Heir to the Kingdom of 1.4 billion people

Chapter 13 The Knight Arrives
Career is a summary of past life
On the way back to the village, Xia Mingyu kept thinking about this question in his mind.

He seemed to have spent most of his life in school. He would get up at six o'clock every day to pack up and go to class, and then go to bed at ten o'clock in the evening. It was even more Spartan than Sparta.
I finally got into a pretty good university, but my GPA was terrible. I was so tired that I had to take online classes until the early morning.

His past life seemed to be completely described by the four words "study hard and work like a cow and a horse", but how could there be such an abstract profession?
Xia Mingyu sighed, and before he knew it, he and Berg had returned to the village.

The afterglow of the sun shines on the dirt paths of the village. The fruit trees in the distance ripple green waves in the evening breeze, and the aroma of food wafts faintly in the air.

"Your Highness, you are back!"

Anlia stood at the entrance of the village with a look of surprise on her face. She changed back into the patched tunic, but this did not affect the girl's beauty.

Her blonde hair shone softly in the sunlight, and her blue eyes were like a reflection of the sky.

On Anlia's left wrist, she was holding a wicker basket. When she lifted the linen cloth on it, four neatly arranged, steaming white loaves of bread were revealed.

The three of them entered the village together and headed towards home.

"Your Highness, you must be tired from hunting. Here is some freshly baked white bread. Please try it."

The girl took out a piece of white bread from the wicker basket, spread some jam made from red fruits on it, and handed it to him expectantly.

"Thank you."

Xia Mingyu took the bread and took a light bite.

A simple and pure wheat aroma instantly bloomed in his mouth, mixed with the light fragrance of jam, slightly sweet, but with a hint of just the right amount of sourness. The warmth of the bread made the aroma of the jam more intense, and each grain of fruit flesh burst between his teeth, leaving him with an endless aftertaste.

"Delicious!" Xia Mingyu praised while taking another big bite.

"As long as you like it, Your Highness." Hearing his praise, the girl's eyes narrowed into crescent shapes with joy, and the corners of her mouth involuntarily rose, revealing her white teeth.

"Sister Anlia, I accompanied His Highness hunting for a whole day today. Can I have a piece of white bread?"

Berg twitched his nose and stared at the three remaining white breads in the basket like a hungry wolf.

Although as an excellent hunter he had no shortage of meat in his daily life, he had never been willing to eat such sweet white bread.

"No, little Berg, I'm only responsible for baking, but the bread is made from fine wheat that everyone brought specially for Your Highness."

Anlia refused without hesitation.

Hearing this, Berg immediately turned his head and looked at Xia Mingyu eagerly.

Obviously he realized that it was useless to ask Anlia for help, and he had to ask His Highness for help.

"I'll eat one more, and you can each have one of the remaining two white breads." Xia Mingyu said with a smile.

"Thank you, Your Highness!"

Before Anlia could react, Berg picked up a piece of white bread with extremely fast speed, and then ate it up in a few bites like a hungry tiger.

"Stupid Berg."

Anlia kicked Berg in annoyance, then picked up a piece of white bread and started eating it in small bites.

"Thank you, Your Highness." The girl's steps became inexplicably lighter, and there was a hint of tenderness in her eyes as she looked at the handsome face of the young man beside her.

"Your Highness, the cellar you instructed us to dig has been dug. Would you like to take a look?"

"it is good."

In the dim cellar, baskets full of red fruits were neatly placed on the ground covered with hay.

A light fragrance lingered in the air, and fine water droplets condensed on the walls. "Your Highness, the red fruits have been stored in the cellar for a much longer time. It's long enough for my adoptive father to find new merchants to buy them. And the jam made according to your method is delicious. Everyone who has tasted it thinks it's delicious. I'm sure it will fetch a good price."

Anlia reported softly, looking at the young man with eyes full of admiration.

His Highness is indeed a noble prince, knowledgeable and well-informed. He even knows how to store fruits and make jam.

"Well, that's good."

Xia Mingyu nodded, picked up a crystal clear red fruit from the fruit basket, and started eating it in big mouthfuls.

He just tried hard to recall those random short videos he had seen before, and gave it a try, but he didn't expect that it would actually work.

Da da da.

At this moment, someone nearby also wanted to take a red fruit, but was hit hard by Anlia. Berg, who was looking at his sister with resentment, suddenly became serious.

"Your Highness, someone is riding a horse into the village, and there is more than one." Berg reported quickly.

As a hunter, his senses are sharper than those of ordinary people, so he can hear the neighing of horses in the distance.

Many horses. Xia Mingyu frowned slightly.

If there is only one horse, it should be a traveling merchant, but if there are multiple horses, it can only be
"I am Thorin Brooke, a squire of the great Lord Hughes. All villagers of Fruit Basket Village, gather in the center of the village immediately!"

At this moment, a sonorous and powerful voice spread throughout the village like a huge bell in an instant.

Immediately afterwards, there were waves of hurried footsteps, and it was obvious that the villagers were gathering towards the center of the village.

"Your Highness, would you like to go with us?" Anlia asked.

Everyone in the village had to go, so naturally she had to go with Berg.

"Is the straw hat I want ready?" Xia Mingyu asked after thinking for a while.

"Aunt Hannah has already finished knitting." said Anlia.

Knowing that it was the request of His Highness who saved the village, Aunt Hannah worked almost day and night to weave, which enabled her to complete it in a very short time.

"go."

The last rays of sunlight shone on the old oak tree in the center of the village, and the mottled shadows of the trees swayed on the ground.

At this moment, the place was packed with people, surrounding the entire old oak tree.

And under the shade of the oak tree, a knight on a tall horse was waiting quietly.

His face was weathered, his eyes were cold, he had a big beard, he was about 1.7 meters tall, and he was probably around 40 years old.

The knight was wearing a chain mail that gleamed in the sun. It was woven from hundreds of steel rings, with a surface as smooth as a mirror and extremely hard. A ferocious wolf head was carved in the center of the breastplate, and even the fangs were portrayed so vividly that it was chilling.

The most eye-catching thing is that there are two rows of emerald green labels above his head, one for Servant and the other for Knight.

Behind the knight were several attendants also on horseback, and a carriage that was obviously used to carry tax revenue.

"Identity protection and occupation protection in green text. Is this what Berg meant by the extraordinary rank?"

Xia Mingyu, who was hiding in the crowd, looked at this scene and said thoughtfully.

(End of this chapter)