I carefully examined each slab for traces of Giovanni, but found nothing

Joey and a few of the horsemen marveled at Giovanni's swiftness, and in a matter of days, he had cleaned everything up like a cat licking a saucer of milk

When Joey saw that all four wheels of an abandoned carriage had been unloaded, he frowned and said to one of the horsemen beside him, "What did I tell you?" Giovanni was born as a mercenary, he can take anything with him, don't let him know where your village is, otherwise he will come to collect supplies one day."

The cavalryman's face was a little pale, "but I have already told him and I told him that my sister is as sweet as a strawberry."

"Have you tasted it?"

"It's just a metaphor," said the cavalryman to Joey

"It's okay," Joey said as he checked the carriage with a frown, "as long as it's not like milk, Giovanni won't do anything to her"

Joey carefully examined the muddy ground that had been trampled up, it hadn't rained in the past few days, so we could still see some traces, and if we were lucky, we could eventually see Giovanni if we were looking all the way down the mud and

Joey stepped onto his horse, "Gentlemen, let's go out and find Giovanni and them"

"What about this letter?" I'm a little bit of a god and a master

Joey spat out a mouthful of phlegm, "Use it to wipe your ass Giovanni can take hundreds of people out on a spring outing without saying a word, will he care about your damn letter?" Kalinin played you, Giovanni also played you, flattened"

I was a little annoyed, "Isn't it equivalent to being tricked twice?"

Several horsemen had indifferent expressions on their faces, "Let's just get used to it, Giovanni often does these things"

Joey explained, "Yes, once Giovanni sent me to negotiate with a group of green forests, but when the other party was receiving me, Giovanni and his soldiers suddenly began to attack the group of green forests, and I was almost skinned alive, I didn't say anything, he didn't play this little trick on you, didn't you also take the opportunity to meet your little friend?" ”

"It's not the same thing," I stepped onto my horse a little depressed, nibbled on a piece of damp wheat cake, and walked towards the outside of the forest, and after a while, I felt as if I was not very difficult to accept this kind of thing, and there was no need to sulk, I kicked the horse in the belly, and hastened

On the shores of Xiaodong Lake

Gothic buried a Valan nobleman, this is a warrior of the Mel family, this man rushed into the pile with a long axe during the last pursuit, only to be surrounded by a small group of mercenaries from the small East Lake City, this man was stabbed with more than ten swords at the pass of victory, and finally died on a puddle of mud, his brother insisted on burying him next to the East Lake, this is Mel's wish

Tom stood aside, he stammered unfamiliar ** and eulogy Goth looked at Tom suspiciously from time to time, I don't know if this pastor is genuine As a pastor, Tom does not have basic qualities at all: his Zenda dialect has a strong western accent, and his mastery of ** is not as good as that of a tutor, and in normal times, Tom does not have the noble temperament that a clergyman should have

The soldiers stood beside the grave, and as Tom finished his last sentence, the soldiers collectively nodded their heads, said 'Amen,' and began to pick up the soft soil and bury their comrades

"It's a good fighter," Tom said to those around him, "and he's rested."

This cliché did not get much response among the surrounding soldiers, and even the samurai's younger brother only stood for a while with a gloomy face, and then left, in order to prevent people from digging here, the mound was not very high, and it was not marked, but Tom was responsible for recording the place and filling it out in the death book later

When Tom saw Goth, he walked over and said, "How much goose fat do you have?" ”

"Two bottles," Goth replied that he didn't like Tom, but he didn't dislike it, at least Tom wouldn't make a fuss about his medical skills like the other clergy, "what's wrong?" ”

"Give me a bottle," Tom said with a grin, "I'll trade something else for you."

Tom's attitude is one of the reasons why Goth can't accept it, if it were another priest, asking in a cold tone, Goth would not hesitate to give his potion, which would make Goth feel that he was entrusted by God but Tom made him feel a trace of sacredness, this approachable attitude is a sign of lack of faith or lack of piety in Goth's view

So Goth tactfully wanted to refuse, "Can I know what you're up for?" ”

In the process of learning, Goth learned this kind of speaking technique, skillfully using questions to express his rejection, which can express his rejection, and can also make the other party unable to immediately refute when there is a conflict of opinion

But this method obviously did not work for Tom, and for a man like Tom, he would not give up if he had not explicitly rejected him; Even if you reject him, he will first ask you to think again, and then find a hundred ways to make you change your decision

"That's right, a Rhodoc girl says she's useful," Tom's tone was sincere, "that girl's knowledge of herbalism is as good as yours, but that's the end of her medical skills, and she's going to prepare a potion for pregnant women, which is said to protect the fetus."

Goth's brow furrowed, "Is it a woman again?" Father, I've heard that you're sponsoring a girl, and now there's another Rhodok girl."

Tom said, "Actually, it's the same thing, and the belly of the girl is as thin as a layer of paper, and I'm afraid it's not good for the baby, so I propose to prepare a potion that can be used to protect the fetus."

Goth knows these things, due to the frequent abortion of the fetus, most of these women can not get pregnant normally, their normal children are generally left in the early years, and by middle age, some of them have permanently lost the possibility of conceiving children

It was a filthy thing, and Goth felt a pang of disgust at the thought of it

"I can give you goose oil," Goth was ready to pull out, "but I haven't heard of goose fat protecting baby priests, with all due respect, you seem to be getting too close to women In addition, I have heard some bad things, about your present, and also about your past"

"My past?" Tom said, "What do you hear?" ”

"I don't want to say it," Goth said to Tom with a pout, as if to warn a child not to think that if you steal candy, no one will see you, "you are a priest now, and I think you should start a life"

"Give me goose fat," Tom said indifferently, "not for women, but for the sake of children, as for my life, it has nothing to do with this conversation."

Thinking that Tom was looking for an excuse to change the focus of the topic, Goth raised his tone, "Father we are talking about women, why do you keep talking about children?" What does it mean to have nothing to do with this conversation, you have to help a woman, and with the help of another woman, and that child is just a man left behind on a whim."

"'It's just a man left on a whim,'" Tom savored the words, his tone became polite and cold, "Mr. Goth, today I came to you for a baby, but you seem to care about women in particular, you complicate things, I care about the baby, if it weren't for this bottle of goose oil, he might not be born I don't care who his mother is, I don't care if the person who helps him is a Rhodok girl, I don't care if he is a man's bloodline left on a whim I only care, Is this child safe to be born, and when will I get goose oil, Mr. Goth? ”

Goth is now debating that he could actually lose to Tom Medical Injury brings Goth more conceit than sympathy, he knows what it is like to heal the sick and save people, so Tom's performance makes Goth feel like a performance: it makes Tom seem to be considerate and noble

"Afternoon," Goth replied

Tom returned to his carriage and told the Rhodoc girl that she would get what she wanted in the afternoon

The Rhodok girl was a pilgrim named Bella, and of course, it is possible that she had made up a name on purpose

Tom was a little curious about the story of this girl, she had joined the ranks of traveling merchants around the barracks a week ago, at that time, this girl was covered in ashes and dressed in tatters, and the girl told everyone in a strange accent that she had just crossed the desert and gone to the holy city to complete the service Many people doubted this, although the people of Salander did not make it difficult for God's people to visit the holy city, but where could a girl easily pass through the hot desert and the thieves and soldiers along the way?

But Tom had a strange feeling about the girl, and he felt that the girl was not lying

Bella has two teary eyes, the whites of which are a little yellowish, which makes her look like she has some kind of illness and her eyebrows are a little open, and one can't help but wonder if she is a little intellectually inferior Anyway, Bella is a strange girl, but other than that, she is a good girl who is warm and cheerful, and when she is not crazy, she is actually quite attractive

It was this girl who made Tom feel that she was different, Tom had seen many different women, and Tom could read most of them in a matter of seconds, but sometimes, like with Bella and Varankov's Berk girl, Tom had to hesitate for a while before he could make a judgment

The reason why this Bella caught Tom's attention was because she had just met Tom and came up to him mysteriously and said, "You are an oak tree"

Tom was taken aback by this strange remark, this somewhat obscure history, Tom was not too willing to mention it, even if someone knew this story, after arriving in the eastern world, there was no reason to take it out again

"Am I an oak?" Tom asked her curiously

"Yes," said the Rhodoc girl, "but the oak tree is burning, and it will soon be reduced to ashes."

"Oh," Tom scratched his head, "I'm a priest, and you say that, aren't you afraid that I'll treat you as a heretic?" ”

Bella laughed, "Don't be afraid, I just went to the Holy City, if I were a heretic, God would have burned me to death I passed this time, just to verify that I am not the daughter of the devil"

Tom thought he had met a charlatan, or a swaggering goddess stick, "Oh, you went to worship in the Holy City, you said it"

"Yes," Bella said as she ate bread and drank light beer, as if she was forever hungry, "I was able to see things that others could not see, such as I could see so many people lingering in my garden, I could see them smiling, I could see them sorrowful, I could know the disaster in advance, I could talk to the spirits, the people in the family were afraid of me, when my father was alive, they didn't dare to bully me, and then when my father died, they threw me out, saying that I was a heretic, and I was thinking, if I was a heretic, God would kill me, If I'm not, I'm innocent, so I'm going to a place where God can see me and judge me."

Tom was a little bored, "Well, you went to the Holy City"

"I'm back alive," Bella said happily, "so I'm not a heretic"

"Are you going back to Rhodok?"

Ra said

"And where are you going?"

"I'm going to find someone," Bella said, "a boy I don't know"

Tom yawned, "Son, be careful when you talk in the future, of course I won't think you're a heretic, but there will always be some people who will target you."

Tom is ready to leave her, this kind of female liar usually speaks of herself as amazing, and then begins to swindle at the first opportunity, in the case of the oak, this Bella may have heard Tom's story before; And the Holy City may also be just a means for this girl to get close to a clergyman, and Bella may not even know where the Holy City is

"But you won't," said Bella, "thank you for lunch, and if you can give me a bottle of goose oil, I can make you a poultry," Bella pointed to the pregnant and fat girl, "her baby will need it, if you don't have it, I swear, she'll give birth to a clot of blood in four months, and her belly is too thin."

This kind of crazy words sounded to Tom, but it gradually showed a credible side, Tom himself had seen too many such things, and Tom was willing to try it anyway

That's what happened to Tom before he went to Goth

By this time, when Tom returned to Bella's side, Bella was already asleep, and she was curled up on top of the car, looking like a ball of cats

She muttered to herself, in her sleep, "I'm already angry and won't talk to you unless you give me two pieces of candy"

Tom shrugged his shoulders, feeling inexplicable

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