The Amber Sword

The guards of the Port Authority of Ambesseur were almost ready to celebrate when the monster whale's vast and shadowy figure disappeared from the sea level. When the Fargo landed, Brando et al. were not subjected to much scrutiny, because our Lord Junean was working on how to write in his report how he bravely defeated the legendary sea monster, not to mention that there was not only one ship entering and leaving the port at that time, and no one would have thought that a sea demon whale was coming to escort the Fargo, the newly arrived three-mast sailboat. Sometimes the truth is closer to a lie, but if someone says that to Junean, the head of the harbour authority must throw him into the sea to feed the shark, and he doesn't want his people to think of him as a fool.

Faraway landed at Pier 14, and Brando saw Sue as he approached the ship. Sue arrived in Ambesseur one step ahead of her father at his request, an almond-colored young girl with a braided head who now manages Toniguer's trade with the outside world and enjoys considerable independence. Brando trusted her and entrusted her with the task while she was in Prague, and now holds almost the entire Tonigal outflow of funds, but the girl came to greet them in a plaid dress similar to the one she had originally worn.

Sue was somewhat surprised when she saw Brando, although in her correspondence with her father, she had already learned of the changes that had taken place over the past year, as well as Brando's identity, and the funds at her disposal to prove the truth of all this, but she couldn't help but look at Brando again.

Brando smiled at her and saw an old acquaintance in Lidenburg who was in a good mood.

The girl was blind to her face, and of course she had not forgotten her relationship with each other. Heard there were a few more girls beside the lord, she would never feel comfortable handing Freya over to such hearty radishes, she would serve Brando purely because of her father.

“Sue!” Roman jumped off the springboard a few steps, grabbed the girl's hand and his eyes glowed: “Thank you so much for the past few months! I heard Uncle Leto say you work late all the time, and he's worried about you!” Little Roman is now in charge of Tonigal's business and economy, and in a sense Sue is her direct report - without that consciousness, of course, Sue cannot ignore it.

The girl glanced at Brando and lowered her head slightly: “Miss Roman. ”

“Come on, you see what Roman doesn't want to say? I can send you a message! ”

Su was made to cry by the businesswoman, so easily she maintained her serious question: “Father, are you all right? ”

“He's fine,” Brando finally found an opportunity to plug in: “As you know in your letter, everything in the territory is on track and the war is over. Though I disagree, your father has now officially changed to a farmer, who has lost a lot of hair for the cultivation of the Mintai area and, like a real old farmer, has thrown my army training program aside. ”

“He planted it before.” Su replied.

“Well, that's back to old business.” Brando replied somewhat playfully.

When Sue thought of her father, her lips curled slightly. But she was dissatisfied with Brando's tone and glanced at him and asked, “What does the Lord want to do first? ”

“Take a break, of course.” Brando replied that it was a big truth, although he had been through the wind for a long time, but came down on the boat for a week and it felt like the ground was shaking. Not to mention the fact that a few of the young men of the White Lion Corps had nothing on board, stepped on solid land and ran aside and threw up. Little Roman wandered around, but he didn't know it.

“I have set foot at the Purple Blossom Inn in the city. But the adults brought a little more people and staying in a hotel was too conspicuous, so I rented the apartment across the street, which was neither safe nor easy to notice. In addition, I bought a farmhouse, which I could use to accommodate if necessary.” Sue glanced at him and replied.

Brando had a slight surprise. He did not expect this young girl to be so capable. She had accomplished the task in the past few months. Brando looked at her honesty and reliability, but did not expect the other party to have the same wit, knowing that they might be in trouble for their trip, and had not arranged the three cunning rabbits beforehand.

“Let's go,” Brando suddenly thinks it's too easy to have a capable man, "do you have a carriage? ”

Sue nodded.

Not only are there carriages, but Sue has ten carriages ready. However, the ten carriages were not parked together, but set off in a few successive shipments, and Brando let his boys into the city first, not for the first time in Ambesseur, although he knew that the young men of the White Lion Regiment from Tonigal countryside must be eager to see the biggest and most prosperous city of Eruin.

The carriage moved from the gates of the pier to the inner city, as trucks transporting aquaculture passed all year round, and the roads were wet and smelled like salty seafood. Most of the buildings on either side of the road are exchanges of sorts, from fur to logs, from gems to metal minerals, as well as works of art, gold and silver utensils, goods from the north and south, where you can't see so many people gathering in one place anywhere south of Ambesseur. These people come from the North, the South, even exotic townships, and Antina even sees some of the Nine Phoenix merchants, mercenaries, adventurers and travellers dressed in different colors, bright and bright, and the people in the car look at them for a moment.

The carriages pass through some tall buildings, and most of the merchants make the exchanges magnificent to show the strength of their businesses. The noble lady and the businesswoman had never seen such a magnificent building before and could not help but exclaim: “Wow, so much for the city hall in Prague. ”

Brando's words to Antittina, which Andrea, the fourteenth bishop of the Temple, once said, 'There is gold and opportunity everywhere’, have fulfilled the world's aspirations for this gigantic harbor, but there are also countless people who lean here without a home, who tend to see only the appearance of light, while ignoring that opportunity is often at the same risk. The carriage passed through the second gate, a magnificent fortress where Brando could not ride the city's expensive carriage the first time he came here, and he still remembered the shock of walking through it.

This is the gateway to Ambethel, not only a well-traded port, but also the naval fortress of the former Jun Acre. The fortress defending this portal was also overwhelmingly repaired, as Ambesseur faced two mountains, almost impossible to accomplish from land, and the only passage was through the sea. The ‘Haiyan Fortress' looked like a standing mountain from the outside, under special architectural requirements, and its lookout was able to observe any vessel within dozens of nautical miles of the sea, so the fortress looked extraordinarily tall - especially on the second reconstruction, when the temple was fitted with a giant sculpture of the King of Fire, the whole looking like a temple in a cloud.

Through this fortress, behind is the famous square avenue of Ambesseur, where the hotel is crowded with luxurious palaces and full of luxurious apartments, many foreign travellers and businessmen have lived here all year round. The locals call it the Golden Square, which is only a small part of the first half of this huge city, but it is the port's most drunken place.

Brando watched the sophisticated figure sculptures and horticultural plants on Square Avenue slowly retreat from the carriage and could not help but create the illusion of a retracement, but it was also a retracement, only slightly different. Now, there's some future scenery that Brando can't see, and when he first came here, it was Ambethel's Flower Festival, and it was much more lively, let alone the players.

“It's beautiful.” Roman lay on the window of the carriage, his chin mumbled against the window, and he was worried that she would not fall over the side wall of the carriage.

“Valhalla is more beautiful in the future.” Brando replied.

“Really?” Roman turns his head - really turns her head, this young lady seems to be lazy without bones, not even her body, her chin flanked by a fulcrum over her little head - and completes this difficult move. She looked at Brando obliquely because she couldn't help it. She looked so cute.

“Of course.”

Brando answered with certainty that he had seen the tree of the world in the rings of the wind and had no doubt about the future of his territory. Besides, it's his city. How could it be worse? Between the conversations, however, the carriage suddenly stopped and some guards appeared outside.

Brando shrugged, thinking that the Port Authority guards had finally reacted to seize the real killer, but saw Sue sitting opposite him shaking his head, indicating that they were not nervous.

“What's going on? ”

“Nothing, I hear the Toquinin lions in the north are stupidly moving, and the temple just keeps people on guard. Ambethel Dragon Snake is mixed up to exclude the delicate disguise of being a businessman from mixing in here with Eluin.” Su faintly said.

Brando remembers that this is true, and the Toquinin Lions have historically become restless since the Black Rose War, but the tribes on the Great Plains themselves have a lot of troubles to solve, so they did not invade Eruin until the first spring of the following year, after dragging their swords. At the beginning of that war, Eruin had not recovered from the civil war, but soon the situation was stabilized by Her Royal Highness the Princess of Regent, who had just taken office, and the players joined the war, which was also a war that laid the prestige of Her Royal Highness.

But it was a year away, and Brando was relieved when he heard it, but he remembered something else and couldn't help but ask: “How are the nobles doing? ”

“The average person is not very clear, but the first time the conversation is said to have collapsed, the next time it will be a week later.” Sue glanced at Brando: "There has been progress in the negotiations between Her Royal Highness and the Grand Duke of Alex, whose ministers met three times this week, but have yet to hear that they are allied. Now that the North-South aristocrats have gathered in Ambesseur, I expect their next meeting will be after the meeting of the aristocrats. ”

Brando nodded, and this is almost what he expected, and everything now is basically in line with the historical timeline, and he still has a little time. But when he looked at Sue, he couldn't help but admire her. At first, the little barmaid in Lidenburg had grown up so fast that she became a one-sided talent. Anyone who saw Sue now would not associate her with the previous girl.

With this in mind, he was silent for a while and suddenly said: "So what can I do to attend the meeting of the nobles? ”

“It's hard to do. ”

The girl shook her head gently.

… (To be continued. If you like this work, you are welcome to vote on recommendations, monthly tickets (qidian.com), and your support is my biggest motivation.)