under the field

Scarlett

Colin asked Jess, "Any strangers up north lately?"

Jess shook his head, "I don't know what kind of strangers you're talking about, but the costumes of your group look like outsiders, if you mean something like you, it's not like that."

"But the number of officers and soldiers has increased significantly," said a man sitting by the campfire closest to us. "We think this is due to the sudden increase in Jacob's gang in the north."

"But it's also possible that it's the Hastings girl," said Geoffrey, "because Earl Reggie of Edo has been in the Imperial City for a few days, and I think there's news that the Hastings girl has fled to the north."

I didn't answer. Now I don't feel too much when I hear the word Hastings girl from other people's mouths, but Earl Reggie mentioned in connection with it makes me feel uncomfortable.

"Because Earl Reggie came to the imperial city, there are a lot of girls named 'Hasdin' in several brothels near the imperial palace." The men seemed to talk about something funny, and laughed loudly, "This is after the royal family's dark cooking elves." Things that became popular in the imperial city after onion soup."

Old Nigel was holding the wine bag and said intentionally or unintentionally, "I don't know where this capable girl is hiding now."

Someone laughed and echoed, "That's right, I fled alone from Orlando all the way to the north without being found."

"But it's not all for this Hasting girl. I heard that the Duke of Sandland has also visited the imperial city."

"What wind brought these two here?"

"Who doesn't know that these two have a great relationship with the one above?" Everyone showed a tacit expression.

I turned my head to look at Jess, she stuck out her tongue and whispered to me: "Queen Sadishi has a male pet."

Alcohol is really a good way to make friends and get gossip. After a while, we have obtained a lot of information from this group of people, but more of them are royal secrets that I have never heard of, or the "rebels" in the north scale.Jamie is a very careful person. He has information on people from all over Jacob in his hands. He has precise words and combined with the information he gets to ask what he wants to know.

I don't know where Jacob's real sphere of influence is, how many people he has, and how many areas he covers, but after coming out of Orlando, the world and people I have come into contact with now are things that I would never have the chance to meet in my life of.

If it weren't for these things, I'd be just a sheltered teenage girl at Tindalk Manor, wondering which dress to wear to the ball.I will not know the threats my family suffered during Robert's lifetime, nor will I know that the tranquility of the Hastings family in Orlando is actually the peace and tranquility brought by Robert's repeated concessions with his life.I may never know that a strong and brave girl can sacrifice her life and chastity for a loved one, nor will I have the opportunity to see another scene of dead bodies on the edge of a glamorous city, nor join a rebellion from a The boy in the gang heard how his family was destroyed by corrupt politics, and he couldn't learn the crueler truth about the family's decline outside of the history books...

Alcohol paralyzed my brain and made my eyelids heavy. I ignored Geoffrey's lively conversation in my ear (even though he hasn't asked my real name until now), and I didn't listen carefully to what the traveler in Kunked shared. Anecdotally, I buried my face in my tucked knees, sensing that my physical strength has been exhausted today, and let my eyes close.Even when I felt someone hugging me later, I didn't panic because I recognized it as a reassuring breath. I buried myself in the soft bed and fell into the darkness again.

……

The next morning I was unpacking in my room and found a white petticoat with a narrow waist that Lily took me to a tailor in New Shell.I put on my skirt and stood in front of the mirror to look at the girl inside. I have been traveling for a long time. My hair color has changed to a lighter brown than before. The long hair tail is slightly curled, and it falls in front of me without care; thin There are bright eyes on the lowered face, I touch the line of my chin, look at the breast shape outlined by the skirt, and as the skirt hangs down, my eyes fall on the exposed toes, and I am satisfied that I am still the same A model of beauty that Orlando girls aspire to emulate.

"Whoa! Look who it is!" I heard all kinds of whistles from my companions while I was still on the wooden steps, thinking that the hotel hadn't had a peaceful morning since we moved in.Of course, it is beneficial for a woman to dress up and be favored and sought after by men. I walked to my position like a proud peacock without looking sideways.

"Sister, you are such a beauty." Xie Yi stared at me sincerely, offering fresh bread and tomato soup with both hands.

I took the bread and asked intentionally, "So you don't usually think I'm pretty?"

"No!" He blushed, "It's just...it's just that everyone stays in the wild and travels...all of them are unkempt. It's rare to see you like this."

Old Nigel hated iron but steel: "I'm really useless, I get nervous about little things, I really don't know why those little girls like you."

Speaking of Lily, Shay blushed even more, and whispered, "She's pretty too..."

Nigel hit him on the head with bread, "You're pretty, you're willing to leave her house, but be careful, she'll run away with her when you go back."

Shay retorted angrily, "She won't! We've agreed!" Old Nigel huffed and fell silent.

Jamie took the opportunity to expose his scars, "When he was young, he broke the hearts of thousands of girls. At that time, who didn't know that Bomonti had a

A playboy Nigel. " Then he pointed at me and said, "There are several noble daughters like you who chased after him. "

"And then?" Shay asked expectantly.

"Then, the retribution came, and this life is doomed to die alone." Old Nigel replied self-consciously.

Jamie didn't speak any more, just shook his head with a smile. "What about you?" I asked Jamie, picking up the bread.

"He's married, a wife and a daughter," Nigel answered for him.Seeing my surprised expression, Jamie added with a smile: "She is five years old this year." He smiled with tenderness on his face. "That's why Colin let me stay in the relatively stable intelligence department."

Nigel propped his legs up on the table. When he saw Colin and Jess coming in from the door, he tapped them with his toes: "Here, he came as soon as we talked about it. Tsk tsk, young people are awesome, this man is younger than me There is too much time."

Shay chewed the bread and nodded desperately, and said inarticulately, "That Jess must like him." Just ask anyone with eyes who doesn't know.

Jess first came over to say hello, "I wish you all the best, nice to meet you." She glanced at me intentionally or unintentionally, touched Colin's shoulder and patted it, then put down her hands and pouted with some nostalgia. Buttocks left.That look was self-evident, more provocative, and I had no time to pay attention to it. I heard old Nigel teasing Colin in an ambiguous tone: "How is the battle going?"

Colin explained helplessly: "She drew us a route map to the village in the stone bed."

Nigel asked again: "The painting on the bed?" Colin smiled and defended: "You just saw us come back from the outside with your own eyes."

"Oh, outside~" Nigel showed an ambiguous expression again. He didn't let Colin go, turned his gloomy eyes to me, and said something intentionally or unintentionally: "No matter how beautiful the flowers outside are, they can't compare with those at home. It's beautiful, what do you think?"

Feeling that Colin's eyes fell on me, I pretended to concentrate on eating what I was holding, and my ears felt hot.

Otis sat down from behind with a hangover look on his face, and his eyes lit up after seeing me, "Am I still drunk? Why is there a fairy sitting here?" Then he said meanly: "Women are those who please themselves. Rong, Xiao Scar, you have a problem, have you taken a fancy to that Joffrey?"

Xie Yi echoed from the side: "That's right, he kept asking me about my sister last night!" Then the two of them acted like idiots, thinking that they had uncovered some secret, and showed me an ambiguous expression for no reason. 's smirk.

Finally, Nigel couldn't help it, and swept over with his foot, hating iron and steel, saying: "You deserve it! You deserve it, you two are single!" They kicked so loudly, cursing "what kind of eyes" in their mouths, with a look on their faces. A heartbroken look.

Nigel, the prodigal son who has been in love for a long time, has become the most transparent person at the table, I think.

Sure enough, because I didn't want to talk to "Stupid No. [-]" and "Stupid No. [-]" to affect my IQ, I ignored the existence of the two of them when I was on the road, and finally Nigel walked with me.The scheming old man approached me mysteriously, "Let me see..." He lowered his voice seriously, "You're in love with him." One sentence almost scared me off Ollie.

I steadied myself, making sure no third person overheard our conversation.Seeing me turn my head to stare at him, Nigel pointed to his gray eyes triumphantly, expressing that his vision was poisonous.

"It's nothing, there are too many women who like him." I said angrily.

"It's different." The old fox leaned over again, stared at me and repeated, "You are different." I looked at him.

"Let's put it this way, if you and that Jess were taken away by wolves behind the hotel, would you say he saved you or saved her?"

I said, "Isn't there still you here?" Nigel was angry, "You know what I'm talking about!" I didn't give up and asked one more time, "Do you think he saved you or saved her?"

It's different when an answer pops up in your mind for a moment, and then you're immediately rejected by yourself.

Nigel snorted and said nothing more.

We gather under the tree, the team is going to split up temporarily.It has not yet been determined whether Kennedy III is hiding in the village in the stone bed. In order to prevent leaks, Jamie must personally bring the information to Jacob's army in the imperial city to report, and Colin and Otis will personally Go to the village, find Kennedy III and lobby him to rise again to overthrow the current incumbent, but it is clear that all this is full of unknowns.

"These two IQs are negative together and must be separated." Old Nigel first pointed at Otis and Shay and spoke. "I'll follow old Jamie and go back to see those little bastards in the imperial city." In one sentence, everything seemed to be decided.

I was wondering where I was going, when I heard Colin order from behind: "Girl Hastings is coming with us."

Shay looked regretful, and Colin said, "It's too dangerous for her to go to the imperial city with you." Reminding Reggie and Sanderling of the fact that they were also there. "She will come with us to the village in the Stone Bed."

Before parting ways, old Nigel did not forget to give me a wink that is indescribable.Afterwards, Otis stretched out his paws like a brown bear on the shoulders of Colin and me, and sighed, "The two people beside me are the most valuable people in Carolina!"

We parted ways under the big tree, and agreed to meet again at Jacob's Base in the Imperial City Realm on NO.15 next month.And I seem to have returned to the most primitive Warwick, and the two people beside me are still the same, but for one of them, my mind is not quite the same.