MTL - Mercenaries and Adventurers-Chapter 14 , town - place to start

Zhao Ji was quite disappointed after entering the city.

He thought that this town should be like the ones in various cultural works in the previous life. The town is full of otherworldly customs, not to mention prosperity and abundance, at least there must be various other races, at least like elves, dwarves, orcs, etc. There must be, and it turned out to be all human beings.

Even people's hair is just plain brown, black, golden brown.

Nothing new.

After passing through the gate opening of the city gate, there is a small square. There are no people in the square, and there are no stalls, only a group of children playing games.

On the left, next to the city wall and the city gate, is the quarter of the town guard. This is a low building of pure stone, and its height is not even as high as the adjacent city wall. Its windows are also very narrow. Zhao Ji reckons that even during the daytime, the inside of the house is pitch-black. It seems that this building only considers the requirements of defense, and does not consider the comfort of living at all.

Directly opposite the small square, that is, directly opposite the city gate, is a two-story wooden building. Although there are only two floors, each floor is very tall, so it is not inferior to the three or four-story residential buildings next to it. At the moment when Zhao Ji passed by the door, he understood from the smell of barbecue coming out of this building, the loud chatter and laughter of the people, and the cheerful laughter of women that this is a place for fun and pleasure. Look at the sign hanging at the door: a big bone-in barbecue and beer mug, indicating that this is a tavern.

Being able to open the tavern at the gate of the city, it seems that either the background here is amazing, or the place is rich.

Between the tavern and the guard station is a road that can be driven. It is a gravel road and extends to the south of the town. There are some shops beside the road. Behind the shops are houses. These houses are all three or four floors of wood. The roof of the house is covered with brown tiles, and the walls are covered with white lime powder. Small pots of flowers are placed in the windows on the third and fourth floors, and vines climb on some walls. This extended road goes straight forward, with a slight arc turn, until it extends to the edge of the city wall, and a series of residential buildings also extend below the city wall. The buildings here look good, and they should be lived by people with some assets in the town. Here it is.

There are several trails branching out from the right front of the small square. These trails extend into the town, and there are still continuous residential buildings inside. Most of these buildings are two stories high, and each floor is not high. The tiles were laid, and the walls were covered with mottled wood, and the windows of every household were reinforced and protected with wooden frames, and the windows were blocked by strips of wood, so that children could not get through. This should be where ordinary residents of the city live. At the end of the contiguous houses is a small cliff, seven or eight stories high. The cliff has been repaired, and there is nothing on the surface, and it is completely impossible for people to climb it. Above the cliff is a castle area surrounded by stone walls. What is inside is completely invisible from Zhao Ji's current position. The ruler of the town must have lived on it.

On the far right of the small city gate square is the main road of the town. As far as Zhao Ji saw it, this road went upwards in a semicircle and went around to a high place connecting the inner city wall above the town.

The main road is paved with large rocks, which is quite different from other roads in the town which are paved with gravel. This main road has been parallel to the city wall on the right, and in the middle of the parallel are independent buildings.

Zhao Ji followed the caravan's donkey cart and went up the road. On the left side of the road was a square brick wall more than one meter high, inside which were planted some low artificially planted trees. Zhao Ji didn't look at the densely packed tombstones.

The building on the right side of the road, the type of building can be seen at a glance. The blacksmith shop with clanging noises and black smoke behind the house is the blacksmith shop; the house with a wide front door is convenient for cars and horses to enter and exit. It is a truck storage distribution center .

Some of them cannot see the purpose, three stories high, with many rooms, each room has a window, it is actually a hotel; people carrying weapons and well-dressed people come and go, a closed four-story building with high-spirited talk, this Zhao Ji later found out that it was the administrative center of the town, which represented the lord in charge of the town's civilians and all the small and specific things of the entire county, but did not manage the affairs of the nobles and their fiefdoms.

Going forward, the left side of the road is no longer a cemetery, but a small park, where several young men and women wearing strange clothes chanted loudly, and more people gathered around to watch.

On the right side of the road are several tall single-family buildings, each with words that Zhao Ji does not understand written on the door of each building, and there is no signboard to explain. Each of the three buildings has three floors, is covered with bright tiles, and has several chimneys on the roof. The tall building has many rooms, and there is a wooden door next to the gate on the first floor to facilitate the entry and exit of trucks, which can lead directly to the yard and warehouse at the back of the house.

After the convoy walked to the building in the middle, it drove directly through the wooden door into the backyard of the building. Several men who were working in the backyard and also wearing caravan cloaks greeted them with smiles when they saw the convoy. Jamura and the other four drivers also showed smiling faces.

The work of the caravan to help Knight Lanisa back with dried fish from Wumi Lake Village was finally completed.