Chapter 63 Origin
After nearly 10 days of long journey, Hansel and Alda's food transport team finally arrived at the capital of Jingyao.
He first took the team to the warehouse area that was still under repair, handed over the food to the management staff, and then arranged food and accommodation for the team members before saying goodbye and leaving. The grain transport team will return to the northwest bay on its own after a tour of the royal capital, while Hansel will hurriedly return to his long-awaited home with his servant Tommen.
Although he learned through letters that everything was safe with his family and had returned to the royal capital from relatives, he missed them very much after being separated for so long.
It was already approaching evening. After entering the Abbott family's mansion, the servants saw that the second young master was back and saluted him one after another. After entering the hall, there were already three people waiting for him - two middle-aged women and a young girl.
The three women all looked happy, and the young girl said happily: "Brother is back."
He looked at his mother among the three at the first glance.
Clear tears flashed in the corners of the woman's eyes, which already had crow's feet. After learning about the rebellion of the city guards at a relative's house, she didn't think about food or food. She couldn't sleep because she was worried about her son's safety every night. , and later finally received a letter reporting that he was safe, but it said that he had been posted to the Northwest Bay as a royal commissioner.
In the legend of the Jingyao Lady Circle, the northwest area of the kingdom is a poor place full of unruly people. The level of civilization is only slightly higher than that of the barbarian tribes in the eastern highlands. Merciful Heavenly Father, how can you Can get little Hansel there.
Hansel could not hide his excitement and wanted to say hello to his mother immediately, but before that he had to do another thing. He turned to another woman and saluted: "Mother Mary, long time no see. I hope you are healthy." That was his aunt and father's wife.
Mrs. Abbott nodded gracefully to Hansel and said with a smile: "Hansel, it's great that you can come back safely. Your mother has lost a lot of weight because she misses you."
Hansel then turned to his biological mother Miranda and said: "Mom, I'm back." Then he was hugged tightly by the excited biological mother. "It'll be good to come back, it'll be good to come back..." Miranda hugged her son and shed tears uncontrollably.
After being let go by his mother, Hansel hugged his sister Julie again. This lovely girl was also very happy to have her brother home.
Before dinner, his father, Earl Abbott, who served in the royal government, returned, but his brother, born from his aunt's mother, was unable to return home because he served in the royal guard.
The family had dinner happily, listening to Hansel's stories about the northwest and enjoying family happiness.
After dinner, Earl Abbott led his son into his study and talked to him about his northwest experience again, but this time the content mainly focused on his son's new position as royal commissioner. Hansel told his father about his experience as a royal commissioner, but of course he concealed the fact that he was scared away by pirates.
When he said that he planned to cooperate with the local lords to produce more war materials for the royal family to counter the rebellion, Earl Abbott shook his head: "It's difficult, the people's livelihood in the northwest is in decline. If there is no money to be made, it will be good if the lords there can support their subjects."
Hansel decided to stick to it: "How will you know if you don't try?"
Ah. Earl Bot thought about it and said to Hansel: "How about... I go to the royal family and talk to the royal family to see if I can transfer you back to Jingyao. There are always more opportunities in the royal capital." He understood himself The second son had some ambitions in his heart, but his hands and feet were constrained by the other half of his bloodline.
Not to mention a month ago, even 10 days ago when Hansel just led the food transport team from Lake Town, if he heard that he had the opportunity to be transferred back to the royal capital, he would not hesitate. Grab hesitantly. But on the way back to the royal capital this time, he thought a lot. Instead of squeezing the single-plank bridge in the royal capital full of nobles, it would be better to go to the vast border of the kingdom to show off his talents.
He told his father what he thought, and the count said nothing more when he saw his persistence. The father and son continued to talk about the current situation for a while, and then Hansel retired to find his mother and sister, who also had many things to say to him. Earl Abbott watched his son leave with a guilty look on his face.
Twenty-eight years ago, he and a group of gangsters got extremely drunk and stayed in a brothel. A year later, a woman who could not even recall her appearance found him with her child in her arms. When they entered the house, just when he was about to throw her out as a blackmail liar, the other party accurately stated some private features of his body.
According to the common practice of nobles, they would either continue to insist that the other party is a liar and throw them out, or pay alimony and send the person away, but Earl Abbott did something that made the aristocratic circle in the royal capital big. A surprising thing - taking a prostitute as a concubine.
This incident caused quite a stir and became a laughing stock for a while. A prostitute was just having fun, but she let her into the house just because she didn't know whether she had a child.
The matter reached the ears of the king, and Rodney XVI personally summoned Earl Abbott, severely reprimanded him for losing the face of the nobles of the kingdom, and asked him to carefully consider the seriousness of the consequences.
After the king's persuasion failed, a young aristocratic man who had a bright future was kicked out of the Qingshui Yamen such as the Heraldry Academy and sat on the bench.
Fortunately, the earl’s well-born wife did not make as much fuss as others had speculated. This kind-hearted lady finally accepted the offer after the initial anger, confusion and long-term cold war with her husband. This mother and son.
There is no doubt that Hansel was often looked at with colored glasses when he was growing up, especially those of his peers who came from high-class families and had pure aristocratic blood, as "the son of a prostitute" and "a bitch". Nicknames like "Foster" always accompanied him.
Although Earl Abbott finally obtained a baron title for his son with the help of his family legacy and money offensive, the other half of Hansel's bloodline still caused him to suffer repeated setbacks in his career. , after finishing his studies, as the son of an earl, he only served as a small tax officer, and he was responsible for the farms in the suburbs of the royal capital.
But precisely because of this, Hansel got along well among the low-level nobles and officials from civilian backgrounds.
Earl Abbott could only give so much to his concubine son. As an earl, while enjoying the power, honor, wealth and other benefits brought by the aristocratic system, he was also firmly attached to Being bound by this system, having a prostitute as his sidekick has already made him a target of public criticism. If he continues to do things that break the rules, he will only make the entire Abbott family implicated by him.
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After Hansel said good night to his mother and sister, he returned to his room and carefully considered the task that Paul had given him. He took out a piece of paper and said, It is full of the groups Paul was trying to recruit.
“Only people who can read and do arithmetic, teachers, magicians, alchemists, this Earl has a really big appetite.”
He spread out another piece of paper on his desk and planned to find a suitable candidate among the people he knew. Who should be the first people to look for? He thought for a while, picked up the quill in the ink bottle, and wrote the first name on the paper...
When he first started writing this book, he planned to arrange a more tragic family for Hansel. The background, such as the indifference of the father, the meanness of the aunt, and the oppression of the eldest brother, but I changed my mind temporarily when I was writing this chapter. After all, there must be warmth in the novel.
(End of this chapter)