After standing at the door of the restaurant for a short while, Weiss said apprehensively, "Good morning, everyone! ”

The harmonious scene in the restaurant was not shattered by his greeting.

Miss Grumman smiled politely.

Cousin Azusena had a kind smile on her face.

Bella's smiling face is as bright as a flower.

Only Nikolai did not laugh, but as usual...... Rolled his eyes at Weiss.

"You actually slept until this point and didn't get up, but I just praised the ladies that you are a hard-working model student in the second year of the Gaston Military Academy!"

Nikolai's words, tone, tone, and even phrasing and pauses are in line with normalcy, and there is nothing unusual about it.

Was he really tired last night, didn't he have an opinion about himself? No, no, he must have been upset at the time, but ...... His current performance is not pretending, such a contrast shows that after a night's rest, coupled with the influence of some other factors, he decided to give this little friend who is willing to change his evil and return to the right with the most tolerant understanding? I guess so!

Weiss thought to himself.

Bella explained for Weiss: "You don't know, my brother almost fainted outside the door last night after you went back to your room! It's because of a cold! Feeling better? ”

With his sister's beautiful assist, Wei Stanran responded: "Look at me like this, you know that I have returned to normal!" ”

"Cold?" Nikolai looked at him in surprise, "Just because you swam in the lake for half an hour, you didn't have time to dry your hair?" ”

"Half an hour in the lake?" Bella exclaimed, and the ladies present turned their eyes to Weiss.

"Our aircraft ran out of fuel in the air, and we landed smoothly on the lake with Nikolai's superb piloting skills, because there was no power at all, so I had to swim and drag the aircraft to the shore...... Overall, yesterday's experience was very thrilling, and in a few years' time, I will write about it in my memoirs. In front of the ladies, West praised Nikolai's flying skills.

The guy then reciprocated: "Although it is still a little early to look forward to it from now, I have reason to believe that "The Memoirs of General Clumber Haysen" will be a very inspirational bestseller!" ”

Weiss was secretly refreshed and quietly gave Nikolai a thumbs up.

Nikolai's response was still a roll of the eye. When Weiss had sat down and had begun his breakfast, he said:

"The ladies were eager to try what it was like to fly in the air, but unfortunately we couldn't spare the time for this rush. Once Reina has filled it up with gas, it's time for us to go. ”

In such a hurry? Weiss was a little surprised. The headmaster granted them three days off, and it took them one day on the way to get here, and another day when they went back, so that they could have a day to wander around the beautiful little city of Somsonas. Speaking of which, I want to see what the gun shop looks like now, which is undergoing a large-scale expansion!

However, when I think about it, I almost missed the dinner when I came, but at most it was a missed dinner, and if I only arranged a one-day return trip, once it was delayed by technical failures or other unexpected circumstances, it would be a violation of school discipline and school rules, and I would not only be severely punished, but also affect the final academic performance. Besides, Nikolai revealed his identity at last night's banquet, maybe the good deeds from all over the country are rushing here, and if there is a good one, he can't go back to explain......

Silently accepting Nikolai's arrangement, Weiss gave Bella an apologetic smile and turned to look at Miss Grumman and her cousin Azusena. The bright sunlight came through the window, and from his point of view, Gunevere's skin was as white as milk, and Azusena's complexion, although not so good, was young, energetic, and had a particularly friendly smile.

She called her cheap mother "Aunt Cousin", which is said to be beyond the blood relationship of three generations, so it's okay to try to get along!

In regret, Weiss said to Nikolai: "If we had known that we would have taken an extra day off, wouldn't we?" ”

As a result, he was immediately attacked by his merciless white eyes: "Do you want to give you a month off?" ”

After finishing speaking, probably feeling that his tone was a little too much, Nikolai explained gently: "In a few weeks, this year's spring conference exercise will begin. According to the usual practice, our second-year and third-year students will be organized into the Baston Student Corps to participate in the exercise, and it is estimated that in a few days we will receive the order to move and assemble in the predetermined exercise area. If we return to school late, punishment is secondary, and if we miss this annual exercise, I am afraid that we will regret it for the rest of our lives. ”

"Spring convention exercises? What is that? Bella asked preemptively.

After the coming-of-age ceremony, she didn't immediately wear back to her original Lori appearance, but kept a lady's bun, and wore a pink floor-length dress, and put on light makeup, perfume, and behaved in a decent manner.

Nikolai replied with a serious face: "After the end of the last war, the military top brass conscientiously summed up the lessons learned during the war and found that the pre-war readiness of the Union army was very unsatisfactory, which led to our defeat and great losses in the early stage of the war. Therefore, since the end of the war, the federal army has conducted two large-scale live-fire drills every year, one in late spring called the Spring Exercise, which focuses on technical and tactical exercises, and the other in early winter, called the Winter Exercise, which focuses on the exercise of the body and will. ”

Bella asked, "But haven't you graduated yet?" Why do you want to participate in military exercises? ”

Nikolai paused his voice: "Speaking of which, it can be traced back to the Battle of Lorester in the last war, when the front line was stalemate, and it was urgent for new forces to join, more than 400 cadets of the Gaston Military Academy volunteered to form the Bathton Battalion and put it into battle, during the battle, it successfully infiltrated behind the enemy, raided the enemy's division headquarters, successfully disrupted the enemy's combat deployment, and contributed to our army's victory in the battle. Since then, the Battle Numbers of the Basston Cadet Corps have been retained, and for this reason, every cadet who enters the Patton Military Academy receives half the salary of a professional soldier. Don't look at us, we haven't graduated yet, but the military training we have received has greatly exceeded that of ordinary recruits, and there is no problem at all in conducting drills and exercises according to military standards. In previous drills, the Basston Student Corps had even defeated three times the size of the Army's field units, and was commended by the military's top brassips. ”

Bella looked at Nikolai with a look of adoration, and as he spoke, she nodded her head, and the cooperation was very tacit.

Seeing the guests in the restaurant, one by one, they were eager to stretch their necks and attach their ears to them, and Nikolai deliberately raised his tone by two points: "You may have read what I said in the newspapers, if you remember correctly...... Last year's issue of Liberty Star magazine also ran a special issue. ”

With his words as a foreshadowing, next, except for Bella who continued to ask a few questions related to the drills, the rest of the people held back their curiosity and did not interject more about this relatively sensitive military topic.

Weiss, who had a bunch of questions to ask, was not embarrassed to speak out in the presence of others, and was eating breakfast from beginning to end.

When breakfast was over, Nikolai politely invited the ladies to the lake to see their flying machines, and Bella, Azusena, and Miss Grumman gladly agreed, and the five of them went in a car. The uninvited guests who had been listening to the dining-room were uninvited, and word spread quickly, and the long carriages and carriages left the castle one after another, and came along the dirt road to the place where they had come ashore the previous night in Weiss.

Reina, the butler, stood on the Flyer 97 with his sleeves rolled up, filling the tank with an iron funnel and an iron kettle.

Nikolai stepped forward and looked at the barrels of fuel that Reiner had loaded into his truck, looking satisfied.

After a while, Reina finished his work, jumped down and said to Nikolai, "Mr. Leboyd, your tank is full, it can fill up a total of 46 gal, right?" ”

"46.5 gal, to be exact." Nikolai replied solemnly, "The account is on your young master. ”

"Okay, as you wish." Reina replied respectfully.

"How much?" Weiss asked curiously. Previously, the two locations of the Flyers Club were refueled, and the club personnel did not directly settle with Nikolai, so he did not know the actual cost of the trip.

"The price of fuel is 14 kroner per gal, and this time a total of 60 gal was procured and 840 kroner was spent," said Reina. Well...... It's so expensive that it's no wonder most people are willing to use horse-drawn carts. ”

Weiss immediately activated his "Chinese-style cloud computing" (i.e., oral arithmetic), which required more than 600 crowns to fill up the tank, at least three tanks each way, and nearly 2,000 crowns for fuel alone, which was equivalent to seven or eight times the train ticket for two people, enough to buy a good carriage or two good horses. If we correspond to the investment in the purchase of aircraft and the average loss of the operation cycle, the conclusion is two words: thieves are expensive!

Boarding the aircraft, putting on a fur coat and a flight cap, Nikolai waved to everyone gracefully: "Goodbye, beautiful ladies!" Goodbye, handsome gentlemen! Goodbye, ancient Somsonas! See you soon! ”