When the students had celebrated the defeat of the peasants, they found themselves faced with a problem: the peasants were no longer willing to provide them with cheap supplies and labor.

The peasants gambled that if the mob went unpunished, they would rather die poor than bring convenience to the school. This makes some students very unbearable, they are not those ascetics in the school, those people have been in the mountains and forests all the year round to comprehend the way of the sages, and their lives are extremely hard, even if they encounter a material blockade at this time, they don't care. However, these ordinary students, led by international students, are used to being pampered, and they are very uncomfortable with the sudden burden of life.

All sorts of negotiations began to emerge, and a lot of strange colloquialisms were produced. For example, on the first day of each week, the peasants agree to return prices to normal levels, while in normal times they charge punitive double prices for students. This has had a wide range of social effects, such as the fact that every Monday, the inspector of Djerkhala University is furious because he finds that almost all of his students skip classes to buy necessities, and even the rector occasionally goes. The sheriff of Djerkhala received reports again and again that peasants gathered around the school in an organized manner every Sunday for unknown purposes.

This inconvenience gave the sheriff a headache, and he made a visit and learned the inside story of the matter.

He had to make the difficult decision to introduce separate Sundays and Mondays in several villages and towns around the Djerkhala university district, while normal weekends were introduced elsewhere. It's funny, it's a convention that hasn't changed since, and if you travel to Djerkhara today, you'll find that on Monday mornings the streets are full of people lounging, not because they're slacking off, but because of a fight long ago, and the source of the fight was a stove that smelled of urine. These things are now long gone, and there are even different theories as to why the Djalkara University District is the only one that has a special weekend holiday. But his father's notes were insistent that it was because "Wright angrily punched a peeing kid." ”

After that feast, the farewell performance of the Brills and their Kugit was officially put on the agenda.

At this time, my father had already delayed a lot of classes, and his teacher told him not to take the rest of the classes, and to wait until the next year to follow the younger class. So my father wandered around the school every day, doing nothing.

One day, a short-sighted old school worker pulled a cart of timber and struggled to climb a small slope, and his father saw it and added a force behind him to help him push the timber cart to his destination. The old schoolman looked back at him, smiled, and then pursed his lips in surprise and muttered to himself. The father thought it was strange: "Old man. Is there something wrong? ”

"You're the Swadia?"

"Uh, yes, but I love Rhodok, really." His father thought he had met another nationalist who had usually relied on professing his respect for Rhodok to get out of trouble.

"You should love, your father is a Rhodoc". The old school worker took off his hat, wiped the sweat from his forehead with his sleeve, and said with an unfathomable expression.

"Huh?! You know my father?! My father was shocked.

"Well, your father went to Svadia because his master was once my master. I am the porter of that venerable bachelor's house. After the death of the Bachelor, I helped your father sell the Bachelor's estate, helped him pack his things, and sent the Lady to the convent. It seems like it happened yesterday. The maester wanted me to go north with your father, but I refused, I was reluctant to leave my homeland. So then your father left alone. I haven't heard from your father since. And then the Yankees came and went, and the Salanders followed and came, and those days were very miserable, you know? I never dreamed that your father would suddenly come back. He approached me and asked me to take him to Madame, and he said that he was living well now and could afford Madame's life. So I took him away. Your father was a man who knew gratitude. I've heard he's gotten in with the lord, well, and he deserves it. When I knew that there was a Swadian in the school, I wondered if it had something to do with him, I saw the way you looked, I observed you, and then I was sure that you could only be Arcadio's son haha, you have something very similar", the old schoolmaster looked at my father fixedly and said, "Son, you should be glad that you have a good father. ”

My father felt the foam in his chest, a little out of breath, and seemed to be full of emotion. It was as if he suddenly saw his young father more than twenty years ago, smiling happily at him in time. It's not that he hasn't thought about him since he left his father, and to be honest, he misses him very much. But he didn't know how to speak, he just wrote to General Garcia: "I miss my father a little. He was too embarrassed to write directly to his grandfather about this, so he told General Garcia. Soon General Garcia replied with a letter in which Garcia made his father feel lonely and went to Viruga to play for a few days, and then sighed with emotion, "You and your father are so similar, if you are embarrassed to say anything to each other, just tell me", which included a letter from his grandfather to Garcia: "I actually miss my son very much".

The old schoolboy was right, they had something similar.

The old school worker looked at his father, who was a little stunned, and pointed to a cypress tree behind the dormitory, "It was planted in the year your father left, and now it is like a tree." Father looked at the cypress tree and walked over gently, and he touched the skin of the tree and felt a warmth, as if his grandfather had only touched it yesterday.

In these days, the Kugit began to purchase all kinds of bright cloths and buntings from the city, borrowed a lot of musical instruments, and purchased a lot of food and materials, and the Kugit paid a full 1,000 dinars to invite a Swadia touring song and dance troupe to participate in their parting performances. This touched his father, who thought that inviting the Swadia troupe was a gesture of friendship to the Kugit people. Impressed, he went to the performance hall rented by the Kugit people, found Brill and expressed his gratitude. But Brill grinned, "What Kugit would care about a Swadia?" The laughter of the Kugit people who were busy setting up the venue could be heard.

Brill patted his father on the shoulder and handed a bunting to a Kujit next to him: "Don't be so narcissistic, and of course, don't be sad. Do you know who is in the song and dance troupe this time? The newly famous beauty of Sunuo City, Su Ge'er. It is said that this woman's eyes are as blue as a lake in the mountains. If you're lucky enough to meet her this time, we've done a good thing for you, right? Hey. ”

Father laughed: "I mean, how did the Kugit suddenly become so considerate, it turns out that they are having fun." Well, blue eyes, I've seen one. He had volunteered to help the Kujits set up the venue for the afternoon, and he would rather do some heavy work than climb a ladder to tie the ribbon to the ceiling, and he now had a shadow on the ladder.

Years later, my father waited patiently for the fire to burn for two days, and only after the flames had destroyed the gates of Dehrim did he ride into the city. People wondered why he didn't climb directly into the city from the ladder, and his father had a gloomy face: "If you want to climb by yourself, I will honestly walk through the city gate", my father was afraid of the ladder all his life, and Djerkhala's blow made him fall too hard.

My father came back alone in the evening after eating a dinner of grilled sausages, sauerkraut, and a mixture of soup prepared by the Kujits.

When he opened the door to his bedroom, he saw Wright sitting at the base of the wall with an unhappy face, and there were two other people in the room: a smiling goblin sitting at the table, and Sabel, swaying around the room.

The father was shocked, not knowing what these two men were doing.

At the end of the previous kidnapping case, he had seen this Sabel a few times, and this goblin looked quite familiar to him, as if he had seen it at Howl's banquet. Wright was as curious as he was. Wright trained for an afternoon in the school's fencing room, and as soon as he got back to his dorm, the two men gave him a complete hug and hugged him breathlessly. Wright watched in amazement as the two anti-guest men pointed in the dormitory, as if looking at two monsters emerging from the ground.

The father asked Wright with a look in his eyes, and Wright shrugged his shoulders to indicate that he knew no more than his father.

The goblin paused and said, "A brief introduction." In view of the invitation of the Rhodok Academy of Sciences, we were sent to Rhodoc by the Swadia Academy of Sciences to conduct research. Rhodok has observed a lot of astral data and has come up with a lot of new chemical recipes in production, and they asked us to help sort them out. And then you see, I've been assigned by the Academy of Sciences, and for the next two years, we're going to be a visiting professor here, and I'm going to teach you while I'm sorting out your knowledge. And my friend will teach you... Uh... All...", the goblin said the last word with an awkward look, as if he didn't know what 'all' meant.

Father and Wright asked curiously, "All?" ”

Sabel tossed an inkwell in his hand, a bottle of high-grade ink, made from Vicchia's finest walnut seeds, worth three and a half dinars. The father was panicked for a while, for fear that he would break it by mistake. Sabel said, "Yes, all. I've looked at your timetable carefully, and it's useless, listen, it's useless. I will be responsible for carrying out a comprehensive education reform for you. ”

Wright was noncommittal, he didn't want to provoke these two crazy people, but in his heart he expressed his support for Sabel's dissatisfaction with his current education. My father was a little unhappy: "No, the calligraphy and ancient Karadian that I learned in class are very important, and I also learned many philosophical schools, each of which is very incisive, and besides, I also audited political class..."

Sabel shook his head: "Calligraphy is a toy for women and children to pursue, ancient Karada can only make you have communication barriers, as for philosophy and politics, I admit that they are very important, I will carefully observe your teacher to decide whether I want to teach you personally or not." By the way, I'll be teaching you in the future. ”

The father cried out in his heart, and he asked, "Why do you know that you will teach us?" There are so many students, maybe they can be my teachers."

"Oh, that's right," the goblin explained, "our proposed education plan scared the Rhodok Ministry of Education and your headmaster, they said the Svadians were crazy, and let's start with the Swadia students if we start classes." So you two must be our students who didn't run away, let's see who chooses our class in the future. ”

The father cried out: "Then what if I don't agree with it myself?!" ”

"You'll agree," Sabel laughed, "you can't disagree. When we were in Viruga, we were commissioned to visit a pro-Swadia general, Mr. Garcia. I think you, Arcadio Kid, should know you? I was also amazed to find out that you are almost relatives. After the conversation, the general trusted me, and I have his power of attorney here, which reads: 'If the stinky boy doesn't do well in school, then I'll leave everything to you, Mr. Sabel.' Help me educate him well. ’”

A cold sweat flowed down Wright and his father's eyes: it turned out that these two men had come to recognize their apprentices, and they themselves were the first test subjects.

"That..." Wright frowned, "What did you teach us?" Astronomy or something is too general. ”

The goblin said, "Well, astronomy is our research direction, so you can listen to as much as you can understand." I'm mainly responsible for your physics, mathematics and engineering. And Mr. Sabel is in charge of your chemistry, literature, history, uh, military, first aid, camping, uh... What else, Sabel? ”

Sabel thought for a moment: "I don't remember that much, anyway, a lot." ”

The goblin closed his eyes and nodded slowly, indicating that he had a huge responsibility and was under pressure.

Father and Wright looked at the two men as if they were two slaves watching the slave trader discuss their prices.

Sabel opened the window and said, "Look! This is a new era! The age of young people! We will push you to the forefront of the times! ”

The other three didn't expect him to come out like this suddenly, and they didn't react for a while, and a crow flew by outside the house, and the atmosphere was a little awkward. No reaction was received, and Sabel seemed unaware. He turned around, rubbed his hands, and asked my father with a smile, "What's for dinner?" The goblin also stopped being stunned at this time, and also grinned: "Ask the same question." ”

Over the next few days, Goblin and Sabel set up their faculty quarters. The goblin gave Wright and my father a certificate for them to give to their respective teachers, stating that the students had been transferred to another teacher's class. Sabel's only teacher who didn't ask for a change of class was Wright's political teacher and his father's Old Karadian teacher. "These two people have some insights in their minds, you can go and listen to them, it will be good for you in the future."

The Goblin then hung a sign outside the room indicating the new courses that the visiting professor was going to take and the time of the course counseling session. This sign used to be used to forecast the weather, but now people in the area of Suno have to go to the Academy of Sciences to inquire about the weather. A large number of students attended the Goblin and Sabel introductory lectures. Seeing that there were so many new courses, these people thought that Swadia must have sent a whole dozen professors, but when they saw that there were only two new teachers, a large number of them went straight away, and in the end Goblin and Sabel only received a few students, but one of them Sabel was very favored: Marco Rodok. Cesara. Sabel described him as "one of the few students who grasped the essence of Gucarade's politics." ”

The weather is starting to get warmer, and the earth, which has been dormant for a winter, is beginning to recover. The earth began to turn from snow-white to gray-white, and then from gray to gray-green. Every second you can feel the air getting sweeter. The sparrows my father had seen frozen in the snow began to chirp up and down on the branches, and the sun rose higher and higher. The thick cotton clothes gradually became unbearable, and the earth was about to recover. At this time, if you stand on top of the thawing stream, close your eyes, stretch your limbs, and gently smell the air, you can smell a faint earthy fragrance, which retains the memory of last autumn and slowly spreads.

In the days when winter finally begins to get soft, the Kugit are finally leaving.

On the day of the evening, the school welcomed a gorgeous dance troupe. The Kugit wandered around the school, as if they couldn't get enough of it. It's too fast, it's been a few years, and I'm leaving. That night, the grand show conveyed the most beautiful youth time in drunken tears. At that time, my father sang with Wright, Brill and Cesar, Vicchia and Kuguit, northerners and southerners.

At the end of the ball, it was Brill's playing, and with his accompaniment, Su Ge'er's singing was the culmination. When the master of ceremonies signaled silence in the room, Brill played the dombra, and the bleak and melodious tune played in the center of the auditorium, and the people listened quietly to the heavenly sound, which Kazak had played by the campfire of the sleepless nights in the mountains and forests. These songs have soaked in too much time and brewed fragrant tears.

It was not only the Kugit students who were saddened, but all those who had gone through this time with them felt a deep sense of helplessness. Father remembered the fights he had fought; I remember them messing around together in the hot springs; I remember when the peasants stormed the school, they all fought side by side.

My father had never heard of Kazak, and if he did, he would have found that Kazak and Brill had almost the same sound, but Kazak's was more solemn.

When Brill's piano stopped for a while, the curtain opened, and a woman began to sing in the darkness, and people were amazed at her beauty, and sure enough, she had heartbreakingly beautiful blue eyes.

In the stage arts, Svadia has already appeared with tracking lights invented to highlight the main characters, and goblins have seen the blueprints of such searchlights. He made a tracking illuminator out of a wooden turntable, ten high-brightness Aaron horse lamps, and a shiny silver leaf. He was in charge of operating the machine at the end of the feast, which was used to illuminate Su Ge'er in the dark while she was singing, like a lighthouse to illuminate a ship in the dark.

"You're Her Beacon"

The goblin was stunned as he operated the machine, and he was stunned by the blue eyes and the beautiful singing voice. In that moment, the goblin remembered almost all the beautiful memories in his life: the first paper airplane he threw out; the tears of her mother when she was admitted to the Academy of Sciences; A small white flower that bloomed from the brick crack on his windowsill after the rain. At that moment, the goblin felt his heart clenched, and he couldn't breathe. All the embodiment of beauty in his heart condensed into those blue eyes, which were the beautiful end of the goblin's heart.

In the midst of the crowd, the blue eyes became the starting point of his father's fear, and those eyes revived his memories of a murder. He quietly found Wright, who was already a little drunk, was also surprised, he looked carefully at Su Ge'er who was singing, and asked his father if he was sure that it was the singer he had said. Wright was only trying to escape, not seeing what his blue eyes were looking like. His father said he assured that "there will never be a second pair of blue eyes with such beautiful eyes". Wright and his father chatted in the crowd for a while, feeling that it had been a long time since this incident had happened, and that it seemed that the rumors were about the second boss killed by Uhru and Spencer, and that there was no need for a singer to cause trouble for herself. Nothing should happen this time. However, the two decided to wait and see what happened, and try not to meet this woman so as not to cause unnecessary trouble.

Throughout the show, Father and Wright are deeply hidden in the crowd. It wasn't until the master of ceremonies prepared at the end to praise the friendship of the six gentlemen that lasted forever: "Please invite our best friend and comrade-in-arms, Svadia to come to Huo. Arcadio, Sloin. Wright; Marco of Rhodoc. Cesar and Brill and his two Kugit companions from Kugit! Welcome to our Six Horsemen! ”

People followed each other's gaze and found Wright and my father in the crowd. The two of them had no choice but to go up. The master of ceremonies and all the students cheered several heroic feats. In the cheers of the people, Brill handed the dombra to my father, and suddenly, Brill's eyes were cold, and he said meaningfully: "The Kugit people will still play this harp", Wright heard the taste of Brill's words, and he replied without humility or arrogance: "Yes, we will let the Kugit people play for us on the grassland." ”

His father was just standing on the stage with a numb scalp, and he knew that there was a pair of blue eyes next to him, looking at him gently, and he could even feel the slight trembling of those eyes.