Chapter 21 Conscription Order (Part II)
Witt hurried into Joey's courtyard, only to see Emia drying animal skins, but Joey was nowhere to be seen. Witt went into the house and walked around, but there was no sign of Joey, so he walked out of the house and asked Emia, "Joey, this guy is hunting again?" ”
Emia just nodded, her eyes blazing and looking at Witt silently, as if waiting for Witt to give something, which made Witt also look helpless, and had to give up: "Okay, okay, you do your thing, I'll go to the backyard to practice the bow, and when Joey comes back, tell him that I have something urgent to find him, let him come to the backyard." After saying that, he ignored Emia's reaction and walked straight towards the shooting range, leaving Emia alone to stand there and stop talking.
Joey came to the practice range in the backyard, stood thirty meters away in front of the target, took off the oak bow that had been with him for more than a month, took down a practice arrow from behind him, and skillfully and standardly made a set of perfect shooting movements.
Witt's face was unfazed, but his heart was very dissatisfied, and he immediately took two deep breaths to calm his mood, and then shot another arrow.
Time passed like a white horse, with Witt's sweat passing bit by bit, and soon it was time for Shen, Witt had not eaten lunch, and Emia had also come to shout, but Witt did not notice it at all, and he was not hungry, and he thought that he had already eaten lunch.
After another arrow, there was a burst of applause behind Witt. Witt looked back and it was Joey. I saw Joey walking forward with a smile, and his clothes were still stained with patches of blood red, which should be the blood of a beast.
"Ouch! That's a good way to shoot! I've grown a lot, and it seems that I've secretly put in a lot of hard work behind my back, right? Joey quipped.
"Don't mess around! I came here today to find you in a hurry. Witt was of course glad to hear Joey praise himself like this, and said seriously.
"What's the matter? So nervous to come to me? Let's hear it. Joey was immediately intrigued when he heard Witt hear this.
"There is a conscription order on the side of the fortress, and the salary is not low, not to mention, this time our opportunity has come." Witt looked excited and couldn't help but raise his voice.
"Really? Is there such a thing? Joey was excited, and a pair of big hands grabbed Werther's shoulders and shook constantly, shaking Witt's head dizzy.
Witt jerked Joey away and shouted, "Really! It's true! Are you trying to kill me? ”
Emia, who was standing not far away, was also curious about the words between the two, so she followed behind Joey, and when she heard that he was going to join the army, her heart suddenly tightened, and she held one hand on the clothes on her chest, looking nervous and in a trance.
Witt noticed the presence of Emia behind Joey, and realized that their conversation might make Emia mistakenly think that they were ready to leave Emia alone, so he hurriedly walked up to Emia and explained: "Emia, we don't intend to leave you alone, joining the army is just the only way for us to realize our ambitions in life, I hope you will understand, I swear, I will never leave you alone, okay?" Joey didn't know how to comfort people, so he could only echo Witt's constant nod.
Emia nodded with relief, she was originally an alien parasite, but Witt and Joey always took care of their feelings, this comfort was only given to her by her dead parents, and before she knew it, tears soaked her eyes and flowed out uncontrollably, which frightened the two teenagers. Witt and Joey grew up with little comfort to others, let alone girls. Witt thought that his words had made Emia angry, and he was pushed aside by Joey but had nothing to say.
"Emia, Witt is a big fool! Don't listen to him, I won't let you go, you believe me, don't cry, don't cry......" Joey said that he didn't know what to say, and the two teenagers looked at each other in a stunned manner, looking extremely embarrassed, and their scalps were so hot that their scalps itched.
"You're the big fool!" Emia pushed Joey away, turned her back, wiped her moist eyes, and continued, "You don't have to worry about me, go and make your dreams come true!" I'm just a little moved, I'm not unhappy, I can take care of myself, you guys go quickly! While the sky is still bright, you may not have a chance to go late. ”
Witt and Joey looked at each other, first stunned, then a little excited, and said in unison, "Thank you, Emia!" Then, ignoring the dirty clothes on his body, he quickly ran out of the courtyard and ran straight in the direction of the fortress.
As soon as the words came out, Emia regretted it. She feared that she would lose the person she loved the most once again. When she was still young, her mother fell ill, and the family was poor and could not afford to see a doctor and could not afford medicine, and finally her young mother died in agony on a straw bed. My father was also hanged by officials because he couldn't pay the grain tax. She should have followed in the footsteps of her parents, but the two warm teenagers rekindled the fire of life for her, giving her a reason to continue living. Now, because of her impulse, the two most important people in her life besides her parents may leave her, which makes her heart angina and difficult to extricate herself.
Looking at the distant figures of the two teenagers, Emiya finally couldn't hide the pain in her heart anymore, tears burst out of her eyes, and she sat down on the ground. Tears soaked the dirt, and the light reflected Emia's distorted face. The air around them was so quiet that it seemed as if the plants could hold their breath, and the sound of the wind abruptly stopped, leaving only the choked sound of Emia crying......
By the time Witt and Joey arrived outside the Lord's Fort, the heavy iron fence was already cluttered with a large number of villagers, young and old, but more unemployed youths from the village. Witt probably counted, there were more than 100 people, and it made people's scalps tingle.
The treatment of the Fessdena guards was described by old Danny as a soldier quite good and stable. Calradia has such a saying since ancient times: The prosperous times follow the text, and the troubled times follow the military, which is not false at all. But it doesn't mean that you can be a soldier if you want to, being a soldier also requires a certain amount of physical fitness, if the conditions are not good or you don't have special skills, basically you only need to farm and be exploited as a tenant farmer in this life, so every time a conscription order is issued, these poor peasants want to apply for the army.
However, it also depends on the duration of the war, like this time the kingdom dispute between Vekia and Nord has just begun, and the war is not yet short of major generals. If the war lasts too long, and the two countries suffer serious war losses, they will inevitably need a large number of soldiers to replenish, and then it will not be the situation where everyone is enthusiastically signing up to join the army, but the army will be ordered to forcibly recruit strong men, this kind of thing happens every day on the continent of Calradia, it is not strange, but the phenomenon of Fesdena is even more puzzling.
Witt and Joey didn't care so much either, and hurriedly squeezed up, for fear of missing this great opportunity.
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