"Since the establishment of the Human Kingdom, it has changed the tradition of the Seventy-Seven Empires and the Gwendrin Dynasty to use the Five Regions as the administrative division of the continent. Pen Fun Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 The human race has set up sixteen provinces on the basis of the five domains, and the provinces do not have a supreme governor or a capital, but the 'Council of Lords and Lords' is held in each city of the province in turn every year to discuss major affairs within the province. However, after Heineman IV, due to the rise of the Dunaden family, the relationship between the various territories also changed from the original independent relationship to the survival mode of the small lords dependent on the big lords, which made the 'Council of Lords of Lords' become a real existence, and the supreme power in the province also changed from a republic in which all lords were in charge to a dictatorship in which the largest family in the province was the largest family. ”

- The Sixth House of the Human Era: Pretz, by Defili Hashitair

Hanlon brought an auspicious angel to the tired convoy of good news, there was indeed an oasis more than ten kilometers in front of the convoy, although it was small enough to accommodate everyone in the convoy to rest, and Hanlon even picked some of the plants that grew on the oasis and brought back as evidence.

The good news boosted the morale of the convoy, and those who had been too tired to walk were now eager to grow a few more legs so that they could walk faster, and the fatigue that wrapped around their limbs like shackles had long since begun to know where to fly.

The leaders of the Knights, Hanlon and Shuch, discussed with the Baroness and Haredith, and decided that Hanlon would lead a small group of men and horses to the oasis and set up camp, while Haredith continued to lead everyone forward.

Among the people who were in the vanguard, in addition to Hanlon, a few knights, and some handy valets, Blake was also impressively listed, which somewhat surprised Haredik. Then he glanced down at Beata beside him, the little girl was wearing a large cloak that wrapped around her body, and from a distance she thought she was a slightly short halfling.

"Aren't you going?" asked Haredith to the little girl.

Beata gagged her mouth as she looked at the dust in front of her that was blown up by the trampling of horses' hooves, and muttered in a low voice, "I don't know how to ride a horse......"

Haredith burst out laughing at this, and without waiting for Beata to glare at him with her big round eyes, he picked up the little girl by the waist and placed her gently on the back of the pack horse, and then said to her with a grin, "Now you will." ”

At this time, behind the two of them, some people who were overly excited seemed to have forgotten the tiredness of the day, and also seemed to forget that the scorching sun that was still casting a heat wave above their heads, and the song of "Little Edward" sounded again, echoing in the vast western sand sea.

As the sun buried half of its body beneath the horizon, the convoy that had quickened its pace finally arrived at the oasis of Timia, which they had been waiting for. Leafy trees grow around a lake with blue water streaks, and the branches are full of ripe fruits for people to eat. Even the wind mixed with sand and dust did not take away a trace of greenery from this small oasis, which was simply a holy lotus blooming in the purgatory-like desert.

"It's water! so much water!" cried a manservant, who seemed to have been thirsty for a long time, and at once he plunged into the lake in the middle of the oasis, and poured water into his belly.

In another part of the oasis on a relatively flat ground, where the troops led by Han Long had already set up a comfortable makeshift camp for everyone to rest, and they had even caught several fat gerbils for the evening's main course. Haredith noticed that Blake, who had arrived at the oasis first with Hanlon, was occupying the shadiest place, munching on the fruit that had just been picked from the trees. Beside him, a young knight, with the sword he was supposed to slash at his enemies, was slicing through the hard-shelled fruits of his master. ...,

At nightfall, after enjoying a desert-style roasted gerbil feast, the fatigue that had been forgotten by excitement came to them again, and soon the oasis camp, which had been bustling with activity just a moment ago, was only the sound of a sound sleep. Haredith continued to work for the knights, and as he sat down at the fire to add a few loads of firewood to the burning campfire, he saw Beata lying in her blanket on the other side of the campfire, and her little pretty face, which was red from the campfire, staring at him in a daze.

"Aren't you sleeping, little imp?" asked Haredith to Beatta.

Beata shook her little head and said, "I don't want to sleep." Then he stood up, wrapped himself in a blanket, walked over to Haredith, sat down, and said to the elf, "Mr. Nemo, tell me a story." ”

Haredith didn't know why the human imp was so interested in listening to stories, and almost every night she pestered the knights in charge of the night watch to tell her stories until she fell asleep.

Harradik rubbed his head, he didn't want to spend an entire night making up stories for Beatta, so he suddenly asked, "Why are you always going around me?"

Hearing Haredith say this, Beata lowered her head a little aggrieved and whispered, "Do you think I'm annoying......"

"No, no, just curious. You know, I'm an elf, and you're a human, and we're not that friendly. Seeing the little girl like this, Harradidick couldn't bear to say anything more.

Beata's gloomy little face seemed to have regained some of its former liveliness, and she leaned back against Haredit and said, "Because you're going to talk to me!"

"Talking to you?" Hareditik said as he gestured to the sleeping people around him, "Everyone here is going to talk to you?"

Beata shook her head vigorously and said, "No, it's not. ”

"How not?"

At this time, Hareddick noticed that Beata was pulling the blanket on her body and wrapping herself tighter, and then whispered, "My mother, no, my mother and my brother, they don't seem to like me very much, and they don't want to talk to me very much......"

Haredith sighed inwardly, he really couldn't understand why the Baroness hated her daughter so much, not only did she never look at Beata with her eyes along the way, but she didn't even allow Beata to get close to the carriage where she and Blake were riding.

Haredith then heard Beata continue: "The servants are afraid to talk to me because of my mother. And Mr. Hanlon and the other knights ......"

"I think they're pretty good to you. Haredith said, throwing a piece of wood into the campfire.

"Mr. Hanlong and Mr. Xiuqi, they are both very nice people, and they take good care of me, but ......"

"But?"

"But because I'm my father's daughter, whatever I say is like a command to them, and it's not funny at all. It was the first time Hareddieck had heard her talk about her father, and Haredith remembered that Tepenny had spoken of Mr. Baron Miles in a disdainful tone, saying that he was a bastard who had gone bankrupt because he didn't know how to make a living, and finally left his wife and daughter behind and hanged himself.

As she said this, Beata buried her head deeper and lowered her voice, and Haredith sighed softly and reached out to touch Beatta's head, diverting the subject: "You want to hear the story, right?"

"Yes, yes, yes!" said Beata with a quick nod.

"But I don't want to tell boring stories. Haredith said this deliberately, and then he looked at Beatta's disappointed little face, stood up, took out a small box from the pack horse's harness, and then sat down next to Beata again, shook it at her, and said, "Have you ever played poker before?"

"Poker!" said the little girl's eyes, "Dad, he used to play cards with some adults, but he never let me participate. ”

"Of course, a young lady who is going to marry in the future should not have anything to do with these things. That was said, but Haredith took the poker out of the box and expertly cut the cards.

Beata pouted and said a little unhappily: "I don't want to get married, why does everyone want me to marry someone I don't know at all in the future?!"

Haredith laughed and said, "You don't want to get married?" ”

"Yes, yes, yes!" said Beata clapping her hands and jumping up happily.

"Let's start with the simplest, have you ever heard of 'Black Pond'?" Seeing Beata shake her head again, Haredith handed five cards to her and slowly began to explain: "The game is simple, each person has five cards, and then start betting and get a chance to draw......