"According to customs, the bride has to pray to the twelve goddesses in the 'Goddess Palace' for one day before the holy tree. The groom will wear military uniforms to welcome her to the wedding banquet at the dinner, and then the wedding will be officially held." Martin explained to the foreign mercenaries without getting tired of it. He was a devout guy, but he was also a bad boy. As a partner, he was a good partner, because he was at least very fun with him.

Alu himself sat on the wooden barrel, playing with the dagger in his hand. Martin and Alu replaced the previous guard of Young Master Fitwen. The previous guard was killed by the mercenaries of the Principality in the battle of the Spear Hunting Hall, just like slaughtering animals. Martin was not present at the time, but Alu could see clearly that their blood was splattered on the wooden pillars of the Spear Hunting Hall.

"Why are you so troublesome? I'll tell you how good it's better to go directly into the bridal chamber!" said a pointed-nosed mercenary in iron armor, with a white blooming rose emblem on his breastplate. The two accomplices behind him echoed what he said and laughed. These idiots! Aru thought of it unhappy.

Martin waved his hand disapprovingly, "Who is Sir Via a pious person?" Martin thought for a while, "This time the saint was born in Lengshi Town. I guess it was the god who was moved by Sir Via's piety and gave him the gift!"

Hemi is the saint of Lengxi Town! Not from Lengshi Town! Alu thought gloomy, but it doesn't matter now. Lengxi Town is gone. But unexpectedly, the coward Hemi is actually a saint. Alu scratched her head and scared her with a slug at the beginning. Then she ran home crying. Just when Alu was worried about whether she would be beaten up by Uncle Joel, she realized that Hemi did not go to Uncle Joel to complain after returning home.

That Hemi is going to get married now, and he is still the one who is married...

"Good words!" Master Fitwen walked out of the stone gate. He wore a thick cardigan, a coat and a wallet, and his family emblem was embroidered on his chest: a hunting spear. "But remember, Martin," he raised a finger and pointed at Martin's collapsed nose and said, "The Holy Maiden is a gift from the gods, not my father."

"Oh, of course, young master!" Martin put away his expression just now, no longer leaned against the wall, but stood up straight.

Seeing Martin's appearance, Master Fitwen nodded with satisfaction. He glanced at the mercenaries with a little disdain. Of course, those mercenaries did not respond to any good expressions and turned around and walked away. "What a bunch of rude guys," After the mercenaries walked away, Master Fitwen said coldly, "After I inherit my father's position, I will drive all the mercenaries out of Lengshi Town." After that, he turned around and looked at Alu, "Good boy Alu! Get me a cloak!"

"Yes, young master." Aru replied stiffly. It was such a perverted person who wanted to marry Hemi. When Aru thought of this, he felt itchy. At his age, Fitwin was also a tall and strong guy. He often went to the military camp to fight and compete with the soldiers. Sir Via was very proud of it. Moreover, Fitwin was not as fat as his father, he was getting stronger day by day.

But even so, it cannot change the outcome of the Battle of the Spear Hunting Hall. Maybe he should draw his "heroic performance" into a tapestry to hang it. Alu thought gloomyly. After taking off the thick cloak hanging on the wall on the right side of the fireplace, Alu turned around and walked towards Master Fitwen. "You'd better hurry up next time." Master Fitwen avoided the cloak from Alu's hand and put it on himself, "I don't know why my father asked you to come to this position..."

Young Master Fitwen suddenly remembered something. He turned his head and stared at Alu's face for a while, which made Alu feel uncomfortable. "I remember, you are from Lengxi Town?" Young Master Fitwen showed a surprised expression.

"Yes, young master." Alu replied. This question has been asked many times before, but it has never made Alu feel angry this time.

At this time, Master Fitwen nodded as if he had understood something. "Good boy," Master Fitwen patted Aru on the shoulder, then turned around and walked towards the door, "Remember to take the weapon, there are more and more mercenaries in the town these days."

Alu and Martin followed Master Fitwen. When passing the table in front of the door, Alu and Martin both picked up the guys on it: a black iron rod with round-headed tacks embedded on it, heavy but fatal, and then a crossbow and a wide dagger. After bringing three weapons, the two followed Master Fitwen out of the inner hall of the Jump Hunting Hall and walked out of the Jump Hunting Hall.

After the battle two days ago, there were many cut marks on the walls in the Juezha Hall, a lot of cracks on the floor, and mud and blood were stained everywhere. Especially the people killed by the mercenary who wielded the big sword were cut in half, causing the smell of blood everywhere, and even now, it can be smelled. That guy is really strong, Aru thought, maybe I can become that person in the future.

Then he stepped on Fitwin under his feet. Aru thought hatefully.

The servants came and went in a hurry. They were decorating tomorrow's wedding banquet. They spent the whole morning cleaning up the blood stains in the spear hunting hall, repairing the floors and walls, and cleaning them with blood stained tapestries. It is almost dusk, but they are still busy setting up the wedding banquet. They stepped on the cleaned and re-painted the floors with herbs and dried straws. The floors were rumbling. The long table was covered with thick wool-woven tablecloths, and painted tapestries were hung everywhere. The layout of the lord's seat was more gorgeous than any previous feast.

Just tomorrow, Aru watched the servants come and go, and just tomorrow, the wedding banquet was about to begin, and that Hemi would...

"I'm going to see my bride." Master Fitwin announced, so he took the lead out of the hall, and Martin and Aru hurriedly followed.

The sun had sunk into the mountains to the west. From the location of the Jue Hunting Hall, you could see that the orange-red fire ball slowly sank into the gray-white peaks. Half of the sky was dyed warm orange, and many clouds were even pink. However, the sky on the other side seemed so deep and blue. The sky in the north always seemed so empty. Alu felt that this was the farthest place from the canopy of the world tree in the world. The gods could not hear the prayers here. Alu thought, at least they could not hear me.

Thinking of this, Aru began to feel a little melancholy. Maybe I was too ungodly before. The Lord of the stove drove me away from his stove, Aru thought, but he called me back to his other stove. The Lord of the stove, one of the Trinity Lords, the God of Forging, the Lord of the Heroic Spirit Hall and the Master of billions of fires.

When I thought of this, Alu reached out to touch the handle of the iron rod wrapped in leather. Am I a soldier too? But when Lengxi Town was looted, I could only escape without any brainstorm. I should have died there.

When Lengxi Town was looted a year ago, Alu fled to Lengshi Town with the first group of escapees early. They were attacked by snow bandits on the way. Alu desperately left everyone and ran away. He didn't know what happened to the group of people, but Alu had never seen them again in Lengshi Town.

Aru was still a little furry a year ago, but if he was already a man from the North, he would only be fifteen years old this year. However, he had already followed Sir Via's team to hunt down the snow bandits several times, and he had killed several of them himself. But even so, every night, Aru could still hear the crying and begging for mercy by the townsmen.

Aru followed Master Fitwen to the burned residential street, and Martin whistled beside him. Several guards greeted him when they saw Master Fitwen coming. They were digging out a frozen corpse from the snow, and many corpses were placed layer by layer on the cart next to them. A big black and white dog sat next to them, sticking out his tongue. "Have you not finished dealing with it yet?" Master Fitwen looked at the cart with disgust, "I thought it was time to deal with it this morning."

"We thought it was like this," the guard rubbed his nose that was red from cold, "but just now the dog dug out two more bodies for me," the big dog barked twice after hearing it, and its name was "Good Dog". "Or we would have to wait until the snow melts in spring before we can find these poor guys."

When Master Fitwen heard this, he smiled. He reached out to touch the head of the "good dog", "Good job, good boy! I'll appreciate your bones with flesh at night!" After saying that, Master Fitwen laughed and left the burned street and came to the market. The situation here was even worse. The snow was filled with potholes. The excavation work here has been going on for two days. By now, the deceased have basically been found, and some of the corpses have been crushed under the collapsed ruins. In this way, they can only be dug out tomorrow spring.

When he walked through the market, Alu could still smell the burnt smell. When he left Lengxi Town, he saw the smoke columns rising from Lengxi Town from afar. Even though it was far apart, Alu still smelled the burnt smell, which made Alu remember it in his heart.

While walking, Master Fitwen complained about the bumpy snow, "They should flatten the snow, a bunch of waste!" Master Fitwen walked in front of him cursingly, and Martin's whistle changed into a song.

After a while, they came to the door of the old cemetery. The sudden snow and snow caused almost half of the tombstones on the slope to be buried by snow. The old gravekeeper's house was also burned into a pile of coke, and was buried by snow at this moment, which made Alu feel sad. He used to come here, and the old man treated him well. The old man's son died in front of Alu, but Alu remembers how he died, was killed by an axe? Or was he hit by the snow bandit's cold arrow? Too many people died in front of Alu, but Alu survived.

Looking up again, Alu saw that it was the hillside. There was originally a row of wooden tombstones there. I heard that there were empty tombs underneath, and no one was buried below. Because the new cemetery in Lengshi Town was outside the walls of the town, there was a cold place. In the past six months, the snow bandits became more and more unrestrained. Even the gravekeepers moved away from there, and the residents of the town did not dare to go there to pay tribute to the dead. So the old man erected a row of wooden tombstones on this empty hillside. "So they can come here to pay tribute to the dead for the time being. When Sir Via cleaned up the snow bandits, they can go to the cemetery there again." He said with a shovel.

Alu planted a small white flower in front of a tombstone. It was dug by Alu when he returned to the ruins of Lengxi Town. The small white flower was swaying slightly with the cold wind. Alu dug it out with tears, put it carefully in his armor, and brought it back.

Xiaohua must have been frozen to death now. Aru was full of bitterness.

Alu followed Master Fitwen in a daze and walked down the slope with Martin. Going further ahead was the Church Square, which had been cleaned up long ago. The guards guards were guarding the side door. The one that fell had been moved away, and the other side was still there, as if they were preparing to rebuild a stronger one after the wedding. Before that, the guards were arranged to take turns to take charge. Alu couldn't help but feel glad that he had become Master Fitwen's personal guard. If he was still a guard, he might have to go there to stand guard.

The dome of the church is still very dangerous now, and the craftsmen are trying their best to repair it. Aru heard that half of it has been completed, and half of the dome has no tiles. Every night when snowflakes fall, they will fall directly into the church.

Looking at the cathedral from afar, the old nun dean also died. Alu began to feel a little numb. She was a good person and kind to everyone, which reminded Alu of her grandmother who had long died. Why did there be good people die? Alu thought, so they walked downhill and came to the edge of the church square. Alu saw several people walking out of the church square far away. Alu narrowed his eyes and felt a little familiar.

The snow on the church square was extremely thick. The craftsmen dug a three-way entrance in the snow, one road leading to the side door, one road leading to the town, and one road leading to the cathedral. The snow on both sides of the snow road had accumulated above the waist, and only the snow road dug by the craftsmen in the middle could make people feel good.

When he reached the three-way intersection in the snow, the group of people met Alu and the other. Only then did Alu see clearly the people, two strong men: one was a strong barbarian, the other was a priest wearing a white robe and a white hat and a hammer on his waist; and the other was a woman with a longbow on her back and hiding in a cloak... Alu frowned. Was that woman so short at that time? The strong barbarian man carrying a giant axe walked in front, and the priest and the woman were walking behind. After seeing Master Fitwen, they nodded as greetings.

Young Master Fitwen waved his hand impatiently and frowned and looked elsewhere. After the Battle of the Spear Hunting Hall two days ago, he no longer liked all the mercenaries.

The strong barbarian man nodded to Alu and greeted him. Alu nodded in response. At this time, the woman seemed to suddenly step on the air and rushed forward. She couldn't help but scream in surprise, "Ah!" The priest quickly supported her, "Thank you..." The woman wanted to thank her, but the priest stopped her, "Shh, don't talk. Just keep moving forward." The priest's expression was very serious, unlike when Alu saw her last time. At that time, he thought this white-bearded uncle was quite approachable.

However... Aru looked at the short woman in confusion. The longbow on her body seemed to be inconsistent with her, and her voice... was so familiar.

Just when Aru was puzzled, he had already followed Master Fitwen to the door of the cathedral. "You can watch me here, don't let anyone else come in! Don't worry about any sound when you hear it!" Master Fitwen ordered viciously, and then pushed open the church door and walked in.

This guy, Aru gritted his teeth. If Hemi... Aru suddenly was stunned. Hemi? He suddenly turned his head. After meeting them, the three people did not go to the road in the town, but to the road in the side door. As soon as Aru saw their shadows clearly, they saw them disappear at the side door.

Alu rushed down the stairs and saw another person walking in the distance. He was coming from the direction of the town, limping. Because the sun had set, Alu couldn't see his face very clearly. And Alu was more concerned about Hemi's safety at this moment.

"Hey! Boy! Where are you going?!" Martin yelled behind Aru, but Aru didn't care about this at all. He pulled out the iron rod from his waist and followed the footsteps of those people.

When he rushed to the fork in the road, Alu almost passed by the limping man. As soon as he walked over, Alu suddenly stopped his feet. Joel... Uncle?! Alu widened his eyes, but he just shook his eyes and saw the human face. At this moment, the man was walking towards the direction of the cathedral. The hair on his head was brown and golden curly, and Uncle Joel's hair was...

Alu couldn't remember clearly, he could no longer remember many people's faces.

Alu gritted his teeth and couldn't care so much at this moment. He rushed towards the side door. When he arrived at the door, the guards looked at him with surprise, "Isn't this Alu? What's wrong?" The two people guarding the gate today were Alu's acquaintances, "Why are you here? Don't you have to follow that young master?"

"Shh, whisper, Alu is now the young master's personal guard! Be careful that he breaks your nose!" Another guard said with a laugh.

Alu gasped, ignoring the jokes of his former friends, "Where did those mercenaries just now?" Alu asked with a serious expression, both guards were stunned.

"Uh, I've gone outside... I said I won't come back today, so we let it go." The guard said nervously, "What happened?"

Alu gritted his teeth and said nothing, rushed out without saying anything, and the two guards did not stop him. When he came to the woods outside the side door, Alu began to track the people along the footprints of the dirty snow. Alu found that since he left the door, the footprints changed from three people to two people. Hemi was unable to walk so fast in this kind of place because of his eyes. It was probably because they had put him on his back or carried him on.

Instead of walking on the main road, they entered the path among the woods, where there was less snow. The deeper they went, there were only mud and leaves. Alu looked for their traces in the bushes, and his face and clothes were scratched by thorns. Just as Alu almost gave up, he heard the sound of talking from the bushes in the distance, but he couldn't hear it clearly.

Alu held his breath and touched it carefully. He pulled open the grass and finally saw the people before. At this moment, they were under a big banyan tree, and several horses were tied to the trunk next to it. The short woman's hood was also taken off, revealing her snow-gray curly hair, Hemi!

Alu held the iron rod tightly and gritted his teeth to rush out, but suddenly felt a chill in his chest. He lowered his head, and a scarlet sword pierced his chest, and the cold began to spread from his chest to his whole body.

No...Himi...Aru wanted to look back at the person behind him, but the man stepped on his back and kicked him to the ground. The straight sword also pulled away from Aru's body. Aru opened his eyes wide, but there was only darkness in front of him.

Hemi...Aru's last touch disappeared from his fingertips, and the last thing he felt was the warmth of blood gushing out from his chest.
Chapter completed!