MTL - Mercenaries and Adventurers-Chapter 16 , early morning - moments before dawn

With the crowing of the roosters in the chicken coops of various households in the city, a new day began for the people living here in Kendall City in early autumn.

At this time, the glorious sun was barely above the horizon to unleash its power, and this time was just enough for hardworking people to get up, fill a basin of water from their wooden buckets, and clean their appearance.

Farmers who have fields near the town have to catch up with the opening of the town gate early, and strive to catch up with the first wave of queues to get water, while those who come later have to accept the long queue and the disgusting eyes of the shepherd of the **** of agriculture.

The apprentices of the craftsmen have to climb out of the bed to rekindle the flames of the extinguished stove. In this way, when their master arrives, they can warmly devote themselves to the "hot" work as soon as possible.

Well-to-do families in the south end of Kendall, their wives have to get up quickly and prepare a big breakfast for their husbands so that their husbands don't have a chance to complain and have to hold back Exported nonsense, quite energetic to go to work. Although their husbands prefer to go to the "Wharton's Full Belly" at the gate of the city in the morning to eat a piece of fresh Kendal-style fried fish, and blow with the waiters inside the cowhide that has not been touched with alcohol.

As for the inner city located in the inner city wall made of stone at the height of the town, the old priests and priests need to be put on quickly and in the correct order under the service of young trainee shepherds. Ritual gowns with the characteristics of their respective religions. Before the first rays of the sun shine on the top of the tallest building in Kendal City, they will offer their first prayers of the day to their respective gods and gods, hoping that their humble style and humble words will be recognized by those great ones. There is what is seen and heard. It doesn't matter whether those gods and gods get up at this time, whether you think they are annoying or not.

As for the knights in the inner city, some of them have already completed half of their martial arts training in the morning, some are embracing their own cooks and feasting on fresh meat, and some are still holding wine bottles and indulging in the drunken dreams of last night. .

And what about the owner of Kendall City, Baron Kendall? Is he up now? Oh, I'm sorry, I'm sorry, although Baron Kendall's fief is in Kendall City, he also holds other high-ranking positions in the border provinces part-time, and their family lives in the main city of the province. Only every winter, when the cold winter brought society to a standstill and his work temporarily ended, the whole family would return to Kendall City to live in the winter. Then, let's see what Baron Kendall was like at dawn.

Zhao Ji was trying to bury his head under a pillow filled with straw, but the crowing downstairs seriously affected his sleep. The sound insulation of this simple wooden house is too bad. Especially when the watchdog downstairs also joined this extraordinary singing conference every morning, Zhao Ji had to give up his plan to sleep and get up to find some work to do.

In the past few days, he has been chopping firewood for the blacksmith shop, which was originally a regular job for blacksmith apprentices from master blacksmiths. But the work was tiring and heavy, and he couldn't learn any blacksmithing skills through repetitive work, so Zhao Ji, who was inquiring about work in a tavern, just invited a few blacksmith apprentices to each have a glass of light beer, and he took the job .

Wages are settled on a daily basis, and you get paid for every day you work. The money was raised by several blacksmith apprentices, because they were supposed to do this work in rotation, but now they can save this labor with only 10 copper coins a day, and they think it is worth it.

Zhao Ji felt that it was not worth it. The first two days were fine, but after more and more firewood was chopped every day, he proposed to increase the daily wages, but the negotiation failed in the end. After finishing work yesterday, Zhao Ji said he would not come tomorrow.

But what are you going to do today? Let's go around first, Zhao Ji went down to the restaurant on the first floor of the chamber of commerce to see if there was anything to eat.

The dining room on the first floor was buzzing with people, the kitchen was increasing the fire to bake bread, and a large pot of thick soup was standing by the door of the kitchen.

Aunt Dilu, the cook, was preparing meals for the people who came to have breakfast in front of the soup pot. The young men of the chamber of commerce surrounded her, with soft and rough bread baked one by one, and a large bowl of vegetable soup. There was nothing extra, except for the old fox The tail president is an exception.

I heard from other members of the chamber of commerce that the wife of the old president Huwei's cooking was really unpalatable, and the old president of the foxtail couldn't stand it for the rest of his life, so he went to the restaurant of the chamber of commerce to eat. I heard that he also likes to lure newcomers from the chamber of commerce to his home, invite them warmly, and laugh at the ugly faces of the new guys who have to eat because of the bad food, but are embarrassed to say so.

Everyone has been deceived, and the time span of his prank even exceeds the length of time the chamber of commerce was established. This made the old president Huwei very proud, thinking that it was the most worthy achievement in his life to be written on the tombstone, surpassing the establishment of the chamber of commerce.