Chapter 63： where one is from

After nearly 10 days of trekking, Hansel and Arda's grain transport team finally arrived at Jingyao, the capital of the kingdom.

He first led the team to the warehouse area that was still being repaired, handed over the food to the management staff, and then said goodbye to the staff after arranging board and lodging for the team. The grain transportation team will return to the Northwest Bay by itself after visiting the capital, while Hansel and his servant Tommen hurried back to their long-lost home.

Although he had learned through letters that his family was safe and had returned to the capital from his relatives, he missed them very much after being separated for so long.

It was approaching evening at this time, and after entering the Abbot family's mansion, the servants saw the second young master came 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 showed joyful expressions, and the young girl said happily, "Brother is back."

He first looked at his mother among the three. The woman already had crow's feet with tears shining in the corners of her eyes. After she learned the news of the city guard rebellion at her relatives' house, she didn't think about eating or drinking, and couldn't sleep because of worrying about her son's safety every night. The letter reporting safety, but it said that he was sent to the Northwest Gulf as a royal commissioner. According to the legend of the Jingyao lady circle, the northwest area of ​​the kingdom is a poor place full of troublemakers, and the level of civilization is only a little higher than that of the barbarian tribes on the eastern highlands. Good heavenly father, how can you let little Hansel go there.

Hansel couldn't 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 came back safely. Your mother lost a lot of weight because she missed you."

Hansel turned to his biological mother Miranda and said, "Mother, I'm back." Then he was hugged tightly by the excited biological mother. "It's good to be back, it's good to be back..." Miranda hugged her son, tears streaming down uncontrollably.

After being let go by his mother, Hansel hugged his younger sister Julie again. This lovely girl was also very happy that her brother came home.

Before dinner, his father—the Earl of Abbott, who served in the royal government, returned, but his elder brother who was born to his first mother was unable to return home because he served in the Royal Guard.

The whole family happily ate dinner, listened to Hansel's story about the northwest area, and enjoyed the family happiness.

After dinner, Earl Abbott led his son into his study, and talked with him about his experience in the Northwest again, but this time the content mainly revolved around his son's new position as a royal commissioner. Hansel told his father about his experience as a royal commissioner, although of course he concealed the fact that he was scared away by pirates.

When he said that he planned to cooperate with the local lord to produce more war materials for the royal family's counter-insurgency, Earl Abbott shook his head: "It's difficult, the people's livelihood in the northwest area is dying, and there is nothing to get out of it." , it would be good if the lords there can support their subjects.”

Hansel intends to persevere: "How will you know if you don't try?"

Earl Abbott thought about it, and said to Hansel: "How about...I will go to the royal family to talk about it and see if I can transfer you back to Jingyao. There are always more opportunities in the royal capital." He knew himself The second son had some ambitions in his heart, but he was bound by the other half of his blood.

Not to mention a month ago, even 10 days ago when Hansel had just led the food transport team from Huxin Town, when he heard that he had the opportunity to be transferred back to the capital, he would have seized it without hesitation. But on the way back to the royal capital this time, he considered a lot, instead of squeezing the single-plank bridge in the royal capital full of nobles, it would be better to go to the border of the vast kingdom to flex his muscles.

He expressed his thoughts to his father, and the count said nothing more when he saw that he was so persistent. The father and son continued to talk about the current situation for a while, and Hansel left to find his mother and sister, who also had a lot to say to him.

Earl Abbott watched his son leave with a guilty expression. Twenty-five years ago, he and a group of cronies got drunk and stayed in a brothel for the night. A year later, a woman who couldn't even recall her appearance came to the house with a child in her arms. When the liar was about to blast out, the other party accurately stated some private characteristics of his body. According to the practice of ordinary nobles, they can either continue to insist that the other party is a liar and throw them out, or pay a child support fee to send him away, but Earl Abbott did something that surprised the noble circles in the capital—to accept a Whores are side chambers. This matter caused a lot of trouble, and it became a laughingstock for a while, a prostitute was just playing for fun, but let her enter the house because of a child who didn't know if she was her own. The matter reached the ears of the king, and Rodney XVI personally summoned Earl Abbott and severely reprimanded him for losing face to the nobles of the kingdom, and asked him to carefully consider the seriousness of the consequences. After the king's persecution failed, a noble young man who had a promising future was kicked to sit in a Qingshui yamen like the Heraldry Court.

Fortunately, the earl's wife from a well-known family did not make such a fuss as others guessed, UU reading www.uukanshu. The kind-hearted lady finally accepted the mother and son after an initial period of anger, incomprehension and a long cold war with her husband.

There is no doubt that Hansel was often viewed with colored glasses when he was growing up, especially those peers who came from high-ranking families and pure noble blood, "sons of whores", "sons of whores" and other foreigners. The number has always been with him. Although Earl Abbott finally got the title of baron for his son with the help of the family shadow and money offensive, but the other half of Hansel's blood still caused him repeated setbacks in his official career. , after finishing his studies, as the son of an earl, he only served as a small tax collector, and he was in charge of the farms in the suburbs of the capital. But it was precisely because of this that Hansel was very popular among those low-level nobles and officials of civilian origin.

Earl Abbott can only give this concubine son so much. As an earl, when he enjoys the power, honor and wealth brought by this noble system, he is also firmly bound by this system. Taking a prostitute as a concubine has already made him a target of public criticism, and continuing to do things that break the rules will only make the entire Abbott family be 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 Paul gave him. He took out a piece of paper, which was filled with the groups Paul wanted to recruit.

"Those who can read and do arithmetic are fine. Teachers, artificers, and alchemists. This Earl really has a big appetite."

He spread out another piece of paper on the desk, planning to search for suitable candidates from among the people he knew first. Who should be the first people to look for? He thought for a while, picked up the quill pen in the ink bottle, and wrote down the first name on the paper...