readx;? Joseph, as usual, woke up at sunset. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 info He yawned and opened his shop, and then he started steaming buns, yes, he was the owner of a bun shop. His buns lay in the deepest part of an alley, where no one cared about it, and sewage flowed across narrow bluestone slabs.

Shirtless, he took out a mop from the shop and mopped the road in front of the shop clean, so that at least he could see people. It's a pity that the effect is not obvious, because his mop is not much cleaner than the ground.

But it's just the job done, isn't it?

He moved out of his recliner and lay in the sun at the door, while waiting for the guests to come and buy buns. He had been living this life as usual for many, many years, and the neighbors were puzzled by how a lazy boss like him could earn money to support himself.

His bun shop is in a good position, and it is in a place where the sun can reach. The sunlight brought a touch of warmth to the gloomy alley, and he closed his eyes in the warmth of it. I don't know how long it took for him to hear the echo of someone treading water in the alley, and then he opened his eyes and saw a slim girl.

It took him some time to recognize who the girl was, and he couldn't help but be surprised: "Are you Eve?

Eve's pretty face was hard to hide the tiredness. Ignoring the shopkeeper, she walked into the shop, took a bun from the steamer, put it in her mouth and chewed it. Joseph didn't know what she had been through, but he hadn't seen her for a while, and she had gone from being that dirty little girl to being a clean and beautiful girl.

Joseph looked at Eve's increasingly beautiful face and good figure, and a certain part of his lower body was about to move. He remembered that a few years ago, the girl who was dying of starvation begged to exchange her body for a few buns to eat.

It's a poor girl. Joseph thought to himself, and then he gave the buns, but did nothing to her, because he really couldn't do anything to a girl of this size. But now it seems that she has matured a lot

Joseph's breathing couldn't help but get heavier, and decades of living alone had made his patience almost reach the limit. Eve glanced at Joseph, she knew very well what Joseph wanted to do, if in the past, she wouldn't mind using her body to repay this middle-aged man who had helped her many times, but now

"Don't do that anymore. ”

Eve pulled a gold coin out of her pocket and placed it on the table. The sound of the gold coins touching the table was like a basin of cold water poured on Joseph's head, causing Joseph to wake up instantly. Joseph shook his head with a wry smile and looked at the gold coins on the table, when in fact he was looking at the black oily tablecloth on the table.

"This is my last gold coin. Eve whispered, "I already have a lot of gold, enough to get me out of the city and go inland." However, after being stolen, there was only one left. ”

Eve's brows can't hide her loss and despair. She had no idea that the evil thief would find her, perhaps because of the dress, the thief set his sights on a target that he had not been targeting at all, and stole almost all the gold coins.

It can also be said to have stolen Eve's last hope.

Joseph saw a very bad mood in Eve's eyes, and there was nothing to love. It was as if the whole world had lost its color, and he wanted to say something to persuade the girl, but he didn't know what to say, so he opened his mouth, and finally turned into a sigh.

Why not, he stayed in the alley for a long time, and he almost forgot who he was. Only this girl can occasionally remind him of his identity, and he gave this girl hope to live a long time ago.

He said to the maiden, "There is a kind of people in the interior called hunters, and they can do anything for you, if you pay enough. ”

This sentence made this girl who had lost everything strong to live until now, but her hope was taken away.

At this moment, the sound of treading water sounded again in the alley. Someone was walking towards him with sewage, and the crisp sound echoed through the alley. Joseph was stunned, at this point in time, no one should come to him to buy steamed buns. He glanced at Eve, who nodded and hid in the shop.

The next moment, a young man appeared in front of Joseph.

"What to buy?" asked Joseph, though a little confused, but still dedicated.

The young man didn't answer, he first glanced up at the plaque on the door of the bun shop, which said the address here. Then he lowered his head again, looked at the steamer on the table, and no, he was going to say, he was looking at the tablecloth on the table.

After catching the young man's gaze, Joseph's heart, which had been silent for an unknown amount of time, suddenly became active. He began to look at the young man's outfit again, a neat black dress, a simple package, and the huge black box under the package, Joseph thought of something, but he was not sure, but his face was red with excitement.

It wasn't until the moment the young man opened his mouth that he finally couldn't hold back his tears.

"Are you the liaison officer for the Port Sophia branch of the Hall?" Ian asked with just one simple question, and Joseph was already in tears.

"It's been almost twenty years. "It's been twenty years, and finally, at last, again, I saw the people in the hall. ”

It's been twenty years, and he's almost forgotten who he is. The head of the Sophia Port branch of the hall, this identity has not been mentioned by many people, and even he himself is doubting his identity, suspecting that he was originally a bun shop owner.

If it weren't for the hunting bow hanging on the wall of the bun shop and the tablecloth made of the thorn flower banner to remind him, perhaps he would have lost himself. With tears in his eyes, he smiled and asked, "It's down." ”

Ian couldn't quite understand Joseph's feelings, he just thought the bad old man looked weird and very obscene. But he didn't care, just took out a few silver coins from his bosom and put them on the table.

"I'm going to post the task. ”

Joseph's smile froze.

"Send, release a mission?" Joseph was afraid that he had misheard, "You came here to issue a mission?"

Ian nodded.

Joseph's pupils suddenly flashed a touch of dead ashes, and he experienced a feeling of hope and then despair, which ordinary people could not understand. He also thought that Ian was a liaison sent by the lobby to summon him back to the imperial capital, but he didn't expect that it was someone who came to issue a mission.

So he said weakly to Ian: "It's useless, there are no hunters in Sophia Harbor, and no one will take the mission." ”

"Someone will pick it up. Ian said.

Joseph didn't want to pay attention to Ian, but when he thought that he was the head of the Port Sophia branch, he had to do what he had to do. So he got up, walked over to the table, and pulled out a tattered stack of parchment from underneath.

"Say, what a task. Joseph should have remembered his past life.

"Exterminate the sea monster. Ian said calmly.

Joseph's hand holding the pen trembled, and before he could say anything, Ian's next sentence left him dumbfounded.

"Reward, three silver coins. ”

Three, three silver coins?!

Joseph suspects that Ian is a psychopath, or that he is someone who has nothing to do to tease him. Please, what the hell is the legendary sea monster? Who knows what the sea monster is, and three silver coins? Entrust a hunter to kill a cockroach for more than three silver coins, okay!

"Don't you think it's too little?" asked Joseph, holding back his anger.

Ian looked suddenly enlightened, so he took out a gold coin from his bosom and placed it next to the silver coin: "Well, you reminded me, one gold coin and three silver coins, this is the reward." ”

Neurotic, he's definitely a neurotic!

Joseph began to look around, he was looking for the mop, ready to blast Ian out. But when I think about it, if this neuropathy starts to go crazy, he can't stop such a young body, hey, then forget it, just accompany the child to play at home, coax away this He is talking.

"Okay, the name of the principal. ”

"Two. Ian said, "Efutina, and Maren Jason. ”

Joseph wrote these two names, and he hid behind him before he noticed the first client.

"Alright, alright, the mission is over, you can go. Joseph waved his hand impatiently, ready to chase Ian away, he wanted to tear up the task as soon as he left.

"It's not over yet. Ian took out a brown sign from his arms, placed it on the table, and said calmly, "I still have a task, just take the one just now." I'm the hall's senior hunter named Ian. ”

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