caged robin

"Master, are you up yet?" Alvin's voice sounded outside the door early in the morning.

"not yet……"

Abner rubbed his eyes, felt that there was no one beside him, he sat up abruptly, and saw Oreas sitting by the window reading the "Red Dragon Bible".He breathed a sigh of relief, got out of bed and dressed, and said to Alvin outside the door: "I'm getting up right now, is there anything important?"

"The sword-clothed knight commander came to you and said that you asked him to guide you in swordsmanship."

Abner was taken aback for a moment, thinking that he hadn't told Wen Si that there might be some other important matter.

"Okay, okay, I'm coming—" Abner said.

Abner pushed open the door, Alvin glanced at the black cat standing at his feet, Alvin raised his eyebrows and said: "Master, since you are going to practice swords, don't take it with you. Feel disrespectful."

Abner snorted softly, picked up the cat, and walked downstairs, thinking that if Wens dared to think so, he would definitely slap him first.

Wang Fu hadn't come back yet, and there were still only Jonny and "flamingo" on the morning table.

"Flamingo" glanced at Abner and said nothing, but suddenly saw the black cat at his feet, and said coldly, "Isn't this 'Big Black'?"

Abner: "..."

Hell, the name he picked up at the beginning was really too ugly, and Abner wished he could slap himself at that time.

Abner picked up the black cat, snorted coldly, and walked straight to the dining table.

The expression of "Flamingo" changed immediately, and he pointed at the black cat and said, "What are you going to do?!"

Abner glanced at her coldly, the servant beside him pulled out the chair for him, he sat down upright, and put the black cat on the table.

The "flamingo" stood up suddenly, and shouted to the servant behind him: "Hurry up and drive that thing away!"

The servant walked towards Abner with a troubled expression on his face.

Abner sternly said, "Who dares!"

The servant stopped in fright, "Master..."

Jonny, who had been silent all this time, whispered at this time: "Mom, my brother's cat should not hurt anyone."

Flamingo grew more angry, and yelled at Jonny, "Eat your breakfast! Don't interrupt!"

Johnny's face immediately turned pale with fright. He lowered his head to poke the egg tart, tears dripping down the saffron juice.

Alvin hurried over, stood beside Abner gracefully and said, "Master Abner, there is no precedent for bringing a cat to the table in Duolun Palace."

Alvin has always been partial to Abner, and this time he also made Abner restrain himself. Abner grabbed a piece of bread and stuffed it into his mouth, left the dining table, and walked straight out.

Just when he was about to reach the door, Alvin caught up and stuffed a big paper bag for Abner, saying, "Master, the Duke is coming back soon. The journey is very tiring, and the family should try to be harmonious."

Abner pushed the paper bag away and was about to go out. Alvin insisted on stuffing the bag into his hand again, and said, "Young man, you haven't eaten much recently. Your Excellency the Duke will feel distressed when he comes back to see that you have lost weight."

Abner snorted softly, and Mr. Alvin leaned over and whispered, "I specially asked someone to make spinach bread."

Abner raised his eyebrows, coughed twice, and grabbed the paper bag.

"Master!" Alvin stopped him again, he turned around and saw Alvin holding the "No Life" sword in his hand, and said hastily, "You forgot to take the sword."

Abner reluctantly took the sword.

But Alvin enthusiastically tied it around his waist, and told him: "Get in touch with such an outstanding person as the sword-clothed knight commander more often, and learn more things when you come back. marry him..."

Abner: "..."

I couldn't help laughing.

As soon as Oreas of Abner arrived at the Jianyi Building, the guard at the gate ordered the servants to send the two of them into the carriage.

The two were sitting in the carriage, and seeing the carriage driving out of Doron Palace, Abner asked, "Where is Wens waiting for us?"

"In the city fair, my lord."

Abner nodded.

After a while, the two got out of the carriage, and in front of them was the most luxurious restaurant in the city.At the door, two well-dressed young women opened the door for the two of them. As soon as they entered, they saw an elegant porch with hundreds of birds carved on it. The birds surrounded four long swords, which were made of bronze. Relief, densely inlaid with garnets.

Walking through the hallway, I immediately saw Wen Si sitting in the innermost corner, Keener and Tommen sitting next to him, and a tall man I didn't know was burying his head in the sauced duck leg.

Abner walked over, Wen Si saw him, and motioned to him to sit in the two vacant seats next to him.

The two sat behind and happened to be facing the man who was eating the duck leg seriously, but the man didn't seem to notice that the newcomer had arrived, so he kept his head buried in eating.

Abner caught a glimpse of duck bones piled up on the dregs plate next to the man, and it looked like he had been fighting for quite a while.Abner looked at Wen Si, his eyes signaled what was going on with this man, Wen Si twitched the corners of his mouth, and signaled not to disturb him for now.

So Abner continued to look at this man, wearing the same clothes as ordinary people, his figure looked similar to Wens, his complexion was very fair, and his hair was full of copper color, which grew a little below the shoulders, Vioreas's The hair is still curly.

It wasn't until Abner noticed that there was a small red holy pattern of a red dragon breathing fire on the back of his hand that he knew that this person was the fire priest they were looking for.

Abner stared wide-eyed, seeing that the jellyfish had already made the holy pattern greasy, he twitched the corners of his mouth, pulled Wen Si aside, and asked, "Is this the priest sent by the chief priest?"

Wen Si nodded, and his face was not very good, "It stands to reason that you know better than me."

Abner said, "I've only met the chief priest. Why doesn't this person look like a priest at all? Aren't priests generally very serious and temperate?"

Wen Si sighed and said: "It's not like that, my subordinates complained to me that the reason for coming a day late is because the priest procrastinated, and he always slept very late in the morning before getting up, and... you also saw—" It is very edible. He almost ate all the dishes related to duck along the way."

Abner: "..."

He patted Wen Si on the shoulder and said, "This time you will suffer a blood loss, and the king won't care about it."

Wins: "..."

At this moment, the priest let out a long sigh of satisfaction, and Abner and Wens turned their heads at the same time, and saw that he was wiping the oil stains on his hands with a wet towel, smiled at Wens with satisfaction, and said, "A man should eat duck!"

Abner grabbed the chair in hand and almost swung it over.

But the two were still sitting back with smiles on their faces, and Wens said politely, "Do you need another plate?"

The priest smacked his lips, took a sip of "Tengxia Tanuki", and said, "No need, I am very satisfied."

"..."

"..."

"..."

This priest has a thin mustache, dark red eyes, and extremely shiny copper-colored curly hair. When he smiles, he reveals two rows of beautiful white teeth. But a suave bard.

"Thank you for the hospitality," the priest let out a long sigh of satisfaction, and said, "You also know that the salary of Priest Huoling is too low, and I can't even bear to eat a duck meal. I am really satisfied these few days."

"..."

"..."

"..."

Abner tried his best to maintain a smile, and said, "Dare to ask the priest's spiritual name?"

The spiritual name is the name given by the chief priest after becoming a priest.

"Mephis," the priest grabbed a lock of his hair, circling his fingers, smiled at the others present, his dark red eyes lit up, and continued, "you can just call me Meme. "

The corner of Abner's mouth twitched, and he whispered softly, "Dear Priest of Memphis..."

"Don't be so introverted, call me Meme," the priest raised his eyebrows and smiled at Abner, and Abner felt a chill. The priest continued, "You are Master Abner of the Apocasseri family, right?"

"Yes, my lord priest."

"Call me Meimei."

"..."

"You should have a little bell or something."

Abner was stunned for a moment, then nodded, "It was the gift from the chief priest when I was ten years old."

Memphis smiled and waved his hand, "That old man is useless, I made the bell."

Abner: "..."

Abner asked, "Why do you say that?"

Memphis continued to fiddle with his red hair, and said: "That old man always wants to show off his prestige, but I saved a hand, you can put the bell under the candlelight, look in through the gap, there should be two 'M's '."

Abner was taken aback. He had played with this bell when he was a child, and indeed he had seen two 'M's inside. He thought it was a mysterious symbol, but he didn't expect it to be the spiritual name of the priest who called himself "Meme".

Abner scratched his head, "Okay, priest..."

"Call me Meimei."

Abner took a deep breath, "Okay, Priest Meimei, I think we need to discuss about collecting souls first, what I think for the time being is that you first use this bell like mine to peel off the possessed undead, Let us do the rest."

"Undead?" Memphis narrowed his eyes and said, "Who told you that?"

Abner: "..."

"Okay, Priest Meimei, no matter what kind of undead, ghost or soul it is, just peel it off for us."

Memphis smiled again, his two rows of white teeth gleamed, and said, "Naturally, but I think we need to negotiate the price first."

Abner: "..."

"You make an offer first," Abner said.

Mephis' eyes lit up, he spread out his hand, and said, "Sixty gold coins."

Abner: "..." It's really expensive.

Abner and Wens looked at each other, and Wens said, "Priest, how about forty gold coins?"

Memphis looked embarrassed, "This..."

Abner snorted lightly, and said, "Six gold coins, do it or not."

Memphis: "..."

Wins: "..."

Wins pulled Abner aside and whispered, "Are you negotiating the price?"

"Yeah, I'm helping you save money."

Wen Si glanced at him suspiciously and said, "Why do I think you are trying to force people away."

Abner gave him a blank look, returned to his seat, straightened his waist, and said with a serious face: "Priest Meimei, six gold coins, have you figured it out? Six is ​​an auspicious number, you must add '0' , it may be more difficult for us to cooperate.”

The corner of Memphis's mouth twitched, "You're embarrassing me."

Abner knocked on the table with his finger, and said with a smile: "You are also embarrassing us, you can choose '6' or '0', if you don't want to, we can ask the chief priest to send another one. "

Memphis is still hesitating.

Abner stood up abruptly, turned around to leave, and suddenly seemed to remember something, glanced at the messy tabletop, and said, "By the way, this sauced duck is delicious, but please pay for it yourself."

"Master Abner, are you not afraid that the king will know that there is a fire priest in Silver Bow City?" Memphis lazily lay on the chair.

Wen Si was startled and looked at Abner.

Abner raised his eyebrows and said, "You can go to Duolun Palace and tell the king, as long as the king trusts you."

After finishing speaking, Abner glanced at Memphis' loose clothes and oily hands.

Memphis twitched his mouth, picked up a wet towel, wiped his hands again, and said, "Sure, just six gold coins."

Abner smiled, and said to Wens: "Give Priest Meimei another pot of duck stewed with lemon. I remember the taste here is not bad."

Memphis stood up, rubbed his belly, put his hand on Tommen's shoulder next to him, and said, "No, this guy said he is very good at making ducks. I'll try it."

Abner glanced at Tommen, who was looking up at Memphis, as if he had found a confidant.

Abner: "..."

Mephis hiccupped and said, "Don't worry, I'll definitely be able to get things done, just tonight. But during the day, I want to go shopping again, let's go, young man!"

Memphis staggered out the door with Tommen in his arms, and before leaving, he did not forget to tease the two maids at the door.