When Minna looked at it, she felt that something was wrong. Grandpa used a long sword, and he rarely took it out, and it was always in the storage ring, not to mention, if he was going to enter the room, why was he sneaky? If he is afraid of waking himself up, his light steps are not a problem at all.

If it's not grandpa, who would it be? Before leaving, Grandpa once told her to tie up the door, how could others come in so easily? Even innkeepers have no reason to bring knives.

Could it be a thief?! Bandit? Thief?

Minna quietly slid off the bed, and saw a foot slowly stepping into the crack in the door, followed by most of her head, and she couldn't see his face clearly, but looking at the way he looked left and right, she felt that he was not a good person.

What to do? Grandpa was not there, the potions box was in the ring again, and in addition to clothes, bedding and books, all he had at hand were the original teapots, cups, tables, chairs, basins and other things in the room.

Minna panicked for a moment, and felt that the thief was hateful, so she actually came to the door when her grandfather was out and she had no weapons. If Grandpa is here, no matter how many thieves come, they will not be his opponents.

Slow down...... Grandpa obviously went out of the window, how could the thief know that he wasn't there?

Minna's heart moved, remembering the bluffing tactics she had seen when she was playing with the boys in the past, and seeing that the thief was about to move his whole body into the door, she pretended to have just woken up and said, "Grandpa, did the wind blow the door open?" You're going to check it out, right? With that, he made some noise around the bed, pretending that someone was going to get up.

The shadow stopped, but had no intention of giving up, only took two steps back, but held the dagger across his chest, and covered it with only his other arm.

Minna has been practicing swordsmanship for a few months, so how can she not see the intention of his move? Knowing that the thief was only going to take advantage of the "person" in the bed to close the door, he gave a knife to him, and he was angry, and when he hid behind the door again, he quickly ran behind the table and pushed the door with all his strength.

The man was stunned by the sudden loud noise, and by the time he came to his senses, Minna had already pushed the table and blocked the door, startling him. Minna moved a few more stools up, although the tables and chairs were very thin, but looking at them could also make her feel more at ease. After piling up the quilts, basins, and the like, she made a lighting spell, and saw that the iron on the door was safe and sound, but it was removed, so she hurriedly tied it.

The person outside the door knew that he was fooled, and pushed the door violently, intending to teach him a good lesson, but he didn't expect that Fang Caiminna's actions had caused a lot of noise, which was very harsh in the middle of the night, and now it was the market period, and most of the people in the guest rooms next to it were occupied.

Minna had been dying behind the pile of tables and chairs when the man pushed the door, and she felt that she couldn't hold it anymore, when the thrust suddenly disappeared, and there were sounds of people outside the door, but she didn't know if the man was gone, so she just didn't move. She was relieved when the neighborhood gradually returned to calm.

The black shadow by the window flashed, which startled her a lot, and she couldn't help but open her mouth to shout, and when she heard the black shadow, she knew that it was her grandfather who came back, and she immediately calmed down, but her legs were a little weak.

As soon as Xiao Tianjian came in, he felt that something was wrong in the room, so he hurriedly lit the oil lamp, and saw the pile of tables and chairs by the door, and his eyes straightened: "What is this for?" What happened?! Minna told him about Fang Cai, and asked a little embarrassedly: "Grandpa, I drove the thief away, isn't it smart?" ”

Xiao Tianjian smiled and touched her head: "Of course, it's really worthy of my granddaughter!" After a pause, he restrained his smile slightly: "But if you encounter such a dangerous thing in the future, it's better not to resist, you are a child, just hide under the bed, anyway, the valuable things are on me, and he can't steal it." ”

Minna was happy at first, but then she was a little disappointed and flattened her mouth in dissatisfaction. Xiao Tianjian was actually a little afraid in his heart, if the thief was a little smarter or more reckless, his granddaughter's life would be very dangerous, and he would be bluffed by such a sentence, maybe he was just an ordinary thief.

But what the hell is wrong with this place? Back then, he also followed Lila's family to Heisha Town to catch a market, and lived in this inn, and the money he got from selling things was clearly placed in the room without closing, and no one would come to steal it, but now he actually degenerated to the point where a thief stole something with a knife in the middle of the night?!

Minna saw that Grandpa seemed to be thinking something, and was about to ask, but suddenly remembered what she had been concerned about tonight, and hurriedly asked, "Did Grandpa see that bad guy?" Did you catch him? She saw that Xiao Tianjian entered the room alone, and thought that he had lost his hand.

"I didn't arrest him." Xiao Tianjian came to his senses from his contemplation, "The person you saw in the store and his accomplices are just gangsters, it's not a big deal. The man who commanded them, who appeared to be well-dressed, was in fact just a nobleman's butler in Normonca. I listened to his tone, and seemed to be very satisfied with the work of the two men, and agreed to take one to meet the big boss behind the scenes. I thought he wasn't the mastermind, so I didn't do anything. ”

"Not the mastermind?" Minna tilted her head, not quite understanding what he meant, "So what are we going to do?" Just let him go? ”

"How is that possible?" Xiao Tianjian smiled slightly, "He is not the mastermind, but he is an important clue, if we want to know who the real mastermind is, it depends on him." Minna, today Grandpa taught you a new idiom, which is called 'Shun Teng Touching Melon'. ”

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When Minna rode her newly-bought horse with her grandfather the next day, far behind the noble butler and the man she had seen in the tavern, her mouth was so high that she could almost hang up the oil bottle.

Grandpa didn't talk anymore, he obviously said that he was going to take her home, but now he had to follow those two people to somewhere, and now she didn't know how long it would take to go home. Grandpa Marshall must be dying in a hurry, Mom and Dad...... Although they had left themselves before, they must have been worried about themselves after being separated for so long, right?

Xiao Tianjian followed behind the horses of the two people, and recognized that he was walking the only road leading to Nomonka, the capital of Nuojia, and he also knew the destination of the two in his heart. Fortunately, there were other people walking on the road, so the target was not suspicious, but Xiao Tianjian was cautious and didn't follow too closely, only from a distance, always paying attention.

He occasionally lowered his head, saw his granddaughter's dissatisfied expression, and felt a little reluctant in his heart, and hurriedly said: "Good Minna, good Minna, obedient, grandpa promised you, as long as you find the mastermind, you will be sent home as soon as possible." Anyway, we're half a year late, and it doesn't make a difference if we go back a few days late, but if we let go of this clue, we don't know where to find it out again. ”

Minna listened to him, and although she was in a better mood, she was still unhappy in her heart. However, when she thought that the people they were following now were the same people who had hurt Lara and killed the elf last time (she thought), if they had never known who the other party was, Lara, Uncle Joe, Brother Lever, the uncles and aunts in Phantom Town, and Ala's beautiful mother, could all be harmed, and she felt that her grandfather's words made sense, and her dissatisfaction with him had diminished a lot.

Xiao Tianjian noticed the change in his granddaughter's mood, and secretly breathed a sigh of relief, so he concentrated on the target of the track.

After crossing a few hills, they had gradually taken over the south-west of Nomonka, and the weather was getting warmer, and the roadside was filled with flowers and trees, and the grass on the hillside was full of large expanses of green.

Unlike her grandfather, who had to keep an eye on people, Minna spent several days on horseback, very bored, so she kept an eye on the scenery and pedestrians on the roadside.

The farther south we went, the better the clothes were, and gradually there were fewer patches, and although the poor still wore coarse linen clothes, there were many more well-dressed people, and the people dressed very differently from those in the snow-capped mountains.

The hem of the man's robe was shortened to the knees, and the hem of the trousers was tucked into the boots, which was also neat. The headscarf is gone, replaced by a flat-topped round hard felt hat, some people have various patterns on the hat, the short shawl has become longer, thickly on the shoulder, one end is like a scarf around the chest, hanging behind the back, it looks very chic, and the texture of the shawl fabric is very good, brocade thread is a common thing.

As for the women, the dresses they wore were light and soft, and they were embroidered with patterns, and unlike the thick headscarves of the Northland women, they had a felt hat on their heads, which was either embroidered or decorated, which was very beautiful. Ordinary girls only adorn some stone beads, wooden beads or bone beads on their heads, and noble or rich women use pearls and gemstones. Noga women often go out, so Minna saw a lot along the way. When she reached Nomenka, she even saw a woman of apparently wealthy origin, dressed in a shawl woven of gold and silver threads, which seemed to be quite heavy, with a felt hat on her head adorned with precious stones, and a string of pearl tassels hanging down, and even twenty or thirty heavy gold pendants tied at the end of the scarf, which swayed and rose with the horseback under the woman. Minna watched in amazement as the woman slowly passed by, feeling a little pity for the horse.

Xiao Tianjian's two eyes kept staring at the object he was tracking, and he didn't pay attention to others. There was a large lake in front of Innomonka, and everyone had to line up to cross the lake by boat, and he was too far behind, fearing that he would not be able to get on the same boat as his target, so he took advantage of the fact that no one was looking. Minna blushed a little when she found out, but she didn't say anything, but the people next to her were very dissatisfied. Xiao Tianjian didn't pay attention to it at all, even in his original world, he had never heard of the police following prisoners and obeying public order, and what he was doing now was not much worse.

Finally, they got on the same boat as the target, and when they arrived on the opposite bank, not far from the city gate, there were many soldiers guarding the gate, and they were questioning the people who entered the city one by one. The target seemed to be the butler of the noble family, so he quickly brought people in, Xiao Tianjian followed closely, and only said that those soldiers had checked their identity certificates, even if they had checked their identification, he had a lot of such documents on him, so he didn't take it to heart, who knew but was stopped.

He is black-haired and black-eyed, which is rare on the mainland, obviously a foreigner, the soldier clenched his bite, and must ask him clearly about his origin and purpose, as if he was going to do something bad, no matter how he said that he was just visiting a friend, and said the address of the branch of the Shaw firm in Nomonka, he couldn't get out, seeing that the target's back was about to disappear, he couldn't help but get anxious, and simply threw out a bag of gold coins, the soldier immediately changed his face, and was about to scold, but a small officer stopped him and snatched the bag of gold coins, With a sneer, he sent Xiao Tianjian's ancestor into the city gate, and turned around and scolded the soldier.

Finally entering the city, Xiao Tianjian hurriedly caught up with the direction of the target, but the streets were full of people, where could they find it? Minna looked left and right to help find it, perhaps because she was still on a horse, and saw the back of one of the targets with sharp eyes, and hurriedly told her grandfather to follow, it was the noble butler, and as for the other, he was gone.

Xiao Tianjian didn't care so much, he only pulled the horse and followed, turned left and right to the door of a luxuriously decorated hotel, and saw that the person went in and asked for the No. 3 VIP room.

He was about to take his granddaughter and follow, but the clerk who guarded the door saw that the two of them were dusty, not as if they were rich, so he put on a snobbish face, and was smashed by Xiao Tianjian with gold coins to make a smile, and very enthusiastically sent him and Minna into the No. 4 VIP room, which was next to the noble butler's private room, and also graciously delivered washing water and meals, and asked them to feed their horses the most expensive feed.

Minna was anxious to know what the man was doing in the next room, and thought that the clerk was in the way, so she hurriedly took a few mouthfuls of food, and sent him away, and then without waiting for her grandfather to greet her, she took the initiative to get close to the wall and eavesdrop. However, this hotel is mostly rich people, the building materials are not stingy, the walls are very strong, she did not hear anything, looked at her grandfather in distress, but he only smiled slightly, raised his right index finger and shouted, Minna knew that he must be able to hear, and her heart was happy.

Xiao Tianjian could only hear that there was already a person in the next room, and the target was talking to him: "...... How's it going over there? The task on my side has been completed well, five or six teams of mercenaries have already received the news, and most of them have left for the Elven Forest, and the reaction of the elves is also expected by His Highness. ”

"Is that necessary?" It was another person's voice, "As long as the elves close the forest, keep sending people, if you provoke the elves to rebound, it's not good." ”

"Afraid of what? They have always cared about the outside world, and if only one or two teams of mercenaries go, maybe the elves will think that everything is okay and the forest will be reopened, then our efforts will be in vain. Anyway, it's just mercenaries who die, so what's the matter? But on your side, I heard that it didn't go well? ”

"Don't say it, those people of the Cult of Light are all stone-headed, and no matter what I say, they just won't open the passage. I've got a couple of plans, and I'm going to have to get them to nod anyway. ”

The target sighed: "I also want to continue to run around, but the third child's side is going well, and Mengli's matter will be a foregone conclusion in three days, I really envy him." ”

Xiao Tianjian's heart moved, could it be that these people are not just drawing the elven forest? Who is that "Your Highness"? Is it the Noga royal family? Could it be that Mario? He has the ambition to unify the continent, which many people know, but the Elven Forest is separated from Noga by snow-capped mountains, grand canyons, and misty wastelands, is he also interested? If this is the case, it is not good, the two countries are adjacent to each other, and the number of elves is small, if Noga really wants to calculate them, with the arrogance and innocence of the elves, they may not be opponents.

Minna looked at the change in her grandfather's face, anxious to know what the two were talking about, and was about to ask, but there was a knock on the door, and the grandparents and grandchildren immediately returned to their seats and let people in, but it was the clerk who rushed to greet them if they had eaten well. Xiao Tianjian sneered in his heart, and was about to stab him twice, but when he heard that the person in the next room was about to leave, he hurriedly interrupted the clerk's flattery and was about to settle the bill.

Minna looked at the food on the table that had only moved a little, and was a little surprised, but she also knew that her grandfather's decision must have a reason for him. As a result, when they finally got rid of the long-winded clerk with a few gold coins, and left the private room, Minna caught a glimpse of the empty room next door, and knew what her grandfather meant.

The clerk's enthusiasm disrupted Xiao Tianjian's tracking, and when he came to the door of the hotel, he could no longer see the target's figure, but now he couldn't find it. The grandfather and grandson sighed together, and Minna complained: "It's all the clerk, long-winded, as if he has never seen money." Grandpa, what do we do now? "If she loses someone at such a time, wouldn't it be pointless for her to give up her plan to go home sooner?

Xiao Tianjian thought for a while and said, "Let's go to the Xiao family's trading house, they are familiar with this place, and they may be able to inquire about that person." ”

Minna nodded, and then followed her grandfather back on horseback, and walked a few streets to the edge of a bustling market, where the largest shop was the branch of the Xiao family firm in the city. Xiao Tianjian took out a token and shook it in front of the clerk, and was immediately respectfully welcomed to the back room, and the horse was also led to the stable.

The chief and deputy managers of the branch had all seen Xiao Tianjian and received him happily, but they were a little puzzled about Minna: "This little lady is ......"

"This is my little granddaughter, the daughter of my second son." After a pause, Xiao Tianjian added, "You probably heard about it, right?" I have an extra son. "Actually, it's two, but on Radlow's side, the elves don't want him to reveal the identity of the child.

Minna raised a smile and greeted the two stewards: "Hello grandpa, I'm Minna." The two stewards responded with a smile, but their expressions were a little stiff. Xiao Tianjian noticed it, and wondered in his heart, so he asked when his little granddaughter was taken down by two local servants to freshen up.

The two stewards were a little hesitant, seeing that Xiao Tianjian's face was not good-looking, and knew that he had never liked his subordinates to hide something from him, so he said: "Actually, it has nothing to do with the little lady, it is the second young master of An Long......

"What's wrong with Anlong?" Xiao Tianjian asked, "Isn't he in Ito?" ”

"It's really in Ito, in the Castle Guard Knights. Lord Earl, do you know that in the past six months, the second young master and the people of the knight team stopped the convoy in our line more than a dozen times, and found a lot of things from the mezzanine of the carriage? ”

Xiao Tianjian was a little stunned, his son knew that the carriage of the trading house had a mezzanine, probably when the Meiton branch sent him to Ito, but why did his son do this?

The steward said: "Actually, whose caravan's carriage does not have a mezzanine?" It's just that we are unlucky, except for the people in the three branches of Merton, Gutenberg and Matt, the other branches have been searched, the fine is not counted, and several stewards are also in prison, although they were released in a few days, but we have been in this line for decades, and we have never suffered such a loss, and many people are very dissatisfied with the second young master. ”

"That's right." The deputy steward also said, "And I heard that the second young master is very close to the third child of the Heda family, Lord Earl, you should know the enmity between the Heda family and us, what is the second young master thinking?" ”

Xiao Tianjian frowned, he really couldn't understand, what was his son's idea?

(It's a bit late, but the word count is 5K...... ）