Evetrona's old stories

Nanfen just turned 40 this year.

"There's nothing I want to do." Nan Fen laughed, "When Mao Qi comes back, I would like to discuss with him, can I have another child..."

Eve turned her head to look at Nan Fen, she was surprised that the other party still had such thoughts, she said: "It's better not to, your body is weaker, and now you are older..."

When Nanfen heard her words, she became a little unhappy, pinched the back of Eve's neck with one hand, and asked her angrily and with a smile: "You said I was young just now, why do you say I am old now?"

"Let's talk about the matter." Eve said with a wry smile.

"I was thinking that you would definitely be able to encourage me, but I didn't expect you to be so unsupportive." Nanfen complained to her, "I've never told anyone about this before."

"I can't support this kind of thing, can I?" Eve said, "There will be many risks, and Maoqi will definitely not agree."

"I know this too, but..."

Nanfen didn't continue talking, they silently looked at Akanlu who had already crossed the finish line in the distance, and didn't have any further discussions on this matter.

Although most of the games in the first two days were preliminaries, they were also very exciting, especially some traditional confrontation events, such as fencing, wrestling and boxing, and there were usually a large crowd of people watching.These games all have the same characteristics, that is, the rules are simple and clear, and the outcome can be known at a glance.Some people are watching the fun, while others have other plans—they are observing those potential contestants, analyzing their strengths, in order to estimate future wins and losses and payouts, in order to make a fortune in the gambling of this competition.

There are also many interesting or ornamental events in the senior-only competition, such as horseback riding and pigeon shooting.

Since everyone knows magic, guns have an awkward position as a weapon—it is also under the control of magic, and its cost is not low. Perhaps the only advantage is its response speed, which is faster than magic.In the equestrian shooting competition, the competitors will wear two short-barreled shotgun-like arc guns, which are charged guns with built-in tattoos and magic circles, and do not need to be loaded with ammunition.Arc guns are generally divided into two types: electric fluid and fire fluid: the advantages of arc guns are high accuracy, long range, and the barrel will not overheat; the advantages of arc guns are high power, fast energy storage, and fast rate of fire.Players will choose the arc gun as the main weapon, and the arc gun will be used as a supplementary weapon.There will be twenty fixed targets in clay pots painted yellow, which contain some dyed powder. When the players hit the clay pots, these colorful powders will splash out, which is very beautiful.The contestants will wear a gray cavalry cloak and ride a compact and powerful horse—like a quarter horse, but with gray-white fur—and gallop around the flag according to the prescribed route, while quickly smashing the clay pots on both sides within the effective range of the guns.

And the pigeon shooting competition is indeed to shoot real pigeons, just like a primitive flying saucer shooting game-this may sound a bit barbaric, but in this era, it will not cause too much disgust from the audience. Due to the limitations of the times, people's demand for a meal of meat is far greater than their sympathy for animals.The pigeon shooting competition uses a double-barreled live ammunition weapon, which is fired by gunpowder and killed by kinetic energy.The referee releases two pigeons in each round, and there are five rounds in one round, and the competition is to see who shoots more pigeons.What Eve didn't expect was that Di Geng also participated in this competition. Not only that, he also easily won the first place in the group and became the focus of everyone's attention.Eve was also there, and in two of Dicken's five rounds he shot down two pigeons with a single shot, and in one round where he shot two pigeons with two bullets each. At that time, most of the audience didn't understand what happened. After the referee explained, the crowd gasped in amazement and shouted that it was amazing.

Among the crowd, the female college student who had given up her mind at first started to stir again when she saw Di Geng's focused and confident performance on the field.

[69] Harvest, competition, and festivals (Part [-])

Nanfen persisted for two days, but in the end she couldn't hold it back. She left her lovely goddaughter and went to play with her old friends. As for the festival celebrations of the Knight Academy, she was not interested from the beginning to the end.

Sometimes it's like this, I miss it day and night after not seeing each other for a long time, but I don't care so much after seeing each other—as long as the other party is still by my side, I will be steadfast in everything I do.

And on the morning of the third day, the wildest and fiercest game was about to begin. People called it the Sanfengyue Knights Ring Football Match.

The venue for this football match spanned the land used by the college, the land used by the training ground and the civilian area to the east.The center line of the field is located in the open space in front of the southern gate of the castle. The entire game area presents a horseshoe shape with an opening facing upwards. The two fixed points of the horseshoe are the home nests of the two teams.In the entire competition area, there will be seven round arches with a width of four meters along the way. This is called the inspection area. Only when the ball passes through the current arch is it allowed to attack the next inspection area.If one side successfully captures all the inspection areas, they can attack the opponent's lair. As long as they can kick the football into the huge net circle in the opponent's lair area, they can win the game.The game is divided into upper, middle and lower rounds, and each time limit is one hour. If the old nest is captured in the middle, it will directly enter the intermission and prepare for the next round. The loser of the previous round can decide whether to switch venues.

At eight o'clock in the morning, Eve was standing in the observation deck above the centerline arch, holding a basketball-sized ball in her hand.This ball is heavy. It is said that it is made of the bladder of a piercorn beast. It is also covered with a layer of leather sewn from several pieces of animal skin. It is not very elastic, but it is strong.

Below the inspection area on the center line, teams from both sides have assembled near the center circle, with 50 people on each side, wearing all kinds of protective armor, including linen padded jackets, composite armor, and even iron armor and barrel helmets. The weather is not too hot.The two teams identify the enemy and the enemy by the color of the cloth on the right arm. The team on the west side wears red cloth, and the team on the east side wears blue cloth.

Looking at the 100 people in the audience at this moment, it doesn't look like they are here to play football, but more like they are here to fight.

Before the festival, many people asked Eve if she would go home during the holidays. Later, she realized that they were looking for a football match server.

Every year when the Knight Academy holds a football match, they will find a few beautiful girls as the starters. This can be regarded as an unwritten rule.At this moment, the surrounding roofs and city walls were full of people, and under the watchful eyes of everyone, Eve threw the ball to the audience with both hands.As the brown football landed for the first time, the players on both sides of the center line moved together. For a moment, the stadium was like a battlefield, crowded with people, and the sound was like a storm.

After serving the ball, Eve leaned on the railing of the temporary observation deck and looked down.

At first, she couldn't see where the football thrown by herself was kicked, and she seemed to be surrounded by students wrestling together. Until 2 minutes later, a burly figure rushed out of the crowd, not only brought out the ball, but also hung two people on her body.Wearing a half-sleeved chain mail, the man was frighteningly strong, knocking down several opponents along the way, and then slammed the ball into the arch, but unfortunately missed the shot and the ball hit the door frame.There was a rumbling sound under the stage, and Eve felt that the observation deck was trembling a little.

Eve held a small binoculars in her hand and went to look at the shooter, only to find that she still knew this person. It was Longke's good friend, Becklin.Usually, he looks gentle and stable, even a bit simple and honest, but he never expected to be so violent and brave in the arena.There is a bunch of red belts on his arm. Eve doesn't know how these people are divided into teams, but he, Lin Xin and Dicken are indeed in the same team.

The ball bounced away, but bounced back to Becklin. He pushed away the blue team players around him, and immediately controlled the ball under his feet again, but this time he had no chance to shoot, because the opponents around him gathered more and more.

"This way, this way!" Behind him, there was a small man in iron armor jumping and jumping. Although he was wearing a barrel helmet, Eve still vaguely recognized that this was Coleidi.

Becklin turned a blind eye to Grady's yelling. He still struggled to mediate around a flower bed until he saw Lin Xin breaking out from the other side. He volleyed and passed the ball to the opponent.Lin Xin got the ball, but he was surrounded by people in an instant. He was pushing and shoving while controlling the ball, while Grady kept yelling behind him.Lin Xin seemed to be annoyed by his quarrel. After hesitating again and again, he kicked the ball out and passed it to the unguarded Golaidi behind him.The ball was so heavy that it hit Galidi in the chest and knocked him to the ground, causing everyone around to burst into laughter.Galidi turned over and got up from the ground, but was immediately submerged in the chasing crowd.

Eve has been looking for acquaintances in the crowd, and she has indeed found quite a few, including students from the same group and a few senior students she knows, both in the two teams.In the four-person group, Longke and Enpeite did not participate, perhaps because this game was really scary, and it was really like a war.

If it was played more than 60 years ago, the football game of the Knights Academy might indeed be no different from gang fights. After a game, there may even be casualties, because the main players who played football at that time were genuine Saint Fengyue knights.Later, De Loufa’s School of Philosophy was merged into Fort Benlong, and together with the training institute, it was called the Academy of Knights. The football game was slightly regulated, and it was stipulated that the players were not allowed to use fists and elbows to hurt people, and they were not allowed to choke their throats, hug their arms and legs.In today's football games, only shoulder bumps, shoves, or waist hugs are allowed, and the number of people on both sides has been reduced from 70 to 50, but even so, the scene Eve sees is still violent and chaotic.

The blue team grabbed the ball, and a blond man without any head protection dribbled the ball at such a high speed that he passed several people in a row, then went around to the other side of the arch, kicked not far from the arch, and the ball passed through the arch.The referee behind Eve pulled a rope, and a blue flag unfurled like a sail over the arch.A five-meter-square area is defined at the arch. In this area, both sides can enter, but dribbling is not allowed here to prevent crowds from gathering inside the door to fight.

There are two referees on the observatory, responsible for retracting and releasing the two flags. Both are senior students, one named Lafaqin and the other named Schmienrov. Both of them are very responsible and have been paying attention to the movement of the stadium below.

After the blue team occupied the inspection area, they began to dribble the ball toward the west gate inspection area, but before going far, they saw a person stabbing obliquely out of the alley, tripping the ball carrier, and kicking the ball back to the center line inspection area.The sharp whistle sounded, and everyone stopped running as if they were discouraged at once.Referees in white waving their flags told offenders to stand against the wall.

Eve laughed when she saw it. Isn't the person who was punished to stand still Di Geng?

Di Geng was fined to stand for 1 minute.After the blue team served again, the arena was once again boiling. The main force of the red team also made corresponding adjustments after Di Geng's disturbance, and began to advance gradually, forming a tendency to encircle and encircle.Not long after, a member of the red team jumped out of the crowd and passed the ball to the teammates on the outside.

The two sides scuffled around the center line inspection area for a while, and finally, the red team scored the goal as they wished and began to move towards the east gate inspection area.

As the battle line shifted, the area near the south gate of Benlong Castle finally became quiet, and the audience also began to move along the upper city wall towards the civilian area to the east.The streets that are usually crowded with people are no longer walking around at this moment. The contestants are crowded with people, moving around on the street like a ball of tumbling and bursting fire, causing the audience above to shout and shout, even mixed with the crying of some children.

After the crowd moved, the two referees on the center line glanced at each other, and even took out a tea set from the wooden box beside them.They put the box in the middle of the lookout, spread out the tablecloth, put the samovar on it and started boiling water.Eve also turned her head, took out two boxes of snacks from the backpack she was carrying, and placed them on the temporary table.Three people sat on the ground.

This is also what they discussed in advance.Being a referee is really not as comfortable as being a spectator. The referee on the field must always pay attention to the actions of the players, and the referee in the inspection area cannot follow the watchtower.As the server, Eve only needs to show up three times per game, and even without her, the game can still go on. Therefore, she is not restricted by her actions, but she doesn't want to leave here. In this situation, it shows the advantage of being a man. In such a chaotic game, whether it is on or off the court, it is really dangerous for a little girl to run around.

Eve knew the name of Lafaqin Duroson before he met him, not because he was famous, but because several of the notebooks that Melina lent her at the beginning of school belonged to this man.When she went to the office building to pick up the ribbons for the server yesterday, she met the two seniors of the School of Philosophy by the way, and Eve also expressed her gratitude to him for lending her notes.

"After serving the next game, if you want to leave, then go, we will help you serve." Lafaqin said.

"Why? You don't need me anymore?" Eve heard the other party say this as soon as she sat down, so she was very puzzled.

Lafaqin replied: "That's not what I mean. I know you girls are not very interested in this kind of game. I was also a referee here last year. At that time, a little girl named Diana served the ball. She was very cute. The result was the ball. As soon as it was sent out, the whole person was dumbfounded, and almost cried out of fright, and he was helped away without staying here for a minute."

Eve laughed, "It's really scary. Even if I knew it would happen in advance, there is still a gap between what I saw and what I expected, but it's still interesting to watch."

"It was better in previous years, but I think this year's start was a bit too intense." said Schmienroff, a fourth grader.

"Indeed." Lafaqin agreed.

The three chatted while drinking tea and eating snacks.There is a lot of people in the distance and the competition is fierce, but right now they are eating and drinking leisurely, which is a different feeling.

Attack from the center line to the old nest on both sides. The closer you are to the old nest, the more difficult it is to attack. This is because the attackers walk uphill, and the area in the Newcastle area has many steps and narrow streets, which is really easy to defend and difficult to attack.

Eve had just had a few mouthfuls of snacks, and the tea hadn't even cooled down, when she saw teams from both sides coming down from above.Lafaqin and Schmienrov hurriedly stood up and returned to their original positions, only to find that they came back with the ball in their hands. The blue team members looked dignified, while the red team members were beaming.

"The first round is over?" Lafaqin couldn't believe it. It was only half an hour past.

The one who got the ball was Dicken, who excitedly climbed up to the watchtower and handed the ball to Eve.This guy was so proud of his home at this time, he just walked around in circles in front of his sweetheart.

"I scored the goal." After he said this, he turned and went down the ladder, leaving only the three people on the stage looking at each other.

"It was so fierce." Schmienrov took the ball in Eve's hand and inspected it, "It only took half an hour, and the skin of the ball cracked a bit, even if it was hit with a hammer Half an hour is just like that, right?" He said as he changed a ball from the ball box and handed it to Eve for safekeeping.

Half an hour later, the second game started. The blue team chose to switch venues, and the defensive players from the two sides who were squatting in the old nest area, holding shields and wearing heavy armor also switched positions with each other.After everyone was in their positions, Eve stood on the stage and threw the ball high so that the football landed within the center circle without any deviation.This time, the members of the red team were still extremely brave, as if they had inexhaustible physical strength, and immediately shifted the battle line to the west gate inspection area.

Seeing that the situation was stable, the three sat down to drink tea again.

"How is the team divided? They chose it themselves?" Eve asked.

"It's our own team. There is a captain and two vice-captains. They can choose players or recruit people, but there are still more fellow villagers in a team." Schmienrov is very familiar with this aspect. "For example, in this morning's match, most of the red team are from Bomeng and Xinleige provinces, while most of the blue team are from the eastern Atoz province, that is, from the east side of the city."

Almost at the same time as last time, two groups of people appeared from the west street.Seeing the red team members who were running at the front and cheering, they knew they had won again.Two wins in three rounds of the ball game means that the game is over and there is no need for a third round of confrontation.

Many students and people poured into the streets from the stands and the city walls to congratulate the victors and surrounded them in a crowd.Someone threw a ball into the crowd, and the crowd scrambled for the ball like crazy until the security team separated them.In the chaotic and noisy scene, the few people who wanted to announce the good news to Eve felt as if they had fallen into a swamp, surrounded by many onlookers, and the more they struggled, the farther away they were from their goal.

A girl, like these men, squeezed among the crowd. I don't know whether it was because of her belief or her luck. She finally squeezed in front of Di Gen, wanting to pass him water and wipe his sweat, but now Di Geng's eyes were only on the beauty standing on the stage, and he pushed the girl away from his eyes just as he did with everyone else, and continued to take one step forward with difficulty.

[70] Harvest, competition, and festivals (Part [-])

The winning team in the football match can get two excellence medals each, and the losers can get one as well.

In addition, those who perform well on the field will also be rewarded, not only extra medals, but even some small gifts.

In addition to the football match, participants in other competitions, as long as they pass the preliminary competition and participate in the competition on the day of the celebration, they can all get an excellent medal, and those who get the ranking will be rewarded separately.

The Merit Medal is an honor, not an indicator associated with graduation, but a proof of school activity that can be recorded on a future Knight Academy degree.This is an incentive mechanism that was open to students in the Knight Training Institute earlier, and it has been retained until now. Even in some activities jointly organized by the two institutes, even the students of the School of Philosophy can get these medals based on their strength.

In the past six months, Eve has won a total of 17 excellence medals, basically all of which were obtained in the stage assessments of the training courses.In contrast, Di Geng got 19, Lin Xin got 24, and Becklin in the other group got 28. He was the one who got the most among the freshmen Eve heard.Overall, Eve felt that she was doing pretty well.

Soccer is a men-only sport, but there are also women-only counterparts such as badminton and javelin throwing.Originally, she thought that with her hidden brute force, she would be able to get some rankings in this celebration, but when she participated in the preliminary selection before the festival, she discovered that the senior girls in the training center were not vegetarians either. In the badminton competition, Eve stopped in the preliminaries group stage; and in the javelin event, she did not even pass the preliminary competition.The javelin competition at the Knight Academy is aimed at accuracy, using a 650-gram gliding javelin. The target is set 100 meters away, and players need to throw it 5 times in a row.Eve's main problem in this game was not that her shots were inaccurate, but that she couldn't hit the target at all. She found that she could only throw 70 meters at most.As for why the javelin event is limited to women, it is because men’s competitions are too dangerous. There was once a knight of Shengfengyue who threw a 900-gram javelin through the target and then shot down a wall behind it. In the end, three people were injured to varying degrees and one died on the spot.

The main events on the third and fourth days were football games, and on the fifth day, Eve only won one medal, which was a participation award in the badminton game.There is no reward for serving the football game, because the school believes that being voted as a server by the crowd is already an honor in itself.

The fifth day was mainly the finals and finals of various miscellaneous events. Eve followed Xilinya and the others to watch the fun, and went to Forward's for a few meals along the way.

It was at noon on this day that Baililin came to her suddenly, and she seemed to be in a hurry by seeing her in a hurry.

"Why do you always find me so quickly?" Eve was eating in the study in Forward's restaurant at this time.This is Luo Tilan's room, which is usually locked, and the key is in Forward.

"When you eat, you can look for it where you can eat. It's not difficult." Baililin replied.

"But..." Eve was still skeptical.

"Stop talking nonsense, I have something to ask you." Baililin said while pulling Eve's arm to pull her up from the chair.Eve stood up reluctantly, her eyes still fixed on her bowl of seafood risotto that she had only eaten a few mouthfuls of.Seeing her like this, Baililin couldn't help but be a bit dumbfounded. She persuaded: "It won't be too long, you should be quicker now, and you might still be able to eat hot food when you come back later."

So Eve was tricked by her.

To Eve's surprise, Baililin took her to the competition registration office, which was temporarily set up for the celebration.The two went directly to the office area separated by desks, and Baililin asked for a form from the person in charge for Eve to fill out.

This is the entry form for the game on the sixth day. Like the football game, it is also a round-the-city event. It is generally called the "Four Kings Game", and earlier it was called the "Conqueror Game".

The person in charge was a man in a black jacket. He sat beside the two of them and kept staring at Eve.

Baililin guided Eve to fill in the form, and when she reached the entry level, she said, "Fill in advanced."

So, Eve and the person in charge looked up at Baililin almost at the same time, their eyes full of doubts.

"I don't even know the rules of this game now, you want me to compete with a group of veterans?" Eve asked.

"If you take the initiative and sign up yourself, then I don't have to call you out to fill out the form at meal time today." Baililin didn't answer her question, but began to accuse her, "Didn't I remind you earlier? Have you ever signed up?"

"I don't quite understand the rules of this competition, so I want to see how others compare first, and then participate next year." Eve quibbled.

"Is there any irregularity? Is it that difficult to snatch one of the four crowns?"

Eve opened her mouth, not knowing how to refute.

"Don't delay in doing things in the future, don't make me angry, you know?" Baililin's expression was serious, and Eve could only nod obediently.

"Let me tell you, Miss Ruozwan..." The person in charge showed embarrassment, and said to Baililin, "This is not in line with the rules. The junior group can still squeeze in a few people, but for the advanced group..."

"One of the contestants is named Owen. That's my name. You can cross that name out now. Are there any questions?" Baililin said in a cold tone.

"This..." The face of the person in charge turned even worse, "Stop joking, these people are all selected through tests, how could there be fake ones?"

"You've got enough nonsense. As I said, this man will never appear on the field."

The originally noisy registration office gradually quieted down, and several staff members in the office area also moved away wisely.

"This is a matter of principle." The person in charge called her this attitude, and she started to become tough. "Just now she said herself that she has never participated in a competition. You asked me to put her in the senior group? What to do? Even if there is approval from the upper management, I don't agree! What is the person in charge? The person in charge, the person in charge—I will be responsible for anything that happens!"

Baililin hugged her shoulders and just looked at each other without speaking.

Seeing that the two were at a deadlock, Eve was anxious, worried that her food would be cold, so she pulled Baililin's arm and asked her in a low voice, "Should I continue filling?"

"Fill." Baililin patted her on the shoulder, and said to the person in charge, "In the end, you are afraid that she is not good enough."

"That's right, with so many people watching on the day of the game, some things must at least make sense."

"It's easy to handle. You take out the competition equipment and we will have an interview."

The person in charge didn't move, but looked at Eve who was sitting aside.Eve smiled and nodded towards him, with a hint of pleading in her expression.He sighed, got up and took out a small box of things from the cabinet under his feet.

The so-called competition equipment is a pair of arm guards and a pair of leg guards, both of which are made of soft leather, and can smell a new leather smell.The arm guards and leg guards are open and fixed by several wide belts. This design can adapt to most players' body shapes.

Baililin began to equip her apprentices.Since Eve was wearing a uniform skirt, it was a bit in the way when putting on leggings, so she wanted to lift her skirt, but Baililin moved faster and slapped her on the back of the hand, causing her to withdraw her hand in a hurry , the back of the hand was already red and swollen.

Armguards, leg guards, and a metal bracelet that snap over the dominant hand.The person in charge opened a box the size of a jewelry box, took out four thick metal pieces the size of coins, and placed them on the table.At this moment, an amazing scene appeared—the small circles floated up from the table and emitted light of different colors.

"Hands up," Baililin said to Eve.

She stretched out her right hand wearing the bracelet, and saw those metal pieces slowly flying towards her, as if she had a strong magnetic field on her body.When the four metal pieces were one meter away from Eve, the speed of their movement suddenly accelerated, and then they heard a few whirring sounds, and these metal pieces rolled and buckled into the four circular grooves on her gauntlet and leggings respectively.Eve only felt her hands and feet sink, as if she had been bound by four chains.

"Four light and heavy gold discs, each weighing one and a half kilograms after being excited." The person in charge said to Eve, "Can you stand it? Don't be brave."

"It seems a bit..."

"No, generally speaking, very few players can grab four crowns at the same time." The person in charge explained, "And this kind of competition is not only a test of physical strength, but also strategy. You can even sit and rest all the time, and wait until everyone else is tired from running."

Eve nodded, expressing understanding.At this time, the devices on the hands and feet are fixed very firmly. Although it is a bit heavy, as long as you wear it for a while, you should be able to gradually get used to it.

Eve jumped on the spot, feeling the weight on her hands and feet, and said to the two, "It's not a big problem."

"Are you serious?" The person in charge obviously didn't believe it.

So, Eve jumped up, put her arms around her knees, and did a backflip in front of him.As long as the weight of the limbs is concentrated near the center of gravity of the body, it is not too difficult for her to turn a smooth somersault.The somersault was perfect, and it landed silently, as if nothing had happened.

The person in charge opened his mouth, but didn't say anything. His eyes were full of confusion at this moment.Baililin didn't provoke him anymore, she just smiled and helped Eve disassemble the equipment on her body, put the registration form on the table in front of the person in charge, and took Eve out of the registration office.

"Come and find me at night, and I will teach you how to use the Flying Claw Sleeve Crossbow." Baililin said, "The competition you want to participate in is tomorrow afternoon, and there is still plenty of time. With your cleverness, one night plus one morning is enough."

"Don't I have to watch other people's games tomorrow morning?"

"It's good to have a look. Then you only have one night to practice." Baililin patted her shoulder lightly, and left on her own.It's not a day or two since she is unreasonable, but on the other hand, she also understands the temperament of her apprentice very well - Eve is the kind of person who can only walk two steps when pushed by others, and Baililin knows exactly what kind of strength is needed to make her walk fast.

The next afternoon, Eve stood on the verandah on the top floor of a tower in the north, and the staff dressed her in the competition gear.She is wearing a tight black sportswear today, her hair is wrapped in a hairnet, everything is light and simple.Tournament equipment includes a pair of gauntlets and leggings, a metal bracelet worn on the right hand and a set of claw sleeve crossbows fixed on the left wrist, and a metal ring worn on the head.

In the Four Kings game, all applicants have passed the same test before the game, and after passing the test, the participants will be divided into groups according to their ranking in the preliminary round.The competition lasted for two days. Today is the regular group competition, and tomorrow is the more intense prop group competition.