at the same time.
Soma Union, Faroe.
This city, which was only slightly different in pronunciation from somewhere in the Southern Free Federation, was lying quietly on the earth, like a sleeping child - peaceful and comfortable.
"Gululu..."
The sound of carriage wheels rolling over the road came, and a four-wheeled carriage was traveling quickly on a avenue outside Faro.
The driver was an experienced groom in his sixties, who was very skilled. He held the reins with both hands and controlled the carriage to move forward smoothly.
In the carriage, two people were sitting leaning on the carriage walls. One of them was Sherlock, who had a mysterious family background, and the other was Sherlock's little maid Lucia.
Lucia looked out of the carriage window and stared at the outline of the city appearing on the ground in the distance. She turned back and asked Sherlock curiously: "Master, what is that place?"
"That place... It should be Faro. It is a medium-sized city in the Soma Alliance. It is not very far from Xiaya, the capital of the Soma Alliance." Sherlock glanced at it for a few times, and answered softly with a look of understanding. Voice.
"Then we are going to escape this time... um, where are we going?" the little maid Lucia blinked and asked, "Are we going to the Nanduxia you mentioned? That should be a bigger building than this one. There must be a lot of fun things in this city, and it must be very suitable for you, young master."
"This..." Sherlock suddenly gritted his teeth, as if he had a toothache.
"What's the matter, Master?" the little maid asked worriedly, "Don't you want to go to Xiaya?"
"No, I really want to go." Sherlock shook his head and answered seriously with a grimace, "But after listening to your words, I suddenly thought of a serious question."
"What?"
"Look, you can all imagine that I yearn for Xia very much. After all, there are all kinds of fun things there, and those in the family can't think of them." Sherlock analyzed carefully, "We have escaped several times before, and there is nothing All exceptions have failed, this time I don’t want to be caught back as a slave in a few days.”
"Those people have no humanity at all!" Sherlock complained in a high-pitched voice, "They simply don't make sense at all. You said, I have made so many contributions to the family, and one person is better than ten. There should be some reward after all, a holiday, right
As a result, huh, the better I performed, the more they used me to death. Talk about handing over the power of the family to me. Don't think that I don't know that they want to exhaust me to death.
I've said it before, I don't want to be the next head of the family, I just want to relax. My brothers are so good, why did they choose me? Well, compared to me, my brothers are indeed a little worse, but they are not too bad, right? There is no rule that being the head of a family must be the best person in the family. You have to give others some opportunities.
Therefore, this time I absolutely cannot let the family members capture me again. Then I can’t go to Xiaya, nor can I go to other big cities. A medium-sized city like Faroe is good. It has everything you need. If you don't have it, you can also entrust others to purchase it from Char - it's not far anyway, so it's very suitable. "
"Have you decided, Master?"
"Yes." Sherlock nodded seriously and squinted at Farro, who was not far ahead, with a determined expression. "I have decided that even if I starve to death in Faro, I will never go back to help the family."
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The place where Sherlock looked was inside the city of Faroe.
Under the cover of night, a figure hurriedly walked into a quiet alley in the city and knocked on the door of a courtyard in the alley.
"Tuk-tuk-tuk-tuk-tuk-tuk!"
The knocking on the door was very urgent and lasted for more than ten seconds without stopping.
Ten seconds later, there was movement inside the door. Accompanied by the sound of "swipe, swipe, swipe," and a "squeak", the courtyard door was opened a crack.
The righteous girl Nerid, with slightly disheveled hair, appeared at the door wearing a pair of wooden slippers. It seemed as if someone had just woken him up from his sleep. His eyes were bleary and there was undisguised displeasure on his face.
"Ah-owe!"
After yawning, Nairide looked at the person outside the door, and saw that the person was wearing a thick black robe, covering most of his face. He didn't look like a good person at all, and his vigilance suddenly increased.
Rubbing her eyes, she asked the person outside the door, "Who are you...? What are you doing here in the middle of the night? I wonder if everyone is asleep at this time?"
"Excuse me." The person outside the door responded apologetically, his eyes constantly looking inside the door, looking very anxious, "I'm really sorry, but I have something urgent, and I want to see your teacher, Wizard Circe, no. Do you know?"
"Looking for my teacher?" Nerid frowned, looked back into the room, and murmured, "My teacher should still be sleeping, how about you come tomorrow?"
"I'm really in a hurry." The visitor said hurriedly. Seeing that Nairide wasn't paying attention, he opened the door, stepped past Nairid, and walked towards the room.
Nailid frowned, stepped on her slippers, walked two steps quickly, caught up with the person who came, grabbed her, and shouted loudly: "Hey! What are you doing! Are you polite! I haven't allowed you to come in, you Just break in. Do you know that you are breaking into a private house?"
The visitor stopped and looked at Nailid. He felt like having an attack, but he held it back. He lowered his head slightly and said softly: "I'm really, really sorry. My matter is very urgent, so I'm a little rude. I really want to see Wizard Circe as soon as possible. Can you... be accommodating."
"It's really troublesome! If that's the case, then you just stand here and wait." Nerid said with dissatisfaction in her tone, "Wait until I wake up the teacher and ask the teacher, huh."
After saying that, Nailid turned around and left.
At this time, a soft voice sounded, educating: "Nelide, be polite to your guests."
"ah?"
Nyrid quickly turned her head and looked around when she heard the sound, and saw her teacher, the witch Circe, who had walked out of the room at some point, followed by the cat slave girl Heidi.
At this time, Heidi was in a similar state to her. She had obviously just woken up from her sleep, her eyes were bleary, and she couldn't help but yawn. But Heidi looked more ladylike in comparison. Before she could open her mouth, she lowered her head and covered it with her hands.
Poor Heidi, poor myself... Nairide couldn't help curling her lips, becoming more and more dissatisfied with the visitor. Pointing at the other person, she complained to her teacher Circe: "Teacher, this person has to see you in the middle of the night. He was the first to be rude."
"Okay, I understand. You and Heidi should go back to the room first, and I will handle it." The witch Circe glanced at the visitor and said softly to Nerid.
"Oh." Nailid yawned again, tears streaming from her eyes. I originally wanted to have a good argument with the visitor, but my desire to sleep outweighed the debate. I finally nodded, lowered my eyelids slightly, walked to Circe's side, and led Heidi into the room.
After entering the room, there was a "bang" sound, and Nailid threw herself on the bed and closed her eyes quickly.
"Senior sister, why don't you take off your coat?" Heidi glanced at the side and asked with concern.
"Don't take it off—" Nerid said, closing her eyes and grabbing the feather pillow, covering her head, squirming a few times, adjusting her sleeping position, and fell into a deep sleep, snoring slightly within a few seconds.
Heidi looked at it with a look of helplessness on her face: "If you don't want to take off your coat, then at least you should take off your shoes."
As she spoke, Heidi gently took off Nairide's shoes, placed them at the head of the bed, stuffed Nairide's feet into the quilt, then lay down next to Nairide, and also fell asleep.
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