Let's move back a little bit. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 ｉｎｆｏ

On the afternoon of the first day, when Ibu and the others happily finished eating barbecue in the Great Forest of Hiona and conducting an afternoon search.

In the office of the head of the Knights of the Garrison in the city of Deiz, there was an unusual guest at this moment. Of course, this extraordinary is not to say that this person has a very high status or anything, but that this person's status is so low that if it weren't for special circumstances, he might not have seen such a big man as the head of the Garrison Knights in his life.

The somewhat balding, tattered middle-aged man was looking at the luxurious interior of this room with a look of trepidation and uneasiness. Just looking at the ornaments and paintings that look like they are valuable, I'm afraid that any thing in this room can be taken out and sold to make this bald man eat and drink for the rest of his life. But this bald man has no such thoughts at all. Because it would be easy for the owner of this room to kill a little person like him, and if he did anything unscrupulous now, I am afraid that even his wife, children, and mother, who needed to be supported in the family, would suffer with him.

So, all he could do now was stand and wait.

The young woman who looked like a secretary who had brought him over wanted him to sit on the sofa on the left side of the room, but he didn't dare to sit on anything, because he didn't have the money to pay for soiling the sofa. Seeing that he was reluctant to sit down, the young woman was not reluctant, and left the room with only one sentence: I went to bring the head of the regiment over.

And now, almost thirty minutes have passed since the woman left. To tell the truth, the bald man was already very tired, and he was so tired that he didn't even want to move now. If this was not the regiment commander's office but on the street, he would have fallen asleep. After all, after a day's carriage without much rest, he trekked for more than ten hours to return to Deiz, and the bald man was already approaching his limit in all aspects. But now he can't rest, and there is one last job waiting for him.

Finally, the bald man's ears heard a third sound besides the sound of his own heavy breathing and the pendulum in the room.

It was the laughter of men and women.

The laughter is getting closer.

Click.

The door was twisted open, and it was opened by a redhead woman dressed in a hot outfit with a revealing body. Then a fat brunette man with no clothes walked in with the secretary who had left earlier. The secretary's face was flushed, her eyes were full of **** that had not yet receded, coupled with her untidy clothes and the smell of sweat, it must not be difficult to guess what had happened in the thirty minutes since she left.

With such a good face, he must have gone to play a game of baseball.

When the fat man saw that there was such a bald man in tattered clothes standing in the room, he opened his mouth and was about to say something, but before he could speak, the secretary woman had already reacted and blocked the fat man's mouth, and then said something in his ear.

The fat man's face turned serious after listening to the secretary's words, and he walked around the bald man and squeezed into the chair belonging to the head of the Garrison Knights in this room. The secretary and the redhead stood beside him, one on the left and one on the right.

"Is that you have something for me?" the fat man asked knowingly.

"Yes, yes, sir. In fact, it was much more difficult to talk to such a big man than the bald man imagined, and he stuttered several times before he could express his meaning.

Seeing the bald man like this, a trace of disdain flashed in the fat man's eyes, and he secretly said in his heart: "Inferior pig." ”

"Oh, why don't you take it out yet?" the fat man's tone was cold, trying to scare the bald man in front of him.

"Yes, yes, yes. "As a small person standing on the street soliciting customers, the bald man is naturally very sensitive to the change of tone in other people's words. The fat man's fright almost made him fall to his knees, but thinking about his family, he still trembled and took out the small bag in his arms and handed it to the secretary woman who came over. His fingers trembled, for fear that touching the secretary woman would provoke the wrath of the obese man.

Seeing him like this, the secretary didn't show anything, but just gently took the small pocket.

It was a small white pocket, and at first glance you could tell that it was made of fine fabric. When opened, it was filled with a beautiful Western-style envelope and a sleek, palm-sized black board.

The surface of the envelope is outlined with orange-red paint, and the seal is sealed with red black wax. Originally, the fat man was still thinking that this might be a prank or something, but after seeing this envelope, this thought disappeared in an instant. Because it's not something you can just play with.

“............ Immortal butterflies. The fat man's voice trembled as he pronounced the name of the butterfly drawn on the envelope.

After seeing this pattern, the fat man's hand, which had planned to tear open the envelope casually, suddenly settled down. He cautiously picked off the seal on the envelope, and then put the seal close to his eyes to study it carefully. Printed on the seal is a slightly different intricate butterfly pattern from the one on the envelope.

"Gollum. The obese man swallowed a mouthful of saliva and took out a letter and opened it.

After a slight glance at the contents, his eyes were drawn to a sentence from the letter.

............ I've found about 100 Famili here, so why don't you find someone to come and have a look............

The content that has no rules at all is in line with the style of that family.

“...... Ievee Joe. ”

Signed at the end of the letter was a name that an obese man had never heard of, but as for whether to believe the contents of the letter, the obese man had already made up his mind in his heart. Just as he was about to put away the letterhead, he squinted at the contents of the back of the letter, which was a small paragraph written in the same scribbled text as the surface of the letter......

............ In order to report the news, the bald coachman in front of you lost a carriage. Give him some compensation, you don't lack that money anyway, do you?............

The fat man looked at the letter, then at the bald coachman who was trembling in the middle of the room, and finally ............

"Ally, get him fifty gold coins and send him out. The fat man turned to the secretary woman standing beside him.

This sentence fell on the coachman's ears word for word, and before he could react, the secretary woman had already come to him.

"Please follow me. Then she opened the door of her room and went out, and the coachman followed in a daze.

Less than ten seconds after leaving the room, the laughter of men and women rang out again in the driver's ears.

Ten minutes later, with a bag containing a sudden fifty gold coins in his hand, the coachman stood at the gate of the Garrison Knights in some confusion. For him, everything that had just happened was like a dream......

"In addition to the hardship and compensation for you, there is also a part of the hush money that you should know, what can you say and can't say, right?"

The secretary's words rang in his ears again......

"Huh. ”

Holding the heavy bag in his hand, the coachman laughed. Fifty gold coins, which was enough money for him to buy several carriages again.

As for what will happen after that, it has nothing to do with him.

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Time comes back to the present.

On the hill next to the main road, Hana and Bai He have been waiting here for an unknown amount of time. The night had gone, the sun had risen, and now it felt like it was almost noon, and the two of them still didn't wait for anything.

By now, both of them were so bored that they panicked, and even their eyes began to be a little unable to open. If one of the two people staying here is not Bai He, Hana can still pass the time by chatting, but the one who is with her is Bai He, who doesn't know human language, and Bai He, who is no different from a deaf and mute person.

In the time since the night, Hana has been idle to the point of going crazy. Let's talk about sleeping, the reserve of being a girl makes it impossible for her to do this, and besides, Bai He is still a boy in a maid outfit. Let's find something to do, what can I find in this wilderness? There was no way, in order to pass the time, Hana had to count the grass. However, because she didn't wear glasses, she couldn't see the blades of grass clearly, so she had to count blindly.

Then...... A roar rang out from afar.

The smoke rolled up, and then approached. Even without glasses, Hana could tell that from a short distance there was a group of heavily armed cavalry of at least three hundred men speeding in the direction of the town of Xiusai.

The smoke and dust kicked up by the horses enveloped the two of them, choking them and causing them to cough incessantly.

Looking at the cavalry team in the distance, an ominous premonition rose from the bottom of Hana's heart.

Hana didn't want to wait any longer, she wanted to go back to the town of Xiusai to see what was going on.

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_(:З"∠)_This salted fish-like click,Sure enough, everyone loves to see the upgrade outfit.。