Fulilian: Becomes a disciple of Celia at the beginning

"Ah."

After Hafka sat down, he wanted to order a glass of whiskey from the bartender. After all, both the alcohol content and flavor were much better than ordinary beer.

But after glancing at his senior brother Gut who was only drinking beer, he immediately changed his words and asked the waiter for a bottle of beer as well.

As he drank a sip of wine and the warm breeze in the room blew away the coldness on Hafka's body, he began to tell his story.

"If the information I received is correct, Senior Brother, the situation on both our sides should be the same."

Gut was stunned for a moment. "You mean to say that there is no driver available for hire in the entire village?"

"good."

Hafka affirmed, and then began to explain.

"After visiting several houses and receiving negative answers, I stayed at the last one for a while and learned the reason from the driver's family."

"Just a few days ago, a caravan transporting important supplies was attacked by several [Bird Monsters] in the wild. Several carriages were severely damaged, but fortunately, the sealed cargo was still intact."

"So, the caravan owner paid a large sum to hire most of the drivers in the village. As for the one or two drivers who remained, they were also hired by travelers who no longer wanted to accompany the caravan."

"Tsk, that's actually the case."

Gu Te gasped in surprise, then frowned slightly, "It seems that our plan is..."

“No, there’s still a chance.”

Hafka interrupted, but from the hesitation that flashed across his face, it was clear that this idea was not very perfect.

Gu Te spread his hands and looked at his junior fellow apprentice. "Why don't you tell me? Anyway, there is no other way."

"Okay." Hafka took a sip of beer and stated.

"According to the old woman I spoke to, when the caravan arrived at the village, they brought back a less damaged carriage and left it at the village carpenter's house."

"Also, some of the drivers in the village have old horses, so they keep an extra horse at home to take over in the future."

"So I was thinking, if we can get both of these, combined together it will be a qualified carriage."

After listening to Hafka's thoughts, Gut's frown remained unchanged.

“It’s feasible, but there are also many problems.”

"First, the village carpenter may not have repaired the carriage yet. Second, even if he has the carriage and horses, what about the driver?"

"All the drivers in the village should have been hired, right?"

"I'll do it." Hafka said calmly.

"When I was at my ancestral home in the countryside, I learned how to drive a horse-drawn carriage and an ox-drawn cart from the servants."

"Although I haven't tried it in a while, the skills I'm familiar with should still be reliable."

Looking at his junior brother's eyes that showed great confidence in himself, Gut began to think.

If that's the case, it's not impossible to give it a try.

After finishing the remaining beer in the glass, Gut nodded to Hafka and said, "Then give it a try."

"I'll go find the carpenter to look at the carriage, and you go to the driver's house to borrow the horses."

"Yeah." Hafka responded, "Then, shall we meet at the hostel tonight?"

"can."

In the carpenter's house at the east end of the village.

Gut found this place after asking several villagers in succession. The moment he knocked on the carpenter's door, his eyelids couldn't stop twitching.

Just because it's at this moment.

The carpenter in the yard was holding an axe and chopped it down on the damaged carriage, as if he wanted to chop it up and burn it as firewood.

"Leave the chariot under the axe!"

Gute exclaimed in shock, and before the carpenter's wife, who had opened the door, could react, she rushed to the carpenter, snatched the axe from his hand, and stopped him from causing further damage to the carriage.

The carpenter was so frightened by the sudden appearance of Gut that he jumped up, collapsed on the ground and almost peed himself.

Fortunately, after the subsequent explanation, the carpenter understood Gut's purpose.

After asking his wife to pour the guest a cup of hot tea, the carpenter pointed his axe at the damaged carriage and began to explain to Gut.

"Look, sir. This large piece is the load-bearing plate of the carriage. It is an extremely important position in the carriage."

"Ah."

Touching the marks left by the axe, Gut nodded emphatically.

After noticing the customer's attention, the carpenter sighed.

He pointed to another spot, a spot that didn't seem to have any major problems on the surface, just a slight deformation, and said.

"Here, is the problem."

"Because of this damage, this load-bearing board can no longer be used. It needs to be removed and replaced with a new one."

"It just so happened that we were running low on firewood at home, so I thought I'd chop it down first, and then when spring comes next year I can dig out a suitable piece from the forest and replace it with that."

"So that's it."

Gut said he learned his lesson, and then, under the carpenter's incredulous eyes, he broke off the load-bearing wooden board that he needed to chop with an axe.

From the cross-section of the deformed area, one could see a horrible crack had appeared inside the board. Gu Te nodded, admiring the professionalism of the carpenter.

This piece of wood is indeed no longer usable.

Little did he know that the carpenter was looking at him as if he were a ghost.

"Well, um, little brother, you can't be a [Demon], right?"

"How is that possible?" Gut curled his lips and said unhappily, "I'm just an ordinary magician."

After repeatedly confirming that the guest in front of him was indeed a human being, the carpenter breathed a sigh of relief.

"Excuse me, Master, if I could bring back some wood from the forest right now to make load-bearing boards, would you be able to repair it within two days?"

"This"

The carpenter stroked his chin in thought, "I've almost finished repairing the rest of the carriage."

"If there really is suitable wood, it would be nothing more than planing it out and then installing new load-bearing boards. Two days should be no problem."

"The forest is too far from the village. Add to that the heavy snow and the active monsters and beasts. It's too dangerous to get wood at this time."

The carpenter was halfway through his words when he thought of the scene of Gut tearing the wooden board with ease. It seemed that the forest in winter was not that dangerous for this young man.

So, after swallowing his saliva, the carpenter said to Gut.

"If you can really bring back the right wood and deliver it within two days, I have no problem with that."

"That's great, Master. Let's negotiate the price."

"This"

The carpenter looked at the car that had crashed once before and said with an embarrassed look, "How about you name a price?"

"To be honest, this carriage was actually given to me by the caravan owner as a loan to cover the cost of repairing the other carriages and the goods they were storing. After he delivers the goods and gets paid, I'll buy it back at a reasonable price on my return trip."

"If you buy it now, I really don't know what price is appropriate."

"Oh, I see." A hint of understanding flashed across Gut's eyes, and he simply said a normal price for a new carriage.

The carpenter was naturally delighted to hear this and readily agreed, and assured the customer that as long as the materials were in place, he would make the repaired house more durable than a new one.

Gut smiled, asked him about the location of the nearby forest farm and the required wood specifications, then he did not stop and walked quickly towards the forest farm, hoping to bring back suitable wood before dark.

At the same time, on the other side.

Things were not going smoothly on Hafka's side.

Unlike carriages that can be replaced at will, horses are living creatures and each one is different.

The horses raised by the coachmen are all their "partners" who have been with them for a long time. Some of them have developed a tacit understanding with the coachmen, and they can be driven with their minds in unison and as easily as bending and stretching their arms.

As an important means of livelihood, the driver's family members are not yet brave enough to make a decision on whether to sell or rent them out.

Therefore, even though Hafka found a family that still had spare horses at home, his negotiations were not smooth.

When the family learned of his purpose, they immediately resisted and said they would not sell or rent the house to anyone.

Until

Hafka took out the gold coins from his purse.

Facts have proved that for the vast majority of "not for sale" items, as long as the money is available, they can actually be bought.

Looking at the gold coins that the family's main breadwinner could not earn even after years of running, they compromised very quickly, and even said that they would wash the horse all over for Hafka and hand it over to him cleanly.

After jointly signing a transfer agreement, Hafka breathed a sigh of relief.

There is probably no problem on my side, but I am not sure whether it is going well for my senior brother.

night.

Gut collapsed like a dead pig on the soft big bed in the hostel. His physical strength was completely drained, really, not a drop left.

God knows how tiring it is to drag the wood from the forest back to the village.

This was something that Gutt had handled carefully, cutting off all the roots and branches of the tree, leaving only the central log.

But even so, its weight cannot be underestimated.

So much so that after returning to the village, Gut's behavior caused a stir. Countless villagers, while sighing, also actively offered to help.

Finally, with the help of many villagers, the exhausted Gut was able to cross half of the village before dark and move the log into the carpenter's house.

Even on the subsequent journey back to the hostel, he had to rely on his junior brother Hafka to support him back even though he was exhausted.

Coincidentally, because she left the team first, Celia simply booked their rooms together.

Not only does it make it easier for the two to exchange plans, it also saves Hafka from having to go to the teacher to get the key.

After entering the room, Hafka first threw Gut on the bed, then pushed open the window, took out an exquisite silver cigarette case from his arms, lit a thick cigar outside the window, and exhaled a puff of smoke.

As one of the first few people to help, Hafka was also very tired after moving half of the village together. It was just right for him to have a cigarette to relax his muscles.

While smoking, he looked at his senior brother lying dead on the bed. Thinking about how he had dragged the entire log from the forest to the village by himself, he couldn't help but sigh at his abnormal physique.