Chapter 19: Thirty years ago

019, decree thirty years ago ()
Thirty years ago, when the Ego Empire learned that Bell had crossed the border of the cape city-state and fled across the Syrian desert to the Youdi Valley, it not only mobilized a group of theologians and warriors from Ego to hunt them down, but also passed the official Under the official document, they asked the Hati kingdom, especially the city-states near the Youdi Valley, to help hunt Bell.
So the Hati Kingdom issued a decree and sent it to other places symbolically. This was more or less a perfunctory. It only said that warriors were sent to hunt Bell, but they didn't say what would happen if they didn't send people. Everyone in all places knows well, and sends someone to hunt down a nine-level great magician, not to mention whether it can be found. Even if it is found, it is almost the same as the death. It has nothing to do with it. At most, there are news reports. Just letter.
Duke Town also received a decree. How could they have Bell's news, and it is impossible to send a blacksmith to hunt down the great magician, so there is no action at all, and of course no one will hold it.
Later, the Temple of Isis claimed that Bell had been wiped out by the virgin onion, but the official had been so secretive about it that no one wanted to mention the name Bell again. Even if the incident ended, it became history. There was a tail that no one had noticed. The Kingdom of Hatti was a law that was never revoked, and it was forgotten to revoke it afterwards. In fact, no one needs to do anything anymore, everything has passed, no one will find nothing to hunt for a great magician who has no news for a long time.
What's more interesting is that Duke Town only received a decree to assist in the pursuit of Bell. Afterwards, the Aegean Empire did not announce that the Hati Kingdom Bell had been destroyed. Of course, the Hati Kingdom did not forward any announcements unrelated to itself. Everywhere, theoretically speaking, Duke Town had no idea about this.
In fact, the people in Duke did not know anything about it. The decree thirty years ago had never heard of it. Except the old lunatic, no one knew who Bell was. Today, Dusty has rolled out this decree and announced it in public, and this decree is still valid!
The townspeople were surprised. Who is Bell? Listening to what the mayor said, it seems like a magician, a magician who ordered the Eju Empire and the Hati Kingdom to hunt down. It must be very difficult to deal with. There are so many magicians and warriors. Send people from a small Duke town? Why is the Lord Mayor so enthusiastic, even if you want to be charming, you don't have to use such things to show your strength?
Everyone was talking to each other and whispering, and the old lunatic Nietzsche stepped forward and asked, "Master Mayor, do you say there is such a warrior in this town, who is he?"
Dusty pointed somewhere in the crowd with expressionless fingers: "People who are visited by the gods, we have witnessed the miracles with our own eyes, knowing how the patron saint blessed him, that is Amon."
When Amon heard the mayor read such a decree, he immediately understood what was going on. Last night, the old lunatic and Ge Lie had a discussion with Dusty and made an excuse to let him leave Duke Town or exile him. But others didn't understand, and someone immediately shouted, "What, Amon! Lord Mayor will send a child to destroy the magician?"
Ridiculous, ridiculous! Not to mention chasing down a magician, even sending a child to a sinister jungle is a nonsense. If this is not what the mayor of Dusty said, I'm afraid it would have been scolded by people.
The mayor of Dusty asked coldly, "Oh, then send you?"
This sentence dispelled most of the attempts to question, but one person came out tremblingly, kneeling to the mayor: "Sir, please send me ..."
This man is Amon's father, and he did not drink too much today. The mayor of Dusty looked at him and asked blankly: "Are you a warrior? Have you ever received the special favor of the guardian goddess? Sorry, I have decided, just send Amon!"
Armon's father's lips were pursed and he wanted to say something more. Armon and the old lunatic had lifted him up and left and whispered in their ears. He was obviously shocked to hear this, but eventually nodded.
This was the case. As a warrior sent by Duke Town, Amon went into the jungle to hunt down the evil great magician Bell and execute the laws of the kingdom. The Lord Mayor only gave Amon an hour to let him go home to pack and start immediately, and no one was allowed to send out of town.
After supervising and dispersing the crowd, Dusty personally accompanied Amon home. In Amon's impression, this mayor was the first time he walked into the courtyard of his home. Amon is a "warrior" "selected" from Duke Town, deserving of honor. The mayor of the town is running a business and gives him a money bag and a knife in the name of the town.
Warriors also need to spend money to buy things when they go out. They also need weapons. The knife that the mayor gave to Amun is naturally a very fine iron knife. It is sharp and tough, very resistant to abrasion and not easy to break. . It's a little smaller, and it's less than a foot long. It's better to use it to peel and cut prey than to use it to hunt down the great magician.
Amon didn't have much. He only took the branch and two skins. A small skin could carry valuables in his arms, and a large skin could carry many things on his shoulders. He would leave the twenty stones in his hand to his father, but his father insisted that he take away half of them, and definitely needed money outside.
Mayor Dusty said, "Amon's money should go out of town. I've sent the money bag."
Amon's father opened the wallet and found five stones, five gold coins, ten silver coins and dozens of copper coins inside. Amon glanced and took out the five stones and said, "Father, these are for you, and I'll take the rest."
Father shook his head: "You still bring all the stones, bring more stones, so it is convenient."
Dusty also couldn't help but interjected: "Old alcoholic, you don't know much about the outside world. In rural pubs in many places, you only need a copper coin to drink a glass of wine. If you pay for a stone, I'm afraid even the pub You can buy it. You have to bring change, which is convenient and not easy to trouble! "
A stone is equivalent to 20 baht of gold. The weight of gold coins commonly used on the mainland is one. The weight of silver and copper coins is half baht. Each gold coin is worth 20 silver coins. Each silver coin is worth 100 copper coins. In terms of conversion, if a cup of wine sells a copper coin somewhere, and Amon drinks a glass of wine and pays a stone, the tavern must find him 39,999 copper coins!
Amon's father opened his mouth wide. He needed a silver coin to buy a bottle of wine in Duke Town. He could only pour five glasses at most in his small house. He stunned for a long time and said, "Child, you are indeed Should go to the outside world! "
The mayor of Dashti left, and Amon shared the money with his father. In the end, Amon only took away the money bag given by the mayor, and left the twenty stones in his hand to his father. The father listened to Dusty's words and took another thirty silver coins, which must be carried by Amon. This was the money Fayol gave last time.
The old lunatic and Amon both told the drunkard that the mayor just made an excuse to let Amon leave the town, because Xiao Gu wanted to avenge Amon and let the child go out to hide, everything was arranged, there was nothing to worry about, Wait a while before coming back. After only two fathers and sons left in the room, I didn't know what they said farewell. When Amon left, there was another bottle of wine in his backpack, which was his father's best wine.
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The folks of Duke Township sent Amon to the east of the town like a warrior, watching him enter the winding path between the mountains and forests. This trail is usually left by hunting, and some people go to the edge of the mountain near the town to pick wild vegetables and fruits, and then go deeper to the mountains and mountains, with dense vegetation covering the sky. The Youdi River runs through the mountains, about two hundred miles from the town of Duke.
There are cave savages in the mountains. Cave savages are also known as dwarves in the Kingdom of Barron, but Amon heard the old lunatics say that cave savages are actually no different from the residents of Duke Town. This is an uncivilized state, so most people are relatively short.
Amon knew that the old lunatic was right. In fact, there were cave savages in Duke Town. They ran out of the mountains and exchanged things with the townspeople. They often were able to collect the best iron ore and the finest fine iron ore. Knowing these things townspeople like the most. Cave savages who ran to town for exchanges should be considered the smartest. They also speak the languages ​​of the mainland, but they don't have many words.
The mine in the north of Duke Town even hires strong cave savages to help mine the ore. They are good miners. They have learned a lot after living for a long time. They are almost no different from the townspeople of Duke Town. Savage. " However, most cave savage tribes in the deep mountains are still in a quite barbaric state, often attacking other tribes and people in the past, sometimes very dangerous.
The townspeople went hunting in the mountains to the east and rarely went deep into the mountains. Except for the old lunatics, no one had ever reached the Youdi River in a hundred years. Amon didn't know where he was going. What the old madman told him last night was just to find an excuse to let him leave Duke Town to avoid the disaster, but he could only go into the mountains in this way.
Amon went straight, walking and looking around, as if waiting for someone to appear. The old lunatic said that there were still a few things to wait for before he left. He didn't see the old lunatic or the mayor of Dusty in the crowd just off.
The path meandered along the steep mountains, gradually deepening, and there were tall trees in the distance, even in the sultry weather, it was very shady. The sun was sparsely spotted on the road, and there were lush bushes growing along the road, many of them with thorns and wild flowers of unknown colors. The surroundings are quiet, but they always lurk like a dangerous breath, while the occasional bird sounds from the distance are so pleasant. If you walk alone in the mountains, you probably feel this way.
Amon walked for a long time, looking back at Duke Town for a long time, surrounded by lush primitive jungles, and the road under his feet became more and more rugged and unrecognizable. After turning a mountain pass to a small high slope, he saw two people standing under a big tree. The mayor of Dashty actually accompanied the old lunatic waiting for him.
Amon stepped forward and said, "Master, Mr. Nietzsche, are you waiting for me? Anything else to tell?" The old lunatic told Amon yesterday, don't call him a teacher anymore, so today in Dusty In front of him, Amon called him Mr. Nietzsche.
The old lunatic glared at Dusty without saying a word, and actually crouched lazily at his feet. Dashty coughed and seemed to take something out of his head: "Amon, you are a warrior in this town and deserve a reward. I gave it to you personally. It was inconvenient to take it out in front of others. "
The old lunatic added coldly to the side: "This is a personal gift from Rod Dick to the mayor of Dusty, as a thank you for the tears of the gods in Duke. Dusty The long transfer to you, I think it is logical, but he received a lot of things, and you only got thirty silver coins, almost cut off a finger. "
Anyway, no one was present. The old lunatic was blunt, and for the first time, Amon saw the captain of the town mayor be flushed. The mayor handed over two certificates in a delicate waterproof hard leather case, which were personally signed by Lord Dick, the chief city officer and chief priest of the Cape City State of the Eju Empire.
The certificate is written with high-end Eju grass paper, which is flattened with a grass stem growing on the banks of the Roni River, and pressed through multiple processes. It is the most convenient writing material and also the Eju Empire One of the important commodities exported to other parts of the mainland. The high-grade papyrus that Amon saw was usually used only to write official documents of the Empire.
Amon was literate, and one of them could be recognized as the identity of the Ecuadorian citizen, but the column where the name was written was empty. The signature of Rod Dick at the end and the seal of the Strait City State were correct. No matter who gets it, writing his name is equivalent to gaining citizenship in the Aegean Empire. Rod Dick gave such a thing to Dusty, it is not expensive.
Dusty himself has obtained citizenship of the Aegean Empire, but this document can be a gift to others. Rod Dick left such a thing, it can be said that it is very thoughtful, as for how to deal with Dusty, it is not his business.
Another document is the border pass of the Aju Empire, which is most useful for businessmen. All countries need a pass issued by the border city-state. Otherwise, they may not pass the pass. If they are unlucky, they may even be caught as spies. stand up. Obviously, this is reserved for Dusty himself to facilitate his dealings in private business. At the moment, under the advice or persecution of the old lunatic, Dusty also gave it to Amon.
"Children, the messenger of the king will come to Duke town in three days, and bring your decision to punish you in public. I have an excuse for you to leave. With these two things, there will be no problem in identity. The road is difficult and dangerous, take care of yourself .... Don't thank me, in fact, I should thank you. It is not that you mine the tears of the gods, and I would not have received so many gifts, even Xiao Gu sent a sum. Choi .... Anything else, you tell Mr. Nietzsche, I'm back in town, and see if anyone comes along. "
Dusty left, leaving only the old lunatic to speak with Amon alone. The old lunatic looked at his back and said: "Dasty is a good man, you should thank him! Although he got a lot because of you, take these It should be for you too. There are many things that a person can do or don't do. Some of them should be done, but they need to pay a certain price. As long as he does it for you, you should be grateful. Child, you must remember That makes sense. "
Amon nodded. "I remember, what else do you have to order?"
Schroding at the foot of the old lunatic yelled, "Take this cat too."