bookpub Chapter 85 Both were completely bewildered.
Chapter 85 Both were completely bewildered.
There was so much food that Li Mosi was a little overwhelmed.
The bread, along with staple foods like biscuits, weighed as much as two adult live donkeys, filling a full twenty sacks.
The various large and small pieces of smoked and cured meat combined weigh as much as three live donkeys!
And this only accounts for half of all the food in this harvest!
There were also fifteen rounds of whole wax-sealed cheese, five barrels of animal fat, a dozen packets of unidentified herbs, and a whole 100-pound bag of beans and oats.
These are not the most precious things.
The most precious items were five small barrels of spirits, a barrel of spices, and a barrel of fine salt!
These nobles really know how to enjoy life!
You brought so much stuff with you after just one trip to the forest!
Finally, Li Mosi looked at several freshly hunted roe deer and wolves.
"Hiss..."
Unlike Zi'an, Zi Yi was not only excited.
As the leader, he has more to think about.
He posed the most pressing question to Li Mosi: "Master, how are we going to move all this stuff back?"
This time the spoils are too many!
Li Mosi rolled up the paper listing her spoils and stuffed it into her pocket.
He sighed, "Sigh, there really are too many."
Zi'an nodded vigorously: "Even if you bring my family over, we still can't eat all this prey before it rots."
Zi Yi, reminded of this, also realized the problem: "It seems like we can't finish it."
It wasn't even winter yet, and he hadn't expected to have such a large harvest.
Li Mosi did a quick calculation.
A hundred goblins can eat up to two donkeys a day.
Thirty-four donkeys would need to feed for seventeen days.
The current temperature is just right for a comfortable feeling, around 22 degrees Celsius.
This meat will rot in four or five days at most.
We need to find a way to extend the shelf life.
He waved his hand at Zi Yi: "Have the goblins separate the donkeys from the game. I'll teach you how to preserve them later. There are more important problems we need to solve now."
Zi Yi was taken aback: "What's the problem?"
Zi'an scratched the top of his head, his ear.
Li Mosi knew that they were blinded by their harvest.
He addressed his two disciples, asking, "What should we do with the humans we capture? And what should we do with the humans we kill?"
Ziyi and Zian both turned to look at the prisoners.
A group of goblins wielding javelins were watching them.
A goblin tried to approach the prisoner to rummage around, but was stopped by the guarding goblins.
"Don't eat people! Keep them as slaves!"
"Wow? Okay then."
The two disciples then looked at the pile of corpses.
There were even more goblins gathered over there.
"Let me have a bite! These guys have been chasing us for ages!"
"The leader hasn't made a decision yet! You're just asking for trouble!"
"I want to eat it too!"
Zi Yi quickly stepped forward and shouted, "You guys eat shit! Get out of here and rest!"
The group of goblins shuddered and scattered.
Then, Zi Yi gave the same order to the captives and the goblins standing beside the knight's corpse.
He sighed and returned to the pile of supplies.
Zi'an asked curiously, "What are they doing, huddled together like that?"
"I want to eat the corpse to vent my hatred."
Zi Yi answered helplessly.
He scratched his head and looked at Li Mosi: "Master, what should we do?"
Eating people is definitely not allowed.
Li Moss said, "Have the goblins bring all the prisoners from the cave over here first. We'll bury these humans in front of them."
After saying that, he pressed further, "Do you understand what burial is?"
Zi Yi nodded vigorously: "I know, we always move the dead goblins to the back of the mountain and bury them."
Good guy.
The saintess couldn't help but look up at Zi Yi.
These goblins have learned quite a lot.
Zi'an nodded to indicate that he understood.
After all, the sight of one's own kind being torn apart by wild beasts was truly gruesome, and she believed no one could bear to look at it.
Good that you understand.
Li Moss felt relieved: "Then let the goblins bring the prisoners from the cave over first."
Zi Yi nodded in agreement and immediately told the goblin to do it.
……
Inside the cave.
The twenty-four prisoners were all completely bewildered.
"Was that sound... the sound of horses' hooves?"
Soth, with his purple face, had an expression of disbelief written all over his face.
Lasso hesitated for a moment: "I also heard goblins shouting?"
They instinctively glanced at Zwan and Laso, whose faces were grave.
These full-time employees had been trying to find an opportunity to escape for a long time.
Now that they are free from the goblin's control, they naturally want to take action.
They were also worried that it wouldn't be safe for just a few of them to escape, so they forcibly took the slaves with them.
Just as they managed to bite off the vines binding their mouths, they saw a huge figure rushing towards the cave entrance.
They don't understand.
That commotion must be from the knight.
But shouldn't the northern team consist of two knights traveling together?
They should be hunting within their own territory along pre-planned routes while providing supplies for other teams in the surrounding area for the next ten days!
That's not how it was planned!
Did the two knights split up?
Or did one of the knights break away from the group and act alone?
Regardless of which one it is, the knights must have defeated the goblins to pass by them from the north.
Why are they continuing to run south?
This isn't right!
"Impossible."
Ziwang shook his head and whispered encouragement to himself.
"That's impossible."
His voice was soft, but it carried clearly in the quiet and empty cave.
The prisoners began to whisper to themselves or turn to talk to each other, and the cave suddenly became noisy.
But their conversation did not put their minds at ease.
Instead, the approaching footsteps outside the cave made them extremely nervous.
"I was thinking that after the deer finished eating, we might have to kill the donkeys today, but a whole bunch of donkeys just died on their own!"
"That's too much!"
"We can't finish it, we simply can't finish it!"
Over the past few days, they had become extremely familiar with the goblin's footsteps, so they immediately recognized that the approaching creature was a goblin.
That knight was no match for him!
And the vines on their mouths can't be restored!
Laso could only quickly lie down and bite the vine that had fallen to the ground, pretending that she had not put up any resistance.
But the goblins didn't seem to notice any of this.
They simply walked in, chatting and laughing, and untied the vines binding the twenty-four prisoners, restoring them to their usual appearance.
The prisoners, who were originally regular employees, hung their heads, their bodies weak, as if they had lost their breath.
They saw the hoofprints on the ground, but then turned their heads away.
If it were just a knight charging in and then running away after losing the fight, that would be fine.
But if they really did act together strictly according to the Baron's arrangements...
No one dared to consider this possibility.
But the facts did not change according to the prisoners' will.
They were taken back to the vicinity of the wooden wall.
The twenty-two new prisoners were already bound by vines, and their eyes met through a gap in the wooden wall.
They were all stunned.
A newly captured regular worker pointed at Lasso: "Lasso! You guys are still alive?"