Lord Highlander

The snow that had been falling all night finally stopped before dawn.

The snow piled deep on the streets, and the residents crawled out of bed early to clear the snow in front of their houses.

Children in thick winter clothes face the snowman in the yard.

The morning sun was particularly bright, and a heavy snow completely covered the earth.

A group of sparrows flew out of the bird's nest under the eaves and landed on the branches. They didn't know where to find grass seeds to eat. At this time, just clear a small open space in the yard and put grains, grains, bread crumbs, etc. Food is spilled on the ground, and these hungry birds can be easily caught by setting up pot lids, door panels, and baskets.

The florist Basil opened his eyes, 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 for a while, but some garlic seedlings are grown in the wooden troughs in the shop, which is one of the few sources of income for Basil's winter flower shop. one.

In the past two years, with the skyrocketing price of magic herbs, the prices of all plants related to magic herbs have increased several times, which has made it even more difficult for Basil's flower shop to continue. Recently, he is considering whether to sell this shop to Go out, then add some money to buy a magic caravan, drive the carriage out every day to help people, and the income is more stable than that of a flower shop.

Getting up from the bed, he covered the two wives beside him with quilts. During breakfast in winter, the fire in the fireplace had been completely extinguished. It's like this every winter, it's an old problem.

Probably hearing the sound of him clearing snow in the yard, the eldest daughter Amy also came out of the next room.

She was wearing boots and snow pants, and she seemed to be preparing to sweep the snow together. Basil sighed. The coming-of-age ceremony her daughter attended last year will turn eighteen after the new year. It's time to prepare a dowry for her. Well, it's not easy to marry a daughter in this age, the man's family must have a generous dowry in addition to his appearance and character.

He walked out of the yard with a shovel and came to the door of his shop. He piled the thick snow on the door of the shop and the street on the low wall of street trees and shrubs, forming a high snow wall.

His family's flower shop is next to the Dandelion Hotel. The proprietress of the hotel has told him many times before that she wants to merge his flower shop and build a small building on the basis of the original building of the flower shop. There is a restaurant that can accommodate at least fifty people to eat at the same time, but he has never agreed.

Opposite the flower shop is a small square. The surrounding residents like to call it "under the tree" because there is a towering fig tree in the center of the square. In summer, the old people like to enjoy the coolness under this tree. Very lively.

Basil piled the snow from the road on the low shrub walls around the square. He was lowering his head and clearing the snow on the street when he suddenly noticed that there seemed to be something extra on the fig tree in the center of the square. Looking under the tree, I saw four hunters tightly bound by ropes, hanging on the towering tree like human chrysalis.

A pile of blood had condensed under one of them, and a thick layer of frost had formed on his face, it seemed that he had probably been completely cold.

He ran over quickly and saw that the other three were still breathing weakly, their eyebrows and beards were covered with frost. He planned to cut the rope with a shovel to save them, but he couldn't do it alone.

Basil hurriedly shouted towards the Dandelion Hotel.

There is always someone on the hotel side, and soon there was movement on the hotel side. The hotel manager went to Menet and ran to the square with two young men. After identifying the people hanging from the tree, and seeing that these were all guests in the hotel, his legs gave way in fright, and he fell down on 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 battalion over..."

"What are you doing in a daze, hurry up!" the hotel manager Mene shouted hoarsely.

The two young waiters hurriedly ran along the street towards the guard camp...

...

It snowed heavily all night, the streets were congested, a large number of magic caravans broke down on the side of the street, and many Gubolai horses hid in the stables to escape the cold.

The knights of the guard battalion and the swordsmen from the Newman Duke's Mansion rushed to the front of the Dandelion Hotel located in the southern block of Bena City.

The knights of the guard battalion rushed under the trees in the square, while dozens of swordsmen from the Duke of Newman's mansion surrounded the Dandelion Hotel. Some civilians who got up early and wanted to get out of the hotel all blocked back into the room. Stop in front of the hotel gate.

A female swordsman covered in silver armor jumped off the horse. Holding on to the hilt of her sword, she almost rushed into the hotel before everyone else.

The two maids with pale faces were carried off the horse by the knight, and followed the female swordsman quickly into the hotel.

At this moment, Mrs. Dorothy was sitting on the big bed in the room in the noble area of ​​the hotel with a cashmere quilt, and was talking carefully with the maid Liya.

The maid Liya looked at Mrs. Dorothy who was almost naked on the bed with a dazed expression, and answered Mrs. Dorothy's questions seriously, but she didn't know many questions at all. She didn't understand why she fell asleep last night, and when she woke up, the two guests who hired her to watch the fireplace disappeared.

Thinking of this, Liya couldn't help but glanced at the bag of acorns next to the fireplace again, feeling a little worried in her heart. If the two guests really left without paying, it would be too bad. These acorns are worth it. There was a lot of money, and she was completely flustered. She secretly touched the purse at her waist, but there was no money in it.

Liya tried hard to recall the appearance of the two guests, but her mind was blank.

It can only be said that one guest is a Constructed Knight, another female guest is very beautiful, and almost nothing is known about the rest.

There was a sound of eager footsteps in the corridor. A young female swordsman strode into the room and saw Mrs. Dorothy sitting on the bed with her arms around her. Mrs. Dorothy said: "You... really scared me to death, do you know that the guard battalion and the guards of the Duke's Palace have been looking for you for a whole night in the city of Bena, and all the gates in the city are still closed up to now. on."

Madam Dorothy looked up at the female swordsman, with a faint smile on her face, and said to the female swordsman from the white lotus-like arms deep in the quilt: "I know you will come to rescue me as soon as possible." , Talis, my sister!"

Talis forced a smile to Mrs. Dorothy, and they hugged each other tightly, and whispered into her ear, "Algernon is dead!"

Mrs. Dorothy nodded slightly, with a bitter smile on her face, and said in a low voice: "He had a chance to escape."

Talis, the female swordsman, heard Mrs. Dorothy say this, her eyes froze slightly. She didn't have any good impression of the young swordsman with greasy hair and pink noodles. She didn't expect him to be so spineless in a critical moment. She patted Mrs. Dorothy's naked back, said: "That's fine, otherwise I really don't know how to explain to Edwin when he comes back from the battlefield. You may not know how many times I want to take advantage of it." Don't you rush to his place and kill him!"

"He is a qualified swordsman and still has a great youth. He shouldn't die here." Mrs. Dorothy finally couldn't hold back anymore and shed a few tears.

The female swordsman Talis comforted Mrs. Dorothy again, and said, "Understood, I will investigate this matter. They want to find you, probably because they have taken a fancy to the golden key in your hand."

"Let's go back and talk about it, this time we're going to show them some color."

With that, Mrs. Dorothy got out of bed.

Two maids came up, took out Mrs. Dorothy's clothes, and quickly put them on.

They were also Mrs. Dorothy's personal maids. They stayed in the Newman Duke's mansion last night and did not follow Mrs. Dorothy to the lover's apartment on North Street. Her other two personal maids and six guards all died on North Street. In his apartment, the two maids were lucky enough to escape unharmed.

Mrs. Dorothy put on a long dress, one of the two maids made a headdress for her, and the other tied her waist. She stood gracefully in front of the window of the room, looked outside, and just saw a large group of people standing in the small square outside the window. Guard battalion knight.

At this time, the hunters hanging from the tree had been released.

...

Viscount Kincaid stayed up all night.

When he received the news, he rushed to the giant tree square. Three hunters who were almost frozen to death were lying flat on the snow, and two guard battalion knights were checking their physical condition.

Viscount Kincaid looked back at the hotel behind him, and heard that the Newman family's personal guard swordsmen found the kidnapped Mrs. Dorothy in this hotel.

He knew that someone was helping secretly this time, otherwise, with the help of the Knights of the Guard Battalion and the Duke of Newman's Mansion, it would not be an easy task to find Mrs. Dorothy in the city of Bena with a population of millions.

He felt that he must have overlooked something, calmed down and thought about it again, but his mind was still clueless.

At this time, the knights who were inspecting the three robbers all stood up. Several knights were wrapping the three hunters in military blankets, and another corpse frozen into an ice sculpture had already been wrapped in a body bag.

"How's the situation?" Viscount Kincaid asked.

The knight inspecting the injury nodded to him, and said, "Master Viscount, they are still alive, but their bodies are frozen stiff, and their limbs may suffer severe frostbite!"

Viscount Kincaid nodded and said, "Help them get rid of the cold, and then bring them back to the guard camp. Don't let them die. They are important criminals. Also, you go and tell Grand Knight Glenn... Forget it, I will personally Report this to Grand Knight Glenn, and you must not let these three criminals escape."

"Don't worry, Viscount Kincaid." The knight captains of the guard battalion stood up straight and promised.