At the same time, the atmosphere in Veneer was particularly tense. Pen Fun Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 info Sean took almost most of the soldiers with him in order to capture Xiliu City in one go, leaving only more than a thousand people and a thousand cavalry to guard the city. Temporarily taking on the responsibility of defending the city was one of his former henchmen, an excellent mercenary, who had experienced dozens of large and small battle formations, and was covered with scars. This henchman is called Nick, a very common name, not to mention one or two hundred people in the whole Vernier, there are always seventy or eighty people with this name.

After all, commoners are not qualified to have a surname, and a surname is more like a kind of glory unique to nobles, a totem.

Countless people can give up everything, including dignity, including life, for the sake of this glory.

After the march of Sean's army, the city of Veneil closed its gates, denying anyone access to the city. No matter what the big guy is, don't think about leaving or coming in before Sean returns. Sean is growing up too fast, which also has something to do with his sudden awakening, some people are born to be superior, and some people never have this talent. He even took the people with him and left, so he had to make sure that the city would not fall to him after he left.

Bands of soldiers patrolled back and forth in the streets, and the entire city was under limited military control, and no more than twenty people were allowed to gather at any time or place. They don't know very well why Sean went to attack the city of Weststream, why the rear city of Veneer should be under martial law.

As I said before, Sean's position as the city lord is not right, and it is naturally impossible for many people to sincerely submit to his feet. It's like three very good friends, who don't distinguish between each other, and suddenly one of them becomes a big man, and the more adaptable one chooses to surrender, while the other mentally unbalanced chooses to surrender on the surface, and the flame of jealousy in his heart almost burns him to ashes.

We all have the same fate, the same experience, I'm not worse than you, why are you riding on my head now? I don't accept it, so I have to find a way to hurt you, let you know that even if you are prosperous, there is still no difference between you and me in essence.

I can't say much with such thoughts, but there are definitely a lot, those who watched Sean set foot on the Qingyun Road seemed to be bitten by countless poisonous snakes in their hearts, usually they didn't dare to show the slightest flaw, but now that Sean is gone, plus some small inducements, they have become ready to move.

If you can do it, I can do it too!

It is said that desire is infinite and the source of motivation, and this is not false at all. Desire drives society, laziness evolves civilization, this is the wise saying.

"Is anything going on in the city?", Nick set up a chair, a table, and a tent in the open space outside the city lord's mansion. Hundreds of soldiers were on guard around him, and every ten minutes or so, a patrol of soldiers passed by, and he would ask a casual question.

Nick is forty-two years old, and his career as a mercenary in his younger years has brought too many injuries to his body, but fortunately, Sean has successfully ascended to the position, so that his old guy no longer has to run back and forth for a living, and suffer a lot.

The patrolling soldier's routine reply didn't make Nick feel too emotional, and he nodded and let the patrolling soldier leave. He took a sip of a cup of black tea, with an uncomfortable look on his face. From the age of seventeen to the twenty-five years now, the number of times he drinks tea is only a handful. Expensive black tea was far less than those inferior drinks that could make him happy, and if he hadn't been afraid of drinking too much and delaying things, he would have drunk himself and lay down in the tent and fell asleep.

In less than five minutes, a thirty-eight-nine-year-old man came over carrying two five-liter barrels, and twenty or thirty meters away, Nick's nose smelled the fragrance that made him faintly impulsive. His eyes lit up as he looked at the visitor, and he immediately shouted at the top of his voice, "Naki, where are you going to be happy?"

Naki used to be inconspicuous mercenaries with Nick, like Sean, and both brothers in a mercenary group. On one occasion they received an order to escort a cargo worth a hundred gold coins to Balatan, where they encountered a powerful bandit on the border of the province. There were more than three hundred people on the other side, and there were less than a hundred on their side. The battle naturally began the moment the two sides met, and during the battle, Naki blocked two swords for Sean in order to save Sean who was besieged by bandits.

A sword tore through his back, and a sword severed his shoulder. Afterwards, Sean found the best priest to give him ten healing surgeries, but he could only heal those injuries, but he could not save his atrophied tendons, and he was disabled from then on. In that era, in that environment, such things happened from time to time, but Sean's conditions at that time were still very difficult, and Sean couldn't give Naki too many things, so he could only retire and become a steward of the station.

Things are often so interesting, Sean's career is getting bigger and bigger, but Naki is gradually losing his mental balance. Even though Sean has always treated him as a brother, he also acts like a brother, but he is just unhappy in his heart. When he was alone, he often thought that if I hadn't blocked those two swords for Sean, I wouldn't be unable to even pick up the swords and be used as a joke by the newcomers.

Those people often laugh at him, since he saved Sean's life, why is Sean now the city lord, he is still the steward of the mercenary group, and he is not in charge of the most important department, just a very idle and idle steward who has nothing to do all day?

He had tried to do something to prove his worth, and approached Sean with his request, hoping to add a little weight to his shoulders and keep himself busy. But Sean didn't agree, because he knew the situation of this brother, his right arm was weak, and his left arm was not too flexible, and he couldn't do many things. And the most important thing is that Sean doesn't want him to be so busy, and hopes that he can spend this life leisurely. Naki was paid three times as much as the others, which was enough to make him eat and drink spicy food, and sometimes Sean would give him something.

But in Naki's own point of view, this is crossing the river and demolishing the bridge. You can share hardships and hardships, but you can't share wealth and prosperity.

At this time, in the face of Nick's inquiry, Naki laboriously picked up the two wooden barrels with his left hand and shook them, "The boss is not here, and the brothers have left a lot, so it's not interesting for me to stay alone, so I'm looking for you to have a drink or two." ”

Nick hadn't drunk for three days, and the wine worm in his stomach had already protested drastically, and it was just right to take the key at this time. He hurriedly laughed, and said with a red face: "Then what's the matter, I have to show the boss about this mess." The mouth said no, but the Adam's apple kept sliding up and down, looking insincere.

Naki sneered inwardly, but his face didn't show it, and he walked over to Nick and placed the two barrels heavily on the table. He asked someone to bring a chair and sat down with a big grin, "Okay, then you drink tea, and I drink." ”

How can this work?Nick picked up the teacup and poured the tea soup directly from the cup, snatched a wine barrel and unscrewed the stopper and poured it up. As the slightly yellow liquid rolled into the glass, sniffing the scattered wine, Nick asked in surprise, "What's the good thing about you, isn't it? Don't you usually drink a barrel of silver coins? This is at least three or five silver coins, right?", after saying that, he couldn't wait to take the teacup and drink it dry, stretched out his tongue and licked it at the corner of his mouth, "It tastes good, at least five silver coins." ”

Naki smiled and nodded, not knowing where to conjure up two cups, "It's a good thing to say it's a good thing, it's just like that." ”

Nick arched his arm over Naki, lifted the barrel and filled the two glasses, "Tell me, let me be happy." As he spoke, he turned to one of the soldiers beside him and said, "Go get some beef, mutton is fine, preferably with bones, I like to gnaw on bones." ”

"I'm going to be a father, a son. Naki raised his eyebrows, his eyes flashed, and he picked up his wine glass and touched it with Nick, "I decided to give him a big gift!"

Nick was very happy, happy that this old brother finally had a queen, and nodded happily, "Yes, I should prepare a big gift for my nephew, and I will prepare it when I go back." ”

For mercenaries like them, many people are difficult to get a good death. Either die on the way to the mission, or become a thing of the past in the firefight. Even if they are settled, the pain they have suffered will torment them for the rest of their lives, and several old brothers will not be able to stand it in the end, self-harm and suicide. Being able to organize a family, have a child, and have a stable life may be the biggest dream of all mercenaries.

Naki took the wine glass that was filled again and played with it in his hand for a moment, "We people have worked hard for half a lifetime, in addition to enjoying ourselves, our greatest wish is to save a foundation for future generations." "I didn't think about anything before, and I thought it would be nice to have a good day, but since my wife is pregnant, I've always been thinking about what to leave for my baby. ”

"I'm just an ordinary mercenary, I don't have any great skills, thanks to the boss who looks up to me as a cripple and rewards me with a bite to eat, I'm very grateful to him. But I don't want my child to follow this path, I want him to be like an ordinary person, even if he doesn't make a big difference in this life, he will be safe, not like me. As he spoke, he raised his right arm with great difficulty, and the bruises on his forehead jumped before he could barely put his arm on the table.

Nick was also silent, he had a wife, but no children. When he was younger, he was stabbed in the lower abdomen once, and Sean found a pharmacist for him. The pharmacist said it was difficult for him to have children, and there was little hope. He planned to wait another two years, and if he couldn't do it, he would adopt one. He had much the same thoughts as Naki, wishing that his children would be safe.

"What are you talking about? Come, drink. Naki wiped the corners of his moist eyes, picked up the cup and touched it with Nick, and drank it with his head up.

He remembered another thing, a promise made to him, and he had suffered for it, but when he saw the little reddened little monkey sleeping sweetly in his crippled embrace, he finally relented.

"Complete this mission, I promise your son an absolutely bright future!"

The man tempted him like a devil, he was tempted and was about to go to the abyss!

But he has no regrets, because his son will never be like him for nothing, secretly ridiculed, and said to be a cripple.

He slammed the glass on the table, "Pour!" (To be continued.) )