"Hahaha, did you make a noise?" The mayor poured himself a large bowl of spirits, laughed and said: "Last night, Old Duck found out that his daughter was missing, and everyone helped to find it all night, and when I was looking for it, I deliberately avoided here, but I didn't expect it to make a noise to you, I'm really embarrassed, hahaha, I'll scold them when I go back." ”

"We weren't noisy, we were woken up by the light. Catherine frowned, puzzled by the mayor's attitude, given how much the mayor cared about the townspeople, if the gaffe was serious, he wouldn't have reacted this way, but if it was easy to find in the town, he wouldn't have been looking all night, so she asked seriously, "Why did you disappear?"

"Haha, I didn't find it, but I already know the clues. The mayor smiled awkwardly, gulped down the wine in the bowl, shook his head and said, "Little Betty ran out by herself, so she shouldn't be fine, so everyone is not so worried." ”

"Ran out by yourself?" Catherine repeated in surprise, looking at the snow outside, "it was still a snowstorm, and it was so cold that a little girl ran out on her own?

This is more complicated to explain. The mayor scratched his head and said, "Are you interested, if you are interested, I can tell you this story, and you will know why everyone is reacting this way after listening." ”

"Okay, when we're waiting these days, there's not much else, just enough time. Catherine gestured to the room and nodded, "But if Mr. Mayor doesn't mind, I'll ask you to come in and tell you this story." ”

"Okay. The bearded mayor jumped off the sleigh and patted the head of the pack of dogs, and the white dogs barked a few times, whimpered and huddled together on the ground, obediently waiting for the mayor to board the sleigh again. When they returned to the house, Catherine added a few pieces of wood to the fireplace to make the flame stronger, and then sat down around the fire with the girls. He took the black tea handed by Freya and placed it on the coffee table. Mayor Marew sat down as well, took out the flask from his bosom and took a sip, recalling, "Little Betty is from Old Dark's family, and she is seventeen years old this year. It's one of the prettiest in town. The day before yesterday, Miss Pastor treated everyone, Betty said that she was not in a good mood, so she did not go with her, and stayed at home. Then when the treatment was over, everyone was busy for the evening banquet. Old Dack never came home, and he didn't come home that night drunk, and when he got home he fell asleep, and he didn't find out that his daughter was gone. When he got up yesterday morning, although he didn't see his daughter, he thought that her daughter had just run out to play as usual, so he didn't pay much attention to it, and it wasn't until she didn't come home after dinner in the evening that he realized that something was wrong. Later, after a while, I learned that my daughter left him a note, saying that she wanted to go to the north for a while, but old Dack had never agreed before, so she took this opportunity to run to the north with others. ”

"And someone else?" Catherine raised her eyebrows and said sharply, "She didn't go by herself, and someone else wanted to go with her?"

"Well, we're going to start from the beginning. The mayor sighed, stroked his unkempt beard, and said, "I just said that." Little Betty is the prettiest kid in town, and the young boys in town are infatuated with her. However, this little guy is relatively cold to other boys, and only plays with the two children of Little Neo and Little Chester since childhood, and has a good relationship. Everyone has always been curious about which child little Betty will choose to marry, and who will be the lucky one in the end, little Neo or little Chester. However, everyone is more optimistic about Chester Jr., because Betty obviously spends more time with Chester. ”

"Hmph, cliché love story. Lina snorted coldly and patted the book in her hand: "Such a story." There are so many things written in the book, I get tired of listening to them, and it's not interesting at all. ”

"Well, it's not interesting at all. Pannis nodded and said, "So it's just that my ears are pricked up, right?" ”

"Looks like you've gotten a taste of being buried in the snow. Lina squinted at Pannis, sneering, "Right, huh?"

"I'm sorry I was wrong. Pannis immediately bowed his head and apologized: "Please forgive me for my mistake." ”

The bearded mayor smiled, didn't care about the interruption of the two, and continued: "When Old Duck found out that Betty was not at home during the day yesterday, he thought that she was looking for little Chester to play, this kind of thing often happens, although Little Chester is alone, but the child is still very sensible and can take care of Betty, so old Duck didn't care. As a result, Betty had not come back by dinner, and Old Duck was a little anxious, after all, Betty had never been so late before, so she went to Little Chester's house to look for it, but Little Chester was only at home by herself, and Betty never looked for him. ”

At this time, old Dack was a little anxious, and began to look around the town, which also alarmed many neighbors. The mayor sighed and said, "In the end, I was also quarreled, and I followed them to search the whole town." ”

"Didn't you go to Neo's house to look for it?" Freya clasped her hands in front of her chest, her eyes flashed with emotion, and she said emotionally: "What a beautiful love story, the girl is surrounded by two handsome and strong boys, one is gentle, the other is romantic, each one is so fascinating, each one is so reluctant, on one side is a considerate big brother, on the other hand is an amorous lover, young and beautiful girl, what do you choose...... Oops. ”

Vivien withdrew her staff with a blank face, blowing the top that had collided with Freya, and continued to look at the ceiling as if nothing had happened. Catherine smiled apologetically at Mayor Mare and continued, "Sorry, you're a little ...... Well, you better go ahead, we're all listening. ”

"Actually, what this mage lady said is right, we only remembered after we searched half the town, we should go to Xiao Neo's house to find it. The mayor continued, "So we all went to Neo's house, and Neo, like little Chester, had his parents dead early and was living on his own before he was twenty years old, but Neo was a little better than little Chester, and he still had a field, unlike little Chester, who lived solely on hunting and selling furs. When I arrived at Xiao Nao's house, I found that Naio was not at home. Now everyone was really anxious, and they rummaged through the town again, but neither of them could be found. ”

Later, when everyone saw that Old Duck's eyes were red, they forced him to go home first and rest for a while, and then look for him later. The mayor recalled: "After forcing him to go home, he ran into Betty's room and cried, but luckily he had sharp eyes and found a note left by Betty on her dresser, and then he learned that Betty had secretly gone north while the group was healing." ”

"Huh?" Catherine asked curiously, "Isn't there any mention of Neo on the note?"

"I guess I was shy, and I didn't mention Neo's name, but I just said that we went to the north together, which I thought was quite strange before. The mayor explained: " But then Chester solved our doubts, he remembered, just a few days ago, when Betty was playing with him, he had mentioned that he wanted to go to the north to see the world, but his father was always worried that she would not allow her to go, so he wanted to run secretly, and asked Chester if he would like to accompany her, but Chester scolded her, saying that she should not listen to her father's words and sneak away by herself, at that time she also said that it would not be forgotten, now it seems that Chester did not promise her, but Neo should have promised her, I see that Neo's sleigh and two sleigh deer are also gone, they should be driving the sleigh together on the road。 ”

"It's snowing so much, and the two of you are on the road like this?" Catherine asked, puzzled, "Isn't that reasonable?" ”

"They should have set off yesterday morning. The mayor said: "At that time, the blizzard was much smaller, and they could travel normally, and they were probably worried that Old Duck would get angry and catch them back, so they hurried while the snow was on the road, so that the snow could hide their tracks and avoid Old Dark's tracking." In fact, knowing that Neo followed Betty's child, Duck was not so worried, after all, Neo had spoiled Betty since he was a child, and would rather suffer himself than make Betty happy, compared to Chester, in fact, Old Duck prefers Neo. ”

"Something is wrong. Catherine and Pannis glanced at each other, Pannis nodded, Catherine frowned and said, "It's very wrong, Neo and Chester, did they participate in the group treatment and the evening banquet the day before yesterday?"

"Neo only showed up during group therapy and then went back. The mayor said, "Chester was there the whole time, and he stayed busy until the evening. ”

"I always felt like something was wrong with this. Catherine got up and paced in place, pondering for a while and asked, "Aren't you going to chase after you today?" Two young men, one of whom was only a seventeen-year-old girl, were so dangerous for them to go on their way to the north, and brave the wind and snow. ”

"Of course I did. The mayor said, "Now some young men are preparing things with old Dack, and when they are ready, they will set out to find them." However, with such a large amount of snow, it should not be easy to find. ”

Catherine looked down and thought about it, and glanced at Pannis, who smiled bitterly and sighed, nodded and said, "Call us when you're ready, and we'll go with you to find out, after all, when it comes to tracking skills, I still have some confidence." ”

The bearded mayor was stunned for a moment, and said in surprise: "Thank you so much, everyone is very worried about the safety of those two children, if a few professionals can help, I will be much more relieved." (To be continued.) )

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