The town of Arafat is an ordinary town in the Falk Kingdom. It is located in the southeastern part of the kingdom. It is a very inconspicuous place both on the map and in reality.
If you travel about three hundred kilometers southwest from the town, you can reach the Principality of Drak, which is adjacent to the Kingdom of Falk.
If you walk about 500 kilometers straight north, or about 600 kilometers northeast, you can enter the Malo Empire, one of the two major empires on the mainland.
If you go straight south, you will enter the Principality of the Church of Ansu, which is just sandwiched between the Kingdom of Lampali and the Kingdom of Falk.
Such a geographical location is naturally not surprising at all, nor is it of any importance at all.
Therefore, although the history of the town of Arafat is even twice as long as that of the Kingdom of Falk, it has been unknown on the Sainz continent for thousands of years. The people in the town have been living peacefully. their own lives.
However, this peaceful and ordinary life changed a little five years ago.
Since the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce and the Falk Kingdom signed a strategic partnership agreement five years ago, in the past five years, the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce has led a large number of other magic machinery chambers of commerce to enter the Falk Kingdom for investment and construction. Various factories were built in various places.
Although the town of Arafat did not have any geographical advantages, the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce did not take a fancy to it and invest here. However, as the Kingdom of Falk began to build roads aggressively, a road was eventually built to reach Arafat. After arriving in the special town, a magic machinery trading guild from the Kingdom of Lampali discovered this town. And invested in building a household magic machinery factory in the town.
There are only two products from this factory. One is the magic fan. The other type is the magic stove, which can be regarded as a relatively low-end and simple product among household magic machines, but it is suitable for the needs of the town of Arafat and surrounding areas.
Therefore, this factory has been performing well this year.
And although the scale of this factory is not large, it still recruited more than 300 workers in the town of Arafat, which greatly solved the work problems of people in the town of Arafat, so it was affected by the people around the town. Great welcome and support.
When discussing it privately, people in the town were very grateful to the Lampali Kingdom Santis Chamber of Commerce for investing in the construction of this factory.
If this chamber of commerce hadn't chosen the small town of Arafat to invest in building a factory. People in the small town may still be able to live the same monotonous and poor life year after year, day after day, without any hope of change.
Among these people, Kompany is one of them.
Originally, he was just a very ordinary civilian in the small town of Arafat. He could only make ends meet by working part-time jobs in various places and serving as a servant in aristocratic families.
Although they won't starve to death every year, they can only maintain the most basic life, and they cannot hope for any other life pursuits.
But after the factory was established, Kompany applied to work in the factory and received a minimum salary of ten gold coins per month, as well as a series of products that were not particularly rich. However, the corresponding benefits and benefits cannot be ignored, which instantly changed the lives of him and his family.
Although Kompany's family cannot be as luxurious as those nobles and businessmen. But I no longer have to worry about the most basic needs of life, and even meat has reached the point where I can eat it whenever I want.
Coupled with the fact that he saved a sum of money to buy a household magic machine every now and then, he always felt that his current life was so comfortable that he felt like he was living in a dream.
He sincerely hopes that this factory can continue to operate smoothly so that he and his family can continue to live as comfortable and comfortable a life as they do now.
Therefore, Kompany has always been the one who works the hardest when working in the factory.
In addition to being praised by his supervisor, which makes his job more stable, it is also because he can get the bonus of two extra gold coins every month.
Today is the factory's monthly wage payment day. According to past practice, workers will work for a half day in the morning, and after lunch, they will be paid the previous month's wages, and then have a half day off in the afternoon.
After lunch, a group of workers excitedly took their wages and started shouting that they wanted to go to a bar in the town to have fun.
However, when some familiar workers came to invite Kompany, he refused.
"There are guests at home today, and I have to go back to receive the guests." Seeing the disappointed expressions of the workers around him, Kompany smiled, took out a gold coin from the purse containing his wages, and stuffed it in the wallet with which he had the closest relationship. In the hands of a co-worker. "Although I can't go today, as per the old rules, I got the bonus, so this gold coin counts as my treat."
Everyone looked at the gold coins in the man's hands, curled their lips, and said nothing more.
Kompany then waved goodbye to everyone, left the factory in the suburbs, and hurried toward his home in the town.
Because the factory is located on the outskirts of the town, it is four or five kilometers away from the town. It would take at least twenty minutes to walk on foot.
Usually, Kompany doesn't care much about this distance, and can even regard it as a leisure walk after work.
But today, because he knew that a guest was coming to his home, he couldn't help but feel anxious, so he hurried back at a quick pace and trotted as fast as possible.
When he arrived in front of his home on the edge of the town, he was surprised to find a slender, high-end-looking magic car that shone brightly in the sun and was parked in the open space in front of his home.
A group of children, including his youngest son Saye, were milling around the magic car with curious faces on their faces.
Seeing Saye about to reach out his dirty little hands to touch the magic car, Kompany immediately yelled.
"You brat! Put your hands down!" Kompany rushed over, picked up Saye, and slapped him on the butt. "You don't even look at what this is? What if you touch it and break it?"
Saye flattened her mouth, looking like she wanted to cry but didn't dare.
The other children dispersed in a hurry, but did not run far away. They were still looking at the magic car with curious eyes from a distance.
It is not that people in the small town of Arafat have never seen magic cars. The mayor of the town, Viscount Risos, has one, and the president of the Santis Chamber of Commerce, which owns the factory where Kompany works, also has one. He occasionally comes to It will be opened during the inspection here.
But the magic car of Viscount Rezos rarely drives out, and it rarely parks outside, and the president of the Santis Chamber of Commerce rarely comes to the town of Arafat, so people can actually see it. There aren't many opportunities for a Magic Sedan.
Now there is a magic car parked so generously outside the door of an ordinary home in a civilian area, which naturally attracts countless people to watch.
Not only the children, but now there are also some adults around Kompany's house who are looking at this magic car from a distance and pointing at it. Many of them have envious faces.
Kompany glanced at the group of people around him and thought that there were guests at home, so he stopped saying hello to them and carried Saye towards the door.
Just as I walked to the gate, a person walked out of the door.
"Brother-in-law, if children like to play, let them play. The magic car is not that easy to break."
Kompany took a closer look and found that the man was a young man in his early thirties.
He was wearing a well-tailored light cyan suit with an extraordinary fabric. He was wearing a pair of leather boots that looked simple at first glance, but were actually very cleverly designed. Judging from the look alone, they were even better than Viscount Risos, a guy who always pays attention to aristocratic appearance, is even more upscale.
Kompany looked at this young man with a gentle smile in astonishment, who looked like he should never be a civilian, and was very confused.
What did he call himself just now? Brother-in-law
While he was in a daze, a young girl walked out from behind the door and gave Pani a sweet smile.
"Brother-in-law, you are back."
Only after seeing the girl did Kompany react.
This girl is his wife's biological sister Winnie. Kompany has known her for more than ten years and is very familiar with her.
If this is the case, then this young man...
Seeing Kompany turn to look at the young man again, Winnie smiled and took the young man's arm.
"Brother-in-law, let me introduce to you. This is my husband, Joshua. Joshua, this is the brother-in-law. My brother-in-law and sister have always been very good to me. You have to treat them well."
The young man named Joshua smiled slightly and bowed slightly to Kompany: "Hello, brother-in-law, this is the first time we meet. I am Winnie's husband, Joshua, from Bonta City, Lampali Kingdom. Winnie She often mentioned you and my sister to me, saying that she has never forgotten the care she received from you since she was a child. "
Kompany waved his hand quickly: "No, no, no, where does that go? Winnie is Milly's sister, of course we have to take good care of her."
As he was talking, Saye, who had been being held by Kompany, stopped and shouted to Winnie: "Auntie, daddy, he beat me!"
Kompany's eyes widened and he was about to reprimand, but Winnie had already taken Saye from his hand, patted Saye's shoulder and said softly: "Okay, dad is also afraid that you will get into trouble. Be good, come in Go inside, I just brought out a lot of snacks and candies."
As soon as he heard "snacks and candies," Saye's eyes lit up, he cheered, and rushed into the house.
Kompany shook his head helplessly: "Winnie, you will spoil the children."
"I only have two little nephews, him and Hawat. Even if I get used to it a little, it's only natural." Winnie giggled and suddenly asked: "By the way, brother-in-law, where is Hawat? He has been ten years old this year. Are you old? Have you thought about how to arrange it for him?”
Kompany's heart moved, and he looked at Joshua, who was smiling all the time, and pointed at the door: "Let's talk after we go in." (To be continued...)