Minna and Vasily, who were far behind the thief, watched as he entered a somewhat gloomy street, turned into a bungalow not far from the mouth of an alley, and quickly closed the door, where a man staggered over and hummed a little song in front of it

Vasily pulled Minna by, hiding behind a broken wall outside the alleyway, and carefully probed to look at it

This area is a slum area, the houses are dilapidated, and the people's clothes are also made up for winter, but Minna sees it, but thinks that they are much better off than the poor people in Anke, judging from their faces, at least they have food and clothing, and there are no hungry beggars lying on the streets, but there are many mysterious people who hurriedly walk by Minna, and at a glance she can see that they are not engaged in any decent profession, and at least three of them are thieves

Vasily glanced at Minna with some uneasiness, and felt that the little girl was not fit for such a place, so he whispered: "Why don't I send you back first?" Anyway, their lair should be here, and I'll come back to find it later."

Minna shook her head: "If they run away, where are they going to find them?" And, what if they sell your stuff during this time? Don't worry, I've been used to this kind of place for a long time, it's not a big deal, Hughley and they have also done this, so I'm not afraid."

Vasily then remembered that Father Riddle's children, many of whom had really come from such a place where dragons and snakes were mixed, smiled, and said no more, at this time, the thief came out of the house, talked a few words with the man guarding the door, and then left Vasily together, quickly taking stock of the surrounding terrain, avoiding the others and sneaking into the open space behind the bungalow, Minna following closely

There was a window on the back wall of the bungalow, but it was locked, and only the two small exhaust windows on the top were opened, and Vasily looked at the big shoes of the exhaust window, and was considering whether he could get in from there, so Minna pushed him away: "Get out of the way" whispered a spell to the window, and the lock clicked and opened

"Wow" Vasily screamed and stretched out his hand to open the window, and when he heard that there was no one in the room, he squatted slightly, Minna understood, stepped on his leg and jumped in, Vasily looked back and looked around, and heard Minna say "There is no one in the house, you can come in", and then he went through the window and entered

The room was quiet, there were three rooms in total, no one in Minna turned around, but he couldn't find himself and Vasily throwing things on the ground, a little strange, the thief just now obviously came in with something and went out empty-handed, how could the thing not be seen?

Vasily knocked on the wall, Minna suddenly realized, and kicked around on the floor, and suddenly found that there was a floor in the corner of the house that was deeper than other places, and the sound of stepping on his feet was not the same, and he hurriedly looked up at Vasily, and the other party also happened to look over, and the two looked at each other, and the latter immediately turned around and went to the door to get a shovel

At this time, Minna suddenly heard footsteps, and hurriedly "shhh Vasily listened attentively: "Two people in front of one and one behind, and the one in front is the one who steals" He pulled Minna behind the door and hid, while he jumped on the other side of the cabinet with a shovel and held Minna high and looked at Minna in a cold sweat, feeling a little pity for the person who was about to enter the door

The thief who entered the door first saw at a glance that the situation in the house was not the same as usual, and he was alarmed in his heart, and hurriedly took a step back, just to avoid the shovel waved on his head, but he did not dodge, and then he screamed with a kick that came to him, and fell on his back, and the person who followed him turned around and fled when he saw that the situation was not good, but Minna threw a chair over, hit his head, and suddenly had a gold star in his eyes, and collapsed to the ground

Vasily "tsk" a few times: "It hurts enough, it's pitiful" Minna gave him a blank look, as if he hadn't hit anyone

Ten minutes later, one big and one small had already tied up the two thieves, and interrogated them clearly that these two people were habitual thieves, and they hid their things in this house after they got their hands on them, and they sold them cheaply on the same day

Vasily learned from the thief the correct way to open the secret compartment on the floor, and had already taken back his and Minna's belongings, and looked at the other stolen objects, and sighed as he flipped through them: "Look at this money bag, you know that the owner must not be a rich man, you have enough excesses, even the poor do not let go... Ay? This is a business contract, right? And this one is an IOU... I said, why don't you pick one beforehand? It's useless for you to steal this kind of thing, but it's going to be very annoying for the person concerned."

"I put it with the money, and I got it back together when I stole it," the thief shrunk his neck and muttered in fear

"There are still letters?!" Vasily didn't listen to him at all, and flipped to himself, "You opened it?" It's so immoral, huh? This person's name is quite familiar, Ai, do I recognize it..."He suddenly closed his mouth, his eyes widened and he read the words on the envelope from left to right over and over again, and suddenly turned his head to stare at the thieves: "Where did this steal the land from?!" ”

The thief was even more afraid: "This... This is from a noble lord... I look like a nobleman... Is there anything wrong with stealing it in the morning? ”

Vasily's face changed, and Minna looked strange, and was about to ask him what was wrong, but he suddenly stuffed the letter and several other things in the same bag into his bag, and took out only a few valuable things, such as a pen inlaid with rubies and a few precious collar pins, and tore off the brocade cover of a notebook, and threw them to the thieves, saying: "If I were you, I would sell these valuable things at once, and if anyone came to ask, they would say that other things were useless. Throw it all away, and don't say you've read that letter, you know?! ”

The thief swallowed: "Then the letter... Any questions? ”

"There's no problem," Vasily said lightly, "but if you want to live, you'd better not tell the truth," ignoring the two of them's pale faces, he picked up Minna and was about to leave, when suddenly he seemed to remember something, and turned around and took out documents and other worthless things from among the stolen things, and took them away

When Minna saw him go to a secluded place, she set fire to all those things, including the IOUs and contracts he had just mentioned, and couldn't help frowning: "Didn't you say that these things are useless to us, but the parties are very troubled?" Why burn it? ”

"If you want to hide something, you have to sweep your tail clean," Vasily glanced at her and smiled slightly, "The owner of the land will definitely find those thieves, even if we tell them, but if they find that other worthless things are there, only theirs are missing, they will definitely be suspicious, it is better for me to take the initiative to eliminate all these traces"

Minna nodded instructively, and suddenly leaned forward curiously: "What is written in that letter?" ”

Vasily was stunned, smiled wryly, touched the bag containing the letters, hesitated for a long time, and then said: "Minna, I remember that the priest once mentioned to me that two guests asked him about your affairs, and he felt that the two were somewhat familiar, probably the East nobles he had met before, but he was not sure that you had seen these two people?" Can you describe what they look like? ”

Minna was a little strange, thought about it, and said: "Those two people, one is forty or fifty years old, and the other is in his twenties, both have chestnut hair, the old land is a little fat, and he has a small belly, and the young one is very thin and curly... By the way, he has a black mole the size of a fingernail on his face! And when his eyes look at me, I always feel like I have hairs on my body."

Vasily sighed lightly: "Sure enough, it's them, Fox father and son... I should have thought that they must have had some purpose in their sudden appearance in Wisha, but they just happened to meet..."After a pause, he asked again: "Minna, what did they say, do you remember?" Did you mention the reason why they went to Wisha? ”

Minna tilted her head: "It was the priest who received them, I don't know what they talked about, but then, the old man asked me if my real name was Sarah, if I had escaped from the slave traders in the Oasis of Bully, and it was strange that he and the young man kept staring at me."

Vasily grabbed a name from her words: "Sarah? ”

Minna said a little embarrassed: "At that time, I didn't want the priest to recognize me as grandpa's granddaughter, so I borrowed the name of a girl I knew in the oasis, her name was Sarah, and by the way, she also said that she was a princess."

The expression on Vasily's face was very complicated, and he wanted to be serious, but he couldn't help but want to laugh Minna looked confused: "What the hell is going on?"

"Ahem" Vasily coughed lightly, "Minna, in fact, Sarah is the one you know by the name of our First Princess of East, and she is indeed a princess" Minna's mouth opened wide, but quickly closed: "I should have thought of it a long time ago!" When she speaks, the pronunciation of our word is different from mine, but it is exactly the same as Dad's accent! My dad is from Ito! Thinking of the hateful captain of the guard, she sank her face: "There is a man named Potdickadi, who promised you to take me with him, but he left me at the door of the temple and went back to see him, I must kick him a few times!" ”

"The captain of the royal guard, Perdicka, is a close confidant of His Majesty the King," Vasily said with a faint smile, "He just thinks too much, as if everyone is going to be unfavorable to the royal family, and he wants the king's family to stay in the palace all day, not even to see any outsiders, so as not to be harmed"

Minna was still angry: "Hmph, I didn't mean to harm Sarah, I just approached her so that I could find someone to take me home!" Why did he think of me as a bad person? What else do you say about the reason why you deliberately approached His Highness, I won't investigate it, I'm really angry! ”

"Don't be angry, he did go too far, and asked his subordinates not to reveal this matter, it was one of his subordinates who felt that it was inappropriate, and quietly mentioned it to us, we only knew, and we didn't approve of his approach, but he insisted, and we thought that you went to Father Riddle, there should be no danger, so we didn't care about it" Vasily touched Minna's head lightly, "If we had known that it was you, we would have gone to pick you up immediately, and your father was sad for a long time, and the work almost stopped, Your mother is still seriously ill, and I heard that they also fell out with your uncle and aunt, as if it was for your business."

Minna's eyes were red: "Uncle Vasily, it turns out that you really know my parents, so is my mother okay now?" How is she doing with her dad? ”

"I haven't heard from them for a long time, so it's not bad, don't worry, hasn't the priest already sent a letter? We'll be in Ito in about ten days, and they'll be happy to see you."

Minna nodded vigorously, raised her sleeve to wipe the tears on her face, and suddenly felt that something was wrong: "Uncle Vasily, you say... Sarah and Purdica were still with you later? Why? Aren't you a mercenary? She stared at him tightly: "I just asked you what was written in the letter, why did you ask about the father and son instead?" Also, Does Sarah have anything to do with this? ”

Vasily folded: "Huh? Didn't flicker and succeeded."

Minna almost choked on saliva, and her fist immediately beckoned over, and Vasily repeatedly begged for mercy: "I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I'm joking, I'll just say it..."

"Princess Sarah's whereabouts are confidential, and no one can know it, and if it is known, the king will be in big trouble, so at that time Purdica refused to take you with him, but then someone heard the news - it was the pair of Fox father and son, they were a villain's subordinates - and rushed to inquire about the news I had tried my best to stop them at the time, but unfortunately I didn't stop it, and I thought it would be a goof, but I didn't expect them to suddenly stop the investigation and take the initiative to leave I have always felt strange, now it seems, They must have found out that a little girl named Sarah escaped from the Oasis and hid in the orphanage of the small temple of Encore City, so they thought it was a princess, and when they saw it, they found out that it was not, and they thought that they were mistaken. ”

Minna suddenly realized at this time that she had used a fake name and had coincidentally deceived the bad guys, and she couldn't help but laugh, but when she saw Vasily's smiling Nirvana, she suddenly turned her face blank: "After all, you still didn't tell me, what is written in the letter?!" Also, why are you with Sarah Perdicka? ”

Vasily sighed, and when he saw Minna's god, he knew that he couldn't get past it, so he had to say it simply: "The letter was written by a foreigner to a nobleman in our country, and the Fox father and son are messengers, anyway, it's not a good thing, I'm going to take the letter back and give it to the director..."

"Mom and Dad, too?" Minna couldn't figure out what was so mysterious

"Your dad knows, your mom there... It's better for your dad to say it, it's likely that she already knows," Vasily said, "Actually, I don't agree with this kind of regulation, even if it's for confidentiality, at least let the closest family members know, the real identity of each member doesn't have to say what they do, but at least they should have an understanding of the mission of their relatives, so as not to have misunderstandings."

"Agency?" Minna folds

Vasily nodded lightly: "This letter has something to do with your father, if I hand it in directly, he may not be able to see it, you can tell him about it, there are some dangers, you can avoid it or avoid it as much as possible, after all, he has a wife and children, and he is different from us bachelors"

Minna suddenly had a bad premonition, and hurriedly stepped forward: "Please tell me, I will never tell anyone"

Vasily smiled and touched her head, looking around: "Change places, find a place where no one will eavesdrop"

(Ahem...) Well, if you think this book can still be read, please vote for me)