It seemed a little rude to visit the Tima family when they had just gotten up to prepare breakfast. At least that's what Xu Yun himself thinks.

If she had visited at that time, would Ms. Ruth have her share or not?

As an adult, Xu Yun thinks that he has been able to think about this matter from the other party's point of view, but in fact, to put it bluntly, he has shallow social experience and is not thick enough.

After guarding the fire in his house and waiting for about the end of breakfast at Motima's house, he pushed open the wooden door and went to Tima's house in the snow.

This journey is actually not far away, after all, the village is only so big, but it has almost exhausted all the heat and enthusiasm that Xu Yun has accumulated in his body.

Wearing open-toed straw sandals to wade through knee-deep snow, the process was far more torturous than expected, and only halfway through, Xu Yun could barely feel the presence of his toes, and the pain below the calf was transmitted all the time.

If it weren't for the stone house of the Tima family, every step was closer to the warm and cozy fireplace in his memory, and closer to the turning point of his fate, he would have turned his head and gone home to make a fire.

It was so cold that I felt like my body had been frozen, and I was like a lump of frozen meat hanging under the eaves of the house that had been preserved at the natural temperature.

At this time, he suddenly recalled a joke he once saw: about a southerner traveling to the northeast, ordering a bottle of beer while eating in a restaurant, the waiter asked, "Do you want it to be room temperature or ice-cold?" ”

The southerners who traveled to the Northeast for the first time were a little confused, how could they still sell cold beer in the restaurant on such a cold day? So he said, "Room temperature." ”

So in the awe-inspiring gaze of the drinkers around him, he saw the waiter go to the box of beer outside the door and take out a bottle of beer, and the glass bottle of beer was still wrapped in a layer of snow. When the cap was opened, the spout of the bottle was revealing a beer-colored piece of ice stubble.

"You're at room temperature? What does it look like to be chilled? The southerner asked, pointing to the bottle of beer with ice and snow.

So the waiter turned around and went to the refrigerator next to him and took out a bottle of cold beer that looked normal.

I can now finally understand the feeling of that room temperature beer.

Happiness in suffering is a common means that Xu Yun uses to relieve the feeling of exhaustion when he can't stay up overtime, and sometimes it is better than a bottle of energy drink, after all, the energy drink he drinks during overtime is so much that he almost wants to vomit.

"Compared with not sleeping for days and nights and typing code all the time, this little cold is a chicken."

"But I don't even feel my chickens now." Xu Yun smiled bitterly, but even so, he was able to keep his body moving steadily, and he didn't even shiver from the cold.

"If this is a game, this body's talent resistance value is estimated to be almost full."

Finally the stone house was within reach, and he quickened his pace to kick away the snow that stood in his way, reaching for the handle of the wooden handle on the outside of Tima's door.

The wooden door was pushed open before his hand touched the handle, revealing Jack's handsome face behind the door.

"I heard someone approaching outside, and I wondered if it could be you. Timmy, my boy, you wanted to surprise me so early in the morning, didn't you? ”

'It's not early, I've been waiting for you for almost two hours. Xu Yun complained in his heart, but a smile bloomed on his face and he nodded and said, "Dear Jack, your wisdom is as dazzling as this rising sun." ”

The morning sun slanted through the snow-covered cedar trees, spreading the brilliant gold evenly across the houses and floors of the forest village, and one of them landed on Jack, making his handsome face and his short blond hair seem to glow.

"So you agree to my proposal yesterday. That's great news, isn't it, and the good news that you received early in the morning is a sign that today is going to be a good day. Jack's smile was genuine and welcoming, like the warm white air rising from the collar of his flaxen shirt.

Thinking that the fire at Tima's house must have burned very well last night, and he could see beads of sweat slipping down his collarbone between his neck.

Perverse~~~~~

A sharp eagle roar fell in the sky, causing Jack and Xu Yun to look up at the source of the sound at the same time.

A small gray dot was hovering under the blue sky at the beginning of the day, and Xu Yun's eyesight was far beyond before the crossing, and he could clearly distinguish that it was a red-billed gray falcon soaring.

"Oh~ It seems that you are not the only one who has come to deliver me news this morning, my Timmy prepares the knight." Jack pushed the wooden door open and stepped into the snow outside, his leather boots creaking through the snow.

He took a shiny badge from his waist and shook it to the sky with his left arm.

Perverse~~~

There was another roar, and the gray falcon hovering high in the air turned an angle and began to dive in this direction.

The sun was shining later in the mountains than in the plain towns, and it should have been nearly nine o'clock in the morning, and even if it was late, the village had been buried with snow for most of the sloping wooden houses, and blue and white cooking smoke began to rise from the chimneys.

The other knights seemed to hear the eagle's roar, and they pushed open the door of the borrowed villager's house and looked this way.

But the number of people who came out to check was far more than the knights, and the extra ones were young girls in the village. They had apparently cleaned up their makeup, and at least as far as Xu Yun was concerned, the girls' hair and cheeks were cleaner and neater than they had seen yesterday when they had shrunk into Tima's house for refuge.

The red-billed gray falcon was very fast, and after a short time, it began to slow down, and when it fell to a height of more than ten meters from the ground, it loosened its hook and claws, and dropped a brown hard leather reel with silver metal edging, and then drew a sharp arc in the air, flapped its wings and climbed back into the air.

The crusty roll fell with a whirl, and was caught firmly by Jack.

"It's a flying letter from the Knights' headquarters." With the help of the reel, Jack casually explained as he looked at the metal badge embedded in the center of the reel.

'This is the Knight of Southwind's lion-head badge. Xu Yun thought that he had seen this badge many times in the game at the gate of Mondstadt. Lion of the South Wind, Wolf of the North Wind, Dragon of the East Wind, Eagle of the West Wind.

It seems that there is a discrepancy between the current Mondstadt and the historical time I remember Mondstadt in the game. He thought silently to his mind as he watched Jack twist open the crusty roll and take out a neatly folded piece of stationery.

As for the words on the letter, he couldn't read any of them. It was clearly not a divine script, but the language of the nation of Mondstadt itself.

Shaking off the letter, Jack did not shy away from the mountain village boy next to him, and directly began to read. As he read more, the pair of thick and heroic eyebrows on his forehead gradually wrinkled. He read very quickly, and after a few breaths, he put down the letter in his hand and looked up in the direction of the Longji Snow Mountain, exhaling a long white vapor from his mouth.

The sound of crunching and stomping on the snow approached one after another, and several knights who had previously looked at it had already waded through the snow and approached.

"Boss, a new mission?" A short, bearded knight asked, his waist circumference only slightly smaller than his height, making him look like an upright oak barrel. If it weren't for the obvious human characteristics between his eyebrows and eyes, Xu Yun would almost think that he was a humanoid race that often appears in other magical games-dwarves.

In Xu Yun's memory, there didn't seem to be a dwarf in Teyvat's world. However, before he traveled, the game had not fully opened up the entire map of Teyvat, and it was not surprising that there were dwarves. Anyway, elves, beast-eared girls, ghosts, crows, tengus, and demons have all appeared, and there is no more dwarf race.

"Well, this is a separate assignment for me. Your mission today is to escort Tima's family back to Springs Town. Captain Tima's Vision revived last night, and he will return to the Order to resume his duties, so you can end this patrol early and return with you. Go to Qingquan Town and replace another team to take over the patrol. ”

Shout~

One of the knights whistled.

"There is no better news than the fact that the patrol mission can be terminated early. Captain Czech, you are so merciful. ”

"I can already smell the smell of wine wafting from the angel's gift."

"I think you smell the rouge on the dancing girl, right?"

Hahaha

The Patrol Knights laughed happily in order to be able to end their patrol mission early and return to the city to enjoy their shifts.

"Solo mission?" Tima, stepping on wooden legs, stepped out of her door and looked inquiringly at Jack, who had a flat face. Seeing him nodding, his face became serious.

Individual missions are special assignments for the Knights with the Vision, who are the core of the Order. Since you need to use a master of the level of the Vision Knight, the difficulty can be imagined.

Ordinary knights who receive such a task are absolutely dead, and even warriors with the power of the gods have to pay unimaginable hardships to have a chance to complete it.

"Captain Tima, do you have a pen and paper at home? I promised to recommend Timmy to the Preparatory Knight Training Course, and since I couldn't make it to the class, I had to write at least a letter of recommendation. ”

"Of course, it just so happened that Kerry was also old enough to read, and I had the pen and paper ready before." Tima nodded.

"Don't be stunned, isn't it cold standing in the snow? Come in with me and warm up with the fire. Timmy, you little guy is such a freak, the other kids are all huddled in the bed like quails in this weather, and you're still standing in the snow and listening to us gossip while you wear so little. He hooked his hand at Xu Yun and said.

"Who are you, handsome guy?" Xu Yun opened his mouth and asked.

"Heh, when did the stinky boy learn to pat on the back?" Tima laughed and slapped Timmy on the head.

It's no wonder that Xu Yun was surprised and stunned, Tima, who already had deep eye sockets, still had a big beard yesterday, and her messy chestnut curls were also missing a piece of it by the fire of the bloody dog, and her beard was wrapped in a layer of frost, snow and ice slag, looking at as many vicissitudes as possible.

See you again this morning, with a cleanly trimmed beard, leaving only a neat bunch of short beards above the chin and lips. The messy chestnut curls that had been burned out of his head had been shaved into a neat and energetic inch-length hair. It is estimated that in order to match the length of the burned piece of hair, it is shaved short along with the other hairs, otherwise in such a cold weather, if you don't wear a hat, you will definitely freeze your scalp.

In short, the whole person is as if by magic, and he is a lot younger in an instant.

If the first impression he gave Xu Yun when he saw him yesterday was a sturdy middle-aged man with a leg disability, today he has become a handsome young man in his early thirties at most.

After Xu Yun followed Tima into the house, he consciously shrank in the fire to warm up, saving his frozen toes and calves from the abyss of numbness.

Jack writes a letter of recommendation to Timmy (Xu Yun) at the dining table of Tima's house, and of course, he also has Tima's eldest son Kerry in mind.

Tima sat down on the wooden mound beside Jack, who would ask him if he could spell words.

"What is your mission this time? Could it have something to do with the Flowing Fire Dog that appeared yesterday? ”

Jack glanced up at Tima, nodded and shook his head.

"Captain Tima, your Vision has been revived, and it doesn't matter if the mission is with you. It can be said that it has something to do with those monsters, or it can be said that it doesn't matter.

Didn't we talk about the nuns at the watchtower yesterday? This mission is for me to go to the watchtower built in the snow-capped mountains of Longji.

As for whether there is any change in the abyss, the letter does not say.

But since he was going there, there was probably something wrong with the seal on the Longji Snow Mountain. Sending reinforcements in such a snowy situation can only be done in the shortest possible time by a knight with the eye of the anemo god. ”

Tima nodded, "The Eye of the Wind God is indeed very useful when on the road. ”

"It's strong when you're fighting, okay?" Jack said dissatisfied

"Then you have to be able to defeat me first." Tima raised her eyebrows and said confidently and defiantly.

"I'll talk about this when I get back from my mission. I don't underestimate you, my sir. My current level of Flowing Wind Sword Skill is much stronger than it was back then. I'm afraid you won't be able to touch the corners of my clothes then. Jack didn't show any weakness.

Boom~

Tima punched his thick shoulder, and the punch was so hard that Jack's upper body shook with it.

"It's much stronger than it was back then, and its muscles are as hard as a stone. When to go? Tima withdrew her fist, let go and shook it.

Jack bared his teeth in pain, "I set off directly after writing the letter of recommendation, although there is no time for the mission, but it is not too late to support this kind of thing." ”

"Have a good trip, wait for you to come back and compete."

"Don't say anything else, if you really can't resist me and run away, no one will want to catch up." Jack pretended to laugh easily, his handsome young face had been tempered by years of wind, frost, rain and snow, and he was quite calm and confident.

"I'm afraid you'll be just as fast at night." Tima laughed evilly

"When you see Mia, you can ask her personally. If you can ask. Jack obviously understood, and smiled like a man understands.

The dipping pen in his hand skillfully left his signature at the end of the letter, and then took out his vision and pressed the corner of the letter with a silver-white metal border, leaving his own imprint. A pattern with a shimmer of pale cyan elements.

He handed the letterhead to Tima, "You will pass on the letter of recommendation, Captain Tima." ”

Unblocking the letter, Jack retrieved his armor and gear from the weapon rack by the fireplace, and put them on with meticulous movement.

Tima signed the end of the letter with a dipping pen, and left a floral imprint with a glimmer of royal blue elements with her vision. Wait for the ink on the letter to dry at the temperature of the fire, and then carefully fold it and stuff it into the prepared white envelope.

By the time Tima sealed the envelope, Jack had already put it on.

"Thank you, Ms. Ruth, for your hospitality, I will miss your cooking." He gave a knightly salute to Ruth, who had come over with a concerned expression.

"If you like, you can come to my house often." Ruth laughed.

"Of course I'm not welcome to have a chance, so goodbye." Jack

"Goodbye." Ruth

"I'll see you later." Tima

"Shall I see you again?" Xu Yun also stood up and asked with some hesitation.

"Yes, my Timmy prepares the knight. I'm your referee. Jack smiled kindly as he gently rubbed Timmy's messy black bird's nest head with a cowhide glove on the metal armor.

"So... We look forward to seeing you soon. Xu Yun took a step back and used a standard chivalric salute that surprised both Tima and Jack. Of course, he learned this etiquette from the NPCs in the game, but it is more standard than Jack's knightly etiquette.

"Interesting boy. Goodbye. Jack nodded, turned around and strode out, as he went, Xu Yun seemed to see a cyan wind around him.

Jack's departure was like a pebble falling into a pond, with only small ripples within the reach of people he knew.

After he left, the Tima family began to move back to Mondstadt, as they had no livestock to help with their luggage, so they had to pack what was convenient for them to carry on their backs.

Tima's fiefdom as a knight is this small mountain village called Ice Chips, so most of the belongings are kept in this house without worrying about being stolen by the villagers for their own use. It was a crime against the nobility, and Tima, as the lord here, could act cheaply.

Since you have to carry someone, you can only take away a lot of things. In the end, the family took away only two packs of mountain goods to be given as gifts for the Winter Snow Festival, two packs of carry-on clothes and a large bag of food to eat on the road.

Xu Yun, as a companion on this trip, was also unceremoniously arranged a backpack by Tima.

Before the sun rose due south, the small group set out on the mountain path among the cedar trees outside the village, with patrol riders wading through the snow in front of them, and it was much easier for those who walked behind.

Before leaving the village, Xu Yun saw the child who came to see him off at the entrance of the village, the same one who gave him wheat cakes yesterday. He still didn't know his name. He didn't know where he heard the news, and learned that Xu Yun would leave with Tima's family today. According to Xu Yun's original intention, it's good to leave quietly, anyway, there is no one he knows in the village, so why waste other people's feelings.

But when he saw the little guy's teary eyes, the cold heart of this adult hidden in his thin body still melted. He entrusted his cabin to the little one, and gave it a winter food hidden in the cabin, such as potatoes and turnips.

I received an old kettle that the little guy gave him that could not see the original color and an unexpectedly beautiful green feather decoration.

When the two gifts were in his hands, Xu Yun could no longer hide the surprise on his face.

'Adventurer's Gold Cup': Defense increased by 23

'Adventurer's Tail Feather': Increases attack by 18

Set Effect: Two-piece set: Increases health by 1000 points.

These are two things, he can see the attributes. Snap the feather ornament to the collar and hang the old kettle around your waist. A magical warm current flowed through the body in an instant.

The abrasive chill that was almost everywhere before became dispensable in an instant.