Chapter 287: Oak Town in Oak County
Stannis didn't get rid of Evelyn before he arrived in Oaktown, and his little trick was as ridiculous as a kindergarten trick in front of a proficient crow-tracking crow.
While it's nice to be in the company of a pretty girl, Stannis only feels uncomfortable next to a woman who throws herself away like trash every time she runs out.
Eventually, they arrived in Oak Town, the heart of Oak County, an hour earlier than expected.
Like other towns in the Western Continent that have been peaceful for a long time, this small town on the edge of the marshes in the south of the Principality is peaceful and peaceful, with neat small buildings lined up on both sides of the street, and the streets are filled with well-dressed pedestrians.
"If all the people under my rule could achieve this standard of living, I would have dominated the principality long ago. Stannis said to himself, looking like it was time to part ways with Evelyn.
"Evelyn, you see, since we've arrived at our destination, let's leave it at that, Aoyama will always have a time later. ”
He just wanted to be literal, but found that Evelyn, who was still walking with him next to him just now, had disappeared, just as quietly as when she appeared.
"What the hell in broad daylight, even the horses disappeared so completely. Stannis shook his head, he was going to find a hotel to settle down and then meet up with Anya.
He walked on the road, but there were no inns and inns for him to stay in, so was there no floating population in this town?
At this time, a dark-looking guy came over, although Stannis obviously saw that he had bad intentions, but he could only admit that he was unfamiliar with life, and it was better to be slaughtered than to sleep on the streets.
"Good day, Mr. Traveler, where are you from?" Although he did not look like a good man, the black man's words were very delicate, and he looked like he had read a book for a few days.
Stennis felt a lot more favorable towards him, "My name is Stan, and I'm from Zivignie...... Well, it's a tourist who came for sightseeing...... "He's faked an identity, and knowing his true identity is sure to cause some trouble."
But the other party did not have the slightest suspicion of his fabricated inferior reason, he even laughed heartily and showed two rows of white teeth, "So far away guests, your luck is really good, this week we are holding a pumpkin contest to celebrate Hanukkah, and everyone who comes to watch the ceremony is free of charge!"
Stannis didn't expect his luck to be so good, "But, how come I can't find a hotel in the town?"
"It's too much of an outrage, we usually invite guests to stay in our home, like you can stay in my house, if you don't mind. ”
"Won't this cause you any inconvenience?" Stannis was a little worried.
The black man quickly shook his head, "Of course not, but we are glad that outsiders have come to our town, you know that we are too remote here, and there are usually no people here." ”
Stannis shrugged, it turns out that this place wants to engage in tourism, "Then I might as well be respectful, I'm afraid it will be too much of a disturbance." ”
"Don't say that again. The black man said happily, and then he took the reins of Stennis by the hand and prepared to lead the way.
"That's right. The black man turned his head and said happily, "My name is Amin, remember this name!"
Stannis has been in the Western Continent for so long, and it is the first time he has met such an enthusiastic passerby, and this simple folk customs make him a little unbelievable, there will be no tricks such as hiding knives and human meat buns in jokes here, right?
Guarding against others was indispensable, and Stannis tightened his grip on the sword under his cloak.
Although the town does not occupy a large area, it has a large number of buildings, which makes it like a labyrinth, and Amin, who is holding the rope in front, seems to be familiar with the car, which makes Stanis secretly happy that someone will lead the way, otherwise he will definitely get lost in it.
"By the way, Amin, you said that there are very few outsiders in this town, right?"
"yes. ”
"So a woman named Aya came to this town almost ten days ago, you know?"
Amin shook his head seriously, "I haven't heard of it!"
Stannis felt that something was wrong, because Anya said in the letter that she was going to stay in town for ten days and wait for him, why didn't she come?
"She may be called Aya, but she is a very beautiful woman or an old woman......" Stannis asked reluctantly.
Amin affirmed that he had not seen this woman.
Is this strange? There are no villages around to stay in, so it can't be that Anya is playing tricks on herself again, right?
After turning seven or eight corners, Stannis suddenly felt a sense of light, as if he was in heaven.
A group of young boys and girls ran merrily across the meadows, so carefree that they were admirable, while each one held a carefully carved pumpkin in his hand and tried it out to each other.
"Is this the Pumpkin Contest?" said Stannis, a little surprised, he had never seen a pumpkin play such a trick, but what was even more amazing was that each of them was bigger than the other, especially the giant piled on the grass in the square, enough to hollow out a pumpkin tank.
"So big!" Stannis felt his neck go sore.
A proud look appeared on Ah Ming's face, "Yes, guest, I dare to assure you that there is no pumpkin of such a big size in the entire principality, even the Duke has praised it. ”
"Duke Garcia knows this, too. "Stennis thought that such an inconspicuous frontier town would not fall into the eyes of His Royal Highness the Duke, after all, he didn't even care about 'small things' such as the end of the world.
"How did you grow the pumpkins so big?" Stannis thought he could introduce this pumpkin into his own territory and promote it, and grow one for at least half a year for the whole family.
But Amin kept a mysterious smile, he covered his left heart with his hand and said reverently, "Use your heart." ”
It makes sense, Stannis nodded, he didn't expect the people here to say this nonsense that sounds very reasonable at first glance, but is actually all nonsense.
"That's right. Stennis thought of someone he knew who was also in the town, "Do you know the county magistrate Kimberly here?"
Stannis once had a relationship with this guy at a dinner party in the Flod family, and used wine to extract a lot of important news from his mouth.