Vol 5 Chapter 4

Outside the study is a promenade with a terrace. The stone pillars that support the ceiling are covered with moss every other distance. The sunlight through the green shade of the oak leaves a spot of gold-like light on the wall and the floor. Several cricket spotted birds have fallen. After Brando had educated Roman well, he opened the door and walked out. The birds fluttered their wings and flew to the light. He watched the scene and closed the door with a "click", as if subconsciously speaking. Want to say:

"Shee, get ready for the carriage. Let's go to Port Gries."

But as soon as he spoke, Brando froze. In his memory, the girl with a long ponytail always leaned on the second stone pillar of the corridor with her spear, sometimes feeding the freckles with bread crumbs. He has seen such scenes a few times. The girl is quiet, but beautiful like a character in a picture scroll.

Now, beside the second stone pillar, there is nothing left, only the mottled sunlight shining on the moss.

Brando sighed.

He couldn't help but smile a bitterly.

And far away, the lady who was holding a stack of parchment papers in the darkness at the end of the corridor also sighed quietly. She saw that her lord was standing there with a look of loss, and she understood. Her knuckles were a little white, and she almost accidentally pleated parchment paper, but those were important documents in the territory for a period of time, and the lord had not seen them. She was startled by her movements and hurriedly let go. , But accidentally scattered these rolled up parchments.

Antinina was there, bit her lower lip, and then bent down to pick up the parchments one by one. She touched the necklace inside her neckline, which was a necklace that had lost her pendant, but she seemed to feel that the pendant was still in place, and pressed it in the empty place. But finally reacted, the girl looked at Brando with a distant complex look, and retreated silently.

Brando stood in front of the study for a few minutes before returning to his senses, as if from when. He has become accustomed to the silent mountain girl next to him. He had used this to make fun of Qian and asked her how she could get married in the future, but she did not expect that one day she would be gone, but he felt a little bit Feeling helpless. "What's wrong ..." Brando couldn't help but click on his temple. "Brando, Brando, Akane can't be with you forever. She also has her own future."

But when he thought about it that way, he felt a little bored. He shook his head and temporarily lost the idea.

Veronica and his party settled in the Grisport hostel. It was only a half-day trip from Firburg to Grisport by carriage. Brando understood that the lady was unwilling to stay in Firth City. After all, she is the corps of the empire, and it is not surprising that she cannot walk too close to a foreign earl, not to mention the empire's wanted criminal, Grey Sword Saint Mephiste, also lives in the castle of Brando. As a matter of course, she should stay away from at least one gesture.

But Brando's really strange thing is why Veronica wants to meet him now, and it has been more than two weeks since he arrived in Tonigel. It stands to reason that she should have returned to the empire, and her mission here has come to an end, not to mention that she is also accompanied by the empire's eldest son and the Knights of the Folding Sword.

He really wasn't sure what the woman's legion leader thought, she didn't understand what she was worried about, the calm inside the empire, except for some uneasiness at the border, she couldn't see what was going to happen.

With such doubts, walked through the promenade and walked down the stairs. Passing the outer hall, several Shire apprentices are arguing about some magic-related issues here-because Shire ’s mage tower is built in the castle, his apprentices also live in the lower room of the castle. Fortunately, The wizard's world is so strict that these apprentices did not cause much trouble in the life in the castle-when several apprentices saw Brando, they stood up respectfully to salute the young Lord Lord, Brando I nodded in response. These people were selected from the adventurers or the children of the local nobles. Most of them or the families behind them were grateful for this Lord Lord because of this opportunity. Really inherited wizards are very rare in Warnd. Most of the academic wizards are inherited from Buga. But is the knowledge of the silver people so easy to learn? Even in Cruz, only arrogant sons such as Miss Stuart are eligible to be favored by the silver people. It is just that the sorcerer has a very high social status in Eruin and Cruz, far better than Those warlocks.

And Shire, it is exactly the inheritance from the Black Tower Wizard, even though it is only a branch of the Buji Wizard, but it is enough to be called a famous door, and has the opportunity to become an apprentice of such a mentor. For the aristocracy, it is simply a pie falling from the sky, let alone those poor and distressed adventurers, so it is not surprising that they have this idea.

Antitina sees this as well, and she persuaded Brando, as an aide, to take this as a chance to win people's hearts, and to allocate scarce places to those who are truly loyal to him, for example The daughter of the Red Dragon Reto, Su, relied on such a connection to tie all the reliable people to the chariots that shared his interests.

But Brando himself doesn't think so. In his eyes, this is not just a vanity market. These young wizard apprentices should be Tonigel's future. Without an army of wizards, they will always be regarded as third-class troops in Vaund. Not to mention the coveted floating fleets of the Cruzs and the Wind Elves, each of which was operated by a wizard. You can even say this outspokenly that the wizard is a high-tech arm of Warnde. Each one costs a lot of money, but it is definitely worth it.

And this is just the 1940s, when the slate war has not yet begun.

Of course, some of Antitina's statements also have her reason. Besides, Shir mentioned that Sue has quite excellent talents more than once, so Brando also adopted some of them. In fact, he was very optimistic about that. It seems that only the young girl with wheat-colored healthy skin and fine twist braids on her head is left. The calm she showed in Ampersel was amazing. This was the most basic quality of a wizard, but few people did a good job. Sue was better than most wizards when she was not a wizard. Even more outstanding, so it can be seen that as long as she can feel the line of the law, there will be a bright future.

And as an additional benefit of this decision, as the lady said. The Red Copper Dragon Reto was really grateful to him. The veteran who had experienced the November war can be spoiled in front of life and death, but this daughter is his only weakness. He originally wanted to leave Su an inheritance, but did not expect to encounter Madara's invasion. Now Su has an opportunity to become a wizard. Although he will not be prominent in the future, he will at least have nothing to worry about. The key is not to look at people's faces, which is particularly satisfying for Reto.

However, it also had some negative effects. The guy secretly tried to inquire about him several times and asked him if he was interested in his daughter. The guy thought he couldn't see his temptation. Brando felt that his IQ had been affected. Serious contempt. On several occasions, he hurried the other person back to Mintai.

In fact, this is not a case. It once annoyed him. For some reason, it seems that women in Voend have a higher chance of possessing magical talents than men, although male wizards are often more likely to become real geniuses. It ’s like Shire and Lewwoods, but the base of female wizards is greater than that of male wizards. This is the truth. This directly led to the ups and downs of Shire's men, as if there were any masters and subordinates. It once made people doubt that this was actually just a means for the lord to open the harem. Nothing more.

The rumors are even more ridiculous, especially in this backcountry where the magic is not bright, but what makes him cry and laugh is that the little lords and nobles are still happy and keep trying to plug in the so-called 'quite handsome' nobles Thousands of gold, as to whether it is really pretty, Brando really doesn't comment, anyway, he has asked Shire to brush back all those magical talents. But what made him a little depressed was that this incident became a laughing stock in his small circle, and both Metisha and Antitina made fun of him more than once.

This is really a weakness of the main program, making family officials stunned.

Thinking of this, he couldn't help shaking his head, and as he walked out of the archway of the hall, he frowned suddenly and smelled the smell of a barbecue. He stopped, turned around and asked, "What's this smell?"

The faces of several Shire apprentices changed, and one after the other was rising.

"Charr didn't teach you silence?" Brando had already guessed a few points. Could not help but asked angrily.

Sure enough, his voice had just fallen, and one of them had a small round face with some cute freckles on the tip of his nose. It was said that the girl who was the younger daughter of the president of the Silversmiths Association in the city was scared and pale. He replied rudely, "Uncle ... Mr. Earl, we are not allowed to speak."

Sure enough, Brando shook his head, and even Aroz was taken away. This guy was still free. But this was a good thing for him. After all, Star signed a contract with him. I don't want to care how ridiculous the contract is. If Star is really captured back to the Dragon, wouldn't he be a big loser.

He waved his hand to signal to the little girls not to worry, then turned around and followed the smell of the charcoal with the scent of meat. He didn't know what the guy was baking, only wishing he didn't light the castle. Last time the guy secretly grilled meat at the sawmill, but burned the sawmill in half, and lost a lot of money to Roman. Little Merchant herself was okay, but the big housekeeper, Antitina, was so upset that she didn't sleep for a few days. it is good.

He turned around a corner of the castle covered with vines. Sure enough, he saw Stark squatting behind a grape rack, and sneakingly looked after a bonfire. There was an iron rack on the fire. On the rack were a few of them that were almost cooked. This prawn is holding the bottles and cans to spread the condiments on it. Needless to say, this set must have been stolen from the kitchen. This guy doesn't have much fighting power, but the ability to steal the chickens and dogs is first-class, I am afraid that even the nightingale masters among the halflings have to give up in front of it.

If you think about it, it is not simple to be able to feel the existence of more than a dozen carriages under the eyelids of Veronica and Mephistre.

Brando walked over and patted each other's shoulders, shocking Starr. He turned back, and a round face was covered with charcoal. It was hard to imagine this face when he saw this face. A dragon, because it looks no different from those bear children. Starr saw Brando, his face was frightened, and he hurriedly called, "I didn't cut the grape rack for firewood. These things were not stolen from the kitchen. They lent me!"

"Very well," Brando sneered, and the flowerbed left by Grudin was now Antitina's baby. Although he had never seen the aristocratic lady look angry, he also knew that the more calm the person started the fire Children are getting scarier. He couldn't help but patted Starr on the shoulder again, "You have the courage, Starr, do you know that it is Miss Antitina who is responsible for organizing daily life in Firburg?"

"What does it matter then?" Stark stunned. Unexpectedly, Brando did not get angry, he felt a lot more energetic at once.

"Nothing," Brando grinned. "Let ’s say that the kitchen has one less dinner or dinner, which is a matter of course. After all, there are too many people, and occasional negligence is possible. Don't say occasional. Even if This is not a big deal for three or four days in a row. "

Starr opened his mouth wide and his face changed. The little fat man stared at Brando with wide eyes, his face was red and white, and the glitter on his forehead was all sweat, as if he had never seen the dark side of this society.

"In fact, this is not the worst. It is said that there are still people who have eaten by mistake what they should not eat. You know that near the Black Forest, there are all materials in the castle's warehouse, and there are several types that are particularly effective for dragons. "

Starr was almost not scared to cry. The little fat dragon suddenly thought it was completely possible. Besides, in his opinion, the lady of the staff was somber and ignorant to anyone, maybe it was already very I can't get used to him, I want to get rid of him quickly. He almost shivered. Very reluctant to pick up a grilled shrimp from the charcoal fire. Snorting and tears said to Brando, "Master Lord, don't expose me, I invite you to eat shrimp, and we will be a person on board."

"I trust, you don't have to be so obvious when you drag me into the water." Brando thought angrily, but he saw the frosted dragon's putty-clawed claws with mustard shrimp, what did he think? Feel familiar. He couldn't help asking: "Where did you get the shrimp?"

"kitchen."

"No, your first sentence must not be true." Brando empirically analyzed: "Have you ever been to Hipamil's room?"

The fat man's eyes turned round and round, shaking his head like a rattle.

Brando smiled angrily, and the shrimps in Hipamila's room were the favorite of the clergyman. Although he didn't know why she liked shrimp farming, as long as she watched her carefully holding the water tank and changing the water every day, she knew how important this thing was to her. Now, these shrimps have become a Chinese dish of Starr, and once and for all, Hipamila won't have to get up every morning to change the water.

It's just that someone or a dragon will pay a heavy price for it.

He glanced at Starr with pity, turned and walked away, joking, who knows what else will happen if he stays with this disaster star again. Unexpectedly, Star was very wink. It seemed that he had seen his tragic fate from the look on Brando's face, and hurriedly wrapped all the shrimps in oil paper and chased them up, not as if to follow Bran As far as the ends of the world are average.

"What are you doing?" Brando asked angrily.

As Star stuffed a grilled shrimp into his mouth, and by the way sucked two fat fingers, he replied in a loud voice, "Master, do you want to go out?"

"You're pretty smart," Brando sneered, "knowing you've gone out?"

"No, Lord Lord, I signed a contract with you, haven't I? Now I want to fulfill the contract and protect your thoroughness." Star thought for a moment, smashing it, smashing it, full of oily mouths: "It's very outside the castle Danger."

"Dangerous fart!" Brando thought, if it was really not safe outside the city in the early half of the year, Tonigel's law and order can be said to be the crown of the south. There are cavalry on the avenue and cavemen in the forest. There is no room for monsters and robbers at all. Besides, how could ordinary monsters and robbers get him anyway? This guy is obviously talking nonsense with his eyes open.

But he didn't bother to care about him either. The two walked towards the stables one after the other. As he passed the short rose bush that Mrs. Camille was taking care of, Brando suddenly seemed to remember and asked, "Say back, Why didn't the Dragons send someone to catch you back? "

He originally thought that Star would definitely be proud of mentioning this issue. After all, even Aloz couldn't escape the devil's claws, but he could continue to escape, which is a very beautiful thing. And without the restriction of the little female dragon, he can obviously be more lawless, but he did not expect Star to blink and blink, looking a bit lost.

"What's wrong?" Brando frowned slightly.

"That was Aluz's willingness to go back with them. In fact, we rarely attack each other. If she stays here with all her heart, they won't force it," Stah replied pretending a little carelessly. "But Arlo She still admits that she is one of them, so she must follow this rule. "

Brando keenly captured the key point in this sentence: "You won't really be completely expelled from the dragon race, will you?"

"Cut, what ’s so good to stay in there, you know to collect some inexplicable things," Star replied somewhat proudly: "They do n’t understand that food is the most important thing in this world. Collecting food is biological Instinct, how precious can gold and silver dazzling diamonds be, you don't need food to fill your stomach. "

"I trust, your theory is very simple." Brando looked at this little fat dragon with amusement and was very unwilling, but pretended to be indifferent: "But for the dragon, he is keen on Collecting food is a bit too ... oh, too weird. In our legend, dragons are supposed to stand on the mountains of treasures with flames, and burn the adventures that come to slay their treasures. Those, creatures like dragons, coexist with beauty and danger in our impressions. "

"But if this legendary dragon is lying on a mountain of rice, if you imagine, then the viewing will be greatly reduced."

"This is prejudice!" Star couldn't help jumping.

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