The door was pushed open with a "click".

Mrs. Duden, who was putting the pot on the oven, was shocked and the pot fell to the ground and made a crisp cracking sound.

"Damn it!"

Duden, who was roasting the fire by the fireplace, was startled and turned around suddenly. It turned out to be the boy Adam.

He knew that Adam had gone to the stump tavern every night recently to have two drinks, teasing Dolly, the daughter of the tavern owner, Hurta, and bragging with other villagers and passing merchants, and then came back with a full body of alcohol and a red face.

Du Deng thought that the kid must have drunk too much. He had to teach him a lesson.

"Hell, uncle," Adam didn't have time to apologize to Mrs. Duden for his recklessness, and quickly closed the door and looked at Duden with anxiety in his eyes, "Those three stupid things were caught!"

"Which three stupid things? Oh no, you mean those three..." Du Deng stood up from the small chair by the fireplace, and the originally calm flames in the fireplace danced excitedly.

"Yes, uncle, now they are in the dungeon of the Lord's Tower!" Adam said, walking to the table and picking up the wooden cup, siping the light beer inside.

"How did you know? Who told you?" Du Deng cursed the three stupid guys in his heart.

He thought that those three idiots were really seeking death. If they could take the money to listen to him and fly away and escape far away, this matter would have been overturned and no one would have known it.

"A Baron Simon's soldier," Adam took off his dusty green hood and sat on the chair next to Duden. "He told the drinkers about the whole process of catching the bandits today, and showed off his flaunts like a medal of honor."

"Is that true? That sheriff Kevin..." Du Deng was interrupted by Adam before he finished speaking. He felt a little angry and raised his eyebrows.

"I saw Kevin in the tavern," Adam said constantly, "I greeted him and asked calmly about the situation today. He said that there were two of the bandits who were caught by him, and he didn't seem to know that we were involved in this matter. Oh, I hope God bless us not to be discovered, damn, damn..."

"Calm down," Duden waved, "You wore a turban when you saw those three stupid things. No one knew you had been involved in this, including Kevin. But I think Koliff should be quite dangerous now."

"Why uncle?" Adam was a little puzzled.

"He made up a story and deceived the lord. I originally thought that those three stupid things would not be caught and that he would not have any problems, but now the situation is different. When the lord interrogated tomorrow, he will soon find something wrong." Du Deng took a sip of warm red wine and tried to stabilize his thoughts.

"What should I do?"

"I think I have a wonderful idea." A strange smile suddenly passed through Du Deng's mouth.

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Moonlight and mist shrouded the fields and forests of the baron's lord, and occasionally two nightingale "cuckoo" sounds.

The old night watchman in Esbai Village yawned and felt his arms holding the torch were a little sore, so he changed his hand to hold the torch and turned toward the other side of the main road.

What he didn't notice was that in the dark corner of the wall just now, a thick man was watching him leave with his breath holding his breath.

"Old Od today is really annoying. He stood there like a wooden stake," Adam saw that the old night watchman had walked away and there was no light nearby, so he sneaked into the direction outside the village, "Oh, I'll do every dirty and tiring work."

Adam, wearing a black soft armor hat, a brown linen trouser and a black leggings, tiptoed like a cat, with a faint sound that hardly attracted anyone's attention.

After he left the village, he stepped out and ran.

He wanted to arrive at the mill outside the village as soon as possible without being known, and let Kolif run away quickly. Otherwise, Lord Simon discovered the next day and arrested Kolif for interrogation, and both of him and his uncle Duden's family would be in trouble.

"call!"

Adam ran to the mill in one breath, supported his thighs and gasped in the front yard of the cottage, and twisted the kettle from his waist to moisten his throat.

"Who is it? Adam?"

Koliff in the cottage obviously heard the movement outside. He carefully opened a small corner of the animal skin curtain and saw clearly the person coming through the torch in front of the yard.

"What's wrong?" Koliff put on his coat and opened the door with his hands wrapped around him.

"Check it up and pack up your valuables and run away. Lord Lord caught the three guys who attacked the ranch," Adam's eyes widened. "Otherwise, when he finds out tomorrow that you are making up stories to deceive him, lock you up and interrogate you, and we will be all done!"

"Oh no, damn!" Koliff's legs weakened and he sat on the ground. "How could this happen? Where should I escape? How should I escape?"

"Don't you know some bandits wandering in the forest," Adam said, "You should take your belongings to him now, give him some benefits, and let him take you out of here. It's better not to be caught by the lord's soldiers, otherwise you will definitely be dead."

"I don't have anything valuable to my brothers in the woods..." Koliff said pitifully, but Adam was unmoved and even became angry.

"What's wrong with your head," Adam lowered his voice and said viciously, "I know all the mice in the crack of your wall. You tell me now that you have no money? Do you want this life or keep your lifeless money?"

"I get it..." Koliff sighed and turned back into the house.

Adam curled his lips with some disdain. Koliff just asked him for some money to escape. In fact, whether Adam gave it to him or not, he had to escape far away, otherwise as Baron Simon said - he would cut off his head.

Uncle Du Deng said that during the day, Koliff had come to him, but he actually had a delusion and asked Du Deng to return the deposit of the Denell silver coin to him, because he did not get the pasture in the end, and he was extremely greedy.

Not long after, Adam heard the sound of shovels digging the soil in the house. He thought that Coliff was hiding so deeply that he actually buried money in the ground.

After a while, Koliff packed up his things and walked out with his wife and a bag stained with dirt.

"Oh, my mill." Kolif sighed, his eyes filled with unconcealed dullness and reluctance.

He took the donkey out of the warehouse next to him and placed the packed luggage in the pack basket beside the donkey.

"Come on, my dear." Koliff helped his wife ride the donkey, then put a blanket on her trembling back, then took the reins on the donkey's mouth and looked at Adam.

"You ask the bandits to send you to East Friesia in the north and find a sea boat to England for the rest of your life. I promise that when you arrive in England, no one will be able to find you in the future."

"Can't you go south?" Koliff asked carefully.

"No," Adam said firmly, "to go south, you will pass through several new barons' lords who have taken over. You cannot guarantee which nobles have a good relationship with Lord Simon, and whether they will assist him in sending you."

"Why go north?"

"Walk a distance northward, cross the river, and it is the Duchy of Friesia in East Frisia. I guess Lord Simon is not familiar with the nobles there, and the pursuit of you will be difficult. At that time, you were already sitting on the ferry to England." Adam said, stroking his chin and thinking.

Unexpectedly, this big guy who is as rough as a bull has something in his head. This is the information he often chats with past businessmen in the tavern.

"The last question," Koliff touched the back of his head in confusion, "Where is England?"

Like most medieval villagers, Kolif was born here. He has never left his hometown several times when he is middle-aged. Now he is suddenly leaving his hometown and fleeing. He seems very helpless.

"The other end of the sea," Adam recalled the description of a passing Saxon-Anglo merchant, "a rainy, wet place."

“I don’t like there.”

"You have no choice."

“…”

When Koliff and his wife's backs disappeared into the jungle, Adam took out a dark red turban from his pocket, walked into Koliff's hut, muttering, "Since you're leaving, you'll be responsible for the rest of the charges."

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The next morning, the villagers started a new day of work according to their usual routines. No one seemed to notice that the owner of the mill outside the village and his wife had disappeared without a trace.

After Simon simply ate something to fill his stomach, he rushed to the dungeon.

He felt an inexplicable excitement fill his body - he was about to pick out the borers from Esbai Village.

At the beginning, the three robbers kept their mouths tightly, their mouths filled with lead. They either didn't want to say anything, or they said they were innocent travelers, crying in tears and shouting for injustice.

When Miller used some "little toys" to help them recall what happened that night, finally, an overwhelmed robber spoke, but it has to be mentioned that the foreign accent mixed with pain in his weakness made Simon useless and very excited to understand what he was talking about.

According to the robbers, the three of them wandered around the Deheis Forest a week ago to look for opportunities. A strong man wearing a dark red turban found them through nearby robbers and asked them to attack the ranch.

After the brawny man paid the deposit, the three of them discussed the countermeasures and finally decided to pretend to be a businessman to lead the shepherd away who lived and guarded the pasture, and the other two went to kill the livestock.

Simon continued to interrogate, but the information obtained was very limited, and the three robbers never knew what the person they were in contact with was.

"It's so difficult." Simon rubbed his sore temples, but at this time, he suddenly remembered the testimony of the miller Koliff.

But what surprised Simon was that the three robbers denied that they had once found the miller. Soon, Simon realized that either the robber was lying to him or Koliff was panicking to him at that time.

Now, the context is very clear.

"Bill, take the soldiers to the mill and take Koliff back!"

When Simon and Sir Bill arrived at the mill with their soldiers, the wooden door of Koliff's cottage was open and the door of the warehouse was also open. All the property that could be taken away in the house was taken away, and the donkey in the warehouse was gone.

"They have escaped," Bill came out of the house and shook his head at Simon. "However," Bill took out a pair of face-covering turbans and handed them to Simon, "I found this under his bed."

"Is that true?" Simon took the turban and looked at it.

The turban was dark red and looked a little old. Combined with the strong man wearing a dark red turban that the robbers said, Simon quickly superimposed the image of Coliff in his mind.
Chapter completed!