Suldak returned to the Knight Academy dormitory and saw a group of trainee knights laughing and playing in the snow in the garden below the dormitory. A group of students were also fighting on the balcony, seeming to want to join in. After all, it was the beginning of winter.
The first snowfall made this group of young people a little excited.
He turned his head to avoid a snowball flying from nowhere, and looked up just in time to see his new neighbors Lina and Nedra standing on the balcony of the dormitory. The morning sunshine shone on the fair faces of the two young girls.
Their faces were filled with youthful smiles, and they seemed to be watching the excitement upstairs.
Linna supported the balcony railing with one hand, leaned most of her body out of the balcony, waved her hand to Surdak and greeted loudly: "Good morning, Knight Surdak."
This made Suldak feel in a trance under the dazzling sunlight, and he felt like he was back to the time when he was in school.
It’s just that friends in that world don’t call themselves “knights”.
Standing in the snow, Surdak looked at the two young girls on the balcony. He raised the paper bag in his hand and said politely to the two new neighbors: "Good morning, Miss Linna and Miss Nedra,
Do you want to have breakfast together? I bought some white bread and fried fish."
Surdak originally just wanted to be polite. After all, in the past month, he could count the number of times he had met these two new neighbors on one hand. He thought these two girls from the Knight Academy would be more reserved.
He should probably refuse...
“Okay, we have also prepared hot milk oatmeal porridge. Please come up and have a drink.” Lina agreed with a smile, her smile was very sunny.
These two girls, who are only thirteen or fourteen years old, are obviously used to life in the academy.
They are the same as other young students in the Knight Academy. Many young people in Halanza City and surrounding noble estates and villages will choose to go to the War Academy after they reach the age of twelve.
Generally speaking, most of the families who can send their girls to knight academies are aristocrats and wealthy families. They want their daughters to be exposed to outstanding peers. Moreover, the family conditions of these girls are also better than those of boys.
Even more advantageous, ordinary families will not spend an extra amount of tuition to send their daughters to a riding academy. With this money, they might as well prepare a dowry!
As for the boys in the Knights Academy, some come from noble families, and many come from ordinary families.
Since the Green Empire's decree on universal military recruitment was promulgated, His Majesty the Emperor requires all male citizens to undergo a four-year military life. Only young people who can survive on the battlefield will have a bright future. In recent years, plane wars have continued to break out.
The combat mortality rate of soldiers continues to rise year by year. It is in this cruel situation that as long as families can afford tuition, even if they can borrow a little money, they will find ways to send their boys to the Zhan Zhan College, just to be able to fight on the battlefield.
Have some means of protecting yourself.
The province of Bena is the hometown of swordsmen. The citizens of Helensa City are more willing to send their children to the swordsman academy. In addition to the high tuition fees, the knight academy also needs to prepare a horse and expensive saddle.
Set, invisibly setting a threshold for civilians, so young people who can come to the Knight Academy actually have a certain financial foundation in their families.
It should be good for Lina and Nedra's family to jump into. Breakfast like milk and oatmeal is a bit luxurious, and ordinary families in Helensa City cannot afford it.
Suldak’s breakfast seems a bit weird. White bread is very common on the morning table, but is it really necessary to eat fried fish so early in the morning? It’s not an elf.
After Suldak walked upstairs, Lina had quickly tidied up their room again. All the things that should not be seen were put away in the closet. The knock on the door rang three times regularly, and she opened the door.
It was Nedela who looked shy. She was wearing a white lambskin vest and looked a little reserved. She looked like a little girl. When she saw Suldak standing at the door, she didn't know how to invite him into the room.
Suldak was holding a paper bag at the door and stood awkwardly facing Nedra for a while. Only then did Lina realize that Nedra had not invited Suldak in yet.
"Knight Surdak, please come in!" Linna pulled away her best friend and invited Surdak into the dormitory room.
The room was filled with the scent of toilet water. The dormitory looked very tidy. There were two wooden beds on the left and right sides against the wall. There was a wooden table between the wooden beds by the window with some books and a few animals on it.
glass bottle.
Suldak took out a long loaf of white bread and a bag of fried fish from the paper bag and placed them on the table. Lina asked Suldak to sit on the only chair in the dormitory, while she and Nedra squeezed in
Together, sitting on the wooden bed opposite.
Lina was a little weird, and said to Suldak with a smile: "Knight Suldak, every time I meet you in the morning, you are always in a hurry..."
She placed a bowl in front of Suldak, put fried fish and white bread on the plate, and prepared a piece of milk oatmeal for herself and Nedra. The three of them gathered around the table and started
Eat breakfast.
Suldak took a piece of fried fish and handed it to Linna, and then took another piece and handed it to Nedra, and said: "These fried fish were given to me by the owner of the tavern in the Garden Square. Try them. They are very unique."
Flavor. I usually walk my horse in the morning every day. I have an ancient horse that is fostered in the stable of the college."
Lina and Nedra both tasted a little, but it was obvious that the two girls did not like eating something too greasy in the morning.
“I heard that you are a knight who has returned from the battlefield?” Linna asked proactively.
Suldak nodded and said simply: "Just when I had completed my four-year military service, the infantry regiment I belonged to was completely defeated by the Evil Ghost Legion on the battlefield, so I took the opportunity to retire and return to my hometown."
Lina continued to ask: "Then what are you usually responsible for in the army? You must have achieved great military honors in the army, and someone is an official of the Logistics Department, so you will be awarded the reserve knight by a certain count."
She seemed to be very interested in Suldak's identity. The little girl's thoughts were obvious, and she must have wanted something for such attentive hospitality.
Surdak burst into laughter. It seemed that there were already many rumors about him in the academy, so he could only tell himself, "I am just an ordinary soldier in a combat team, not an official in the logistics department. In addition, military merit,
After experiencing more battles, you will naturally accumulate some military merits. I am just luckier than others. My comrades in the same squad as me did not come back alive on that battlefield."
After listening to this, Lina couldn't hide her disappointment. She curled her lips and said, "I thought you were an outstanding skinning master in the logistics department..."
“Why do you think so?” Surdak asked curiously.
Linna knocked on her forehead and said to Suldak: "It's just my guess. Our class has organized an adventure team. Every year, the college has some training tasks. Our team wants to sign up, but currently
There is a lack of a member with skinning skills. Without a skinner, the fur of the prey we hunt will not be processed. None of these guys in the academy are willing to learn skinning skills, which is really a headache!"
Surdak drank the oatmeal and ate all the crispy fried fish. He smiled at Lina and said: "Actually, there is no shortage of skinners among the members of the combat team. If it were not for high-level Warcraft, maybe
I can barely cope."
Lina's fair face showed a touch of excitement, and her lake-blue eyes blinked. She was about to invite Suldak to join their team, but she heard Surdak say again: "It's just that I am a student here at the academy.
The study period is only half a year, and the college basically does not arrange physical training classes, let alone going out for training."
Hearing what Suldak said, the little girl hesitated again. She said honestly: "No wonder you haven't participated in physical training classes since you came to the academy..."
Nedra seemed a little reserved, and secretly pushed her best friend beside her, and Lina immediately shut up.
Lina was silent for a while, and then said to Nedra: "It seems that we need to find members from other grades who are good at skinning."
Nedra hesitated for a moment, she glanced at Suldak shyly, and said to her friend: "Maybe I can..."
"You know how to skin skin?" Linna didn't know that her best friend knew this skill. If Nedra really knew how to skin skin, they wouldn't go to such great lengths to find outsiders.
Nedra said to Lina: "Although I don't know how to do it yet, I would like to ask Knight Surdak to teach me. Of course, in return, we can tutor Knight Surdak in cultural classes and etiquette for second graders and below.
, history and geography are what we are best at.”
Lina's eyes lit up, she clapped her hands vigorously, and said excitedly: "Yes, Nedra, why didn't I think of that!"
“…Linna, this matter still depends on Knight Suldak’s thoughts.” Nedra nudged her best friend and reminded her.
Then the two girls looked at Suldak expectantly. Surdak didn't expect that a bowl of simple oatmeal would actually be replaced by his half-skilled peeling skills. However, on the other hand, he thought that the courses he had worked hard to catch up with during the day would not be the best at night.
If you can conduct systematic review, it will probably be much easier in class in the future.
So Suldak only hesitated slightly before agreeing. He said to Lina: "If I can learn more about this part of the knowledge before going to sleep at night to cope with the next exam, of course I would love it.
After the three of them finalized the matter, Suldak went to his dormitory, took out the textbooks he needed today according to the curriculum, and rushed to the classroom in the teaching building before the bell rang. On his desk were three grade textbooks
It seems that there are more textbooks than Lina and Nedra combined.
In the evening, according to the agreement, after dinner, we will go back to the dormitory to learn from each other. However, practicing skinning must be practiced from the beginning. First, you need a sharp thin-skinned knife and preferably a sheath inlaid with whetstone. The thin-skinned knife needs to be kept sharp.
, because of this, every skinner is an excellent knife sharpener.
Originally, Surdak wanted to explain some common sense to the two girls when skinning them at night, and then asked Nedra to prepare a skinning knife tomorrow.
Unexpectedly, Nedra and Lina actually took out an exquisite silver-handled skinning knife from their waists respectively. Suldak glanced at the exquisite gems on the fish skin scabbard of Lina's dagger and only said: "
If there are no gems inlaid here, you can stick a better whetstone here. The first lesson in peeling is to teach you how to sharpen the knife correctly..."
As he spoke, he pulled out his wooden-handled skinning knife. Only a short edge of the skinning knife was left, but the edge was polished very smoothly. He skillfully took out the whetstone and rubbed it.
After preparing the blade twice, he said to Lina and Nedra, who were studying hard with their eyes wide open: "Many people like to use the peeling knife as a portable table knife. What I want to say is, if conditions permit, please use the two as much as possible.
Separate the knives, because peeling knives require very high sharpness, and table knives are often inserted into the campfire with food to heat in the wild. The burning of the flame will cause the peeling knife to lose its sharpness, so this method is also the best way.
Not advisable……"
Surdak basically just talked about whatever came to mind. He remembered that when he was learning the skinning technique in the 57th Heavy Armored Infantry Regiment, everyone gathered around the corpse of a huge evil ghost.
Learn from it and apply it now. The skin of evil spirits is far tougher than the leather armor of Warcraft. An ordinary skinning knife cannot cut through the black grinding skin on evil spirits. Only then will you have a deep understanding of the quality of the steel mouth of the skinning knife itself.
Of course, if it's just for cutting potatoes, it doesn't matter whether it's sharp enough.
In order to let the two girls feel the importance of the sharpness of the skinning knife itself, Surdak took out a salamander claw from the magic waist bag and used the skinning knife to cut a small circle of tough leather from the lizard claw...
Lina was cheerful and outgoing, but she had no interest in skinning. She seemed drowsy after listening to it for only a short while. However, Nedra was very patient and had been listening to Suldak's story attentively. Although
Suldak is not an excellent skinner, and his description of skinning techniques is not coherent, but he does have rich experience in surviving in the wild, and he can explain it vividly.
The next night, the two girls gave Surdak a good lesson in aristocratic etiquette. Linna, who was born in a noble family, was far more proficient in these aristocratic etiquette than Nedra. Perhaps those were what she needed every day.
When Lina told this, it was Suldak's turn to have a headache again. However, Lina and Nedra cooperated with each other. Nedra needed to simulate nobles with different identities, and then meet, visit, and even
He turned his back on the spot and threw down his white gloves to start the duel, with detailed explanations given.
Suldak’s campus life suddenly felt less difficult because of these two young neighbors.