"At least it's better to eat bark than to starve. The large pine forest in the imperial forest should be enough for King's Landing to survive for another two years, right? Anyway, I have to cut down trees for firewood, so I'll just dig up the roots. "Logan finished all the bread and smiled.
Pirlo pouted at the smoked meat on the shelf and said slowly, "As long as one is brave and has a good appetite, not to mention two years, it won't be a problem to survive the long night.
Thousands of ghouls are terrifying. Dozens or hundreds of ghouls that are alone can only make some people happier.
Haven't you noticed?
Recently, Rando Tully has rarely led the Sons of Warriors out of the city to clean up the ghouls. There are strong men in the city who imitate Dragon Queen's sleigh volunteers and form teams to go out of the city to hunt ghouls, just like nobles hunting in the woods during summer. "
Logan narrowed his eyes and whispered, "No distinction between humans and beasts?"
"Could it be that the brown soup appeared today?" Pirlo asked.
"I heard that those who eat human flesh will enter the Stranger Hell to be punished after death." Logan frowned.
"So be it. Survive first."
"I need some smoked meat and bread," Logan said.
"What kind do you want? There are high-end white bread and whole-wheat bread, mid-grade pine bark bread, bran and soybean meal bread, and low-grade rice bran and sawdust bread.
Smoked meat is also divided into grades. Top-grade ghoul meat, high-grade livestock meat, ordinary meat of unknown origin, and the lowest-grade ghoul meat. "
Pirlo spoke as if he was familiar with his family's treasures. As he spoke, he pointed at the real thing on the shelf for the customer to see.
"What's the price?" Logan asked.
Pirlo hesitated for a moment and said, "You want to pay with gold royals, right? I'm afraid it will be more expensive. It will be more worth it if you can barter. "
He pointed at the people lining up to buy bread at the counter. "Look, many of them don't have money and have vouchers issued by our shop in their hands.
For example, if you dig two hundred kilograms of cleaned pine bark outside the city, you can exchange it for twenty kilograms of pine bark bread, ten kilograms of white bread, or thirty kilograms of rice bran bread in my shop. "
"This is too cheap." Logan was bewildered. "Two hundred kilograms of bark can be exchanged for ten kilograms of white bread. Aren't you losing out?"
"Not at all," Pirlo said.
"What do you mean by neither losing nor losing?" Luo Gen asked curiously.
"A strong man working five hours a day can easily dig fifty kilograms of thick pine bark. Hiring a strong man to work for a day will only cost ten copper coins, but a hundred copper coins can't even buy a pound of bread. According to this calculation, 100 catties of pine bark for 5 catties of bread is a great loss. "
Luo Gen nodded lightly. "What a loss."
"But 100 kilograms of pine bark can be air-dried and ground into powder, which can make about 20 kilograms of bread. 20 kilograms of grain for 5 kilograms of bread, I can still have 15 kilograms of food left, right?"
"This …" Logan was stunned. "It seems like there are 15 pounds of food left, but the value of bread and bark are different!"
"What is value? Only things that could save more people were valuable. What was the use of gold royals in the long night?
Furthermore, we are not making a loss. The food is provided by the Church. Our bakery is just a contractor. We are just making a living from the difference. "
"Uh," Logan was stunned again. "The Church is helping the people?"
"Yes."
"They used to give out food and bread directly. This method of relief is a bit like the Dragon Queen's, "Logan said thoughtfully.
"The monks clearly said that this is Saint Danny's order." Pirlo used the respectful attitude of a little red soldier reciting the Great Ancestor's words and said emotionally, "Saint Danny believes that it is better to work hard and start a business than to sit and eat. There is only hope if there is output!
Digging tree roots, picking pine nuts, killing deviant ghosts for meat, fishing in the river, these are all output. They can all come to my shop to exchange for bread or smoked meat.
In the long night, everyone has to contribute to the cause of fighting deviant ghosts.
The soldiers pick up dragon-tooth knives and chop at the devils' heads. The people are self-reliant and create value through labor. They can be considered to be on the front line of the war.
This is what Saint Danny said. "
Logan's mouth twitched. "The King of King's Landing should be Stannis, right?"
The fat baker was stunned and then said in a low voice, "He is now occupying King's Landing, but he is not our King."
"The new issue of 'Heroes of the Night' is out!" At this moment, a young man with frostbite on his face held a sheepskin scroll and ran down the street while shouting, "Dragon Queen announced that she will freeze her points. Stannis is at the top and Sansa has fallen to the last place."
"Hey, Donnie, wait." The baker quickly walked out of the shop and stopped the young man. "Let me see the 'Heroes of the Night'."
"Two copper coins." The young man held out two fingers.
"Okay." After paying and taking the scroll, the baker exclaimed in shock, "Lady Sansa is so pitiful. Her success is because of Arya, and her failure is also because of Arya.
Last time she had more than 50,000 points, but this time she is at negative 50,000 points. She is at the bottom.
Stannis is responsible for the fall of King's Landing and only has 5,000 points left. Dragon Queen's points are locked and will not participate in the ranking for now.
So, first place is still Stannis. The others are too disappointing. "
"Didn't Sansa pledge allegiance to Stannis?" Logan asked in confusion.
"The pagan king is not willing to bear a debt of 50,000." The young man with frostbite smiled.
"What about the previous negotiations?" Logan's mouth twitched.
"The food she provides to King's Landing is always real." The fat baker said.
"Sansa is angry, right?" Logan's eyes flashed with a hint of worry.
"How can she not be angry?" The young man smiled and said, "Some people said that she fainted from anger, some said that she vomited three liters of blood, some said that she fell ill, and some said that she just had an ugly expression and closed the door to her room to sulk."
"Why did Dragon Queen freeze her points? After killing millions of ghouls, she should have 100,000 points now, right?" The baker muttered.
"She didn't want others to despair. Desperate people will not have the motivation to kill ghouls." The young man blurted out.
Seeing the surprised gazes of the two people opposite him, his frostbite face turned red and he quickly said, "That's what everyone says."
When the young man ran away shouting with the "Hero Book", Logan said to Pirlo, "Can I use the gold royals to buy the people's bark and pine cones and then come to you to exchange for bread?"
"No." The fat baker shook his head. "All the poor people in the city who need help are registered with the church. The monks give them household registration certificates. The people take their household registration certificates to the designated places in the streets to exchange for bread …"
He pointed to the customers in the shop. "They are all the natives of Baker Lane. We are all neighbors. Who doesn't know each other?
They all go out together and work together. They know how much they harvest and how much food they need.
If anyone dares to buy and sell, it will be everyone's loss. How can they allow it?
You don't have a certificate from the church, do you?
If you don't, I can also do your business. But the gold royals can only be used to buy bread at the market price. "
"The market price is too expensive." Logan shook his head and sighed.
"You can go to the fishermen's square. Some people are strong and can bear hardships. They dig out too much bark and take it out to exchange for wine and leather jackets.
With gold royals, you can buy bark noodles cheaper than what I have here, "Pirlo suggested.
Logan had originally planned to go to the fishermen's square. When he heard his old friend's words, he directly left the "Strange Ghost Bread Shop".
As Pirlo said, the square was very lively. Many residents carried ground bark flour or firewood to the grocery store to exchange for iron pots, cloth, wine and other daily necessities.
There were also people who directly exchanged for money and agreed to go to Eel Lane together tonight. There were also merchants who stood at the door of the shop and haggled loudly to buy bark flour and firewood in the shop.
At first, Logan thought that the merchants were buying bark flour to hoard and profit. After a few years, when the forest and food were all eaten up, they would take it out to sell.
Later, he carefully inquired about it and was stunned. It turned out that those were wine merchants. They actually wanted to use bark flour to make wine.
"Can you really make wine?" He leaned over and asked curiously.
"Bark flour is nothing. Dragon Queen directly uses cedar and birch bark to make wine!" The merchant said disapprovingly.
"I've never heard of it before." Logan felt like he was in a dream.
"It's also just invented. In fact, it's not too exaggerated. As long as you can eat food, most of it can be used to make wine." The grocery store owner filled a small glass with half a cup and handed it to Logan.
The light green transparent liquid exuded the fragrance of alcohol and pine cones.
Logan gently took a sip. Then, his eyes widened and he said in disbelief, "This is really wine! It tastes better than Dornshire Red. "
"Of course it's real wine, but to say that it tastes better than Dornshire Red is an exaggeration." The grocery store owner shook his head.
"If you drink too much, your stomach will feel uncomfortable. It's said that the recipe is still being improved." The wine merchant said.
"It's already very good to be able to drink wine in the long night." Logan said.
"That's true." The wine merchant nodded in agreement.
"Sir, how much bark flour do you want to buy?" The grocery store owner asked.
After Logan asked about the price, he muttered, "Let's start with two hundred and fifty kilograms of bacon and the lowest level of ghoul meat."
The store owner reminded him, "Bark flour can't be eaten alone. If you eat too much, you won't be able to poop. It's best to eat it together with wheat flour."
Logan smiled. "I bought the meat. If I drink more broth, I'll be able to poop out."
Stingy!
The grocery store owner cursed in his heart and began to instruct his workers to load up the goods for Logan.
"The Crown Princess is here! The Crown Princess is giving out relief food!"
Suddenly, a strong horse galloped down from the river that connected to Aegon Hill. The Blazing Redheart Knight on the horse shouted loudly.
He was like a drop of water that had fallen into the pot of oil that was the fishmonger's square.
The surrounding residents and merchants all rushed out of their homes as if they had gone mad. They shouted, "Long live the Crown Princess! Long live Princess Mia! Long live His Majesty Stannis!" and ran towards the hills in the east.
Logan was surprised to see his old friend, Pirlo, in the running crowd.
The fat chef led four or five workers and seven or eight aunties. He was so excited that his face was flushed. He even waved the flag of the Blazing Stag (Erlu's emblem) in his hand.
"Long live the Crown Princess! Long live Princess Mia! Long live His Majesty Stannis! Long live the Red God!" The fat man's voice came from afar, making Logan a little absent-minded.
Wasn't he the Church's agent?
Wasn't he a devout believer of the Seven Gods?
Didn't he memorize Danny's sayings skillfully?
He just said, "Stannis took over the King's Landing, but he wasn't his king." Wasn't that right?
Logan was lost.
While he was lost, the grocery store owner and his workers, who were helping him load the flour and bacon onto the cart, found a flag of the Blazing Stag from somewhere and ran out while shouting slogans.
Red armor, red cloak, and the emblem of the Blazing Stag on the chest. The Crown Princess held her head high and her chest out, riding a tall brownish-red horse, like a ball of fire.
Around her were forty to fifty Blazing Red-Heart Knights, like stars surrounding the moon, protecting her in the center. Behind the cavalry, there was a long row of carriages piled with sacks, dried fish, bacon, turnips, corn cobs, and apples.
The golden-robed men stood guard on both sides of the carriages, trotting forward.
The procession stopped at the south end of the Fisherman's Square, set up a platform, and lined up. The Crown Princess stood on the platform, raised her hammer, and said a few encouraging words. Then, the residents lining up below the platform raised the Crown Princess's flag and shouted in unison, "Long live Saint Mia! Long live His Majesty Stannis! Long live Lahlo!"
Then, the resident took out the "Certificate of Hardship" issued by the Church, and Mia personally scooped a spoonful of wheat for him.
Other than about three pounds of wheat, there was also about one pound of dried fish and bacon, four fist-sized turnips, a corn stalk, and a somewhat shriveled apple.
Well, he could only choose between the corn and the apple.
The faces of the residents were filled with happy smiles. Although the Crown Princess, who was distributing relief food to the poor residents, was sweating profusely, she also had an honest and happy smile.
She sincerely blessed everyone. "The King is with you", "We will definitely defeat the Long Night", "The glory of Lahlo shines on all of us", and other encouraging words came out of her mouth. Then, she received the praises of the residents, who nodded and bowed respectfully, with tears of gratitude, and "Saint Mia is merciful".
"Sigh, if Robert had brought her to the King's Landing and raised her properly, she might have been a qualified eldest daughter of the King." Logan sighed.
"Not bad, much better than Cersei and Margaery. At least she is strong, sincere, virtuous, and doesn't fool around. Sigh, poor thing, the requirements of the seven kings are so low. "
Logan suddenly turned around and said in shock, "You are Tyrion? You — "
"We are preachers, and now you are the only one left," the Hound said calmly.
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