andag village
Passing caravans led horses loaded with goods to receive supplies at the market in the village of Andag.
Low wooden walls, a market set up with tents, various merchants passing by to rest or do business. If you look into the distance, you can see the endless plains, with crops such as wheat growing on them. Andagh is really A rich territory.
This is the territory of Baron Andager, and it is under the protection of Baron Andager. There is another baron in the same village, but that village is far less prosperous than Andager, which is under the direct jurisdiction of the baron.
Jacob Green seems to have some bad luck. As a bard, he is obviously marginalized by the villagers in the village.
As a bard, he often told stories from far away places on the transportation thoroughfare of Andag, about noble knights, beautiful ladies, lovely and noble princesses, brave princes, terrible demons, and the recent The evil dragon who has violated taboos.
This is really fatal!
Although the evil dragon in the story is always defeated by a righteous and brave prince or knight, maybe because of strength or strategy, anyway, in the story, the evil dragon is like an elite monster in the game that specially gives players experience and treasures. It is completely different. An opponent worth mentioning, but that's just the story.
What is a story? The story is what I heard and imagined based on my rich imagination. In other words, it is false and untrue.
But no one in the village believed this excuse. If you hadn't been here all day long saying that as long as you slay the dragon, you could gain money, status and fame, your children would have left with the mercenary group, and then Can you never come back?
Jacob was in bad luck, and now he suffered the wrath of the villagers who had lost their sons. It was said that some villagers had petitioned Andag to hang the bard who had deceived the public with his eloquent words.
"Oh. Great God, please tell me what I should do now!"
Jacob Green wiped the tears from the corners of his eyes with his thick sleeves and bit the hard bread in his hand that had gone stale. Even if he had money now, he couldn't buy anything in this village.
Mr. Heron, the baker in the village, has already spoken out. Anyone who wants to trade with the bard should not want to buy bread from him in the future.
Mr. Herron is the only baker in the village, and his son, Little Hess, believed the bard's story and went out to slay the dragon with Hans. His whereabouts are unknown now.
Mr. Herron did not dare to express his anger at Hans who left with his son. Because Hans was the son of a knight and was the most important person after the baron in the two villages of the baron, so the bard became Mr. Herron's wrath. Object.
Mr. Heron's anger is not so scary. What is really scary is the Baron's only knight, Mr. Lane. You must know that his son Hans is also in the dragon-slaying team. If he dies in the hands of the evil dragon, , Master Ryan obviously wants to settle accounts with Jacob.
William Jacob was forging iron in his workshop, and a banging sound came from the workshop. The nearby villagers looked at old William, who was showing his strong muscles and working expressionlessly, with a look of sympathy on his face.
The owner of William's Blacksmith Shop is Old William, and the owner's son is Little William. The father and son have the same name. In fact, it is not uncommon for father and son to have the same name in this era. It is even normal for descendants to use the names of their ancestors. If it is The king would be given the title of II or III. William Sr. gave his son William Jr. the same name, but the intention seemed very obvious.
William Sr. hoped that his son William Jr. would inherit his family's blacksmith shop and become a blacksmith.
The blacksmith is a pretty good profession. It can be said to be an enviable high-level profession among free people. The blacksmith profession can even be said to have the most advanced productivity in this era. Weapons and courtesy will also be given to old William.
It's just that old William no longer has a son, and the news that the dragon-slaying team has been wiped out has spread to the village. As Thorne's neighbor, Andage can always get the news as soon as possible.
"What are you still doing here? Why don't you help me quickly?"
Old William urged his apprentices, and then the apprentices in the blacksmith shop came to help and increased the fire in the bellows.
After a while of work, a beautiful long sword was completed. Old William looked at his work with satisfaction. Only the final steps were needed to hang it in the blacksmith shop.
"Is that you? Mr. Green."
Old William saw the bard standing at the door. At this time, his face was haggard and he was no longer as energetic as before.
"Master William, I'm sorry about little William."
Jacob Green walked into the blacksmith shop and apologized to Old William. Perhaps because of self-blame, or perhaps because he hoped that the other party would not bear grudges against him, Jacob apologized to Old William.
Four living lives in the village died like this. The evil dragon was not so easy to solve in the poetry and stories. This was an opponent that the Kingdom of Sauron could not eliminate even if it sent a large army. I am afraid that even the noble emperor would not be able to defeat the evil dragon. The dragon was helpless.
"Why are you apologizing? Mr. Green, William chose his own life."
There was no sadness on Old William's face at all, even though they were talking about his only son.
Jacob Green was slightly startled. He did not expect that he would hear such an answer. Everyone was blaming him and thinking it was his fault.
If he hadn't told the children in the village about the outside world, about troubadours, Latin love poems, ladies' crowns and legends of warriors, and the scenery of big cities, how could the children in the village leave the village? .
"Hans, Kuhn, Hess and even my son were just like you and me when we were young, yearning for the outside world and looking forward to everything outside. He died on the way to pursue his dreams. This is the same as you. what relationship."
Old William wiped the sweat on his face with a towel and said calmly, but under Jacob's sight, he could clearly see the tears on his eyes.
Every day's life in the village is almost exactly the same, without much change. For most villagers living in this barony, they may only live in this village their entire lives, never leaving the countryside, and only occasionally visiting the countryside. The baron communicated with people in another village and learned all about the outside world through caravans and bards.
For everyone in the village, this is already their world, the center of their lives, and everything they have.
They may leave the village for a short time, but they will come back eventually. The non-free people in the village will not even be able to leave the village for their entire lives.
"It's not your fault. My son is a born bird, always looking forward to the sky, but he is locked in a cage. Once he grows up, he will eventually fly to the sky. Even if he is dead now, his The soul will also be in the sky."
Old William said with a smile, but there was a bitterness in his smile.
Little William yearned for the outside world, and more than once imagined what the outside world was like, what the life of the nobles was like, and how beautiful the princess was.
If little William was a serf, it would be impossible for him to leave the village at all, but he is the son of Fengnian, his own son. He has gone to school, is literate, and has been trained in martial arts. These are the sources of his desire to be extraordinary, and also The cause of his death.
"I wish your son will always be on the path to pursue his dreams."
Old William thought of the elves' blessings to his children in the past, and felt mixed emotions in his heart.
"Master William, your son, Little William, is back!"
Suddenly, a villager who had a good relationship with Old William suddenly ran over and said, Old William and Jacob Green were stunned.
William, he is not dead, he is back!
