Chapter XVII Conditions

Tom. Brown was dragged back with a rope on a leash

By that time, it was almost dark

Alexei was riding his horse, Tom was running behind, Alexei's nose was bleeding, and his collar was red, and a look at this scene showed that Tom was not a good man

Tom was small, dark-headed, and had olive skin, and he didn't seem to be very worried about his situation, and he kept looking left and right as he was dragged into the yard, with an expression of interest

Vladimir went over to ask what was going on, and Alexei said that Tom had something in his hand to prove the old man's identity

"So what's going on?" Vladimir pointed to Tom, who was sitting on the ground, and said, "What are you bringing this guy back for?" ”

"He didn't hand it over, and gave me a snort"

Vladimir pinched Alexei's cheeks and looked left and right, "I said, Alyosha, you just let your nose get beaten like that?" I've heard that your nose is going to be broken after ten beatings, so what will people call you in the future? 'Alyosha with a broken nose', or 'Alyosha the Ni King'? ”

"We'll talk about this later, I've got to deal with this guy first"

Alexei pulled the rope and forced Tom to stand up, then dragged him aside and tied him to a pear tree

"Hey, I said," Alexei grabbed Tom by the neck, "now do you remember where those things were?" ”

"I have never forgotten, sir," said Tom with a smile

"Then tell me, good to you, good to me, I don't want to be difficult for you, I can forget this punch you gave me, but only if you speak"

"Yes, sir," Tom nodded

"Without further ado," Alexei nodded, "if what I know is correct, you have nine books in your hand, one of which is a genealogy; You also have a noble tapestry, embroidered with an eagle; At the same time, you should also have a lord's iron wrench on you, I only need the genealogy, brocade and wrench, and you can keep anything else for yourself, and I will be eaten by rats."

"Yes, my lord," said Tom earnestly, "I have read the books, and if I don't know the words, I will consult the priest, there are two church books, a horse tamer, an agricultural book, a history of the Chanda Emperor, a bill, and finally, the genealogy you mentioned, and I am glad to know that the people I have entertained have the blood of the ancient kings in their bodies, yes, that's all."

"Then hand it over and listen, if you run into those rat nests, I can find you out, and if you are here, you don't have to think about escaping, if you don't give me these things, I will keep tying you to the tree until you rot"

"There's a tie-up there, someone will look for you tomorrow, I'm not bragging at all, Tom has a lot of friends, you kidnap Tom, you kidnap their prestige, if they sit back and watch Tom be unlucky, then they will lose face in the future, so, until I leave here, you'd better keep tying me up, you won't have a chance in the future"

"Just you?" Alexei seemed to be listening to some joke, "Your boss won't come, don't worry, the men of Oak Village tell the truth, you don't even know who your boss is"

"Oh, maybe, if there's any big guy behind Gil of Fendra, then I really don't know who my boss is; If the Romanovs who were going to the East hadn't tied me to a tree, I'd love to talk to them."

Vladimir laughed, "Alyosha, this soul egg is quite interesting, I was so happy to listen to it that I almost forgot that I was going to buy NI"

Alexei's face was a little pale, and Tom's words had some effect on him, "Listen, you'd better shut up about these things, and it's better not to say something"

"As you wish, my lord," Tom nodded cooperatively, "I decided not to say anything I shouldn't have said"

"Very well" Alexei obviously didn't want to entangle with Tom anymore, "hand over the things that don't belong to you, they don't belong to you, I know you took care of their owners, if you need compensation, I'll compensate you with a lot of money, but you have to hand over those things"

Tom nodded reasonably, and then said:

"Nope"

It was as if the air had frozen all at once, and no one knew what Tom was going to do

"Are you kidding me?" Alexei asked, pulling out his dagger and plunging it into the trunk of Tom's neck

Tom said appreciatively, "A good dagger cuts the bark so quickly."

"Slit your throat as fast"

"I believe in you"

"I'm not in the mood to play with you, killing a pimp is not a big deal, I know a whole program to wipe this thing clean, as if you were never born"

"Well, the people of Oak Village are going to be happy"

"Are you laughing at me?"

"Nothing but I warn you, only I know where these things are, and if I had not been unfortunate enough not to be born into this world, they would have had the same fate as mine: it was wonderful that it never existed, did it?"

"Sure enough, it's a man from Oak Village, and most of your reputation must be ruined on you."

"My pleasure, my dear sir"

Alexei slowly moved the dagger, and the flesh on Tom's neck sank in, and red blood began to flow out

"Half an inch further to the left, and you'll be dead in half an hour."

"An inch further to the left?" Tom asked curiously, "Can it be faster?" ”

"Well, that's right," Alexei said gloomily, "you're going to annoy me."

"I thought I was annoying you a long time ago"

Alexei took a deep breath, Vladimir looked around vigilantly, I almost screamed, I thought Alexei was going to cut the neck of this man

"Your own decision"

"That's right," Tom nodded, "even if you kill me, I can't give you things because these things aren't yours"

"Is that yours?"

"Of course not, these belong to Leo. Mikhailjevich. Lord Lepnin and his daughter, Ms. Catherina, these things belong only to them and not to anyone else"

A bird landed on the branch and shook the pear branch, and the last rays of sunlight sprinkled the afterglow from the courtyard wall, reflecting the whole courtyard red

Tom's words made Alexei's dagger stop

"I told you, Mr. Leo is with us, his daughter is with you, all you have to do is take out what doesn't belong to you"

Tom smiled, he looked at Alexei with a playful expression, "Your lord, you should understand that your 10,000 guarantees are not as good as letting the old man come out to see me, or his daughter can do the same, I am a decent person, I have to make sure that my things are returned to the owner"

Vladimir replied, "If you are a decent person, we will be the manifestation of the Father," and as soon as he turned around, he suddenly appeared to me, and pointed at me, "That little soul egg is an angel descending from earth"

Tom said, "I felt more religious when I witnessed this miraculous moment."

"You will be pious, and if you don't take out your things when you see the father and daughter, my dagger will send you to heaven," Alexei said in an emotionless voice, and then he shouted to me: "Vidor, go and bring Kaja and her father"

"Okay," I nodded, but hesitated, "What shall I say?" ”

"Let's just say that someone sent them back the emblem"

I can't describe how hard it was to convince Leo and his daughter, both the old man and Kaja, to be brilliant men, and they knew it was the pimp as soon as they heard it, so they didn't want to go out and be humiliated by him again

Kaja said, "If you go to him, you have to give me a dagger."

"There's one there," I told Kaja, "Alexei has put it on the man's neck, and you don't have to make any effort to see it."

"Very good"

"No," Mr. Leo shook his head, "I can't go to see that person, although my daughter and I have been deceived by him and disgraced ourselves, but that person has been kind to us for a while, I can't punish him, I can't repay him, I can only avoid this person from afar, it's not bad, but his identity is too much, forget it, let him return to me what belongs to my family, and let him go"

"Father, in the East this man should be judged," said Kaja, "convene a council of nobles, and most of the nobles of the river and the land will agree to his execution, father, I promise Shura that his father will always support you, and when there is an accident in the family, we should go to Shura's house, and we should not come here, but it is not too late, we will go back to Shura and his father, and they will give us justice."

"I said a long time ago that you weren't allowed to associate with that Shura," Leo said loudly, "he's a playboy"

"We don't need foreign aid for our family, Shura's father's territory is four times the size of ours, Shura is a young man from Hechuan Āng, he said that he said that he would marry me, then the relatives of the family can take revenge"

My heart sank suddenly, who is this damn Shura?

But I remember what Alexei told me, "Daddy, Mr. Alexey told you and Kaja to go to the yard, or that Tom would have been quibbling with you to show up."

"Boy" Kaja transferred his anger towards his father to me, "I told you who allowed you to call me Kaja, only my father and Shura can call you this soul boy like this, and it is not polite at all"

"Kaja Kaja Kaja" I called three times, and then looked at her angrily Kaja pursed her lips and looked at me, I relented in a second, "I'm sorry" I ran away

When I returned to the courtyard, Tom was talking to Alexei about the strange things about Oak Village, and Vladimir listened happily and nodded his head, and Alexei's face sank

When Alexei heard that I was coming back, he asked me with his eyes why Leo didn't come, and I blushed and stammered, unable to say anything

"Yo," Tom laughed, "it seems that two big living people are very difficult to find, my lord, it's not that I don't want to take things out, but I don't see the master, I really don't dare to take things out and make a mistake, I swear by the honor of an upright man in Oak Village, I will be guilty for the rest of my life."

"Soul Egg"

A crisp voice interrupted Tom's ramblings

Kaja rushed over in a rage, and before Alexei could stop him, Kaja pulled out his dagger and stabbed Tom in the face

Alexei screamed and was about to reach out to stop him, but suddenly hesitated, and then laughed: Kaja shaved Tom's eyebrows off

"Soul egg" Kaja glared at Tom again, "You have to look at me, you see, soul egg, my father and I trust you so much"

"As a result, you trust a pimp?" Tom's smile had disappeared by the time Kaja appeared

"You're going to give me to a stinking Salander"

"As a result, I let you and your dad go"

"You had bad intentions in the first place and wanted to sell me"

"Well, yes, I go to talk to you every day, and I have bad intentions; I helped your father bind the book, but I also had bad intentions; I inquired for you about the way to the king, and I had bad intentions, yes, I wanted to sell you, but unfortunately I didn't sell you, and the people of Salander went back to the desert disappointed, and I lost my job, and every day in the mud I went to the chauffeur and the sailor to quarrel with you for a copper coin."

Kaja slapped Tom, "I'm disappointed I thought I could trust you"

Tom put his tongue on his aching cheek and laughed hard, "Miss, I'm disappointed and I don't need you less."

Kaja turned around and walked away angrily, walked up to me, glared at me, crossed his waist and said, "Don't dodge, Shura won't be like this, you are a boy, he is a man, only a man can call me Kaja"

I was said for a while, "I"

"What are you okay don't pester me, I'm not a girl playing with rag dolls, you poor worm" she shook her hand and walked away as if she were in a boat

Vladimir watched all this with great interest, and then commented to Alexei: "Oh no, little Norman has encountered an unprecedented challenge, you as a parent should have more ideas to rub it right"

"Daddy, now is not the time to laugh," Alexei said after seeing that Kaja was gone, and then he picked up the dagger that Kaja had thrown on the ground, "Now you can talk?" Whether my dagger cuts your throat or the rope behind your back, it's all up to you."

Tom muttered to himself with his eyes closed

"Well, the down-and-out family from the East, the down-and-out family from the East are full of nobles these days, running around"

"Running around"

Tom's lips open and close

He opened his eyes: "I can give you everything"

Alexei looked at Tom for a few seconds, stared at him, and then with a wave of his dagger, cut the rope

"But as a condition"

"You are not qualified to negotiate conditions," Alexei said in disgust

"I have, if you don't agree, then we're going back to the beginning again, you don't have time to delay, you know this better than me"

"What conditions? Help you open a big Ji hospital? ”

"Thank you if you can, but please name it 'Oak Village' because there is already an 'Oak Village' but I'm not talking about this one"

"What's that?" Alexey asked vigilantly

A place where no one cares about the past

A life in which anyone can trust their own life

A new world, a world where you can make up for your regrets and start all over again

"I'm going to the East with you"