"Liszt."
Frank uttered the name: "Flower Town Baron, Sir Count's third child. Shirley, you must still have an impression of him. You always played behind him when you were a child."
"Is it Brother Liszt? Of course I remember him." Shirley blinked her eyes, and a slightly childish handsome face appeared in her mind.
Liszt was very handsome since he was a child.
However, she had already left the Coral Island and went to the Ox Horn College to study for a few years.
Due to the inconvenience of traveling by ship, she did not return home even during New Year's Day. Her impression of Liszt had gradually faded. At that time, she had not yet reached the age of admiring the opposite sex. Naturally, she did not have a clear memory of a certain companion.
"What do you think of Liszt?" Asked Frank.
Shirley shook her head: "Dad, I have only seen Big brother Liszt when he was twelve years old. At that time, he was just a child. Now that he is an adult, I have no idea what he has become."
"You should find an opportunity to meet him."
At this time, Frank's wife asked: "Sir Count does not seem to value Liszt. His fief has been moved to the most remote Flower Town."
"Liszt is indeed not valued by Sir Count. Sir Count relied on his determination to forge ahead and establish the Coral Island. He hopes that his children can move forward bravely." Said Frank, "But in any case, he is of the Tulip family's bloodline and was enfeoffed upon reaching adulthood. This is not a treatment that an ordinary aristocrat's second son can enjoy."
"The count is just Sir Count's benevolence. He is a dutiful father. Even Lvera was enfeoffed by Baron Liszt."
Said the wife enviously.
Lvera was very influential among the Coral Island's aristocratic ladies. She was a hereditary dame, which was rare even in the Grand Duchy of Sapphire.
"The reason why Sir Count does not value Liszt is that Liszt is not talented and has a soft personality. But from my recent contact, Liszt has been reborn. He is calm and dignified. He is becoming more and more mature. Sir Count even went to the Flower Town to celebrate the Going-out-to-the-sea Festival, which is a sign. "
"What sign?"
"What other sign could it be? The sons have regained their father's trust. The Count is still in the prime of his life. Of course he wants to be with his sons and obtain more glory as a Knight."
"Is that so? But he hasn't gone to the battlefield. Levis has."
"It's only a matter of time. He has the blood of the Tulip family and the Taro family in him." Frank felt that his wife had the narrow-mindedness of a small noble in the countryside, so he told his daughter directly, "Shirley, Liszt has already prepared his own Knight Squad. He bought a batch of equipment for the Knight Squad from Tulip Castle."
No compliment was as convincing as action.
A country lord with a squad of Knight was naturally not ordinary.
Shirley's eyes lit up. "Dad, Mom, when can I see Brother Liszt? I think I have the ability to judge for myself."
"Our Shirley is smart and beautiful. Of course, she has her own vision. Daddy will find opportunities for you soon."
…
His footsteps were unsteady.
He was tired and hungry.
Ivan wiped off the sweat on his forehead and looked at his peers with numb eyes, who also had the same numb eyes. Their clothes were dirty and smelly, their hair was a mess, and the dust on their faces could not hide their paleness and sallow color. It was hard to distinguish between men and women, old and young. Even the cries of the babies were weak.
"Hurry up, if you don't want to be whipped, cheer up and keep up with the team!" The clerk holding the whip shouted loudly.
From time to time, the whip would be lashed in the air, making crackling sounds.
Ivan's whole body trembled. His slightly dizzy head suddenly sobered up, and his heavy footsteps could not help but quicken. Just a moment ago, the person next to him was whipped by the clerk. His clothes were torn, and he was in so much pain that he cried.
"Crack!"
There was another crack of the whip.
Ivan lowered his head and clenched his teeth so that he could move faster. He was very afraid of the whip. When he was on the ship, his companion from the same town, who slept in the same corner as him, was whipped to death by the ship's first mate. The wailing before death had made him have nightmares for several nights.
Inside the dream was a nightmare.
In reality, it was also a nightmare.
He missed the days of hard farming on the island, although there was not enough to eat, and there were Knight whipping serfs who could not pay taxes. But most of the time, he was free to walk around and chat with others. He even went to the town to take a look at the beautiful proprietress of the bakery.
However, one day, everything changed.
He heard the Knight shouting and killing, and then a group of blood-stained Knight came to his village and drove them away. Some people did not want to go and were killed; those who did not want to be killed could only follow them. It was on this day that he left his homeland and began a constant nightmare.
He was taken to a market, where serfs like him were being sold.
He was locked in a cage, eating some rotten black bread, muddle-headed. Serfs around him were constantly taken away, and new serfs were constantly locked in.
Then, he was also taken away.
He followed a group of strangers onto a big ship. He could not understand the people on the ship, and did not dare to speak to them. Unexpectedly, there was a person on the ship who knew him. They were from the same town.
"It's the Sapphire people!" His companion told him.
He instantly thought of the legend of the "barbarians". Every year, there would be sea barbarians who came to the Eagle Kingdom to burn, kill, and loot. They were all from the Grand Duchy of Sapphire.
"The Sapphire people were on the ship, and we were sold to the barbarians! The ones who caught us were mercenaries, they were more hateful than rats! "His companion said resentfully," I swear! One day, I will come back, find these mercenaries, and kill them all! "
Ivan did not answer.
He was frightened by his companion's words.
He had been farming since he was a child, and he had never killed a chicken – because there were no chickens at home – only the nobles killed serfs, and serfs did not dare to kill people.
Unfortunately, his companion was whipped to death soon after he made the oath.
Ivan had no one to talk to, and continued to have nightmares that he could not wake up from. He had never been on a ship, and he almost fainted. Today, a few days later, he finally set foot on land, and came to a completely strange place. He could not understand a word spoken by the people here.
He also did not know where he was being driven to.
He was confused about tomorrow. He did not know what he was persevering for, and he did not even know what perseverance was. He just followed the whip and went wherever he went. He never thought about death, and he did not know what joy there was in life. He did not know how many times his legs had become numb.
He heard the clerk brandishing his whip and shouting something.
He could not understand, but the team slowly stopped. When others stopped, he also stopped. Finally, he could rest his legs for a while.
He saw others start to sit down.
He followed and sat down again.
No one spoke. Everyone on the ship was forbidden to communicate, and now they were used to silence. He looked up and his eyes fell on a female serf not far in front of him. She was preparing to feed the child. She lifted her ragged clothes, exposed her shriveled chest, and stuffed it into the baby's mouth.
The baby sucked hard, not knowing if he could suck a little milk.
If it was in the past, Ivan would have swallowed his saliva and greedily peeped at the woman's chest. He was still young and had never touched a woman's hand, let alone her bulging chest.
But at the moment, the chest was unattractive, and he did not have the slightest thought to think about it – his stomach was so hungry that his intestines were about to be mixed together.
The sun moved overhead, and it was noon.
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