Chapter 39

In the afternoon, the soft sun shines on people, warm and sleepy. At the gate of Victor camp, several guards were walking around bored, as if trying to resist the surging sleep in this way.

Yesterday, Lord Bruce, Captain Nelson and Lord Nicole returned triumphantly. They brought back the ogre's body. This made the whole camp into a carnival. The bonfire dinner lasted until late at night. Everyone drank up five barrels of purple cane wine, so most people were still sleeping at this time, and these unlucky guards had to stick to their posts because of their responsibilities.

The neighing of pulling horses came down the slope, which attracted the attention of the guards. Just as they were ready to pick up the crossbow, the watchman on the tower shouted, "it's the team, our team."

Several carriages loaded with goods slowly drove towards the camp, led by Victor's village leader Maureen.

Most of the people in the motorcade were in high spirits. Only an old farmer, with a bruised face, followed the motorcade to the camp.

"Chief Maureen, what goods have you brought back?" When the motorcade reached the gate of the camp, a guard greeted Maureen with a smile.

"Oh, these are the offerings given by Pinghu village to the Lord. This is master Dick, the head of Pinghu village." Maureen took the old farmer's arm and said teasingly to the guard. Bair's camp has been named Pinghu village by Victor.

"It turned out to be a village head." The guard glanced sideways at Dick without any respect.

"Yes, yes. Oh, no, not a master." Dick admitted that it was neither, nor did he admit it. He had to bow and bow, and looked very embarrassed with the bruises on his face.

"Go in!" The guard waved disdainfully, and the leaders who followed Victor looked down on the free people in the territory, even though Victor had approved to give them the status of leaders.

What about the village head? I'm still a vassal. The guard thought proudly. Although he is not a vassal now, he earned enough points a year later to exchange for a small piece of land that only needs to pay 50% of the harvest.

Dick timidly followed Maureen on a 9-meter-long suspension bridge. Under the suspension bridge was a 6-meter-wide and 5-meter-deep trench. The tall trees on the steep slopes on both sides of the trench have been cut down, leaving only low shrubs and thorns.

Dick looked up at the four arrow towers behind the 8-meter-high fence and found that the soldiers on duty on the arrow tower were looking at him coldly with a powerful crossbow and could not help shrinking their necks.

In fact, there are six such arrow towers, two on the left and right sides of the camp gate. If an enemy invades, the soldiers on these arrow towers can use a crossbow or military crossbow from a commanding position to kill the enemy opposite the trench.

The other two arrow towers are on both sides of the camp. The other side faces a steep slope. Almost no enemy can attack the camp from there, so the two arrow towers actually act as watchtowers to observe the movement at the foot of the mountain.

"Come on, village chief Dick. The Lord is still waiting inside." Maureen saw Dick's look of fear and was secretly proud, because Victor adopted his suggestion to build the camp.

The terrain here is dangerous, easy to defend and difficult to attack. Four arrow towers are enough to frighten people.

Dick followed Maureen into the camp and found that the camp was much larger than Bayer's camp. There were not only rows of houses, warehouses and animal pens, but also a large vegetable field. The vegetable field was full of several vegetables grown in the water season, including red vegetables, round melons, mustard and so on.

Beside the vegetable field, there is a stream and a 10 meter square pool. The clear stream flows into the pool along an artificial ditch, then passes through the whole vegetable field along the ditch, and finally flows out of the camp through a hole.

Several farmers were busy in the field. They harvested round melons and red vegetables and dragged them to a low house with a cart. They shouted to pour these vegetables into the fence.

"Chief Maureen, what are they doing?" Dick asked curiously.

"Oh, that's raising ground lizards." Maureen explained impatiently.

The ground lizard is an omnivorous lizard unique to the human horse hills. They are large. The adult ground lizard weighs 15 kg and the meat is fresh and tender. Under the condition of sufficient food, they grow very fast and are good at laying eggs. Therefore, at the suggestion of Edwin, Victor asked the collar people to start trying to raise these lizards. After more than a month's exploration, these farmers gradually mastered some tips for raising ground lizards. Now the ground lizard farm can stably provide lizard eggs to the camp.

"Let's go and stop looking." Maureen took Dick to the camp on the top of the mountain.

"Wait, I want to be convenient first." Dick broke free from Maureen's pull and ran to a corner of the fence. Because he was about to see the Lord, he couldn't help peeing nervously.

"Ah! Ah! Stop! Do you want to be whipped? There's a toilet over there!" Dick's behavior surprised Maureen. He grabbed him and pointed to the two huts on the side of the vegetable field.

At this time, Dick found that it was different from the smelly camp he lived in. The camp was very clean and tidy, and there was no feces and sewage on the ground.

Victor pays great attention to the sanitation of the camp and forbids leading people to urinate anywhere. He has several toilets built in the camp. For those leading people who do not abide by the rules, Victor does not mean to help them get rid of their bad habits with a whip.

When Dick solved his personal problems in the toilet, Maureen took him to the ditch in the vegetable field and said to him, "wash your hands here. Remember that the water in the upstream ditch can't move, the water in the pool is for drinking, and the water here is for cleaning. Don't make a mistake, otherwise you'll wait to be pumped."

"Your rules are really big." Dick said yes.

"Hum! What do you know? It's called sanitation, you know? The Lord designed the canal himself. Master Edwin, a scholar of the white tower, also said that it's not easy to get sick." Maureen showed great contempt for the ignorance of village chief Dick.

"Nicole, does your arm still hurt?"

In an exquisite wooden house on the top of the mountain platform, Victor is politely changing the bandage for Nicole. His movements are gentle and accurate, which makes Nicole feel very warm.

Nicole didn't speak. She shook her head gently. There was no shame in her beautiful eyes, but full of tenderness and smile.

"Nicole, you are a knight now. Do you have any plans behind you?" Victor asked Nicole with a smile.

"As usual, Mrs. Sylvia will change my name and surname, and my mother will get the title of lady in the family. As for the future... I don't know..." Nicole said happily, but she became a little sad when she thought of leaving victor in the end.

Even if Nicole is successfully promoted to knight, she and Victor have no future. They can only be lovers at most.

"I mean, when are you going to visit the Everglades?" Victor quickly changed a topic, and suddenly some sad atmosphere made him feel depressed.

"Well, in these two days, we'll start." Nicole smiled at Victor. She didn't tangle with the sadness just now.

"What about your injury?" Victor frowned. As the saying goes, she hurt her muscles and bones for a hundred days. Nicole had a bone fracture in her left arm during the competition with the old ogre. Now she needs to rest.

"It doesn't matter. Depending on the knight's physique, this minor injury can be cured in five days, and I'm especially friendly to water elements. As long as I keep fighting, I can recover in three days." The knight who can resonate with the elements has a much faster recovery speed than ordinary people. Thinking that she has become a real knight, Nicole's mouth can't help but draw a charming arc upward.

Just as victor was about to say something, Lilia's crisp voice came in.

"My Lord, Dick, the head of Pinghu village, is waiting for you outside."

"Come in."

The petite Lilia came in with Dick timidly. When Lilia saw Nicole sitting next to victor, she couldn't help showing her envy.

"Good day, Knight Nicole." Lilia bows to Nicole. Normally, Lilia is called Nicole's sister, but now Nicole has become a high knight and outsiders are present, so today she calls Nicole an adult.

"Sister Lilia, don't be polite." Nicole smiled at Lilia.

It may be related to her mother's humble identity. Nicole is not false to other men, but she is much kinder to women. She especially likes the charming and warm Lilia, who is usually matched by sisters.

"Good day, Lord, knight." Seeing two big men staring at him, old Dick quickly bowed.

"Lilia, have the offerings in Pinghu village been put into storage?" Victor nodded at Dick, but asked Lilia.

"The offerings in Pinghu village have been put into storage, including 80 iron oaks, 120 iron fir, 700 pounds of dried fish, 700 pounds of bacon, 47 animal skins, 100 pounds of dried mushrooms, and 2000 pounds of wild boars."

If Lilia wears a white shirt, a one-step skirt and black silk high heels, she is a beautiful secretary. Victor couldn't help thinking of Lilia standing in front of him and reporting to him with Yingsheng.

Victor has been handling camp affairs with Lilia during this period, and has personally taught her some accounting methods and financial knowledge. Now Lilia has been able to arrange camp affairs in an orderly manner according to Victor's requirements, with the style of some modern assistants.

However, others in the camp think that Lilia will be accepted by Victor as a personal maid, and some people have even begun to call Lilia his wife, and Nelson thinks so, so he no longer resists Lilia's contact with victor.

Victor was angry at being misunderstood by everyone.

I really just want an assistant. I chose Lilia because she is literate, smart, young and studious. Of course, she is beautiful. Well, in fact, the personal maid is also good.

"Why is there only such a little sacrifice?" Victor looked playfully at his appointed village chief Dick.

"Sir, this is all the food left in the village." Dick said to Victor with a bitter face.

"Really? Then it seems that life in Pinghu village is not easy! I once said that villagers are allowed to settle down in this camp. Why no one came? Didn't you convey my meaning to the villagers?" Victor asked coldly, staring at Dick.

"Well, my Lord, the villagers are used to living there. I can't help it." Victor's question made Dick sweat on his forehead.

"Oh, really? By the way, village chief Dick, why is your face swollen? Was it beaten?" Asked Victor, pretending to be surprised.

"No, no, it fell, it fell..." Dick covered his bruised cheek with his hand and replied to victor in fear.

"Well, if you're okay, go back." Victor knocked on the table and ordered dick to leave.

"My Lord, I don't want to go back. I want to stay in this camp." Hearing that Victor wanted to drive him away, Dick immediately knelt down and cried to victor.

Dick's life these days is very difficult. Originally, he wanted to be the head of the village in front of others, but mark took someone to beat him up. Bayer turned a blind eye to this. Those free people who had planned to please the new village head immediately drew a line with him, which made him miserable.

"Dick, I'm very disappointed in you! Baron Victor Wimbledon is the master of this territory. As the village head appointed by me, you must be loyal to me and prove your ability. If you're a waste, go back and be a free man. I think Bayer will kill a free man without hesitation." After listening to Dick's cry, Victor has no sympathy. He must let Dick understand his current situation.

"My Lord, please don't abandon me!" Victor's cold words made Dick tremble with fear.

"Don't you understand now? As my village head, although they will be beaten, they don't dare to kill you. If you give way to them, you will only die."

"What should I do?" Dick was completely out of proportion by this time.

"Go back to Pinghu village. No matter how they humiliate you or beat you, they can't give in. They should shout at them and win the support of other villagers. This process will be very difficult, but you must stick to it, because you have no way back." Victor Needs Dick to make a voice for him in Pinghu village, so he has to give Dick some support.

"Just yesterday, my army destroyed a bandit tribe composed of ogres and jackals. Take a good bath and sleep in this camp today. Tomorrow, I will ask someone to change your clothes, and then send a guard to accompany you to Pinghu village with the ogre's head. You should loudly publicize my achievements to those villagers, but don't try to provoke Bayer class People, because the time is not yet. "

"In addition, in view of your loyalty, I will exempt 10% of the offerings in Pinghu village, so you can take 10% of the materials you brought this time. I suggest you distribute these materials in your own name to those old, weak, women and children. Remember not to try to buy those young people, which will make you die faster."

"Do well! If you do well, I will consider making you my vassal and rewarding your family with land."

Dick is the village head appointed by Victor. He doesn't have any outstanding ability, so he has to tell dick in detail.

Looking at the miserable old farmer who had just beaten chicken blood, she excitedly told Victor to step back. Nicole couldn't bear to ask, "will this Dick succeed?"

"If he is smart enough, there is a great chance of disintegrating the free private land." Victor smiled confidently.

"What if that Bayer killed him?" Nicole knew that Bruce decided not to intervene in the problem of free people in Victor territory. She was worried about the situation Victor would face after they left.

"I will appoint another village head among the free people in Pinghu village. I'd like to see how many village heads Bayer can kill!"

Victor's eyes were a little complicated. Of course, he knew that encouraging a rootless village head to compete for power and profit with Bayer was just to let him die. But if Bayer really takes rough measures to kill Dick, Victor won't have any loss. He will continue to appoint the village head in Pinghu village, but Bayer can't kill endlessly, because it will make him lose the support of free people.

Victor sighed. Now that he had given up the bloody washing of the camp, he could only disintegrate it by provoking an internal struggle in Pinghu village.

Ambition can only be dealt with by ambition.