Chapter 24: Exploring the City at Night
"Isn't that thing supposed to be extinct for thousands of years?" asked Dearlando, puzzled.
Fayer didn't bother to reply to him, reached out and flipped the small hourglass that was placed aside, and began to restart a new round of timekeeping.
"Okay, you study slowly, and I'll ask Achille to bring you dinner. I'll go inside the castle in the evening, and if there's any news, I'll come back quietly before you leave in the early morning. ”
Fayle "en" for a moment to indicate that he had heard it, and continued to study the flying filaments intently, without turning his eyes away. Dearrando had no choice but to draw the curtain and turn to follow Luna and Achille to dinner.
Everyone in the group heard that Diarrando was going to climb to the big shot, and they congratulated and joked, of course, there were some people with mixed feelings of jealousy and reassurance, such as the flying knife man Cavram who had a crush on the leader. After a lively and warm dinner, Dearlando ran to say goodbye to Zoya.
Zoya was leisurely sipping juice on the recliner in front of her huge carriage when she saw Diarlando coming, waved her arms gracefully, and motioned for Diarlando to sit down in another chair.
"I think we need to be apart for a while~ Beautiful Zoya. Dearlando sat down and began to chat with Zoya in a relaxed and comfortable posture.
"Fate brings us together and we part, and I'm sure we'll see each other soon. With a faint smile, Zoya took a sip of her golden drink and gently responded to Dearlando's opening remarks.
"So where is the circus going next? Maybe I'm done here, and I'll chase you. "Diarrando threw the problem straight - the mysterious Zoya, the confused attitude, if you want to go around in circles, I guess she is not her opponent.
Zoya gently held her graceful chin with her free hand, thought for a moment, and then spit out a short name from her plump lips: "Garin~"
"What?" said Deirlando, sitting up in surprise, surprised by the name of the place Zoya had mentioned.
"Do you know?" Zoya's eyes wandered, and she glanced at Diarlandor lightly, and asked curiously.
"Nothing...... Well, I know! That's my hometown. I didn't expect the circus to go to such a small place. Diarrando wanted to deny it at first, then paused and confessed again.
Zoya propped herself up with her arms with great interest, leaned on the armrest of the chaise longue and approached Diarlando and began to ask, "Really, weren't you born in Augustus?"
"It's a long story, I didn't spend my childhood in Augustus...... But Garin ...... Garin: I also have a decade...... I haven't been back for 12 years. ”
Diarlando looked thoughtfully ahead, and for a moment seemed to be caught up in his own thoughts. But soon he gathered his energy again, and asked Zoya instead: "Where is Weishenme going? There are many rich cities all the way north here, and it seems ...... to detour to Garin."
"Doesn't seem to be in the interest?" Zoya filled in his words understandingly. The evening breeze ruffled Zoya's abundant red curls, making Zoya's smile ambiguous and deep. Zoya put her hand around her neck and pulled on a black leather rope that hung there.
Diarrando knew she was carrying a chain from the first time he met Zoya, but never saw her take it out. When the long leather rope was completely pulled out, a quaint round shell box with delicate carvings fell out, looking a bit like a hanging watch.
Zoya put down the wine glass in her hand, then held the small box in both hands, covered it for a moment, and opened it for Deirlando. When the lid of the shell is opened, there is a smooth piece of mother-of-pearl inside, which is warm and delicate. The word "Garin" on the body of the flower is set on the mother-of-pearl like a turquoise gemstone.
"My mother gave it to me and told me it would lead me to the right direction in life. Zoya gently closed the box again and put it back inside her loose robe. Then she lay back down, took her juice, and took a sip of it.
"Xiexie, your trust in me~" Diarlando stood up, walked over to Zoya's side, bent down and kissed Zoya on the forehead. Zoya suddenly reached out and flicked Diarlandor's head, and said angrily, "Kiss the wrong place, right?"
"I'll make it up next time we meet~" Dearlando grinned and took a step back, waving his hand goodbye to Zoya.
When Diarlando returned to Fayer's carriage, Fayle was still concentrating on the white filaments, but he had already fixed the filaments to the glass pieces and looked at them little by little with a magnifying glass. The dinner brought by Achille was ignored and left untouched.
Diarlando saw that Ill was still so immersed in it, and it was estimated that it would be in vain to ask, so he had to stretch out his arm and fish out Riess's rations, and then found a large leather bag and stuffed it in.
The goodbye to Achille was simple, and Diarrando just patted the boy on the shoulder and told him, "Practice healing Jishu well, I'm going to get rid of the monster that bit you, and then I'll go to you." Under the young man's touched gaze, Diarrando set out on the road to the castle.
At the checkpoints along the way, I have been notified that this young wandering mercenary is the newly recruited squire of the Kenda Knights, so his attitude is very different, and it is almost unimpeded. When he returned to Kenda's room, he found that the messy room had been cleaned up.
Kenda had apparently taken a shower and changed her clothes, and was sitting in a chair in front of the window, wiping her pair of short guns by candlelight. Seeing that Diarlando was back, he didn't stand up, but pointed to a pile of clothes next to him and said, "Your squire equipment~ I bought it from the city lord with the money." ”
Diarlando threw his bag on the ground, walked over and looked through it, pouted, and said, "Such a rough workmanship." ”
Kenda tilted her head to look at him, and quipped, "Remember your identity, it's good to have this, it's a full set anyway!" Diarrando pretended to be angry and kicked Kenda, who was easily dodged by Kenda.
"I went out and looked around the structure of the castle. Diarlando picked up the clothes and shook them out slowly. Kenda knew that Dearlando wanted to get close to the people inside the castle and find out the news. It's inconvenient for me to do it because of my identity, and now I only have to look at Deerlando's means.
Dearlando came out of Kenda's room, felt some dust in the corner, smeared his clothes on his face for a while, and then began to wander around without a goal.
The castle is built in the middle of a mountain, and most of the sky above it is covered by rocks, so it is a semi-open structure in some places, which is very peculiar. For example, on the floor where Kenda is located, there are several suspended corridors that connect the three main towers of the castle.
Kenda's room is in the right-wing tower of the castle, and it is likely that this one was mainly used to receive guests. The largest and tallest one in the middle was supposed to be the residence of the lord of the city and his family. I don't know what the tower on the far left is for, but from the perspective of the outside of the city, that part is connected to the slope of the mountain, and there are a number of lookout platforms, which seem to be more defensive and more defensive.
It was late at night, and there seemed to be no movement in the castle at night, as evidenced by the fact that the servants who had been on standby in the porch were gone. After a while, Diarrando was stopped by the guards.
"Who!" said two soldiers in light leather armor guarding the passage from the secondary tower to the main tower. When he saw Diarrando's figure, he immediately shouted and questioned his identity.
Deirlando graciously walked out of the torch-lit range, then raised his hands to signal that he was unarmed and unhostile.
"Hi, I'm Dill. The new squire of the Kenda Knight, who had just returned from outside, was tired and hungry, dirty and smelly in order to do errands for the Knight. When I replied, my master kicked me out and told me not to clean myself, so I had to sleep outside the door. ”
Diarrando smiled wryly and showed the stack of clothes in his hand to the guards, explaining why he was there.
"Then you should go down, the kitchen and water room are on the lowest floor!" Apparently the news of Kenda's arrival and Kenda's acceptance of his attendants had spread throughout the castle. The guard stepped forward to look at Deirlando's two differently colored eyes, let his guard down, and pointed Deirrando in the right direction.
"And how do I get there?" Diarlando scratched his hair in embarrassment, "It's huge, I've never seen such a majestic and tall building, and I don't know the way after a few turns." ”
The guards looked at each other for a moment, a contemptuous smile, and then the one on the left spoke, "You can't go behind us, the main tower is the living space of the city lord." From the direction you came, go down the stairs to the lowest floor, and then through the small square to the ground floor of the tower on the right. ”
"Aunt Carla in the kitchen is already asleep, right? The guard on the right interjected.
"But Sado, who watches the horses, should still be patrolling there, and if he's lucky, he might even find half a loaf of bread to eat. And at least there's a well over there that can make the poor fellow flush his body. The guard on the left pointed to the plaster on Dearlando's face.
"Xiexie brothers, is there anything else I need to pay attention to?" said Deirlando, blinking, and made a serious look.
"Don't stay on the third floor any longer, that's where Lady Pith rests!" the guard on the left suddenly remembered something, and then told Diarlando in a serious tone.
"Don't touch any of the animals you see in the castle, especially if the two eyes are different colors. Those are Miss Pith's pets, and missing a hair will cut off your head!" added the guard on the right.
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