409 Echmoor (4)
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"Who are you, what do you want to do with me?" asked the female horse thief, whose eyes were rolling and finally fixed on the fat man's body,
Although no one pointed it out, the girl's mind was extremely sharp,
It can be seen from the respectful looks on the faces of the mercenaries just now, and the tone of obedience,
The stupid fat man in front of him, staring at him with a face, was the head of these mercenaries, thinking of the terrible encounter he might face, with the strength of a girl, his heart couldn't help but tremble
"Hehe! It doesn't matter who I am!" The fat man grinned, and did not answer the girl's question, but wiped the corner of his mouth with his hand.
A pair of sparkling eyes stared at the girl's heart,
"This dead fat man won't ......" A terrible scene flashed in the girl's mind, and the fat man's grinning appearance was a little more ambiguous and hateful in the girl's eyes
"You, you ......" The girl struggled to stand up, but was forcibly held down by two guards, and her face became more and more pale,
"Tell me!Who are you!, my patience isn't that good!" Laren Warrior's dagger flipped in a circle in the air, and was firmly grasped by the fat man with two fingers,
"I'm just a lost girl passing by......" The girl's eyes were rolling, obviously making up nonsense,
A striking mark of the eye, from the girl's bun, deep into the soft soil in front of the girl, "Ah" The girl's frightened face was pale,
The flying eagle dagger in the fat man's hand was inserted only a few centimeters away from her face at this moment, and it looked particularly cold in the bright moonlight.
If it is a little higher, there will be a bloody knife on the girl's beautiful and delicate face
"Your acting skills are not good, I don't like to listen to people make up stories!" The fat man's voice was calm and low, as if the dagger that almost cut the girl's pretty face just now was shot from his hand,
The fat man's indifference to killing people as nothing made the girl feel even more worried, and she also understood that the qiē just now was fake, and this stupid fat man who was harmless to humans and animals was the real master!
"According to the rules of the Kugit tribe, no matter who you are, as long as you steal a horse, I have the right to deal with it at will!" the fat man said nonsense,
The fat man knows that in many Kugit tribes, there are indeed similar rules,
Horses are the greatest possession of the steppe people, and stealing the herdsmen's horses is as evil as stealing the farmers' cattle.
The most direct way to deal with horse thieves is to hand them over to the owner of the horse, and even the patriarch of the tribe has no power to interfere
"I didn't steal the horse, I just borrowed the horse for the time being" Although the girl was scared, the arrogance on her body still made her hold her neck and pout
"I'm a high-ranking nobleman in Cloudsdale, can't I afford to pay for a horse? It's just that I came out in a hurry, and I'll take it for the time being, and I'll definitely return it to you twice as much when the time comes."
"Hehe, the high-ranking nobles of Cloud City!
Cloudsdale is another name for Tulga City, because the main body of Tulga City was built on the holy mountain Hailar, and the stacked houses look like a city in the clouds from a distance
"You ......" The girl was also a high-ranking nobleman in Kujit, but now she met a scoundrel like the fat man, and she almost didn't get angry with these words
"Why! I'm not convinced!" the fat man looked at the girl's angry red face, turned to the guard and ordered, "Since your mouth is hard, then it is necessary to continue talking, you should deal with it on the spot according to the old rules."
"Yes, my lord!" the two guards nodded yes, and they cooperated to pick up the girl and forcibly drag it away
"You, what are you going to do...... " The girl struggled with her hands in a panic under the strong arm of the guard,
"What are you doing!" the fat man looked at her with cold eyes, pointed to the lake not far away, and said to the girl, "What else can I do!
I think this lake is good! There is water and grass, and the scenery is good! It's the right thing for you.
If it weren't for the fact that you were a woman, I would have cut it directly, how could it be so troublesome,
The fat man paused, and said slowly, "It is said that only in the land soaked in human blood can the grass grow extraordinarily lush!
"No, you can't kill me, you can't ...... I am...... I ......" The girl's pale face, completely lost its blood, just wanted to shout,
"Woo" The girl's mouth was covered by Konoe's thick big hand, and she could only make a muffled voice,
"Save ...... Save...... Woo woo......" The girl struggled for a while, and her body suddenly became completely paralyzed.
"My lord, she's passed out!" a guard crouched down, probed the girl's snort with his fingers, and stood up to report,
"Such a stupid girl still learns to be a horse thief! It's really ......" The fat man shook his head depressedly, he didn't expect the first horse thief he met to be so unfrightening,
The fat man turned his head and instructed the captain of the guard beside him
"You carry the man to the vacant carriage first! Go to the doctor and try to find some medicine for the knife wounds, if she continues to bleed like this, tomorrow there will be only a corpse left dead of blood loss!"
In the cold morning, the sun has not yet come out, and the eastern sky reveals a faint fish-white, and a few thin clouds as light silk reflect the light red morning light
A hurried sound of horses' hooves came from the depths of the grassland, and hundreds of black dots turned out of a rolling hill in the distance, and quickly approached the caravan camping by the lake.
The sound of horses' hooves woke up the merchants in the camp,
"What's going on?" the leader of the caravan, Maumorelis, was completely stunned, and watched in amazement as hundreds of heavily armed Kugit light cavalry swept towards the camp like a sudden hurricane,
"Fence me all in! No one will be missed," a muscular and chainmail-clad Kujiit shouted at the hundreds of rangers behind him, wielding a scimitar.
"Kujiit, it's Kujiit!" For a while, there was chaos in the camp, no one knew what was going on, and everyone was terrified when they looked at the Kugit cavalry outside the camp with murderous spirit and sharp scimitars
Thinking of the cruelty and bloodshed of the legendary horse thief, the merchant's face turned pale and terrible.
The noisy shouts and panicked voices also woke the fat man from his slumber.
"My lord, it's the Kugit cavalry!" the captain of the guard squad lifted the curtain of the carriage with a nervous expression, and reported to the fat man, "They seem to be looking for someone!"
"Oh?" the fat man's expression changed, as if he remembered something, and asked the captain of the guard, "What about the horse thief?"
"The subordinates have hidden her in the dark compartment in the belly of the carriage, and it is impossible for the Kugit to find out if they don't look closely!" the captain of the guard responded
"Well, you're doing a good job!" the fat man nodded approvingly and got out of the carriage.
The sharp gaze swept over the chaotic situation in front of him,
A group of Kugit cavalry kept wandering outside the camp, and the water surrounding the entire camp was impassable.
The 30 guards dressed as mercenaries had already drawn their swords and gathered around the fat man's carriage, "My lord, do you want to do it!" The captain of the guard team whispered in the fat man's ear,
Despite the fact that the Kugit Rangers numbered hundreds,
But for these guards who came out of the battlefield from the mountain of corpses and the sea of blood, they are completely pediatrics.
Seeing these mercenaries in front of the powerful Kugit cavalry group, instead of the slightest fear, they looked eager to try,
The Kugit rangers who surrounded the camp were also furious and did not dare to forcibly enter the camp to search
The fat man also saw that the crazy girl Mao Mo Allen was also timidly hiding in the back of a nearby carriage at this moment, revealing a frightened pale face, and his little hands covered his chest, like a frightened bird
"Is it the regular army of Kugit?" "The fat man's sharp eyes, through the smoke and dust raised by the horse's hooves, saw that on the crotch of the war horses of the Kugit cavalry, there were the military horses of the regular Kugit army.
The rigorous and orderly cavalry formation does not look like the legendary steppe horse thieves who kill people and plunder,
"Don't be impulsive, let's see the situation first," the fat man said with a gentle wave of his hand to the guards around him
"My lord, we are a caravan from the western Maumo family" At this time, the leader of the caravan, Maumorevlis, was bold and stood out from the crowded crowd,
With a timid face, he took out a scroll and said, "This is a pass issued by the royal court, please believe that we have no malicious intent!
"The caravan of the Western Maumo family?" The sturdy Kugit took the pass from Maumorevlis's hand, and after taking a closer look, his face slowed down a little,
Zai immediately returned the salute to Mao Mowenlis, and said in a loud voice, "I am Rahul, the leader of the third squadron of the Kugit Royal Court Hurricane Banner Regiment, and we are arresting an important fugitive.
If it disturbs your rest, please bear with me! The arrest of this fugitive is an order personally issued by the adults of the royal court, and I ask for your cooperation!"
"Of course, of course! Since it's an order from the royal court, you can just search!"
When Mao Morvenis heard that it had nothing to do with the caravan, he finally let go of his heart, and his long-sleeved and good dancing nature was quickly reflected, and he said confidently, "I can guarantee that there is absolutely no one in my caravan who is wanted by adults!"
"Thank you for the cooperation of the Maumo family!" Rahul also knew that the Maumo family in the western wilderness had a special relationship with the royal court, and he didn't dare to be too presumptuous.
He first put his right hand on his chest and made a noble tribal salute, and then waved his hand to the cavalry behind him, "Hu Basil, you lead a team to go in and have a look! That woman has no horses, so she shouldn't be far away!"
"Yes, you guys come with me!" a dozen Kugit cavalrymen entered the caravan camp led by a squad leader,
The caravan was not large, adding up to only about 20 carriages,
The Kugit searched very carefully, inspecting the goods in the carriage one by one, and looked like they were eager to turn the goods inside out one by one
As the search progressed, the Kugit found that most of these caravans were furs and some medicinal herbs from the west, and many of the pockets loaded with goods were also stamped with the seal of the Maumo family.
Now that the Great War of Achmore is about to break out, these hard animal skins and medicinal herbs that can be made into leather armor are in high demand, and the Kugit have long been accustomed to this.
The leader of the team squatted down and carefully measured the hooves of several horses pulling carts.
He's a master of tracking,
Squadron Leader Rahul of Kugit sent him to search, naturally because of his ability
There are no roads in the prairie, but the herders have their own way of knowing, the direction in which the grass has fallen, the remains of the fire, the location of the horse manure and the debris inside
Chased all the way from Tulga, although there was a slight mistake on the way, which delayed the woman's carefully arranged suspicion for some time,
But Hubale believes that this time he is absolutely not wrong,
Because if that woman was going to Aichemor, it was the most inconspicuous, but the safest way, from which it was easy to bypass the royal court and the defense areas of the various tribes.
If it were themselves, they would also choose this path,
"She must be here!" said Hu Bale in his heart, there was only this lake on this road, and it was the caravan's favorite place to camp.
If it were him, he would choose to lurk nearby, take the opportunity to steal a horse from the camping caravan and then escape, with the skills and skillful riding skills of that woman's three-pole Laren warrior, this is just a matter of stretching out his hand
Otherwise, two legs can't outrun four legs!
Hu Bale carefully measured the thickness of the horse's hooves with his hands, hoping to see something from the wear and tear of the horseshoe, but he was soon disappointed
No problem!
These horses have indeed experienced a long journey, and the horseshoe is not only worn out strictly, but the height is basically the same, and from the height of consumption, it is indeed from the western wilderness.
Hu Basil even saw dejectedly that on the top circle of the horseshoe, there were two WikiAsian characters engraved with Maomo,
"What the hell, was it tricked by that woman again?" Hu Luole scolded secretly, and stood up with a dejected face,
Whether it is from the wool marks on the pocket of the goods, or many details, Hu Basil did not see any major problems.
Except for a stupid fat man who seems to be particularly interested in the methods of his own inspection,
Always around him and asking questions, like a stinky fly that makes a graceful noise, disturbing the restlessness of the carry
"What are you looking for? Can you hide it in the horse's hooves?" the stupid fat man asked as he looked at the carbasil who was squatting on the ground and measuring the horse's hoof prints, and looked curious and babyish
"A woman! a woman who makes the whole royal court uneasy!" Hu Bale was disturbed, and just wanted to do his best to get rid of this disturbing living treasure
"Can that woman hide under the horse's hooves?" the fat man looked at the Kujit who was carefully comparing the horse's hooves, blinked, and continued,
"Hell, can't you shut up as a fool?" Hu Baole was already angry by the fat man's question, if it weren't for the relationship between the Mao Mo family, he would have let his subordinates beat this fool hard
"Well, the world is really not at peace anywhere!" the stupid fat man sighed sadly, and continued, "You know, my horse lost last night, and it was a good horse that I bought for ten silver coins!"
"A good horse for ten silver coins!" Hu Bale was completely speechless, he looked at the fat man with a sad face, and wanted to sue him, the ten silver coins in his eyes could not even sell the horsehair of a good horse
"Wait!" Hu Bale suddenly felt that something was wrong, and with an excited expression, he grabbed the fat man's shoulder, shook it eagerly, and said loudly, "You say, your horse was stolen last night?"
"Yes, that's a good horse for ten silver coins!" the fat man looked dazed, and soon showed a look of pain, and his expression was appropriate, like a miser who had just lost his treasure
"Quick! report back to the royal court at once! The woman has run away, and the war has broken out!" said Hoorol, whose face turned extremely ugly, and ran to Rahul with a shout