The Troublesome Hero Among the Heroes

Many people walk here to enjoy the coolness on the small river in late summer and early autumn.

There are a lot of stone benches for tourists to rest on the grass by the river. Charles their three people are sitting on it and eating candied cherries with toothpicks.

It’s troublesome to make slender wooden disposable toothpicks by hand, but people here have suitable substitutes.

Here is a medium-sized hedgehog whose spines are about six to nine centimeters long.

When they are in danger, they will curl up. At this time, people will turn them over with long pointed wooden sticks, and then stab them to death from their soft abdomen.

Their meat will be eaten, and the skin with needles will be thrown into a pot and boiled with water until boiling. When the venom on the thorns becomes invalid due to protein denaturation at high temperature, these thorns are The best toothpicks.

Linda, who has only seen toothpicks made of gold, is the first time to see such cheap disposable toothpicks. She is still in a rare treasure state and even tried to test the sharpness of the toothpicks with her fingers. no.

"Sour!" Diana, who had just eaten a cherry, trembled. "Why is there a sour taste in this maple syrup?"

Charles, who was sitting on Diana's left side, answered The best candidate for this question, he said: "At this time, the taste of maple syrup itself. The maple syrup here has a sour and bitter taste when it was first collected."

"The maple syrup that was collected passed by After being boiled and dehydrated, the bitter branch and the water evaporate together. This bitter branch can cause diarrhea."

"But the sour components are not so easy to remove, but this kind of The ingredients will decompose after being heated to a certain level, so the barbecue we eat does not have this taste."

"And this sour ingredient is weakly toxic. If you eat too much, it can kill Dao Transformation. Parasites can also be used as a fresh-keeping agent."

"wa!" Diana immediately found the point, "If it can be used as a fresh-keeping agent, wouldn't it be very profitable to extract it?"

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"Otherwise, how do you think my family makes money?" Charles said, "My family purchases the newly collected maple syrup and conducts deep processing, and then sells insect-controlling medicines, preservatives and other medicines made from these ingredients. It is precisely because of the high profit of this part of the medicine that we can sell the maple syrup left after the extraction at a low price."

"How are the sour ingredients extracted?" Diana asked.

"Commercial secrets, no comment." Charles said, "Unless you have my last name."

"Come and cool down." Then Diana took the toothpick in her hand and tried to tie it. Charles.

At this time, there was an old man wearing the linen clothes commonly worn by ordinary people with a sack bag on his back and a hat on his head suddenly appeared beside Charles. He crouched and said to Charles, "Kid, do you want to buy a book?"

Charles was stunned there, but Diana immediately discovered the problem.

The books made by parchment are expensive and are sold in bookstores. A person wearing linen clothes and carrying a sack bag asks you if you want to buy a book. You should be the plot in the novel, and you are really either stupid or stupid.

More importantly, this person is a bit too strong. This is not the body that ordinary civilians or even poorer adventurers should have.

Diana immediately thought that this was sent by a human trafficker, but for some reason, the Shadow Guard next to Linda did not stop this suspicious guy.

So she pulled Charles behind her in a daze, and then raised her dagger between Charles and the visitor.

At this time Charles also came back to his senses. He grabbed Diana who was ready to go and said, "Don't be nervous, this is my grandfather, Duke Randtjin of the Kingdom of Rebach."

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"Grandpa?" Diana suddenly failed to accept the reversal.

At this time, Duke Randtjin, dressed as a civilian, stood upright, and carefully looked at Diana, who was still holding a dagger, with his eyes picking cabbage in the vegetable market, "Yes, based on your reaction, I will allow you. Call me grandfather."

Regardless of the sluggish Diana, Lord Randtjin asked Charles: "Charlie, how did you recognize me? I remember I never told you my identity. "

Charles replied: "Mira elder sister and I have known for a long time."

Duke Randtjin scratched his head, "I thought I was quite successful in disguising."

Back then, Charles' father abducted Duke Randtjin's youngest daughter who was about to marry him home, but he was very angry with Duke Randtjin. At that time, he yelled out that he would lose the daughter.

Later...Anyway, a few years later, there will be a suspicious businessman in the market led by Count Megadon from time to time.

This businessman specializes in the business of the children of count, and he will sell all kinds of exquisite little toys to the two children of count at very low prices. But his business at first was not easy to do. Who made Charles and Mira not like toys but like reading books? This made all the goods he brought all the way to his hands.

Whenever this suspicious person appeared, Charles and Mira could get pocket money from the mother and the grandma who came quietly, and then went to the village market to play.

Diana had already came back to his senses at this time, lifted the skirt and curtseyed to Duke Randtjin.

Linda hesitated, and finally paid respect to Lord Randtjin.

Duke Randtjin greeted her with a "hmph" in his nostrils.

Charles explained to Diana in a low voice: "Most of the grandpa’s territory was taken from Linda’s."

The river is not a place to talk, Lord Randtjin. Take Charles and them to their residence.

Linda stood there not knowing whether to keep up, Charles turned his head and said to her: "Come together, let’s talk about what King Antoine II offers. If he can let him A father who has lost his daughter calms down his grief and anger, then I will choose to forgive."

"There is nothing to say." Duke Randtjin said to Linda in a deep voice, "Go back and tell King Antoine II. Either pay for life, or cede land for compensation, or use you to marry the Randtjin family. There is no fourth way to go."

Not far from them, there are four people dressed as adventurers and they are dressed by a group of people. The light armored man fell to the ground, and he was lying on the ground with bloody nose and swollen face panting.

Duke Randtjin’s escort meets the escort sent by King Bischberg to protect Linda, so he beats him first.

When Lord Randtjin left the entire group, the bodyguards who fell on the ground climbed up from the ground with difficulty, and then went to protect Linda who was alone in the same place.

On the road, Duke Randtjin found that Charles was not talking at frowned, so he asked: "Why, are you worried about the Bischberg Princess?"

"No." Charles shook the head, "I recalled a moment ago. I heard from my grandmother before that my uncle, cousin and their wives are all noble daughters in the Rebach Kingdom, and they are your core supporters."

"If the Randtjin family wants to marry the Bischberg family, except for the uncle and the cousin..."

Charles paused, "Then only grandpa and grandma divorced, and then you married the Bischberg Princess."

Then he thought about it and said: "But this is not impossible. Grandpa, your career and goals, a queen from a neighboring country is conducive to the stability of the external environment."

Although Charles at first just wanted to make a joke, the more he talked about it, the more he realized it was possible. Of course, the premise is that someone does not know that his grandmother is who.

After speaking, he found that his grandfather had stopped and was looking at himself carefully, and his face was full of thought.

"It makes sense." Randtjin said.

A man in a black tuxedo suddenly appeared behind Duke Randtjin, and he said, "Master, I will report this to the lady truthfully."

The corners of Duke Randtjin's mouth twitched. After a while, "Remember to report what Charles said verbatim."