Mercenaries and Adventurers

Moving forward again, Zhao Ji didn't know how long he had been advancing in this dark and oppressive underground waterway.

Maybe a few minutes? Maybe an hour?

After passing through the wells in the backyards of six or seven people in a trance, Zhao Ji finally came to a place that was much wider than ordinary wells.

And on the handle with his mouth biting, under the light of the grease candle, Zhao Ji finally found a dark shadow lying on the stone at the edge of the well.

like a statue.

Zhao Ji became nervous. This place seemed to be the bottom of the public well on the street outside. And the one curled up in a ball, could it be Mona who has been missing for several days?

There is no rotten smell in the nose, which seems to be good news, it seems that Mona did not die in this dark and claustrophobic place.

But it could just be the cold weather and the flowing river water at the bottom of the well taking away the rotten smell.

In any case, Zhao Ji crawled out of the water hole excitedly, clasped his cold hands tightly, and quickly revived his white hands soaked in water.

Standing up is also a bit difficult, and the knees are quite cold, but under Zhao Ji's youthful vitality, he quickly warms up.

"Mona? Mona?" Zhao Ji called out the name of the runaway girl loudly, but the black clump curled up did not respond.

Zhao Ji grabbed the handle of the candle with his hand, and covered the girl with the light of the candle.

The girl was wrapped in something like a quilt or a cloak sewn together with many kinds of scattered furs. She was huddled inside, only a small face was exposed, and it was still facing the wall. With his head resting on a burden, he fell into a deep sleep.

It seems that there is no problem.

Zhao Ji bypassed the puddle in the middle of the public well, and came to the girl Mona, and carefully put the other hand on the girl's face, feeling the warmth. Zhao Ji, who breathed a sigh of relief, was relieved.

It seemed that the girl had been hiding alone for three days in this place that no one expected. No wonder the members of Xing Snow's family couldn't find her no matter how hard they searched, and no one saw her figure or trace.

She hasn't shown up here since she left her home. Zhao Jineng thought that this girl probably had such a plan. She first hid here preparedly for a few days, and then waited for four or five days, when her family stopped looking for her, she came out quietly, and then completely left the family haunt. place.

In this way, she disappeared from everyone's sight.

But even if she left the search of the family, how could she get out from the gate of Kendall City? Going out of the city by a girl alone will be noticed and blocked by the guards anyway.

Unless she is still prepared in the future and can leave here safely, or in other words, she has other companions and the like to help her.

Faint voices could be heard from the top of the well, and it seemed that they were members of the Gu Snow family, but because this public well was deeper than ordinary wells, it was difficult to hear the voices above it clearly.

"Hey! Is there anyone outside, is there anyone?" Zhao Ji shouted to the top.

One person leaned into the mouth of the well and responded, "Yes, yes. How about it? Warrior Kiel?" After the other person leaned halfway into the well, his voice became much more normal.

They couldn't see the bottom clearly, so Keel said directly: "We found Mona, we found Mona. Hurry up and call someone, and then send a rope down." Zhao Ji judged the underground width of the public well and found that I can't climb up with my hands, so I can only use the bucket rope to fetch water to go up.

At Zhao Ji's feet, the sleeping Mona seemed to be awakened by Zhao Ji's voice.

In the light of the candle, she was full of surprise, and her whole body was curled up in a ball of scattered fur.

Zhao Jifu lowered his body and let the light of the candle shine on the two of them: "Don't be afraid, I was found by your family to find you. They have been busy these days and have been looking for you in the city. But I still found you here you, hey."

The little girl closed her eyes tightly, not daring to look at Kiel, she just said in a very low voice: "I don't want to get married, that person is not a good person."

Zhao Ji sighed, sure enough, the cause of the matter was her engagement. Zhao Ji had no choice but to comfort her: "Don't be nervous. After this incident, your family will not want you to marry again."

After a pause, Zhao Ji added another sentence: "Your so-called fiancé hasn't looked for you these days. If you have anything to say afterwards, you must tell your family. They may not understand you, but they must I love you and won't hurt you."

The little girl closed her eyes tightly, leaned against the wall of the public well, and said in a very low voice, "Really?"

Zhao Ji stopped talking, a bucket for fetching water fell from the well, and then a thick hemp rope fell down.

Pulling up the small and light Mona, she tightly hugged the fur quilt she sewed and the small bag she was sleeping on before. Zhao Ji made her stand in the bucket, and then wrapped her around the bucket and the rope with a thick rope.

"People are going up, pull!" Zhao Ji shouted loudly towards the top, and there was a messy response from the top, which seemed to gather a lot of people.

The little girl is very light, so she went up the well very quickly under the pull of countless young men.

Then the voices of many people sounded from above, probably to catch Mona. After waiting for a while, the bucket and rope came down. Hey, Zhao Ji even wondered if they all forgot about him.

Instead of using a bucket, he wrapped the hemp rope around his waist, then wrapped it around his left arm, and asked the people above to pull him up.

Several young men worked together, and Zhao Ji came up from the dark well in no time.

Leaning out of the mouth of the well, Zhao Ji handed over the candle in his hand to someone. Zhao Ji turned over, turned himself out of the well, and landed on the ground.

On the side, Mona's mother was hugging her and crying, but Mona still closed her eyes tightly without saying a word, just stuck her head into her mother's chest, hugged her and did not let go.

The surrounding members of the Xing Snow family all gathered around, and some cursed Mona loudly, despising her for making trouble for the family. Some people have nothing to do with themselves, they just hold their hands together and watch the reactions of the people around them.

The elders of the Xing Snow family didn't say anything at all, they just pulled Mona's father and severely criticized him, telling him to take good care of his daughter in the future and stop causing trouble to the family members.

Zhao Ji untied the hemp rope on his body, twisted the water-stained parts of his pants and clothes, looked at the chaotic scene, and felt that there was no safe ending to this matter, and there might be troubles in the future.

"Everyone, everyone! Let Mona, who has been under the well for several days, go home and have a rest first. The water vapor is so heavy and humid, there must be something wrong with her body," Kiel said.

Pulling Mona's three elder brothers who were standing aside, they seemed to have just reacted, and seemed to have an order, and quickly smiled at the surrounding family members, helped the younger sister up, and returned to their home together .

Mona's mother carried her daughter's small bundle and the fur cloak she made out of random sewing, and followed her back home as if fleeing.

The attention of the people around them shifted from Mona to Shuijing and Jier. Zhao Ji glared at a few young people who pointed at him, and the other party dared not say anything more about him.

When they came to Mona's father and his family elders, they stopped criticizing Mona's father when they saw the Kiel warrior coming. After Kiel approached them, he whispered, "Don't talk about this, everyone. There are two things that should be considered now."

Seeing that they were all listening to him at this time, Keel whispered: "First, Mona has been hiding under the well for several days. To be honest, it's really uncomfortable down there. I feel like this. It’s hard, you have to quickly find someone with some ability to see Mona’s condition. Not only the possible physical damage, but also the mental injury after staying here for so long.”

The elders of the Snow family all nodded, thinking that it was really necessary to see if the little girl was sick or injured first. But who should I turn to? This makes them very difficult.

Seeing the embarrassed expressions of the people around him, Keir remembered that the Snow family did not believe in the God of Saturn, and their relationship with the Church of the God of Saturn was very ordinary. And because of poverty, I almost had nothing to do with other churches.

And their family did not receive more care from the loving gods, except for the faint blessings of the gods in the place of childbirth and child growth, but not in other places.

After being in a dilemma for a long time, Mona's father's elder brother, a middle-aged man named Scar, said that he could try to find a herbalist he knew and let him have a look.

In the sound of Mona's father asking for help, the middle-aged man called a fast-legged young man, told him the address and the situation, and told him to go and invite the herbalist before it was dark.

Only then did Kiel realize that the sky was still approaching dusk in the afternoon, and it felt like a long time had passed in the underground waterway before, but in fact it was only a short period of time.

After finishing this matter, everyone looked at Kiel Warrior again and listened to the second thing he had to say.

After pondering for a while, Kiel whispered: "Aren't you curious? Why did Mona insist on disappearing, run away from home, and hide in waterways and wells. It's really not a place for people to stay in the bottom, but she stays there." For several days, what is supporting her?"

After saying this, they realized what the problem was. Why did Mona, who usually seemed very well-behaved, run away from her home?

A family elder asked Mona's father severely, asking whether his family had abused Mona.

Mona's father hastily pleaded no.

Kiel said, "I was at the bottom of the well and asked Mona this question. Although she didn't want to answer, she still said it was related to her marriage partner. Mona said her marriage partner was not a good person."

Hearing what Keir Warrior said, the people in the Snow family realized that the problem might be caused by outsiders. Mona's father became anxious and asked if the boy had bullied his girl.

Different from ordinary marriages, as far as Zhao Ji has come into contact with, it is common for young people to get married here because young people pursue each other and then get married. Of course, they all know each other in the same class, and people of different classes generally do not communicate with each other.

In addition to the free acquaintance of young people as above, there is another major form of marriage, that is, the family and the family arrange the marriage of young people.

And Mona's family is like this. Mona's parents found her a family with the same level as theirs. Arranged marriages are both good and bad. It can only be said that it is a form of marriage that should appear in this feudal society.

But presumably free love, arranged marriages also have rules. Free love between a man and a woman is more relaxed, and contact between a man and a woman is not prohibited, even before marriage, as long as neither party is a member of any church. If you have joined a church, no matter which church you belong to, it is forbidden for ordinary congregants to do anything before marriage, otherwise there will be no blessing from the gods.

Seriously, it is even a kind of blasphemy against the gods and the church.

There are even more rules in arranged marriages. The two parties in the marriage cannot even contact each other, and can only communicate through the parents and elders of both parties. Not to mention both men and women.

People in the Snow family believe in the God of Love, so of course it is forbidden for the man and woman of the marriage contract to have contact with each other. Thinking of this, they all thought that the kid on the other side of the engagement contacted Mona privately and wanted to do something to Mona.

This made them quite unhappy, and several people discussed it, directly saying that they want that kid to look good~www.readwn.com~ Those who dare to bully their Snow family, their family is in the name of unity.

Seeing the heated discussion among the elders of the family, Kiel, who felt that Mona would not be blamed by the clansmen, patted Mona's father on the shoulder, and said in the other's ear: "That's it, I found it for you, and at the same time Mona's matter has also been transferred to outsiders. For the entrusted fee, you can hand over the coins to Todd at the Table Corner Tavern after your affairs are completed."

"You're leaving, Kiel?" Mona's father asked.

Kiel nodded and pointed to the wet sleeves of the clothes and the calf knees of the trousers. Only then did Mona's father realize that the other person was wet, and hurriedly said: "Go to my house to warm up and dry the clothes. That's all right. Have another meal, and I'll ask my wife to cook for you."

With a wave of his hand, Keir still declined the other party's invitation. The matter on his side came to an end. The experience just now was really not good, and he had to drink a few glasses of wine to relax.

Before parting, Keir warned the other party that he should take good care of his daughter and communicate more usually. He also secretly told the other party that in the future, he must shift the attention of the matter to outsiders. If something happened to Mona's marriage contract, no matter what happened, it would be impossible to keep it, so why not just put the reason on the engagement party? It can save their family and Mona from a lot of discussions and accusations from the family.

Isn't the Snow family known for their unity, so it would be better for their own people to unite and fight against outsiders.

Mona's father was silent for a while, then nodded.

Zhao Ji waved his hand to bid farewell to everyone in the Xing Snow family, and walked towards the table corner tavern.

Have a drink, then go back and change into dry clothes. Tomorrow, you will receive the lesson of the big sword from the captain of the guard.