Chapter 2 Border City Boys
Longwei Empire, the small city of Roland.
Roland is a small city located on the northern border of the Longwei Empire, and such a small city is not a thousand but eight hundred for a behemoth like the Longwei Empire. As in many stories, our protagonist was born in such a small place because of his humble background.
Perhaps because of its proximity to the famous Forest of Death, there seems to be something strange in the air in Roland's town. It was early in the morning, the air was still fresh, and a faint mist emanated from the Forest of the Dead enveloped the town in it.
Because of its geographical location close to the Forest of Death, Roland Town still has a lot of mercenaries and adventurers who come to explore, and it can be regarded as a prosperous place.
Of course, as the saying goes, "There are beggars in prosperous places." "Although the small town of Roland is a little prosperous, there are still many poor people, such as our upcoming hero comrade, although he is not a beggar.
The small town of Roland, a place far from the bustling city, has two simple rooms, barely able to withstand the wind and rain. Such a house is only inhabited by the poor even in a place like Roland's small town. Wisps of cooking smoke rose from the chimney above the house, and it seemed that the owner of the house was cooking.
"Alan, hurry up, the meal is ready, let's eat!" a sweet voice came, with a unique youthful atmosphere.
"Oh, Zhilu said! There is a teenager lying on a wooden bed at the moment, and the boy is rolling over and over on the bed with the quilt!
"Anyway, I was really tired from chopping wood last night, and I still have a little pain all over my body?" thought the young man, who had woken up slightly. A young man named Alan rubbed his eyes, sniffed vigorously with his nose, and smelled the aroma in the air, Allen was in a good mood.
"Ha Luha, sister, what did you do today? it smells so good!" Alan said as he drooled. Completely disregarding their own image.
In fact, if Alan hadn't been dressed in tatters, his hair was messy, and the eye droppings hanging from the corners of his eyes, he would have been a handsome guy.
'This is the rabbit you called yesterday and made me stew, hehe. Hurry up and wash up! Allen's sister, the girl with the sweet voice, said with a smile.
"Okay!" Alan said heartily, and after a splash, Alan quickly finished washing, and Alan's sister Avril looked at her brother from the side, and couldn't help but smile and shake her head.
Wipe off the water on your face and tidy up your messy hair. [Our protagonist is finally officially unveiled!]
A delicate-looking teenager jumped in front of him, with pale blue eyebrows, a slightly pale face, and a sunny smile unique to the teenager, Alan is still quite handsome. The body is slightly thin, but it may be due to the frequent chopping of wood and hunting, which makes the whole person look quite sturdy.
Allen's parents died when Allen was very young, so young that Allen has no memory of his parents at all. In his memory, Alan has always been dependent on his sister Avril. My sister Avril is sixteen years old, three years older than Alan. Alan was raised by his sister, and with the house left by his parents and some money, the two siblings have not yet been reduced to the point of begging. It's just that the money left by their parents at the beginning did not seem to be a lot, and in this ordinary life, it has been almost consumed in a few years. Fortunately, by this time, the siblings had grown up, and Avril found a job washing vegetables in a tavern, relying on a meager income to support herself and her brother Alan.
Alan also became sensible when he was a little older, and after seeing his sister working so hard day by day, Alan was not idle, and he went to the mountains to chop wood when he had nothing to do, or hunted some small animals and sold them to taverns and restaurants, and made a little more money than Avril's.
Avril and Alan's life is very simple every day, no, just after eating, Avril cleaned up the dishes and chopsticks and said a word to Alan and left, the tavern where Avril worked was not too far from their residence, and it would be there in a while. After Avril left, Alan rested for a while, rubbed his slightly sore muscles, he chopped too much wood yesterday, and now he hasn't recovered a little?
However, Alan has become accustomed to this, and from a very young age, Alan has been responsible for chopping wood every day, and then Avril will cook for him. After all, the parents are gone, the sisters and brothers can only rely on themselves, although Avril is older than Allen, but girls are naturally inferior to boys in strength, so Allen took over jobs such as chopping firewood. ,
When he saw a lot of small animals in the mountains when he was chopping wood, Alan started his mind and came up with various ways to try to catch them every day, and it was naturally difficult to succeed at first, but after a long time of experience and experience, hunting was not too difficult for Allen. And Alan also asked the old hunters in the town about the experience of hunting, because Alan is young, his mouth is sweet, and the people nearby also know that the life of these two sisters and brothers is not easy, so the old hunters are also willing to tell Alan about the skills of hunting.
Alan is very smart, some skills are thorough, after a few practices, Alan has been able to master the skills of hunting very well, every time he goes up the mountain to chop wood, Alan will set up some traps or ropes in the place where the animals are infested, and then wait until the evening when he goes home to pass there, there is a harvest. Sometimes a rabbit is trapped, sometimes a pheasant is clamped, and in short, there is a little harvest almost every day.
When Alan returned home, he would sell the wood he had chopped, and the rest of the small game could be sold, and he had saved a lot of money in the past two years with Alan and Avril's frugality. Alan didn't want to be so frugal, but Avril said that she would save money and wait for Alan to grow up so that she could marry her daughter-in-law.
Every time I see my sister looking tired after returning from work in a hotel, I feel uncomfortable. Alan Zhidao Generally speaking, girls at my sister's age are very beautiful, just like the daughter of the city lord, dressed up every day and walking between the streets and alleys.
Alan Zhilu said that in fact, his sister is very beautiful, much more beautiful than the daughter of the bewitching city lord, but it is because the clothes she wears are relatively ordinary that she is not so conspicuous. Alan also wants to buy a new dress for his sister, so during this time, Alan spends a lot more time chopping wood every day than every day, just to sell it for more money, and then go and buy a beautiful dress for her sister to give to her on her sister's birthday. Alan seemed to see his sister look after putting on the new clothes he bought, it was a beautiful and moving! Alan thought about how his sister would look in the new clothes, and he was chopping wood hard.
In fact, hunting can also make money, and the money earned is much more than chopping wood, but Alan can only catch small prey now, and small prey is worthless. As for the larger prey, it is naturally very valuable, and Alan has not thought about it, but it is not feasible for the time being, because large beasts such as tigers and wolves have strong attack power, and it is difficult to set up small traps to catch, and it is difficult to set up large traps with Allen's strength, such as larger traps, which cannot be broken with Allen's current strength.
However, Allen believes that with his hunting skills, if he is bigger, he will definitely be able to catch wild wolves and tigers and other fierce beasts, and at that time, the big and small beasts living around Roland Town will live under their own "obscenity" after all, and this land will eventually witness its own glory.