Chapter 121: The Secret of the Tuke Family
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It was a matter of business to be informed by the Black Iron Army in advance, so Anna was not there, and Renaud asked the chef to prepare dinner for her.
It's all things that he has never eaten, and he always has countless new things to do here.
Two things called egg tarts, the skin is crispy, the color is golden, the inside is very soft, you can hear the crunch sound when you bite into it, she never knew that eggs can be roasted with such a smooth and tender aroma.
There are also two slices called pizza, which seem to be the same thing as dough, but it is much more complicated, the dough has a fresh wheat aroma, and the ham and char siu are on top, which are also baked crispy on the outside and soft on the inside.
All the time, Momiji barely ate much, and as soon as she sat down, she ate non-stop, and these things were more to her appetite than the last hot pot.
No matter how perfect the dining etiquette is, the food on the table is swept away all the way, and it is not elegant, until the stomach is a little supported, the red leaves stop, remembering that he only cares about eating, but he didn't say anything, and he was suddenly a little embarrassed.
She coughed, "Lord Renault, I did have something to do when I came to Black Iron Town this time. ”
"Speak slowly. Renault gave her another glass of juice.
"I don't know why, a few days ago, the temperature in Sequoia Town suddenly plummeted, and on the coldest night, there were actually a few snowflakes. ”
Renault was stunned, snow in the summer was not a good phenomenon, and he had never heard of such a thing in the West for hundreds of years.
"Has the sorghum been damaged?"
"In order to implement your transplanting method, the sorghum seedlings are still being cultivated, and it is easy to protect them from frost. Only in some sorghum fields that were sown relatively early, the sorghum seedlings were frozen to death. Saying that, Momiji glanced at him gratefully, "Thank you, Lord Renault, if it weren't for this method you proposed, the townspeople of Sequoia Town would have been miserable this year." ”
"Any idea why this is happening?"
Momiji shook his head: "This is a situation that has never been encountered before, I heard that the southern part of the basin is even more serious." ”
Renault doesn't care about other people's territory, as long as Sequoia Town is okay. However, Momiji's expression of wanting to speak made him feel that things were not as simple as they seemed.
"Momiji, is there anything else you didn't tell me?"
Momiji was silent for a while, but finally mustered up the courage to tell a secret of the Tuke family.
A thousand years ago, a down-and-out aristocrat brought his family to a barren basin and found that although it was located in the west, it was surrounded by mountains, which created a warm and humid climate in the basin, which was very suitable for plant growth.
So he put down roots here, and after several generations of hard work, almost all the land that could be developed in the basin was turned into fertile land.
So I thought about developing towards the mountains to the south, preparing to open the mountains and plant trees, but found a huge ruins.
This man is the ancestor of the Tuke family.
After nearly a hundred years of exploration, the Tuke family finally mastered the way to enter the ruins after paying a heavy price, but they saw something very terrifying in the ruins, and they were so frightened that they quickly sealed the ruins, and it took another two hundred years to lay a powerful formation that was almost impossible to crack under the entrance.
The key to open the formation was divided into seven parts, which were in the hands of the descendants of the Tuke family.
The last time the royal family, the Temple, the Black Sheep family, and the Tuke family gathered in Redwood Town, they were ready to work together to explore the ruins.
It's been almost three months now, and I don't know how they've explored, so there's been no news, but Momiji is very suspicious that the sudden change in temperature a few days ago should have something to do with the ruins.
"Did you send someone to check?"
Momiji shook her head, as the heir of the Tuke family, she didn't get a part of the key, and her father never told her about these things, these were all stories she heard from her grandfather, in fact, she wasn't quite sure about the authenticity.
"I know, I'll look into it. ”
It was late at night, and Momiji had been running around for two days, and although she was holding on, she seemed to be tired, so Renaud called Anna and asked her to rest with Momiji.
Subsequently, he immediately sent someone to investigate the Tuke Basin, and if there was no accident, the news would be transmitted within ten days.
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It was almost dawn, and the faint morning light shone on Hailei's face through the narrow slit in the carriage.
She hadn't slept all night, not because she was hungry.
She has been orphaned since her parents died in a mining accident three years ago.
She was thirteen years old and a little girl.
In the North, there are many children like her every year, and most of them freeze to death in the cold winter in the streets and no one in the corner.
Luckily, a farmer took her in, gave her food and clothes, and asked her to help with the chores in the fields.
Two years passed, and as Hailei grew older, she realized that the farmer had taken her in at the beginning, but he was not at ease.
He took advantage of the night and snuck into her room.
Nothing could be seen in the dark room, and the farmer pounced on her like a demon in the dark.
Hailei was frightened and screamed with all her might.
The farmer's wife and children were next door, but they seemed to be deaf.
She struggled to resist, and at last the farmer got angry and grabbed her by the neck. Hailei couldn't breathe, and the fear of death instantly enveloped her.
She tried hard to pull away the big rough hands, and then reached for the necklace that had been hanging around her neck.
It was a long fang, which was said to be the baby tooth of a dragon. Her father got it out of nowhere, and she wore a thin string to make a necklace as a gift for her twelfth birthday.
Helei pinched the fangs and plunged them into the farmer's arm.
The farmer died, and Hailei was terrified and fled from the farmer's house in a hurry.
Later, she learned that the pointed tooth was not a dragon's baby tooth, but a monster's tooth.
She wandered in the north and eventually met Sirouk and his men, who persuaded her to come with them, and she would find a job, and if she was lucky, a nobleman would take her in.
And so Hellet became a slave, and by the time she understood this, it was already winter.
For a homeless girl like Hailei, winter in the north is as terrible as hell.
Later, more and more girls followed Siruk, and they moved from the north to the east. Along the way, Siluk was very strict with them, but the food was quite abundant, with dry bread every day and the occasional broth.
And throughout the spring, they lived in a large house in the countryside in the east, and it is said that in the summer they will go to the royal capital.
Two middle-aged women teach them manners and grooming, and they also teach them how to seduce men in a blatant manner.
Like the other girls, Hailei was scared.
She was afraid of being sold as a prostitute, and she had heard many legends about it, so she might as well have frozen to death in the north.
But Siluk suddenly told them that there was no need to go to the royal capital for the time being, and that he would take them to a place called Black Iron Town, where the lord was very wealthy and would take them in and let them live a good life.
Hailei and the girls were looking forward to it, but when they arrived in Black Iron Town and were immediately kicked out, her heart sank to the bottom.
Last night overheard the thugs saying that they were going to sell them to the farmers of the Tuke Basin.
Hai Lei was completely desperate, and when she heard the word farmer, she trembled with fear.