Tides: Years of Dawn

Gao Wen didn't go back to school, but took advantage of the absence of class for most of the day after morning class the next morning, and went back home.

"You want to intercede for Crewe." Even though Gawain didn't say anything, Rael could see through his motive at a glance—"I don't think you should do this, this is an opportunity to make meritorious service, besides, your report is not wrong. "

Gawain shook his head and said he didn't want to explain, Leyle's stubbornness was terrifying, and he didn't have the confidence to convince the other party at all.

The sea monster Leviathan's home is on Cliff Island, not far from Haicheng Island.You only need to cross a narrow sea area, and you can reach the shore in half an hour.But for the sea people, it took a lot of time to go by land than by sea. Even though the distance between land and sea was the same, when Gao Wen landed, he did not return home until dark.

Father was very surprised by his sudden return, but even more surprised by the words that came out of his mouth.

Gawain did not hide it from his father, but told the whole story in detail - including Geraint's poisoning of the sea crocodile and how he found the wand, how he interrogated Crewe, and how Rael and him took Crewe together. Lu was sent to the waiting room—confidant.

Gawain's father, Hua De, and Geraint's father, Baro Thurburn, used to be very close. Although Gawain and Geraint didn't seem to get along, the two families did have a relationship before.

When Barrow committed suicide a few years ago, he also met with Hua De in private, and handed over the rough stone that provided the power of the Sea Serpent family to his father for safekeeping.

Each of the nine major families in the Cracked Rock Islands has a rough stone, and the nine rough stones can be assembled into a completed inscription tablet.It is the blessing from ancient sea beasts, and it is also the source of life and mana for every family.

Barrow dared to hand over his own rough stone to his father, and there must be absolute trust as the foundation.

And Hua De also asked Gao Wen many times to take care of Geraint, he is the last member of the Sea Snake family.

Gao Wen did take care of him, he was already trying his best to protect Geraint.But this time because Rael stepped in, everything seemed out of control.

Hua De fell silent after listening to Gao Wen's narration.He knew that his son must have something very important to come back suddenly, so the doors and windows of the entire study were tightly closed to ensure that every word was only passed between the father and son.

"You mean he brought back a wand?" Howard selected the most important piece of information, "How do you know it's really a wand?"

"I have seen it," Gao Wen replied, "I have read it in many materials before, and I can also feel that the rod contains ore components. Both the shape and the energy it transmits prove it. You trust me."

Ward believed it, so he asked again—"Where is that wand now?"

"Rael's brother, in the hands of the warden Peidi Trudeau."

After simply recording the statement, the warden not only confiscated the wand as evidence in the court session, but also detained Crewe's backpack.

Gawain failed to bring anything back, and now—now Crewe has been in the waiting room for almost a day.

Thinking of this, Gawain hurriedly added—"The youngest son of the Ott//Puss family... Crew Ott//Puss, he has nothing to do with the whole thing, but now—"

"Geraint didn't know it was a wand."

Ward interrupted Gawain, even though the most important purpose of Gawain's return was to rescue the innocent Crewe, it was clear that Ward's focus was not on Crewe, "You know it's a magic wand, because I told I told you what a wand is, but Geraint doesn't know."

"No, he must know. Crewe said that Geraint once told him in a very mysterious way—"

"Geraint doesn't know," Ward interrupted Gawain for the second time, and said seriously, "Geraint has been fostered with the Ott//Puss family since he was ten years old, and foster children receive very little attention , he has no reason to know."

Gao Wen wanted to defend himself, but suddenly understood what his father meant.He froze for a moment, then gritted his teeth silently, without speaking.

"It was just an accident. He accidentally brought a witchcraft item that he was not familiar with to the island." Hua De crossed his hands and leaned back in his chair to look at Gawain. "You and Rael did nothing wrong, because You just reported according to the law, but as long as Geraint is interrogated, we will make a comprehensive judgment——Geraint was just too naughty and sneaked out to steal something from a human wizard."

Gawain nodded.He knew what his father meant by that, and he also knew that it was more serious to hide the wand than to sneak out.The punishment for hiding a wand must be going to prison, and sneaking out...

"But he may be fired," Hua De did not forget to tell his son the conjecture result, and he also said on this issue-"This is the best situation."

Even if he wasn't stealing from humans, even if wands weren't involved in the whole thing, the underage seafolk sneaking out of the Rift Rocks and onto the human continent—yes, he'd have to be expelled from school.

After being expelled, he might have to go to the detention center to stay for a few years, but the situation in the detention center is different from that of a prison. It is for sea dwellers who do not behave according to regulations. There is no torture in it, but only restrictions on personal freedom.

This situation will be much better, although it is not really optimistic.

"...So you mean that his best result is to enter the control station." Gao Wen concluded.

"Yes," Howard nodded, "but only if we make sure that Geraint 'doesn't know much about wands', so when you get back to school, you let him out—"

"He's not on the island," Gawain suddenly remembered Crewe's words, "he... went to the outside world again."

If you want to come to Huade, you are also prepared for this. After all, Geraint is so playful, it is impossible to go there once and let it go, so Huade just smiled helplessly and sighed—"It would be great if Barrow was here. Barrow is here, maybe Geraint will be different."

Yes, the child might have been different if the father had been there.But that's just a possibility, after all, the treatment he can get for a child with healthy family members like Crewe is not satisfactory.

"Crewe needs my help, father," Gawain stated again the ultimate purpose of his return - "he is the one who really knows nothing, and he is scared, he can't stay in the waiting room. He . . . he is vulnerable."

But Hua De's attitude was so decisive that Gao Wen was chilled, and his father frowned slightly, and said-"Ott//The Pusi family has given up on that child, if even the Ott//Pusi family is not willing Nevermind, why do we bother to intervene?"

Gawain's heart skipped a beat.

To be honest, he didn't expect his father to separate the two children so clearly. Although their family didn't have a deep relationship with the Octopus family, he never expected that his father, who has always loved him so much, would treat a child who was similar to him so indifferently. same age.

Gao Wen was indeed young, so young that he still couldn't tell the seriousness of the matter.So he felt very sad, and at the same time a little angry. He thought that his father should at least say that he would try his best, no matter whether it was effective or not in the end, but saying this could comfort Gao Wen and make Gao Wen feel better about his conscience.

But obviously, Hua De didn't take Crewe's question to heart from the beginning to the end.

So before Gao Wen could make any further persuasion, he changed the subject and said—"By the way, Gao Wen, you will be graduating next year, I want to know whether you plan to get married or compete for the election of the lord. You know, if you're going to compete for an alternate lord, you'd better give up marriage."

"I know." After Hua De's reminder, Gao Wen remembered such a thing.I also suddenly remembered that I had filled out a grade evaluation form a few days ago, presumably that evaluation form had been sent home by the school.

The children of the Split Rock Islands will face their first choice after graduation. If they don't plan to run for the lord of the islands, they will marry and have children early, and complete the process of starting a family and starting a business before the age of 20.

But if they want to run for the lord, they must give up the chance of marriage - after all, if they succeed, they will marry with the blood of a turtle family.

So almost all the people who participated in the election reserved their chances of getting married until that time. After all, no one wanted to divorce their spouse after winning the election. That would be a great humiliation to the spouse and family.

But this is risky, because there is only one lord and many candidates.

Therefore, many candidates not only failed to become lords in the end, but also missed the best opportunity to marry. A small number of them can find another chance to marry when they are around 30 years old, and most of the unsuccessful guys can only participate in the election again and again until Past election age, celibacy.

"I'm not married, I want to run for election." Gao Wen replied.Gao Wen must run for the election. There is no reason why a student council president with excellent grades like him should not run for the election.

Hua De has long expected his son's choice.

Out of the plan to run for the lord for Gao Wen, he is also planning to abdicate in the past two years, and let Gao Wen hone his position as the head of the family for a few years, which is also convenient for him to run for the lord many times.Nobody wins the election the first time around, and he has to think about his son running multiple times.

Gao Wen is excellent, except for some immature recklessness, he has always made Hua De very proud.

Although there were not many lords from the sea monster family, and Hua De himself was not a lord, but he thought Gawain would be a good leader—at least better than himself.

However, there is still one condition that Gao Wen does not meet—"Then you need to find an assistant, Gao Wen, you need resources to run for the lord election, and our family alone can't do it. Do you understand the truth?"

Gao Wen understood, but he was still far from the ideal support, he had just been severely laughed at by a girl who attracted him, and he might have to further improve his relationship with her.

But before he could say a word, Hua De saw through his thoughts at a glance, and said with a smile—"I know you like people from the jellyfish family, but their family will not become assistants. There is no precedent for this. And that girl finally Will become the head of their family, you'd better change your target."

"Then there is no need for assistance." Gao Wen was determined. If he couldn't get the person he wanted, then it would be okay for him to just vacate this position.

He didn't share his father's conventional thinking that he could set a precedent.Whether it is taking the jellyfish family members as their assistants, or being a lord without assistants.

It's just that he never expected that his father didn't take this sentence to heart at all.Instead, he thought about it for a while, and said something that surprised Gawain—"I think Rael is good, you and him are very close, and he is from the Sea Turtle family, what do you think of him?"

TBC