Chapter 87 Waiting for your midnight
"The Golden Dog Caravan has never been to White Horse Town." Lanley's eyes avoided Dagon and stared at the mashed potato steak on the table. She said in a gentle and more convincing tone: "If the caravan comes to the town, I am the sheriff, I will definitely know."
"Didn't come to this side? The Golden Dog Chamber of Commerce is so cunning." Dagon rubbed his stomach, moved the plate to his face, and picked up the knife and fork with both hands. "I'm hungry, so I started eating. Who... Merlin, right? You eat too. And Lanli."
"I... wait a moment to eat." Lanli bit her lower lip and then leaned forward. A light scent of jasmine mixed with alcohol floated into Dagon's nose. "Are you sure it's the Golden Dog Caravan?"
"Yeah!" Dagon nodded, his knife cut through the meat chops, rubbed against the pottery tray, making a squeaking sound. "It's them, that's right. The caravan and I have been together for a while and we only parted after the heavy rain. Alas, why did the good people become liars?"
"Since you are so sure, I'll find it for you." Lanli pushed open the plate and asked the hotel owner to bring paper and pen. "Dagon, what did you lose when you write? I can help you see if someone is selling the stolen goods. Maybe there will be clues."
"That's all." Dagon wiped his mouth, his hands, took the quill, and carefully wrote his parcel and the items on paper.
While he was making the list, Lanley began to eat her own food. After only a few bites, she felt that it had no taste and no appetite. Lord Borge recently caught a gang called the Chamber of Commerce, which seemed to be called Golden Dog. Those people were locked in the prison where she was responsible, and things were piled in the stables of the lord's mansion.
Lanley asked Borge why she was not called when she was arresting the robber.
Borge sighed, shook his head, and said, "We are going to pick up people, but I didn't expect that a few brothers... my servants were killed by robbers, and we took these people back temporarily. As for why we didn't inform you, it was because we didn't know in advance."
Immediately afterwards, his tone became stern: "Lanli, it is your responsibility to appear around the town. Don't forget that the task assessment of the Elf Governor is to clean up the bandits! The recently arrested people do not need to be tried before they are locked up, block their mouths, and don't let them speak out. I feel that someone in the town may collude with these bandits, so you can focus on this matter first."
Looking at Dagon, Lanley thought a lot: Will he be a member of the robbers? Is he colluding with the robbers? Perhaps those "robbers" are just liars?
After a while, Dagon finished writing the list for her. The things on the list were all from Dagon, one item was not too much, one was quite a lot, it was complete and real. Because of the truth, Dagon was very confident after finishing writing it and handed it to Lan Li directly.
"That's all, it should be true, but the liar may have touched my stuff, and it is possible that there is a slight deviation." Dagon said to Lanley: "My name is on my pot, which was passed down from the family. Although it is not an expensive thing, it is very memorable to me."
"I will help you see, just wait for the news." Lan Li took the note, put it away carefully, and then stood up. The chair fell behind her and slammed on the floor with a bang.
"Broken chair." Lanley twitched the corners of her eyes, and then she left the hotel directly. Behind her, the bald, half-elf man, the naked man with a belt, and a guy who had no chance to describe it at all followed, like four loyal guard dogs.
The hotel door was closed again, and before the creaking sounds on the loose-leaf disappeared, the hall was filled with an active atmosphere again. The owner of Buck used a rag to wipe the sweat from his forehead, and then stared at Dagon and breathed a sigh of relief. Then his eyes looked at the bottle, and the meaning was self-evident.
"This is quite expensive," Dagon thought for a while and said, "But I've bought it, just drink it like that. It's indeed a good wine."
"Uh, that's fine. If you want to refund, I can ask you more money."
"Then you're at a loss, you'd better not want it." Dagon smiled, the hotel owner's heart was bleeding.
The wine was not thirty gold coins at all, but one hundred and fifty gold coins per bottle. Lan Li was there just now, and he didn't dare to report the real price so that the group of robbers knew that there were many expensive wines here, and thought that the hotel was very rich, and perhaps the little bit of stable taxes could not guarantee his safe operation. Thirty gold coins were far from enough, so how could he not feel sorry for it?
At night, Lati covered the quilt and hugged the pillow, and curled up in the corner of the bed like a kitten, while Dagon was awakened by the star helmet. Someone was walking towards his room with very light footsteps, but the bear lizard had good hearing and smell, so he still found this person.
Dagon quietly stood up and took out a dagger from under the pillow. This dagger was short and not a real weapon. It was more responsible for cutting food and other tools. The hunting axe leaned against the wall, but the hotel room was relatively small and was not suitable for the hunting axe to display its power. The short broadsword was still in the sheath, so it was inevitable that there would be a sound when it was pulled out.
His hand-to-hand combat ability, especially his wrestling martial arts, is no less than the use of weapons. For weapons masters, no matter which type of students, swords and shields, double weapons or shooters, hand-to-hand combat ability is essential. The body is the initial and final weapon, and it poses a threat to all enemies. How can you not learn it?
If it were other Jiangu people here, they might have alarmed the enemy, but Dagon was surprisingly light. This was thanks to his unremitting practice and Tormond's teaching according to his aptitude. Dagon hid on the side of the door of the house, listened quietly, and confirmed that the person coming was outside the door and was about to open the door, and was definitely not the fat hotel owner.
He suddenly opened the door, then flashed out half of his body and grabbed it with his hands. Relying on the larger and stronger waist and abdominal muscles of the Jiangu people, Dagon fell on the ground in the future.
As we all know, the dwarf is low and heavy, and the lower plate is stable, so it is difficult to be thrown or bumped away. However, when the dwarf takes this advantage to thrown or bump into others, he can often burst out with greater power. So the person outside the door is caught, tripped, turned over, and fell to the ground, with almost no ability to resist. Dagon rode on it, pressed his legs against his waist, pressed his left arm against the man's chest, and pressed the dagger against his neck - then he felt something was wrong.
A pair of red eyes looked at him, it was Lanli. "Do you like being on the ground? I think it would be better on the bed."
Dagon looked left and right and left. Lan Li came alone. There was no one else in the empty corridor, and there was a light-slim oil lamp on the ground. At this time, Lati turned over and sobbed twice, as if she was crying in a dream. She didn't wake up just now, and she didn't wake up.
"I didn't expect you to come." Dagon removed the dagger and his arm, but grabbed Lanley's right hand. Through the thin clothes, Dagon's fingers touched the hard object. "Is it a wrist sheath inside?"
"Yes. If I were here to kill you, I would be able to cut you several times just now." Lan Li lowered her head and looked at it, then said, "I thought you didn't understand it. It turns out that you understand everything and just pretend to be stupid."
"What's the meaning?"
“About my quilt is empty.”
"Did you bring the cup? Didn't you break it? Is it still drinking so late?" Dagon got up from Lanley, then reached out to try to pull her up.
Lan Li slapped Dagon's hand with a snap, and stood up with a carp.
"I've heard of the dullness of dwarves before, but it's the first time I've seen hypocrisy." Lanli shook her head and rubbed her chest and abdomen to relieve the pain. "Can you bring the light over? You dwarves can see things clearly in the dark, but I can't."
"You can tell me how you are going to come in just now?"
"I have the keys for you, Buck." Lanley pointed to the floor outside the house, where there was indeed a bunch of keys. "I originally wanted to come in and give you a surprise, but I didn't expect you to find out. Alas, the sheriff can't do sneaky things. But then again, I clearly invited me, and someone didn't understand, so what can I do?"
Dagon scratched his head for no reason, walked outside the house to pick up the keys and lanterns. At this time, Lanli was already sitting on his bed. Put the lanterns on the table, adjust them slightly, and use clothes to cover half of the light to avoid disturbing Lati.
"What are you going to do with me? Tell me the serious business, but be quiet, there are still people sleeping."
"Who doesn't want to sleep?" Lanley said, "Dagon, do you have a wife?"
Dagon shook his head and said, "No. What are you asking about this?"
"It's easy to understand if there isn't," said Lanley. "Well... I seem to have found the things you lost. They were discovered by us as stolen goods."
"That's great." Dagon said with a smile: "Where are the Golden Dog Chamber? Have you caught them?"
"It's hard to say, and I have reason to keep it secret, and I can't tell you even if I know." Lanley said: "But you need a condition to get your stuff back."
"That's my thing."
"I found it for you." Lanley said: "Tonight is not good. You will go to the Yuechi Horse Farm west of the town at midnight tomorrow night, where there is a red stable. There is a gentle slope behind the stable, and I will wait for you. If you are willing to come, I will return your things to you."
"So troublesome? Why do you have to go outside the town at midnight?"
"I originally wanted to give it to you tonight, but I lost my face and my mood was completely ruined by you. As for you, you have to pay me a penalty and let me win. I will feel better after I win, and that will be good for you."
"It seems I have no room for rejection."
"Yes." Lanley nodded: "I am the sheriff here. I can let more than a dozen knights rush in at any time and press you to the ground and beat you. Although your strength is good, you are not that strong yet, let alone you are not my opponent."
"So just now?"
"I just gave in to you, and I look down on those people who are completely unable to threaten me." Lan Li flirted with her hair, smiled brightly, and said, "I'll wait for you, tomorrow midnight."
"When is it now? Are you talking about the next midnight?"
Chapter completed!