When the new spring came, Little Richard also lost his childishness. The hunting knife on his waist was finally no longer a decoration. He also began to follow the hunters in the village to hunt in the mountains. Although he did not go too deep into the forest, he would not stand on the front line when facing monsters. The job assigned to him was more to take action, set traps and clean up prey, but at least it means that he was already a hunter. The blacksmith Bobby was very happy again, because he spent several nights to make a few pieces of treasured steel. Every time Little Richard killed a monster with it, Bobby would be happy for a long time.

Hunting is always dangerous. There are countless monsters hidden in the mountains of the coast. Occasionally, there will be lost monsters in the deep mountains to come to Ruthland Village. Little Richard encountered a gray demon wolf. This is a real second-level monster, and even the village chief had to deal with it seriously. When encountering the demon wolf, Little Richard had only two village hunters around him. It was an arduous battle, and all three of them were seriously injured, but in the end they dragged the demon wolf's body back to the village. What the villagers praised was that in the whole desperate battle, Little Richard was extremely calm and calm, and responded correctly. Even the best hunter could not have done better. And if Little Richard had not cut off the tendons of the demon wolf's hind paws with one knife, it might have been another result.

No matter what, Li Cha encountered many dangers this year, and he was always calm and able to deal with it well. No matter how dangerous the situation was, he never shrank.

When he was nine years old, Richard learned courage. This year seemed to be the easiest year, because children in the mountains never lacked courage. However, the courage taught by his mother was different. Richard did it, and from then on, his mother no longer called him Little Richard, but my Richard.

"My Richard is already a real man!" Every time I see Richard, Elaine always says with such a smile.

But one day, Richard answered with his chest straight: "A real man must be wise!"

Elaine was surprised, looked at Richard seriously and asked, "Tell mom, who told you this."

"It's written in the book!"

"Which book?" Elaine asked patiently. Not to mention magicians, even magic apprentices have a lot of knowledge. So Richard has learned several languages ​​with Elaine, and even a very difficult and obscure ancient language. Reading is no longer a problem for Richard. He even read several introductory books on magic in the boring winter, but Elaine doesn't remember any such sentence in any book.

"It's the book in the attic, which contains a lot of interesting things. The first time I knew, it turned out that the world was so big." Richard said excitedly.

"Is that book?" Elaine remembered something, and then smiled: "That book is very interesting. My Richard, a real man, certainly, cannot lack wisdom, but perseverance, strength and courage are even more rare. My Richard is so smart that he will definitely not lack wisdom when he grows up. So mom needs to cultivate these personalities of you first, do you understand?"

"There is happiness!" Richard rushed to say.

Elaine smiled and touched Richard's head and said, "Yes, there is still happiness! Have my Richard been having fun in the past few years?"

Little Richard shook his head and said in a depressing voice: "It's not always happy. Pilu bullied me, and I also hate breadfruit. Also, mom, what kind of person is Dad?"

Elaine's face changed instantly, and then she said gently: "Your dad is a real man..."

Richard immediately continued: "I know! He is also the worst bad guy! He is the person his mother hates the most!"

Elaine smiled. Richard asked such questions several times every year, and she kept answering them like this. Richard can recite them long ago. However, Richard is a smart child. He can feel Elaine's deep hatred when she mentioned his father. Over time, Richard also hated this father.

Because many times, Richard woke up in the middle of the night and heard his mother crying softly.

The logic of a child is very simple. The mother loves him the most and is also the person he loves the most. The mother hates him, which is what he hates. Every once in a while, Richard will ask about his father’s situation. On the one hand, he is curious, because as long as he grows up, his mother will talk to him more about his father. On the other hand, Richard wants to know his father more, but he will avenge his mother when he grows up. As for how to avenge, he is still a child now, of course he has no clue, but this matter has been remembered in his heart.

However, this time, Elaine did not tell Richard more about his father, but only said that she and Richard's father were very short and she only knew so much.

"One day in the future, you will know your father very well." For some reason, Elaine suddenly said this. As soon as she said this, her face changed, as if she was holding something in her heart. Elaine herself didn't know why she said this.

Richard keenly felt that his mother's mood suddenly became bad, so he quietly stuck out his tongue, said, "I'm going to read a book," and ran to the room behind. There was Elaine's study room, and next to it was the laboratory for disposing of potions. There were not many books in the study room, all of which were based on magic, knowledge about the history, geography and scenery of the mainland, which was very consistent with Elaine's magic apprenticeship. Richard liked to read here at night. There was a magic lamp in the study room, and the light was not bright. Once filled with Elaine's magic power, it could turn on the magic lamp for one night. Because oil is very expensive, except for the village chief, the blacksmith and the most powerful hunters who could light the lamp for a long time at night, Elaine.

In this simple but warm little room, Richard quietly spent his childhood.

In those thick books, he saw another world, a world that was wider, more complex, taller and more magnificent than Rutherland. The little Richard kept thinking quietly that when he grew up to be the best hunter in the village, he would take his mother with him and leave Rutherland Village to see the world outside the mountain.

Elaine sat alone in the living room, and the sound of flipping books came from her ears. Little Richard was reading carefully again. He had mastered the basic magic knowledge very solidly, but he had not really learned magic. Elaine even forbidden him from practicing meditation. On the mainland, if you want to become a good magician, you usually have to start the initial meditation at the age of four or five, so that you can accumulate enough mental power at the age of ten, and start learning magic and cultivating magic power. However, Little Richard did not think there was anything wrong with this, because he didn't know anything, and at the same time, because he felt that his mother was right in everything.

Elaine sat quietly because she said one more thing tonight. The door to memory quietly opened, and many dusty past events emerged one by one, and she couldn't hold it down.

Her head started to hurt a little, and Elaine rubbed her forehead gently and sighed imperceptibly. Her eyes fell on the calendar on the table and suddenly saw a striking mark. In a dozen days, it will be Richard's tenth birthday. Ten years old is the division from boys to teenagers, and thirteen or fourteen years old can barely be considered an adult.

Before I knew it, has ten years passed?

Elaine stared at the jumping light in the magic lamp, and the brass lamp body was shining brightly, reflecting her face. She was not beautiful, she could only be said to be a beautiful woman, but in Rutherland Village, she was one of the best beauties. Ten years have passed, but the years have not left any trace on her face. If the clothes were not close to the middle-aged woman, almost no one would remember her age. If someone she had never met, she would definitely think that Elaine was only in her early twenties.

The face reflected on the brass lampshade is actually very strange to Elaine, and it is too ordinary, because when she was born, it was not like this. A long time ago, she never even thought that she would live such a simple, simple and hard life, and it took ten years to pass. But as Richard grew up day by day, she felt so fulfilled in her heart.

Elaine walked into the study and looked at Richard who was holding a thick book of magic beasts and enjoying it. She smiled and said, "My Richard is soon ten years old. Mom has prepared a special ceremony for you to celebrate my Richard's growth."

"Yeah! Will there be a gift?" Richard jumped up, and only then did he show that he was still a boy.
Chapter completed!