[Fengshi City·Official Residential Area]

[Montane Palace]

[early morning]

Winters swept the clouds to clean the breakfast—the remaining bread, the remaining pickles, and a large bowl of sticky soup made of fresh vegetables and the remaining sauce.

Eating breakfast is a habit Winters developed when he was in school.

The poor don’t eat breakfast. They only have two meals a day and usually go out to work on hunger.

Rich families can fill their empty stomachs after waking up, but they usually get up late and eat their first meal at nine o'clock or ten o'clock.

Only the Army School students who have to get up from bed early in the morning and have to take classes for the whole morning must eat in the morning.

Winters' beastly eating speed was also the mark made by the military academy on him. He never let the food stay in his mouth for too long, and he swallowed it immediately after chewing it.

Anna was very worried about this and set a table rule for him to "chew at least twenty times per mouth".

Unfortunately, habits are not so easy to reverse, especially habits developed since childhood.

So as long as Anna didn't remind her in time, Winters still ate her food.

Charles brought him a coat, and the washed hunting suit stood upright.

"I don't wear casual clothes today," Winters said, "iron my uniform."

Charles nodded, left the restaurant with his clothes in his arms, completely ignoring the other end of the dining table, and looked quite uneasy, handsome man with blue eyes.

Also located at the dining table, "Madame Montane" sitting next to Winters picked up his cup to cover his lips and yawned secretly.

If there were no guests who suddenly visited, Ms. Navare wouldn't have gotten up so early.

The number of greetings was over. Anna put down the warm wine in her hand and saluted gracefully to the handsome man on the other end of the dining table, "Mr. Kay, I won't bother you.

"Oh, madam, please don't say that. I was disturbing you," Kay Morran breathed a sigh of relief and returned the gift appropriately.

Anna looked at Winters again and smiled sweetly, "Be polite."

Winters, who was pouring soup into his throat with his neck tilted, shivering for no reason. He quickly put down the plate and "Don't worry".

Anna sighed in her heart, stood up, nodded to the two men again, and then left generously, leaving the restaurant to Winters and the guests - she had to go to bed for a while.

Kay Morran kept watching Madame Montane out of the room before speaking.

He first habitually praised the owner of the mansion: "Your Excellency has such a good appetite. You can feel so appetite as soon as you wake up."

But the owner, who should have been polite, did not accept his words at all, and just focused on cleaning the food on the plate.

After shaving the last bit of soup, Winters picked up the napkin and wiped his mouth randomly, burping it.

To be honest, Winters did not expect that after returning to Maple Stone, the first guest he received was Kay Morland.

Bard, Andre, Mason, and Mitchell's family came to his house as if they were going back to their own home, so they were not among the guests.

After "becoming famous in one battle" at the new land liberals conference, Kay Morran was acquiesced to live freely in Fengshi City, no longer under house arrest, and no longer needed to hide in Tibet.

From time to time, I could hear that he had visited the residence of a respected foreign county freeman, and occasionally he could see him at banquets held by some famous gates in Maple Stone City.

However, as long as the National Assembly is not officially established for one day, it will not have the legal qualification to participate in politics for a day.

"You shouldn't have come at this time, Mr. Kay," said Winters in a pun. "If you come at this time, I have to serve you, but you have no appetite to enjoy it. The dishes you serve you can only be fed to the dog in the end."

Kay Morran looked down and glanced at the meal that had barely moved before him, and a wry smile appeared on his face, "I really don't have much appetite, but I must come now, before others, not for myself, but for you."

"For me?" Winters smiled.

"Yes," Kay Morran's eyes were extremely sincere. "Although our previous agreement was not fulfilled as I expected, in fact, you gave me something I could not even think about. So, I always believe that you are my partner on the same front as me."

"I am flattered to think so," Winters responded unmoved, cold but politely, "What do you want to say, please tell me, I hope to hear it."

Kay Morran cleared his throat, and seemed to have had a very fierce struggle before making up his mind, and asked seriously: "Do you understand what Colonel Geis is planning recently?"

Winters smiled toothfully, "Whether I know or not, I don't know if what you said or what I know is the same thing, right? So don't waste your time, Mr. Kay, say something."

Kay Morran couldn't help but cough, he picked up the water cup on the table and took a sip, and poked out his body towards the blood wolf far away at the other end of the dining table.

"I heard that Colonel Geisa is planning to give to all the soldiers who participated in the Battle of the Valley of Grace - of course, our soldiers." Kay Morran deliberately paused, and emphasized his tone, "Give me a merit!"

"Granting merit?" Winters really heard something he knew nothing about, "Why should I give me a merit at this time?"

...

"What else can I do?"

Geisa Adonis stood up from the bath, and the hot water overflowed from the pool due to his movements and spread to the bottom of Winters' boots.

In the hot bathroom, the Baishan County garrison was shirtless, with hands on his hips, and his eyes were rounder than his head.

The colonel's angry voice sounded like Hong Zhong in the bathroom: "Of course it's the fuck to make money!"

No matter where he went, Geisa Adonis couldn't do anything with a hot bath twice a day, so even if the school official's apartment in Maple Stone City did not have a bath, he quickly repaired one after he moved in.

Winters was really not interested in the man's naked body, so he turned his head in advance, "You should put on your clothes first and don't catch a cold."

"Give me the bath towel," Geisa, who was disturbed, drifted out of the bathtub and asked unhappily, "Who told you about this?"

Geisa's answer was honest, so Winters' answer was straightforward, he took the towel from the shelf and handed it to the colonel, spitting out a name, "Kay Morran."

As soon as Colonel Geisa heard this name, he immediately burst into swear words like a mountain torrent: "[The extremely angry Palatu swear words]! This [strong personality insult noun]! You know that you are uncomfortable with me! [Swear words]! This little [General personality insult noun] must be the old [General personality insult noun] in the city who informed him, otherwise his news would not have been so well-informed!"

Winters tried to let the swear words flow into his left ear and out of his right ear, leaving only useful information.

Geisa dryed her body, put on her bathrobe, led Winters to the rest area outside the bathroom, and suddenly changed her tone.

"I actually want to discuss the issue of awarding merits with you for a long time, but you can't find anyone? And my plan has not been prepared," Gaisa looked like a loyal and honest elder. "Since my plan has been prepared, you have come back. I know, it's just right, so I can save me more time."

He looked at Winters with great anticipation: "What do you think? Awarding a medal?"

"I don't think it's a problem to give medals to the officers and soldiers participating in the Battle of Hakugu Village," Winters changed his tone, "but I don't quite understand why you want the major guilds in Maple Stone City to pledge?" He asked cautiously, "Are you... short of money?"

"Nonsense!" Old Geisa blushed and she looked furious, "Is there anyone in this world not short of money? Let me tell you that even those who are the emperor who are oaths must worry about money!"

After getting angry, Geisa began to complain again. He turned his fingers and counted for Winters, "I'll ask you, the pensions for the fallen men, the severance of soldiers who lost their arms and legs, the loss of war horses, scrapped arms, consumed supplies, and daily food, drink, and defecation... which one is not money?"

"It is true that money is needed everywhere in war," Winters' attitude is still conservative, "but the method of relying on 'fundraising' that can only make one move once is just to stop the boiling, and to treat the symptoms but not the root cause."

Geisa stood up and found two wine glasses, and a large pot of beer. With a look of "you are still too young", she glanced at Winters sideways, "Who said she could only donate once?"

Winters was speechless, but Geisa poured each of them a glass of beer and started drinking it happily.

Winters sips beer and is still thinking about "raising donations".

"Forget it, don't just talk about my affairs, tell me yours!" Geisa raised her legs, supported her chin, and glanced at Winters in a slant. "You haven't straightened the reins for the military rank?"

"I cannot accept the rank of brigade general," Winters immediately replied solemnly, "not just because of my self-esteem."

Geisa scoffed, “‘It’s not just’?”

"If I upgraded to level four in a row, there would be a lot of... trouble."

"What trouble?"

“Internal trouble.”

"You can't just say it?"

Winters rarely showed helplessness, "If I was promoted to level four, then I couldn't just upgrade to level four.

"Lt. Bard has decided to retire from active service, so I won't consider it for the time being. But Senior Mason and Lieutenant Cheryni must be promoted accordingly.

"Especially Lieutenant Chellini, if I became a general and he was still a school official, he would be very bored. He is my closest comrade and partner, and I cannot ignore him."

"But if Senior Mason and Lieutenant Cheryni were also promoted, then will the officers of the Expeditionary Force who joined the middle of the expeditionary force, such as Major Seber, also have to be promoted? Then the ranks of the new army will be completely messed up. The army will naturally split into two factions - the old New Reclamation Legion faction and the old Tiefeng County Army faction... are not conducive to unity."

"What's not conducive to unity," Colonel Geisa was furious when he heard it, and he pointed out incisively, "If you were the only one who even skipped Level 4, wouldn't there be no problem? After all, is the problem still lies with your young follower? That... Andrea Chelini? Fix him!"

"Col. Geisa," Winters' expression suddenly became serious, even a little scary, "Lt. Andrea Chellini is not my follower. I can die for him, and he can die for me, but none of us will bow our knees to each other."

He said firmly and firmly: "I don't want to 'set' him, and I can't 'set' him, so please don't mention this matter."

Gaisa was stunned. After sitting for a while, he scratched his arm and said angrily, "If you can't handle it, you can't handle it. Why are you so scary? I thought you were going to transform into a 'blood wolf'!"

Winters was poked into the sore area, and he was really anxious now, "How many times have I told you! That was the nickname that others gave me!"

"The nickname is not random..." Gaisa couldn't help but tease. Before Ma Zizhen, the son in front of him, turned into a blood wolf, he hurriedly changed the topic, "I won't talk anymore, I won't talk anymore."

Winters picked up his arms and turned red above his neck. I don’t know if it was because of the wine or the temperature.

"But have you ever thought about a question?" Geisa picked up the wine pot again, completely forgot about his promise to stop drinking, "If you can't beat Lieutenant Cellini..."
Chapter completed!