Chapter 263 Can I still eat it?
After hearing the news about his servant, Link didn't even sleep much at night. Before dawn the next day, he took his servant to the outside of a building not far outside Eagle City.
This building occupies an area as large as the Arena in Eagle Town. Outside is a tall wall and an iron gate. Behind the gate is a square large enough for thousands of people to exercise together. At the end of the square is a four-story building. The tall stone main building has crystal clear glass windows.
On the lintel of the main building it is written: "Griffith Comprehensive College".
The construction of this building began a year ago, along with the construction of several surrounding blocks and thousands of residences.
Only families who have purchased these homes will have their children eligible to attend the school, and today is the day when registration for the school begins.
In order to allow his children to enter school early, Link came here early in the morning.
In fact, as a knight, he has the privilege to send the child here directly, but Link thinks it is just for admission, and his family is not unqualified, so why use favors?
But now, he feels a little regretful.
Because there are too many people!
Civilians and businessmen all mix together. It can be clearly distinguished by their clothes and accents that there are many outsiders mixed in here.
Even the host of the arena, Engla, is inside.
Link was suddenly in a trance.
What's going on? Could it be that instead of signing up for school today, gold bars are being distributed?
Otherwise, how could there be so many people!
At this moment, Fiona, who was sitting in the lobby on the first floor, was feeling numb when she saw the huge crowd.
At Griffith Comprehensive College, Raven serves as the honorary principal, while Fiona is the actual person in charge and is also responsible for today's registration.
In order to cater for this occasion, Fiona specially changed into a formal dress and asked Patty to help her dress up.
Now her long silver-white hair is spread over her shoulders in an orderly manner, and glasses as thick as books are perched on the bridge of her nose. Although she no longer needs this after becoming a magician, she still looks for it habitually. Put on a pair of flat glasses.
The eyes hidden behind the glasses are pure and intellectual, and the thin lips are slightly pursed.
He was wearing a black turtleneck woolen jacket, black slim-fitting trousers, and a pair of brown Tireney leather boots.
Looking at it as a whole, he really looks like a teacher who teaches and educates people.
Originally, she was quite confident in her outfit, but when she saw the huge crowd of people outside, she gradually felt uneasy.
This makes it impossible to cover up the youthful taste on the face, but instead gives off a feeling of weakness and contrast, pretending to be mature.
But now, things have come, and there is no reason to back down. She can only bite the bullet and wait, hoping that there will be fewer people when the official start.
But this was obviously not possible. As the sun gradually rose, there were several more people at the door.
The gate opened, and parents waiting to sign up poured in, almost half of the playground was packed.
"Let the people in." Fiona swallowed and glanced at the guard next to her.
The guard opened the door and shouted loudly: "Enter one by one, no chaos!"
Soon, the first person walked in.
He looked to be in his forties, with a philistine and flattering smile on his face, his spine arched, and holding a leather bag in his hand, he walked up to Fiona: "Hello, Mr. Principal!"
Fei Ona wanted to tell him that she was just the acting principal, but she couldn't speak. She could only click on the seat opposite: "Have you brought all the information?"
"Yes, Bring it!" The man sat down and immediately took out a thick stack of documents from his bag: "My son is very good! He once studied in the affiliated school of Asbell College. During his enrollment, he won the exam every year. Obtained the evaluation of an outstanding student, and..."
Fiona had a headache from his noise, raised her head and glared at him, and the man immediately shut his mouth.
Looking at the parchment in her hand, Fiona frowned: "Your son was born in 1179 and is already 17 years old, but our recruitment standard is for children under 15 years old, you..."< br>
She wanted to say, "Your son does not meet the standards," but this sentence was too cruel to the father who came to line up early in the morning, and she wanted to change it to a softer wording.
But the man misunderstood. He held the package in front of him to cover it, reached out and took out a money bag: "I understand, I understand, this is a little personal note for you! ”
The money bag is not small and heavy. There are at least 30 gold coins in it.
“Take it back.” A solemn look flashed in Fiona’s eyes.
The man thought it was Fiona who was thin-skinned, so he picked up the money bag and stuffed it into Fiona's hand: "You're welcome, it's just some local specialties..."
This can be regarded as causing trouble.
After several years of experience, Fiona's social fear level has been reduced a lot, but she can only talk to people face to face without panicking. Seeing that the man's hand was about to be stuffed into her arms, she immediately responded. Excited.
Almost subconsciously, she chanted a few syllables in her mouth, and magic lines lit up in front of her.
Immediately afterwards, water as thick as a wooden barrel spurted out and hit the man's chest. The man was pushed backwards before he could even scream, knocking over the chair with a bang and knocking the glass The door slammed into pieces and smashed into the crowd, overwhelming the crowd and causing a burst of wailing!
Fiona was stunned for a moment, suppressed her embarrassment, pushed up her glasses: "Next one."
There was silence.
Even the guards next to him were stunned.
After a long time, someone screamed: "Magician——"
Then he immediately covered his mouth.
The people around me looked at me and I looked at you, and they all saw incomparable shock in each other's eyes.
That was a magician, a legendary magician that many people had never seen before, but now he appeared in front of them alive, and he was also the principal of this school!
This, this school is so good!
With the man's lesson learned, the originally chaotic crowd immediately formed three long queues. Everyone who entered whispered in a low voice and didn't even dare to look at Fiona. He was afraid that he would also be blasted away by a spell.
Didn’t you see the unfortunate guy being carried out covered in blood?
The queue progressed quite slowly, and the people in the queue were quite bored. Two people, one tall and one short, started chatting.
The tall man was a little excited: "I was a little worried that Baron Raven might have just created a gimmick, but I didn't expect that a magician would be the principal. It seems that the news I heard before is true!"
< br>"It seems that you came here after hearing the news." The short man Said: "You are too worried. Baron Raven's reputation is more real than gold."
Raven's rise is too fast and there is a lack of available manpower. This is not a secret in the eyes of caring people. This academy is said to be a place dedicated to cultivating talents for Baron Raven.
Including the two of them, a considerable number of businessmen present from all over the Nord province came here because of this.
You know, there are currently only 4 knights under Baron Raven. If they can graduate from here, enter the inner circle of the Baron, and be canonized as a knight, then the whole family will usher in a great leap forward!
Even if not, becoming an official in Raven's territory in the future would be much better than being a businessman.
"By the way, have you bought the house?" the tall man asked.
"How could I not buy it?" said the short man: "If I don't buy a house, my children will not be qualified to enter school!"
The tall man laughed and complained slightly: "That's it. The price is a bit expensive. A house costs more than 120 gold coins, which is more expensive than Meng En. Housing prices in the upper city are not low anymore!”
“120 gold coins is considered high? When I bought it, I spent 157 gold coins.” It shouldn’t be too big, I wish the price were higher.”
"How do you say this?" The tall man was stunned.
The short man clapped his fingers and said: "We have bought a house, but there are still many people who have not. Think about it, when our children grow up, when the house is sold, not only will we be able to I can make extra money by earning back my tuition fees.”
“It’s a pity that Baron Raven actually returned the money.” What kind of purchase restriction is there? Each family can only buy one unit. It’s really not good for business.”
“If we let it go, this will be a big business opportunity!” While chatting, Fiona accepted another student. Looking at the list on hand, she was in a daze for a moment.
Master Raven's prediction came true again.
In fact, Fiona raised questions from the very beginning when designing the plan of “buying a house and enrolling in school”.
In her opinion, the foreign businessmen attracted by this plan can indeed barely take over the economic trend and employment space of Raven Territory in the "post-sports tournament era", because when businessmen buy houses, there will inevitably be Some of them set up local industries.
However, Raven's strategy of limiting each family to only one house is contrary to this prospect.
Leiwen explained at the time that part of this was political considerations. Not to mention all the children of the merchant family, most of them must have come for speculation, and their future loyalty to Raven was not completely reliable.
Therefore, it is necessary to transfer part of it to local residents, so that students who are born and raised and trained by themselves are the most trustworthy.
At the same time, this also takes into account the economic aspect.
“Investment, consumption, and export” are the troika that drives economic growth.
Leiwen built the residences around the school, built Eagle City, and continued to carry out large-scale construction projects. This was an investment behavior that allowed money to flow into the market and into the hands of everyone in the territory.
As for exports, Raven's three major factories are working day and night, and various products are being sold steadily.
What is most lacking now is consumption, especially consumption within the territory, which is growing extremely slowly - relying solely on foreign merchants and nobles will not last long.
That’s why Lei Wen has to impose purchase restrictions. Otherwise, if businessmen are allowed to inflate housing prices, a large part of the money in the market will flow into real estate, and consumption will inevitably decrease, thus causing negative consequences to other real economies. Huge threat and impact. Fiona is not yet able to fully understand Raven's economic considerations, but she has clearly seen the political considerations.
Even with the limited purchase policy, 1/3 of the students she has accepted registration are still children of businessmen.
If there were no purchase restrictions, I am afraid that local people would never have a chance in this life.
At this moment, there was a burst of exclamation, and Fiona looked up and saw two cavalrymen in full armor riding tall horses outside the school.
Fiona breathed a sigh of relief: "We're finally here."
These two cavalry were not the only ones who came. Behind them, there were more than 20 light infantry lined up, starting Maintain order outside the door, ask the vendors hawking along the street to mute their voices and move away, and clear the road that was almost blocked.
The people who were driven away and taught a lesson did not show much disgust. Instead, they looked at the two cavalry on the horse, their eyes full of admiration, admiration and envy.
Especially the male knight.
Wearing a brown-red dome leather soft hat on his head, a pair of sunglasses produced by Xuefeng Town No. 2 Factory on his face, and a gray and white one-shoulder cape draped diagonally on his shoulders, it looks like the wings of an eagle under the sunlight.
The upper body is a half-breastplate made of fine steel, with a delicate and ferocious eagle eye pattern printed on the chest, and the inner part is a blue cotton uniform.
A leather whip is hung on one side of the waist, and a steel eagle-feather long sword is on the other. The lower body is wearing brown breeches, and the feet are wearing black barbed riding boots. The mount under the crotch is completely black, tall and strong like a monster, exactly Nowadays, the Eagle Territory is famous, and it is said that it comes from the "Black Blood Horse" in the Bloody Highlands.
Under the knees of the black-blooded horse, a slender-waisted hound with red flowers on a black background was sticking out its tongue and staring at everyone fiercely.
This kind of dog is called "Son of Hell", commonly known as "Stop Talking", and it is fierce and sturdy.
The crowd huddled together, whispering to each other.
“This is the Hawkeye Guard, right?”
“Look at the hat and breastplate, they are unmistakable.”
“Tsk, I thought Baron Raven had done it. I came up with this simply to seize power from the Sheriffs of various places. I didn’t expect it to be so majestic!”
“In the future, if my child doesn’t want to become a Knight Master, then I will become an Eagle Eye Guard! Contented.”
"Then your child must work hard. I heard that the monthly salary of the Eagle Eye Guard is 120 silver coins, and as long as he serves for 5 years, he will be assigned a residence!"
Enjoying everyone Looking at him with admiration, the male Eagle Eye guard, Eric's son Thor Dyson, straightened his chest even more.
It feels so good to be in the spotlight!
Especially when others praise him and not his identity as "Eric's son".
Of course, whenever this happened, he would deliberately not think about the fact that he was able to become a Hawkeye guard only because of Eric's relationship.
In fact, the main purpose of Raven's setting up of Eagle Eye Guards was to maintain law and order in various places and handle some small and medium-sized disputes.
After all, the Lord of this era also has to be a judge. Many big things - the East family lost a duck, the West family lost a pickle - have to be dealt with personally, which really bothers him. .
Of course, this does not prevent the people below from being proud to be Eagle Eye Guards.
You must know that not everyone can be an Eagle Eye Guard. There are only 10 places in Eagle Town, Gold Flash Town, and Snow Maple Town in each place, and the stations must be rotated every six months.
On the contrary, if the number of seats is scarce, the power will be great.
Each Hawkeye guard can command 20 followers, and they replace the original duties of the sheriff. They can use force to prevent crimes, and have the power to arrest any suspicious person first and then question the charges.
The 18-year-old police officer has a reputation for speaking out!
Thinking about this, Thor's eyes drifted to another Eagle Eye guard, that was his partner Julia.
At this moment, there are many people like him who have their eyes on this eagle-eyed guard.
Her attire is no different from Thor's, half of her face is covered by sunglasses, although she can tell that she is pretty, she can't attract more attention.
What really caught people's attention was the sizeable figure under her breastplate.
For the sake of protection, the half-breastplate has a convex hemispherical arc design, and Julia's figure is relatively petite.
But even so, the turbulent waves still squeezed out the breastplate, creating a full and straight arc on the blue shirt underneath.
People can’t help but want to open the shell, put it in their hands and play with it carefully.
“What are you looking at?” Julia took off her sunglasses, revealing a childish and green face.
Her eyes are big, her nose is pretty, and her eyes are not fierce at all, but rather cute.
She is only 15 years old after all.
His voice was like an oriole coming out of the valley, but his movements were cool and crisp. Seeing that no one was afraid of him, he neatly drew out the black leather whip from his waist, shook it open, and whipped it towards the man closest to him.
The whip stopped not far from the tip of the man's nose, and then the whip exploded with a loud bang.
Pop! ! !
"Hey, my face!!" The man covered his nose and took a few steps back, pointing at Julia: "You, you--"
"What am I? You can also look at the Eagle Eye Guard as you like. "Julia straightened the whip: "This is just a warning. If you dare to look around again, I will blind you and throw you into prison!"
The man released his hand, I touched my nose and it didn't hurt, but the look of fear on my face became more and more serious.
He just felt burning pain, but he was not actually injured. This shows that Julia's martial arts skills are extremely high. Otherwise, it would be impossible to control the proportion so well. She only uses wind pressure instead of Actually hurt him!
Looking at the whip in Julia's hand again, he swallowed, turned his head angrily, and said nothing.
With this appearance, others did not dare to watch anymore and began to line up honestly.
"I said, you did a good job!" Thor rode his horse to Julia and said in a flattering tone: "This whip is so good, can you teach me when you have time?"
"While on duty, talk less." Julia put on her sunglasses: "You are older than me, so you should be more steady."
Thor also did not respond to a soft nail. Don't be angry, just smile and continue to maintain order.
It is not until the sun sets in the west, the church bells ring, and today's registration closes that Thor and Julia's duty comes to an end.
After dismissing his subordinates, Thor walked beside Julia and returned to the station. His eyes kept falling on her chest. He wanted to say something several times, but was forced back by Julia's cold expression.
While walking, he saw a street vendor. Thor's eyes lit up, he rode over, bought a candied haws and returned to Julia.
This kind of food was invented by Baron Raven, and it quickly became popular in the territory. Its sour and sweet taste has always been a favorite of many children.
And Julia’s favorite food is also this.
“Here, please eat!” Thor handed the candied haws to Julia. Julia hesitated for a moment, but still couldn’t resist the temptation and reached out to take it.
The red hawthorns were washed clean and covered with light yellow sugar coating. When you bite into it, the sugar shell is crispy and broken. First it is sweet, then sour. The mixture of sweet and sour makes Julia smile happily.
Looking at the pink tongue licking the sugar residue from his lips, Thor's heart beat violently, and he swallowed his saliva and said: "I said, Friday night is my birthday, and I am in Hualai I have reserved a table at Shida Hotel. I wonder if you have time to come and play together for a while.”
Julia stopped moving, frowned, and hesitated a bit: "...If I don't go, can I continue to eat?"
"This..." Thor couldn't help but laugh or cry. She sighed: "Eat it."
Julia then ate happily.
Back at the Eagle Eye Watch station, Thor said goodbye to Julia and returned to his room.
As the minions of the Baron, the Eagle Eye Guard is treated well. Not only does it have its own private kitchen and exclusive maid, there is even a small angel's radiance fixed on the wall in the room.
It may not look small, but if this thing is sold, it will be worth 100 gold coins!
“I don’t know when I can catch Julia.” Thor took off his armor, took off his hat, and winked in front of the Angel’s Glory.
“I said, my looks are not bad, my father’s big eyes can still marry my mother.”
"Maybe she is too sensitive and has low self-esteem. Well, I must infect her with my passion!"
Julia was born in an orphanage and is the only one among this group of orphans who participated in militarization A woman who trains and is very productive.
It is said that her talent in martial arts has been unanimously praised by all the instructors. During confrontation training, if she did not use fighting spirit, even Simon could only be tied with her.
If this were not the case, she would not have been appointed as the Eagle Eye Guard at the age of 15.
“If I can marry her, the child I will give birth to will definitely be a good-looking genius!”
After dinner, Thor lay on the bed and began to think.
"I said, what would be a good name for our child in the future? For a boy..."
As he muttered and muttered, Thor gradually fell into a deep sleep,
Until a fierce barking sound came.
Tolten sat up and said: "Whose dog is not allowed to sleep!!!"
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(End of this chapter)