This time, Evan returned home no longer as the deputy commander of the kingdom, so he didn't have any entourage. He is like a middle-aged man who has been traveling for a long time and returns to his hometown, but he has been in the past for many years without any achievements, and from the outside, he does not look like a person who once had status and identity.

The sudden bustle of the small town of Luval made Evan a little uncomfortable, and there were many young adults who suddenly appeared here when it should have been very peaceful. It turned out that because of the fame of the New Knights of the Iron Wall, they became the upstart of the Kingdom of Salins in a short period of time, so there were also some young people who wanted to join the New Knights of the Iron Wall. Evin thought that this was just wishful thinking on the part of those young people, but he didn't expect that the New Knights of the Iron Wall had actually sent people to his hometown to recruit some reserve members.

From a distance, Evan could see that more than a dozen young people of Luval were waving their flags and shouting, and they all said that they knew the former Captain Faulkner and the current Captain of the New Knights of the Iron Wall, Eggsie. These people did have something to do with each other, they were talking and laughing with the knights sent by the New Iron Wall Knights, and Evan could tell that they didn't mean anything.

Most of the young adults recruited into the next batch admired the former Knights of the Iron Wall, and they knew that the former Knights of the Iron Wall advocated countering violence with violence, and these young men with strong blood "heard" the call in their hearts and wanted to show their strength after Bradley and the "Frost Queen" came to power. Although it is impossible for them to directly become members of the Order, they can also start as reserve personnel, learn to become logistics soldiers, and then obtain knightly qualifications. The promotion space and every step of the promotion were very clearly placed in front of these people, so those young people from Louval did not need to shout much, and the other young people who came from afar had already signed their names under clear and unambiguous instructions.

"Father!" Evan had just entered the house when he saw Nikolai standing on a wooden ladder, holding a pole tied to a rope net, and constantly reaching for something from the tree.

Evan immediately ran over, and when he looked up into the tree, he realized that it was a shivering cat hiding at the far end of the branch, and the cat seemed to be very afraid of humans.

Seeing that Nikolai, who was over seventy years old, was about to capture the cat, the cat jumped up and jumped down in the direction of the ground, and the old man also fell down because he lost his center of gravity!

I saw Evan holding his father in one hand and the wooden pole in the other, looking helplessly at his naughty and active old father.

"Father, it's a child to climb a tree and catch a cat..."

"Who said this is a child's game, my strength is much better than that of a child!" Nikolai patted his clothes, and when he stood still, he snatched his wooden pole, "and I'm not playing, I'm grabbing it, it's been coming to my house several times to steal food, I'm going to catch this cat thief!"

Evan helped his father into the house, but Nikolai was reluctant to be helped by him.

"Father, why are all the servants in the house gone?"

"I've dismissed them!" Nikolai sat down in his chair, his nose blowing his white beard, "they all hate me for being slow-handed, hum!

Evan did not contradict the old father, he knew that Faulkner, Nikolai, and Feder were each more stubborn than the other, and they were in some ways the kind of people who were very subjective and decided that certain things were difficult to change. In fact, in the eyes of others, Evan is also such a person, but Evan has always thought that he is more enlightened compared to the three.

"Forget it, you'll see if I'm dead anyway," Nikolai stood up propping up the arm of his chair, "and read the letter Faulkner left for you..."

"A letter to me?"

"I don't know if it was left for you, but he left it anyway, and he didn't say who would see it. ”

Evan immediately walked into his brother's room, which was neatly furnished, but it was evident that no one had lived here for a long time. A letter on the table was pressed against a small rock, and Evan picked it up and read it.

The letter was written in Faulkner's own handwriting, and the handwriting was neat and square, just like Faulkner's personality. The contents of the letter were not for Evan, or rather, it was not just for Evan. Whether Nikolai, Fed, or Evan read the letter, Faulkner understood what it meant—Faulkner, as son, father, and brother, had returned to Mallot, and he had now retired to the background and no longer appeared at court meetings, but he would not forget the ideals he had pursued all his life.

He is not the head of the new Knights of the Iron Wall, but at Bradley's request, that position will remain vacant and will always be reserved for its true master.

The letter was tantamount to informing Faulkner's family of his whereabouts, and Evan also confirmed at this moment that Bradley's eventual victory was due to his brother. Faulkner, who had been hiding in his hometown before, finally failed to endure the loneliness of a teacher, and regained the ambition of the year, the fighting spirit that had been thwarted by King Byron.

Compared to his brother, Evan's martial arts can be described as childlike. The brother who was taller and more athletic than himself was once invincible with an iron shield. When he was young, his brother Faulkner became the crush of countless young girls, and Evan was like Fielder at that time. But Faulkner is different, he has a unique charisma and a lot of talent that Evan will never be able to match.

Instead of taking Faulkner's letter with him, Evan thinks that maybe his nephew Feder will come back and see his father's choice to return to the service of the Kingdom of Salins, and then feel that he told him to give up being a stupid mercenary.

"Father—" Evan was about to leave without even spending the night, but when he reached the door, he saw his father Nikolai playing happily with the cat thief. The cat, which was soft yellow and had only four snow-white legs, was still lying on the ground, revealing its soft belly, obviously very close to Nikolai.

"Let's go, I'll have it with me, let's go," Nikolai didn't reply, "my son and grandson don't know that plainness is true happiness, alas, you will understand when you are old." ”

Evan knew that he was far from enjoying his ordinary life, he had already heard about the eldest princess Wen Lisi half a month ago, and he wanted to rely on this clue to find the eldest princess who had been missing for half a year.

He rushed to the north of the kingdom, alone in the mountains, he was not recognized by anyone, and he was also able to find the place where Winlith was attacked according to the information gathered by his cronies. It was a small ravine, and the men brought by Winlith had already died in the attack, but no one had found the body of the eldest princess, so it could not be determined that the princess who had the right to inherit the throne was dead.

After five days of careful investigation around the ravine, Evan finally found a hastily completed tombstone on the edge of a cliff bearing the name of Winis Feremitz, most likely made by the local villagers for the Celestial Princess.

Evan hesitated for a moment and began to dig up the grave to confirm some of the doubts.

"No need to dig," Princess Celestia's voice came from behind just as Evan was about to open the tomb, "and inside are the remains of wild dogs." Evan looked back and saw that Wen Lisi, wearing a straw hat and coarse cloth peasant clothes, was standing there, with a hoe on her shoulder, and her once long hair had been cut off, leaving only a very broken short hair. If you don't look closely, you will really think that the princess of the kingdom is a tall male peasant.

"Your Royal Highness..."

Wen Lisi put down her hoe, "I plan to continue living here, the Kingdom of Sallins doesn't need so many heirs to the throne, leave everything to Bradley." ”