At the horseback riding to the church construction site, he saw a group of people gathered in front of him. Timbers and stones were scattered all over the ground. Art dismounted and approached and heard a rough voice: "What kind of bullshit guild are you talking about? We only recognize the rules set by Mr. Hader. He said that we should order and sign for unloading. These wood and stones are what we laborers do today. It doesn't matter which guild you belong to." I don't admit it either. I'll kill anyone who dares to steal our job. "
A sinister voice replied: "Big-nosed Odo, don't show off your strength just because you have some strength. If you want to use your fists, we are not afraid of you. If you want to be reasonable, just follow me to the guild, and I'll follow you to Bishop Olof."
Matt dismounted his horse and separated the crowd, and squeezed in. He saw a strong man with a big nose, bare-chested in the cold winter, staring at a guy with a goatee. Behind the two men stood a group of people, all dressed as construction workers. The thin goatee was half shorter than the big nose, but he was not afraid at all. It turned out that there were nearly twice as many people behind him as on the opposite side.
Big Nose said disdainfully: "Bah, go to the guild to reason? Who doesn't know that you are a member of the guild? It was the people in your guild who forced other car dealers to hire your guys to carry..."
That goatee tip He interrupted him and yelled: "What do you mean by forcing people to hire us? I also work according to the rules and I won't charge a copper more than you. How can we force the dealer? Ask the people at the dealer if we have ever forced them?" A group of people behind Goatee agreed.
Big Nose sneered: "The dealer dare not offend you, I don't need to ask them, I saw it with my own eyes, no need to confront? Whatever you say, we have taken care of this job!"
Him Hearing this, Goatee's crowd was furious, and everyone was gearing up. Goatee said loudly: "If you are unreasonable, don't blame us for being barbaric. I have long disliked you wild dogs who come to snatch food from the countryside, so I will fight today." Life and death, don’t talk nonsense, everyone, come on. ”
The Goat Beard group of people shouted together, picked up sticks from behind, and rushed towards the opposite side. Big Nose also showed no sign of weakness and took out rocks and sticks from behind.
Obviously both sides are well prepared.
The crowd of onlookers saw that the situation was not good and stepped back one after another. Art also led his horse back dozens of steps.
There was a lively game of table tennis at the construction site. The people on both sides were laborers who were carrying wood and rocks. They were suffering from hardship every day. Although they looked lean, they were all strong and aggressive men. When the fight started, it was very fierce. There are many people on the goatee side, and although there are fewer people on the big nose side, they seem to have a tacit understanding. They don't spread out in a group. Although there is no cooperation, it is better than the other party rushing around in a swarm.
For a time, the two groups of people fought evenly, with several people falling on each side.
The goatee hid behind himself and kept calling for his men to attack fiercely. Big Nose was quite brave and seemed to have a lot of fighting experience. He led a few people with short wooden sticks to block left and right and knocked down several people. He rushed four or five opponents in front of him and retreated. , seeing several people falling on his side, and hearing the goatee still shouting from behind, he felt angry, rushed forward a few steps, received two sticks from the side, and knocked the person in front of him to the ground. Then he ignored others, danced the short stick in his hand like a windmill, and only hit the person on the ground. Previously, he didn't dare to hit the head for fear of killing others, but now he didn't care about it. After a while of beatings, the man on the ground held his head with both hands and screamed. After a while, his head was broken and bleeding.
Behind Big Nose, a short red-haired man brought people up to block the two sides. The four or five people in front of him felt guilty when they saw the miserable state of the man on the ground, and hurriedly avoided the front of Big Nose. Big Nose was waiting for this opportunity, and immediately dropped the man on the ground. He sprinted from the gap to reach Goatee, and swung his stick to hit Goatee on the head...
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When Ron brought the carpenter to the church construction site, a wonderful group fight had ended. Goatee was knocked to the ground by Big Nose with a dull stick, and Big Nose was also beaten by the city gangsters who came from behind to help. The armed guards of the monastery arrived at the scene in time and calmed the situation. Both sides suffered injuries, but no one was killed.
· This kind of conflicts and group fights can be seen everywhere in various construction sites. It is not surprising, but this time the scale is larger and the situation is more serious.
Finally, the labor contractor named Hader came to the construction site. Apparently he was also a little afraid of the guild power behind Goatee. After mediating for a while, he decided that the big-nosed party was at fault and needed to compensate the other party's medical expenses, and expelled the big-nosed group from the construction site...
Ate looked at the laborers helping each other to leave. , turned around and ordered to Ron: "Ron, you came just in time. Have you seen the group of laborers leaving the construction site? Follow them and see where they live, and come back and tell me."
Odo wiped his head with sweat and was at a loss. He regretted that he led the guys and the guild gang to fight in anger today.
Most of Big Nose Odo and a dozen other guys in the slum area are bankrupt farmers from villages near Lucesien. Their land was either usurped by lords or forced to abandon their fields and wander around due to heavy taxes. Having lost their livelihoods, they had to drag their families to Lucesien to survive. In this cruel world In this world, they are wandering wild dogs, oppressed everywhere... "Albert, please bear with me, I will collect some money to hire a doctor for you later." Albert and several workers lying in the straw all had bloody heads and pale faces.
Odo left the shack and came to a group of laborers surrounding the shack.
“Brother Otto, we just paid for the injuries and illnesses of those bastards. We don’t have many copper coins left. I just searched around and collected less than eight pfennigs. I’m afraid it’s not enough to hire a doctor.” The short red-haired man handed a few copper pfennigs and a small handful of various small copper coins to Otto’s hand.
Odo was alone in his family. The few wages he earned from his usual work were either drunk or shared with the men around him who were raising a family. The advantage of being generous is that he has great prestige among this group of laborers, and with his amazing arm strength, everyone respects him as Otto the Iron Arm; but the disadvantage is that he has never spent a night with a coin on his body.
While everyone was worrying about having no money to treat the injured, a guy wearing leather armor, a leather jacket, and a long sword on his waist walked up to everyone with an entourage. Everyone was shocked, thinking that the guild group had invited the city guards to cause trouble.
Otto pushed aside the crowd, stood up to the two men, and shouted: "I instigated everyone to go there today. It has nothing to do with them. If you want to arrest me, arrest me."
"You are good." Art said to Odo and the people behind him with a smile.
Everyone was puzzled, it doesn’t look like they are here to seek revenge...
"Who is your Excellency?" Odo looked at the two of them curiously.
"We are from the south. I saw you beating up the gangsters in the guild at the construction site today. We were very relieved and wanted to come and make friends with you." Art said and walked towards the shack.
Everyone gave way to the two of them. Odo saw that there was indeed no one else following them, so he followed them into the shack.
"They were all injured by sticks. The opponent was cautious and did not break the bones. Please ask a doctor to treat them. They will be fine in a few days." Art said to everyone.
Everyone was baffled by the sudden appearance of the two guys.
After watching in the shack for a while, Art said to Odo who followed him out: "Are you Odo with the big nose?"
Odo glanced at Art, then at Ron, and replied inexplicably: "Yes, I am Odo. Who are you? What is the purpose of coming here? ”
Art looked around at everyone and said loudly: "To tell you the truth, I am the patrol officer who is about to go to the southern border of Tyniec. I need to recruit a group of warriors to follow me south to patrol the border." Art paused and let everyone digest.
"Everyone must have heard that the southern border is in chaos right now. I was ordered by the Palace Minister of Security to form a border patrol team, responsible for catching thieves, resisting barbarians, and maintaining border security. If there are any guys who want to serve as soldiers and feed themselves, come to me before noon tomorrow at the tavern next to the blacksmith shop in the south of the city." After finishing speaking, Art took out two Deniers from his arms and handed them to Odo.
"Sir, what do you mean by this?"
"Now that I'm here, how can I ignore my brother lying in the house. Remember, the hotel next to the blacksmith shop in the south of the city will not wait until noon tomorrow." After that, he took Ron and left the shack area.