The return of James and Fritz was warmly welcomed by many.

The two men walked forward surrounded by the medalists, while the soldiers on the periphery surrounded the horses of the servants and helped them untie their prey from their horses.

The seven or eight of them did not hunt much of the prey, but small animals such as rabbits and grass spores, which were hung on hooks and ropes behind their horses.

Everyone was not surprised, because hunting depends on luck, sometimes you can't meet prey, no matter how powerful the hunter can't catch a prey, this is not a spring hunt held by nobles, the soldiers are diligent in order to get a piece of the pie and fight tooth sacrifices.

"Hey, why aren't there two adults?"

Some careful soldiers looked for it, but still found some clues, and said strangely.

Merlin started with the military, and hunting is the most intuitive standard for judging whether a person is brave, even if the two adults don't plan to hunt, they have to shoot a half hare or something!

One of Fritz's servants replied: "The two adults didn't even take a bow, and as soon as they went out, they threw us far away, and almost didn't keep up!" "Otherwise, they wouldn't have hunted just a dozen or so little things.

"Oh!" The soldiers who asked were not surprised.

If it is the nobles of the Holy Empire, there will be a situation where they can't hunt prey and use their prey to save face, but in Merlin, under the advocacy of the body of the emperors of the past dynasties, this kind of pompous atmosphere has been greatly curbed.

The servant on the other side commanded the wounded man to carry down the wounded man who had been brought back.

"Be careful, be careful! His Excellency James personally rescued people, and he finally survived, so don't have an accident at our hands! ”

"Hurry up and carry him to the tent, why don't you go and ask a mage to come over!"

The leader of the servants shouted repeatedly.

"Why don't you ask the two adults?" The badly wounded mage was about to be carried away on a stretcher, and the other servant hesitated, having experienced the previous events. Knowing the origin of this mage is a little wrong.

"What do you please, didn't you see the two adults busy?"

Hu Cong raised his voice and reprimanded, pulling the person aside, "I don't know if the two adults want to make this matter public, it's better to keep a low profile now to bring people back to deal with it."

You put a person in a tent and send someone to keep an eye on him, and even if he faints for a few days, the tent will not leave him for a moment!

When the adults think of this person, they will naturally deal with it. ”

Hu Cong nodded again and again, beckoning his companion to carry the unconscious mage down.

Naturally, James and Fritz did not forget about it, and they also brought back a living man. When he was surrounded by people and talking, Yu Guang also saw Hu Cong carrying people down.

James didn't bother to socialize with most of the people except the mage, and the conversation was largely handled by Fritz.

Fritz is good at dancing with long sleeves. Although most of the people here are far below him, he doesn't treat anyone slowly, basically everyone can say a word or two, some people are missed, and he doesn't make the other person feel left out. On the contrary, most felt that they were valued by Fritz's unmarked communication skills, and some were flushed, feeling honored and excited to be valued by royal ministers of great aristocratic origin.

This does not blame these people for being greedy for vanity and utilitarianism, the purpose of this trip back to the imperial capital is not as simple as receiving honors, they are received and awarded by the emperor. Life will usher in a new turning point, and the purpose of being born and dying on the battlefield before is for this day.

This period can be said to be the biggest turning point in their lives. Maybe it will determine the ups and downs of the rest of their lives and even their families.

Who doesn't want to stand on the www.biquge.info of a higher Biqu Pavilion, so making friends with this Lord Fritz in advance, and being able to open the first step into the circle of the imperial capital under his traction, may be able to get more opportunities in the imperial capital.

James looked at the scene with cold eyes, and there were some people around him. However, because they have been together for a long time, many people know that he is not easy to please. Therefore, the core of communication is focused on the new face of Franz.

It was also a common sight in aristocratic interactions.

New faces are always more popular in closed social circles, although this enthusiasm is very vain, and under those enthusiastic faces there may be novelty or even ill-intentioned malice to see new things, but newcomers are often easily confused by the vanity and glitz of the surface, lost in the sweet dreams of being surrounded by everyone or valued by big people, until they wake up from the dream, they do not know that they have always been a funny clown in the eyes of others.

Thinking of this, James's eyes were slightly cold, and he even lost the mood to cope with the surface.

To the south of Icefield and Gaunt City, are two completely different worlds. James wasn't surprised that his companions, who had been sitting together for dinner a few days ago, would have such a change after leaving the ice field, but he only felt a pang of boredom at the thought that he would face ten times the scene he would face when he returned to the imperial capital.

He saw the movement of the servants in the afterglow, raised his hand and beckoned, and the people around him saw that he was in trouble, and stopped and let him go. James stepped aside and casually asked, "What about people?" ”

"Go back to your lordship, move to the tent," Hu Cong pointed to the direction of the leader, and said the way he ordered to deal with it, "Do you have any other orders?" ”

"Well done," James nodded, thought for a moment and added, "Although don't be high-profile, and don't deliberately hide the news of this person, you ask my squire Luke to ask the mages in the team to recognize the person and see if anyone knows this mage." ”

"Yes, sure enough, the adults have thought it through." The leader of the Hu Cong looks hard and solid, but he seems to know how to get along with the superiors, unlike the ordinary Hu Cong soldiers.

"Stop being a sycophant." James laughed.

The leader of the Hu Cong around Franz is a person cultivated by the Yort family, and he has no special purpose for James's flattery, it is nothing more than a desire to please, James does not have much aversion to this kind of flattery with a relatively simple purpose, at least a person with the status of the leader of Hu Cong, he does not dare to look on the surface and hide the other, and it is disgustingly false.

"Take it and give it to your brethren."

James made a big move, and directly threw away a rough sapphire the size of a tail finger, and the leader also knew the goods. Thanking him again and again, James waved his hand, glanced at Fritz, who was still surrounded in the center, and said impatiently:

"Go and urge your family, when will he delay it, and then socialize, I will go to see Master Lin by myself!"

By this time they had already walked to a campfire, where the private chef brought by Fritz was busy.

Looking at the situation, it seemed like he was going to have a dinner, and James didn't know what Fritz had said when he had sent someone back. But this scene must have been ordered by Fritz.

The leader had just gotten something from James, and of course he was happy to obey. Fritz heard his subordinates in the middle of the conversation, and in a blink of an eye, he saw James surrounded by several people again, with a faint look of impatience on his face, a smile flashing in his eyes, and he dragged on for a moment before he could get out. Towards James.

James's patience had long since run out, and he sent the few people next to him, and when he saw Fritz's unhurried pace, he said impatiently:

"You're going to have a luncheon? Why don't you just stop the whole party and let you have a carnival dance party on the spot? ”

"Eh, don't be so impatient!"

Fritz spread his hands. Cunning flashed in his eyes, "Isn't that Master Lin about to get out?" Although you can't hold a grand banquet, you can have a dinner. It always shows the importance that I, the messenger, attach to His Excellency the mage, and a girl who is less than twenty years old, even if she is a mage, should not be disgusted with this kind of occasion! ”

James was stunned.

"It's not that you don't know her situation, according to normal circumstances. There's no way she's going to wake up so soon......" James frowned and said mid-range when he was interrupted by Fritz.

"I know. You've sent a message to Master Meghan to ask her questions -- it's the first time I've seen you care so much about a marriageable woman. ”

Fritz smirked smugly, with a sly look of "got you".

James understood Fritz's purpose.

Because of the fuse of the scandal between him and the old man, no one in the imperial capital knew his sexuality, and after the incident broke out, he did not cover it up, but completely fell out with the old man, and in the eyes of others, he was completely broken and broken, so his marriage and heirs have always been the focus of attention of those who care about him, especially since he is now over thirty years old, and even his friends are beginning to get anxious.

In the aristocracy, although his abnormal sexual orientation is scandalous, it is not a new thing, after all, the style of child prostitution has been repeatedly banned since the founding of the country.

What's more, James doesn't have any strange habits such as transvestite, and when he gets along with his companions, he is no different from normal people.

What's more, even if he insists on going his own way, it is nothing, as long as he assumes the responsibility of continuing the bloodline as the eldest son, it is not a big deal to play a few prostitutes in private, and it does not prevent him from having a normal marriage and family, even if he is a mage, there is no need to be lonely and widowed.

But he and Lynn?

James couldn't stop laughing.

He said lightly: "My perception of Lin is just an appreciation of beautiful things,"

This didn't even affect him to speak ill of Lin An and offend the other party, as for sending a letter to the teacher to ask or something, there were many factors, not only because of Lin's injury, but also because of the clues to the blood-light vision that day.

“…… Besides, if your plan is announced here, believe it or not, you are the second son of the Marquis of Yot, and someone will dare to stab you in the middle? ”

James said, glancing at Hemmer, who was talking to his companions in the crowd, he obviously hadn't heard the news of Lynn's "exit", otherwise he wouldn't be sitting here so peacefully.

James told him about the experience of the ice field, but there was not much specific involvement of Lin An, and Fritz's eyes widened in surprise, "A female mage less than twenty years old, with such a high prestige in your group?" ”

Of course, he knew that the enthusiasm he had just received was just an illusion on the surface, just like the upper circles of the imperial capital would not accept strangers lightly, and these warriors who walked down from the battlefield and fought for great feats with real swords and guns would not lightly identify with a great aristocratic son who had never even been on the battlefield but enjoyed a rich and noble status that was difficult for them to achieve.

"She's not an ordinary person, how is it not ordinary, you can see it yourself,"

James warned his old friend with a smirk, "But even if it's you, I warn you not to offend her in public in the future, otherwise you will go all the way to the imperial capital from now on." The 'visitor' in front of your door...... It's sure to be endless! ”

Fritz heard a certain bad taste from James's mouth, he touched his shiny mustache, and instead of being provoked, he dismissed the idea of asking Lin An to show up, intending to observe and then make a conclusion.

The luncheon began, and James was in a good mood because he had taken Fritz into a daze, and he didn't care that Fritz had wasted his time, so he casually joined in to the meal.

After the luncheon, the team set off again. Smoke and dust rolled behind the mighty brigade.

Since Lin An woke up early, James estimated that she had used the secret medicine of the traveling scholar named Angus, and sent someone to ask during lunch. The squire sent received only an unclear answer from John, and those who went to Angus were told that it was not convenient to reveal Master Lynn's private information, and that they should inquire about the specific situation.

But such an outcome is enough to make James seven or eight points sure.

For this female mage. James's feelings are somewhat mixed.

Although she had a verbal disagreement with Lin An, the qualities she showed in the avalanche and the way she behaved in the rear camp of the Chinese army were quite to his liking;

As a female mage, the other party has no less than his achievements and strength at a young age, which makes him dare not underestimate him;

But the other party has a rather complex background with countless mysteries. And judging from Ravia's death and this sudden serious injury, the mystery behind her is only the tip of the iceberg at present.

In addition, the importance of the Mourinho masters. Rheinthal's prudence and jealousy, as well as the different views of those in the imperial capital, and even her fame on the ice field, and the turmoil that arose afterwards, all showed that she was a figure who stood on the cusp of the limelight and the focus of everyone's attention.

The most important thing is that she has a peerless beauty that captivates the country and the city. And the potential that is completely proportional to her beauty, she has the ability to maximize the influence of this kind of chip background.

As you can imagine. With her life, whether it is incomparable glory or the overthrow of worldly power, it will make her life extremely wonderful!

However, for James, who is the eldest son of the head of the Blue Lion family, he has been at his fingertips since birth, and he has long been tired of it, but he is still quite curious about Lin An's future:

Such a young and unparalleled talent and conditions of the pride of the heavens, a certain Cheng dù is very similar to himself, he really wants to see what will happen to this girl after she walks into the big dyeing pool of mixed colors in the imperial capital.

Is it stained with the mud of the world by this dye vat?

Or is it not a dust, sharpening her edge in this world?

***

Night falls.

After three days of walking, the team finally saw ordinary villages and normal township people, and that night, they stopped outside a township.

The mayor of the town, who had only one title of lord for life, gave up the manor outside the town where he and his family lived, and was given the opportunity to dine at the same table with nobles far above him.

Also because of the delay of dinner, when James and Fritz left the manor and came to Lin An's tent outside the manor, the first quarter moon had quietly risen into the sky.

Unable to show up, Lin An did not live in the manor like the other honorees, but stayed in the military camps outside the manor, where she had long felt cloths borrowed from the mayor's house around the tents, occupying a large open space in the middle of the army camp.

When John announced the arrival of the two, Lin An had just taken a shower, wiped her hair, and walked out of the tent to walk slowly in the open space surrounded by felt cloth, moving her long-asleep and stiff body—she had long been accustomed to this normal way of life because she could not use magic.

Due to being upwind, the night breeze of the summer night is very fresh, the sky on the plain is exceptionally low, and the black curtain is dotted with countless stars, since entering the ice field, it has been nearly three years, and Lin An has not seen such a clear and beautiful night sky again.

She enjoyed such a wonderful and quiet night alone, regretting that she could not fly into the air for a while, and suddenly remembered a certain tune she had once heard, and hummed lowly.

James and Fritz, who were dragged in by Johann, saw exactly this scene:

In the night breeze, the girl with the black hair was gently swayed with her head half-tilted, and the faint starlight kissed her flawless cheeks, and the quiet night scene was outlined in a minor tone, only the girl with the side face was exposed with a slender neck, and the side lines were perfect and picturesque.

Fritz's calm steps involuntarily stopped. A reserved smile on his face was fixed on his face.

Even James and John, who had seen Lin An's true face beside him, suddenly saw the scene when Lin An was enjoying the silence alone, as if he had accidentally peeked into a secret that no one knew, and his breath stopped.

Lin An keenly felt the gaze of his eyes, and quickly opened his eyes to see that the beautiful and private scene just now was broken, and the beautiful atmosphere was fleeting, which made the witnesses faintly feel regretful in their hearts.

It was John who reacted first, because Lin An's gaze had already fallen on him, and he asked faintly in surprise.

"Your Excellency. The two Excellencies, James and Fritz, have come out of nowhere, and I'm sorry I didn't have time to inform you. John accused.

He was also secretly troubled in his heart.

Unexpectedly, Lin An, whose body was far from recovering, not only did not rest. She also walked out of the tent alone, but Maria, who was supposed to be guarding by her side, was nowhere to be seen, otherwise Maria would not have been hindered by the wind, and he would never have rushed here with two male guests without knowing it, so that the situation just now was seen by outsiders.

"Forget it. It's not your fault. ”

Lin An, who was disturbed, was also faintly unhappy, but knew that he couldn't blame John.

After having Maria, such private matters as bathing John would be far away, and according to normal circumstances, she was almost asleep at this time, and Maria saw that Lin An no longer needed her to serve. Naturally, he temporarily left to take away the residual water after bathing, and Lin An also thought that he would break into her tent curtain at this time, but unexpectedly, the two James, who had not visited for a whole day, suddenly arrived-

All sorts of unexpected coincidences. caused this scene.

After Lin An finished speaking lightly, he looked past John to the two uninvited guests, nodded slightly to James, and then looked at Fritz with a slight question.

James had already withdrawn from the beautiful scene he had just glimpsed and understood the meaning of Lin An's gaze.

"Good evening. Master Lynn, sorry to bother you. This is the envoy of the Receiving Mission, Fritz, who came on behalf of His Majesty. Reagan. Vidic. Benson. Yot. My old friend. ”

His near-perfect appearance of Lin An is only a normal appreciation, although there is an inheritance of the ancestors' love for beautiful people* in the character, but because she knows something about her in the first few encounters with Lin An, her appearance factor can only account for half of Lin An's perception.

What's more, it was not the first time James had seen Lin An, so he was able to sober up quickly.

But Fritz obviously didn't wake up so quickly from the shock of Lin An's appearance, and James didn't mind his friend being a little embarrassed in such an informal occasion where there were few people, so he didn't remind him, and Fritz waited for James to finish speaking, and then he was two beats slower before he recovered from John's heavy cough.

He didn't notice James's smile on the show, but the aristocratic education rooted in the bone marrow would not make him look ugly, he was stunned, quickly understood the situation he was facing, and quickly found a way to deal with it, without taking his eyes off Lin An, a heartfelt sigh overflowed from his mouth:

"Your beauty is a miracle that should not be seen in the world!

- Please allow me to use such rhetoric in an offensive way to express the amazement of my heart!

But at this moment, I am extremely confident that this starry night will definitely become a precious memory that I will never forget in my life! ”

The words were eloquent and sincere, Fritz's words were not deliberately emphasized, and no one present could feel any falsehood and disguise in the words, and he was sincerely amazed by Lin An's beauty.

There is no woman who doesn't like such sincere compliments, and Lin An is no exception, her face softened a little, and she even smiled slightly at Fritz.

The previous abrupt visit and Fritz's gaffe were erased in this way.

But the conversation didn't go on, heavy footsteps approached, and Maria who was holding the empty wooden basin walked back, she was surprised by the extra man, but the focus of her eyes was immediately attracted by Lin An outside the tent:

"Oh~~ My young lady! - How can such a thin person come out with a robe on! ”

Maria rushed over like a screaming old hen, and her sturdy body with a strong waist and round hips immediately covered Lin An's whole person, lining Lin An's incomparably petite, and then she carefully picked up Lin An with an extraordinarily gentle movement like a precious porcelain, and walked directly into the tent upside down, ignoring everyone's existence.

The three men outside the tent were dumbfounded.

It's not that they can't react, but ......

Three big men with martial arts magic and Lin An, the famous purple rose, the four of them were just stopped by a country maid, how strange they thought!

Among the four people, Lin An may be the only one, and she really has no objective strength to resist, but she probably also feels embarrassed, and after entering the tent with Maria, there was a faint whisper, and after a while, there was no sound in the tent.

James saw some clues from Lin An's reaction, and asked tentatively, "Master Lin's body seems to be ......."

"Yes, the adult's injuries have not recovered, maybe he is a little tired." John took the words and said lightly.

"Oh......"

James was thoughtful, not knowing what he was thinking.

Fritz, who was beside him, answered and thoughtfully took his leave:

"It seems that tonight is really not a good time for a long conversation, so let Lord Lin have a good rest, and I hope that her presumptuous visit to-night will not make a bad impression on her.

If you need any help, feel free to send someone to me! ”

In the last sentence, he raised his voice slightly, so that Lin An in the tent could hear it