In the jungle path, a cavalry marched through.

"Brother Locke, how far is it to go. A hairy brat asked.

"It should be soon. "Locke's head is not clear.

This is the Locke squadron on the way home, to be precise, the cavalry squadron belonging to the mining town.

Two days ago, they finally arrived at their battalion led by Kaidozi, and under the assignment of the baron, each squadron was led by the squadron leader and returned home.

The members of this cavalry team are all young men from the mining town, and there are more than ten people.

In addition to the cavalry, behind them were a squadron of nearly 100 infantry men led by Joshak, Karl, and Hans.

With horses present, Locke and the other cavalry widened the distance between them and the infantry behind, and they couldn't wait to meet their relatives.

"I knew I would have brought a familiar journey. Locke said with annoyance, their cavalry happened to be a group of young people, and Locke, who had always been on the younger side of the barracks, was the oldest of the more than ten people at this time.

After being away from home for so long, Locke could only vaguely remember the direction of the road, and as for the precise distance, where did he still have an impression.

"Let's speed up, a day and a half at most, it's definitely here!" Locke patted his head and said firmly.

The path they took must be right, after so many years of being soldiers, Locke will not even go the wrong way, since the road and direction are opposite, if you go on like this, you will definitely be able to get to Mine Town.

Mine Town, Maple Leaf Village.

"Tia, Tia!" said Aunt Mary, who had a loud voice in the village, and woke up her neighbor early in the morning.

"What's the matter, Mary?" the sleepy-eyed Tia opened the door of her yard and looked curiously at Mary standing in the doorway.

As Mary squeezed herself into the yard, she said, "I heard that Locke and Hans are coming back, so let's go to the mine town and guard it!"

In the courtyard, Leah was chopping firewood on the side, and Mary saw this, "Leah, what are you chopping firewood, go with Auntie!", and grabbed Leah, who was still chopping firewood wrapped in a headscarf, and walked out.

"What! they're coming back!" came a muffled sound from the room, and old Locke hastily put on his clothes and rushed out.

"Yes, yes, news has just come from town!" said Mary, "and my old man has gone with the eldest and the third first. ”

"Let's go!" said old Locke, without saying a word, and walked out with Tia in his arms.

Leah didn't care about chopping wood at this time, but she didn't immediately follow Aunt Mary, but ran back to her boudoir first, changed into the peasant clothes she was wearing at this time, and put on the new clothes that her mother Tia made for her during the New Year, and untied the headscarf wrapped in three thousand green silks, and her long straight hair fell down like a waterfall.

"Leah, what are you doing, hurry up, Tia and the others are already far away!" came Aunt Mary's urging in the courtyard.

Leah replied, "It's fine", and chose the white one in the bedside drawer.

Hurriedly putting on the silk scarf, Leah tidied up the corners of her clothes, hurriedly ran out, took Aunt Mary's arm, and ran to the village.

Mary didn't know what Leah was doing at first, and one second she complained that the child was grinding, and the next second she was surprised by Leah's pretended to be a big change.

Dressed in neat new clothes, Leah, who ripped off the headscarf of the rural woman and replaced it with a white silk scarf, coupled with her already good looks, Mary, a woman who was almost forty years old, was stunned.

"Leah, you're going to fascinate the boys in town!" said Mary.

"Oh, auntie, don't make fun of you, let's go. Leah gave Mary a nudge, and then she ran to catch up with Old Locke and Tia.

Seeing Leah so beautiful, and the fact that she has always been diligent and thrifty, Mary was moved in her heart, and said: "My Hans kid is also back this time, and he is not too young, I should find a good daughter-in-law for him." ”

Leah was not impressed by Hans, who in her eyes was the snotty child who always followed his brother when he was a child, and Hans had played with Locke since he was a child.

"Yes, Hans is coming back too, Aunt Mary, you should think about Qingfu. Leah didn't know what Aunt Mary was going to say, she just fit the way.

"If you are looking for a daughter-in-law, you are also looking for someone as beautiful and virtuous as Leah. Aunt Mary squinted and smiled.

Leah understood what Aunt Mary meant this time, and politely refused, "Hans is the squadron leader, I must be able to find a better one." ”

The news of Hans's promotion to squadron leader had been reported back to Mine Town two months earlier, before the city of Otis had been captured.

Mary also heard Leah's refusal, and he didn't care, since Locke was promoted to squadron leader in the past six months, how many big families in the town have come to their house to propose marriage, not only have they married their daughters, but more are seeing Leah's beautiful appearance and want to marry the old Locke's family.

Without exception, they were rejected by old Locke and Tia, according to them, their daughter was still young and did not want to marry so early.

has been neighbors with the Locke family for so many years, others don't know, Mary doesn't know yet, it's obvious that Leah herself doesn't want to.

There are many girls in their village who married at the age of 16, and Leah is 21 years old, and she is already an old girl. Old Locke and Tia are not in a hurry, she, who is a neighbor, is in a hurry. Mary no longer considered the thoughts of old Locke, took Leah's hand, and walked quickly towards the entrance of the village.

They were not the only ones who received the news, the whole village knew that the men who had been soldiers were coming back, and the families with men who were soldiers in their families were all dragging their families to the town to meet them today.

By the time Mary and Leah arrived at the entrance of the village, there were already quite a few villagers gathered here, all from Maple Leaf Village.

"Everyone is all together, right, let's go!" On a boulder at the entrance of the village, there stood an old man with a hunched waist, this old man was the village chief of Maple Leaf Village.

As soon as the village chief waved his hand, almost the whole village rushed to the town, which was several times more lively than going to the market.

A hundred-year-old maple tree next to the boulder at the entrance of the village, the withered yellow leaves fall with the wind, and a little tender green reveals new shoots.

At night, around the campfire, a dozen soldiers dressed in Faustin uniforms sit around and grill food.

One of them, a gray-haired young man, sat in the center, and the other soldiers around him faintly headed the young man.

"I know this wood!" said the young man roasting a hare.

These words attracted the attention of the other soldiers around him, "Brother Locke, where is this?" asked a soldier who was close to Locke.

"It's like the five-mile forest outside the mine town. Locke replied, "When I came out of Mine Town, I was passing through this forest. ”

When Locke said this, the soldiers around him suddenly remembered that most of them had gone out to fight from here six years ago.

"Looks like it's true!" shouted the soldier who had spoken earlier.

"Yes, it's almost there. Locke said, "I guess I'll be in Mine Town tomorrow!"

When the soldiers around them heard this, they all smiled, and everyone couldn't wait to see their loved ones.

"Squadron Leader Yoshak in the back, where are they?" Locke asked a soldier next to him.

The soldier thought for a moment and replied, "Squadron Leader Yoshak, they are not far from us, at most half a day's journey, and they can reach Mine Town tomorrow." ”

When Locke heard this, he was relieved. It seems that the soldiers led by Uncle Yoshak are also homesick, and the speed of these cavalry is not much worse than them, and they are only half a day's journey.

Two days ago, since the baron had given the order to disperse and return home, each soldier, under the leadership of his respective squadron leader, exerted all his strength to hurry.

Grace and Summerie were placed in the town outside the Baron's Castle by Locke, and unlike the Charlotte nobles, who preferred to build their mansions in the town, most of the Faustan nobles were keen to build fortresses.

Every nobleman's castle was a small military fortress, which may be one of the reasons why Faustin has been strong for hundreds of years.

The town outside the Baron's Castle was no worse than a small town in Charlotte, and Locke gave Shacy a large sum of money to stay in the inn for the time being. By the way, I also asked the soldiers who lived in that town to help take care of it.

Most of the soldiers of the cavalry squadron, whose families live in the town outside the Baron's Castle, where Xia Qian and the four daughters live, can be regarded as staying in Locke's home field, if there are unsightly characters, I believe that the group of soldiers will be well entertained.

The reason why he didn't bring them with him was that Locke couldn't explain the origin of the four daughters, and second, he didn't know how to introduce the four daughters to his parents and fellow villagers.

Now there are few people in Faustan who have a good impression of the Charlottes, and I don't know how many Faustin's families have been broken because of the war with Charlotte, and Locke has repeatedly stressed that the women should not reveal their nationality.

The hare caught tumbling over the campfire, the grease dripped into the fire, and a smell came out.

It's almost baked, Locke blew it, and took a bite of it, cool, the hare in his hometown was also better than Charlotte, Locke thought.

The surrounding forest is not large, only two or three miles away, and standing on a high place, you can even see the four borders of this forest at a glance.

But it's such a small forest that constitutes a complete ecosystem. The dinner of Locke's cavalry was obtained from this forest, and the dry food they brought was not touched.

If you can eat meat, why bite hard bread.

Although there was a lot of game, Locke didn't notice the traces of demonized creatures, and he didn't even feel the slightest elemental fluctuation, not to mention demonized creatures, there were not even magical plants in this forest.

It seems that only in places like the Mofei Forest or the Bering Mountains can you see demonic creatures and even demonic beasts everywhere.

After swallowing the last bite of rabbit meat, Locke shouted, "Rest in place after eating, Rusco and Beech, it's time for you two to keep vigil, let's go home tomorrow!"

"Yes!" Locke's words received a response from all the soldiers.

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Yesterday, the collection only rose by one, and the mentality exploded~