Chapter 30: The Wizard of Oz
"Captain Bernie, what's going on, why did you lead the team to the front and not find the ogre ambushed in the woods?" Hank, the leader of the Dragon King's mercenary group, questioned Bernie loudly.
"That's it, why haven't you found an ogre in the woods, you have to give us an explanation! Before, you told us to cheer up and pay attention to safety, but now we have encountered this kind of thing, how did you lead the team? Peter and Parker, the leaders of the other two mercenary groups, were also very angry.
In the face of everyone's questioning, Bernie also felt very aggrieved, obviously when he walked this road before, he had not encountered any danger in the first three days, in order to arrive at the camping site scheduled for today as soon as possible, Bernie did not send scouts to the woods on both sides in advance to reconnoiter this time. Who knew that this time they were so unlucky that they were ambushed by ogres, and they don't know where this group of ogres came from. But he also knew that it was useless to say anything now, and all he could do now was to try his best to appease the anger of the leaders of these mercenary groups. "I'm sorry, it's all my fault this time, I know it's useless to explain it, all the losses in this attack, including the pensions of the mercenaries killed in battle and the medical expenses of the wounded, are borne by me alone."
Ignoring Bernie, who was standing there dejectedly and apologizing to everyone, I took Lao Pu towards the carriage where Ellie was, when the carriage door suddenly slammed open from the inside, Ellie jumped off the carriage anxiously, looked nervously left and right, and saw that I was safe and sound, and ran towards me while crying. Looking at Ellie, who was stumbling and about to fall at any moment, I quickly ran over and picked her up, and then pressed her head in my arms to prevent her from looking around, the scene was so bloody that it would not be good to scare her.
"Good work." Holding Ellie, he came to Xiao Hei, who was wearing a robe, and nodded to her.
"At your service, my master." Although her voice was still so cold, the moment she put on the veil, I seemed to see her smile, and I was not sure, because it was suddenly covered by the veil.
"Thank you, two young ladies, this little girl didn't mess around when she fought just now, right?" I turned to the master and servant in the carriage and said, because the door was opened by Elle, I could see the situation in the carriage, and the young lady sitting in it was already wearing a veil, and the maid was looking helplessly at Elle, who was crying in my arms.
"There is no nonsense, and although Miss Ellie was very worried about you during the battle, she was very sensible and stayed in the carriage without moving. I just knew that after the battle outside was over, she was clamoring to go out to find you, I was afraid that the scene outside was too bloody and scared her, and the result was ......"
"Alright, Judy, don't talk about it." The young lady in the carriage nodded to me. "Ellie is lovely and sensible, I like her a lot. And thank you to this sister, Pat told me, fortunately this sister found the enemy in time, otherwise the consequences would be unimaginable. "Crisp and pleasant, this voice, I give full marks!
"That's what we're supposed to do, come, Ellie, and say thank you to the two sisters."
"Thank you, Sister Anne and Sister Judy, woo woo, brother, I'm not riding in the carriage anymore, I'm going to be with you." After Elle raised her little face and thanked the carriage, she buried her head in my arms and cried.
"Ellie, my brother still has to rely on others to protect himself, what if he encounters the danger like just now? You stay in the carriage with your two sisters first, and let Sister Sisi accompany you by your side, okay? ”
"No, no, no, people have to be with their brother." Ellie said, her hands gripping my clothes tightly.
"Otherwise." Anne, who was sitting inside, spoke. "I think you look very tired, there is a seat next to the coachman, you can sit there with Elle in your arms first, and then let her in after Elle calms down, and then you can sit there and accompany her on the next journey, do you think it's okay?" Yes, that's great, I'm almost sleepy like a dog, my nerves were still tense during the fight just now, and I feel bad at the thought of going to walk for another day.
"Then you're welcome." I was not polite, so I took Elle and sat down next to the coachman, and nodded to the coachman. "Friend, sorry to disturb. My name is Li Jun, what about you? ”
"Mr. Li, you are too polite, don't bother at all, you just call me John." The coachman, John, said honestly.
The team continued to move forward, and the mercenaries who died in battle found a nearby place to bury them, and only took their belongings to take back to their relatives, and the mercenaries and their families were mentally prepared for this in this regard. As for the wounded, those who were slightly injured and could walk on their own walked on their own, and those who were seriously injured were carried by two mercenaries on a stretcher, and it was impossible to lie on the carriage transporting goods, and according to the bumpiness of the road, lying on the carriage would only increase the injury, and if you want to take the carriage, you can only talk about it after you get out of the forest. Bernie continued to lead the team to the front, and when he passed by the carriage, he saw me sitting on it and nodded to me, it seems that he also knows that this battle has not caused too many casualties is the credit of my heroes, not to mention Xiao Hei, who was the first to discover the enemy, the dragon knight alone solved two ogres and seven timberwolves, as well as Lao Pu's baptism and the priest's treatment, and pulled a few seriously injured mercenaries back from the brink of death.
I sat in the carriage with Elle in my arms, and I wanted to get some sleep. But Ellie kept crying, so I had to cheer up and talk to her.
"Ellie, don't cry, it's not beautiful if you cry again, you see that your sister Sisi is so beautiful because she has never cried." Then I saw Blackie, who was walking on the side, roll his eyes at me...... Have you ever cried emotionally?
"Brother, I'm sorry, I don't want to cry anymore, but, I just can't stop." Elle raised her little face full of tears and said aggrievedly.
"Okay, can my brother tell you a story?"
"Okay." Ellie's tears stopped all of a sudden, can I stop talking if I don't cry? I wanted to sleep, but looking at Ellie's eyes that began to light up when I heard the story, I had to give up on the tempting idea.
"Dorothy, along with Uncle Henry and Aunt Em, lived in the middle of the Kansas prairie. The uncle was a farmer and his aunt was his wife. Because the timber used to build the house had to be transported by truck from miles away...... When Dorothy stood at the door and looked around, she couldn't see anything except the gray prairie all around...... "When I used to tell stories to put those younger brothers and sisters to sleep when I was in the orphanage, I can say that I can recite all the fairy tales on the earth backwards and tell a little meaning of the Wizard of Oz."
The three Munchkins bowed to her and wished her a merry journey, and with that, they went through the woods. The witch nodded kindly and slightly at Dorothy, spun her left heel three times, and disappeared at once......" The story stopped at this point, presumably tired of crying just now, and Ellie fell asleep listening to the story, so I changed her into a more comfortable position, and then leaned back in the carriage to sleep for a while.
"Mr. Li, why didn't you say it, what's next?" At this moment, the partition between the carriage behind me and the driver's seat opened, and the little face of the maid Judy peeked out from behind the partition, looking at me with a wistful face and asked.
"Uh...... "What's next, there's no next, I want to sleep, I wouldn't have told a long fairy tale like the Wizard of Oz if I knew it."
"Judy, don't mess around, don't you see that Mr. Li wants to rest?" Anne's strange voice came from behind. "If you want to hear it, you have to wait for others to rest." You want to keep listening, don't you?
"Oh, got it, miss." Judy pouted, her tone revealing unconcealed disappointment. "People have never heard such stories, they used to hear stories of princesses and princes, and I think Miss Sisi also looks like she wants to continue listening." Kindness? Blackie also wants to continue listening to the story? I turned my head to look at Xiao Hei, but I only saw her hood, and she turned her head directly, saying that Xiao Hei still has this kind of tsundere attribute?
"I'm sorry, I'm too sleepy. I'll be sure to continue when I get up. I smiled apologetically at Judy, then closed my eyes and leaned back to the carriage and slowly fell asleep to the slight shaking of the carriage.
"Brother, get up, it's time for lunch." I felt a small hand pushing me, and then I heard Ellie's scream, and when I opened my eyes, the convoy had stopped. John must have gone to lunch, and it was just me and Elle in the carriage, who was nudging me with one hand on my arm and food in the other.
"Ah~ya~!" I stretched hard, slept hard, felt much more refreshed, and reached out to take the food that Elle handed over. "Thank you, Ellie, have you eaten?"
"I'm done, brother, can you continue to tell me the story of the Wizard of Oz when you're done?" Ellie sat down next to me, then looked up at me expectantly.
"Of course, I'll continue to tell you the story when my brother is done eating, but you'll have to stay in the carriage with Sister Anne and Sister Judy." I said as I ate. "By the way, where did my brother talk about it last time?"
"Speaking of the witch, the witch spun her left heel three times and then disappeared." It was Judy's voice, and I turned my head to see Judy looking at me with the same expectant face as Ellie through the partition of the carriage.
"Well, the witch is gone." I finished the food in my hand three times and two times, first carried Elle into the carriage, and then turned to the front of the carriage and sat down, and was about to continue telling the story, when I saw Xiao Hei leaning over silently, and then the coachman John slipped back to the car, and you are also waiting here?
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