Lu was a very peculiar man, he claimed to be from the East, and as for the specific place, he would not say. He has completely different martial arts and magical objects than those found on this continent, and even habits: for example, he likes to be neat, he likes to be comfortable, he likes to eat, he likes to help others, he likes to look at the stars above us at night when he is fine, and he also likes to listen to my stories.

I think Lu has experienced a lot of things, but he hides it in his heart and refuses to say it, Lu teaches me martial arts every day, but also teaches me the truth of doing things, and even teaches me to read and write. He was sometimes calm, sometimes like a child, with some strange thoughts, but I felt that he was more like my brother, my family, because he made me forget my old days as a slave, and made me a free man in the true sense of the word, rather than those orcs who only knew how to obey, kill, hunt, and blood.

Night Starry Moon (December) 5th [Night]

Lu and I didn't want to sleep in the wilderness, so we continued to hurry at night and met an old giant by the lake in the wilderness. Unlike his fellow herds and drives wild beasts, he looks sad, sitting alone on the shore of a white-smelling lake, surrounded by an old mammoth that has long since died, with countless wrinkles in his skin, his former jet-black hair and beard gray, and countless cracks and scratches on his body.

When we passed by his side, he didn't get up to drive us away, but just lifted his lowered head, looked at us quietly, and took it back again, but I read a feeling in his sad eyes ~ loneliness. From time to time, the old giant drove away the beasts and birds that wanted to beak at the mammoth's carcass, and when he had done this, he would return to the mammoth's side, stretching out his large rough hand and gently caressing the mammoth's skin, as if it were a rare treasure.

We paused and watched the elderly giant's movements. Lu said that perhaps this mammoth was the giant's partner and friend who grew up together from childhood to adulthood, and because of old age and powerlessness, the giant was driven out of his tribe, and it was the same old mammoth who accompanied him to run away. Probably because of his old age, the mammoth eventually died of old age on the road. The giant was reluctant to abandon his companions, choosing to spend his last days alone by its side.

Lu's words made me want to cry, and in order to hide my gaffe, I hurried to the roadside to collect a lot of flowers, spread them around the mammoth, and surrounded them in a circle. In the end, Lu raised his hand and released a ball of light, hovering above the mammoth, the ball of light was illuminated by the moonlight, and the light sprinkled was no longer cold, but it was a little warm, which made this sad night a little warm, he said, this is the blessing of the moonlight, looking forward to the great soul of the dead can get eternal life.

I hope that this light can bring some brilliance to the old giant's life in the future, maybe there is still hope in the dead heart.

Sunrise Moon (February) 1st [Sun]

Winter had passed, the Northland was still cold, and many places were still covered in snow and ice, and the merchant ships that had departed last year returned to the port early this morning, bringing local produce from the far south of the province of Morrowind to the east. The journey was boredom from the winter, so we had a good week's rest at the Tybersley Inn in Morningstar.

Wine, food, singing, dancing, troubadours, beautiful maids, enjoying the delicacies of Morrowind, and even blood dragon fruit from the Black Marsh, a gift for the Queen of Solitude. Of course, under the offensive of money, the merchant took out his private collection, in exchange for the consumption of money.

I complained to Lu that it was too unruly for us to spend all the gold coins that would last for several years in a week. Lu said with a smile, as a warrior or a warrior, the most important skill is to make money, and I need to master a skill to make money, when I asked him with joy what it is, Lu said that this skill is not set in stone, to be decided according to the local situation, and the solution he proposed is ~ mining!

I'm a laundry worker at a private mine in the mountains of Sailotir, and I'm all too familiar with it. I complained to Lu that this work was tiring and hard, but Lu said that the real martial arts masters all exercise their will in their daily ordinary work, such as chopping wood and farming, paving roads and bridges, carrying water and cooking, and mining is nothing.

I accepted Lu's advice with skepticism. As it turned out, I was wrong, and Lu quickly felt the presence of qi in my body through mining, and quickly became familiar with them. One by one, the repetitive movements connect the qi in my body and move through the body, and the whole body becomes hot and very energetic, and many movements that I can't normally do become smoother.

"Labor is the best teacher. Lu said, I wrote down this sentence and even fell in love with this kind of life a little.

Sunrise Moon (February) 17th [Sun]

Martial arts have progressed, strength has risen, the amount of mining per day is very large, and several small uninhabited mines nearby were quickly hollowed out by us, and the wallet was bulging again. I bought a new mine map from an adventurer, which was also an ownerless mine in a somewhat remote location.

Lu wants to pick medicinal materials for me, after every day of work, I have to bathe with the potion made of these medicinal materials, soak the whole body, so the amount is very large, Lu is in the wild to find, now mining has become the cultivation of martial arts, no longer a way to make money, so this new mine I went alone.

The path to the mine was remote and winding, and I jumped over the trees, using the trunk to avoid the brambles and shrubs on the ground. Suddenly, I smelled the smell of dried carrion, something human.

"The chaotic sky~The Holy Spirit is above, may the deceased rest in peace~" I muttered, jumped off the tree, and found that there was a big hole in the main trunk of the tree, which was relatively shallow, and you could see the bottom at a glance, and there were two white bones hugging each other tightly in the innermost.

I probed carefully, and there was no danger around, so I stooped closer, and there was a pungent smell that this tree hole should have been a burrowing bear's nest.

I looked closely at the two bones and found that there were multiple damages on them, and dried blood seeped into the cracks of the bones, indicating that this was caused by the previous life. The finger bones of the two were deeply embedded in each other's arm bones, and it seemed that the two were still hugging each other tightly in the face of the painful experience before death, and death did not really separate the two.

I rummaged around the bones, a little bigger, and it looked like a man's bones with a tattered leather next to it, dozens of gold coins, and nothing else, only two mutilated letters.

It reads:

x love xxx

xx father not xxxx, xxxxx. x stole xxx gold xx, private xxxxx!

xx your xx

There was only one word "good" on the other letter. The other was the skeleton of a woman, and I could guess what was going on. Two lovers who eloped with each other met a fierce beast in the wild, and when the danger came, no one abandoned anyone and buried themselves in the mouth of the beast together.

I placed a few red flowers and a few berries next to the bones, and I was about to go out. Suddenly, there was darkness behind him, and a gust of fishy wind came to his nose. The owner of the cave has returned! I turned around, and a burrowing bear, two meters high, stood up, blocking the sunlight from the cave entrance.

I was in a bad mood, so I snapped the burrowing bear's backbone, cut off its front paws and gallbladder, and continued mining.

In the evening, I came back and couldn't help but tell Lu what happened to me today, Lu sighed and told a little story he had encountered.

It is also a couple who met to elope, the woman took the package and waited for the arrival of the lover in the wilderness, but unfortunately the lover did not come, waiting for the murderous robber, how many sad stories are buried in the dry bones, whether the unknown lover deliberately missed the appointment, or for other reasons did not complete the appointment No one knows, only the bones of the poor woman in the mountains and forests are telling this hidden past.

"That's life. Remember, weakness is original sin. Whether you are in control of your life or being controlled by it depends on your strengths and weaknesses. Lu said this sentence at the end, and I took it to my heart.

Twilight Moon (November) 11th day

It's been a year since I traveled to Skyrim Province, and today is another gloomy and snowy day. Lu and I walked side by side on the snowy cobblestone streets of Wintercastle.

"The cold sun makes my stomach upset, and what a wonderful thing it would be to have a glass of wine at this time. Lu was familiar with the complaint around him, and now he didn't care at all except for wine and food. I turned and walked to the heavy oak doors of the Frozen Forge Tavern, intending to warm up with him for a bottle of Nord mead.

Sure enough, as usual, the coarse wood in the frozen furnace fireplace crackled in the flames. The air was filled with the smell of undershirts, gold coins, mammoth cheese and air-dried venison.

I walked over to the wooden table as usual, only to hear a drunken voice.

"Ahh

I followed the sound, and it was a drunken man crooked on a bench, his hair as oily as the placket of his chest. "It's a drunken beggar~" I silently made a definition in my heart.

"Take it, my friend. "I took out a bottle of wine from my package, which I was going to use to wash the blood off my hands.

Drunken Harry took it. "May the glory of Songard shine on you forever!" he cried out mutteredly, biting off the cork and pouring the sweet and sour liquor into his mouth, humming something with pleasure.

I called the hostess, "Two bottles of Black Thorn Mead, by the way," and I pointed to Harry, "who is he?"

"He's Harry, he's been like that since his fiancée, Evelyn, ran away with a thief three years ago. "Emma, the hostess, was a famous bard when she was younger. The passage of time took away her beauty, but not her soft voice, and as she spoke, she looked at the drunken man in the distance.

"It's a pity... Is it love again..."I thoughtfully poured a glass of honey and walked over to Harry to hand it to Harry, "Would you like to talk to me about Evelyn?"

Harry's reaction was like someone had given him a blow to the head, "What!" he blushed, "They all said she ran away with a thief named Victor because I was too poor to give her a rich life... They're all talking nonsense, Evelyn would never abandon me because she was poor, she loved me as much as I loved her!" He even jumped up excitedly, trying to grab my clothes with his greasy, dirty hands, "You believe those frivolous too!huh?!"

"Relax man," I slapped Harry's dirty hand away, tiptoe tapping the crook of Harry's leg lightly, and the beggar-like man sat back in his place with a feeble look. "I have no ill intentions, I just want you to live well and not get drunk all day like this. ”

Harry slumped on the table, seemingly losing all his strength. "Live well. He muttered, "What's the point of life without Ivona?"

Watching Harry raise his glass again, I shook my head helplessly and returned to my place.

"Let's go to Rift City. An hour later, I made my decision, pushed open the door to the Frozen Forge Tavern, turned back to Lu, and said, "The head of the Thieves' Guild, Lady Venice, may know something. ”

"No problem, Ann, everything is as you wish. Lu looked at the snowstorm and walked out of the tavern.

Morning Star Moon (January) 30 Sun.

It's a sunny day in Rift City. "I'm amazed, Ann, you're getting more mature. Lu's voice sounded behind me. In the past six months, Lu has made fewer and fewer shots, more and more ordinary, as if he has become a real ordinary person, without the majesty and oppression he encountered for the first time.

No matter what I do, I solve it myself, and those unlucky dragons and ancient sacrifices also lost a lot of lives in my hands, but the more I learned, the more sophisticated I became, and the more I knew the gap between myself and Lu. I used to think that there was a mountain between me and Lu, but now I realize that it is the distance between the earth and the sky, but I will not give up following your footsteps.

I smiled slightly, but without replying, and went into the rat passage below the city, and circled around to the entrance of the stronghold of the Thieves' Guild, an underground tavern called the Broken Flask.

"Victor, I haven't heard that name in a few years. In the broken jug, the Venetian lady rested her hands on the table, her fingers interlocked, her narrow eyes glistening with turmeric in the hood.

"He came to me a few years ago and sold a batch of rare things that weren't very common. At this point, Venice's words suddenly broke off.

"And then?" I pulled out a few gems and placed them on the table, my eyes fixed on Venice.

"I asked him where it came from, and he said it was in a cave far north from here, and that was the name of the cave. Venice pulled a piece of paper from his cloak, his slender fingers dancing like a water serpent, and the jewels on the table were long gone.

I looked down at the piece of paper, and the delicate lines on it gradually formed a few words, fairy autumn.

"Thank you. "I picked up the piece of paper and lit it on the lamp. "Another adventure, huh, brave orcs?" Venice retracted his gaze, raised his eyebrows, and looked at me with a slight mockery.

"Nope. I stood up and tapped on the table in front of Lu, motioning for him to get up. "I just wanted to visit him, and an old friend wanted me to relay his greetings. ”

Venice also stood up with us, arranging his cloak in the shadows. "Whatever you do, girl, Victor's dagger is often fed with poison, be careful, it's not good to make money. ”

The second bud moon (May) 22nd [Sun]

After many inquiries, I finally found this place, I hope that the end of the journey is here, for that whimsical idea, I and Lu from north to south, and from south to north, running for more than half a year, it is time to have an end.

"You are very responsible, and you are already a qualified martial artist. Lu's voice sounded again, no matter what decision I made, Lu supported me and supported me, a passionate orc girl.

"What do you think you'll see? a safe haven for an adulterer's **, a secret chamber full of treasures and traps, or a stronghold for a whole horde of robbers?" I said to myself, taking out a cotton cloth and cleaning my hands as a sign of respect for those who were about to die, "May the glory of Songgard live forever." I whispered and walked slowly into the cave.

Turning a corner, you are greeted by a blinding blue light. I squinted my eyes and retreated, raising my hand to slap a wave of qi to ward off possible spell attacks, and at the same time I was full of energy to prevent the enemy from sneaking up.

What could it be? lightning traps, frost dragons' breath, mana drain, or some unknown treasure?

Yet nothing happened. My eyes adapted to the blue light, and the first thing I saw was a dreamy ice wall around ~ The autumn of the fairy is an ice cave, and the sunlight reflects the blue light through the pure ice wall. Maybe that's why the cave got its name? The blue color is reminiscent of the clear blue sky on a cool autumn day.

But what I saw next was not so rosy, and I crouched down next to a withered female corpse and poked her once-beautiful face.

The woman's body appeared to be pulling a cart before she died, and there were several empty bottles and copper plates scattered around the frame. That's all, a small hole**, just stones and straw. And treasures, wealth, coins, gems are nothing.

I dug through a diary on the woman's corpse and read it softly:

Dear Harry,

I'm sorry I cheated on you before. But if not, you wouldn't agree to me making money with a thief.

Every time we talk about the constraints of our future life, your sadness weighs on my heart like a dark cloud. Although I never picked, I know that you are exhausted for our future. Let me do something for our family this time, and even more so for our future children!

Rumor has it that there are very valuable things in the cave here~ I saw Victor sell it to the thieves' guild! When I have earned enough money, I will go back and ask for your forgiveness.

Your dear

Evelyn

The letter was not long, and it was read quickly. The wind flowed through the passage, and the surrounding ice walls echoed with the name of the inscription, as if in a whispered lament. As Lu and I walked out of the cave, he looked at me with a smile on his face and didn't speak.

"Let's bring this journal to Harry, plus some of our gems and gold. I broke the silence and gave him a reason to drink one last drink: he had never been betrayed by his lover. ”

"As you wish. Lu's voice was still clear, like a clear spring flowing through my heart.

Before leaving, I looked up at the clouds on the horizon, and Skyrim seemed to be getting colder.