Chapter 10

A farmer was singing work songs, commanding an old ox to walk slowly through the field while pulling the plow. It left behind deep ditches in the land.

"It's incredible!" Knight of Charles Ouss, the eldest son as well as his heir of the late Knight D'vor Ouss, was looking at the sight in front of him. He admired it again and again, and finally said to the thin man beside him who was still wearing thick clothes in the already warm weather, "Lord Crick, you are the wisest person I have ever seen!"

Crick Keane smiled, first coughed twice, then calmly said, "This means nothing. It is a lord's duty to let the farmers harvest more and have the people live better."

After the battle a few months ago, Crick had fallen ill after returning to his hometown.