Soon, Tom found out the address of Scarborough Market - the formation of this market originated from the Vikings. They often visited England and plundered, but they also carried out normal trade, and Scarborough
As a result, the location of Bro is a regular market. The market is held in autumn every year and lasts for one and a half months.
This fair has been going on for hundreds of years, and even the Vikings would not attack this place during the fair.
Scarborough Market is about forty or fifty miles away from here, and walking there alone might break your legs. So Hermione looked at Tom.
"You should still retain your abilities, right?"
"Of course!" As soon as she finished speaking, an elegant male unicorn appeared in front of Hermione's eyes. The beautiful silver hair caught Hermione's eyeballs at once. This beauty made her not want to move her eyes away at all.
Looking at the bright silver hair of the unicorn, Hermione couldn't help but get closer to him, and then touched his back, feeling the satin-like feel. But suddenly, she remembered the original shape of the unicorn, and her face turned pale.
Hot.
She rode on the unicorn's back and followed him all the way to Scarborough Fair.
There is a reason for not using the phoenix form. The distance along the way is not close. If it is a genuine Fox, it may be able to arrive quickly, but as a replica, Tom has not yet mastered the magical function of teleportation, so he can only fly honestly.
It takes at least twenty minutes to go to Scarborough Market. In order to hide from others, Tom must fly higher. What if Hermione falls from him during the flight?
So it was better to turn into a unicorn and let him carry Hermione there - and as a unicorn, Tom felt inexplicably comfortable when Hermione was close to him, especially when Hermione touched her back.
Various massages were even more pleasurable to the body and mind. Unfortunately, Hermione only touched it for a short while and then stopped.
The speed of a unicorn in the forest is no less than that of a horse, and its endurance is far beyond that of an ordinary horse. About two hours later, Tom took Hermione to Scarborough Market.
This market is much larger than the market in the small town just now, probably hundreds of times the size of the previous one. It is full of small merchants and hawkers shouting about selling their goods, and there are also capable merchants selling goods and buying specialties here.
Tom felt the atmosphere of medieval fireworks for the first time.
In the market, they easily found the spice merchant and bought the four spices. The merchant thoughtfully helped them wrap the four spices together. Only then did Tom realize that the four spices represented
The sweetness of love, strength, loyalty and courage.
After buying the spices, they walked to the south of the market, asking for Benn's address as they walked. Finally, they found Benn in a small village south of the market.
Ben looked like a young man in his early twenties, with a strong build and slender limbs. He had some fields at home and hired more than a dozen people to help him farm. After receiving the spice bag, he showed a sad look.
He thought for a while and said to Tom, "Please give me a message. Just tell Elaine to ask her to make me a linen shirt, but after the shirt is made, it must be washed in a dry well.
Let it dry on a piece of withered grass. After the shirt is made, it must be able to cover the water without leaking a drop. If we can do this, we can get back together and become true love for each other."
Tom & Hermione:…
When they returned to the town, it was already afternoon.
Elaine was standing at the entrance of the town waiting for them.
After hearing Ben's reply, Elaine stamped her feet: How could such a thing be done? Wasn't it just a quarrel with him? Why be so stingy!
She was a little angry, "Then please tell me again. I also have a request for him. I want him to use a leather sickle to harvest the grains, and then thresh the grains on the wall, but not a single seed falls on the ground.
If he can accomplish this, then we can get back together and become true love for each other."
Tom had already understood that this young couple was probably at odds. However, he still had to bring a message. Tom knew that if he wanted to complete this copy, this young couple was the key.
"Okay, I will convey your words to you, but if you want, my good friend can help you finish this shirt."
Benn's request is a bit outrageous, but it is not difficult for the wizard to realize it.
"Really?" Elaine raised her head in surprise, "Can you really make such a shirt?"
"Of course, we are travelers from afar." Tom smiled.
"But if you really like Ben, it would be better to get back together with him as soon as possible. When two people get along, they need to tolerate each other."
Elaine lowered his head and said nothing.
Tom pulled Hermione aside and whispered to her the method he had thought of. Then he set off on the road to Scarborough Market. Fortunately, and for some reason, Tom, who had been running around for most of the day, did not
Some ideas for food and drink.
One day later, Elaine made the linen shirt Ben asked for. She gave the shirt to Hermione, and Hermione walked into a dry well with the shirt.
"Clear water like a spring!" A gurgling clear spring emerged from the tip of Hermione's staff, and there was water in the dry well. She successfully washed the shirt at the bottom of the dry well. The washed shirt was placed on a piece of dry grass, and Hermione used
The floating spell made the shirt and dry grass float in the air. Soon, the mountain wind blowing from a distance dried the shirt.
Finally, Hermione followed Tom's instructions and asked for a candle, and smeared it on the surface of the shirt over and over again. After applying it, she rolled a hot pebble on the shirt, and the wax melted into the gaps in the cloth.
.Such a shirt, even if a glass of water is poured into it, it will not leak.
After the shirt was finished, Elaine asked Hermione to send the shirt over for her and see if Ben had harvested the grain as she requested.
Hermione shook her head. She felt that this couple really had a stomachache: they obviously liked each other, but they refused to give in and created problems for each other. If this continued, they would only miss out on their marriage.
However, Hermione believed that Tom had found a good solution.
With some stomachache, Hermione set out on the road to Scarborough Market.
Meanwhile, Tom was already standing on Benn's threshing floor.
"Awesome, how did you do it? You can make a leather sickle as hard as a stone!"
Tom:……
This is nothing, some big guys can even make a knife out of rice, but Tom doesn't have that skill, so he can only make do with a petrification spell.
As for threshing millet on the wall, Tom's solution was to put a layer of cloth on the ground. And to prevent the wind from blowing away the millet, he also covered it with a layer of gauze outside.
In this way, it was possible to thresh millet while standing on the wall, and not a single grain of millet fell to the ground.
After the last handful of grain was taken care of, Ben was so tired that he almost collapsed. He staggered down the wall and walked up to Tom: "Excuse me, go talk to Elaine.
Say I've done it! Let's get back together."
Tom nodded and started on his way home again.
This time, he met Hermione on the way. After some discussion, the two decided that it would be better to take Elaine with him to see Ben. The couple was at odds, and as the saying goes, it would be better to untie the bell.
Someone must tie the bell, which saves Tom and his wife from traveling back and forth.
But when they returned to the small town, an unexpected scene occurred.
Although the town is not prosperous, there are still hundreds of people living in it, and it has a vigorous vitality. But when Tom returned here again, the entire town had been reduced to ruins, and even the tallest church only had ruins left.
.Other houses were turned into piles of rubble and charcoal, and were buried by wildly growing weeds. Occasionally, hollow skulls could be seen among the weeds.
Relying on his memory, Tom came to the door of Elaine's house and found that Elaine's house, like the rest of the town, had also turned into scorched earth. He picked up a hair crown with brown spots in the weeds and gently wiped it off.
Dust on top.
"Tom, here...why? I don't understand..." Hermione looked at this strange yet familiar scene and said in disbelief, "We were only gone for half a day!"
"Go back to Ben." Tom immediately returned with a hair crown. This time, the small village south of Scarborough Market was still there, but the moment Tom walked in, he felt that everything here had changed subtly.
: The house and fields are still familiar, but all the details have become out of place, and even the villagers seem to have changed.
When he came to Ben's house, he found that the house also looked abandoned for a long time.
Tom stopped an old farmer passing by and asked, "Do you know where the owner of this house has gone?"
A flash of memory flashed through the old farmer's cloudy eyes, "This house used to belong to a man named Benn. In the early years, the Viking pirates caused a lot of trouble and many towns in the north were razed to the ground. He took the initiative to respond.
I accepted the lord's call and went to fight the Vikings, but I never came back. In the end, I only sent a jar back... These were all decades ago... Why do you ask about these things?"
"Nothing," Tom shook his head, "then do you know where Ben was finally buried?"
"No!" The old farmer pointed to the house, which was buried in the backyard of his house, under the oak tree.
Tom and Hermione walked through the collapsed gate and walked into the ruins of Benn's house. Under the oak tree in the backyard, they saw a small grave that was almost buried by weeds. In front of the grave there was only a two-foot-square stone with a
Ben's name is engraved on it. Under the stone, there is also a necklace with a cross.
Tom wordlessly took the linen clothes from Hermione's arms, but as soon as the clothes came into contact with the air, they quickly rotted and turned into fly ash.
Tom gently dug out the necklace and entangled it with the hair crown.
[Double copy: Clear Scarborough Fair!
Mission goal achieved: Fulfill Elaine and Ben’s wishes.