"Be quick, you slackers! If you don't clean up the ruins at the end of the year and let me go home for the New Year, I want you to look good! You must know that it will be the year 2100 of the Great Calendar soon! Once in a hundred years! I'm afraid this will be the only time in my life! If you finish it, you can go home, don't you!"

Selekos's heart-wrenching lecture on the mountain did not do much for the old fritter-like poor coolies at the bottom of the mountain, and for these poor people who had been suffering since birth, the festival was a luxury concept, and their life was only saturation and hunger.

Looking at the motionless pauper, Selekos wondered if he would have to whip them to death with his own whip so that the poor who had been caught out of the city for the first time and had stayed in the slums a few months before, with worse discipline and efficiency than the peasants, would be a little more sober.

Although these poor people are very bad, who can use them without these people to clean up the ruins? Nowadays, even those peasants are extremely valuable jobs, as early as the eighties Boris made it clear that even if the nobles dared to trample on the farmland, they should be punished with whipping, and the protection of the peasants had long been put on the agenda by Napolica VII, and no one dared to be so tyrannical and domineering to the peasants as before the war.

Civilians are now also a precious asset, and every living commoner means a tax, although the amount of a single tax is limited, but it is better to add up to a lot, so Boris thought about it and decided to get those poor people out of the slums and transport them to various places to clean up the ruins after the war.

Why do you want to work hard to clean up the ruins, instead of inviting the Extraordinary Legend to clear the field directly? Because the so-called ruins that have been cleaned up are all former villages, fortresses and other areas, and even if the battlefield has been cleaned in the ruins, there will always be some leftover property, not to mention that the metals, tiles, etc. in the ruins are all excellent building materials, so they cannot be pushed directly roughly, and must be carefully cleaned up.

Now the post-war Bourbon sea is full of devastation, all kinds of ruins, ruins, it can be said that everywhere needs to be cleaned up, and Selekos is the official who is responsible for planning the cleanup, not the person responsible for planning the cleanup, but the kind of official who needs to personally roll up his cuffs and go to the site to supervise the coolie cleanup, but who calls himself just a little nobleman? It is already good to get this errand, and many people want to get it.

No, Selekos was ordered to take a team of poor coolies to the outskirts of Xiben to clean up the ruins, mainly cleaning up the ruins of some fortresses along the coast of Xiben, responsible for scavenging the valuable bricks and transporting them back to be recast, and then reinforcing the surviving fortresses of Xiben.

Siben is located on the east bank of the old channel that gave birth to the Bourbons, and the opposite bank is the origin of the Bourbons, Boris, the former Felison XIV after the end of the Bourbon twenty-four consuls, and established Siben as the new capital of Bourbon, but this is also more than 300 years ago, after the vicissitudes of the sea, this place is already the territory of Boris.

The place where Selekos led the team was located on the protrusion of the peninsula in the north of the main city of Xiben, which was the closest area to Boris City on the east bank of the Old Passage, so Selekos climbed to the highest point from the Ruins Land on the pretext of wanting to see the overall situation, and actually looked at the city of Boris on the other side.

"You can really see Boris when you climb this mountain, of course, I mean the Boris of the city," a deep voice sounded behind Selekos, who was so surprised that he didn't notice the man's arrival, and turned his head to see that it was a man wearing a luxurious black robe, his face was blurred, and he could only vaguely see that it was a sad face.

However, what alerted Selekos the most was the man's bare palm, and he saw that the palm was white and flawless, and at first glance it was a great nobleman who didn't even need to go to the battlefield!

"Your Excellency, Celecos, son of the family of Fenninomus, the secretary of the city of Sutralur under the reign of the main city of Sutra in the Passage of the Channel of Sutra, and the superintendent of the False Ruins Clean-up, humbly greets you! May the light of the sea god always envelop you, and the waves of the sea will always be your cradle. ”

The man nodded, and then conjured a jar of potion from his robe like a trick, and the sharp-eyed Selekos recognized that this was the top disability repair agent, which was invaluable!

"I don't know what your honorable name is?Why do you favor me so much?Do I have anything I can do for you?" Selekos, who was holding on to the potion, wisely took the initiative to ask for the nobleman's life, and then hoped that the other party's request would not be too uncomfortable.

"You call me Leng Yi," the man added, noticing Selekos' face, "Lul, a very common name, isn't it?"

Selekos was relieved, how could someone read it in such a cold way, he must have heard Lull as Rienyi, so he hurriedly flattered: "Where, the name Lul is the pride of my Bourbons, and you will definitely make great achievements like the 'navigator' Lul thousands of years ago." ”

"Lur" Leng Yi smiled - although Selekos couldn't see Leng Yi's face clearly - and said, "Haha, the people in this world called Luer are like carp crossing the river, but how many people can leave a name like 'Lul'?"

Selekos lowered his head and didn't dare to say more, although this "Lul" has a very gentle attitude now, but who knows if he is a smiling tiger, and he should not try to evaluate the nobles in vain for his small role.

"Do you remember your ancestors, tell me about your ancestors' experiences in the Bourbon Naval War, starting from the times of crisis," Leng Yi turned his head to look at the group of poor coolies at the bottom of the mountain, due to the height of the problem, the coolies really looked like a group of ants, as if their lives were worthless, "'Mourn how difficult the people's livelihood is'......"

What is crazy about this nobleman in front of him, Celekos doesn't know, but since what he told himself to do is easy, then it is better to leave nothing else, just do what the other party tells and get the potion in hand.

"That, Lord Luhr, I am not a nobleman, I have not studied genealogy, I am not an elder of the family, and I have a special study of the history of the family, so I can only rely on my memories of more than forty years to roughly describe to you, and if there is any mistake in it, I can only ask for your forgiveness. ”

"If we want to talk about the crisis era, we can't fail to mention my great-grandfather, he was also called Selekos, originally a merchant who ran the Cornigta trade, and after the crisis era began, the original trade pattern was broken, and when the people were panicked, he took the lead in bravely purchasing goods for Boris, which can be said to be the first in the world, but in the end he was caught by the anti-smuggling ship of Portlou, was imprisoned for several years, and died not long after the redemption, which is a pity. ”

Poof, Leng Yi almost didn't laugh, these people really like to talk about smuggling in their own favor so magnificently, and your ancestor first sold his daughter to climb to the Bourbon nobles, and then did another Boris nobleman black glove thing, why did you forget to say it?

"I'm afraid those who don't know about this distant thing more than sixty years ago, but you must know about the Battle of Teassi as a well-educated adult, right? And I am proud that my grandfather Selekos was a sailor in the Battle of Teassi, participating in this great operation and dedicating his spiritual power to Boris. ”

Wait, wasn't your grandfather Selekos only in charge of navigation? That is, it was this military exploit that sent your father to the barracks, but how did you say that it was as if he had personally gone to the front and killed people?

"And my father, Selekos, became a real navy of the great Boris, the most famous of which was the Second Battle of Teassi and the Battle of the Western Front on Bourbon Island, which landed on Battis," said Selekos, whose expression flickered, "and then he died in the sea of Battis, leaving us alone." ”

Although there were still some strange magic changes, Leng Yi was not ready to laugh at them one by one, so he asked indifferently: "What about you, and what role do you play in the war?"

"I, my family has been engaged in the Cornigta trade for generations, so I haven't graduated yet, and when I was 18 years old, I was pulled into the army as a navigator for my country to support India, in fact, where can I navigate, since my father's generation, I haven't run the Cornigta trade like this, so after a while, I was simply pulled to be a sailor. ”

"Did you participate in any war?"

Hearing this question, a worried expression appeared on Selekos's face: "Yes, I was sent to Subak, you may not know, my lord, there is only one port left in Subakt! The group of birdmen of the Boemi built a wall around the port, and we will fight on the side of the port area!"

"I served in Subak for more than a year, almost every day I either went to war, or was bombed, I didn't dare to raise my head, my eyes were red, my weapons never left my body, I had to run to the city wall to fight with Potru, alas, I had many scars on my body, all of which were left at that time, and the priest also said that I was overusing my spiritual power, unless I was willing to spend a lot of money to do advanced recovery techniques or find potions, otherwise my dark wounds would not be able to get rid of. ”

"I gave you the potion today. ”

Selekos smiled bitterly and said: "Yes, it's such a precious potion, but because it's too precious, I can't use it, so I have to give it to other nobles as favors, so that the family can ...... You won't blame you, sir?"

The noble man shook his head at first, and then asked something that made Selekos inexplicable: "You say, what are you living in this world for?"

Hearing this, Selekos was a little confused, but the awe of the nobleman still made Selekos quickly answer: "Well, enjoy, the biggest mansion, the most beautiful woman, the most wealth, probably can be owned in a dream, on weekdays, that is, I hope that the heir can continue and create a better future for the heir, so that after my soul returns to the River Styx, someone will remember me and will not be reduced to ......"

Selekos also turned his head down the hill to look at the poor coolies who were working as densely packed as small insects: "They will not be reduced to the poor worms like weeds, their lives are meaningless." ”

This time, Selekos finally saw the indistinct expression of "Lur"'s face, compassion, yes, that flash of compassion, is this noble man faint? Selekos was a little curious, but cautious and did not dare to say more.

"Meaningless, alas, meaningless," the noble man staggered away, and Selekos hesitated for a moment but decided to chase after him, only to see a scene that made his soul fly away, and the noble man turned into a puff of black smoke and drifted away with the wind!

Celekos quickly knelt down in surprise and prayed sincerely to the god of the sea, when he suddenly felt that his knee was hit by something, and after thinking about it, he remembered that it was the potion that the black smoke gave him. A look of hesitation flashed across Selekos's face, and finally Selekos firmly grasped the potion, and did not let go.