Chapter 563: That Flower
This is a woman with a story, and Charan is curious to know if her story has anything to do with Selle. Pen | fun | pavilion www. biquge。 info
There is not much time left for him, he can't be passive all the time, if he wants to figure out his conjecture as soon as possible, he must take the initiative, whether it is right or wrong.
Beautiful women are always easy to provoke, especially lonely women, but strangely he has never heard of the women in the mansion being harassed by unscrupulous people, although the district of St. Paulan has always been safe, theft and other cases rarely occur, but he never believed that no one had the idea of beating each other.
According to the information obtained by him in the civil affairs department of the city hall, the mansion originally belonged to a wealthy merchant, but later due to the bankruptcy of the business, the mansion was forced to be auctioned, and in 1125 of the New Moon Apocalypse Calendar, it was by an unknown person that the mysterious woman moved into the mansion at that time, and the real owner of the mansion has never been seen. Xia Lan tried to find the whereabouts of this person, but unfortunately it ended in nothing.
For twelve years, the women in the mansion lived a quiet life without quarrel with the world, and from the acquaintances of the neighbors, she seemed to be not good at words, but only used to smile and listen, her smile was very clean and warm, and her sick appearance was always easy to provoke distress and pity, so even if she rarely socialized with her neighbors, it did not hinder the friendly impression of her neighbors.
She likes to read, and on a sunny afternoon, she will lie on a rocking chair in the shade of the trees in the yard and read a book for an hour or two, sometimes wondering whether she likes to read or the comfortable feeling of the afternoon sun pouring on her body.
Her name is Violet, this is the name she revealed to the public, to be exact, it is not a name, it is purely a perfunctory nickname.
There are too many mysteries on her, and the more you investigate, the easier it is to attract them.
Xia Lan had observed her many times from a distance, and from the perspective of threat alone, he could be sure that the other party was an ordinary woman who was helpless, and the same was true of the nanny who accompanied her all year round. As for whether there is a hidden protector inside the mansion, it is difficult to determine.
So he decided to scare the snake.
He disguised himself and secretly went to the green wheat neighborhood, did not go deep, but knocked out a villainous refugee and took him to the vicinity of the mysterious woman's mansion, and when the refugee woke up, through threats and inducements, he successfully forced the refugee to agree to sneak into the mansion and steal.
On the fifth day of the second week, in the early hours of the morning, when the garrison finished patrolling the street, Xia Lan, who was in charge of the guard, was shrouded in black robes, he patted the cowering refugees beside him, and ordered him to act immediately in a hoarse voice, and finally did not forget to warn him.
People are swordsmen, I am fish and meat, small lives are in the hands of others, there is only a dead end to resist, there is no choice but to be honest and obedient to the refugees, bullying the soft and afraid of the hard is the character characteristics of people like them.
The moonlight tonight is beautiful, but no matter how beautiful the moonlight is, it is difficult to hide the sins in the shadows.
The refugees roughly understood the situation of the mansion from Xia Lan's mouth, there were only two women living in the huge house, and there were not even guards to guard the house, standing in the position of gangsters, this is undoubtedly an excellent target for robbery and theft, but the question is why Xia Lan, who coerced him to go to the mansion to steal, didn't do it himself? If you think about it, you know that there must be something strange in it.
Outside the mansion, there is a circle of walls more than three meters high, the wall is smooth, it is not easy to climb, normal people can only climb with the help of tools, and the gate is a solid iron gate with a pitch black body, with spikes at the top, even if it takes a lot of effort to break the door violently. Of course, burglars rarely choose to sneak through the main entrance, and the blind spot of the fence is usually their usual choice.
With the help of the grappling hook and rope prepared in advance, the refugees who sneaked into the corner of the wall were very vigilant, and they observed for a long time before they moved, threw the hook, hooked the edge of the wall, and tightened the rope to test the degree of stability.
The refugees sneaked into the courtyard of the mansion and did not move for a long time, and when a floating cloud covered the purple moon and the earth fell into darkness, Xia Lan, who was standing in the distance with excellent eyesight, noticed that the other party was tiptoeing against the wall and began to move, his demeanor was full of caution and caution, this picture made him sigh, what a qualified thief embryo, he really found the right person unintentionally.
After a while, the refugee managed to come to the window on the side of the mansion, he poked his head out and looked into the window, and immediately retracted it, then took out the tool for picking the window from his arms, and in less than ten seconds, he opened the locked window and got inside.
Seeing this, Xia Lan was no longer indifferent, he quietly approached the edge of the wall, and released his perception with all his strength to monitor the movements of the refugees in the mansion.
There are no lights in the mansion, and some places where the moonlight does not shine are unusually dark, and in the face of an unfamiliar environment, it is difficult to move an inch without light, in case you accidentally touch the things in the house, the movement caused by it is easy to wake up the people in the house.
Fortunately, the refugee had fluorescent stone in his hand, and with the faint light, he could roughly see the surrounding scene, and in Xia Lan's perception, the other party's movement in the mansion was like a snail's slowness, and he barely missed any corners, as if he was familiar with the terrain of the room, leaving his footprints in every place.
After walking through the first floor of the mansion and making sure that there was no danger, the refugee who was about to sneak into the second floor suddenly stopped at the staircase.
Then, his aura completely disappeared from Xia Lan's perception.
What's going on?
Xia Lan's expression outside the wall froze, and he had a premonition that something had happened to the refugees!
Strangely, he did not perceive any signs of danger at all.
Feeling that things were not good, he immediately evacuated without the slightest hesitation.
The next day.
The disguised Charan came to the mansion again, and he found that the woman in the house was still lying in a rocking chair in the shade of a tree as usual, quietly reading a book, as if she had no idea what was happening during the night.
The strangeness of the matter was beyond Xia Lan's imagination, and the only thing he could be sure of was that there was a great danger hidden in the mansion, a danger that even he would not dare to get involved in easily.
Need to give up?
Xia Lan asked himself in his heart, he didn't have too many unwilling emotions, and sometimes there was no need to risk his life when he couldn't do anything.
However, he still chose to stay and continue to monitor the movements of the women in the mansion, even if there was not much time left for him to investigate.
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"My lord, that's all he has been doing in Cologne these days."
In a quiet room in the church of Barria, Adjutant Casal gave Mommer a detailed account of the recent situation in Xialan.
Momer, who had secretly returned to Cologne at some point, leaned back in his chair, rested his feet on the table in front of him, and casually flipped through a document in his hand, and after listening to Casal's report, he threw the information in his hand on the table casually, with an intriguing smile on his face.
It seems that he is not as reckless and simple as we imagined, and he found the right direction of the investigation by chance, but unfortunately, he found a dead end...... The flower had been silent for twelve years, and in those twelve years countless people had beaten her idea, but all of them had become her flower fertilizer. ”
"Do you need to give him a warning?"
"No, I'm sure he won't act rashly."
Mommer waved his hand and said indifferently.
"When he thought he had deceived everyone's eyes, who would have thought that he would have become the focus of attention in the eyes of others, and what I needed was his role in hiding people's eyes."
"I hope he won't hate us when he knows the truth of the matter."
"It's a good thing to hate, at least I know that he is a young man with a normal age mentality, if not, it can only mean that someone is as wise as a torch."
"According to the information collected in the past two days, the demonstrations made by the refugees are gradually starting to die down, but we have reason to believe that the mastermind behind the scenes is brewing a larger conspiracy." Casal continued to perform his duties as an adjutant.
"The Templar envoys have arrived in Drochetin to formally negotiate with the Heather Empire's higher-ups, right?" Mommer asked inexplicably.
"Yes, the exact arrival time was four days ago." Casal said truthfully.
"What about the Heather Empire's movements around Braunschweig-Salus?" Mommer asked again.
"There's no movement." Casal Road.
"I suddenly had a foreboding feeling." Momer was silent for a long time.
"Do you mean war?" Casal said sharply.
"Do you believe that in the near future the entire continent will break out in a war that looks like the end of the world?" Mommer stared at the other and said solemnly.
"There are all kinds of indications that war is indeed likely in the future, but I don't think a full-scale war will happen anytime soon." Casal calmly judged: "Unless the top brass of the Heather Empire is collectively insane. ”
"I think they're crazy." Mommer sighed and said, "Since the War of the New Faith, what country or force have you ever seen that dares to threaten the Templars with force to compromise head-on? Not even the "Subversive Fangs", which had been battling the light and dark sides of the Templars, had never done so. ”
"After all, times are different, the Templars have long since lost their former glory, as the most powerful country in Eldran today, the Heather Empire is indeed qualified to sit on an equal footing with the Templars, but when it comes to hegemony and war, the difference between the two is like adults and children cannot be compared at all, because the rich heritage accumulated by the Templar over the past 10,000 years is far from being comparable to the nascent Heather Empire." "I don't believe that the top brass of the Heather Empire can't see through this problem, maybe they seem crazy, but isn't this a risk-taking and tentative strategy of theirs?" Otherwise, why would they agree to negotiate with the Templar in the end? The reason is nothing more than to take the initiative to squeeze more profits. Of course, these are just the ones on my personal guess. (To be continued.) )