The heavy snow that fell all night finally stopped before dawn.
The snow piled deep on the streets, and residents crawled out of bed early to clear the snow in front of their homes.
Children wearing thick winter clothes were playing with the snowman in the yard.
The morning sun was exceptionally bright, and a heavy snowfall completely covered the land.
A group of sparrows flew out of the bird's nest under the eaves and landed on the branches. I don't know where to find grass seeds to eat. At this time, I just need to clear a small space in the yard and put some grains, grains, bread crumbs and the like.
Food is scattered on the ground, and you can easily catch these hungry birds by setting up pot lids, door panels, bamboo baskets and the like.
Flower shop owner Basil opened his eyes, and the sunlight coming in from the window was a bit dazzling.
Since it is winter, there are almost no flowers to sell in the flower shop, so the flower shop has no income at this time. There are some garlic seedlings in the wooden trough in the shop. This is one of the few sources of income for Basil's winter flower shop.
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As the prices of magic herbs have skyrocketed in the past two years, the prices of all plants related to magic herbs have doubled. This has made Basil's flower shop even more unsustainable. He is currently considering whether to liquidate the shop.
Go out, then add some money to buy a magic caravan, drive the carriage out every day to pull people's feet, and the income will be more stable than that of a flower shop.
Getting up from the bed, he covered the two wives beside him with quilts. During the winter breakfast, the fire in the fireplace had been completely extinguished. The room was not that warm. From time to time, his wife's cough could be heard from the next room.
It happens every winter, it's an old problem.
Maybe he heard the sound of him clearing snow in the yard, and his eldest daughter Amy also walked out of the next room.
She was wearing boots and snow pants, and looked like she was preparing to clear the snow together. Basil sighed. His daughter attended the coming-of-age ceremony last year. She will be eighteen years old after the new year. It is time to prepare a dowry for her.
Well, it is not easy to marry off a daughter these days. In addition to appearance and character, the groom's family must also have a generous dowry.
He walked out of the yard with a shovel and came to the door of his shop. He piled the thick snow at the door of the shop and on the street on the low wall of street trees and shrubs to form a high snow wall.
His flower shop is next to the Dandelion Hotel. The hotel proprietress has told him many times before that she wants to annex his flower shop and build a small building based on the original building of the flower shop. The hotel needs a new building.
There is a restaurant that can accommodate at least fifty people dining at the same time, but he has never agreed.
Opposite the flower shop is a small square. The surrounding residents like to call this place "under the tree" because there is a towering fig tree in the center of the square. In the summer, the elderly like to enjoy the cool under this tree. This square is usually always busy.
Very lively.
Basil piled the snow on the road on the low shrub wall around the square. He was lowering his head and clearing the snow on the street. Suddenly, he found that there seemed to be something on the fig tree in the center of the square. He raised it and looked towards it.
Looking under the tree, I saw four hunters tied tightly with ropes, hanging like human chrysalises on the towering tree.
There was a bunch of blood on one of them's lower body, and there was a thick layer of frost on his face. It looked like he was probably cold enough.
He hurriedly ran over and saw that the other three people were still breathing weakly, and their eyebrows and beards were covered with frost. He planned to use a shovel to cut the ropes and rescue several people, but he could not do it alone.
Basil quickly shouted in the direction of the Dandelion Hotel.
There were always people at the hotel, and soon there was movement at the hotel. The hotel manager came to Menai and ran to the square with two young men. He was only wearing a leather jacket, and he ran eagerly under the fig tree and looked carefully.
After identifying the people hanging on the tree and seeing that they were all guests of the hotel, I was so frightened that my legs went weak and I fell down in the snow.
Basil hurriedly stepped forward, helped Mene up from the snow, and said to him: "Don't move anything at the scene. Go and call the knights from the guard camp over..."
“What are you still doing? Go quickly!” Mene, the hotel manager, shouted in a hoarse voice.
The two young waiters hurriedly ran along the street in the direction of the guard camp...
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It snowed heavily all night, the streets were congested, a large number of magic caravans broke down on the streets, and many ancient Bolai horses took refuge in stables to avoid the cold.
The knights of the guard camp and the swordsmen of Duke Newman's Palace rushed to the front of the Dandelion Hotel in the southern neighborhood of Bena City.
The knights from the guard camp rushed to the trees in the square, while dozens of swordsmen from Duke Newman's Palace surrounded the Dandelion Hotel. Some civilians who had gotten up early and wanted to leave the hotel all rushed back to their rooms. The swordsmen from Duke Newman's Palace
Stop in front of the hotel door.
A female swordsman covered in silver armor jumped off the horse. Holding the hilt of her sword, she rushed into the hotel almost before everyone else.
The two maids were carried off their horses by the knight with pale faces, and followed the swordswoman quickly into the hotel.
At this moment, Mrs. Dorothy was sitting on the big bed in the aristocratic area of the hotel, holding a cashmere quilt, and was talking carefully to the maid Liya.
The maid Leah looked at Mrs. Dorothy, who was almost naked on the bed, with a confused look on her face, and answered Mrs. Dorothy's questions seriously, but she didn't know many of the questions at all. She didn't understand why she was wearing clothes yesterday.
He actually fell asleep at night, and when he woke up, the two guests who hired him to watch the fireplace had disappeared.
Thinking of this, Liya couldn't help but take another look at the pocket of acorns next to the fireplace. She couldn't help but feel a little worried. It would be terrible if the two guests really left secretly without paying. These acorns were worth a lot of money.
There was a lot of money, and she was completely panicked. She secretly touched the purse around her waist, but there was no money in it.
Liya tried to recall the appearance of the two guests, but her mind was blank.
It can only be said that one of the guests is a knight in disguise, the other female guest is very beautiful, and almost nothing else is known about the rest.
There was a burst of urgent footsteps in the corridor, and a young female swordsman strode into the room. Seeing Mrs. Dorothy sitting on the bed with her arms wrapped around her, she leaned against the door frame and took a deep breath, patting her chest and saying,
Mrs. Dorothy said: "You...really scared me to death. Do you know that the security battalion and the Duke's palace guards have been looking for you all night in Bena City, and all the gates in the city are still sealed."
With."
Mrs. Dorothy looked up at the female swordsman, with a faint smile on her face, and with her white lotus-like arms from deep under the quilt, she said to the female swordsman: "I know you will come to save me as soon as possible."
, Talis, my sister!”
Talis gave Lady Dorothy a forced smile, hugged each other tightly, and whispered into her ear: "Algernon is dead!"
Mrs. Dorothy nodded slightly, smiled bitterly, and whispered: "He had a chance to escape."
When the female swordsman Talis heard what Mrs. Dorothy said, her eyes stagnated slightly. She didn't have any good impression of the young swordsman with oily hair and powdery face. She didn't expect that he would still have such backbone in a critical moment. She patted him.
Mrs. Dorothy's naked back said: "That's good. Otherwise, when Edwin comes back from the battlefield, I really don't know how to explain to him. You may not know how many times I want to take advantage of him."
Don't you rush to his place and kill him!"
"He was a qualified swordsman and still had a lot of youth. He shouldn't die here." Mrs. Dorothy finally couldn't hold it any longer and shed a few tears.
The female swordsman Talis comforted Mrs. Dorothy again and said: "I know, I will investigate this matter. They want to find you, and they probably are interested in the golden key in your hand."
“We’ll talk about it when we get back, this time we’re going to show them a little bit of color.”
After saying this, Mrs. Dorothy got off the bed.
Two maids came up, took out Lady Dorothy's clothes, and quickly put them on.
They were also Lady Dorothy's personal maids. They stayed at Duke Newman's Palace last night and did not follow Mrs. Dorothy to her lover's apartment on North Street. Her other two personal maids and six bodyguards all died on North Street.
In his apartment, the two maids were lucky enough to escape.
Mrs. Dorothy put on her long dress. One of the two maids made her a headdress and the other tied her waist. She stood elegantly in front of the window of the room and looked outside. She happened to see a large group of people standing in the small square outside the window.
Guard camp knight.
At this time, the hunters who were hanging on the tree had been let down.
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Viscount Kincaid. I stayed up all night.
After receiving the news, he rushed to the Giant Tree Square immediately. Three hunters who were almost frozen were lying on the snow, and two knights from the guard camp were checking their physical conditions.
Viscount Kincaid turned back and glanced at the hotel behind him. He heard that the Newman family's personal swordsmen found the kidnapped Lady Dorothy in this hotel.
He knew that someone was secretly helping this time. Otherwise, it would not be easy to find Mrs. Dorothy in Bena City, a city with a population of millions, with the help of the knights of the guard camp and the Duke Newman's Palace.
He felt that he must have overlooked something, so he calmed down and thought about it again, but he still had no clue.
At this time, the knights who were checking the three robbers all stood up. Several knights were wrapping the three hunters in military blankets, and the body of the other one, which was frozen into an ice sculpture, had been packed in a body bag.
“How is the situation?” Viscount Kincaid asked.
The knight who checked the injury nodded to him and said: "Lord Viscount, they are still alive, but their bodies are frozen, and their limbs will probably have severe frostbite!"
Viscount Kincaid nodded and said: "Help them keep the cold away, and then bring them back to the guard camp. Don't let them die. They are all very important prisoners. Also, you go tell Grand Knight Glenn... Forget it, I will do it myself."
Go report this matter to Grand Knight Glenn, and you must not let these three criminals escape."
"Don't worry, Viscount Kincaid." The knight captains of the guard camp stood up straight and assured.