After traveling through half of the outer city of Salyuhi, hurrying and walking slowly, Lan Yu and Alvin finally arrived at the "Old River" restaurant.
The store is also old. Of course, the store's facade is not as good as "Luzheng". It has not been renovated for many years. The brown paint surface has been exposed to the sun and rain for a long time and is full of cracks. But since the name is "Jiuhe", it naturally fits the occasion.
Lan Yu pretended not to see the doubt and disgust in Alvin's eyes and pushed the door open directly. Alvin had no choice but to follow in.
As soon as Fang entered the store, Alvin felt a different scene. Unexpectedly, business in this restaurant was so busy that it was so crowded that there were almost no seats left.
The moment the two people opened the door and came in, they attracted a lot of strange looks.
"They look like two young nobles having a secret meeting." Everyone thought in confusion, "Why else would they come here to eat?"
The main reason is that Lan Yu is too eye-catching, and the diners still look up at her from time to time.
Lan Yu didn't care about everyone's gaze, holding Alvin's sleeve and walked inside, found a window seat that had just been vacated and occupied it immediately.
"What do you two want to eat?" The young waitress came up to us with a smile. She had a tall figure, high cheekbones, and the freckles on her cheeks were covered by the plateau blush. Alvin thought that this must be a girl from Zham Plateau.
"Two bowls of the signature old river noodles, a plate of Zamu beef with Haldi sauce, a cage of carved fried pastry, and a cage of maple soup dumplings." Lan Yu ordered breakfast without even looking at the menu on the table. .
Alvin was full of curiosity about this store. He looked carefully at the unscrupulous decoration inside. Some of the oil stains on the tabletop had penetrated into the original wood grain boards and turned black. He looked at the tables of guests enjoying their meals, and the drawers of steamers on the table were steaming to the ceiling.
There were some good-looking diners who were still looking at Alvin's table. After all, few nobles would visit this store.
"Wow, what kind of store is this?" Alvin couldn't help but frowned and sighed.
Lan Yu looked at him funny, "You must know that eating well doesn't mean it's expensive."
Alvin nodded in agreement.
But after actually eating it, Alvin could understand why Lan Yu went to such trouble to eat here. Even a person with a picky tongue like him couldn't help but taste it carefully.
"Pork fat should be added to the noodle soup, otherwise why would it be so fragrant?" Alvin smelled it carefully.
"Well, hurry up and mix the noodles." Lan Yu didn't even look up at him, but used chopsticks to pick up the thin noodles and stir them repeatedly until every noodle was completely coated with the sauce at the bottom of the bowl.
Alvin was not in a hurry to mix the noodles. He snapped his fingers and summoned the "Plateau Red" from earlier and asked her for a plate of sugar. The waitress glanced at Alvin with wide eyes, confirmed again, and then went to the kitchen in the back.
"Do you eat so sweetly?" Lan Yu was quite curious.
Alvin smiled, poured all the sugar from the small dish brought by the waitress into the noodles, and stirred it repeatedly.
"Of course you need to add some sugar to the noodles," Alvin smiled and took a big bite with his chopsticks. "Well, the dough is very fragrant and the soup is also good."
"Do you really want to add sugar?" Lan Yu looked at Alvin doubtfully and took a chopstick from his bowl without any scruples. Alvin was surprised and looked quite heartbroken.
In the eyes of outsiders, the relationship between this pair of young people should be particularly good.
Lan Yu tasted it and said with a smile, "It seems good. I didn't expect you to be quite good at eating it. Why haven't I heard of adding sugar?"
"Because I have a tricky tongue." Alvin said with a smile, picked up a piece of beef and dipped it in the sauce to eat.
"Zam's beef all tastes like this. It's nothing special. What is this Haldi sauce? It seems different from ordinary beef dipping sauce." Alvin tasted it carefully, and then he smelled it again. "Is there any special spice in this sauce?"
"You can taste it? Your tongue is good." Lan Yu said in surprise.
"It smells different." Alvin picked up another piece of beef and dipped it in the sauce to eat.
"This is Ganru root. Haldi is rich in Ganru, you know, right?" Lan Yu explained to him.
"Oh, Ganru, isn't that used to make magic potions? Can its roots also be used to make spices?" Alvin asked curiously.
Alvin remembered that Haldi was a city near the sea in southern Maine. No wonder Lan Yu knew Ganru's material very well.
"I feel that in addition to your lack of magic knowledge, your understanding of magic materials is also very shallow." Lan Yu sighed, and nodded as if she agreed with herself.
Alvin was furious.
"But it's strange. I've seen someone selling Ganru root. Are spices like Ganru root sold in the city? I don't think I've seen it before." Alvin frowned and thought.
"If they don't sell it in the city, then the owner of this store is quite interesting." Alvin thought to himself, "I would rather spend money to buy spices from Maine than decorate the front of this store."
"Someone is fighting outside." At this moment, there was a commotion in the store. Some diners had already ran outside to watch the excitement. Some of the bills had not yet been settled, and the anxious shopkeeper also chased them out.
Alvin wiped the moisture from the windowpane with his palm so he could see what was happening on the street outside.
In the outer city of Saliushi, the public security is not comparable to that of the inner city. There are city defense teams patrolling several blocks around Phoenix Street in the outer city, but even if someone is killed in this remote block, no one may take care of it. , the City Defense Department basically turned a blind eye to this kind of thing.
I saw a strong man with half exposed shoulders and a young man facing off in the street. Behind the young man was a little girl hiding. From a distance, the girl's neck, wrists, and ankles were glowing with black light.
The strong man's half-exposed huge arm, with its exaggerated muscle shape, told him that this arm was no longer an ordinary arm. It was simply a chicken leg. The dense black runes on the "chicken leg" shone brightly, and it was obvious that this arm had been completely transformed by magic. Otherwise, in such a cold weather, it would be strange to not freeze to death if your arms are exposed.
The young man jumped to the top of the strong man's head. His fists were glowing with golden light, and he punched the strong man's "chicken legs" wildly. He cursed and looked very ferocious.
The strong man didn't pay attention at all, he simply raised his arms in defense without taking a step back.
The young man obviously didn't expect the opponent's arm to be so powerful. He glanced at it hesitantly. At this moment, the strong man exerted his strength with both feet, raised his huge arm and slapped it with his backhand. People present were completely imagining No one as strong and tall as him could be so fast, and obviously the young man didn't expect it.
When he saw the rough palm about to slap him, the young man relied on his long memory of fighting and crossed his arms to resist. However, the difference in strength was too great. When the young man received the palm, he immediately flew away. .
With a "bang" sound, the young man had leapt across a street in the next moment, his limbs facing forward, and his whole body directly embedded in the wooden railing at the bottom of the glass display window of the "Old River". Without bias, it happened to be Alvin's table.
Fortunately, Alvin and Lan Yu also reacted surprisingly quickly. The moment the person flew over, Alvin picked up his bowl of noodles and a plate of beef, and Lan Yu quickly used his eyes and hands to focus on the remaining meals on the table. A levitating spell. So only the poor dining table was suddenly knocked out by the young man, and then hit the stronger counter, completely falling apart in the aisle.
Alvin held the noodles in one hand and the beef in the other. He lowered his head and looked at the hole in the wooden wall with the young man embedded in it. "Wow, this is too exciting. I won't die." ?”
Alvin raised his head and glanced at Lan Yu inquiringly.
"Well, it seems that we can't finish this meal." Lan Yu sighed secretly, stopped the magic in her hand, and several plates of food were ruthlessly thrown to the ground. She squatted down and tilted her head to take a closer look. The young man found that the other party was still breathing.
"He probably won't die. He just broke a few ribs. Did he suffer some internal injuries? His face was also swollen." Lan You glanced at the man who had fainted with his head hanging down.
Alvin looked at the young man's face and saw that it was really swollen. There were obvious bruises on his cheeks, and his cheekbones and forehead were also swollen. The lips should be turned up when they should be turned up, and they should be turned down when they should be turned down, but the curvature is just a little too big. The whole face was swollen and looked a little joyful.
Didn't he just block it with his arm? Why was his face hit like this? Alvin couldn't help but be frightened by the strong man's magically strengthened arm.
"Brother Xia Ye, brother Xia Ye..." The little girl standing behind the young man was frightened by the slap at first. Then she realized what she was doing, ran to the young man's side, and knelt down. The ground, shouting loudly.
Through the glass, Alvin could see clearly that what was around the little girl's neck was a crudely made copper collar, with black runes shining brightly on it. There are also copper bracelets and anklets on the hands and ankles, which are naturally engraved with black runes.
It turns out that this girl has been indentured into slavery and is a female slave, Alvin thought as he looked at the copper rings. Once a slave contract is signed, the girl becomes the owner's private property. Unless she voluntarily terminates it, no one can do anything about it.
"Brother Xia Ye...Brother Xia Ye, I told you, you don't need to worry about me." The little girl looked at the seriously injured young man and did not dare to move him, so she could only choke and sob intermittently.
The strong man didn't expect that he would slap the opponent like this with one palm, so he hesitated for a moment before walking towards the little girl.
The young man didn't know whether it was because he heard the footsteps of the strong man or the call of the little girl, and he woke up faintly.
"I won't let you take her away... Don't even think about it." The man named Xia Ye spoke with difficulty, struggling to hold up his upper body with both hands and move out bit by bit.
"Don't fight him again, don't fight him anymore, brother Xia Ye, you have done enough for me..." the little girl begged while crying.
Xia Ye glanced at the little girl tenderly, patted her hand and told her not to worry, then leaned against the glass window, straightened up little by little and stood up, glaring fiercely at the strong man who walked in front of him.
"No..." the little girl screamed, opened her arms to block Xia Ye, and shouted loudly at the strong man with a cry in her voice, "I'll go with you... I'll go with you, don't fight anymore, no more If you hit him, he will die..."
Xia Ye's face was livid, and of course he couldn't show any other color. He wanted to push the little girl in front of him with his hand, but when he raised his hand, he gasped heavily.
The little girl turned around, held the man's extended hand, and looked at him with tears in her eyes, "Don't hit me anymore... Don't... Brother Xia Ye, don't worry about me anymore... You've done enough." ”
"I promised... I must protect you..." Xia Ye gasped, pulling up the only corner of his mouth that could move, smiling at the little girl comfortingly, and then pushed the little girl away. The girl raised her eyes and looked at the strong man coldly, as if she wanted to fight him desperately.
Some people gathered on the street to watch, and many people in the store also gathered around Alvin's table. After hearing what the young man said, and watching the little girl's face turn pale as she cried, everyone couldn't help but look sad. Moved.
"Look at him like this, should I give him some beef with chopsticks?" Alvin whispered into Lan Yu's ear.
Lan Yu, who had a calm expression at first, almost laughed out loud after hearing this. Fortunately, she covered her mouth quickly, and finally gave Alvin an annoyed look.
After the strong man came over, he was not in a hurry to get angry, and his face was calm. He looked at the little girl next to him, and then at the young man leaning against the window glass.
"She is already my slave." The strong man looked at Xia Ye expressionlessly, as if he didn't understand his unreasonable entanglement.
This is why everyone stood by and watched. After all, this little girl was legally their private property, and the strong man didn't do anything excessive.
"I don't care so much... Anyway, I won't just watch you take her away." After saying this, the man named Xia Ye took a posture, ready to fight again at any time.
This seemed a bit unreasonable, and many people present shook their heads.
The strong man ignored him and walked straight to the little girl. He stretched out his huge arms and picked her up and threw her directly onto his shoulders. The little girl screamed "Ah", obviously she hadn't reacted yet.
"You..." For a moment, snot and tears poured down her nose, and she was so angry that she couldn't speak. The little girl had to bend her waist and lie on her stomach, with her upper body standing upside down. She slapped the strong man's back with both hands, trying desperately to straighten herself up. Come. The strong man was afraid that she would fall off during the tossing, but luckily he held her thigh with his other hand.
Gee, what a soft waist, Alvin thought to himself.
"Beast, put her down quickly." The young man didn't want to see the little girl being bullied, so he yelled and squeezed out the last of his strength and attacked the strong man.
The strong man was obviously tired of it, so he punched with his backhand. He naturally knew that if he used all his strength, the opponent might be killed on the spot, so of course he withdrew his strength.
Even so, the young man couldn't bear the punch. He was knocked straight up and knocked away again. He was directly stuffed into the hole just now. Before he could stop the momentum, he knocked over several onlookers in the store who were watching the excitement before he was thrown away. stopped. This time the window glass was also broken into pieces.
The strong man turned around and hugged the little girl without even looking at her, and walked out of the crowd. The little girl lay on her back and desperately raised her head to look at the direction where the young man had fainted. She anxiously called out, "Brother Xia Ye...Xia". Before she could finish her two shouts, she saw two hands holding the collar tightly. It's like I can't breathe.
Alvin knew that it was the strong man who used the slave contract to tighten her collar. He had been in various mansions for so long, so of course he knew some heretical tricks.
The shopkeeper of "Jiuhe" glanced at the strong man's leaving figure, then looked at the weird giant arm, shuddered, and gave up the idea of asking the other party for compensation for damaging the store.
Lan Yu glanced at the young man who had passed out and cast a high-level healing spell with his hand. Although the injuries to the face and ribs cannot be cured, the damage to the internal organs should be under control.
After a while, Xia Ye slowly woke up again.
Alvin looked shocked and secretly exclaimed, "This person's body is in great shape. Can he wake up again?"
"You...don't want to see him get beaten away again, right?" Alvin supported Lan Yu with his elbow, covered his mouth and joked softly with Lan Yu.
Lan Yu couldn't help but smile bitterly after thinking about it.
The people who were watching the excitement dispersed because they saw Xia Ye getting up again. We don’t have so much emotion to waste, so we have to do whatever we need to do.
It was obvious that Xia Ye was full of anger and unwillingness, and he still wanted to get up again, but he couldn't stand up anymore, so he had to slap the floor several times to vent his anger.
Alvin looked at him like this, sighed, walked to him and patted his shoulder, "Have you...had breakfast? If not, do you want to eat some together? You don't want to die. I was anxious for a while..."
After hearing this, Xia Ye looked at Alvin with a strange expression, looking at the young noble in front of him like a madman.
Lan Yu thought Alvin's words were funny, but it was like a needle that pricked Xia Ye until the air leaked out.
As Lan Yu said, after a while, Xia Ye still lowered his head and said nothing.
Alvin waved to the previous waitress, ordered a few more dishes, and then picked another seat for Lan Yu to sit on first. Due to such a fuss, there were actually many empty seats in the store.
"Can you still get up?" Alvin looked at Xia Ye, who was sitting on the ground dejectedly, and did not intend to help him.
"Who are you... Why do you want to interfere with my business?" Xia Ye raised his head and looked at Alvin and asked in a bad tone.
"Oh, it seems you're not hungry, so forget it..." Alvin ignored him and went straight to sit opposite Lan Yu.
Xia Ye was originally sitting there lamenting the despair of life, but when he saw Alvin and Lan Yu sitting not far away, chatting and laughing, he reluctantly propped himself up, and walked to Alvin while holding on to the dining table along the way.
Lan Yu glanced at Xia Ye, but Alvin didn't even look at him. He sat inside and left a seat for him. Xia Ye also sat down next to Alvin unceremoniously, but he couldn't stand up either.
At this time, the waitress brought the new breakfast order. These baskets of snacks were still steaming with warmth. Xia Ye let the heat smoke on his swollen face, feeling mixed emotions in his heart. He was stopped by Alvin again just when he wanted to move his chopsticks.
"Hey, I'm not giving you free food. Tell us the story about you and the girl just now." Alvin tilted his cheek and glanced at Xia Ye, "You can only eat after telling us."
"You nobles are really interesting? Don't you hear too many tragic stories about poor people?" Xia Ye laughed bitterly and looked at Alvin with a sarcastic expression.
Alvin curled his lips and said nonchalantly: "Tell me."
Xia Ye put down his chopsticks and his face darkened.
"The girl just now is named Ti Ni. She lives next door to me and she grew up with me." Xia Ye sighed, "Her father was arrested by the Guangzheng Sect a while ago. I heard that the charge was blasphemy. I couldn’t figure out what blasphemy was. Later, in order to raise money to redeem her father, Ti Ni sold the property, but the money was still not enough, so she sold it herself..."
"As a result, the redeemed person disappeared within a few days..." Xia Ye couldn't help but laugh bitterly when he said this, his eyes were empty and he didn't know what he was thinking.
Alvin and Lan Yu couldn't help but remain silent when they heard Xia Ye's words.
Blasphemy? Alvin sneered, thinking to himself that there are already countless low-level nobles or ordinary people in this city who have been arrested by the Guangzhengjia on this crime. Those whose families can afford it should spend money to redeem them as soon as possible. fine. If one is imprisoned in the Guangzheng Sect's prison for a period of time, he will probably be useless.
Xia Ye's eyes were a little red, "It's my fault too. I was living in the school preparing for the Pillow Sword Club competition, and I didn't know about these things. I went home to pack my things these days, and then I heard that something happened to her family."
"However, she never told her father that she..." Xia Ye felt that the word "selling oneself" was a bit difficult to say, especially when used on a girl like Ti Ni. "A few days ago, her father felt that his health was not good. , said that Tini was entrusted to me, but, but..."
At this point, Xia Ye closed his eyes and couldn't continue.
"Then... have you asked the strong man just now if he is willing to give up the slave contract?" Alvin asked.
"I must have asked. Although my family is not a noble, I still have some wealth. Their contract came into effect today. I stopped him and asked him if he could give up the slave contract. But no matter how I offered the price, the man just now They just disagreed, so they started fighting." Xia Ye said angrily.
"You don't agree no matter how much you pay?" Alvin asked curiously.
"He looks like he's not interested in money at all." Xia Ye was also quite annoyed.
"Oh, there's nothing we can do about it." Alvin sighed and patted Xia Ye's shoulder. "Life is about missing out and making do. Don't take it too seriously. What seems glamorous is other people's lives."
Lan Marriage couldn't help but burst out laughing when she heard this, "Don't talk about the same old things here. How young are you already telling people life mottos?"
Alvin was a little embarrassed. At this time, he had the urge to strangle Lan Yu.
When Xia Ye heard what Lan Yu said, he couldn't help but laugh at one corner of his mouth. He was originally filled with anger, but for some reason after talking to these two young men, Yu Huo understood a lot. Thinking that I was indeed hungry, I started using my chopsticks.
"You just said that you also wanted to join the Pillow Sword Club? Which academy are you from?" Alvin asked.
"Xie Fuide." Xia Ye said after taking two bites.
Sheffield is one of the few colleges and universities that has no requirements for family background. This college admits students regardless of their background, only their qualifications. Most of these young people who live in outer cities and are capable but have no background come from this college.
"Can you still participate after being beaten like this? You can't even pass the physical examination, right?" Alvin couldn't help but glance at Xia Ye. Judging from his appearance, he probably had a few broken sternum and ribs.
"I just stopped his internal injuries. For external injuries, it's up to him how quickly he recovers." Lan Yu said and glanced at Alvin.
Alvin nodded.
"It's okay. It's not the first time I've been injured. We train very hard in our hospital and get injured often. Don't worry, my body will recover quickly." Xia Ye is very optimistic.
"Okay, then you eat slowly. We're leaving first. I'll see you at Zhenjian then." Alvin stood up with a smile, preparing to go to the front desk to pay.
"Wait a minute... I... don't know your names yet?" Xia Ye stood up and asked. He still had a good impression of these two "good people", and according to Alvin's wishes, they Also participate in the Pillow Sword Club.
"This girl is the daughter of Prince Reza." Alvin introduced with a smile, "As for me, I am a trusted guard who specially accompanies her to have breakfast."
Lan Yu felt funny when she heard this, glared at Alvin and walked out.
Xia Ye was secretly shocked that this outstanding-looking girl indeed came from a distinguished family. However, he felt that this young nobleman who loved to joke was very interesting. Since he would see him again at the pillow sword meeting, he did not ask further questions.
Alvin paid a little more when he checked out, so he treated it as compensation for Xia Ye's "smashing" of the store, which would save him trouble later. But I am quite shy about having money in my pocket, and it still hurts a little bit.
The two of them came out of the "Old River". The sky was very bright, as if all the gloom could be dispelled by the dazzling sunshine.
"Why do you have to listen to his story?" Lan Yu glanced at Alvin curiously.
"Just out of curiosity, what else?" Alvin said with a smile.
Lan Yu smiled and shook her head, crooked her moon and looked at Alvin, thinking to herself, "This person is really interesting."
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Herod, the Patriarch of the Orthodox Church, changed from his usual white burqa to a low-key gray cotton robe, a pair of thick wooden round glasses, and held several poetry classics in his hand, looking like a scholar. He turned a few corners in Leer Alley in the inner city, made sure no one was following him, and then got into an inconspicuous magic materials shop.
The storekeeper raised his eyes and immediately put down what he was doing and asked the young man to look at the store. He personally led the archbishop into the inner room. Seeing that there were three old display cabinets on three sides in the inner room, which actually contained a lot of things, the shopkeeper twisted a scepter lying across it, and the cabinet turned on one side, revealing the entrance to half of the secret room. The shopkeeper wisely stopped outside the door. After the bishop entered the secret room, the door of the machine turned back on its own.
Bishop Herod walked straight in, raised his hand, and the lights on both sides of the secret passage lit up. He walked quickly inside, and at the end of the passage was an old wooden door. The bishop stretched out his index finger, and a white light point flew out from the fingertip. Then, the wooden door touched by the white light point was scattered with bunches of magic turbulence, and then merged into a stream around the door frame, and circled around the door frame. , the door opened.
It was clearly sunny outside, but there was no daylight in this secret room, with only a few magic gas lamps in the four corners of the house providing dim light.
In the center of the secret room is a round tea table of aged pear wood, surrounded by four old coarse cloth sofas. There was an elderly man sitting on a sofa with his back to the door. Hearing the door to the secret room open, he didn't react at all and wasn't in a hurry to stand up.
"Here, sit down," the man sitting on the sofa said calmly without looking back.
Bishop Herod didn't answer him. He took off his gray cotton robe and hung it on the hanger in the corner. He was exposed to the sun while walking on the street, and he was sweating a little. He hurriedly took off his coat as soon as he entered the house.
The bishop took a breath, sat on the sofa next to the man, turned his head and asked, "How are things prepared, my prime minister?"
It turns out that the elderly man in the secret room is actually the prime minister of the empire──Fuller.
Who would have thought that the two people sitting on the sofa, who were the mainstays of the Resa and Yuanyasu factions respectively and who were supposed to be mortal enemies in the political arena, actually communicated secretly.
"Everything is almost ready." Fuller glanced at a small bottle of gray potion on the table.
"What is this?" Herod picked up the potion and looked at it carefully in the dim light, frowning.
"Be careful, don't spill it. This is the juice of Li Chilong's liver." Fuller reminded, with a hint of pride on his lips.
"Le Chilong? Li Chilong from Fusha Valley?" Herod looked at Fuller in confusion, "I heard that the Tingxiao Empire has banned Fusha Valley in the past few years, how can I still get such a thing? "
"You should have heard of the organization Lodai, right?" Fuller turned his head and glanced at Herod, "They got this from them. It's a bit expensive, but it doesn't matter..."
"That killer organization still has this kind of service? I thought they were only responsible for killing people..." Naturally, Herod had heard a little bit about this organization.
"They will accept any job that can make money," Fuller said with a smile, "Of course, as long as they can do it."
"How many runes did it cost for this little dragon liver juice?" Herod raised his eyes and asked.
"Such a small bottle costs five thousand rupees." Fuller said without blinking.
"Hiss" Herod took a breath, "This... I don't know how to kill people, but my ability to kill people is first-rate."
"As long as it works, I don't care about money matters anyway," Fuller said with a wry smile.
Herod nodded and looked at Fuller with squinted eyes, "The juice of this red dragon's liver is very special. It is colorless, tasteless and difficult to detect..."
"Yes, generally the dragon's liver juice has a distinguishable smell. Only this kind can't be detected at all. Use this to make medicine, and the magic medicine is colorless and odorless, so you can't detect it at all." Fuller looked at Xi Lu couldn't help but smile darkly as she held the bottle of liquid between her fingers.
"But Master Piro is also back. He won't notice anything, right?" Herod put down the small bottle in his hand and looked at Fuller suspiciously.
"I didn't expect him to come back." Fuller said that he was also surprised, and then said, "But as long as they can't get real evidence, what can they do? Don't worry, they won't be able to find us. As for As for the Luodai organization, I have already thought of my next move."
Herod frowned and thought for a moment, then nodded.
"I hope my efforts will bring the Lord to come as soon as possible. A mortal like me can only use such despicable means to pave the way for the gods in the heavens..." Fowler sighed and smiled bitterly.
"Don't worry, the Lord's miracles have appeared many times. I saw this with my own eyes in the mountains of Traleda." Herod's eyes were firm and he patted Forler on the shoulder as if to comfort him. "The day the Lord was born. , is the day of redemption we are waiting for.”
"May the Lord bless you." Fowler linked his fingers together, arched his palms, and lowered his head in prayer.
"May the Lord bless you." Herod also connected his fingers and arched his palms.
