In the evening, to the northwest of Betty's gaze, Caldis rode alone into the southern part of the territory of Ritunburg.

Night slowly began to fall, and the relatively barren territory of Ritunburg seemed a little desolate, and the thousands of miles of wilderness were deserted, and this loneliness made Caldis feel a little fulfilling.

He was happy that he no longer had any guards around him to ask him for his decision, and he no longer had to worry and be busy with his territory. Now he feels very comfortable and laid-back, and he can go wherever he wants.

It's just that this kind of comfort is also a little bad, and it is difficult to find a place to sleep in this wilderness where there is no village in front of the village and no town in the back. The summer nights in the wild are full of insects and snakes, coupled with the old wounds on Caldis's body, it is likely to cause new ulcers if he is not careful, and Caldis does not dare to sleep in the wild casually.

The night was getting deeper, but Caldis was still feeling dark and continued westward, and he had to find a place to spend the night where he could spend the long night.

In the central plains of the continent, the Knight people have inhabited here for thousands of years, and they can be found in almost every corner. Caldis soon saw a light in a small village with only a dozen households.

When Caldis arrived in this village with his warhorse, he didn't want to disturb the villagers, so he came to a pigsty lightly.

Caldis, tired enough from the long journey, tied his horse to the capital, added some grass and water to it, and then fell down on the haystack in the pigsty, closed his eyes, and began to fall asleep.

Soon Caldis entered into a dream, and he dreamed that he went to Hwaseong and was warmly received by Betty. In order to appease Caldis, the young Betty took great pains to find more than a dozen beautiful women for Caldis.

Caldis had no excuse and had to laugh awkwardly. But these beauties have a unique way of serving people, and they lick their hands, feet and whole body in front of Betty. What was most unacceptable to Caldis was that Betty even supervised the women to serve her, telling them how sweet their bellies and thighs were.

Caldis in the dream regrets that he shouldn't have come to Hwaseong, and he is disgusted by Betty's ulterior motives.

As Caldis struggled to wake up, the sun was slanting into the pigsty, stinging him from opening his eyes. But Caldis noticed that something was licking him, and he looked down sharply, only to see a few puppies that had not been born long ago, crawling all around, constantly licking his wounds.

Seeing this scene, Caldis couldn't help but laugh, it turned out that the dream was like this. However, he felt that these puppies were quite comfortable to lick, so he simply loosened the bandages and exposed more than a dozen wounds, allowing these cute puppies to lick enough.

On this continent, the Tubis people are the best at medicine, and Caldis, who has lived in Tubis for ten years, has long understood that dog saliva is the best medicine for cleaning wounds.

Suddenly, a woman's voice came from outside the pigsty: "Oh my God, whose horse is this, it looks so strong and beautiful, this should be a war horse, right?" ”

Then Caldis heard another man say, "Shhhh ”

After hearing this, Caldis hurriedly packed up his bandages and rewound them.

Before Caldis could finish his work, a young farmer appeared at the door of the pigsty and looked at Caldis sitting on the haystack in a daze.

The farmer was surprised and asked, "Isn't this our knight of the Knights?" How can you lie here, oops, get up, hurry up. ”

With the help of the farmer, Caldis slowly stood up, and then saluted the farmer and said, "I have come here late at night, so as not to disturb you, I will spend the night in your pigsty, hoping that I will not cause you any trouble." ”

The farmer shook his hand again and again and said, "Oh, look at what you said, this is too wronged for you. ”

After saying that, he turned his head and shouted into the house, "Honey, go and prepare something to eat, we will entertain our knight knight." ”

The farmer's wife replied in surprise, "Yes, it's our Knight Knight, that's great, I'll get it right away." ”

Under the guidance of the farmer, Caldis was just about to walk out of the pigsty, when suddenly a small head came out of the door, and he looked at Caldis with a smile, very shy.

The farmer laughed and explained, "This is my son, named Gülen, who is still young and a little shy." ”

Caldis nodded, reached out and took a piece of bread from his bag, bent down and handed it to him.

Gülen was a five-year-old boy who was horribly thin from hunger, and when he saw the delicious bread, he couldn't wait to reach out and take it, and immediately opened his mouth to eat it.

The farmer immediately rebuked, "This kid, why don't you thank the knight, it's so rude." ”

Gülen was stunned for a moment, immediately stopped chewing, and respectfully bowed to Caldis and said, "Thank you, Uncle Knight." ”

Caldis smiled and nodded, reached out to take Gülen's little hand, and entered the house together under the guidance of the farmer.

It was a very ordinary peasant family, and there were only two rooms in the whole house, one for sleeping, and the other for cooking and piling up miscellaneous items, but there was no food reserve in sight.

Caldis asked the farmer, "You don't have a food stockpile, how are you going to spend this winter?" ”

The farmer replied with a lamentation, "Oh, those abominable savages, they went from house to house and took away all our food. I had two children, the eldest of whom was almost ten years old, and starved to death without food. What kind of days do you say these are, how do we live? ”

After saying this, the farmer burst into tears and began to cry.

The farmer's wife was pouring a pile of wild vegetables in the pot, and only a few patches of sweet potatoes were seen in it, and it seemed that they usually had to live on wild vegetables.

Caldis got up and said, "All right, don't eat any more wild vegetables this morning, I have some bread here." ”

The farmer's wife wiped away her tears, slowly put down the stick in her hand, and stared blankly at the large cloth bag on Caldis.

Caldis took off the sack, stretched out his hand and handed it to the farmer's wife, saying, "Take it, it's all for you." ”

When the farmer heard this, he immediately took his wife and children by the hand, knelt down and kowtowed to Caldis, and said with great gratitude, "Thank you, Lord Knight, thank you so much." ”

After Caldis helped them up, he asked seriously, "Are all the villagers in the vicinity like you?" ”

The farmer sighed and said in a sad tone, "Well, we are all the same, and we have a good life in the territory of the barbarians. It's a pity that I don't have any skills, otherwise I would have killed a few of his barbarians, and then even if I died, it would be enough for me. ”

He stretched out his hand and touched Gülen's head, and said very worriedly: "It doesn't matter if we adults are hungry, it's a pity that the children, I'm afraid it will be difficult for us Gülen to grow up." ”

Suddenly the farmer looked up, he grabbed Caldis with both hands, and knelt down again and pleaded: "Lord Knight, you are all right, help us to take the child away, and let him make you a cow or a horse, as long as you don't starve to death." ”

"How can this work?" Thinking that he would not be able to find a place in the future, Caldis immediately rejected their pleas.

The farmer's wife burst into tears and said, "Please, Master Knight. If you don't take Glenn with you, he'll soon starve to death like his brother. Please, Lord Knight. ”

The farmer wiped away his tears and said, "Although this boy is very young, he is really smart. He kept asking me what our knights looked like, and he admired and longed for them. If you're willing to take him with you, I promise he won't let you down when he grows up, and he'll be your most loyal squire. ”

Caldis didn't say a word, he reached out and took Gülen's arm, the small arm was like skin and bone, obviously he had been hungry for a long time, otherwise he wouldn't have lost weight like this.

Although Caldis is not easy to approach, and although Caldis rarely cares about other people's affairs, this time he took the lead by making an exception and reached out to hold Gülen in his arms.

Gülen was small, with the innocence of a child, and he curiously reached out and touched Caldis's helmet, smiling happily on his face.

At this moment there was a sudden sound of horses' hooves at the head of the village, which frightened the farmer and hurriedly pulled Caldis to hide.

Caldis pushed the farmer away, drew his sword from his waist, and motioned for the family to hide.

When Caldis walked out of the door, he saw Tarret's group, and after days and nights of pursuit, they finally caught up with Caldis.

Tarrett happily turned over and dismounted, ran over with a smile, and saluted Caldis and said, "Lord Duke, we have finally caught up with you, and you are riding so fast!" ”

"Hmm!" Caldis nodded and said, "Did you bring flour?" ”

Tarrett understood as soon as he heard this, and as he waved his hand at the guards to fetch flour, he replied, "The Duke has brought a lot, is it enough to leave them two bags of flour?" ”

Seeing that the knights were still coming, the farmer came with his wife and children, and thanked him repeatedly, saying, "Enough, enough, enough, you must keep it for yourselves, and don't care too much about us pariahs." ”

"Untouchables?" Caldis looked back at the farmer and said, "No, in our eyes you represent us Knight, and we knights are only the guardians of your people. So please don't call yourself that way in the future, okay? ”

The farmer was moved to tears again, and he nodded again and again, and said, "Yes, you are really a good man." I heard them call you Lord Duke just now, and it seems that there is no Duke as young as you in our kingdom. Could it be that you are the young Duke of Caldis? ”

Caldis was stunned for a moment, hesitated for a moment, and then explained: "Yes, I am Caldis. However, I have been kicked out of Dragon City, and I don't know where to go in the future. If you give your children to me and take them away, you may suffer a lot in the future, and you may also be charged with being a traitor. Otherwise, you should stay, and I will ask the knights to leave you a little flour. ”

The farmer shook his head again and again and said, "We don't know about your nobles, who knows right and wrong?" How well you treat the Duke of Caldis, we have seen with our own eyes, and there will be no fake. We've heard before that you've settled tens of thousands of needy refugees at Alto, and your character is as true as the rumors. So we trust you, thank you very much, and please take our Glenn with you anyway, even if you lose your life with you, it will be an honor for us Gülen. ”

Caldis nodded movingly, he thought for a moment, and then took out two gold coins from the money bag in his body. Caldis handed them the gold coins to their husbands and wives, and told them, "You must live well for Gülen, not for me, and not for our knights." Because when Glenn grows up in the future, if he wants to come back to see you, I hope you can still live here, so that Glenn can find you easily. ”

"Hey!" The farmer bowed his head deeply, nodded his head again and again in thanks, and the two lines of tears flowed non-stop.

When they were leaving, the peasant couple cried very sadly, and they reluctantly instructed Gülen to listen to the Duke and know how to repay his kindness.

Glenn also cried, but he did not resist, and took Tarret's hand and followed the knights out of the village where he was born.