landbeastnovel Chapter 134 Tavern
Chapter 134 Tavern
Chapter 134 The Tavern (Three updates today, as usual)
Amy felt completely relaxed after leaving the Rose Knights' camp.
"Since the choice has already been made, now we can only grit our teeth and see it through to the end."
However, she has now returned her warhorse, armor, and weapons to the Knights, and all she has left is a training uniform and a standard-issue cross sword.
It was too dangerous to travel to the Blackthorn Wasteland like this, so she took the contact address that Ron had given her. Whenever she wanted to come, she could go to that place and someone would bring her here.
When Amy finally found the location, she was somewhat surprised to see the building being demolished.
"No way? I just arrived and this place has already been demolished."
As Amy looked on in shock, Doron slowly walked over.
"Are you Knight Amy?"
Upon seeing the newcomer, Amy asked in confusion, "Are you the owner here?"
Doron nodded: "Yes, the old site of the Chamber of Commerce is going to be demolished. We've also acquired some surrounding houses, and we've barely managed to raise enough for 200 square meters. We're going back to ask the lord to help us rebuild a building."
Two hundred square meters is not a large space in Gorubakburg, but for Doron, it only took one quarter to grow from a single shop to this size.
In cash, not to mention the house, the land alone is worth more than two hundred gold coins.
Upon hearing that the lord was asked to build a building, Amy immediately understood.
"Are you from Adrian?"
Duolong nodded with a smile.
Amy asked, "So when do we leave?"
Doron smiled and nodded: "Come on, we'll set off right away."
Amy followed Dorron to Gavin's territory. When Gavin saw Dorron, he smiled and opened his arms to hug him.
"I've been waiting for you for ages, are you off?"
"Set off!"
Gavin's territory is a two-story courtyard with a very large area, but it is rented rather than bought. Now their small mercenary group has taken on the transport mission between Doron and Ashwood Territory, sending a batch of refugees there every once in a while in exchange for a lot of armor, successfully enabling the Doron Merchant Guild to be established in Gorubak Fortress.
The Chamber of Commerce's main business is armor, which is very popular among mercenaries and wild knights. The second largest business is cloth. Although the territory has not yet produced any, Doron has successfully collected a lot of cheap linen from the surrounding villages and transported it back to Gorubak Castle to sell. Although he only earns the price difference and transportation costs, the advantage is that he sells a lot at a low profit, which is a decent income.
Gavin shouted into the yard, "Men, make the arrangements. We're leaving in half an hour."
The group quickly assembled, consisting of more than ten carriages and three hundred refugees, mainly young and strong men, with women making up less than a quarter of the total.
The men even offered to help push the cart, but when the mercenaries came out, Amy instinctively opened her mouth wide.
It wasn't because of their lightly armored wooden scales, but because of their condition.
They all have disabilities to some extent.
Several of them had foot problems, and the most outrageous one was a missing arm.
From a distance, it appears that half of the mercenary group consists of disabled people, while the rest are young people who have just come of age, many of whom are still knight apprentices.
Doron noticed Amy's confusion: "Don't mind them. These are all old comrades from the mercenary group. They risked their lives for the mercenary group and were injured in battle. Gavin didn't want them to be poor and destitute, so he called them all back to help the mercenary group. Since they are provided with room and board, their monthly salary is 4 silver coins."
Amy's family situation gave her a good understanding of these things: "Four silver coins is a small amount among mercenaries, but it's the best they can get right now."
Doron nodded with a smile: "However, we can still guarantee the fighting ability of these people. The injured leg just means he can't run fast, not that he can't walk. Especially Lesser, his archery skills are exceptional, and he rides on horseback most of the time."
Amy nodded thoughtfully, but then shook her head.
Marcus should be able to get a decent salary here, but being a mercenary is too dangerous. He doesn't have much to do on weekdays, so he just needs to resume his training.
But if they encounter danger on a mission one day, their family will be completely ruined.
The caravan set off quickly, but due to the delay caused by other caravans, it was five days later when they arrived at Ashwood Territory.
At the foot of the western city wall, a tulou (earthen building) has been built every hundred meters, extending all the way to the castle area. There are a total of fifty tulou, each with two hundred people, which can easily accommodate ten thousand people.
Kylian is now in charge of the defense of the earthen buildings on the west city wall. Upon seeing a large convoy approaching, he immediately led a group of people out to greet it.
Gavin looked at the nearly one hundred cavalrymen before him, all of them armored, and couldn't help but mutter, "It's only been a short time since I last came, and we already have a hundred cavalrymen."
Nearly a hundred cavalrymen, each equipped with light wooden scale armor, with short bows and quivers hanging beside their saddles, were not heavily armored cavalry, but on the wasteland, they were a force that no one dared to underestimate.
Doron looked at the unfamiliar face before him and asked in confusion, "Where is Lord Ron? Or Officer Fanta?"
Seeing that Doron could name the lord and Fanta in one breath, Killian realized that Doron was one of his own: "The lord is in the castle district, and Lord Fanta is currently reporting to the castle."
Duolong pointed to the refugees and goods behind him; there were ten carts of iron ore, each weighing two hundred catties.
Kylian had already received orders and immediately led them to the castle district.
The goblin corpses in the main city had just been disposed of, and the smell inside was extremely strong; newcomers simply couldn't stand it.
Gavin instinctively waved his hand towards his nose: "Such a strong smell of blood. How many goblins did you encounter during the cleanup?"
Killian proudly said, "Not many. Out of a hundred thousand goblins, I wiped out about a hundred thousand, and the rest ran away."
Gavin listened, his mouth slightly agape, unsure of what to say for a moment.
It's only been a little over a month since I last came, and Adrian has already become so amazing.
But as he saw people going in and out of the fifty earthen buildings, cultivating new farmland, he estimated that there were several thousand people, without even counting them.
Gavin whispered to Doron, "The population is growing so fast, but most of them are women."
Killian, of course, heard this and said with a smile, "They were all rescued from goblins. Captain Gavin, would you be interested in settling down in our territory? Any man who settles here will be assigned a wife, and they'll definitely be able to have children."
Upon hearing about the assignment of wives, Doron's lips twitched slightly. He hadn't expected that this kind of rhetoric had now become a required course for every knight in the territory.
Amy felt uncomfortable and distanced herself after hearing this; as a woman, she couldn't help but feel a little awkward.
Gavin quickly waved his hand.
Women will only slow down his sword-drawing speed.
However, most of the remaining twenty-odd men in the mercenary group were either old bachelors or young bachelors, and their eyes lit up when they heard this.
After all, with the little money I earn each month, I can't afford to go to a wine bar more than a few times.
In Gorubike Fortress, there are taverns with special services, and their signs are red, hence the nickname "red taverns".
The tavern with the green sign is simply a place for eating and drinking.
The tavern with its blue signboard offers not only food and drinks but also room rentals.
There are no hotels or similar businesses here; "tavern" is the general term, and functions are assigned by color.