On a sunny day, the sun shines through the clouds and on the snow.

The cold wind is still howling, but Bear's Paw Mountain is very lively. Bear's Claw Mountain is located in the southern suburbs of Winterfell, with no mineral resources or other resources, but because of its unique location, it has become a camping site. Bearclaw Mountain's proximity to the city and its open views make it safe from the threat of evil beasts.

As its name suggests, Bear's Claw Mountain resembles an erected bear's claw, with five stubby peaks. Under the joint efforts of shrewd merchants and aristocrats, restaurants, brothels, temples and other entertainment venues were built on five peaks overlooking Bearpaw Mountain and beyond, in order to satisfy the nobles' desire for excitement.

There are many ways to entertain on Bearpaw Mountain, but the most popular among the young aristocrats is horse racing, where the racetrack that surrounds the mountainside can be seen from the loft on the highest central peak, and of course, the occasional dwarven telescope is needed to see even the faces of the racers.

And today, the attic is rarely full of people, nobles and wealthy businessmen, but anyone who has the ability to get tickets to the attic has come to the attic, the maid who serves is busy with sweat, and the chef fills the round table with a luxurious banquet.

"They're too early, too. "Some newcomers didn't get a good seat and complained and sat in the corner.

"Hehe, this time it's Young Master Joddell and people racing horses, taking the five-story shop in the center of the city as a bet, betting on the Golden Elk and all the brothels under the Anred family, such a rare grand occasion for more than ten years, who in our generation doesn't want to see it. ”

"The shop gambles on the brothel, hehe, Young Master Chodle is really bold and temperamental. ”

"I heard that he was severely taught a lesson by Miss Xia for this, and it's good to win this game, but if he loses......" someone said, and the people around him shuddered when they heard Xia's name, and secretly prayed for Jodel.

VIP room in the Observation Pavilion.

Veneli paced back and forth in the room, looking anxious: "Why aren't you nervous at all, I heard that Joddell's guy even borrowed Shia's snow wind." If I lose, my old man will break my leg. ”

For his anxiety, the other person in the room was indifferently silent.

He sat cross-legged on a low mat with a game of shogi in front of him, and strangely enough, on the chessboard he held only pawns, while his opponent was full of chess, such a disparity in chess, he looked carefully.

"I was crazy to agree to your bet, our two brothels are worth twice as much as that shop combined!" said Winelli, clapping his hands.

"The Golden Elk family never does a loss-making business. ”

The man said indifferently, still looking at the chess game: "That shop is the center of the Rindong family's shop in the central region, if we lose it, the two of us can take the opportunity to meddle in the biggest profit cake in the central region, in a sense, it is far more important than a few brothels." ”

"Besides, we will surely win. ”

"What!"

Veneli was stunned, he had never said this when he was looking for him to work with.

"You're going to win, you're going to do something in the horse races?!God is on top, you're trying to squeeze the Winter family out of the Central District, you're crazy, that shop is really so important? No, we can't do that!" he was a little flustered, he was happy to deal with Joddle's, but when he learned that it was the Winter family, he felt his calves tremble.

"What are you afraid of, the Anruide family is one of the four major families, we bet fairly, will the Winter family blame you and me?" the man laughed.

"You think everyone is like you, and even the king dares to calculate within the rules. Veneli scolded, he knew that the people of the Golden Elk family were all crazy people who wanted money and didn't want their lives, how could he cooperate with him if he was blind.

But at this point, there was no way back, and Winelli sighed and left the room, he had to go and see if the horse had arrived.

The room fell silent, and the corners of the man's mouth curled, and suddenly a chess piece fell, eating the soldier on the opponent's chessboard, and his soldier took advantage of it to get close to the king and queen.

......

The castle of the Winter family.

Tang Qi came to work, but unexpectedly found that the atmosphere in the castle was tense today. Suspiciously, he grabbed a maid who was doing cleaning, and after the maid said about the horse race, Tang Qi suddenly slapped his forehead, and he forgot about it!

In the past few days, he has been busy preventing the retaliation of the Reynolds gang, and he didn't even dare to go out of the city, and he tried to stay at home every day, and his spirit was tense, and he actually forgot about the horse race.

Hoping that Southeast, Northwest and Joan hadn't forgotten and had done everything that needed to be done, Tang Qi hurriedly ran to the stable.

When he arrived at the door of the stable, Tang Qi saw that Xiaobei and Xiaonan were massaging the black shadow, and he was immediately relieved, after all, the five of them had not forgotten, otherwise if they lost the game, they would definitely have to be deducted for not doing a good job.

"What about them?"

"I took the other three horses and warmed up. ”

It takes a lot of physical strength to massage the horse, Xiao Nan gasped and said, Xiao Bei pointed to the black shadow, and said in a low voice: "It is not in a very good state today, Xiao Nan and I will massage it, if it doesn't work, I may have to tell the second young master to change horses." ”

"Hmm. Tang Qi nodded, the horses are well taken care of, but sometimes illness is inevitable, this race only uses three horses, and preparing four horses has the meaning of preparing for the unexpected.

"The other three horses have no problem-"

Ah——!h

Tang Qi was just halfway through his words when a scream suddenly came from behind the granary, and then he heard a deafening neigh! This was not the sound of a horse, Tang Qi heard it in an instant, it was the neighing of the evil beast named Night Owl locked behind the granary!

Oops, Tang Qi reacted the fastest, and immediately rushed towards the back of the granary.

Bypassing the granary, the scene in front of him shocked his heart, the iron cage that locked the night owl was actually open, and there was nothing inside!

How is it possible, there is no time to think about it, Tang Qi kept running towards the screaming position, what an escaped evil beast would do, of course, is to kill. The scream just now was clearly Joan's voice.

Thinking of the little girl who usually held the roasted sweet potato and faced the evil beast with a happy face, Tang Qi was so anxious that he even used the wind rage, and the whole person was like a sharp arrow, rushing towards the open space where he usually walked his horse.

The clearing was not far away, and Tang Qi arrived quickly, but the sight made his pupils shrink suddenly.

The clearing was stained red with blood, and pieces of flesh were scattered all over the ground, all of which were the flesh and blood of horses, and Joan and Xiaodong Xiaoxi curled up in a corner of the clearing, and in front of them, there were evil beasts with red and tyrannical eyes. The white scales of the evil beast were stained with blood, and there were blood between the horse's hooves and teeth, like coming out of hell.

Xiaodong and Xiaoxi protected Joan with a desperate expression, they knew that they were going to die this time.

The beast raised its front hooves and kicked down at the three children, Joan clasped her eyes tightly and her hands clutched the sweet potatoes she had hidden in her arms for lunch, and she shuddered with fear as she curled up behind her brothers, she knew...... In the future, I will never see my brother again, and I will not be able to eat such delicious baked sweet potatoes.

Bang!

The imaginary pain did not come, there was a thunderous sound above, and Joan opened her eyes slightly, and saw the handsome big brother in a white dress who usually only baked sweet potatoes running anxiously.

Joan was a little panicked, big brother, don't come here, it's dangerous here......

However, in the next second, her small mouth opened slightly, and she saw a thunderbolt flying out of her big brother's hand......