The villager's house that Lieutenant Colonel Manrich arranged for Claude to stay at was at the east end of the village. It was a bit far away from the military academy, and it took about fifteen minutes to walk. But Lieutenant Colonel Manrich said that the military academy could provide equipment for Claude.
A healthy horse is used as a means of transportation. As for the three healthy horses that Claude and the others originally rode, they have been purchased by the military academy at a uniform market price. This also saves Claude from the trouble of taking care of his own mounts.
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The Ranger Division being formed is a mobile armed force and a quick reaction force, so every officer and soldier needs to have decent riding skills. It was only when the trainees reported to the military academy that the military academy discovered that at least half of them
The students did not know how to ride a horse. So the riding course was temporarily added to the tutorial schedule. Before the superiors allocated a group of war horses, it became a top priority to urgently gather a group of healthy horses for the students to practice riding.
Therefore, the three mounts brought by Claude and the others became Lieutenant Colonel Manrich's acquisition targets, and they also gave him an idea. The students who came to the military academy to register were either riding carriages or riding horses. All they needed to do was to acquire the students' mounts.
Come here, there is no need to go to the royal capital to bargain with horse dealers who take the opportunity to increase prices. Lieutenant Colonel Manrich completed the task of acquiring the mount perfectly, and even saved a lot of money than expected.
"This is where the commander will stay," said Lieutenant Colonel Longcodo, the newly assigned adjutant of Lieutenant Colonel Manrici who brought Claude over. The house he pointed out was the largest one Claude had ever seen in the village.
, the double-story building of stone and wood structure is L-shaped, with four rooms in a row on the long side and two suites on the short side. There is also a large yard in front of the building, with a well and a livestock shed in the yard.
"Is this the home of the leading figure in Kaleben Village?" Claude asked.
"It should be considered so, but he is not the village chief. I chose this place just because their accommodation conditions are the best and there are extra rooms." Lieutenant Longkodo replied with some embarrassment: "I just came once to check whether the room was there.
It meets our requirements, but we don’t know much about this family. However, the head of the household here is the village chief and his father, who is said to have a bit of a weird temper. But the village chief said that his mother is in charge of their family. For the sake of rent, the village chief, his father
Mother welcomes your stay, sir."
"The village chief's father is the head of the household, so doesn't the village chief live here?" This relationship seems a bit complicated.
"The village chief is a disabled retired veteran with national status. But his father is only a civilian, so he can only separate the family and live at the other end of the village. Now there are two younger brothers and a younger sister living with his father.
The village chief's second brother is currently serving in the Guards Corps, and his third brother was exempted from military service because his two older brothers were serving, and now works as a clerk in a trading firm in the royal capital." Lieutenant Longkodo did some research.
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The two dismounted, and the courtyard door was ajar. Lieutenant Longko directly reached out and pushed it open: "Is anyone there?"
Soon four people appeared in the yard, three women and one man. The man was a tall old man in his sixties, with a stern face and an unattractive expression. His half-grey beard was stained with a little dust. Gram
Lord saw clearly that the old man came out of the livestock shed.
Another chubby aunt in her fifties had an apron hanging on her body. She was probably burning something in the kitchen and smelled of oil smoke. However, she was very enthusiastic and came up to greet her with a smile on her face: "Sir, you
Here we come, this must be the officer who will stay here, he looks so young..."
Lieutenant Longko nodded reservedly and introduced Claude. He first pointed at the old man: "This is Mr. Zasirak, the head of the household. This is Mr. Zasirak, Na
Ms. Tully."
"Hello, Mr. Zacilak, Ms. Natalie, it's nice to meet you. Living here will cause you a lot of trouble in the future. I'm sorry." Claude saluted the old couple casually.
After being polite, he didn't expect to hear the old man muttering: "You came here to stay even if you knew it would cause us trouble..."
What does this old man mean? It seems that he is not welcome to stay at our house. However, his wife next to him gave him a fierce look, smiled very warmly and said: "You're welcome, sir, you can stay at our house for us."
It's an honor. Don't call me ma'am. I'm a country boy and I don't have much knowledge. If you don't mind, just call me aunt. If you need any help, just ask. By the way, I'll introduce you to you. This is me.
Second daughter-in-law Doris, this is my youngest daughter Halbena..."
Only then did Claude look at the two young women standing next to him. They had just come down from the second floor. The older one should be the second daughter-in-law, who was probably in her mid-twenties and tall.
It's not bad, I can give it a six or seven points. But it seems a bit flattering, the look in Claude's eyes is a bit provocative, and he deliberately touches the corners of his mouth with his tongue.
Reminiscent of what Lieutenant Longko said about this family's second son serving in the Guards Corps, it is obvious that his wife can't stand the loneliness at home. Perhaps it is because of this daughter-in-law that the head of the family, old man Zashilak,
Claude is not welcome to stay.
The younger one is the youngest daughter of the family. She is about twenty years old. She has pretty features and a figure similar to her mother. She is plump. She has a charming look on her face and she is looking at her with big eyes.
Claude.
Claude saluted again: "Hello, two beautiful ladies."
The woman named Doris chuckled: "I'm not a young lady, you have to call me madam."
Claude looked at Lieutenant Longco next to him with some embarrassment. He didn't know what this family's last name was. How to call them was a big problem.
It was Aunt Natalie who helped Claude solve this problem: "Doris, don't embarrass this young man. What kind of lady are you? Just call me by name. We country people only give names to others, so let's just call them names."
You are a madam, take a look at your whole body, do you look like a lady at all..."
Captain Longcoda coughed twice and interrupted Aunt Natalie's nagging: "Hey, um, is Captain Claude's room ready?"
"It has been taken care of a long time ago. We also specially cleaned it. All the furniture and even the doors and windows were scrubbed clean, just waiting for the officer to move in." Aunt Natalie led the way attentively: "You guys follow
I'll come over and take a look."
This is the first floor, which is the short L-shaped part. This is a two-room suite with separate toilets and bathrooms. This makes Claude very happy, even if the water for bathing needs to be drawn from the well in the yard.
It's troublesome to boil it and pour it into the water tank outside the house, but it's better than having no place to take a shower.
"This is the place where my eldest son lived when he got married, but after the separation, the couple moved out." Aunt Natalie said, "When my second son and Doris got married, they chose the two rooms upstairs.
The first floor has always been vacant, so now it is very suitable to rent it to the chief executive."
Although it is on the first floor, it does not feel damp. This is probably because the foundation was better waterproofed when the house was built. There is also a wooden floor on the ground, which is made up of spliced wooden boards that are only about 60 centimeters long.
It is made of stone, but it looks very warm. In addition, the walls of the house are made of stone, which is very strong and has good sound insulation.
The only drawback is that there is no decoration on the ceiling. There are rows of large wooden beams directly above it. The floor of the second floor is laid on the wooden beams. Claude doesn't understand why there is no partition above, so that when someone walks around on the second floor, it will become dusty.
It will fall from the cracks in the floor.
But Claude understood when he heard Aunt Natalie say that their family now lives on the second floor. If no one lives downstairs, no one will care about this shortcoming, so there is no need to spend money on further partitioning the rooms downstairs.
One floor is at the top.
"Well, I'm very satisfied with this room. Then I'll bring my luggage here tonight and I won't disturb you from today on." Claude expressed his gratitude to Aunt Natalie. Captain Longcodo said that although this old man is
He is the head of the household, but it is his wife who calls the shots. As long as this Aunt Natalie is taken care of, everything will be fine...
"Okay, okay, sir, will you have dinner at our house tonight?" Aunt Natalie asked politely.
"There's no need for this. Our military school stipulates that we must eat in the cafeteria. In addition, Aunt Natalie will call me Claude from now on. Don't call me sir, it sounds very awkward..." Claude was also very polite.
declined.
Lieutenant Longcodo stepped forward and began to discuss with Aunt Natalie the issue of Claude's horse spending the night here, that is, occupying a seat in the livestock shed, adding a few handfuls of feed at night, and finally paying for it on a monthly basis.
Ends up costing one silver thaler.
Finally everything was settled, the two said goodbye and left. From tonight, Claude will stay here. Now Claude has to go back and pack his luggage. The military school will start tomorrow, and the tents next to the playground will have to be dismantled and recycled in the evening.
Arrived at the warehouse.
"The old man doesn't seem to welcome me to stay overnight," Claude said.
Lieutenant Longko nodded: "Don't pay attention to this old man. The old man is a bit old-fashioned. He is very worried that the officer staying overnight will seduce his youngest daughter and her second son-in-law. Didn't you notice that his second son-in-law looks very coquettish? She should.
It is easy to seduce, and you will have a chance in the future. And his wife hopes that her youngest daughter will marry an officer, so that their family will have someone to rely on..."
Claude laughed: "That's a pity. I've just been married for less than half a year, and I have no interest in his little daughter. Moreover, my wife has been pregnant for nearly three months, and I am very worried about her health..."
"Then congratulations." Lieutenant Longko said with envy: "You are already a captain at such a young age. You have won the knighthood. You have a wife and you will be a father soon. Compared with me, you are really a human being.
Winner!"
Back at the military academy, Claude was hugged before he could even pack his luggage.
"Why are you here now?" The three people hugging Claude were Belklin, Muriel and Diavid. Claude asked angrily: "What's going on? I thought you were hiding.
They don’t dare to see me anymore, and they didn’t even come to attend my wedding..."
"What, boss, are you married too?" Murray Ed asked in surprise.
"Well? I'm also married... What do you mean, haven't you received my wedding notice? I wrote a letter to you in early August last year, asking you to come to my wedding, but none of you received it.
Before I came here, I thought you didn’t recognize me as the boss..."
"No, boss!" Diaverde screamed: "We haven't received your letter, because we are not at home, so we don't know you are getting married..."
"Are you not at home?" Claude was very surprised. Didn't these two guys say before they parted that they would go home and show off after arriving in the royal capital this time? They were not at home during the three-month family leave. What was the fuss about?
Yao Mozi: "What have you done?"
"Boss, don't blame them two. It was me who dragged them down. They didn't go home because of me..." Belklin admitted on the side that it was all his fault.
"What good things have you done?" Claude was curious.
"Boss, Baker is also married." Murray Ed said: "He and his wife eloped. We did not go home to help him avoid the woman's pursuit..."
Elopement? This news is even more surprising than Belklin's marriage. Claude also became interested: "Tell me, what is going on? Is the matter settled now?"
"Boss, do you remember Aboyev?" Diavid asked.
"Of course I remember." Claude nodded. This was their good friend and one of Claude's younger brothers. He was the smallest, but loved to joke the most. Four noble children joined the army together, but Aboyev fell there.
During the attack on Wilf's Hill, a gun shot through his left eye and penetrated the back of his head. Fortunately, his death was sudden and without any pain.
"Bofu is a twin, he is an older brother, and he has a twin sister." Murray Ed explained.
Aboyev and his twin sister were illegitimate children. Although his father recognized their blood relationship, he did not give them family recognition. This is why there is no family-given word in his name.
This time, Belklin went home first to visit his relatives, only to find that Aboyev's sister was being forced by the family to marry her to an aristocratic old man in his fifties whose wife had died. So Belklin acted bravely and brought her to the house.
As Aboyev's sister escaped from marriage, she was always being hunted by people sent by the woman and the aristocratic old man.
Desperate, Belklin took Aboyev's sister and ran to the military camp to seek help. They happened to meet Muriel and Diaverde. Now, safety was finally guaranteed. So Muriel
De and Diavid helped hide Belklin and Aboyev's sister, while intimidating and persuading the woman and the aristocratic old man.
The woman was quite easy to talk to, and a declining aristocratic family didn't have much confidence. Although Aboyev died, his friends have now become official ensign officers of the kingdom, and they were acquired with a concubine whom the family didn't pay much attention to.
The friendship and future care are very cost-effective, not to mention that the one who took the concubine away was the lieutenant of the kingdom. So the conditions they proposed were very simple. First, Belklin married Aboyev’s sister;
They deal with the aristocratic old man by themselves, and the woman is not responsible.
The problem is that the aristocratic old man is very lecherous. No matter how much Muired and Diavid try to persuade him, he only insists on two points of view. One is that if the woman accepts his betrothal gift, she has to make friends with him. As for whether the relationship is compatible or not,
He didn't consider that what he wanted was not the love of Aboyev's sister, but her body. The second point is don't fool people with your identity. His nephew is still a colonel in the Logistics and Equipment Department of the Ministry of War. You young people
Why did the second lieutenant come to me...
"Then what?" Claude was very concerned about the outcome.
"There is no way..." Muriel shrugged: "If words can't convince me, I have to rely on my fists. The two of us stared at the old man for three days, and finally waited until the old man went out to the tavern to find the maid to have fun. When he was done having fun.
When he went out, he knocked him unconscious with a sap, then put a sack on his head, took him to the alley behind the tavern, beat him severely, and took out all the money on the old man. What he did was just like those in the royal capital.
Just like a gangster who steals money from a sap, I guarantee that he will not be discovered by others...
Then we took Belklin and Aboyev's sister to the three southern counties, found the Temple of the Moon for them to get married, and then pooled the money to buy a house next to Lieutenant Colonel Ledfunk's residence.
Let the two of them settle down there. With Lieutenant Colonel Lederfonk’s wife taking care of her, even if Belklin comes to the military academy for training, Aboyev’s sister will be safe and nothing will happen to her..."