Chapter 1552 A Safe Journey
The carriage team moved forward slowly on a wide but endless road. The carriage bumped and bumped, and the wooden wheels made a "clatter, clatter, clatter" sound. Although the ground was flat, it must be a dirt mountain road, which was always bumpy.
Suddenly there was a 'click' sound, and the axle of a carriage in the convoy was broken. The driver tightened the reins, and the other cars in front and behind him stopped.
“What’s wrong?”
“The axle is broken.”
Hilal got off the royal blue high-quality carriage at the back. His two wives peeked their heads in the carriage and did not follow him out.
“Can it be fixed?” Hilal asked.
The coachmen who drive these cars are all experts in his family. Needless to say, they are skilled in driving and are also experts in repairing carriages. The driver nodded and bowed: "It can be repaired, but the axle is broken and needs to be replaced. It will take some time. It can be repaired in about twenty minutes."
"Well... then let's just have a meal here. ." Hilal said to the servant beside her. He said: "Go and ask everyone to come down and make a fire to cook."
"Yes." The two servants said before and after they left, "Come down, everyone. The master said to light a fire to cook and prepare for the meal. Come down quickly.”
The mercenaries riding on the carriage and the servants of the Hilal family came down and dug holes in the grass on the left and right sides of the road to light a fire.
Sain jumped out of the car, let out a long breath, jumped in the middle of the road, took off his clothes and pants again, and rubbed his numb butt.
The mercenary next to him followed the same action and said with a listless look: "Eat, drive, eat, drive, sleep every day, and then eat, drive, eat, drive, and sleep again. Days like this have faded away. How long will it take for it to end?" He yawned longly, having just woken up from sleep in the carriage, and his eyelashes were still sticky with eye droppings.
Sain turned his head and looked at him and said, "Stop complaining. Safety is the best reward. You should remember this."
"But it's still boring. Ah, such a long journey, it was so peaceful that nothing happened. If we arrived at the destination safely, wouldn't it be for nothing that Mr. Hilal hired us? It’s so embarrassing for people to take money.”
Bimoye is a person who doesn't like to talk much, and Iveco is even more taciturn. Although Thain is very enthusiastic and hopes to gather with everyone to tell some of his own stories, he can't talk for more than two months in a row. The story is no longer interesting.
The mercenaries each complained and chatted.
Hilalil laughed when he heard what they said: "If you really want to arrive safely, I will give you more money to make up for the boring journey you followed me and suffered."
Servant The soldiers laughed heartily and said cheerfully with shy faces: "Listen, listen, this is a rich boss, a kind man, not only delicious food but also taking care of our health along the way. We are worried about our mental suffering. Mr. Hilal, I only know today what it means to be charitable and helpful to others. You really take care of us poor people."
"Yes, yes, you are. A good man, a great philanthropist, those guys who are so unkind for their wealth are really ashamed to commit suicide compared to you.”
Everyone said something to me, just saying some flattering and flattering words for free. Hilal naturally heard these words many times and didn't care. Instead, she laughed along with everyone and joined in the fun.
The food was ready, and everyone divided into five groups and sat in five large circles to chat and enjoy. Hilal ordered his servants to take two boxes of good wine from the car and distribute them to everyone. He spent most of the time dining alone in the car with the two ladies, but sometimes he would laugh and have fun with everyone.
Everyone was jealous when they saw Hilal being embraced by a beautiful lady on each side, but they were only envious, not jealous. At this time, a person appeared on the road and came towards us. This person was walking, not riding a magic beast. He looked dusty and a little down.
He came to a stop outside the motorcade and looked at the people on the ground eating, and couldn't help but cover his stomach. He hesitated for a moment and asked in a low voice: "Which of you is the owner of the motorcade?"
Hilalil saw this man from a distance, put down the food in his hands and walked over, his two wives He followed along with Vicodo and Thane. Hilal took a look at this man. He had brown hair and was about thirty years old. He was wearing a blue-gray long windbreaker, dark blue trousers and black leather shoes. The clothes were stained with a lot of dust and mud. There were some broken parts and there was a large sword about 1.8 meters long on his back, which was as tall as him. There were some white cloth strips wrapped around the hilt to make the sword easier to hold.
He asked Hilal: "Are you the owner of this motorcade?"
"What can you do?"
The man carrying the sword still said in his low voice : "I haven't eaten for two days, can I borrow a meal from you?"
Hope Lalier looked at him again, glanced at Iveco next to him, and when Iveco nodded, he said, "Okay, let's have a meal together. It's a coincidence that you're in time."
Carrying The man with the big sword said: "There is a small town further ahead. I will return it to you when you get there."
"No, come on." Just like that, one more person was dining in the team. The mercenary did his duty and tried to ask his identity, but this person just buried his head in his meal and didn't say a word. The mercenaries It’s not easy to ask any more questions.
After the meal, Hilal invited the man carrying the sword to ride in the carriage, but the man refused. When the carriage went in front, he kept following behind and did not get close. Not far either. Iveco felt that this man was behaving abnormally and was worried about what might happen, so he asked everyone to be more vigilant, but nothing happened along the way.
After walking for almost seven hours, we arrived at the small town that the man with the sword mentioned. He told Hilal to wait for him here for a while while he went to get the money to pay back. Hilal told him no, but he didn't give Hilal the chance to say no.
After a while, the man carrying the sword came back with a bag of money in his hand, but the sword on his back was gone. He took a few gold coins from the bag and handed them to Hilal's servant In his hand, he asked: "Is it enough?"
Hilal nodded and said: "That's enough."
The man said thank you, turned and left.
The attendants were puzzled and said: "This man is so rude. The master said he didn't want his money, but he still insisted on giving him money. It's weird."
Hilalil stared. He glanced at the attendant beside him and said unhappily: "Don't gossip about others behind their backs."
"Yes, yes." The attendant lowered his head and stopped talking.
Hilal said to everyone: "Find a hotel to rest. In more than 20 days, we will be able to enter the territory of Efennulan. On the way, I received a message from the teacher saying that he was sick. I don't know what the teacher's condition is." That’s it. I hope I can rush over and see him soon. I hope everything is safe.”
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The airship flew out of the desert and flew among the green fields and mountains. Apart from the driver, only Landing and Joan were left on board. In the room, the two of them were lying on the bed. Landing gently held Qiong's chin and looked at each other with affection in their eyes.
"It's good that they left. There are only two of us here. I really don't want to go back."
Qiong smiled and said: "I'm a little thirsty. Let's get a glass of wine. .”
There was wine in the room, and there was more than one bottle, all red wine, just on the shelf. Landing kissed her on the lips, got up, walked to the wine rack, took two glasses, and asked: "Which bottle do you want to drink?"
Qiong leaned on the bed, tilting her cheek. : "That's the bottle, from 2002."
Landing found the 2002 red wine, uncorked the bottle, poured a quarter into each glass, returned to the bed, and poured one of the glasses It was handed into her hand.
Joan took the wine glass and said, "It would be great if you could not be jealous and be so gentle and considerate every day."
"As long as you don't look at other men, I won't be jealous." Landing handed over the wine glass and said: "Come, let's drink to our world of two."
The two wine glasses touched lightly, and Joan was about to drink but was stopped by Landin.
"Give me a glass of wine."
Qiong smiled, and the two of them intertwined their arms and watched each other drink the wine in the glass. At this moment, there was a knock on the door of the room. Ringed. Landing glanced at his brows, not liking to be disturbed at this time, and the same was true for Qiong.
“What’s the matter?”
The voice outside the door said: “It’s a message from Mr. Erbu.”
After hearing the message from Erb, Landing quickly opened the door, took the letter, copied it, read it, sighed and said to Joan: "It seems that our vacation is coming to an end. The master asked us to go back as soon as possible."
Qiong smiled reluctantly, her expression looking a little unnatural.
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(End of this chapter)