"I'm leaving White Deer Town..." This was the first word Bok'al said.
Claude didn't pay attention. Last year, Boker followed his father to inspect the branches of their business firm in the three southwest counties during the holiday last year. He only returned to Bailu Town after late January: "You and your father are going to inspect you again."
Those branches of the family store?"
"No, this time I'm going to my aunt's house in Similok County. My father didn't go. He has to stay here and wait for the arrival of the merchant fleet." Bockal said with some sadness: "I didn't know when I left Bailu Town this time.
When can I come back? Maybe it will be more than ten years later, maybe I will never come back to Bailu Town again..."
"Huh? What do you mean by that?" Claude was stunned. Is this considered a separation between life and death?
"My uncle has found a connection. After the New Year, I will go to the city of Gilia in Siromyk County to join the garrison camp and join the army. My father requires me to obtain national identity before I can retire and return home." Bokhar
Sighing: "But I joined the logistics department of the garrison battalion. Although I am a soldier, I can do the work of a civilian employee, so there is no need to worry about safety."
"When are you leaving?" Claude asked. Bockard told him that the matter was obviously a foregone conclusion, it could not be stopped, and he did not have the ability to make Bockard stay. But Claude did not expect it.
What he expected was that the first person to join the army would be Bocal, and he originally thought it would be Viricolo.
"Tomorrow morning," Bockaar lowered his head and kicked the stones on the ground with his feet: "I want to see Ike in the afternoon. I just saw Mrs. Elena coming. Professor Wickham gave her Ike's diploma.
She left in a hurry. I originally wanted to ask her how Ike was doing, but I didn't expect her to leave so quickly. So I wanted to see him in the afternoon. Even if I couldn't see him, I had done my best.
.I couldn’t help at all when Ike’s accident happened this time, so I feel a little sad.”
"It's not your fault." Claude grabbed Bockaar's shoulders: "Ike's accident was caused by his own death. No one thought that he would have the courage to go out to sea alone in that small modified fishing boat.
.The incident happened suddenly. Vero and I were in a hurry to go to sea to find him, so we forgot to inform you. You don’t need to blame yourself, it was our negligence..."
Bockaar nodded, but did not reply. He just kept silent and continued to kick a rock protruding from the ground with his boots. It could be seen that he was not in a good mood.
"It's okay, Boa. Even if you go to Siromik County, we will still be good friends and good partners. Although we can't meet, you can write to us. Just write the address and we will reply to you.
"Yes." Claude could only comfort Bockar in this way.
"Well, I will write to you." Boker's voice was a little low: "I still have some things to sort out, so I'll go home first. Goodbye, Claude."
Bockaar turned around and left. Claude clearly saw him wipe his face after turning around. He seemed to be crying. But Claude just stood there and watched Bockaar leave. He graduated and passed.
New Year means turning eighteen and becoming an adult. Everyone must shoulder their own responsibilities, and no one is exempt.
Bockar will leave White Deer Town tomorrow morning, and Claude doesn't know if he will be able to see him again in the future. His father has told him about his arrangements before, so this time the merchant fleet is back and heading to Nubisia again after the New Year.
If so, he would have to board a ship and go to the Tiersim Direct Territory to meet the viscount whose godfather he had never met as governor, and join the army there. He didn’t know when he could return to White Deer Town, as he is now.
My leisurely days in the forest farm are numbered...
Claude didn't want to go back to school to attend the graduation celebration party. His carriage was parked at his home. In the morning, he came with his father in the public carriage from the office. Now he just wanted to walk quietly on this road with his friends.
For the past three years, we have been going to school together, and there has been a lot of sadness in our hearts.
After returning home, Claude calmed down after being entangled by his brother Little Booker and Little Snow Dog. His sister Angelina also had a holiday and was helping her mother make lunch. She asked Claude if he had eaten.
De shook his head. His mother complained about why Claude didn't have a delicious meal at school. After all, the food at the banquet was much richer than what was cooked at home.
After having a simple lunch, Claude accompanied little Booker to play with the little snow dog, which was to throw a small wooden ball out for the little snow dog to pick up. Little Booker played happily and yelled until his mother came over.
He said he was going to take a nap, so he reluctantly went upstairs.
My sister was sitting in the restaurant reading quietly. Now she is fourteen years old. She is becoming more and more sensible and well-behaved, like a quiet little lady. Claude went over and touched her head. Anna was a little angry, and the second brother again
Her hair was messed up.
She looked at the title of the book in her hand. It was a small encyclopedia describing marine life, which was a general introduction to the types of marine life that had been discovered. However, this book did not specifically explore the habits of these marine life.
Instead, we focus on the economic value of these marine organisms. For example, what kind of seafood is more valuable, which parts can be sold at an affordable price, etc...
After saying hello to his sister, Claude drove the carriage back to the forest farm. He decided that from today on, he would go hunting hard and earn more money to buy test materials for alchemical magic experiments.
In the following days, Claude's life became very busy and fulfilling. He hunted in the forest farm, and also went to the mountain forests and mounds in the southern suburbs of the town to set serial traps. With the dark horse Jamie on his way, he
, Claude’s hunting range has expanded greatly...
The only thing that made Claude a little unhappy was that after he sold nearly fifty pheasants and mountain hares to the old tavern, Pied actually refused to buy them. But by this time Claude had already earned seven dollars from him.
The income of Yintale. The family was tired of eating rabbits and pheasants every day, and her sister Anna gave Claude the nickname "Pheasant Killer". Finally, Claude made the remaining dozen pheasants and rabbits into smoked food.
Chicken and wax meat, hung under the eaves of the cabin.
In addition to hunting pheasants and rabbits, Claude also hunted a big bad wolf, three wild goats, two large wild boars, a red-furred fox, and two pig badgers. These prey were all taken to the open-air market by Claude
He sold it, and now he once again has savings of more than three gold crowns.
Because he was busy inspecting the forestry and hunting activities, Claude ignored the news that the merchant fleet had not returned. The uneasy clouds gathering over White Deer Town became more and more oppressive, and rumors spread in the tavern that Mr. Morsan had already
He has not smiled for a long time, and he is becoming more and more depressed at home, and his addiction to cigarettes is getting bigger and bigger. His mother often sits in a daze, not knowing what she is thinking.
Claude only wanted to make money by hunting. Apart from going home to send some prey, he had no time to communicate with his parents. At most, he would go back to the forest farm after having dinner. And Mr. Morsan was not willing to talk to Claude.
Lord was discussing some important matter. In his eyes, Claude was still a child and he had already done a great job in taking care of the forest farm.
Less than a week before the Chinese New Year, Claude came out of the mountains on his black horse Jamie. The black horse Jamie carried an adult clouded leopard carcass on his butt. This was Claude’s harvest when he went hunting in the mountains. This animal
The clouded leopard obviously stopped looking for food because of the heavy snow, so it took the idea of Claude and the dark horse Jamie. As a result, it failed to catch the prey and was hunted instead. Claude only used a mental shock spell to make it hold the matchlock gun obediently.
Shot at gunpoint...
Claude was also very excited at this moment. Unexpectedly, it had been snowing heavily for three days. When the snow stopped, he went out to inspect the forest farm. By the way, he rode his horse into the mountains to see if there were any deer or anything. Who would have thought that there were still pine forests at the foot of the mountains?
He was attacked by such a clouded leopard. Fortunately, he was prepared. When he saw the black shadow coming towards him, he was immediately shocked, and then he was shot to death again.
After throwing the clouded leopard's body onto the horse, Claude prepared to go back to the forest farm. In the morning, he went to the town's open-air market and sold the clouded leopard. He had five gold crowns, enough to buy a box of white root powder.
The first time I bought a box of white root powder at the underground shopping mall of Julian, a fat old man, it cost seven gold crowns. It was like killing a pig, but I stupidly agreed.
Unexpectedly, I later discovered that white root powder was also sold in a medicine shop in the open-air market. A box cost only eighteen silver thalers, that is, three gold crowns and three silver thalers, which was almost half of what the fat old man Julian paid.
When Claude thought about this, he wanted to eat the fat old man Julian alive. You must know that Claude had only earned about one gold crown by hunting pheasants and rabbits for nearly a month...
Returning to the forest farm, he put the matchlock gun back into the cabin, then hitched the black horse Jamie to a carriage, and threw the clouded leopard body on the carriage. Claude was ready to drive the carriage to the town. Unexpectedly, he happened to meet him on the mountain road.
The Sioli couple who came back from selling charcoal in the town were sitting on the old cart-like carriage. There was no linen bag for charcoal on the cart. It seemed that the heavy snow had stopped, and the charcoal business of these two men was very good.
, sold out so early and came back.
It's just that the Xioli couple looked at Claude with a strange look, and seemed hesitant to speak. Claude didn't care, and said kindly: "You guys go over first, I will step aside."
The two carriages passed by, and Sioli turned around and said, "Director Claude, there are soldiers in the town. Be careful when you go down the mountain."
Has there been an army in the town? Claude is a little strange. The New Year will be celebrated in a few days. Will any army come to the town at this time? Can you eat enough to come to the town to celebrate the New Year?
When they arrived in the town, Claude discovered that this was not a military parade, but martial law. There were many soldiers in dark blue military uniforms standing in the streets and alleys, and the weapons they held in their hands were not the Obas II standard matchlock guns.
It is a slightly backward Kemuler Type III matchlock gun.
This is not the kingdom's field army, but the Baromise Guard Battalion, the county's local garrison. But what happened to this county's security battalion suddenly came to Bailu Town to implement martial law?
However, looking at the expressions of these soldiers, it seemed that nothing serious had happened, and their discipline was not very strict. Some soldiers were still joking with the women standing on the street watching the excitement, but they did not reveal what happened, they just said:
Upon order, Bailu Town will be temporarily placed under military control.
Claude's carriage was also stopped by two soldiers. When they discovered that the carriage was carrying a clouded leopard carcass, they made a fuss, attracting a group of soldiers to come and watch. Finally, an officer came, and his attitude was very kind.
After looking at the body of the clouded leopard, I asked about Claude's identity. When I heard that Claude was the supervisor of the Norman Forestry Farm, I dismissed the onlookers and raised my hand to let him go.
Claude thought for a while and then drove the carriage to the old tavern, and asked Pied to be called out and let him see the clouded leopard body in the carriage.
"How much do you want?" Pied asked, but he looked at Claude with some pity.
"I just hunted it in the forest farm this morning. You can touch it and see that the body is not completely stiff. You can tell me how much it costs and I will give it to you if it suits you. I won't sell it in the open-air market." Claude said happily.
, he didn’t notice the way Pied looked at him just now.
"Eight silver thalers. The fur is worth a gold crown, but the flesh and bones are not worth the price." Pied thought for a while and said that the price he offered was very fair.
"Okay, this clouded leopard is yours." Claude was very happy. He originally expected that this clouded leopard would only be sold for about six or seven silver thalers.
Pied called some servants in the shop to come over and carry the clouded leopard carcass on the carriage inside, then took out his wallet to pay Claude: "You haven't been home?"
"Yeah." Claude nodded.
"Go home and have a look. Your father was arrested this morning." Pied sighed and told Claude the bad news.