Bebith and Linton watched in horror from the walls.

Bibith beat his chest and just cursed twice, when he saw Hei Ningxue glance back at them. This sight frightened them and hurriedly squatted down to hide, for fear of attracting a bunch of fireballs to slap their faces.

Seeing that they were hiding quite quickly, Hei Ningxue pursed her lips and walked towards the recruits with a feather fan. "Well done warriors." She laughed, "I will ask the princess to reward you heavily." ”

Nacian and the others followed her gaze and saw Lydia with Fili and Danica and a large group of soldiers coming out of the ambush corners, helping them tie up the captured cavalry.

"This is the best recruit I've ever seen." Lydia smiled and said, "Looks like I can give you more important tasks." ”

Hearing this, Bud was overjoyed, patted his chest and said, "Don't worry, princess, our brothers will definitely work hard." ”

Eggers put one hand on Nacian's shoulder and punched Krohn with the other: "Right, big hammer? ”

Crohn smirked, "Of course. ”

Everyone smiled, but Nacian couldn't help but smile uneasily.

Brothers?

He used to have many brothers and sisters, and the second prince, Babu, was once his most trusted brother. But how does it end?

Under Babu's deception, the eldest brother rushed into the demon ambush circle, and was finally killed after being besieged for three hours; The youngest brother was sent to the Demon Island and became the concubine of the Demon Lord, in exchange for the support of the Demon Clan.

Even the eldest princess, who has always been indifferent to power, and their own sister Maria, are imprisoned in a dark dungeon by Babu's design, and are said to have been defiled by him.

And the dim-witted and incompetent father, Nacian knew that he was not overly saddened by the death of the "Thousand-Faced Enchantress", but that the second prince Babu and the "Protector of the Archmage" secretly used dark magic to secretly take his life.

It wasn't until all this had been blamed on Nacian that the royal gendarmes stormed his castle to arrest him that he really saw Babu's face.

His own brother's face.

At this moment, these few people who have known each other for a long time have already called him brothers?

As if sensing that something was wrong with Nacian's face, Eggers glared at him, "What, you don't want to be brothers with me?" Then I'll give you a knife below, how about we be sisters? ”

Bard turned around and snapped his fingers on her head: "In front of the princess, be serious!" ”

Just then, a sentry came to report: "There is a group of men and horses approaching in the northeast, as if they were wandering merchants. ”

"Oh?" Lydia didn't expect such a variable, "Take these captives down first, and we'll go over and see who they are." ”

With that, she rushed over with the group.

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Sure enough, on the black and white horizon, a group of plainly dressed people, their alpacas were loaded with goods, carrying simple luggage, and walking in a straight line from a distance.

The leading merchant saw the man from afar, and sang the merchant's ballad in a loud voice:

"The frame is full of heavy and heavy cloths and satins.

My alpacas are getting tired, so the girls come around and have a look. ”

The merchants behind him also sang in unison:

"The stalls are set up next to the wheat fields, and the fine goods are jingling.

The iron armor of the steel capital is worn to ensure that you move forward bravely;

The royal silk scarf is around the shoulders, and you are the most beautiful in the ball.

Come and see, come and buy, there are a lot of good things here. ”

This made Hei Ningxue stunned, "These people who are singing and dancing, are they sure they are a caravan?" ”

"You have lived in the deep palace for a long time, and you don't know the people's feelings." Lydia finally regained her home advantage and taunted her severely, "It's called 'merchant tunes', and the wandering merchants of this world will make up tunes for their wares and sing and sell them. ”

Hei Ningxue was rarely deflated, and asked a little unconvinced, "You know it very well." ”

Lydia had wandered for a while, and was naturally familiar with this routine, "People like you who don't understand the market will definitely suffer a loss." ”

"Oh?" Hei Ningxue was surprised, "It's not like I haven't been to the market, but I haven't heard anyone singing and buying things." ”

"Really?" Lydia cleared her throat, and a slightly hoarse melody rose in an instant:

Carrying an empty bamboo basket, I passed by a stall full of goods.

Seeing the beautiful garland, I pinched the flat money bag.

Peel a few beans for you to taste, can the price be calculated? ”

The group of merchants had approached, and they laughed at the sound of Lydia's singing. The leading merchant laughed and sang:

"A kind-hearted girl, eating a few beans is panicking.

The merchant has a small profit, so you need to buy more - I won't be busy in vain. ”

With that, the merchant had already come to Lydia's and saluted her respectfully, "It is rumored that the 'Princess of Fire' has compassion for the poor, and I never thought that you would answer me personally. ”

As he spoke, one of the women in red under him untied her veil, smiled and picked up a glittering ruby, and presented it to Lydia with both hands.

The caravan members took off their hoods one by one and saluted Lydia. The leader of the caravan pointed to the ruby and said, "This is a rare treasure, and it just needs a hero like you to possess it." ”

The gem was the size of an egg, and the sergeants on both sides couldn't help but have a trace of greed in their hearts.

Lydia waived their courtesy and said with a smile: "The military discipline of the Red Pavilion is not to take the people's property. ”

The merchant leader hurriedly said, "This is not 'taking', it is our voluntary offering. ”

Lydia couldn't refuse, so she simply put her hands behind her back, "You merchants are all sharp-toothed, I'm afraid I can't talk about you." All I can say is: If this is known to the 'Lord of the Red Pavilion' in my family, who is not good at words, I believe he will chop off my hand. ”

In fact, everyone understands that if you don't laugh, you won't care about this kind of thing at all. What's more, in the bard's mouth, "Hell Hades" and "Princess of Gunfire" are already a heart-to-heart couple, so all this is just Lydia's excuse.

Faced with such a precious treasure, Lydia actually refused without the slightest hesitation. Nacian on the side watched all this in surprise, but found that everyone seemed to have become accustomed to it.

Lydia smiled again and asked, "Where are the 'Ahsan' families?" ”

In fact, this "home" does not refer to where their home is, but to ask them where the business came from and where it is going.

The leading merchant calmly replied, "In Shimomaya, the family is at the foot of the volcano, and we want to return to the dust." ”

Lydia nodded slightly, and whispered, "This journey is bumpy, what's the matter?" ”

Mamaya smiled knowingly, and replied in a strange tone, "The sunset, the rocks, the stars, and the wild flowers are all things that the sand people need. ”

"That's precious." Lydia asked, "Where is the long neck tonight?" ”

Momayed let out an "oops" and sighed, "I wanted to lie outside the 'Blue Rock City' for one night, but I didn't expect Her Royal Highness the Princess to 'block the door' here, and a few of us haven't landed yet." ”

Seeing that he answered fluently, Lydia nodded with satisfaction and said, "Fili, let them build a shed outside our barracks for the night, but they can't sell it in the barracks." ”

In this conversation just now, not only Hei Ningxue was dumbfounded, but even Eggers and Kron, who were born as civilians, could hear the clouds, not to mention Nasian, who had been living in the castle, was simply confused.

A few people returned to the tent and were still discussing what they had just said.

Bard smiled, "You young people are still young, and you can't understand this simple merchant code: that merchant is from the steel capital, and he wants to go to the scrap capital to do business. So it's from the foot of the volcano, to the center of the dust. ”

Eggers suddenly realized, and then asked, "What is the glow, the stone, or what?" ”

Bard explains: "The glow and the stone are the shawls and armor of which he sings; The stars are gems, and wildflowers are herbs, seasonings, and spices, referring to the goods he brought with him. ”

Nacian continued to scratch his head, "I understand that, but what is a 'long neck'?" ”

Bard laughed, "Why are you as stupid as Crohn?" What animal has the longest neck in his team? ”

Eggers reacted immediately, and hurriedly sneered: "Of course it's the alpaca, the princess asked 'where the alpaca is lying', she should be asking where they live tonight." ”

"Or Eggers is smart." Bud laughed, "In times of war, occasionally an enemy will come and pretend to be a businessman to come and investigate, or even make a surprise attack. So this kind of simple code language, you all need to know something, you can roughly confirm the identity of the other party. ”

As night fell, Nacian and the warriors of the boot camp drank wine around a campfire. In the midst of the staggering and laughter of the soldiers, Nacian experienced for the first time this sense of security, without deception and without defense.

Perhaps this was the most memorable warm atmosphere in his memory.

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The merchant leader, Momayed, repeatedly invited Lydia to dinner.

As a half-social terrorist, Lydia repeatedly shirked it, and decided to launch an ancestral skill: selling teammates. happened to see Hei Ningxue smiling as a "socialite", and pushed her out without saying a word.

"They are going to feast on Lydia, the 'Princess of Fire', what qualifications does the little girl have to attend in your place?" Hei Ningxue said that she was unwilling, but her body was very honest - she turned around and took out a few shiny accessories from the jewelry box and put them up.

Lydia knew that the more she talked to her, the easier it would be for her to take her into the ditch, so she simply played the scoundrel: "This is the question you should think. After saying that, he turned around and left, saying that he was going to inspect the defense of the barracks.

At night, the barracks were quiet and orderly, with patrolling soldiers marching in orderly formations, and sentries observing the surroundings from the watchtowers.

Lydia's military camp was very rigorously arranged, not only with open and secret posts, but also with "protective posts", and the three of them guarded each other, which was specially designed to prevent the enemy from touching the posts and assassinating them.

Suddenly, there was movement on a watchtower, and a sentry picked up a torch and waved it in the air a few times, then pointed in a north-west direction.

The officer in charge of the night guard ordered two cavalry squads to go forward to check, and saw that it was a group of fleeing refugees.

As ordered, they immediately reported Lydia and took the outcasts to the main tent where Lydia was waiting for them.

"It's strange, it's almost midnight, how can anyone still approach?" Lydia was incredulous and hurried back to her camp's tent.