Chapter 3 Fire and Snow Training

In the eyes of future generations, the legendary mercenary king Amy really has too many good opportunities, so there will be such an achievement. In fact, this is not the case, among Amy's many famous sayings, there is a sentence that he mentions again and again, but almost all descendants are deliberately forgetting this sentence: If you want to get a hundredfold, you must pay a thousandfold.

Few people know how much Amy hated this sentence when she was young.

—Neil, the twelfth great-great-grandson of mainland historian Amy. Haber Research Hand Records

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"Son, get up." The melodious male voice sounded again.

"Well, uncle, I'll sleep for a while, just a while, I'm too sleepy." Amy, who was just 8 years old, pleaded bitterly.

"Ah, it's cold—" A miserable cry came from the darkness of the night. But the neighbors near Haber's hut have become accustomed to this special timed alarm clock.

Little Amy quickly jumped out of the snow-covered bed, and the person who completed the prank put the large wooden basin used for the snow on the ground, and leisurely said a famous sentence: "If you want to get a hundredfold, you must pay a thousandfold." I must make you a better warrior than your father. "

The eastern sky had just turned white, and two figures, one large and one small, set off from Haike Village and ran along the warm water river in the direction of Xueyue Lake.

Anyone who sees Chi Hanfeng once thinks he is a nobleman. In Amy's empire, all the nobles of the family have characteristics: elegant temperament and politeness. Chi Hanfeng's first impression is like this, but after a long time, I found another side of this Chi Hanfeng: promoting narrowness and liking people. Two months after moving into Haike Village, everyone who was familiar with Chi Hanfeng was tricked by this outsider. Everyone believed his description of himself - a soldier with only the lowest noble title: noble knight, and such a title could not be hereditary and could not have a fief.

The one who suffered the most was poor little Amy.

This unruly uncle liked to call little Amy his son; From the day this unruly uncle arrived, little Amy had never slept once; This guy doesn't give little Amy any time to move freely; Although he never scolds little Amy, some of this guy's methods are often more terrible than scolding, such as putting some snow in the quilt in the morning.

I don't know if I'm in the Ice Beggar Tarylek. How would Haber feel if he knew that he had entrusted his son to such a person?

Old man Haber was not used to the young man's treatment of his grandson like this, and he was not used to him calling little Amy "son". But after spending some time with the young man, he accepted the family member. What really touched the old man was some of Chi Hanfeng's actions after little Amy fell asleep~~ For example, getting up at night to help little Amy fold the quilt, preparing for the next day's cultural class under the oil lamp, and getting up early in the morning to run outside to dig snow...

Little Amy's daily homework is roughly as follows: Physical training: get up before dawn in the morning to run, run along the warm water river to Xueyue Lake, about 20 kilometers. Although the water is lukewarm, there is still snow and ice on both sides of the river. In order to make it easier to run, Chi Hanfeng's request was to travel lightly - he could only wear a thin leather coat.

Willpower Training: After running to Xueyue Lake, take off your clothes and jump to Xueyue Lake to swim. Although there is a snow character in Xueyue Lake, the temperature of the lake water erupting from the ground is extremely high, although swimming is only at the edge of the lake, and does not enter the middle of the lake, and the temperature of the water is enough to boil snow eggs.

Jumping suddenly from the cold ice into the boiling water of the lake can indeed exercise people's will.

In fact, like most hot springs, the waters of Lake Snow Moon have very good medical and restorative properties, so no matter what kind of ordeal she endured the day before, Amy can always recover well with the help of Lake Snow Moon Lake.

After an hour of mental training at Snow Moon Lake. Then there was the physical exercise, swimming along the warm water river back to the village of Heiko. In terms of timing, this physical training was cancelled after only a year.

Amy was so tired that she fell asleep during a swim, and the mineral-rich warm water was so large that she could easily float on the surface of the water even without swimming. The direction in which the river rushes into the sea is precisely the direction of Heiko Village, and after discovering this mystery, Amy uses this time to make up for two hours of sleep.

Until one time he overslept and drifted into the sea, Chi Hanfeng went back to the village and waited for half an hour and still didn't see Amy come back, so he was very anxious to find a wooden boat and found Amy sleeping 5 kilometers away from the coastline.

After returning to the village, he received training in combat skills, which was actually chopping wood. What does chopping wood have to do with combat skills? Puzzled, Amy asks herself about her lovely Uncle Chi.

The answer was as black humor as ever, "Hmm", Chi touched his nose: "Exactly, I don't know." All the other trainings were arranged by me, except for this one, which your dad told me. "It seems that this is indeed Lake. Haber's attention was that when Amy visited the residents of Hacker Village at the behest of Chi Hanfeng and offered to provide them with chopped wood for free, most of the old residents actually revealed: "Sure enough, the expression of a child of the Haber family." "At noon, the residents of Heiko would bring the grown coniferous hardwoods cut down from the forest to the Haber family's hut in a sled.

Anyone who has ever chopped wood knows that the most important thing to cut wood is the axe, the bigger the wood, the larger the axe needs to be, especially the structure of the back of the axe and the blade, the wider the back of the axe, the better, the blade does not have to be very sharp, but the connection with the back of the axe must be very smooth. In this way, after cutting into the wood, you can make full use of the V-shaped structure of the axe to smoothly separate the wood.

Although it was Chi Hanfeng who made chopping wood a necessary course for Amy, judging from his performance, this lower-level nobleman of the empire really didn't know anything about chopping wood. Even the largest two-handed axe will not be able to cut through even non-taiga wood.

However, Grandpa Haber knew his son's intentions very well, and in his grandson's skill training for chopping wood, he carefully taught him how to use hand strength, how to use waist strength, how to stand on both feet to exert all his strength, how to see the texture of wood, what kind of texture is easiest to cut down, how to deal with trees with wood tumors, and what to do if you encounter wood with forked wood.

It was not little Amy who listened to Old Man Haber's story, but the uncle named Chi Hanfeng. "Oh, that's the truth, I said how that guy can slash at the most difficult part of my gun with the first shot, and he can stand so steady in the snow that he can withstand my impact." He muttered thoughtfully.

From that day on, there were two people, one large and one small, who were cutting wood in the dilapidated yard of Haber's house. At the beginning, Amy's chopping speed was indeed very slow, the main reason was strength and skill in swinging the axe. Without Uncle Chi's help, it is estimated that more than 200 households in Haike Village would have had a "cold food festival".

In the first year of skill training, Amy used the largest axe to chop wood in the first half of the year, and in the second half of the year, the axe became a medium-sized axe, and the diameter of the trees became thicker and thicker.

After dinner, Amy, who had been tired all day, still couldn't sleep, and under the snow dolphin 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 nobleman, no matter how high or low, he has an absolute ability to understand the history of the empire; Similarly, as an imperial soldier who was once the captain of the border guards, Uncle Chi's understanding of the coordination of military operations is far beyond that of ordinary villagers in Haike Village. So in the evenings, the art of war class is taken every other day, and the history of the empire is studied on the other day.

What interests Amy more about the knowledge after class, Chi Hanfeng usually talks about the customs and customs in the imperial capital, and also tells the stories of some mercenaries that are circulated among the people.

Seeing that Amy listened so intriguedly, Chi Hanfeng once asked him curiously why he was so interested in mercenaries?

Amy answered truthfully - because mercenaries can kill snow wolves.

After hearing this, Chi Hanfeng almost fell to the ground from the stool, he really couldn't imagine that the son of the captain of the Imperial Infantry Brigade and the disciple of the captain of the Imperial Cavalry Brigade had a lifelong wish to become a mercenary.

Neither the Imperial soldiers nor the soldiers of the Hami Kingdom can kill the snow wolf casually, just as the soldiers of the Hami Kingdom cannot kill the war horses of the Imperial soldiers.

The only exception is mercenaries, who are used to staying in one place for too long. The financial resources of the Hami kingdom do not allow them to issue a wanted warrant in the mercenary association in order to punish one or two mercenaries who killed the snow wolf for some reason.

Although she tried every means to dissuade her, Amy, who knew from Chi Hanfeng's mouth that the imperial soldiers could not kill the snow wolf, stuck to her own philosophy - silence in her usual way.

Two days later, Chi Hanfeng thought about it: whether you are a mercenary, you can walk around, and when your strength is stronger, maybe you can go to the Ice Begging Tower to have a look. And in terms of income, the income of mercenaries of the same level is much higher than that of soldiers, and of course, the degree of danger is much higher than that of soldiers.

Ambition, not ambition - From this point of view, Amy had the ability to foresee at a young age.