Back home, the elder Renault was really happy.

So on the dinner table in the evening, old Renault's specialty dishes, fried fish and oyster soup, appeared.

The oversized fried fish and oyster soup were very satisfying to Jacques. Jacques knew that since he was able to enter the Eight Winds Refining Body, his family's food expenses had increased dramatically. I used to be able to eat at the academy five days a week, but now I have to eat at home every day during the holidays, will I eat old Renault bankrupt?

"It's a holiday from tomorrow. Jacques opened cautiously.

"Well, I know, are you going to the guild to exercise?" asked Old Renault.

"Well, go every other day, old rules, that one...... I'm going to have to eat at home every day from now on. "Jacques is tempting.

Old Renault didn't hesitate, "You can afford it, you can eat as much as you want, and I will prepare it for you every day according to five servings." ”

Jacques hurriedly said: "Not every day, as long as I go to exercise on the day, have you started to take bribes? Or are you embezzling public funds?"

"Hehe!" Old Renault sneered: "Since I did this job ten years ago, I have been taking bribes, do you know how low the salary of this position is?

You don't have to worry about my money-making, I can raise you and eat as much as you want.

On days when you don't go to the guild to exercise, you will also enter the Eight Winds Refining State, and maintaining this state for as long as possible every day will help you control the Source Energy.

Plus, I've got something for you to do. ”

"What's the matter? Do you want to work a summer job to earn money?"

"Represent the Docklands to the Guardian Virgin's Day and participate in the Battle of the Guardians. You're going to train with your teammates starting tomorrow, come on, and fight for the Docklands!"

"Huh, why am I going?"

"It's my share this year, and I don't want to be in the limelight. It just so happens that you're on vacation, so let's go have fun. ”

"You are such a salted fish, how did you get mixed with the grandmaster?"

"Genius, you inherited my talent to be so powerful. ”

Jacques was speechless.

On the last Saturday of July, the Guardian Virgin's Day is held on the canal that runs through the city, and the houses along the banks will be decorated for a major event in the city, the Battle of the Guardians.

The Battle of the Guardians is a competition on the canal, and each district and town in the Port Mousse area has a team to participate, a total of more than 20 teams, and the winner is determined in the final elimination round.

Each team drives a boat of the same size, with 14 people per boat, 12 oarsmen, a conductor, and a guardian. The oarsmen are divided into two rows, six on the left and right, one person and one oar, and there is a small platform at the stern of the boat to be the commander's position, and the most important guardian needs to stand on a higher platform at the bow of the boat, holding a lance and a large shield, to protect the wooden statue of the Virgin standing on the platform behind him.

Attack the opponent's Guardian or Statue with a spear, defend against the opponent's attack with a large shield, knock the opponent's Guardian or Statue into the water, or simply knock over the opponent's ship.

Transcendents can participate in the competition, but cannot use Source Energy Skills. Since it is an entertaining competition in a festival celebration, it is generally participated by ordinary people or awakened people, and those who shape energy do not participate.

On the day of the festival, the banks of the canal are crowded with people from all over the city to watch the excitement as people drink beer, eat seafood snacks, cheer on their local teams, or buy a few tickets to guess which boat will win the championship.

The two boats were fighting each other with their guns like ironclad knights amid the cheers on the shore, and the Guardian had to try his best to keep himself from falling into the water, and he had to think of shooting each other down with his rifles.

If the Guardians don't decide the winner, the oarsmen can attack each other's oars when the two ships mislead, trying to nullify each other's mobility.

Then turn around and charge each other again until the winner is decided.

Jacques never thought that he would participate in such an event, although he was only 13 years old, the strength of the Awakened was much greater than that of ordinary people, and being an oarsman was enough.

The blame is that as a commoner neighborhood in the city, there are no nobles in the docks, and no one pays for the queues, and finally the quota is apportioned to government employees, warehouse owners, fishermen, dock workers, and merchants. The team that was temporarily pulled up trained for a few days casually, and there were not many members of the Awakened team, just to win the trade area and artisan area with the same salted fish. The most competitive teams in each tournament are the teams from the three inner city districts and the small towns supported by the nobility of the countryside.

After dinner, the elder Renault put on his coat and bowler hat and went out.

Jacques thought his father was going to the corner tavern to order a beer and brag about his son's achievements.

Although Fat Orange was curious, he didn't bother to go out, and he had to go to the study in the bamboo forest to read at night.

At this point it was telling Jacques an interesting story he had just read yesterday.

While old Renault bragged about his son in front of Twenty-Three, and took away a few hundred silver coins by the way, Jacques was listening intently to Fat Orange's story, and from time to time he asked some questions.

"Wait, wait, I don't understand, why it's Saturday, how did they take advantage of the day, why did they have an extra day?"

Fat Orange replied: "The author writes that the place he writes is called the earth, which is a round earth, and it revolves around the sun, and one rotation is a day, and Falk has been going east, and has only experienced 79 sunrises and sunsets, so he has earned a day." ”

"It's an interesting story, but I don't know what he means by ships and trains. ”

"Haha, the emperor has seen the illustrations in the book, these two things are clearly drawn, and they are marked how to make them! The train is actually very simple, that is, the steam car is placed on a track made of iron bars, and more things can be pulled. That steamship is amazing, steam-powered ship, it's still made of iron, the emperor hasn't figured out how this principle is, if you have the chance, you have to try to make one. "Around the World in Eighty Days" is a really interesting book. ”

Jacques lay on his bed, looked at the night sky through the window, and said, "Do you say that the earth on which we are also a sphere? This ball revolves around the sun, and the one facing the sun is the day, and the one facing away from the sun is the night." ”

"Someone has long tried to prove that the emperor has seen relevant records in the library, and after the invention of the nautical formation, some people have sailed far away to find the borders of the world. Sailing north or south will encounter endless icebergs. Ships sailing east from the Empire, and sailing west from the western shores of the New World, were not heard from. Some say that powerful sea beasts stop their way, others say that the ships have fallen into the endless abyss. Anyway, there is no way to prove that the earth is round. ”

"If there is a powerful flying beast?......"

"Your mother's Iron Feather Eagle can't fly out of the New World, and the nautical formation that conceals the aura can't hide the qi of the alien beast. The alien beasts of the sea are so powerful that flying alien beasts cannot cross their territory. ”

"Better than you?"

"The emperor has never fought with them. ”