Howard and Marlene watched Bran return, and their hearts fell.

"Grandfather." Bran dismounted and saluted.

"I'll bring back some salted wild boar jerky, eat this tonight."

The peninsula is surrounded by the sea on three sides, and Florence also produces salt, so the price of salt is not too high, and the practice of curing jerky is widespread.

"It's dirty, we'll talk about it in the evening." Howard touched Bran's forehead and smiled.

"Let's go, Your Highness."

Marlene follows Bran to the Manor Baths (a wooden hut with large wooden barrels for bathing).

Bran was wearing shorts and his upper body was naked, and he was tired and sore from the past few days of drawing his bow, but his arm muscles had grown stronger.

As time passed, Bran did not grow crippled, and his appearance became better and better.

呲呲呲......

Marlene helps Bran wash her hair and wipe her body.

Looking at the many mosquito bite marks on Bran's body, Marlene was distressed and asked about her experience in the past few days.

Bran magnifies the scene of chasing and killing the wild boar several times more dangerously, and the angry Marlene decides to settle accounts with Carol later.

This is Bran's purpose, as Carol's chief disciple, he naturally knows the master's thoughts, these nights in the same room, Bran also heard Carol call Marlene's name, Bran intends to match the two, and wants to create more opportunities for the two to get along.

"Marlene, what do you think of Carol?"

"Rude, unreasonable."

"But I heard my grandfather say that he used to be loved by the ladies of the court."

"Yes, but that was "before".

"Are you scared of his face?"

"It was a heroic proof of the protection of the principality, a glory." Marlene was stunned for a moment and blurted out.

"Would you like to follow him...... I am referring to the divine union of man and woman. ”

A ladle of water was poured over his head, and a warm bath of water covered Bran's mouth and eyes.

When the water blew and fell to the ground, and Bran was about to ask, another stream of warm water made it difficult for him to speak.

This gesture meant that Marlene was not very willing to answer.

Bran once asked his grandfather, who made it easy to say that Marlene had a crush on his short-lived father, "Hansen".

The mother of this life, after giving birth to the real brand, died of dystocia, and four days later, the "Traveler" was reborn, and Hansen, who was twenty years old at the time, died a year later due to excessive "grief" for his wife.

"This useless bastard!"

Bran vaguely remembers that when he mentioned his father, Howard scolded and left tears in his eyes, and Bran never asked his grandfather about it again.

In a noble cemetery in the main city of Florence, in Mees, there are only three tombstones of my parents:

From Venice, Sleep with this.

Hanson Charman (A.E. 1280-1301)

Tristi Leonard (A.E. 1279-1300)

……

In the evening, a farewell party was held at the manor square.

Jerky and very light low-purity ale were allowed to be taken with an open belly, and later Howard saw that the atmosphere was good, and ordered the wine to be taken out.

A small amount of grapes and olives were planted on the estate, and after being made into wine, they were kept in the dug and shaded ground, and all of them were taken out at this time.

Bran was also ordered by his grandfather to take away the boiling water and juice and drink these men's drinks.

The party reached a climax in singing.

It was written more than 400 years ago by the founder of the Charman family, passed down by Carol and taught by the old man if he joined.

"Let us sing together, Lord God, Venice under the stars, is the land of eternity.

Prosperity and joy, freedom and courage, we crush shame, build huge statues, we never give up, bold and strong...... No matter the changing seasons, the storms and rains, and the fearless, we protect the people, and justice will always remain in Chaman's heart. ”

"Venice" under the stars, the original "Fei Leng Cui".

The song was written at that time when the Charman family was a baron family that had been passed down for two hundred years and seven generations.

After Charman was lucky enough to become the lord of a country, his identity changed, and there were two versions of the song, and the lyrics were also several different.

The original version was titled "The Emerald Knight", but now everyone is singing "The Sword of Venice".

Musical instruments are one of the compulsory arts of the aristocracy, and the nobles who are literate must at least know the same.

Accompaniment instruments include the lute, transverse flute, organ and tambourier.

Howard was proficient in everything in front of him, and he was in charge, and Marlene, Bran, Carol, etc., all took a musical instrument and sang it in their hands.

This kind of atmospheric choral song, known as "knightly music", is different from which kind of love poems sung by the "bard" alone, the more people speak, the more charm.

After singing the song, everyone applauded and sang, and the mood was high-pitched.

Then came the show time for the inhabitants of the manor.

They danced around the campfire, sang only a few tunes, ate the game brought back from the valley, and as the cultivated land expanded, and the inns that were to be run in the main city of Florence, the people of the manor, not counting the four remnants of the principality, were fifty-seven.

A thirteen-year-old girl was so happy that she was able to participate in the reward banquet held by her host because she had eaten such delicious food as "jerky" for the first time.

She is a foreigner who escaped from her home to avoid her parents selling her to pay off her debts. He fainted outside the manor more than ten days ago, was rescued by Ma Lian, and agreed to cut wheat to cook and wash in exchange for food and lodging.

This is the norm in this era, and if it weren't for the aristocracy, survival would be extremely difficult.

In the final show, a wheeled cart was loaded with sand, and the sand was piled up first, and two farmers who had recently quarreled "wrestled" in it.

The aristocracy loved to raise swords to protect their honor, while the commoners used to wrestle or compete with wrist strength instead.

The winner was quickly decided, the loser patted the dust, and the winner took the initiative to hug, and the two laughed.

This is the Middle Ages, ignorant and backward.

It's the Middle Ages, contentment.

……

On the third day of returning to the manor, it was just dawn, Bran prepared his luggage, Iron Mountain and Carol worked as coachmen, driving a two-horse carriage, taking Marlene and Howard, and Bran pleaded to allow him to ride Emmahauth on the road.

Jack led the team in front of him, and followed with four strong men selected from the manor.

Jack is now the "Captain of the Guard" of the Manor, which has two afternoons a week to train the Manor men and boys.

It was impossible for each of them to have a colt and a weapon, so the four strong men used as infantrymen, with short swords hanging from their waists.

In addition, four teenagers, two men and two women, were following who were going to the city to help open the hotel.

Most civilians, if nothing else, spend their entire lives in villages, or around villages further afield.

Originally, Howard was going to assign Marlene to be the owner of the inn, but Bran told Marlene that her grandfather's health was getting worse and worse, and he hoped that she could take care of him by his grandfather's side, and take care of the manor's affairs.

Marlene agrees, but begs Brando to write back.

The innkeeper will be a literate "Frank" on the estate.