Chapter 297: The Collapse of the Empire (XXXIII) The boyhood of citizen Lure Bourbon

My name is Lul Yayiwa, born in Boris in 1397 A.D., the third child of my father. My Yayihua family, although not an aristocrat in Boris, was a wealthy burgher with a steady income and a decent job.

My father's name was also Lull, and his job in Boris was as a celebrator, mainly making fireworks salutes and magic scrolls, and doing it himself when needed. Don't look like a humble job, it's a very decent job in the Bourbon!

You know, we Bourbon are the greatest country in the world, this is a fact that I have been taught since I was a child, and the greatest country means constant conquest, so every time the conquest fleet returns, the celebrant is needed to arrange the fireworks salute for the celebration.

In addition to the return of the fleet, we Celebrators also have work to do on holidays, after all, the wealth of Bourbon is endless, and the whole sea is our treasure trove, so it can accommodate the constant celebrations.

Fireworks and salutes, don't underestimate this magic, the fireworks salute that is cast into the sky, can bloom a variety of color patterns, into the adults specify the desired pattern, all by our celebrators for thousands of years of research.

Moreover, although the power of this trick is very low and almost lethal, he still belongs to the category of magic, and if he wants to cast it, he must practice spells and then specialize in studying the magic array of fireworks.

The power of this magic array is not great, so the nobles are unwilling to delve into it, which gives birth to our celebration master, of course, the original celebration master family is actually the extremely remote side or illegitimate son of each noble, and the celebration master can also be regarded as a good way for those nobles to arrange their illegitimate children or side children - not conspicuous, but also very decent.

Of course, my Yayihua family used to be a nobleman, but because it was too far away from the lineage, and there were no members to be officials for too long, we were eliminated from the family. Of course, the family will not just kick us out, after all, the nobles are merciful, and despite expelling us from their family, they still arranged for our ancestors to be celebrists.

It was hundreds of years ago, hundreds of years have passed, that family is no longer Boris, and our main branch has also moved out with that family, leaving our branch to continue to stay in Boris, which is the "Three Caves of Cunning Rabbits" in the divine realm.

But it doesn't do much to me, because I'm the third son of the family, and I won't be able to inherit my father's career unless both of my older brothers die.

But although you can't inherit a career, your income is not worth it. My father, the Great Lull, was a member of both the Celebrators' Guild and the Urban Decent Guild, and he had a decent income, so I received a decent education as a child.

My childhood education was spent in the guild initiation class, and I grew up living with the children of the guild, and my father said that it was to cultivate our spirit of unity, and he often pointed out to me which children could communicate with because his father was good with my father, and which children were to be isolated because his father was not likeable.

The relationship between the parents affects our enlightenment class, and our group of children are also divided into camps because of the relationship between the parents, and they are friendly with each other or have a cold war.

The length of time for the initiation class is not fixed, mainly because the fathers need to find us a way to help. We are not aristocrats, so we don't even want to get the status of acolyte, so we can only enter the academy as helpers and pay an expensive education fee, and help the academy as a handyman while studying.

But the problem is that the amount of helpers is limited, not to mention that the competition is still so fierce, and it is usually only possible to compete for helpers by luck and financial resources.

Therefore, if our parents can make us helpers as soon as possible, then we can leave the Enlightenment School as soon as possible, but there are many people who can't become helpers until they are old, and then their fathers can only let him go to the Navigation Academy directly, or come to the guild to work.

I am my father's third child, my second son, and my father already has a son, my eldest brother, so my father is not as enthusiastic about whether I can become a helper or not. But my luck was even better than my eldest brother's, and when I was 11 years old, I happened to have a place, and the cost was not expensive, so my father asked me to work as a helper.

The college where I became a helper could not be the best Boris college in Boris and the best in all of Bourbon, but the Meate College in Bourbon, which was funded by Meate IV and another good place for those who couldn't go to the Boris Academy.

Anyway, I was ignorant and worked as a helper at the Meath Academy for 3 years. In the past 3 years of my career at Meath College, I have grown up very quickly, I have left my childhood environment for the first time, I have met many people I have not thought of before, and I have also recognized some ugly faces, which has broken my original illusion of the warmth and affection of the world.

During my three years at the Meath Academy, my favorite thing to do was to go to Milles Square (Meath Square in front of the General Assembly Palace) at the end of my work and listen to the regular students talk.

What I don't like the most is listening to them talk about last night's banquet, what "Andre of that house is drunk again" and "The exhibits of that house are quite good this time", listening to this kind of talk only makes me feel deeply inferior, and annoys myself why I am not a nobleman, even a small nobleman.

The level of liking is that they talk about their studies, what "my graduation practice plans to go around the island regularly" "It's too boring, I'm going to go to Tenglong to make specimens" "Cut, it's not as good as my plan, I'm going to go to Edonan where to catch an Ai'an Creek barbarian and come to the exhibition!"

When I listen to them talk about these things, I am full of envy, this is the life of the students, far from being comparable to me.

And my favorite topic to listen to is when they talk about current events, "I think this attack will definitely destroy the cunning Bonn barbarians!" "I think the general's plan is not right, this is a flat plain, and this is the terrain that the barbarian general Surivel is best at." ”

Listening to them scolding the situation, their sensitivity to the situation (?) made me feel extremely admired, worthy of being a nobleman, to learn so many things that I don't understand.

Through their popular science, I understood who Surriville was and who Dom was, words that were not taught in these classes and which have been very popular lately.

However, these nobles occasionally talked about how Bourbon's finances have become more and more difficult recently, and even their family's taxes have been reduced, but I don't feel it at all, and when I came home from the holidays, my father happily told me that more and more celebrations have been held in recent years, and our family has become richer and richer.

Helpers are not like the academy, there is a time limit, after all, so many people are competing for places, and they refuse to let me and the students study in the academy for 10 years, so after 3 years, that is, in 1411, I ended my career as a helper in the academy at the age of 14.

After finishing my life as a helper, I first went to work in the Celebration Master Guild and became my father's part-time worker, but since I was not the eldest son, my father could not teach me all the magic circles, and usually asked me to give a hand to the senior apprentice.

However, the senior apprentice was also my father's apprentice, and he knew who I was and was quite polite to me, and I was not a bad person, so I got along with him quite well.

Time went forward another year, and when I was 15 years old, I had a big choice in my life, and I remember the day when my father called me into the kitchen of our house and kicked the maid out, leaving me alone to talk to him.

At that time, my father said to me:

"My little Lul, you must know that now that you have grown into a man, it is time for you to make your own decisions. ”

"There are two paths in front of you now, the first is to become your brother's assistant, and I will choose to teach you some celebratory masters, so that although you can't get all my skills, you can still make a living and be some helpers in the celebrations. You won't be able to get a seat in the guild, though, because that's what I'm going to leave for your brother. ”

"The second is that you go to another decent job, whether as a sailor or otherwise, and find a way out of your own wit, and on this road, I will help you as much as I can. ”

"Little Lul, you don't have to be in a hurry to answer, I saw your grandfather say this to your uncle when I was young, and your uncle decided to become a sailor after thinking about it for two more days, so you are not in a hurry to answer at the moment. ”

With that, my father let me go and told me to go back and think for myself. After 1 day of anxiety, I finally made the choice, I wanted to become a sailor and do work at sea, after all, we Bourbon are the people of the sea god.

My father was pleased with my answer, but he told me that I didn't need to face the ocean right now, because I was still too weak.

So, I worked odd jobs in the guild for another year, until 1413, when my father arranged for me to study navigation at an academy of luhr (the Bourbon word for lure means seafaring).

In this academy I studied for another four years, where I had a rough understanding of the handling of the docks, the navigation of the ships, and in 1417, when I was 20 years old, I went around the island with the fleet around the island of Bourbon, an old Bourbon tradition.

After I came back, my father helped me find a good girl, so I started a family with him, and after I got married, my father said that I was also a man with a wife, and from now on he would reduce my financial support, and after 5 years he would be completely cut off, and I would need to support myself.

Hearing my father's words, I did not have any fear and apprehension, but was full of hope for the future to live alone, and I believe that with my own struggle, coupled with the blessing of the sea god, I will definitely have a happy future.