Chapter 5 New Years and Departures
Don’t mention the taste of wheat bran. Black bread filled with wheat bran can kill people after being hard three days after being copied. There are often rumors that stupid thieves were killed by black bread.
If you want to eat black bread, you can only cut it with a knife and soak it in the soup. If the conditions are insufficient, you can also soak it in water. Eat black bread directly unless the teeth are better than the monster. I think it is because you have teeth that are better than the monster. Eating black bread for a few years will also cause permanent damage to the gums.
Now that you have two cows raised at home, wheat bran can be used as feed to feed cattle. Of course, the staple food of cows is still straw and grass.
Of course, this is because I paid the land tax with silver coins this year, so there is more wheat flour left. Moreover, farmers usually have to buy things for sale, but they actually have to buy them with wheat for sale. Now, the lack of daily necessities such as salt in the Link family is directly bought with silver coins, which saves more food.
After winter began, the family also changed into new cotton coats and cotton shoes. In the past, in order to keep warm, the family always reduced their time to go out. Whoever wears the only set of old cotton coats in the family when they go out.
In the past, Link rarely went hunting and harvesting firewood. The only set of cotton coats at home was worn by adults. The eleven-year-old Link couldn't run away when wearing them, so he could easily feed the goblin goblins. As for the previous firewood, most of them were reserved before winter.
But this year there is no reserve of so much firewood - Link spent all his time hunting this fall.
This year, charcoal was used in the house. One silver dollar could buy two thousand kilograms of charcoal. The family had stored eight thousand kilograms of charcoal before winter, which was enough to use charcoal to burn the fireplace in winter for heating - two yards, and the eldest brother Xiao Walker's yard burned three thousand kilograms a year.
Compared to dry firewood, of course, there is less smoke from charcoal and burns faster.
Whether it is the charcoal for heating in winter, the oxen and new clothes and quilts, they are all bought by my brother-in-law Stark, who works in a business. Before the Chinese New Year this year, I also specially bought maltose and some dried fruits.
The New Year gift from his brother-in-law Stark was two pounds of tobacco. His father Walker found the wooden tobacco pot he used to make, and after winter began to smoke every day.
After winter, the weather gradually became colder and it rained several times. Link, who had changed into a new cotton coat, always searched for good weather to go to the forest to hunt, and then brought back monsters and silver coins. At this time, his family had long known that Link might have awakened his extraordinary talent, but it was a good thing. Now the family has money, food, meat every meal, wears new clothes, and eats no wheat bran. His life is not much worse than the lord. Of course, there are still many servants in the lord's family.
The point is that talent cannot be forced.
The New Year is the last day when winter ends, also known as the Winter Festival. The weather is still a bit cold on this day. If you want to go out, you can't take off your cotton coat. There is also a fireplace in the house. After eating dried vegetables and stewed meat, Link and his family sat in the house to enjoy it.
Of course, it is not like doing nothing in the New Year, and you still need to cook. When you are free, you can eat some candy or dried fruits. The spiritual culture in the countryside is still very poor. If you are in the city, you will go to church to listen to the priest’s lecture on the New Year.
Looking at his father Walker who had just finished his smoky mist, Link said, "Father, I decided to leave tomorrow."
"So? Have you decided where to go?"
Link: "It's almost the same. I'm going to go out for a few months this time. I'll come back once before winter."
There are still hundreds of silver coins in my family now, so I don’t need to spend money for the time being. This is true for at least a few years. For big merchants and nobles, hundreds of silver coins may not be anything, but for farmers, this is a huge sum of money.
"Well, Mary, prepare your luggage for Link. Change your clothes and blankets."
For non-first sons, there will always be one day when they cannot inherit the family business. When they reach adulthood at the age of fourteen, they naturally have to leave their families, join the army or work. Of course, Link's choice is to be an adventurer.
In fact, on the mainland, the initial reputation of adventurers was not good, and there were many people who robbed and thieves and slashed money.
However, after the establishment of the Adventurer Union, rules and order gradually emerged.
At noon the next day, the first day of the new calendar in 988 of the mainland, Link left the nameless village where he grew up with a short knife and carried a package.
The wind is cold and the earth is still full of yellow depression.
Link followed the dirt road that the caravan walked out and found a direction at will. As long as he walked along the road, he would definitely walk to a human town, which would not be bad. Link and the villagers had never left the nearby villages and towns in their lives. For the outside world, he could only get a little and a half-true news from the various boastings of those adventurers who had been staying in the tavern in the village after drinking a few drinks.
Now Link has a combat qi value of 100 points, and is already at level 4 of the battle position. There are also ten points of magic, but Link does not know any magic. Not only can he know magic, but Link's combat skills are also from a wild path. He summarized himself by fighting with the goblin Goblin for many years.
Link didn't know that most of the adventurers or soldiers on the mainland had their entire lives below level five. In a society with pyramid structure, there were always the most under-levels. It can be said that as soon as Link debuted, he had an average level of adventurers.
In addition to talent, upgrading the battle position also requires resources. The rich nutrition of good coaches allows the rich noble children to reach level 5 or above before the age of twenty.
If you are a richer guy, you can choose to test your qualifications. If you are lucky, you can become a magician and you can solve the enemy from afar.
Although archers in combat vocational schools are also long-range professions, their power is relatively small and only suitable for large-scale use in the army. Facing defensive monsters, bows and arrows often cannot penetrate the skin of the monsters.
Link was alone with less luggage and fast footsteps. After walking dozens of miles, he actually caught up with a caravan.
Link asked a guard at the end of the caravan: "Uncle, where are you camping at night? Is there a market town nearby?"
Uncle Guard: "There is a town in front of you, and there are still fifteen miles, or maybe twenty miles, and you can arrive before dark. We will camp in the town at night."
"Thanks."
Uncle Guard: "You are not allowed to follow the caravan, but you can walk in front of us."
"I see."
Even if it is twenty miles, it is only two or three hours' walk. There is indeed a place to stay before dark.
It is still quite dangerous to sleep in the wilderness. A team with a large crowd can take turns to spend the night, and you always have to rest alone.
Chapter completed!