Hey, King!

2021-06-17

Chapter 89 Chapter 89 Door-to-door
In the afternoon, Dagon left the hotel and came to the famous The horse farm for Yuechi. The double iron doors here are enough for three carriages to enter and exit at the same time, and you can imagine its scale during the flourishing period. It's just that the vicissitudes of the years and the slow time have made the land for the king's horses become a playground for chickens and dogs to chase and white geese to dominate.

The door is ajar, with only animal footprints around. The place has long been neglected, so the animals have taken over it. Dagon entered through the main entrance and stood in the empty courtyard, the smell of rotting thatch and poultry droppings wafting in the wind. Perhaps frightened by the sharp blade of the first-hunting axe, neither the dog nor the goose had the mood to guard the home and hid early. A dozen chickens flapped their wings and flew away from the broken hole in the brick wall, and one of them dropped an egg.

The lucky egg fell on the waist-high thatch and didn't break, just in time for dinner. But before Dagon walked over, a weasel came out from the corner and took the egg away. Dagon shook his head and persuaded himself that he should not dream of taking advantage of it for nothing, so he continued to investigate the horse farm according to the original plan to understand the surrounding terrain.

You can hide people everywhere here, but the cavalry can only come from the direction of the gate. After all, it used to be a horse farm, and the walls, fences and other facilities are still there, and the inner courtyard and the location of the house are used to form layers of separation. If a lot of people came on horseback, Dagon believed he had enough time to escape.

He quickly found the gentle slope where he had agreed to meet. On the top of the slope, there was a flat land made of spliced stones, six meters square, which was a very good place for outdoor gatherings. The original residents here also thought the same, because there are circular carbon pits for fire on the stone platform, and there are traces left by the friction of tables and chairs on the ground. Dagon looked at the environment here, and probably guessed what Lan Li was thinking, so he removed some wooden boards from nearby abandoned buildings, chopped them into thin strips, and found some hay for easy fire, and pressed stones to the side.

He waited quietly, sitting there, meditating. Every time he completed a mana cycle, he stood up and moved a little, and took this time to review the other mana cycle moves. The rune is always on and off, Dagon doesn't rely on it, but also trains it.

At night, there are no stars or moon in the night sky, so it is impossible to tell when it is. Looking at the sky at this time, layers of dark clouds came over, and the imitation Buddha Mountain peaked over and covered the dome. In a trance, Dagon seemed to have returned to the ground, and he was in a huge cave in Jiangu City. But when he regained his gaze, he woke up from his trance. He was still in a man's run-down and abandoned horse farm, not the dwarf's decaying ancient city of origin.

Lang Li is here, alone, leading a horse. She's a half-elf who can see better than a human in low light, but tonight was different. It was so dark that without artificial light, she could only see the outlines of things indistinctly, so she carried a lantern.

"This way." Dagon said actively, and stood on the platform at the top of the slope, forming a prominent silhouette, making it easier for Langley to spot him. Soon, the two met.

"Are you here already?" Langley asked. She threw the reins on the ground, and the horse came to a stop, as if tied to it by an invisible stake. On either side of the saddle hangs a bulging sack, probably Dagon stuff, but is there that much?

"I was here long ago, before it was dark," Dagon said. "You advised me not to wander around town today, so I had to stay in the inn. It was so boring, I decided to come out early to get some air."

"Well, you're telling the truth." Lan Li said, "It's too dark here, and it's cooler than expected. Can you light a fire for me?"

Dagon nods, takes flint and iron from his pockets, wipes out the flames, and cautiously lit the bonfire.

"Huh? Fuel ready?" Langley asked with a smile, "Did you happen to be ready to drink?"

"No." Dagon shook his head. "I don't know what to drink."

"It's okay, I happened to bring it." Langley took out a wine bottle and two glasses from the sack by the saddle, and then A meal basket pressed down with a blanket. "Come and help the lady, it's basically polite!"

Soon the blanket was spread on the floor, and the lady sat on it with the food basket beside it. Just as Dagon took out the sausage, cheese, and slices of bread inside, Langley took off her boots and stretched out her long, thin legs. Her toes were just beside Dagon's thighs, moving playfully, like stick one's head around to look for chicks in a nest waiting to be fed.

"I've always wanted to marry a dwarf." Langley said suddenly: "A dwarf's life is very long, and when a half-elf finishes his life, he will only change very little, and he will be I liked the way I was at first. Elves are not good, none of them really look down on half-elves, and they will never waste their true feelings on a race with a short lifespan."

"It is possible to remember a pet puppy Yes, remember a dog's tail grass?" Langley shook her head: "Let's not talk about elves, I think you are pretty good."

Even in the face of thousands of swords, Dagon can also come up with countermeasures , but only this kind of thing, he didn't know how to deal with it at all. In Jiangu City, he tried every means to avoid having a blind date with the girl from the Huogu family, but now he was approached by someone.

He frowned thought hard and thought it would be better to speak frankly. Maybe the truth will hurt people, but it will only cause definite wounds in the present, and there will be no long-lasting internal injury.

"I don't know what to say, but I don't want to marry you."

"I know." Langley pointed to her red eyes and said, "You know these What are eyes?"

"Red eyes." Dagon tilted his head and handed her a grilled sausage, which was rejected as it should be by rights.

"The eyes are called Eyes of Truth, from the bloodline of the 'noble' Ya Lan Family. If I were an elf, you should call me Princess. But I'm a half-elf, you want to be called I'll do anything."

"Langly," Dagon said, "I'll call you that because it sounds nice."

"You're a very strange dwarf, Always telling the truth." Lan Li giggled, but tears welled up in her eyes. "Eyes of Truth can see through lies and through illusions. It is very sensitive to unreasonable details. From the very beginning, I saw that the man wearing makeup beside you was a girl, and I also know why you came to White Horse Town. Not traveling and drinking. I think you're a spy, a spy, maybe a gang of robbers, but everything you say to me is true."

"Wow, no wonder you're in charge Where's the sheriff." Dagon blinked and said, "Do you think Borge is a good guy?"

"No." Then Langley added: "But I haven't seen a few. A good guy."

"Then why are you still following him?" Dagon didn't quite understand: "A fool mine manager may walk into danger, and a bad mine manager will create danger for you. Neither is the best, but it's better to follow a good fool than to follow."

"Is that a proverb of your dwarves? That's not what the elves say. They say: Ability brings success. , vulgar, try nothing and accomplish nothing." Langley said: "Following Borge, I will become a sheriff, and I will become a noble in the next step, so I don't have to be a low-level hybrid. But I prefer to be a dwarf. Wife, this will give you love and protection throughout your life. Did I say it just now? My partner is still a young man until I die."

Dagon scratched his beard and decided to speak frankly. . "Jiangu clansman will marry one in his lifetime. If you die, that Jiangu clansman will grow old alone. Isn't that a bit selfish?"

"I gave him a lot of children, so he won't be lonely anymore . If he still feels lonely, he will treat me as a kitten and puppy that I have raised for a while anyway. If I die, do I still care about him?"

Is Lan Li excited? I'm not angry, and when it comes to life and death, the tone is very calm, as if I have already thought about all this. Dagon was completely silent, he had never thought about this, he had zero experience and lack of knowledge, so he shut up obediently.

"If you promise to marry me, I'll help you save all the people from the Golden Dog Chamber of Commerce."

Dagon stared wide-eyed. Aside from the bonfire, those eyes suddenly became the two brightest things in the night.

"You know?"

"I don't know at first. My eyes know you're telling the truth, I really thought your stuff was swindled by Chamber of Commerce So I went rummaging. I found your package, armor, and family pot. I found the name on the bottom of the pot and the lid to make sure you were right, but I found this again." Lang Li took out a ledger from her arms, which was Maipu's bookkeeping for the caravan.

"It has your name on it, as well as a record of the caravan's remuneration, dividends, and debt sales. You are not simply traveling with the caravan, but a member of the caravan, from Jiangu City Started to join there."

"I thought about what you said, you didn't say that the caravan deceived you, but that you were taken away by robbers and crooks. You are a Liars who tell the truth, like street performers who conjure tricks, use deception and misdirection. It’s just that they mislead with tricks, and you mislead with the truth. You are very difficult to deal with.”

“ I did want to save them." Dagon simply admitted, "Borge's men killed innocent residents, framed the caravan as robbers, and took them by force. Borge returned a knife to the caravan leader. , right on the left breast."

"I don't know they did this outside, but you're telling the truth." Lan Li was a little puzzled and asked, "I know how many people have died recently. Personally, they are still killing people outside?"

"In the distance, the Merry family. Rabbit breeders also stew rabbits."

"Oh, their family...they If you don't pay the tax, you should be executed according to the law."

"What tax?"

"They sold the stewed rabbit and rabbit skin products to the Bauer count in Boar Castle, but not to Bauer. He Baron pays the cross-border tax. We sent the tax officer, and the tax is to be hanged."

"Is the hanging sentence by the lord or the tax officer's confirmation? Can the tax officer take a knife and put himself The tax-resistant ones have all been slaughtered?"

"This is wrong, but what does it have to do with you?" Lan Li shook her head, patted her thigh and said, "You go around, don't you? Don't want to answer my question?"

"Saving people? Marrying you?" Dagon thought, how could he return to this embarrassing question. "Otherwise, you help me save people, how about I introduce you to Jiangu clansman? Honest, funny, young and caring."

"Dagon, are you insulting me with the truth? I want you to marry me, not just a dwarf. My God, you are one in a million!"

(end of this chapter)