118. On the first day of work, I found that my boss was completely rotten
"It seems that Dugan has found a good place," Corbin Joathan looked at Dugan's letter to Rand, "Among our group, he and John went to the Blue Dragon School, and they escaped it, and the rest of them were sent to various places. β
Corbyn stared blankly, thinking back to those familiar faces from more than ten years ago, "They promised me that it was good, #ηδ»δ»¬ε°±ζ―θΏζ₯θ΅°δΈͺθΏεΊthat nothing would happen, that nothing would happen, that we just had to watch and wait until the next day everything would be as usual." He muttered.
"Captain?" Seeing that his boss was in a stupor, Rand asked softly.
"It's business as usual," Corbyn's voice grew louder, and the letter was easily wrinkled and torn by the Earl's big hands, "and in the end it's business as usual, and we're the ones who take the blame for their group of rebels."
"Your Excellency?" Rand said loudly, I want him to calm down, don't talk about the matter of Chen Sesame and rotten grain.
"Ah, Rand," Corbyn finally came back to reality.
"Call me Captain, or Old Corbyn, don't call me Count, it sounds like a curse." Old Corbyn smiled bitterly, "Look at this place around me, there is a little bit of a place like a count's stay." β
"Don't you have a patrol of 50 knights?" In Rand's opinion, Corbyn, the earl, not only has a place to live in the royal capital and has subordinates to drive, but also a knighthood and transcendent rank, and his current life is the envy of his other superior, Earl Kempins Maned Wolf.
"There are 25 members of the patrol you are talking about, the honor guard of the Palace Knights and the honor guard here, 15 of them are young people from various families hanging here, and 5 are the little white faces of His Majesty's sister who are named here."
"Okay, our sacrificial patrol team is simply giving empty quotas to all related households, right?" Rand was complaining about 80% of the empty salary of his unit in his heart, and at the same time admired the eldest princess for arranging 5 lovers in one unit.
Silently counting the number of knights, Rand asked, "What about the remaining 10 knights?" β
βγγγβ Old Corbyn looked at Rand, "The rest are my sons"
Well, what Rand admires most is that the Count has 10 sons, and all of them meet the criteria for being selected into the Knights, and this Knights can't be squeezed in until the beginner.
"Does your granddaughter work here too?" Rand suddenly remembered the girl he had seen at the door.
"Have you seen my eldest daughter-in-law? She's the bookkeeper here, and the others aren't here... The Count pondered who Rand was asking.
"Your account office here is in a tree?" Rand pointed to the shrine door, "When I first came in, I saw a girl in the treehouse at the door."
"Girl?" Old Corbin frowned and suddenly expanded, "You can't be talking about the arbor goblin, right?" β
"Great... Goblin? Rand was suddenly interested.
"Yes, that's not my granddaughter," the old knight laughed, "she's the magical elf of the pines and arbors around here, Liel Arbor, you don't think you've seen a great elf before, have you?" β
"Longtai Mountain is rich in magical elements, there is a dragon's nest on the top of the mountain, and there are multiple magic towers on the mountainside, so it is easy to produce magic goblins here, and ordinary magic goblins are also easy to promote here," the earl looked at the gate of the shrine, "Liel Arbor was promoted under the throne of Her Excellency Tyriana Dragon's Blood 200 years ago, and since then she has guarded the trees on the entire Longtai Mountain. β
"All the trees on the entire Longtai Mountain are her eyeliner, otherwise we can't defend the shrine with our empty patrol."
"So the magic goblin is the real guardian here, and our patrol is used for nomination?" Rand had already guessed it, but the Count's honesty shocked him.
"Well, that's it, so you don't actually have to come over, the voucher for going up the mountain has already been obtained, and the salary is not much if you take a temporary position, you can take it directly from the palace, and we have nothing to do here at all." The old earl spread his hands and said, "You are not the only one who has a name here, there are 7 or 8 deputy captains alone."
"In this case, then I'll go back" Rand nodded, since the leaders confirmed that he didn't need to go to work, there was no need to rush to come.
"Wait a minute, Viscount Rand," said the old knight, struggling to get up from his chaise longue, "do you need an assistant or a knight of the clan by your side?" β
"What?"
The old man pointed to his grandson, "My grandson Tierney Joathan, 15 years old this year, junior knight, this shrine patrol is really empty, if you lack a family knight there, can you take him away?" β
"Grandpa?" Tierney was also very surprised to hear the old count talk about himself.
"Sir, can't you leave Tierney with you?" Rand is a little strange, your 10 sons have all been put in, and there is not one more grandchild.
"Don't look at this as a place to eat empty salaries, but not everyone can come and eat," the earl patted his grandson, "My 10 sons basically broke through 9 years ago, and I grinded them all for a long time to arrange them all in, Tierney was too young at that time, and now although he is qualified as a knight, he has no place." β
"This, Lord Earl, I'm not a pleasant place there, Tierney is used to staying in this mountain, and he may not be able to adapt to it" Rand didn't want to take over the young master beside him, after all, his knights really wanted to fight the barbarians, but he didn't want to refuse in person.
"It's okay, young man, how can you not suffer at all." The old earl didn't care too much, and even leaned over and whispered to Rand, "My kid can at least become a silver knight in the future, and he has much more potential than Dugan." β
Rand finally agreed to Count Joason, although Tierney is a relational household, he is a relational household that can enter and exit the palace, even if it is good to let this kid stay in Dragon's Tooth City first to help deliver the news.
Tierney did not descend with Rand because he had to say goodbye to his father, uncles, and Liel Jom.
When Rand went back, he saw the complete form of the arbor elf, like a 1.6-meter-gray girl with gray and green hair, with two teams of huge bee butterflies with blue and green wings behind her.
"Little Tierney, are you leaving?" The big goblin hugged Tierney, very reluctant. "Who will play with me when you leave~"
"Liel, don't be sad, I should come to see you in a few days" Tierney, who is a knight, actually snuggled into the arms of the big goblin.
Rand was still thinking, isn't that big goblin all 200 years old? Sure enough, under the seat of the fairy queen, the life span of the big goblin is indeed longer.
"Riel has watched Tierney grow up since he was a child, and if it weren't for her help, Tierney wouldn't be a junior knight now," the Count explained to Lante.
But at this moment, Rand finally knew that although old Corbyn didn't look down on his so-called earl title, he never left this shrine.
It is estimated that it is because there is a big goblin of Liel Arbor, with the protection of the big goblin, their family can't wait to produce high-level professionals for generations, even if the family is downtrodden in wealth and status (in fact, no, the earl is not self-appointed, the salary is still very considerable, and the demon plants around Longtai Mountain are also picked casually by his family), but talents are produced from generation to generation, and sooner or later they can rise.
In short, Rand's boss has reached the ceiling of career development, so he began to rot, but he didn't think that the state he was in after he was rotten now was what Count Maned Wolf had ever dreamed of.
Some people sell themselves for the sake of their family and bloodline, in exchange for nothing, but some people sit on the inheritance and open up, and the joys and sorrows of the world are indeed different. Rand sighed as he descended the mountain.
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At 3 o'clock in the afternoon, Grea came to the chamber of commerce in Rand and came to rub the bus back to school.
"Liel Arbor? I've seen her, she's one of the most powerful elves that Queen Tyriana has ever sat down, and she's usually in charge of the growth of trees on Longtai Mountain. Gurrea listened to Rand talk about his experience on Longtai Mountain today, and gave Rand a further introduction to the magic elf.
"I've heard that you've done several songs with completely different styles on the Plains of the Galloping Horse?"
Gulya mentioned Rant's level of creativity that shocked the locals, which made Rand a little ashamed for a while.
"Have you ever sung a song about dragons?"
"Also... There really is," Rand thought about it, and really remembered a song related to dragons, "There's a "Clear Sky Rhapsody"
"Ahh
Just because of some little past,
As if seeing your former self,
Da la
Don't know why it's so,
Just thinking about flying directly to the sky,
into the form of willfulness,
Coming back and forth as your mood changes
It seems that it was like this from the beginning, not in my own heart
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I have the courage to change into, the wings behind you,
No matter how much time counts, my magic is as good as ever,
For the first encounter, a bouquet of flowers is offered
It's just this moment that we connect, even if we can't communicate, as long as tomorrow is as normal. β
"This is, describing dragons?"
"I heard that a song was written by a dragon about himself." Rand didn't know if the dragon maid animation song in her previous life was considered a dragon song, but Gurea had definitely never heard such a cheerful song.
"That must be a gentle dragon"