"It's so hot!" Xie Feng roared, then lay down on the table, his whole body melting.

While counting her morning's income at the counter of the store, Cecilia responded without looking back: "It's July now, so it's normal for it to be a little hot." As she said that, she took out a small handkerchief to wipe it with.

Wiped the sweat from his forehead.

"Is it normal to be a little hot?" Xie Feng couldn't help but ask, "When did Salander get cool?"

"Boss, please stop complaining." Eric, who was cleaning at the side, said without looking back: "I just came to Salander this year, and I don't even think it's hot. Boss, you've lived here for so long, and you've already

You should get used to it." As he said that, he stretched out his arm and wiped the sweat from his head.

Xie Feng couldn't help complaining: "You are so stubborn, look at you, sweeping the floor has become mopping the floor!" At this time, Eric's whole body was already covered with sweat, following Eric's every slight movement

, a lot of sweat was shaken off from the body, and there was already a wet pool of hot sweat at the feet.

Eric looked down at the sweat at his feet, looked up and said with a smile: "Everyone sweats, I'm not hot, I'm not hot at all, hahahaha... Oh my god, this broom is burning me to death."

Cromwell was arranging the shelves on the side and said: "If you feel too hot, you can ask Miss Cecilia for some money and go to the tavern to drink a glass of ice-cold ale to cool down."

Xie Feng said helplessly: "I don't have to ask women for money when I drink. Besides, you think I don't want to drink? Every summer, ice is out of stock all over Salander. Many traveling merchants work hard to bring it from Virginia.

Several carts of ice cubes, when they arrived in Salander, opened and saw that they had turned into carts of boiling water. Therefore, ice cubes now are luxury goods, and only lords are eligible to enjoy them. Ordinary people, even if they are rich,

It’s hard to buy. If you go to a tavern to drink ordinary ale now, it will be piping hot..."

Cromwell said: "Oh? Is that so? I almost never use ice, so I don't know."

Xie Feng said: "Work hard. When the summer is over and the ice supply is restored, you can use the salary given to you by Xigua to buy a few glasses of ice-cold ale to taste - by the way, Watermelon, give me a glass of water!"

After a while, Cecilia reluctantly handed Xie Feng a glass of water and complained: "Really, I am busy...how much did you calculate just now?" After saying that, she ran back again.

At the counter, he stared blankly at the account book and a small pile of coins.

Xie Feng looked to the left, Eric was concentrating on mopping the floor with his sweat; to the right, Cromwell was also happily sorting out the messy shelves. Looking up again, he finally counted the stacked shelves.

The stack of coins was accidentally knocked over by Cecilia, who was crying and counting them again.

Very good! Everyone's attention is not on me! Xie Feng felt ecstatic in his heart, and stretched out his trembling hand to cover the mouth of the cup.

"Puff!" Something seemed to fall from Xie Feng's hand into the cup. Xie Feng looked left and right again warily... Very good, no one was paying attention to him.

Xie Feng pretended to shake the cup in his hand nonchalantly, with a happy giggle appearing on his face that only appears after being confessed by the girl he likes. Then, he raised the cup and took a big sip...

"It's so cool..." Xie Feng sighed in his heart, and at the same time, a cold breath came out of his mouth. Then he looked left and right again, good! The concealment was very successful! So far, no one has discovered what he is doing.

Xie Feng couldn't help but secretly look into the cup. There was still half a cup of water in the cup, and floating on the water was a small piece of ice that looked so cute.

It’s so cool to have such an incredible function like an inventory with a built-in freshness function! Xie Feng sighed with tears in his eyes while sneakily stretching the cup towards his mouth again.

"Bang!" The door was pushed open.

"Is anyone there?" A female voice came from outside the door.

"Poof!" Frightened by this, Xie Feng spurted out a mouthful of ice water.

Cecilia raised her head and smiled: "Welcome... hmm? Why do I feel so much cooler suddenly."

"Ahem, cough, cough..." Xie Feng was choked by the water and kept coughing. At the same time, he wiped the water stains around his mouth with his hand. He said depressedly: "Really, why are there still guests at noon?" He turned around.

Look, everyone was stunned on the spot: "Holy... holy holy holy holy saint Gianna?"

Saint Gianna stood at the door and smiled at Xie Feng: "Well, it's me."

Cecilia said happily: "Sister Saint Gianna, are you here?"

Saint Gianna smiled and said: "Yes, your store is really remote. I have been looking for it for a long time."

Xie Feng couldn't help but shed tears and said with emotion: "I can actually see you step into our store in my lifetime... It's not easy..."

Saint Gianna smiled awkwardly: "Ah haha... no need to be so exaggerated, right?" Then she looked into the store and said to herself: "Why do I see an extra one next to you every time I see you?

Weird guy."

Cromwell was about to feel unhappy, but Eric patted his shoulder and said, "Brother, just get used to it."

Cecilia approached Saint Gianna enthusiastically, pointed to a piece of dried meat hanging on a bamboo pole by the wall and said: "Sister Saint Gianna, last time I heard that you pay more attention to food, we happen to sell food here.

Well... look, this is air-dried meat smoked with pine branches, it tastes great!"

Xie Feng nodded and agreed: "This is something that even watermelons are reluctant to let us eat."

Saint Gianna's eyes shone and she said: "Wow! It's really a good thing! I want it, give me a discount!"

Cecilia smiled and said: "No problem!" Then she turned to Eric and said: "Brother Eric, take it off."

Eric responded, and when he put down the broom and was about to step forward, Xie Feng quickly stopped him and said, "Forget it, my hands are full of sweat. The dried meat has turned into rheumatic meat when you scratched it like this. It may even smell sour."

Boom - that's half a bucket of water, come on."

Cromwell responded, then stood up and walked towards the bamboo pole.

With nothing to do, Saint Gianna chatted with Cecilia: "By the way, Cecilia, have you heard about the recent news?"

Cecilia smiled and shook her head and asked, "What news?"

Saint Gianna said: "Early this morning, Shiba Zumo was invaded by bandits."

"Bang!" Cromwell lost his grip on the dried meat and fell to the floor.

Cecilia was shocked: "Ah! Brother Cromwell, how did you give Sister St. Gianna's dried meat to..."

Cromwell walked up to Saint Gianna and asked nervously: "Shiba Zumo...what happened?"

Eric said from the side: "Shiba Zumo is Cromwell's hometown, so it's normal for him to be nervous..."

Saint Gianna first glanced at Cromwell doubtfully, and then said: "Didn't Shiba Zumo say that there were living dead a month and a half ago? After the incident, the village chief and the village elders begged and begged for loans, and it was not easy.

I finally collected some money for post-disaster reconstruction a few days ago. Before the formal construction of the village reconstruction started, I didn't expect that just in the early morning of this morning, a desert bandit force named "Desert Eagle" occupied Shiba.

Zumo.”

Cromwell asked anxiously: "What happened next? Didn't the lord respond?"

Saint Gianna said: "Later, when Chief Mondhari, the lord of Shiba Zumo, learned about this, he led his troops to rescue him at night. Who knew that the bandits were so powerful that they not only repelled Chief Mondhari's team, but also

Forced a small team up a mountain."

Xie Feng frowned and said: "No matter how powerful the bandits are, they are just a mob compared to the regular army. Are they too numerous to defeat Chief Mondhari's army?"

Saint Gianna shook her head and said: "No, it is said that the number of Desert Eagles is only half of Chief Mondhari's army."

Xie Feng said: "That would be even more unbelievable."

Saint Gianna said: "But it is said that the Desert Eagle has a newcomer who is very intelligent. The reason why Chief Mondhari's army failed was probably because of some trick by that man."

Cromwell hurriedly asked: "How is Nashiba Zumo doing now? Are there any casualties among the villagers?"

Saint Gianna shook her head and said: "I don't know. Since the defeat of Chief Mondhari's troops early this morning, no one knows what happened to Shiba Zumo."

Xie Feng asked: "What about the other team now?"

St. Gianna said: "We were forced on the mountain and couldn't get down. Fortunately, the small team relied on the high terrain. The bandits at the bottom of the mountain wouldn't be able to get up for a while. But if no one rescues them, I'm afraid they will all starve to death."

On the mountain.”

Xie Feng smiled and said: "If the captain leading the team was cowardly enough, he would probably have surrendered to the bandits by now."

Saint Gianna said: "The captain leading the team seems to be named Conan. It is said that he is an upright and hot-blooded man and he should not surrender easily."

Hearing this, everyone except Cromwell was shocked. Xie Feng smiled bitterly and joked: "There is no need to attack the robbers. After a few days, everyone on the mountain will probably be dead."

Suddenly, Cromwell grabbed Xie Feng's hands and begged: "Sir, please save Shiba Zumo."

Xie Feng was startled and said hurriedly: "What are you begging me to do? I'm not a lord, you should beg the lords to go."

Cromwell shook his head and said: "The lords will not care about the life or death of a village that is not their own territory, and Chief Mondhari, the lord of Shiba Zumo, has just been defeated."

Xie Feng held Cromwell down and said: "First of all! What can I use to fight those bandits? Secondly, even if I hire a team of mercenaries, how can I defeat a bandit gang that even the regular army cannot defeat?"

Have you passed?"

Cromwell said excitedly: "I don't know... I don't know... I have no choice, so I can only ask your lord..."

Xie Feng patted Cromwell on the shoulder and said calmly: "Cromwell, I know you are extremely anxious about the fall of your hometown, but just being anxious will not help, right? There is nothing we can do now. The only way

All you have to do is wait for Chief Mondhari to send troops again to save your hometown."

Cromwell cried: "We can't wait any longer. When Chief Mondhari comes again, the robbers have already gone. Although the money has been robbed, you can still save it, but what about your life? If the villagers all behave well."

If they give away their property, I feel relieved. What I fear most is that if they are stingy with their money, they will be killed by robbers!"

Xie Feng sighed: "There's nothing we can do about it."

Cromwell gritted his teeth, his expression ugly, as if he was having a strong inner struggle. After a long time, his face turned pale, and he said tremblingly to Xie Feng: "My lord... how about this? I will pay for it, and you can hire mercenaries for me.

, and then help me save my fellow villagers!"

"Wait a minute." Xie Feng interrupted: "Let's not mention that I don't know how to lead troops at all, and I can't help you lead troops to rescue Shiba Zumo... What do you mean by paying for it? You

When did you get so much money? Do you know how many dinars it costs to hire a mercenary?"

"I..." Cromwell struggled for a while and said, "I can sell my family heirloom!" After saying that, he turned around and ran towards the depths of the store and his dormitory.

"G...sigh..." Xie Feng sighed and shook his head. Naturally, Xie Feng would not believe that with Cromwell's background, there would be any family heirloom worth enough to hire dozens or hundreds of mercenaries.
To be continued...