In the early morning, the mist had not yet cleared on the riverbank, but many people on the wharves had already begun their day's begging, carrying goods, or asking caravans and merchants if they needed to hire people, including old people, young people, and even boys in their early teens, whose young shoulders were already burdened with the livelihood of their families

A carriage creaked along, stopped in front of a large house, and several men had already run to pull the door very respectfully, and met a richly dressed man, wearing a small felt hat and a gold-plated cane with an ebony handle, who looked like a nobleman, but the sly look in his triangular eyes betrayed the fact that he was more likely a merchant

"Where's the new one?" As soon as he opened his mouth, he spoke in a cold tone, but there was a hint of eagerness

The person who came to greet him nodded and said, "It's in the house, please come in, it's definitely first-class."

The man straightened his hair, as if he was not in a hurry, when a voice came from the carriage behind him: "Hurry up, don't pretend to be tweezers here!" ”

The man snorted coldly and walked into the house, where someone had already brought a pair of young girls to come

The girl was about fourteen or fifteen years old, blonde and blue-eyed, beautiful as a flower, with tears in her eyes, trembling, and looking particularly delicate and moving, and the man looked at her plump breasts and straight and slender legs a few more times, nodded with satisfaction, and then moved his eyes to the boy next to him

The boy looked no more than sixteen years old, with white skin, a slender and well-proportioned figure, a delicate countenance, elegant manners, and a very extraordinary demeanor despite his age, and he did not lose his temper in the face of a room of strangers with ill intentions, and looked at the man with a scrutinizing gaze, and from the eyes of the latter, the young man was probably better than the girl

"Very good," he looked at his men appreciatively, "is it a nobleman?" ”

Someone immediately stepped forward and said, "Definitely and it is the nobleman of East!" They were guests at a declining aristocratic house on the eastern border, and we saw the girl running away with the boy to a remote place, so we came back in a coma and brought it back, leaving absolutely no trace, if you want to know the origin of their surname, I can ask the person who did it."

"I don't need to know that kind of thing," the man said coldly, "It doesn't matter, you did a good job this time, go to the accountant to get the reward later" "Thank you, boss"

The young man suddenly spoke: "Who are you?" Why did you bring us here?! ”

The man curled the corners of his mouth: "Who do you guess we are?" My little master? ”

"It's a human trafficker," the young man narrowed his eyes, and his tone was unsatisfactory, "Aren't you afraid that our family will track it down?" ”

The man sneered: "My good young master, don't scare me, we have done a lot of this kind of thing and know how to eliminate the traces" He walked over and gently touched the girl's flower-like delicate face, causing her to gasp and retreat again and again, before he smiled maliciously and raised the young man's hand and noticed that his fingers were slender and his skin was soft, and he really didn't look like a young master from a declining aristocratic family

A trace of anger flashed between the young man's eyebrows, and he vigorously withdrew his hand: "What do you want to do?!" ”

The man chuckled: "I've just inspected the goods, let go of your arrogance, be obedient, or I will let you know what it means to regret" His eyes caught a glimpse of the clothes on the two of them, they should have been what they were wearing, the materials were luxurious, but they were all a little old, and the girls didn't fit well, and they believed what his subordinates said, "They are all declining nobles".

But when he saw these luxurious but dirty clothes, he was very unhappy in his heart, hooked his fingers and called his subordinates, and slapped them: "Why don't you change their clothes?!" Are you afraid that their families won't know that they were taken away by you?! ”

The subordinate was beaten by him and his face was swollen, and he hurriedly said: "I'm sorry, boss, I just thought that they were dressed like this and looked more like nobles, and the price could be higher."

"Then we should change it first!" The man waved his hand, "Take them down and change their clothes!" Search clearly, don't miss dangerous things like last time! ”

The subordinate hurriedly responded, and ordered a few thugs to escort the pair of young men and girls down to change clothes, and the girl looked at the lewd light in the eyes of those big men, screaming and refusing to let them get close, and the two big men twisted their arms stiffly, and they were still struggling to break away to catch him, and rushed up to the man and said, "You can't do this, let her go!" We can change it ourselves! ”

The man gave the big men a look, and the girl regained her freedom, and immediately threw herself into the young man's arms and cried, and the whole person almost collapsed

The man said softly: "I have always been very aristocratic, you can change it yourself, but don't want to do anything obediently, my young master and young lady, otherwise... I've got strong men here."

The young man shuddered, said lightly: "We know what to do" and helped the girl to go down with the big men

The man was in a very good mood when he saw them go, and he was most fond of abducting and selling such "goods" of noble origin, and he was very happy to see those pretentious young men and girls succumb to his feet, and to see them abandon their original pride and be humiliated

"Isn't that right?" A deep word suddenly floated behind him, startling him, looking back, it turned out to be the one in the carriage who came in at some time, and the man frowned when he saw the situation just now, he didn't like this person, although the other party was "that" the messenger, but this kind of face was blue, and he wore a black cloak and a black hat all day long and refused to face the guy, how to look at it and how it didn't please him said: "What's wrong?" I was only rewarded by my master last month, so you can't be jealous, right? ”

The man tilted his head slightly: "I mean, the master only asks you to collect young men and women who are not vulgar in appearance and deeds, such people can be found casually in Shaonan, but you want to fight the idea of the children of the nobles Although you are looking for declining nobles, no one can guarantee that no one will come to the door, not to mention that now even the nobles of neighboring countries have come, aren't you afraid of being discovered by the official people?" ”

"Afraid of what?!" The man looked disapproving, "My hands and feet are clean, and they never leave any traces, like this boy and girl, they disappeared together, others will only think that they are eloping, even if they find something wrong, they can't find me, the master here has always had a high vision, at least he has to be a descendant of a nobleman, to be worthy of the master"

The man snorted coldly: "I know what you are thinking, but I remind you not to go too far, if you delay the master's major affairs because of your stubbornness, I will never let you go!" ”

A trace of annoyance flashed on the man's face, and he was about to get angry, but he heard a knock on the door of his subordinates, and he called in to see him take out two small pieces of jewelry: "Boss, this is something on those two children, it seems to be worth some money, what do you think should be done?" ”

The man took it and saw that it turned out to be a necklace inlaid with a gold-inlaid ivory pendant and an old gold-plated ring, and the former had a pattern painted in gold in the middle of the pendant, which looked a bit like a horizontal shovel, but he didn't pay attention to it when he was short, and threw it back to his subordinates: "I've rewarded you."

Without waiting for the man to thank him, the black-cloaked messenger asked, "Can you show me?" Taking the necklace pendant and looking at it carefully, he thought thoughtfully: "I'm afraid that this time the goods have a bit of a history, don't feed them first, wait until I ask the owner what he means."

The man was a little surprised: "What? Any questions? ”

"It's likely that the person we know is a family land," the messenger looked at the pendant again, "In case you really send someone to it, you won't be able to cooperate anymore after you find out about it, you can find something else first."

The man cursed secretly, and promised to come down when the young man and girl had changed into ordinary coarse cloth clothes, and then ordered the original clothes to be burned, and then locked them in the room, and left with the messenger

Walking on the edge of the dock, avoiding a few porters, he slammed into a dark-skinned teenager, and the man grabbed him: "Don't run!" I don't think I've seen you before, where did you come from?! The boy shrunk his neck in fear: "It's only been two days coming... John on the crutch brought me to the land..."

John on the crutch is a well-known hired agent on the docks, and the man went to suspicion, reached out and touched his body, and was sure that nothing was missing, so he let go of his hand: "Get out!" ”

The young man rubbed his nose and was about to run, but he was stopped by the messenger, looked up and down, and said, "I think this is good, although it is a little darker and thinner, but the facial features are delicate, and the skin is shiny and elastic."

The man scoffed, "Are you kidding?" He's just a coolie, and this kind of boy can grab a lot of them on the dock, and I can't give them away! He stretched out his cane to chase the young man: "Get out, it's none of your business!" The young man stole at the messenger, and then at the people who followed them, and especially at the gold necklace that the man's subordinate was holding in his hand, and then ran away

The man and the black-cloaked messenger continued a small dispute about the origin of the young girl, and the latter saw the dark-skinned boy passing by them several times with his goods, and kept using him as an example, until after supper the man said impatiently, "Do you have a crush on that child?" How about I have someone wash it and send it to your room? Then the messenger threw up his sleeves and left in anger

In the middle of the night, the man suddenly knocked on his door, changed his arrogance, and said in horror: "The list is gone!" What to do? ”

"What?!" The emissary's face sank, "Are you talking about the list with the names of the nobles and merchants who are willing to cooperate with us?!" How could it be gone?! ”

"I've been in the dark compartment, and I checked it before going to bed, and I heard a noise just now, and I didn't find anyone when I got up, and suddenly I felt that there was a problem, and I went to see the dark compartment, only to find that it was empty!" The man was nervous, "What should I do?" Who could have stolen it? ”

"Could it be an ordinary thief?"

"Local thieves don't come, they will be discovered as soon as they enter the town, they can't be ordinary thieves"

The messenger groaned slightly: "That is a purpose, no matter what country it is, if you want to leave with something..."

Half an hour later, his men reported that a ship had just left the dock, and the very suspicious man looked at the messenger and hurriedly led people to catch up, because they heard that the other party was numerous, and they specially called most of their men

There was a lot of disturbance on this side of the house, but the place where the boy and girl were held was silent, and only the sobbing of the girls could be faintly heard, and the two big men in charge of the guard, one yawned, and the other was humming a little song boringly, and suddenly smelled a fragrance, and before they could smell it clearly, they both fell asleep

A neat black shadow walked up to them, took out the key on his waist, opened the door and startled the young girl in the room By the dim oil light in the corner of the room, he found that it was a dark-skinned young man, also fourteen or fifteen years old with flax hair, and his black eyes waved at them: "Daphne. Roa, Alborn... Heda? ”

The aristocratic young man in the house said lightly: "I am, who are you?" The girl changed her decadence and pounced excitedly: "Are you here to save us?!" ”

The boy frowned and looked at the girl: "Be quiet, don't let people hear" but the girl was still excited and kept saying, "Take me away", while her companion hesitated and asked, "Are you from the Security Department?" ”

The dark-skinned boy raised his eyebrows: "How is it?" Do you want to come with me? ”

"Of course," the aristocratic boy held out his hand, "I'm Alben, she's Daphne, what are we going to do?" ”

The dark-skinned boy shook his hand casually and motioned for them to follow: "Be quiet, most of them have been led to the dock by my companions, and the guards are also stunned by me, so leave now."

"Won't your companions be in danger?" Alben asked

The boy looked at him deeply: "It's okay, they just pretend to be suspicious, in fact, there is no problem at all"

As he spoke, he had already walked out of the house, and when the girl Daphne passed by the two guards, she suddenly kicked one of them a few times, and the man was about to wake up in a daze The young man saw that the situation was not good, and he was busy beating him with a knife before staring at Daphne fiercely: "Don't mess around!" ”

The girl flattened her mouth aggrievedly, Alben was busy pulling her to keep up with the young man's footsteps, he didn't want to regret it now, why was he confused by this girl's beauty? I didn't realize how stupid she was, he had a chance to escape on the way, but he was buried by this girl, and as soon as he got out of danger, he would never have anything to do with her again!

The three young men walked carefully through several houses, and when they came to the stable, Alborn hesitated for a moment, and asked, "Is it too dangerous to ride those people's horses?" ”

The boy smiled, and shot a white thing with his hand out, hitting the grass pile near the stable, Alben was still thinking about what was the use, but he heard a few "whoosh" sounds in the air, as if something hit the horse, and the pain made several horses neigh, and they ran rampant in the stable, and the horse ran out of the house without even having time to put on his clothes, and just saw all the horses jump out of the stable, scatter and flee, and hurriedly beckoned people to stop the horse

At this time, the young man made a gesture, signaling Alben and the two to flee with him from the other side, until they walked under the wall, and they didn't meet anyone Alborn couldn't help but admire a little, but when he saw the high wall, he was a little worried

The boy took out a rope hook out of nowhere, hooked it to the wall as soon as he threw it, jumped slightly, and went up, turned around and whispered: "Climb up carefully, I will answer here" Alben understood, and let Daphne go first

Finally, she half-pulled and half-dragged up to the wall, but the girl was suddenly timid, and did not dare to jump down, the boy asked her to pull the rope and slide down, she only slipped less than two feet, and then screamed and pulled the rope tightly, and did not dare to continue Alborn was so anxious that he looked back at the noise in the distance, and the horses had all been stopped, and it seemed that someone had heard the sound here, so he urged Daphne: "Hurry up, we are running for our lives!" Do you want to be caught?! ”

Daphne kept shaking her head, and with a flick of the rope, she screamed again

The boy frowned, jumped off the wall, grabbed the rope, and jumped down with Daphne in another scream, grabbed her waist and jumped down together, Daphne was so startled that the boy suddenly lost his voice, and turned around to call Alben, the other party had slipped off the rope, he hurriedly withdrew the rope hook, pulled Daphne and said, "Run, I have prepared a horse outside the town, just run there"

"Didn't we leave by boat? Is there a land route to go here? Alben was surprised and asked the boy but thought it was funny: "Where do you think this is?" This is Pharadis! If we move faster, we'll be able to reach the magic capital by dawn, let's go."

The three of them hurried on their way, and on several occasions Daphne could not hold on any longer, and Alben could barely maintain his gentlemanly demeanor, so that the dark-skinned boy carried the girl on his back without saying a word, and only then did he get out of town, and sure enough, he saw two horses tied to a tree by the side of the road

He motioned for the two of them to ride the steed together, and he rode the stray one, but Alben and Daphne looked at me and I looked at you, and did not move, and the young man wondered, "You don't know how to ride?" I remember this is a compulsory course for nobles, right? ”

Alben said: "Who doesn't know that Daphne of the Luo family is a riding idiot, and she has never been safe and sound on horseback" Daphne was angry: "You are really too much! Are you good at riding?! ”

The young man's face sank: "I don't have time to wait for you to quarrel!" With that, he threw Daphne on his horse, and rode on himself, and Alben rode the horse very cooperatively, and the three of them set out for a gallop south

The girl was held in her arms by the opposite sex, her face was red, and her heart was surging, but she heard a sentence from behind her ear: "Don't think nonsense, there can't be any romance between me and you" She was poured a big basin of cold water on her heart, annoyed and angry, twisted her body in a tantrum, and clamored to get off the horse The young man said coldly: "You give me honesty, otherwise I don't mind letting you rush in a coma" Daphne shivered, and only then did he be honest Alben snickered on the side, feeling that although this teenager of the same age was a member of the Security Department, how to look at it, He wanted to ask his name, but he misunderstood, and after looking around, he happened to catch a glimpse of a ring hanging from the young man's neck with a black string, which shone silver in the moonlight, and secretly noted this

One morning, when they saw the Magic City in the morning light, the exhausted young man took the tired pair of aristocratic young masters and young ladies to an inn on the outskirts of the Magic City, said hello to the boss, and walked to the back of the store

Alben was confused, and was about to call him out, but he heard his name called, and when he turned his head, he found that his butler and Daphne's parents were sitting in a corner of the inn hall, and had been waiting for a long time

Daphne threw herself over and cried for a while, and he couldn't help but accept the housekeeper's concerned inspection, and when he turned back, he couldn't see the young man anymore, so he had to ask the innkeeper: "What about the person who sent us back?" ”

"He's already gone," the boss said with a smile, "the guests are tired, aren't they?" Do you want to rest for a while, or do you want to eat something first? ”

"I want to bathe first" Alben replied lightly, feeling a little sorry in his heart, I don't know when I will see that benefactor again?

He didn't notice that there was a fourteen or fifteen-year-old beautiful girl walking out of the back of the shop, with brown hair and green eyes, wearing the usual small floral dress, and her skin was a little dark, she nodded to the boss, and walked out of the store, but Alben's butler looked at her suspiciously

Alben realized: "What's wrong? ”

"Nothing," the butler laughed, "I read it wrong"

The girl walked through the streets and alleys to a small building near Willow Street, took out the key and walked in, and said to the people inside with a smile: "Mom, good morning, I'm back, how is Dad today?" ”

(Three years...) We've grown into a fair girl, ticket