Chapter 75 (1/2)

It's very cold in winter in solo.

Especially at the end of winter and the beginning of spring, the coldest time of the year.

From the Gobi wind with a layer of fine sand, hit people like countless small knives.

If you spend the night outside the house, even if you wear two layers of leather clothes, you will become a sieve, let alone a thin coat. Every morning, it is normal to find a few people who have died with strange smiles on their faces.

It's possible that the rum was drunk too much, drunk on the way, frozen to death.

There are also homeless tramps.

There are also refugees to avoid the war.

Many people died of cold this year. Every day at dawn, some corpse collectors drag two wheeled carts to throw these unknown corpses together and drag them to the mass corpse pits outside the city.

If you come across a good-natured corpse collector, you may get a few handfuls of dust to cover it. If those numb and cold, they will be thrown in the open air directly, and they will become the food in the stomachs of wild wolves and wild dogs without waiting for the night.

When Wendell went out to pour out the black flint cinders, a corpse truck happened to pass by his door. Seeing several figures on it that had not been fully opened, Wendell could not help but scolded: ”iniquity!”

The great rebellion caused by a large number of Lords and nobles at the same time has been put down, but its sequelae is far from over.

There are still a large number of refugees still staying in large cities like lindus Soren. It is not that they do not want to return to their homes, but that although there are no wars, small wars have never stopped.

Some lords and nobles who had not been completely exterminated became bandits in exile, and they were looking for quarrels and making troubles everywhere.

Prince Phelan's territory was nearly doubled, and he was in an awkward situation.

If too many troops are used, it is easy for the other side to exploit the loopholes and lose the unstable cities that have just been laid down.

If the troops are too small, they will send food to others. However, they can only guard in the castle and city and let them harm the leaders in remote places.

The road is not peaceful. There are many kinds of mountain bandits and bandits. Most of them were formed after the noble private soldiers fled. Without a place to earn a living, they could only make a living by plundering.

In the past years, if such a thing happened, Wendell said that he couldn't give a helping hand. Although his ability was limited, he could only die one less, which was worthy of the gift of the Lord of truth.

However, this year's war had a great impact. His small business could not be maintained. The family's food and drink were all in trouble. How could he be able to help others.

Fortunately, before winter, he found a new job to help a big businessman dig black flint outside the city. He had not only three pounds of coarse grain, but also five or six copper wages.

In these difficult years, such wages can be called conscience price. Even if digging flint is a hard work, it is also overtime work every day, and Wendell is very comfortable with it.

This is still entrusted to the relationship to come in, there are countless people outside want to get this job has no way.

As for whether the black flint dug by the big businessman was transported to the Andes Mountains to trade with the Andes, Wendell should not care. He only cared about whether the daily wages could be paid on time. If there was any delay, the whole family would go hungry together.

unfortunately, this happened yesterday. The accident happened on the road. I heard that the gang was watching the damn gang. Fortunately, the escort of the team was awesome, and the thief gang was not successful. Only a small portion of the food was lost. But the journey of the team was delayed. It was already midnight when the time was back to the mine.

Fortunately, the head of the mine also has a conscience. He knows that everyone expects to live on a day's wages. According to the 10% premium of grain on the market, he will pay for his wages with copper. If he does so in peacetime, most people will be happy.

However, just after a year of turbulence and a large amount of barren land, Manyu army leader itself is not a major grain production leader. Even in a good year, there is a large gap in grain, and a large part of it needs to be transported from the small Asian plain.

In this kind of abnormal Festival, the price of grain is rising day by day. It is no exaggeration to describe it as rising day by day. Today's premium is 10%, and maybe 90% of today's grain can't be bought tomorrow.

The key is that there is no market but price. The hearts of the Lords and nobles who hold the most grain are black. In order to search for more wealth, the grain released every day is very limited.

They are very experienced in this regard. They will neither let the leading people starve to death, which will arouse a lot of public resentment, which is not conducive to their rule, nor will they let everyone eat enough. Only in this way can people buy high price black hearted food.

When Wendell came back against the cold wind yesterday, it was already dark, let alone cheap grain, even if it was high price grain, it could not be bought.

Fortunately, there is a virtuous mother-in-law at home. When life is easy, she always picks out a little grain from the corner of her mouth to save it. Last night, the whole family had a full meal of porridge. Although the bottom can be seen, there are only a few grains of grain in it, which can only temporarily cheat the stomach. But it is better to drink a belly full of water and shake around.

But the stomach is not so easy to cheat, especially after a day's hard work, before the cock crows, his gurgling stomach wakes him up. He tosses and turns all night until dawn, and then he comes across the bad news in front of him, which makes his bad mood even heavier.The strong smell of rice made him a little embarrassed. He didn't need to ask. The smell came from the strange neighbor's house which had just moved in less than three weeks.

The reason why they use the word ”weird” is that their behavior is completely beyond Wendell's understanding.