The shouts of the stocky merchant attracted the attention of many people, especially at this particular stage, and it didn't take long for the news to spread through the city of Corsi.

In the streets and alleys, both women chattered and discussed.

In the tavern, Gordon pours a bottle of beer into his mouth with his head held high, a well-known blacksmith in Corsi who has been in the city for three generations.

He had been in a bad mood since he learned that his county of Count Green had lost the battle, and the merchant who had come from Viscount Griffin dared to shout in the street what so-called "Long live Lord Viscount!" But he was not punished, and his mood became even more depressed.

In the forty or fifty years he had lived in Corsi, he had never seen the county of Grimm be so angry.

Especially after hearing the chatter of those people in the tavern, my mood became even more irritable.

"Have you heard? On the other side, Viscount Griffin fought against us, and no one was injured...... This is also outrageous. ”

"Not only that, but I tell you, their lord also personally went into battle to kill two gold-level knights......"

"Oh my God! A gold-level knight, then he has to have the strength of a great knight? ”

"No, I heard that he is a noble magician."

"Don't talk about it, I'll tell you something interesting, my neighbor Lu Xiu came back, and found out that his wife was actually pregnant for four or five months, hahahaha!"

"Huh? Didn't your neighbor go to the iron ore mine to mine? Aren't they all coming back once a year, and why did they come back all of a sudden? ”

"I don't know about this, but he is quite miserable, he sent home all the money he earned in the mine, and he didn't want to come back with an extra hat......

"I know this! I just came back from another territory, and we won't let me pass it on here, so I told you secretly, don't tell you. ”

"Say it, say it, you've always known that we're the strictest mouthful."

"After our Earl of Green fought that battle with the other party, we lost miserably, and we ceded all those minerals to the other party, and in the end, it seems that we also lost 200,000 gold coins to others."

"O my God! 200,000 gold coins, you can't spend them in a lifetime! ”

"Two hundred thousand gold coins, I never dared to think about it like this."

"Harm, don't talk about this, let's talk about your neighbors, those are too far away from us, I'm still interested in this."

"Come on, come on, come here, that's what happened yesterday......"

"Smack!" Gordon slapped his glass on the table hard, and the surrounding discussions were lowered, and they all turned their heads to look.

"It's ...... for drink"

Gordon threw a few silver coins at the table with an ugly face, staggered to his feet, pushed open the door of the tavern, and walked out.

After leaving the tavern, the refreshing evening breeze blew on his face, and Gordon rubbed his face vigorously to sober himself up, and then walked in the direction of home.

……

"It's back!"

As soon as Gordon pushed the door open and entered the house, he heard his wife's complaints.

"Where have you been all day, and you can't find any customers in the store."

Gordon ignored his wife's complaints, and over the years he got used to it, leaning against the wall and continuing to walk inside.

A little girl of six or seven years old and a boy of about ten years old walked up, the boy stood still and did not move, while the girl ran over with her arms outstretched with a smile on her face.

"Daddy, hug!"

"Hee-hee." Seeing his lovely daughter, Gordon also laughed happily, hugged his daughter and rubbed her pink little face with his beard.

"Hee-hee, don't stab me, dad, it's so itchy." The little girl struggled in Gordon's arms, her face happy.

The wife also came from the kitchen at this time, and before she could get close to Gordon, she smelled the smell of alcohol emanating from the other party, and her brows immediately furrowed, and she snatched her daughter from Gordon's arms.

"Why are you still hugging Bev after drinking?" After putting her daughter back on the ground, his wife continued to nag: "Why are you going to drink again, didn't you want to drink less, Bev will have to go to school in a few days, save some money for her tuition!" ”

Gordon nodded helplessly and replied, "Got it." ”

"Every time I say you, you say you know, you know, you know, you change when you see you."

Gordon had no choice but to nod his head again and again, accepting his wife's "scolding", but he knew in his heart that his wife was just a little broken-mouthed, and in fact she was a rare good wife, and she had to take care of all the big and small things in the family.

"Mom, don't talk about Dad, he will definitely change." The little boy standing next to him spoke, and the little girl also tried to defend her father.

"Okay, okay, let's not talk about it." The wife looked at her two children with a doting look, and finally gave her husband a blank look.

"The meal is ready, hurry up and get rid of your alcohol, and then eat together."

Gordon smiled, beckoning his two children to wait at the table while he washed up.

……

The table was already set with food, and Gordon's hand as he sat down stopped as he picked up his knife and fork.

looked at his wife and said in an unkind tone: "What's going on?" Why is there only one meat dish, when did we get so poor? ”

His wife didn't admit it at all, and went back directly.

"Didn't I just tell you! Bev is going to school, you can't even get a snack! We've got to save some money to pay for her tuition! You can't let them both know a word like us, or you want them to be blacksmiths like you! ”

Gordon weakened and muttered, "What's so bad about being a blacksmith." ”

However, he still used a knife and fork to divide the steak into three parts, two large pieces for the children, and the remaining smaller pieces for his wife.

"Eat, I'm trying to do more work these days."

Bev smiled happily and waved her little fist at Gordon, "Come on, Dad!" ”

Gordon smiled heartily and touched her little head, "Eat well, so that you can grow taller." ”

The wife forked the piece of meat on her plate with a knife and fork and put it back on Gordon's plate, "It takes effort for you to work, so you should eat this piece of meat." ”

The little boy suddenly raised his head at this time, and said, "Dad, I have to spend more than ten gold coins to go to school every semester, and if I don't go to school, the family's expenses will not be so much...... And you see Uncle Finn, he's also a blacksmith, he's not as good as your father, and his son doesn't go to school, and his family life is much better than ours......"

"Smack!" Gordon slapped the back of his son's head directly and said angrily: "What do you say! The book must be read to me! Although I can't read a few words, I know that literate people can have a greater future! Our family is not poor enough to afford your schooling! ”

The wife hurriedly slapped Gordon's hand away, hugged the boy's head and touched it, turned her head and shouted: "Just say it, why are you beating the child!" ”

Gordon withdrew his palm and snorted, "Humph! Protect him. ”

After touching the back of her child's head and finding that there was no injury, Gordon's wife returned to her place, picked the food in front of her a few times, looked up at her husband from time to time with a hesitant expression.

Seeing his wife's expression, Gordon inexplicably remembered the conversation he heard in the tavern today, and asked with a frown, "What do you have to say to me from time to time?" ”

"Uh...... wife, pulling her hair back to her ear, "there's something I want to talk to you about." ”

When Gordon heard this, the food in his mouth instantly became unfragrant, and he put down the knife and fork, "Say, I can bear it." ”

"I've heard from others that the lord of the Viscount of Griffin is recruiting some blacksmiths and other talents, and the price is higher than ours, can we consider moving over there?"