Chapter 25: Helen
Everyone followed the prestige, and saw that on the street not far away, a girl of seventeen or eighteen years old was walking here, she wore a sunhat, wore the skirt of the nobleman when he went out, wore white gloves on her hands, and her short brown shoulder-length hair was dangling around.
But it's a pity that the skirt didn't outline the figure of the young lady very well, or conversely, the figure of the young lady was too "plump" for the skirt, a bulging body like a round bucket tightened the skirt, which looked a little ridiculous, and the fat behind the chin also trembled with the other party's movements, which looked very conspicuous.
And just now, the man in the fancy clothes was sweating profusely, trotting after the woman, whispering something, as for the two attendants, their heads drooped with gray faces, helplessly following behind, and on their faces, two red palm prints could be seen.
"Which bastard would dare to rob Miss Ben's carriage?"
The girl walked up to the three of them, puffed up her chest, stared at the two eyes, and shouted breathlessly, but she obviously did not mean to wait for anyone to answer, but raised her head and looked directly at the coachman.
"Don't open it! Don't take these guys away, do you hear that! This is my command! ”
"How can you be like this!"
Hearing this, Lijie couldn't help it.
"This is our rented carriage, how can you ............"
"Shut up, what are you to dare to talk to me like this!"
The girl let out an angry shout, interrupting Lijie's speech, and then she crossed her waist with one hand and pointed at the three of them with the other.
"You wait for me, fat pig, dead woman, sissy, you dare to provoke our family, it is your eight lifetimes of bad luck, see how I ............"
The girl didn't finish her words, so at this moment, Rod suddenly raised his right hand, and then snapped his fingers.
“…………………!!!”
The girl's wide open mouth could no longer make any sound, her eyes widened, her hands clutched her neck, her mouth opened and closed like a fish on the shore, and her complexion, which was still a little ruddy, gradually began to turn pale.
And on Rod's shoulder, the soul bird was staring at her, its eyes glowing with a faint glow of magic.
"Miss! What's wrong with you, Miss! Miss!! ”
When the man on the side saw the girl like this, he hurried over in fright, but before he could get closer, he hit a transparent wall as if he had hit it, and then fell to the ground.
“………!! ……………!! ”
The girl's body began to tremble, her limbs began to swing wildly, her mouth opened wider and wider, and her eyes almost protruded into their sockets, as if they were about to fall to the ground.
"Rowe, Mr. Rhodes?"
Looking at the girl's appearance, Li Jie was a little uneasy, although she didn't know what happened to Lu Dao, but she could guess that it should be related to Rod.
In fact, Rhodes didn't do anything, and he couldn't do anything, but as a creature condensed by the wind element, the soul bird still had a certain amount of control over the air flow. And what Rhodes did was just seal the air around the other party. It may be a little difficult to deal with those adventurers, but it is no problem to deal with this kind of ordinary person who has no strength at all.
“………!!!”
Just when the girl trembled and was about to roll her eyes, Rhodes pressed her right hand to Lu. And the soul bird also withdrew its gaze in time.
"Poof!!"
And at this time, the girl sat down on the ground like a puppet with a short line, her face was blue, she gasped for breath, and did not recover for a long time.
"Great, Miss! You're all right! ”
The man in the Chinese costume next to him hurriedly pounced, and at the same time secretly rejoiced in his heart, fortunately he didn't have a conflict with this young man just now, otherwise if he snapped his fingers, he might not even know how Lu Dao died!
"Ahem...... Ahem............"
Sitting on the ground, the girl had gasped for breath for a long time, she raised her head, raised her hand tremblingly, and pointed at Rhodes.
"You, what are you doing, Ben! Kill him! Hurry up and kill him! Hurry ............"
It's a pity that the girl is destined to have no way to finish this, because at this moment, the soul bird standing on Rod's shoulder looked at her again, and then, the girl's face turned pale again, and she kept rolling on the ground, but there was no way to make a sound. …,
"Please, please spare her, sir! Miss Helen is young and ignorant, please don't be like her........."
"I prefer to be quieter."
In the face of the plea of the man in fancy clothes, Rod just said this, and then turned around and got into the carriage. Lijie glanced at the girl who was lying on the ground again panting and panting again, and after hesitating for a moment, she followed Rhodes up, only Mace glanced at the woman with gloating eyes, and hummed a little song and climbed into the car leisurely.
"Mr. Rod, that's not good."
With a worried look, Lijie said uneasily. She wasn't angry at that woman's rudeness before, after all, she had been a mercenary for a long time, and she hadn't seen any kind of people in the world, despising them, harassing them, and molesting them. At first, Lijie was also quite angry, but after so many years, she already knew how to deal with those people.
"I heard that they are from Deep Rock City, and once they provoke these nobles, it will be very troublesome."
"You're wrong, Miss Lijie."
Mace snorted disapprovingly.
"What kind of person is Mr. Rhodes, this kind of third-rate little aristocrat, he doesn't need to pay attention to it at all. Then again, Mr. Rhodes, that woman is so unruly that she should ignore them. ”
"Wait."
Rod glanced out the window at the sky.
"We'll leave as soon as the time comes, it's their business whether they come or not, and it has nothing to do with me, but since I've agreed before, then I won't regret it."
Hearing this, Mace couldn't say anything more, so he turned away and muttered "It's better they never come", and it seemed that his resentment was really great.
After a few minutes, the carriage door finally opened again, and the fat lady from before appeared in the doorway, her face pale, and she looked at Rod who was leaning back in the chair with her eyes closed, and bit her lower lip. Frankly speaking, she really didn't want to come up, especially when her attendant Ben told her that this young man was not weak and could even kill all of them, the fat lady's heart almost jumped out in fright. She wanted to run away from this demon immediately, far away.........
But the thought that her father would be back in three days forced her to give in. After all, there are no extra carriages in this kind of small village, and it takes two days to get from here to Deep Rock City, if you can't catch up with this car, then you will definitely be discovered sneaking out of the city to play. If my father knew that he had sneaked out of the city to play, then a scolding would definitely be indispensable, and maybe there would be even greater suffering. After thinking about it, in the end, her father's majesty still overwhelmed the fear in her heart, so she had to bite the bullet and get into the car.
Poor this fat lady is used to being pampered, and she has never encountered such a thing, she wants to speak, but she feels embarrassed. If you don't open your mouth, sitting in the car like this is also a shame. But she opened her mouth for a long time, but she didn't dare to say half a word, looking like that, it was really pitiful and anxious.
Mace, who was on the side, looked at the fat lady's sad expression and laughed secretly, businessmen and nobles are not all the way, although there are many cooperative relations between the two sides, but secretly they still look down on each other. The aristocracy thinks that the merchant is full of copper and has nothing but money, and the merchant thinks that most of the nobles are idle and pretending, and now it is difficult to meet such a stupid woman, if it were not for Rod beside him, Mace really wanted to sneer and see if he could force her to jump out of the car.
"Hello, my name is Lijie. Noailu, what is your name, Miss? ”
However, Li Jie was a little embarrassed to see the atmosphere in the car, so she had to open the conversation, anyway, she didn't do less of this kind of thing, and compared to facing that kind of hooligan and lustful little aristocrat, a fat lady is already much cute.
"I, my name is Helen. Keller. ”
When Helen said this, her voice was so small that she could hardly hear it, and she secretly glanced at Rhodes in fear, for fear that he would be unhappy and use the "evil method" just now to make herself immortal. Helen had never experienced anything like it, and she almost thought she was going to die, and twice in one death......
Seems to be a misnomer? …,
"Helen. Keller? ”
Hearing this name, Li Jie was stunned for a moment, as if she remembered something.
"It's the one who controls the Nalander mines...... The Keller family? ”
"Yes, yes, you know us?"
Hearing this, Helen immediately became excited again, and wanted to say more, but as soon as she swept to Rod next to her, she immediately subconsciously lowered her voice again.
"Yes, the stronghold of our mercenary group is also in Deep Rock City, and I have also heard of the name of the Keller family, I heard that you started with ore, and it only took more than ten years to become one of the few big ore families in Deep Stone City."
"Of course, Dad is amazing."
On a June day, a woman's face changes when she says it. As soon as she talked about her father, Helen immediately talked to Lijie endlessly, completely devoid of the restraint and nervousness just now. Although she still subconsciously glances at Rhodes from time to time, it is much better than the nervous attitude of being trafficked when she first got into the car.
Of course, Rod and Mace were not interested in the content of the conversation between the two girls, but now, they looked at each other in some surprise, and each saw the surprise in each other's eyes.
The reason is very simple, that is, Lijie was able to talk to Helen!
Don't look at the chat is simple, it seems like anyone can do it. In fact, chatting itself is also a technical job, you have to have a topic, you must be able to arouse the interest of others, you must be able to let others talk freely about yourself, and you must let both parties have a good time. This is not simple, Rhodes has seen many women, very beautiful, like saints at that station, but when they start talking, they either can't say anything, or they just can't say anything. As a result, no matter how good the face is, it is useless, and the mouth is exposed. Either the major is not right, and the topic can't be talked about and nothing can be discussed.
Of course, there are also many articulate mercenaries who can talk to the nobles, but no matter how attractive they say, the nobles mostly put on a high-minded attitude of listening to the story, because many of the topics they say do not match the life of the nobles at all. It's like an ordinary employee discussing those celebrity gossip with the company's directors, and the ordinary employee says that it is called a relish, but maybe when he turns around, he finds that the star is lying on his boss's bed. The reverse is also true, although the boss will be very interested in the discount of the goods discussed by the employees, but he will not care too much, after all, he does not buy the same as the discount, why care about the money?
The disparity between classes is roughly the same, and topics of interest to mercenaries are not necessarily to nobles.
But now, it is very intriguing to see that Lijie can actually discuss some trivial matters in the daily life of aristocratic women with Helen. The girl was a mercenary, and it was not possible to participate in the socializing, balls, and tea parties of the noble women. But now it's so happy to see what she and Helen are talking about "rose tea".........
Rod frowned, isn't Lijie's identity simple?
But think about it, most of the angel classes on the Dragon Soul Continent belong to the advanced class, and the identity of the half-angel is not much different.
But if her status is really not low, how can she come to be a mercenary? Isn't this scientific?
Thinking of this, looking at Lijie beside him, Rod suddenly had an idea of wanting to find out.