15.Chapter 15: The Lady and the Rascal
I haven't eaten for two days, and I don't know if I can hold on, but such a strange thought came out of the head of the little knight Byron, after all, in the good days of the Cohen family, except for the occasional intrigue with his brother Billy, his stomach has never been hungry. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. biquge。 info Byron's head couldn't help but appear in a variety of delicacies, and for a while he was so intoxicated that a little hala flowed out of the corners of his mouth~
The Cohen family's chefs can be described as the chief gourmets hired from all over the world, whether it is the barbecue feast made by Barbie, the barbecue master of the Golden Sands City that used dozens of bags of gold, or the forbidden tongue Hans who defected from the Lucas family, and the greedy chef Lisbon, who was caught from the bottom of the abyss a long time ago, these guys have made Byron enjoy unparalleled pleasure from childhood to adulthood. In the annual festival of fire, Barbie's lamb roast with some onions, after it is fully cooked, it is smeared with a little black pepper, but don't eat the leg of lamb, just eat the most tender part of the middle and back of the ribs, the little young master Byron is second only to the patriarch Cohen who can get this food. Then it should be accompanied by the aged wine, once the grape is harvested, it will be quickly transported from the fiefdom of the Lauster family to the major cellars to start winemaking, but the best dozens of boxes of grapes are basically divided by several major families in Wangcheng, of course, the major families have their own gourmets to make wine, in order to let the old king drink happily in the Fire Festival, and select who has the best wine this year from which family, and give rich rewards. Little Byron was a great help in this matter, because he accidentally poured a pot of urine into the wine overnight to make the wine stronger and more fragrant, so from then on, little Byron suddenly had a higher status in the family than his brother Billy, of course, whenever the Festival of Fire came, little Byron would personally present a glass of the latest wine to the old king, so as to make the old king happy.
Thinking of these fragmented things, Byron's stomach became even hungrier, but there was no way, in order to insist on being able to reach the sea port of Fira, he could only rely on painting cakes to satisfy his hunger first, so Byron's mind once again appeared in those tempting delicacies
After ..... a lot of drinking, staple foods such as roast cows are no longer very edible, but the gluttony is reflected at this time, whether it is the forbidden tongue Lisbon's exclusive roasting nocturnal beast eggs and eggs, or the greedy cook's made, children can not eat the aphrodisiac sea beast whip, have become the major families on the fire festival must choose after drinking, the former is crispy but not greasy, melts in the mouth, and can reflect the heroism of human beings when eating, you must know that in addition to Gordon Town, a town that was almost wiped out decades ago and the night beast war, the fiefdom towns on the edge of the major families will border all kinds of night beasts, so it's not particularly difficult to get a precious bird's egg, it's just that a dozen or so heavy riders died in the sky. Anyway, there are many people who want to be heavy riders, and this disguised selection method has made more brave people who want to climb up from the slums see more hope.
In other words, since the left hand scooped a bowl of soft-hearted bird eggs, the right hand must not be missing the meat of the sea beast, in short, there are many kinds of sea beasts, if you can hunt a wise sea beast like the kraken, it will be sent to the bottom of the royal city sacrifice ground as soon as possible, for those robes who only know how to study spells, and if they hunt a giant whale, they will also be thrown to the harbor of the Marcus family to separate enough whale oil, and the few places that can be eaten are not the rough meat that the wealthy families like. Only the delicate fins of giant sharks, the transparent eyeballs of huge squid, and even the sea crabs larger than a horse can enter the eyes of such picky eaters, and to say that the sea beast that can eat the boat in the fog has never been successfully hunted so far, so the old king can only sigh and say, can't he eat the meat of this mysterious guy in his life? As soon as such bold words came out, the major giants naturally began to sing praises of virtue, which made Lao Wang very unhappy, and Byron, who had already eaten at the banquet, often lost what was in his hand and continued to look for the next delicacy that he had never eaten
However, these days are in the past, since Byron grew up to fifteen years old, his father Cohen Manny has never let him participate in the festival of fire, thinking of this, Byron can't help but silently thank his father in his heart, but think about it, how should the empty stomach be filled, can it eat the disgusting food in this broken ship?
Half of the roast goose that was about to go rancid, plus the dirty water I didn't know where it came from, the thick and pungent oily smell made Byron almost squirt out the acid water in his stomach, after all, he was a son, even if he participated in a lot of hard knight combat training, he had never trained to eat junk food~, Byron was really desperate this time
But when Byron pushed these things away with disdain, a small centaur on the boat enveloped everything in his arms with lightning speed, and spit on it disgustingly for fear that Byron would come and snatch it back, which made Byron feel even more disgusting~
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Two days ago, Byron was still struggling, should he take two of the roast chickens that were occupied by Kod and eat them, and after struggling for a long time, he finally mustered up the courage to ask for a small half of them, because Kode Tian shamelessly said that he was a major combat force and wanted to eat more! Unexpectedly, this half of the roast chicken became the only thing Byron ate in the past few days. I thought that I could get enough replenishment in Gordon Town, but the group didn't expect the sudden change, Gordon Town had been lost, and the Night Beast wantonly set fire to everything, and he may be the only one who escaped~
So under the galloping horse, Byron rushed to the port of Mist, and exchanged the horse for a ticket to the port of Fira, just when Byron wanted to eat raw in the tavern of the port of Mist, the follow-up troops of the royal city inspectors actually swarmed in, which made Byron at a loss, so he could only hide in the toilet and find a chance to escape, after all, his team was completely wiped out, even if he returned to the royal city, it was difficult to explain what was going on, let alone the heirloom [puppet soldier] on his body Byron really scolded himself for losing his troops for a momentary pleasure, and the poor puppet soldier was probably wrapped in spider silk and sent back to the tribe of the Night Beast for study.
And the reason why Byron really wanted to hide his identity actually had nothing to do with the king's order, it was the order given by his father himself, he must get back the [container] in the princess's hand, this thing is a relic of Gordon back then, there is no reason to be possessed by other families, and when Byron asked, "Does this matter even have to be hidden from Lao Wang?", but his father resolutely replied, "Lao Wang, you don't deserve to have!" , This question and answer simply made Byron look at his father, Byron, who had been friends with the princess since he was a child, never knew that the princess actually had a [container] hidden on her body, and the ins and outs of this are simply confused, but between the father's life and the king's life, Byron has always chosen the former, because his father has paid for himself more than the high-ranking old king
So Byron decided that if he couldn't find the princess and couldn't get the container, he wouldn't go back for the time being, and he would have to explain to the officials of the Wangcheng Inspectorate for a long time, this time the matter must be much more complicated than imagined, even if his father has more gold, he may not be able to solve the problem, who let this matter have something to do with Lao Wang~
But it's really a blessing in misfortune, these inspectors who came to Misty Harbor actually began to investigate the rogues who were chopped into pieces for the first time, but I didn't expect that the sneak attack by this group of rogues when they were resting in Mist Harbor turned out to be the best help for Byron to get out, so while all the guys from the inspection team were scrambling to investigate like headless flies, Byron sneaked on the boat~
But in order to hide his eyes, Byron did not eat or drink alone in his little cabin, and the captain thought that Byron was not coming. So Byron escaped once again, and headed for the place where he thought the princess would go, the port of Fira
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The huge commercial ship, which undertook the trade between Mist Harbor and Fira, advanced for a day, the ship found a suitable bridge pier to station, but Byron was afraid that there were also inspectors on board, so even if he took off his knight's armor and put on a merchant's clothes, he didn't dare to go out easily, and stayed on the ship alone~
At night, the fog fell to the sea, and the people on the piers seemed to be singing and dancing merrily, trying to announce their lives to the silence and horror of the night in this ancient way. Byron, who wanted to go out to find some food scraps, actually felt a churn under his feet~~, and then soon heard the excited shouts of the crowd
"Look, look, it's a group of giant whales!", and with this shouting one after another, there are more giant whales, because close to the bridge pier area, these giant whales actually exposed half of their bodies to the sea, so that people who rarely see this group of giant beasts in the sea are extremely excited, the gray-black body of the giant whale is half a league, and the larger ones are close to the length of a league, not to mention the cubs with a small half a league. So the crowd shouted again, "Grab that little one~, it swims slowly!"
You know, the whale hunting team got the most gold among the guys who shouted to eat, except for the merchants, of course. However, the giant whale hunting team is under the jurisdiction of the royal city, and most of the income after killing the young whales is honestly handed over to the national treasury, after all, it is not a small expense to light the lanterns on so many bridges and maintain the luxurious night light of the royal city. But most of the traders who come and go in Mist Harbor are guys who do some private work, and to put it mildly, they are just hooligans on the sea in this sea, although when they encounter the inspectors or the rarely seen hunting team, this group of merchants is more amiable than the farmers who farm, but when there is no restraint control, some of the hot-headed guys shoot small harpoons directly into the sea, and even some madmen have to climb down the ladder from the bridge pier to try to return to the merchant ship and attack the young whale that is not cruising fast with ballistas
The whales swam faster after being attacked, and the heavy crossbows used to defend themselves on the merchant ships were shot into the depths of the sea, and just as the people turned from joy to depression and ridicule, tragedy ensued in an instant
The tentacles in the sea rose little by little, without warning and without reason, and swept everyone who was so surprised into the sea from the ladder, from the deck, from the state of drinking and eating meat, that many of them disappeared from the others without even having the strength to cry, and those who still had a little courage drew their swords, and they were even helpless in front of the tentacles that seemed to be tens of thousands of times the size of a sea anemone, and even if they could cut down one, the other would come immediately. And the way the tentacles attack people is extremely cruel, either the larger tentacles penetrate the intestines from the mouth, or a few small tentacles tear the poor guys into several pieces, and some special tentacles spew sticky venom, so that people who try to flee are glued together~
This is completely one-sided torture and killing, and the pathetic human beings have no power to fight back
Byron, who saw all this from the small window of the cabin, was so frightened that he covered his mouth and did not dare to make the slightest sound, and tears flowed endlessly. He wanted to shout, "Silly, go to the pier and get the torches, these guys must be afraid of fire!", but out of self-preservation, he did not dare to shout, nor did he want to shout, there were not many people on this boat, only a few dozen. Half of it has been wiped out by this disgusting tentacle, leaving those who can't fight, the old, weak, sick and disabled, women and children, even ten Byron here can't save them~
For the first time, Byron felt his vulnerability in front of nature, at least in the battle of Gordon, he had never felt this way, and it was only because of the uneven battle that all his men had returned to the west, and he escaped. But this state of affairs made Byron feel like a small fish in the vast ocean, worrying about whether there was a big fish, a giant whale, or even this irresistible dark tentacle chasing him anytime and anywhere, Byron's heart was completely shattered, and the knightly swordsmanship that he had learned under the strict requirements of his father was now useless, Byron actually knelt in the cabin, and the whole person shrunk into a lump~
Soon, the unaccompanied predation came to an end, and contented tentacles slid over the cabin, dragging a disgusting ziba sound that made Byron cover his mouth again. Soon, several fish caught in the net were also caught by the tentacles, and let out an endless cry of sorrow, as if the tentacles were very satisfied with this crying sound, so they did not drag them into the sea for the first time, but tossed up these guys who were finally found one by one, the severed hands of the severed hands, the legsless and the legs, in short, Byron covered his ears, and he could also hear the screams and begging for mercy outside
In less than half a quarter of an hour, the playthings caught by the tentacles died one by one, and the tentacles seemed to be very dissatisfied with this result, so they continued to look for it on the huge merchant ship~, Byron was so frightened that he was about to die, holding the moonlight sword tightly in his hand, this is his last weight, if he is defeated, he would rather self-judge than fall into the clutches of this tentacle~
But it seemed that the tentacles had reached the limit of what could be extended, and before they reached the position of the cabin in Byron's mouth, they slowly retracted it, which frightened Byron and couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief, but the habitual feeling made Byron have to continue to stay in the cabin. Sure enough, the tentacles soon attacked again, and the distance that could be extended was slightly farther than last time, and then Byron found that he had learned some life-saving things from his previous training in various knight courses~
The ship should have been empty, only the silent Young Master Byron~
And soon, all the tentacles were withdrawn, and as those who had experienced the tentacles said, the ship began to shake violently, the bilge should have been poked a hole, and the sea was spreading little by little~
Byron, for the first time, experienced what it means to wait for death in silence, and this kind of taste will not be much happier than those lucky people who were chosen as human candles in the royal city~
Unexpectedly, this merchant ship may be a little larger, and it will not sink for a while, plus the iron cables fixed on the piers by the noise make the ship unable to move too much, so the tentacles finally gave up the idea of dragging them into the deep sea to have fun, and the black tentacles disappeared on the sea little by little~, although Byron didn't know what all this was happening
It wasn't until after dawn that Byron, with his red and swollen eyes, reluctantly climbed out of the innermost cabin, and after seeing a few blood-red things like pigs' intestines on the deck for the first time, he couldn't help but churn in his belly and vomit again
Then Byron heard a weak voice
"You threw up on my head~"
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Byron knows very well that without the old and young in front of him, he will starve to death, and he will wait for the next merchant ship to come, and he doesn't know when he will wait, if he is fast, it may take three or four days, and if he slows down, he may take half a month, after all, not every merchant ship has an old captain who can take this vast sea route~
But Byron also felt disgusted, for the first time he was so close to a hybrid hybrid with the Night Beast race, and it was a small mongrel, if he let this little guy know that he had eaten his kind, he might soon be thrown into the sea by this little guy to feed the sharks. But the old fellow sitting across from him looked quite old, and he hadn't said a word since he had put Byron on the small boat, and he really didn't know what medicine was sold in the gourd, so Byron finally broke the silence and spoke
"I'm hungry~, do you have something to eat, I still have some money to give you~", Byron felt that his voice and attitude were much better than those subordinates in the family
After hearing this, the old guy took out a greasy paper bag from his dirty clothes, and handed it to the little bastard in front of him with one eye green and one eye blue, and then the little guy quickly handed the thing to the hungry Byron, who couldn't wait to open it and began to swallow it, until he found that something was wrong with the taste, and then began to vomit again, of course, the rancid goose meat in the oil paper bag naturally entered the little guy's stomach
"I pick and choose everything to eat, I think young people nowadays don't know how to cherish it~, you said I was not wrong, miss?"
The old fellow finally spoke, and although he was on the backlit side, Byron couldn't see his face clearly, but this remark made Byron lean his hands on his chest in fright, as if trying to hide something. And the little bastard half-fish man who saw this scene actually laughed out loud for the first time, and the gills under the teeth shook happily with the rapid breathing~
Byron was talking, but the old fellow spoke again
"Let's go down, it's time to let yourself breathe~", after that, the little mongrel is so happy, he plunged into the sea with a lot of energy, and the beautiful arc of the water made Byron, who rarely approached the seaside, breathtaking, this little guy is really good at water
But Byron quickly recovered his state, and finally had a little rancid goose meat in his stomach, and his consciousness slowly came to his senses, so he continued the old man's words
"You, how do you know I'm a woman?!"
"Don't you need to say more, if you want to find a reason, thousands of them are not a problem. Secondly, what I want to say is that it is not your chest that betrays you, but your mouth~", the old guy has obviously been on the battlefield for a long time and has long been confident
"My mouth?", Byron bewildered
"Haha, it's your mouth, it makes people want to kiss, want to caress and want to get closer!"
Byron couldn't help but draw his sword, although it was only a small half, but the momentum was enough to threaten anyone around him
"The posture is good, I can see that I have learned a few tricks", the old guy is still so presumptuous in his mouth, which makes Byron even more angry, where can his little mouth become the talk of the homeless man on this broken boat, if it is on land, Byron's sword has been stabbed past, but unfortunately, this is on the boat, and Byron does not know the way~
"Don't show the moonlight sword in your hand easily, you must know that there are not many treasures in the world, but there are many people who want treasures", the old guy continued to talk, and even tilted his head to look at the little bastard who was swimming in a hearty manner
"You, who the hell are you, how do you know so much, and it's about me?", Byron finally picked himself up and wanted to find out
"According to the usual practice, I will definitely say, it doesn't matter who I am~", the kung fu ridiculed by the old guy is really beyond the reach of ordinary people
"But since I've met it, I can only say that it really doesn't matter who I am, because I don't know you, I just know this sword and the original owner of this sword~"
"Master, this sword has been our family's secret treasure for a long time, how can there be other masters?"
"Of course, your family called Enlai naturally owns this sword, hey, the scabbard of this sword is only, many years ago, the real sword twists and turns fell into your side many times, and the person who used the sword naturally changed, but unfortunately, you are much worse than the guy who used the sword back then~"
Byron was a little in a trance, since he was a child, he saw this sword placed in the family treasury, until his father gave it to his brother, and then he had not heard such a story for many years, could it be that all kinds of past during the period were silently hidden?
"So, old sir, may you tell me the story of the sword?" asked Byron earnestly, like a devout student
"Well, this is a bit of a problem, if the eldest lady's temper just now continues, maybe my grandson won't want you to take this boat~"
"Your grandson?", Byron was surprised again
"Yes, my grandson, his dad is a damn fishman, although my daughter was not forced, but I always wanted to slaughter and eat that guy, but unfortunately, before I could do it, that guy hung up on his own~"
"But this is also thanks to your Cohen family, in the territory of Cohen in Mist Harbor, half-blood mongrels can survive in steal, but they will always be bullied. So I always take him out to sea, at least here he will feel happy, but when he is a little older, hey, this day will not be easy, the night beasts will not accept this kind of bastard, it seems that the whole world, only near the port of mist and the stinky ditch of Fira, is their place", said this, the old fellow couldn't help but look gloomy, and Byron, who could not do anything for it, was speechless. Soon, the old guy returned to normal and continued to talk
"Miss, in my opinion, if you wrap a strip of cloth around your breast, it will affect your development, how can you breastfeed your child in the future?"
Byron blushed and scolded, "You old pervert, I didn't feed you anyway, why do you care so much?"
But the old guy still had to pay attention to people, and talked slowly, "Haha, a girl's family, just at the prime age, actually travels alone with a moonlight sword in her hand, she is not afraid of being grabbed by the rogues and having fun, not to mention that this is close to Gordon Town, I heard that those night beasts are really not easy to mess with, their words are even bigger than humans~"
"Stop, stop!", Byron really couldn't parry, this old guy was aggressive, he just had to pull Byron clean from the inside out to be happy
"Stop teasing me, I know what you're thinking~", Byron said in a straight voice
"Don't you just want to know who I am, where the sword came from, and where I'm going?"
"Hey, the stinky girl is a little spiritual~, saving me a lot of tongue work"
"My name is Byron, this sword belongs to my brother, and my father is Cohen Manny of the Five Families of the Royal City, who is in charge of the entire ..... of the Royal City."
"Alright, alright, stop, stop!", the old guy laughed impatiently
"I'm not asking you about these boring things, I just want to ask, the owner of this sword, have you seen it?"
"..... no", Byron's first image is like this~
The two fell silent
"Oh, it seems to be a bit of an image, but I can't remember clearly, I was too young at that time~", Byron suddenly seemed to remember something
"Really?", the old guy's face suddenly brightened, "Tell me, how is he?"
"I vaguely remember, vaguely remember when I was five years old, it seemed that a guy who was tied up came to our house, and he still had a sword hanging behind his back, if I am not mistaken, the length of this sword should be very close to the one in my hand."
"Tell me, what does he look like?"
"Let me think about it, it's like long hair, fluttering on my shoulders, and part of it is tied up with a red rope."
"Then, he had a cross scar on his face and a little bit of dark skin, probably tanned. Also, his arms are very thick, and his height is terrifying, in short, he is taller than my father~", little Byron is trying to remember~~
"Yes, yes, it should be him! Tell me what he was doing in your house, and he wasn't hurt?"
"Hurt? It doesn't look like it, although he is tied, but this person still laughs strangely, and seems to know my father, and even calls me father, little Manny~"
"Phew, this must be him!", the old guy was excited
"Then, he seemed to say, 'I didn't expect it to be time so soon, if my son has any trouble, don't stand by in the future!', and then my father seemed to say that it was no problem, so he pulled out the sword behind his back, and then he was taken away~"
"Ahh
"Hmm, it seems to be a red robe, well, it's not~, as if, as if there is a black robe, and a red robe~, no, it seems to be a guard, or a heavy horse?", Byron really can't think of so much, his little hands dragging his head, it's very difficult
But the old guy is already in tears......
"That's right, it's him, that's it!", the crying voice came, making Byron uncomfortable~
"Unexpectedly, I still couldn't accompany him on the last journey, blame my own cowardice, blame my own incompetence, blame myself for always thinking about surpassing him~"
"But I regret it, I've been regretting it for decades, I gave birth to a child, and the child gave birth to a grandchild, I fished, I went to the tavern to mop the floor, and I would occasionally take on some shady work, why did I live like this? So, this is the punishment of fate for me, which has allowed me to spend so many years in remorse, and has turned me from a young man with ideals to a flamboyant who is still working hard for half a pot of spirits, a roast goose, until now~"
The old guy said something that Byron didn't know how to answer at all, so he could only listen quietly, and the little mixed-race bastard, who had been swimming in the sea for a long time, also climbed into the boat, pinched a few small fish in his hand, slowly handed Byron two, and then silently moved closer to his grandfather, and put the rest of the fish into the fish basket
"Well, let's eat, although we can't make a fire, but these fish caught by Wayne have very few spines, as long as they break their stomachs, there is no big problem in eating them raw, you can listen to me tell some stories about the past while eating~"
So Byron pulled out the dagger, quickly removed the gills of the fish, and swallowed it alive before he even had to remove his belly, and this embarrassed appearance even the little half-breed Wayne who looked at her was happy, and couldn't help but feel a little closer to the distance between the two~
"This story is very long, if you have to be patient to listen to it, maybe we can already get to Fira~", polish before telling the story, the old guy's nature is still the same as in those years
"But there are two conditions for listening to this story, I don't know if you are willing to accept it"
"Say~~~~~~~", Byron couldn't speak normally, because his mouth was full of chewed fish, and the taste was no worse than the delicacies made by the three chefs in the family
"The first condition is that only when you meet the [right] person and the right time can you continue to spread this story~"
"No~~~", Byron wanted to say that it was no problem, but it seemed that the old guy already knew, so he continued
"The second condition, that person told me before he left that the swordsmanship of the Moonlight Sword was not even taught to his son, because there was a special reason, but this swordsmanship could not be passed on like this, so he taught me and asked me to find someone who was chosen by fate, because this continent will need the power of this sword sooner or later!"
"But I didn't expect that this guy even selected the so-called [man of fate] for me in advance, he said, I will meet this person at sea in a few decades, red hair, is a rare good student, I want to cherish it~, his grandmother's, this clever fortune teller master, almost didn't say that this good student is a female girl, or a noble young master, I have lived for most of my life, I have never seen a person like him!"
"Ah!", Byron almost squirted, even the bards of the royal city could not make up such a serendipitous bridge, not to mention that everything seemed to be destined in fate to meet such a person
So Byron finally swallowed all the fish in his mouth, and drank the greasy fresh water without hesitation, and finally answered with a quick sentence from his throat
"You're not lying to me, are you?"