In the eyes of later generations, the legendary mercenary king Amy really had so many and so good opportunities that he achieved such achievements. But actually, this was not the case. Among Amy's many handed-down famous sayings, there was one sentence that he repeated frequently, but almost all later generations deliberately forgot this sentence: For a hundredfold gain, there must be a thousandfold effort.
Even fewer people knew how much the young Amy detested this sentence.
- Record of Neil Harber, the twelfth-generation great-grandson of the mainland historian Amy.
"Son, get up." The pleasant male voice rang out again.
"Um, uncle, I'll sleep for a while longer, just a little while, I'm so sleepy." The just 8-year-old Amy pleaded hard.
"Ah, it's so cold - - - -" The miserable cry came out from the pitch-black night. But the neighbors near the thatched cottage of the Harber family had already gotten used to this special kind of alarm clock.
Little Amy quickly jumped out of the quilt filled with ice and snow, and after the mischievous perpetrator put the big wooden basin used for the prank on the ground, he casually said a famous saying: "For a hundredfold gain, there must be a thousandfold effort. I must train you to be a better warrior than your father."
Just as the eastern sky began to turn white, a big and a small figure set off from Haike Village and ran along the Warm River towards the direction of Snow Moon Lake.
Anyone who saw Chi Hanfeng for the first time would think he was a noble. In the Amy Empire, all noble families had characteristics: elegant temperament and courtesy. The first impression that Chi Hanfeng gave people was like this, but after getting along for a longer time, another side of this Chi Hanfeng was discovered: mischievous and fond of teasing people. Two months after moving into Haike Village, everyone who was familiar with Chi Hanfeng had been teased by this outsider. So everyone believed his description of himself - a soldier with only the lowest noble title: noble knight, and such a title could not be hereditary nor could it have a fief.
The one who suffered the most was the poor little Amy.
This unruly uncle liked to call little Amy "son"; since the day this unruly uncle arrived, little Amy had never slept in once; this guy didn't give little Amy any free time for activities; although he never beat or scolded little Amy, some of his means were often more terrifying than beating and scolding, such as putting some snow in the quilt in the morning.
I don't know if Rick Harber in the Ice Begging Tower would know what kind of mood he would have if he knew that he had entrusted his son to someone like this?
At first, old man Harber was also not quite used to this young man treating his grandson like this, and was even more not used to him calling little Amy "son". But after getting along with this young man for a period of time, he still accepted this family member. What really moved the old man were some of Chi Hanfeng's actions after little Amy fell asleep - - such as getting up at night to help little Amy tuck in the quilt, preparing the next day's cultural lessons under the oil lamp, and getting up early in the morning to go outside to dig snow...
Little Amy's daily routine is likely as follows: Physical training: She gets up before dawn in the morning and runs all the way along the Warm River to the Snow Moon Lake, which is about 20 kilometers. Although the water of the river is warm, there is still ice and snow all over the banks. In order to run conveniently, as per Chi Hanfeng's requirement, she goes into battle lightly - only wearing a thin leather coat.
Willpower training: After running to the Snow Moon Lake, she takes off all her clothes and jumps into the Snow Moon Lake to swim. Although the Snow Moon Lake has "snow" in its name, the water temperature of the lake that erupts from underground is extremely high. Even though the swimming is only at the edge of the lake and will not enter the center, the temperature of the water is enough to cook snow eggs. Suddenly jumping from the ice-cold to the boiling hot lake water can indeed train people's willpower.
In fact, like most hot springs, the water of the Snow Moon Lake also has very good medical and restorative effects. So no matter what kind of torture Amy endures the day before, she can always return to a good state with the help of the Snow Moon Lake.
After an hour of willpower training at the Snow Moon Lake, then it is still physical training - swim back to Haike Village along the Warm River. Judging from the time, this physical training was cancelled only after being maintained for one year.
Once, Amy was really too tired and actually fell asleep during the swimming process. The Warm River, rich in minerals, has a very large specific gravity, and even without swimming, it can easily float on the water surface. And the direction of the river flowing into the sea is exactly the direction of Haike Village. After discovering this mystery, Amy often uses this time to take a two-hour nap.
Until one time she overslept and drifted all the way to the sea. Chi Hanfeng waited in the village for half an hour and still didn't see Amy come back. He was very anxious and found a wooden boat. He found Amy sleeping soundly five kilometers away from the coastline.
After returning to the village, what she receives is combat skill training, which is actually chopping wood. What does chopping wood have to do with combat skills? Puzzled, Amy asked her lovely Uncle Chi.
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The answer is as black-humored as always. "Um", Chi touched his nose: "To be exact, I don't know either. I arranged all other trainings, and only this training was told to me by your father." It seems that this is indeed Rick Harber's intention. When Amy visited the residents of Haike Village one by one on Chi Hanfeng's order and expressed her willingness to provide them with split wood for free, most of the old residents actually showed expressions like: "Sure enough, she is worthy of being a child of the Harber family." At noon every day, the residents of Haike Village will send the long coniferous hardwood felled from the forest to the small hut of the Harber family with a sled.
Everyone who has chopped wood knows that the most important thing in chopping wood is the ax. The larger the wood, the larger the ax is needed. Especially the structure of the ax back and the ax blade. The wider the ax back is, the better. The ax blade doesn't have to be very sharp, but the connection with the ax back must be very smooth. Only in this way can, after chopping into the wood, make full use of the V-shaped structure of the ax to smoothly split the wood.
Although it was Chi Hanfeng who set chopping wood as a necessary course for Amy, judging from the performance, this lower-rank noble of the empire really had no clue about chopping wood. Even with the largest two-handed ax, it was impossible to smoothly chop even the wood of non-coniferous forests.
It was Grandpa Harper who understood his son's intention very well. In the skill training of his grandson for chopping wood, he carefully taught him how to use the hand strength, how to use the waist strength, how to stand with both feet in order to exert all the power, how to look at the grain of the wood, along which grain it was the easiest to chop down, how to deal with trees with burls, and what to do if encountering forked wood.
Not little Amy but precisely that uncle named Chi Hanfeng listened to Grandpa Harper with great interest. "Oh, so that's the reason. I said why that guy could chop at the place on my spear that was least likely to be difficult with the first strike, and could stand so steadily in the snow and be able to withstand my impact." He muttered to himself pensively.
From that day on, there were two figures chopping wood in the run-down yard of Harper's house, one big and one small. At the beginning, Amy's speed of chopping wood was indeed very slow, and the main reason was the strength and the skill of swinging the ax. Clearly seeing the grain of the wood, the ax blade had already gone somewhere when chopped. If it weren't for Uncle Chi's help, it was estimated that more than 200 households in Haike Village would have to celebrate the "Cold Food Festival".
In the first year of skill training, in the first half of the year, Amy used the largest ax to chop wood, and in the second half of the year, the ax became a medium-sized ax, while the diameter of the trees became thicker and thicker.
After dinner, the tired Amy still couldn't go to bed. Under the snow porpoise oil lamp, Chi Hanfeng began to teach Amy knowledge. In Amy's eyes, this was what Uncle Chi Hanfeng was best at. As an imperial noble, no matter high or low, they had an absolute ability to understand the imperial history; similarly, as an imperial soldier who had once been the captain of the border defense army, Uncle Chi's understanding of the coordinated combat of military arms was far beyond what the average villagers in Haike Village could compare. So in the evening, there was a military strategy class every other day, and the imperial history was studied on the other day.
What really interested Amy more was the chat after class. Generally, Chi Hanfeng would talk about the customs and practices in the imperial capital, as well as some stories of mercenaries circulated among the people.
Seeing how attentively Amy was listening, Chi Hanfeng once curiously asked him why he was so interested in mercenaries.
Amy answered truthfully - that it was because mercenaries could kill snow wolves.
After hearing this sentence, Chi Hanfeng almost fell off the stool to the ground. It was truly unimaginable that the son of the imperial infantry captain and the disciple of the imperial cavalry captain had his life's wish to be a mercenary.
Neither the imperial soldiers nor the soldiers of the Kingdom of the Hami people could casually kill snow wolves, just like the soldiers of the Kingdom of the Hami people couldn't kill the warhorses of the imperial soldiers.
Only mercenaries were the exception. According to the habit of mercenaries, they seldom stayed in one place for too long. The financial resources of the Kingdom of the Hami people did not allow them to issue a wanted notice at the Mercenary Association just to punish one or two mercenaries who had killed snow wolves for some reason.
Although he tried his best to dissuade him, but after learning from Chi Hanfeng that the imperial soldiers couldn't kill snow wolves, Amy adhered to his own concept in his usual way - silence.
Two days later, it was Chi Hanfeng who came to think it through: It was okay to be a mercenary. You could travel around. When you became stronger, perhaps you could go to the Ice Prayer Tower for a look. And in terms of income, the income of mercenaries of the same level was much higher than that of soldiers. Of course, the degree of danger was also much higher than that of soldiers.
Set a long-term ambition, not constantly set ambitions - from this point of view, Amy already had the ability of foresight at the youngest age.