Chapter 137 Entertainment
The five prisoners were tied around the necks with hemp ropes and tied to the same wooden pole.
The wooden pole is more than two meters long and has thick arms, so it requires at least two people to lift it.
There were five ropes connected to it, and the five prisoners sat on the ground on the side of Doug's Wine House, putting the tree trunks on their legs and sitting on the ground.
There was a cheerful atmosphere all around, with both adults and children walking around happily and busy.
A few children came here out of curiosity. Just as they came over with simple eyes and an ax to test, they were discovered by Lawrence who was feeding Dom sheep.
"What do you want to do to my prisoner?!"
After seeing Lawrence, the blind child quickly dispersed and fled back to the adults.
Lawrence was very troubled by these wild children. Some of the children's parents had been killed in several wars. Now they were in charge of the food in the town, but they lacked education and guidance.
The Pumi Xiu people have been focusing on plundering and despising life and death these days, especially the warriors who went out to fight and brought back prisoners and property. Various harvests have made the children eager to try killing and plundering.
This is the guidance of adults.
Lawrence has no ability to change these children for the time being. Many children cannot become kind by just saying a few words.
"Lawrence, what are you doing here? Come in and have a drink."
Doug came out and called Lawrence, urging him after seeing Lawrence feeding the sheep.
Lawrence said: "I ran a lot today, how can I not give you something to eat? I'll go in later, Doug, please do me a favor." Doug said cheerfully: "What's the matter?" Lawrence looked at
the
five A prisoner, he told Doug what the child wanted to be as brave as an adult.
It didn't matter what those kids did, just leave Lawrence's trophy alone.
When Doug heard this, he laughed and said, "This is easy."
Soon Doug caught a twelve or thirteen year old boy from nearby who was wandering around the town looking for food. After giving him a slap in the face, he asked him to stand next to the Dom sheep. Looking at Lawrence's property.
This way the matter is simply solved.
It's not that Lawrence can't teach children a lesson, it's just that it won't be very effective.
Doug is the best person to do this kind of thing. Only by teaching the children a lesson can it have a deterrent effect on other children.
Doug is the leader of the Pumixiu people, and Lawrence is still an outsider to most children.
When children are bullied by outsiders, they will immediately resist and retaliate, but when they are severely beaten by their own adults, they will tolerate it.
Currently, Lawrence has only improved the reputation of the children from the Friesen, Blacksmith, and Emma families. The children from these three families are slightly more obedient, while the children from the other families basically have no contact and are not very obedient.
Entering the bustling tavern, young girls like Bull were dancing inside, while the men who returned this time were loudly bragging about the heroic deeds on the ship.
Emma was an older woman, even though she was just twenty years old, and she was making soup with the other Pumixiu women.
Salil and Sophia were also in this large wooden house more than twenty meters long. They didn't like the noisy atmosphere in the pub, so they sat at the free table in the distance to inspect Andrew's trophies.
There are now only more than 300 Pumixiu people, and only a few dozen people are qualified to sit near the table. The rest of the elderly, women and children are busy elsewhere.
In some families, only the men come to drink and celebrate, while the women and children collect the spoils at home and look after the new slaves.
Basically, all the fighting power in the village is here, and the people who are qualified to share and decide the fate of this town are also here.
Doug quickly joined the bragging party, and Lawrence glanced at the young girls who were dancing or serving drinks, and quickly walked towards Salil and Sophia.
It was definitely too late to go back today. Lawrence sat down and said, "Sariel, go and bring in the slaves outside. There happens to be a place for them to squat here."
Those five captives are of great value, weighing more than several hundred kilograms. Food and various lamps, decorations, fabrics and clothes are more important and should be kept in the house.
"Okay." Salil closed the box. It was obvious that she liked these square treasure boxes.
The boxes for storing food and clothes are usually made casually, but these five boxes are carefully carved wooden boxes, each with iron sheets and locks on them.
Although it didn't look very good to Lawrence, it was an attractive box to Saryl and she wanted to make good use of it.
Sofia also went over to help, and together they brought the five prisoners into the tavern from the outside.
The adults and children of Phumexiu were in awe of Salil. She was Andrew's daughter.
Bring five prisoners in, let them sit by the wall to rest, and then ignore them.
There are so many people here, and they are not afraid of what the five people will do, so they are not tied up anywhere or their hands and feet are tied.
Salil walked to the table and sat down, and said boredly: "Where will I sleep tonight?"
Lawrence didn't want to go to Doug's house or Emma's house to sleep, and would even rather sit here without sleeping all night.
"Let's play cards. If you're tired, just sleep here for a while. We'll go back tomorrow morning."
Lawrence took out the playing cards he made from his pocket and began to shuffle them.
Salil and Sophia looked at Lawrence very happily, especially Salil, who raised her hands and shouted: "Here is a glass of ale! And some fruit!" The
men in the tavern were busy showing off themselves loudly, drinking After drinking, they talked a lot. The place where Salil sat was very close to the inside, and the few busy women outside did not hear her.
After Emma heard it, she quickly shouted: "Okay! It's coming!"
Lawrence and Salil quickly started drawing cards. Before long, Emma and another woman were carrying a mixture of apples, pears and berries. Come over with the big bowl.
The late summer and early autumn are when wild fruits are in abundance in the mountains. There are many trees in the area where the Pumixiu people live. In addition, in order to expel the curse from the sea, the people in the village collected a lot of fruits and wild vegetables from the mountains today.
The Pumixiu people believe that eating raw fruits will make you sick, so they eat vegetables raw and fruits hot.
Emma put the rotten fruit plate on the table. Several fruits had been boiled into unpalatable jam.
After putting the things on the table, Emma looked at the three people playing cards curiously.
"What is this?" Emma has never seen this kind of night game.
Lawrence only had time to play cards at night, and he would rather sleep than play cards the rest of the time. Sariel explained: "It's a war game, it's very fun."
The playing cards made by Lawrence were number cards at first, and later they were made into cards with various identities when they had nothing to do.
There is only one card for slaves, serfs, freemen, craftsmen, citizens, merchants, warriors, knights, manors, lord barons, earls, duke kings
,
pope
kings and popes, and the remaining cards are four, for a total of fifty-four.
Each identity card has four suits, representing the four main industries of society.
The spades represent spears, symbolizing soldiers.
The plum blossom represents the clover and symbolizes agriculture.
The square pieces represent the bricks and tiles used by the craftsmen.
The red peach represents the red heart and symbolizes the priest.
Four cards of the same type can be promoted to magic cards. The higher the status of the magic card, the more powerful it is. The king and the pope can suppress the magic cards, which is a higher magic combination.
The sequence position can produce a coherent war effect, and a higher combination of card positions is needed to suppress the lower-level uprising, or to use magic cards.
Whoever's cards are played first wins.
Lawrence, Sariel, and Sophia quickly concentrated on playing cards, while Emma stood aside and watched curiously.
After watching three or four games in a row, I roughly figured out the rules.
Doug came over at this time, "Lawrence, what are you doing? I just had a drink and I can't find you."
"Playing games." Lawrence said casually.
Doug also stood aside and watched the game curiously, and soon sat at the last side of the four-sided table.
"Can I join? How do I play this?"
Doug thinks this game is quite fun, but he also feels that just drinking is a bit boring. He has heard the things said by drunkards hundreds of times, and they are no longer new.
Lawrence briefly explained the rules. This game is actually more suitable for four people to play together, otherwise it will be inconvenient to hold too many cards.
Although it is a wooden sign, it is easy to remember the sign, but as long as you don't pay attention to it, there is basically no problem.
Lawrence is currently the only person who can memorize both the cards and their names. Because of his low desire to win, he often only looks at his own cards and not others.
Sariel wanted to remember, but her brain was easily overloaded and she was caught trying to cheat.
After Doug played cards here, the rest of the Pumixiu people also came over to watch the fun.
Emma's husband Queeg gradually realized that no one was listening to his heroic deeds of killing three people. Queeg, who was bored, came over to see what was going on.
After struggling to squeeze into the crowded crowd, Queeg saw the four people playing cards.
"Two serfs."
"Two businessmen."
"No matter."
"Four knights! War magic!"
People who play cards for the first time always like to play big cards, and Doug just likes to play the big cards in his hand. It's like he has magic.
Queeg watched for a minute, and then said disdainfully: "What's so fun about this?"
After that, he left.
After a few minutes, a bored Queeg came back, standing on a nearby bench and looking down, wanting to learn how to play.
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The dull atmosphere made Lawrence extremely uncomfortable. He was not very addicted to games, and he had been blocked by a group of people for almost an hour.
"Doug, go ahead and play with it. Don't damage my card, otherwise you will have to buy it with a slave."
Doug heard this and said happily: "I have many slaves, you take one away." , give me this deck of cards."
Lawrence stood up and said: "Okay."
Salil was unhappy, "We have a lot of slaves, and we only have one set of wooden cards."
Lawrence reassured: "It doesn't matter, I'll wake up tomorrow and try again Make a set."
Salil could only sit down gloomily, because without playing cards, she soon felt bored.
Backgammon has long since stopped playing, it’s boring.
Doug quickly took the cards and the crowd to the fire to play. This kind of game that could be played while drinking was very suitable for them.
Barbarians generally have broad and strong palms, which make them more stable in grabbing cards, and wooden cards are just right for them.
Men and women gathered around Doug and concentrated on learning advanced technologies.
Lawrence had nothing to do and was about to get the tools to make the second set of wooden cards.
This deck is not stained and the painting is not clear, with simple scratches to prove size.
The largest thirteen scratches, the smallest one, the segments are clear.
But not everyone likes it.
Whether it's Salil, Sophia, or Pumi Xiu, they all think it would be better if the tablet characters were more complex.
(End of chapter)