After the heavy snowfall of the Devil's Moon, the Redwater River became the only road in the whole western realm.

Compared to the previous small sailing ship, the Lion Heart is much larger and can accommodate the next simple kitchen, even on the road, you can eat hot food.

His bedroom, of course, was the independent single room in which the duke had originally lived, located at the stern, similar to the tower of a seaboat, where the river was constantly flowing under his feet and the floating ice that drifted from time to time through the window.

“Your excellency, you want egg soup,” the knight sent the jar and porcelain bowl to his room.

"It's hard," said Perot, "and sit down and drink a bowl, and warm yourself."

Since His Royal Highness escorted all the knights of the other four families to the border town and told them not to accept the redemption, the first thing the nobles did was to send the family members of the knights together, and the vacated land either recruited the new knights or simply ate them themselves.

Only the honeysuckle family did not suffer too much loss in this war, but grew rapidly through the acting long song fortress, and now it has stabilized over four people, and has a relatively complete knight team.The knight Seth was a member of the team, although not as well known as the dawn of the morning light, but also regarded as the most outstanding of the young knights.

"Yes," he smiled, opened the jar lid, and poured soup for Pero, "but...however, sir, are you really doing this?"

“You mean the witch?”

"Well, although the church was burned down, it is not difficult to build another one, the church will return to the West one day, you just put the blame on the four princes, they can not say anything."But you saved a witch in front of the people and arrested the members of the church...” The knight hesitated, “it is tantamount to openly fighting the church.”

“If it’s not hard to build another one, why is it still a ruin?”Pero blew the egg-thung soup, "The church will not return to the West."

Seth blinked, seemingly not quite convinced of the conclusion.

When the egg soup heat receded a little, he took a small sip and exhaled white air with satisfaction, "As an escrow, the most important thing is to understand the real intention of the master."His Highness's promotion of education in the fortress, the introduction of new recruits for training in the border town, and staged a drama with obvious significance, obviously to minimize the influence of the church.Since I became the manager of the fortress because of my Highness, I naturally have to govern the fortress according to his will, and if I do not see this, I am afraid that he will immediately replace me with someone else.”“It’s just a matter of raising your hand to rebuild the church – both the mason and the carpenters should have been warned that even if the faithful wanted to build it themselves, the rats would keep them from working.”

“The Church—”

“Since His Royal Highness has done this, it means that he will not fear the revenge of the church at all, or that he has the confidence to shut the church out of the door, and if they can still set foot in the west, it can only show that His Highness has failed.”If he fails, I will no longer be able to sit on the main seat of the fortress, and you should understand that."

"Do you think the Four Princes can defeat the army of the Church?"Seth was surprised.

"Who knows," said Perot, shaking his head with a smile, "before I was afraid that no one would have thought he could resist the Knights of the Duke of Lane."He got up and lifted the jar, "I'll go and see the little girl, and she may be hungry too."

...

The girl’s name was White Paper.

There is no doubt that only stray people can use such a random name.

Since she got on board, she had stayed in the cabin under the deck without saying a word, even though her fingers were red and her whole body was trembling.For the sake of safety, Perot also put a lock on her divine punishment, after all, no matter how His Highness promotes witches and ordinary people, he will not fully believe that such people with incredible power will really be like ordinary people - even if it is an inadflicted act, it may cause harm to themselves.

“Why don’t you lie in the quilt?”Perot pointed to the hammock hanging in the cabin - the cabin space is limited, sailors usually sleep in a suspended hammock, wrapped in coarse quilts, can not say how comfortable, but at least can keep warm.

“It’s going to get dirty,” she whispered.

"The sailor will not be cleaner than you," he said, looking for a dry place to sit, "and this journey will take three days, and you intend to sit like this all the time."I'm afraid you're not in the border town yet, and you're going to die on the road."

“The border town?”The white paper stood still.

“Didn’t I tell you?Go to a place suitable for witches."Pero opened the jar and said, “Come and finish the hot soup and lie down on the hammock.”

This time the girl did not refuse, she could see that she was really hungry, and she took the tile jar and drank it directly, without fear of being burned.

Perot shook her head, her body as thin as a monkey, the dirt on her hair was already solid, the clothes were probably picked up from, there were several holes in it—the light from the outside, it was no different from the many strays in the fortress.

“Who is the boy who cares for you?”He asked, “Your vagabond friend?”

"Snake teeth, he . . . often gives us . . . . bring us something to eat."White paper swallowed the soup and spit out his tongue, vaguely, "As long as I go with you, you ... will not catch him?"He's not a witch."

"Of course," said Perot, expressionless, "he doesn't matter at all."The phrase “always bring food” surprised him a little, such a person rarely appeared in the slums, and the lack of food led to the collapse of mutual robbing events from time to time – when he could not live, he would be in a mood to care for others.And the name of the snake teeth... is a bit like the style of rats.

He couldn’t help but ask, “Are there any other witches besides you?”

"No," said the white paper, shaking his head, "everyone is a near orphan."

This made Perot feel a little relieved, "What happened to the old god stick with the ability to remove snow?"It was the first time I had seen a witch dare to use her abilities in front of the people.”

“Snake tooth proposed, he said I can help residents quickly clear the roof of the snow, while exchanging food so that everyone can not go hungry.”The theatre plays the story of witches all the time, and now people are not afraid of witches, and if I do, he will go to the adults to negotiate."

It turned out that Pero couldn't help but start his mouth, this guy was still very interesting, knowing how to make good use of the resources in his hands, but he was too small to see the influence of the church, "Then did you change to eat?"

“Well,” the paper bowed, “I swept three roofs, one of them threw me out, and the other two gave me half a loaf of bread and a piece of bakery.”“In the fourth house...”

When he met the hated old woman, Perot patted her head, "Let's rest when you're done, and when it's supper, I'll send someone to tell you."

Three days later, the Lion Heart arrived at the border town dock.

(Unfinished).