Marshall came to Veronica's door and unexpectedly found that the door was locked, and he couldn't help but wonder: "Didn't Miss Veronica say that she would stay at home and come to her if we were in trouble?" How could it not be? He leaned on the door and listened, but found no sign of movement in the house, looked around, and saw no clue as to the whereabouts of the owner of the house. While he was pondering, he caught a glimpse of two women from the neighbor's house going out, and hurriedly chased after them: "Excuse me, madam, do you know where this family has gone?" ”

One of the women looked at him and said, "You're here to find Mr. Sherwin, aren't you?" He left a few days ago and hasn't come back, and his daughter is still there, what? Are you out now? She glanced at the lock on the door: "Why didn't we hear her leaving?" Forget it, if you're not in a hurry, you can wait under the tree over there, she'll probably be back soon. ”

Marshall thanked her politely, and as soon as he turned and walked a few steps, he heard the two women whispering: "That Mr. Sherwin's daughter, is it the old girl you said you couldn't marry?" ”

"Isn't that her? In fact, she is very beautiful, but she refuses to marry, and Mr. Sherwin was almost angry with her, I heard that she has a sweetheart, but she is a married man. ”

"Oh, young people nowadays are..."

The women gradually faded away, and the voices were inaudible, Marshall couldn't help but smile bitterly, the entanglement of the younger generation, in fact, he could see very clearly, this Miss Veronica, in recent years, the small movements have become more and more obvious. Fortunately, Young Master An Long has never wavered.

He looked up at Tianse, and then at the big tree where the woman was facing him, and wondered whether to wait here, or go back to take care of Minna earlier, and Lady Dora didn't know if she had returned, and where she had gone...

He was hesitating, suddenly. A large group of soldiers rushed over to surround the house, and smashed the door lock to break into the house, Marshall was startled, only to find that several people surrounded him, the bright sword flashed with cold light, he heard a familiar footsteps, hurriedly looked up, only to see a tall, thin, pale, somewhat gloomy man in his thirties striding over. As soon as he saw him, he stopped and squinted: "Marshall? ”

Marshall smiled bitterly: "Young Master Eta." It's been a long time..."

Etta sneered: "Old ghost, we only met a few days ago!" He looked up at the house in front of him: "Since you're here, then... He must be hiding here? ”

"What did you say?" Marshall was a little confused.

"Don't pretend to be confused!" Etta said angrily, "I'm talking about your landlord! Anlong Shaw Cardo! Don't tell me you don't know! ”

A soldier ran out of the house and reported to him: "Sir, the house has been searched everywhere, and there is no one, but in the cellar there are traces of gauze and water stained with blood!" He showed the gauze in his hand, the blood on which had not yet completely dried. Etta stared fiercely at the gauze. As if to stare it out of a hole, the soldier cowered his neck in fear.

Marshall, however, was overjoyed. I was a little regretful, I knew that the young master was here, so he brought Minna over early, maybe I happened to meet it.

Before he could finish his happiness, he was forced by Etta to grab him by the collar and ask, "Where is he, where is he?!!! You must know where he's hiding, don't you? Say it! ”

Marshall was a little out of breath: "Young Master Eta, please, please let me go, I really don't know..." Don't tell me you're here for a walk! If not to look for him. What else could be the reason?! ”

Marshall kept his mouth shut. Hang your hands like a proper butler. Silently stood up straight, head bowed.

Etta felt angry again: "Why don't you answer? Don't have anything to say? Tell me where he is?! ”

"My dear brother, don't be angry." Another voice came from behind him, "Whether this person knows the whereabouts of Anlong Xiao Cardo or not, as long as he is there, he can always force people out." I've heard... He grew up watching that man. A middle-aged man with a somewhat fat figure, a mustache, and a mediocre appearance, but with a pair of eagle eyes that did not match his appearance, walked over, followed by a dozen or so big men wearing uniform gray and black se clothes.

Marshall, who was on the side, guessed the intention of these words, and his eyes widened suddenly. Eta's pupils shrank: "Esparo, he's just a servant, will An Long die for a servant?" ”

"Who knows? There is no loss in trying. Esparo smiled, "And he should know where Ann Long Shaw Cardo's wife is, right?" The value of that lady is even greater, An Long will not die for the sake of the servant, so what will happen for the sake of the wife? ”

"You can't do that! This is despicable and shameless practice! It's against the way of the nobility! Marshall shouted angrily and turned his head sharply at Etta: "Young Master Etta, you won't do this, will you?" To vent your anger on an innocent lady, this is the act of a coward! ”

"Shut up, Marshall! I don't need you to teach me how to do it! Etta glared at him and turned to look at his brother, "Esparo, are you crazy?" The nobility will not excuse this practice. ”

"As long as Aunt Lorna is willing to speak for us, the aristocratic behavior will never say anything."

Eta's face sank: "I don't have an aunt, never!" ”

"Oh, all right, dear brother." Esparo smiled, "Stepmother is also our nominal mother, calling her sister, aunt, of course. Didn't I call your mother mom too? And Aunt Lorna is so kind and gracious, and I am sure that if we ask her, she will never refuse us. After a pause, his smile deepened: "The Zhu Fa family's wealth is quite rich..."

"How much Zhu Fa's property has nothing to do with me!" Etta coldly rejected him. "I'm going to grab the ground with Anlong Shaw-Cardo, not his wife!"

Esparo looked at him a few times and suddenly smiled, "I understand, brother." You can't bear it, right? Although he cheated on you and pretended to be your best friend for so many years, you have only made him a good friend when you have grown so big. Even for his sake, he would rather quarrel with my father and me. No matter how ruthless he is, you've always been a soft-hearted child, so you won't do anything to his wife and servants, right? I understand, I understand very well. He patted his brother on the shoulder, looking like a good brother.

Etta was enraged by his words: "Shut up! Esparo! That kind of person is not my best friend! With a fierce glint in his eyes, he had made a decision.

Marshall saw that this was not good. Ignoring the cold light in Esparo's eyes, he hurriedly stepped forward and said, "Young Master Eta, you can't rely on a few words from others. Forget your own principles of doing things. ”

"I'm telling you to shut up, old ghost!" Etta glared at him fiercely, "I don't need you to teach me how to do it!" He angrily pushed Marshall away, and suddenly his heart was shocked, and he was about to step forward to pull the other party back, but he was grabbed by the hand, and when he looked back, he saw his brother smiling at him and said, "My dear brother." Don't get angry, don't break your body because someone else is angry. ”

Marshall was pushed onto the road by him. He staggered, but at last he could not stand still, and fell to the ground, his old bones trembling, and a tingling pain came from his feet, and he breathed in pain, but he was shocked to see a carriage speeding in his direction.

Minna looked at the broken water glass on the ground, and suddenly a foreboding feeling rose in her heart, and she heard footsteps outside the house. Hurriedly cowered under the window. Learn to learn that the cat called "meow" a few times, which was when I was in school in Shaonan. Commonly used by classmates to play games, she is very skillful and the effect is also very realistic. She breathed a sigh of relief as the footsteps faded away, but frowned at the sight of the debris on the ground.

Noon had passed, Grandpa Marshall had not returned, and Mother Dora was nowhere to be seen. Will... What's going on?

Minna was startled, walked back and forth in the house a few times, and decided to venture out once. She didn't know where her mother had gone, but Grandpa Marshall had mentioned the general direction of Veronica's house, and she could go to him.

She went upstairs and recombed her hair, changed her hairstyle to another braid, and found two ribbons from her mother's dressing box to tie them, plus the satin skirt she had changed into before, even if she was one of those big men who came to chase and kill, she would not see her now as the same person as the "poor" girl who described a little embarrassed in the morning.

She felt a little sorry that if she had the magic materials at hand now, maybe she could make a magic weapon that changed her hair and eyes, and she would never be recognized.

She left a note explaining where she was going, and when she found out that no one was passing outside, she slipped out of the house, and with the help of the carriage she had rented before, she sneaked into the nearby passageway, walked between the buildings, and came out through another exit, and with the help of the terrain in her memory and Marshall's description, she went to Veronica's house two blocks away.

Along the way, she pretended to be obedient and asked a few people, and she successfully reached her destination, and thanks to Shebin's well-known fortune in the neighborhood, she easily found his home, and was about to walk over, when her eyes flashed, and she turned in the other direction, entered an alley, and then quickly turned back to look around.

Veronica's door was open, and she could vaguely see a mess inside, even the door panel was crooked to the side, as if it had just been ransacked, and there were several people in front of her house, whispering about a large blood stain on the road, and several soldiers shouted for people to leave, and then splashed water on the blood stain to wash it away.

Minna vaguely heard someone whispering: "It's really excessive, to treat an old man like this..."

"Isn't it? Those noble children are so cruel. That old man died a terrible death, bleeding all over the ground..."

Minna was trembling, she forcibly suppressed her tears, barely pretended to be a smile, walked up to the women, and asked obediently, "Auntie, may I ask what is going on?" Why is there blood on the road? ”

"There's an old man who just got hit by a car and died, it's really miserable, it's all that nobleman's land."

"yes, that kind of person should let him go to hell!"

Minna clenched her fists, still smiling, "That... That old man... Where are you now? ”

"It was carried away by those soldiers, and it seems that it was sent to the Temple of Light. Hey, kid, where are you? I don't seem to have seen you, do you know that old man? Hey, don't go, kid! Child..."

Minna wiped away the tears on her face, remembered how to get to the temple she had been to according to her memory, and then ran there quickly, just in time to see two soldiers carrying a long package of black sze from the cart and casually throwing it on the ground in the front yard of the temple: "That's it, you guys deal with it." ”

Father Luke stooped to look at the man in the package, his eyes widened suddenly, and he sighed before motioning to the other monks to carefully carry the package into the temple, ignoring the two soldiers, and then turned to follow.

Minna saw from a distance that half of the corners of the clothes were exposed in the package, which was clearly the face of the clothes that Marshall was wearing before going out. She clenched her fists tightly, letting her teeth leave deep blood marks on the back of her hand, tears blurring her vision.

"Etta, wait a minute!" A voice came from in front of the temple, and Minna paused, and turned her head sharply to look, her eyes shining with hatred.

(This volume is coming to an end...) Today's starting point is good... ）