"Have you taken everything?" After a night's rest, the female mage returned to her former radiant and radiant appearance, and at this moment she was checking her son's preparations: "Do you want your mother to help you read it?"

"No, no, it's all ready, you can rest assured. www.biquge.info"Rhodes clutched the shrinkage bag his mother had given him, in addition to the things he had to use for his travels, as well as the small wooden box that Sephes had given him, he didn't want his mother to find out.

"It's getting late, let's go. The Duchess had never used magic to probe the minds of her family, and naturally she did not know what her son was thinking at the moment, but she looked at the sky that was getting brighter and brighter, and decided not to delay any longer. At this moment, a vicious event that may endanger the whole world is happening, and it is already a waste of time to come back to see her son away this time, and she will leave again immediately later: "If I go out with you with Roy, it will be too conspicuous, so I won't send it, and say goodbye to my sister." ”

"Goodbye, Roy. ”

"Goodbye, little brother. Loyon lifted his chin, not missing the opportunity to take advantage of his words.

"Grom. Raven looked at the middle-aged man beside her son, "I handed Rhodes into your hands, you have to bring him back to me properly." ”

"Yes, ma'am. ”

"Remember, you are loyal and obedient to me and my husband, not my son. The woman became serious: "If what Rhodes is going to do violates the principle of protecting himself, you know what to do." ”

"I will do whatever is necessary to protect your child. ”

"Hmm. Raven nodded in satisfaction, approached Rhodes and raised her hand to straighten his collar for him, and stepped back to look at him for a moment. It was the first time for the boy to leave home, and it was not the first time she had sent her child on a long trip, looking up and down, she always felt that he was not right here, nor was she right there, as if there were still a bunch of things that had not been told, but reason finally overcame the illusion - she put her arms around her son and stroked his hair, and a thousand words finally converged into one sentence: "Okay, take care of yourself." ”

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It's so formal...... Rhodes was inexplicably saddened by his mother's tender farewell, but the feeling was quickly diluted by the excitement of the regular tapping of boots against the flat road as he moved away from home.

"Hurry up Grom. He urged.

"Dieter's caravan doesn't leave early just because you're early. ”

"But we can get there sooner and get to know somebody. ”

The little fox hiding in his backpack poked her head out curiously, leaning on his shoulder and looking curiously at the street outside, although her freedom was unrestricted, she never dared to leave the walls of Foster's house, there were too many humans outside.

"Yin'er, let's go. Sensing the movement in his ears, he turned his head and teased her, and according to the agreement between them, she was going to warm her bed on the way home...... The thought of the big box of things that Sypheus had given him, and the bunch of intimate things that he had made up that day, made his heart burn.

(I'm going to play with all the secret gifts that Sephes gave to Silver, and I'm going to honor all the things I made up that day.) ）

"Meow~" The fox man who can bark at the cat caused everyone to look at him in surprise...... Even Rhodes had almost forgotten what she was called, and then again, she wasn't really a fox either.

Nothing happened on the way, and when the coolness of the morning wore off, they met Dieter at the trading post outside the city walls.

"Ah...... Dieter, how long have you been waiting?" Rod scratched his head a little embarrassed.

"Soon, come, take your mount, a young mare who will only be three years old next month. ”

Dieter handed the reins to the boy, and on the other side of the reins was a maroon horse, its head was thin and beautiful, its neck was straight and slender, its muscles were smooth, and its body was incomparably well-proportioned and elegant...... It's a pity that the boy doesn't know the goods.

"A mare?"

"What?" Dieter was a little puzzled by Rod's disappointed tone, and then guessed what was going on: "Ha, do you think that the male must be better than the female?"

"Hmm......" Rhodes really thought so, but when the other party said so, some of the fellow caravan members sneered, so he was wrong.

"The stallion is slightly larger than the mare, but in fact because of its violent temperament and easy to get into trouble, it is not suitable as a mount, and it is generally the best stallion to be selected, and the rest are all castrated. Dieter remembered that the Duchess had told him to teach the boy something, and that he should simply give him some science, after all, it would not hurt to know more: "As a result, the best stallions will not be taken out to ride, and the mare will not." ”

"I see. Rod humbly accepted and obediently took the mare in his hand.

"Boy, don't worry, if humans are also kept in captivity by something, you will definitely be singled out as a species, and you will not be castrated. A well-dressed swordsman next to him said with a grin.

Rod didn't know if the other party was praising himself or being sarcastic, so he had to shrug his shoulders pretending not to care. Fortunately, Dieter glared at the man and continued to talk to him: "Of course, the best stallion is also taken out and ridden...... But you must know that a violent temperament does not necessarily mean that it is brave and reliable, how many people are usually rampant and domineering, and they are not afraid of the earth, and they are not immediately like rabbits when they encounter ruthless characters? The same is true for horses, no matter how strong and tall the stallion is, when it sees a dragon, it will also run away from its owner, and a mare who is in touch with the owner's mind and is tame and obedient may lead the rider to create miracles. ”

"Really. The boy was persuaded by Dieter's flickering, and raised his hand to touch the little mare. The young mare has been trained from birth and can respond to human movements simply, so he obediently bowed his head and rubbed his hand with his face, and immediately won the boy's heart. "That's her. ”

"You are the first owner, you can give it a name. ”

Looking at the red mare with her head hanging down and looking obedient, Rod soon began to think of red things: "Well, let's call her Rose." ”

"Rose ......" Dieter pondered for a moment, intuition that the name was a bit motherly, but fortunately it was not outrageous for a mare: "Okay, then ride your rose, let's go." ”

A cold-faced man next to him said gloomily: "There is really no point in naming horses, because people will ride too many horses in their lives, and I never do such boring things." ”

"If naming a horse is meaningless, then it makes no sense to say such nonsense while someone else is naming a horse. The swordsman disagreed with what his companion had said, and spoke out against it. "Alright, let's go, let's talk as we go. ”

"Well, all on board. The leader of the caravan nodded to Grom, who had been working together in the Duke's palace for many years, and there was no need to introduce each other, and after sharing a horse with him, the group set out along the road and headed out of the city.

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After checking their identities, the group walked out of the city from the north wall of the imperial capital and walked out of the tall city gate. In early autumn, the vegetation has not yet turned yellow, and the breeze blows through the face from time to time. Dressed in a thin costume and carrying a light bag, Rhodes paced slowly in the middle of the line on his little rose, getting acquainted with each other.

"Isn't it a caravan, why don't you see the goods?" Rod looked left and right, and couldn't help but ask.

"The goods are waiting for us on the dock, and we will go to the left of the junction. Dieter introduced: "These are the caravan guards I hired around me, all of them have the level of a great swordsman or above, and the civil environment where the caravan goes changes unexpectedly, safety first." Huh, what is this?"

It turned out that the little fox man poked his head out of his backpack and looked around, which surprised the man who saw this scene: "Why did you still bring this little guy with you?"

"What's wrong?"

"Alas...... Nothing, you yourself take a good look at her. ”

As soon as Rod wanted to ask Dieter why he was sighing, there was a brisk sound of horses' hooves behind him, accompanied by a crisp shout: "Little Luo, stop!"

The group was forced to stop when they stepped on the road, a fiery red shadow chased after them from behind, and ran until the edge of the team before stopping, and the person on the horse turned over and dismounted, and stood on the side of the road with his waist crossed: "Running so fast, are you in such a hurry to find a beautiful and gentle wife?"

"Fliss!" Rod cried out in some surprise, and the girl was dressed in a red riding outfit with a head of burgundy hair that shimmered in the sun. He quickly got off his horse and greeted his friend: "What's wrong?"

Dieter sat on his horse and scolded a mother in his heart: Although the fact that Rhodes spent sixty new gold coins to buy a little fox man not long ago is not well known, it is really not a secret to well-informed people. His "nephew" took a snow-white fox on the road is already swaggering, but now it's good, even the prime minister's youngest daughter came to see him off in person.

Fortunately, I didn't arrive at the dock at this time, and I was surrounded by reliable people, and Rhodes's trip didn't have any ulterior motives to pay attention to.

(If the little girl says she wants to go with them, she won't agree.) The head of the caravan and the head of the military intelligence department had already made a decision in a moment, it was already a burden to take a little ancestor on the road, but the parents of the family knew about it, and if he brought a pair, one of them might still sneak out, and he could not afford this responsibility.

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