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At the beginning of the frozen month, this remote town far from the center of the Golden Finch Empire suddenly welcomed a column of silver-armored knights with clan emblems and flags.

The old man Parsha, an old scholar in Gru Town, saw the pattern on the banner at first glance, his eyes widened, and he broke out in a cold sweat.

-- The tiger stepped on the python, and the python wrapped around the full moon.

Parsha's neighbor is the only blacksmith in town, Diem. Seeing the old neighbor's demeanor, Dim asked in wonder while smoking a hookah, "Hey, old man, what kind of expression do you have...... Do you know where these knights come from?"

Parsha took a deep breath and whispered to Diem, "If I'm not mistaken, the pattern on the banner seems to be the family crest of the Munn family. ”

Hearing this, Dim looked back at the old man Parsha in a daze.

"Are you sure you read that right?"

Without waiting for Parsha to reply, Dim seemed to think of something, shook his whole body, turned his head and slipped into his cramped blacksmith's shop, tied the door barricade, and looked trembling all over.

Parsha couldn't help but shake his head when he saw Diem's cowardice through the glass window of the blacksmith's shop. In the past, the two friends would have laughed at each other, but today, the Munn family inexplicably visited Gru Town, and when they thought about the Munn family's function in the empire, Diem's cowardice was also explained.

Parsha recalls the rumors he had heard in the Hunter's Tavern in the city.

The Munn family, known as the backbone of the Golden Bird Empire, has produced at least six military generals over the centuries, and has made great military achievements in resisting enemy invasions many times. Moreover, in every war, the members of the Munn family are not hiding in a safe shelter to point fingers, every member of this family is a soldier of the front-line pioneer battalion, not afraid of battle, and brave and strategic. Such a hands-on family with a prominent background naturally grasped the military lifeblood of the empire.

Recently, the Golden Bird Empire and the Linguo Hailan are in a state of war, and the border of the Hailan Dynasty is not far from Gru Town, when the knights of the Mun family arrived...... Perhaps, precisely for this.

Parsha guessed that there were two purposes, conscription or arming, perhaps both.

Either purpose, it was fatal to the blacksmith Diem. Because the conscription laws of the Plantagenet Empire clearly stipulate that in the towns and cities that are included in the conscription area during the war, each household must produce a young man, or pay a hundred gold coins to obtain a conscription exemption token. Diem's family is a man alone, and he happens to be in the conscription age, if he is drafted, the life of his future wife and daughter is absolutely insecure. As for the payment of gold coins, in the entire town of Gru, the only one who can deposit a hundred gold coins may be the Pat family. You must know that one gold coin is enough for his family's living expenses for half a year.

Parsha himself experienced the initial surprise, but quickly returned to normal, he was an old bachelor, and now he was approaching his twilight years, and he was not in the scope of conscription, so he was not worried. There is even a mind to observe the movements of the Munn family.

Hey, they didn't look for the mayor of Gru Town, wasn't it a conscription?

Parsha continued to observe, and the Iron Hoof Riders went to another place.

- That Viscount Pat's Mansion, even in the Frozen Moon, is still full of flowers!

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Pat Manor.

Two maids in beige linen turbans were whispering as they worked.

The objects of their gossip are the two young masters of the Pat family.

"The lord and the lady have been dead for two years, and according to the laws of the empire, the frost moon after the frozen moon this year is the time for the eldest young master to inherit the title. Among them, the apple-faced young maid said with a little worry: "I don't know if the situation of the second young master will change after the eldest young master inherits the title." ”

"Ollie, the matter of the adults, it's better for the two of us to talk less about it. However, I don't think there is any need to dwell on your troubles, although you work in the second young master's tea garden, but the tea garden is too far away from the master's house after all, you may not know that the relationship between the eldest young master and the second young master is good! Don't worry, those rich families in the opera script will not appear in our manor. The pock-faced middle-aged maid said with a smile.

At this time, the sound of clattering horses' hooves sounded from the path outside the tea plantation.

After a while, a knight with bronze armor appeared in front of them.

The horse neighed, and the knight stopped at the gate of the tea garden and removed his helmet.

This is a brown-haired young man full of masculinity, and the backlight illuminates the contours of his face more deeply, and his already handsome appearance is even more extraordinary at this moment.

The young man's gray-green eyes swept towards the two maids. Skipping Ollie directly, he focused his gaze on the middle-aged maid.

"Good afternoon, Chief Manna Maid. ”

Manna put down the bamboo basket in her hand and blessed the young knight: "Good afternoon, Master Leo." ”

Leo glanced at the freshly picked tea leaves in the bamboo basket in Mana's hand, and a trace of helplessness flashed in his eyes: "My brother went to find the old man again?"

Manna lowered her head and said respectfully, "Master Ingres is studying with Mr. Jon. ”

Leo pursed his lips and whispered to himself: "Study? That old man doesn't know what nerve he has hit, he talks about some fallacies every day, and his younger brother asks him to study, and he has to offer tea every day, I think he is a psychotic." I don't know what evil my brother has fallen into, so I have to learn from him. ”

Leo pulled the reins irritably: "Okay, I see." Hurry up, I'll go find him now. ”

With that, Leo rode his horse and galloped away.

Half an hour later, Leo came to the south-eastern edge of the manor, and on a hill near the woods, there was a rather fine wooden building on stilts. The architectural style is very peculiar, with cornices and corners, double layers standing side by side, except for one side against the ground and connected to the main house, the other three sides are suspended in the air, completely supported by columns.

This stilted building, no matter how it was built, its shape and style, is completely different from the architectural characteristics of the Plantagenet Empire, and even several other countries that Leo has visited have no similar style.

"It's an amazing building! Suspended in the air on three sides, it still doesn't move. Although Leo complained in his heart that old man Jon had stolen his brother's attention, Leo was also quite impressed by Jon's amazing craftsmanship in architecture, but he never showed it on his face. Besides, Leo has nothing to admire Jon except for the stilted building in front of him, maybe the production method of this stilted building is very popular in Jon's "country"? Even if Jon has been in Pat Manor for nearly twenty years, Leo has never known where Jon's country is.

Pushing the fence open, the courtyard of the stilted house was filled with vegetables and fruits, and the shelves on the side were covered with wilted vines, which in the harvest months would produce many 'hanging bunches', which Jon called grapes. I have eaten it in Lyon, and it tastes quite sweet, but in this month, it is past the season of eating grapes.

As soon as I opened the bamboo door of the stilted building, I saw a young man with delicate facial features buried in a parchment roll in a small room, dipping a quill pen in ink on the side, and quickly recording something.

Leon approached, and even though he had deliberately curred the strength of his steps, the brass boot armor still made a loud thud as it made contact with the wooden floor.

"Hey, you're here?" the young man scribbled a dot on the vellum paper, looking up at the visitor, his voice clearer and clearer, with a strong sense of intimacy.

"My dear brother, Ingres. Listen to your tone, do you know I'm coming over today?" Leon laughed.

Angel shrugged his shoulders and smirked at the corner of his mouth: "I don't know, just answering like this will make it seem that I have a little more initiative." ”

"That's what the old man taught you?"

Angel shook his head: "Do you still need to teach this? ”

"Then if someone misunderstands that you know what they mean, so they don't speak after they come in, how are you going to speak?" Leon raised an eyebrow.

I didn't wait for him to speak first. ”

"What if he doesn't talk all the time?"

Angel pouted: "That's embarrassing." If it were me, I'd turn away so that the atmosphere would not be more awkward. If the other party shouts to me, there will naturally be a follow-up. ”

Leon smiled and nodded, not commenting on it, but looking around the room.

"Where's Jon, the old man?"

As soon as Leon heard Jon talk about it, Ingres's brows furrowed slightly, with a little worry in his eyes: "You also know that the mentor's health is getting worse and worse, every part of his body is gradually shrinking, and just the day before yesterday, the mentor's legs were completely unable to move. The tutor had just rubbed the medicine, and now he was resting upstairs. ”