When I agreed to make a magical pact with him to keep it a secret, Ann finally told me the truth.It is not uncommon for a nobleman to have several wives in the northern provinces, and the people here worship the goddess of liberty, and monogamy is not promoted in the teachings of the goddess of liberty, which is very much in line with the reality of the Northlands.If monogamy is practiced, three-quarters of women will be homeless or living alone, so the implementation of polygamy here is more in line with the needs of life here.Count Zimmermann married a total of five wives, only the first wife Jenny was the daughter of a noble viscount in a neighboring province, Jenny gave birth to two children for Count Zimmerman, these two children are Ann and Demi, which is also the only son and daughter of Count Zimmerman, and the rest of the wives are married one after another, and did not raise children for Count Zimmerman.At the beginning of the barbarian invasion of the manor, when the Count Zimmermann arranged a way back for his family, he arranged for Ann, Demi and all his wives to hide in the cellar together, of course, Count Zimmerman's own sister Lady Arya happened to be a guest at the Zimmermann Manor at that time, and was also involved in this disaster.Counting the personal maids brought by the ladies, there were a total of thirteen ladies hiding in the cellar, but Lady Arya's maids were the worst, when Count Zimmerman's servant died, Anthony was the first to kill Arya's maid, and then Ann's mother, Lady Jeanne's maid, Lady Jeanne's maid gave up her life in order to let Ann go.The four servants were actually very different from each other, and Anthony and Joseph had similar ideas, believing that since they were locked up in the cellar, this was a godsend, and they should enjoy the happy life of a noble count.But Mavhank and the gardener thought it should be lower-key, believing that Anthony and Joseph's approach was purely seeking death.Winemakers Anthony and Mavhank are more powerful on the individual, they are veterans who have retired from the battlefield, they are fearless about life and death, and they are the kind of murderers who can die at any time.Joseph, the fat chef, is an old pervert who likes to drink a lot.And the gardener was the most mysterious, until now everyone called him a gardener, and no one knew his name.Unwilling to oppress the maid beside the mistress of the manor, Mavhank and the gardener occupied a common room, stocked up some food, and kept it shut all day.Anthony and Joseph, after the death of the servant, did not at first show any affection for the wives of the Earl of Zimmermann, but at best spoke frivolously or were careless about the younger maids who remained.They only dared to flirt with the maids beside the ladies, and the habit they had cultivated over the years made them somewhat awe of the countess.On the contrary, some of the maids who had been physically assaulted wanted to seek refuge from their wives and tell them their complaints.At this time, the wives of Count Zimmermann, in order to protect themselves, ignored the pleas of the maids, and acquiesced in the practices of Anthony and Joseph.It was they who pushed out some of their closest personal maids with their own hands, and became the playthings of Anthony and Joseph for their amusement.However, life in the wine cellar is not a day or two, a few days have passed, everyone has not seen the rescuer appear, and they will still wait patiently, a week has passed, two weeks have passed and no one has appeared, and the despair of being trapped in the wine cellar has spread to everyone's hearts.Everyone will die in this grave-like cellar!
This is the thought of almost everyone trapped in the wine cellar, when the shadow of death hangs over the heart, the darkest emotions hidden in the heart will be infinitely magnified, and anything that was previously unthinkable will slowly ferment under this invisible pressure, and finally the demons will defeat reason.Wine is the medium of all evil, especially in such a large cellar, drinking and recreation has become a daily necessity, especially for the northerners of the empire.Although Mafu Hank is still a decent person, the biggest weakness of this person is that he likes to drink, and when he gets drunk, his temperament becomes more rough, especially after countless desperate emotions have accumulated in his heart, he becomes like another person.After a drink, with the help of the maids, Anthony finally got his wish to put Mafu Hankra into the water, after Mafu Hank sobered up, he also regretted it, since he had made a mistake, Hank had nothing to hesitate, especially the ladies of Count Zimmermann were quite good-looking, and they agreed with Anthony's approach, so the four of them directly divided the ladies of Earl Zimmermann in the lounge, including his daughter and sister Lady Arya.Anthony occupied the mother and daughter of Lady Jenny and Demi, Joseph took a fancy to Lady Arya and a girl with a hint of orc blood, and the other four Zimmerman wives were sent by Anthony to Mavhank's lounge When Ann and I walked to Mavhank's lounge, it was already empty, and the room was a little messy, but it was much better than Anthony's lounge, at least the women's attire was still relatively normal, but the spirit was a little sluggish, The remaining women sat in the room at a loss, hiding their faces with their hands, as if they couldn't face Ann.It can be seen that they were not injured in any way, and Mavhank and the gardener should not have forced them, but seeing them look so ashamed to see Ann must have done a lot of things that were detrimental to the Zimmerman family.An cold face led these women back to Anthony's lounge, it was Demi who opened the door, she had changed into a fairly clean dress, in the lounge, I saw a pale, graceful and elegant lady wrapped in a blanket, even if she still had this bruise on her neck, sitting in an oak chair at the moment, she looked extraordinary, but no matter how much powder was rubbed on her face, she could not hide the erosion of time, she should be regarded as a well-maintained middle-aged woman.I guess she should be Ann's mother, Lady Jenny, before Demi desperately searched for the key from Anthony, she should have been trying to rescue her mother, Lady Jenny, and I don't know what kind of abuse Lady Jenny received, so Demi rushed into the room and cried.Lady Jenny stood beside Lady Arya with a calm face looking at a few women kneeling on the ground, I saw that although the middle-aged lady's expression was calm, and even her face had a faint smile, but the coldness in her eyes was cold to the bones, this is the noble family I don't want to know too much about the secret history of the Zimmerman family, so after Ann returned to the lounge, he left outside the house under the pretext that he wanted to cast a magic spell to make all the golden cider in the cellar disappear, in fact, I also asked the people in the lounge, When I cast spells, all of them stayed in the lounge, and no one could get out of the lounge, or else my magic would take them into a strange plane.I think this lame excuse sucks, it's like telling Ann directly: I don't want you to know the secret of my magic!
Ann agreed with great interest, and soon, the door to the lounge was slammed shut.Then, with the Temporal Breaker magic hammer, I cast a spell to set up a portal to the Valley of the Willows in a passage filled with very clear passages, and then stepped inside, and a drop of cold water fell into my neckline, making me feel excited.The underground caverns of the Willow Valley are a little colder and more humid than the cellars.Standing on the edge of the altar of the underground cavern of Sin, I saw two capable orc warriors guarding the door of the stone house, and they were not surprised to see me coming out of the portal, but ran over to me excitedly and saluted.I politely asked for the names of the two orcs, and then, calling their names, I told one of the orcs to send a message to the village of Karantso: to bring her to the altar with at least fifty strong orcs to carry the barrels.Then, I had another orc follow me back to the cellar, where I managed to build a staircase with a few barrels under the vent, and climbed up the staircase to the vent with ease.After a long climb, I finally returned to the gardens of Zimmermann Manor.By this time, Captain Cynthia had been waiting eagerly at the entrance of the cave, and seeing that I had come up for so long, he hurriedly asked me about the situation inside.Because I promised Ann to help him keep the secrets of the cellar, I only said that Count Zimmermann was killed in battle while guarding the manor, and only some of the ladies of the manor were trapped in the cellar.Cynthia had wanted to organize people to dig up the cellar several meters deep and then save people.But I said to Cynthia, "Captain, I have a way, and in two days, I will bring them out of the cellar in their entirety!"
”Cynthia nodded briskly this time and said, "Okay, I'll give you two days, and after two days, I'll be waiting for you at this vent, and if I can't see you, I'll find a way to dig it up!"
”At this time, Basil, who was standing on the roof, jumped down from above, ran to Captain Cynthia's side, and said directly: "I found that there are lonely barbarians in the town of Maas, they seem to be searching for something!"
”"Eagle Squad, get ready to go!"
Captain Cynthia said without hesitation.Ruka the Minotaur was a little hesitant and didn't want to follow Cynthia and the others, he wanted to stay and wait for me here at the manor's vent.After Captain Cynthia took Wayne, Xiu, and Basille away, the attentive Ruka pointed to the bruise on the neckline of my neck that was pinched out by Anthony's dying and asked, "Jia, are you injured?"
”I punched him in the chest, then smiled at him and said, "Trust me, it was just a little accident" and I got into the vent again, this time with ease.Everything went on in silence and darkness, not even a single torch was lit.The big shaggy feet stepped on the flat ground tamped with clay, and unexpectedly printed clear footprints that led to the portal not far away.Beads of sweat dripped from the sturdy body, and the huge oak barrel weighing hundreds of catties was quite difficult for even these strong orcs to carry, but at this time, none of the orcs made a complaint, they were doing their best to carry the huge oak barrel on their backs, and walked towards the portal that flashed with thunder.I sat on top of the tall barrel stacks and watched dozens of able-bodied orcs carry barrels of golden cider into the portal.Who would have thought that even half a year ago, these orcs were still yellow-faced and thin-skinned, they had been discriminated against in the city of El, and they were living hungry, and now they were able to leisurely graze, hunt, gather herbs and cut wood in the Xinliu Valley.If you're lucky, you can also hunt a fat white-spotted saber-toothed tiger to fight the tooth sacrifice, the orcs have established an orc village in the Xinliu Valley, and the stable life has made them prepare to reproduce the next generation, there are already some orc girls with big bellies drying herbs in the village, and in a few months, more small lives will be born in the village.At this moment, the entire cellar of golden cider has been emptied for more than half of it.The orc warrior Karantso stood by my side, directing the orcs to carry barrels of golden cider into the caves of the Willow Valley.Karantso is arguably the most attentive housekeeper, she keeps a clear record of everything that belongs to me, and she never asks for anything extra, as long as I don't say it, she doesn't take the initiative to ask.As the barrels were emptied, the entire underground cellar was exposed.I asked Karantso, "What is there lacking in the valley lately?"
”"The most scarce thing is food, you have been out of El City for nearly a month, we have not replenished a grain of grain during this time, the wheat flour has been all exhausted ten days ago, and now we eat the traditional food of the orcs all day long, raw meat and stewed wild vegetables!"
Karantso replied truthfully.As soon as she mentioned the raw dried meat stewed wild vegetables, my stomach was overturned.The kind of wild vegetable soup that was as unpalatable as a decoction of Chinese medicine was still fresh in my memory, and I frowned and said, "Didn't you already bring some seeds?"
Why haven't you seen the effect yet?
”"There are more weeds in the wheat field than ears of wheat, and I have tried to have some people weed in the wheat field, but they have trampled more wheat than they have pulled out, and even the orcs have a lot of headaches for pulling weeds," Kalancuo explained. ”Karantso said, "There is also a shortage of salt, those saws for logging should also be replaced, and the sealing box containing the intermediate magic herbs is almost gone, and it needs to be replenished as soon as possible." ”"Got it!"
I said.At the moment I was thinking: what a headache!