"Bastard thing! If you have the ability, kill my old bones! Do it! The man's sudden roar overwhelmed Anya and Cesare, and when they saw each other's faces, they were surprised to find that the voyeur was an elderly woman, no wonder they could get rid of it so easily. Although the old man was only about fifty years old intuitively from the physical appearance, her hair was sparse and gray, her face was covered with rough folds, like a whole piece of rotten linen, and her eyes were deeply sunken in the sockets, almost so that the sunlight could not reach her pupils, making it impossible to see the whites of her eyes. She was draped in a large apron with a hood, and the apron was covered with filthy mud, and she looked very pitiful. Anya hurriedly withdrew her sword, and reached out a little embarrassed to help the old woman up: "Hey... I'm sorry to scare you, but why are you hiding and peeping on us? "Phew! Don't pretend to be a good person here! The old woman shook off Anya's hand, and the back of Anya's hand hurt, and her face was full of grievances. I know who you are! You shameless crows, you want to take my son unless I die! The old woman stood on her feet trembling and pointed her fingers at Anya and Cesare. "Crows?" Cesare thought for a moment, remembering that the family crest was a crow, and as quickly as he put his hands behind his back, he took off the family ring and stuffed it into his pocket before the other party noticed. "What did you say, old woman...... It can't be a reference to the Hunyadi family, right? "It's still pretending, isn't it! You scoundrels! I've kicked everyone out of town, and now I'm going to come and arrest my son, I'm not leaving, this is my son's home and my son's house! I'm not going anywhere! Seeing that the old woman was getting more and more emotional, Anya hurriedly explained. You seem to have misunderstood, I am not a member of the Hunyadi family, and before ......Anya could finish speaking, Cesare gently touched Anya with his elbow, and Anya also instantly understood. "This, he, he's not, yes." As she spoke, in order to prove what she said, Anya also took out her family ring, which was the noble symbol of the Laurian family, and the badge on the ring was a small sapphire with a deer's head motif. "This is my family ring, and this is my personal servant." "Really?" Cesare was suddenly surprised. "Isn't it?" Anya felt that her lie was seamless, and looked at Cesare with even more surprise. “…… Yes, she bought me for a gold coin. Cesare reluctantly followed the lie. "It's not worth the money at all, actually." Anya said with a smile. It stands to reason that this kind of poor woman will become respectful when she sees the sign of nobility, for fear of offending a great person, but the mother-in-law in front of her came forward in disbelief, looked carefully at the family ring of the Laurian family, and raised her heavy eyelids to look at the two in front of her repeatedly. The other party was a little shaken, and Anya continued to make up nonsense while the iron was hot. "My squire clumsily broke the carriage, and now the horses are gone, and we have flowed from Karl and have gotten lost here trying to go west through the forest, can you help us?" Anya stepped forward and prayed for help like a sincere little girl. The old woman looked at Anya, who pretended to be pitiful, and then at Cesare, who really didn't look like a rich man, and she didn't know whether she had relented or thought of something. "Are you sure you didn't lie to me? Why do you want to wear it from this forest? "It's just in a hurry, and besides, if we're bad people, how can we ask you like that, right? Mother-in-law. The old woman hesitated for a moment, but finally nodded suspiciously. Well, it's a pity to look at you two children...... Alas...... Then come with me. The situation went more smoothly than expected, and the old man turned and walked away, motioning for the two of them to follow. Anya was pleased with her successful deception, but Cesare always felt that something was wrong. Following the old woman at the foot of the slope, looking at the abandoned houses around her, I seemed to see very familiar scratches on some of the collapsed walls...... Cesare deliberately pulled Anya to slow down, distanced himself from the old lady in front of him, and then approached Anya's ear and asked in a low voice. "Aren't you worried?" "Worried about what?" Anya tilted her head to look at Cesare. "You've revealed your identity, she knows you have noble connections, what if it's a bandit's trap, what if she's leading us to danger?" Cesare spoke directly about his concerns. Anya listened to Cesare's words and looked at the back of the old woman in front of her. "You can't always doubt everyone for no reason, try to respect a bad guy like a good guy before he takes off his disguise, if she's really a good guy that's a good thing, but if she's not a good guy......" As she spoke, Anya mischievously flicked Cesare's side of the face with her fingertips. "If there's a bandit gathering place around here, we might be able to find the wagon." "Robbing a robber's carriage? That's your plan? "Of course, there are geniuses whose ideas are the wealth of a madman alone." Anya smiled and stopped talking before the old woman noticed her voice, and although Cesare was still a little worried, she couldn't think of a better way at the moment, so she had to follow. It didn't take long for the old woman to take the two of them to the door of a house on the edge of the town, where the house had built a second floor and additional rooms on the original foundation, and dug a downward extension of the cellar outside the door. The straw on the roof had withered and broken, barely covering the eaves. Several wooden structures of the house have long been vacated by insects, and they are at risk of collapsing at any time. Cesare looked around carefully, and found no ambushes or suspicious sights for the time being, but this was not enough reason to let his guard down. The old woman took out a rusty iron key from her apron and turned it back and forth through the lock a few times before pushing the wooden door open. When a few people walked into the house, there were obvious traces of human life in the house, although there was a thick layer of dust piled up in the corners and corners, but the general surface had traces of frequent cleaning. The door was the dining room, where a small dining table was placed in the middle, with an unstable wooden chair on each side of the table, and some uncleaned utensils on the table. Looking inside, you can see a large cauldron in the stove on the wall, and the water in it is still clean. It doesn't look like a robber living here, is it really a good guy wronged for no reason? Cesare was thinking to himself when the old woman wiped the mud from her hands with the linen that hung on the wall, and spoke to the two men. "Sit down first, my son drove to the city, and he should be back early tomorrow morning, and let him see you off when the time comes." "Tomorrow? Are we going to wait here for a day and a night? Cesare was in a hurry, having wasted a lot of time on the road yesterday and now waiting for a day in vain. "If you don't want to wait, you can go by yourself." The old woman snorted coldly. "But I'll kindly warn you that the next populated town in this place will take five or six days, and it's not to the west." Hearing the old woman say this, Cesare could not continue to say anything. Seeing Cesare's unspeakable appearance, Anya just shrugged her shoulders, then pulled out a dining chair and sat down. "Mother-in-law, is there anything to eat?" Anya asked with a smile as she shook her legs. Hearing Anya talk about this, the mother-in-law also folded her arms and lowered her head to think about it, and then walked straight to the door, listening to the sound as if the cellar had been opened, and after a while, the mother-in-law came back with two pieces of raw venison with blood, threw them into the pot without any treatment, lit the firewood below, and boiled them in boiling white water. Of course, you can't expect to eat any delicacies from the mountains and seas in such a place, or in other words, being able to eat meat is already the highest standard of hospitality. The flames of the fireplace warmed people's hearts, and the figure of an old woman busy in her own home, wiping it with a sackcloth would soon make people forget many malicious suspicions, and Anya remembered what the old woman had said when they first met, and asked. "Mother-in-law, why do you hate the people of the Hunyadi family so much?" "Why? Why do you think so? At the mention of this, the old woman suddenly tried to stand up straight, and her anger did not come to a place. "Because it's a bunch of bastards, bastards, goddamn brutes! They drove everyone in town away! And I want to take my son! Seeing her pounding her chest angrily, Cesare couldn't help but wonder if his identity in Hunyadi was so unpopular even in his own territory, could it be that the people in the family had really done something unreasonable, but he didn't know it...... It's just that she scolded and scolded for a long time and only repeatedly emphasized that the Hunyadi family are all wicked and bastards, when Anya continued to ask why she wanted to drive out the townspeople here and take her son, the woman twisted her mouth, and couldn't say why she thought for a long time, in her description, it seems that the people of the Hunyadi family are all crazy people who do things in groups without logic, and they just want to clear them out of their territory if they don't like the townspeople. scolded and scolded, and the matter was over.

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