You continue to sit quietly and imperceptibly in your ambush.

You are suggesting that maybe someone else was riding with the merchant Porberd and is about to jump out of the wagon.

You draw a new combat serrated arrow to the string of your war bow and prepare to fire more shots if need be.

You waited a little, no one appeared on the road.

So, as you thought, the greedy merchant Porberd rode alone. Probably Porberd wanted to save money and decided not to even hire guards, believing in the speech of the royal heralds about the advent of an era of security and prosperity under the auspices of the reign of our infant monarch Ethelrent the First!

You mentally grin - Porberd's stupidity helped you take **** on this vile bastard, for whom you were **** to work for 11 years. The main thing is that you personally do not believe a penny in the laudatory speeches of the heralds about "our adored monarch King Ethelrent the First" or about "The noble and beautiful queen-regent of our monarch's mother Valenrisa the Brilliant." You know that for the ordinary people of the kingdom of Morthem, life is becoming more and more difficult, prices are rising, food is getting scarce, the impudence of the aristocrats is growing. Of course, you will publicly say what is supposed to be - so that there are no problems with representatives of the royal authority. But your actions will come from your own needs and not from some nonsense like "loyalty to the ruling royal dynasty."

With these thoughts in mind, you cautiously approach the van. You inspect Porberd's corpse and remove your battle serrated arrow from his skull, which you clean and place in your quiver. So you examined and searched the corpse of the merchant Porberd - what did you find?

A good steel dagger, 20 silver coins and a note were found on the corpse of the wealthy merchant Porberd.

You take a good steel dagger for yourself and place it in a small sheath on your belt (you also took the sheath from Porberd's corpse). You also take the money for yourself - Porberd obviously does not need it since he is dead. So you now have 23 silver coins and 15 copper coins.