20 A brief lull
The fire in the riverside estate has been extinguished, and the atmosphere has basically returned to its usual appearance.
In the moonlight, only a few ruins of buildings with a hazy smoke lingered in the night, silently showing what had happened before.
But even though it was late, there was no quiet in the manor.
The building where the kitchen is located is brightly lit, and the servants are still busy preparing supper for the guests of the manor.
At the same time, a team of guards patrolled the manor, their keen eyes and not sparing any corner, hoping to find clues to the arsonist and win the reward of the owner of the manor.
However, unless their imagination breaks through the sky, they will never realize that the arsonist they are looking for is not actually human.
It's a dog.
A dog that is still hanging around the manor.
"What is this called, Wei Wei to save Zhao? Or is it darkness? ”
The little black dog covered with white spots has a pair of long ears and is still swaying with the inertial farts when he walks, which looks very cute.
"It's not about encircling Wei to save Zhao, nor is it secretly Chen Cang."
There was a parrot squatting on the door of the puppy's head at the moment, and under the hazy moonlight, it was scorched black with smoke, and the beautiful green feathers on the door of the head were also burned bare under the eyes.
"Our plan is to strike at you, old watch, but you almost murdered your husband."
"Am you disgusting with me, and you are still a husband?"
"Or it's called murdering my father? It's a very apt word, you almost burned your dad to death. ”
"Who are you, I worked so hard to get you out, and you still scolded me?"
"I don't know the hearts of good people, old watch, I don't bother to scold ordinary people, this is because I have a good relationship with you to scold you."
"Fuck off, next time there is such a thing, I won't save you."
"Oh, don't be angry, I'm kidding you. It's not that I praise you, old watch, you are the most capable of joking, unlike that person, who will be crooked and bored when he says a few words. ”
“…… Well, what's next? ”
"Divide the spoils, we just took advantage of the fire to rob a lot of things, don't we keep them for the New Year?"
"When will this be a distribution of the spoils, let's talk about it tomorrow."
"Okay, tomorrow will be tomorrow...... Yes, yes, go over there, that's it, if I'm not mistaken, it's a toilet, let's go offline here, and you can get up early tomorrow morning and have breakfast. ”
"Get out!"
"Why are you scolding, did I force you to eat that -, look at the forum!"
"What's that?"
"Someone has reached level ten!"
……
As they spoke, they paused under an oak tree growing against a wall in the corner of the manor.
After a while, the two animals that were standing quietly fell asleep on the ground, looking honest, but they were actually offline.
Soon after, however, the green-haired parrot, which was lying on the door of the Dalmatian's head, opened its eyes and flapped its wings towards the manor.
In the hazy darkness of the night, the parrot flew inconspicuously in mid-air, but not slowly, and the dim buildings and busy servants flew by.
In a short time, it flew to the heart of the manor, near the tall rectangular building where the banquet had been held.
After landing on a tree and looking at it for a moment, it continued to take off, following a narrow open window on the second floor of the building into a promenade lit by a brazier.
There were some busy figures in the corridor at the moment, the maids of the manor, who were knocking on the doors of the rooms with trays of late-night food with metal lids fastened.
It was difficult for parrots to fly here, so they walked through the carpet of the promenade, constantly watching the long legs of the maids as they walked by, as if searching for some presence.
After a while, it found its target and quietly followed the other party.
During this period, under the influence of some mysterious force, its existence was not noticed by anyone, even the guards in the corridor ignored it.
It wasn't until it followed the maid to the third floor, and suddenly flew up and slammed into the dinner plate that the other party was holding, that its figure was revealed.
The maid was caught off guard by this situation, and the food in her hand almost rolled off her hand and fell to the ground, but fortunately she was quick to stop it.
Then she glared viciously at the parrot that came out of nowhere, but she didn't dare to delay anything, and hurried to the direction of the target room with the food.
She didn't notice that when she was in a hurry to stop the food from falling to the ground, a milky white "pearl" suddenly appeared in the parrot's paws beside her, and threw it into the food inside along the metal lid that had cracked a gap due to the tilt.
So when the maid brought the food to the door, the young woman who opened the door and took the food was surprised that there was a precious gill mermaid roe floating in the cream mushroom snail soup.
"Didn't you eat enough at the adult dinner?"
She thought to herself, but she didn't feel anything special. After closing the door, he turned and brought the soup to the thin old man who was sitting at the head of the bed, wearing a velvet pajamas.
"The snail soup you wanted, my lord."
"Thank you, ma'am."
Hearing this, the old man nodded to his young wife, who had just married, and then took the soup from the other party's hand and drank it with a spoon.
At the same time, he said vaguely: "Today's banquet was a failure, and the outside don't know how to laugh at me, but it doesn't matter, a failed banquet just makes some people think that I didn't really entertain those deacons." ”
"Why invite them if you don't want to entertain them?"
"I'll have to ask Mitchell about it, and if it has anything to do with Levi'i."
The old earl said in a solemn tone, and then felt that the topic was very depressing, so he changed his words.
"I have to invite them anyway, although the local vicar Victor and Bishop Rhodes don't have a good relationship, but that's their business, the nominal bishop of this diocese is still Rhodes, and I don't want him to think I'm on his side. Well...... At least not too obviously. ”
As he spoke, he saw the mermaid roe floating in the soup, but as if it was an adjunct to the soup, he scooped it out with a spoon and put it into his mouth without paying the slightest attention.
The mouth was soft and tender, and the sauce exploded in his mouth like a cold flame when he chewed, and then the deliciousness rushed to his tongue and made him shiver with pleasure.
"The banquet ended in such a hurry that I didn't even have time to taste this delicacy carefully."
"That thief is damned."
"That's right, you deserve to go to hell!"
The old earl said approvingly, and after bowing his head and taking a few more sips of soup, the corner of his eye inadvertently caught the fair, delicate and youthful face of the young wife next to him without the slightest wrinkle, and his mind suddenly moved.