The vast Nordic land seems to be rich in land, but the dense forests and frozen soil are difficult to cultivate into fertile farmland. Therefore, most of the fertile land is occupied by lords and kings. A small amount of land that can grow alpine crops barley is in Farmers must have enough on hand to feed their families.
Therefore, in a Nordic family, there are many cruel but realistic customs. The land can basically only be inherited by the eldest son. If the other children are boys and grow up to a certain age, they can only move away, while girls will get married as early as possible.
"Ping, bang~."
An ax hit the wood hard, splitting the wood into two pieces. The split wood will become a good fuel. Before the severe cold, enough firewood must be stored.
"Huh." Karl raised his head, put down the ax in his hand, and wiped the sweat from his forehead with his left hand. He used his left hand to crack firewood. It is very difficult for ordinary people to use their left hand to crack firewood.
However, Karl had to do this because his right hand shrank like a chicken claw and he could only pick up lighter objects.
"Gugu." Karl has blond hair, a pair of blue eyes, and his cheeks are thin and narrow. Although not very ugly, he has a thin appearance and pale skin.
Carl's home is located in a dense forest. In Carl's grandfather's generation, they cut down many large and strong trees, and finally reclaimed a few acres of land and built a wooden house.
After Karl's father married Karl's mother, he built a fence around the wooden house and raised cattle and sheep. Although life was difficult, it was still manageable.
"You're back." He Mei walked out of the house holding the ax with his right hand. I carefully placed the ax by the door and opened it. If the precious ax was dirty or damaged, I would hold the meeting like this. Suffered an old punch from his father.
"Does he know what he is doing?" The gods focused their eyes on Halfdan behind them and said to me.
"Lord, I've left the recruitment to you, right?" Halfdan blinked and said to the gods with a smile.
"Yes, he will become a real North warrior." He Meilang happily took out an iron armband from his bag and placed it in Ange's hand.
Ange held the cold armband, surprised that he knew how to express his feelings at this moment. "Excuse me, little man, are they really the king's envoys?" Ange's father was waiting beside him carefully. This was the first time Ange saw his father shouting so loudly.
"It's possible, it's too early to collect the rent." Feilda frowned, walked to the door slowly, and took the ax in his hand.
"I still need time to prepare." Mother said anxiously. You know Ange must leave there, so there is no way to die.
When the door was slammed shut, a small number of people in the room breathed a sigh of relief. The mother took the opportunity to greet the two boys and sit behind the wooden table. After finishing enjoying the food, Ange also walked to the end of the table and took the food with his right hand. Got wheat bread.
Before finishing up the rich food, the old man told He Mei and others some stories about Thor's battle with the Frost Giants to express his gratitude. Although it was just some cliché routines, it made Ange and others happy. Listening with gusto.
"You are from East Hamar, under the orders of King Ironbone Bjorn and East Hamar Lord Wolf Tamer Wolf, and later recruited people." A woman's voice came from the house, and Ange and others Wei Wei was surprised.
"What is that?" Halfdan reached out and grabbed He Mei's left hand. When the other party was struggling, he pulled up the cuff and saw this left hand that Ange was ashamed of.
"Raid?" Ange's father became more sober. Should the king's raid involve recruiting lords from various places to form an army?
"Felda." Mother quickly stopped her.
"It's a pity that you can take him away. He can wield an ax and pick up a buckler." He Mei sighed heavily, patted Ange on the shoulder, and said to me.
"Take it down." Suddenly, Halfdan slapped his lips and said to the gods.
The gods were speechless for a moment. When it came to recruiting people, Ulf had indeed given full power to Halfdan. However, the gods still felt reassured when they saw that the man behind them was a reliable smooth talker.
The mother appropriately stuffed the two boys with some food, but squatted in the corner with a smile on her face, watching a few people eating. Although Ange had been busy all morning and tortured me with fatigue and hunger, Ange was still very happy. Han Hu, he can only be the first to eat.
"It is possible for a wanderer to ride a horse." He Mei thought for a while and said.
"Yeah." Ange's father, who was sitting behind the wooden table in the house, was engrossed in eating the food on the plate. The eldest son, Ferda, was sitting on the right side of Ange's father and was enjoying a piece of chicken attentively. A man was helping his mother ladle broth from the pot.
"Really?" He Mei knew how to react for a moment. I stared at Halfdan behind me and felt that the villain was closer to me than my biological father.
"He only cracked a lot, and it was really useful." Ange's father raised his head after a while, glanced at Ange, who was strong and forbidden, frowned, and I said with a full voice.
"What?" The gods looked at He Meilang in surprise.
"He doesn't seem to have two sons?" The gods sitting next to Halfdan narrowed their eyes, looked at Ferda and He Mei and asked.
Ange, He Mei's mother and two younger sisters stood aside and looked curiously at the few rural people sitting at the wooden table.
Ange also had a way to refute this. The Vikings did not have such customs and would throw babies born with disabilities into the forest to fend for themselves, because a disabled child only needs the care of his mother before he grows up. It is also possible to provide productivity for the family, not to mention Ange is still the second son, so Ange is a blessed child.
"Perhaps you are indeed a bit spare." Ange put down the bread in his hand and said in frustration.
"Oh, is he a bard or a traveler?" Ange's sisters suddenly became interested after hearing this. Your big house once hosted a traveler. This traveler who had seen a lot of things was a traveler. An old man wearing a gray cloak with no limp on his left foot.
The local Hemei did recruit Ferda, but Ange's father paid a sum of money on the grounds of inheriting the land, and then he dealt with it. However, I know how to deal with the king's recruitment.
"That's wrong. Is His Majesty the King recruiting soldiers? But should that kind of thing go through Karl?" Ange's father nodded and asked easily.
"Useful guy, does he want you all to freeze to death in the winter?" Ange's father roared and smashed something under the table. In addition to Ange's brother, even Ange's mother He only dared to hold the two boys in his arms and dare not say a word.
"What are they?" Ange's father's voice came from the house. I was asking these travelers from far away, which means they are not hostile.
After winter is about to come, there will occasionally be some wanderers with bad intentions. Although our number is small, it is very common for us to steal chickens and dogs.
"Ange, shut up." Mother quickly stopped her. You know that the reason why He Mei wanted to participate was probably not to die quickly.
The leader, a very majestic-looking North warrior, was taking a sip and licking the grease under his fingers from time to time, but the other man dressed as a shield man looked less reserved, but you were wearing The chainmail and shawl represent his high status.
"You are willing." Ange knew why, mustered up the courage, and said to He Mei.
"King, wolf tamer?" Ange's father was very surprised by those noble titles. The most noble person I have ever seen in my life is not the local Karl. The king and the lord of East Hamar are beyond my imagination. .
"Of course." Halfdan burped, patted his belly, then raised his head and said to Ange's father.
"Hmm." Ange was quite angry in his heart, but I had long been used to it, and resisting reluctantly would only make me suffer less beatings.
"Can't you step back and have a rest?" At that time, the man's clear voice sounded, and he said urgently to He Mei's father.
"It wasn't like that. It must have been my mother who kept me here because of her cowardice. The reason for such congratulations was to suffer that kind of torture." Filda frowned and looked at her mother and said.
The gods shook their heads heavily, knowing that taking that young man away would only cause me to die in a foreign country, so they turned around and tried to convince Ferda if she could join their team.
"You have to take my words into your heart. He is a blessed child." My mother reluctantly touched Ange's cheek and said to me comfortingly.
"That's wrong, that's the deposit for employment." He Meilang took out a coin from the money bag at his waist and handed it to He Mei's father.
"Take you away, you can't do anything." Ange seemed to be risking his life at this moment, begging the gods.
Did Ange say anything? I understand the situation of Hu's mother. In fact, Ange also hates his father very much. In order to support the family, He Mei's father, as a special farmer, has not tried his best. To deal with Karl's oppression, we also have to ensure that everyone is starved to death and freezes to death in winter.
"You have worked hard. We will finish it at the meeting tomorrow." Ange explained quickly.
Halfdan frowned. I stood up from behind the wooden table and walked a few steps in front of Ange. The young man just now hid his left hand, which aroused Halfdan's bad curiosity even more.
"Can you really join the raid team?" Ange felt like there were countless bees flying outside his mind. His original desire to join the raid was just an impulse to escape, but he thought that it actually turned into Reality.
"Ding ding ding~~."
"That is a team that Your Majesty prepares for raids. You need those who are young and lack the courage to join and retreat together." He Meilang wiped his hands under his beard and then said.
"Him?" Ange's father was stunned for a moment. I knew that Ange couldn't pick up a weapon with his shrunken left hand.
"That's enough Ange, go back to the sheepfold." Ange's father also felt humiliated, and I glared at Ange and yelled.
"It's broken, He Meilang." The gods also looked up at this, and then stopped them.
"That's also wrong. As the second son, he should have left there long ago to find his own path of adventure and destiny." Brother Ange, who had been silent, stared at his disabled brother and said.
"He should have been thrown back into the forest and sacrificed to Yael." Ange's father was leaning under the wooden chair. Although I was just a farmer, I was like a tyrant in that house.
There was a fire burning in the brazier inside the house. Ange spent a whole morning working hard, and the firewood he chopped started to light up the whole house in an instant.
"He has to understand those things to see if his sons are not willing to leave with you." He Mei waved his hand and asked He Mei's father.
However, Ange has always been envious of Ferda. Even if I have the same seven limbs as Ferda, I will definitely stay out there and travel far away from my hometown with my luggage on my back. No matter whether I die or die. It doesn't matter whether he is on the battlefield of a surprise attack or killed by a raider.
"Enough, he wants to inherit that land, otherwise Karl will take away the money, and you and his sisters will have nowhere to go." Mother said even more worriedly.
"Let you go." Ange's face turned red, and I tried my best to shake off Halfdan.
"Yar has given you your destiny, and you can only accept it calmly, just like you have always wanted to join the Raiders, but both your father and him stopped you." Filda snorted again and said noncommittally.
At this moment, there was a sound of horse hooves coming from the main path of the forest. We were all slightly startled by the farmer family who lived a fierce life.
"Is it Karl who collects rent?" Mother stood up in surprise and asked casually.
"You can move and tie the spear to your hand. You can't even use a shield." Ange's eyes were red, like a beast in desperate situation, I said to the gods.
"Take you away, you can't do anything." He Mei stared at the gods slowly and whispered.
"Come on, you should leave in a while." Halfdan put his hand on Ange's shoulder coldly and said to me.
"Look, let go of the curse, your brother." Ferda spread her hands helplessly, as if she had lost sight of everything, and said to Ange.
The sound of the spoon hitting the earthenware plate was mixed with the sound of people sucking the broth and the sound of chewing.
As a raider, some people are willing to accept a disabled person, but Ange, who has no skills, may only freeze to death in the wild when winter comes.
"My lord Ya'er, you must have done something wrong to be cursed like that." He Mei's father stood up angrily and walked out of the room in small steps. I need to check the condition of the livestock in the pasture pen. In winter, those animals Livestock provide meat, eggs and milk.
"Ah, you don't have any money yet?" At that moment, Ange's father was completely unexpected. Although he made his own decision with anger and eyebrows, he immediately thought that if Ange left there, there would be one more person. While eating, I thought no one had paid me yet.
