Holm led the way, leading the three men out of the confines of Leadcity. Several times along the way, he tried to speak, but was stopped by Dierrando gesturing. It wasn't until they left the city and ran north along the Nanfeng Road that they turned onto a hill and reached a platform surrounded by green trees and grass in the middle of the mountain, and everyone remained silent.

The platform has a great view of the city and a stretch of the coast, surrounded by thick trees, crisp air, and a small stream running by, although it is a hot afternoon, and the temperature here is a little cooler than elsewhere.

Homlema stopped, pointed to the woods behind him, and said, "There are many wild beasts in this generation, such as deer, bears, and wild boars, do you think it's okay?"

Diarrando rolled over and dismounted, walked up to Holm and said, "Close your eyes." ”

Although Holm didn't understand, he obediently closed his eyes. After a while, he felt something cool touch the place where his neck met the back of his head, and he heard a little grunting sound in his ears.

He was curious to death, but he didn't dare to disobey Diarlandor's order, but fortunately, soon Diarlando's voice sounded: "You can open your eyes." ”

Holm looked and saw that Kenda and Martin had jumped off their horses, now spreading out the packed food, looking like a picnic. Diarlando, on the other hand, turned his back to himself and was looking thoughtfully at the landscape in front of him.

"Your Highness, how did you investigate at noon, did you catch the handle of that witch? It seems that something touched me just now?" Holm touched his neck and turned over and dismounted. After holding it for a long time before he could speak, Holm poured out all the questions at once.

With a loaf of bread in his mouth, Diarrando turned around and looked at him, and said vaguely, "You just had a speculum on the back of your head, but fortunately, I've already got rid of it." ”

He had just closed Holm's eyes just now in order to release Ryses to check if there were any of the Bran's surveillance bugs nearby. The young dragon was particularly interested in these monsters that were contaminated with the breath of the Demon Dragon King, and they were very happy to eat it when they found out.

However, the young dragon's affairs were to be kept secret, so Deirlandor ordered him to close his eyes. Four people and four horses, only Holm has it, and I don't know if this listener has been attached to Holm. If it's always there, then last night's night visit to the underground caverns could be leaked.

Then his own weapons, as well as the form of the young dragon, were no longer a secret to the Zanayans......

Thinking of this, Diarlando stuffed two more cakes into his mouth in annoyance, turning his annoyance into appetite. However, judging from the phone call between Mina's maid and Zanaya at noon, it seems that they have not yet discovered Holm's little secret. Now I can only pray that the voyeur that was eaten just now has not had time to return the information.

"Peep...... Peep?" Holm asked, inexplicably.

Diarlando gestured with his hand: "It's about a bundle of small gray bugs as thin as hair, which can monitor you, and it was released by the maid named Mina." ”

Holm wanted to ask, but Dearlando motioned for Kenda to explain to him while he concentrated on eating. Kenda briefly talked about the noon harvest, and Holm was dumbfounded, he had never thought that the monsters of Bran, so far away from Ebony City, would appear in his home. Worry and anxiety clearly welled up on the young man's cheeks, and several pimples on Holm's face became extremely red and bright because of the excitement of emotion.

After listening to Kenda's description, he turned his head and anxiously asked Deirlandor what to do?

Diarrando, who was bitterly struggling, waved his hand and motioned for him to wait. After pouring down the mouthful of the roast sandwich with half a bottle of goat's milk, Deirrando let out a long breath and took out the counterfeit Grud Ring from his hand and tossed it to Home.

"Come, what's the difference between this one and yours?"

Holm was startled when he saw it, looked up and asked suspiciously, "weishenme, you will have ...... Alas, no, it's a fake!" the ring could be seen as real at first glance, but on closer inspection, Holm immediately noticed the difference.

"Oh, what's the difference, and how important is this ring, can you tell me what it means to your family?" Diarrando immediately stood up, and leaned over to Holm's side to wait for him to point out the problem.

Holm rotated the ring three hundred and sixty degrees on his hand and looked at it carefully, and then said, "It's already very similar, but there should also be a faint sign of our city crest under the ring, which needs to be seen from a special angle." ”

"When I was a child, on the day of the festival of light, my mother would bring the women of the castle to pray for the blessing of the territory. Sunlight shines through the flowered windows in the castle into the underground auditorium, shining right on the praying mother. Then a golden emblem will be reflected on the ring surface, covering the ceiling of the entire underground auditorium. ”

Turning the ring in his hand, Holm let the sunlight rotate on it until the angle of the hidden relief of the city crest should have appeared, and pointed it out to Dearlando.

The young man said sadly: "At that time, my mother was very beautiful, I originally ran to peek, but at that time I couldn't help but come out to see the ring, she was a little embarrassed, but she still satisfied me." That was the only time she had taken the ring off since she got married...... I was five years old. ”

Holm paused, his voice a little choked: "...... But by the time of the Winter Frost Festival, my mother was already sick and couldn't get out of bed, so I only saw that ceremony once. I still remember her gently holding me in her arms, then putting the ring on my thumb and telling me this little secret about the ring. ”

Diarlando patted Holm soothingly and asked, "Weishenme they want to pray?"

Holm shook his head and said, "I don't know, and my father doesn't quite know, it seems to be a tradition passed down from ancestors. This prayer is to be prayed every year during the festival of sunlight in the summer and the festival of frost in the winter, as if to calm the coast, enrich the fish, and make the fertile fields around the castle better harvested. ”

Martin quickly asked, "Then who will do this after your mother dies?"

"My mother hasn't had such a ceremony for fifteen years since she died," Holm said. This ring is passed down from generation to generation by the hostess of the castle, and this ceremony can only be performed by the hostess. My grandmother passed away before I was born, so there has been no hostess in the city all these years. ”

Kenda cleared her throat and said, "As far as I know, many territories have ceremonies where the most honorable women in the family preside over the ritual of praying to the goddess Mona, and our family also has it, maybe their customs are similar to this?"

Dearlando took the ring back from Holm's hand and said thoughtfully, "I've heard what you said Kenda, but no one has ever required a token to perform a ceremony. ”

After speaking, he turned his head to look at Holm: "Holm, my current jihua is, and I quietly changed your father's real ring at night." In this way, even if the worst is planned, the wedding is completed, and they will not get the ring. ”

"And with the real ring in my hands, I can ask an expert to see what the mystery is on it. If we had figured out why they needed rings earlier, we might have been able to stop the wedding. With that, Diarrando handed the ring to Holm and asked him to check it again.

Holm took a closer look, and this time when he turned the ring to a very side angle, he saw a wavy red heart crest looming, exactly as he had described. Holm looked at Diarlando in surprise, but the other party's eyes told him that he would not get any results if he asked, so he had to swallow the question back into his stomach silently.

"When will it be possible for your father to put this close-fitting ring down?, do you have a way to find a chance to exchange the real thing?" Diarlando asked Holm seriously, after all, Holm was the only son of the Earl, the closest person, and only he could do such a thing.

Holm's face fell in embarrassment: "I can't say it either, I just know that my father has always been very close to important things. For example, the keys to important places in the castle are kept close to him, and he will only take them off when he bathes. And it's placed right next to the bathtub, so you can see it at any time. ”

"Then we can only wait for him to sleep and change quietly?" said Deirlandor to himself, "Hey, if you can't do it, you can just improvise." Go back and get some drugs or something, stun your father, and change the ring!"

Zuihou said this to Holm, who felt that something was wrong, but Deirlandor glanced at him and swallowed the protest back silently. With that, Dearrando began to destroy the food spread on the picnic cloth again.

Holm watched silently for a moment, marveling at the prince's appetite and wondering what he was going to do next. Is it really hunting?

After a few moments, the four packs of food he had brought were all eaten by Diarlandor, and he patted his stomach that had not changed a little, and then gave a new order to the three of them.

"Kenda, look for suitable prey nearby, Martin, you take me to the sky to see the surrounding environment, I have a guess......"

Holm, who had been holding back for a long time, couldn't help but ask, "Then what am I doing?"

Diarrando looked at him and smiled, "Look at our horses, otherwise how will we carry the prey back if we run away?"

Martin's figure emitted smoke from Holm's astonished gaze, and after the smoke passed, the figure of a young knight of medium stature was replaced by a huge golden eagle. The giant eagle ran two steps, flapped its wings and soared into the sky, let out a loud eagle roar in the sky, glided around and swooped over the platform.

Dearlando ran a few steps, jumped on horseback, and jumped on the back of the eagle with ease. After a gust of wind, a man and an eagle had risen high into the blue sky and turned into a small black dot.

Temporary dinner, late update, sorry. By the way, another thing, I don't know which lovely readers voted for me for the best author of the Golden Keyboard Awards, thank you so much. But my votes are so small, why don't you vote for this book~ Anyway, this book is still ranked about sixty in the fantasy category? With your help, maybe you can enter the top fifty~~xiexie you.