"Sir, do you want a drink of water?" Fortress, Xiao Hou took a bottle of water and walked to Lin Kun's side.
"No need." Lin Kun shook his head and looked up. The teenage boy in front of him was sweating profusely and his thin vest was in tatters.
Watching Xiao Hou drinking water, he showed a pure smile. That smile seemed to have healing energy. Lin Kun also smiled slightly.
He also has a son who, if alive, would be about the same age as Xiao Hou.
"Son..." Lin Kun thought of something and uttered a sentence, with some memories appearing in his eyes.
His son is also a very obedient child. He works hard and has good grades. At this age, he should have started to shine in the beast control academy.
If there hadn't been that turmoil and those hateful people...
"Sir, what's wrong with you?" While he was thinking about it, Xiao Hou's voice sounded from the side. Looking at Lin Kun, he seemed a little puzzled, "You don't seem to be very happy."
"No, I'm happy." Lin Kun replied, shaking his head, but a hint of bitterness appeared in the corner of his mouth. He looked at the fortress in front of him, paused for a while, and then spoke slowly.
"In two days, the fortress will be repaired."
"Yes, after the fortress is repaired, the higher ups will pay us wages. When the time comes, I want to buy something for my mother..."
Xiao Hou was very happy and was about to talk about some future ideas, but Lin Kun interrupted him and suddenly said: "When the fortress is repaired, you can come back to Nange City with me."
"Ah? Going to Nange City?" Hearing this, Xiao Hou was a little surprised, stunned for a moment, and then asked: "Why are you going to Nange City?"
"Go to Nange City and I will help you study."
Lin Kun spoke, staring at Xiao Hou, his tone seemed a little serious, "I will send you to the best academy in Nange City to learn beast control and become a beast master. You have the talent to control beasts, although you are only C-level."
, but there is also a chance to embark on the path of a strong beast master."
"Being a hard worker moving bricks will lead to no future in your life."
"Do I also have a chance to control beasts?" These words made Xiao Hou slightly excited.
Obviously, for such a young man, he had never thought about such an expensive profession as a beast master.
Learning to control beasts also requires money. The tuition for the best academy in Nange City costs tens of thousands of yuan a year, which is something a family like theirs can afford.
Go to that kind of academy, where those powerful beast-controlling teachers will teach you how to control beasts, be classmates with those noble students, and have your own beast-controlling...
Thinking of these scenes that seemed to only appear in dreams, Xiao Hou seemed a little unbelievable and asked, "Is it true?"
"Of course it's true." Lin Kun nodded with a smile, but the next second, Xiao Hou shook his head, and his bright eyes turned gray.
"Forget it, I won't go."
"Why? Don't you want to go to school?" Lin Kun was a little surprised.
"I think." Xiao Hou nodded heavily, but the next moment, he looked at Lin Kun, his eyes seemed serious and determined, "But my mother needs me."
"I can help you." Lin Kun replied, he knew Xiao Hou's situation.
He has a bedridden mother who fell down while working in his early years and was paralyzed in bed. His father has passed away long ago. In recent years, except for the occasional help from kind-hearted neighbors, this teenage boy has taken on everything early.
, working everywhere, doing manual labor, and supporting this small family.
Lin Kun knew all this, so he took great care of this teenage boy.
"I can help send money to your mother, and I can also hire someone to take care of her." Lin Kun said, "Also, as long as you read the book, you can make money, a lot of money. At that time,
I can give your mother a lot of money."
These words were already very sincere, and Lin Kun felt that no one would refuse, but unexpectedly, Xiao Hou in front of him shook his head again.
"My mother needs me." Xiao Hou repeated, maintaining his firmness in his eyes.
"She stays in bed every day and can't see the outside world. She doesn't know anyone. She only knows me."
"I am her only support. If I leave, she will definitely be very lonely, just like I was at home alone when she went away."
"I know that kind of loneliness, so I will not leave my mother."
"But..." Lin Kun wanted to retort, but when he looked at the stubbornness in the young man's eyes, he froze, and the words that reached his lips were choked in his throat.
After a few seconds, he seemed to have thought of something and sighed helplessly.
His knowledge was much further than that of this teenage boy, and he knew 10,000 better choices and methods, but at this time, he just sighed.
You may call him ignorant or stupid, but when he saw that young man's firm gaze, it seemed that nothing he said mattered anymore.
After looking at the young man for a long time, Lin Kun slowly said, "But in that case, you will have a very hard life."
"bitter?"
This sentence seemed to make Xiao Hou hesitate for a moment, but soon, he smiled, took a sip of water, and seemed to be full of energy and walked towards the fortress.
"Being with mom is not bitter."
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"Ye Fan, our troops have been assembled." In the jungle not far from the fortress, the two legions had assembled. They seemed to be well prepared, and their guns were loaded.
"You can wait a little longer in the evening. I tortured their intelligence soldiers. Generally, they only change shifts at seven o'clock in the morning and evening."
Shuan Sansheng stood beside Ye Fan, waving his feather fan slightly, "This operation organized by the dynasty is very secretive. I don't think anyone else will know about it, so I don't have much precaution."
"Yeah." Ye Fan nodded, "How to arrange the people sent back to Yuncheng."
"Take them from the Scourge Army. I'll ask Zhang Da to pick out some younger legion members." Suan Sansheng replied, "After all, if we take over this fortress, the dynasty organization will definitely come to rob it. If there is a war, those young people will
If it is light, it may not be suitable for you."
"Okay, just do as the military advisor said." Ye Fan nodded, but did not say anything. He walked a little higher and frowned a little as he looked at the busy laborers and various personnel in the fortress.
His eyes were very vicious, and it could be seen that not all of the 1,800 people were members of the dynasty organization, there were many who seemed to be the kind of hard laborers recruited from the construction site.
"Military advisor, which family do you think this dynasty organization belongs to?"
After watching for a while, Ye Fan stepped back, looked at Suan Sansheng, and said with some confusion: "Such a fortress can accommodate tens of thousands of people, but even in Yuncheng, all members of the dynasty organization, including the big families of Sun and Zheng,
The number of servants is no more than a thousand or two thousand."
"With tens of thousands of members, this is not allowed in any city. During this time, I haven't heard of any obvious dynastic unrest in that city."
"The dynasty organization is not monolithic. It is controlled by people from various big families. If you can send 10,000 members to the secret realm, even if you can, you will have to take a lot of risks."
"This is indeed a problem. Ordinary people cannot support an army of tens of thousands of people. Even if you are like Ye Fan, who completely controls a city, you still need to escape supervision, otherwise the title of a private soldier will be settled.
No one dared to respond."
Even Sansheng replied, looking at the distance and frowning slightly.
"And in a place like Nanchuan Province, it's not easy to recruit 10,000 troops from any city alone. It's not like we can let go, unless it's..."
"He was able to mobilize people from many cities."
"Many cities?" Hearing this, Ye Fan frowned a little.
This sentence seemed to remind him of something, and a figure of a person slowly emerged in Ye Fan's mind.
Nanchuan Province is not big, but since it is a province, it naturally has a nominal provincial governor. This person has a higher level of power than all city lords, and can naturally do more things than other city lords.
Mostly.
It may be difficult for the city lord to mobilize personnel from multiple cities, but for the provincial governor, this is one of his privileges.
"If it were him, that would be interesting..."
Thinking of something, Ye Fan nodded slightly, and at this moment, even Sansheng stood up, "Ye Fan, the time is almost up, we should go out."
"Okay." Ye Fan nodded.
"Shall we kill all the people in the fortress together?" Suan Sansheng asked.
"It doesn't matter whether you kill them or not, it doesn't matter to me a group of workers."
Ye Fan waved his hand, glanced at the thin boys in the crowd, paused again, and then added:
"Anyone who doesn't resist will be left to confirm their identity. If they are just workers, we can spare their lives."