Chapter 332 331. The New Neighbor's Dilemma
When Suldak returned to the dormitory of the Knight Academy, he saw a group of trainee knights laughing and playing in the snow in the garden downstairs of the dormitory. A group of students were also fighting on the balcony. They seemed to want to join them. After all, it was winter. The first snow made this group of young people look a little excited.
Turning his head to avoid a snowball flying from nowhere, he looked up and happened to see his new neighbors, Linna and Nedra, standing on the balcony of the dormitory. The morning sun shone on the fair faces of the two young girls. With youthful smiles on their faces, they seemed to be watching the fun upstairs.
Linna supported the balcony railing with one hand, leaned most of her body out of the balcony, shook her hand at Suldak and greeted loudly: "Good morning, Knight Suldak."
This made Suldak dazed for a while under the glare of the sun, feeling like he had returned to the time when he was in school.
It's just that friends in that world don't call themselves 'knights'.
Standing in the snow, Suldak looked at the two young girls on the balcony. He raised the paper bag in his hand and said politely to the two new neighbors: "Good morning, Miss Linna and Miss Nedra, Would you like to have breakfast together, I bought some white bread and fried fish."
Suldak originally wanted to be polite. After all, he could count on one hand the number of times he met these two new neighbors in the past month. He thought the two girls from the Knight Academy would be more reserved. I should probably refuse...
"Okay, it just so happens that we have also prepared warm oatmeal with milk, please come up and have a drink." Linna promised with a smile, her smile was very sunny.
These two girls, who are only thirteen or fourteen years old, are obviously used to life in the college.
They are the same as other young students in the Knight Academy. Many young people in Hailansa City and surrounding aristocratic manors and villages will choose to go to Zhanzheng Academy after they reach the age of twelve.
Generally speaking, those who can send their girls to the Knight Academy are mostly aristocratic and wealthy families. They want their daughters to have access to excellent peers. Moreover, the family conditions of these girls are also better than boys. Even more superior, ordinary families would not take an extra tuition fee to send their daughter to the Riding Academy. With this money, it would be better to prepare a dowry!
As for the boys in the Knight Academy, some come from aristocratic families, and many come from ordinary families.
Since the promulgation of the decree of the national recruitment of the Green Empire, His Majesty the Emperor has required all male citizens to go through a four-year military life. Only young people who can survive on the battlefield will have a bright future. In recent years, plane wars have broken out continuously, and the death rate of soldiers has continued to rise year by year. It is also under such cruel conditions that as long as families that can afford tuition fees, even if they borrow a little, they must try their best to send their boys to the school. Entering the Zhanzheng Academy is just for the means of protecting oneself on the battlefield.
The province of Bena is the hometown of swordsmen. The citizens of Hailansa City are more willing to send their children to the swordsman academy. In addition to the high tuition fees, the knight academy also needs to prepare a horse and expensive saddles. Invisibly setting a threshold for the common people, so young people who can come to the Knight Academy actually have a certain financial foundation at home.
Linna and Nedra's family jumping in should be very good. Breakfast like oatmeal with milk is a bit extravagant, and ordinary families in Hailansa city can't afford it.
Suldak’s breakfast is a bit weird. White bread is very common on the morning table, but is it really necessary to eat fried fish early in the morning? Not elves.
After Suldak went upstairs, Linna had already quickly tidied up their room again. Some things that should not be seen were all put into the closet. The knock on the door rang three times regularly, and the person who opened the door It was Nedra with a shy face. She was wearing a white lambskin vest, and she looked a bit cautious. She looked like a little girl. Seeing Suldak standing at the door, she didn't know how to invite her into the room.
Suldak was holding a paper bag at the door, and stood awkwardly facing Nedra for a while. Only then did Linna realize that Nedra hadn't invited Suldak in yet.
"Knight Suldak, please come in!" Linna pulled away her best friend and invited Suldak into the dormitory room.
The room was filled with the scent of toilet water, and the dormitory looked very tidy. There were two wooden beds on the left and right sides of the wall, and a wooden table by the window between the wooden beds. There were some books and a few dogs on it. glass bottle.
Suldak took out a long loaf of white bread and a bag of fried fish from the paper bag and put them on the table. Lina asked Suldak to sit on the only chair in the dormitory, while she and Nedra squeezed together. One piece, sitting on the opposite side of the wooden bed.
Linna was a bit weird, and said to Suldak with a smile: "Knight Suldak, every time I meet you in the morning, you are in a hurry..."
She put a bowl in front of Suldak, put fried fish and white bread on the dinner plate, and prepared a milk oatmeal for herself and Nedra. The three gathered around the table and started Eat breakfast.
Suldak took a piece of fried fish and handed it to Linna, and another piece to Nedra, and said: "These fried fish were given to me by the tavern owner in the garden square. Try it, it's a very unique elf Taste. I usually go for a walk in the morning every day, and I have a Goubolai in the college stables."
Linna and Nedra both tasted a little bit, but obviously the two girls don't like to eat too greasy things in the morning.
"I heard that you are a knight returning from the plane battlefield?" Linna asked again proactively.
Suldak nodded, and said simply: "Just when I had completed my four-year military service, the infantry regiment I belonged to was completely dispersed by the demon army on the battlefield, so I took the opportunity to retire and return to my hometown."
She seems to be very interested in Suldak's identity, and the little girl's thoughts are clearly revealed, so she must be looking for something like this kind of hospitality.
Suldak laughed dumbfounded. It seemed that there were already a lot of rumors about him in the academy, so he could only tell himself, "I'm just an ordinary soldier in a combat team, not an official in the logistics department. If I have experienced more battles, I will naturally accumulate some military merits, I am just a little luckier than others, and all the comrades in the same team as me were on that battlefield, but none of them came back alive."
Linna couldn't hide her disappointment after listening to it. She curled her lips and said, "I thought you were an excellent skinning master in the logistics department..."
"Why do you think so?" Suldak asked curiously.
Linna tapped her forehead and said to Suldak: "It's just my guess. Our class organizes an expedition team. Every year, the college has some experience missions. Our team wants to sign up for it, but at present Lack of a member with skinning skills, if there is no skinner, the fur of the prey we hunt will not be able to handle, and these guys in the academy are not willing to learn skinning skills, it is really a headache!"
Suldak drank the oatmeal, and then ate all the crispy fried fish, and said to Linna with a smile: "Actually, there is no shortage of skinners among the members of the combat team. If it is not for high-level monsters, maybe I can barely handle it."
Lina's white face showed a touch of excitement, her lake-blue eyes blinked, and she was about to invite Suldak to join their team, but she heard Suldak say again: "It's just that I'm on the side of the academy for further study. There is only a half-year study period, and the college basically does not arrange physical training classes, let alone going out for training."
Hearing what Suldak said, the little girl hesitated again, and she said honestly: "No wonder you haven't participated in physical training since you came to the academy..."
Nedra, on the other hand, seemed a little reserved, and secretly pushed her best friend, Linna immediately shut up.
Linna was silent for a while, and then said to Nedra: "It seems that we need to find a member in other grades who can perform skinning."
Nedra hesitated for a while, she glanced at Surdak shyly, and said to her friend: "Maybe I can also..."
"Do you know skinning?" Linna didn't know that her best friend knew how to do skinning. If Nedra could really do skinning, they wouldn't be so painstakingly looking for outsiders.
Nedra said to Linna: "Although I am not very good at it yet, I would like to ask the Knights of Suldak to teach me. Of course, in return, we can tutor the knights of Suldak in cultural classes below the second grade, etiquette , history, geography are what we do best.”
Linna's eyes lit up, she clapped her hands vigorously, and said excitedly: "Yes, Nedra, why didn't I think of that!"
"...Linna, this matter depends on the thoughts of the Suldak knight." Nedra pushed his best friend and reminded.
Then the two girls looked at Suldak expectantly. Suldak didn't expect that a simple bowl of oatmeal would replace his half-baked skinning technique. Being able to review systematically, it will probably be much easier in class in the future.
So Suldak hesitated for a moment, then agreed, and said to Linna: "If I can learn more of this part of knowledge before going to sleep at night to prepare for the next exam, of course I would like to. "
Linna hurriedly said: "That's great, Knight Suldak, then it's a deal, so let's start tonight?"
After the three of them finalized the matter, Suldak would go to his dormitory, take out the textbooks needed today according to the schedule, and rush to the classroom of the teaching building before the bell rang. There were three grades on his desk. It seems that there are more textbooks than Linna and Nedra combined.
In the evening, according to the agreement, after dinner, we will go back to the dormitory to learn from each other, but the practice of skinning must be practiced. First, we need a sharp thin-skinned knife and the best scabbard is inlaid with oilstone. The thin-skinned knife needs to be kept sharp. , and for this reason, every skinner is a very good knife sharpener.
Originally, Suldak wanted to explain some common sense to the two girls when skinning at night, and then asked Nedra to prepare a skinning knife tomorrow.
Unexpectedly, Nedra and Linna took out a delicate silver-handled skinning knife from their waists respectively. Suldak glanced at the exquisite gemstones on the fish-skin scabbard of Linna's dagger, and said: " If there are no gems inlaid here, you can paste a better whetstone here, the first lesson of skinning is to teach you how to sharpen the knife correctly..."
As he spoke, he pulled out his skinning knife with a wooden handle. There was only a short edge of the skinning knife, but the edge was polished very smooth. He skillfully took out the oilstone and rubbed it After preparing the blade twice, he said to Linna and Nedra, who were serious about studying with wide eyes: "Many people like to use the skinning knife as a portable table knife. What I want to say is, if conditions permit, please use the two as much as possible. Separate the knives, because the skinning knife needs a very high sharpness, and when the table knife is in the wild, it is often inserted into the campfire to heat up. The calcination of the flame will cause the skinning knife to lose its sharpness, so this method is also the best Not advisable…"
Suldak basically said whatever came to his mind. He remembered that when he was learning the skinning technique in the 57th Heavy Armored Infantry Regiment, everyone was surrounded by a huge ghost corpse. Learn to use it now, the skin of the evil spirit is far tougher than the leather armor of the monster, the ordinary skinning knife can't cut the black skin on the evil spirit's body at all, only then will I have a deep understanding of the quality of the steel edge of the skinning knife itself. Of course, if it is just for cutting potatoes, whether it is sharp enough is completely unnecessary.
In order to let the two girls feel the importance of the sharpness of the skinning knife itself, Suldak took out a salamander claw from the magic pocket, and used the skinning knife to cut off a small circle of tough leather from the lizard claw...
Linna has a cheerful and outgoing personality, but she has no interest in skinning. After listening to it for a while, she seems drowsy. On the contrary, Nedra is very patient and has been listening to Suldak's narration attentively. Although Suldak was not an excellent skinner, and the skinning skills he described were not in any order, but his experience in wild survival was indeed rich enough, and he spoke vividly.
On the second night, it was the two young girls who gave Suldak a class on aristocratic etiquette. Linna, who was born in an aristocratic family, was far more proficient in the etiquette of the aristocrats than Nedra. I did it, and when Lina talked about it, it was Suldak's turn to have some headaches, but Linna and Nedra cooperated with each other, and Nedra needed to simulate nobles with different identities, and then encounter, visit, and even Turning his face on the spot and throwing down his white gloves for a duel, he gave a detailed explanation.
Surdak's campus life, because of these two young neighbors, suddenly felt less difficult.
(end of this chapter)