When night comes, it should normally be Baker's time to prepare dinner, but today is a little different. Pen | fun | pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

During the day, Neil came back from a walk with Charlie and found a letter left by Baker, Baker suddenly left them in an emergency, and these days, only Neil himself found a way to face the problem of food.

Neil touched his hungry stomach and muttered as he stared at the fire, "What a problem, this thing." ”

"Neil. ”

Xia Li's voice came from the kitchen door, Neil glanced back, and couldn't help but exclaim in surprise, "Xia Li, why are you here?"

Xia Li leaned against the wall and said slowly, "I'll see if you need help, Mr. Baker isn't here." ”

"Go back and rest, let me come here, have you finished drinking the medicine you were served just now?"

Xia Li smiled embarrassedly, "There is still a small sip that I haven't finished drinking, my appetite has always been very small, Mr. Baker always boils the medicine for me to see the right amount, Neil You seem to put a little too much water......"

Xia Li was referring to the medicine that Neil had boiled for herself an hour earlier, which Mr. Baker had personally instructed him to drink every day.

Neil touched the back of his head and said apologetically, "I'm sorry, I'll definitely put less water next time." ”

Xia Li suddenly let out a small exclamation, "Neil!

"Ahhh

After a busy time, the fragrant dinner was finally made, and Neil came to the restaurant with the food, stroked his stomach, and began to eat it with a spoon.

"Xia Li, do you want a bowl of soup?"

"No, I'll go upstairs first, and call me when I need help. ”

"By the way, Xia Li, if you don't want to rest and feel bored, I don't know if you like to read some boring things, uncle's original room, that is, your current room, there is a book in the drawer next to the wardrobe, you can take it out and take a look. Neil thought of the encyclopedia of herbs, and sometimes looked through it when he was bored, wondering if Xia Li was interested in it.

"Storybooks?"

"No...... A bit of a boring book, about herbs and plants and the like. ”

"In other words, the medicine that Mr. Baker usually prepares for me is also listed in the book?"

"Well, if you want to know, I'll find it for you later and tell you which ones are. ”

"It seems kind of interesting, I thought it was a normal storybook. ”

"Uncle, he never reads any story books, besides, Uncle is really good, he can memorize every page of that book. I forgot to tell you that the book is heavy, so be careful when picking it up. ”

"I will. ”

On the first night of Baker's absence, there were only Neil and Charlie in the whole house, and after Neil had eaten dinner, he washed the dishes and utensils, then went upstairs, knocked on the door and entered Charlie's room.

Neil entered the room and saw Xia Li sitting on a stool and chair, looking through it earnestly.

Neil walked over and fulfilled what he had said before, and introduced several very interesting plants, some special herbs that grow in the Warcraft Forest.

"Neil, this is Iris. ”

"If you are in better health, when my uncle comes back, I will beg him to let you come with you, and go up the mountain to see the flower field together. ”

"Okay, let's agree!"

"That's it!"

Then, Neil talked a little about Baker, and Xia Li couldn't help but be surprised to learn that Baker turned out to be the priest of the temple, and she was quickly relieved that the priests from the temple were such knowledgeable people, especially in the knowledge of medicinal herbs.

"Mr. Baker must have spent a long time studying. ”

"Uncle revealed to me a little that in the temple, if you want to become an excellent priest, you must have a good memory and memorize the entire encyclopedia of herbs before you are qualified to become a candidate for the great priest. Actually, I've never been to the temple, and I don't know what's going on inside. ”

"The Temple of the Four Directions, I sometimes hear my father and the attendants around me mention it, what kind of place is it?"

"Who knows!"

*****

During Baker's absence, Neil didn't plan to open a store, and he didn't have Baker's ability to help customers who came in.

On this day, Neil didn't have time to go out, Baker wasn't there, and he had to take some responsibility.

Since the morning, Neil has been sitting in the kitchen boiling medicine. Looking at the letter left by Baker, Neil grabbed a handful of almost a handful of medicine from the hall and prepared to start, considering the time it took to boil the medicine, Neil had to get up from five o'clock, and it was still dark outside.

"I'm so sleepy......"

"Uncle doesn't get up so early every day, does he?

Neil couldn't help but doze off as he stared at the flames.

“……”

"It's boring......"

"I can't really fall asleep, or the fire will be extinguished, and my efforts will be in vain, as yesterday was. ”

“……”

"Keep an eye on when you see ......"

"What does uncle do to pass the time?"

Neil muttered to himself, half-crouched, his chin in his hands, his expression sleepy and exhausted, but he tried to keep his eyes open and stared at the fire in front of him.

"Add fire, burn the fire, boil the medicine...... Add fire, burn fire, boil medicine......"

Time passed minute by minute, and Neil waited, eagerly waiting for time to move forward quickly all at once, quickly to the moment when the medicine was boiled. In fact, from just now to now, in what Neil felt was a long time, it had only been eight minutes.

"It's so slow!"

Neil propped his chin on his right hand, his mind foggy, as if he was about to fall asleep.

His head hung down as if he had lost his support, and his eyelids closed without hesitation, and at the moment when Neil was really about to fall asleep, as if a miracle of fate had happened, the door of the room was knocked hard, and the description of his brute force to knock on the door was also appropriate.

The door of the house seemed to be broken, and the sound of knocking and knocking reached the kitchen and reached Neil's ears, causing Neil to suddenly realize that it was a deafening noise similar to the cracking of the ground, which almost shook the whole house and woke Neil's sleepy worm in his heart.

"Who!"

The man came before dawn to stir up the door and disturb the rest of the house, which really annoyed Neil.

"Xia Li is still resting, I don't care, who is it!"

Neil came to the door and opened it with an annoyed expression.

"You're Neil, aren't you?" Neil saw that the guy standing outside the door was a tall man, and from the rough shape of his clothes, Neil could vaguely discern that it was a piece of armor.

The place where the man was standing was too dark, there was not much light, and almost everything except his face was covered in shadows, Neil only noticed that the other man's face had a pair of sharp eyes, and a nose with a large black mole, as for the place under the nose, including the lips, Neil couldn't see it clearly, after all, it was really dark.

Neil looked at the other party, including the expression on his face, but unfortunately there were no street lights outside the door, and Neil didn't see it really, and even a little blurry.

"Are you ......?"

"I'm a mercenary, Baker is your adoptive father, I was hired by him, the task is to leave here with two children, and a child named Xia Li, let's go now, you call her up immediately." ”

"Wait, what's going on?mercenary?Is that an adventurer?Why did Uncle hire you?"

"You have so many questions, time waits for no one, his request is to leave the harbor before six o'clock in the morning, so you hurry up and get your things ready, and we will leave immediately!"

"I can't believe you!"

"I'll take you to a safe place, to the Temple of the Four Directions, I really don't know what kind of people you provoked, anyway, get your things ready at once, and we'll leave. ”

"The Temple of the Quadripart?"

"yes, are you done? Why don't you hurry up and prepare?"

Neil was confused, he didn't understand anything, and the amount of information he suddenly heard was too much.

"Wait, what do you have to prove that you were sent by your uncle. ”

The other party seemed to be extremely impatient with Neil, and the guy who called himself a mercenary quickly said: "The herb encyclopedia in the drawer of Xia Li's room, a total of a thousand pages in the book, is that enough? ”

“…… What else did Uncle say?"

"You will only know this until you go to the temple, and he also said that there are his acquaintances in the temple, and you can ask the people of the temple when you go there. ”

"Did he say it was someone from the temple?" Neil continued.

"I don't know about this, are you done asking?

"Wait for me for ten minutes!" Neil saw that the other party was really anxious, so he dropped this sentence and rushed upstairs to wake Xia Li up.

"Xia Li! Xia Li!" Neil ran into Xia Li's room and couldn't help but wake Xia Li, "I suddenly met someone, you hurry up, we have to get out of here, and we will talk about other things later!"

“…… Huh?" Before she was woken up by Neil, she was having a sweet dream related to her father, and she was suddenly woken up, and she was startled, and before she could react from the dream, she heard Neil shouting loudly in her ear.

"We'll talk about it later!"

"What?" Xia Li said subconsciously, her expression still dazed.

"Ready to pack what you need, let's get out of here right away!

"......" Xia Li looked at Neil in silence, she was silently digesting what Neil said, Neil looked at her sluggish appearance, and planned to speak again to urge Xia Li, and try to let her understand what the situation was now.

Before Neil could speak, Charlie's eyes finally regained focus, and she exclaimed, "Wait, Neil! you mean, we're getting out of here?"

"Yes, we have to get out of here, I don't know what it is, but we have to follow the guy standing downstairs now, the guy who was asked by the uncle, we have to go to the temple, everything will be known when we get there. Neil knows very well how difficult it is to wake up and be forced to accept an unbelievable truth, and if he were to change himself, he would probably have to wait a little longer to digest the news.

"This ...... This is too hasty!"

"There's no way, you pack up the things you want to take away, I'm going downstairs to catch medicine, I don't know how long it will take, anyway, I'm going to prepare a little more......!" In short, he tried to prepare for a few more days, and the rest will be talked about when the time comes.