Iron Power And Sorcerer

Iron Power And Sorcerer Chapter 36

2022-01-17

Chapter 36 Getting Home
Winters unfathomable mystery laughs at the end of Doctor Pissed off The customs boss took a small bag of jingling money, and was pinned to the third-class customs service medal by the boss.

Amid the out-of-tune march played by a makeshift orchestra, Winters and Bud carry Major Moritz on a stretcher and are pulled out of the S.A. prison.

The heavy prison door behind him slammed shut with a bang, and thirty-three warrant officers and a seriously wounded major were thrown into the Prison Sect.

So that's it?

Where are we going now?

What about Major General Layton?
The midshipmen are staring at small eyes with big eyes.

"Anyway, get some carriages first! Take the major back to the War Office." Winters raised his suggestion. Ning Yisi goes in, Mo Yisi stops, it’s better to find a car than to stand stupidly. Can’t everyone take turns carrying the major back to the Army Headquarters?
His contemporaries obviously felt that this statement made sense. If someone is willing to take the lead, things will be easy to handle. Immediately there were a few active people looking for the carry.

"Hey! I said why did the bastard from customs give us money?" Andre slapped his thigh heavily: "Emotionally, this is the money for us to take a taxi!"

Anti-smuggling The location of the company is very remote, unlike the wharf where there are always chauffeurs waiting to pick up the work. The warrant officers managed to stop two serious carriages, and they brought in two mule carts and a hay donkey cart from a nearby farm.

But when allocating seats, no one wants to ride a donkey cart. The mule cart has at least a small carriage. This donkey cart is just a wooden board with two wheels added, and there is no cover.

Everyone is an officer anyway, so you can't be a warrant officer as a cadre, right? It's a shame to ride this little donkey cart.

"Come on guys, stop dilly-dallying." Winters said resignedly, "I took the major in a donkey cart, and the carriage wouldn't fit the stretcher anyway."

Warrant Officer They happily went to grab a seat. Major Moritz, who was still unconscious, was arranged by Winters to be perfectly clear without knowing it.

"You should also follow the carriage, this donkey cart really loses your share." Deep in one's heart Winters, like his contemporaries, also thought it was a shame to ride a donkey cart.

But who made him ask for a car just now? If you come out of this head, you have to suffer this hardship.

"I'm from the United Province." Bud laughed heartily: "This is not my hometown, and no one in Hailan City knows me."

"Alas." Winters sighed: "But this is my hometown."

---the dividing line---

The guards outside the gate of the Vineta Army Headquarters watched the four big, one small, five animal-drawn vehicles parked At the entrance of the military headquarters, they were just about to step forward to reprimand these hillbilly coachmen who didn't know the immensity of heaven and earth, when they saw a large group of youngsters in military uniforms file out of the carriage like a conjuration.

In this era, epaulettes and armbands have not yet been invented. The way to identify soldiers and officers is to look at the shape of the clothes, while the way to identify officers and higher-level officers is to look at the material and decorations of the clothes .

Therefore, although the cadets of the army officer cadets are wearing summer cadets, they are also formal officer uniforms. The guards of the army headquarters are experienced and knowledgeable, and they will never be mistaken.

Several guards did not dare to neglect, and immediately sent one person to report to the headquarters building.

The Army Headquarters was also agitated by the Junior Brothers who were suddenly released. At first, everyone vaguely felt that this was not a good thing. The fighters are already secretly preparing guys.

No one didn't expect the customs to be so high-pitched. Seeing that the customs are so pragmatic that they don't even want to face, the army headquarters is quite shocked.

But fortunately, the army officers were very efficient and quickly dealt with this sudden occurrence.

Major Moritz is taken over by paramedics.

Warrant officers are taken to complete the check-in process and registered.

The warrant officers who reported in were divided into two groups. The warrant officers who didn't live in Hailan City were taken to the officers' club for placement, while the warrant officers from Hailan City completed the registration process and returned to their respective places. Each family finds its own mother.

Winters and Bud were temporarily separated, and Bud went to live in the officers' club. At the fourth junction outside the gate of the Army Headquarters, he and Andre also said goodbye temporarily, and each set foot on their way home.

Six years have passed, and the city has changed a lot. The bumpy old streets are paved with new stone, and many of the shops and buildings he remembers have changed signs, but there are always some things that have not changed. Can be used as a road sign.

Winters followed the memory to find his way home.

When he opened the courtyard door and stood in front of the familiar, beautiful, single-family stone second layer building, he suddenly felt a little panic for no reason.

He took a deep breath and knocked on the clasp on the door.

"Who is it?" A crisp female voice came from far away in the room.

Although the voice had changed, Winters could still make out the voice, a smile on his face: "It's me."

The door was opened a crack , stuck out a small head, and blinked at him with big eyes like Uncle Winters: "Brother! You're back!"

The door was pushed open suddenly, and the girl rushed out and hung on it On Winters' neck, he turned back to the room and loudly shouted: "Mom! My brother is back!"

Winters was again frightened by this sudden intimacy, and he didn't know how to respond awkwardly, so he had to Lightly stroked the girl's hair.

"Aiyo, let go of your hand and let your big brother in." A dignified and dignified 30th-generation woman with high nose and deep eyes, black hair and phoenix eyebrows, hurried out and put The girl was pulled from Winters' neck.

But she couldn't help but shed tears, stretched out her arms and hugged her baby nephew tightly.

She grabbed Winters by the shoulders and pushed him away, taking two seconds to study Winters carefully. Pulling Winters closer again, kissing Winters on the cheek. The more she cried, the more fierce she became. She couldn't even speak clearly, and she couldn't stop murmuring: "It's back, it's back."

Winters now feels like a rag doll played by girl, Played casually like a puppet, he replied with a grin: "Auntie, I'm back."

For normal people, family is a vague gender existence, and people rarely use beauty Ugly to describe family. Handsome men and women walking down the road may attract attention, but people rarely look closely at the faces of their family members.

Even because it is too familiar and too unfamiliar to be with family members day and night, the faces of family members are in their minds, but many people cannot accurately describe them.

So Winters will not look at these two women in terms of beauty and ugliness. Although he feels at a loss now, this is just a normal reaction of adults being treated as children. He only feels that he is around them. I am very at ease.

"Mom, let me go and let my brother in." The girl pulled her mother's arm in dissatisfaction, saving Winters from her aunt's naked strangulation.

"Yes, yes, look at me like this." Aunt Winters wiped her tears and smiled and wanted to help Winters with her luggage.

Winters Of course, it was impossible for the woman to help her with things. The aunt did not force her to lead Winters into the door. The girl grabbed Winters' left arm and hung it on Winters.

The older woman is Kesha Serbiati, Winters' aunt. The girl was Winters' cousin, Elizabeth Serbia, whose uncle and aunt named their daughter after Winters mother.

On entering the house, Winters saw a burly ginger yellow cat coming out of the living room.

The climate of sea blue is warm, so cats are petite in order to dissipate heat. However, this orange cat has a well-developed bone mass, high shoulders and thick legs, and a short stature, but it looks different from the local cats.

The big cat's tail stood upright, and the tip of the tail was bent into a hook. He walked slowly from the room to Winters' feet with a vigor, and rubbed Winters' trouser legs with his cheeks recklessly. , making a purring sound.

"Great General!" Winters scratched the top of the cat's skull and the fur on the cat's back. Just as he was about to reach out to touch the fat on the big cat's belly again, the big cat gave him an indifference. Shaking his head, he walked away again with eight-character steps.

"The Great General still recognizes me." Winters said happily to his aunt and cousin, not feeling disgusted by the cat at all.

"How could I not recognize you?"

"Where's the little general?"

Go through the door and walk through a short corridor, turn right and you will find the living room. Speaking of demons, the demons arrived. Winters had just arrived in the living room and sat down when a civet cat that was smaller than a ginger yellow cat ran out barking "baabaa".

"Little General!"

The raccoon cat jumped on Winters with a kick on its hind legs, its claws pierced through the clothes, and Winters sucked in a cold breath of air, and Winters was busy He hugged the little general with his right hand, otherwise the raccoon cat would have scratched a few bloodstains if he tried harder.

The little general blew and rubbed his cheek against Winters' collar, licked Winters' chin, and scratched Winters with his barbed tongue.

"Haha, why is the general so enthusiastic?" Winters reluctantly looked towards his aunt: "But the claws should be cut."

"I miss you so much." to answer.

"Go away, you." The girl unceremoniously grabbed the civet cat by the back of the neck and lifted it up, and put the civet cat on the ground.

The raccoon cat refused to give up, and kept circling around Winters' feet, barking endlessly, like a chatterbox. Instead of "meowing" like other cats, it makes short "baa" sounds.

"Look, look, you're really a young man." Kesha sat on Winters' right hand, holding Winters' right hand and said sentimentally: "This eyebrow really has your mother. Elizabeth (referring to Winters mother) will be very happy to see you as an adult.”

This is the second time Winters has heard the elder say who he is like when he comes home, and the feelings are said alone. one kind?

Winters was not as sentimental as his aunt. He smiled and said to his aunt, "Really? Lieutenant Colonel also said that I was like my father."

"hmph!" Staring, eyebrows raised: "How come? Look at your nose, hair color, eyes, this is the bloodline of the Granach family. I will find you a portrait of your grandfather, you are now and your grandfather when you were young It's exactly the same. The lieutenant colonel is just talking! When he comes back at night I have to take care of him."

The lieutenant colonel is the name of Major General Antonio Seretti at home because he was arguing with his aunt. Aggrievedly replied, "I'm also a lieutenant colonel anyway, and you have to give me some face".

From then on, Kesha called her husband as Lieutenant Colonel, and forced her nephew and daughter to follow suit, so much so that Winters subconsciously shouted out when she saw her uncle in the customs prison. Lieutenant Colonel".

"Ella, take your brother to put down the luggage first." Kesha remembered that Winters had just returned home, and asked with concern, "Are you hungry? It must be at the customs. Didn't you have anything to eat? I'm going to cook for you."

As she spoke, she stood up and walked to the kitchen.

"No need, Auntie." Winters hurriedly stopped Auntie: "I'm not hungry, I'm just a little tired now, I want to sleep for a while."

"How can I not eat? What? I'll make a snack, soon." Kosa walked to the kitchen, ignoring Winters' advice.

In the military academy, Winters was the third-grade monitor; in front of the troopers and civilians, he was an officer; on the Skua, he was a gang-jumping warrior; in Veneta's contemporaneous period, He had a vague sense of being a leader.

But at home, his family status is still child, slightly higher than younger sister and little general, and far lower than Great General. So he could only watch helplessly as his aunt walked through the door to the kitchen.

"Brother, I'll take you back to your room." The girl dragged Winters up from the soft chair in the reception room: "After you leave, mother everyday all will be cleaned by the servants, better than if you didn't go. It was clean when I went to school."

Leaving the living room, through another corridor, and up the stairs to the second floor, Elizabeth smiled and pushed open the familiar door, and the dusty memory followed the door are opened together.

The wood floor has a charred spot where Winters played with fire as a kid. The two wooden swords, one big and one small, that he and his uncle used to learn the sword technique are still leaning against the corner, with a dart board hanging above. The bed was covered with a clean white cloth, and the desk was spotlessly wiped.
"Right? It's cleaner than when you were there, right? It's me who is in charge of checking every day." Among them, nothing was heard.

Winters stroked the familiar old objects and finally opened the wardrobe.

He just opened it casually, wanting to see if the clothes he wore before were still there. But didn't expect to have five or six new clothes hanging neat and tidy in the closet, and they were all adult sizes.

"Your aunt made this for you." Elizabeth's voice came from behind, and she complained to Winters: "Your aunt asked you to measure the size and write a letter to bring it back, but you refused to , she had to estimate the size and make it by herself. After you left, make it every year, and throw it away every year. After finishing it, she didn't dare to send it to you, so she just put it here, saying that she was afraid that you would go home without clothes to wear. "

"I can only wear cadet uniforms in the military school. It is useless to send me the size. Three sets of cadet uniforms are enough." At the cupboard door, he smiled and said to the younger sister: "It's you, do you still have a tutor at home?"

The girl shook her hair: "I'm long past the age for a tutor to teach. , I'm studying painting with Mrs. Anguissola."

"Learn painting?"

"Yes. Well, Lieutenant Colonel just can't see that I'm idle anyway, must give I'm looking for something to do. The mother is now groaning and thinking about how to marry me."

Winters hearing this laughed heartily: "After all, you're a big girl too."

"But I'm not worried." Elizabeth rolled her eyes a few times and said with a smile: "Anyway, with you, as long as you're not married, it's not me who is the most stressed."

The girl's sharp counterattack made Winters dumbfounded. He put the luggage on the table embarrassingly, and took out the things one by one.

First, some daily gadgets. Then came the more valuable parts: his spell book, some spellcasting material he smuggled out of spell class, his military school manuscripts, class notes, and several actual printed books.

As a digression, it has been more than ten years since the printing press was introduced to Veneta, but Winters in the military school, like the clergy in the past mission schools, mainly used manuscripts and copied books by himself. Because even the books made by the printing process are very expensive, and they are mainly used for things like printed books that are not worry about to sell.

However, this is also a big step forward compared to the past years, because the progress of papermaking has improved the quality of paper and lowered the price. Theologians in the past, the priests wanted to rent books page by page, pay attention to rent not buy, the price of a book is worth a craftsman's income for a whole year. So not only is it expensive to be a priest, it is even more expensive for the priest to study at the God Academy.

It was the improvement of papermaking and the introduction of printing technology that allowed the Alliance Army to imitate the structure of the God Academy at a lower cost and establish a school without tuition to train officers. It is precisely because the Army Officer Academy does not charge tuition fees that it has a strong attraction to a large number of aspiring young people from poor backgrounds.

Now that the digression is over, let's go back to Winters.

After all other small items were taken out, Winters finally took out his satchel from the deepest part.

"Brother, is there blood on this cloth bag?" Elizabeth covered her mouth and criticized out in surprise.

"No." Winters replied calmly, "It's red wine."

This satchel was the satchel that Winters used for the night shift when he met the female thief. He was led to put out the fire again, then lost consciousness and was carried aboard the Skua.

So this bag has never been washed, and there are Winters' bloodstains all over it, spattered when fighting, and rubbed when holding a whistle.

"Really?" The girl was skeptical, she wasn't stupid. But the big brother's tone was not flustered, not like a fake.

Winters opened the bag and carefully took out the thief's dagger, which he put back in the bag after the gang.

Elizabeth's eyes lit up, and she reached for the dagger: "What is this? It's so beautiful."

Winters was startled, raised the dagger high, and held it up. To the place that the younger sister can't reach: "You can be careful, it's a knife."

Winters is tall and has long arms, so the girl can't reach the dagger, so she simply hugged the big brother's The left arm acted like a spoiled child: "Just show it to me. I'll show it, I don't want it, okay?"

"Okay." Winters helplessly: "I'll show it to you, Be careful, it's sharp."

The dagger Winters either shoved into his bag or found it and stabbed people, so this is the first time Winters has taken a closer look at the captured weapon .

The blade of this dagger is about twenty centimeters long and two fingers wide. It looks like a dagger, but it has no guards or a sword grid, and it goes straight up and down.

The sword might have a pattern originally, but because it was used by Winters to release the light spell, the sword turned red and black, and any patterns were covered.

But because of this, the sword body of red black has a strange beauty.

The hilt of the dagger is also without any decoration. A certain leather wraps the wooden handle, and a thin wire of a certain silver metal material is twisted into three strands and wound around the dagger hilt at a finger interval. At the end is a rounded weighted ball.

Winters speculated in his heart that the metal wire on the dagger's handle might be silver. Even if it wasn't silver, just looking at the drawing technique behind the winding of the three strands of metal wire was not something that ordinary craftsmen could do.

Although the blade can't be seen now, when you stab someone on the boat, the dagger enters the human body as smoothly as a hot knife cuts butter, and the steel mouth should be no worse.

Judging from all kinds of evidence, this should be a very good dagger. I can't think that this female thief is very interested in the guy who eats.

"This knife is so beautiful." Taking advantage of her big brother's fascination, Elizabeth took the dagger and gestured in the air.

Winters watched the younger sister clumsily wield this sharp weapon, feeling trembling in fear, fearing that she would make a hole in her body, and said repeatedly: "Ella! Be careful, this dagger is very fast. ”

In fact, Winters is better if he doesn't say it, the more he says the dagger is sharp, the more Elizabeth wants it.

Winters did not realize from the perspective of a man that this dagger was originally used by women. Although the style is simple, it is superior in dainty and delicate and exquisite workmanship, which naturally attracts the attention of girls. Winters "colored" it again with light, and Elizabeth couldn't put it down even more.

Elizabeth hearing this stopped, she blinked, and obediently returned the dagger to her big brother.

Then she picked up Winters' left arm and began to cheat: "Brother, can you give me this knife? Okay? The security in Hailan City is very poor recently, so give me self-protection?"

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"I'm afraid you will hurt yourself."

"I have used the knife in the kitchen, and I have used the paper cutter, and I have never hurt myself." Elizabeth articulated Clever and quick-witted, Winters could not argue with her since she was a child.

"The purpose of the design is different. This dagger is really dangerous. You won't hurt yourself very easily with it." Could it be dangerous? Winters in the heart Forget it, this dagger took three lives in its own hands, let alone in the hands of its previous owner, the most likely murderous aura in this house is the bauble.

"Then you can teach me how to use it."

Winters was at a loss for words. He only loved his younger sister, he couldn't say "Why do girls learn this stuff?" Such words.

He was sighed and finally defeated: "Okay, here it is for you. But this dagger has no scabbard right now. I'll give it to you when I make a scabbard, okay?"

"Isn't that the scabbard? I'll find a piece of leather and sew one out." Elizabeth cheering excitedly, the goal has been achieved.

"Okay, you've made the scabbard and come back to me to get it, okay?"

"You're the best!" Elizabeth slapped Winters' cheek. , energetic and bustling ran to his room to sew the scabbard.

Winters shook the head, the young sister he remembered was still dragging her nose and fighting with herself, brat who was crying at every turn, I don't know when it became like this...

Great? Not quite right.

Empathetic? Not quite right either.

Good at persuading people? Not quite right.

It's not the same anyway, it's really girls change eighteen times between childhood and womanhood.

Thinking, he emptied his satchel, and a small white silk package fell out. Winters took the small package and thought about it for a while before realizing that it was also the thief's stuff.

But Winters is very tired now and doesn't care what's inside, so he threw the small package back on the table, turned around and tore off the white cloth covering the bed, as if he had lost all his strength. fell onto the bed.

Close your eyes.

Sleep.

…

…

Can’t sleep yet!

Curiosity triumphed over sleepiness, and he still wanted to know what was inside the little package.

Winters got up abruptly, walked over to the desk, and unwrapped the white silk wrap.

The contents inside are exposed, like a small notebook?
Note leather front and back cover is yellow, it feels like some kind of leather, maybe cowhide?
There is a buckle on the side.

Winters unbuckles and opens the notebook expectantly…

…

…

What? ?

Blank?
He turned the notebook over and over again, only to find a small letter L in the lower left corner of the last page.

L?

What the hell is L?

Winters threw the notebook back on the desk, self-deprecating, thinking, "Warrant Officer Montagne, what are you expecting? A Treasure Map? A big secret? Some kind of indescribable novel? That one? The female thief may not even know the word."

He sighed and fell back on the bed.

He hasn't had a good rest for two days.

After relaxing, tiredness came to the door.

On this familiar bed, all the pain in his body was healed.

Drowsiness hit him.

He fell asleep.

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Author’s Note:

While it is quite normal to marry a cousin in this day and age, I promise that this article will not contain any orthopedic content. I wanted to write independent, intelligent, self-respecting and respectable female characters, but this is essentially a man's story, a story of steel, gunpowder and magic.

Elizabeth Serbia is the younger sister of Winters ·Montagne. They grew up together. Although they are cousins, they are better than siblings. They only have family love, and there will never be any affection between men and women.

[Thanks to the social justice king and book friends 20181013204343295 for their recommendation tickets
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[Before there was no papermaking and printing, the price of books was astonishingly expensive, and the ordinary person hardly read The main consumers and scribes of books were clergy]
According to Standards of Living in the Later Middle Ages, Christopher Dyer, Cambridge University Press, 1989 paper
[Acquired by Oxford University in 1397 126 books with an average of 77 pages cost £113, where the pound refers to a pound of 92.5% pure silver. The average price of a book is about 0.830 pounds of silver, and the quality represented by a pound does not change much until now. To roughly convert today's pound definition, it is 376.482 grams of silver. ]
[Converted at the current silver price, a book is close to 1500 yuan renminbi. Considering the purchasing power of the precious metal at the time, that was a huge sum.

The low price of silver today is due to the fact that silver has almost become an industrial raw material due to extensive mining, and has lost its currency attribute ]
[Even if movable type printing was introduced in Europe, the price of books is still high No, because the audience is too small.就像我之前说的，十五世纪十六世纪好多sword technique Master 为了印sword manual 搞得自己倾家荡产，甚至为了印书去贪污最后被吊死]

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