Unknown Knight

After another day of walking, they arrived at a small village called Pegande, which was near the city of Viruga and was a village under the jurisdiction of Agollon Castle.

In the village lived Niza's former lover, the girl carrying the cow in the song "The Viruga Girl" that he often sang. Niza said that he was once hunted by his enemies and was seriously injured. He was finally saved because he was carried on the back of this girl and hid in a secret place in the nearby mountains to recover.

Now he was back to his old place and was about to meet his old friends, but Niza, who had a romantic heart, was timid. He hesitated for a long time in front of the girl's house and refused to go and knock on the door. It was not until a few rough men like Liu Tang began to laugh at him that he went forward and knocked on the door with his head held high.

The person who opened the door was not the girl, but a strange man. Behind the man was a pregnant woman with a big belly. After seeing the pregnant woman, Niza's face turned red at first, then turned pale, and he stammered and couldn't speak clearly.

After asking him why he came, the pregnant woman, who was a little shy at first, breathed a sigh of relief, and then shouted loudly to a house in the village:

"Sophia, Sophia, come home quickly and help your sister with something."

"Okay, I'm back, sis."

A clean and crisp response came, and then a girl in a light purple skirt ran past the wooden cart where Aix was lying like the wind, raising a breeze with the scent of a girl.

It turned out that the girl that Niza was in love with was already married. She was the pregnant woman with a big belly. Obviously, she could no longer take a few people to hide in the mountains, so she had to call her sister Sophia for help.

Before leaving, Niza asked his ex-girlfriend for money to buy some food, vegetables and dried meat. After giving her two silver coins, he forced a shiny gold coin into her hand without waiting for her to give him the change. The woman refused to take it. Niza almost got angry and struggled until both of them were in tears. Only then did the woman give in and take it. It was really:

They once loved each other, but when they met again, she was married to someone else. They were speechless when looking at each other, and expressed their true feelings with pure gold.

I only regret that it is fate and time, and that things in the world are unpredictable. How many lovers in this world will eventually become couples?

The group left the village and walked along the winding mountain road for more than a mile. The mountain suddenly became steep and the wooden cart bought in Biglen Village could no longer move forward. Everyone had to help Aix get off the cart and walk.

As soon as Aix stepped on the ground, he felt dizzy, his eyes went dark, and he couldn't stand steadily. There was no other way, so two people had to carry him up the mountain, but they were in danger after just a few steps. The narrow mountain road was not wide enough for one person to walk, let alone two people carrying a patient, there was a risk of falling to death at any time.

Seeing this, Aix was unwilling to go up the mountain anymore and suggested that they just recuperate at the foot of the mountain, but Niza and his men refused. It turned out that when Aix was unconscious, the pirates sent troops to hunt them down. After a fierce battle, only seven people, including Niza and Liu Tang, were left among the dozen or so cavalrymen who broke through the siege.

Moreover, the environment here is good and very conducive to recovery from injuries. Niza, who has recuperated here, has the most say about this. When he was shot in the back by an arrow, the wound became inflamed and he had a high fever. He was thought to be dead, so he was taken to the mountains by Sofia's sister to recuperate. As a result, the wound healed very quickly and he finally survived.

After a stalemate, the girl leading the way, Sophia, volunteered to carry Aix up the mountain. How could Aix allow this? How could he face his man in the future by letting a girl who was no more than sixteen or seventeen years old carry him?

Besides, he weighs more than 150 kilograms, and it is difficult for two strong men to support him to climb the mountain, let alone a little girl who is only about 1.6 meters tall. If she falls into the valley, she will be doomed. Wouldn't this cause more trouble?

As a result, the girl was very angry when she saw that Aix disagreed. She felt that Aix looked down on her, so she pushed the two cavalrymen away, carried Aix on her shoulders and walked forward, saying confidently as she walked:

"I usually carry our five or six cows up the mountain to graze. How heavy is your weight? It's too light."

Only then did Aix believe what she said, but he felt very embarrassed being carried on someone's back, so he told the girl that it would be better for him to carry him on her back, as he had internal injuries in his chest and it hurt. The girl then put him down, turned around and carried him on her back. Liu Tang was afraid that something might go wrong, so he tied Aix to the girl with a belt.

After climbing or walking for another half an hour, the group finally arrived at a terrace on the top of the mountain. Along the way, Axel became familiar with the girl and asked her why she was so powerful. The girl didn't think much of it and said that it was nothing, as she could carry a calf up the mountain when she was seven or eight years old.

It turned out that the girl's family had made a living by herding cattle for generations, but the pastures at the foot of the mountain had basically been occupied by the lords, so in order to make a living they had to come to the top of the mountain to herd cattle. But the mountain road was too steep, and the cattle could not go up, so they had to be carried up. The adults carried the big cows up the mountain, and the children carried the newborn calves up the mountain, and they did this day after day, so they developed this strength.

The cattle of this era had not undergone genetic selection, and the average adult cattle weighed only four or five hundred kilograms at most. But this also amazed Aix. It turned out that the girl carrying the cow up the mountain in the Niza song was real, and not just something that the troubadours liked to brag about and sing at random as everyone thought.

Aix had also seen a video of porters in the original world. In the video, a woman in her fifties carried 200 kilograms of goods and delivered them to the mountain for more than ten miles every day. He was amazed at the time, and then looking at the girl in front of him, who was not breathing at all except for a slightly red face, he was completely impressed.

It seems that life shapes people. Sometimes if you don’t push yourself, you really don’t know how much potential you have.

However, as far as Aix knew, human physical strength still had its limits. It was incredible that someone could carry an adult cow weighing four or five hundred kilograms to the top of a mountain. This mountain road was two or three miles long and extremely steep. Some slopes were nearly ninety degrees. Anyone who could carry a cow up there was still beyond the scope of an ordinary person, no less than the legendary demigod. So he curiously asked the girl:

"Are all the people in your village as strong as you? Or is it just you and your sister?"

"No, no one else in the village has such great strength. Only people in my family can carry the cows to the top of the mountain to graze. My father said that our family has been strong for generations."

The little girl was innocent and had no intention of hiding the family secret. It then dawned on Axe that it was due to family inheritance. This family must have the so-called gene mutation, which is why everyone has such great strength.

After taking a short rest at the edge of the cliff, the girl carried Aix to a cave located under the cliff. Nizza said that he had recuperated here. Revisiting the old place, the bard couldn't help but sigh again.

Axel's injuries had not yet healed and he felt a little tired, so he fell asleep quickly on the wool felt laid by the girl.

At night, Aix was awakened by the aroma of porridge. He had not eaten anything since he woke up from a coma due to vomiting. He felt that today's porridge was particularly fragrant. There were a lot of diced dried meat and some unknown stems in it. It was extremely delicious and he ate two large bowls in a row.

Not long after the meal, he fell into a deep sleep again, but he did not sleep well that night and had many strange dreams. Sometimes he dreamed that Yamila was killed, sometimes he dreamed that Kress was sold as a slave, sometimes he dreamed that he was his parents in the original world, and sometimes he dreamed that he became a prisoner and was about to be beheaded...

At dawn, Axel was awakened by his last nightmare. He still felt a little headache, but it was much better and he was not as drowsy as before. His whole body was wet and full of sticky sweat, which made his body start to feel cold. Afraid of catching a cold, he decided not to sleep anymore and got up to move around to dry the sweat off.

Everyone else was fast asleep, exhausted by the hard work of the past few days. Axe couldn't bear to disturb them, so he stood up, holding onto the wall of the cave, and walked out of the cave hunched over. He met the girl who was walking into the cave. She was carrying a wooden bucket filled with fresh milk that she had just squeezed, which was still steaming.

Seeing Aix trembling, the girl hurriedly put the wooden barrel on the stone beside her and ran over to support him. When she said he wanted to go out for a walk, the girl took his arm without hesitation and walked with him. Looking at her chestnut hair dyed golden by the morning light and her beautiful face full of worry and concern, Aix finally understood why Niza, who claimed to be a ruthless playboy, fell deeply in love with her sister and kept thinking about her. Isn't this just like that moment?

This is a flat plateau near the top of the mountain, about tens of thousands of square meters. Five or six cows are eating grass in the morning dew. In the distance, there is smoke from cooking at the foot of the mountain. It is quiet and peaceful, with fields and paths crisscrossing and a vast expanse of land. Walking on the soft grass and facing the warm morning light, Aix's depressed mood has improved a lot.

After settling him on a clean large rock on the edge of the cliff, the girl repeatedly warned him to sit still and not move, and she boiled the milk before helping him back.

Watching her jumping and running towards the cave, Aix lamented the beauty of this world. How wonderful it would be if everyone in the world was as kind as this girl. There wouldn't be so many cruel killings, so much intrigue, and so much treachery and evil.

Soon the girl cooked the milk, ran over like the wind, and helped him back to the cave.

Niza and the others had already woken up, and when they saw that Aix could be helped to walk, they all smiled with relief.

Breakfast was hot milk and toast. After eating, thinking of the nightmare last night, Aix was very worried, so he asked Niza to take a tribesman with him and go down the mountain to gather some information.