C22

Fort Ait, the night was dark.

"A kind of grass?" Lin Ke tried to relax his expression as much as possible as his smile grew wider. "Tell me, what kind of grass is it?"

"It's a kind of grass that I've never seen before. This kind of grass is about this long," he gestured with both hands at a distance of about thirty centimeters, "The green leaves have red stripes on them."

Another fellow, who didn't dare to say anything, seemed to be encouraged and said, "Its root is also blood-red. The pigs that were fed with this grass grew quickly and were sturdy, but the grass matured a little bit too slowly."

"Blood Vein Grass …" Brooke was instantly speechless. These guys actually fed the Bloody Grass to the pigs and animals!

"What is Blood Vein Grass?" Linke asked.

"The Bloody Grass is a precious magical medicinal herb. It usually grows in the wild and there aren't many plants circulating on the market. Therefore, its value is very high. The Bloody Grass is extremely helpful to the Fire element caster and the Fire element warrior in their cultivation. A few medicines made with the Grass of Blood could even help the Fire element user break through their bottlenecks. "Brook viciously looked at the three of them. He almost wanted to kill them.

"Wait, are they usually grown in the wild?" Lin Ke looked at Brooke, and after seeing the latter nod, he suppressed his shock and gave a signal to him and Burton. The two of them understood, and moved away the surrounding guards and servants, leaving only Lin Ke, Xue'er, Lilisse, Neil, Brook, and Burton along with the other three commoners. Lin Ke then opened his mouth and said to the last person among the three, "You said that this grass is ripening a little too slowly?"

The three of them were scared by this strange atmosphere. The timid guy hesitated for a while before he said with a trembling voice, "Yes, master."

"So, you can grow this grass?" Rincewind was patient.

The older man seemed to have understood Link's meaning, he hurried to say, "Yes, master, we tried to grow this grass, and found out its breeding method and conditions, we are willing to give it to the benevolent you!" After hesitating for a moment, he added, "The crime of bringing in the beast tide is on us. Please don't blame our families!"

Linke gave the older man a meaningful look. "What's your name?"

"In reply to Master, my name is Peter. You can call me Old Peter." The middle-aged man was much calmer than before.

"Who found this Blood Vein Grass?" Who cultivated it? " Link asked the other two.

The younger man looked at everything in front of him in a daze, then stammered, "Yes, it was discovered by Old Peter. It was also developed by Old Peter. We're his neighbors, we've also fed pigs and beasts with this kind of grass …" Esteemed lord, please let us go. We still have a family of old and young waiting to be taken care of. The younger man and the less talkative two fell to their knees and kowtowed.

Lin Ke didn't pay too much attention to the two of them. He waved his hand to get someone to help them up, but the guards that came forward scared the two of them. They thought that Lin Ke wanted to pull them out to behead them, so they calmed down after a while.

Lin Ke looked at old Peter in shock and instructed Burton, "Take old Peter to a safe place, I'll ask him some things later. The other two can just send them back to where they belong."

"Yes, young master." Burton would never hesitate or be rude.

"Thank you, old master! Thank you, old master!" The two of them acted as if they had just received amnesty. They then looked at Old Peter in unison. Although they couldn't bear to see him, neither of them spoke up.

When the city walls became quiet once more, Lin Ke opened his mouth once again, "Uncle Brooke, is it just the Bloody Grass really able to attract such a large group of beasts?"

Brooke said uncertainly, "If there's a large number, there's a possibility that it might have alarmed a magical beast that just happened to pass by."

"I hope so," Rincewind murmured.

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The first rays of the morning sun illuminated Novinha.

When the light shone on the huge windmill, it left behind a huge shadow in the city.

Link stayed up all night, observing the situation outside from the top of the wall. Behind him, Snow, Lilisse, and Neil didn't leave for even half a second. Only Brooke and Burton left to take care of the city's defenses and routine.

"It's already dawn and the monster herd has almost scattered. Sister Xue Er, you and Lilisse should go back and rest for a while. There's still some work to do during the day." Lin Ke looked at the two girls' tired yet stubborn expressions and felt helpless.

Xue'er pouted but stood there without moving. Lily merely shook her head lightly and ignored him.

It was unknown how many times such conversations had occurred, but none of the three had given up. This made Neil, who was standing behind the three of them, silently shake his head and mutter in his heart.

"If you guys don't leave, then I'm leaving," Lin Ke stretched his back. He had always had a regular schedule, but by now, he was no longer sleepy.

"Where are you going, young master?" Your room is for someone else! " Xue'er followed up to remind him.

"Then let's go to your and Lilisse's room and squeeze in," Linke said in a rare irregularity.

"I can still accept it." Xue'er's face reddened in shyness, but she stubbornly refused to lower her head and instead looked at Lily, only to discover that the latter didn't seem to be in the mood at all. She simply nodded her head in a completely indifferent manner …

Linke fled.

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Outside of the castle, the beasts gradually dispersed. During the day, the high level Zerg magical beasts only showed up from afar and left. They didn't even try to launch an attack and just chose to retreat, which made the people inside happy.

After taking turns to rest for the night, the group of five bodyguards and knights started to clean up all the solitary wild beasts on the hill that was surrounded by the river. Some of the more daring hunters of Naoka also joined in, and faced the gradually falling solitary wild beasts, they handled them even more cleanly than the Guardian Knights.

By the time the last beast had been cleared, Brooke, who had been sent out to scout, had confirmed that the beast herd was indeed far away, and the alarm had been lifted, the civilians of Novosha began to deal with the carcasses of the beast that had been killed in the wilderness excitedly. They believed that they would not worry about food for a long period of time, and the broken limbs that littered the ground also caused them to look at Lin Ke and the others with even more reverence in their eyes.

After sending a few guards to guard the surrounding highlands, Rinko forced Xue'er and Lilisse to get some sleep. In the end, the one who ended the nagging topic was the skin care report from Earth.

Meanwhile, Link had brought Neil, Brooke, and Burton to where Old Peter was.

"Don't be nervous," Lin Ke said to the flustered old man Peter, who had clearly not slept at all, "I'm only interested in the matter of raising the Bloody Grass, of course, you should understand that I can't let too many people know about this, so I'm sorry to have you wait for me here for the night."

"I dare not, I dare not! This is my honor!" Old Peter was terrified.

"Tell me about it, Brooke and I went to take a look at your yard. Judging from the broken leaves and branches left behind, it's definitely a Bloody Grass. Of course, the garden where you grew the strange flowers and plants is also completely destroyed."

"Yes, noble master," Old Peter's words were smooth and his train of thought became much clearer after one night without sleep, "I found the Bloody Grass in a valley outside Lan Mountain by chance and was only curious about it back then. I thought that it was a plant that I had never seen before and thus brought back all three of them together. I managed to get two of them alive in one go, which was the end of the whole thing. Who knew that one day, a pig that was reared at home jumped out of its cage and destroyed quite a few plants in the garden, I was starving for three days in one go. But who knows … "Old Peter carefully looked at Brooke, who was standing behind Lin Ke, and found that the latter had a pained expression on his face. He couldn't help lowering his voice," The pigs that were starved for three days didn't become uncomfortable at all, and instead grew up in circles several times. "Old master!"

"Alright, don't worry, it's not certain exactly what caused the beast tide, but after all, this incident didn't cause too much damage, I originally didn't intend to blame anyone," Seeing that he still couldn't let go of his worries, Lin Ke tried to comfort him again, "I have an idea that I need to ask for your opinion, Old Peter."

"Go ahead and say it, master!" The old man put down the big stone in his heart, and suddenly felt extremely grateful towards the kind and kind nobleman in front of him, "Whatever you say, Old Peter will do. We shouldn't have any right to express our opinions in front of you."

Burton, who was standing behind Link, nodded in satisfaction. Seeing Kieran's actions, old Peter felt more at ease.

"I hope that you can swear your allegiance to the Murters' clan and become a high-ranked servant!" Linke's tone was flat.

In the eyes of these commoners, those who were normally able to go in and out of the castle to carry out their duties were already a head taller than the rest of the people in the town, but old Peter knew very well that none of them could be recognized by the family as an official guardian, and the servants in charge of daily affairs in the castle were all sent from the big city where the Moutes lived. In the eyes of the commoners like old Peter, they were already considered as big figures, but now, instead of pursuing his own faults, the nobleman had given himself the qualification to join the family!

A high level servant! He could feel a different title just by looking at it!

"What are you thinking? For men, it's more straightforward! " Brooke did not have any good feelings towards these fellows who used fire-attributed spiritual herbs to feed pigs and beasts.

"Yes, it's the lord. I'm willing, I'm willing!" Old Peter beamed.

"Very good," Link stood up and patted Old Peter on the shoulder. This originally impolite action on Earth almost made him jump up in excitement, "Uncle Burton, I'll leave the rest of the matters for you to handle. I've overstepped my boundaries enough, I hope you won't blame me."

"How could that be? Your will is our will." Burton bowed respectfully and wished Old Peter to go home and reunite with his family. He was not allowed to mention anything about the Bloody Grass to anyone, including his family.

Only Linke and the others were left in the room.

"Uncle Burton, I don't know the financial situation of our family, nor do I plan to know too much about it. But you have to do this for me!" Lin Ke gave a solemn bow to Burton, causing the latter to be at a loss of what to do.

"Castle Aite must become a brand-new source of wealth for the family!"