Chapter Seventy-One: The Temptation of a War Horse
"Knights, warriors!"
"Knights, warriors!"
"Bourne, Dewar!"
"Bourne, Dewar!"
The Lothair sails fast on the blue sea, the bow scissors cutting through the waves and making a "whooshing" sound. In one of the cabins of the ship, from time to time there were beautiful female voices and mixed male voices.
Olive was standing next to a small blackboard, learning from the way Charles had taught herself, pointing at the beautiful fonts on the blackboard with a stick, and reading the words with a group of knights and knights below.
Byrne, Foreman, Severed Finger, Sailor, and Brut and Dewar all sat on low benches, curled up and listened attentively, occasionally drawing a few ghostly letters with charcoal on the little notebook on their laps.
Although their posture was awkward, no one felt aggrieved, and since a few days ago Miss Olive planned to "teach them casually" because she was "idle", several old men were so excited that they couldn't sleep all night.
This is the qualification of the lord and the big family, you are a commoner who wants to learn literacy? Save it! Unless you give up your freedom and your family to dedicate yourself to the church, but after dedicating yourself to the church, you are not necessarily qualified to learn to read and write...... It depends on your endurance, endure what others can't endure, and climb up on other people's shoulders may be able to change your own fate.
"Okay, let's go here today! When you go back, write your names and the two words you learned today twenty times, and when you run out of workbooks, go to Caroline to get another one, and write them all well! I'll check it tomorrow." ”
Olive put down the chalk, took the wet towel handed by the maid and wiped her hands, standing straight with her hands hanging down her abdomen.
Bourne and the others stood up in unison, bowed to the little girl who was less than one and a half meters tall, and shouted neatly: "Goodbye, teacher!"
Olive nodded in satisfaction before leaving the cabin, accompanied by her maid Caroline.
After walking out of the cabin, Olive let out a long breath, patted her little hand on her chest, and exchanged glances with Caroline beside her, and Caroline gave her young lady a thumbs up, and the little girl triumphantly went to her brother to report the task.
Since Charles came up with the idea of "freeing all of his direct subordinates from blindness", he first planned to let Roy temporarily serve as a cultural instructor, but Roy said that Charles's idea was too merciful and detrimental to the majestic image of his lordship.
The rulers of this world rule their subordinates with strict control of resources, and culture is also one of the important control resources, which must not be given to others at will.
In desperation, Charles, who knows the importance of culture, gave a message to Gerson, asking this annoying guy to act as a cultural teacher, you can teach your own people, right?
As a result, Byrne was quick to tell Charles that Gerson was reluctant to teach them literacy for ...... They were too stupid to learn the complex Florian script.
What's even funnier is that Foreman and others still think so, thinking that what Gesen said has some truth, and they are not angry with Gesen.
Charles was irritable at the time, a short-sighted guy, he didn't have the courage to do big things at all, and his subordinates couldn't even write a letter, how could they contact each other in the future, how could they fool?
Although Charles did not plan to regard Bourne as the most trusted team, even if they were cannon fodder, they had to be cultured high-level cannon fodder.
Charles found Olive and told her about her troubles, after all, she was her own sister, and the kind little girl agreed to make a cameo appearance as a cultural teacher at that time, but she also made it clear in advance that she could only teach Bourne and others to the level that they could read and write letters, and as for the clever arithmetic skills, they would never be taught.
Compared with literacy skills, the aristocratic class has a stricter control over numeracy skills, and you can recognize two words, but if you can calculate the complex accounts clearly, then how will I collect taxes in the future?
However, after Olive began to give lessons to Byrne and the others, Roy agreed with Charles's approach, and in his words, "Mademoiselle showed Chevalier's good side, and the lord maintained enough majesty, which was a clever decision to encircle his knights." ”
But what they don't know is that these "knights" are worrying about the homework assigned by Olive at this time.
Bourne sat upright, writing his name in a notebook one by one, but this strong man who could cut off a tree stump with a sword was full of sweat at this time, as if the small charcoal pen in his hand weighed a thousand pounds.
The others were even more unbearable, and Foreman, who claimed to be able to write his own name, was pulling his beard one by one, fighting cross-eyed with the ghost drawing talismans in his homework book, and the name that Miss Olive taught him was different from the name he had written for years.
As for the severed finger and the sailor, the letters in the homework book were written and changed, changed and written, and the fingernails were almost bitten off, and the corners of his mouth were smeared with a large patch of charcoal without realizing it.
Among them, Dewar, the youngest, was the most composed, and although the fingers holding the charcoal pen were also a little white from overexertion, at least the letters written in the notebook were of uniform size, and they were barely neat.
Based on the current situation, Dewar is undoubtedly the first to complete his homework.
It's a pity that Dewar has an unreliable guy.
"Ahem..... Uh-huh!"
Brut Deman sat down next to Dewar with a big grin, and his mouth made exaggerated movements to hide his sneaking of his workbook under Dewar's.
"Brut, you can't do this, Miss Olive is kind enough to teach us a lesson, how can you ....." Dewar was a simple child, he did not refuse Brut's behavior, but still tried his best to persuade this partner who was closest to his age.
"Oh, you don't have to worry about it, I'll help you see it when you're done, right, just look at it? Do you still want to use my spare horse to practice riding?"
“.......”
Dewar pursed his lips, pinched Brut's homework book from the bottom with his right hand and flipped it to the top of his own homework book, and began the work of "copying hands" one by one.
Byrne and the others picked up a lot of booty in Spaya, including a dozen fine war horses, and when they returned to Florence, they all reached the standard of elite cavalry on two horses, but when Savile left Bayona a few days ago, he took all the excess supplies and horses with him, and did not leave an extra horse for the poor knight Hu, Dewar.
Generally speaking, Dewar's apprentice learns riding skills in the process of feeding horses, brushing horses, and shoveling horse manure, and slowly becomes a knight who can fight with the knight master, but if the knight himself has a spare horse, the process will be much shorter, on the contrary, there is only one horse like Bourne, then Dewar can only watch his knight master gallop on the horse most of the time, but he holds a horse mound on the ground and sharpens his buttocks.
One horse cannot meet the daily tactical training of two riders, and if you toss every day, it will not take a few days for the war horse to lose fat.
War horses are not horses, they must maintain a certain amount of fat to support the energy consumption during the battle, otherwise they can't stand the high-intensity fierce combat environment, and a skinny horse doesn't need to fight at all when he runs down hundreds of miles, and basically burps himself.
Dewar is a bit silly, but he's not stupid, and now he really needs a war horse. And Master Brut Deman is a little tyrant with two spare horses.
They are all subordinates, but the lord of Dewar is just a knight, while the lord of Brut is an earl, and this is the huge gap caused by birth.
Dewar knows that he will never be able to erase the gap, but there are other areas where he can outdo Brunt by going the extra mile, such as ...... Literate.
Dewar writes more seriously.