The screams in the early morning woke me up, and I reluctantly got up.
"What's wrong?"
I looked at the little fat man in front of me. He was the child of my father's guard. His name was Weiner. Weiner is a very common name in the Western Region. Just like the stones on the roadside, poor families did not dare to give names that were too strange, so
I often give my children this name.
As the name suggests, Weiner is very ordinary. Apart from being a bit greedy and timid, he has basically no characteristics.
"Brother Rock, Lulin is being beaten by Toto. If you don't go... he will be beaten by Toto." It was obvious that he wanted to ask me for help, but he couldn't find any good excuse.
But there is no need for any reason for this kind of thing.
"Where are they? Take me there." I got up and put on my shoes, then picked up the two daggers under the bedside and hung them on my waist, and walked out of the room quickly.
Lulin was Weiner's friend. We often went to Baron Burris's kitchen to eat together. Usually Weiner ate more and Lulin got beaten more. However, Lulin still regarded Weiner as a good friend.
Because Weiner's father is my father's subordinate, he also regards me as his eldest brother. He often comes to please me. Occasionally I will help him, and he will praise me with tired and panic words, and then use my name to communicate with people in the town.
Other peers bickered.
This time I guess I have offended Toto again. His father is an important blacksmith in the Baron family, so he is not afraid of me, the son of the captain of the guard.
When I came to the dirt and gravel town street, there was already a circle of people gathered there. I squeezed in and saw Toto trampling Lulin to the ground, while Lulin was still holding something, which was wrapped in cloth anyway.
There is still oil inside.
I guess I went to Baron Burris's kitchen to steal it again. I shook my head, but I couldn't watch Toto continue to humiliate Lulin.
"Let him go." I shouted with a frown.
"Haha, I knew you were coming back. Weiner always said that you would protect him. If you don't come this time, wouldn't it be a loss of face?"
This blacksmith's son is not the kind of person who can only use his strength foolishly. He could see Weiner's little thoughts behind me at a glance.
"Yes, he was covered by me. Please move your feet away." I saw that Lu Lin's face on the ground was covered with shoe prints, and his mouth was stuffed with dirty soil. Don't think about it, it was probably all covered with it.
Hidden injury.
"It's okay to move away. You have to go to Butler Deli and apologize, saying that you let the two of you steal things from the kitchen."
"This won't work." I refused directly.
What a joke, if things go like this, due to Butler Deli's strictness, not only will I be educated by my father, but it will even affect our family's image in the mind of Baron Burris.
In our small town, most of the better professions and businesses are related to Baron Burris. After all, this is his family fiefdom.
"Then have a fight with me, but no weapons are allowed." He said provocatively.
"All right."
Soon, with a group of people watching, the two of us went to an open space on the edge of the town and started fighting. The reason why I use this word is that I think this is still too far from the standard of a duel. After all, both parties are new.
Adult children.
The fight lasted for a few minutes and ended. Toto was kicked to the ground by me and could not get up again. Although he finally tried to hit me with the iron ring hidden on his finger, I easily dodged it and tripped him.
several times.
After the fight ended, I took Lulin and Weiner away and came to a quiet place with few people, and then asked about the process.
The result was no surprise. It was Weiner who encouraged Lulin to go to the kitchen to get something because he smelled the smoke from the kitchen and thought that the Baron's family would be cooking roast chicken and other delicacies today.
"Weiner is so smart." Lu Lin rubbed his swollen face and opened the package he was protecting with a smile. As expected, there was half a roast chicken inside, but it had been kneaded to pieces because of what he had just done.
Weiner drooled at the roasted chicken, and then told Lulin that he was very hungry.
Lu Lin directly handed the roasted chicken that he had managed to protect to Weiner, who started to chew on it.
After that, I said a few words to the two of them and asked Weiner to go back first.
"Is Lulin okay?" I saw that he had been beaten a lot before.
"It's okay, I can fight well." He smiled stupidly.
"Heh." I asked him to sit down and then unbuttoned his clothes.
Looking at the bruised body, I was silent for a long time, and then asked some more questions. Although Lu Lin didn't want to answer, he still talked about some of his feelings after my repeated strong request.
"If this continues, you may make your sister sad." Lu Lin's parents have been gone for a long time, and his sister works as a maid in the baron's mansion to make a living while taking care of his younger brother.
"Don't talk to my sister about it. She works very hard and I don't want to cause any trouble to her."
"Since you don't want to cause trouble to her, why do you help Weiner steal things from the kitchen?" I shook my head.
"I, I am Weiner's good friend, I should do something for my friends, and Weiner is often hungry."
"No, I think he eats much better than you and is fatter than you."
"Besides, even if you consider Weiner a friend, has he ever thought about you and given you anything good?" I asked and pointed out the truth.
"But, but..." His voice trailed off and he was speechless.
"This is the only friend I have."
Suddenly, I seemed to realize something, Lulin's status in the town, and the environment he was in.
Not all civilian children have a father like me who can speak a few words in front of the baron. Besides, I know the children of the baron family well and have a good relationship with each other, so no adults will embarrass me.
Lu Lin was not very smart and was often played by others. After being bullied, she had no choice but to look for her sister. However, her sister was not that kind of beauty. She was just a low-class handyman in the baron's palace. She could not help her brother and could only hold him and shed tears.
.
After doing this many times, Lu Lin was no longer willing to tell her sister these things.
Later, he got Weiner as a playmate. Although because of Weiner, he was beaten more. Not only did children of the same age bully him, but even the adults in the Baron House would beat him. However, he did not seem to
I don't hate Weiner, this is something I can't understand.
Although I felt sorry for Lu Lin, I didn't think clearly about the deep reason at that time and just let him associate with Weiner Shao.
If only I had warned him forcefully that day and given Weiner a beating too. I would often regret it in the days to come.
Lu Lin died in the second month after that incident.
Weiner didn't find him one day and didn't pay attention to him at first, but the next day Sister Lulin said he hadn't come back yet, which attracted others' attention.
Finally, everyone found him at the foot of a hillside near the town. It was not a very high hillside, but he probably rolled down from it because of his escape, spun around several times and hit a tree trunk, which triggered internal bleeding.
The weak body just passed away.
The person who inspected the body said this, and then opened his clothes, revealing a lot of bruises and scars, which meant that he had accumulated a lot of hidden injuries.
The cause of death must be found out, not because of justice, but because it is related to the security of the Baron Mansion.
After the incident ended, I was locked up in a closed cell by my father for a month, because it was my connivance that caused this incident.
During this month of confinement, I thought about a lot of things, why Lu Lin wanted to play with Weiner, why even then, and why he didn't want to tell his sister about his injuries. If he was treated by a doctor, there would still be a chance to be cured.
I will slowly clarify and understand the answers to these questions in the days to come.
Perhaps for Lu Lin at that time, people like Weiner were the only light in his life.
For children from aristocratic families, they receive good education and care from birth, and can choose their own hobbies and plan for a long-term life.
However, such a thing is extremely luxurious for the children of ordinary families. Many babies do not live to be 2 years old, and only half of them can reach adulthood and start a family.
Children from civilian families are like weeds on the roadside. They are very common and easy to ignore. Even if no one educates them, they will slowly realize their status and situation.
Most of the weeds like me will not live to adulthood and will not have a good future. As soon as they learn something, they have to help the adults with work. Naturally, they have to play crazily in their rare free time, because this is the only time in life.
entertainment.
If you don't play today, it will be too late to die tomorrow and it will be too regrettable. This is probably what I think.
Even though it seems unbelievable to outsiders, this is the real situation and thoughts of these children. Maybe they don't think so clearly and just do it based on vague feelings.
It's an uncomfortable phenomenon. Although I'm not that miserable, walking on the streets of a small town and seeing people of my own age, some of them are skinny, some of them are doing bad things just for the sake of petty profits, or
Feeling gloomy.
I know that they have all kinds of little ideas. They are far from the children described in the fairy tale books in the Baron's family. They are smart, competitive, lazy, and enjoy bullying those who are weaker than themselves. They start to rank each other at a young age and tell stories about each other.
Your Excellency's position in the Baronial Palace.
Why don't you learn and practice swordsmanship? If I tell them this, I will definitely be regarded as a fool, because doing so is very painful and even cruel.
Without the teaching of knowledge, learning requires a huge cost. Practicing swordsmanship without guidance will only waste energy and time. Even if you know a few moves, it is still useless without a healthy and energetic body.
When I was young, I often thought about how to change all this, but I could never find a way. Finally, I found a temporary answer in that hero's biography.
Just be a hero.
Those legendary assassins are always desirable to change the direction of the world with one person's power. I think this is the path that best suits my ideas.
Although I had made such a wish, it was not that strong. It was not until I was lucky enough to enter Emenas to study that this idea slowly became a reality.
After graduation, I went to many places, and everything was so disappointing that I slowly let go of this obsession and prepared to live an ordinary life.
But I still met my childhood rival, a man named Tokolin. His existence is like another me at the fork of fate. If I had not entered Emenas at that time, would I have gone with him?
It's the same road.
As a shadow in the light, I was destined not to go to a place with too many good people. After Tokolin died, I did not go to the south to find an organization with the same will as Tokolin, but began to cultivate my own system.
Although I was laughed at when I was a teenager, I never expected that many years later, I would actually found my own intelligence organization and assassin group. This has to be said to be a miracle of fate.
During the turmoil in the royal family, Dark Moon, as the top assassin group in the empire, lost its allegiance and fell into chaos. With the intelligence I obtained from Edron that year, I finally found an opportunity to intervene.
Under my command and attack, the tightly guarded convoy of the Salius family was broken through by the Dark Moon Assassins led by me, and the two princesses who changed the fate of the empire also appeared in front of me.
I can easily kill these two beautiful princesses, or I can choose to snatch them away and make them puppets and bargaining chips in my hands.
As a gentle sister, Princess Teslin asked me to take away Princess Evelyn, and then prepared to commit suicide in the carriage.
"No, you can't die yet." I restrained Princess Evelin who was trying to struggle with my hands, and looked calmly at the princess in the white dress in front of me.
Even though I have met many members of the royal family, these two princesses are still special. They seem to have extra trust and love for each other, and both want to keep each other alive.
"Your presence will not make the Salius family completely give up hope. They will still be willing to maintain the name of the empire, because it is just and legitimate."
"And because you are respected, I can help Princess Evelin gain the same value and status among the nobles of the East."
"I long for a lot of things, which can never be satisfied by simply killing or possessing a princess. If you die here, I will not let Evelin live an easy life. Maybe she will suffer many terrible things in the future.
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"If you, as the older sister, still want to protect your younger sister, then live well. Even the Queen of Vase is a deterrent, so that I will not easily give up the chips of equal value in my hand."
Teslin took a deep breath and gradually calmed down.
"I understand your request."
After that, I took Evelyn away, and used this opportunity to negotiate with the Landsworth family and help this princess to become the queen.