The afterglow of the setting sun revealed only a golden line on the mountains, and this golden line soon fell silent between the mountains.

There is still a small row of buildings vacant in Vol Village for the time being, although the reserve knights of these guard battalions are as weak as a mess of slag on the battlefield, but they need to properly arrange where they live here in Vol Village, these fifty reserve knights have all joined the guard battalion, as long as there are no special circumstances, it will not be long before they will be converted into regular knights.

Although they are currently in the security squadron of the guard battalion under Surdak, this is only the beginning of their life path.

They had the status of knights, and they could not continue to live in tents in the village of Wall, so they were led into the village by Samira, and before it was dark, the rooms of these young reserve knights were allocated, and the houses were limited, and only four guard battalions could live in one room.

Dressed in salamander tights, Samira hid her face in her hood and led fifty knights of the guard battalion leading their horses into the village of Wall.

The young reserve knights began to look at the village again, staring at Samira's salamander leather armor and whispering about what kind of person their chief was.

The village was in a commotion, and the veterans of the cavalry battalion needed to keep the village safe, and there were many of them, so Andrew led them to live in the terraced houses at the entrance of the village.

This townhouse was originally a kobold slave camp, and four rows of large bunks were built with wooden frames, and some reed mats were spread on top of the wooden frames.

It was a little cold in the room, some heated braziers had been lit in the room, and several villagers were temporarily nailing a piece of felt to the frosty north wall.

Such a barracks can accommodate at least a few hundred veterans, the veterans of the cavalry battalion have won several successive victories in the desert, accumulated some net worth, sleeping bags and warm camel hair blankets are necessary for the desert march, spread these luggage in the barracks, even if there is no fire inside, lying in the sleeping bag to sleep will not feel cold.

Andrew, with a group of veterans, was planning to build a makeshift pen before dark, so that the horses and camels could be put in the pens.

When the old village chief came to his senses, he arranged for several cooks in the village to prepare dinner for the cavalry of the cavalry battalion.

This time, Surdak led the cavalry battalion to the expedition, not only drove away the robbers in the desert, but also brought back so many war horses and more than 100 camels.

In order to support Surdak on this expedition, almost all the horses in the village were called, and this time Surdak brought back so many war horses, the convoy in Wall Village could resume work, and even some villagers couldn't wait to take the war horses away on the spot, and the veterans who took care of the horses naturally couldn't let the villagers take the horses away, which caused some disputes outside the village.

Someone found the old village chief, and the village chief Bright was telling the cooks to prepare dinner, and someone had already brought out five large iron pots from the village and was building a stove under the big tree at the entrance of the village.

The old village chief heard that some villagers had run to the stable to lead their horses without permission, and while running to the temporary station of the cavalry battalion, he scolded angrily: "These lazy men usually encounter things, one by one, like turtles with shrunken heads, but now they are picking fruits for fear of falling behind, Val, you go and tell the others, whoever stretches his paws this side again, I will break his legs." ”

Val is now following the old village chief to do chores, and he can be regarded as the young people in the village who have better courage and brains.

The old village chief rushed to the temporary stables with Val, and saw that there was still a group of people around it, and several coachmen from Wall Village were surrounded by a large crowd, still clamoring to take the horses away, and Andrew was negotiating with these villagers, but apparently several villagers did not buy Andrew's account.

A villager with a short horsewhip in his hand was drunk, pointed at Andrew's nose and scolded angrily: "Andrew, you are a dog that can bite people at the feet of Duck, why are you stopping in front of us?" ”

As he spoke, he stiffened his stomach without much oil and water, trying to overpower Andrew, but found that he always had to tilt his head in order to meet Andrew's eyes, but he shouted with a sense of superiority: "Duck and I grew up wearing the same pants with Duck, why do you dare to care about us?" And besides, what did we do wrong? ”

“…… What are we doing wrong? He asked, raising his voice.

Emotionally, he patted the neck of a Gubolai horse and said loudly: "We just took back the horse that was lent to Dak, is it also wrong to bring back the horse that belongs to us......

Before he could finish speaking, he felt his companion pull him hard at the hem of his shirt and secretly stab him in the ribs with a horsewhip.

"Don't stab me, I'm not done yet!" The villager with the whip in his hand shouted to his companion with three points of wine.

At this time, the crowd was divided into two sides, and the old village chief strode up to him with an angry face, stretched out his hand and pulled his ears, pointing to several majestic and tall Gubolian war horses that they had pulled out of the horse pen, from beginning to end, almost tearing the roots of the ears apart.

"Cassel, tell me, the horse belongs to you, which pants do you wear, and Duck wears it?" The old village chief asked angrily.

The villager named Kasuo held the wrist of the old village chief with both hands, and he didn't dare to break free, so he could only beg for mercy and said: "Uncle Bright, you hurt me, isn't this just an analogy!" ”

The old village chief smacked his forehead with his index finger, causing Cassel to lean back again and again.

"What you eat in your mouth, what you wear, and the house where you lie down to sleep now, which one didn't Duck get out of his pocket to fund the village, how can you have the courage to come here to make trouble, is it that you didn't live in enough adobe houses without roofs in the past two years, and you still want to go back to the days when you had nothing before?" The old village chief asked, and immediately scared Cassel into a cold sweat.

The old village chief dragged Cassel in front of Andrew again, kicked him to the ground, and reprimanded angrily: "Andrew is the captain of the security squadron of the Hylantha Guard Battalion stationed in the Wastelands, when did you see the knight lord and talk so backbone?" Is it that there are too few whips on my body, and my whole body is a little itchy? ”

Cassel was kicked to the ground, covering his ears with one hand and touching the big one with the other. legs, infinitely aggrieved said: "Uncle Bright, look at what you said, I just saw Duck bring back so many good horses, and I was happy for him in my heart, I didn't have any other meaning to choose horses here, isn't it just for the sake of a better foundation for our village's team!" ”

The companion next to him reacted at this time, and hurriedly came up to hold Casso, and said again and again: "Uncle Bright, let's just come to see, there is really nothing else, Cassel has drunk a little too much, we will pull him away." ”

The old village chief roared angrily: "Let me see this kind of thing again, and a few of you will roll me to Pusbag Mountain as a kobold overseer!" ”

When the villagers heard the old village chief shouting, they were so frightened that they ran away with their tails between their legs......

……

Some of the young people in the village surrounded the female captives, constantly laughing and laughing, while judging their tastes.

Some of the women who were plundered by the sand robbers were young women who had been plundered by the sand robbers from the villages of the barren land, and there were also mountain people in the mountains in the middle of the desert and nomads in the westernmost province of Salta, and the women of different regions had obvious differences in appearance and clothing......

The female captives, who had been running around in the desert for the past two months, had suffered a lot, and now they had returned to the village of Wall, fearing that Surdak would sell them as slave girls to the slave market.

Several young people from the village secretly ran to the women's camp to see the women, and saw that the camp was too quiet, no matter how they picked. Tease those female captives, those women did not dare to resist, at first they still stood in the camp to take advantage of some verbal advantages, but later found that the female prisoners did not seem to dare to resist when they moved their hands and feet, and became more and more bold, and some even wanted to get into the tent of the female prisoners.

Before they could lift the blankets and measure the bodies of the female captives, they saw the tents being lifted from the outside.

The old village chief stood outside the tent with a cane in his hand, and jumped to his feet and scolded the young men:

"What do you see you becoming now? What's the difference between you and those sand pirates, just as filthy as they are! One by one, they only know how to flirt with women's skirts, but they can't hold a knife, so get out of here for me! ”

Several young men from the village of Wall escaped from the camp of the female prisoners in disgrace.

There was also an angry scolding from the old village chief: "A few of you will go to Hailansa City tomorrow to sign up for military service, even if you are cannon fodder on the battlefield, it is better than staying in the village!" ”

Hearing the old village chief say this, the cooks who were cooking at the entrance of the village stared at the young people running with worried expressions.

……

Surdak sat little Peter on his shoulders and walked up the flat village road to the village, surrounded by a crowd of people.

Surdak's home is located at the top of the village, next to the low dam of the five-level cistern, and it is still a long way from the entrance of the village to Surdak's home.

Little Peter hadn't seen Surdak for a long time, so he naturally refused to jump off Surdak's shoulders easily.

Surdak greeted Sheila Sr., and asked Rita and Natasha about the current situation at home before introducing Viru to the family.

Viru was a guest brought back by Surdak, and was invited by Surdak to stay at home, Natasha and Rita saw that there were guests in the house, and hurriedly planned to rush to the house first, ready to clean out the dusty guest room, and they walked out of the crowd quickly.

The group stopped at the central square at the entrance of the village, and the villagers and others gathered behind dispersed.

Old Sheila walked slowly, she was out of breath after only walking for a while, her body had weakened very quickly in the past two years, and she was usually not so energetic, and she often dozed off in the rocking chair in front of the fireplace all winter, and when she reached the village square, she was reluctant to take a step further, and took little Peter's little hand, and asked Surdak to take Viru home first.

The last time Viru came to the village of Wall, Surdak briefed Viru on the current situation in the village.

Viru looked coldly at Natasha's back in the distance, and there was a strong strange emotion in his heart.

It was as if there was a cold arrow behind him, and it could shoot out at any time.

Whoever is stared at by Viru's gaze will feel as if they are about to suffocate, fortunately there is a turn in the road ahead, Natasha endured the physical discomfort, and immediately felt much better after turning the corner, she reached out and patted her bulging chest, not understanding why she was flustered when Surdak came back.

Surdak walked upstream, watching the snow on both sides of the village's roads cleared cleanly, and thinking about how to bring water to the house.

Listening to Viru on the sidelines, he asked Surdak, "Is she your wife?" ”

Surdak knew he was asking Natasha and didn't look up.

"Yes." Surdak paused and said calmly.

"That's your son?" Viru didn't look back, but he could make Surdak understand that he was referring to little Peter.

"Hmm!" Surdak replied briefly.

He could sense that Viru was in a bad mood, as if he was holding back a wave of anger in his heart and was about to explode at any moment.

As for whether there will be some changes in temper after the advancement of the second turn powerhouse, these Surdak don't know, but he feels that Viru's mood is a little dull when he enters Wall Village.

Viru lowered his eyelids and nodded faintly.

Even if I have seen the five-level reservoir above my head before, and when I see this large upstream reservoir again, I still feel that it is built in a magnificent manner, just like an artificial stone cliff and a waterfall, but the dry season is coming, and the water in the reservoir is strictly managed, and the stream is usually dry.

It wasn't until she walked home in a dull manner that Natasha took Rita to entertain Viru very warmly, which made the ice on Viru's face gradually melt.

After running around outside for so long, the first thing he did when he returned home was, of course, to lie down in the bathtub and take a comfortable hot bath, as for the veterans of the cavalry battalion and the knights of the guard battalion outside, Surdak believed that the old village chief would be able to arrange it and immerse himself in a bathtub filled with hot water, Surdak held his breath until he was about to faint from lack of oxygen before he came out of the water.

Natasha and Rita were busy preparing dinner in the kitchen when Surdak reached for a letter from the side of the bathtub and cut the envelope with a paper cutter in the tray, pulling out a piece of parchment letterhead stamped with the seal of the Marquis of Luther's palace.

The letter was handed to him by Natasha when he returned home.

Natasha said that it was a messenger from the city of Bena who had made a special trip to the village of Wall before leaving.

Surdak thought it would be Hathaway's letter, but when he opened it, he found that the letter was written by the Marquis of Luther, and the amount of information written on it was a bit large......