A mist arose in the early morning. Although it dissipated quickly after the sun came out, it seemed to a certain extent to be a warning that summer was coming to an end.
The temperature in Aurora drops very quickly at night, but unlike nights spent in the humid south, where the cold air attacks in waves. In the dry north, you only need to hang up a windproof tarp and light a fire inside. Guaranteed to stay warm all night.
The newly purchased shovel has not been put to use yet, but the large and small axes have many uses.
Perhaps because of the proximity to the four northern islands, the feel of the ax purchased at the local blacksmith shop reminded the Luoan girl of Avenella, which was heavily influenced by Danlasso culture.
The Scythian pirates, who have been good at using axes for centuries, have excellent skills in forging axes. Although the world today often thinks that they are just a bunch of poor woodcutters who casually took their own axes for logging onto the battlefield, in fact The quality and feel of the tomahawks crafted in the four northern islands are no worse than those of swords.
Axes used for cutting wood usually do not have sharp edges, because sharp edges are suitable for cutting meat, but will damage hard wood more quickly. On the contrary, use a relatively blunt blade and a thick ax face shape, and you can bite deep when hitting the wood depending on the mass. However, the disadvantage of this approach is that when used in combat, it will make it difficult to control the blow after you swing it. Therefore, axes used in combat are deliberately forged to be thinner and lighter, and polished to be as sharp as a razor.
The pair of axes purchased in Polusaro are somewhere in between, and are typical forged by people who were heavily influenced by Danlasso culture. The small ax is quite light and sharp, and is very useful for chopping small branches for lighting fires, while the large ax is thicker, making it more efficient for chopping trees and splitting larger firewood.
However, the ax was not the most surprising thing among the newly purchased equipment that surprised the Luoan girl.
If you just buy it and keep it, you will never know its complete advantages and disadvantages. If you don't actually use many things, you won't understand what the details are for.
Because it was Henry who bought it, Mira only noticed the difference in the hem of the tent when she first bought it. But after actually starting to use the tent in the past two days, she realized the overall difference.
The most intuitive difference between the tents used by travelers in the north and the tents in the south and those used by the army at first glance is that there is a hole in the middle of the tent at the top.
This certainly makes sense - you don't need to be a sage to realize this immediately after the campfire is lit inside the tent and the smoke flows out of the hole in the top.
Anyone who has camped in autumn and winter knows the importance of a campfire. The orange firelight can not only provide heated food to warm the body in cold weather, but also relieve people's emotions and prevent the whole person from collapsing due to exhaustion.
But if a bonfire is lit inside the tent, if the smoke has nowhere to circulate, it will choke the people inside and cough continuously, making them sleepless all night.
So in the past, bonfires were basically set outside when camping, which was similar to local military tents. An army with complete logistics and a large number of horses, donkeys, mules and carts usually brings iron barbecue grills for burning firewood and processing food. And their tent will also have a corridor part that can be supported by two wooden poles. If fire is needed, it can be solved here.
However, considering a series of issues such as space and load, this is obviously not something that small groups of travelers or adventurers can have. Coupled with the bitter cold weather in the north, the best place to set up a campfire is obviously close to the place where you sleep at night rather than outside the tent, so as to provide sufficient warmth during sleep.
The result is this excellent tipi tent design, which unfolds into a large fan-shaped piece of fabric with overlapping openings on one side that can be closed. There is a collar in the middle. Three or four long wooden poles are inserted into the ground to form a frame. Then the collar is placed on the top of the wooden poles, and the bottom is fixed with ground nails to prevent wind from entering through the gaps. , a tent with a large internal space was set up.
The bonfire is set in the center of the circular tent, while the people lie on the outside of the circle a little further away. The choking smoke will be discharged through the opening at the top, while the heat will be retained in the tent, warming people's bodies and minds.
In the hands of a skilled person, the time it takes to set up this kind of tent will not exceed 15 minutes, and it will only be shorter if there is a carriage with a long pole on the road. But when traveling in the forest, even if you don’t bring a wooden pole, it is very easy to find materials for the frame. The vast and sparsely populated Aurora area always has a lot of dead trees on the forest floor, and people can't pick them all up. Therefore, you don’t even need to cut down trees when setting up camp. You only need to find a suitable size on the ground, then use a small ax to cut off the excess branches that may puncture the tarpaulin, measure the distance with your feet and insert them into the mud. .
In the rainy but relatively warm south, tents focus on waterproof performance. In the relatively dry but cold north, being able to light a bonfire in the tent to warm the body becomes a more important consideration.
The round hole opened in the center of the tent is at the highest point of the entire tent. The huge inclination angle makes it easier for rain and snow to slide down, and only those falling vertically will fall into the camp. In addition, people sleep on both sides, so if they fall down, they will not get their bodies, clothes or food wet.
It can't stop the sudden heavy rain in the south, but it is an excellent choice in the autumn and winter in the north.
The so-called customs and customs are probably nothing more than this.
In these tiny details of life, you can always see the wisdom of life that the local working people have accumulated over thousands of years.
There is nothing that can be eaten all over the world in one move. The kind of aristocrats who are arrogant and self-righteous and think that they have mastered the secrets of the world. They embrace the idea that everyone else is just an ordinary person. They are divorced from the basics of the people and live a mundane life. In the end, they are overthrown by the people they look down on. There are many stories throughout the ages.
No one is better at life than others. The food, clothing, housing and transportation of southerners have adapted to the southern environment, while northerners have also made the best choices in their environment.
in short.
Existence is reasonable.
The reason why a wise man is a wise man is not because he knows a lot of knowledge. If you only have knowledge without these details, it would be like the famous fable - the great mage who sealed himself in the ivory tower could not even cook for himself after the disciple who took care of his life left. , in the end, he was full of magic knowledge, but he starved to death.
Henry has always been close to life, and has always respected the wisdom of the people. His strength comes from daily life, from life, from the subtle knowledge accumulated by countless predecessors over thousands of years, rather than being separated from it. The people's base is complacent and works behind closed doors.
What this title represents is not some kind of transcendent existence that is separate from ordinary people - although it is not wrong in a sense and in a certain direction, but if you want to give this vague and ambiguous concept an exact name -
The so-called "sage" should be regarded as "standing among the people, but also transcending the people."
It is precisely because he possesses knowledge that transcends ordinary people's cognition that he can point them in the right direction. And it is precisely because he is still among the people and everything he does is based on the subtle wisdom accumulated by working people for thousands of years that he truly understands what ordinary people think.
The Luoan girl who is now much more mature than before thought so.
There are still many things that I have to learn, and this is exactly the experience and the necessity of travel.
A life that always sticks to a small space may be stable, but this stability is based on immutability. The life of adventurers is criticized by most people. The reputation of mercenaries, travelers and merchants has not been good from ancient times to the present. People use them to get what they want, but in their hearts they think these people are to some extent. It also disrupted his stable life.
The stronger the ethnic homogeneity and the more exclusive the area, the more you can feel the atmosphere of rejecting people thousands of miles away - Mira, who had packed her luggage and was about to hit the road again, turned around, and she forgot The village of Kasssnir, which you have no idea how to pronounce, is already at the edge of the field of vision behind you. If the smoke from making breakfast hadn't risen, you wouldn't have thought there was a village there from this angle.
The remaining wool of the sheep killed by the dire wolf was sheared as much as possible. The sheep that had been dead for several days due to the heat had no usable meat. The villagers tried their best to remove the usable parts, hoping to recover the cost.
For them, the financial hit of losing an Aurora sheep is not small. Although the fur of a dire wolf can be sold for some money after being stripped off, it is summer and it is an old wolf. The coat color is not particularly good and the wolf's head was blown open by a giant. The price of the wolf skin without the complete head is high. You will lose a lot, which is a loss overall.
The poverty of life makes these villagers use some tricks to deceive people when publishing a task. Not indicating that they are dire wolves can be regarded as a verification of the strength of the arrival, but they also do not explain the existence of giants, which is a bit intentional. .
This is almost a typical thinking of small farmers and herdsmen in a closed area. On the one hand, they are indeed living in poverty and poverty. To hire a mercenary to handle affairs requires the village chief to raise funds, such as two gold coins and 20 silver coins. Money is not small money to them.
But on the other hand, there are always stumbling blocks in silence. If Henry had not pointed it out directly yesterday, or if he had voluntarily reduced his remuneration out of compassion after pointing it out, these people would not actually be grateful to them.
"Mercenaries are war demons who suck human blood and make money by taking lives. If they are really good people, why not just provide free labor without taking a penny?" Shengmien, fighting rice hatred. Such concessions can only lead to this result. Not only do you not get all the compensation you deserve, but you will also feel sulky.
It can only be said that poor people must be hateful. After the sage showed how Claymer had used the great sword to have a bad reputation in Suomir, and how they tried every means to please out of fear, Mira looked at it, and there was only "pathetic" in her heart. Character.
If the Luoan girl is like this, our Mr. Sage is naturally even more so.
It's just that he has seen many such things. From the beginning of the incident, everything has been seen clearly by those gray-blue eyes. At this moment, his heart is still calm. If I have to say it, I must say it. At most it's just a little bit emotional.
What Henry said "can't go back", Mira vaguely feels the same now.
She didn't fully understand the glorious history of Kramer, but at least from the mouth of the Suomir mercenary in Porusaro, she still vaguely heard about it before arriving in Suomir. Judging from the legend, it obviously shouldn't be such a frightening weapon.
This country has changed.
Just like the change of seasons, spring, summer, autumn and winter flow from year to year. It is true that things that never change cannot really exist, but it is indeed somewhat unexpected that the thoughts in people's hearts can be changed so easily.
The order outlawing the Claymore sword was issued more than 20 years ago when the contemporary Queen came to the throne. To be fair, this is a reasonable decree. Although it is a bit naive, it is indeed a decision made for peace.
As a weapon that played an important role in the history of the two countries, Kramer is like a national totem to the Suomir people, while it is a symbol of shame and fear to the Padrosi people.
To improve relations between the two countries, starting here is not a wrong decision. It's just that the naive queen obviously thought of war too simply, and felt that as long as weapons were banned, the hatred etched in the hearts of the two peoples caused by the thousand-year bloody battle would disappear.
The decree decreed that the Great Sword ceased to exist in the land of Suomir, and the queen to whom the Great Swordsmen were loyal deprived them of their homeland and faith. The choice she gave was cruel - "Choose to continue living in this country or wander around holding that weapon."
In such a complicated national situation, this is the result of just a naive idea to change the situation. The well-trained Suomir Great Sword mercenaries became traitors in the cruel choice between them. They are no longer welcome in their hometown, and Kramer, who was once a national totem, is now stigmatized as a representative of the weapon that destroys the friendship between the two countries, and is a "weapon that can devour the hearts of kind people."
After being expelled from the country, cursed and stigmatized and wandering for more than twenty years, the swordsmen who returned when the Padrosi Empire was turbulent may not be able to bring much to this country. It is peace and prosperity.
There is no need for a deeper understanding, just what they have seen and heard so far is enough for people to conclude that weapons like Kramer are in Suomir.
It is already equated with "desperate".
No one knows where the Great Sword mercenaries who have accepted the escort mission to the north and entered the territory of Suomir have gone, and what purpose they have in returning to the homeland that abandoned them.
Like Claymore himself who has been stigmatized, the once glorious great swordsmen of Suomir may also be twisted existences now. They have lost their hometown and the goal they are fighting for. In the end, they may only have nothing left in their bodies.
Full of hatred.
This weapon is wrapped in the aura of blood.
It is a weed without roots, like the old wolf that has been expelled from the group. It may die in a foreign country, but until then it will be like a crazy trapped animal, living again and again in despair, loneliness and incomprehension. And the third place hurts others.
Kramer is no longer as glorious as it used to be; the swordsmen wielding them are no longer the continuation of the legend that saved the country in times of crisis.
Except for one.
Only.
Except one person.
Galeva may be a young man who is not very clear-minded and moves his mouth and limbs too fast, but his heart is bright. Even if he does not know it, he is indeed aware of something to some extent.
This was the fundamental reason why he chose to follow the two of them.
——These two people are incompatible existences.
The man with black hair and gray-blue eyes and the girl with white hair and blue eyes are strangers in the northern country.
They do not belong to the land of Suomir. Although one of them carries a big sword, he is not one of those murderous big swordsmen.
If something is really going to happen, I think it would be right to follow these two people.
"Walk faster! You freeloader." After a brief breakfast, they packed up everything. At Mira's urging, Galeva, who was holding the little unicorn, followed behind the two of them.
They continued to walk on the vast land of Aurora.
