Lord Highlander

   Chapter 401 400. Knight Territory

Suldak pushed open the door of the dormitory and saw Natasha dozing off at the desk. He tiptoed into the dormitory and found that the room was almost brand new. The new one, the old one has been washed and hung on the clothesline on the terrace, and the snow on the terrace has also been cleaned by Natasha.

Natasha was wearing a thin nightgown, sleeping soundly on the desk with her white arms resting on her head, the room was not too cold, the sun shone through the clean window on the desk, and her long golden braids were faintly tinged. Glossy, the light fell on her slender neck, and the slender hairs were completely exposed,

   There are more people in the dormitory, and it is full of life at once.

  Suldak covered her with a sweater, took out the magic scroll of 'Focus on Fire', and boiled a pot of water in the room, which immediately warmed up.

Natasha probably heard the sound of boiling water, and suddenly woke up from her dream. She turned around and saw Surdak, with a trace of panic on her face. She patted the trembling bear breast through her pajamas, long He let out a breath and said, "Scared me, I thought someone broke in suddenly!"

   "I told you to go out with me, isn't it boring to stay in the dormitory?" Suldak walked over and poured her a cup of hot water.

   "Actually, it's okay, but there were two knocks on the door, and I didn't know how to respond, so I pretended you weren't there." Natasha sat on a chair and whispered to Suldak.

She always looks cautious, blushes when she talks, and has clear blue eyes, probably because she works a lot. Her body is very healthy, and her three meals have improved a lot in the past few months. She was a little thin before. Her cheeks became plump, she tightened the sweater she was wearing, looked at the heavy snow outside the window with some worry, and asked Suldak, "When will we be able to return to Wall Village?"

   "It will take a while, the snow in the valley is probably deeper now, if you are not used to living here, you can also stay in a hotel outside, or rent a hut!" Suldak said, holding her hand.

  Her hands are not smooth, with some callouses on the palms, and some frostbite on the back of the hands. These are hands that often have to work.

   "It's good to live here, you don't need to live outside!" Natasha blushed and said to Suldak, her body was filled with this youthful and fiery atmosphere.

Suldak took advantage of the opportunity to hug Natasha's slender and soft waist, and wanted to kiss Natasha's bright red lips, but at this time there was a knock on the door, and Lina's voice came from outside the door: "Knight Suldak, are you back?"

  Natasha, like a frightened rabbit, quickly escaped from Suldak's arms and hid in the chair next to the desk.

  Suldak walked to the door helplessly, and pushed it open.

Two young girl trainee knights next door stood at the door, looking into the room curiously. Linna's big eyes kept blinking, and the fire of gossip in her eyes was almost burning out. There was a smile on her face. He clearly said to Surdak: 'What? Won't you give us an introduction? '

Suldak moved away from the body blocking the door frame, allowing Natasha's figure to appear in front of the two girl neighbors. Linna and Nedra stared wide-eyed as if they had discovered a new world, and looked at the room. Natasha.

   "My wife, Natasha!" Suldak said, looking at Natasha in the room.

  Natasha blushed slightly, but tried to raise her head, bravely looked at the two apprentice knight girls, and nodded slightly.

"These two are neighbors next door to the dormitory, and we usually get along well." Suldak pointed to the lively Lina and the restrained Nedra and said: "This is Lina, she is Ned pull."

"What does it mean to get along well? Obviously, the relationship is not bad. Nedra and I have also taught the history of the empire of the Suldak knights before. The Suldak knights also taught us the skinning technique. Let us experience it in the red pine forest. I have gained a lot from the action." Linna wrinkled her nose and said very dissatisfied.

  Natasha stared at Linna and Nedra curiously, but didn't know how to communicate with them, her cheeks were flushed.

  She thought in her heart: If Rita was here, the atmosphere would not be chilled out. She is really useless.

  In the end, Suldak drove away the two girl neighbors who had been refusing to leave the room with the hint of "It's too late, we are going to rest".

In the silent night, there was no light in the room. Suldak stood on the terrace with Natasha in his arms. From here, he could see the bustling night scene of the entire Hailansa city. The Mage Tower not far away was like a city that never sleeps. The first floor is brightly lit, and looking back to the other side, you can see the street view of half of the rich area, and those manors are also lit with gorgeous lights. For Natasha who lives in a mountain village, this kind of night view is It is extremely shocking and surprising.

  A thick blanket was wrapped around the two of them. Suldak hugged Natasha tightly from behind, with his chin resting on Natasha's shoulder, and whispered about the city to her.

Natasha held Suldak's hand tightly. She tilted her head back and looked at Suldak's side face in a daze. Another face in her memory seemed to overlap with her eyes at this moment. At the same time, she was in a trance.

   "You have become a knight, and little Peter will become a great knight in the future, right?" Natasha asked Suldak with a face full of hope.

Suldak nodded without hesitation and said: "Of course, this honor will of course be reserved for little Peter. I promised old Sheila. As long as he grows up, we will send him to the Knight Academy, just like Linna, like Nedra, learned some skills in this academy, and if he wants to go to the plane battlefield to make meritorious service, it is best to join the heavy cavalry regiment after graduation."

  Natasha felt a warm current passing through her heart, and unconsciously her eye sockets became a little moist.

  Suldak narrowed his eyes and said softly: "If he doesn't want to fight on the front line, I can leave him in the guard battalion for military service."

   "Is it really possible?" Natasha's eyes widened. She never thought that one day little Peter could legally avoid military service on the battlefield.

  Suldak squeezed her soft face, and said with a smile: "Now your husband is the regional sheriff of the barren land of the guard battalion in Pagros Mountain, and he still has some ability!"

  Natasha was a little excited and incoherent, and said in a low voice: "I'm not saying that there is nothing wrong with going to the battlefield. All the young people in the village have to go to the battlefield..."

"I know what you're worried about...I know." Suldak said this to comfort Natasha's agitated mood, but his eyes were looking at the bright starry sky above his head. The sea continues to spread outward.

  …

Riding through a circular garden surrounded by red bricks, around the circular corridor in the garden, he found the alley paved with stone strips. In the alley, Suldak saw the city guard at the door of a low building. Beibu' plaque, Knights' Order is on the second floor of this building.

  He tied the horse to the door of the low building, stepped on the snow-covered stairs, and climbed up to the attic.

  The snow here has not been cleaned yet, it looks really deserted, knocked on the door, and a lazy voice came from the room: "Come in!"

Walking into the attic, Suldak saw the old knight leaning on the chair, with his feet on the table, looking at the door with a sleepy look, and saw Suldak walking in wearing a salamander leather armor , and then asked with some reluctance: "You don't study hard at the Knight Academy, what's the matter with the Knights?"

   Unexpectedly, the old knight still remembered himself, Suldak quickly stood up straight, and handed the old knight the knight voucher with a roll of parchment in his hand.

The old knight unfolded the parchment scroll, saw the stamp of the city hall, looked up at Suldak again in surprise, and said dumbly: "The knight certificate issued by the city hall is really rare! It seems that you immediately No small credit."

"Since the city hall has recognized your status as a knight, there is no problem with the knight order." The old knight put his legs down, turned around, took out a seal from the drawer, stamped it on the side quickly, and stretched out his hand Said to Suldak: "Give me your knight badge, the reserve service on it can be removed."

The old knight took the knight badge from Suldak, walked to the steel seal manual press next to the file cabinet, put the badge in the mold and pressed it again, then removed the reserve symbol on the badge and replaced it with the official knight number.

   It took almost no effort to complete these procedures.

  The old knight solemnly put the knight badge on Suldak's chest, and then the two performed a knight salute. This moment was full of ritual.

The old knight patted Suldak on the shoulder, and told her: "In this case, according to the knightly decree of the Grimm Empire, after you officially become a knight, you can own a piece of land as your knight's collar, of course it will not be too big. , but choose a place with fertile land, enough to feed your family.”

After speaking, he took out a huge map of the Hailansa area from the file cabinet. Although this map was not as intuitive as the sand table in the office of Marquis Bernard, the land on it was drawn with countless boundaries and frames. The land has a corresponding name mark, and the old knight skillfully found some unclaimed land from the densely packed marks, and inserted it on the map with a pin with a red color flag, so that Suldak could choose more intuitively.

Suldak didn't look at the contiguous stretches of unowned land around Earl Hoyle's Manor and Baron Grenfell's Manor. Regardless of the old knight's hint, he pointed to the land around Pustule Mountain on the map and asked the old knight: " How much land can I claim here?"

The old knight was so angry that his beard was about to stand up. He pointed at the barren land on the map and said angrily, "You plan to choose the land in the barren land? Haven't you ever tasted hard times, you silly boy? Do you know that? The land here doesn't even grow grass!"

  Suldak touched his nose in embarrassment, and whispered to the old knight: "I am from Wall Village outside the mountain pass."

After listening to Suldak's explanation, the old knight understood why Suldak chose this way, but he still persuaded him earnestly: "Oh, choosing a knight collar is also very particular. The closer you are to the city of Hailansa, the better you get The knight territory is smaller, but the land is relatively fertile."

  He paused, took a sip, and then continued: "The farther you are from Hailansa City, the territory you can get will multiply, but the land will be barren."

The old knight frowned and said: "If you want to choose the land outside the mountain pass, the approval conditions of the city hall will definitely be relatively relaxed, and the approved territory will be much larger, especially in these barren lands outside the Pagros Pass. It’s a place where no one goes, and you might even be granted a whole mountain.”

Seeing that Suldak was quite moved, he quickly reminded him: "But you have done your fieldwork. It is best to find a place with lush water and grass outside the best mountain pass. If you can't find the best place, you should go honestly." Choose a piece of land on the side of the red pine forest. The territory there is the most cost-effective, and there are dense forest areas everywhere. You can first build a logging camp in the territory and cut down the adult trees, so that you can get a settling fee. Then open up a small farm on the land where the trees have been cut down, and many newly promoted commoner knights will choose this way."

"If you were an aristocratic knight, I wouldn't tell you so much. He has a rich family and doesn't care about this little territory at all. But you are a commoner. Go back and think about it. Once you are selected, you can't change it!" the old man said. The knight reminded again and again.

  Suldak said repeatedly that he would think about it carefully, and then he left the Knights.

   To add a reward for David’s test, uh, I still owe a reward to add an update. Unfortunately, the holiday is over, and it may not be made up until the Chinese New Year

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