"Master, you are already twenty-two years old, it is time for you to have a virtuous wife...

In the wooden house in the valley, the tone of the old butler Cooper was surprisingly consistent with that of Baroness Galvin.

During the family dinner at Sapp Castle, Baroness Galvin expressed tactfully that they did not care about Art's civilian status and hoped to marry Baron Galvin's only daughter Lottie to Art.

At the same time, Baron Galvin hopes that Art can take no less than ten self-armed soldiers from the patrol in his name to Tynets County to gather candidates for military service. These ten conscripts are from Tynets County.

In addition to the assigned military service, Baron Galvin also had to send his own knights to lead a private army of fifty people to fight for the lord (Baron Galvin's lord was not Viscount Pierre). As a nobleman who was not familiar with military affairs, he had to deal with

The military service of the feudal lord was already beyond its capacity, and the military service assigned by Tyniec could only be hired by others.

Of course, all expenses incurred during the period of substitute service will be paid by Baron Galvin.

The second thing Baron Galvin did was essentially hire Art's patrol team at a high price to serve in the army. Art had no intention of sitting on the sidelines in the coming troubled times, so he readily accepted it. Since it was an employment relationship, Art

Art was not polite to Baron Galvin - First, Art asked Baron Galvin for two sets of leather armor, five broad swords, battle axes and heavy hammers, five short spears and two hundred light and heavy arrows for the expedition.

supply of weapons; second, Baron Galvin must pay Art a salary of ten pfennigs per day for the ten patrol soldiers who serve instead, until the palace announces the end of the soldiers' service; third, the ten soldiers who serve instead

Nominally led by Odo, deputy captain of the patrol. Art also promised that the hired patrol soldiers would take care of their own casualties, but he would be free to take any victory.

Baron Galvin must devote all his energy to trade with Provence and supplying military service to his superior lord, so he readily accepted all of Art's conditions, signed an employment contract with Art, and wrote a letter to Art with a seal of approval.

The heraldic document proves that Odo was a commander of soldiers sent by Baron Galvin to serve in the county of Tyniec.

As for Art's marriage to Miss Lottie, Art did not give a clear answer, because by marrying a noble lady as a commoner, Art would inevitably be in a passive position in front of Baron Galvin in the future, and besides, he

I also thought about being able to climb up to a powerful aristocratic lady in the future and use her strength to rise.

"Master, I don't know about war, but you can really consider marrying a wife. Not to mention that men from ordinary peasant families should marry and have children at the age of fourteen or fifteen, even ordinary noble families should marry at the age of sixteen or seventeen.

It's time to get married. Although you want to clear up your family shame and revitalize your family, this does not affect your ability to marry and have children."

Cooper came close to Art's ear and whispered: "Besides, if you can marry Miss Lottie, maybe you can get the support of the Yuge family in reviving your family business, right?"

After listening to the old butler's words, Art thought for a long time and asked Odoron and others who were sitting around the long table in the wooden house: "Everyone, what do you think of this matter?"

The Ottomans had only met Miss Lottie once or twice in Sapp Castle, and did not know much about the only daughter of Baron Galvin.

Otto replied softly: "My lord, this is your private matter. We can't say more about it, but I think you can consider it. Not to mention other things, I think Miss Lottie is quite suitable to be a virtuous woman."

My wife. Although she is an aristocratic lady, she does not have the affectation of an aristocratic lady at all, nor is she domineering like an ordinary aristocratic lady."

Kazak also smiled and echoed: "Yes, at Mr. Galvin's banquet last time, Miss Lottie took the initiative to clink glasses with you and drink..."

Everyone at the square table expressed their opinions in a few words, but everyone's unanimous opinion was that Art should marry Miss Lottie.

"Sir, it's time for the Valley Castle to have a kind and virtuous mistress." Scott, who was sitting at the end of the long table, made a brief concluding speech.

Art raised his head and said: "Okay, since Mr. Galvin and Miss Lottie don't dislike me, an unidentified commoner, I don't need to be pretentious. I will write to Mr. Galvin soon and tell him

After my service at the court is over, I will go to Sapp to be engaged to Miss Lottie!!"

Waves of cheers rang out in the wooden house.

Art raised his hand to suppress the cheers of everyone, "Okay, let's talk about sending troops to serve for Baron Galvin..."

According to the agreement with Baron Galvin, Art's patrol team will dispatch ten armed infantry and one cavalry (representing Baron Galvin himself) to Tyniec County for registration, and then follow Viscount Pierre to the palace assembly.

Form an army, and then the court arranges to go to the front line to defend the border or participate in battles.

Art didn't really think about letting Odo go on the expedition with only ten soldiers. He planned to wait for the patrol team to be repaired and trained for a period of time before taking the initiative to go to the palace minister of security and ask the minister of security to allow him to take the soldiers of the patrol team.

Participate in the battle on the eastern border. If he is lucky enough to achieve military success in the war with Swabia, he may be able to get a knight's title with the help of Bishop Olof. In that case, he can take another step towards the hegemony in his heart...

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But Art never thought that such an opportunity did not need to be fought for by himself. Sometimes luck (or bad luck) would always come to his door...

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On the third day after returning to the wooden castle in the valley, Art was supervising the training of patrol soldiers in the open space outside the wooden castle. At this time, Lawrence, who had been supervising the prisoners of war in the north to build a carriage path leading to the edge of the jungle, ran in a hurry.

Returned to the wooden castle and found Art.

Lawrence had obviously been running back all the way. When he stood in front of Art, his face was pale and his lips were purple. He was exhausted. Art asked Ron to help Lawrence to rest for a while and drink a few sips of water.

After regaining his composure, Lawrence reported an important piece of news to Art - while they were building a carriageway in the jungle, they discovered thick black smoke rising from the wasteland outside the forest. Lawrence led his men to the sentinel at the edge of the forest.

Detective, the thick smoke was rising several miles away from the edge of the jungle. Lawrence did not dare to go out of the jungle to take a closer look, so he rushed back to the wooden castle to call the police~

"Odo, gather the soldiers and get ready."

"Ron, take your sentry team out with me." Art thought of something, and quickly asked Ron to go back to the castle, take the horse, saddle it, and follow him to the edge of the northern dense forest to scout.

It turned out that Art had told Viscount Pierre and Baron Antayas that if there was an emergency, they would find him at the patrol station at the edge of the dense forest dozens of miles south of Lane Manor. The messenger only needed to set off a

A bunch of black fireworks, and he will arrive. But now Art can't rule out the possibility of an enemy attack, so he asks Odo to prepare for the battle.

Most of the carriageway leading to the edge of the northern dense forest has been built. Art, Ron Jason and Red, the three sentinels, galloped on the newly opened carriageway in the forest, and arrived at the road construction site in less than an hour.

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There were two temporary shacks on the construction site, one for prisoners of war and the other for the peasants and soldiers of the fort defense team. At this time, the busy construction site had quieted down, and Cooper commanded the peasants and soldiers of the fort protection team to drive all the prisoners of war back to the shacks.

He was taken into custody, and then he personally led three courageous young peasant soldiers carrying daggers to stand guard at the end of the horse road near the dense forest.

Seeing Art and his men arriving on horseback, a peasant soldier guarding the prisoners of war came forward to report the situation. Art signaled the peasant soldier to call Cooper and his men back.

After a while, Cooper returned to the construction site and walked to Art and said: "Master, there is no situation in the dense forest for the time being."

"Okay, Cooper, you guys stop working and be on alert, and we'll go out to see the situation first."

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The two riders in the wilderness who were throwing dried wolf dung into the fire were indeed the cavalry of Viscount Pierre. They were assigned a hard job a few days ago - go to the south of Lane Manor and continue through a pile of boulders.

He found the station of the Southern Border Patrol in Tyniec at the edge of the dense forest twenty-five miles south, and brought a letter to the patrol officer Art.

The two riders knew that bandits were rampant in the south and there were many dangers on this trip, so after receiving this mission, they were reluctant to shirk it in every possible way. It was not until Lord Pierre's adjutant promised a heavy reward that the two of them hit Viscount Pierre all the way.

They walked stop-and-go towards the southern border area with the flag. Along the way, they would stop to rest and inquire when passing by the village and manor. Once there was any news about bandits, they would not leave. They had to rely on the manor, village and fort to wait.

After a day or two, wait until the banditry subsides before continuing on the road...

Just walking one day and resting lazily for two days, it took the two of them six days to reach the huge pile of rocks in the wasteland. As a result, they encountered several lone Steppenwolves in the wasteland. They were so frightened that they ran around and got lost.

Direction, I wandered around the wasteland for two days before I finally found the right place...

In any case, the two of them roughly found the so-called perimeter of the patrol station. So they lit a bonfire with wolf dung added three miles away from the edge of the dense forest. They only planned to burn it in this desolate ghost town.

They have to wait for a day. If no one from the border patrol shows up tomorrow morning, they will retreat.

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The four of Art rode horses to the place where the smoke was rising, and saw two soldiers who were throwing wolf dung and green branches into the campfire. After confirming that there was no danger around, Art and Ron rode forward.

A soldier by the campfire discovered two cavalrymen running from the south, and quickly picked up his companions and led the horses to prepare to escape...

After a while, the soldier found that the two riders coming from the opposite side were not hostile, so he calmly waited there.

Art and Ron dismounted and slowly approached the fire~

"Your Majesty the Inspector!!!"

"Sir Inspector???"

The two of them shouted the same content almost at the same time, but they had two different emotions: surprise and joy.

The one who was shocked knew Art, because last winter At the north gate of Tyniec, Art threw a bloody bandit head to their little leader. After the leader returned, he was so frightened that he became a little dementia. Until now, the little leader is crazy.

He was still receiving an exorcism from a priest in the church in Tyniec, so he was startled by the sudden appearance of Art.

The happy person also knows Art, because when Art was a forest hunter, that guy got a lot of drink money from Art. Of course, he also saved Art a lot of taxes. Last year

After winter, he was transferred to the bandit suppression team, so he did not know that this former hunter had transformed into a security patrol officer in the southern border of the palace, so he was very happy.

"Sir Inspector? You have become a Inspector. I told you that you would never be a hunter all your life, and I was right!" Compared with the frightened soldier, this man who had been with

The soldiers who were "familiar" to Art were much more relaxed.

"Ron, ask Jason and the others to come over. Nothing is wrong here."

Ron blew a whistle at the small mound behind.

Art turned to the "familiar" soldier and said, "Brother Wall, I haven't seen you for a long time, are you okay?"

The soldier named Wall looked at the two fully armed cavalrymen following Art, and swallowed, "Sir, I~I'm fine~You are really amazing now, you have three armed cavalrymen under you.

The cavalry."

Art patted Wall on the shoulder and said, "Thank you for your hard work, brother Wall. Are you here to deliver a message to Lord Pierre? Where is the letter?"
Chapter completed!