A group of aboriginal boys and girls stood at the door of Nika's house, looking at the backs of Surdak and Samira's departure, they all got into the tent, looked at Nika who barely got up from the straw mat, and said with envy: "Nika, that baron is going to take you out of Kiran Town, he looks really gentle!" ”

The streets of the slums are riddled with sewage, grass grows on both sides of the road, and the roads are full of dirty puddles.

When Surdak and Samira left, they both walked very slowly.

For a half-elven archer with an overly sharp sense of sight and hearing, Samira hated being followed like a tail.

She glared back at the Aboriginal boy hiding behind the shack, who had been following him behind the shack in fright.

Samira turned around and continued walking, ignoring the frightened boy.

The boy ran back to Nika's house panting, put his hands on his knees, and said to Nika: "I stole a glance at the archer who was with him, I was sure she was an elf, and I saw her long ears hidden in her hood, as crystal clear as they were rumored, and I could even see the capillaries under the skin of the ears......"

The slum is very close to the river, and some of the shacks are even built on the river.

A group of young men and women would sit on a wooden raft, and Nika, though with some injuries on her body, would sit with them, watching the distant yellow sunset, her eyes glinting with hope for tomorrow.

One of the young girls, who had a good relationship with Nika, looked at Nika, who looked a little apprehensive, and comforted her:

"Nika, follow the Baron, learn more from him, it is best to become one of them, he has also invited some of our horse herders in the barracks, since he is willing to take you away, I guess at least I won't hate you."

"Hmm." Nika nodded earnestly, the gaze in her eyes becoming more determined.

Another girl put her arm on Nika's shoulder and said to her:

"Nika, if you are developed in the future, don't forget us, if you have the opportunity to come back in the future, take us out of here, I'm really fed up here!"

"Hmm." Nika said yes again.

"I really envy you, although you have experienced a catastrophe, but you also have such an opportunity." The girl squinted her eyes and looked at Nika's emaciated face seriously, seeing that the bridge of her nose was straight, and her thin lips were slightly upturned in the shape of a water chestnut, although she still looked a little embarrassed, she had already shown the appearance of a beautiful woman, and said with some pantothenic acid in her heart.

Nika put her arms around her and swore to everyone:

"If I can get ahead in the future, I will definitely come back."

The sparkling river shimmered with golden scales, and at the end of the meadow was the horizon, a gray cloud dyed red by the setting sun.

"You haven't left Kieran yet, so don't make a promise now." The best girl with Nika whispered to her.

Nika boldly jumped waist-deep into the river, not letting the water soak her tattered dress and holding the clear water in her face.

The river fell on her, making her feel much more comfortable.

She put her hands into the river, and the skin on her arms, which had turned red from the sun, turned into dead skin, and little by little fell off, revealing the fairer and more tender skin inside.

"Could that baron be a priest? He must have performed divine magic, otherwise how could he heal Nika's injuries so easily! The girls sitting on the rafts looked at Nika in surprise and talked with envy.

Nika seemed very excited, and ran home when it was completely dark, and even when she returned home, she could not contain her excitement, and sat on the straw mat in the shack with some excitement, and said to her mother, who was sitting in a daze on the straw mat:

"Mom, you said we should bring something, should we clean up these tents?"

In the dark, her eyes were clear and bright.

Without waiting for her mother to answer, she laughed softly and said:

"Actually, there's nothing to clean up, and I can finally get out of here."

She stood up, went to the side of the shack, picked up the only long dress that hung there, and picked up the two clay pots, feeling that the clay pots were a little bulky, and said to her mother with some concern:

"I'm going to carry two clay pots and a linen skirt, Mom, do you think we can carry that many? They were a group of horsemen, and they all had to ride on horseback, and neither of us could ride horses, nor horses, and he did not know that he did not have a carriage, and did you say that the Baron would let us ride in his carriage? ”

Nika's mother glanced at her daughter softly, reached out and stroked her smooth forehead, nodded slightly, but did not speak.

Nika put her arms around her mother's waist, rested her head in her arms, looked up at her mother's somewhat melancholy face, and asked:

"Mom, Mom, what are you thinking, pack your bags with me, wait until tomorrow morning to do it, it may be too late!"

Mother Nika remained silent, as if the whole shack had fallen silent.

It was a long time before Nika's mother set her eyes on Nika's face:

"Nika, follow the Baron yourself!"

Nika looked at her mother in surprise, not understanding why she had made such a decision, with an incomprehensible expression on her face.

Nika's mother let Nika lie on her lap, reached out and stroked her long hair, and said in a low and calm voice:

"I'm old, and I don't want to leave Kieran, the neighbors around me are all familiar to me, and this is also the environment I know best, I don't want to venture outside, as long as you live well, even if I have a hard time here, it's nothing, but Nika, you have to remember...... No matter where you go, it's important to be alive. ”

"Mom, why don't you come with me?" Nika asked.

Mother Nika closed her eyes in the darkness and hardened her heart and said:

"Mom is reluctant to be here, I heard that according to the laws of the empire, widows must be married, if you hadn't dragged me down, maybe I would have married a long time ago."

Nika also knew that there was such a decree, but this decree was only enforced by the immigrants of the empire in the small town, perhaps so that the widows who could not support themselves could find another one to rely on, but the aborigines never implemented it.

With so many young aboriginal girls to choose from, who would want an old aboriginal woman?

Nika said to her mother, "That is the law of the Imperials, and we natives don't have to obey it. ”

The mother reached out and patted her delicate face, squeezed out a forced smile, and said, "Okay, I have decided on this matter, I will sleep with you in my arms tonight, and you will learn to take care of yourself in the future." ”

Mother Nika didn't say the last sentence, but said in her heart:

'Nika, you can only grow up without me. ’

……

The summer winds deprived the morning grass of so much dew.

When the cavalry battalion was in the dark, they packed up the camp tents, all the fire ponds were doused with water, all the domestic garbage was buried in the same place, and the vicinity of the camp was cleaned up as much as possible, and then they rode their horses and walked west along the Bailin River, according to the guide's guidance, the cavalry had to bypass this mountain range, and then go all the way north, which is the nearest road to the town of Dodan.

After most of the day's recuperation, the condition of the war horses has recovered a little, and it seems that the twenty-seven herdsmen have really taken good care of these war horses.

The maiden Nika stood alone by the river with a linen bag on her shoulder, and when Surdak and Samira rode over, they found that her eyes were red, and she was wearing a clean dress, and the burns and sunburns on her body were completely healed, and even a layer of old skin had been removed, revealing a whiter and more tender skin.

"How only you are yourself, you. What about Mom? Surdak asked in surprise.

"Mom doesn't want to leave Kieran......" Nika said with a look of grievance in her eyes.

Samira took two steps forward on her horse, stooped down and leaned under Nika's armpit, carried her lightly onto the horse, and without saying a word, patted her on the horse's stock, and followed the cavalry battalion out of the way.

Unexpectedly, Nika's mother was worried about dragging down her daughter, so she gave up the opportunity to leave Kiran Town.

Surdak didn't have time to explain, and he didn't know the situation in Dodan Town, so he guessed that the living conditions there must not be as good as in Kiran, so he didn't invite Nika's mother to go with him.

……

"Ma'am, the foreign cavalry battalion left in the morning!"

The maid stood beside Baroness Goss's bed with a sleepy face, bowed her head and whispered in her ear.

Baroness Goss woke up from her sleep and looked at the maid fiercely, and then she remembered that it was her order before going to bed last night, telling her to wake herself up whenever there was a movement of the cavalry battalion of the Luthor Legion, she closed her eyes and sat up from the bed with her forehead, and Baron Goss next to her was still sleeping soundly.

The maid brought her dressing gown and put it on her for the Baroness de Goss.

Standing barefoot on the cashmere carpet, she glanced at Baron Goss and pushed him awake with her hand.

Baroness Goss said two words, Baron Goss didn't hear clearly, he hadn't fully woken up in his sleep, but he had nowhere to vent his anger in the face of his wife, and he was lying on the bed a little irritably.

Then I heard my wife say, "I am going to send those horses to trade them in, it seems that they are going to give up this deal, they do not want to do it, but we must do it, after all, they represent the cavalry battalion of the Luther Legion, and we must have a relationship with them......"

Baron Goss only reacted at this time, Madame was talking about the cavalry battalion yesterday, he didn't care if Baron Surdak was the army of the Luthor Legion, and said with some reluctance: "Your gift is really heavy, you actually want to send the horses to the door and sell them to them, these Gubolai horses have already booked the buyer." ”

Baroness Goss sat on the round stool beside the bed, with a look of paranoia in her eyes, and said: "It won't affect anything if you sell a few hundred horses less, and besides, people would rather buy them at a high price than let us participate in them, this kind of person is either quite confident or overly proud." ”

"Whatever you want...... Just don't wake me up again and let me sleep a little longer! ”

With that, Baron Goss put the velvet quilt over his body and continued to sleep......