In a blink of an eye, the handsome young man in the tavern married Lucy, who was full of freckles, and gave birth to a little Chris......

Ike Lehrer's hair still hasn't grown, in Bernie Lele's words, it's been burned by the fire of the stove, helping his father to make iron, Ike is already a stout teenager, he is fourteen years old this year.

Lance Ramson, who is a year younger than Ike, has also grown taller, has longer hair, looks more and more like his mother, and is a beautiful handsome guy.

"Lance, Uncle Candita and Aunt Keith are not at home?" A stout, bald boy who was very different from his age, came to Lance's house with a long cloth bag, and looked in, his nervous expression could not suppress his excitement.

"No, come in!" Lance's lazy voice came from the room, and after making sure that Uncle Candita and Aunt Case were not at home, Ike was no longer nervous, and rushed to Lance's room with an excited face:

"Guess I've brought you something good?" the mysterious Ike placed the cloth bag in front of Lance, who had just woken up, with an unconcealed excitement on his face.

Seeing the cloth bag in Ike's hand, the listless Lance also showed excitement on his face, and he was so excited that he was a little speechless.

"Open it, open it up. Lance urged Ike to open the cloth bag.

"Wow......" As the cloth bag was opened, both of them couldn't help but show more excited expressions on their faces.

"Ike, tell me, where did you get that?" Lance stroked the blade of the sword with his hand and nudged Ike with his elbow.

"What if I told you I stole my father?" Ike rubbed his shiny head and looked at Lance with pride on his face, he didn't think it was a dishonorable thing.

Hearing Ike's rhetorical question, Lance was stunned for a moment, and then gave a thumbs up to Ike: "Ike, well done, the 'Sword of Faith' and the 'Sword of Courage' finally have real swords!"

Grandpa Laurie said that the "Seven Warriors" of the year charged and slashed in the "Plague Demon" group, and they all had a distance to charge, thinking of this, the two teenage boys wrapped their long swords and walked towards the outside of the village in a hurry.

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"Ike, what's going on? A friend who used to play the game of "Seven Warriors Sealing the Plague Demon" together, saw Ike and Lance, put down his hoe and said loudly.

"Brooke, take up your weapon and fight alongside me. Ike said solemnly to Brooke, causing the adults in the field to laugh, but these laughs were different from the laughter of watching the bald little fat man holding a wooden stick as a sword when he was a child, and there was more of a mockery.

"When is Uncle Bernie going to make you a true sword of faith?" Brooke taunted Ike, causing Lance next to him to blush a little, ready to pull Rick away from entanglement with them.

The stubborn Ike, his face was slightly red, Ike and Lance were still young before, and playing the "Seven Warriors" game was a child's entertainment, but now they are so old, seeing Ike's appearance, Old Bernie is angry and doesn't fight together, and Ike is often beaten by Old Bernie because of this. Lance was better, Lance's father Candilta had a better temper than Bernie, and when he saw that his son was still playing the game of "Seven Warriors", he didn't stop him too much, as long as his son was happy.

"I want to be a real warrior. Ike always longed to become a hero admired by all the people like the "Seven Warriors".

"What do you think this is?" Icke tore open the cloth bag twice, showing off the two long swords inside, handed one to Lance, and held the sword on his chest, Lance took the sword, but only held it.

Seeing this, Brooke and the others in the field were stunned for a moment, and then laughed so hard that they beat their chests, but they took pity on Ike and Lance, and came out happily to be laughed at......

The village was already small, and the movement here provoked the others to look at this side as well, and Lance wanted to find a crack in the ground to drill into, but Ike still said seriously: "I will definitely become a true sword of faith." After speaking, he put his hand around Lance's shoulder: "My brother, Lance, you will definitely become a true sword of courage." ”

When I was a child, so many friends played the role of "Seven Warriors" to seal the "plague demon", and now only the two of them are left, and the rest have either become farmers, or become hunters or go to the town to do some chores for the old man's family, like little Chris is willing to play, but it is too young, and Ike and Lance are not willing to play with them.

Seeing that Lance didn't react, Ike squeezed Lance's shoulder with his hand, his eyes were full of anticipation, Lance was infected by Ike's firm emotion, and also put the long sword on his chest: "I will definitely become a sword of courage too." "It's just that Ike doesn't have as much confidence as he does.

At this time, everyone laughed even more, and more people joined in laughing at them.

"Ike, Lance. Bernie's angry roar rang in his ears. The others went about their farm work, turning their heads around and pretending not to see anything, and everyone knew that Old Bernie was going to beat little Ike again.

Bernie had just returned from the town, and he had sent two fewer swords, and he was ridiculed by the guards that he was old and had a bad memory, and that he could just send it over after he built it, who would have thought that it was Ike, the little bastard, who had stolen it, if he hadn't heard the movement here, this time he would have really let these two little bastards succeed.

No accident, the village once again staged a good show of "old Bernie chasing and beating little Ike", but everyone is not new, when he was a child, he pulled his ears, and when he grew up, Lance was a little embarrassed, every time the two of them got into trouble, it was Ike who was beaten, and the two in his own family were much gentle.

"The real sword feels so good in your hand, even if it's a little heavier. After seeing Ike being chased away by Uncle Bernie, Lance reminisced about the time when he held the long sword on his chest, and at that moment he felt that he was really the sword of courage.

Lance was used to this situation, and Uncle Bernie would definitely punish Icke for not eating at noon, and he had to go back and ask his mother to get more bread and send it to Ike.

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"Lance and Ike are in trouble again today? Candita put down the axe in her hand and asked Keith, who was cooking in the house.

"Hey, ask him yourself. Lance, who was next to him, looked at his mother who was cooking, and pouted.

"Lance, tell me what's going on?" Candita asked, taking off her coat and taking a basin of water from Lance, as she wiped herself.

Lance told his father everything that had happened this morning, and his father laughed when he heard it, and the two fellows became more and more emboldened, and dared to steal the sword.

"Keith, get some more food, and I'll get Bernie for a drink later. Candita looked at Lance, who was grimacing at him, and patted him on the head gently: "Go and cut down ten trees after eating, and come back, it will be considered your punishment! ”

Since Lance was ten years old, Candita would ask Lance to go outside the village every few days to cut down trees, and then drag or carry the trees back alone, some of them were sold to the merchants in the town, and some of them were used as firewood in the house.

When Lance cut down a tree for the first time, from morning to sunset, he cut a tree that was the thickness of his arm, and Candita on the side just told him how to chop it to be more effective, and didn't mean to help, Candita would follow most of the time in the first year, and in the second year, he found that this kid was not far from the village, anyway, it was not far from the village, fortunately, he let him cut it himself, as long as he brought home the required amount, sometimes Lance would call Ike to help, Candita didn't say anything.

For three years, he only repeated a chopping action, Candita only told him to cut more and sell it for money, and give him a gift after he had a coming-of-age ceremony, Lance still trusted his father Candita very much, Candita promised him and never broke his promise, so Lance always worked hard to complete the task given by Candita, as long as it was completed, Candita would let him and Ike "fool around", and there was a premise that there was less trouble.

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When Candita came to Bernie's house, he was watching Ike kneel in front of old Bernie with a stone in each hand, he had long been accustomed to such things, which was very gentle, and remembered that when Lance was eleven years old, he was taken by Ike to play with fire, and almost burned down Stephen's house, and Bernie beat Ike in bed for four days......

"Bernie, what did Ike do wrong?" Candita asked Bernie, pretending not to know.

Bernie said roughly what Lance said about **** is not far from ten, and Candita patiently listened to it and learned Bernie's tone: "These two little bastards are too bold, they should fight, next time they will fight with Lance." ”

Candita's words were exchanged for Bernie's disdain: "If you really want to beat Lance, you won't come to me with wine." Bernie took a look at the things in Candita's hand in an accentuated tone on the word 'wine', Candita laughed, poured a glass of wine and didn't greet Bernie, and began to eat on his own, Bernie is not easy for such a rough man to bring up Ike, he can't die of hunger but he can't eat well, he is also happy to eat and drink with Candita, who let Candita have a daughter-in-law who cooks deliciously.

Candita gave Ike a wink, and Bernie didn't say much, and Ike smiled at Uncle Candita and ran away.

"Bernie, you're still reluctant to let Ike practice swordsmanship?" Candita looked at him after taking a sip of her drink.

......Seeing that Bernie didn't speak, Candita continued, "Sooner or later, the kids will go out and have their dreams, and we can't be selfish to tie them down here. I don't care if you teach Ike or not, I'm going to teach Lance how to use a sword. ”

Bernie put down his glass, sighed, and took another sip.

"Ike is so old now, you should let go of Fanny's matter, you don't blame you for that matter, and you can't mistake Ike because of this. Candita touched the cup lightly with Bernie.

Hearing Fanny's name, Bernie sighed deeply and emptied the cup as Candita filled it again, and the atmosphere became a little awkward......

The sound of "grunting" came from Bernie's throat, and he drank the cup empty again, and put the cup on the table with a dull sound, as if he had made a lot of determination.

Candita laughed when she saw Bernie's movements, and poured the rest of the wine to Bernie, who had known him for so many years, and of course knew the old guy well.

The two little ones have worshiped the "Seven Warriors" since they were young, and the two old ones were not like this when they were young!

"Bernie, this kid is just as stubborn as you were back then, with the same stinky temper, but just as righteous enough. Candita patted Bernie on the shoulder, and the two looked at each other before laughing.

"It's been so many years since Fanny's thing, Ike is so old, you have to find another one to take care of you, I can't guarantee that Ike won't run out like you and not go back!" Candita had asked this question many times, and now that Ike was a big kid, Bernie should have his life.

"Alas......" Bernie is always sad at the mention of Fanny, but after all these years, he almost can't remember his face, and now Ike is grown.

The two old guys hugged each other, which was a comfort.