In a quarry in Manniu Town, a young woman in a linen skirt and simply tied her hair was carrying gravel into a basket.

Her whole body was covered in mud and stone dust, and her collar and back were wet with sweat. Ignoring the sweat running down her cheeks, she lifted the basket with all her might. The rope strangled her flesh, but she just snorted and continued to walk forward in pain.

It wasn't until the whistle sounded at noon that she poured the last basket of stones into the machine, and then she found a shadow to lie down out of breath.

Several dwarven miners walked by from a distance with shovels, and someone caught a glimpse of her, and whispered to the people beside him, "How did the foreman hire a woman with such fine hands and feet to work?" ”

The others squinted at him, "Your dog is afraid that he is blind, haven't you heard that it is the female demon who plagued the Ice Wolf Castle, Hei Ningxue?" ”

Another person scoffed: "How did he know how powerful the female devil was, he forgot what his name was when he saw a beautiful woman." ”

Of course, Hei Ningxue knew what they were talking about.

She had been digging for three days here, and the physical toil had left her with no extra thoughts, whether it was sneering in front of her face or pointing fingers behind her back, it was not as important to her as a moment of rest.

"Master, are you alright?" The crisp sound woke up Black Condensation, and she raised her eyelids to see Lena and Glista standing in front of her.

"Where is the master here?" Hei Ningxue laughed self-deprecatingly, "There is only one coolie named Hei Ningxue here. ”

Lena held up Hei Ningxue's hand distressedly, "Your hands are blistered......"

Once a queen, but now the lowest coolie in the quarry, Lena feels bitter, but she doesn't know how to help her.

Hei Ningxue shrank her hand in disgust and said, "I'm afraid that you are suffering from princess disease, and we will not be able to return to Ice Wolf Castle, so we will have to accept a new living environment." ”

Glista hurriedly explained, "Queen...... Well, don't worry, Sister Lena works as a nurse at a medical center, and I got a job as a waitress in a restaurant. This is the bread I made, would you like to try it? ”

Hei Ningxue wiped the dust on her hands, "Fortunately, you guys came by chance, if you come over tomorrow, it will be embarrassing." ”

Lena was about to ask "why" when she was interrupted by a look from Glista.

Glista lowered her voice and asked, "Did they hurt?" ”

Hei Ningxue stuffed his mouth full of bread, and said with a little pride: "I am whipped five times every three days, and the wooden stick with thick fingers is just a toy compared to the steel whip of Ice Wolf Castle." ”

Glista nodded, as if thoughtful.

"What bad idea are you thinking?" Hei Ningxue looked at her appearance and couldn't help but ask.

Gresta hesitated for a moment and said, "I see that their legal code mentions it: the statement of meritorious service commutation ......"

Although Lina's brain is not very flexible, she can still understand the word "commutation". At this moment, his eyes immediately lit up, "Is there really such a thing?" ”

In our world, it seems to be a common practice in various countries for criminals to have their sentences commuted through good performance or meritorious service. But in that world, the powerful would not care about the prison sentences of the common people. When Lydia proposed the idea of "commutation of sentence", it was immediately characterized as "cognition beyond the times" and decisively included in the new code.

Hei Ningxue waved her hand at this, indicating that she was not the least interested: "I have to experience the verdict that person gave me." ”

A bead of sweat the size of a bean fell from Glista's head.

She really couldn't understand why Hei Ningxue, who had always been smart and shrewd, would become abnormal in her brain circuits once she met "that person".

Originally, if the three of them were ranked according to their IQ, the first place would be Hei Ningxue, Glista was second, and Lina, the fool, was third. Now it seems that "Black Ningxue, who met 'that person'", may be able to secure the fourth place.

Glista thought about it again, and suddenly had a bold guess in her mind. She digressed the subject and said, "Speaking of which, I did talk to the non-smiling adult once before......"

"Oh?" Hei Ningxue instantly became interested, "What did you talk about, did you talk about me?" ”

Is this the bait?

Glista sighed in her heart, could it be that the black snow ......?

But now is not the time to gossip, Glista said seriously: "Lord Buxiao asked me a question that I felt familiar with but couldn't answer. ”

Hei Ningxue asked, "What's the problem?" ”

Gresta said, "He asked me: Where is the Rose gazing?" ”

Hei Ningxue stood up abruptly, her face full of frightened expression, and asked loudly, "How would he know?" ”

Glista and Lena were frightened and froze in place.

Realizing her gaffe, Hei Ningxue was silent for a moment. After thinking about it for a while, she finally made up her mind: "Glista, can you help me ask to see the 'Lord of the Red Pavilion', I have something important to tell him." ”

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At night, the hall is still brightly lit.

The master craftsman Shears is holding a few bottles to introduce the latest results to Buxiao and the copper hammer: "The cost of this hybrid crystal bottle is half lower than that of the soul crystal bottle, and the defective rate can be controlled below 3 points, and more importantly, ......"

As she spoke, she lifted the bottle and slammed it to the ground.

"Wow!" The brass hammer screamed, but the transparent bottle bounced off the ground a few times before stopping. He picked up the bottle and looked at it under the light, but there was no crack at all.

"It's amazing." Bronze Hammer seemed to see the crowds of merchants stepping on the threshold of the exchange to snap up the bottle, "Lady Hills, you are simply the goddess of craftsmen. ”

Hills was a little embarrassed by his praise, "It's not all my credit, those kids also worked hard, and they changed more than 200 kinds of ingredients alone." ”

"Write it down." Buxiao instructed on the side, "Write it all in the textbook." ”

Lydia pouted unconsciously behind him. At the beginning, it was only said that she was asked to write myths, and now the work of writing textbooks is left to her.

"It's just an unscrupulous boss." Lydia snorted and chirped as she made the minutes.

Buxiao thought about it, and then spoke: "The corridor of the city hall can be considered as a 'Hall of Fame', and portraits of people who have contributed to the city can be hung, such as Ms. Hills. ”

"No, no, no!" Shears couldn't stand this kind of scene the most.

Without smiling a look, the copper hammer immediately understood: "Must, must." As he spoke, he pulled her aside and began to do her ideological work. Anyway, he has admitted that what he is best at is "soft grinding and hard foam".

"That's good." "I also want to make sure that the income of craftsmen can increase after the cost of the pharmacy factory falls......"

Cruise suddenly knocked on the door and came in, "Don't laugh at my lord, the criminal Black Snow has arrived." ”

"Let her in." Don't laugh.

Hei Ningxue wore a clean linen skirt, walked into the consulate barefoot, and knelt down without saying a word in front of the person who didn't smile.

"You don't want to lick his shoes, do you?" Lydia was shocked on the side, "You're a 'god assistant witch' and a 'queen of Ice Wolf Castle', are you sure it's okay to behave so humbly?" ”

Hei Ningxue said with a serious face: "Those identities are all in the past, and now I am just a prisoner under the fence, and it is always right to be humble." ”

Without smiling and motioning for her to stand up, Lydia got up and pulled a chair for her, "Okay, this 'Miss Prisoner' can talk about any grievances, and we will try to meet reasonable demands." ”

"Your Royal Highness the Princess, don't you think I'm here to complain?" Hei Ningxue saluted Lydia and thanked her, "The foreman has taken good care of my weak body, and has only arranged for some work to collect rubble. If I were to smash the hammer against the hammer, I would probably be blown out by the hammer. ”

"Just in time," Buxiao asked suddenly, "you...... Can you be shameless? ”

"Huh?" Hei Ningxue was stunned.

Lydia was also stunned and subconsciously asked, "What are you talking about?" ”

Buxiao pondered for a moment: "Forget it." ”

Hei Ningxue cautiously asked, "Are you going to use the punishment of skinning on me?" Although she was mentally prepared for the worst, she still shivered involuntarily for such a miserable pain.

Lydia hurriedly reassured, "No, don't look at him like this, it's not that cruel, at most it's ......" She suddenly remembered the three priests on the altar of Korson who had been burned by fire all day long, and her heart was a little furious.

"I arranged a prison robbery." Buxiao said calmly, "In the near future, about two hundred demon people will come here for refuge. ”

Black Snow looked at Lydia with wide eyes, and Lydia looked at her with wide eyes.

The former is the one who can't believe that Buxiao will go to the Ice Wolf Castle to rescue the demons, and the latter can't believe that he doesn't know anything about such a thing.

"Alchemy requires skilled craftsmen." Bu smiled and touched the alchemy weapon in his hand, "As far as I know, the alchemy of the demon clan is very developed. ”

"Yes, I brought a lot of people who are good at alchemy to Ice Wolf Castle." Hei Ningxue was even a little excited, "I didn't expect you to be willing to save them......"

"It's not hard to save people." Bu smiled and sat down looking at Hei Ningxue, "The difficulty is to save people's hearts." ”

Hei Ningxue licked her lips, this is something she deeply understands: "I took great pains to take them away, but they abandoned me at the last moment......"

"In the world of demons," Buxiao suddenly asked, "you should also be considered a nobleman?" ”

The real power in the demon clan is the Dark Seven Sages, and most of the twenty-four generals to whom Hei Ning Xue belongs laugh at themselves as just high-ranking soldiers. But if you really stand at the bottom of the demon race, it is not an exaggeration to say that it is a nobleman.

Seeing Hei Ningxue's dull eyes, she didn't smile and asked, "Do you think commoners would believe in a nobleman for no reason?" ”

The question was like a lightning bolt striking Black Snow's head, and she suddenly realized where the root of the problem was: maybe she could be kind to Glista, but what about the demons outside the castle?

When they were poor, all they saw was the richly dressed Black Snow enjoying life in the Ice Wolf Castle. How could they believe in themselves like this?

Hei Ningxue hurriedly asked, "Then what should I do to gain their trust?" ”