Chapter XXXIX

Karina took the big fish that Gruch was carrying, walked past the boy who was staring at her in a daze, and walked straight to the kitchen.

"Dashao, Karina is fine, I don't want my fish to be spoiled by her. Gruch swallowed, glanced warily at the kitchen door, and muttered carefully.

"Uh......" Arthur said with a cold sweat on his forehead, a little uncertain, "it should be fine." The two glanced at Jack, who felt the gaze of the two and immediately waved his hand, "Don't look at me, I haven't been on a mission with Karina, and she's been understanding the two spiritual artifacts you gave her." ”

"Da Shao, I suddenly have a bad premonition!" Guruqi cried his little chubby face. Arthur was wondering if he should go into the kitchen and take a look. Suddenly, inside the kitchen, Karina shouted out the door.

"Nisa! Help me pick some vegetables in the yard, right in front of the yard. ”

"Come on, you stinky men, don't stand in the way" Nissa came out of the back room, watching the three big men surrounding the door, and her heart was cold and suffocated, and she directly elbowed Arthur in the lower abdomen. In the next point, it is Arthur's lifeblood.

"!" Arthur shuddered suddenly, gasping and breaking out in a cold sweat. Guruqi looked at Nissa's spicy appearance, his body shuddered, and he immediately moved a few steps to the side, wanting to stay away from Nissa. "Damn, Young Master Ben can't be provoked, can't he still hide?"

Jack was also stunned for a moment, he couldn't understand why Nissa was so hostile to Arthur.

"What are you doing?" Arthur clutched his lower abdomen and half-knelt on the ground, tears of pain about to flow out. has been in a relaxed state, who would have thought that he would be suddenly beaten.

Filled with anger in his heart, he raised his head and questioned, staring at Nissa like a mad lion.

"Hmph" Nissa shook her red hair and walked away majestically, not even bothering to answer.

Lei Ning, who came out behind her, opened her cherry mouth and glanced at Arthur, who was half-kneeling on the ground in agony, in amazement, and it could be seen that Nissa's blow was not light.

Groch's face was sweating profusely, and when Nissa entered the kitchen, he hurried over to Arthur's side and helped him up.

"Big and young, is that thing okay? Why don't I go and ask the people in the village for a bullwhip and let Karina stew it for you?"

"Roll ~~~~"

"Ah~~~~"

"What's wrong, what's wrong?" Hearing the screams, Monchi and Victor hurriedly came out with their weapons, and as soon as they went out, they saw a strange sight, looked at each other, and scratched their heads.

"What's going on?"

Guruqi lay on the ground and pouted his big ass, and there was a faint footprint on his ass. Arthur was sweating profusely, his arms resting against the wall to support his body, hunched slightly, gasping for breath.

Jack's face was strange, the corners of his mouth were slightly grinning, and he wanted to laugh but didn't dare to laugh out loud. Waving at Monchi and Victor, he said, "It's okay, it's okay, they're joking, you just take care of Senior Kara." ”

After more than half an hour, the smell of fragrant rice wafted out of the kitchen.

"The meal is ready" Guruqi smelled the fragrance and stood up with a "swish", standing straight and straight, the saliva on the side of his mouth began to "rub" out, and he closed his eyes and inhaled the fragrance heavily.

"It's so fragrant~~~"

Victor looked out the door with a worried expression, "It's been more than half an hour, why did Jack and Arthur go to the village chief's house and haven't come back yet?"

Meng Qi carefully wiped his rusty greatsword, "Don't worry, Jack has always been cautious, Arthur's lightning spell is not a vegetarian, just an acquired warlock, they won't have an accident"

"Hmph, I'm comforted by you bastard," Victor glanced at Monchi and scolded with a smile.

Monchi was not angry, and continued to wipe the greatsword with a smile.

"Huh, it's back!"

A voice rang out outside the crumbling fence of the hut, and Arthur and Jack slowly walked inside.

"It's so fragrant, I didn't expect Karina to be so good at cooking!" Arthur smelled the aroma of rice as soon as he entered the door, and immediately opened his mouth to praise, and deliberately amplified his voice so that Karina could hear clearly.

"Hahaha......" Jack seemed to be in a happy mood, and laughed at Karina from time to time along with Arthur's words, wondering if Karina in the kitchen was blushing.

"How's it going?" Victor asked impatiently without waiting for Arthur and Jack to sit down.

Arthur and Jack looked at each other with a smile, and Jack spoke, "It's settled, thanks to Arthur, he directly asked for a ton of honeysuckle, a specialty of Avey Mountain." The village chief was a little skeptical at first, but Arthur took out ten gold coins and paid on the spot. The village chief's concerns were completely dispelled. He also said that he would send a tour guide to take us around, but we refused, so we said that we would go to the mountain to have a look. It's just so convenient for us to do things!"

"It's time to eat!"

Lei Ning walked in cautiously with a large pot of fish soup, and looked at Lei Ning, a little girl who usually likes to look in the mirror, holding an iron basin larger than her two arms, Arthur stood up, smiled at Lei Ning kindly, and directly took the big pot of fish soup, walked a few steps, and put it firmly on the table.

Lei Ning's little face suddenly turned red, but everyone was attracted by the fragrant fish soup and didn't notice her abnormality.

"Get out of the way, Lei Ning don't get in the way!" Nissa trotted into the house with a large wooden barrel capped. Arthur's nose flickered, and he smelled the fragrant smell of rice, thinking that Nissa was holding the freshly steamed rice.

Karina walked in with a wooden bucket with dishes and chopsticks in one hand and a plate of vegetables in the other.

"Let's eat!" Karina put her things away, lifted the large wooden barrel that Nissa was holding, and began to serve the meal. Seeing the steaming white rice on the table, everyone was already impatient to wait, and the eighth bowl of rice was served. Everyone unceremoniously picked up chopsticks and spoons and began to eat.

"Hmm...... Fragrant, really fragrant, I didn't expect Karina to be so good at cooking"

"This fish is so tender!"

"This fish soup tastes delicious"

"Senior Carla, drink more fish soup to replenish your body"

There were not many green vegetables, and the eight people picked them out without a few chopsticks. Arthur picks a good piece of fish and gives it to Karina, attracting everyone's strange eyes. Karina's beautiful cheeks were also flushed.

"Look at it, we're both engaged, a proper couple. Arthur laughed, took another large piece of fish, and put it in his bowl and ate it.

Hearing Arthur's words, everyone laughed weirdly and teased Arthur. They all figured out Arthur's character, he was a very good person, generous, informal, and did not have the kind of condescending atmosphere of ordinary rich people.

Kara on the side also laughed with everyone, only Lei Ning, and she herself somehow, hearing Arthur's words, there was an inexplicable sting in her heart.

Guruchi and Monchi worked hard to make it, and the rest of them hadn't finished eating a bowl of rice, they had eaten three bowls, but fortunately, Karina was already familiar with their appetite, and the rice was steamed a lot.

After the meal, Karina pulled Lei Ning to wash the dishes and chopsticks, and Nissa hugged her bulging little belly and lay on the kang in the boys' room in a daze.

Arthur looked at Karina's busy figure in the kitchen, the corners of his mouth slanted slightly, his heart shook, and a touch of tenderness appeared in his eyes, "It's really a good wife who can go to the hall and the kitchen."

After waiting for a while, Arthur saw that it was already a little dark outside the window, so he spread out his own sketch and said to everyone, "Next, we will deploy for Ivey Mountain Village. Here's a sketch of my mountain village of Ivey."

All the boys gathered around, and Jack praised, "Brother Arthur, you really do things well"

Hearing Jack call himself brother, Arthur smiled back, and at this time, Karina and Lei Ning also gathered around, thinking that they had already cleaned the dishes and chopsticks.

Arthur pointed to the sketch he had drawn and said, "There are a total of 72 households in Ivey Mountain Village, and our current location is here in the village, in the southeastern corner of the village, the location chosen by Guruqi's subordinates is good, and we are on the high side, which is convenient for observation." ”

Hearing Arthur praising himself, Guruqi smiled smugly, arched his hand to everyone, and said "false praise and false praise", which was very funny.

Arthur gave him a roll of the eye, pointed to another place on the sketch, and continued, "Another warlock in the village is here, right east of the village, just north of us, which is also convenient for protection and observation. ”

"The only uncomfortable location is the village chief's house. ”

Arthur pointed to the most central position of the sketch and said, "The village chief's house is right in the most central location of Iveshan Village, surrounded by people, we are all outsiders, the target is too big, it is not good to protect nearby." I thought that the only way was to go up the hill, keep watch from a distance, and send a signal as soon as there was any movement, and another group of people would stay at home so that they could be dispatched in time. ”

Arthur's gaze swept to everyone, "No opinion, right?"

"No, no," everyone shook their heads in unison.

"Here's my plan, Monchi, Victor. Arthur's tone became heavier.

"In!"

"You two work hard to go to this middle-aged warlock's house to squat, don't get too close, try not to let him find you, even if you find out, you two don't have to be nervous, just say that you are investigating this place to see if it is suitable to build a post station. Anyway, our identity is the retinue of the wealthy merchant Guruqi. ”

"Okay!" Monchi and Victor took a hard look at the spot Arthur was pointing at and nodded in agreement.

"As for going up the mountain, let's just do it, Jack," Arthur looked at Jack.

"We are familiar faces, even if the people in the village see the two of us, they will not be too surprised, let's just chat and watch on the side of the mountain. ”

"Okay," Jack nodded.

"As for Kara...... Arthur glanced at Kara, who had eaten some food and his face was just starting to turn red.