Chapter 68 Funeral

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Funerals are being held on a piece of wasteland southwest of Bianfeng Town.

It is not suitable to say that it is wasteland. At some point, this uninvited land had been built into a circle of short walls by matte stones. The top of the wall was covered with thick snow. From a distance, it looked like it was covered with a layer of silver edges.

Although he could step over it with just one foot, Vannah couldn't help but think of the border walls, they were all the same colors and shapes.

He had only heard of this kind of ritual among travel merchants. When a great noble or royal family passed away, the deceased's family would gather in the cemetery, play sad and joy, accept mourning from others, and finally buried the coffin underground.

The nobler the status, the greater the momentum.

Even dead people are more glorious than living people. He thought enviously at that time, what should I do if the people in Bianfeng Town die?

I went to the hide-and-see forest to dig a hole to fill it.

I don’t know if the evil beast had dug out the corpse and eaten it when the Demon Moon arrived.

Death is no stranger to the residents of Border Town.

Especially every winter, when we go to Changge Fortress to take refuge, everyone is crouching in the slum shacks, dying of hunger and severe cold, and dying of disease and pain. This is the norm.

No one has time to be sad. It is better to wait for dawn to go to the city center to ask for more bread.

But today, His Highness is actually going to hold a funeral for a soldier!

I heard that he was unfortunately thrown to the ground while chasing the mixed evil beast and bitten half of his head off.

Vannah knew this unlucky guy, and he was also an old face in the old district. He had no name, so everyone called him Aji.He has a wife and two children, the older one seems to be six years old, and the younger one is just able to walk.

If it were normal, this family would definitely be over. Women could find another man to live, but who would be willing to bring two scoundrels?

Either throw these two little guys to the side of the road and let them fend for themselves, or raise them, go to the bar to recruit flesh and blood business, and eventually die of various strange diseases.

But His Highness the Prince seems to be really planning to fulfill his promise when recruiting militias. The dead will not only receive all the salary, but also have an additional compensation. What is the name of this?

Vanne thought about it, Ah… By the way, the pension.

And this money is as much as five golden dragons.

In addition, regular food and charcoal will be distributed every month, which means that even if Aji's wife doesn't go out to work, she can still raise her two children to survive.

Well, these beautiful statements are probably just words of comfort, but the Golden Dragon is real.

He saw with his own eyes that His Highness the Prince handed over the pension to the Chief Knight, and then handed over it to Aji's wife.

Hell, why did he suddenly feel a little envious of Aji?

No, no, Vanna shook his head repeatedly and drove out these stupid ideas. He didn't want to die but get his wife...and it's very likely that he would be someone else's wife.

After sending the money, His Highness delivered a speech, which was very short, but Vanne listened to it.

Especially the sacrifice to protect relatives and innocent people, we will always remember it, making him feel a heat flowing in his heart.

So that's it. He thought, it's no wonder that apart from bread and silver wolf recently, he always felt that there were more pursuits. At least this winter, they could survive because they depended on their own hands, not the alms of Changge Fortress.

The final part is burial.

Aji's coffin was placed in the dug soil pit, and the chief knight asked everyone to line up. Every militia member, whether formal or substitute, took turns to come forward and fill a shovel with a shovel.

Everyone is familiar with the queue, and more than 200 people immediately lined up in four columns.

When it was Vanne's turn, he suddenly felt the shovel became slightly heavier, and the gaze of the surrounding players slowed down his movements.

When he stood aside, his eyes passed this feeling to the next earth-covering man.

Aji's tombstone was a pure white rectangular stone, and Vannah knew no one of the words on it, and he was not the first person to live in this wasteland.

Next to Aji, there is an exact stone tablet with snow at the top.

As everyone left one after another, Vanne saw Brian, the new captain of the Second Militia, slowly poured a pot of ale on the tombstone.

If this was his last destination and it would not look bad, he couldn't help but think.

Your Highness, on the way back to the castle, Carter suddenly spoke, "You do this..."

inappropriate?

No, he thought about it and finally shook his head. I couldn't say it, but I just felt that no one had ever treated the conscripted gentry like this and they had neither title nor family background nor family background, nor even surname or name.

But you still feel good, right?

Well……

Roland smiled, and of course he knew how strongly this set would be for Carter, who also took combat and protection as his mission.

When people start to think about who to fight and why, the team will undergo unimaginable changes.

And the meaning of Carter is that when honor is no longer the privilege of the nobles alone, and those ordinary people who have nothing can also gain honor through his training and teaching, through his training and teaching, this sense of double achievement is simply indescribable.

Of course, the public funeral is just the beginning. Roland thought that he still had many methods to enhance the sense of collective honor, such as formulating military flags, military songs, setting heroic examples, etc.

There is no spirit that makes something out of nothing. Only by persevering this practice day after day and instilling ideas at all times can it gradually achieve results.

In order to ensure the reliable operation of the aftermath system, he even arranged a aftermath team from himself, the city hall and the militia to complete the subsequent distribution of grain and charcoal.

The further down, the more Roland felt heavy his shoulders.

There is too much lack of Bianban Town. It seems that mining and people's livelihood have been on the right track, and there is sufficient grain reserves, so far, it has not starved to death or frozen to death.

This seems to be a miracle in other towns. Even in the Gray Castle King, many refugees or orphans are eliminated in winter every year.

But he wanted much more than that, and the city hall's operating load had reached its limit.

Relying on the assistant to the minister, Barov and the dozen apprentices he brought, all the financial and administrative management of the border town was supported.

If you want to further expand your department, it will not work without recruiting some management personnel.

He also asked Barov if there were any outstanding students or colleagues who were still in the capital, but the reply he received was a scoop of cold water: Even if they were there, they would not be willing to come.Your Highness, do you really know how bad your reputation is in the royal capital?

OK, it does sound very reasonable.He thought depressedly.

Back in the backyard of the castle, the nightingale escaped from the mist and gave Wendy a warm hug, who was standing outside the wooden shed.

Lightning was spinning around the unfinished steam boring machine. When she saw Roland, she immediately yelled to assemble the rumored machine to move on her own.

Seeing all this, he suddenly felt that all his efforts were worth it.