was brought to the vicinity of the bandit leader, and Zhao Xiaoshan said what he thought in his heart.

"Big ...... My lord, let me join you! Zhao Xiaoshan stumbled and said.

"Oh?"

The robber did not seem to hear, but took a few steps forward and leaned forward, as if to listen carefully.

Zhao Xiaoshan had to repeat what he had just said: "I...... I want to join the adults, please stay with me. ”

"Oh hahaha......" The robber seemed to hear something ridiculous, laughed, and when he laughed, he turned back to the robbers behind him and said, "Do you know? This kid told me he was going to join us, uh hahahaha" After saying that, he laughed again.

The robbers listened to the words of the robber leader, and they also laughed very cooperatively, and for a while, Zhao Xiaoshan was even red to the base of his neck, and he couldn't wait to find a crack in the ground to get into.

"So...... Boy, why did you join us? The robber leader stopped laughing, his expression became serious, and he asked seriously.

Zhao Xiaoshan was stunned, "Rely on...... Why? Zhao Xiaoshan muttered these words, thinking in his heart about how he could join them.

"I, I'm strong enough, I'm brave!" Zhao Xiaoshan thought for a while and said.

"Brave? Laugh at! The bandit leader glanced at him, then leaned closer to Zhao Xiaoshan and looked at Zhao Xiaoshan face to face.

Zhao Xiaoshan's body stiffened for a while, and he didn't dare to move at all.

"I don't see how brave you are." The bandit leader retracted his head and said contemptuously.

"But it's true to be strong, it's hard to imagine, you really grew up in a serf family?" The bandit leader looked Zhao Xiaoshan up and down, and seemed to be very satisfied with Zhao Xiaoshan's body.

Seriously, Zhao Xiaoshan's body is really not something that ordinary people can have in this era, about 16 or 7 years old, he can grow to nearly one meter seven, which is very rare in Europe in this era, only the sons of those noble families and the eldest sons of knight families will have such physical fitness.

Not to mention anything else, with this physical fitness, being a robber is more than enough, after all, robbers are mostly serfs who can't survive, and criminals.

They may be strong, but that is only after becoming robbers, at least a lot of height is about the same as the current Zhao Xiaoshan, and they have no room to grow, but Zhao Xiaoshan can still grow, this is the gap.

At least, Zhao Xiaoshan has a lot of potential.

"So, sir, did you accept me?" Zhao Xiaoshan asked in surprise.

"Well, I'll give you a weapon after I go back to our cottage in a while, and you can come out with us next time." The bandit leader snorted.

"By the way, what's your name?" The bandit leader suddenly turned around and asked.

"Uh...... William, William. Wallace. Zhao Xiaoshan didn't expect such a sudden play, his previous name was definitely not good, he only remembered that he had seen a movie before, called "Braveheart", which was about a rebel leader William. Wallace's story.

At that time, he was particularly fond of Wallace's character, brave and unyielding, so when the robber leader asked him his name, he blurted it out.

"Oh? Do you have a surname, are you a nobleman? The bandit leader became interested and asked.

"Uh...... Yes, I am the second son of a baron's family, and my elder brother inherited my father's title and kicked me out of the house. Zhao Xiaoshan's head was running rapidly, and he finally made up a reasonable reason.

The bandit leader listened to the sympathy for Zhao Xiaoshan, no, it should be called William now. Wallace said, "Ah, that's so! You're pathetic too, come with me, my name is Nice, and we'll be back at the cottage when the sun goes down. ”

Zhao Xiaoshan...... No, William nodded, and stood by and watched them loot the property.

After a while, the sun was almost out of sight, and the eight or nine men were all covered with food and grain, and Ness was carrying a small bag with a rattling in it, which should be a kind of coin, which could be called a full load.

Ness picked up the axe, walked up to William, patted him on the shoulder, his attitude was much better, and said, "Let's go, follow us back to the cottage."

William followed the robbers all the way, through a winding and rugged mountain road, walked for about an hour, and finally reached the entrance of the cottage.

This Nice should not be in a low position, and the two robbers guarding the door at the entrance saw Nice and hurriedly came over to say hello: "Hey, Nice, you're back." Looks like you've made a fortune this time. ”

William looked the cottage up and down, it was not heavily guarded, but at least there was a fence that looked quite strong, and it was a good bandit organization.

Ness grinned: "It's okay, this time it's good luck, God let me meet a village with a good harvest." As he spoke, he took a small piece of air-dried meat hanging from his body and threw it to the two of them: "Take it, you two should watch the door, don't be let in." ”

"Don't worry, Nice, we two won't let anyone in, by the way, he's?" One person took the air-dried meat into his arms, saw William, who was completely unfamiliar, and asked.

"He was brought back by me from this trip, and he wanted to join us himself, and I thought he was healthy, so I brought him back." Ness explained.

"So that's the case, why are you asking so much, and you still don't feel at ease about the people introduced by Nice?" The other reprimanded the robber who had just asked the question.

"Didn't I just ask?" The reprimanded robber was slightly innocent justified.

"Alright, Nice, you go in first, my uncompetitive brother always has so many things to do." The robber who had reprimanded the other earlier let out a smile and said to Ness and the bandits behind him.

Ness nodded, waved his hand, and walked into the cottage, followed by the robbers behind him, including William.

Walking into the cottage, the group walked to a house, which was different from the low houses in the village down the hill, at least it could make people stand upright.

The floor was covered with hay, which was supposed to be where the nine men lived, and when they entered the house, they all plucked off the booty they were carrying, and sat down on the ground.

"William, you will live here with us in the future, you recognize the way first, and I will find you a weapon later." Ness said.

With that, Ness pushed the door open and walked out of the room, not knowing what to do.

Taking advantage of the fact that no one paid attention to him, William glanced around, as far as the eye could see, dilapidated, messy, it looked like a living room, I am afraid that even the pig's nest was a little better than this.

At this time, a robber wearing a slightly delicate leather armor stood up from the ground, his figure can be called strong even in the eyes of future generations, and it is roughly estimated that his height is more than one meter and eight.

He doesn't look very old, twenty-five or sixteen years old at most, and his temperament is completely different from that of the dirt bun robbers around him, and this temperament is indescribable, like ...... Noble?

The robber came up to William and said, "Come with me, William, and I'll take you to get acquainted with the way here, and what you're going to do." ”

William did not suspect him, and followed him out of the room, during which William learned during a casual conversation with him that his name was Norwen. Jill, twenty-one years old, is the eldest son of a family of barons.

However, because the viscount to whom his family was loyal was defeated and killed, the barony was divided, his father was killed in battle, the family fief was also deprived, and he was not officially knighted and inherited the strength of his father's domain, so he became a bandit.

And because he didn't have the canonization of knights, he didn't get much importance in the bandit group, and he didn't even get mixed up with a small boss.

Don't look at this as just a small bandit group, there are also many bandit groups that will have knights to join, but the status is not low, what caused all this is the destruction of countless small nobles, resulting in the fiefdoms of countless knights or trainee knights being seized and reduced to wandering knights.

In Norwen's opinion, William was also a nobleman, and the two could be said to be sympathetic, so it was more pleasing to the eye to look at William.

William learned from Novin that there were about a hundred robbers in the cottage, and that there was a bandit leader, who called himself the Baron of the Free Forest.

In addition to the bandit leader, there are eight bosses, each with several bandits, and Ness is one of the eight bosses.

Usually go to rob a small leader with his subordinates, the leader rarely goes out in person, and the property robbed by the leader must be handed over to the leader sixty percent.

Of course, the strength of the leader is also very strong, and there are more than forty bandits under him, which is much more than the seven or eight other leaders, so he can control these leaders.

It can be seen from this how much influence the feud has on the West, and even a small bandit group has divided so many factions.

The cottage is not big, mainly for defense, the robbers are also singles, and there is no family, there is no need to build so big, it only takes a few minutes to walk around, the situation of the cottage and the path William already understands about it.

Maybe because he was a former nobleman with William, the work he arranged for William was relatively easy, just taking care of the room.

Just as William was sitting down, Ness came back and brought back a short sword with a lot of rust, William hurriedly got up from the hay and looked at the short sword in Ness's hand, "This should be his weapon in the future." William thought.

"William, your sword." Ness walked up to William and handed him the sword.

"Thank you, Lord Nice," William said, taking the dagger and thanking him, carefully examining the dagger in his hand.

The hilt of the dagger is about sixty centimeters, which is about half the size of the average medieval sword, and there is a lot of rust on it, but for a newcomer who has just joined, this is quite a care.

After Ness gave the dagger to William, he walked out of the room again, I don't know what to do, the other robbers in the room except for Norwen all got together to gamble, it can be seen that Norwen is not very gregarious, probably because the former knight family status looks down on the robbers who were born as serfs.

William looked at the short sword in his hand, although there was a lot of rust on it, he could still see how sharp it used to be.

His heart moved: "If this short sword is polished, it should be able to polish off the rust on it, although the quality may not be as good as the intact sword due to rust, but in terms of sharpness, it will not be too inferior."

Just do it, after all, it is your own weapon in the future, it can be said that it is a matter of life and death, and you must not be sloppy, thinking of this, William walked out of the room with the hilt of the sword, ready to find a rough stone and polish the short sword.