"Alright!" Merlin covered the old woman's red and purple back with black spots, "remember not to let her go too far, and don't eat honey these days." Drink plenty of warm water, and if you're not in a hurry, go to the Abbey of Michel for a few days before you leave. Merlin knelt in the carriage, as if he had been fished out of the lake, and his white linen robe was almost wrung out of the water.

This old woman was disguised at all, and the invisible skin on her back was smooth and bright. The decoration of the carriage is luxurious, at first glance, it is not something that ordinary people can afford, and the two people don't even bring a guard, such a person is not good at first glance. After Merlin rescued people, he realized that he was too risky, and the guards were still outside the carriage at this time, and if something happened just now, the woman really used the knife, and Merlin would be in danger.

"Thank you, stranger," the woman put down the short knife in the water, "Raj was anxious just now, didn't scare you!"

"I'm afraid, such a sharp knife is only a finger's distance from my neck, and if Miss Raj doesn't hold it steady all of a sudden, my neck will bleed!" Merlin laughed, and in his eyes, the favorability of the green box on Raj's body suddenly turned red to 80, and it was still increasing.

"Who told you to tear your mother-in-law's clothes without a word!" Raj's face flushed, like the colorful glow of the evening, filled with the breath of youth.

"I'm here to save someone, and if I delay for a while, I can't guarantee that I'll be able to get her back. Merlin said with a bowed head.

Merlin used the ancient method of gua sha therapy that has been passed down through the empire folklore, and this method is used by many people for health care, and has obvious effects on general physical discomfort. However, Merlin knows that the most obvious effect of gua sha is heat stroke, which is an ancient craft in Xiangxian Town, if you feel dizzy and nauseous in the hot summer, and when you want to vomit, find a cool place, lie down and scrape, take a rest, and recover quickly.

"Stranger, Raj will never forget your life-saving grace!"

Merlin waved his hand: "Go quickly, there is a bamboo forest behind Michel's Abbey, it is very cool there, you can rest there." ”

Merlin jumped out of the carriage after saying that, and Raj wanted to say something more, but he was anxious. In the end, he drove the carriage away.

"Your Highness can also use magic skills, even the dead can be brought back to life!" the guard looked at Merlin adoringly.

"The man who could not be saved even by the monks of the Abbey of Michel was saved by His Highness. Is Your Highness a monk?" said the other guard.

Merlin did not know how to explain it, so he was silent, and the two guards who had witnessed it all became more and more adoring, and they whispered in the shade of the tree, until the sun was about to set, and then Merlin went to the bazaar to meet Bill, took what Bill had bought, got on the boat, and headed for Ashfurnace Mountain.

Soon the story of Merlin's magic began to spread among the slaves and guards, and the more it spread, the more it became more and more divine, and in the end it almost became a miracle.

After the boat traveled for two days, Merlin and his party disembarked at the dock in Xiasuo Town. From Xiasuo Town to Ash Furnace Mountain, there are still five days to go. The May weather in Xiasuo Town is hot, and Merlin doesn't want to have another attrition due to heat stroke, and every population is a valuable asset at this time. So Merlin made a rule of rushing in the morning and evening, and resting at noon. The five-day journey went on and on, and finally after seven days, the group reached a tall gray peak.

"Legend has it that a long time ago, there was a gray dwarf who refined gray copper in this valley, and they built a tall ash furnace here, so later people called it Ash Furnace Mountain. Bill pointed to the valley ahead and said to Merlin.

"Is there a cave here?" Merlin asked.

"Yes, there's an abandoned mine here, which has been explored by Master Stilico, and the ore inside has been mined. Bill said.

"What a pity!" Merlin sighed and walked along the valley stream. In the distance, the green hills seem to be gilded with a golden glow in the dusk, and in the near distance is a large open river valley.

The hare whizzed into the weeds by the brook. The black owl flapped its wings and took off from the camphor wood, "What a great place!" Merlin said as he sat on horseback.

"Your Highness, the village of Ashfurnace only gave Adrianople five hundred gold coins for the whole of last year, you see that the valley is overgrown with weeds, if this place is not suitable for farming, it is that the people here are too lazy. "Gray-haired old Bill is not as optimistic as Merlin.

A cool cold wind blew along the cyan peaks in the distance, Mei Lin's spirit was shocked, from today on, this mountain is mine, Mei Xiaolin, who has struggled in the empire for more than thirty years and can't even afford a toilet, never dreamed that one day he could have such a large piece of land. In the distance, the verdant forest above the peak stretches as far as the eye can see, and down the peak is a small stream flanked by warm valleys. That's almost 2,000 acres of land.

The valley was much larger than it looked like, and by the time Merlin and his slaves arrived at the village of Ashfurnace, it was already completely dark.

"It's a nice day, Your Highness Merlin!" said a lame man, holding a pine-branched torch, to make the flattery on his face clear. "This is Lance of Ashfurnace Village, Lance Blair is talking to His Highness the Honourable Merlin. ”

"Very good, Lance, it's much cooler inside the valley than outside!" Merlin got off his horse with his heavy legs.

Merlin handed over his horses to his guards and followed Lance down a low hillside, where the sparse stone houses dotted the grass like mushrooms in the sparse starlight, and the shadowy firelight shone in the middle of it.

Lance led Merlin to a house covered with fresh, soft corduroy mats, and Merlin groaned and lay on top of the mats, rolled over, and fell into a deep sleep. Five days of riding had exhausted all the strength of the young body, and Merlin didn't even want to move a finger now.

It wasn't until noon the next day that the lord of Ashfurnace Mountain was willing to get up from his soft corduroy mat. Flicking his swollen arm, like a young male lion, he began to inspect his territory.