"Does Uncle Phil want a son?" Jesse was stunned for a moment, then nodded, "It seems that yes, I have heard him complain that he has no son, and there is no one to take care of him when he is sick. ”

Liszt looked at Jesse.

Suddenly asked, "Jesse, if I'm not mistaken, you seem to be an orphan?"

"Yes, sir, I grew up in the Coral City Welfare Home, and I thank the Tulip family for their generosity in keeping our orphans alive. Jesse said reverently.

The welfare home was an institution for the aristocracy to take in orphans, and the commoners would always have accidents, leaving a few children unattended. In order to show their benevolence, some wealthy nobles would set up welfare homes in their family fiefdoms, take in orphans, and work directly for the castle when they grow up.

Jesse is such an orphan.

"Is the old cobbler in the cobbler's shop now?"

"Yes, sir, I wanted to ask Uncle Phil to go shopping with me, but he didn't want to. ”

"Then Jesse, come with me, and see the old cobbler, I have something to look for him. ”

"Okay, I'll go and prepare your horse for you, sir. ”

Outside the castle, there was a rudimentary rest room where Philip and Xavier were always watching, and as knights, they did not enjoy the benefits of vacation.

Seeing Liszt riding on the dragon horse, they each mounted a horse and followed Liszt.

Let's go to the cobbler's shop.

There are basically tanners' shops in every town, and tanners are craftsmen who make leather, sew furs, and repair shoes. In terms of subdivision, there are leather helminers, leather armor makers, saddle makers, drum noodle makers, leather bag makers, leather goods makers, leather shoemakers, etc., and generally leather shoemakers are the majority.

Phil, the old leatherman of Flower Town, is a shoemaker.

In big cities, shoemakers tend to be wealthy freemen, because the handiwork of a pair of leather shoes requires a lot of money. But in the small towns, the shoemakers were poorly treated, and few could afford to wear them, so the cobblers had to make a living—most serfs and freemen wore wooden and straw sandals.

Of course, many more people don't wear shoes.

"Is it Jesse?" came the old cobbler's hoarse voice from the table, as he fumbled for a pair of leather shoes, his hands dexterous even though he was blind.

Jesse hurriedly said, "Uncle Phil, it's the lord who is here, and the lord has something to do with you." ”

"Ah, my lord, old Phil greets my lord. The old cobbler hurriedly rose from his chair, bowed, and his hands trembled nervously like ordinary civilians when they saw the lord.

Liszt looked at the cramped, dark cobbler's shop, which was in disrepair and could see the sun on the roof.

Like the old cobbler, it shows signs of old age and decay.

"Old Phil, don't be nervous, I'm just here to talk to you. ”

The old cobbler's cloudy eyes did not see any change in emotion.

But Liszt felt that the other party's hands had quickly stopped trembling - it was not that the tension had been calmed down, it looked more like it had stopped performing, and the previous tension may have just been feigned. It's easy to understand, after all, the aristocracy loved to see commoners shivering in front of them.

The old man has already learned to deal with life: "My lord, it is an honor for old Phil to be able to chat with noble you. ”

"You settled in Flower Town ten years ago, so where were you originally from?"

"I was born on Wado Island, my lord. ”

"Wado Island?"

"It's a desert island with no lord, and it's further north of Coral Island. There is a kind of dodo bird that lives on the island, which cannot fly and calls as if it is shouting 'Dudu', and there is a particularly tall tree with a terrible name, called the human skull tree, and the fruit that bears is called the human skull fruit. ”

"The Human Skull Tree?"

"Yes, my lord, the fruit is white, and from a distance it looks like the skull of a man. But the taste is very delicious, the aborigines of the island are hungry with human skull fruit, and the dodo also eats human skull fruit, but the dodo meat is particularly unpalatable, and life on the island is very difficult. ”

It screams like a dodo.

Reminds Liszt of the dodo, which is extinct on Earth.

I don't know if the dodos here are the same species as the dodos on the earth.

"So, how did you come to Coral Island from Dodo? You were born on Dudo Island, and you are supposed to be a local native, so where did the indigenous people of Dudo Island come from?" asked Liszt.

On the outskirts of the Grand Duchy of Sapphire, there are still many undeveloped desert islands, and Wado Island should be one of them.

"I'm a native of Wado Island, I don't know where we came from, but we've been living on Todo Island for as long as I can remember. Later, when the Dodo volcano erupted, the human skull trees were destroyed in large numbers, and there was no food, so we had to cut down the trees to make canoes and drift down the sea...... That's when I drifted to the hot springs island and became an apprentice in a tanner's shop. ”

In the following story, Hot Springs Island suffered a war, and he was sold as a slave to Coral Island. It was bought by a baron on the island at that time, and later the baron followed the count to the battlefield and never returned, all the elves in the territory died, and the serfs began to flee for fear of punishment.

The old cobbler also fled.

All the way to the town of flowers.

"At that time, all the serfs were rumored that the baron died in battle because the knights of the serf-turned-Husa beside him betrayed him. The followers were furious and decided to avenge the baron by slaughtering all the serfs in the land......" The old cobbler sighed when he told of this past, perhaps lamenting his own ignorance.

This is a low-level rumor, and the aristocracy took serfs quite seriously.

The correct opening posture should be - the baron died in battle, there was no heir, and the lord he followed, the Count of Coral Island, reclaimed the ownership of the territory, including the serfs.

All in all, the life of the old leatherman is not ups and downs, nor is he a person with a "story", even he was blind when he was in Flower Town.

What can barely be regarded as a story is the identity of the indigenous people of Dudu Island.

Liszt inquired carefully about the situation of Dudu Island, and found that it was only a small island, with no more than 300 natives on the island, and was eventually destroyed by a volcanic eruption.

He was a little disappointed.

I thought that the person who was specially mentioned in the smoke mission should be a little mysterious, but I didn't expect it to be just an ordinary native.

He still intends to continue the task, and the book he was rewarded with - brought Jesse with him, just to give Jesse to the old cobbler as a son—an orphan without father and mother, a widower without children and daughters, and the two are very close together, and it should be easy to form a contract father and son.

But suddenly, he had a bold idea.

"Why should I follow in the footsteps of the Smoke Mission, I'm not its puppet, I can directly ask the old cobbler for the book, instead of relying on the quest to get the book!"

How many books the old cobbler could have, Liszt didn't think it would be many.

So.

He said directly: "Old Phil, I heard that you have a collection of some books, don't you, I want you to sell them to me." ”

When the lord spoke, the old leatherman did not dare to disobey at all, and immediately agreed: "Yes, lord, I have a collection of books, but there is only one, and I will dedicate it to the lord." With that, he bent his back and took out a wooden box from the cabinet full of leather shoes, supported by Jesse.

"Jesse, the book is in the box, take it to Lord Lord. ”

Jesse opened the box, took out a very thick book, and handed it to Liszt. Liszt glanced over and saw that the book was not printed, but handwritten notes, with snake script and another foreign language written on the cover.

He didn't know the foreign language.

The snake is known - "The Diary of Philip Descendants of the Sun".