Chapter 224: Best Prey
The black-haired woman pretended to scold her attendant and said, "How can you say that about Sister Marianne, if I were Sister Marianne, I would also carefully choose a marriage partner, after all, no matter how stupid a person is, he can't be wrong a second time." You're right?"
Marianne's face remained unchanged, she raised her head to look at the black-haired woman on the horse, and said slowly: "Caroline, thank you for reminding me, if you just want to come over and say this, then you have already finished speaking, I also heard it, please leave immediately, you are not welcome here." β
The thick-eyebrow woman chuckled, "You still care where we want to go......"
She was only halfway through her words, but she saw Vanessa take two steps forward, hold the whip hanging on her left wrist, and wave it twice, which shocked her to shut up immediately, this lord is not easy to mess with.
At this moment, a girl behind Caroline spoke: "Sister Marianne likes little boys now, the one she brought to my house last time, tsk, handsome and powerful!"
Lily looked back, this person she also knew, Marianne's "best friend" Teresa Benafort, it seems that she is not a best friend now, or never at all.
"You're talking about my fiancΓ©, right? the one who helped your family with the hauntings. If you don't understand the situation, don't talk nonsense. Lily said.
"Yo, it turns out that little handsome guy is yours, tsk...... It's really good-looking, but it's a little shabby, and he's still a mercenary. Teresa said unconvinced.
Lily also shot back unceremoniously: "We are all ordinary families, our families are thin, and we are not business materials, so we can't help my brother bring the necklace and earn five hundred silver coins, and I am very happy to be a mercenary." β
Vanessa also spoke: "Don't talk crookedly here, let's go, it's annoying to see you." β
Caroline didn't dare to provoke Vanessa, so she turned her horse's head and left, saying as she went, "By the way, Marianne, should I give you the best prey this time." You see, after so many years of spring hunting, the man who has not obtained the best prey has given it to you.
Otherwise, I'll talk to Zitsstorf at night and let him give you his prey, and I'll let you. β
Marianne was also angry, and said, "Let your furry bear keep the prey to yourself, your body needs to be mended." β
After the group left, Lily asked, "Who are they? and that Teresa didn't thank us for helping his family solve his big trouble, hey, I wouldn't have risked taking his task if I knew so." β
Marianne said, "Carolyn Kingsley, they are all children of the Eighteen Firms, and so is that Teresa, they are all in the same spirit." The Kingsley family and my family had competed for the right to mine the iron ore in Edith, and his father had not fought over my father in the first place, so he had stumbled over my family's purchase of the estate in the Eighteen Merchant District.
In the past two years, the income of iron ore has been much greater than expected, which has made them even more uncomfortable, and they want to find a place to vent their discomfort.
Haha, let me tell you, the year before last, his family spent a lot of money to buy the right to mine Mithril in the north, and guess what? As soon as he entered the mine, he encountered horse thieves in the north who made trouble and became independent, and directly occupied the mine.
They spent money to exterminate the rebels, but now that the rebels are fighting more and more, the Kingsley family is almost cleaning their pants.
She's still pretending to be the eldest lady here, and when his family can't hold it anymore, I'll go and buy Kingsley Manor as a wedding gift for Graves!"
Marianne was talking, and Vanessa in the back muttered softly, "The Kingsleys' manor is too small, and the garden is messy, I don't like it very much." β
Lily is a shaper, and her hearing is much better than Marianne's, and she only smiles softly when she hears it.
Marianne continued: "It's great to have a great suitor, she's not going to marry that tendony bear!
By the way, Lily, if Jacques does catch the big prey, please let him give it to me, I'm going to kill them!
I've never had the best prey, we're good friends, you need to help me. I'm not going to rob Jacques from you, I'm going to compete with that Caroline guy......"
Lily couldn't withstand Marianne's soft grinding and hard bubbles, so she had to agree, anyway, I don't know if Jacques can win the best prey, it depends on luck.
In a blink of an eye, it was already five o'clock in the afternoon.
Campfires had been lit in advance, and large oak tables had been set up in the central clearing, filled with all sorts of fruits, cold cuts, bread and essential wine prepared by the organizers.
The hunters also returned, piling their booty separately around the campfire to judge the best prey of the first day.
The girls were still wearing hunting suits, chatting in groups of three or five in the clearing, while the returning hunters were looking at the women in tight hunting suits, as if they were picking a new round of prey and starting a new hunt.
Most of them have joined the chats of the acquaintances, and the focus of the conversation is on the best prey.
It is not known how the news spread, but at this time almost the entire camp knew that Marianne and Caroline were more attractive than one to win the best game of the first day offered by the hunter.
The men around Marianne were a little indignant and condemned this unfair competition, and Marianne was quite helpless, how did it become a competition?
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"Miss Marianne, how can you agree to such a barbaric contest? We are civilized people, and we can solve problems in a civilized way......"
"Mr. Taiga, you misunderstood, I didn't have any competition with Miss Caroline, the ...... was spread"
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"Miss Marianne, I have hunted a snapping turtle of a strange beast, and I will dedicate it to you! Unfortunately, although it is large, it is not very high-grade, only at the level of the Awakened, and I don't know if it can be selected as the best prey. β
"Centurion Russell, thank you for your kindness, it's just that this gift is too expensive for me to accept. By the way, I would like to introduce you to a friend who is my best friend, the heir to one of the greatest lords in the South. Alisia, come over here......"
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"Mark, where did you get the confidence that you rabbit can be the best? I'm afraid you didn't get a beastmaster rabbit! Oh, I think here, didn't you ask me what the Benafort ghost was last time? You didn't ask? I said you asked!
I'll tell you, that's Vento...... Really! His ghosts were killed by me and my mercenary group! These are witnesses!
Soon, the necklace Teresa got killed Vento, and finally the heroic little girl broke the necklace of the demon, you see how beautiful she is, she is my good friend Emma......"
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"Miss Marian, Miss Marian, I just inquired, Zitzstorff caught a brown bear!
"Mr. Raft, what grade is that bear? Shaper-level?"
"It seems that it is still at the level of the Awakened, but there are no more powerful beasts yet, your competition ......"
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Marianne was a little depressed, and pulled Lily and said, "Jacques, why haven't they come back yet?" I'm a little worried, knowing that Graves has never been involved in this kind of hunting. He used to shoot wild sheep on horseback or something, and you don't think I've protected him too well, and he hasn't been trained like Jacques......"
Lily looked at the time past six o'clock, as if the end time for the acceptance of prey was seven o'clock, Jacques and they were delayed on the way?
Just when Marianne was a little flustered, the nasty person came again. Caroline walked up to Marianne with a few of her attendants with wine glasses.
Caroline said proudly, "You have heard, Zitsstorff was very heroic today, defeating a strange brown bear with his bare hands. β
Marianne said disdainfully: "The pinnacle of the Sculptor, what is the great deal about defeating the little bear who has always been awakened with his bare hands!
"Oh, hard mouth! That's a hundred, a thousand times stronger than Mark's rabbit!"
At sunset, three men led four horses into the camp slowly, and the horses seemed to be dragging some heavy load.
Seeing this, Marianne immediately ran up to greet her: "Jacques, you're back, what did you hit? Tell me, is it a big guy?"
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