In the territory of the Kingdom of Fostein, in the Del Province, Kaidozi, and Maple Leaf Village, a young woman with a white hairband was washing clothes by the river.

Although it was late autumn, Kaidozi belonged to the south and the temperature was not too cold yet, so it was reasonable for the woman to be still washing clothes at this time. Although her hands were frozen and turned white.

"Lea~Tia calls you to go home for dinner~" A middle-aged woman holding a headscarf shouted at the village entrance in the distance.

"I understand~ Aunt Mary~" the woman responded, quickly putting away the washed clothes, and putting them aside if they were not washed, preparing to come and wash them tomorrow if you have time.

After the woman packed up, she found that Aunt Mary was still waiting for her at the entrance of the village, so she ran over quickly with the things.

"Aunt Mary, let's go." The woman held the wooden basin that was putting on clothes in one hand and held Aunt Mary's arm in the other.

"Hey, Tia really has a good daughter, I really envy it." Aunt Mary exclaimed.

"Aunt Mary, Hank and the others are not bad either. Tian this year will thank your family for help." The woman said.

"Those boys, apart from giving birth to a few more mouths for me, there is no other way to do this!" Aunt Mary has always been so stingy.

"Haha~" the woman covered her mouth and chuckled.

"If you want to say that our village is the most promising brother. He has been the team leader for only a few years. What's going to be the best in the future?" Aunt Mary exclaimed.

Perhaps because she remembered her younger brother whom she hadn't seen for a few years, the woman Chen Mo smiled and said, "Hans is also very good, as for Private Class, everyone in the village praises you."

"That kid has to rely on your brother. I thought this child was smart since I was a child." Aunt Mary was very happy to hear the woman praise her son.

The two walked together in the village, and the villagers passing by were very enthusiastic. Most of the parents and elderly people in the village were the elderly, and most of the young and middle-aged people joined the army and did not return.

After walking to a yard on the west side of the village, Aunt Mary chatted with the woman for a few words and left. Their house was next door and was not far away.

The woman waved her hand and watched Aunt Mary enter her yard, and pushed the door into the room. The door was just an ordinary wooden door, but it looked quite new and should have just been repaired.

"Mother, I'm back." The woman shouted.

The woman is Leah, Locke's sister, and this yard is also the home where Locke has lived for 14 years.

"Oh, my daughter is back." An old man with gray hair squatted on a wooden pier in the yard, smoking a dry tobacco while saying hello. This is the father of Old Locke, Locke and Leah.

Common people have no surnames, only names, such as Locke and Xia Xi. For some families with low education, if there is only one boy, their children will inherit their father's name. For example, Locke inherits his father's name. The villagers they know call them both: Old Locke and Xiao Locke.

Of course, Locke is now a young man and has a good status. Everyone will no longer call him Locke, but Locke.

Nobles are different. Each noble has its own surname, family, and clan emblem. These three are important criteria for judging the size of power among nobles. Outsiders generally call the surname of aristocrats, such as Kaidozi, which represents the face of aristocrats. Only the head of the family in the nobles is qualified to be respected as a surname.

For example, there is only one Baron Kaidozi. Although Master Zoro's surname is Kaidozi, others only call him Zoro.

"Father, how many times have you said it, don't smoke all the time!" Lea is a sensible and well-behaved girl, but only when it comes to his father's preference for smoking dry tobacco, Lea always disagrees with her father.

"Ahem... I've been alive for a few years anyway, so I'll have a good time before I die." Old Locke coughed twice, put out the cigarette gun, tied it to his back, and still listened to his daughter's words.

After Lea put her clothes and wooden basin back into the house, she moved a small stool, sat behind Lao Locke, and knocked her back on Lao Locke.

"It's better for a daughter~" Old Locke stretched and exclaimed comfortably. Old Locke believed that the two most successful things he had done in his life were adopting the daughter he gave birth to and giving birth to Locke, a good son. Of course, Leah was not his biological daughter, only he, his wife and some old people in the village knew about it.

Soon, the smell of the rice came, and a middle-aged woman came out of the house with a bowl. The woman with crow's feet and gray hair was the mother of Tia, Locke and Leah.

There are only noodles and a few corn cobs in the bowl, but this is also rare and delicious. If there weren't a younger brother who has been taking care of his family in the past two years, they might not even be able to eat this.

Tia put the bowl on a wooden pier and returned to the house to bring out a large bowl of soup. The soup was water cooked on the cob. Tia added a few wild vegetables to the water, making this soup both sweet and fresh vegetable flavor of wild vegetables. A simple dinner is the norm for most civilians in the world.

The three of them sat around the wooden pier with small stools and started dinner. Although Kaidozi was in the south, in late autumn, the three of them trembled with the north wind. In the low temperature environment, the few people speeded up their meals.

It’s not that I don’t want to eat in the house, but the wooden house of Rock’s house is only a small 20 square meters. This small space is divided into three parts, a kitchen, a room of Old Rock and Tia, and a room of Leah and Lock. In the house, there is no extra furniture except the stove and two beds. The meals of Rock’s family or some of the handicrafts done by Tia and Leah are all done in the yard outside the house.

Not only Locke's family, but most families are like this in the small village of Maple Leaf Village. They feel crowded when standing in the house, let alone sitting around to have a meal.

At the dinner table, the three of them were eating silently, and a seat was empty. This was the seat of Locke. Old Locke was honest, and Leah's personality followed his mother Tia. He was also a simple and hardworking woman. The family gathered together to eat together and always remembered Locke. So although there were chats at the dinner table, there were not many.

Old Locke grabbed a corn and started gnawing. From time to time, he lowered his head and drank a sip of the soup. Lea followed his mother Tia, but just bit the dough in small bites, very gentle.

"The price of grain in the town has increased again." Tia said while eating. The Rock family is different from the Hans family next door. He does not have a young and strong man. The two acres of land in the family rely on the old Rock and her mother and the two acres of land under the body. The food they plant is not enough to eat, and they can only ensure that they cannot starve to death. If you want to eat enough, you have to buy food.

"If it goes up, it goes up. No one has any surplus food on this day." Old Rock said while eating, "How much money does Locke send back last month?" Old Rock asked.

"Half the money I sent back last month is saved, and the other half is 30 copper left," said Tia.

"Enough, I guess the Baron's caravan will be back in the past two days..." Old Locke said nothing. It was true that the Baron's caravan was back, but it was not guaranteed that their children could send back the money. They saw too many young people in the village and could not come back after they went out. All they came back was compensation for the Baron's caravan's death and bad news. They were too afraid to receive a notice of their children's death one day. Like most villagers, they had a complex mood about the Baron's caravan that they hoped to come but not come.

"Don't just think about the bad news." Tia knew what her husband was thinking, and she said to the benefit. "I have saved a lot of money Locke sent back in the past few years. In addition, I became the team leader last year, so I sent back more money. The family is enough. Should I find a wife for Locke?" Tia was very concerned about Locke's marriage. Locke is now 18 and is already at the age of getting married and having children.

"Well, Locke has been doing well in the Baron's army over the years. It's time to find him a good wife." Old Locke nodded and responded. Old Locke agreed with his wife's wish to find a wife for Locke.

After dinner, Leah and Tia cleaned up the dishes, while Old Locke hunched his back and checked whether the door in the yard was closed, placed the farm tools and other items in the yard, and finally returned to the house with the three small stools during the meal.

In late autumn, it is always dark very quickly. Not only Locke's family, but most families have already entered the house to sleep at this time.

After packing up the dishes, Lea asked her parents and went back to the house. This was a small house of seven or eight square meters square, with only two thin wooden beds and a small cabinet of half a meter high. This was Lea's wardrobe and Lea's box for some of her own gadgets, such as a scarf with hair tied and a handkerchief she woven herself...

Lea untied the white scarf tied around her hair and placed it carefully in the cabinet. In addition to this white scarf, there was also a blue one in the cabinet. Lea bought it this year, just because of a sentence from the front-line brother who asked the merchant to bring it. Lea stroked the scarf, not knowing where she went. When she came to her senses, her face turned red and she put the scarf back in place.

Lea lay on her bed, looking at the empty bed next to her, and her heart was also empty. She remembered her younger brother, Locke, the naughty and sensible little boy. Or she remembered the situation when she was a child when she was sleeping with Locke in her arms. Lea wrapped her arms around her, gathered a ball of air, and remembered Locke-
Chapter completed!