Skeleton King

What do children do when they receive a red envelope?Of course it was given to the parents.

As night fell, the lights of Bad Soden Manor were still brightly lit, but there were no guests in the hall.Most of the guests had already left, and the very few guests who lived far away and could not return to their homes that day were arranged to have a good rest in the guest bedroom of the manor.As for whether any viscount or baron accidentally walked into his wife's room by mistake, Viscount Neumann doesn't need to worry about it.

Ace took the money bag given by the Marquis to Viscount Neumann, "Father, it was given to me by the Marquis."

Viscount Neumann's eyes froze when he saw the money bag in Ace's hand.He took the money bag, stroked the red roses embroidered on the bag with his fingers, his eyes gradually became empty, as if lost in memory.

Ace thought Viscount Neumann would take the gift.

Magic crystals are not common in the Pansy Empire. The most common level 1 magic crystal is worth at least 1 gold coins, and one gold coin is enough to feed a family of three for half a month.In particular, there are a few very large and brightly colored magic crystals in the money bag, which are definitely not ordinary level 50 magic crystals.

Viscount Neumann spent a long time studying the embroidery on the money bag, then opened the bag and glanced inside. He didn't count how many magic crystals were inside, but returned it to Ace directly, "Mrs. Rose It was your mother’s friend when she was in the imperial capital, and the money bag is your mother’s old thing. This should belong to your mother, so please keep it safe.”

Ace watched Viscount Neumann leave blankly, holding a "huge sum of money" in his hand, a little at a loss.Ace was a little speechless. He gave something worth tens of thousands of gold coins to a child, except for "keep it safe", didn't he bring any more instructions?

After the funeral of Viscountess Neumann, Bad Soden Manor returned to its former calm.Viscount Neumann stayed in the manor for a few days, dealing with some trivial matters in Ace's view, such as this one now——

"My lord, the Fife family boy came to our house to steal potatoes again! God damn it, how could they do this?! I went to find the soldiers guarding the manor, but they said that as long as I didn't catch the Fei Fe family on the spot The boys, it can’t prove that their hands and feet are not clean. The king is above. But in the village, apart from them, who else’s family members are so idle. Moreover, I saw those two boys as soon as I went out. When they saw me, their hands Put it behind your back and hide.” An old man with gray hair and a thin beard stood under the meeting hall, trembling and full of righteous indignation, accusing the Feiffer family of crimes.

Viscount Neumann sat on the top of the conference hall, he pinched the root of the mountain, and he looked very irritable, he said: "Old Wolf, as long as you haven't seen the Pfeiffer family stealing your potatoes with your own eyes, you You can’t accuse them, let alone let the soldiers of the manor arrest you.”

"But, my lord..." Old Wolf's voice was almost panicked.

Viscount Neumann interrupted him, "In a few days, the Graf Chamber of Commerce will open a small shop in the village, and they still lack some manpower. I will recommend the Pfeiffer family, they don't have much time to work again The village is wandering around."

"Oh, benevolent lord, you saved these two bastards who were going to die. Oh, how lucky we are to live in the fiefdom of the Neumann family..." Old Wolff sang many promises incessantly. Viscount Iman's kind words, and with tears in his eyes, he looked extremely sincere.

Ace's position was at the lower left of the meeting hall, and he was a little restless, wondering how Viscount Neumann could listen to such a long list of nasty words without blushing and heartbeat.

Old Man Wolf bowed deeply to Viscount Neumann and left the conference hall.Viscount Neumann said to the soldiers at the door: "Next—"

Ace only felt that his little arms and legs were going to rust. The life of the noble lord was completely different from what he had imagined. He thought Viscount Neumann had nothing else to do except hunting and molesting the little maid.

The new farmers were talking about their misfortune in life again, and Ace chatted quietly with Angelica, "The surname Pfeiffer sounds familiar."

Angelica: "Back to young master, my father is Pfeiffer, and the person old Wolff is accusing is my brother."

Ace turned his head, Angelica looked calm, but Angela kept shaking her head, as if she didn't want to admit the surname Pfeiffer.

Ace: "Then why have you never seen your family come to see you?" The Neumann family's manor is in the center of the village of Bad Soden, and the farthest family is only half an hour's walk away from the manor.Moreover, Angelica and Angela are only maids in the manor, not slaves, and they are free outside of work.

Angelica: "There are too many children in the family, and the mother has to help the father farm the land while she is pregnant. They don't have time."

Ace asked in surprise, "They never came?"

Angelica shook her head.

Ace: "How many children are there in your family?"

Angelica: "I don't know how many more brothers and sisters I have now. Angela and I are the 10th and 11th children."

Ace: "Why so many children?"

Angelica: "My father always felt that it would be good for the child to grow up. But many of my brothers and sisters died, and some went to the city and never came back."

Ace didn't speak anymore, not only because he didn't know how to explain eugenics to the Feiffer family, but also because Viscount Neumann finally finished his affairs and came to Ace.

Viscount Neumann took Ace to a stone platform behind the manor, "Did you practice swordsmanship when I was not at home?"

Ace shook his head, "No."

Viscount Neumann squatted down, starting from Ace's wrist, and touched all the bones in his body, "The aptitude is barely considered first-class. Although it is a little late to start practicing now, if you work harder, you will make up for it in a few years."

Ace: I'd rather you say my qualifications are beyond redemption.

Viscount Neumann threw a wooden sword to Ace, "It's only half the weight of a real sword, you get used to it first."

Ace reached out to catch the wooden sword, but he didn't judge the position, and the wooden sword fell to the ground.Ace squatted down and picked up the wooden sword, imitating Viscount Neumann's movements.

Viscount Neumann walked up to Ace and pointed him, "Stand sideways, so that the enemy will not easily hit you. When lunging, move your front legs to the outside, and don't protrude your knee joints, as this is easy to get injured."

"Don't hesitate when you draw the sword. Your speed is so slow, maybe it's because your hair is not fully grown. Why are you hesitating? You're learning embroidery from the ladies, and you still have to think about where to put the next stitch..."

……

Ace practiced swordsmanship on the first day. After practicing for more than half an hour, when Viscount Neumann said "that's it for today", he fell to the ground directly.Ace's entire suit was soaked in sweat, all stuck to his back.

Viscount Neumann did not have a loving father to bring Ace back to the manor, but handed him a book, "The basic training method of the Knights is not difficult to understand, and it is not dangerous. It is the best way to lay the foundation of."

Ace lay on the ground, opened the book, and Viscount Neumann continued: "The one that determines a swordsman's life achievement is aptitude and understanding. A person with good aptitude can bear more vindictiveness, and the completion is more complicated." moves; people with good comprehension can practice mental methods faster."

"Although swordsmen above level 4 can emit fighting qi, ordinary people can feel the qi in their body after practicing the mental method, as fast as a few weeks, or as slow as a few months. It is said that people who are talented to become a sword master can only turn over You can feel Qi just by practicing the most basic mental method. It took me two weeks, I hope you will not be slower than me." After Viscount Neumann finished speaking, he turned and returned to the manor.

Ace rested on the stone platform for a while before getting up and returning to the manor accompanied by Angelica.

When Ace returned to the room, Angela had already prepared the medicinal bath, "Master, take a dip in the bar, so as not to leave hidden wounds."

Ace nodded, "Go out, I'll do it myself."

Sister Angelica turned and left. Suddenly, Ace seemed to think of something. He stopped Angelica, "Angelica, are you literate?"

Angelica turned around and said with some doubts, "Back to young master, you can read."

Ace nodded indiscriminately, "You guys go out."

At night, Ace sat cross-legged on the bed, and Angelica quietly read the contents of the book, "There are countless magical elements in nature. Magicians can manipulate these elements, gather them, and turn them into spells. Swordsman But it is different, the swordsman will absorb these elements and turn them into fighting energy. The scorching hot fighting energy will rise from the dantian, and it will make the swordsman's moves faster and faster than the magician..."

Suddenly, Ace's face became a little weird, and he interrupted Angelica, "Angelica, how many times have you read it?"

Angelica: "Go back to Young Master, I'm almost finished reading it for the second time."

Ace: "Tell me, what kind of qi do people feel at first?"

Angelica: "Back to young master, I haven't practiced before, I don't know."

Ace turned the book to the front, and he pointed to the picture on the title page of the book——the picture is a naked man, with a red line drawn, how Qi completes a cycle in his body—Ace Ask Angelica, "Does it make you feel when you see this and act on it?"

Angelica shook her head, she didn't know why, but she didn't feel anything.

Ace suddenly changed the subject, "Didn't the bard come to the village of Bad Soden?"

Angelica: "Yes."

Ace: "Did he ever say, when Juggernaut was young, how long did it take them to break through from zero to level four?"

Angelica felt more and more inexplicable, "The bard didn't say this, maybe I didn't hear it."

Ace's heart was full of despair, so it's hard for beginners to feel angry? ! !At this moment, what is that hot gas rushing around in his dantian? ! !

Angelica didn't understand why Ace was unhappy, she just continued reading, hoping that the young master would become a first-class swordsman soon, "The practice of fighting qi starts from..."

Ace lay down on the bed, buried his head in the pillow, "No need to read." He didn't want to hear it at all.

He vaguely heard Death's footsteps.