Lord Highlander

The bathroom was hot, and Natasha walked into the bathroom with a stack of linen clothes, blushing, and put the stack of clothes on the shelf next to the barrel.

Surdak was soaked in a steaming large wooden barrel, his broad back full of scars was exposed, and his thick arms rested on the edge of the wooden barrel. This big wooden barrel looked very old, and the boards had been It was a little black from use, and the outer copper clamps were covered with green patina, and water seeped out along the gaps in the boards.

Seeing Natasha walking in, Surdak retracted into the barrel with some embarrassment, and only raised the part above the neck out of the water.

Seeing Suldak's embarrassed face, Natasha, who was still a little nervous, burst out laughing with a rare 'puchi'. Natasha reached out and brushed the long messy hair by her ear, and bit her white teeth. With ruddy lips, she said in a thin voice: "Need me\u0026@#..."

She lowered her head, and Suldak couldn't see the expression on her face. At this moment, she could only see that her ears were completely red. She was wearing a blue linen dress and standing at the door of the bathroom. She was slender and tall, Not as well-proportioned and plump as Rita's, and she doesn't look like a woman who has given birth.

"Would you like to add hot water for me?...Okay!" Suerdak said to Natasha, wiping the water off his face.

"oh……"

Natasha felt that she would faint from suffocation if she continued to stand there, so she backed out in a panic with a promise.

She slipped into the kitchen next to the bathroom, squatted next to the big wooden basin, and began to vigorously scrub the set of monster leather armor stained with wolf blood.

Rita was squatting next to the stove, pursing her lips and giving Natasha a thumbs up.

Before the water in the pot boiled, Rita said loudly to Suldak through the wooden wall: "Sheila wants you to take the meat of these sand wolf kings to Hailansa City to sell some, there is too much meat , this is not winter, there is no way to store so much bacon in the chimney, it will block the chimney of our house."

The sound of Suldak's splashing water sounded, and then he heard Suldak's voice coming from the next door: "Understood, but you must save as much as possible, remember to give little Peter something to eat every day, this sand wolf king It is considered a second-level monster, eating this kind of animal meat often can improve your physique. Forget about Sheila, her body may not be able to withstand this kind of meat, but eating it once in a while should be fine."

Hearing that Suldak said that sand wolf meat could improve Little Peter's physique, Natasha quickly poked Rita with her finger, and Rita made a circle with her thumb and index finger, gesturing OK.

Rita blinked her big blue eyes, and asked expectantly: "Then... when are you going to leave? I mean to Hailansa..."

"If it's allowed, let's do it tomorrow! What's the matter?" Suldak asked.

"Can you bring me and Natasha, we also want to go to the city to see." Rita glanced at Natasha, the corners of her mouth slightly raised, and said with a smile.

"Of course..." Suldak agreed without thinking.

While taking a bath, Suldak chatted with Rita who was sitting next door to boil water. Old Sheila took little Peter to the grain farm, where the dinner party had almost started.

...

The next morning, Charlie and Val took 20 young people from the village, carrying a large amount of wheat cakes, beans, pickled salted wolf meat, and some onions and carrots to the sulfur mine in Pustout Mountain. This is the second group of villagers from Wall Village to go to the sulfur mine. They will spend about half a month in the sulfur mining area and return to Wall Village before the harvest festival.

As soon as it was dawn, these young people left Wall Village quietly on horseback. There are currently less than 70 households living in the village, and now more than half of the families' men are all heading to the sulfur mine. Some old women and children got off.

Suldak did not return to Pustule Mountain with Charlie and the others, but rushed to Hailansa City.

He let Rita and Natasha ride a horse together, and he also rode another ancient horse. The three of them left the village of Woer before the dew in the barley fell completely. , along the mountain road to Hailansa City, the mountain wind is already very cold in late September, only when the sun continues to rise, the temperature here will continue to warm up, Rita and Natasha are wearing cloaks, sitting on horseback He didn't dare to move his back.

Fortunately, the ancient Bolai horse the two of them were riding was the mount of Suldak. Normally, Rita and Natasha would not only mow grass to feed it, but also shave it. This war horse is also very Sensible, after the two ladies rode it, they looked very honest.

Old Sheila originally disagreed with Rita and Natasha going to Hailansa City, but this time Suldak also stood up and begged Old Sheila, which made Old Sheila reluctantly agree.

Rita seldom leaves Wall Village, and the farthest place she has been to is the Beigou Grassland five kilometers away. She is full of curiosity about the world outside the village, and she keeps asking Surdak questions as soon as she leaves the village.

Suldak explained it patiently, as if he had lived in this land for decades, while the native Rita was an outsider.

The sun jumped out from below the horizon, red like a fried egg, and there was barren land everywhere, and the ground was covered with gravel.

A gust of wind blows, raising a burst of yellow sand.

On this land, the most common plants are seabuckthorn grass and thirsty immortality that grow close to the ground. They have withered branches and leaves for more than half a year throughout the year. Only in the months of the rainy season can they absorb enough Rainwater, take the opportunity to thrive.

The woman, with a veil covering her face, rode a horse and slowly disappeared on the mountain road.

...

When passing the mountain pass, Rita pointed to the wooden crosses on the top of the mountain and asked Surdak what they were.

Suldak could only answer vaguely: Those are some crosses. After some sinful people die, in order to atone for their sins, they will hang themselves on the cross and let vultures peck at their flesh and blood...

Rita took a few glances from a distance, and then felt a little disgusted, thinking to herself: Could it be that these evildoers worried that they would not be able to enter heaven before they died?

Natasha turned her face to the other side, unable to bear to watch this scene.

Passing through the mountain pass, looking around, there are some mottled green marks on the slopes between the mountains. Sparse trees grow in many sunken ravines and the northern slopes of the mountains. A lot of light green, the vegetation here is obviously much better than outside the mountain pass.

"It would be great if we could move here in Wall Village, at least we can have some pastures for grazing here." Rita sighed.

Suldak pointed to a large area of ​​land in front of him, and said to Rita and Natasha: "From this mountain pass to the south, you have passed two mountains, and all the land in your field of vision is Malay, in the city of Hailansa. The territory of Count Augustus, if you are willing to become a subject of Count Augustus, you can live here theoretically."

Because he will also have a knightly fief, Suldak bought a map of the division of the territory of Hailansa City. He has already done enough homework on the territory around Wall Village, but as people say, this To the north of Daoshan Pass is the barren land of Mount Pagolos. No nobles are willing to choose their territories here. They would rather live in Bena City and choose their territories in those small planes in the hands of the Duke.

In this barren land outside the mountain pass, there are only a dozen or so naturally formed villages. The tax officials in Hailansa City do not want to come here to collect taxes because it is simply too poor. Live a life of barter.