Chapter 42 Apprentice, Smile
Chapter 42
"My name is Kelly, she is Feila. We are all from Wall Village. What's your name?"
Working together will bring people closer together, and Ender's appearance is quite outstanding. Kelly washed Ender, took the long knife placed on the stone and wiped it dry with hay, and asked.
"End, my name is Ande."End said casually.
The three of them worked much faster than one, and the two girls were quick and not afraid of being dirty, which relieved Ender a lot of burden.
"Ande--Ande--Hey, the guard hunter here is called Ande. Is he your elder?"
"No, it's just that my name is Ende." Ende was a little embarrassed.
I just said that I wanted to go through the back door, but my words misled the two girls and made the two girls depressed. What should I do now? Is this the guard hunter here? Is this a show-off on the spot?
"It would be great if you were that Ender." Kelly's voice was a little dull, not very happy: "If you were that Ender, Fella wouldn't have to marry an old man in his fifties."
"Why?"
Ander was surprised. He turned his head and looked at the girl on the left. This little girl named Feila looked only twelve or thirteen years old. Why did she marry an old man in her fifties?
On Earth, girls of this age are at most in the first grade of junior high school, and they are less than the age of junior high school. They will start to attack such girls in three years.
"Mom is in poor health, dad can't afford to support us." Feila whispered. Although the girl didn't want to marry an old man, she also knew the difficulties at home.
(In this world, people's average life expectancy is less than fifty years old, and people over fifty years old have already declined. An old man like Xavier is an exception because he is usually nutritious and keeps exercising.)
"Fella's family only has three acres of land, and the food they planted is not enough to eat. She usually has to rely on her father to hunt and her mother to collect herbs to subsidize herbs.
But her mother was bitten by a snake in the woods two months ago. Although she was rescued, she owed the pastor a lot of money. Her mother is now weak and can only recuperate and cannot go so far to collect it in the woods."
Kelly explained to Fella: "If Fella can become an apprentice, she can go to the woods to collect herbs, and she doesn't have to marry that old man Kot."
"Why can't she go to collect it now?"
"There are regulations in the village that you must be at least fifteen years old before you can go to the forest." Kelly said angrily.
This regulation is to protect children from taking risks, but everything has two sides. At this time, it cuts off Fera's hope.
However, Ender did not object to this regulation. His ex went to the woods to find food and died in the woods.
Seeing Ander silent, Kelly thought he was in a bad mood when he heard such a depressing thing, so he changed the subject and asked, "By the way, why do you have so many swords? You can't use so many weapons alone?"
Most people in the thief group use long swords because it is much easier to make long swords than swords.
During the quenching process, the sword body with different thicknesses is easy to cool in thin areas, while the thick areas are slower to cool in thick areas, and the sword body is easy to twist. A crooked sword can only be called a waste product.
But there is no such problem with the knife. Anyway, the knife only has one blade on one side, and the blade body is thick and thin on the other side. During the quenching process, because the cooling speed on both sides is inconsistent, the blade body will naturally bend towards the back of the knife.
Due to the ability of ordinary blacksmiths, the curved arc of the blade may not be controlled accurately, but this does not affect the use - anyway, it is bent a little more and less, which is a good knife.
Therefore, under the original production method, swords are much more expensive than swords, so naturally the thieves group does not pay so much attention to it, so it would be good to have a sword.
"This is left by a group of thieves, and it is my spoil."
Ender stood up and said, "You two wash these things and move them inside. There are animal grease and dry cloth in the utility room. After you get these things done, you will live in the utility room first."
After saying that, Ander walked towards the Hunter's Lodge.
"Ah? What, we are helping you, why are you leaving by yourself? I—woooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo
Kelly complained in dissatisfaction as soon as she was halfway through, when Feila rushed over and covered her mouth.
She finally broke free from Feila's wet hands and complained: "Fela, what are you doing! How can he do this? Huh, what's wrong with you?"
Kelly saw in surprise that crystal tears appeared in Fera's eyes, so she looked in the direction of Fera's right finger.
Three people were greeted from the Hunter's Hunter - Xavier Guards Hunter, the village elder Wendell and an unrecognizable middle-aged man (Angert).
They all bowed slightly to the young Ander and bowed as if he was a big man.
Ander walked into the hall of the Hunter's Hunter, exchanged a few greetings with Xavier and Angate, and then told Wendel directly: "I decided that Kelly and Fella, these two girls are my apprentices."
Ender chose an apprentice not to enhance his combat power, but to find someone to help him with some troubles. Of course, the girl's physical strength is a little worse than that of a boy, but this is not a big deal - if he can't even deal with the enemy, would he still expect the apprentice to go up and resist it?
"Mr. Ender, Lord. Do you no longer think about it? How can girls become hunter apprentices? Is there anything Robbie and Harry that you are not satisfied with?" Wendel was shocked.
But after he collected the money, he chose two girls to make up the numbers in order to ensure that Robbie and Harry could become hunter apprentices, but in the end, the two girls took advantage. How do you explain it now?
(Ande is familiar with this kind of operation method. In the past world, public bidding for project procurement required at least three qualified enterprises to compete for public bidding, and obtain the purchase contract with the highest cost-effective one.
It seems fair and just, and the process is transparent, but a method called "Bianbiao" has emerged. The so-called "Bianbiao" means finding several companies as a foil, and everyone colluded to write the conditions of the bidders a little bit, so that the bidders can obtain the purchase contract according to their expectations - Kelly and Fella, which is obviously the bidders found by the old man named Wendel.)
Originally, Del wanted to communicate with Ender privately for Xavier's sake, so that he would not make a choice. Next time, Wender would find more boys from the village to serve as foils - this would not damage the prestige of Ender, a new young guard hunter.
But no matter what, you must send the person who pays it as an apprentice - after all, you are also an elder in the village, and you can't do it after collecting the money. Is Ende shameless?
"I don't think about it anymore, it's them the two." Ender said.
"Mr. Ender, Feila is a girl who is about to get married and cannot be an apprentice for you. As for Kelly, she is also the daughter of a good family. If you are with you day and night, it will be troublesome if you can't explain it clearly in the future."
Seeing that Ender insisted on accepting these two girls as apprentices, Wendel immediately turned his face.
A young boy thought he was really a big shot. If you were shameless, then you wouldn't give it to him!
Although guarding the hunter is important, guarding the hunter cannot drink the northwest wind. All kinds of supplies must be obtained from Wall Village.
And what is the guard hunter guarding? Isn’t it Wall Village? To put it bluntly, the guard hunter is the watchdog of Wall Village.
Once it was involved in its own interests, Wendel immediately forgot why the old hunter Xavier respected this young successor very much.
"Hmm?" Ander turned his head and stared at Wendel, his smile gradually disappeared, and his brows frowned little by little.
This old man was secretly accusing himself of being accusing two girls of being physically illusioned?
"Mr. Ender, you can actually accept a few more apprentices. Just taking girls as apprentices is not good for your reputation. If you can accept Robbie and Harry together, the villagers of Wall Village will respect you more. You will also have many conveniences when purchasing supplies in Wall Village in the future."
Wendell turned his head and glanced at Xavier and added.
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He felt that he would take a step back and as long as Ander was willing to accept the four people together, he would have an explanation for the money he collected - anyway, when he received the money, he only promised to let Robbie and Harry become Ender's Hunter apprentices, but he never said that he would not let others become Hunter apprentices.
As for this, that old guy Kurt has no new wife, what does it have to do with him? Let him come and find trouble for the new guard hunter by himself.
Wendel felt that he had taken a step back like this, leaving face to Brother Xavier.
As the elder of the village, Wendel certainly had some prestige in the village, but Xavier had been guarding the hunters for decades, and all the families in the village who needed to hunt and collect were considered half of Xavier's subordinates, and his prestige in Wall's village was much better than Wendel.
If Xavier had not been retired and could not have managed the hunters in the village and would have lent Wendel the courage to speak like this - even if Xavier is by his side, Wendel would not have dared to say too much.
Wendel felt that he had given Xavier face, but Xavier was almost furious - did you make this fun at the Hunter Apprenticeship that he had won for Wall Village?
You dare to threaten Lord Ande, do you know how the word "death" is written? Before speaking, you even took a look at me. What does this mean?
You are willing to commit suicide, don’t take me with you.
"Wendel!"
Xavier was already surprised when he watched the gentle smile on Ender's face gradually disappear, his brows frowned; then he found that Ender turned his head and looked at the storage box beside the table, his face calmed down, and his smile reappeared on the young man's face.
Chapter completed!