Mountain and Forest Kingdom

When Sophia woke up, she saw the light shining on the bedside from the window.

The room was filled with heat mixed with sunlight.

Sofia looked down along the bacon hanging like the trees, and saw the iron pot hanging on the fire.

Steam was rising from the iron pot, minced bacon was cooking in the boiling iron pot, and the smell of broth filled the room.

Two Dom sheep were lying not far away, squinting quietly and chewing something. A new layer of wood was also laid in the corner of the room.

Creak~

Lawrence opened the wooden door and walked in, breathing a lot of heat through his nose, and the edge of his plush hat was covered with white frost.

Sofia quickly sat up from the warm bed, "Master!"

Lawrence looked at Sophia, "It's almost time to get up. I just checked the outside of the house and set up traps to catch mice. You first get up and go to the toilet to wash your hands and face. After dinner, we will go down the mountain."

Sophia obediently got out of the bed. Although she quickly became cold, it was enough.

It's much warmer here than Salil's place, and it's not as cold as expected.

It was also warm when I went to bed at night and I slept very comfortably.

Sophia quickly got dressed and squatted in the corner to use the toilet.

Lawrence squatted down to collect the plant ashes accumulated all day and night. These can be used as good fertilizer.

Accumulated excrement would attract bugs and wild animals, and Lawrence himself did not want to deliberately leave a cesspool.

The feces of two or three people only need to be thrown into the river. There is nothing polluting in this era, and the stream not far away converges into the big river leading to the sea, so this little thing is nothing.

Whether it's laundry stains, feces, or some unusable garbage, you can use the power of nature to move it away.

The main problem is that the streams have frozen recently, and since there is no melted snow flowing down from the mountains, there is naturally no transportation capacity.

When Sophia walked out with the urine can, Lawrence followed up and said, "I'll tell you where there are traps. Be careful not to destroy these traps."

"After we live here, some rats and bugs will also gather here. Be careful not to let the first rat in."

Sophia solemnly said: "Yes! I will clean the master's house seriously every day!"

Lawrence reminded: "In the future, you can do simple things and manage new slaves for me. We need more people to help us do things."

"Yes!" Sophia agreed obediently.

She used to belong to the aristocracy, and she was very accepting of the slavery system, and she didn't think there was any problem with it.

What is tragic is the fate of a person. In this era, barbarians, civilized people, and even slaves have no concept of country or racial civilization, let alone human rights and free thought.

In this barbaric and backward era, would barbarians care about your human rights?

It wasn't even war years here.

Because there is war, danger, and death everywhere.

If a person cannot live independently, he cannot have an independent personality, and those who need to rely on the strong to live, even in modern society, are still slaves of the strong.

There are differences. The laws in peacetime will protect the lives of slaves to a certain extent. At the same time, relying on the strong is for profit, not for survival.

There is no such law now. Rather than money, power and interests, people here become slaves mainly because they cannot live alone.

People in the Luofen Kingdom do not have the habit of robbing passers-by for the time being, because there is no mature caravan here, and trade can only rely on the help of a very small number of villagers who go out to do things.

When a normal traveler enters a village, not only will he not be robbed, but he will also be entertained by villagers who never see outsiders once a year and ask about things outside.

Usually if they know that you are going to the next village, they will ask you to help with some errands and send something to a relative in another village who has not been around for a long time.

Of course, there are prerequisites, that is, don't steal things and don't show fear.

Once the other party does not regard you as a knowledgeable and decent person, but as an untrustworthy thief, it will be miserable.

Lawrence and Sophia led the goats down the mountain. When they arrived outside the house, they found the goats gnawing grass roots in the field.

"Sofia!"

Lawrence rushed over quickly and shouted to Sophia again.

Sofia also ran over quickly and shouted loudly to the sheep in the field.

"Damn it!" Lawrence hit the goat and used a stick to drive the goats and sheep out of the farmland that had been eating for who knows how long.

Herding sheep is not a troublesome task, even children can do it, but if children ignore it and let the sheep run into the fields to eat crops, that is not a trivial matter.

Sofia had never done this before, and Salil herself would never make such a stupid mistake.

Lawrence thought of the three slaves. Sariel must have left the sheep-herding business to the little girl or the woman with the baby.

The beaten sheep began to scatter in disorder, and Lawrence did not dare to strike hard. He suppressed his anger and said, "Take all the sheep back."

"Yes!" Sofia ran back and took Nala the Dom Sheep.

Sticks and shouts alone won't do much; it would be easier to lead the goats and sheep with a head sheep.

Lawrence approached the house with a stick. He looked around and saw no sign of anyone at all.

It was almost noon. Salyl and Andrew might be cooking, but were all three women in the house?

When Lawrence approached the kitchen, he looked inside and found that it was in a mess, as if a wild animal had come in and rummaged for something.

"Andrew? Saryl?"

Lawrence shouted.

After two or three seconds, there was no response.

"Andrew? Salyl? Is there anyone else in the house?"

Lawrence shouted again cautiously.

After a few seconds, there was still no response.

Lawrence walked into the kitchen gently. There was not much room to hide people in the kitchen. Soon Lawrence saw the bacon thrown on the floor and the flour poured all over the floor.

Lawrence looked at the firewood and some corners, and then noticed that the wooden lid of the jar where he kept butter had been opened, there were obvious traces of butter on the nearby box, and there were chicken bones on the ground.

Not a beast.

Lawrence was sure this was something humans did.

Soon, he cautiously checked Andrew's cabin and the main house.

"Master? What's wrong?"

Sophia drove the sheep into the sheepfold and came back and said: "Salyl's chicken is missing one, the sheep is missing two, and Andrew's big sheep is not here either."

Lawrence was determined.

"Andrew took away his weapons and leather shoes. Sariel should have gone to find Andrew, and the three slaves should have escaped."

Sofia looked shocked and asked in a panic: "Then what should we do now?"

Lawrence said: "Salil should have gone to the bottom of the mountain to find Andrew. Let's go to the bottom of the mountain to find Salil."

Sophia nodded quickly, "Yeah!"

The two of them rode the sheep and walked down the mountain. When they were halfway there, they saw a haggard and lonely figure with his head lowered, slowly walking toward the mountain.

Seeing this, Sophia shouted loudly: "Sariel!"

Sariel raised her head and saw her Dom Sheep Nora, Sophia and Lawrence running towards her quickly.

At this time, Salil started crying again. His father suddenly said goodbye to her yesterday afternoon and left here.

At first, Salil thought that he just went down the mountain to drink, but the more she thought about it, the more something was wrong. When she ran down the mountain to look for him in the town in a panic, she learned that Andrew was gone from some people.

"Sofia! Lawrence!" Salil looked at Lawrence and Sophia who got off the sheep's back and walked towards her, her voice full of tears.

Lawrence walked over, hugged Sophia in front of him like a doll, and faced Salil.

"When you feel uncomfortable, you can give Sophia a hug."

Salil quickly cried and stretched out her arms to hug Lawrence and Sophia in the middle, "Lawrence, Sophia, my father doesn't want me anymore..."

Lawrence knew that Salil needed a hug, and after putting down Sophia, he reached out and hugged Salil.

"Nothing. He just went to pursue the glory of the Berserker. It's not that he doesn't want you. And before Andrew left, he asked me to take good care of you. Salil, you used to be two people, but now you are three people."

Sofia, who was caught in the middle, also said sideways, "Yes, Salil, we are still good friends. Can we still sleep together in the future?"

"Yes!" Salil quickly agreed, hugging the two of them tightly.

Sariel, who felt lonely last night, finally found a partner who cared about her.

She has Andrew's strong strength and physical fitness, but because Andrew has always led her to live a stable life, she has not inherited Andrew's psychological quality.

Lawrence believed that if Salil was allowed to face everything alone, he would become a strong female warrior.

But neither Andrew nor Lawrence, nor Salil herself, wanted this.

After calming down a bit, Lawrence gave up the sheep to Saryl and Sophia and walked in front.

"Sariel, you can live with us in the mountains from now on." Lawrence didn't comfort her too much, but changed the subject and talked about the future.

Salil stopped crying at this time, but still looked at Lawrence a little weakly.

"Wouldn't it be better for us to continue living at my place?"

Lawrence told the story of the three women who destroyed the house after Salil left.

"Although no fire was set and not many things were taken away, there are not many crops left in those fields."

"And Andrew will not come back for a long time after he goes out. Now the Pumixiu people are making weapons to prepare for new wars. They will definitely come to the mountains to collect ore by then."

"Let the people in the town live in that house. Let's go live in a quiet place in the mountains."

"Don't worry about food. There is enough food left for us to feed the sheep. There are a lot of things the sheep can eat on the mountain. Forget about the pigs."

Lawrence explained his thoughts carefully, and Andrew should go find trouble with Avali.

Lawrence plans to obtain information about Avary and the Earl from Doug on the one hand, and on the other hand, he also wants to protect Salil and Sophia.

With the threat of the nearby forest barbarian tribes and poisonous witches, I believe that the hut at the foot of the mountain has reached its limit, and those people dare not go closer to the area where the witches are active.

Furthermore, you should also take time to practice archery, and if necessary, eliminate some hidden dangers in advance.

There is no legal backing in this era, so don’t believe in self-defense.