"Sir, you are twenty-two years old, it is time for you to have a virtuous wife..." In the wooden house in the valley, the tone of the old housekeeper Cooper and Baroness Galvin were surprisingly consistent.
"At the family dinner in Sapp Castle, Baroness Galvin expressed tactfully that they did not care about Art's civilian status, and hoped to marry Baron Galvin's only daughter Lottie to Art.
At the same time, Baron Galvin hopes that Art can take no less than ten self-armed soldiers from the patrol in his name to the town of Tynets County to gather for military service. These ten conscripts are the military service apportioned in Tynets County. In addition, Baron Galvin has to send He sent his own knights to lead a private army of fifty people to fight on behalf of the feudal lord (Baron Galvin's feudal lord was not Viscount Pierre). As a nobleman who was not familiar with military affairs, he was unable to cope with the military service of the feudal lord. The military service assigned by Tinets could only be hired by others.
Hence, of course, all expenses incurred during the period of substitute service shall be paid by Baron Galvin.
The second thing Baron Galvin did was essentially hire Art's patrol team at a high price instead of sending troops to serve. Art had no intention of sitting on the sidelines in the coming chaos, so he happily accepted it. Since it was an employment relationship, Art was not polite to Baron Galvin - first, Art asked Baron Galvin for two sets of leather armor, five broad swords, battle axes and hammers, five short spears and two hundred light and heavy arrows as weapons for the expedition; , Baron Galvin must pay Art a salary of ten pfennigs per day for the ten patrol soldiers who serve instead, until the palace announces the end of the soldiers' service; thirdly, the ten soldiers who serve instead are nominally led by Odo, the deputy captain of the patrol. Art also promised that the hired patrol soldiers would take care of their own casualties, but he would be content with all the victory.
Baron Galvin must devote all his energy to trade with Provence and supplying military service to his superior lord, so he readily accepted all of Art's conditions, signed an employment contract with Art, and wrote a heraldic document to Art proving that Odo was the commander of soldiers sent by Baron Galvin to serve in the county of Tyniec.
As for the marriage between Art and Miss Lottie, Art did not give a clear answer, because if he married a noble lady as a commoner, Art would inevitably be in a passive position in front of Baron Galvin in the future. Moreover, he also thought that he could climb up to a powerful noble lady in the future and use it to rise.
“Master, I don’t know about war, but you can really consider marrying a wife. Not to mention that men from ordinary peasant families should marry and have children at the age of fourteen or fifteen. Even ordinary aristocratic families should get married at the age of sixteen or seventeen. "Although you are determined to clear up your family shame and revive your family, this does not affect your ability to marry and have children."
Cooper approached Art's ear and whispered: "Besides, if you can marry Little Lottie. As your sister is your wife, maybe you can get the support of the Yuge family in reviving the family business, right?"
After listening to the old housekeeper's words, Art thought for a long time and asked Odoron who was sitting around the long table in the wooden house? Several people asked: "Everyone, what do you think of this matter?"
The Ottos had only seen Miss Lottie once or twice in Sapp Castle, and did not know much about the only daughter of Baron Galvin.
Otto replied softly: "My lord, this is your private matter. We can't say more about it, but I think you can consider it. Not to mention other things, I think Miss Lottie is quite suitable to be a virtuous wife. Although she is a noble lady, she does not have the affectation of a noble lady at all, nor is she domineering like an ordinary noble lady."
Kazak also smiled and echoed: "Yes, at Mr. Galvin's banquet last time, Miss Lottie took the initiative to clink glasses with you and drink several times..."
Everyone at the square table expressed their opinions in a few words, but everyone agreed that Art should marry Miss Lottie.
"Sir, it's time for the Valley Castle to have a kind and virtuous mistress." Scott, who was sitting at the end of the long table, made a brief concluding speech.
Matt raised his head and said, "Well, since Mr. Galvin and Miss Lottie don't dislike me, a commoner with no identity, I don't need to be pretentious. I will write to Mr. Galvin soon and tell him that after the service in the palace is over, I will go to Sapp to get engaged to Miss Lottie!!"
Waves of cheers rang out in the wooden house.
At raised his hand to suppress the cheers of the crowd, "Okay, let's talk about sending troops to serve for Baron Galvin..."
According to the agreement with Baron Galvin, Asia The special patrol will dispatch ten armed infantry and one cavalry (representing Baron Galvin himself) to Tinets County to register, and then follow Viscount Pierre to the palace to assemble an army, and then the palace will arrange to go to the front line to defend the border or participate in battles.
Ate had not thought about letting Odo go out with only ten soldiers. He planned to wait for the patrol to be repaired and trained for a period of time and then take the initiative to go to the Palace Minister of Security and ask the Minister of Security to allow him to take the soldiers of the patrol to the eastern border to participate in the battle. If he was lucky enough to be able to achieve military success in the war with Swabia, he might be able to get a knight's title with the help of Bishop Olof. In that case, he could take another step towards the hegemony in his heart...
But Art did not expect that such an opportunity does not need to be fought for by himself. Sometimes luck (or bad luck) will always come to the door...
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On the third day after returning to the wooden castle in the valley, Art was supervising the training of patrol soldiers in the open space outside the wooden castle. At this time, Lawrence, who had been supervising the prisoners of war in the north to build a carriage path leading to the edge of the forest, hurriedly ran back to the wooden castle and found Art.
Lawrence had obviously been running all the way back. When he stood in front of Art, his face was pale and his lips were purple, and he was exhausted. Art asked Ron to quickly help Lawrence to rest for a while and drink a few sips of water.
Lawrence, who had regained his composure, reported an important piece of news to Art - they were building a carriageway in the jungle when they discovered thick black smoke rising from the wasteland outside the jungle. Lawrence led people to the edge of the jungle for sentry. The smoke was rising several miles away from the edge of the jungle. Lawrence did not dare to go out of the jungle to conduct a closer inspection, so he rushed back to the wooden castle to warn~
"Odo, gather the soldiers and get ready."
"Ron, take your sentry team out with me." Art thought of something, and quickly asked Ron to go back to the wooden castle, take the horse and saddle it, and follow him to the edge of the northern dense forest to scout.
It turned out that Art, Viscount Pierre and Baron Antayas had all told him that if there was an emergency, they should go to the patrol station at the edge of the dense forest dozens of miles south of Lane Manor to find him. The messenger only needed to set off a bunch of black fireworks, and he would arrive. But now Art couldn't rule out the possibility of an enemy attack, so he asked Odo to prepare for the battle.
Most of the carriageway leading to the edge of the northern dense forest has been built. Art, Ron Jason and Red, the three sentries, galloped on the newly opened carriageway in the forest, and arrived at the road construction site in less than an hour.
There are two temporary shacks on the construction site, one for prisoners of war and the other for the peasants and soldiers of the fort defense team. At this time, the busy construction site had quieted down. Cooper commanded the peasants and soldiers of the fort protection team to drive all the prisoners of war back to the shacks for custody. Then he personally led three courageous young peasants and soldiers carrying daggers to stand guard at the end of the horse road near the dense forest.
Seeing Yate and his men arriving on horseback, a peasant soldier guarding the prisoners of war stepped forward to report the situation. Art motioned to the farmers and soldiers to call Cooper and the others back.
After a while, Cooper returned to the construction site and walked to Art and said: "Master, there is no situation at the edge of the dense forest for the time being."
"Okay, Cooper, you guys stop working and be on guard. Let's go out to see the situation first."
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The two riders in the wilderness who were throwing dried wolf dung into the fire were indeed the cavalry of Viscount Pierre. They had been assigned a hard job a few days ago - to go to the south of Lane Manor, pass through a huge pile of rocks, and continue to the edge of the dense forest twenty-five miles south to find the station of the Southern Border Patrol of Tyniec, and bring a letter to Patrol Officer Art.
The two riders knew that bandits were rampant in the south and that the trip was quite dangerous, so after receiving this mission, they were reluctant to shirk it in every possible way. It was not until Lord Pierre's adjutant promised a heavy reward that the two of them walked all the way towards the southern border area under the banner of Viscount Pierre. When passing by the village and castle along the way, the two of them would stop to rest and inquire. Once there was any news about bandits, they would not leave. They had to wait in the village and castle for a day or two, and then continue on the road after the banditry subsided...
With one day of walking and two days of laziness, it took the two of them six days to reach the huge pile of rocks in the wilderness. As a result, they met a few lone Steppenwolves in the wilderness. The two of them were frightened and ran around, causing them to lose their way. It took them two days of wandering in the wilderness to basically find the right place...
In any case, the two of them roughly found the so-called perimeter of the patrol station. So they built a bonfire with wolf dung added three miles away from the edge of the dense forest. They only planned to wait in this desolate and inhabited place for one day. If no patrol team showed up tomorrow morning, they would retreat.
At the place where the smoke rose, they saw two soldiers who were throwing wolf dung and green branches into the bonfire. After confirming that there was no danger in the surrounding area, Art and Ron rode forward.
A soldier by the campfire spotted two cavalrymen running from the south, and quickly picked up his companions and took the horses to escape...
After a while, the soldier found that the two horsemen coming from the opposite side were not hostile, so he calmly waited there.
· Matt and Ron dismounted and slowly approached the fire ~
· "Sir, Inspector!!!"
The frightened person knew Art, because last winter At the north gate of Tyniec, Art threw a bloody bandit head to their little leader. After the leader returned, he was so frightened that he became a little dementia. Even now, the crazy little leader is still receiving exorcisms from priests in the church in Tyniec, so he was startled by the sudden appearance of Art.
The happy guy also knows Art, because when Art was still a forest hunter, that guy got a lot of drink money from Art. Of course, he also saved Art a lot of taxes. He was transferred to the bandit suppression team after the winter last year, so he didn't know that this former hunter had transformed into a security patrol officer in the southern border of the palace, so he was very happy.
"Sir Inspector? You have become a Inspector. I told you that you would never be a hunter all your life, and I was right!!" Compared to the frightened soldier, the soldier who was "familiar" with Art was much more relaxed.
"Ron, ask Jason and the others to come over, everything is fine here."
Ron blew a whistle towards the small mound behind.
Art turned to the "familiar" soldier and said: "Brother Wall, I haven't seen you for a long time, how are you?"
The soldier named Wall looked at the two fully armed cavalry following Art, and swallowed, "Sir, I~ I'm fine~ You are really amazing now, you have three armed cavalry under you."
Matt patted Wall on the shoulder and said, "Thank you for your hard work, brother Wall, are you here to deliver a message to Lord Pierre? Where is the letter?"
The other soldier came to his senses and quickly walked to the pouch in front of the saddle and took out a well-preserved lacquered letter, which he handed to Art respectfully.