Black Iron’s Glory

Chapter 304: Home

Claude arrived in White Deer City the following afternoon, and the arrival of their entourage almost struck White Deer City.

Without him, Cyclops Rambak, who had been ravaging Panshan Road and the Black Forest for years, had been knocked out by three Claudes, and even their nest had been copied. Not only were the bodies of all the murdered bandits returned, but they also returned eight prisoners, rescued three women and two hostages who had been kidnapped as spoilers, and returned the cargo that had been taken from the three wagons.

Claude et al. were lucky that the three of them had not been able to retrieve so many copies of the bandit's cave that they ran into a merchant team from White Deer City to Ambrizeshire the next morning. Upon hearing that the Cyclops had been exterminated by three men, the head of the merchant team asked the eight captured and rescued women and the two hostages, and heard that more than twenty bodies of the bandits and large quantities of goods had not returned, he decided that the merchant team would first turn back to White Deer City and free the four wagons to help Claude.

The three Claudes didn't actually expect the bandits to be so unbeaten. When Claude drank his weapon immediately with an empty shotgun and knelt before the surrenderer killed him, he didn't even realize that the remaining seven bandits had actually lost their knife and wooden spears and knelt on the ground. Perhaps the seven surviving bandits also know how the two legs can't run, Claude. On the other hand, Claude's three chopping killings have scared the crap out of them...

The three Claudes also wanted to clean up the bodies of the bandits and take the seven prisoners back to White Deer City. Just made two tree platoons to tie up the bodies of the murdered bandits and prepare to go back with Kenmala. When Magic heard the whispers of several bandits, he knew he wouldn't come out this afternoon to rob them. Now he's fine. Everything in his nest is cheap. Pic and them...

In the past, the guns were put over their heads and the bandits immediately made everything very clear. It turns out their nest is half a day away, in a cave by a mountain forest, and there are three housekeepers, three kidnapped women and two hostages, with loads of looted goods.

As soon as Claude listened, he decided to turn around and copy the bandit's lair, except for the evil deeds. The three men then drove off in a carriage with the captives and dragged the wood loaded with the bodies. Ridiculously, the three bandits who guarded the cave saw the team from afar and thought that the robbery had succeeded in bringing back a large quantity of supplies. They greeted each other with joy. Then he was shot down by two shots, and the rest immediately wet his pants and joined the convicted team.

In fact, most of the goods accumulated in the bandits' caves are not very valuable, such as pottery and small merchandise sold by the merchants. The more valuable cloth and fur were ruined by these bandits, who brought it to protect against the cold and used it as a bed on the ground. As for the lack of food, there are two more donkeys, which should have been taken from some unlucky dealer.

Soon after, there was a deerskin purse containing more than one hundred and seventy gold and silver crowns, which was the result of the hard work of Cyclops, the bandit leader who had been killed. As for the bronze coins that were robbed, they were given to their men by Cyclops Lambak generously, and there was nowhere to spend them anyway. Most of the bandits used the bronze coins for gambling purposes. Mike searched the bandits' bodies and caves for small half a sack of bronze money.

It's late, Claude and the three of us will only be in this bandit's cave for one night. The next day, only three women and two hostages who had been rescued, as well as the eight prisoners, could depart. Luckily, when we arrived on the hill, we ran into a merchant team from White Deer City. As a result, the chief of the merchant team heard that Cyclops Rambak, a gang of bandits, had collapsed and, with great enthusiasm, had freed four wagons to transport the bodies and goods to the bandit's cave.

Only in the afternoon did they arrive in White Deer City, and all the residents of White Deer City who heard the news were crowded near the city gate to watch the bustle, Claude three were treated as heroes, and from time to time young beautiful women threw wreaths at the three, perhaps in their eyes, three young soldiers dressed in military uniforms and marvellous fit the fantasies of the best lovers in their hearts.

But for Claude, White Deer City is now exactly the same as his memorable hometown, and it's changed dramatically, and even this merchant team that helped him so much is very strange to his impression. He had never heard of the name of the merchant and the firm. In an inadvertent conversation on the road, he learned that it had only been established four years ago and had a very hard background. The backstage boss is still a few nobles from Wang Du, and he also does trade between the two continents.

No wonder the director of this merchant team had no feelings about Claude's name, and none of the people in the merchant team were old residents of White Deer City. They didn't know Claude, they hadn't even heard his name, they were just curious that he had become an official captain of the kingdom at such a young age. Instead, the head of the merchant team recognized the knight's chapters worn on Claude's chest, and the attitude became more enthusiastic.

The Claude pedestrian arrived at the new White Deer City Patrol Police headquarters, led by the head of the merchant brigade, and the transfer of prisoners and identification of the bodies of the bandits were handled by the Patrol Police headquarters. The crowd watched the mountains and the crowd shouted excitedly after the current patrol officer to identify the body announced that Cyclops Rambak and several other bandits were indeed dead.

For the residents of Bai Lu City, this group of bandits in Pan Shan Road is indeed the problem and scourge of the minds of the small traders and ordinary residents. Bai Lu City did not fail to send security forces to clean up, but the bandits never touched hard, they would flee to the Black Forest Zone and the clearing team to hide and seek refuge, and when the clearing team returned without success, it was intensified to harass ordinary farmers and residents around Bai Lu City, like a disgusting and disgusting fly surrounding Bai Lu City.

Claude would also like to make a statement at Patrol Police Headquarters about how he had exterminated the gang. The goods seized from the bandit's cave are also handed over to the patrol police department, the record of the case is returned to the owner, the unregistered goods are auctioned daily, two-thirds of the price of the auction is paid to Claude, and one-third is the handling fee of the patrol police department, which is a unified method of handling. As for how the owners of the goods who got back thanked Claude, it had nothing to do with the patrol police.

The same is true of rescued women and hostages, with families recovering their homes and the public administration in White Deer City arranging their homelessness. However, the bounty of the three Claudes will have to wait a few days before it comes down, and this time it is somewhat large, almost four hundred gold kroner, more than half of it from Cyclops Rambak alone and the rest of the well-known bandits.

Claude was confused by the fact that he rarely saw an old man in this patrol headquarters who looked familiar to him, remembered former members of the White Deer Town patrol, who he mostly knew, and now this patrol headquarters is a stranger. Upon questioning the patrol officer who received him, the patrol officer replied that the former patrol officers had been largely integrated into the White Deer City Police Battalion and had not returned to the front line. Most of the patrol police headquarters are now transferred from Wang Du and elsewhere. As a local city under Wang Du's direct administration, this is the case for the administration and execution of public servants of their power institutions...

It was not until Claude had completed all the formalities and left the patrol headquarters that he was stopped by a very familiar man. Half a day later, he remembered that the man in front of him was the business manager of the Bock-All family, the father of Bock-All, the trusted assistant of the big businessman Rubiewell.

“Young Master Claude, our master has been waiting for you in the carriage over there, and he would like to invite you to dinner.” Commercial managers bow respectfully.

Claude showed Mike and Big Grimes behind him in a carriage, accompanied by the manager of the mall, to the carriage where Bok Al's father was.

“Uncle Rubiewell, I didn't expect you to be the first relative I've seen since I got back.” Claude was officially in a military ceremony before getting into the carriage.

Bok Al's father Haha laughed, apparently satisfied with Claude's name and relatives. He stretched his hand and patted Claude on the shoulder: "Good boy, that was amazing. You are now not only an official captain officer of the kingdom, but you have come back to visit your relatives and exterminated the Cyclops who have left White Deer City helpless for a long time, believing that your fame will spread throughout White Deer City for two days, and everyone who knows you will be proud of you. Uncle bought it at night, we're not drunk. ”

“I'm sorry, Uncle Rubiewell, I've been in the army for five years and I haven't stepped in yet. I appreciate your kindness, but I'd like to go home first.” Claude was sincere.

Bok Al's father slapped himself in the head: "Yeah, you should have gone home first. I'm just so glad to hear you're back, forget it. I'll take you home first. I'll buy you dinner in a few days. ”

Take me home? My house is in the woods, and this is a long way from where you sent me... Claude hastily exclaimed, “No need, Uncle Rubiewell, my house is in the woods, you have to send me to the mountains in town. You're welcome, I'll go myself. You see, I have carriages and rides too...”

Bok Al's father stunned: "The woodland? Claude, didn't your mother and your sister write to you? They don't live in the woods anymore. They moved back to the big red brick house your father left behind three years ago...”

Moving back to the big red brick house? What do you mean, you don't live in a woodland? What happened? Misty water on Claude's end: "No, I haven't received a letter from home in over a year. The letter I received in the first half of last year was still sent the year before. Because of the constant movement of troops, we rarely receive letters from home on the front line, the efficiency of military postage has not always been very good and has been averse to the soldiers and officers on the front line. And the military postal service was always pushing them out, saying they were too busy with their own people. Nearly a million officers and soldiers on the front line, their families can paralyse the entire military and postal service by writing a letter, and there is also the so-called sub-inspection system…”

That's true, all correspondence is checked by officers of the military postal service. This work during peace can be entrusted to the discipline inspectors of the various independent combat units, such as the gendarmerie or the military disciplinary services. But the military disciplines of independent combat units did not have such idle skills during the war, and letters piled up in the military and postal services, often amounting to nearly 10,000 copies a day. Relying on more than a dozen correspondence inspectors to examine and pick up, it is only natural that the entire department should be paralysed.

So countless family letters were returned with the seal of no such person, which is no wonder that the military postal service, many of the fighting forces accepted the task as confidential, and the responsible officers of the military postal service where they were transferred were indeed unclear. The family also knew that the seal on the returned envelope, which did not contain the person's seal, did not mean that something had happened to their loved ones, but was temporarily unreachable. This is always much stronger than sending notifications to the victims of war...

Bok Al's father nodded his head to understand that he poked the wagon driver in front of him with a cane. The wagon driver turned around and asked, "Sir, what can I do for you? ”

“Go to Mrs. Field's.” Bok Al's father said.

“Yes, sir.” The wagon started turning as the wagon shook the rope.

Claude similarly protruded from the trunk and waved to show the big guys behind him, Gemmy and Mike, following.

“By the way, Uncle Rubiewell, how's Boa?” Claude asked.

Bok Al's father's mouth was filled with laughter: "He's not bad, he's now a lieutenant officer. The Banguilia guard battalion, currently stationed in the port city of Carmontre in the Principality of Rimodra, last year repelled the looting of the port of Carmontre by a pirate fleet, who is said to have performed prominently and was promoted to second lieutenant for merit. I was also informed in a letter last month that their battalion was likely to depart at the end of the year. ”

Claude was somewhat envious: “Boa did a good job, he became a lieutenant and could come home five years early to help you with the business. ”

While serving in the local guard battalion takes fifteen years to acquire national status, Bok Al's promotion to the rank of lieutenant in the guard battalion reduces the length of service by five years, which is equivalent to 10 years of military service he has now served, and in five years he will be able to take off his uniform and go home to do business.

Compared to Claude, the second lieutenant of the Boquer guard battalion was indeed blind, but he was free when he acquired his national status. Claude, the official lieutenant officer of the kingdom, though distinguished, was forced to do so, and he had no freedom to retire from service, subject to the arrangements above.

The big red brick house arrived soon, making Claude uncomfortable, and now there is a three-meter high wall outside the big red brick house that encloses the previously wide front and rear doors and the left and right sides of the empty space, leaving only a three-meter wide gate. Look at that. There's also a doorman by the gate.

Bok Al's father's carriage stopped at the gate without going in.

Claude was about to leave the car, and Bok Al's father looked a little serious and said, "Claude, now your sister Anna is in charge, and your mother, your sister and younger brother still live in the house on the left. I had a lot to talk to you about today, but now I think it would be nice for you to go home and find out. White Deer City has changed tremendously over the years, and your mother and your sister have had to, and their choices have been very helpless. But in this situation, we old people in White Deer Town can't help. If your father were still here, perhaps things wouldn't be so bad..."

This seemed like something to say, but Mr. Rubiewell was no longer prepared to go on, waving his hand and leaving with Claude. Claude, though somewhat confused, couldn't resist the joy of returning home, prompting Michael and Big Grimes to follow him to the door.

“Hey, who are you looking for? Sir." A somewhat familiar voice called Claude by the door.

Claude looked back, and he was familiar with this guy: "Hmm? Uncle Peg, what are you doing here? ”

This is the crippled Uncle Pegg who guarded the private pier of the Ericsson family, and he helped Ericsson build and convert a small fishing boat filled with the innocence of four small partners. Just then Erickson blamed the Claudes for his missing father, and Claude backfired. Shortly after he heard that his family's private pier had been acquired, Claude didn't know where Uncle Pegg was, and soon Claude went out to join the army.

I didn't expect to see Uncle Pegg in front of my house now. I haven't seen him in five years. Uncle Pegg is getting older and his hair is half white. But he also recognized Claude: “You, you're Claude, great, you're finally back..."