I tried to harness these dogs

The dogs watched with fear as Giovanni beat the dogs to the bridle, and then gave them a full meal

The dogs had blood-red mouths and greedy and murderous eyes that made me shudder to see them, and I realized that if I began to accept Giovanni's eyes, I would have to learn to adapt to the dogs' eyes one day

Giovanni sniffed and suddenly said, "It's all good meat"

A chill crept up my spine

More than two hours ago, Giovanni told the woodcutter that he was willing to give out the gold coins in exchange for food, but he did not want to be seen by me, the little squire, where he hid the gold coins

Giovanni asked the woodcutter to go to the woods to complete the deal, and the woodcutter looked at Giovanni warily, hung the axe and hand knife on his waist, and led the dogs with him

Soon after, the dog began to bark

In the wind and snow, the dogs roared hoarsely as if they had encountered evil spirits, and I huddled around the fire, not daring to take my eyes off the flames, because I had been staring at the flames for too long, and I was almost blinded, and the wind whistled in my ears, as if singing loudly about an ugly slaughter

It seems that after a long time, Giovanni returned, without saying a word

The dogs licked their noses, their bellies swollen, and their bodies were full of whip marksWhen Giovanni sat down, the dogs formed a circle around the flames from afar, and lay down quietly, as soon as Giovanni stood up, the dogs would straighten their forelimbs, their hind limbs would rise, and the hairs on their necks would stand up, as if they were facing a great enemy

I asked abruptly, "How's that guy doing?" ”

As Giovanni straightened the sleigh, he pulled out a white cloth and wrapped it around his arm, and at this time, I saw that his arm had been cut, and the blood had stained the felt clothes inside

"That man," Giovanni coughed, "he'd envy that assassin's"

Giovanni's voice was as cold as steel

No more questions

The next morning, the snow cleared

The dogs wiped their mouths clean in the snow and were full of energy, and apart from the wounds on their bodies, the dogs looked very healthy and fit to run in the snow

When I took the rope and put it on the dogs, they all stood up and didn't want me to come closer, but Giovanni came over and carried the bloody whips that still had yesterday's blood on them, but they had been frozen into ice, which twisted the whip like a dead snake

When the dogs saw Giovanni coming, they all became docile and Giovanni handed me the whip, "This is worth a hundred pieces of bread, Vidor, you don't need them to like you, you just need them to run"

In the beginning, these dogs only avoided my whip, and ran in the direction of the head, and on several occasions, the sled was pulled over, and the dogs were very strong, and not at all obedient, if they were not controlled, these beasts would be dragged to the side, and if they were lucky, they would only spin and turn, and if they were unlucky, they would plunge into the snow

I tossed until noon, barely able to get the dogs running in one direction

Pretty good, I said to myself

When we finally started heading east, I couldn't help but look at the woods and imagine the mess inside

"Will anyone be able to show anything in the future?" I asked Giovanni

"No," he said, "wolves and maggots will clean everything up"

"It's disgusting," I replied after a while

"It's not the most disgusting," said Giovanni, "and sometimes you have to do the work of wolves and maggots, especially when you're hungry and we still have dogs, hehe," he grinned

I don't want to say any more, just concentrate on driving

Giovanni took it and tried it, he had a better grasp than I did, but he had an arm injury, he couldn't drive the dog cart at all, he needed a doctor, and he had to find someone to get to the riverland, and I was a little skeptical that he could really find money in the riverland

As the distance widens, these dogs have also run away from the wild, and it is much easier to drive, although the degree still can't be raised, but it can already be guaranteed not to overturn

We spent the night on a gravel and were on the road the next morning

The woodcutter left us a round of dried cheese, and a whole bunch of all sorts of rubbish Giovanni roasted the cheese over the flame and cut it into slices with a knife, so that it was easier to chew on the cheese, which tasted terrible, almost like sawdust, and had a lot of suspicious little particles in it

The next night, we seemed to be on the wrong track, but just as we were doubting the direction, we saw the lights above the horizon

This is the first farmer we have seen since we walked out of the blizzard

I didn't trust these free peasants at all, but when I saw that he had a woman and four children, I was a little relieved, and I thought that we were actually dangerous people, and the family should not trust us

The experience of the past few days has made me a little frightened, and I regret that it feels like I have black mud on my hands, and I am trying to shake it off, but I can't get rid of it

We were given two bowls of broth and a small bag of mixed wheat for the price of a dog, and the farmer promised to take us to town the next day, and we had reached the town of Green Pines, which Giovanni said was too south

A boy from the farmhouse ran out of the house when we weren't looking, and came back later with one of his uncles, nominally chatting with us, but in fact beware of us I didn't sleep all night, and felt much more dangerous in a place where there were people than in the field

Luckily, nothing happened, and we arrived in Green Pine the following day

When we parted, the farmer offered to buy our dogs and sleds, and he said he could see that they were a little dirty, but he promised that he would not make a noise as long as we sold them to him

Giovanni eventually sold the whole set to the farmer for the price of a calf

Later in the evening, we boarded the carriage run by the Burkes, and we slept on top of it that night

From that time on, my sleep became very light, I always felt that there was danger around me, and I began to wonder why I was able to sleep so peacefully in the past, and my suspicious appearance made Giovanni look funny, and he said that I was finally starting to go through this step

"That's how soldiers go into battle at first," he said, "but even so, I've never seen you so suspicious, and when you die a few times on the knife, you will know, sometimes it's useless to be afraid, it's better to sleep well, and then you should go to the forest that day," he smiled, and smiled

One of the Vecchia sausage merchants in the carriage looked up at us angrily, and our conversation woke him up, he stared at one end with round eyes, a full beard, and an angry expression, Giovanni also looked at the wheat merchant, but he didn't pay any attention to him, and after a while, Giovanni began to change his bandage, he picked off a few pieces of broken skin with a dagger, then wiped the wound with wine, and finally bit one end of the bandage with his mouth, and tied the other end with his own strength, and tied his arm well

The more the sausage merchant looked, the more astonished he became, and at last he saw the bloody wound, so he covered his face with his hat and pretended to sleep

Giovanni crawled to his side and slit a plate of sausage from the sausage next to him, and the merchant's throat moved, but without saying a word I counted it, sixteen in all

Giovanni's approach made me a little uneasy, and I whispered, "What if he jumps over and wants to make trouble?" ”

"Then I'll give him money," Giovanni said as he chewed on a piece of it, "but he didn't ask me for it, and he gave it to us, didn't he, my brother?" ”

There was still no movement over there

At dawn, we arrived at the central town of the Riverland, where the sausage merchant was the first to pick up the rest of the sausage, and jumped out of the carriage like a gust of wind, and the coachman reacted that the man had not paid the car, so he entrusted the carriage to a man he knew, and jumped down to chase the sausage merchant with his hat, and in the end the money did not seem to arrive, and the coachman only picked up a few sausages that had fallen on the ground, and walked back with a curse

Giovanni seemed to know the way and led me to the edge of a dilapidated yard

Giovanni said, "In the past, this was the town hall, where the boyars would meet, and if the king and the council gave an order, the officials and nobles would gather and decide whether to accept or resist the order, but now, the boyars of the Riverlands have gone to the castle of the Berks, and no one has come."

A blind old man sat under a dilapidated roof and looked up at the sun, the stone walls were built very high, the windows were open very close to the roof, and the snow on the ground was untouched

After the blizzard stopped, the whole town has not recovered, only the snow in the crowded places has been cleared, every time it snows, there will be a lot of people who freeze to death on the side of the road outside the tavern, these people are generally drunkards, and there are many beggars on the edge of the town hall who freeze to death, and the beggars around the town hall generally do not freeze to death, because the boyars will feel that this is very shameful, and they are willing to take these beggars back to the manor to be serfs or shepherds, although beggars are generally weak and cannot do heavy work, But at least it's better than letting them die on the streets

But now the Berks ignore these people, and once the beggars approach the Burke's castle, they may be suspected of being spies, and they will often be thrown into the dungeon and rot

When we walked around, we could see several citizens carrying a frozen corpse onto the car, along with two dead people, both dressed in black and with strips of cloth tied around their noses

After they were gone, Giovanni and I walked into the ruined courtyard

"Go, go," said the old man, who heard our commotion, suddenly speaking, "there's nothing here"

We walked up to him anyway

"I'm boyar," Giovanni whispered

"Haha," said the old man, as if he had heard some of the funniest jokes, "the last thing likely to come here now is the boyars, and I have heard that this place will soon be converted into a winery by the Berks, and maybe the boyars will come at that time."

"I need help"

"Let's go," the old man's expression darkened, "go elsewhere, there is no more Riverland, aren't you afraid of being caught by the Burkes?" Kindness? Or are you just Burkes, trying to get words out of the old man's mouth? ”

"I have no ill intentions," said Giovanni, "Priest Philip, I used to hear your services, when I was a child, and you can still see."

"Oh," the priest's eyes were covered with a white film, "oh I don't remember, when I lost sight."

"Nine years ago," said Giovanni, "Archduke Youssef poisoned your eyes and you were preaching at Berke for the believers of the Eastern Church, and Youssef wanted to drive you away, but you refused."

Philip said, "It's God's will, maybe it's a good thing not to see things, I've heard that a lot of the domed churches and statues of the Virgin Mary have been demolished, and I'm very sad to hear the news, and if I see it with my own eyes, I'm afraid it will be even more sad that you know about me, but I don't remember who you are."

"Priest Philip, I was just an apprentice at the time, and I was in the cavalry school, and then my father cut off my tuition, so I came to the church to find something to do, and when you followed the Great Pastor to Burke, I was in the Great Pastor's retinue"

"Oh, oh," said old man Philip, nodding, "the herd hasn't come back yet," he smiled wryly

Years ago, Grand Duke Yusuf suddenly announced that the Eastern and Western Churches would be treated equally at Berke

The Archpriest of the Eastern Church regarded this as the next great event after the fall of the Eastern Church, and joyfully led several of his archbishops and priests to Berke, but when the Archpriest arrived in Berketo, the Archpriest Yusuf asked the Archpriest to attend the coronation ceremony of his election as king

Omaki left immediately, but was placed under house arrest by Burke until his death

Since most of the noble bishops and assistants of the Grand Pastor were detained in Berke, Burke declared that from now on the Grand Pastor could only be elected and canonized in Berke, and that the election was to be decided by the Eastern Church itself, and that the canonization was to be carried out by the King of Burke

This reversal of logic caused an uproar in the Eastern Church world, and the various dioceses announced their refusal to implement it, but none of them could unify all the dioceses, and the direct consequence of this was that until now, there has not been a single chaplain in the entire Eastern Church

"Yes," Giovanni said respectfully

"Well, no more reminiscence," said Philip, "what are you doing here?" I don't smell hostility, but I don't smell kindness either."

"Indeed," said Giovanni, "I have not come to listen to you, although I am very much expecting us to know" Giovanni was silent for a moment, "we want to know, in Riverlands, who are the friends of the Wikibians"

Giovanni sniffed, "Who are the enemies of the Wikimen?" ”.