[Rebirth Fantasy] Seven Dragons

The road was bumpy, sitting on the back seat of the carriage barely covered with sackcloth, the body swayed with the carriage, the weather in the late autumn had already cooled down, and driving a long distance in a tattered carriage in this kind of weather would always feel very uncomfortable It was cold, but Nier felt very warm now.

Wearing an old padded jacket with several patches, the warm and soft feeling enveloped her whole body, Nier curled her neck, and occasionally sniffed cutely with her nose, as if she could smell the warm breath.

The old padded jacket was given to her by the village head's family. Although it is worn out, it is still very warm.

"Neil, how do you read here?" The body was shaken by someone, and the hands that were not too big but already callused due to the apprenticeship were holding the book and spread it out in front of Nier's eyes.

It has been half a year since Ala went to the town to be an apprentice to the master blacksmith. The little boy is smart, sensible and diligent, and is very popular with the master blacksmith. Fortunately, the master blacksmith in the town relied on these The craftsmanship that has gradually been passed down over the years is now invited to work in a weapon shop in a big place, and Ala has become the apprentice he most hopes to bring.

The village head's family was very happy about this kind of thing, and they celebrated it with great joy. Ni'er, who once taught Ala to read, was also solemnly invited by the village head. Go to a dinner party at home.The village head is a very sensible person, knowing that if his children hadn't read some books with Neil, they wouldn't have the opportunity they have now.In addition to inviting Neil to eat and drink for a night with joy and gratitude, I also gave Nier an old cotton jacket, and I will take Nier to send Ala to the city.

"Going to the city", this part belongs to the simple romance and longing of the country people. Even though Nier is not a real country person, the experience of these years made her understand that this is the kindness and gratitude from the village chief to her from the heart. .

The carriage swayed and the songs fluttered.Ni'er, Ala, the village head, and a young man in the village who was a driver, walked on the small road in the south with laughter and laughter.

"You may meet some murderous people on the road ahead, but I also inquired about them. Those people don't kill people on sight. They don't mean anything to us rural people who have nothing. It's just, just If it happens, you two children should have a better attitude."

Nier and the others live in a small village on the border of the Greyhound Principality, and this time they are going to one of the three fortress cities in the south of the Holy Griffin Empire - God's Blessing City.Since Greyhound Principality, Bull Principality, and Holy Griffon Empire are all close to the forgotten land where thieves are rampant, many road sections near the border are not safe. Be good.

For those who come and go and only listen to rumors, the Forgotten Land is full of vicious and frenzied desperadoes. In the meantime, those people in the Forgotten Land are not so dehumanized, and those people are not as bloodthirsty as the rumors. For them, the country folk who don't even have a little bit of oil and water, those people always don't even look at them. Too lazy to take a look.

What makes them such a headache even more is the expensive entry fee when entering the city.

However, there are always some things that are unexpected.

Most of the roadsides are trees with withered leaves, and the ground is scattered with curly yellow grass and broken dead leaves. The road is quiet, and the first person who notices the abnormality is the mature man who is a coachman. He is a hunter in the village.

Orion sniffed his nose, and whispered to the village chief next to him with a slightly worried expression: "Village chief, there seems to be a bloody smell in the air..."

"Huh?" The village chief frowned, his eyes vigilant with a little fear, the gray sea of ​​trees, and the winding path, like the blood vessels of the earth, branched and crisscrossed into the distance at the intersection, and at the fork at the corner ahead, There's a vague...rough vocal sound.

Either stained with blood or with some scorched land, carriages, goods, weapons scattered on the ground, and people dressed as mercenaries lying in a pool of blood.There are still many people who are cleaning up the battle scene, the corpses that have been carried together, the armor that has been stripped off, the swords, guns and staffs that are piled up together, a one-eyed man leaning on horseback glanced at the intersection, trembling The standing village head and his party were looking directly at each other.

"Yo, it's bolder than I imagined." The man smoking a cigarette smiled. If it wasn't for the blood stains on his clothes, or the bloody scene around him, he looked like a decadent uncle. A long group of people greeted each other.Obviously, the man discovered the village head and his party very early.

The village head and Orion shrank their necks shyly, smiled forcedly and nodded with the man, while Nier curled up with Ala in the back of the car.

"Wait a minute, I'll clear a way out for you in a while." The one-eyed man smiled and walked to the village chief's carriage, talking like an acquaintance, "Are you going to God's Blessing City?"

"Yes, yes." The village head and Orion, who hurriedly got off the car, agreed carefully in front of the one-eyed man, lest the other party turn his face and kill someone if he disagreed.

"There's nothing hidden in the car, right?" The one-eyed man glanced at the back of the car, then said with a smile, "Well, this kind of broken car can't hide anything."

The village chief wiped the cold sweat from his forehead, and nodded hurriedly, "Yes, yes, sir, what can my little broken car hide?"

The one-eyed man patted the village head on the shoulder. The village head trembled and almost knelt down in front of the man. The man laughed and said, "Don't be nervous, that's what I said casually. You know, this In the past few years, when some rich people cross this road, they don’t want to send something to say hello, and they dress up as poor people and want to fool around. Those people are really a headache. We have to divide the It's really troublesome to pay some attention to passers-by like my brother."

Holding a cigarette butt, the one-eyed man pointed to the corpses of the other party not far away and said to the village chief: "Look, how simple is the group of people just now, with several large carts and several large carts of goods, and hired many mercenaries." Escort, it looks like a big deal at first glance, and it saves us from thinking so much, just do it directly. Haha, you are right, brother."

"Yes, yes." The village chief just looked up at the corpses, and quickly lowered his head in fright.

"Brother, what are you going to God's Blessing City for? I don't look like I'm going to go shopping, visit relatives or something?" The one-eyed man blew on the smoke, waved his finger in front of the village chief's face and reminded: "Oh , By the way, first of all, I hate lying."

The village head, who was thinking of fooling around, quickly put away his small thoughts, and replied honestly: "Yes, I went to the blacksmith shop as an apprentice from a child."

"Apprentice blacksmith, he's a promising boy." The one-eyed man glanced at the two children who were huddled together behind the car, and suddenly grinned: "Interesting."

What the one-eyed man said afterwards made the village chief's heartbeat almost stop, "There are two children behind, leave one behind, and then you can go."

"Grandpa, this gentleman, please do me a favor, just let me go, let my child go!" The village chief knelt on the ground emotionally and tugged at the corner of the one-eyed man's clothes, saying loudly.

The one-eyed man squinted at the village chief with a troubled look on his face, sighed and said, "Don't get excited, don't get excited, I just said leave one, just leave one... There is one inside, it seems that it is not Your child."

"You choose yourself, keep one, and then you can walk to Tianyou City safely." Seeing the village chief's face becoming cloudy and uncertain, the one-eyed man's expression became joyful, and his tone was unusually gentle.

The village head stood up slowly, was supported by the one-eyed man, and turned his head to the back of the carriage little by little. After that, a thin figure jumped out of the carriage.A trembling, thin figure.

"I, let me stay."

From the time the man said he wanted to keep one, Nier couldn't stop imagining what would happen afterwards.She is a smart person, a vagrant who has no illusions, cold fear, straight from the tailbone to the brain, her legs can't help shaking, her hands can't help shaking, her eyes are crying tears, and she can't help shaking.

But she put down Allah, tried her best to get out of the car, and said to the man: "I, let me stay."

Will be left behind...Instead of doing that, wouldn't it be more courageous to take the initiative to stand up? With trembling hands, he pulled the padded coat tightly, and didn't dare to look up at the two men in front of him, just lowered his head, Like an ostrich, what you smell in your mouth and nose is the warm smell of cotton-padded clothes, and the wetness and saltiness of tears.

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Should be able to write a chapter before bed.