Rise of the Lord of Mount and Blade

The next day.

Richard, who got up very early, ate a rough breakfast and then met with the village mayor Flower who came to report.

The Mayor of Flower was still wearing the washed, faded linen robe. He walked into Richard’s study under Pullman’s guidance, but even if no one led the way, he was familiar with it. , And it can be done with your eyes closed.

Oh, forgot to mention, this study is the place where the former Viscount Noel specially vacated the office. It contains a row of wooden shelves, a long wooden table and a chair. The wooden shelf is also placed With a parchment book with many worn-out basic covers, Richard has no desire to even turn it over.

Raised his hand and asked the old village chief to find a place to sit down. Richard said slowly: “Mr. Flower, come and report to me about the affairs of Luofei Village and the rampant activities in the surrounding area. The band of robbers, I don’t think you want to see me lose this gamble, do you?”

“Yes, Sir.” The old village chief said tremblingly, “Luo Fei Village is still in a state of reluctance, because the damn heretic robbers wander around here from time to time, attacking the villagers who go out, or directly trample on the fields that the farmers have finally cultivated. In the half of your arrival. More than a month ago, eight villagers were attacked and suffered injuries of varying degrees. Two of them are still lying in bed and unable to move.”

“Fortunately, every household of the villagers has There is a certain amount of food stored, and I hope this will last until our autumn crops are mature.”

“No, I remember there is a tavern in the village. Since you are all short of food, how can you Brewing wine?” Richard asked suspiciously.

The old village chief explained: “The taverns sell cider. The apples are picked from the apple grove on a hill not far from the village.”

nodded, Richard did not continue to ask, motioned him to continue.

Flower continued: “I don’t know much about the robbers active around Lofi Village. If you want to deal with them now, I think you can go to the village Rupert, Orion, he may know something about it.”

“Rupert Orion?” Richard narrowed his eyes. “Where does he live?”

” He lives in the first thatched house with a yard in the west gate of the village. If you walk by and find a house with lots of animal skins and dried meat, then it is his house.”

After finishing speaking, he seemed to be worried about Richard’s misunderstanding, and he hurriedly continued: “He has the permission of the former lord to go in and out of the forest freely.”

hearing this, Richard nodded, did not say anything. He knew what the Mayor of Flower meant. In this era, everything in the forest in the area ruled by the lord belongs to the nobles. The civilians cannot enter the forest to hunt without permission. Otherwise, it is illegal. Mayor Raul is probably worried that Richard will get angry about this.

Richard was not as stingy as the village chief was worried. After a few more conversations with the village chief, he left the castle and came to the village.

In the morning in Luofei Village, many villagers have already walked out of the fence with their tools and went to the cultivated fields outside the village to work hard. The craftsmen also began to warm up the boilers, preparing to start the day’s work. The plain-dressed women are in groups of two carrying baskets with clothes waiting to fetch water by the well in the village. While waiting, they are also talking to each other, laughing like copper bells from time to time.

As soon as Richard and Simon, dressed in casual clothes, walked out of the wooden wall outside the castle, they were spotted by a few sharp-eyed children playing. They screamed, and then ran into the crowd, watching Richard and Simon looked at each other from the back of those children, and they didn’t know if they were so vicious that they could scare the children.

Walking into the crowd, the villagers who recognized Richard’s identity stroked their chests and greeted them. Richard also responded one after another nodded, because yesterday Richard made a grounded bet with them, which pulled the distance between them. Many people are not so afraid of him, coupled with his youthful appearance and a friendly smile.

After asking a few villagers for the way, Richard and the two found the Rupert Orion’s house behind the west gate of the village. As Flower said, Rupert’s house was a house with a wooden fence. In the thatched house surrounding the yard, several animal skins and dried meat are hung on the wooden poles erected in the yard.

When Richard walked to the door of the house, a woman just came out from inside, her hair was wrapped in a brown short scarf, and the white apron in front of her was stained with many stains. The woman was taken aback when she saw two strange men standing in front of her house. She looked at them up and down, and then asked cautiously.

“Who are you looking for?”

“I’m looking for Rupert, is he home?” Richard asked.

“Looking for Rupert, he just set off, what’s the matter with you?” The woman continued to ask, and she couldn’t say that she was blind and could not recognize Richard’s identity. It was only Richard’s yesterday. It was dark around, and she didn’t see that’s all clearly.

However, looking at Richard’s dress that is incompatible with the surrounding villagers today, she still sees something.

“Which direction is he going?” Richard asked without answering the woman’s question.

After the woman followed the direction with her finger, Richard and the two left in the direction she pointed.

Because of this, Rupert will take a hunting bow and hounds to leave home very early every day, and go to the nearest forest for hunting, because Luofei Village only has him and the other five Orion, so the natural resources of this generation are still very rich, but they still have to pay attention when they go out to prevent themselves from accidentally encountering robbers who emerge from somewhere, and then people will get cold.

The law and order in Laertai is so bad. Heretic and robbers are raging in the wild. If Richard wants to eradicate all of this, he must seize the most powerful gang in this area and give him a fatal blow. , Killing the chicken to warn the monkey.

However, the most serious problem is how many combatable soldiers Richard does not at all, or in other words, he can only rely on the six mercenary veterans who came with him now, that is, the few veterans. They won’t have much effect, and they can’t beat the crowded robbers, so they still need to mobilize the civilians in the community.

Thinking about it this way, it took the two of Richard almost an hour to find Rupert at the edge of the forest. Rupert is a dark-skinned middle-aged man, and his body is covered in coarse linen shorts. Covered, with fluffy hair tied with rag strips and hangs naturally behind his head, holding a black wood hunting bow in one hand and an arrow with few wings in the other, not far in front of him, A yellow-haired hound was running towards him excitedly with a dead rabbit in his mouth.