The road to Fir Town was smooth all the way, and there were no interception scenes like those seen in movies. As it was approaching lunch time, Lawrence and the others finally saw the walls of Fir Town. Outside the walls were golden patches.
In the cornfield, many men and women wearing cowboy hats and blue overalls were breaking corn in the field. The whole scene was pastoral.
Maybe it's because the world's industrial level is still at a relatively rudimentary level, so the atmosphere of industrialization quickly fades away after leaving big cities. For example, the scene of picking corn here is not much different from that of more than 100 years ago.
The black smoke emitted from a small steam corn thresher makes people aware of the existence of industrial power.
"Good afternoon. Saphire, and——Lawrence, are you back today? Fortunately, Mr. Lambert told us that you have awakened your bloodline, otherwise I would not be able to recognize you after you have changed so much." In the small town.
After getting off the carriage at the door, a young man with two books under his arm and glasses on his face looked at Lawrence and the others carefully and then said hello.
"Good afternoon, Hans, are you out of class?" Lawrence and the others also waved and said hello. This young man named Hans is the son of a blacksmith in the town. He studied at the Knowledge Church with Lawrence and the others.
However, his academic level was still a little behind, so after graduation, he went to the mission school in Missoula to study as a teacher, and then returned to the town's charity school to work as a teacher after graduation.
"Yeah, I'm going to visit Ren's family outside town. There are a few students who seem a little too active in class. I have to talk to their parents." After that, the young teacher waved goodbye to Lawrence and the others.
.When he walked five or six meters, he suddenly turned around and said to Lawrence. "By the way, Lawrence, it seems that someone suddenly came to your house this morning. That person does not look like an ordinary believer or a friend of your father."
"I know, thank you." Lawrence shook his hand to Hans again and walked into the town. Then he said goodbye to Saphire at the crossroads in the town and walked towards the church. When he came to the door of the small church in the town
When I arrived, I found that the main door of the church was still closed as usual, so I took out the key from the space bag, opened the door and walked in.
"Son, are you back?" Because the church door was old, the noise was very loud when it was opened. As soon as Lawrence came in, he saw his adoptive father, Mr. Lambert, pushing open the door connected to the residence.
He walked in through the door, then walked up to Lawrence and patted him on the shoulder. "Look, he is much stronger now than before. He looks like a real man."
Lawrence looked at his father, who looked slightly older than four years ago, with a sore nose. He stepped forward, hugged him and patted his back gently, then stepped back and looked at his face with more wrinkles.
During the hug, he was happy to discover that his father's body might be in better shape than four years ago due to his advancement to the extraordinary level, but he was just a little older in appearance.
After a few seconds, Lawrence cleared his somewhat confused mind and asked his father. "By the way, Dad, why did you suddenly call me back this time? I thought something happened to you, I was so scared.
I quickly spent a lot of money to fly back on an airship, and I was intercepted by a killer once."
"A killer actually intercepted you." After hearing what Lawrence said, Mr. Lambert immediately showed a nervous expression on his face. Then he began to grab Lawrence's shoulder and carefully inspected it up and down. "You are not injured, are you?"
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"No, and I also killed all those killers." Lawrence said, and then began to describe the process of the battle he encountered, but in the middle of his description, the door on the side opened again.
Suddenly, an old man with gray hair in a tuxedo came out of the door. Lawrence immediately shut his mouth when he saw this.
"Who is this?" Lawrence asked his father curiously, because the clothes on this old man were obviously not like what people in the town usually wear. Instead, he looked like a nobleman from a big family he had visited before.
housekeeper.
"This is a member of our family back home in the Old Continent. You can just call him Grandpa Bayer." "My father was very busy when I was a child. It was your Grandpa Bayer who brought me up. You can call him Grandpa Bayer."
Zuo is an elder in our family." Mr. Lambert introduced, then he turned to the old man and said, "He is my son, Lawrence August."
"Hello, Grandpa Bayer." Lawrence bowed very seriously and said hello. After all, his father said that this is the elder of the family. The old man very solemnly pressed his right hand on his left chest and bowed slightly.
He said hello at the same time. "Nice to meet you, young Master Lawrence."
"Young Master, what is going on?" Lawrence was confused after hearing what the old man said. He knew that his adoptive father was a child from a certain family who had no inheritance rights and came out to make a living and eventually became a clergyman. But other than that,
In addition, he didn't know anything about the situation at his adoptive father's house, so he felt a little strange about the sudden appearance of the housekeeper.
After all, he didn't know much about his adoptive father's family. He only knew that his adoptive father was similar to Saphiel's father. They were both descendants of nobles who were already commoners. According to normal custom, these descendants after becoming independent are often the same as those of the main family.
The contact will gradually fade away, and the normal contact is just to communicate with each other through letters or telegrams. It is very abnormal for the housekeeper in this family to come directly to find someone.
"Uncle Beyer just came to us today to deliver the funeral notice, and he happened to meet me who came back at eight o'clock in the morning." Mr. Lambert explained, "I sent you an urgent letter before to ask you to come back because I was in the church before.
I received a telegram from home saying that your uncle Conrad passed away suddenly a few days ago, and the priest failed to revive him after trying. But there is a word limit for urgent letters, so I didn't tell him."
"What? Uncle Conrad passed away?" Lawrence was a little shocked when he heard the news, because if he remembered correctly, Uncle Conrad was one year older than his father and in his prime. Not to mention his adoptive father.
I once said that Uncle Conrad was a formal knight, in very good health, and not like the kind of person who died suddenly.
As for the resurrection that my father just mentioned, it refers to priests using magical magic to try to resurrect those who died unexpectedly. However, after all, only a very small number of people can enjoy the service of this magic and successfully resurrect.
One reason for this result is that the cost of casting resurrection spells is very high, and there are also detailed requirements for the specific circumstances of the deceased. Most people simply cannot meet these prerequisites for casting spells.
On the other hand, in this world, unless the person is really loved by the gods, the success rate of this kind of spell casting is not very high. According to statistics from the Church of Knowledge, on average, only one in every five deceased people meets various conditions.
People can be resurrected after casting a spell. Therefore, Lawrence did not find it strange when he heard that Uncle Conrad had not been successfully resurrected.
"Yes." Butler Bayer showed a sad look on his face. "His Excellency Earl Sauer passed away suddenly at a banquet nearly a week ago. According to people who attended the banquet, everyone was enjoying the meal as usual at the banquet.
After a drink, Mr. Conrad suddenly collapsed and passed away when he just picked up a drink."
After listening to Butler Bayer's words, Lawrence and Mr. Lambert frowned at the same time, because they always felt that there should be some problems that they didn't know about, and the uncle didn't sound like a normal death.
"By the way, you just called my uncle Earl Sauer?" Lawrence suddenly thought of a question and asked Butler Bayer, "I don't know much about the nobles of the Old World. Can you give me a general introduction?