The carriage went on, there was silence in the carriage, the old man squinted his eyes and was half asleep, Eva was still not awake, and little Peter himself looked out the window and didn't know what he was thinking.

I don't know how long it took, but when Eva came to her senses, her emotions were no longer so excited, she just looked at her hands wrapped in gauze in a daze, as if she couldn't believe that it was such a pair of small hands that ended the enemy's life, and she didn't say a word for a long time.

There was nothing to say along the way, neither the blinding robbers came to send them to death, nor were they troubled by soldiers and lords. The journey went smoothly for a few days, until we reached the county of Glamorgan.

After settling the people in the county of Glamorgan, William took little Peter to a tavern, ordered a glass of wine at random, and began to listen to the news in the tavern in the hope of getting useful information.

Little Peter looked around boredly, the tavern was so small, so small that it could only hold about twelve or thirteen people. When the boss smiles at you with white hair, he will show a big mouth without front teeth, which is very disgusting.

There weren't many people in the tavern, but it seemed noisy, with a few drunken farmers complaining loudly about the weather, taxes, and even some saying that the lord was a stupid pig-headed fellow.

This continued until a few soldiers went into the tavern to get drunk, and the drunken peasants came to their senses at once, and left the tavern one by one.

"A bunch of idiots, who know all day long that they don't drink and don't do any farm work, and I see what they use to pay their taxes. A soldier who looked like a leader sneered.

A few soldiers shouted loudly while drinking, and the boss stood behind the counter with a pained face and muttered a few words from time to time.

Little Peter keenly noticed that Uncle William was obviously listening, and he couldn't help but listen curiously to the nonsense of the soldiers.

The more the soldiers drank, the more they drank, the whiter the boss's face became, and finally little Peter wondered if there was something funeral at the boss's house, and the face was terrifying.

Perhaps the soldiers drank too much and drank too much, and the leader whispered in a very small voice: "Hey, I heard today that the barbarians are coming again." ”

"Can't you, again?" the soldiers asked, stunned.

"Why not, the barbarians are hungry now, and we are so close to Wales, how could they not come!" said the leader.

Hearing this, Uncle William threw a coin, and the boss quickly hid it, and then secretly glanced at the soldiers, and saw that no one was paying attention, and couldn't help but let out a sigh.

Little Peter followed Uncle William back to the inn and went all the way to the old man's room. This room is even more dilapidated than the last hotel room, and there is nothing else to describe.

The old man was chatting with Eva when he saw them come back and said, "Did you hear anything?"

Uncle William said with a stern face: "I heard that a few soldiers said that the barbarians were preparing to attack before the autumn harvest, so I hurried back to discuss our next route." ”

The old man frowned and said: "It seems that there is another famine, this world is becoming more and more unpeaceful, the barbarians have invaded more and more frequently in the past ten years, and sooner or later something big will happen." ”

Uncle William carefully pulled out a map from his backpack and laid it on the bed with a "brush", looking at it carefully by the dim light.

Little Peter took a closer look and said curiously, "This is a military map, right?"

No one answered him, and William and the old man were quietly discussing something, and from time to time they were comparing and drawing on the map.

Little Peter was a little frustrated to see that he couldn't understand a word of what they were discussing. When their discussion stopped for a while, they asked the old man, "Grandpa, where are we going?"

The old man sighed, looked at him seriously for a long time, then walked to the chair and sat down and said, "Since it's all this time, I think you should know these things too." We're going to a monastery in Kansas province of the Holy Empire. ”

Little Peter was stunned and stammered, "Go, go to the monastery, what are you doing?"

The old man was amused when he heard this, pointed at him and scolded him with a smile: "Hey, it's not that you want to die or live to become a priest? Now it's good to ask me why I go to the monastery? If you don't go to the monastery, how can you receive systematic theological knowledge training, how can you become a priest?"

Little Peter subconsciously stretched out his tongue and licked his lips, then looked at the old man and asked in disbelief: "But, but don't you want me to be a priest, don't you really want me to be a noble?"

"What you said, I want you to become a nobleman, should you?" the old man smiled, and then said: "I am also old, and I will not enjoy a few years of happiness, I can say that I am guarding you by your side, but I can't be by your side forever." ”

The old man looked at little Peter kindly, patted his chest with one hand, trembled slightly with the other, and said reluctantly: "I have taught you everything I can teach you, and I will have to work hard for myself in the future." You have also grown up, and whether you can make a difference depends on your own ability. ”

Little Peter lowered his head, wiped his eyes with his hands, and said in a choked voice: "Well, I know, grandpa, I will definitely be the pope to show you." There is a conviction in the words.

"Silly boy, what do you think is the best way to be a pope, let's be a bishop first. The old man smiled kindly. After laughing, the old man pointed to Eva, who was standing behind him, and said to little Peter, "In the future, she will accompany you in my absence." You have to respect and love others, and I hope that when you get ahead in the future, you can also give this poor little girl a rich future. ”

"Well, grandpa, I will. Little Peter nodded again and again and said loudly. Eva, on the other hand, stood there at a loss, not knowing what to say to show her gratitude, and whispered, "Thank you." ”

The old man patted the armrest of the chair, nodded slightly and smiled with satisfaction, this moment seemed to coincide with the original picture of the old man in Little Peter's impression, as if they were so kind and warm, as if as long as he was in himself, he would never feel at a loss.

At this moment, Uncle William finally looked up from the map, frowned and thought for a while, and then said, "We have to set off before dawn, I have studied it, and the nearest distance is to go straight to the nearby port, where to take a boat to the mainland." It's been the safest in recent times. It's just that I don't know if it's risky to go around. ”

The old man nodded, rubbed his hands with hot breath exhaled, and then said calmly: "Then it's decided, which route is the safest and we will take that route." We're hurrying to get our things ready now, so that we don't get panicked. The latter sentence is like saying it to Eva

Eva hesitated for a moment, but still said softly: "I, I know a shortcut to the port, which can probably save more than two hours of travel, but that road is not easy to walk, and I can't walk in a carriage." ”

The old man looked at each other as if William was drinking, and nodded at the same time. William said, "Then you are responsible for leading the way, and everything is up to you." ”