The Defeated Dragon

“Does Uncle Phil want a son?” Jesse was stunned at first, then nodded, "As if, I've heard him complain that he doesn't have a son, that he's sick and nobody takes care of him. ”

Lister looked at Jesse.

Suddenly he asked, "Jesse, if I remember correctly, do you look like an orphan? ”

“Yes, sir, I grew up at the Coral City Welfare Institute to thank the Tulip family for their generosity in keeping our orphans alive.” Jesse said piously.

Welfare homes are institutions where noblemen gather orphans, and where civilians often have accidents and leave several children unattended. In order to show their kindness, some rich aristocrats build welfare homes on family plots, gather orphans, and work directly for the castle when they grow up.

Jesse, that's the orphan.

“Is the old tannery in the tannery now? ”

“Yes, sir, I wanted to ask Uncle Phil to go shopping with me, but he didn't want to. ”

“So, Jesse, come with me to see the old tannery, I have something to look for him. ”

“Okay, I'll get you a horse. ”

On the stables outside the castle, there is a rudimentary lounge where Philip and Xavier have been sitting, and as squire knights they do not enjoy the benefits of their holidays.

When they saw Lister riding the Fire Dragon Horse, they each rode a horse and followed Lister.

Join us to the tannery shop.

There are essentially tannery shops in every town, and tanneries are craftsmen who make leather, sew fur, and repair leather shoes. By subdivision, there are helmets, manicurists, manicurists, drummers, leather handlers, leather handlers, leather shoemakers, etc., which are generally dominated by leather shoemakers.

Phil, the old leather man in Flower Town, is the leather shoemaker.

Leather shoemakers tend to be rich freelancers in large cities because a pair of leather shoes are handmade and cost a lot of money. But in small towns, the treatment of a leather shoemaker is poor, and few people can afford leather shoes, so a leather shop can only mix pastries - most serfs and freelancers, wearing wooden and grass shoes.

Of course, more people don't wear shoes.

“Is that Jesse?” The old tannery had a bit of a dull voice coming from the table, and he was grasping a pair of leather shoes, even if his eyes were blind, his hands were still clever.

"Uncle Phil, Lord Lords are here, Lord Lords are looking for you. ”

“Ah, Lord, old Phil sends his regards.” The old tannery stood up from the chair in panic, bowed and shook his hands as nervously as ordinary civilians saw their lords.

Lester measured the narrow, dark tannery shop, which, as you can see, has been out of repair for a long time and the roof can see the sun in the sky.

Like the old tannery, signs of old age and decay are revealed.

“Old Phil, don't be nervous, I'm just here to talk to you. ”

The old tannery's cloudy eyes do not see any emotional changes.

But Lester felt that the other hand had stopped trembling rapidly - it wasn't that the tension had been eased, it seemed more like a stop to the show, and the previous tension was probably just pretending. It is easy to understand that, after all, nobles like to see civilians tremble in front of themselves.

An elderly man has long learned to travel with life: "Lord, it is an honor for Old Phil to be able to chat with you. ”

“You were begging for Flower Town 10 years ago, so where were you originally from? ”

“I was born on Dodo Island, my lord. ”

“Dodo Island? ”

“It is a deserted island with no lord's rule and is further north of Coral Island. The island is inhabited by a kind of dodo bird that doesn't fly. It wakes up as if it's screaming 'dodo'. It's also a particularly tall tree with a horrible name. It's called a human skull tree. The fruit of the fruit is called a human skull fruit. ”

“Human skull tree? ”

“Yes, my lord, that fruit is white, far away, like a man's skull. But the flavors are delicious, the islanders are hungry with human skull fruit and the dodo birds eat human skull fruit, but the dodo bird meat is particularly unpleasant and life on the island is very difficult. ”

Wake up like a dodo bird.

Reminds Lester of the extinct dodo birds on Earth.

I don't know if the dodo bird here is the same breed as the dodo bird on Earth.

“So how did you get to Coral Island from a dodo bird? You were born on Dodo Island, and you're supposed to be indigenous, so where did the Dodo Islanders come from?” Ask Lester.

Outside the Grand Duchy of Sapphires, there are still many undeveloped deserted islands, and Dodo Island should be one of them.

“I'm a native of Dodo Island, and I don't know where we come from, but we've all lived on Dodo Island since I remembered. Later, the Dodo volcano erupted and the human skull trees were extensively destroyed, without food, we had to cut the trees into canoes and drift along the sea… I was drifting to Hot Springs Island and became a leather shop apprentice. ”

Subsequently, Hot Springs suffered a war, and he, as slave, was trafficked to Coral Island. Bought by a baron on the island at the time, the baron followed the count to the battlefield and never came back. The Territorial Pokémon were all dead, and the serfs, afraid of punishment, began to flee.

The old tannery also fled.

All the way to Flower Town.

“At that time all the serfs were rumouring that the Baron had died because his slave-born knight betrayed him. The followers were very angry and decided to slaughter all the serfs in the territory to avenge the Baron…" When the old leather man spoke of this past, he shrugged, perhaps lamenting his own ignorance.

It is a low-level rumor that the nobility attaches considerable importance to serfdom.

The correct opening position should be - the Baron died in battle, without an heir, and the lord he followed, the Earl of Coral Island, recovered possession of the territory, including the serfs.

All in all, the life of an old leather maker does not fall and fall, nor is he a "storyteller”, even he blind naturally in the town of flowers.

What barely counts as a story is the status of a Todo indigenous.

Lister asked carefully about Dodo Island and found that it was a small island, with no more than 300 indigenous people, and eventually destroyed by volcanic eruptions, with little development value except for the few remaining human skull trees.

He was a little disappointed.

Those who thought the smoke mission was deliberately mentioned should have some mystery. I didn't expect it to be just plain indigenous.

He still intends to continue to accomplish his mission, and the book he was rewarded for - bringing Jesse with him, just to make Jesse a son to the old tannery - a fatherless orphan, a widower with no children and no daughters, both of whom are passionate and should be easily contracted to father and son.

But all of a sudden, he had a bold idea.

“Why should I follow in the footsteps of a smoke mission, I am not its puppet, I can totally ask an old leather artisan for the book directly, not rely on the task to get the book! ”

Lester doesn't think it's going to be a lot, how many books can an old tannery have?

So...

And he said, “Old Phil, I heard you had some books in your collection. ”

When the lord spoke, the old tannery dared not to obey at all, and immediately promised, "Yes, lord, I have a collection of books, but only one, and I dedicate it to the lord.” After that, he choked his back and pulled a wooden box out of a locker filled with leather shoes under Jesse's grasp.

“Jesse, the book is in the box. Give it to Lord Lords. ”

Jesse opened the box, took out a very thick book and handed it to Lester. Lister swept over and found that the book was not printed, but handwritten notes with snakes and another foreign language on the cover.

He doesn't know foreign languages.

But the serpent is known - The Diary of Philip Sun Descendants.