"Does Uncle Phil want a son?" Jesse was taken aback for a moment, then nodded, "I think so, I heard him complain that he has no son, and no one takes care of him when he is sick."
Liszt looked at Jesse.
Suddenly asked: "Jesse, if I remember correctly, you seem to be an orphan?"
"Yes, my lord, I grew up in the Coral City Welfare Institute. I thank the Tulip family for their generosity, allowing our orphans to live." Jesse said devoutly.
Welfare homes are institutions for nobles to collect orphans, and common people always have accidents, leaving a few children unattended. In order to show their kindness, some wealthy nobles would set up orphanages on their family fiefdoms, take in orphans, and directly work for the castle when they grow up.
Jesse is such an orphan.
"Is the old cobbler in the cobbler's shop now?"
"Yes, master, I wanted to invite Uncle Phil to go shopping together, but he didn't want to."
"Then Jesse, come with me to see the old cobbler, I have something to ask him."
"Okay, I'm going to prepare the horse for you, sir."
On the horse farm outside the castle, there is a crudely built lounge where Philip and Xavier have been guarding here. As retinue knights, they do not enjoy the benefits of the holiday.
Seeing Liszt riding a fire dragon horse, they each mounted a rough horse and followed Liszt.
Go to the cobbler's shop together.
Basically, there are cobbler shops in every small town, and cobblers are artisans who make leather, sew furs, and mend leather shoes. In terms of subdivision, there are leather helmet makers, leather armor makers, vest makers, drum makers, leather bag makers, leather tool makers, leather shoe makers, etc., and leather shoe makers are generally the majority.
Phil, an old cobbler in Huahua Town, is a leather shoemaker.
In big cities, leather shoemakers are often wealthy freedmen, because the handwork of a pair of leather shoes requires a lot of money. But in small towns, the treatment of leather shoemakers is poor. Few people can afford leather shoes, so the leathersmith shop can only make a living—most serfs and freedmen wear wooden shoes and straw sandals.
Of course, more people don't wear shoes.
"Is it Jesse?" The old cobbler's voice sounded hoarse. He was groping to mend a pair of leather shoes from the table. Even though he was blind, his hands were still dexterous.
Jesse hurriedly said: "Uncle Phil, the lord is here, and the lord has something to do with you."
"Ah, my lord, old Phil sends his greetings to your lord." The old cobbler hurriedly stood up from his chair, bowed and saluted, just like ordinary people seeing their lord, their hands trembled nervously.
Liszt looked at the narrow and dark cobbler's shop. It could be seen that the shop had been in disrepair for a long time, and the sun in the sky could be seen from the roof.
Like an old cobbler, it shows signs of aging and decay.
"Old Phil, don't be nervous, I just came here to chat with you."
The old cobbler's cloudy eyes could not see any emotional changes.
But Liszt felt that the opponent's hands had stopped trembling quickly—it wasn't that the tension had been calmed down, it seemed more like he had stopped performing, and the previous tension might just be a faux pas. This is easy to understand, after all, nobles like to see commoners trembling in front of them.
The elderly man has already learned to deal with life: "My lord, it is an honor for old Phil to chat with you noble."
"You settled in Huahua Town by begging ten years ago, so where did you come from?"
"I was born on Dodu Island, my lord."
"Dodo Island?"
"It's a deserted island without a lord. It's further north of Coral Island. There's a kind of dodo bird that can't fly. It sounds like 'dodo'. There's also a kind of tall tree. , the name is terrifying, it is called the Human Skull Tree, and the fruit it bears is called the Human Skull Fruit."
"Human skull tree?"
"Yes, my lord, the fruit is white. From a distance, it looks like a human skull. But it tastes delicious. The aborigines on the island eat human skull fruit to satisfy their hunger, and the dodo also eats human skulls. fruit, but dodo meat is particularly unpalatable, and life on the island is very difficult.”
It sounds like the dodo of dodo.
Reminds Lister of the extinct dodo on Earth.
I don't know if the dodo here is the same species as the dodo on earth.
"So, how did you come to Coral Island from the Dodo? You were born on Dodo Island, so you should be a local aborigine, so where did the aborigines of Dodo Island come from?" Liszt asked.
There are still many undeveloped desert islands outside the Grand Duchy of Sapphire, and Dudu Island should be one of them.
"I am an aborigine of Dodo Island. I don't know where we come from. We have lived on Dodo Island as long as I can remember. Later, the Dodo volcano erupted, and a large number of human skull trees were destroyed. There was no food, so we had to cut down trees to make food. Into a canoe, drifting down the sea... At that time, I drifted to Hot Springs Island and became an apprentice cobbler's shop."
In the following story, Hot Spring Island was hit by war, and he was sold as a slave to Coral Island. It was bought by a baron on the island at that time. Later, the baron went to the battlefield with the earl and never came back. All the elves in the territory died. The serfs were afraid of punishment and began to flee.
The old cobbler also fled.
After going all the way, I came to Huahua Town.
"At that time, all the serfs were rumored that the baron died in battle because the serf knights around him betrayed him. The followers were very angry and decided to slaughter all the serfs on the territory to avenge the baron..." The old cobbler said this passage In the past, I sighed endlessly, perhaps lamenting my ignorance at the beginning.
This is a low-level rumor, the nobles attach great importance to serfs.
The correct opening posture should be - the baron died in battle, there is no heir, and the lord he followed, that is, the Earl of Coral Island, took back the ownership of the territory, including the serfs.
All in all, the life of the old cobbler has not been full of ups and downs, nor is he a person with a "story". Even his blindness happened naturally when he was in Huahua Town.
What barely counts as a story is the identity of the native of Dodu Island.
Liszt inquired about the situation of Dudu Island carefully, and found that it was only a small island with no more than 300 indigenous people, and was eventually destroyed by the volcanic eruption. Except for the few remaining human skull trees, it probably has no development value .
He was a little disappointed.
I thought that the person who was specifically mentioned by the smog mission should be a little mysterious, but I didn't expect it to be just an ordinary native.
He still intends to continue to complete the task, the book that was rewarded—bring Jesse with him, just to give Jesse to the old cobbler as a son—an orphan without father and mother, a widower without children, and the two are very close It should be easy to form a contract father and son if they hit each other.
But suddenly, he had a bold idea.
"Why should I follow in the footsteps of the smog quest? I'm not its puppet. I can ask the old cobbler for the book directly instead of relying on doing quests to get the book!"
How many books the old cobbler can have, Liszt doesn't think there will be many.
so.
He said directly: "Old Phil, I heard that you have some books in your collection, don't you? I hope you can sell them to me."
When the lord spoke, the old cobbler did not dare to disobey, and immediately agreed: "Yes, my lord, I have a collection of books, but there is only one book, and I will dedicate it to the lord." After speaking, he bent his back, With Jessie's support, he took out a wooden box from the cabinet full of leather shoes.
"Jessie, the book is in the box, take it to the lord quickly."
Jesse opened the box, took out a thick book, and handed it to Liszt. Liszt glanced over and found that the book was not printed, but handwritten notes, with serpentine and another foreign language written on the cover.
He does not know foreign language characters.
Snake text is familiar - "Philip Descendant of the Sun's Diary".