In the eyes of future generations, the legendary mercenary king Amy really had too many great opportunities, so she achieved such an achievement. But in fact, this is not the case. Among Amy's many famous sayings passed down from generation to generation, there is one sentence that he
It is mentioned again and again, but almost all future generations deliberately forget this sentence: If you want to get a hundred times, you must pay a thousand times.
Fewer people know how much Amy hated this sentence when she was young.
——Neal Haber, the twelfth generation great-great-grandson of mainland historian Amy, researched hand-written records
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"Son, wake up." The pleasant male voice sounded again.
"Well, uncle, I want to sleep for a little longer, just for a little while, I'm too sleepy." Amy, who had just turned 8, begged.
"Ah, it's so cold..." A miserable cry came out from the dark night. However, the neighbors near the Haber family's hut have become accustomed to this special timer alarm clock.
Little Amy quickly jumped out of the bed full of ice and snow, and the person who completed the prank put the big wooden basin for holding the snow in the ground, and leisurely said a famous saying: "If you want to get a hundred times, you must get a thousand times."
Pay. I must train you to be a better warrior than your father."
The sky in the east had just turned white, and two figures, one large and one small, set off from Haike Village and ran along the Nuanshui River in the direction of Xueyue Lake.
Anyone who meets Chi Hanfeng for the first time will think that he is a noble. In the Amy Empire, all nobles from aristocratic families have the characteristics: elegant temperament and politeness. This is the first impression Chi Hanfeng gives, but they have been together for a long time.
Some people discovered another side of Chi Hanfeng: he was narrow-minded and liked to tease people. Two months after moving into Haike Village, everyone who was familiar with Chi Hanfeng had been teased by this outsider. Everyone also believed that he was interested in them.
Description - A soldier only has the lowest noble title: noble knight, and such a title cannot be hereditary or have a fief.
The one who suffered the most was poor little Amy.
This unruly uncle likes to call little Amy his son; from the day this unruly uncle arrived, little Amy has never slept in once; this guy does not give little Amy any time to move freely.
;Although he never beats or scolds little Amy, some of this guy's methods are often scarier than beating and scolding, such as putting some snow in the quilt in the morning.
I wonder how Tarilek Haber would feel if he knew that he had entrusted his son to such a person.
At first, Old Man Harper was not used to this young man treating his grandson like this, and he was not used to him calling little Amy "son." However, after getting along with this young man for a while, he still accepted this family member.
What really moved the old man were some of Chi Hanfeng's actions after little Amy fell asleep~~ For example, he got up at night to help little Amy tuck in the quilt, prepared for the next day's cultural class under the oil lamp, and got up early in the morning to run outside.
Go dig in the snow…
Little Amy's daily homework is roughly as follows: Physical training: Get up before dawn in the morning and run along the Nuanshui River to Xueyue Lake, about 20 kilometers. Although the river is warm, there is still ice and snow on both sides of the river.
In order to make it easier to run, Chi Hanfeng's request was to travel lightly - only wearing a thin leather jacket.
Will training: After running to Xueyue Lake, take off your clothes and jump to Xueyue Lake for a swim. Although Xueyue Lake has the word "snow" in it, the temperature of the lake water that erupts from the ground is extremely high. Although swimming is only at the lakeside, it is not
You will enter the center of the lake, and the water is warm enough to cook snow eggs.
Jumping suddenly from the ice into the scalding lake water can indeed exercise one's will.
In fact, like most hot springs, the water of Xueyue Lake also has very good medical and restorative effects, so no matter what torture she endured the day before, Amy can always recover well with the help of Xueyue Lake.
state.
After an hour of willpower training at Xueyue Lake, there was still physical training - swimming along the Nuanshui River back to Haike Village. Judging from the time, this physical training only lasted for one year before it was cancelled.
Amy was so tired once that she actually fell asleep during swimming. The mineral-rich warm water river has a very high specific gravity. Even without swimming, you can easily float on the water. And the direction of the river flowing into the sea is exactly the same.
It was in the direction of Haike Village. After discovering this mystery, Amy always used this time to catch up on two hours of sleep.
Until one time when she overslept and drifted into the sea, Chi Hanfeng returned to the village and waited for half an hour but still did not see Amy return. He anxiously found a wooden boat and found Amy sleeping 5 kilometers away from the coastline.
After returning to the village, he received combat skills training, which was actually chopping wood. What is the relationship between wood chopping and combat skills? Puzzled, Amy asked her lovely Uncle Chi.
The answer was as black and humorous as ever, "Hmm", Chi rubbed his nose: "To be precise, I don't know. All other trainings were arranged by me, only this training was told to me by your father." It seems like this.
It was indeed Lake Haber's attention that when Amy followed Chi Hanfeng's instructions and visited the residents of Haike Village one by one and expressed her willingness to provide them with chopped wood for free, most of the old residents actually revealed: "Sure enough,
The expression of a child worthy of the Harper family." Every noon, the residents of Heike Village would bring the grown coniferous hardwoods felled from the forest to the small hut of the Harper family on sleds.
Anyone who has chopped wood knows that the most important thing when cutting wood is an axe. The bigger the wood, the larger the ax head needs to be, especially the structure of the ax back and blade. The wider the ax back, the better. The ax blade does not have to be very narrow.
It is sharp, but the connection with the back of the ax must be smooth. This way, after cutting into the wood, the V-shaped structure of the ax can be fully utilized to smoothly separate the wood.
Although it was Chi Hanfeng who made wood cutting a required course for Amy, judging from the performance, this lower-level nobleman of the empire really knew nothing about cutting wood. Even the largest two-handed ax could not smoothly cut even non-needle needles.
The wood of the leaf forest.
However, Grandpa Haber understood his son's intentions very well. During his training on wood-cutting skills, he carefully taught him how to use his hand strength, how to use his waist strength, how to stand on his feet to exert full power, and how to see the texture of the wood.
, what kind of grain is easiest to cut along, what to do if you encounter trees with burls, and what to do if you encounter wood with forks.
The person who listened to Old Man Haber's story with great interest was not little Amy, but the uncle named Chi Hanfeng. "Oh, it turns out that's the truth. I said that guy was able to hit my gun with the first blow with the least difficulty.
It’s a place where I can stand so steadily in the snow and can withstand my impact.” He murmured to himself thoughtfully.
From that day on, there were two figures, one big and one small, chopping wood in the dilapidated yard of the Harper family. At first, Amy's chopping speed was indeed very slow. The main reason was her strength and swing.
Thanks to his skill with the ax and his promising wood texture, the ax blade disappeared after cutting it down. Without Uncle Chi's help, it is estimated that more than 200 households in Haike Village would have celebrated the "Cold Food Festival".
In the first year of skill training, Amy used the largest ax to chop wood in the first half of the year. In the second half of the year, the ax became a medium-sized ax, and the diameter of the trees became thicker and thicker.
After dinner, Amy still couldn't sleep after a tiring day. Under the snow porpoise oil lamp, Chi Hanfeng began to teach Amy knowledge. In Amy's eyes, this aspect should be what Uncle Chi Hanfeng is best at. As an imperial aristocrat, no matter how high or low he is,
, have an absolute understanding of the history of the empire; similarly, as an imperial soldier who was once the captain of the border army, Uncle Chi’s understanding of the coordinated operations of the army’s arms is far beyond what ordinary villagers in Haike Village can match. So at night
, take the art of war class every other day, and study the history of the empire the other day.
In the chat after knowledge classes that interested Amy even more, Chi Hanfeng would usually talk about the customs and customs in the capital of the empire, as well as some stories about mercenaries spread among the people.
Seeing how fascinated Amy was when he listened, Chi Hanfeng curiously asked him once why he was so interested in mercenaries.
Amy answered truthfully - because mercenaries can kill snow wolves.
After hearing these words, Chi Hanfeng almost fell from the stool to the ground. He really couldn't imagine that the son of the Imperial Infantry Captain and the disciple of the Imperial Cavalry Captain, his lifelong wish was to become a mercenary.
Neither the Imperial soldiers nor the soldiers of the Hami Kingdom can kill the snow wolf casually, just like the soldiers of the Hami Kingdom cannot kill the war horses of the Imperial soldiers.
The only exception is mercenaries. According to the habits of mercenaries, they rarely stay in one place for too long. The financial resources of the Hami Kingdom do not allow them to punish one or two mercenaries who killed Snow Wolf for some reason.
Post a wanted notice in the Mercenary Association.
Despite all kinds of dissuasion, Amy, who knew for sure from Chi Hanfeng that the imperial soldiers could not kill Snow Wolf, stuck to her ideals in her usual way - silence.
Two days later, Chi Hanfeng thought about it: It would be good to be a mercenary. You can travel around. If you are stronger, you might be able to visit the Ice Begging Tower. And in terms of income, mercenaries of the same level can
The income of soldiers is much higher than that of soldiers. Of course, the level of danger is also much higher than that of soldiers.
Set long aspirations, not long ambitions - from this point of view, Amy already had the ability to foresee things at a very young age.