Three Philosophical Questions for Travelers

Hyacinth can't participate in the decision-making, it has nothing to do with her.

At this time, Lizhi and Yingying came over, sat beside her on the left and right, and held her tightly.

"It's so cold!" said Cherry.

"Yes, yes, it's so cold." Lizhi repeated.

Hyacinth said: "What's the matter, the north is much colder than here."

Cherry said: "I know it's colder in the north, and we escaped from the northerners."

Lizhi repeated: "That's right, that's right, it's colder in the north, we know that."

Maybe it would be good to go to the south, Hyacinth thought to himself, but we are already in the south here.Adora said two weeks ago that the south is after the Great Lake, and Fengliu Town is on the south side of the Great Lake, so why is it still snowing here?This year is so weird.

Cherry put her hand out the door, and the snowflakes fell on her hand, "I haven't been to the south yet, Hyacinth, does it snow in the south?" She asked Hyacinth.

"Yes, is it snowing?"

"I haven't been to the South either." Hyacinth said.

Cherry asked her: "Aren't you the princess of the southern tribe? Why don't you know the things in the south?"

Hyacinth froze for a moment, then remembered his "true identity".If Lizhi hadn't told her about it, she would have forgotten about it.That was a lie that Violet told her, that Hyacinth was a princess from the south, and that if she was sent back to the tribe in the south, the patriarch would give gold, jewels, and spices to the caravan.Because of this, the team was willing to take her on the road.

Oops. "I..." She rolled her eyes, "I was very young when I was abducted, and I have forgotten everything about that time." These words are indeed true. Hyacinth was only five years old when she left her hometown, and she has long since forgotten Things of the year.She doesn't remember anything but a song from her hometown.

"So do we." Cherry lowered her head.

"So do we." Lychee said the same.

At this moment, Hyacinth saw a man as white as snow walking down the street.

This man has silver hair, white skin, and a fox fur shawl on his shoulders.It was the first time for Hyacinth to see a snow-white person, and she couldn't help but stare blankly.Sister Fruit also pointed at the man and said, "Hyacinth, look at that guy!"

This man is not an ordinary person in his attire, Hyacinth was very curious, so he called him: "Sir! Mr. White Hair!"

The silver-haired man stopped, "Are you calling me, Miss?" His voice was magnetic.

He came over and stood in front of Hyacinth, only then did Hyacinth realize how tall he was.This man is close to 1.9 meters, tall and straight, with a straight back; he is very handsome, like a noble prince.

The silver-haired man asked her: "The flower on your face is so beautiful, what kind of flower is it?"

Hyacinth didn't know whether he was mocking him or really complimenting him, she whispered, "It's Hyacinth."

"I guess that's your name?" he asked with a smile.

Hyacinth felt offended and said, "So what?"

"I like the flowers on your face and your name, and I also have flowers on my face." He lifted a lock of hair hanging down his right cheek, revealing the tattoo pattern, "Look, what is this?"

He has a tiny butterfly tattoo under his hair, with the wing patterns coming to life.Hyacinth asked him, "Why do you have tattoos on your face?"

"Only slaves get face tattoos, and you're not like slaves," Cherry said.

"Yes, only slaves have tattoos." Lizhi repeated.

The man let go of his hair and said, "Who stipulated that only slaves can get tattoos on their faces?"

The three girls looked at each other, and then Cherry said: "The masters stipulated."

The man asked her, "Are the masters good people?"

"No, no!" This time, Lizhi spoke before Cherry, and Cherry said, "Slave owners are very bad. We are often beaten and starved."

"Yes, then why do we obey the slave master's rules?" He laughed, "I like this butterfly, so I just got a tattoo, what's wrong with that?"

"Okay!" Lizhi clapped excitedly.

Hyacinth looked at the strange man, and she asked him, "Sir, is your shawl made of fox fur?"

"Yes, you can touch it." He squatted in front of Hyacinth, and Hyacinth touched his shawl, the fur was soft, warm and smooth, "It's really a good dress." She couldn't help but smile.

"I can give it to you if you like it, beautiful lady," the man said to her.

Hyacinth likes that shawl very much, but she knows that there is no such good thing in the world, she said: "It's too expensive, besides, I can't accept gifts from strangers casually, I have nothing to give you."

The man smiled, "It's just a small gift, you are so beautiful, this thing is just right for you." He said as he took off his shawl.Cherry urged Hyacinth, "Take it, take it!" Lizhi also said, "Yes, yes, take it!"

Hyacinth and the Bard, II

Hyacinth and the Bard, II

The silver-haired man's attentions made Hyacinth wary, and she declined the man again, saying, "Sir, I can't do this, my husband will be unhappy." If he is still alive.

"I didn't expect you to be married, that's really offensive." He saluted.

"I have a marriage contract." Hyacinth explained.

"Anyway," the man tightened his collar, "this is indeed my abrupt beauty. Although Fawn Timnard is suave, he never picks the flowers that belong to him."

Hyacinth remembered the name silently, "Thank you still, Mr. Timnard." She said to the weird man.

The man saluted lightly and left.Hyacinth and the fruit sisters watched him go away, and Cherry sighed, "What a beautiful person."

Beautiful rarely describes a man, but it is not an exaggeration to use it to describe him.Hyacinth also agreed with this sentence, saying: "He is very handsome and polite, like a well-mannered nobleman..." She pondered for a while, "But why is the nobleman here?"

"He's not an aristocrat!" Lizhi said loudly. "He has a sword on his waist. I think he is a ranger. That's the kind of ranger in poetry, the kind who can kill many people with three or two swords. Brush, brush, just a few strokes." Her expression was exaggerated.

Hyacinth and Cherry glanced at each other, they had never seen Lizhi speak like this before - logically speaking, Lizhi would only repeat what Cherry said.

"Lichi, what's wrong with you?" Cherry asked her.

"I still want to see him." Li Zhi rested her chin on her hands, staring straight at the direction in which the silver-haired man left.

This man took her soul away, Hyacinth thought to himself, he did it on purpose, it must be.

Frivolous man.

Since then, Hyacinth has never seen this person again, and does not know whether he is a nobleman or a ranger.Li Zhi misses this person day and night, and suffers from lovesickness, and often reads with a silly face: "Where is he now?"

The next day, the snow stopped, and in the afternoon, Eight Fingers Jon called everyone for a meeting.The caravans circled behind the town with a campfire in the middle.The people in the convoy are divided into three camps. On one side is the entertainer group led by Adora, which includes dancers, jugglers, magicians, singers, etc., and Hyacinth is among them; in the middle are Eight Finger Jon's guards and The mercenary group; on the far right is the merchants headed by Clark——Clark, that is a thick and short fat man, his skin is very dark, his body is covered with gold ornaments, standing there like a newly unearthed ore.

Eight Fingers Jon cleared his throat when he saw that everyone was here, and said: "The meeting can start. I called everyone here today to listen to all of you. We have encountered a problem now—" He Pointing to the west with his hand, Hyacinth looked there, and saw a high mountain blocking the way, "We have two roads to go! The first road bypasses the mountain from the north, but this road is infested by robbers; The road bypasses the mountains from the south and enters the swamp. This road is very difficult to walk but relatively safe. Now I can't get over the dispute with the two leaders, so I want to have a collective vote."

"I want your mother to vote! As I said, go the north road!" The businessman Clark shouted, "If we continue to delay, we won't be able to reach Ivory City in the spring, what will happen to my truckload? You pay ?"

"I'll say it again, there are bandits in the north." Eight Fingers Jon reminded.

Clark laughed and said, "You are a mercenary group. How many years have you been running this road! Don't you know how to get to the swamp? Don't talk nonsense, I think you just want to add money! You guys have long faces. A bedbug with sore buttocks and festering pus, you and me, how much more do you want?"

Eight-fingered Jon shouted: "I don't want money! I want my life! It's not like you haven't seen the tragedy in Baihua Town. Now there are bandits everywhere. Our little people are not enough to give the robbers teeth!"

"I don't believe I'm so unlucky! The sky is high, the land is far away, and the road is so wide, why do you always meet robbers?" Clark spit, "Besides, what if you walk in a swamp and end up in a swamp? What if you meet a swamp orc?" What should we do? Aren’t the orcs more vicious than robbers?”

Jon exclaimed: "I have been running this way for 28 years. I don't know where I can't go. Besides, orcs are easier to deal with than robbers. Robbers will not leave you with a copper horn if they rob you; They don’t want to grab your food, chain mail, helmets, etc. They don’t want to steal money! And if you’re willing to do business with them, they’ll give you leather, herbs, and animal bones. Orcs are not what you imagined like that!"

Clark cursed: "I'm going to do business with the orcs, you go do business with those green skins, you go sell them big clubs and pig intestines, and then give me some green skinned wives! - damn it!"

Jon said fiercely: "You idiot full of dung! You..."

"Stop, both of you." Adora interrupted their quarrel.The poetess stood between the two of them. She looked at the crowd in the convoy, and the silver jewelry on her head shone as she turned her head, "Everyone, you probably understand that there are two roads now, one is easy to travel but there are robbers, the other One is difficult to walk but safe. If you want to walk in the swamp, you can come and stand by my side; if you want to walk in the mountains, you can go to Master Clark. We will go to whichever side is crowded.”

"Listen to me, you all have to listen to me! I paid for it!" Clark yelled, jumping to his feet, "You poor people! Cowards! Rotten-eyed bastards!"

No one paid any attention to him, and everyone took sides.Soon, people stood behind Adora, while Clark stood alone in the wind.The businessman saw that the situation was not good, so he said, "Jon, eight-fingered Jon! I hired you, and I gave you money. What good can you do with this woman?"

Jon said to him seriously: "Master Clark, I said before I set off that the first priority is to survive this trip, and the second is to make money. Everyone doesn't want to risk their lives just to make money. Now people have to walk in the swamp , you are reluctant to do so, come with us."

"No! I won't go, I want to take my servant to the mountain road!"

Jon and Adora looked at each other and said, "Then we will have to part ways here. I wish you a pleasant journey, Master Clark."

Clark was so angry that he wanted to hit him, but the strong man Barut stopped him and pushed him away.Clark yelled, "What the hell is that carload of whores worth more than my cargo? Will they pay you, Jon!"

Jon said, "I can."

"Can you give it?" Clark's face changed suddenly.

Jon continued: "Because there is a big man here, we must send her back to the southern tribe safely! Do you understand?"

Hyacinth, who had been watching the play, was suddenly dumbfounded. She was frightened and thought to herself: Isn't this about me?

Broken Broken!This is bad!At this moment, the face of this fake tribal princess was tense, and the cold sweat was like rain.

Hyacinth and the Bard, III

Hyacinth and the Bard, III

"I don't think we should take the swamp!" Hyacinth couldn't help shouting, "I think... I think it's good to go on a mountain road, but after walking through the swamp...you don't have any money, right?" Saying this while breaking out in a cold sweat.However, when everyone's eyes were piercing her face like needles, she suddenly realized how stupid her behavior was.

Clark laughed and said, "It seems that this little girl is still very sensible."

"Hyacinth!" Jon yelled, "You silly boy, what do you know?"

"I, I..." Hyacinth didn't know what to say, at this moment, Cherry suddenly said: "Hyacinth is going to take the mountain road, so I will also take the mountain road!" Litchi is going too!"

Why?Hyacinth had never expected it to become like this.Then two jugglers said: "I also want to go on the mountain road, I hate orcs and mud." Then an old mercenary with a beard said: "You can get money for walking on the mountain road, and robbers are nothing! Who! I chopped him up!"

"Shut up!" Jon roared, "You idiots, you..." He glared at Hyacinth with angry eyes, "It's all because of you!"

"Ah, it's really because of me." Hyacinth said honestly, "I didn't think of that either, I just..."

The two factions quarreled, and all kinds of shouts drowned Hyacinth's voice.Adora stood beside her, shook her head helplessly, and said to her, "You troublemaker."

"Sorry, Adora."

"Is it true that you don't want to go to the swamp? Or is there some other reason?"

I'm afraid you won't get the money in the future and kill me! "I..." Hyacinth didn't know what to say.At this moment, someone tugged on her clothes.She lowered her head and saw the little mute looking at her.

The child had been with her since she came out of Birch Town, like her little sister.Seeing her panicked look, Hyacinth asked, "Shancha, what's the matter?" The dumb one didn't sound good, so Hyacinth named her Camellia after a flower.

Shan Cha said to her, "I don't want to go to the swamp either."

"why?"

"Because there are dragons in the swamp." Shan Cha talked about the dragon again, "that's where the dragons come from. There is a big hole in the swamp, and the dragon lives in the big hole."

Hyacinth couldn't figure out what the kid was talking about, but Adora heard it and asked her, "Have you really seen a dragon in the swamp?"

Shan Cha nodded and repeated what she said just now.Adora nodded solemnly after hearing this, and then she said: "Don't be afraid, my sister, dragons are all fake, stupid legends. What you saw may be some kind of natural disaster, or a wonderful weather or something."

Shan Cha shook her head again and again, and shouted: "Really, I'm not lying! There are dragons in the swamp!"

Adora said: "Okay, I believe you." After saying this, Adora walked to the center of the crowd.At this moment, everyone was arguing, the actors yelled, the laborers shook their fists, and the mercenaries put their hands on the hilts of their swords.At this moment, Adora took out a whistle, and she blew hard, "D--!" The whistle made a piercing sound.

People fell silent temporarily, and everyone looked at Adora.The silver-haired bard pondered for a moment, then said, "There's no need to argue, we must walk through the swamp."

People shouted and asked her why.Adora said: "Our team is already weak enough, and our supplies are already low enough. If we divide into two, no one will be able to reach the destination. Instead of arguing, it's better to listen to me." She then said to Jon, "We have to go to the swamp, Jon, let's go to the swamp. If you want to go, follow me, if you don't want to, you can leave." The female poet showed a very terrifying expression, her tone was gloomy, not as gentle as usual, "Those who leave the team can Take away your personal property, but food, weapons and clothes are not allowed to move, if you have these three items in your private property, they will be confiscated."

The crowd was in an uproar, and Clark yelled, "Why listen to you?"

"By this."

Adora held Clark's throat with her sword.

The businessman turned pale in shock, "You, what are you going to do?"

"I want you to walk in the swamp, can you walk?" Adora said.

"We have a lot of people, you can't beat us!" Clark said bravely.

"Then I can make you bleed." Adora walked towards Clark with a sword in her hand. Her face was expressionless, but her eyes were terrifying. Clark was forced by her to step back and said, "Don't, don't! Well, put down your sword!"

"Either listen to me, or everyone dies, and no one wants to leave!" She shouted, "Captain Jon, give the order!"

Jon nodded and said, "Okay, let's go to the swamp."

"Very good." Adora withdrew her sword at once, and the crowd was completely silent at the moment.

After about three seconds of silence, a male voice with an exaggerated tone suddenly said: "Beautiful, really beautiful." Hyacinth looked in that direction, and saw a silver-haired man walking out.

"It's him!" Lizhi said.

"I like the way you do things, ma'am." He stepped out of the crowd, and people automatically made a way for him. When he stood there, everyone around him automatically backed away, as if to leave him A stage, "I heard that you are going to the Great Swamp? Can I go with you?"

Adora looked at the man up and down, and the more she looked, the tighter her frown became, "The entourage was arranged by Jon, you can ask him." Adora said.

However, Jon frowned more tightly than Dora, and he asked the man, "Who are you? What do you do?"