103. Chapter 103 – Food Crisis?
Chapter 103 – Food Crisis?
The vacant lot on the east side of the town.
127 elven refugees sat under makeshift shacks, blankets on the ground and piles of clean water and dry food.
They had old people, children, and pregnant women.
At first they were terrified and wary of everything.
But at this point none of them had time to worry about those sensitive emotions, and were so focused on food and water that they even forgot to say thank you.
These were brought to them by the local people.
Spontaneously or semi-spontaneously-it was Heine who made Jones make this appeal.
Are you not fanatical about elf-love?
Come then, come and offer your love.
They are half-elves and humans.
And did not leave directly, but watched from afar.
It wasn’t that they hadn’t seen fleeing elves in the past.
But it was the first time that they had seen the elves in such a close distance, on a large scale, and without reservation.
Though instinctively they didn’t want to see the perfect incarnation of their hearts reduced to this.
But this scene was like an addiction that made people unable to take their eyes off of it.
…
Heine was also watching.
He happened to be in the eastern suburbs and was the first to arrive.
The three men behind him were more excited than he was.
Teacher Xia: “Brother Yang look at that pregnant woman, the one in green.”
Catching Goat: “Let me see …… Wait a minute, this person can’t be the dog left his mom, right? I’ve only seen it on the picture.”
Dog left over?
What kind of crappy name is that ……
Heine looked over as well.
That elf mother had a nasty birthmark on her face, so it was no wonder that Mr. Xia recognized it right away.
So who was the dog leftover?
…
Wei Temple Iris: “Who is Dog Leftover?”
Catch the Goat: “The …… trigger for the founding of Scarlet Dawn? When he was 13 years old, he managed to get Old Gao to step out of his comfort zone, single-handedly take on Ignacio, and bloodied his former coworkers.”
Wei Temple Iris: “Then why is it called Dog Leftover? Is it better to have a cheap name to feed?”
Teacher Xia: “No. …… When Gao Wen came to the Scorched Mountain Rescue, he was just a few days old and mixed with the corpses of the whole village, which were left over from the hyenas, so he was called Dog Leftover.”
The corners of Heine’s mouth couldn’t help but twitch.
…
Wei Temple Iris: “…… I f*ck this is too hellish, if this were to be in reality I’d have to knock two wooden fish high and low to slow down a bit. What happened? He was adopted by Gao Wen? Why haven’t I seen him?”
Catch the Goat: “Adopted indeed, and a knight squire. ‘Sunset Church’ that copy you know, on that mountain road to the copy, Gawain was tuned out and came back and his men were all eaten by the gray wolves, this time no one was left.”
How does it feel even more hellish?
Wei Temple Iris: “It’s okay sheep brother, this time all left, the second weekly program main is a no regrets.”
Catch the sheep: “This is also not counted as my two-week program, I enter the pit late, the regret of the early stage of so many – equipment another say, the main plot.”
Mr. Xia: “But you later regrets are paved with the plot in front of you.”
Catching sheep: “It makes sense, so think about it we did change the fate of many people. Maybe this time the dog may not have the opportunity to know Gao Wen, but I would rather him not know, grow up healthy on the line.”
Wei Deng Kite sighed with emotion, “Hearing you say this, I also want to go to the north to take a look, come all the way here, really don’t quite want to have regrets.”
Mr. Xia heatedly smiled, “Coincidentally, I also want to go. I guess you want to go to Ati Town.”
Wei Dian Iris: “Who wouldn’t.”
…
Damn this bunch of riddlers …… keep going down ah!
Heine secretly made a mental note to keep an eye out for the town of Ati in the future.
Leaving the crowd, he walked towards where the guards were gathered.
Jones was asking Todd for information.
“…… That’s the general situation, I just mentioned that I could consider joining Greenleaf Town, and they all followed me, and then the word spread to …… the number of people exceeded.”
Todd finished in a small voice and looked at the lord.
The threshold Jones had set for him was 50 people, and he had gotten 127 at once.
It was a lot of bull to put him through.
But the lords don t look too happy about it ……
Suddenly, the crowd stirred.
He saw Heine.
The heart that had been hanging in the air was instantly put back into his stomach.
A strong sense of security surged through him.
He knew that Mr. Heine was in charge of Greenleaf Town now.
“My lord.”
Jones owed a slight bow to Heine.
After the greeting, Heine looked to Lavan, who was standing next to Todd.
“How did you two meet?”
This kid had recently traveled back and forth between the Eastern Suburbs and Cuiye Court, so much so that he had lost a bunch of weight, but his spirit had increased by a hair, and his eyes had become sharp, so where was he still like the loiterer half a month ago?
Lavan: “Sir, the rebel army heading to the Withered Trace has recently been looting the nearby elven villages, I went to inform them of their evacuation on Lady Jianglu’s orders, and I ran into Todd.”
“Yes sir, if it wasn’t for Lavan killing the two scouts that were trailing us all the way, none of us might have made it back.” Todd said with a heartfelt expression.
Oh?
Heine surveyed Lavan in surprise.
“You kid can do it!”
Lavan smiled coyly and turned a grateful gaze on Mr. Xia.
“Thanks to your undead. I’ve been practicing since that lecture, and my sneaking skills have improved tremendously!”
“Uh …… pretty good, pretty good.”
Heine looked at him and then at Mr. Xia.
The eyes were more or less sympathetic.
This was probably considered teaching the disciple to starve the master.
…
Mr. Xia suddenly became alert: “Why is he looking at me like that?”
Catch the Goat: “You’re being whored out for nothing, you taught piano feet to this kid, he practiced diligently, the experience didn’t count against you.”
Wei Dian Kite: “Teaching a man to fish doesn’t count as experience? Then I have to be careful in the future, teaching to NPCs has to hide at least one page of sword sheet.”
Teacher Xia: “? You just had no regrets? Damn you, there’s a face change in the Warlock skill bar too, right?”
Guardian Iris: “Hehehe, it’s called touching a brother to cross a river.”
…
While the three of them were touching their brothers to cross the river, Todd finished telling about the sightings in the forest one after another.
“…… That rebel army has gone crazy, at first it only wanted food and clothing, now it doesn’t even want to let go of people.”
Not even letting go of people?
Heine smelled the possibility of some kind of large-scale evil ritual.
He looked over at a constipated Jones.
“What, is it stressful?”
Jones smiled bitterly, “These hundred or so people are not much of a problem, but it looks like the neighboring elven villages have collapsed, and coupled with that rebel army, I’m afraid that the number of elves fleeing to the eastern suburb this winter is more than ten times as many as in the past, so what are we going to do then?”
Heine smiled.
The other party was beating around the bush saying that the battle at Cui Ye Ting shouldn’t be fought.
If we don’t fight, there will be no rebels, and if there are no rebels, nothing will happen.
So it’s his fault.
Seeing the situation, Jones hurriedly explained:
“You don’t know, most of our food was taken by the people from the Lion King’s Trading House and sold to the mountain people, if there are more refugees pouring in, we really can’t afford to supply them.”
Heine frowned, “What about the cultivated land in the southern mountains? Don’t the locals grow any food at all?”
“…… Maybe yes, they’re planting large-leaved beech trees.”
Big-leaf beech trees?
Heine knew about this common tree, there were quite a few around his house.
The local wooden furniture was basically made of this wood.
“Is this log expensive?”
“Yes, the Lion King’s people purchase it at a high price.”
“Oh …… so the mountain people buy food at a high price too right?”
“…… Yes, yes.”
Jones smiled in trepidation.
Heine laughed too.
He understood.
Of the four borders of the McCalla Mountains, it was so cold in the north that the only piece of land that could be farmed was the Gittil farm.
To the west, Naga’s mage tower stood in a mortar and pestle, the outgoing staff quarters of the House of Veritas.
So no ungrateful ones went there to farm.
The only valuable ones left were the eastern suburbs and the south.
The Law Lords simply helped to centralize industry directly in the Makara Mountains.
Then they collected this tax in the form of a spread instead of the lord’s house.
They were also strangely nice, and didn’t even let the lord know after doing so many good things.
Heine patted Jones’ shoulder, “You just arrange for them to stay, I’ll take care of the food problem.”
Jones nodded depressingly.
He wondered in his heart, could it be that Naga was going to revolt against the Lion King?
…
The morning’s bustle was only momentary after all, and soon people dispersed to their work.
The elven refugees were also properly placed.
Heine was having breakfast at Jones’ mansion when a magical secret falcon flew in.
It was an urgent contact from Huihui.
Jones had the sense to get up and retire.
Heine picked up the small note that the Secret Falcon had conjured.
“『There is a disturbance in the Eagle Mountain, the moneylender asked the Lion King for support.”
There were quite a few moneylenders in the McCalla Mountains.
But there’s only one who can call on the Lion King’s trading house for help when there’s a problem.
Simon.
Now that’s a double whammy.
(End of chapter)