Chapter 7 Age
When Garris returned to the village, he noticed that the blood stains had been washed away.
Although many of the houses are still quite dilapidated, at least at first glance, you will feel that this place is too deserted, and you will not think that there were corpses everywhere and devastation here two days ago.
At the same time, because of a torture and disaster, the original family structure in Skaar Village has been completely broken.
The more than 40 people left behind either lost their parents, husbands, or wives. There were dozens of people who couldn't even put together a complete home.
With the original family structure broken, Garris simply relied on his lofty prestige to take all the houses in the village into public ownership, then divided the survivors into several teams and redistributed the houses according to each other's living needs.
Among them, the surviving males were in a separate team. Minors over seven years old were divided into two teams according to men and women. Women with children under seven years old were also divided into two teams because of the larger number of people.
Among the five teams, Garris asked the adult men and women to choose a captain to manage them themselves. For minors over seven years old, he asked John to take care of them with an attendant to avoid any conflicts among the little guys.
As for the knights and servants, Garris directly assigned them to his subordinates. The injured among them were left to recuperate, while the uninjured were assigned to either handle logistics or take on patrol and vigil duties.
In addition, due to the existing conditions, they, No. 60, cannot distinguish between high and low when eating, and can only squat together and eat from a big pot.
The cooks who were originally servants did their best to stew the food they could find into several large pots of thick soup, and then divided the meals among their respective teams.
Although there are some knights or servants who are not used to eating together with peasants, given the current state of everyone, they all know that they are not qualified to be picky.
After all, if it weren't for Garris, whether they were knights, servants, or villagers in the village, the best outcome for them would be to be sold into slavery, or the worse end would be to die directly.
But no matter how the teams are divided, there is one person that everyone cannot ignore no matter what. I don’t know which team is suitable for him.
Even though she had put on simple clothes and was holding her own plate and trying to sneak into the queue to get food, she was still the focus of everyone's attention and would be given special looks wherever she went.
After all, she is the half-sister of the legendary monarch "The Leper King". Her father is the late King Amaury I, who belongs to the Angevin family, and her mother is a member of the Roman royal family, the Comnenus family.
She was the one to whom Garris was now technically loyal—Isabella of Anjou-Jerusalem.
As soon as Isabella stood there, her fair skin already made her incompatible with the others around her, and her light brown hair showed a golden-red luster in the sunset, which was dazzling and hard to ignore.
When Garris came to the team, he could feel that the atmosphere was a little subtle.
If you want to maintain order, then Isabella is just one of the people, nothing special. However, the long-term class separation makes it difficult for everyone to ignore her royal blood.
Even if Isabella herself tried to integrate into this large group, she could always feel that she was being treated specially.
This vague sense of distance was called respect, but it made Isabella feel even more powerless. This was a situation she wanted to escape from in the past, but it always followed her.
When Isabella noticed Garris approaching the team, her speaking eyes cast a look of help.
"Ahem, eat normally. Nowadays, no one here can be treated specially, including me."
As Garris spoke, the previous somewhat subtle atmosphere was replaced by a more fanatical religious piety. Even if Garris said that no one should be treated specially, he essentially just shifted the focus of the scene from Isabella to himself.
After all, Isabella is just a secular princess in the final analysis, but Gareth's status in the hearts of everyone has begun to catch up with Jesus, the Messiah.
After everyone received their own food, they ate separately. During this period, John led people to patrol to avoid food grabbing among the crowd.
However, perhaps because there were not many people and they were familiar with each other, and because everyone survived the disaster, the bad situation that Garris had expected did not happen.
After Isabella received her food, she walked directly to Garris and rubbed against his shoulder. The girl's close contact made Garris tense up and seemed at a loss.
"Are you avoiding me these days?" Isabella opened her mouth to ask before taking two bites of the meal, and the complaint in her tone could not be concealed in any way.
Garris didn't know how to answer. He had indeed been avoiding Isabella for the past two days and had never communicated privately with the person to whom he was nominally loyal.
After all, after integrating the memories of previous lives, many cognitions have changed, and the first one to bear the brunt is the issue of age.
The current body of Garris is not very old, only seventeen years old. It just looks a bit precocious because it has been weathered in the Holy Land for a long time.
As for Isabella, she is younger, three years younger than him at the moment.
Before Garris merged his past life memories, the three-year gap was still considered the same age group anyway.
Garris met Isabella when he was training as a knight in the palace of Jerusalem, and they were childhood playmates.
Therefore, not long after Gareth was made a knight by the Leper King, he was assigned by the Leper King to serve Isabella. After the Leper King passed away, Gareth naturally swore allegiance to Isabella.
There is actually nothing to say about this process, but after integrating the memories of past lives, Garris clearly felt that something was wrong.
The slightest thing wrong with this is Isabella's attitude towards Garris, who is obviously more than just a childhood playmate or a subordinate knight.
In the 12th century AD, political marriages between nobles could lower the age to minors. Therefore, the childhood of children was shorter than the previous one, and the pressure of life forced everyone to mature as soon as possible.
Childhood sweethearts and childhood sweethearts should have been the best childhood, but in this environment where they were forced to mature prematurely, some different emotions were brewing, especially when the girl lost her father when she was young, and her mother remarried early. She was in the palace. Being alone and lacking playmates.
The Garris before awakening his past life memories was no different from a piece of wood, and naturally had no obvious perception. However, as long as the current Garris recalls the memories in his mind, he can feel the strong sense of attachment.
Perhaps this kind of thing is normal for this era. After all, even Isabella's mother was married at the age of twelve.
Thinking of the affectionate actions Isabella had shown to him in his memory, Garris felt a little uncomfortable. After all, he could not integrate into this era well, and could only long for change.
Because of this, Garris has not thought about how to deal with their relationship in the past few days.
(End of chapter)