Urban Sims

A day in August in the middle of summer.

A young and handsome blond knight, wearing a gold-faced red flag with a black eagle on a red background, came to Glenland Castle with a proud look on his face.

Edward, the eldest son of Baron Connor, graduated from the Royal Capital Knights Academy as a first-class honorary knight. The flag he brought was the Royal Eagle Flag personally awarded by the king. This kind of flag is graduated from the Royal Capital Knights Academy every year. Among the hundreds of knights who graduated, only the ten best can get this flag.

Baron Connor was very happy and held a grand celebration banquet for guests and friends. He even invited his rival Baron Garcia in the west of the territory to come and admire the royal eagle flag that his son brought from the Royal Capital Knights Academy. , with a red face, praising his son's prowess.

Baron Garcia looked unhappy. After his son went to the Royal Capital Knight Academy the year before last, he had been looking for flowers and people all day long, lingering in various gold-selling dens in the Royal Capital. Up to now, he had not even received the medal of a trainee knight. Seeing that This mortal enemy had a Qilin in his family. Unconvinced, he asked his bodyguard knight Sean to stand up and compete with Edward in swordsmanship.

As a result, Sean, a middle-aged knight who is famous for his superb swordsmanship, lost to the young and energetic Edward in his early twenties by half a stroke in the competition. Baron Garcia was so angry that he drank the contents of the cup. The ale left, and Baron Connor even laughed proudly.

Regarding Edward, the eldest son of Baron Connor and the future heir of Glenland, the people of the territory discussed the most in private. In addition to the character and preferences of the heir to the territory, there was also the choice of Knight Edward's knight attendant.

A knight's squire is a kind of servant who specializes in providing services such as taking care of horses, helping to wear armor, and carrying weapons to fight for knights. They perform some servant-like tasks for knights.

Even so, being a knight's squire is a popular profession that countless commoners and the second sons of low-level nobles flock to.

Because every knight's attendant, while providing services to the knight, has the opportunity to learn some cultural knowledge, combat skills or court etiquette and other required lessons for knights from the knight. Knights and knight's attendants are nominally masters and servants. , but in fact it is similar to a master-student relationship.

Secondly, the attendants of knights who provided auxiliary services to knights during their engagements in battle and who came in as substitutes when no one was available often formed the bulk of the knightly class.

Therefore, every knight's attendant has the possibility of becoming a knight.

This is also the reason why countless civilians and even the second sons of lower-level nobles (second sons of nobles in this world do not have the right to inherit, and after the eldest son inherits the title, the future of the second sons becomes a big problem) are flocking to it.

After learning that Edward still lacked a knight attendant, Zhou Ming, who had been paying attention silently, became a little moved.

As for the knight squire, he is usually selected from among the teenagers aged 12-16 years old. He is just over 12 years old this year and can try his luck.

On the pretext of sending a basket of cream cakes to the lord's wife, Zhou Ming entered the castle and met Lady Madeleine.

In the past few years, Zhou Ming, who has left a good impression on Madame Madeleine as being smart, well-behaved, and sensible, would always bring some unique gifts (such as cream cakes, cheeses, and cookies he invented during every festival). , moon cakes, etc.) to show filial piety to herself. Regarding Zhou Ming, Mrs. Madeleine almost regarded him as half of her son.

Even Madeleine's youngest son Donnie, who had never been too cold towards Zhou Ming before, gradually regarded him as his best friend and playmate after eating the birthday cake Zhou Ming gave him once.

"Ryan, you gave me a delicious cream cake again. I want to pick a big one!"

When he saw the basket of cakes on the table, Downey Jr. quickly put his hand in, opened his mouth wide and took a big bite. He was amazed in his heart. The chef could also make this kind of cake, but for some reason, Ryan didn't bring it over. The cake was delicious.

"My little baby, eat slowly." Madam Madeleine patted her little son on the back with a doting look on her face, fearing that he would accidentally choke because he ate too fast.

However, when she saw Zhou Ming standing aside with an awkward look on his face, a trace of embarrassment flashed across Mrs. Madeleine's gentle face.

"Lady Madeleine, please help me, I want to become a knight's squire, and I want to serve the lord better!"

Plop!

Zhou Ming suddenly knelt in front of Madam Madeleine's dress and pleaded with longing.

"Ryan, what do you need my mother to help you with? Tell me, maybe I can help you." Donnie, who doesn't have many friends, thinks that Ryan is a pretty good person, but now it seems that he has encountered some difficulties. For the sake of the delicious cake, maybe he can help a little.

Madam Madeleine pulled Downey to her side, shook her head and said, "Baby, you can't help with this matter." Then she said to Zhou Ming, "Let's do this, Ryan, I'll take you to meet my husband Kang Accept it, only he can decide this kind of thing."

"Thank you ma'am, thank you ma'am!"

Zhou Ming said gratefully.

…

The castle, the knight training ground.

Zhou Ming, who was shirtless and exposed the muscles of his upper body, stood among a group of children aged 12 to 16.

There are several red marks on Zhou Ming's arms, which have turned slightly purple. These are the marks that Edward just left on him - facing Edward's sharp attack, he barely resisted and endured six or seven times of wood. The thump of the sword.

Zhou Ming's performance was pretty good. Among the peers who participated in the "interview" with him, he was the only one who lasted the longest in the circle. The others were knocked out of bounds by Edward in less than three or four rounds.

"The little guy is not bad. He has been able to persist for such a long time and has the potential and qualifications to be my attendant. Little guy, whose child are you?"

Taking the felt cloth handed by the servant, Edward wiped the sweat from his hands gracefully and looked at Zhou Mingdao with admiration.

"Master Edward, please do not choose this person to be your squire! This boy is a humble farmer's son and is not worthy of being your knight's squire! If this spreads out and the nobles outside know about it, I don't know what will happen behind the scenes. I’m laughing at you, your nobility and glory cannot be tarnished by this humble farmer’s son!”

The butler Brunoder, who was standing aside, suddenly walked forward on short legs, pointed at Zhou Ming viciously and complained to Edward.

"What? You are a farmer's son? You, a humble farmer's son, want to be my knight's squire?"

Edward, who always regarded the dignity and glory of the nobles as his life, seemed to have been greatly humiliated and ridiculed. With a red face, he pointed at Zhou Ming and became furious: "Who is it? Who let this despicable thing in? Humiliating me in this way? Who is it? Stand up for me now?!"

Edward originally thought that the young men who came to participate in the selection of his knight squires today were basically the uninherited second sons of nobles from other territories and had similar status to him. However, he did not expect that a lowly person was mixed in among them. Farmer's son!

It happened that this farmer's son defeated all his competitors and became the only good seedling that caught his eye...

Who is playing this kind of mischievous joke on me? I must tear off his head!

"My dear son Edward, I asked this child to come over and try it. I didn't know you would be so angry. For my mother's sake, please forgive this child's recklessness."

Mrs. Madeleine came up and begged, hoping that this grumpy eldest son would not embarrass little Ryan too much.

Baron Connor, who was silent on the side, also said: "Let this somewhat motivated boy go back. He is not suitable to be a knight's squire."

In fact, Baron Connor didn't like Zhou Ming very much. Nobles had the respect of nobles. How could a farmer's son be suitable to get involved in the affairs of nobles?

If his wife, Madeleine, hadn't begged for mercy just now, he wouldn't have given this little clever kid a chance.

"Get out of here, I don't want to see you, a despicable and dirty pariah!" After roaring at Zhou Ming, Edward left the training ground with his helmet under his arm without looking back.

…

Castle entrance.

Zhou Ming stood there blankly.

His face was ashen, and his heart was as cold as ice.

He still hasn't gotten over the huge blow just now.

"Damn untouchable, do you dare to dream of becoming the attendant of the noble Master Edward? Is the noble Master Edward qualified to be served by an untouchable like you? Let me tell you, even if you work hard for another hundred or a thousand years, you will never be able to serve. He is a damn untouchable! He still wants to be a noble knight, so give up!" Bunold, the short and fat butler, was chattering on the side.

"shut up!"

Zhou Ming suddenly turned his head and roared, giving him a fierce look! Then he left here without looking back.

The butler Bunold took half a step back, and was a little frightened by the ferocious look in his eyes. He then became furious and said, "Damn untouchable, just wait and see!"