In the evening, as the night deepened, torches were lit everywhere in the manor.

The light of the torches illuminated the entire manor as if it were daylight, but fortunately, the number of people on night duty had been halved, and the surveillance was not so serious.

These perennial night guards have not encountered a thief for a long time, and people from all over the country know the prestige of Lord Hardeman, who is a well-known skinning nobleman.

In other words, if you have a handle in the hands of Master Hardeman, then you are dead, and even if you have the ability to escape, you will have to be stripped of at least a layer of skin.

There was once a child who was sent as a serf because he stole a watermelon from Master Hardeman's house, and his parents also lost a hundred times the melon money, which shows that Hardeman's black heart has reached an outrageous level.

It is precisely because of Lord Hardeman's notoriety that thieves from all over the country dare not come here to provoke him, so the person in charge of the manor's night watch has nothing to do for a long time.

Every day when I arrive at class, it is only a symbolic registration, and then most of the time, I am sleeping.

I slept until dawn, and then I changed shifts, and went home to continue sleeping, and they were happy to be paid by Hardeman anyway.

If there is a war, these guards will be recalled to the castle of the city lord and be arranged by the city lord, but if there is no war, the city lord will send these unnecessary patrols to the manor of the small nobles of the landlord as a guard, so that those small nobles can help him raise soldiers.

A landed aristocrat like Hardeman was a minor nobleman of the fifth baron, and his manor house had a dozen watchmen who ate idle meals.

Of course, although he was very reluctant in his heart, he didn't dare to complain, who let this be the city lord's soldier?

As the saying goes, it is still necessary to look at the owner to beat the dog, let alone the soldiers of the city lord?

Hardeman treats these rangers as if they were offering to the gods, serving them carefully, offering chickens, ducks, and fish every day, just hoping that these guards can support the scene.

In fact, if something really happened in the manor, there was no need for these patrolmen to go out in person, and Hardeman's own hunting dogs and serfs could take care of the matter, and these patrolmen only played a threatening role in most cases.

The purpose is to tell others that my manor is under the cover of the city lord, and if you want to beat my idea, you'd better weigh it yourself.

Ji Ran hid in the tower, and waited until late at night, when several of the night guards were asleep, she carefully lay down from the tower, and then went to find Senfeng and Milia.

Ji Ran looked for room by room, this manor is not small, there are almost hundreds of serfs alone, and they all live together.

Men and women live together, in fact, the landlord does not mind that they mess with each other, because the serf has no free status, belongs to the same people as slaves, if the serf and the serf have offspring, naturally they are also serfs, serfs do not need to pay taxes, and they can also provide the same labor force as the peasants, why not the landlord?

The serfs lived together with men and women, and over time, they became accustomed to it, and if the two serfs liked each other, they would sleep together, but what was more embarrassing was that if the two people couldn't help but think about it, they could only wait until the dead of night and everyone else was asleep.

Moreover, even if you have feelings, you should try to be patient and not make a sound, so as not to wake up the people around you.

However, even so, it is impossible to avoid being discovered.

It's just that the serfs have long been surprised, even if they see the bodies of the two serfs pressed together in the middle of the night, they don't feel strange, and turn around and continue to sleep on their own, because there will be heavy and tiring work to do the next day.

When Ji Ran was looking for Milia and Sen Feng, she happened to meet a pair of serfs in love, and when she saw the two people carefully pressed together, their bodies gently swaying, Ji Ran suddenly felt that they were so pitiful.

If they live in a civilized world, at least they don't have to be treated like this, they can at least open a room in a grand manner, and then feel free to do what they like to do boldly.

Ji Ran searched for a long time, and finally found Miria's room.

Although she was also imprisoned here before, she was blindfolded when she was taken away, so Ji Ran didn't know the specific location of this room, and now she was very excited to find Miria.

She carefully opened the door and helped Milia untie the ropes and rescue her.

"Aiyi, how did you escape?" Milia looked at Ji Ran and asked.

Ji Ran briefly described the process of how she escaped to Milia, and Miria learned that Ai Yi used the illusion of ice magic to deceive Hardeman and successfully escaped.

"Great, I didn't expect ice magic to have this effect, so we might have a chance to escape." Miriah said.

"Yes." Ji Ran also thought so, since the magic illusion can deceive Hardeman and his wife, it can also deceive others, as long as the other party can't find his hiding place, he will have a chance to escape.

However, while the two of them were fantasizing about it, they suddenly encountered something bad.

A few hunting dogs patrolling the night suddenly spotted Ji Ran and Miria.

It turned out that in Hardeman's manor, the hounds would be released every night, and these hounds were not quite like ordinary hounds, these hounds were raised with raw meat, and they were very ferocious, and they would attack everyone they saw except those who domesticated them.

Hardeman kept these hounds mainly to prevent serfs from escaping late at night.

Some serfs wanted to escape because they couldn't stand Hardeman's exploitation and oppression, and Hardeman raised these vicious hunting dogs in order to prevent this from happening.

These hounds are fed only one meal a day, and the meat is very small, barely enough to keep them alive, so these hounds have a strong thirst for meat, and when they see an escaped serf, they will quickly pounce on it and eat it.

Now that Ji Ran and Miria have met two hunting dogs at the same time, the situation has suddenly become critical.

"What to do? There are dogs. Milia said worriedly.

"Don't panic, and don't run away, if you turn around and run away, the hounds will pounce." Ji Ran reminded cautiously.

Miria nodded, but her heart was in her throat.

(End of chapter)