At night, the mine town is silent, except for one square, the center of the town. Bonfires are lit up here, and almost all the people of the Mine Town and the villages under the jurisdiction of the Mine Town come here to participate in the annual Oktoberfest.

"We're gathered here today to wish us a better year!" said Elder Billy, who began his routine speech, which he considered to be the most important part of the year.

"Although our children, your husbands, may still be fighting on the front lines at this time, all of us in the Mine Town will protect them!" Old Billy is worthy of being the mayor of the town for decades, and he speaks in a good way, and it is very easy to stir up the emotions of the townspeople, at least now everyone in the square is reminded of their loved ones by him.

"This year, our mine town has overcome many difficulties and has ......" Old Billy is still speaking, but not many people below listen to him, because the most important part has been spoken, and the next thing is about how much Billy Sr. has made and achieved this year as the mayor of the town. Many civilians have a limited level of education, such as Locke's family, Locke may have read a few words on the front line, and the vast majority of the remaining people simply don't understand what Old Billy is saying, those words such as mineral increase, economic improvement, etc., honest civilians can't understand it, let alone them, even Old Billy may not know what he's talking about, his set of rhetoric was given to him by the town's administrator, and the administrator is the baron's administrator assigned to each town, and his rank is lower than that of the mayor, but it belongs directly to the baron, and Old Billy doesn't dare to offend.

Around the campfire, except for some of the more honest civilians who were listening to Old Billy's Book of Heaven, the rest of the people began their own. He who drinks wine drinks, and he who eats bread eats bread. Today's beer is free, bread costs money, but very little, only a few copper dellers, which is a once-a-year benefit for most people who don't have enough to eat. Savvy merchants began to sell their wares, and although the shops in the entire mine town were closed and closed, there were always one or two who were still holding on, and this annual beer festival was the best time for them to make money.

Old Locke was drinking and bragging with someone he knew with the mayor with a glass of beer at this time, and the object of the bragging was nothing more than his son who became the captain of the squad, and around him were a bunch of honest ordinary people, the captain was indeed not a small role in their opinion, and it was worth stammering with them, and even many people took advantage of this to propose, even if Little Locke has not returned, at least the marriage can be made.

Although Old Locke is honest, he is not stupid, of course he can't respond casually, and his daughter and wife are next to him, how can he deal with his son's lifelong affairs casually. And the businessmen don't pay much attention to the old Locke, the captain, this level is just the same level as the captain of the garrison team in the town, at most the same level as the village chief, and it is in charge of the military, and the gold content cannot be compared with the village chief at all, and the businessman is very profitable, whether the old Locke's son can come back alive from the battlefield is not yet known, because the businessman has money, the status is higher than that of ordinary people, so they don't care about the father of the team leader.

And the officials in the higher ranks, such as the clerk, the tax officer, the treasurer, and the captains of the garrison, look down on a small team leader even more, why do they value a team leader who is lower than themselves.

Of course, this is only the idea of some people, and there are many people who come to Old Locke to greet him. For example, an official in charge of forests in the town, this official in charge of forests is a person with exquisite faces, no one can be offended, he has a friendship with everyone, and his reputation is good. Old Locke was flattered and toasted a glass of wine, and Lin Muguan had a casual conversation, which also made Old Locke get drunk earlier. The town of the mine is not big, it is not small, and the team leader who came out of the town is said to be only five or six, and the families of these five or six people are at least more noble than the more than ninety percent of the people present at present.

Later, even the mayor's family sent a relative to ask Old Locke to toast a glass of wine, smart people are everywhere, especially these old fritters who have been mixed for so many years.

Faustin is located in the southwest, unlike the easterly Charlotte, which is rich in ale, more people here drink beer, the cost of beer is lower than ale, the vast majority of people drink it, and it is also more widely spread in Faustin.

The night of the Oktoberfest was deep and beautiful, and the tiny mine town had another great night.

The next morning, the people who fell to the ground in the center of the square were woken up by the cold wind, although there was beer to warm their stomachs, although the bonfire burned all night, but after all, it was late autumn, and no matter how good the person was, he could not hold on. Old Locke was blown by the cold wind, and his back hurt again, and he opened his hazy eyes and walked into the town.

Tia and Leah, mother and daughter, had been at a relative's house in town last night, and they couldn't stand the cold wind all night. Old Locke walked on the road, and thought of his own field, and the working people were like this, except for three meals a day and a short family, what they thought about was their own one-acre and three-point land.

With the enthusiasm of a distant relative in the town, the old Locke family of three walked to the entrance of the town, ready to go home. The mining town is very small, basically every family may have a little kinship for three generations, old Locke is now a single seedling, Tia has a few sisters and brothers, but the relationship is very light, everyone looks down on this relative who married into the countryside, the mother is expensive by virtue of the son, Locke is famous in the army, she is also stained as a mother, those who looked down on her before, now they don't talk to her so casually, although Tia is very uncomfortable, but she feels good.

Walking to the entrance of the town, old Locke muttered about his land again, wondering if the guinea pigs he had driven away yesterday would come back today to steal his family's rice potatoes. Tia is carrying dozens of copper dele in her arms, constantly groping, these are the last night she sold eggs to earn, she plans to tear two pieces of cloth for her daughter during the New Year, make a new skirt, daughter has taken care of them all these years The old couple has suffered, she has already taken Lia as her own daughter.

Leah is supporting her parents, old Locke's face is still red, at a glance, you can tell that she drank too much last night, although Tia is holding a headscarf and wearing a thick linen dress, she is still shivering from the cold, the old couple is old after all, Leah has to worry a lot.

The three of them walked to the entrance of the town, and a dragon-like black horse team came in the distance, and the bell Ding Ling hanging around the horse's neck rang, and those who were familiar with this sound knew that this was the baron's caravan, and it was back!

Old Locke and his entourage looked at it, and they didn't have to go back for the time being.