"Misunderstanding?"

The freedfolk Nadur raised his eyebrows angrily, and his hound, sensing his master's displeasure, arched his body and bared his teeth at the leopard man, who in his eyes must have been a leopard-print monster walking upright on two legs.

"He's my enemy!"

"Oh, in front of the Duke, don't talk so badly, okay?"

The mercenary captain was obviously not afraid of the spears of the Saint-Gal and his angry hounds, but rather had a flirtatious pleasure.

"Come to think of it, there's some wonderful fate between us, isn't it, my old friend?"

"Shameless bastards, go to hell!"

Hearing de Wald's teasing, Nadur immediately stabbed at the other man with his spear, and his hound jumped up and pounced on the mercenary captain's leg, and they suddenly fought.

"Hehe, do you want to hurt me?"

De-Wald snorted disdainfully and kicked away the seemingly ferocious hound while grabbing Nadur's spear with ease, in a tug-of-war.

"How do you say that you do it? The spear is not the hospitality of the people of St. Gall! ”

The few mercenaries next to him looked at the excitement indifferently, and they didn't even move during the whole process, and they kept crossing their arms and watching with great interest.

"Cursed obscene embryo, you only deserve to taste the taste of ten thousand arrows piercing your heart in hell!"

Unlike the mercenary leader's one-handed grip, the Saint-Gal was clearly inferior in strength, clutching the shaft of his spear as if it were a disobedient bull, and his face was flushed.

When de Wald's face changed slightly when he heard the word hell, he puffed out his cheeks angrily, and said seriously and jokingly: "Don't mention hell, my old friend, the priest of Mainz, said that I would ascend to heaven, and he and several other priests will pray for me day and night." ”

"I can't imagine that God's servants are so blind to good and evil, and they are not truly devout believers at all!"

Nadur cursed as he tried to retrieve the spear, his hound lying on his stomach with his tail clenched and lying far away from the wound he had just been wounded.

"Your dogs know more about current affairs than you do."

The mercenary captain said with a sudden force, and the spear made of thin fir poles broke overwhelmed, and the detached Saint-Gal staggered to the ground, and before he could get up his throat, he had a sharp dagger.

"You can't say it so badly, friend, the priest has to pray for me, though he is a nuisance when he is insatiable and always asks for money."

Seeing that the momentum was not right, and if the fight continued, I was afraid that there would be deaths, so I spoke in time to stop the escalation of the conflict.

"Don't you feel ashamed to fight in front of a noble duke?"

When de Wald heard this, he put away his dagger and nodded his head and laughed, and Nadur's companion hurriedly helped him up, and the two sides finally separated.

"Mr. Freeman, can I settle my own soldiers and judge your grievances? If my humble intellect is unable to make a convincing decision between you, it will never be too late for you to fight. ”

"Forgive me for my recklessness, Lord Duke."

Saint-Gal was stiff in his tone, but at least willing to concede, and he looked back in the direction of the town, where three gray ribbons had risen.

"The city is ready to welcome friends, please move."

"No, you're leading the way." I deliberately showed a palpitating expression, and Nadur glared fiercely at the gloating mercenary leader, picked up the injured dog, and helped his companion to go first.

As mentioned earlier, St. Gal was once a poor fishing village on the shores of Lake Constance, thanks to the monastery founded by the monk Tyrius, coupled with the tax exemption obtained from the emperor, St. Gal relied on the favorable geographical location to monopolize the road to Italy, thus becoming a distribution center for salt, iron ore and farm goods in the nearby area, rapidly becoming rich and expanding, with the continuous influx of foreign population, the small fishing village was transformed into a gorgeous town with simple fortifications.

Of course, when a real enemy strikes, the tall and magnificent monastic complex on the hillside is the first choice for the common people, whose walls are higher than most lords' castles.

"What's the use of me putting so much effort into repairing this breastwork, huh? People who grow tall don't have to jump to turn over, tsk. ”

De-Wald babbled at the top of his voice, for fear that Nadur, who was leading the way, would not hear clearly.

"Poor St. G. Gal man, who guards a lump of gold but is poor enough to choke on ......"

"Twenty-one copper coins, deducted."

It's really a dog can't change eating shit, I shook my head in disappointment, and coldly dropped this sentence: "Say it again, shut up for me!" ”

On the left and right of the rudimentary gates were lined up with militiamen of different heights and spears, staring at the slowly approaching procession, discussing something from hand to ear, and Nadur saw who was from afar, shaking his arms vigorously to greet and quicken my pace, so that I had to catch up with my horse.

"May St. Gal bestow upon you, honorable lord!"

An old man with almost all his hair was on the verge of losing his hair, holding his belt around his beer belly, and bowed to me with difficulty.

"I am Delny, the mayor of St. Gard, and Nadur has told me about you, Lord Duke, a feast has been prepared in the city, please feel free to enjoy it."

The old man agreed with a smile on his face, and his small eyes sneakily passed over to observe the team behind me, and his eyes fell on the mercenary leader with a hippie smile.

"Ah, it must be the good news of the magpie this morning being fulfilled, my friend De. Wald, let me think, didn't you just follow Lord Count Lechfeld away, and why did you come back again? ”

"Haha, old friend, I'm doing it with the Duke now, you know, we don't recognize face in this business, we only recognize money, whoever gives more is the master." De Wald said nonchalantly, and walked over to hug the bear who grew up in the town of Saint-Gal, and the scene was simply terrifying.

Saint-Gal is like one of those magical medieval towns, and unlike the squalor and poverty of most settlements of this era, it emerges from the mud like a lotus flower, standing slim on the edge of Lake Constance like a sapphire and exuding a breathtaking and deadly charm.

Not to mention the gravel patchwork road under the feet and the ditches used to drain and dump filth in front of and behind the house, just the deep alleys that climb according to the twists and turns of the terrain are attractive enough, perhaps because it is located in the mountainous area, most of the houses in the town are made of a whole piece of polished and smooth stone, the height is staggered and the form is different, free people use their rich imagination to build their own homes in a unique style, some are like hobbits, some are like dwarves, some are like elven towers, There are also dragon-like ridges, which are all very impressive.

Some of the houses facing the street are small shops with distinctive signs on their doors, such as horseshoes nailed to the walls of the blacksmith shop, wooden wine glasses propped up in front of the taverns, and grocery stores with earthen baskets for easy access to passers-by.

"There is nothing to say...... Speechless. ”

I rode on my horse and marveled at the dizzying array of streetscapes on both sides, and Mayor Dyern held his head proudly high, and he was honored to be complimented by the Duke.

"By the way, Mr. Dyerney, I have something for you."

Out of the corner of my eye, I swept to the distance of De-Wald, who had found the tavern, and Nadur was not there, so I asked the question in my mind:

"The mercenary captain and your town guard Nadur, there seems to be some contradiction between the two of them, and they are tense when they meet, can you tell me the reason?"

"Ah, you mean them? It's a long story. ”

The old mayor rubbed his red rosacea, as if he knew all the stories he wanted to hear.

"Nadur is a good boy I watched grow up, he is the best of his group of young people, of course he has to find the best girl to match, he has grown to the age of the beginning of love, and there is an endless stream of people who come to the door to ask for relatives, but no girl's family can get into his eyes, the young man is high-spirited, and after two years, he moved from the south to a family, is an honest farmer, he has a girl who is out and down, what is it called, you see my memory, remember, called Bella, what a beautiful name, I am a hundred times better than this iris all over the mountains! ”

"Nadur fell in love at once, ask me to help propose, you must know that ten years ago I was the mayor of St. Galle, Bella's father couldn't save my face, agreed to the relationship between the two, a pair of golden boys and girls got married in everyone's blessings, and lived happily together......"

After a long series of rambling nonsense, the old mayor licked his dry lips and continued: "Isn't it time for the story to end here? But who would have thought that Bella was not a peasant girl who lived by herself, she longed for the outside world, and liked those big cities far away, Venice, Milan, Rome, Constantinople...... Well, there are too many merchants in St. Gall every day, and they bragging about the good girls who come and go. ”

"After another three years, Bella gave birth to three children to Nadur, one died of illness, one let the greedy wander and called the wolf, only a little daughter survived, the family was a pearl in the palm of the hand, it was a good life for the three people, but unfortunately fate always played a joke on us mortals, in the year of the second rebellion of the Duke of Crescenti, the monks were worried that the war would spread to Saint-Gall, so they spent money to hire a lot of mercenaries to protect the abbey, and de Wald was also called Flower Pants to lead dozens of people to serve as soldiers, this guy must have eaten the lark's beak, As the most beautiful woman in the town, Bella naturally became the target of his attention, and the simple but restless peasant woman who came and went fell into the hooligan's trap, and was willing to abandon her family and business to fly away with her lover. ”

"On the day they eloped, Nadur got the news out of nowhere, and took a few good brothers to chase after him. He saw that he was about to be overtaken, so without saying a word, he pushed Bella, who was riding with him, and ran away with a smoke, and the poor Bella's stubborn man broke his leg and died. ”

"The tragedy is still to come, when Nadur returned home with his wounded wife on his back, he was greeted by a ruin after the fire, and his daughter accidentally took the fire at home alone, burned alive inside, and could not find even a single bone, Nadur believed that it was De Wald who destroyed his family, and for several years vowed to kill the beast with his own hands to avenge his family."

Hearing this, I was surprised for a long time: "So, they really have a deep blood feud with each other, damn it, what have I done?" ”

After a restless lunch, I couldn't even remember what I had eaten, and of course, with the exception of the visually striking roast pig, half red and half yellow, all I could think about was the old stuff of De Wald and Nadur.

According to the general logic of the public, the mercenary captain is definitely a third party who destroys other people's families, and the woman named Bella is also watery Yanghua, and the cheating of the two caused an innocent little girl to die in the fire. Wald's revenge.

But the tricky part is that the Black Forest mercenary group is now employed by me, and the residents of the town are extremely unfriendly to us because of that incident, and the fat cook lady with a big waist and a round waist who is in charge of serving the food slams the plate on the table, and I wonder if she will poison the food.

Fortunately, shortly after lunch, the monastery on the hill sent someone to invite me out of the awkward situation, and there was a gap of three hours between the midday bell striking at twelve o'clock and the midday prayer bell, and the monks had to go to the daily manual labor, and the abbot arranged to welcome the guests.

It is said that the materials for casting the bell were contributed by Charlemagne, which were tin from Ireland, copper from Pomerania, iron from Spain and lead from Moravia.

The Abbey of St. Gal has been expanded several times over the past hundred years, from a small prayer room built by the original Thilius monks, to a huge complex that occupies the entire hill, not only with moats, walls, towers and other defensive facilities, but also with independent wells and warehouses with incredible reserves, enough for the monks to close their doors in the event of an attack and eat steadily until the coming of the Last Judgment, if they could live that long.

Unless necessary, monasteries and churches, holy places where God is served, are not allowed to enter with arms, so I only brought Owen, Deved, and three acolytes, and as for Code Four, she would be everywhere even if she was not allowed to come.

The two monks leading the way were hooded and looked like twin brothers.

"Soon to be there, Lord Duke." One of them smiled and relieved me when he saw that I was tired and impatient.

"It's rare to be in the mood to enjoy this beautiful scenery, and I wish I could go more slowly."

Speaking insincere polite words, I silently gave myself a roll of the eyes in my heart, the scenery on both sides of the road is indeed good, but the last time I accompanied His Majesty Otto, my brother was in a sedan chair, can I be in the same mood?

I still had to climb at least a few hundred steps, so I stopped out of breath and the monk thoughtfully handed me the kettle.

"I noticed that every once in a while, there were stone statues next to me, does that mean anything?"

I thought that a wealthy monk could mix some spices or honey in the water, but I didn't expect it to be just a pot of bland water, with the rancid smell of cooked cowhide, which made me lose my appetite.

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