Taking advantage of the night, the Locke family returned to Maple Leaf Village with the Hans family.

Originally, a few relatives in the town wanted to stay with Locke, but because there were too many people, Locke politely refused.

In addition to the two families, Kane also returned with him.

More than ten people walked towards Maple Leaf Village in the evening, and they were not bored, there were talking and laughing along the way, and Locke and his family had endless words.

However, Kane didn't talk much as if he had something on his mind, much to the surprise of Locke and Hans, who knew his character well.

When I returned to Maple Leaf Village, it was already late at night, with only a full moon and a little starlight dotted in the night sky.

The two families said goodbye and returned to their homes.

Hans had a large family, a large house, and many rooms, so Kane was called over to sleep in a room with Hans.

Locke's home was small, with only two bedrooms in the house.

Old Locke and Tia have been very excited since they saw their son, holding Locke's hand and asking long and short questions.

Six years ago, little Locke was only half a child, and six years later, Locke has grown a head taller than old Locke.

In the end, it was Leah who stood up and forcibly pushed the second elder back to the bedroom to rest, both of whom were old.

Locke looked at the sister who hadn't spoken much today, and Locke wanted to say some greetings, but he couldn't say anything, and he didn't know where to start.

Old Locke and Tia were pushed back to the bedroom by their daughter, and shouted, "You guys should rest early!" and soon fell silent.

After a hard day's work, they were already tired.

Only Locke and Leah were left in the room.

"The silk scarf is beautiful. Locke pointed to the silk scarf tied around Leah's hair, the first thing he said to his sister when he returned, besides greetings.

"Hmm. Leah bowed her head.

"Let's rest, too. Seeing that the atmosphere was awkward and that it was not too early, Locke proposed.

"Good. ”

Locke returned to his bedroom only to realize how stupid the suggestion he had just made was.

His bedroom is also Leah's, Locke was only 14 years old when he joined the army, and he and Leah have always slept in the same bedroom.

Even when he was a child, because he thought the bed was small, he used to make a bed with his sister and squeezed into his sister's arms to sleep.

It was when he was a child, and he was now 19 years old, and it was not appropriate to sleep in a room with his sister at this time, but Locke couldn't find a place to rest on this big night.

"Go to your bed and sleep. Leah pointed to Locke's cot and said as if she didn't care, as if Locke was still the same as back then, just her little brother.

Leah said so, and Locke stopped being timid, took off his armor, and slept with his clothes.

Leah untied the silk scarf that bound her hair, and her beautiful long hair fell like a waterfall, and she pulled her long hair to her chest, and Leah lay on her bed.

The only thing that separated the two of them at this time was a small bedside table.

Locke had been riding a horse for several days, and had hardly slept well for a day, and it stands to reason that he was already tired, but at this time, lying in his bed, smelling the familiar fragrance, he couldn't sleep.

It wasn't until the sun rose over the distant mountains and forests that Locke fell asleep in a daze.

When he woke up again, it was noon the next day, and when he suddenly opened his eyes, Locke touched the scabbard with his left hand but didn't touch anything, only to remember that he had gone home and the war was over.

As if remembering something, Locke glanced sideways at the next bed, but there was no one.

Stretching, Locke shook his stiff muscles, "Pyrro, pyrro" bones with a crunching sound.

The armor and sword remained untouched, still in the room, and Locke walked out of the room in a military uniform.

In the yard, her mother Tia was already feeding the chickens, her sister Leah was chopping wood, and a pot of soup was boiling in the stove on one side.

"I'll do it!" Locke walked up to his sister Leah and snatched the axe from Leah's hand without saying anything.

At this time, Leah put on her previous coarse linen clothes again, and her head was wrapped in a towel, although it was much worse than yesterday's beautiful appearance, but Locke preferred the way her sister looked now.

Telling his sister to stay away, Locke shook his arm and began chopping wood.

It is not too easy for Locke, who has trained his muscles as a soldier, to chop wood, not to mention that he is still a powerhouse at the level of a low-level squire, and it will not take long for him to neatly chop a one-person-high stack of firewood.

Enough for a family for a week.

While chopping wood, he asked, "Where did my father go?"

Up to now, Locke hasn't seen old Locke.

"I went to the field to pick up potatoes and rice potatoes, and today I ate rice potato stew with chicken and mashed potatoes. Mother Tia squinted and smiled.

There is not much good food at home, and the son has finally come back after so many years, and the old couple has long discussed what to do.

Locke didn't have to guess to know that the stewed chicken was these old hens in the yard, and he didn't care.

According to Locke's current property, half of it is enough for the family to have no worries about food and clothing for the rest of their lives, and there is no need to save on food and drink.

He had already made up his mind to buy a property in the town under the rule of the Baron's Castle after a while, and when his reward was over, he would buy a manor and provide for his parents.

He hadn't forgotten the knighthood that Prince Kensel had promised.

It's not a rush to tell your parents beforehand, and surprise them when the time comes, Locke thought.

While Locke was chopping wood, Leah was not idle, and went to the house to get a lot of vegetable leaves and condiments to make the pot of soup even more fragrant.

Not long after Locke Sr. returned, the family was already happily sitting around a table for lunch, which was the first time Locke had eaten with his family in five years.

Hans and Kane next door were also attracted by the fragrant chicken, and they filled a stool with thick skin and sat down.

These two have just woken up, and sleeping at home is more comfortable than when they were soldiers outside, and the soldiers who are not on duty still sleep until three strokes in the sun.

For seven days, Locke stayed at home with his family.

Either follow old Locke to his own field in the back hills, or help his mother and sister with some housework at home.

"Don't want these old clothes, let's change them into new ones. Locke said, pointing to the old clothes that his sister Leah had sewn in her hand.

"This dress is fine, why not. Mother Tia was the first to stand up against it.

"We're not short of money. Locke was speechless, he had just learned that his parents had saved most of the money he had sent back over the years.

"You don't spend money to ask your daughter-in-law, don't you spend money to build a new house?" Although the mother Tia has always been good-tempered, when she explodes, she is not much different from the neighbor Aunt Mary.

Locke really wanted to say to his mother, of the three women your son has courted, two are amazingly rich, and one can make money, and we don't need to spend any money at all.

Indeed, Angelina doesn't need to be said, she is the princess of Faustin, if Locke can really marry, then do you need any bride price, Angelina's dowry alone is estimated to be able to buy several mining towns.

Grace too, Locke has not forgotten the spatial equipment in her and Christine's hands, which contained many precious items when they left the treasury of Marquis Philip's palace, and exchanged it for Dele to drown a person alive.

There is also the heavy armor that Locke wears very hard, and it is even more rare equipment, there are only two pieces of the entire Charlot, and you can guess its value, and only high-level squires can break through the armor.

Of course, there is Xia Qian in the end, Locke only left her a few hundred silver Dele, and she earned back more than ten times in a blink of an eye, and her business acumen should not be too strong.

Locke can't say these things directly to his family, Angelina's identity can't be revealed casually, and the fact that Grace, Xia Qian's four daughters, and Charlotte can't be said.

Locke had no choice but to accept his mother Tia's small-peasant mentality.

These days, Locke noticed that something was wrong with Kane, this guy looked at his sister exactly the same way he looked at Xia Qian at the beginning.

Somehow, Locke felt a little uncomfortable, and although everyone was good brothers, he felt as if his things were being spied on by others, and Locke hated this feeling.

Fortunately, Leah has always had a lukewarm attitude towards Kane, which made Rock feel a lot better.

However, Kane's confidence has suffered a serious blow, and this guy has been in low spirits for several days because of Leah's cold reception.

In fact, it wasn't that Leah treated him coldly, but that Leah was like this to her suitors, and after only knowing each other for two days, Leah felt what her brother, a comrade-in-arms, meant to her.

It's a pity that Leah is not interested in him, if Kane wasn't Locke's comrade-in-arms, Leah would have treated him like the other men in the town, without pretense.

This period at home can be said to be Locke's most leisurely time.

Get up every morning to box, chat with your parents and sister, and go to catch a few wild animals in the back mountains and forests with Kane and Hans soldiers when you have nothing to do, don't be too comfortable.

Yesterday Locke thought about it, but still took out some of his savings, not much, just ten kindlers, so as not to scare his relatives.

But the first time Locke and Tia saw it, they saw Kindler as Copper Deller.

"Why is this Dele's head wearing a crown?" Old Locke frowned, and his eyes widened to see that he was afraid of encountering fake money.

When Locke told him that this was Kindler, the old couple grabbed Locke and asked if it was stolen, Locke couldn't cry or laugh, he was a squadron leader of a cavalry squadron, and he was guilty of stealing chickens and dogs?

You can't blame Old Locke and Tia for making a fuss, ten Kindler is a full thousand silver Deller, Locke has been sending military salaries to his family all these years, and the money that Old Locke and his family have saved is only a hundred Silver Deller, which is enough to make up a decent bride price and marry a decent daughter-in-law.

From the appearance of Locke taking out so much money casually, the old couple just sighed that their son was out of business, and they no longer mentioned saving money for him to beg for a daughter-in-law, the girls and old couples in the village were no longer eye-catching, and someone like his Locke was so promising, and he was not allowed to go to the town, or even the baron's town to find a better one.

The old couple didn't want this money, because they had lived so old, so why did they need money, but Locke had to give it to his parents, saying that it was filial piety.

The once naughty and thin son also knew that he had done his filial piety, and old Locke was fine, and Tia couldn't stop wiping her tears.

On this day, Locke and Hans and others went to the back mountain to hunt game, not because the domestic chickens were not fragrant, but after all, they were poultry raised by their parents for several years, and they also had some feelings, and a few chickens were not enough for a few big stomachs, or those roe deer, hares, and guinea pigs on the back mountain were more chewy.

In addition to the three Locke, there were several soldiers accompanying him, all from Maple Leaf Village, hoping to take this opportunity to make friends with the two squadron leaders.

Until the evening, the group came down from the mountain talking and laughing, each covered with booty.

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