapons. They look like mercenaries, but they look really unsatisfactory, and their bodies look a little dirty. .

When the woman turned around, Zhang Qiang almost cried out, isn't this the hero who insisted on leaving him, Caitlin?
(End of this chapter)