Chapter 9: Escape at Night

Bohemia, in addition to this seemingly familiar and slightly lofty name to those who do not know, has another name that is more widely known and better known to the general public—gypsy.

In Dingmu's impression, gypsies are always associated with the words "passionate" and "romantic".

So when he saw Kunto's face change in an instant, he couldn't help but be a little stunned.

Kunto is a calm person who can deal with danger calmly.

At least Ding Mu thought so before this, so although he didn't trust this person, after weighing the pros and cons, he still chose to follow Kuntuo for the time being.

But now Kunto immediately became irritable because of the girl who suddenly appeared.

"How can there be a bohemian here!"

Kunto stared at the girl and kept asking, not knowing who he was asking.

"What's wrong with this bohemian, isn't she the one you're waiting for?"

Ding Mu was puzzled, Kunto's behavior was really different from before, he looked this girl up and down, he couldn't tell how old she was, looking at her figure, she had the plumpness of a gypsy, but from the face, he felt that this girl should not be very old.

"Bohemian, what are you thinking, I'm going to have a date with a bohemian?" Kunto's face became even more ugly as if he had been insulted, "Maybe it's nothing in Greece, but do you think it's funny to make such a joke here?" ”

Ding Mu shook his head blankly, he felt that Kunto was like a cat with its tail stepped on, which was a little unreasonable.

"Hey, go away from the Bohèmes," Kunto waved as if he was chasing a dog, "Don't let me see you again, or I'll hang you in a nearby tree." ”

The girl apparently understood, and a look of annoyance flashed in her unusually bright eyes in her sunken eyes, but she didn't speak, just glanced at the jerky roasted on the fire, and turned to leave.

"Wait," Ding Mu endured it and finally spoke, he picked up a large piece of steaming jerky from the fire, walked over and handed it to the girl, "You can take this." ”

The girl seemed to be a little surprised, she tilted her head slightly to look at Ding Mu first, and then looked at the jerky suspiciously, and then slowly stretched out her hand, and then suddenly snatched it over!

Then without saying a word, she turned and ran down the hill!

"You're such a kind person," Kunto didn't stop him from beginning to end, but when Ding Mu returned to the fire, he divided the remaining pieces of jerky, leaving only a small one for Ding Mu, "This is your share, and you have given the rest to the bohemian woman." ”

Ding Mu smiled, he didn't regret that this meal probably couldn't even be half full, although he did seem to be a bit troublesome when he thought about it.

"That bohemian woman is beautiful, isn't she?" Kunto suddenly asked, "But they rely on this bastard to eat, and after confusing you, they will deceive you into emptying your money bag, or simply rob it." Bohemians are unlucky, and meeting them will only bring bad luck. ”

Ding Mu opened his mouth and didn't argue in the end, he knew that even in later generations, the mainstream society in many places had such and such prejudices and even hostility towards Gypsies, which was certainly a little unfair, but it was not completely unreasonable.

And in this era, Gypsies are clearly more discriminated against, and are even generally seen as a symbol of bad luck.

This can be seen in Kunto's sudden agitation.

Dantinmu doesn't have that of gypsies, but he doesn't have to distinguish anything.

"We'll go into town after dark, and hopefully it won't be a bad sign to meet the bohemians."

After eating, Kun Tuo began to carefully check his travel baggage, and it was only then that Ding Mu noticed that his baggage was somewhat similar to some travel bags that survived in the wild in later generations, and there were some pockets sealed with buttons on the outer layer, and I thought that those miscellaneous things were placed inside.

Winter darkens quickly, and the west, where there was still a lingering glow, becomes only a shallow light floating on the horizon without paying attention, and as the light gradually disappears, the whole of Arszhenta is completely shrouded in the darkness brought by the night.

The city below has been dotted with lights, and to Kunto's surprise, this small town, which was supposed to be a little depressed at night, looks unusually lively.

"It's a little too lively," Apparently Kunto didn't think something was right, "I've been here before, it's obviously not like this, I said you should be careful." ”

So saying, he walked forward to the town below the mountain.

Arszhenta is really small, and even if you have entered the city, you will soon find that the two main streets that converge from the left and right towards the middle of the city, and finally gather in a small square called Palm Springs, are the main streets of the city, and all the houses are built around these two streets.

On the eastern side of the square, a slightly recessed open space is a church, and a stepped path leads from the church entrance to the square.

Ding Mu was arranged by Kunto to wait by a scripture monument at the end of the path leading to the square, while he himself walked along the path in the direction of the church.

There was a commotion from the direction of one of the roads leading to the square, a shrill shout, unbridled laughter, and someone shouting something in the local dialect with a strange accent.

Then, a small but sturdy carriage slowly appeared at the corner of the street surrounded by a large group of people.

It was a group of gypsies with women dressed in bright costumes, but mostly men in strange short coats.

The shouting loudly, the flames that couldn't stop spewing, the gypsy woman who stepped on the wheel of the car with one foot on the other and kept waving her hands barefoot outside her skirt, this jeep racing team that looked like an army patrolling the country was followed by a large group of residents of Arszhenda, and at the front of the entire convoy, Ding Mu seemed to see the girl he met unexpectedly on the mountain!

She was still wearing the unusually bright dress, except for a wreath of yellow winter chrysanthemums on her head, and a wreath of the same around her neck, but what caught Ding Mu's attention was that she was standing on a large wooden plank dragged by several gypsies.

"Rich, and certainly generous, good people of Arszhenda," cried a gypsy in the form of a man in an exaggerated tone, "I know what you would like to see, and although unfortunately today is our last day here, I have been touched by you enthusiastic people, so we have decided to make an exception for our beautiful, brave, unrivaled, and most popular Sophia and her cruel, ruthless, and dangerous companion to show her extraordinary skills once again~!" ”

The spectators screamed and shouted excitedly, while a trumpet sounded from the caravan.

At the sound of the horn, a dark shadow suddenly appeared on the roof of the caravan, and as it scurried over the roof of the caravan, and finally in the screams of the people, the figure fell to the ground beautifully.

It was a young man in his twenties, and the flowery turban on his head and the beard on his lips made him look very lean, especially the eyes, which were as sharp as those of a hound ready to pounce at any moment, and a scar on the bridge of his nose that looked hideous.

"Gurga, my son, he once showed his bravery and skill to the greatest monarch in the royal palace of the East, but unfortunately the monarch was a tyrant and a jealous man, you can see the ugly scar on the bridge of his nose, it is because the admiration of the monarch's favorite concubine for him has angered the tyrant," the head man could not help but stir up his feelings, he walked over and hugged the young man vigorously, and then took his shoulders and spun in place, "but today we do not want Gurga to show his dangerous charm, but another, more terrible danger. ”

The young man had gone to the middle of the room, and by this time the gypsies had lifted the round table to the front and erected it, and the girl named Sophia was standing in front of the wooden table.

Ding Mu had already roughly guessed what they were going to perform at this time, and at first he only watched with interest, but when he saw the young man strapped a dagger to the end of a long leather whip, he became a little nervous.

The girl had already spread her arms, and the wooden table behind her began to rotate under the control of the mechanism behind the table, and the series of Roman numerals carved on the table gradually blurred from the beginning to the clarity.

"Let us witness this moment, good inhabitants of Arszhenta, and you will see a wonder that will never be seen in a lifetime." The leader shouted loudly, and as he blew a burning fire stick in his hand, a ball of flames immediately rose into the sky!

The long whip was swung up, and when the first loud whip sounded, Ding Mu's shoulders suddenly trembled!

It's just that it wasn't because of the nervousness of seeing the performance, but because a hand suddenly pressed his shoulder from behind!

Ding Mu turned his head suddenly, and saw Kuntuo's face in the distant firelight, but that face was pale, and from his slightly trembling lips, he could barely hear a few words squeezed out of his slightly trembling lips: "Get out of here, leave quickly......"

As he spoke, Kunto's body began to slide downward.

Ding Mu was taken aback, although they had not been together for a long time, he had seen Kunto's methods, and now Kunto was suddenly injured, which made Ding Mu immediately feel that danger was coming.

"Where there are a lot of people," Kunto commanded in a low voice, gasping for breath, and could feel the strength of his fingers on Ding Mu's shoulder, apparently enduring great pain, "They don't dare to make trouble in the open." ”

Ding Mu helped Kunto squeeze into the crowd, fortunately it was night at this time, although the lights were bright, but the people were obviously attracted by the performance of the gypsies in the venue, although the rush to bump into a few people caused cursing, but they only regarded them as drunk drunks.

Ding Mu struggled to squeeze through the crowd while constantly looking back.

He soon noticed that several people were looking around in the crowd, apparently not watching a show.

"Don't look back, let's get out of here."

Kunto seemed to have lost his strength, but he still tried to move forward as much as he could, and when they were about to walk out of the crowd, Ding Mu suddenly felt a hard thing stuffed into his hand, and he looked down to see that it was the folding crossbow that was not very powerful.

"Listen, no matter what happens in a while, listen to me now," Kun Tuo admonished, then slapped Ding Mu on the shoulder, and let out a low roar in his mouth, "Bow your head, run!" ”

Ding Mu took a step forward almost instinctively, he could feel Kunto's hand on his shoulder and run forward, and at the moment when he rushed out of the crowd and was about to rush into the dark street, he heard a faint shout from behind, "Look, they are there!" ”

Ding Mu kept running forward, although he didn't know who was chasing them, but now he couldn't care about this, even if he simply parted ways with Kuntuo later, but at this time, he had to escape first.

The streets were dark, full of low, jagged houses, and the stench of muddy gutters on both sides of the road was disgusting, and because it was quiet, the footsteps of the pursuers could soon be heard behind them.

Ding Mu ran forward without knowing the direction, the chaotic buildings looked disorganized, and he didn't know where the road would lead next.

"This way."

Kun Tuo seemed to be familiar with this place, he pushed Ding Mu hard and squeezed into a gap in the house that looked like he was suffering a little sideways, and then after a difficult walk, he entered another alley.

Then, at Kunto's orders, they climbed through a hole under a sealed wooden door and entered a courtyard that looked like it had been uninhabited for a long time.

"Right here," Kunto leaned against the steps, his chest rising and falling, and when Ding Mu tried to help him untie his robe, he grabbed his wrist, "Listen, you have to remember everything I said. ”

"I'll show you the injuries first." Although the relationship between this person and him is a little complicated, and they still use each other, but now seeing him like this, Ding Mu can't help but be a little anxious.

"You have to listen," Kunto said, "I'm poisoned, I've never seen it before, so don't waste my time." ”

Ding Mu was stunned for a moment, and then looked at him.

"Go to Palermo, but don't look for the bishop, go to Priest Alphonso, and tell him something," said Kunto, breathing more and more rapidly, and he grabbed Ding Mu by the collar and pulled him to his ear, as if he was afraid that someone else would hear it, "'From now on, that noble crown will remain', remember, say it again. ”

"From now on, that noble crown will remain," Ding Mu repeated.

"Well, go to him, find the priest and tell him this......" Kunto's body slowly sank until he was silent.

Ding Mu squatted beside Kuntuo in a daze, he didn't expect this person to die so suddenly.

Now, he's the only one left.

The sound of footsteps came from outside the house, and Ding Mu's heart tightened for a moment, and he grabbed the short crossbow and looked around, running along the low wall to the other side.

As soon as he left, the sound of intrusion sounded in the courtyard behind him.

Ding Mu struggled to run forward, and there was a faint sound of someone chasing behind him, Ding Mu's feet sped up, and suddenly with the soles of his feet empty, his whole person rolled down a slope!

There was a towering black thing in front of him, it seemed to be a camp, Ding Mu hurriedly flashed to the back of a tent, he casually lifted the lid of a wooden box, and when he saw that he could open it, he immediately turned over and got in.

The sound of noisy footsteps came, and Ding Mu's heart was extremely nervous.

Suddenly, the lid of the box was lifted with force, and the face of the beautiful gypsy girl he had seen before appeared in front of him!