Chapter 165: Invitation
The only waitress in the tavern brought four glasses of ale, still the cheapest of the kind, exactly the same as in Jack's glass.
Although Leon could easily buy the entire tavern with the money now, he silently raised his glass and bumped into Jack. The two glasses of ale vanished at pouring speed, and Katerina, Sophia, and Jeff looked at each other and drank the ale as well.
Needless to say, Caterina didn't care about this wine at all due to her excellent physique, but Sophia's face was a little strange after drinking it.
"What's wrong?" asked Caterina in a whisper, she had never seen Sophia drink, so she thought it must have been this time.
"It's too much, it's hard to hold on to your stomach!" Sophia said with a bitter face.
Ignoring their muttering, Jack was in high spirits, and he coughed a rare two times before asking the waiter for wine.
"Jack, drink less, it's not good for your health," Leon had special expectations for the old man, so he finally persuaded him.
"What does it matter," Jack shook his head, "now that my wish has been fulfilled, and there is no nostalgia, I might as well have a drink." β
"Even if you drink it, you have to drink some good wine, I left you two opals before I left last time, it should be enough to cope with it for a while, why drink this inferior ale?"
"Wine is a good thing, so it doesn't matter if it's good or not," Jack smiled, "and no matter how bad my body is, it doesn't matter." β
Leon noticed that the other party did not mention the matter of the two opals, and he was a little puzzled, but he didn't ask directly, maybe like Eric, he exchanged the gems for money and then handed them over to the bereaved families of those brothers who died in battle.
So that's not the point, Leon thought about it for a while and decided to say what he thought now, of course, the decision was up to Jack himself.
"Who says it doesn't matter, if something goes wrong with your body, what if someone wants you to do something for him in the future?"
"Ha!" Old Jack laughed, shook his head and smiled: "Young man don't need to comfort me, who would ...... an old man like me who lacks arms and legs"
Speaking of this, Jack's voice lowered, he raised his head and stared at Leon's eyes, and said suspiciously, "What do you mean......"
"You've guessed it again," Leon's eyes brightened when he met him.
Jack's gaze became complicated, and after a long time, his eyes drooped, and he raised his glass, and suddenly found that the wine inside had been drunk, so he had to gently place the glass on the table.
"Thank you, young man, for your kindness," said Jack at last, "I am self-aware, and you need not ...... because you pity me."
"It's not because I pity you," Leon cut off the other's words, "Trust me, Jack, I do have something to do with you." β
"So, Jack, join my team. β
"Your team?" Jack looked at the other three young men suspiciously, and instead of being embarrassed to ask Leon if his team was the four people in front of him, he asked another question.
"You said you had a place to get me? Tell me about it. β
Until now, Jack still thought that the other party was just taking pity on his situation, or to provide a reward for the location of the castle ruins, because a team of only four young people could not need a disabled down-and-out veteran.
"Unless...... What else does the other party do?" Jack thought to himself, but what could he do for others in his current situation?, and when he thought of this, he suddenly realized that he had neglected one thing all along, so he said, "Young man, I don't seem to have asked your name all along. β
"This place is not good to talk to," Leon looked back at the drinkers in the tavern who were paying attention to their strangers.
"Let's go out of town and say. β
At Leon's invitation, Old Jack, although he didn't know why, still stood up with his cane, he only had one arm, so the wooden box on the table was immediately picked up by Jeff, who was very eye-catching.
Jack gave the brown-haired man, who was significantly older than the other three, a grateful look, and then unusually firmly refused Leon's support, limping behind and walking out of the tavern.
"These old comrades are very ......stubborn," Leon recalled that when Singer boarded the carriage, he didn't let the other elves help him at all, so he sighed a little.
In comparison with the current situation, they should all have a relatively glorious past, and this glory continues to burn their souls to this day, so they have to prove that they can still do something, even if they stagger into the carriage, even if they limp on crutches, this is completely on their own strength, isn't it?
The short journey from the tavern to the clearing outside the town had taken almost thirty minutes, and the young men had no more attempts to support the old man, nor were they in a hurry, and they walked at the same pace. Along the way, many people watched them, but after the priest girl showed them extremely bright smiles, she managed to attract the attention of these people.
Walking all the way out of the town to a clearing outside the intersection, Leon turned back to the veteran and said, "Here we are." β
He walked sideways, and Jack, who had been walking with crutches behind him, looked up and saw what surprised him a littleβthere were seven or eight carriages of various sizes scattered across the clearing, and more than twenty people were sitting on the ground in several piles, most of them were elves that were rare here, and there was also a dwarf.
"Are they ......" the veteran asked, turning his face and frowning suspiciously.
"This is my team, they ...... Count me as my followers and subordinates," Leon's voice was flat as he said this.
But this already surprised Jack, how could he not have imagined that this young man would reappear after only two months, and already have a team of several times the number of people?
When he recovered from his surprise, he began to seriously consider what Li Ang had just said.
Most of the resting people raised their heads to greet the disabled old man, and then Leon led the thoughtful Jack aside, and Eric and Jeff immediately walked over and placed two chairs behind them.
"Awesome ......" Leon gave the two men a thumbs up, and then motioned for Jack to sit down.
"Boss, it's almost time, I'm going to get food for everyone. β
Leon noticed that the brown-haired man had carefully changed his name, and secretly reminded himself that he was now in the kingdom, and some of his names needed to be changed.
At this time, another attentive person also spoke: "Boss, I went to the town for a trip, I have something to add, and I will be back soon." β
Of course, this person is Eric, and Leon knows that one of his subordinates has been sent to Greenwood Town in advance to fight the front station, but I heard Captain Matt say that he is a little nervous now, so as a stranger, he will definitely not integrate into the local residents quickly, just looking at the fact that this person has not appeared yet, he knows that his information must still be very closed.
So Eric's purpose should be to go to Greenwood Town to connect with his subordinates, and by the way, appease the other party.
After the two of them asked for instructions, they immediately left Leon's side, leaving room for him and Jack to be alone.
"Looks like a lot has happened to you during this time," Jack said when there was no one else around.
"Yes, a lot has happened, otherwise I wouldn't have been able to come back so soon," Leon admitted.
"To be able to achieve this in just fifty or sixty days, you ...... It shouldn't be an ordinary person," Jack Mo clutched the handrail of his crutches, a movement he should have done often, so the handrails were unusually smooth.
"Who are you, young man, and you shouldn't have come back just to fulfill your promise to me, but for some other purpose, right?"
"My name is Leon. β
"Li Ang?" the veteran repeated, with thought in his eyes, although this name is rare, but there are no fewer duplicate names, so he can't remember it at all for a while.
"Leon Redfield, come back and inherit my land," Leon prompted, finally saying his full name for the first time in this country.
At the same time, a change appeared that made him stunned for a moment - "Hint: Important Mission Discovery 1, gain 550 XP"
"Can this be considered an important task?" Li Ang thought blankly, "Isn't this my own business?"
Suddenly, a sound pulled his mind back, the sound of a cane falling to the ground.
"Redfield, you said Redfield!" snapped the veteran.