Isn't it a beautiful thing in itself for this team of ordinary men and women to persistently find each other in the ugly and dark world, and then stick to their hard-won pure feelings?

I hooked the corners of my mouth with relief, silently blessed in my heart, and the fate of joking around them went around so much, and finally waited for the destined each other, but fortunately, the difficulties and obstacles in the middle did not make the ignorant men and women choose to give up.

I was so happy for the newlyweds that I promised to pick a sentence from the Bible to give them a proverb to have sex with, and the grateful man and woman withdrew with tears of excitement on their faces.

As the night wore on, the owl that had caught the vole made a strange cry, echoing in the empty valley repeatedly, and I lazily threw a piece of firewood into the fire, and lay down in my kimono to catch up on sleep.

I slept for a while, and I was about to fall asleep, when the ghostly voice of Codename Four sounded discordantly, rudely interrupting the rare and comfortable sleep.

"Adults, adults, wake up, wake up!" Her way of calling people is the same, as fast as a powerful diesel engine.

"Damn it!"

I scratched my ears and cheeks in pain, squeezing out two unpleasant words from between my teeth: "Darkbringer, can you not bring light?" ”

"Our scouts are back, urgent military intelligence."

She automatically blocked my grievances and stated it succinctly:

"An army was heading towards the Château de Vevey, under the banner of the royal family of Paris, and had arrived at Bloon, forty miles from here, for the night before sunset, and the enemy was so great that, according to the scouts, there were more than twenty rows of knights marching side by side! You have to make up your mind, and at the speed at which they are traveling, if we set off at dawn, we will not have time to go too far, in case ...... The result is obvious. ”

God, can't you let people breathe?

I scratched my scalp frantically, the oil that I hadn't washed for a long time got on my hands, slippery and disgusting, Rome, Tuscany, ******, Turin, Martini, my theme has always been to escape, escape, escape, chase after the back is not embarrassed.

"Let me think about ......"

The dry throat may be due to the fact that the bonfire is too vigorous, and the whole person's spirit evaporates with the body fluids, and the more I want to concentrate, the more blank my mind is.

"We are small in numbers and weak in combat, and our only advantage is the castle! We're in the castle, we have plenty of supplies, and we have an independent water source, right, how many people can help me? Can you shake the hard walls? ”

"Your Excellency!"

Code Number Four interrupted me talking to myself: "Do you want to huddle in the castle and enjoy the food while waiting for the enemy to die?" ”

That's right, the most important thing for us now is time, and for me and Nijmegen, I can't afford to lose, and I can't afford to wait.

"Or ...... Shall we run away overnight? ”

I tried to say what I thought, because my heart was weak and my voice trembled violently: "Wake everyone up, abandon the useless softness, it's almost too late!" ”

"Escape? It's a good idea, but where do we run away? ”

Codename 4 spread his hands helplessly: "There is only one way to go to Swabia through Bern, you can hide from jackals, you can't hide from tigers and leopards, choose one of the two, die first or die later, is there a difference?" She looked at me with a grim gaze that kills a strong elephant.

The night in the mountains is very cold, and the early morning is even more bitterly icy, they are like lazy koalas, holding you to death and not moving, until the teeth are shivering and the snot is running and they refuse to give up.

The soldiers of Nijmegen were accustomed to a life of rushing, and they slept soundly all day after day, so they ordered to pack up their things and get ready to go, and the morning star slowly rose to the western sky, and hundreds of people prepared the necessary bags and set off one after another. There is a long way to go, where is the way back?

After the arduous march and the great battle, the undetermined people were shaken, they did not have much desire for a new life, and they were unwilling to continue to endure hardships, and it was better to stay in the castle to find a job than to live without a permanent place.

Therefore, when a person is accustomed to bending down to be a slave, even if he is given the right to stand up and speak straight, he will feel uncomfortable straightening up and speaking, but will become more and more humble to beg for a living, and it is never a matter of taking it for granted.

The rabbit was one of the people who chose to stay, and he took his lover by the hand to see me off, blushing with shame.

"My lord, I'm sorry."

He dodged my gaze: "Mother and daughter Sunny don't want to leave Vevey, as the only man in this family, I have to be responsible for them, I have to stay, I hope you can forgive me." ”

The young man knelt on the ground earnestly, picked up my boots and kissed them shallowly, as a sign of his humility and blessings: "I will never forget your kindness for the rest of my life, may God bless you, merciful Duke." ”

Family? It's nice to have a home!

"Love is long-suffering and kind, love is not envy, love is not boasting, it is not arrogant, it is not shy, it does not seek its own good, it is not quick to anger, it does not count the evils of men, it does not relike unrighteousness, it delights in the truth, it bears all things, it believes all things, it hopes all things, it endures all things, it never endures."

I rode on horseback and raised my hand to signal the rabbit to stand up.

"Remember your request? 1 Corinthians Chapter 13 Proverbs of Love, for you, be sure to hold your lover tightly, happy boy! ”

"Your Excellency!"

Tears rolled in his eyes, almost gushing out, but the strong rabbit gritted his teeth and endured it, throwing me a warm smile, he didn't want to leave me with a sad memory.

"You must be an angel sent by God to save us, and good fortune will be with you for the rest of your life."

Oh, maybe!

But my life seems to be insulated from luck, but it is always accompanied by parting and sadness, so when I think about it, I am certainly not an angel sent by God.

"Alright, it's time for me to go, I'll see you later."

Letting go of the reins, the war horse snorted happily, this beautiful elf was the best in the castle stables, and the soldiers had specially chosen it to offer me as a mount.

"Proverbs of love, remember, you know?"

Turning the horse's head and chasing the marching procession, the rabbit waved his hand and shouted in the distance, and the corners of his eyes were wet, huh? How did I shed tears for this young man whom I had not known for a long time? Hot and burning tears crossed my cheeks, and I seemed to understand the deep meaning, maybe in him, there was too much longing for personal dying love, right? It should be a very happy thing to have someone who falls in love at first sight and lives in love together, right?

The sky slowly changed color from time to time between the mountain peaks, the forest was full of life, the white heat was steaming from the soldiers, and everyone was sweating from the march throughout the early morning.

"Go to the front and find a place to rest and eat something." I commanded as I touched my hungry belly.

"It's okay, last night's stock is long gone, and my stomach is hungry." Owen approached on horseback, smelling of stinking booze.

The troops stopped to rest in a leeward col, and the diligent warriors lit a bonfire and began to conduct their breakfast, and I unfastened the placket of the skin, and baked my chest in front of the blazing flames. As soon as Owen sat down, he couldn't wait to take out the flask hanging from his waist and warm it.

"I have to live with two things, one is good wine, the other is beautiful people, if I have to choose the same, then good wine is absolutely indispensable."

This drunken madman had drunkenly flaunted his bad hobbies, with a smug look on his face, and the rush of the little half-night had already made his throat smoke, and the faint water could not nourish his heavy appetite at all.

"Oh, the bad news."

Owen's eyes fell behind me, and he complained in a low voice, and as soon as the words fell, the black clothes codenamed four came into view, no wonder the Sunflower Knight, who had always been giggling, did not dare to shout loudly, it turned out that he had met his nemesis.

"I'll look elsewhere."

He didn't care about bringing the wine jug warm by the fire, he got up in a hurry, and fled as if flying, far away from the black-clothed demon.

"This guy seems to be scared of you."

I stared playfully at Codename Four's blurred face under the hood, "Look what you've scared my knights." ”

"People who have ghosts in their hearts are naturally afraid of hitting ghosts."

She was as poisonous as ever, laughing at her opponents and sarcastically mocking herself, if Enides was a ghost, then what kind of person was I as their leader? Satan, the king of hell? Or Hades, who rules the ghosts?

"Tell me, what's the good news for your scouts?"

I shook Owen's flask, half of it was still half-inside, and the foul breath on the spout far outweighed the aroma of the liquor.

"Damn, it's so disgusting that I don't even want to eat breakfast."

Disgusted, I threw away the flask, and I waved my hand at Codename.

"Let's talk about yours, what is the movement of the enemy, according to their slow pace, I'm afraid they haven't even gotten out of bed, right?"

"It's true that the big force hasn't moved, but the striker has arrived at Vevey Castle, and it's almost nestled in a warm room and feasting!"

She said lightly: "The distance between us is far enough that unless the enemy chases after him on horseback, they can only look at the sky and sigh." ”

"Keep an eye on the point and report the situation in a timely manner."

Although I said it seriously, my attention turned to the pot of things brought by the soldiers, and the sound of boiling and gurgling of the thick soup was quite pleasant and tempting, and all the enemies who were not enemies stood aside.

Codename Fourth understands my virtue and walks away quietly, Owen this guy is like an annoying fly, following the taste minute by minute, his eyes are staring at the tumbling jerky in the thick soup, swallowing his saliva greedily.

"Gone? Great, just in time for dinner, God really favored me! ”

He first poured a sip of warm wine in the pot, and stretched his dirty hands directly into the pot, which was really a foodie.

"What about your etiquette as a knight?"

I didn't have the courage to slap the back of the glutton's hand, if he touched this pot of soup, he would definitely not be able to eat it again, Owen retracted his hand in a sneer, his eyes were still blazing on the target, looking at his current appearance, who can equate the victorious general in the martial arts field, the dream lover of the noble lady and girl, the famous sunflower knight in Nijmegen and the sloppy beggar in front of him?

"How do we get there after we cross this mountain?"

Eating for a while, Owen was much quieter, poured himself a drink and asked.

"The scouts have made it clear that there is a path made by shepherds and smugglers up the river at the foot of the hill that leads directly around Bern."

I took the soup bowl that the soldier had served, and blew on the hot air, and my nose, which was blocked by freezing, instantly cleared.

"Let's go to Uri, the monastery at the top of the mountains of the Hasri valley is remote enough, and we will rest there for two days, and then find an opportunity to go to Saint-Gart. The bishop of the diocese was an old friend of mine, and he was the only one who did not join the rebels when the Bishop of Constance rebelled, and he was not far from Swabian when he arrived in St. Gart. ”

Owen tilted his neck and drank all the wine in the pot, smacking the corners of his mouth unsatisfied, not in a hurry to serve the soup.

"The monastery of the Hasri Valley? Ah, when I went on a pilgrimage to the Holy Land, I was lost and stayed there, and the monastery created by the excavation of the cliff was more like an independent fortress than the abode of the gods, and there was only a very narrow path up and down the mountain, with a cliff on the left hand and an abyss on the right. ”

He leaned closer to me, his face flushed from the rough light of the fire: "Have you ever thought about what to ......do?"

Halfway through his words, he shook his head in self-denial: "Nonsense, the monks have no reason to attack us?" ”

I filled the soup for him and said comfortingly, "Come on, aren't you hungry early, eat more hot food." ”

I can understand Owen's concern, after all, the world is sinister, and with our current predicament, it is appropriate to plan more.

"Our troops...... Alas, don't mention it, you don't want to fight the enemy happily? Who wants to hide in Tibet as a turtle with a shrunken head? Bear with me, everything will be fine when we get to Swabia! ”

"If you fight, if you win, you will fight, and if you can't win, you will run, everyone understands."

Owen crossed the cooked jerky and blew, and his tone was flat and there was a sharp edge: "But I always hide around like this, I'm afraid that the morale of the soldiers will be demoralized, and before they reach Swabia, all the people will run out." ”

He stuffed the jerky into his mouth and chewed, and replied vaguely: "I just went to count the number of people, and the Martini peasants ran a few in the dark, and the important thing is that the Nijmegen soldiers are also missing two people, this signal is very bad." ”

The soldiers not far away were talking and laughing and eating, and there was no frustration on their faces at all, but the problem had been faintly created under the surface of peace, and I thought it was time to make a new choice.

"It's so cold......"

I put my hands to my lips tremblingly, and poured hot air into them to warm my frozen fingers, but to no avail, the heat of the moment was like a fleeting spark in the long night, and it disappeared without a trace in a flash, and it was a drop in the bucket to fight the biting cold.

(End of chapter)