The heavy snowfall that had been falling all night finally stopped before dawn.

The snow was deep in the streets, and residents crawled out of their covers early to clear the snow from their homes.

Children dressed in thick winter clothes in the yard to the snowman.

The morning sun was exceptionally bright, and a heavy snowfall covered the ground completely.

A flock of sparrows flew out of the nest under the eaves and landed on the branches not knowing where to find grass seeds to eat, and at this time, as long as a small open space was swept out of the yard, food such as millet and multigrain bread crumbs were sprinkled on the ground, and the lids, door panels, and baskets were set up, and these starving birds and birds could be easily caught.

Basil, the owner of the flower shop, opened his eyes, and the sunlight shining in through the window was a little harsh.

Since there are almost no flowers to sell in the flower shop in winter, the flower shop has no income for a while, and some garlic seedlings are raised in the wooden trough in the shop, which is one of the few sources of income in Basil's winter flower shop.

In the past two years, the price of magical herbs has skyrocketed, but the price of all plants related to magical herbs has doubled several times, which has made Basil's flower shop even more unsustainable.

Getting up from the bed, he covered the quilt for the two wives beside him, the winter breakfast, the fire in the fireplace has been completely extinguished, the room is not so warm, the next room from time to time from the old lady's cough, his wife is like this every winter, it is an old problem.

Probably hearing the sound of him removing snow in the yard, the eldest daughter, Amy, also came out of the next room.

She was wearing boots and snow pants, and it looked like she was going to clear the snow together, Basil sighed, her daughter participated in the coming-of-age ceremony last year, and she will be eighteen years old after the New Year, it's time to prepare a dowry for her, it is not easy to marry her daughter this year, and the man's family must have a rich dowry in addition to her appearance and character.

He walked out of the yard with a shovel and came to the door of his shop, where he piled the thick snow in front of the shop and on the street trees and shrubs to form a high wall of snow.

His family's flower shop was next to the Dandelion Hotel, and the innkeeper had told him many times before that she wanted to merge his flower shop and build a small building on the basis of the original building of the flower shop, and that the hotel needed a restaurant that could accommodate at least 50 people at the same time, but he never agreed.

Opposite the flower shop is a small square, which the surrounding residents like to call 'under the tree' because there is a towering fig tree in the middle of the square, and in the summer, the old people like to cool off under this tree, and the square is usually bustling.

Basil piled the snow on the low wall of the bushes around the square, and he was clearing the snow in the street with his head down, when he suddenly noticed that there seemed to be something more on the fig tree in the middle of the square, and he looked up and looked under the tree, and saw four hunters bound by ropes, hanging from the towering trees like chrysalis.

There was a pile of blood congealed underneath one of them, and looking at the thick frost on his face, it looked like he was probably cold.

He hurriedly ran over, and saw that the other three people were still breathing weakly, and their eyebrows and beards were covered with frost, and he planned to use a shovel to cut the ropes to save a few people, but he couldn't do it alone.

Basil hurriedly shouted loudly in the direction of the Dandelion Hotel.

There was always someone on the other side of the hotel, and soon there was movement on the other side of the hotel, and the hotel manager went to Mene and ran to the square with two young men, wearing only a leather coat, and eagerly ran to the fig tree to carefully identify the people hanging from the tree, and saw that these were actually guests in the hotel, and his legs were so frightened that he fell into the snow.

Basil hurriedly stepped forward, helped Mene up from the snow, and said to him: "Don't move anything at the scene, go and call the knights of the guard camp over......"

"What are you doing in a daze, hurry up!" Mene, the hotel manager, shouted in a hoarse voice.

The two young attendants hurriedly ran down the street in the direction of the guard barracks......

……

It snowed all night, the streets were congested, a large number of magic caravans broke down on the side of the streets, and many Guborai horses took refuge in the stables to escape the cold.

The knights of the guard battalion and the swordsmen of the Duke of Newman's palace rushed to the dandelion inn in the southern neighborhood of Bena City.

The knights of the guard battalion rushed under the trees in the square, while dozens of swordsmen from Duke Newman's Mansion surrounded the Dandelion Hotel, and some civilians who got up early to get out of the hotel all blocked back into their rooms, and the swordsmen of Duke Newman's Mansion stopped in front of the door of the hotel.

A female swordsman in silver armor jumped from the back of her horse, and she held on to the hilt of her sword and rushed into the hotel almost ahead of everyone.

The two maids, pale and pale as they were picked up from their horses by the knight, followed the swordswoman into the hotel at a brisk pace.

At this moment, Lady Dorothy was sitting on the large bed in the room of the aristocratic section of the hotel with a cashmere quilt, and was talking carefully with the maid Leah.

The maid Leah, on the other hand, looked at Mrs. Dorothy, who was wearing almost nothing on the bed, and answered Mrs. Dorothy's questions seriously, but she was completely unaware of many questions. She couldn't understand why she had fallen asleep last night, and when she woke up, the two guests who had hired her to watch the fireplace had disappeared.

Thinking of this, Lia couldn't help but glance at the pocket of acorns next to the fireplace, and couldn't help but be a little worried in her heart, if the two guests really left secretly without paying, it would be bad, these acorns are worth a lot of money, she was completely panicked, she secretly touched the money bag on her waist, there was no money in it.

Leah struggled to remember the two guests, but her mind went blank.

It can only be said that one guest is a knight in costume, the other female guest is very beautiful, and the rest know almost nothing.

There was a rush of footsteps in the hallway, and a young female swordswoman strode into the room, and when she saw Lady Dorothy sitting on the bed with her arms in her arms, she let out a sigh against the door frame and patted her chest and said, "You...... It really scared me to death, do you know that the guard battalion and the Duke's palace guards have been looking for you all night in Bena City, and all the gates of the city are still sealed. ”

Lady Dorothy looked up at the swordswoman, with a faint smile on her face, and said to the swordswoman with her arms like white lotus roots deep in the quilt, "I know that you will come to my rescue at the first time, Talis, my sister!" ”

Talys smiled at Mrs. Dorothy, and the two hugged each other tightly and whispered in her ear, "Algernon is dead!" ”

Lady Dorothy nodded slightly, smiled bitterly on her face, and whispered, "He would have had a chance to escape." ”

The female swordsman Talise heard Lady Dorothy say this, her eyes froze slightly, she didn't have any good impression of the oily young swordsman, she didn't expect him to be so backbone at the critical moment, she patted Lady Dorothy's naked. back, said: "That's fine, otherwise when Edwin comes back from the battlefield, I really don't know how to explain to him, you probably don't know, how many times I want to rush to his place to kill him while you're not there!" ”

"He's a qualified swordsman, and he has a great youth, he shouldn't die here." Mrs. Dorothy finally lost her breath and shed a few tears.

The swordswoman Talis comforted Lady Dorothy again and said, "I know, I will investigate this matter, they want to find you, probably because they have taken a fancy to the golden key in your hand." ”

"Let's go back, we're going to give them a little bit of color this time."

With that, Lady Dorothy stepped out of bed.

Two maids came up and took out Lady Dorothy's clothes, and quickly put them on them.

They were also Mrs. Dorothy's personal maids, and had stayed in the Duke of Newman's palace last night, and had not accompanied Mrs. Dorothy to her North Street lover's apartment, and her other two personal maids and six guards all died in North Street's apartment, but these two handmaidens were lucky enough to escape.

Lady Dorothy put on her long dress, and two maids-in-waiting, one of whom made a headdress for her, and the other tied her waist, stood gracefully in front of the window of her room, and looked out, just in time to see a large group of knights of the guard battalion standing in the small square outside the window.

By this time, the hunters hanging from the trees had been let down.

……

Viscount Kincaid I. Didn't sleep at night.

As soon as he received the news, he rushed to the Giant Tree Square, where the three hunters, who were almost freezing, were lying flat on the snow, and two knights of the guard battalion were checking their physical condition.

Viscount Kincaid glanced back at the inn behind him, and heard that the Newman family's personal swordsmen had found the abducted Lady Dorothy in the inn.

He knew that someone was secretly helping this time, otherwise it would not be easy to find Lady Dorothy in the city of Bena, which has a population of millions, with the knights of the guard battalion and the men of the Duke of Newman's palace.

He felt that he must have overlooked something, and when he calmed down and thought about it again, he still had no clue in his head.

By this time, the knights who had examined the three robbers were on their feet, several of them were wrapping the three hunters in military blankets, and the body of another frozen ice sculpture had been packed in body bags.

"How's it going?" Viscount Kincaid asked.

The knight who checked the injuries nodded to him and said, "Lord Viscount, they are still alive, but their bodies are frozen, and their limbs are estimated to have severe frostbite!" ”

Viscount Kincaid nodded and said, "Help them ward off the cold, and then bring them back to the guard camp, don't let them die, they are all very important criminals, and besides, you go and tell Grand Knight Glenn...... Forget it, I'll go to the Grand Knight of Glenn to report this matter myself, and you must not let these three criminals escape. ”

"Don't worry, Viscount Kincaid." The captains of the guards battalion knights straightened up and reassured.