Iron Powder and Spellcasters

  Chapter 492 Rebuilding the Country (7)

  Winters and Colonel Gaisar left the courtyard side by side, and walked along a cobbled path to the river bank.

  On weekdays, Winters often takes this path to walk by the river and feed the cats.

  Through hedges, fences and sentry posts, the Anya River suddenly appeared in front of Winters and Colonel Gaisar.

   Stop and stare, the slowly flowing river reflects the lights of the people on the other side, like fireflies appearing and disappearing in the night.

  But Gaisa Adonis can't be as calm as the "Mother River".

   On the contrary, the colonel was trembling with anger.

  After repeated self-persuasion and self-education, Colonel Geisar finally couldn't hold back, and complained angrily: "Whose family's little girl? It's too rude!"

   "Did you hear that?"

   "There is only one door!"

  Winters saluted with a smile: "I apologize to you on her behalf."

   "No need." Colonel Gaisa took a deep breath: "I don't care about children."

  The two walked aimlessly along the river.

  Winters changed the topic wisely: "You came to me because of Kai Moreland?"

   "If I want to deal with that guy, I can crush him to death at any time." Colonel Gaisar dismissed the name that Winters said: "A Kay Moreland, it's not worth my special trip."

   "Is that something else important?" Winters answered the question in a gracious manner.

   "That's right, there is something important." Colonel Gaisa stopped and stared into Winters' eyes: "But it's not about Kai Moreland, but about you."

   "Me?" Winters also stopped.

   "Yes, it's you." Gaisa replied word by word.

   Between the fence of the officer community and the Anya River is a paved road that can accommodate two carriages. In order to prevent the carriage from straying into the river, a fence slightly higher than the knee was built along the bank.

  Winters gestured to invite Colonel Gaisa, and the two sat down near the enclosure.

  The evening breeze blows away the heat of summer; the moonlight is bright and clear, soothing the dryness in the heart.

   If you don't identify them carefully, the two people who have changed into ordinary clothes are no different from ordinary citizens who go out to cool off.

  As the two sat down, there were small rustling sounds from the bushes on the other side of the road.

  A small tabby cat about two months old protruded half of its body from among the green leaves, tilted its head and looked at the two people sitting on the fence.

  Winters heard the abnormal noise, turned his head, and met the eyes of the kitten. He made a tut-tsk sound, beckoning the kitten to come closer.

  A kitten in this age group is just in time to explore the world. Although he doesn’t know another human being who looks a little strange—of course, all human beings are strange to cats—it is still no match for curiosity.

  Then the kitten raised its tail, stepped back one step, then walked two steps closer to the two humans sitting on the fence.

   "Where's your mother?" Winters stretched out his hand, let the kitten sniff his fingers, and said apologetically, "I didn't bring anything to eat when I went out today."

   "Where did the cat come from?" Colonel Gaisar was surprised.

  Different from the Vineta people, the Platu people seldom rely on cats to catch mice, let alone have the habit of keeping cats as pets.

  Palatu people prefer to use small terriers to deal with rat infestation. In the country of galloping horses where the land is vast and sparsely populated, there are enough natural enemies of rodents such as weasels, snakes, and owls outside the barn.

  So in Plato, cats are rarely seen, and even owls are more common than cats.

  Colonel Gaisa’s voice scared the kitten, who wobbled to the distance, then tilted his head to look at Winters.

"In the stable, there is a female cat and three kittens." Winters whispered while calling the kittens, "I asked the groom, and he said that the female cat moved into the stable by herself sometime and made a nest. .Maybe there are too many mice stealing the horse feed."

   Following Winters' soft call, the kitten came back a little bit.

  Although it didn't get any food, it didn't leave either. Instead, it circled around Winters' calf, meowing and rubbing its cheek against Winters' boot.

   "How can it be with you..." Colonel Gaisa was dumbfounded: "This kiss?"

   "I always come to feed you." Winters answered concisely.

   After finishing speaking, Winters simply picked up the kitten and put it on his lap, gently rubbing the kitten's cheek and jaw.

  The little cat didn't resist either, but made a pleasant "purring" sound, and finally closed his eyes and fell asleep.

   "Would you like to touch it too?" Winters asked the colonel enthusiastically.

   "Forget it." Although Colonel Geisar was quite tempted, he still didn't dare to try: "Don't bite my hand—in the old saying, if you want to say that someone is moody and elusive, you will describe him like a cat."

  Winters smiled, noncommittal.

   After sitting quietly for a while, Colonel Gaisa asked lightly, "Is this the first time the two of us have sat down and chatted like this?"

   "The second time." Winters smiled and reminded: "It was the same as last time. We sat facing the Anya River, but it was far upstream."

   "That time doesn't count." Colonel Gaisa remembered and waved his hand: "That time, we confronted each other as enemies; now, we speak as our own people."

   "That's the first time."

   "Hey, we should chat more." Colonel Geisar sighed, pretending to be angry and taught the lesson: "And it should be you who come to talk to me more often! Instead of letting the old man come to you on his own initiative like now."

   "Okay." Winters agreed.

"What a fart!" Colonel Gaisa was angry and wanted to laugh: "I have seen through you for a long time—you boy, you are very cold in your bones. If I don't look for you, you will never take the initiative to see me. Just say we I have lived in the officer's block for so long, only one road away, have you come to ask me?"

  Winters blinked guiltily.

  In fact, both Senior Mason and Charles have suggested to him that he should pick the right time to visit the residences of several school officers and other friendly army officers.

  But every time Winters came home, he never wanted to go out again, so he rejected the proposal of Senior Mason and Charles with one vote.

  So, he never heard similar opinions again.

  Thinking of this, Winters quickly admitted his mistake: "It's my lack of manners, I will just..."

"Forget it, it's too late. It won't be interesting if you do it after I say it." Colonel Gaisar took on the tone of a senior, and taught Winters his life experience earnestly: "Only talk about business and not make personal friends, you will sooner or later You will suffer, and you will suffer greatly..."

   "Hmm." Winters nodded frequently while grooming the kitten, as sincere as his eyes could be.

"You..." Colonel Gaisa couldn't help being furious when he saw this, but he quickly vented his anger and laughed at himself: "That's right, your companions are loyal to you, and your subordinates can't wait to see you as a god. Being protected by people like that , how can you be like us—you have to spend your time on these worldly ways? Forget it, forget it!"

   Winters didn't know how to answer. The world was quiet for a while, and only the river flowing could be heard.

   Colonel Gaisa was silent for a long time, and finally got to the point. He said guiltily: "Actually, many of your ideas are excellent, and we understand that, but... In the final analysis, we still don't trust you enough..."

   Facing the Colonel's sudden "confession", Winters didn't understand why.

  He remained calm, waiting for the colonel to continue.

   "Of course, it's mainly Scull Mecklen." Seeing that Winters didn't respond, Gaisa hastily added: "I still trust you."

  Winters nodded: "I understand."

   "No, you don't understand." Colonel Gaisa became angry for no reason. He stood up abruptly and waved his hands vigorously: "You don't understand at all!"

  The half-asleep kitten was awakened by the sudden loud noise, jumped off Winters' lap, and hid.

   "Even if you are more greedy, selfish, and despicable..." Colonel Gaisar looked down at Winters, almost touching the latter's forehead: "We can all understand and accept you."

The colonel clenched his fists and his expression was extremely painful: "You don't understand at all, Matthias Kerwin, Skull Mecklen, me, and everyone... It's not that we don't believe you, we are Don't understand you! We don't understand what exactly you want!

  You stoop, compromise, reason, and we don't understand why you do it! We still don't understand why you didn't kill Mecklen and Kerwin directly, and then turned around and killed me. At your age, you should be more reckless, more arrogant, and more inclined to use violence to solve problems.

  But you don’t, you want to pull us together to ‘rebuild the republic’. So we don't understand, so we are afraid, we are afraid that you are so desireless because you have bigger plans. Do you understand? understand? ! "

   "So that's how it is." Winters asked calmly, "Have you ever thought that you don't understand everything about me, maybe it's because I'm a good person?"

   "Good guy." Colonel Gaisa felt humiliated, he raised his eyes, "Good guy?"

"A beggar monk once said to me that the public always likes to conjure up some low-level motives for great people. In the final analysis, it is to find reasons for their own despicable behavior." Winters said neither humble nor overbearing: "I am not great. But I also don't think people are motivated by selfishness and greed."

   Colonel Gaisar's face turned red and then blue.

   "Or let me change to an explanation method that you can understand." Winters looked directly at Gaisa Adonis without fear:

"The reason for not using force to deal with Colonel Skoll and Lieutenant Colonel Matthias is because I believe that the Federal Province will inevitably interfere in the Plato Civil War, and a dilapidated new settlement will not survive. So I need to keep the new settlement. If possible, I also hope to avoid internal friction with the federal army."

  Winter paused for a moment, and said with burning eyes: "My forbearance, compromise, and reasoning do have a bigger plan, which is to preserve all the power of the alliance as much as possible to deal with our real enemy—the empire."

Colonel Gaisa was stunned, and after losing his expression for a few seconds, he seemed to have heard a big joke, and laughed out of breath: "Empire...empire...people are in the new land where no shit, you Tell me about the empire that is far away...Young man, you think too far! Too far!"

   "I knew you would have this kind of reaction." Winters was not surprised at all, and he responded calmly: "I also know that to be honest, you won't believe it."

"How can I believe the reasons you said?" Colonel Gaisa's smile disappeared suddenly, and he gritted his teeth and asked earnestly: "What do you want to tell me? You want to tell me that all your actions are for the sake of gaining power from the empire." Protect the alliance in your hand?"

"Because of what I have seen, heard, and known in Taniria, Hed Wasteland, and the Country of Mountains." Winters' tone was extremely firm: "The Oathbreaker has never accepted peace, and he is preparing for a A war, a war that could completely destroy the Alliance, and has been prepared for a long time. He provokes our relations and supports our enemies. From sea to land, from grassland to mountains, his spies are everywhere, everywhere It’s his spy. He’s just waiting for an opportunity to accomplish what his father failed to achieve, and to cleanse the empire of its shame.”

  After hearing what Winters said, Colonel Gaisa was stunned for a moment, and then he couldn't help laughing: "The false emperor wants to fight back the two mountains...isn't this a well-known thing?"

   "But we are still killing each other." Winters asked coldly: "I even wonder why some people don't want to kill each other."

Gaisa Adonis was speechless, and after a long silence, he said sadly: "Sometimes, we hate our brothers more than we hate our enemies. The enemy wants to kill his own people first, it's like this...it's all like this of…"

   "As long as it is possible." Winters said: "I will do my best to prevent this tragedy from happening."

   "What if the Interprovincialists call?" Geza asked with a wry smile, "What if there is no way to avoid it?"

   "I will destroy them." Winters' eyes did not waver: "If blood must be stained, I will not pass the responsibility on to others."

   Colonel Gaisar sat back on the enclosure wearily, and looked at Winters speechlessly for a while: "Now, I understand you a little bit, Winters Montagne."

   "It seems that we should chat more in the future." Winters smiled and nodded: "Colonel."

   "Yes." Gaisa also laughed. He patted the dust on his knees and cheered up again: "I will help you solve the issue of 'ownership of command'."

"Very good!"

However, Colonel Gaisa changed his subject: "But I can't support you publicly in the Committee of Four. In that case, Scull Mecklen and Matthias Kerwin will think that they have been squeezed out by you and me together. , but it is not good for the overall situation. Do you know what I mean?"

"I understand that Colonel Scull and Lieutenant Colonel Matthias are already weak. If they are forced to agree, it will cause a gap in the four-member committee." Winters raised his brows: "But if you don't pass the four-member committee, you have to How to 'convince' Lieutenant Colonel Matthias?"

   "Don't worry, I have an idea." Colonel Gaisa stroked the smooth top of his head and smiled slyly: "Save it so that Matthias Kerwin can't even fart."

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