under the field

Scarlett

I thought I had gone through so many trials, and now the only requirement for accommodation is that it can shelter me from the wind and rain, but when I opened my eyes in the morning, I found myself staring at the mouse that was close at hand. Still can't help but scream.Selena woke up from the dream, put one hand on its fleeing furry body, and even yelled loudly.

Ms. Baker opened the door and slammed the door panel against the wall with all her strength. Her fat body stood there, blocking the sunlight outside the door. Seeing us looking at her, I felt that we were going to be stared out of the hole by her. . "Don't have to work? Ah! You little hoofs that eat and drink for nothing! Wait until I get a broom and ask you to go away?"

I heard Selena growl in annoyance as she buried herself in the blanket.I took a deep breath, good, welcome to another tired and busy day.

Mr. Baker is yesterday's sharp-faced man, and Ms. Baker's husband who hangs out in brothels and gambling houses all day long, but this makes him make a lot of friends, and we think he may know some unknown information.At this time, a crowd of traffickers and pawns gathered in the tavern. No matter when and where, everyone always gathers for new news.Ms. Baker also sat at the front, so Selena and I decided to be lazy and join them.

"Someone saw that it was the royal guard." The bearded man sitting at the front said, "Wow! The whole village was burned down in one fire!" Everyone was amazed, and he continued to add: "There are countless casualties."

A woman started spitting on the ground, shouting insults: "The dog royal family! There is no good thing! I see one and kill the other, bastards!" The people next to them began to echo.

At this moment, the authentic royals beside me listened with relish, and I silently turned my head back.

"She really killed her own younger brother, all of them were born to the same parents..."

"She even slept with her own father. How could a person like her care about such things..." Someone replied.

Serena stretched out her hand to hold my open mouth in surprise, and added with a normal expression: "Actually, she even slept with my great-grandfather."

"..."

People started to leave the meeting, and a man with a bad face came to Mr. Baker's side. "Little Mr. Lovett asked you to meet him in the 'Rose Garden' in the afternoon." Mr. Baker's face changed suddenly, and he quickly agreed.Seeing the man leave, Mr. Baker sneaked up to the counter, glanced furtively at Ms. Baker in the back kitchen, and reached for her money box.

Selena whistled and he immediately straightened his back, turned around and stared at us viciously.He made a threatening gesture towards us, and Selena stepped ahead of him.

"What is that little Mr. Lovett?" she asked.

Mr. Baker replied frivolously: "The creditor." I made a gesture to call Ms. Baker, but he immediately said: "He is from Jacob." Selena and I quickly exchanged glances.

"Where is Rose Garden?"

Mr. Baker closed his mouth again, I coughed lightly, and said loudly: "You want to take..." Before he could say the word money, he immediately confessed, restrained his voice, mixed with unwillingness and resentment: "Then It's an upscale brothel targeting wealthy businessmen and upper-class aristocrats."

"Where is it?" Selina asked, staring at him.

"Silk Street." He never refused to answer.

At noon, Selena and I slipped away from Ms. Baker's eyes, and followed Mr. Baker to the Rose Garden half-threateningly and half-forced.He held Ms. Baker's money box in his arms, and looked at Selena and me with dingy eyes: "Who are you?" Of course we ignored him, and he naturally stopped asking for trouble.

The Rose Garden is undeniably a refined venue, with richly decorated interiors featuring exquisite tapestries, drapes and artwork.There is a harpist playing background music in the common room, and there is also excellent food and wine.It can be seen that this brothel caters for all tastes, with male and female whores, presumably the clientele wants it, and both sexes can have fun.Mr. Baker didn't look around like we did, he went straight to the stairs in the hall, there were already people waiting there, we tried to follow, but were blocked.At this time, Mr. Baker finally showed his face like a cunning fox. He said something to the man, turned his head to show us a successful smile, and stepped up the stairs first with the soles of his feet oiled.

"We're here to see Mr. Lovett Jr.," I said to the man, but he ignored us and just stood there in our way. "Scarlett." Selena called me uneasily from behind, seeing a group of guards rushing towards us behind the pillar, "This damn old fox..."

"run!"

The internal structure of the rose garden is as complicated as the rose pattern road. We have no way of knowing where the next road leads. We ran to the veranda outside the hall. Seeing that the people behind were about to catch up, I opened a road at the corner. Seeing the alley leading to the street, Selena pushed Selena outside with all her strength, "Go!" Selena stood down the steps and turned around to look at me who was still standing in the door, with some eyes. Incredible.

I closed the door, ran back to the center of the corridor, and raised my hands to the guards surrounding me.

……

The guards of Rose Garden did not imprison me, they took me to a room on the second floor.Seeing that the room was either soft or the structure of the bed, I chose to stand down.There is a carpet with intricate patterns under my feet, and an oil painting on the soft sagging side. There are intertwined portraits of men and women naked and intertwined. I turned my eyes away and did not continue to appreciate it.

The door opened, and a stalwart man walked in alone. I first noticed his brows and eyes, where there was a shallow and long scar. Jacket, rolled up loosely at the wrist.He first stood down in front of me and motioned for me to sit down. After I shook his head slightly, he didn't insist any more, and lay on the soft sofa with his body crooked.

He opened his mouth first, "Your friend..." I held my breath unconsciously, and heard him say, "With a puff, it disappeared like magic."

"That would be great." I recovered and calmed down.

"So why are you running?" He looked at me with a smile, his feet were swaying erratically on the soft cushion.

"If you hadn't sent a group of armed guards after us." I looked back at him.

After thinking carefully, he replied, "Everyone who followed to see Mr. Lovett Jr. is very suspicious." I remained silent.

He laughed again, and put on an interesting expression: "Aren't you going to introduce yourself?"

"Scarlett."

"Why do you want to see Mr. Rowett?" He was sitting and lying down, but I could feel the oppressive aura emanating from him.

Seeing that I was silent, he asked another question: "Do you want to see Mr. Lovett Jr. or Jacob's people?"

I looked at the shallow scar: "I'll only say it when I see him."

He stood up suddenly and approached me step by step, so I had no choice but to back up until I finally got close to the wall behind me.He stretched out his hand to cover my shoulder, and leaned over to get close to me, I felt his breath all on my face, "So I'm here." He said.

My heart moved slightly, and I looked straight back at him. Those black eyes were completely different from Colin's, full of bottomless cruelty and gloom. "That doesn't mean I trust you."

His face was approaching me, but I didn't dodge, I stuck my whole body against the wall behind me and didn't move until his lips stopped at the corner of my mouth, just about to move, I heard him ask: " Are you not afraid?"

I restrained my breathing, and answered him word by word in a calm voice: "Only an incompetent man would bully a woman in this way."

He backed away, even with that oppressive breath.But he was still staring at my face, with a more serious tone: "I am the little Mr. Lovett you are looking for, I just ask you one last time, what's the matter with you?"

I don't trust him.Not because I don't believe he's Mr. Robert Jr., but because I can't trust a stranger, even if he's one of Jacob's.But now Selena and I don't know where to go. Our goal is Jacob's base in Wells. Now that we have arrived in Wells and found Jacob's people, I can't believe them wholeheartedly. , because I am afraid that if I make a wrong step, I will be lost forever. I can't take such a risk, but...

"I don't have so much time to spend with you." He turned to leave.

"You know what happened in the stone bed." I said hurriedly, the back in front of me stopped, "I escaped from there, I need to go to Jacob's base."

"who do you think You Are?"

"If you were Jacob's man, you would know who I am and what we went to the stone bed for." Sure enough, he turned around, and I continued, as if thinking of everything in the stone bed that night. Scene: "Only I escaped, I must find Jacob's base and meet my partners."

He seemed to have heard some joke, "You are not Jacob's man."

"I said, my buddies are, they're at Jacob Base." I looked at him.He approached again and leaned closer, the oppressive aura returned, and the scar on his brow made him look even more stern, "Why do you think I'm going to take you back there for no reason?"

"Because I shoulder the responsibility." He laughed like he heard a joke, and the laughter that was close at hand made my eardrums hurt. "It was told to me by Colin." The name made him stop smiling, and I could clearly see the deepening cruelty in his eyes. Dealing with him who was uncertain made me feel uneasy.His hand suddenly grabbed my throat, and he began to tighten the strength in his hand...

I had to grab his hand and feel like I was lifted up by him, all the air in my chest was taken away, I couldn't make a sound, only heard him say: "Anyone who works for him is fucking stupid , why do you think that I will help you, help him?" For a moment, I really felt that I was going to be strangled by him, so I had to kick his body randomly, but he didn't move at all, and he looked at me fiercely, as if through I have seen his grievances against Colin before, "but his bones are gone now, and he has no whereabouts." This sentence made my heart feel like falling into an ice cellar. Immediately approaching.

The door was knocked open, and the person standing in the light and shadow threw a handful of things over. A black shadow came towards us quickly and steadily. A smear of blood finally stabbed firmly into the wall next to my shoulder, which made the person in front of me finally let go of me.I didn't have time to catch my breath, so I turned my head and saw the fir family crest engraved on the dagger inserted into the flannel on the wall...