She turned her head to look at the few men who spoke, and saw that they were all dressed in similar clothes as the natives, with only animal skin coats, and each of them carrying luggage as high as a hill, with quilts, clothes, wine, and meat, and thick wooden rods in their hands, but the knives or daggers at their waists revealed that they were not good citizens.

The people also noticed that Minna was staring at them, but they didn't pay attention to a little girl who was a little embarrassed (she had just come out of the mountains and hadn't washed her face and bathed for a few days), and even thought that the luggage she was carrying was too big, so she attracted the attention of the little ghost, so they bared their teeth at her: "What are you looking at?!" Little ghost, look at it again and gouge out your eyes! ”

Minna quickly turned her head and ran a few steps to catch up with her grandfather. She is no longer the little girl who didn't understand anything more than half a year ago, in the winter, she listened to a lot of bedtime stories from her grandfather and Uncle Qiao, including many examples of adventures with wits and courage, and now even if she can't understand the adults' thinking about life, at least she won't be stupid anymore.

As Grandpa and the man named "Rohr" walked a little down the path to the right, Minna looked back cautiously at the men and saw that they were all heading the way she had come. The people had just mentioned the "treasure of the elves", and she remembered that it was something that the bad guys who had injured her grandfather wanted to steal, and they had even killed a little elf, could it be that these people were their accomplices? Are you going to the Elven Forest now? She couldn't help but worry when she thought of Uncle Joe, Ra, Big Brother Lever, and the people in Phantom Town.

She pulled the corner of her grandfather's clothes: "Grandpa, those people over there ......"

"Wait a minute, Minna." Xiao Tianjian only cared about listening to that Luo Er's words, "I have something to talk about with Uncle Luo Er." ”

Minna looked back at those people again, and saw that their figures had disappeared, so she was even more anxious, and pulled the corner of her grandfather's clothes a few more times, but he broke away: "Obedient!" We'll talk about it when we're done. Minna gave up and muttered after them.

Xiao Tianjian didn't notice his granddaughter's abnormality at all, he was just anxious about Luo Er's chatter, but he didn't get to the point for a long time: "I know, your life is not easy, but what happened to Lila's family?" You can make it clear. ”

Luo Er had no choice but to stop complaining about his poor life, and said a little unwillingly: "Her family has moved away a long time ago, less than a year after you left, and moved to the town of Montenegro in the southwest, I heard that she was married, and the couple opened a tavern, and the business is not bad." I only know that her parents died a few years ago, and I don't know how she is now. ”

Xiao Tianjian was not very surprised by the death of the old couple, very few locals can live past the age of fifty, counting the age, the two old people are also considered to be long. However, for Lila's marriage, although he had expected it, he still had some pimples in his heart, and he reluctantly smiled when he got rid of this thought: "So she is doing well?" How did you open a tavern instead of a tavern? Breweries are more profitable, right? ”

"Well, what are you talking about?" Rohr's eyes widened at him, "How can a redneck like us drive something like that?" The Lila shop sells ordinary liquor, but the stew is famous, which is the method you taught back then. As for the brewing recipe you gave, the lord said that it was his, and he had already asked Lila and her father to hand it over. ”

"What?!" Xiao Tianjian was stunned, and then became angry, "He is talking nonsense! That's obviously my family's ancestral recipe! How could it be his? "That recipe is really the ancestral heirloom of his Xiao family, although it is just an ordinary rice wine brewing method, but it is also one or two hundred years old, he has modified it according to the actual situation of the local area, no matter what, it is definitely not something that the rich man in the countryside can come up with." It's a robbery! I will never let him go! ”

Luo Er was taken aback by his words, and hurriedly said: "No, no, the lord didn't rob it, Lila and her father handed over the recipe, but he got thirty gold coins for reward, thirty gold coins, that's a lot of money, even if it is used to buy that recipe, it is enough, and their family can't make so much money by making wine." The lord also said that the snow on the mountains in the north was needed to make wine, so he opened a sake brewery nearby and recruited locals to work, and my son also went. Don't mess around, people in our villages make money from that winery. ”

Xiao Tianjian was almost choked to death, thirty gold coins! This kind of ice and fire wine is sold for ten gold coins and one jar in East, and the price of three jars of wine is to buy the recipe, and it is not said that it is a robbery? He was also very dissatisfied with Rohr's attitude: "Why do you want to speak for that lord?" He snatched the recipe. Even if Lila's family can't open a winery, the people in your village can help open it, so wouldn't you be able to make more money? Why don't you blame him? ”

"Look at what you said." Luo Er was a little unimpressed, "That Fang used to belong to Lila's father, we are all the same people, why do you want us to work for him?" The lord is different, he is a noble lord! ”

Xiao Tianjian's face darkened and he stopped talking, and when Luo Er saw this, he cautiously asked, "You won't really go to the lord's bad luck, right?" Don't go, please. The harvest has not been good in the past few years, and if the people of our villages had not worked in the winery, they would have starved to death. You just think that for the sake of us helping you back then, don't do anything to the lord. My son and I have saved more than 30 silver coins for a few years, and as long as I save enough 50, I can marry my son. Don't mess around at this time......"

Xiao Tianjian was a little annoyed when he heard it, and he didn't want to listen to him anymore: "You just said that Lila moved to Black Mountain Town, right?" Minna, let's ......" Seeing his granddaughter pouting behind him, he suddenly remembered what the child had said that she was hungry just now, so he changed his words: "We are all hungry, Rohr, can you get us something to eat." ”

When Luo Er heard this, he became excited: "Of course, of course, you can come to my house, why don't you just stay for one night?" You're a nobleman, and if the Lila family hadn't kept you for that long, they wouldn't have made a fortune. Oh, what nonsense am I talking about? Quick, please go this way......"

Minna continued to pout and follow them, into a small village, and then onto a narrow path. That Rohr has been rambling all the time, when will he and his grandfather be able to finish?

Rohr's home was a low, stone-built house that was dimly lit and somewhat cold. Rohr laughed and made a stone stove in the center of the house, carefully counted six or seven pieces of black charcoal and put them in, and the room was a little warmer. While rubbing his hands, he invited Xiao Tianjian's ancestor to sit down, and then went to cook.

While Rohr was cooking, villagers came to the door one after another with the news. Most of them were Xiao Tianjian's old acquaintances, and they greeted him very warmly, and invited him to their home for dinner. One of them also said that his family's house was spacious and invited Xiao Tianjian to spend the night, but Luo Er drove everyone away like a cat that had been stepped on by its tail, but when he faced Xiao Tianjian, he immediately regained his smile.

Xiao Tianjian was a little depressed, remembering that this Luo Er was a very simple and honest young man back then, how did he become like this now? Also, the eyes of those villagers who looked at him just now seemed to be a little different, and there was more greed. What the hell is going on in this village? Suddenly, he remembered the winery opened by the lord, where many simple villagers worked, and must have been spoiled by the bad habits of those nobles!

Recalling that when he crossed the snow-capped mountain, because he didn't know the route, he took a lot of unjust roads, and finally fell tired at the foot of the snowy mountain, and was rescued by Lila's father and daughter. In return, he specially taught Lila's family how to make braised pork, and also helped the villagers hunt and repair houses.

Lila, a delicate, shy girl from a mountain village, as pure and lovely as a lamb, might have she always been a little sister if it hadn't been for the night her father learned to make braised pork and drunk him with pleasure. However, he also knew in his heart that she and he were people from different worlds, and even if the events of that night happened, he would not accept a village girl who didn't know anything as his lover or partner, not to mention that he still had Funoya at that time.

As compensation for that night, he left the brewing recipe, originally intended to give the Lila family and the other villagers a way to get rich and not continue to be poor, but he didn't expect it to cause so many troubles.

Minna sat on the edge of the wooden table, watching her grandfather's expression change constantly, and her heart was very dissatisfied. She had already tugged at his clothes a few times, but he didn't respond, not knowing what he was thinking. She was about to call him loudly, but Rohr came over with food.

He kept urging them to eat, and kept talking about how rare this meal was, and even his own family rarely ate so well. However, in Minna's opinion, the soup was simply a paste made of flour made from the rhizomes of some unknown plants, and it tasted a little strange, but for her, who had not eaten hot soup for many days, she could barely eat it. The staple food is a fruit with a dark brown hard shell, cooked and broken, and inside is a fist-sized white pulp, which has a somewhat potato-like texture but a faint sweetness. It's something that Minna likes, so she eats two.

Xiao Tianjian explained that it is Nuojia's specialty staple noodle fruit, which can grow on plants or rocks in the high mountains, only needs a little water, and can achieve high yields even at low temperatures. This is the food researched by the founding monarch of the country to solve the food crisis, and in order to commemorate his exploits, the people adopted his name Noga as the name of the country.

Maybe it was because he had a full stomach and his mood had improved, Xiao Tianjian saw that it was not early, so he accepted Luoer's proposal to stay overnight, and the latter happily went out to help their grandparents and grandchildren get the quilt to be covered at night.

As soon as he left, Minna immediately told her grandfather about the men. Xiao Tianjian frowned after hearing this: "Sure enough, more than one team of people heard about that rumor, who spread it?" Damn it! ”

"Grandpa, what should we do? Will those people harm the people in the forest? Shall we stop them? Minna asked anxiously.

Xiao Tianjian thought for a while, and suddenly smiled: "You said they all carried a lot of luggage?" Still dressed like a local? ”

"That's right." Minna didn't understand that he was going to laugh, "Did Grandpa say that...... Disguise? ”

"What kind of clothes are Joe, they are not as hardy as the locals, and they can't survive it if they dress like that." Xiao Tianjian looked confident, "Do you think that road is so easy to follow?" If it weren't for the fact that I had a storage ring, brought enough dry food, water and a stove, if it weren't for the fact that I had internal strength to protect myself, and you had eaten that kind of fish soup in the forest, if it weren't for the light energy we used on the snowy mountains, and your weight was light, it would have been impossible for me to pass so smoothly. Even if those people were not afraid of the cold and had enough food, that duffel bag alone would have been enough to cause an avalanche. ”

Minna thought for a moment: "Avalanche, does it mean that the snow will be shaken down?" I remember the other day I was talking a little louder, and a lot of snow fell on the mountain. Is grandpa saying that if they bring such a big bag of things, it will also cause an avalanche? ”

"Heavy steps or loud voices will do." Xiao Tianjian smiled, "Moreover, even if they really pass smoothly, the road before reaching the forest is completely uncovered, and they will be discovered from afar, and they will all be exhausted by then, where are they still the opponents of the elves?" You don't have to worry. ”

Minna also breathed a sigh of relief when she heard this, and ate the strange-tasting soup with peace of mind.

Early the next morning, when Rohr was chatting, he said that there was a rumbling sound from the mountains in the north the night before, and that there might have been a big avalanche, and people from several villages had asked all night if anyone had entered the snowy mountains, but no one seemed to have suffered, and everyone was rejoicing.

Minna listened to these words, and thought of her grandfather's analysis last night, so she glanced at him. Xiao Tianjian remained silent, generously threw down ten gold coins as a toll, and then left with his granddaughter in Luo Er's praise of virtue.

When they left the village, they did not return to the main road to the south, but to the southwest. Minna felt that something was wrong, so she asked, "Grandpa, aren't we going back to Qitun?" Why not go south? Xiao Tianjian said, "Let's take a long turn." In the town of Montenegro in the southwest, there is a friend of my grandfather. When grandpa left the elven forest for the first time, he collapsed at the foot of the snowy mountain from exhaustion, and it was she who saved his grandfather to go back. It's rare to come here, and I want to stop by to see her. ”

Minna pursed her lips, she was already much later than she had agreed, and Grandpa Marshall must be in a hurry.

Xiao Tianjian saw her expression and said busily: "Actually, it's not without benefit to go here, it's a town, there will definitely be horses for sale, let's buy a horse and ride back, it's much better than walking, isn't it?" ”

Minna was very much in favor of this proposal, she was really a little afraid to walk, and quickly nodded. Xiao Tianjian secretly breathed a sigh of relief, and pulled his granddaughter to continue walking. When twilight fell again, they finally arrived in the town of Black Mountain.

(In the next chapter, the mysterious mastermind behind the scenes will lift a little veil ~~~ It's almost the end of the month, and it's really miserable to look at the PK results, if you think the story can still be watched, and there are pink votes in your hands, please vote for me~~~)