Soul Echo

Receiving the news of Zhong Ye's visit, Marcus ran out of the lord's manor gasping for breath, "You, you, why are you here?"

Zhong Ye laughed at Marcus, "There are some things I want to know from the lord of Schwenningen. If possible, I hope you can help us introduce it."

"father He doesn't have time for the time being..." Marcus looked at Zhong Ye and the others with a complicated expression, and shook the head, "I'm afraid I don't have time to meet with you."

"So when will the fief lord have time? "Lily, who was standing aside, asked with a smile.

Her words left Marcus for a while, as if he hadn't prepared the answer to this question.

It stands to reason that they should be able to understand the meaning of his previous sentence, his father does not want to see them - no matter when.

However, who would have thought that they would ask him 'when is there time'?

Marcus was silent for a moment, then shook his head and said, "I'm sorry, I don't know...father he just asked me to tell you that he doesn't have time for now."

"No time. In fact, you don't want to see us, do you?" Lilian lightly snorted, said mystifyingly, "Has the fief lord already guessed our identity? Know that the teacher is Zhong Ye, the owned 'morning bird'?

"I can tell you, it's not that the teacher brought disaster to those places, but the disaster existed there. The teacher just detonated those hidden dangers in advance. If there is no teacher, hmph hmph hmph, who knows those How will the place be? "

Listening to Lillian's words, Marcus fell into a sluggishness again, coweringly moved his lips, but couldn't say a word to refute.

In the end, it was Zhong Ye's harmony. Persuasion: "You can rest assured, we don't want to trouble your father, we just want to know some things. ”

At least for now, as for whether or not to trouble him in the future, it depends on the situation.

"Then... let me ask my father..."

Marcus glanced at Zhong Ye and the others, then lowered his head and ran back.

Zhong Ye and the others waited outside the door for more than ten minutes before a deacon came out. , to invite them into the manor.

They were taken to a room by deacon, and before leaving, deacon explained to them that the lord of Schwenningen was still busy and needed them to wait here for a while, waiting for the lord When they are done, they will come to see them. During this period, they can use this room as they wish.

“Zhong, what do you think? "

After the deacon left, Lily couldn't wait to ask.

Lilian also turned her attention to Zhong Ye, and now everyone could see that the lords of Schwenningen didn't want to see them, I just don't know the reason.

Whether it's because of fear of Zhong Ye's reputation, or because of guilt and timidity, it's hard for others to know.

Zhong Ye shook his head: "There's too little information, it's hard to tell. judge. "

Immediately, he said meaningfully: "But Marcus...the actual character may not be as pure as it seems on the surface. "

Speaking, he slowly turned his head and looked towards the door.

Lily and Lillian also looked over, and then, they heard something coming from outside. There was a sound of footsteps, and a strong middle age person with white temples pushed the door and entered.

Behind the middle age person, there were two youngsters, one was Marcus, the other looked Like his elder brother.

Zhong Ye They got up immediately, saluted first, showing courtesy.

This also surprised the middle age person and his elder son a little, listened According to Marcus, the two of them originally thought that Zhong Ye and the others were unreasonable people, but didn't expect to be so polite—that young woman was still doing simple aristocratic rituals.

Since the other party has already saluted, he can't be rude.

middle age person took his two sons and saluted Zhong Ye and the others before taking their seats.

After sitting down, middle age person person was the first to speak: "You are the famous Zhong Ye, right? I'm sorry for making you wait so long because I was too busy before.

"Before this, you guys saved Marcus, I really don't know how to thank you."

"No thanks, it's all no effort at all .”

Zhong Ye laughed and shook the head, and then changed the subject abruptly, said resolutely: “fief lord, to tell you the truth, in fact, we came to visit you this time, and we wanted to ask you something. You, I wonder if you can tell the truth?"

"oh?" The middle age person leaned back and put one hand on the armrest, "What's the matter?"

His two sons are standing on the left and right behind the chair, but one is as strong as he is, and the other is delicate and feminine, quite feminine.

Zhong Ye glanced at the faces of the three people, leaned forward slightly with his upper body, supported his body with both hands and elbows, and said seriously: "I want to ask, fief lord, do you know that there is a ship driving in On the Neckar, a mysterious ship that never carries outsiders? I heard that the ship is actually a ship used by a group of traffickers to transport people.

“I heard the residents of Schwenningen say, fief lord You also have a big boat, and that big boat of yours also sails on the Neckar a lot.

"I want to ask, fief lord, have you heard about that ship? If so, can you tell us?"

in Zhong Ye's The lord and his elder son's heartbeat sped up a little at the hint of words, but Marcus didn't change at all, whether it was heartbeat or breathing.

middle age person pretended to take a few deep breaths in anger, turned a cold face, and asked solemnly: "Your Excellency Zhong Ye, are you doubting me?"

" Yes, I think you are suspicious."

What surprised the middle age person was that Zhong Ye didn't deny it, but admitted it generously!

"According to the information I have received, the transport route of the group of traffickers extends from the Hallstatt city-state alliance, and their buyers are within the Rhine Kingdom."

Having said this, Zhong Ye deliberately paused, and immediately heard the violent heartbeat accelerated by the lord eldest son.

"We walked all the way from Tübingen along the river bank, and we encountered other towns along the way, but we didn't find any suspected traces in those towns - some towns didn't even have a slightly larger wharf, There's no way for that kind of big ship to dock.

"This is almost the source of the Neckar, and fief lord you happen to own a big ship, and you can bring back a lot of goods and wealth every time you sail, but as a A town with no specialties, a merchant ship departing from you should not be able to bring any particularly rare goods to other places.

"Even if you can sell all the way and buy all the way, but the Neckar passes through so many towns in total, and I haven't heard of anyone else getting rich with it, so your suspiciousness is greatly increased. After listening to this, the middle age person was sighed in relief, with a smile on the corner of his mouth: "So, you have no evidence to prove that we used that boat to help the group of human traffickers to traffic in people. , it's just guesswork?"

"That's right." Zhong Ye lord nodded slightly, "That's why you came here to ask fief to teach me about this."

middle age person did not expect that Zhong Ye would be open and honest, and blatantly said that he was here to investigate him, and also wanted to get an answer from him.

Because I had never experienced this kind of thing, nor expected it, the middle age person came back to his senses after being silent for a long time.

"Of course not, we just do business normally." The middle age person shook his head in denial.

Zhong Ye face doesn't change, nodded to them, got up and saluted again.

"In this case, thank you fief lord for your cooperation. We still have something to do. I can't stay for a long time. We will retire first."

After Zhong Ye and the others left, there were still some middle age persons. I was stunned, I couldn't believe that Zhong Ye and the others really just left.

Therefore, he was alert again.

Could it be that Zhong Ye's purpose was just to 'enter the manor'? What spell can they use as long as they enter the manor?

The lord of Schwenningen was puzzled, but Zhong Ye did nothing and left the lord's manor with Lilian and the others.

After leaving the manor, Lily and Lilian said in unison: "There is a problem!"

Even they could see that there was a problem, they didn't believe that Zhong Ye couldn't see it.

I saw Zhong Ye the biggest nod and said, "Their family has problems, whether it's the lord, or his elder son and second son, among them, Marcus should be the one with the problem."

When he tested them with language, only Marcus, heartbeat and breathing rate did not show any changes!