Although he was only an inferior shepherd, he was also a direct descendant of the Great Khan, and belonged to the herdsmen of the Golden Horde, so that his sheep could enjoy the rich water and grass of the royal pasture, even if it was the periphery, it was enough for the sheep to eat fat and strong, and those unfortunate shepherds with mixed surnames could only look for that poor shelter in the pasture outside the Dragon Crocodile Valley, maybe how to starve to survive the next half a year of winter, maybe the whole family would die in this winter。

Krurod, the sacred place, where only the strong can survive, the warriors do not shy away from the existence of death, but use it as a process of selection. So even though Benny was only in his early teens, he had seen this kind of thing last year...... Like his fathers, he thought it was not strange that those who were not able to protect themselves and their herds were nothing more than losers, and that those who succeeded or, if they failed, should die.

Therefore, he didn't understand what this princess wanted to say to him.

There was no chance to figure it out, because Her Royal Highness had already waved the cane in her hand at this time, and then disappeared into a circular light and shadow, leaving only the young man himself to look at the fading luster, feeling the slight residual wetness and warmth on his forehead, and a slight fragrance.

It wasn't until a hint of rain in the sky hit his cheeks that he finally woke up from his stupor, and hurried to the direction of his house with the sheep that were almost about to run away.

"Good smell ......"

Drive the flock back to the fold. The boy tiredly burrowed into the felt bag, only to find his mother boiling a large pot of thick milk: "What's going on...... Who's got another child in the house?"

"Silly Az, it's the Great Khan who is going to marry his daughter!"

"Eminem...... You say the Great Khan wants to marry his daughter?" a rumbling thunder fell from the sky at this time. I wanted to make the whole ground shake a little, so that Benny shook his head before he finally felt a little sober: "But, but Princess Cecilia wasn't last year, no, she just got married the year before last?"

"This stupid ......," the son's frightened and trembling voice caused the woman to look up from the milk pot and stare at him strangely, "Princess Cecilia is an oracle, and she is the queen of Tumenis. Where can I get married? Of course, it's Princess Lando. ”

"Ah......h

Benny let out a long sigh of relief, but then remembered something: "But, I remember her...... It's about my age......"

"The children of noble families. Marry early and enjoy happiness early. and do not work, do not hinder it. The woman replied calmly, not interested in discussing it: "Ada said that it was a reward from the Great Khan, who had lost ten sheep's tribute. So I'm going to cook you some yogurt balls to eat today. Silly Az, go wash your hands and help me turn the pot. I'm going to get those two crazy little Azzies back. If you don't come back at this time, you're as crazy as you!"

"That'...... Where's Oh?"

He took the fur again and went to change the wine. My own mare's milk wine is too sour, hmph! It's not as much work as you Azi, you know how to drink, this bag!"

The mother's complaint was unbearable, so the boy had to go and take the spoon from his mother's hand. The dried milk made from the cow's milk is looser than the fresh dried milk. Not so fragrant, but can fill the stomach also has a sweet and sour taste, in the herdsman's house is already considered a first-class delicacy, just want to boil a large pot of milk, there is no one or two hourglasses are not enough, and constantly add firewood, stirring is also a hard work, but not often can eat. Especially when the milk soup becomes a soft and elastic milk paste, it has a very fragrant taste, although it is not a good product, but it is quite sweet and delicious to eat a little. However, perhaps because he had already filled his stomach, Benny was not in the mood to grab it with his younger siblings today, but he listened to the louder and louder sound of rain outside beating on the yurt, and the work under his hands was very boring, and on two occasions he almost stopped burning the bottom of the pot.

The boy has never seen Princess Lando, there are many sons of the Great Khan, but there are only two daughters, this little princess is said to be a sister born to Cecilia by the same mother, they are all as beautiful, but eleven or twelve-year-old girls, it seems that they can't think of anything with 'marrying', what those nobles think, no one always understands, but Benny now finally knows why Princess Cecilia suddenly came to him today and said so many strange things to him.

I must be very unhappy, I heard that she and her sister are very good, her mother is dead, only this sister is the dearest, and now her sister is suddenly getting married.

She seems to be talking about someone, but who is that?

The princess seems to be crying because of him, that guy must be a very bad bad person, ah, it would be nice if the princess said who he is, so I can find a way to clean him up, Daddy still has a bow there, and he can almost pull it away now, although he can't shoot a few arrows, but he shoots quite accurately, as long as it's for the princess......

The boy's ramblings came to no avail, and all he had to wait for was that when evening came, the rain became heavier and heavier, and beat on the roof of the yurt, as if the real Barontra had come.

Maybe after a while, they will be busy reinforcing the yurt and digging the drainage ditch, and the family will be busy until dark...... Even when he was roasting in the fire and drinking hot milk porridge, it was still very cold, and then his father, who was awakened by the rain, had to curse incessantly, scolding the monster for the ghost weather, scolding his wife for being lazy and not preparing pasture, scolding the swordsmen and spearmen who collected taxes, and scolding the Great Khan for mingling with the well-meaning Tumenians who were not bad, and exchanging the good horses of the shepherds for the good things in his own tent, but not caring about the lives of the shepherds' people...... On weekdays, as long as these words are heard by those sword guards and spear guards, they will be caught and whipped to death, and only when it rains heavily can he let go of the scolding...... No one can hear it anyway.

When he was a child, Ah Da scolding people in the rain always scared Benny. But then, he felt more and more that it was really boring to do so. Very...... Cowardice, just like scolding a cow or a sheep, they don't care anyway, they can only appear to be scolding people, very timid.

"Gu Ge Xin (wife), Gu Ge Xin is coming out. There's a guest at home!"

A roar of hula and a roar of hula pierced the tent, causing Benny to jump to his feet with a thrill, and then noticed his father rushing in in the rain. shouted and screamed, but there were three people behind him.

Three people I don't know.

Although the number of those who obeyed the orders under the Golden Horde was heard to be in the tens of thousands, Krurod had always been sparsely populated, and the shepherds knew each other only a few dozen people...... But these three people. Benny had never seen it—no need to take a second look. The teenager knew they weren't from the neighborhood.

Whether it's a shepherd, or a sword guard and a spear guard...... There is no such Krurod.

The man who followed his father was a young man, dressed in very thin clothes, who looked no more than a little taller than Benny, and looked exactly like a Tumenian...... Although Benny had only seen a few Tumenians in the Great Gathering, he knew that they were all like this—white, thin, and cowardly-looking, but often smirking at the shepherds' finest sheepskins and jerky with their bargains worth a few copper plates. Replace the tattered copper plate with a brand new one.

This guy is like that, too. In particular, his face looks very young and wrinkle-free. But the hair was pale and pale, like an old man, and under the half-length hair, the eyes were bright and bright, like a very ...... Those thieves who do horses!

Of course, there is no such thing as a thief in the world, and Benny doesn't know what to say about this guy - he just thinks this guy is a terrible bad guy. I can't say what's bad, but it's just bad.

The man who followed him wore a large long cloak, not a leather cloak, made of a kind of snow-white muslin, and it was the first time that Benny had seen such a thin, slippery cloth, and the first time he had seen someone wearing clothes that would wrap his whole body in it, and even his face was hidden in the long hood. Rather, the three men looked like little children, carried in the arms of the man dressed in white, and wrapped in a large, soft cloak, and the top of their heads was covered by a hood, but the cloak was black, and only a piece of hair flowed from the hood, as bright as the gold that the nobles carried.

"No need to do this, just borrow your tent to shelter from the rain, show us the way out, and we'll go when the rain stops." ”

"Oh, where is this, when you arrive at your own pasture, you are your own guests, where is there a person who drives away guests in Krurod? It just so happens that the Great Khan has also lost his tribute today, and I will go get a sheep to celebrate, don't be in a hurry to leave, just treat it as your own home." ”

Kill a sheep?

I heard that a long time ago, this was the custom of the herdsmen, because the pastures were uncertain, and it was difficult for the herdsmen to see their friends, but now in the vicinity of the Golden Horde, where else would anyone do that?

Although a shepherd's family often has hundreds of cattle and sheep, they cannot eat meat regularly, and the cattle and sheep are the only support they have to support themselves. Meat comes from cattle, horses, and sheep that die naturally, and even if the Great Khan loses ten sheep, the tribute is a very good reward for a family of servants...... However, Benny has known recently that this is actually not good, because of this kind of big event, there will be a lot of drinking and feasting on the royal court's side, and more sheep will be killed, and then those sword guards and gun guards will not desperately want to deduct more, and in the end it is already a lot to be able to hand over two or three sheep less than in previous years, so even if it encounters such a good thing, the mother will make some dried yogurt to celebrate, and eating meat is definitely not to think about it.

But now to kill sheep for the sake of these three people?

Benny gritted his teeth, looked at the red on his swarthy face, and knew that he must have drunk too much of the wine that the Krurodians had gotten, and he had been deceived by these two men in some unknown ways, but he did not dare to refute it, otherwise his father would have been furious and would have to beat him.

So the young man could only sit on the side angrily, staring at the two uninvited guests with wide eyes, and kept muttering in his heart, hoping that they could be cheeky and refuse more, so that Ah Da would not be so drunk. Unfortunately, it backfired, and the father took the mother away to kill the sheep, and the two fellows sat in the tent with a big grin. There is no awareness of being troublesome.

Looking at it, he suddenly knew that something was wrong...... It was raining so hard outside, and my father's clothes were soaking wet, but there was not a drop of water on the clothes he was wearing, whether it was the oily fellow, or his well-hidden companion, or the little imp running around. No mud at all!

Listening to the stories told by those old people, there is a very cunning monster called a shapeshifter, and it likes to become a human to eat people......

I'm thinking so cranky. But the man suddenly spoke to him.

"Now, little one, your father just said that the Great Khan has great joys. What kind of happy event?"

"You're the little one! The Great Khan is going to marry his daughter!"

"Oh. Which Great Khan is your Great Khan?"

"Which Great Khan? Is there a second Great Khan of Krurod?"

"Well, then, which daughter is your Great Khan going to marry?"

"What else do you know?"

Benny was in no mood to talk to this weird guy at all, but the other party was in the mood for a while, endlessly, making him less and less vocal, and in the end he was humming indiscriminately, and at this time his voice suddenly stopped - in front of him. The little kid dressed in black didn't know when he had jumped from the arms of the man in white and tore off his hood. showed a very good-looking face...... Her skin was as white as snow and her hair was as white as gold, and what was even stranger was that her two eyes were actually different colors. Benny's gaze matched those eyes, and he couldn't help but be a little stunned, and even forgot to speak.

But this girl just looked left and right, as if she was very curious about the qiē around her, and seemed to stop paying attention to it no matter what she had seen...... With a sniffle, she suddenly turned her gaze to Benny's sister, and seemed to be interested in the piece of jerky yogurt that the little girl about her age was holding, so she slowly leaned over and unexpectedly snatched the food and stuffed it into her mouth!

The little girl who had been robbed of her snacks burst into tears, but the marauder frowned as well, chewed it twice and spit it out. As soon as he turned around, he jumped back into the arms of the man in white, and didn't look at the mess that had been caused, which made the white-haired young man shake his head and sigh a few times. Finally Benny reacted, and took another piece of jerky stuffed to his sister to stop her piercing cry.

But in this way, these three people naturally became even more annoying in the eyes of the little herdsmen.

Thankfully, the man stopped asking questions, and the tent fell silent. But the silence didn't last long before it was broken by a rumbling that gradually echoed on the ground.

The rumbling sound was much lighter than the muffled thunder in the sky, but it was continuous, it was the sound of the horse's hooves—just this might, but it was far from being something that one or two riders could do, Benny couldn't help but subconsciously clench his fists, as a shepherd boy, he naturally heard that the sound of the horse's hooves was getting louder and louder from far to near, and it was running straight in the direction of the yurt! Moreover, it was messy and mixed, and for a while he didn't know how many riders there were?

In the midst of this pouring rain, what is the urgency that requires the call of this number of knights?

Are they the horse thieves?

But where did the robbers come from to be so bold as to dare to move a hundred miles around the Golden Horde?

Could it be the Great Khan's swordsmen and spearmen, but what are they doing in the midst of this heavy rain?

The sound of the horses' hooves suddenly stopped after a great end, and turned into a series of neighing of healthy horses, and the firelight jumped, reflecting the surrounding area of the felt bag into a red light, and then in a few stabbing and tearing sounds, one of the walls of the felt bag was torn open a large gap!

"No...... It's none of our business, it's this guy......"

The light of the tallow torches danced in the rain, and the dim light reflected the tall horses and leather armor and leather helmets with murderous awe, and Benny busied himself with pulling his siblings behind him, and then retreated to the corner of the tent, convinced that this must have been the three cunning Tumenians in front of him who had done something to cause this disaster, but he did not expect that the knights were not interested in looking at the strangers at all, but only shouted loudly.

"There's a little imp named Benny here, which one is it? Get out of here!"

How could it be yourself?

The sudden change made the little herdsman's eyes widen and he was at a loss for a moment, and by this time, his parents had rushed over and knelt in front of the group of knights, kowtowing repeatedly, intending to ask what had happened...... But of course, after a long gallop in the rain, the knights were not interested in listening to the cries of this pair of inferior shepherds of both men and women, but were quite impatient because of it, so they whipped their hands and slashed their heads and faces, and beat the two men to roll in the rain and scream!

The screams of his parents were so sharp that Benny couldn't stand still, but just as he was about to break out of the rain, a hand pressed his shoulder. ，

"Can you ask what this kid has done that requires the guards to be so anxious to find him?" (To be continued......)