If not for the fire pit cauldron of food left only a bottom, and a pile of bones on the table. George would definitely think that which suddenly visited the adventurers will loot the place.
Rona came over and put two baked sweet potatoes on George's table. There was still some ash on that, which seemed to have been secretly hidden.
''These guys didn't even wait for me to eat, and didn't leave me anything...'' Looking at the meat that had been gnawed clean, George only felt like crying: 'These guys' appetite is really getting bigger and bigger. Today, I asked Rona to make half of the portion...''
If it weren't for the potatoes and sweet potatoes being ready to bake, I'm afraid that someone would not be able to eat enough today.
''Now these guys' need for protein is getting bigger and bigger, relying on grasshoppers and rat meat alone is simply not enough.'' George shook his head and sighed. Johannes didn't have pastures that stocked any dairy products like cheese. And those chickens inside the village were laying just five or six eggs a day, still waiting to hatch their chicks.
Hunters are sent him to the schoolyard, and now the territory is such an idle person, the meat problem, eventually have to return to his body to deal with.
George already had some ideas in mind, and after rubbing his belly, he headed to the blacksmith store.
He had to determine how much material to prepare for the new crossbow to do. And meat and these materials can be prepared together.
These two days the old blacksmith is not in, has gradually transformed into the village chief position. But the blacksmith store is running well. Those faulty farming tools sent in the morning, the servants did not take much effort to fix, and at this time, they are busy getting things for the crossbow.
The most important thing on the crossbow is the bow, and a bow can be made in a few hours for a skilled bow master. However - if the material used is composite, it often takes a long, long time to handle those materials beforehand.
The minions were making the composite material for the crossbow. When George came over, they were making glue.
According to the scrolls, there are about six kinds of materials commonly used to make bows: deer glue, horse glue, cow glue, rat glue, fish glue, and rhinoceros glue.
The method was generally to boil animal skins and other animal tissues (especially muscle cavity) in water, or add a small amount of lime soda, then filter and steam thickly. According to the experience of bow making in later times, the fish glue made from fish tissues, especially the inner skin of palate and fish fat, is the most excellent.
The old blacksmith had a little stock of fish glue. In the old village, the smith could not eat the good stuff and secretly saved it behind his wife's back.
The other things used are from the wolf.
As for the wood, it is the best purple wood - this is the best material for making bows and crossbows, and it is a capital offense for people to use this wood to build furniture!
As for the horns, in the common horn, stag horns, cow horns are good materials. Of course, the best horn, or hawk horn - horned eagle beast.
Such things as horned eagles exist in the north and south, but not everyone can mess with them, without a hundred or eighty people don't want to hunt that kind of huge horned eagle.
''Still missing some horns, ah, there are indeed many specimens in the castle, but they have not been specially treated and have become brittle...'' George shook his head after looking at the situation: 'According to Jack's route, the giant's activity area should still be far from the shelter. Maybe I should go around inside the mountain tomorrow.''
After explaining to deepen the blood groove of those arrows and make them a little longer, to bring the insidious barbs, George left.
Before leaving, he also told the servant to make a simple lightweight skid steer - the kind that can be pulled by a horse and dragged around the mountain.
This thing is very basic, any farmer will know. No blueprints needed. Seeing the weeds and branches that flew up and began to compile, George knew that the servants understood what he meant.
After that, George went around the territory, which was almost empty, but the wolf that was running around chasing rats was very cheerful.
''Who said that the dog is meddling with the rat? This is obviously no worse than a cat.' George nodded his head and intended to walk towards the castle and also attend the training in the schoolyard.
But as he passed by the tavern, he stopped in his hesitation. I wonder if it's a little early to go back. But his canon was still on his bed, and he had to get it.
Was hesitant to cross the step at the door, the door suddenly pushed open, a body than the blacksmith is quite strong village woman appeared there. George immediately recognized who she was.
"Oh~ My Lord, I was just about to go to you..." The thick village woman had an embarrassed face and was a bit tongue-tied.
There was silence inside the house. The village woman jerked up her arm with some scratches, and the village woman behind her, her hand had many scratches with a deep tooth mark - she was sitting on top of a chair was gasping for breath, her head was covered with a big sweat, and she looked across the room viciously. And across the fire pit, Rona, who was holding a broom in her hand, was staring at the enemy like a frightened cat.
"My lord..." The village woman said, "Actually, it's normal not to bathe for several years... Rona is very afraid of water."
'Afraid of water? This girl's shoulders old man has seen, before in the river when absolutely often bathed, just do not wash the hair!' George covered his forehead in his heart secretly said.
Do not have to think much, from her that spoiled bar, wet charcoal black hair, you know what happened - two people spent a good half-day effort, just barely let her wash half of the hair.
The girl was not a bit hurt, but her clothes were torn in a few places in the struggle.
The inside of the house was a mess.
"Rona..." George's forehead bruises, he stretched out a finger, pointing toward her for half a day, but in the end did not say a word.
"Forget it, that's it, hard work for you guys." George gave the two good words of comfort, and sang some hymns to the two air, for such small scratches, but the effect was immediate.
When sending them off, George also gave them a few copper eagles (fine large copper plate, 1 is equivalent to 30 copper plate, 7 is equal to a silver fox), but by the two dropped into the donation box in the square - the old blacksmith before last night said (George commanded), when there is enough money there, the territory will be built inside a church to The old blacksmith had said last night that when there was enough money, a church would be built in the territory. Since then, the money that the lords received from the squire has also been put back in.
George, who had finished wiping Rona's ass, closed the door. Narrowing his eyes, he looked at the waitress.
The vain Rona took a rag, not daring to look at the lord, and pretended to wipe up the bar.
"Stop wiping the bar! Clean the place up!" Leaving these words behind, George went back inside to retrieve the sacred texts and headed towards the schoolyard.
...
In the evening, George accompanied Alexander and the others on a patrol and came across two more 'screaming bull' monsters (Martin's name), this time without Alexander's help. This time, Alexander didn't have to fight. Sixteen squires took care of them smoothly.
In the course of the battle, George saw the effect of today's training - their physical strength had not changed much, but they already possessed skilled techniques.
Faced with that rushing monster, the soldiers did not panic, nor did they head hot to go hard. They quickly changed formations and skillfully avoided the two monsters.
Then they divided ten men to swim with those two monsters, just like a wolf pack against a bull. The remaining six who had finished throwing javelins used their shields and short swords to sharply tackle the dozen or so zombies that followed.
By the time they turned around to join the battle behind them, the two big guys were already close to exhaustion. And the squires were constantly looking for opportunities to stab spears at their bodies like wild boars.
The whole time, they were constantly shouting and cooperating. Occasionally the monster rushed over dead, and the squires were able to skillfully roll to the side to avoid the fatal blow. There were also unlucky people who were accidentally knocked over, and at the critical moment also used shields against the front to protect the vitals.
After a few minutes, the two 'bulls' then fell to the ground one by one, being a blow to the vitals, penetrating the brain.
George, who was standing behind Alexander with his hammer at leisure at the side, watched the battle and nodded his head repeatedly.
''It's only been a day, and it's already had this kind of effect.'' Earlier Alexander told George that they had experienced 16 battles today, exceeding the original plan by 6 times. And the squires, who had already died many times, had already memorized many things firmly. And at critical moments, in the form of body memory, exhibited.
''Compared to those knights who were trained from childhood, although they are still much worse now. But these sixteen people are now enough to deal with two or three knights.''
That night, the lord shared the fourth meal of the day with the squires, and although these soldiers had the qualification of an extra meal, the only meal tonight was rat meat.
But these things they are all eaten and happy, after all, in this big link, it is already very good to have rat meat to eat.
'Fifty rats is not enough for these guys to eat for one meal. But it does not matter, tomorrow there will be other meat to eat.' George looked at the fire pit and froze, on the map, Jack had stopped a long way from the shelter, but never returned.
'According to Aggie, Jack used to be particularly powerful in the mountains and forests, so I think he must have found the trail of that giant. And according to this direction and distance, it is indeed possible to relax some... But every day I'd better go out, no matter what, those cannon crossbows must be finished as soon as possible.''
After seeing the scene in the fire pit, George's heart settled down a little. He raised his head to look at Rona and found that she was also staring blankly at the fire pit there.
''This girl is dumbfounded again.''
George specially granted a drink to the two best performers today - both of whom were inferior folk. But after hearing this, the inferior folk stood up and sternly refused, using the story of atonement from the holy scriptures that George had told them earlier.
George felt a little embarrassed about this in-your-face rejection. He secretly looked over the information on the heads of these two people and found that they were no longer [believers], but [believers of the Atonement].
The other information had not yet changed, because they had not yet gone through monasticism and baptism.
After the night was over, George looked through the scrolls once again and found that Jack seemed to have thoroughly intended to spend the night in the mountains and wondered if he had found something.
Shaking his head, George flipped open the canon. Looking at a hair clipped to it, he launched into a daze.
This long purple hair was slightly bent and curled, and was eaten from inside the bowl to the mouth during tonight's meal.
'There would never be anyone among the lords and ladies who had hair of such a strange color, or they would have been burned to death long ago.'
Thinking of this, George's gaze could not help but glow.
Up to now, he had only seen one person with such hair, and only an evil witch would have such a strange color of hair.
I do not know why, he will always dream of that witch recently.
"I didn't think such a beautiful woman would lose her hair too. But so many days, the fallen hair is not swept out... The dead girl piece, not the ash swept on the floor, thrown into my rice bowl inside it?!"
Shaking his head, George prayed for Jack and went to sleep with his head covered.