Section 25: Unexpected encounters
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On the path of Watergast, several traveling merchants were walking with bags on their backs and sticks and crutches in their hands, outwardly they were no different from the other merchants, but there was a hint of perseverance and determination between the brows of these men, which was by no means the quality of simple merchants, in fact they were members of the Brotherhood of Blood Drops, with a mission to find Bilis.
"My lord, I have crossed a mountain in front of me, which is the place where the mountain lords and Kang Tuoyi are fighting." One of them, a rough-skinned businessman, stood on the side of the road and pointed ahead to one of them, a tall merchant whose face was covered in mud.
"I know, we're looking for a place to stay nearby, and we'll send someone to find out the situation tomorrow." When the tall merchant with a plaster face spoke, his voice was unexpectedly crisp and high-pitched, in fact, she was Harvey disguised as a woman, and this time the contact with Bilis Arold took it very seriously, so he sent his spy leader, Harvey.
"There's a farmhouse over there, we'll be there today."
Sure enough, not far from the front of the path, a place where verdant weeds grew, on which a thatched and wooden farmhouse stood tall, surrounded by a fenced sheepfold, in which there were three or two goats, and on the other side of the chicken coop there were chicken feathers flying from time to time, and a rooster proudly took a flock of hens to forage around, and it could be seen that the owner of this farmhouse was living well.
"How are you?" The Brotherhood of Blooddrops, who knew the Slavic language, stepped forward and slammed the wooden door with the stick in his hand to show his intentions to those inside.
"Squeak." A wooden door opened, and a stout Slavic peasant stepped out. With his hair dishevelled and a goat's smell and a few pieces of white chicken manure on his trousers, he watched warily at the group of strangers who appeared on his doorstep.
"Who are you?" The owner of the farmhouse asked Harvey and the others.
"Oh, we're a group of traveling merchants, we've been in the dust along the way, and it's getting late, and we'd like to be able to spend the night with you." The Blooddrop brothers, who know the Slavic language, smile kindly. Said to the Slavic peasant.
"I don't have any extra room here, so you better leave." The Slavic peasants shouted and waved their arms at them, and no one would cause trouble in the midst of war.
"We're just ordinary traveling merchants, even if it's a night in a thatched hut, the forest is too dangerous in the middle of the night." The Blooddrop brothers, who knew the Slavic language, pleaded bitterly, tears even squeezed out of the corners of his eyes, and he looked like a desperate man. Looking at his appearance, the Slavic peasants reached out in embarrassment and scratched their heads.
"All right, but I don't have food here, so rest in the sheepfold for the night, and don't enter my house." The Slavic peasants closed the wooden door with a loud voice, ignoring the traveling merchants, for it was best for them not to have to worry about the wolves in the forest, even though they were only sheepfolds.
"I'm sorry Lord Harvey, it's a common occurrence of this outside." The other blood drops spread felt blankets on sheep dung. Harvey was able to lie down on it and rest, although the smell of sheep was still strong. But she could finally find a quiet place to rest, and Harvey was not the kind of squeamish and hedonistic woman, she didn't care about covering her body with a blanket, and the other drops of blood took out bread and jerky and distributed them to everyone.
The sky was getting dark, the moon was hanging in the sky, and the goats in the sheepfold were huddled together to rest. The howls of wolves and the chirping of unknown birds in the forest not far away, the forest of Watergast was so dangerous that Harvey had to keep her eyes open and close her eyes while sleeping, and it was then that she noticed that something seemed to be shaking at the edge of the forest in the distance.
"Is it a wolf?" Harvey couldn't help but reach out and put his hand on his waist. There was a sharp dagger there, and she still pretended to be asleep.
"Rustle, rustle." The shadows were getting closer and closer to them, Harvey clenched the dagger in his hand and stretched out his foot and kicked his subordinates gently, the people who woke up did not stand up immediately, they also quietly but quietly put their hands on their respective weapons, these shadows approaching them were definitely not wolves.
"Smack." Suddenly, those black shadows lifted the camouflage on their bodies, only to see a few people sneakily touch the chicken coop, and seem to have taken out a few eggs for a long time, their movements are so skillful, they did not alarm the sleeping chickens in the chicken coop, and after taking a few eggs, they turned around and came towards the sheepfold.
"Up~~~." Harvey uncovered the blanket on his body, flew over the fence of the sheepfold and kicked a thief in the chest, knocking him to the ground, and the other blood droplets also screamed and rushed out to fight with the thieves, and those thieves didn't seem to expect that there would be so many people guarding the sheepfold, and they were stunned for a moment, and they were all subdued by the blood droplets in this instant.
"What's wrong, what's wrong?" The wooden door of the farmhouse opened, and the Slavic farmer stepped out, only to realize that he was limping as a cripple, and behind him were two little boys with sticks, and in the moonlight there seemed to be female dependents looking out.
"Oh woo, oh woo." When the thieves saw the Slavic peasants coming out, they were not frightened but looked like they were asking for help, which made Harvey feel very strange.
"It's a bunch of thieves, but don't worry, we've got you covered." The Drops of Blood, who knew the Slavic language, said to the farmer, but the Slavic farmer frowned, not at all happy, and the strange appearance surprised the others.
"Whoever told you to catch them, let them go and let them go." The Slavic farmer waved his hand to let the Blooddrops let go of the thieves, which made Harvey and the others look at each other, and they would surely be appreciated and thanked if they helped the other farmers catch the thieves, but the Slavic farmer looked nosy.
"Let them go and ask what the hell is going on?" Harvey nodded to his men and told them to let go of the thieves who were subdued, only to find that the thieves were untidy and yellow-skinned, and they looked like they were suffering from hunger.
"Give." At this moment, a young girl ran out of the farmhouse, carrying a basket in her hand, which seemed to contain some food, and went straight to one of the young men among the thieves, and handed him the basket in her hand.
"What the hell is going on?" The blood droplets looked at the scene in front of them in wonder, why did the owner still give food to the thief?
"Well, come in, please forgive me for being snub to you at the beginning, but there is no way that this is the very moment." As if to see the doubts of Harvey and the others, the Slavic farmer beckoned them to let the blood droplets into his farmhouse, where there was a pot of iron tongs on the fire pit, bubbling and smelling of meat, which seemed to be a pot of chicken soup.
"Here you go." The farmer's family gave each of the Blood Drops a bowl of broth, and it was a heavenly treat to be able to drink a bowl of broth on this cold night, and the Blood Drops, including Harvey, would not refuse this kindness.
"Excuse me, what the hell is going on, aren't those thieves?" Harvey spoke to the farmer in Slavic language, and she deliberately kept her voice down, sounding like a man who had just come of age.
"That's right, but they're the Mountain Lord's soldiers." The Slavic peasant reached out and picked up a stick and stirred it in the fire, making the fire even stronger.
"A soldier of the Mountain Lord? But aren't they at war with Lord Kangtuoyi? Harvey asked, surprised.
"That's right, the brothers Lord Kang Tuo Yi and Lord Billis are at war, and the Mountain Lords support Lord Billis, while the other clan leaders support Lord Kang Tuoyi, what a mess of war." The Slavic farmer held his thickly jointed hand, and Harvey noticed that the calluses on his hands were caused by holding a sword, and he couldn't help but be secretly vigilant.
"And what's going on with the people out there?" Harvey asked, and brought the bowl to his lips, this chicken soup is strong and delicious, I really don't know how to make zuò.
"They are the soldiers of the mountain lords, but they are also our familiar neighbors and relatives, Lord Kang Tuoyi has surrounded the whole mountain, their food is getting less and less, and if they continue like this, they will all starve to death without fighting."
"So you're secretly supporting them?"
"I don't know about these things, it's just that I was looted by some thieves." The Slavic peasant smiled slyly, as his position was certainly not able to support the enemies of his lord Kang Tuoyi, but he could not ignore these familiar relatives and friends, and let them starve to death.
"Why sue us about these things, if we go to tell you and your family, I'm afraid it will be burned." Harvey's eyes narrowed, and she felt that the identities of the others might be exposed.
"You won't, because you're not a traveling merchant at all, maybe at first I thought you were, but when you beat the outsiders, I knew that your origins must not be easy." The Slavic peasant said to Harvey.
"Who the hell are you?" Harvey said word by word, the person in front of him was by no means a simple Slavic peasant, he had a composure and calmness that was different from that of a peasant.
"My name is Jeremi, and I used to be the head of the spies of the Great Chief of Mecklenburg." Jeremy looked at Harvey, who was tense and almost like a leopard, and whispered to her. (A good event for pie in the sky, cool mobile phones are waiting for you!) Follow from ~ Dian/Chinese network public account (WeChat add friends - add public account - enter ddxiaoshuo), participate now! Everyone has a prize, now pay attention to ddxiaoshuo WeChat public account! (To be continued......)