Chapter 1: Trimming Donkey's Hoofs

Harvest Moon.

Meister County, Shining Gold Town, Habsburg Manor's Outer Fortress.

A thin black-haired boy was standing in a corner of the outer fortress, covering the big bump on his head with one hand, staring blankly at the empty field in front of him and the towering castle in the distance.

"Hiss! Where is this?" Ryan looked around while enduring the severe pain in his head.

A group of teenage boys in coarse cloth coats were standing in a semicircle on the field, watching a tall and strong adult man trimming the donkey's hoof.

"Is this trimming the donkey's hoof???"

Ryan was stunned!

Then, a large amount of memories flooded into his mind, like a slide show, one picture after another flowed through his mind!

"My name is Ryan now. I was accidentally kicked in the head by a donkey an hour ago. The bump on my forehead has not subsided yet."

"The adult who repaired the donkey's hoof is the blacksmith of the Habsburg Manor."

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Suddenly, Ryan, who was still in a daze, heard the loud scolding of the donkey hoof repairer.

"Little bastards, didn't you eat? You can't even hold down a donkey's hoof!"

"Hurry up, hold it down for me!"

Two of the servants were sweating and pressing the donkey's hoof, but they were too young and were swayed by the strong donkey's hoof.

Ryan shook his head when he saw it. These two servants were the same as his body, both thin dogs, so naturally they couldn't hold it down!

According to his memory, the original body joined the child servant training organized by the Habsburg Manor the day before yesterday. This was achieved with great difficulty by squeezing out most of the savings from his family and dredging the relationship with the head servant of the manor.

There is a custom in this world that nobles who own territories generally select a small number of people as formal servants through child servant training and assessment, and train them from childhood.

Generally speaking, the positions of formal male servants are divided into grooms, guards, cooks, bakers, butchers, brewers, blacksmiths, dog trainers, falcon trainers, etc.

Three months later, the manor will organize an assessment to recruit five outstanding child servants to become formal household servants, including two blacksmith apprentices, two guards, and one dog trainer.

Therefore, the training content of this batch of male child servants is set around the content of these three positions.

"Another world version of the exam?!"

A thought suddenly popped up in Ryan's mind.

"It's okay to travel through time, but what the hell is the purpose of my hard work to be a servant?!"

"What a hell!"

At this time, a burst of chattering made Ryan, who was kicked in the head by a donkey, even more headache.

Resisting the headache, Ryan turned his head and saw several tall child servants wearing clean linen coats, pointing at him not far away from him, and laughing.

"I laughed to death when I was kicked by a donkey!"

Seeing these people, the relevant memories of the original body slowly emerged in Ryan's mind.

These "high-class" servants turned out to be the children of the shop owners in the town. They were considered "rich second generation". They huddled together and often bullied other servants.

Ryan was no exception. When he first arrived, they set rules for him to clean the dormitory every day! Originally, according to the rules, this job should be done by the servants in turn.

"The one with thick eyebrows and big eyes is the youngest son of the owner of the town tavern, nicknamed Thick Eyebrows."

"The one with freckles on his face is the son of the owner of the town hotel, nicknamed Freckles."

"The one wearing brown linen shorts is the son of the town tanner, not bad, he doesn't have a nickname."

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"Damn, I'm so useless! I was bullied by a few kids?" Ryan looked down at his stick-like body and shook his head helplessly.

After the other party laughed at Ryan, they started to chat, and Ryan just needed to understand this world. He lowered his head and pretended to be indifferent, but in fact he pricked up his ears and listened attentively!

"Have you heard? The town of Albero, not far from our town of Goldshire, was attacked by wandering ogres last night, and many people were killed or injured." The freckled boy said softly.

The freckled boy's family runs a hotel, and he is one of the only two well-informed people among the rich second generation.

"Really? Why is there so much news recently? Two days ago, I heard from the caravan that there seemed to be a cult sacrifice in the town of Monem, and many people died." The boy with thick eyebrows said with fear.

Thick eyebrows' family runs a tavern and is another well-informed person.

"Hey! If I had the chance to go to the county town, it would be much safer to live in the county town!" The son of the tanner sighed and said.

"How can it be so easy! Unless I can pass the selection this time and become a formal guard, and then be valued by the higher-ups and transferred to the main family in the county town, it's too difficult." Freckles shook his head and said.

"Yes, but in any case, passing the manor selection to become a formal guard is the first step." Thick eyebrows waved his strong arms confidently.

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After hearing the above content, Ryan couldn't help but fall into deep thought.

"Ogre?"

"Cult?"

"Could this be a supernatural world?"

Ryan couldn't help but feel a little excited, worried and yearning!

I just don't know what kind of supernatural world this is?

There is very little relevant memory information in my mind!

Because the original body had never walked out of the scope of this town before, he had never encountered monsters or any mysterious existence.

However,

the wandering poets and mercenaries from afar often brought all kinds of incredible news, such as monsters that frequently appeared in the dark night, huge sea monsters in the ocean, haunted houses in the downtown area, and plagues with extremely high mortality rates.

Before, I listened to them as fairy tales.

Listening to the tone of the rich second generation, could it be true?

Ryan rubbed his chin and thought for a while.

"Next group, Ryan, George!" Bar shouted.

Hearing his name, Ryan immediately stood up and began to press the donkey's hoof with a boy with short yellow hair.

At this time, the blacksmith Bar stepped forward, and saw him easily pick up a large iron shovel and began to trim the donkey's hoof that had been bent too long.

However, there seemed to be a little inflammation in the center of this donkey's hoof, and during the trimming process, a trace of pus and blood oozing out faintly.

"Whew!"

The strong black donkey suddenly felt pain while being trimmed, and immediately howled, and the whole body began to shake and struggle violently.

Ryan immediately tried his best to fix the black donkey's hoof, not letting it move, so as not to affect Bal's trimming.

In just less than two minutes, Ryan's forehead was already sweating profusely, and his black hair began to stick to his forehead in clumps. His physical strength was almost overdrawn.

"Fortunately, this is the last donkey hoof of this donkey."

"After this black donkey, the next group of servants will be rotated to the battle, so I can rest for a while and slow down."

"Look carefully, when trimming the donkey's hoof, you must be bold and careful, and your wrist must be loose." Bal explained while demonstrating.

When the last donkey hoof was trimmed, Ryan and George collapsed to the ground like deflated balls.

The two people's listless appearance immediately caused the "rich second generation" on the side to laugh!

George's face immediately turned red at this kind of ridicule, but Ryan turned a deaf ear to it.

Instead, he was stunned for a moment. Because a transparent frame suddenly appeared on his retina, and it automatically turned to the second page.

There were several lines of small words and a bunch of icons on the second page.

[You assisted in the work of repairing donkey hooves, and the relevant comprehension was improved! ]

[You have comprehended a new skill - repairing hooves]

[Your skill of repairing hooves has been improved, experience value +1]

[Congratulations! You have triggered the occupation panel - blacksmith apprentice]

The new book is released, and I ask for all kinds of support from book friends! Please read it, recommend it, and collect it! I hope that everyone can help turn to the latest chapter every day when you are raising the book, thank you.

(This book may refer to the customs and practices of the Western Middle Ages in part, but this book is a fantasy, not history, so those who are particular about it should not care.)

(End of this chapter)