No matter how exciting the police station is, it has nothing to do with Nok.
Nok, who lost track of the monster halfway, returned home in frustration.
Nok, who put on his pajamas, was very heartbroken.
Not only was the cloak worth fifty gold coins in tatters, but even the "accompanying" dagger that held clues to his life experience was lost.
He lay awake all night.
He tossed and turned until the rooster crowed three times, but he still couldn't fall asleep.
Looking at the pale dawn on the horizon, Nok simply got up from the bed, threw himself a stimulating magic spell, got dressed and went downstairs. (Note 1)
Walking into the kitchen in the backyard, the kitchen was dark, obviously Lillian hadn't gotten up yet.
Also, children who have taken advanced nutritional medicine and repaired their body's foundation during sleep are still in deep sleep.
Nok used light magic to find the flint in the kitchen and lit the kerosene lamp in the kitchen. (Note 2)
In the dim light of the oil lamp, Nok found the remaining black bread and bacon from last night.
Cut off about half a pound of bacon, cut it into small pieces and put it into the pot, pour water into it and soak it. Then Nok began to slice the brown bread, spread it with jam, and prepare to bake it in the oven.
Even though the monastery now only has a group of orphans named Nok, the facilities are still very complete.
Fireplaces, ovens, stoves, you name it.
There is even a large iron pot from an ancient oriental country at the window of the kitchen. It is said that it was brought back by a senior of the monastery who traveled to the East for twenty years. It has been used for nearly a hundred years without any damage.
Of course, Nock felt that it was mainly because the people in the monastery didn't know how to use this iron pot that they allowed this iron pot to survive for so long.
After all, for the local people, a pot as big as a person can get into and take a bath is really inconvenient for them to cook.
At least, since Nok was sensible, he had only seen this big iron pot used in the monastery once.
There was less bread prepared for God's Day, so the old nun and the cooks used this large iron pot to stew a large pot of stew to serve as food.
That was the only time Nock remembered using this big iron pot.
Getting rid of the memory of the iron pot in his mind, Nok put the processed brown bread into the oven, but he did not light the fire.
Now is not the time to bake, otherwise by the time the little ones get up after the exam, the bread will be cold and dry and hard again.
Nok poured out the soaked bacon pieces, drained the water, and put them back into the jar.
Then Nok cut the radish into cubes and some onions, put them into the jar, poured water in, closed the lid, and put it on the stove to start cooking.
Nok sat in front of the stove, stuffing firewood into the stove one by one. After filling half the firewood, Nok didn't even bother to use flint, and directly threw a blast of divine flame into the stove, igniting the firewood.
If the sleeping Holy Lord knew that his believers were using the magic he had given to light fires and cook, he would be so angry that he would break away from the nightmare and directly send down divine punishment to punish this rebellious believer!
Nok didn't pay attention to this. He mechanically added firewood to the stove, but his mind was thinking about how to catch the monster and find his dagger.
Just like that, unknowingly, Nok boiled the water in the soup can without even realizing it, and still mechanically added firewood to the stove.
"My Lord! Brother Nok, what are you doing! Do you want to burn down the kitchen?"
Lilian's exclamation finally called Nok out of his thoughts.
Looking at the stove that was blackened by the fire and the soup can that seemed to be burned dry, Nok hurriedly took out the remaining firewood from the stove and threw it into the stove of the oven next to it.
Lillian put on insulated oven gloves and took the blackened soup can off the stove.
When the lid was lifted, the smell of burnt meat, along with the fragrance of radishes and onions, rose into the kitchen space.
"Sorry, it seems that the water has been boiled dry and the meat has been wasted. It's better to pour it."
Nok suggested carefully as he smelled the smell of burnt meat.
"Throw it away?! Brother Nok, are you a little distracted because you have made a little money recently? You don't know the conditions of our family! It's just burnt meat, and you actually want to throw it away! You are Did you dig a gold mine or rob the royal treasury?”
Lilian put one hand on her hips angrily and poked Nok's waist with the other, scolding Nok like a housekeeper.
Nok quickly apologized and covered Lilian's mouth with his hand: "Shhhhhh! Lilian, don't say such nonsense. If someone hears you, I will arrest you carefully and convict you of theft."
"cut!"
After slapping Nok's hand away, Lilian gave a disdainful scorn, but did not say any more "rebellious" words.
Lilian poured the ingredients from the soup can onto the plate and complained: "Brother, you have wasted all the good ingredients. The kitchen is my territory, why can't you think about it and come here to steal my work!"
Nok responded listlessly: "I couldn't sleep. When it was dawn, I wanted to help you make a meal. Unexpectedly, I got lost in thinking and boiled the soup dry."
When Lilian heard this, her hand movements slowed down slightly and she looked up at Nok.
"What happened?"
The reason why she asked this was because for the first time in the year since Nok cheered up, she heard that Nok had insomnia.
Even if she secretly saw Nok come back injured in the middle of the night, or when she couldn't make money for several days, Nok would appear in front of everyone in high spirits the next day.
Because she knew that even if Nok was pretending, he still had to look high-spirited and give his younger brothers and sisters the confidence to live.
But now Nok actually confessed in front of him that he had insomnia, which made Lilian, who was familiar with Nok's character, notice something strange.
Hearing Lilian's question, Nok hesitated for a moment, then opened his mouth to explain.
"As you said, I have been a little distracted recently. Because I made a fortune yesterday, I was careless when I went out to do the task last night, and I suffered heavy losses! I felt distressed all night, and I couldn't sleep at all."
"What! Are you injured?"
When she heard that Nok had an accident on her mission last night, Lilian's first reaction was not to feel sorry for how much money had been lost, but to worry about whether Nok was injured.
She dropped what she was doing and quickly came to Nok. She moved her hands up and down Nok, wanting to strip him naked for inspection.
Nok was so frightened that he called out again and again: "Stop, stop, stop! I'm not hurt, I'm not hurt! It's just that the cloak left by Father John was damaged, a high-end magic cloak of fifty gold coins! Just let me cause trouble like this. , and I also lost a valuable item related to my life experience."
"call!"
Lilian, who confirmed that Nok was not injured, was also very worried when she heard that the lost items were Father John's relics and Nok's treasure.
"Forget it, if the cloak is broken, it's broken. At least it's still there. You can mend it for me and I'll keep it as a thought. It's just a pity for your treasure. It's a clue about your life experience. It's still there. Is there any way to get it back? Why not report it to the police station? I heard that the police station will take care of things that are lost."
Lily gave sound advice, but Nok refused.
"Don't worry about me, I have a way to get my things back. As for John's cloak, I'll find a way to find those mysterious magicians to see if it can be repaired, but the cost is probably not low."
Lilian shook her head and rejected Nok's proposal: "No need. In the past, it was because you needed it, brother, so the cloak was useful. Now, since it can't protect my brother, it's just a souvenir. I'll mend it." Just put it away.”
"But……"
"No but! Living people still need to live, there is no need to waste so much money on a dead thing. Just do as I say. As soon as breakfast is ready, I will go to your room and get the cloak. After washing it, Just sew it up and put it away.”
Lilian made the final decision, and it was hard for Nok to argue with Lilian on this matter.
So, the two teamed up to organize a breakfast.
After waking up the children, everyone enjoyed a unique breakfast together.
Nock, who had nothing to do, spent a quiet and peaceful morning with his younger siblings in the chapel.
There were still ninety gold coins in cash at home, so Nok stopped Lillian's job of washing people.
There was no way before, but now Nok would not let his children continue to help others wash several buckets of clothes for a mere ten copper coins.
Nowadays, the most important task of children in the monastery is to cultivate their bodies.
After replenishing your body, you will not suffer any loss even if you work as a coolie or as an apprentice in the future.
Yes, Nok never thought of tying these younger brothers and sisters up in the monastery.
As the last priest of the Holy Church in England, although he was not clear about his situation, he also knew that the identity of the Holy Church was no longer available in England.
If Lillian hadn't been influenced by John and wanted to enter the church and become a nun, Nok would not have wanted her to continue practicing.
But Nock couldn't stop her, because she was John's adopted daughter. Unlike him and other children, Lillian and John had an adoptive father-daughter relationship witnessed by gods.
Lillian is John's officially adopted daughter, and there is an official document recorded in the laws of the Lionheart Kingdom.
Therefore, Lillian wants to follow John's footsteps and join in the light of the Lord, and Nok has no right and does not want to interfere.
But other children, like the impulsive Crowell, although he admires Nok, he aspires to be a demon hunter.
Because the devil bewitched his uncle and killed his entire family, he himself almost became a sacrifice to the devil.
If Nok hadn't appeared in time and killed the demon with force, Clowell would have gone to hell with his family and become the devil's nourishment.
Nok doesn't know what the quiet Ashley's dream is, but judging from the fact that she likes to read alone and please people around her, it seems.
Nok speculated that she probably had no dreams, or that she just wanted to marry a man who loved her in the future.
Naughty Hawks is quite simple. He comes from a merchant family, and his parents were killed by bandits while doing business. The caravan brought the surviving Hawkes to England and left him alone on the street. It was good Samaritans who sent Hawkes to the monastery.
Therefore, what Hawks never forgets is to be a businessman when he grows up, build the largest caravan on the mainland, and then squeeze the caravan that abandoned him into bankruptcy to avenge himself and his parents!
Because he always felt that in the entire caravan, only his parents were killed by bandits, and it must be the fault of the caravan.
The twin brothers Seawell and Avril are even simpler. They clamor all day long that they just want to grow up and make a lot of money, and then live happily with everyone in the monastery.
But Nock still carefully discovered that Hewel probably wanted to investigate his own life experience when he grew up and find out why he and his sister were abandoned.
Nok guessed this when he found Hywell secretly sitting in the aisle at the door of Suse in the middle of the night, watching him and Avril's baby in ecstasy.
Because before he was ten years old, Nok himself thought so too.
[Note 1: In the future, the Holy Light spells used by the protagonists in the book will all belong to the church's magic. Independent of magic. In addition, a small spoiler: the protagonist will abandon magic as a means in the future, and the reasons will be explained later.
Note 2: The street lamp mentioned above is the kind of oil lamp that was hung on the roadside lamppost in the Middle Ages and needed to be lit by someone. It's similar to the kerosene lamps used in movies and TV shows to cut off work. Not lighting a lamp. This book contains technological and mechanical creations and magical civilization, but there is no electronic technology. Let me explain this in advance. 】
