She Is Not a Witch Chapter 73: Winter is coming
The Canghong Empire, the northern leaders.
After the extremely cold winter night, this land has not ushered in the promised warm spring and summer, and the bitter wind and snow are still blowing between the mountains and forests. Although it is already July, most of the territory is still only more than ten degrees, which is far from warm.
The center of the Cold Leaf Collar, Ice Needle City.
This is the coldest and remote city in the empire. It is located in the northern border, close to the Mountains of Sighs, and after crossing the ridges and forests in the north of the Cold Leaf Territory, there is an ocean of floating ice chips.
In the lord's castle, thick candles lit with pine wax were placed on the table, illuminating the snow-covered figures in the room.
Lord Tucson sat at the head of the long table, wearing thick armor. Under the bright silver armor was a solid black cotton layer.
"This snowstorm is expected to last for a long time, not only this month, but also next month, this year, and even next year." Melt away.
After hearing this sentence, the dozen or so thick-armored knights present also fell silent. Only the hot air from under their noses from time to time showed that everyone's hearts were not so stable.
"Winter is coming...."
In this extraordinary world with mana, the cold and heat will be more obvious and changeable than the previous earth. The cold wave is not just a short-term cooling, but a large-scale cooling that lasts for several months or even years. And it's not just the first time something like this happened in the North.
"This time I'm going south again to buy food. Fortunately, the population in our territory is not large, and the food we need is less." Tucson put his gauntleted wrist on the table and tapped it lightly.
"The south of the empire is not stable now, who is willing to buy food?" He asked the knights in his territory.
Purchasing food is not an easy job, not to mention how to cross thousands of miles of rugged mountain roads and pass through many other noble fiefdoms, and even the money for purchasing food is often not sufficient, which is even more test of execution the means of those who
Han Leaf collar is not considered rich, and there are not many things produced here, so it cannot provide sufficient funds.
Although in normal seasons, everyone can live a stable and orderly life, but once this kind of time comes, they will become tense and critical.
After Tucson finished speaking, the knights below fell into deep thought, constantly analyzing the impact of this incident.
They are all vassals of the Viscount Tucson. They own villages and small manors or small castles under their names, and they are the lowest nobles in the empire.
If you accept this task, the lord will generally not assign him and his family other tasks for ten years after completion, and will take care of the younger generation.
However, such a task is by no means easy. If it is not completed well, it will not only face the dissatisfaction of the lord, but also the complaints and anger of the people. The northern border was no different than the southern part of the empire. In the harsh environment, people's lives would be lost at any time, and they would not tolerate the anger in their patience. Maybe one night, a group of people will rush into your small castle and manor, set fire to you, and kill you with swords.
In the history of the local area, such things have happened several times, and in order to appease them afterwards, the lord is not good at dealing with these rioting people, because this land is really short of people and cannot withstand killing.
A dozen or so knights in thick armor were silent. After thinking for a few minutes, many of them believed that this task was extremely difficult, and taking it rashly might only bring disaster.
Seeing that everyone was silent, Lord Tucson tapped his fingers slowly, and his dark blue pupils slowly swept across the faces present. Most of these people were 40-50 years old, with brown and black beards, and dressed in different styles At this moment, some looked at the table, some looked at the candlelight in the table, and some looked at their rough palms, lost in thought, and no one answered.
In this regard, Tucson is also well aware that the situation this time is different from the past. Now the situation in the empire is unclear, and several uprisings have broken out in the south. There were also faint and unstable news. People were panicked for a while, even he, the lord who stayed in a remote corner, received a lot of messy and unclear news from his relatives.
Some people say that the Duke of Raven began to dispatch troops to forge weapons and armor. Others said that the Griffon family in the west began to plan to restore their country and prepare to secede from the empire. There are also folk rumors that the old Ansair The crown prince still has descendants alive, and that is the one who should be on the throne. People who were loyal to the crown prince in the past are secretly active again, spreading rumors that are not good for the Eckerman brothers.
"In order to survive this cold winter, I am going to sell some of the treasures of the past and collect 1,800 extraordinary gold coins. I don't know any loyal knights who are willing to go." Tucson spoke again, saying that he planned to conditions of.
Hearing these words, these knights finally changed. Their eyes were no longer focused on the tabletop and pine candles.
They begin a new meal of analysis and hesitation.
Finally, three knights raised their hands.
"I would like to serve Lord Tucson." Then they pushed away the heavy wooden chairs and stood up. Amidst the sound of armor rubbing, the three pressed their arms on their chests and bowed to salute.
"Then there are a few of you." Looking at the three of them, Tucson nodded slowly, then called in the clerk, and began to prepare the contract, documents and other necessary things.
The pine wax candles in the room were still burning~IndoMTL.com~ emitting a little black smoke and rosin, but the atmosphere was much more relaxed at this time, and some knights began to communicate with each other in a low voice, feeling relieved.
Looking at the appearance of these people, Lord Tucson shook his head slightly, stopped speaking, but turned his gaze to the window of the gray rock, the coniferous trees all over the mountain were covered by snow, only the snow piled on the branches could be seen faintly Saw some black.
The pure white snow-covered world does not mean beauty in the eyes of the locals. They will not be surprised by such a huge snowfall like the people in the southern part of the empire, but will feel bored and depressed.
Snow on the tree branches, snow on the road, snow on the haystack, snow on the roof, snow in the field, cold and freezing snow for hands, unmelted ice on the ground, blurry frost on the windows, water Condensed hard surface in cylinder.
The cold penetrates into every corner and every crevice of life, cutting your body like a knife, making you painful and sober, soberly aware of your own insignificance and powerlessness, the gradually submerged despair and asphyxia.
Facing the slowly approaching winter solstice giant, the local residents could only hold on to the warmth left at hand, and struggled to meet the test of the cold winter in prayer and extreme frugality.