The Dragon Wife and the Manor [System]

Portland fell asleep immediately after playing tired.

Nigeya couldn't fall asleep, so she climbed from the carriage to the side of the driver's seat and accompanied Yu Xiasheng.

As the sun set and entered the city, Yu Xiasheng found a larger hotel to stay. After dinner, everyone was so tired that they lay motionless on the bed. Nigeya sat on the sofa and warmed up by the fire. Drowsy and want to sleep.

Yu Xiasheng brought two cakes from the kitchen on the first floor, and was about to go upstairs when he was bumped by a tall man beside him, and the cake in his hand almost fell to the ground.

"Be careful."

The man didn't even have the mood to look at Yu Xiasheng directly, so he left without saying a word.

Yu Xiasheng felt his arm hurt from being bumped by the man.He is not a weak person, because of his long-term farming, his body is relatively strong among ordinary people.

Look carefully at the man who hit someone, he has thick arms and a burly figure.Such a person is wearing simple commoner clothes, not even a coat to keep out the cold.

Yu Xiasheng couldn't help but take another look at the man.

Back in the guest room, Nigeya was wrapping a small scarf around the sleeping Neil, carefully placing it on the mat.Seeing Yu Xiasheng holding the cake, his eyes lit up.

"The proprietress doesn't have jam, I'll put some on it, wait a minute."

Unable to hold back, Nigeya helped Yu Xiasheng take out the jam, and smeared it on the cake unceremoniously.

"Because of the heavy tax, the supply of many food condiments in the Eastern District is in short supply." Yu Xiasheng couldn't help sighing.If things go on like this, the rich East End will soon decline.

It is obviously the territory of the duke, why did Sakild do this?

Is it just to raise a sum of money to send troops?Or is there another more important reason?

Yu Xiasheng fell into deep thought.

Nigeya held the cake happily, but seeing Yu Xiasheng's sad face, his good mood suddenly turned cold.He cut a piece of cake, brought it to Yu Xiasheng's mouth, and said, "You have something on your mind."

"fine……"

Yu Xiasheng took a bite of the cake, the sweetness melted in his mouth, but his heart couldn't get any sweeter.

Nigeya pinched Yu Xiasheng's face and narrowed his eyes.

Yu Xiasheng immediately felt guilty, and sure enough he couldn't hide anything from Nigeya, so he could only say, "I'm wondering why Sakild imposed heavy taxes in the Eastern District."

The eastern region is an important grain production area for the entire empire, facing the mines in the northern region to the south, and although there is a small amount of grain production in the western region, the land is relatively barren.Once the Eastern District falls, there will be a huge vacancy in the empire's economy.

"Without jam, I'll be troubled." Nigoya said while eating the cake.

Yu Xiasheng almost didn't laugh out loud.

Nigeya ignored Yu Xiasheng. After eating the first piece of cake, he licked his fork and began to enjoy the second piece.Seeing him enjoying himself so much, Yu Xiasheng felt a little better.But in such a flash, Yu Xiasheng seemed to have received some important reminder.

Troubled.

With the East End down, who's bothered?

At that moment, Yu Xiasheng got the answer in his heart.Sakild was not rebelling, but was intimidating the queen, or deliberately retaliating for the death of the ten cronies.

But things are by no means that simple. The queen's grandson, the prince of the empire, is now missing, but the palace has no response.There must be a deeper reason for Sakild's revenge on the queen.

"Escort Portland back to the imperial capital..." Yu Xiasheng silently read Sakild's request, and suddenly realized.

"Someone is trying to harm Portland." Yu Xiasheng lowered his voice and whispered in Nigeya's ear, so as not to hear Portland who was asleep, "Those people may have already chased him."

The burly man downstairs, dressed as a farmer, was probably a soldier in disguise.

"Ah."

Nigeya gulped down the last piece of cake, got up and grabbed Seb, shaking him awake.

"What are you doing..." Sebu was woken up for no reason, and when he was angry, Nigeya held the dog's mouth and carried him out of the window, saying, "Go down and get rid of the watchers."

Before Thurb could figure out what happened, he fell from the guest room on the second floor into the snowdrift on the first floor.

"Cold to death!" Sebu crawled out of the snowdrift tremblingly, and sure enough, he saw a few men who looked like soldiers patrolling around, driving away passers-by who didn't know the truth.

"Damn it, all the troubles are thrown at me!" Seb complained, using illusion to trap the soldiers in their dreams.

Seeing that everyone was down, Nigeya picked up the dragon egg and the two dogs and jumped downstairs.

He landed steadily on the snowdrift without making a sound.

"Jump down." Nigeya stretched out his hand towards Yu Xiasheng.

Yu Xiasheng woke up Portland and threw it to Nigeya from the second floor, while he tied a sheet to the eaves, quickly went down to the first floor, and ran to the stables to join Nigeya and others.

The carriage rushed out of the hotel and rushed towards the main road out of the city.

"Quick, stop them!"

Shouts came from behind, and the soldiers hidden in the city mounted their horses one after another to chase after them.The three-headed dogs gathered together and radiated demonic energy towards the chasing horse, scaring the horse out of its wits. Yu Xiasheng quickly got rid of the chasing team and disappeared without a trace.

"Humans, who are those people?" Thurb asked.

Yu Xiasheng said: "Pursue soldiers."

"I know it's the pursuers!" Seb jumped angrily, and just about to yell, Portland, who was huddled in the corner of the carriage, suddenly said, "It's my fault...they're here."

"Do you know who they are?" Yu Xiasheng asked.

Portland shook his head, his eyes were red, and he almost wanted to cry, "When I went out more than a month ago, they chased me and killed all the maids and sisters, and Sakild rescued me. They escaped."

"On the day I rescued you, Sakild hurt his leg?"

Portland nodded, "He asked me to live in the Duke's Mansion for a while, and send me back to the palace when the danger is over."

"Queen... Has your grandma sent someone to pick you up?"

"No," said Portland, "people out there say I'm dead..."

Portland's voice choked so badly that it was just whimpers left behind.

"Stupid!" Thurb couldn't stand it anymore, strode over, jumped up and knocked on Portland's forehead.Portland was in pain, covering his forehead and staring at Seb.

Thurb began to teach Portland unceremoniously: "I told you to bring you back to the imperial capital, so don't cry like a girl!"

"Why do you want to educate me!" Portland was so angry that no one in the palace dared to scold him like that.

"Who wants to control you!"

Serb bared his fangs ferociously, but Portland was not afraid. He grabbed Serb and started a fight with one person and one dog.

Nigeya climbed to the side of the driver's seat and sat down next to Yu Xiasheng.

"Are you sleepy?" Yu Xiasheng asked, Nigeya was awake early this morning and didn't sleep much.

"no problem."

Nigeya patted Neil's eggshell confidently. Hearing the noise, Neil rubbed his eyes and looked at it in a daze. After finding that nothing happened, he fell asleep again.

"Thurb, Portland, stop making trouble, hold on tight!"

After Yu Xiasheng finished speaking, he accelerated his driving speed.

There is only one way to the imperial capital, so the towns that Yu Xiasheng will pass through next, and those who are eyeing Portland also know.

It is very likely that the resident town will be surrounded by soldiers, so Yu Xiasheng can only go around into the nearby forest, and drive quietly into the avenue to the imperial capital from the other side.

It's a risky move.

If the soldiers also broke into the forest and surrounded them, Yu Xiasheng would most likely be left alone and helpless.

Yu Xiasheng had no choice.

Nigeya knew that Yu Xiasheng had been very nervous because of the adventure.He leaned against Yu Xiasheng as if nothing had happened, and secretly released dragon energy to drive away all the surrounding animals.

According to the information brought by the passing birds to the soldiers of Nigeya, everything seems to be safe.

At night, Yu Xiasheng found an open space near the rock wall, lit a fire, and everyone kept close to each other to keep warm.

"What are we going to eat?"

Portland has never had camping experience, and he is puzzled about what Yu Xiasheng will do next.

Originally planned to simply cook a thick cheese soup, eat some bread and jerky to get through the night, but the continuous running around also made Yu Xiasheng a little tired. There happened to be a frozen lake near the camping site, so Yu Xiasheng thought about it Boil a bowl of fish soup.

Nigeya knocked the ice surface with his tail, Saibo caught the fish to the ice surface with water magic, and Yu Xiasheng quickly got the ideal ingredients.

After simple processing, a hot fish soup came out of the pot, grabbing everyone's stomach at once.

"Good job, human!" Sebu waited eagerly for Yu Xiasheng to share the soup, holding the bowl.

Kerube, who got the soup first, licked it excitedly, and his tongue became red all of a sudden, "It's so hot, so hot!"

"Woof!" Saibo told Kerubai to be careful.

Portland's stomach growled uncomfortably, and he couldn't help but want to finish the soup in one gulp, but was stopped by Yu Xiasheng, "Be careful it's hot."

How did Portland know how to cool the food? A pair of eyes stared at Yu Xiasheng in confusion for a while, and said, "How should I do it?"

"Learn from Saibo." Yu Xiasheng didn't want to spoil the child in front of him too much.

Lost in Portland, they could only imitate Saber and exhale into the bowl.

Neil in the dragon egg stared longingly at the soup for a long time, seeing everyone eating with gusto, he became hungry.He called out pitifully several times.

Nigeya had no choice but to put Neil in the soup pot to feel it.

The image of a boiled egg immediately appeared in Neil's mind, shaking his head like a rattle, rolled out of Nigeya's arms, and jumped back to the carriage to seek refuge.

Without the dragging bottle of dragon egg, Nigeya drank a few sips of soup and rubbed his warm belly contentedly.

Yu Xiasheng stared at Nigeya's posture, hugged him, and teased in his ear: "I'm a father again?"

"No." Nigeya pretended to be calm, and pushed Yu Xiasheng away with a blushing face.

Yu Xiasheng shamelessly leaned on Nigeya's body, caressingly touched the side of Nigeya's belly under his clothes, and as expected, felt the soft flesh.

"Ow!"

Nigeya reprimanded him in embarrassment, trying to break free from Yu Xiasheng, but Yu Xiasheng was completely attached to his body, and rubbed against his face as if nothing had happened.Nigeya held his breath, tore off a large piece of bread and stuffed it into Yu Xiasheng's mouth, "Eat."

The bread was too big, and Yu Xiasheng couldn't swallow it for a while, so he had to put down Nigeya to find his own fish soup.

Nigeya stretched out his tail and pushed the fish soup in front of Yu Xiasheng.

Finally heaving a sigh of relief, Yu Xiasheng put down the bowl and honestly ate the bread.Nigeya dipped a little jam on Yu Xiasheng's bread from time to time, which made Yu Xiasheng burst into laughter.

After dinner, Portland climbed into the carriage with Crube in his arms and fell asleep.

Thurb stared at Crubet with a look of resentment, finally sighed, and dragged a blanket to cover Portland and Crubet.

Yu Xiasheng extinguished the fire, and on the way back to the carriage, he felt dizzy and could not stand still.Fortunately, Nigeya found out early and hugged Yu Xiasheng before he fell.

"Uncomfortable?" Nigeya frowned, looking worried.

"I'm a little tired." Yu Xiasheng closed his eyes, his head was heavy, and he couldn't exert himself.

Nigeya helped Yu Xiasheng into the carriage. Serb and Saibo had already rolled up their blankets and slept around Portland. Nigeya put Yu Xiasheng on the cushion in the other corner of the carriage, rolled up the tail of the suitcase and pushed the air vent. plug up.

It was late at night, and Yu Xiasheng was lying on the thin cushion, his lips were pale.