"Sir, you are twenty-two years old, and you should have a wise wife......

In the valley cabin, the old butler Cooper's tone was surprisingly identical to that of Baroness Galvin.

At the family feast at Sapburg, Baroness Galvin tactfully stated 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 hoped that Arte could take no less than ten self-armed soldiers in the patrol team to the county town of Tignets to assemble for conquest in his name, and these ten conscripted soldiers were the military service apportioned in Tinets County, in addition, Baron Galvin had to send his knights to personally lead a private army of fifty people to replace the lord (Baron Galvin's lord was not Viscount Pierre) to go on the expedition, as a nobleman who did not know military affairs, it was no longer able to cope with the military service of the lord, and the military service assigned by Tignes could only be hired to be carried out by others.

Of course, all expenses during the period of service in place were paid by Baron Galvin.

Baron Galvin's second thing was essentially to hire Art's patrol team at a high price to serve in place of the troops, and Art didn't intend to sit on the sidelines in the coming troubled times, so he gladly accepted. Since it was an employment relationship, Art did not be polite to Baron Galvin—first, Art asked Baron Galwin for two sets of leather armor, five broadswords, battle axes, five short spears, and two hundred light and heavy arrows as weapons for the expedition; secondly, Baron Galvin was required to pay Art a salary of ten pfennigs per day for each of the ten soldiers who served in place of the patrol, until the court declared the end of the soldiers' service; Thirdly, the ten soldiers who served in place were nominally led by Otto, the deputy captain of the patrol team. Art also promised that the hired patrol soldiers would take care of their own casualties, but they were content to take care of all the battles.

Baron Galvin had to devote all his energies to trading with Provence and supplying his superiors for military service, so he gladly accepted all of Arte's terms, signed a contract of employment with Arte, and wrote a heraldic document to Arte proving that Otto was the commander of the soldiers sent by Baron Galvin to serve in the county of Tignets.

As for the marriage between Art and Miss Lottie, Art did not give a clear answer, because marrying a noble lady as a commoner would inevitably be in a passive position in front of Baron Galwin in the future, and he also thought that he would be able to climb a powerful noble lady in the future and rise with strength.

"Master, I don't know about the war, but you can really consider marrying a wife, not to mention that a man from an ordinary farmer's family has to marry a wife and have children at the age of fourteen or fifteen, even if an ordinary aristocratic family is sixteen or seventeen years old, it should be time to get married, although you are bent on washing away the shame of the family and reviving the family, but this does not affect you to marry a wife and have children."

Cooper leaned closer to Art's ear and whispered, "Besides, if you can marry Miss Lottie, maybe you can revive the family business and still have the support of the Hugg family, right?"

After listening to the old butler's words, Art thought for a long time, and asked the Odoroen who were sitting around the long table in the wooden house, "Everyone, what do you think about this?"

The Otto had only met Miss Lottie once or twice in Sapbourg, and did not know much about Baron Galvin's only daughter.

Otto replied softly, "My lord, this is your private matter, and we should not say much about it, but I think you can consider this matter, and if nothing else, I think Miss Lottie is quite suitable to be a virtuous wife." Although she is a noble lady, she does not have the pretentiousness of a noble lady at all, nor does she have the domineering of an ordinary noble lady. ”

Kazak also smiled and agreed, "Yes, last time at Lord Galvin's banquet, Miss Lottie took the initiative to clink glasses with you several times......

Everyone at the table expressed their opinions in a few words, but the unanimous opinion of all was that Art should marry Miss Lottie.

"My lord, the valley wooden castle should also have a kind and virtuous hostess." Scott, who sat at the end of the long table, made a brief concluding remark.

Art raised his head and said, "Okay, since Lord Galvin and Miss Lottie don't dislike me as a civilian with no identity, I don't need to be pretentious, I'll write to Lord Galvin in a moment, telling him that I will go to Sapp and get engaged to Miss Lottie when the service of the court is over!!"

There were cheers in the hut.

Art raised his hand to suppress the cheers of the crowd, "Okay, let's talk about serving in the army for Baron Galvin......"

According to the agreement with Baron Galvin, Art's patrol team would send ten armed infantry and one cavalry (on behalf of Baron Galvin) to the county of Tignaz to register, and then follow Viscount Pierre to the court to assemble an army, and then arrange for the court to go to the front line to defend the border or participate in battle.

Art didn't really think that he would only let Odo go on the expedition with ten soldiers, he planned to wait for the patrol team to repair and train for a period of time, and then take the initiative to go to the palace security minister, and ask the security minister to allow him to take the soldiers of the patrol team to the eastern border to participate in the battle, if he is lucky enough to make military achievements in the war with Swabia, he may be able to get a knight title with the help of Bishop Orlov, so that his heart can take a step forward......

But Art didn't expect that such an opportunity didn't need to be fought for by himself at all, and sometimes luck (or bad luck) would always come to the door......

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On the third day back at Wooden Fort in the Valley, Art was supervising the training of the patrol soldiers in the open space outside the Wooden Fort, when Lawrence, who had been supervising the construction of the carriageway leading to the edge of the jungle by the prisoners of war in the north, hurriedly ran back to the Wooden Fort and found Art.

Lawrence obviously kept running all the way back, and when he stood in front of Art, he was already a little white-faced and purple-lipped, and Arte asked Ron to quickly help Lawrence rest for a while and drink a few sips of water.

Lawrence, who had relieved himself, reported an important news to Art - they found black smoke rising in the wasteland outside the dense forest, Lawrence led people to touch the sentinel at the edge of the dense forest, and the smoke rose several miles away from the edge of the dense forest, Lawrence did not dare to go out of the dense forest to carefully investigate, so he ran back to the wooden fort to warn ~

"Odo, assemble the soldiers and stand by."

"Ron is going out with your sentry with me." Art thought of something, and quickly called Ron back to Woodburg to take his horse and saddle his horse and follow him to the edge of the northern jungle to investigate.

It turned out that Art had told both Viscount Pierre and Baron Antayas that in case of emergency, he would go to the station of the Patrol Team at the edge of the jungle, dozens of miles south of Lane Manor, and the messenger would only need to set off a pile of black fireworks, and he would arrive. But now Art can't rule out the possibility of an enemy attack, so let Odo be ready for battle.

The carriageway leading to the edge of the northern jungle had been half built, and Art took Ron Jason and Red to gallop on the newly opened carriageway in the forest, and arrived at the construction site in less than an hour.

There were two makeshift shacks on the site, one for prisoners of war and the other for the peasants of the fort guards. At this time, the busy construction site had quieted down, and Cooper commanded the peasants of the fort to drive all the prisoners of war back to the shacks to guard them, and then personally led three brave young peasants with short swords to guard at the end of the road near the dense forest.

Seeing that Yat and his men had arrived on horseback, a peasant soldier who was guarding the prisoners of war stepped forward to report the situation. Art motioned for the peasants to call Cooper back.

After a while, Cooper returned to the construction site and walked to Art's side and said, "Master, there is no situation at the edge of the dense forest for the time being."

"Okay, Cooper, you guys stop work first, let's go out and see the situation first."

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The two riders in the moor who were throwing dried wolf dung into the fire were indeed the cavalrymen of Viscount Pierre, and they had been assigned a drudgery the other day - to the south of Lane Manor, through a boulder pile, and continued twenty-five miles south to the edge of the dense forest, to find the station of Tignez's southern patrol team, and to bring a letter to the patrolman Art.

The two riders knew that the bandits were rampant in the south and that the trip was quite dangerous, so they were reluctant to shirk this task until Lord Pierre's lieutenant promised a heavy reward, and then they walked all the way to the southern border under the banner of Viscount Pierre. When passing by the village fort manor along the way, both of them will stop to inquire, once there is any news of the bandits, the two of them will resolutely not leave, and must stay in the manor village fort for a day or two, and only continue on the road after the bandits have subsided......

It took six days for the two to reach the moorland boulder pile, but they encountered several lone steppenwolves in the wasteland, and the two were so frightened that they ran around, causing them to lose their way, and they wandered around the wasteland for two days before they basically found the right place......

In any case, the two of them still roughly found the area around the so-called station of the patrol team. So a bonfire was made three miles from the edge of the forest, and they were only going to wait a day in this deserted place, and if no one from the patrol showed up to-morrow morning, they would retreat.

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The four of them rode to the place where the smoke rose, saw two soldiers throwing wolf dung and green branches into the campfire, and after making sure that there was no danger around, Art took Ron and drove forward.

A soldier by the campfire spotted the two cavalrymen rushing to the south, and quickly pulled up his companion and led the horse to flee for his life......

After a while, the soldier noticed that the two riders on the opposite side were not hostile, so he waited in place.

Art dismounted with Ron and slowly approached the fire~

"Border Inspector !!"

"Border Ranger???

The two shouted the same content almost at the same time, but they were surprised and delighted, and they were in two different moods.

The frightened one knew Art, because last winter at the north gate of Tignets Yat threw their little leader a bloody bandit head, and the leader was a little frightened when he returned, and until now the crazy little leader is still receiving the priest's exorcism in the church of Tinets, so he was startled by the sudden appearance of Yat.

The one who was happy also knew Art, because when Art was a forest hunter, that guy had received a lot of money for drinks from Art, and of course he had saved Art a lot of taxes. He had been drawn into the bandit squad since the beginning of winter last year, so he was overjoyed that the former hunter had been transformed into a patrol officer in the southern part of the palace.

"Border Ranger? You've become a Border Inspector, and I told you that you won't be a hunter for the rest of your life, and I really got it!! Compared to the frightened soldier, the soldier who had been "acquainted" with Art was much more relaxed.

"Ron, let Jason and them come over, it's okay here."

Ron blew a whistle at the small mound behind him.

Art turned to the "familiar" soldier and said, "Brother Wall, I haven't seen you for a long time, are you okay?"

The soldier named Wall looked at the two heavily armed cavalrymen who were following behind Art, and swallowed, "My lord, I'm ~ I'm fine~ You're really amazing now, you have three armed cavalry under your command." ”

Art patted Wall on the shoulder and said, "Thank you Brother Wall, you're here to deliver a message to Lord Pierre, right?" What about letters? ”

The other soldier came to his senses, hurried to his saddle pouch, took out a well-preserved lacquered letter, and respectfully handed it into Art's hand.