Chapter XXXVII: Henry and Philip
Little Peter looked at the old man's proud and proud face, and slowly grew his mouth, and his mouth became dumbfounded.
The old man was happy to see him, and suddenly the momentum dissipated and changed into the usual appearance in his memory. The old man stretched out a finger and pointed at little Peter and said with a smile: "You, don't think about this. I still think about how hard I studied after I arrived at Cromwell Abbey. I'm still waiting for the day you become pope. ”
Little Peter swallowed a few mouthfuls of saliva and closed his long mouth, then he scratched his left shoulder with his right hand uneasily.
Just as he was about to say something, Eva walked over, and he could only close his mouth and look at Eva. Eva glanced at little Peter inexplicably, and then said to the old man, "Now that the sky is already dark, are we waiting here for Uncle William, or shall I go over and see for myself?"
After hearing this, the old man shook his head slightly, sighed, and said, "No, we will wait here." If William gets out of trouble, we are likely to miss him if we go back now, and if he doesn't get out of trouble, then it is more likely that we will fall into the net if we go back. ”
Eva looked worried, didn't say anything, just nodded, turned to the side, gathered some food, and went to prepare lunch.
Little Peter pressed down the worry in his heart, cheered up his spirits, and chatted with the old man sentence by sentence.
When the old man was talking about Uncle William's old anecdotes, Eva ran over in a panic and said in a low voice, "I heard the sound of people on the other side, and it seems that there is also the sound of water." Someone may have come, more than one. ”
The old man became serious all of a sudden, he first looked at the traces around him, and then said regretfully: "It seems that we didn't have time to clean up the traces, since we crossed the river, I think we should have run from the ambush like us." Let's take a look here, I can't run away anyway. ”
Little Peter said, "Maybe Uncle William is here." Comforting everyone, in fact, he also felt very scared in his heart.
Everyone waited here, and after a while they heard a very noisy sound. Little Peter listened intently, and slowly he looked at Eva with a tight frown. I saw Eva's smiling face turn white all of a sudden, and she clenched her hands tightly and shook her body. Little Peter said to her silently, "It's Philip." ”
Eva nodded her head to indicate that she had already heard it. Little Peter was thinking of everything in his mind, but before he could think of anything, Philip came out of the grass not far away.
He first scolded and complained about everything he could, and then he kept muttering about his good fortune. Suddenly, his eyes grew and he looked at little Peter stupidly. He swallowed hard and rubbed his eyes in disbelief. When it was confirmed that it was them, the expression on his face suddenly changed to disbelief and creepy enthusiasm.
He first looked at the group and didn't find William's figure, then rolled his eyes and took a big step ahead. With a look of grief on his face, he shouted at them, "Oh my God, look at what I saw, it's great that you're all safe and sound." The old man shook his head at Eva and little Peter to signal them to be calm, and then slowly stood up and said slowly, "Yes, it's great that you're okay." Where did you come from and found anything?"
Philip laughed and said, "What can I find, I ran all the way, and I ran and ran here." Hey, fortunately, I don't have to load this cargo in a carriage like theirs, my carriage is all pretending to be able to get out. It was so miserable, there were corpses all over the ground and there was blood, so scared that I almost peed out. ”
The old man listened with a smile, looked at the mercenaries who came out of the grass and asked, "Then what are you going to do next?"
Philip said directly without hesitation: "Of course you are leaving here!
The old man just smiled and didn't say anything.
Philip licked his lips and thought for a moment before asking, "By the way, why are you here?"
Little Peter looked at Philip and the mercenaries behind him and suddenly interjected, "William took us here, and then when we all fell asleep, he swept away our things and ran to the other side of the river." Didn't you see him?"
When the old man heard this, his face remained silent, but he was surprised by little Peter's performance.
Philip was stunned when he heard this, and asked little Peter suspiciously, "How do you know that he is running to the other side of the river? ”
Little Peter racked his brains to come up with a perfect reason: "I couldn't sleep in the tent at night, and when I went out for a walk, I saw William leading the horse across the river." ”
Philip still didn't believe it and said, "Then he shouldn't have crossed the river, why didn't he just run away and go back." ”
The old man said quietly: "Most people will run away, but there are so many goods piled up in that place, I think that's the reason." ”
Philip stopped speaking for a moment, he squinted his eyes and carefully looked at the group, and he couldn't make up his mind. At this moment, a mercenary behind him interjected and shouted, "Hey, didn't we wonder why there were traces of two horses on the bank when we crossed the river just now?" ”
After hearing this, little Peter was relieved, looked at Philip with a smile on his face, and said again: "Many of the tokens on us have been taken away by William, so we can only think of something to do here." ”
A look of greed flashed in Philip's eyes, and then he smiled at the old man and said, "In that case, let's go over and have a look." ”
William was in a daze as he felt his body being lifted onto a stretcher, unable to open his eyes but still able to feel the wound being bandaged. He vaguely felt himself being carried to a warm place. He couldn't help but relax and fall asleep.
When he opened his eyes, he found himself lying in a tent, his wounds carefully treated, but not yet able to move vigorously.
There was a man in the tent who was sitting there sleeping in a daze, and he woke up when he heard William's movement. He quickly came to his senses, glanced at William hurriedly to make sure it was not his hallucination, and rushed out of the tent directly. William was surprised when he heard him shout outside, "Captain, captain, that guy is awake." ”
After a while, a burly middle-aged man walked in. William tried to look at the other with his eyes open, and gradually he opened his mouth with an expression of disbelief.
The captain saw William laugh and walked over to sit down, clapped his hands vigorously, and coughed a few times before he couldn't help it and said with a smile: "Long time no see, old man." Why do you look like this to welcome me? ”
William was looking at the other party and blinking vigorously, but after hearing this, his eyes rolled and he said unhappily: "Henry, why are you." Aren't you going to the Order of the Holy See? ”
Henry rubbed his hands together and showed an embarrassed smile and explained dryly: "Hey, I was wrong about what happened back then, don't care." Isn't this the conflict getting worse, so I was ordered to come here to be stationed at Cromwell Abbey. ”
William chatted with him for a few words and asked about the recent situation, only to learn that the reason why the entire Holy Empire was like this was because the Lancastrians fanned the flames to smear the Holy See in front of the emperor.
Henry cursed hatefully, thinking that he suddenly remembered something, and asked with a straight expression, "Have you seen Lancaster?"
William nodded and said nothing.
Henry hesitated for a long time and then asked in a low voice, "What about His Majesty the Emperor?"
After a long time, Henry sighed and patted him on the shoulder and said, "Don't worry, now that I have me, I will definitely find it for you." ”
Just when the atmosphere inside the tent was quiet and depressing, we heard a voice from outside: "Captain, we just saw a few mercenaries in front of us, so we arrested them and took them over and saw a few civilians." Why don't you come out and have a look?"