Minte almost immediately remembered the exchanged box and the certificate in the box. He lowered his voice and asked, "Did you think of this at that time?" Then thinking about the fact that the four people in his group used it looked almost real. After proving his identity, he felt a hint of admiration for the Duke of the enemy country.
Jada raised her lips and did not answer. She just said: "They are blocking here. It is inconvenient for us to go there, lest they find out. If they say something unpleasant, it is better to change to the checkpoint to the east, which is less than a mile away from here." It’s a hundred kilometers away and can be reached in one day on horseback.”
When Junia heard this, she pouted: "Why do you have to run so far? Can't you just wait here until those people leave?"
Shade whispered to her: "The few guards here are neutrals. They are neither close to Prince Mario nor good friends with us, but they recognize your appearance. If it weren't for those people in front, we would quietly follow There is no problem in passing here, but if they block here, they must have alerted the guards, and we will be discovered easily. Your Excellency is traveling in secret this time, and it will be very troublesome if your whereabouts are made public. Miss Junia, Please be considerate of your difficulties."
Junia stopped talking. Jada glanced at Shade with satisfaction, and was about to turn around, but was stopped by Minte: "If you take a detour of a hundred kilometers from here to Nomonka, I'm afraid you will end up with those few people." Behind, right? You said they recognized your appearance, but do they also recognize the appearance of the noble envoy? Maybe the people in front will pass by soon, and I don’t think it’s a good idea to take a detour. "
Jada stopped after hearing this, turned around and asked, "Then what good suggestions do you have?"
Minte looked up at the jungles on both sides of the level. He recalled climbing mountains with his grandfather when he was a child. He smiled and said: "The forests on both sides are difficult for ordinary people to pass, but for warriors like us, we have to climb through them." , it’s not impossible, right? Why don’t we abandon our horses and walk?”
Jada looked at the mountains and forests on both sides of the level with some surprise. After thinking about it, she felt that what he said made sense. But...: "What about Junia?"
Minte turned to look at Junia. She was already glaring at him, so she smiled slightly: "Your fiancée, won't you carry her there? This journey shouldn't be very long, right? I think with you You can definitely do it if you have enough physical strength. If you need medicine to replenish your physical strength, just come to me."
Jada gave him a funny look, and then Shade spoke: "How can you let your Excellency do such heavy work? Let me do it."
Junia said angrily: "Shade! Where am I so heavy?!" Shade was dumbfounded and didn't know how to answer. Jada smiled and said, "Okay, Shade is still injured, so let me carry it."
It’s been discussed. They were about to turn away. But I heard a commotion in front of the checkpoint. Look around. It turned out that the soldier guarding the checkpoint saw Namu who was wearing obviously foreign clothes when she poked her head out of the window. He suspected that the noble envoy and his party were foreign spies. They shouted and refused to let them pass. They are not allowed to leave and transfer to other levels. The two sides immediately broke into a quarrel. soon. A man dressed as a senior officer walked down from the stone house above the level. Shouting: "Quiet! What happened?!"
Jada saw the officer's face. He immediately turned around and greeted his fellow travelers in a low voice: "Let's go quickly. That officer once worked under my uncle. He recognizes my face." After that, he took a step forward. Shade immediately carried Junia on his back and followed. When Minte left with them. I looked at Namu a few more times.
This one, to some extent. It was the woman who was traveling with him. At this time and place, lift the curtains and look outside. It won’t be for the scenery. Or might it arouse the suspicion of the guards? He glanced around quickly. A glimpse under the big tree to the west. There were two tourists dressed as Noga people taking a rest. The skin color is darker. From time to time his eyes drifted towards the direction of the carriage place. He glanced at Namu inadvertently. I suddenly knew what was going on.
The aristocratic young man was furious when he saw the soldiers clinging to them. And the officer stared at him suspiciously. Suddenly my heart was on fire. He turned around and scolded Namu angrily: "It's all your fault! Why did you lift the curtain for no reason?!"
Namu said softly with a look of grievance: "Don't be angry. I just want to know what's going on outside. A big shot like you would be stopped. I feel very uneasy."
The young man became even more angry after hearing this. He shouted directly at the officer: "Do you know who I am?! You offended me. Be careful, I will let you go tomorrow!!!" The officer raised his eyebrows. Ignore his shouting. He just told his subordinate soldiers: "Take these suspicious people to the detention room. Ask them for their names and origins. Only after checking that there are no problems will they be released." After that, he turned around and went back to the stone room. The young man and a few followers were left shouting loudly from behind.
Seeing this, Minte secretly smiled and quickly followed Jada and others, just in time to hear him say: "That guy has always been a playboy and has no ability. I didn't expect Lawler to send him here, and he didn't even think about it when he was escaping." He forgot to bring the woman with him, and it turned out that the woman had never seen the world and caused him so much trouble. When he got to Nomonka, his father found out, and he didn’t know what he would say.”
Minte smiled slightly, thinking that if Namu got to Nomonka, she might not be the one who suffered.
The mountain forest next to the checkpoint was much sparser than before, so when they sneaked through it, they had to duck down, hold their breath, and walk as quietly as possible. Juniya had already transferred to Jada's back before going up the mountain, but bending forward while carrying someone on her back consumed too much energy. Before they reached the halfway point, Jada was already breathing heavily. Junia couldn't bear to look at it, and whispered: "Jie, please let me down, I can walk by myself." Jada looked back at her suspiciously, and seeing that her eyes were quite firm, she found a relatively open and stable place, Let her down.
When Junia first got off the ground, she walked fairly steadily, but soon she started to stagger. She felt aggrieved, but thinking that she was the one who asked to walk, she had no choice but to endure it. Mint was walking at the end. When he saw this scene, he looked at the small mountain village that was approaching the checkpoint. He took advantage of others and secretly pinched a small piece of clay in his hand. He found Jada and Shade without even looking. When he reached the ground, he shot the mud block at Junia's ankle. She immediately fell to the ground and let out an "ouch"
Jada and Shade turned their heads when they heard the sound and saw her falling. The former frowned and said, "I told you a long time ago that you are not used to walking on this kind of road, and you are still so brave?! If you were injured, wouldn't it slow down everyone's journey? ?" The latter leaned over to check her feet: "It was just an accidental fall, no sprain."
Junia didn't expect that her fiancé not only failed to comfort her, but also said that she was trying to be brave. Shade's comfort made her even more sad. Her eyes turned red and she was about to shed tears. Suddenly, he caught a glimpse of a snake hanging from the tree trunk behind Shade, spitting out its long bright red tongue. He was so frightened that he almost rolled his eyes: "Snake...snake..."
Shade didn't hear clearly: "Miss Junia, what are you talking about?" Minte saw that the snake started to move, so he stepped forward and cut off the snake with his sword, then turned back and said: "It's okay, this snake is actually not poisonous. ." He took out a glass bottle: "This potion can repel snakes, ants, bugs, and snakes. If you need it, just spray a little on your body."
Junia was still staring and trembling with her big eyes. Jada sighed, took the bottle and applied a few drops on her arms and calves for her, and then heard her groan. She held herself tightly and started crying. She was so scared that she quickly covered her mouth: "Are you crazy? This place is so close to the garrison!"
When Junia heard this, she stopped crying and sobbed instead, but she felt even more aggrieved. She had been frightened for nearly a month, and when she returned to her own country, she couldn't even cry. She glanced at her fiancé and pursed her lips. The tears just flowed down.
Minte looked a little dazed. Although he had done something secretly, he never thought that Miss Jiao would be so cooperative, so he hurriedly said: "I think Miss Junia is frightened. You two are also tired. There is someone in front of you." Small mountain village, let’s pass the checkpoint and find a place to rest there. We don’t have much dry food left, so we should buy some.”
Jada frowned: "It's too close to the garrison. Doesn't it matter?"
Minte smiled and said: "As long as we don't meet the soldiers, I just saw that there is a road in the other direction of the village. Let's pretend that we are strangers coming from that way."
Jada thought for a while and sighed: "Okay." He looked at Junia helplessly, then looked thoughtfully at the way he came, and murmured: "I thought the checkpoints here were very strictly guarded. Well, I didn’t expect that it actually crawled over. It seems that after returning, the military should pay more attention to this kind of place..."
Min Te cursed secretly in his heart and said: "I seem to hear some strange movements from the soldiers at the foot of the mountain. Maybe they have found us. It's better to leave quickly."
Only then did Jada wake up from her reverie and no longer bothered to comfort Junia. He directly carried her on his back and left. Shade glanced at Junia worriedly for a few times, then took the first step and took the lead, while Mint still followed behind.
Arriving at the checkpoint village, Minte asked Jieda and others to stay in the woods near the village, and offered to buy dry food himself. Jieda hesitated and said: "This... is not good, you are the only foreigner among us. , if you are discovered..." Minte said calmly: "Are you allowed to go? Your aura shows that you are not an ordinary person. It is too difficult to not attract attention; and Xie De, this outfit simply tells You are not a good citizen. If I don’t go, should I let Miss Junia go?”
Jada was speechless. Looking at the two people traveling with her, she had to admit that what Mint said was true.
Minte struck again while the iron was hot and said: "Besides, with my young appearance, others won't think I'm a suspicious person. I'll be back soon, don't worry." After that, he didn't wait for him to stop him. , and rushed out first. Jada raised her hands and had to give up.
As soon as Minte turned out of the woods, he put on a short cloak that his grandfather had worn back then and a felt hat, making him look like an ordinary Noga boy. He walked into the village with familiarity and found that the whole village was much depressed and less lively. Even the few shops that were doing a decent business were closed down by more than half. The deli he had patronized back then was even worse. The store was reduced in size by half and turned into half a tailor shop, with the other half now selling fried noodles, fruit sticks and local wine.
The woman sitting behind the counter in the delicatessen was not the woman I had seen before, but a young man who looked familiar to her. Minte noticed that the sign hanging at the door of the store had a very special knot on the red rope. He knew it well, so he walked into the store with a smile and asked the young man: "I heard that this is the best delicatessen nearby. , please... do you have any oriental-flavored bread? If so, can you give me twenty loaves?"
The young man's eyes flashed and he said with a smile: "It's an unfortunate time for you to come. It will take a few days for the Eastern bread to arrive. If you don't mind it, how about you go to the kitchen and see what kind of food can satisfy your taste?" "
This meant that it would take a few days for the responder to arrive. Minte felt a little relieved and pretended to go to see other food. He found an opportunity to put the information he had written down behind his back in the past few days in a coin and handed it to the young man. Then he returned to the woods with a large bag of fried noodle strips and dried noodle powder, and said, "That's all we have. On the way back, I saw a well, so I secretly packed a few bags of water. It should be enough for us to use Nomon." stuck."
Junia asked curiously: "Why are you pretending secretly? It's just well water." Her mood has calmed down, and except for her still pale face, basically nothing serious has happened. Because Minte had just killed the snake, she had a much better impression of him.
Mint explained: "It's not a wealthy place here. I see that people seem to be very careful about their property. If anyone looks at it twice, they will be scolded, so I worry that they won't let me fetch water. You know, here The ground and water resources are not abundant." He looked at the village from a distance: "There are actually quite a few residents here, there is also a garrison, and it is located on an important transportation road, but the village is in a state of depression. It can be seen that it was once lively. I don’t know why it became like this?”
Jada snorted coldly: "What other reasons? Prince Mario ordered the expulsion of foreign merchants under the guise of the late king's death. The country's economy suffered a major blow. This small place that relied on passing merchants to prosper would of course become It's depressed. It's a pity that even if Your Majesty and I reopen the trade routes and call on foreign merchants to come back to do business, they still won't come. Huh, thanks to all the preferential policies I have come up with, those southern merchants are not moved at all. , I heard before that they are all bold and shrewd people, and they even dare to go to great lengths to make money. Now it seems that it is just a rumor."
Minte was a little disapproving. Businessmen are willing to work hard to make money because they have huge profits. Now in Noga, Prince Mario is still very powerful. No one knows whether he will issue an expulsion order again. By then, no matter how much foreign businessmen invest, they still won’t be able to get it back. How can they risk this? What about risk
He wanted to say it, but then he thought that Jedda was from the Noga royal family. If he found out and came up with a good way to make the country richer, what good would it do to East? So he didn't speak.
After packing up the dry food and having almost rested, the four of them got back on the road and turned around the foot of the mountain. They were looking for a place to get a few horses to travel, when they happened to encounter a few horse dealers pulling a dozen horses to a fork in the road not far ahead. He walked away and hurriedly chased after them. After some persuasion, he bought four horses at a high price.
Junia happily got on the horse with Jedda's help. Shade also had a bit of a smile on his face, but Jedda was a little depressed. If you don't want to walk, you won't abandon those good horses. These few horses now are just ordinary goods.
Minte chuckled and got on his horse. Suddenly he felt a heat on his body, and then the heat became more and more obvious. Suddenly he remembered something and screamed secretly.
How could he forget that he has been drinking the transformation medicine for a full month, and today is the day when the effect of the medicine ends? !
what to do? He raised his eyes and looked at the three people in front of him. Jada soon noticed that his expression was different: "What's wrong?" She also pulled the reins and walked towards him.
At this moment, Minte felt that his body was slowly changing, and he couldn't help but break out in a cold sweat.
(I'm really not in a good state recently. Do you think the plot is a bit slow? By the way, it's really inconvenient to reply to posts now. I have to wait a long time before I can reply to the second one...)