Chapter 307: Nostalgia

After agreeing with Dean Levins and Archswordsman Crude to send someone to the Northland to investigate, they chatted for a long time about the current situation of the business alliance, and then Lorist said goodbye and left. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 Info Then he took a look around the academy area, and found that as the old dean said, more than half of the academy had closed down, and only a few guards remained. Even the once crowded food court in the College District is now deserted, with most of the shops with signs for sublease or sale on their closed doors......

Is this a butterfly effect? Lorist touched his chin and pondered, those two letters about the glass formula and production process were like butterfly wings, which made the situation of the entire Gelinthia continent change so much, and it was even more unexpected that the business alliance would become the number one country in the continent. However, the first country is now glamorous in face, and it doesn't seem to be very comfortable.

For Lorlist, perhaps this would be the most desirable result, giving him a chance to take the top eight Dawn Academy in Galintya. This is not only the memories and nostalgia of his youth, but more importantly, if the Dawn Academy is opened in the Northlands, it will greatly improve the quality of the family domain and even the entire Northlands civilians. Lorist already attaches great importance to the basic education of the territory, and has opened basic education schools in every town in the territory, so if Dawn College moves north, it will fill the gap in the comprehensive higher education of the family territory.

The more Lorist thought about it, the more excited he became, and he was determined to achieve the goal of moving Dawn College north to run a school, whether it was land or funds, the family would give her full support. Although the territory is thriving, it is still in the stage of accumulation of primary scale, and there is a great lack of high-quality talents. Remembering that a few years ago, as long as he could count and read, he could be appointed as a statistical officer in the territory, and Lorist was also very helpless.

When Lorist came back to his senses, he found that he had been thinking all the way and had walked unconsciously for most of the day, and this place was somewhat familiar. Well, I remember, two streets away is the mercenary union, when I was still in Dawn Academy, I often went to the mercenary union from this road to pick up tasks, and I want to go to see and reminisce about the feelings at that time, which is also a kind of nostalgia.

The mercenary guild was also deserted, and Lorist looked at it, and there was no longer an old clerk she knew. A round-faced young female clerk came over and asked Lorist what he was doing, which reminded Lorist of the scene when he handed over the task and took the task to ignore it. However, in the past, the mercenary hall was crowded with people, and the sound was not clear when it was small, but now there are two or three kittens in the entire hall, so I can understand why these clerks have an amiable attitude.

Lorist waved his hand and went to the lobby bar to ask for an ale, then sat there and savored it slowly. Back then, every time he handed in a mission, he would always have a glass of ale with his friends here, and listen to the experiences or bragging stories told by other mercenaries. At that time, every seat in the bar was full of mercenaries, and even though the ale was twice as expensive as the one outside, it was still very popular with the mercenaries who had completed their missions. Now, there are more than ten tables, and Lorist is the only one sitting alone, drinking ale.

The round-faced young clerkess kept staring at Lorlist, perhaps because of the casual and high-quality long-sleeved singles that gave her the illusion that Lorist had most likely come to the mercenary guild to issue a mission. After all, it is impossible to be a rude mercenary who can embroider white gold silk lace on the neckline and sleeves of a single coat, and the price of this single coat is enough for them to be busy for a month.

Lorist took a glass to her and said with a smile, "Girl, I'm really embarrassed that you're staring at me like this, why don't I treat you to a drink?"

The young clerkess's round face turned red at once, and she turned her head and pretended not to hear Lorlist's teasing at her.

It's better now, if anyone was rude or molested those female clerks back then, the menacing guards of the mercenary guild would be unceremoniously full of old fists, and at that time, Lorist could be regarded as seeing a lot of group fights or bloodshed in the mercenary hall for jealousy.

A middle-aged mercenary in his forties and fifties scolded, scolded, found a window and handed in the task, and then walked out with a few silver coins in his hand.

"Hey, Brother Goode, where are you going in such a hurry, sit down and I'll ask you for a drink. Lorist smiled and said hello, this middle-aged mercenary he knew, silver two stars, because of an adventure was seriously injured, although he was cured, but because of the time dragged on for too long, he injured his body, and his fighting spirit could no longer be promoted, so he could only keep fighting among the middle and lower mercenaries. When Lorist made backpacks, this big brother Goode was the first to take care of his business, and he was a very good person and trustworthy. Later, he teamed up with Shi Fatzi and Lorist to do several missions, and taught Lorist many mercenaries life tips.

The middle-aged mercenary stopped, turned to look at Lorliste, and was stunned for a moment before recognizing: "You are ......"

"Hehe, Brother Goode, have you forgotten me? I'm Lorlist, little Locke. ”

"Aha, it's you, Brother Locke. The middle-aged mercenary was overjoyed: "It's been a long time, it's been almost ten years, I really didn't expect to see you here, you became a legend of Moriente City, and then I heard that you went back to inherit the family territory and title, I thought I would never see you again." I can't believe we'll see each other again. ”

Lorist stood up, hugged the middle-aged mercenary warmly, and then ordered him a glass of ale.

The middle-aged mercenary picked up the cup and poured most of the cup, wiped his mouth and said, "It's still a familiar taste, alas, it's a pity that I haven't had a drink here for more than half a year." ”

Lorist smiled: "Don't worry, if you want to drink, boss, two more drinks." I'm in for a treat today, Brother Goode, and you can have a good drink. ”

"Thanks, Brother Locke, you're still so bold. The middle-aged mercenary was not polite, and drank the wine glass in one gulp, and Lorist pushed the new ale in front of him.

"By the way, Brother Locke, why are you here today, do you have something to ask for help from a mercenary here or to post a mission?" asked the middle-aged mercenary.

Lorist shook his head: "It's nothing, it's just that when I returned to Moriente City in the past few days, I remembered the past, and I also remembered that I still had a mercenary badge here, so I came here to sit down and wanted to taste the ale here again." It's just that I didn't expect this place to become so deserted, and it was completely different from the crowded hall I remembered. The only thing I was lucky to be able to meet Brother Goode was not in vain. ”

"Alas......" Goode took a few sips of his wine glass and sighed: "Brother, you and I are lucky, you can still see this mercenary union this time, and by the end of the year, this place will be gone, and there will be no mercenary union anymore." I'm lucky to be able to see you again when I turn in the mission today, so you can treat me to a few drinks......

Now there is no way out for mercenaries in the business alliance. Goode burped: "Brother, you must not have thought that in the future, mercenaries will be extinct in the business alliance, uh, not extinct, but Moldant City is no longer a place for mercenaries to stay, there is no task here, even if there is a task, it can't be done." However, the Chikd Chamber of Commerce set up a mercenary union at the entrance to the underground caverns of the famous and dangerous place of the former Duchy of Ulubaha in their chamber of commerce, and called mercenaries to explore the underground caves. ”

"Well, the mercenary union is gone? What does this mean, Brother Goode, isn't the Business Alliance a country of mercenaries? What happened to so many mercenary groups and nearly 10,000 registered mercenaries?" Lorist asked curiously.

"The country of mercenaries?haha, what other mercenary groups, everyone is going their own way. All the mercenaries have gone to the nobles. Do you know, Brother Locke, the bosses of the top ten mercenary groups here are all mixed with a title, the youngest is also a viscount, the rest are all counts, and the fourth-ranked Liesimba boss of the Dragon's Claw mercenary group has mixed himself with a grand duke, which is considered to be stepping on the. Now there are no mercenary groups, they are all disbanded, the eldest has become a nobleman, and his brothers have become knights, and the worst ones have also mixed up with the work of a garrison......

Do you know, this time the business alliance divided four hundred and fifty-one titles in one go, and a little capable of mixing a fief, and the rest were also recruited by those nobles as knights, and now there are no mercenaries, and those who are still here are just like us who are not a hundred or so, we don't want to serve others in a low voice, we just imagine that we can earn money to support our families by our own efforts as before, but now you see, I ran for half a month to earn a big silver coin and three small silver coins, how can I support my family with this money at the current market price......" Goode's mouth was full of resentment.

"Wouldn't it, so many titles?" Lorist looked a little dumbfounded: "But no one is a mercenary, isn't there no one to grab the task, this should be a good thing, right?"

"That's a good thing!" Goode took a sip: "In the past, all over the country and the chambers of commerce in the business alliance would come to issue tasks, and there were many mercenaries, and there were many tasks, and everyone had something to eat." Now that all the countries around the country have cut off the trade routes, and even our mercenaries have been denied passage for their tasks, so that we have to secretly cross the border, and it is still a trivial matter to be caught and whipped, and the worst thing is that you go to investigate the military situation, and you will be hanged without saying anything......

It's not a big deal, it's a big deal that we don't take on other countries' tasks. But the problem is that the territory of the business alliance is large but there are not so many tasks, except for the Falcan Hill Plains, everything else is the territory of the owner, and if something happens to them at home, they use their own family to solve it, and they no longer issue tasks here. What's more, our mercenaries have to pay tolls when they pass through their territory to do a mission, and we won't let you go over if we don't pay......"

Goode picked up the wine glass and slurred another glass, then wiped his mouth and pointed at the mercenary union and said: "Brother, do you remember the bastard Schrock of the boss of this mercenary union, this miser also got a viscount this time, and the territory is in the original Duchy of Delia,

My mission happened to pass through the bastard's territory, and he caught a rabbit in the field and roasted it and ate it as before, and then the bastard ordered his garrison to arrest me, saying that the place where the rabbit I ate slept on firewood belonged to his territory, and demanded that I compensate for these expenses, and forcibly knocked two large silver coins from me. If I hadn't said that I was assigned a job in his mercenary guild, this bastard would have wanted to parade me through the streets......"

Well, some merchants have no limits than the nobles, and the nobles have to worry about their reputation no matter how mean they are to their subjects, and those merchants can see nothing but gold coins in their eyes. Especially when the merchants transferred their business savvy to his subjects, Lorist was skeptical that those subjects would not be left with only a piece of clothing to cover their bodies, but there was nothing he could do, and at most he would observe a three-second silence for them......

"And what are you going to do in the future?" Lorist asked, knowing that Goode had already married, with two sons and a daughter, and that Goode's children were only four or five years old when he left Moldant City, and the youngest daughter was born, and now the eldest was only fourteen or fifteen years old, which was the most difficult time.

Goode opened his confused eyes and said bitterly: "I don't know, the mercenary can't go this way, maybe I will go to those chambers of commerce to take care of the home, as long as the salary is enough for me to support my family......"

Lorist stood up and took out a gold dollar coupon and stuffed it into Good's pocket, who had borrowed wine to drown his sorrows, and he was already drinking the seventh glass of ale, and the whole person was a little drunk and half conscious.

"I've got some gifts for your kids and put them in your pocket, Brother Good, and you'll see them when you go back. If you can't stay in Moldant in the future, come to me in the Northlands. All you have to do is tell you to be my friend at the Petersen Chamber of Commerce, and they'll send your family to my territory. ”

Then Lorist called a carriage to help Goode up, and he remembered where Goode's family lived. After telling the driver the address, he paid the fare, and when he got to the place, Good's family would take care of it.

After returning to the mercenary union, Lorist said to the round-faced young clerk, "Call the person in charge here, I want to buy that bloody fight." ”

This is also a memento of the ten years he spent in Moldant City and his career as a mercenary. Back then, Lorist mistakenly thought that his family heirloom Dou Qi was of the fire attribute, and when he cut off the news from the family and could not get the follow-up Dou Qi cheats and could not be promoted to the silver rank, he spent a lot of money to buy several high-level Dou Qi cheats of fire attributes on the market, but found that it was completely different from the family heirlooms, and he bought high-level Dou Qi cheats of other attributes, but he still couldn't cultivate. In the end, he had no choice but to cultivate the golden water duel handed down by his previous family, and won himself the legendary title of Black Iron Lock, Silver Invincible.

This blood-burning book is the treasure of the mercenary union, with a price tag of 15,000 gold fords, which is the sky-high secret book of Moriente City back then. It's not that Lorist didn't think about buying this blood-attribute Douqi cheats, but he felt that the price was too high back then, and secondly, he didn't expect that his family's inheritance was also blood-attribute Douqi, so he missed it. Now that I think about it, if I had gritted my teeth and scraped together the money to buy this Blood-Burning Fighting Qi back then, then I might have been promoted to the Silver Rank, and then I would no longer have to practice the ancestral Golden Water Decision of my previous life.

Maybe Lorist will take another path from now on, and will no longer be able to cross the ranks to kill the enemy, and will only honestly follow the path of the silver and gold levels, maybe he can't become a great swordsman by now, then the Norton family may also have disappeared long ago, instead of rising and prospering like now......

Now Lorist wants to buy this bloody and vindictive book out of this kind of nostalgia, with a gold dollar coupon worth 30,000 gold fords by his side, he doesn't care about the price at all, and simply pays for it. The head of the mercenary guild also wanted to recommend a few high-level vindictive cheats for other attributes, but Lorist refused. Now the family has collected nearly 100 high-level Dou Qi cheats of various attributes, and it is enough to reward the family knights, especially after the destruction of the Hanea Bada Kingdom, there are forty or fifty high-level Dou Qi cheats seized, and there is no need to buy duplicate ones. And this book of Burning Blood Fighting Qi is different, this is the second blood attribute Fighting Qi in addition to the family heirloom Red Blood Fighting Qi, and it can also be used as a reference for your children when they cultivate in the future.

Out of the mercenary union, Lorist called a carriage and went to the anchovy neighborhood of the East Side, looking at the dark red three-room four-story spire attic, Lorist remembered again the girl who danced barefoot in the moonlight, it was she who let herself taste the beauty of her first love, and it was she who made herself become a man from a boy in this life. It was also she who made herself feel desperate and heart-rending pain, and she was so heartbroken when she watched her leave with another man......

Facing the old house in front of him that was full of tenants, Lorist was surprised to find that his heart was like water, and there was no longer the painful throbbing and sadness of the past, only a faint longing lingering in his heart, the girl who was once the most important in his life, is she okay now, how is she doing?

Time passes, things are not people, this is just the best memories that Lorist has precipitated in the deepest part of his heart, and even the pain is worth recalling. There was no more elf-like girl and her two mischievous little maids, and Lorist took one last deep look at the dark red three-room, four-story spired attic, sighed, and turned to walk out of the alley.

The fruit shop at the mouth of the alley is gone, replaced by a grocery store, but the boss is still the same rapping Uncle Giraud, I haven't seen him for ten years, Uncle Giraud's hair is all white, and it can be seen that his life is not good.

Uncle Giraud recognized Lorist very surprised, and he gushed about the changes in the neighborhood here, such as the fact that Lorist used to buy fruit candy for the little girl named Little Lorri, that her grandmother died when she was ten years old, that she left here with her father, that her father had mixed well, and that he had now become a knight of the family of a certain Grand Duke, and so on......

Lorist listened to Uncle Giraud's nagging for nearly an hour, and finally left with a gold dollar ticket and left.

"Coachman, go to the Crow Tavern. Lorist commanded.

...... (To be continued.) )