Chapter 27: Changes in the Lodge
In the spring, the snow and ice in the Northland began to melt, and looking at the muddy road, Bran really couldn't muster up the courage to go out of the house, so he had to wander around the manor, and by the way, he began to decorate the steps and guardrails in the manor.
He erected a statue on the second floor of the manor, facing the main gate. Using Dani as a model, a falcon falls into the statue's raised arm, and if you ignore the height of the statue and the immobile state, you will think she is alive at first glance. But not everyone liked this style, the statue was too delicate, every strand of hair, every wrinkle, lacking the rugged style that characterizes the Northlands, but Dany was very satisfied, and her eyes were full of smiles whenever she looked at the statue.
The lodge has been slowly but surely changing, at first it was not visible, but now the villa looks strange against the backdrop of the castle. Like a big man, he was still showing his muscles a moment ago, but when he reached out, he pinched an orchid finger and showed the manicure on his little finger.
The current Bran Hill is the manicure on the little finger of a strong man, beautiful is beautiful, but beautiful is not a place. The walls and edges of the entire manor wall were decorated with many patterns, birds and beasts, all kinds of strange and strange things. The walls are also undulating and meandering. Dani jokingly refers to the walls of the manor as the Wall of Sighs, and when Bran adds these motifs, he sighs and tells strange stories. The story always begins like this, "A long, long time ago...... and then the black cat Flowey begins to habitually sit up straight and squint her eyes.
At first, Dani wouldn't come around to listen to Bran's own talk, as if no one cared what a child said to a doll. After Bran's routine quick production of a bird on the wall, she was about to make a tirade, and she came over with curiosity and heard a story about Jingwei's reclamation. Since then, the act of rubbing stories has happened again and again.
As the manor gradually changed according to Bran's wishes, the Duchess began to appear here regularly, and the younger sister who was brought by the lady began to occupy a place in Bran's martial arts training ground, and it was only then that Bran truly appreciated the fierceness of the Northland woman.
Bran's mother had a tall and sturdy figure peculiar to the Northlanders, and although she was already a mother of many children, she was not bloated, and she had a strong sense of rhythm when she raised her hands and feet, and her movements seemed to be slow and fast, and Bran knew that this was the result of years of uninterrupted martial arts training. Years of doting on Bran have made Bran rarely see his mother's stern side, and in front of Bran, his mother is always the same cautious for fear of breaking it.
So when he saw the sternness shown by his mother training his sister in the martial arts field, and the strength shown by that little Lori, Bran felt deeply ashamed.
Bran doesn't hide his workout methods, and here he doesn't feel that he knows that he has mastered the skills of using his body that is beyond this world. After all, there has been a lot of killing here for generations, and useless skills can only have one end - death. What can keep you alive is naturally a good thing.
The mother soon noticed Bran's characteristics, this child was extremely fast, but did not have the temperament to move forward, so Bran embodied slippery. At the same time, she also noticed that Bran used a special technique in the pursuit of speed, the kind of whole body relaxation, giving up some of his strength for speed, and then making a clever switch between speed and power when he was close. What a nice and interesting trick, my mother complimented.
But some skills are difficult to master, in this world that needs to fight with people, with an immature skill to fight with people, is this afraid that she will not die fast enough? Although she is not ready to let her son go to the coming-of-age ceremony, and is ready to protect her son well, if there is a chance, it is actually not bad to properly train her beloved son personally. So, the loving mother began to raise her son and pass on her own experience and skills.
After all, women are women, even the female men in the Northland are also feminine in terms of martial arts. Bran has been training with Dani since he had his attendant Dani, and now he has his mother joining, so Bran's martial arts are also less of the Northland man's momentum of moving forward and breaking through with strength, but has a lot more feminine temperament. If this kind of temperament is only inherited from the female men of the Northland, it may not make people feel too obvious, after all, the women of the Northland can also run horses on their arms. His temperament comes more from various aspects of his previous life, and finally mixes with the present life to form something strange and different from ordinary people.
Although he is destined to become an alternative among the Northlanders, Bran does not have this kind of consciousness now, he still tries to imitate his mother's movements, and constantly exercises his young, gradually forming body, and it is a critical period for the growth of the Northlanders' bodies. We all know that martial arts training needs to be constantly honed, until some skills become an instinct, a conditioned reflex, a subconscious habit, and this habit will eventually become a part of us, just like breathing, all the time. And now Bran's model comes from two ladies, even if it's the Northlander ladies, they're still ladies. At the same time, his first martial arts sparring partner was his sister Lorisia Rui.
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At first, I just cared about my son, so I often came to visit and found that this place was gradually becoming more exquisite and clean. I accidentally found that the wolves in the manor would rub their paws on the ground very funny when they entered and exited the manor, which made the lady feel a little speechless.
Gradually, the lady began to like the environment, and from coming here once in a while, to now living here permanently, supervising and training her children every day. She also set up a guard at the gate of the manor, and although Bran insisted on not letting outsiders enter the manor, like a small beast guarding the territory, he bared his teeth and demonstrated, but finally compromised. Bran insisted that the second floor should not be allowed to outsiders, and eventually converted the abandoned blacksmith shop area on the first floor into a residential area for the people below.
At some point, my sister and her attendants also infiltrated the manor, occupied one side of the house, and claimed ownership. As a result, the number of people in the villa gradually increased, and they began to lose control of Bran.
Fortunately, when the attic was built, Bran considered this possibility. The two-story attic at the top of the villa looks like a whole, but in fact it is a rectangle surrounded by four relatively independent attics, forming a large patio inside. It seems to be crowded into the same building, but in fact, there is not much interference with each other. What really upsets Bran is that this villa is no longer what he says. But at least something has been preserved, and it seems that all the people who live here have become cleaner and tidier.
For some reason, Bran moved the weapons and other finished products from the warehouse into the largest room in his attic, and added a large lock. In fact, the lock was just a spectacle, used to confuse some possible intruders, and what really locked the door was the hidden bolts at the corners of the door frame. Bran had been imagining someone fighting the lock, and to deepen the temptation, he wrote 'Treasure Pavilion' on the door frame of his room.