Chapter Ninety-Eight: Winter

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During the winter snow season, no one wants to stay outdoors, but I still have to go out with others to make rounds, and I often eat and live in the surrounding villages

There's so much to learn that every day is new for me, I don't know what's going to happen next, I don't have any experience to draw on, and all I can do is stay humble and ask people what they don't understand, which never comes from

An ancient Chanda emperor wrote: "So many princes and nobles, most of them are like meteors, disappearing without a trace in an instant, the biggest shortcoming of man is not weakness, but arrogance, an arrogant person cannot make progress, and will attract the attack of the world, he will not have friends, and he will not even get excellent enemies, because he will be defeated before encountering an enemy of this level"

I think it's right, there is no need to be so different, you have to appear to be a real nobleman, or boyar, not by lucky blood and fancy pomp to get the right to rule

I am glad that I saw this clearly at a very young age, which benefited me immensely in the days to come, and of course, it also made many nobles look down on me, and when I returned to Svadia, I was still used to eating and living with the soldiers, which made my family and my father's former subordinates a little puzzled

My grandfather and my father had always been gentle with their servants, but that affinity was the sympathy and pity of the nobles, especially my father, who had never thought of me as a nobleman because he was born a nobleman and I was with the soldiers, and in fact, until I recalled my childhood, I had always thought that I was only a commoner, but that I had grown up like my grandfather in the years of trembling compared to my father, who had been among the boyars by luck

It's a pity that I'm afraid I won't be able to understand my father's ideal for the rest of my life, that ideal is too high for me, and too illusory, the world often looks very beautiful from the eyes of the aristocracy, as if you stand on the roof of Xiaodonghu City and look at the city under the snow, you will feel that the snow city is as beautiful as a dream, both thrilling and exciting, warm and amiable; But if you're a fisherman or hawker who has to come out early in the morning, I'm afraid it's hard for you to like this muddy and cold world

I was trained as a junior officer, and remained in this position for a long time until I received my fief and knighthood, and fortunately my relatives in Rhodoc admired these qualities, and my grandfather's generals never regarded me as a gentleman

If I had to rehash it, my main period of study began during the winter in the barracks

Before this, I always felt that I was living a mess, if I hadn't met Giovanni, maybe I would have understood some truths later, but then I needed to explore it slowly, maybe the road would be tortuous, and I would have worn out my inner 'weakness' earlier, and made myself more dull and cold, which made me safer, and also made me the youngest of the boyar knights at the age of sixteen, although later my record has always been criticized, and some people say that it was the Count Kalinin who took care of the parliament; Others say that Yuri bribed the city councillor; Others say that Giovanni's soldiers ran into the boyars' manor and threatened them

I won my knighthood at the age of sixteen, and by that time I had become a warrior, accustomed to hiding myself under cold armor

By that time I had become taciturn and clumsy, and when I met the Messira or Kaja, I would not know what to say, I rarely had the opportunity to greet girls, I couldn't even say anything to young masters like Richard, their favorite horses, hounds, and beautiful clothes, they seemed to me to be useless things, they always thought I was rustic, and I spoke in the vulgar dialect of soldiers everywhere, and I could occasionally learn from the mouths of others what they said about me behind my back, and after that, I don't have any reason to go to them

Maybe at that time, it decided a lot of things after that

Looking back, it seems that everything is justified and can be found, but when I went through it, I spent every day in a state of hesitation that I didn't have a good life, I might have been twelve or thirteen that year, I didn't know exactly how many years later my birthday date was, and the whole world had changed: the world that my grandfather knew was gone, and the world that my father loved was changed beyond recognition

Fortunately, at that time, I still had the Messirah

This winter, I stayed in the barracks

I learned to register accounts with a recorder, this man was a Burke, he liked to use a kind of ciphertext of his guild to record the accounts of each day, this is a kind of character passed down by the Salanders, it is very convenient to record the numbers, I use two pieces of parchment to record the contents, he can use most of them, and I write densely, he only writes loosely, this kind of character and a wonderful thing called an arithmetic table, can quickly solve any accounting problems, this ciphertext he will never teach me, even if I pleadHe was only willing to help me write a letter of introduction, and asked me to go to the president of the guild to apply for membership, and then study as a member I didn't have the time or opportunity to go to Berke, so I just did it

But this man taught me a lot of things, such as from the sound of the gold coins colliding, I can tell what kind of gold coins it is, in addition, he can also identify the origin of the wool, this is because before he went to the gold bank, he used to be a wool merchant, he only needs a pinch of wool to smell what the sheep is, I am very curious about this, once, I mixed a pinch of Kelwood Forest sheep and a Salander sheep wool together for him to smell, but he sniffed for a long time, frowning and speechless, At last he was depressed for several days, and he left the barracks before spring, muttering before he left that he had lost his horse's hooves on the handful of wool

The Orion soldiers taught me how to get meat in the forest

Observing the traces left by animals became a very interesting activity, animal footprints, feces, fur left on branches, urine on tree trunks, these hunters often crush animal feces to determine what kind of animal it is, and how long ago I passed by here I thought it was disgusting at first, but these hunters later threatened me that if I didn't try it myself, they wouldn't give me meat, and I would have to follow their request, and my most successful one was chasing a deer for a day and a half, At last they shot the deer drinking from a half-frozen ditch, and the hunters were so happy that they skinned the deer and got me a pointed felt hat, which they said I wore to walk in the field, and that neither the mountain people nor the bandits would come to plunder me, and that they would come to my aid when I had nothing to eat

Although these hunters did not care about such behemoths as reindeer and bison, they were afraid of frogs, and they were superstitious that those who hurt frogs would incur bad luck, and I once appeared in a ditch, and the spring was frozen, and only a small mouth was bubbling with water, and I saw something moving under the ice, and I thought it was a fish, so I broke the ice with an ice axe, and it turned out to be a group of frogs below, and I was so angry that I threw all these things on the ice and died

When the hunters came over, the frogs had frozen into ice lumps on the ice, and the hunters were taken aback, and scolded me one after another, and later forced me to swear in front of the frogs, I bear all the sins alone, and they have nothing to do with them, so they stopped, but I didn't have any bad luck, maybe my situation was miserable enough, nothing could be bad

In the spring, we met the enemy in the wilderness, and the archers came to the front of the line, and the mercenary cavalry of the small East Lake City confronted us from a distance, and the archers quickly built a barrier wall with the trunks of the trees on the ground, but soon after, a group of freedmen took the initiative to charge, which made the mercenary cavalry think that we had launched a general attack, and counterattacked our position

I was standing on the right flank, and I could see clearly that the archers had just put a few arrows, and the mercenary chess players rushed to the front of the barrier, and these riders dismounted under the rain of arrows and removed the obstacles, and as soon as the road was cleared, the second wave of cavalry immediately followed the archers, and after the war was over, I went to the place where the dead were in ruins, and the ground was full of flesh and broken armor, and it was very miserable, and I picked up a few Orion's pointed hats, and found a place to bury them

These hunters are quite religious

Later, after Tom built the church, I sent these hats to his convent, and Tom declared it to be a holy relic for a long time, and it was the relic of the first mountain people who converted to God after St. George entered the forest, which made his convent absorb a large number of religious fanatical immigrants, and many years later, Tom also relied on the support of these people to become the bishop of the diocese, and played a leading role in the final effort to bring back the remains of the great pastor, at that time, Tom had changed his name to Tom. Innocent, like people to call him Bishop Innocent

Decades later, when Tom finally made the decision to run for the pastor, I could only shake my head and smile bitterly in Suno, he wrote a letter asking me to support him 40,000 dinars, as the funds for running for the pastor, I couldn't support him so much money at that time, so I could only turn a deaf ear. In addition, Tom also instigated the Lord of Reynolds of Chanda to help him recruit immigrants and establish the monastery of the Eastern Church as his political achievement, which almost led to the expulsion of Chanda Free City

Tom also learned from the Western Church and established his own Oak Knights, and the Tywi Knight became the first head of the Knights, which were all rabble at the beginning, but Tom always made these people appear in the right place at the right time: such as the castle that had been besieged for a long time, the town where the enemy bishop settled, the dock where the Burke merchants stored their goods, etc., and after a long period of exhibition, Tom even began to gain secular power in several ungoverned towns, Tom was probably the first bishop of an Eastern Church to have such ambitions

Tom and I started at the same time, and it was in the winter of that year that Tom found the Corwin priest, spent thirteen dinars, and was baptized as an ordinary monk in the diocese of Valankov as a priest, and Tom later married and had children of his own, which made the priesthood an attractive profession, and I have never known why he did it, nor when he decided to become a pastor

In the winter of that year, Lech submitted his application to the Burke Council to run for the king; Tom. Brown was baptized into the Eastern Church; Count Kalinin was nervously coordinating the parties; Giovanni was recruiting soldiers from all over the world, and I was writing a letter in Giovanni's barracks, and this time, I was writing a letter for myself, to a young girl in Ivangelodes

"To My Dear Messirah"

I started like this

After I finished writing the beginning, I didn't know how to write it, because I didn't know what to write, I wrote a lot of words in fits and starts, but there was no theme, and I suddenly wanted to tell her the whole world, but immediately I thought what could I tell her? In the end, it can only be hastily closed, ending a messy letter with "Your most loyal Victor".

Later, the Messira wrote back to me, and a few months later, when I was on the battlefield, an officer from Ivangorod brought me a reply letter, and the Messiah's first sentence was, "What did you write?"

That was later

At the end of that winter, I put on a helmet, a thick cloth coat, armor over it, and sharpened my sword

The drums of war were already beating in the field, and I rode my horse to the battlefield under the banner of the skyValankov is a black land, which turns white in winter, but how many colorful dreams are hidden in this cold land

I put on my helmet and felt like the whole world was dark.

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