v2 Chapter 44： unfulfilled request

"The day of the draw at Hogwarts(

Soon, Tom found out the address of Scarborough Fair - the market was formed by the Vikings. They often log in to England and loot, but they also carry out normal trade, and the location of Scarborough is a regular market formed because of this. The time of the market is in the autumn of each year, lasting one and a half months each time. .

This market has been going on for hundreds of years, and not even the Vikings would raid the place during the fair.

Scarborough Market is about forty or fifty miles away, and you might break your legs if you walk there alone. So Hermione looked at Tom.

"Your ability should still be retained, right?"

"Of course!" As soon as the voice fell, an elegant male unicorn appeared in front of Hermione's eyes, and the beautiful silver hair caught Hermione's eyes at once. This beauty made her not want to move her eyes at all.

Seeing the unicorn's shiny silver hair, Hermione couldn't help but come close to him, then stroked his back, feeling the satiny touch. But suddenly, she remembered the original shape of the unicorn, and her face became hot.

She rode on the unicorn's back and followed him all the way to Scarborough Fair.

There is a reason for not using the Phoenix form. The distance on this road is not close. If it is a genuine Fox, it may be able to arrive quickly, but as a replica, Tom has not mastered the magical function of teleportation, so he can only fly honestly to the Scarborough market. At least twenty minutes. In order to hide from the public, Tom must fly a little higher. What if Hermione falls off him during the flight?

So it's better to be a unicorn and let him take Hermione there - and as a unicorn, Tom feels inexplicably comfortable when Hermione is close to him, especially when Hermione strokes her back, more than Various massages are also pleasing to the body and mind. It's a pity that Hermione stopped after only touching it for a while.

The speed of the unicorn in the forest is no less than that of a horse, and its endurance is far superior to that of an ordinary horse. About two hours later, Tom took Hermione to the Scarborough Fair.

This market is much larger than the market in the small town just now. The scale is probably hundreds of times larger than before. There are small traders and hawkers who are shouting and selling their own goods, and there are also capable traders here to sell goods and buy special products.

Tom felt the fireworks of the Middle Ages for the first time.

In the market, they easily found a spice merchant and bought the four spices. The businessman kindly helped them wrap these four spices together. Only then did Tom know that the four seasonings represent the sweetness, strength, loyalty and courage of love respectively.

After buying the spices, they walked south of the market, asking for Ben's address as they went. Eventually, they found Ben in a small village south of the market.

Ben looked to be a young man in his early twenties, with a solid build and slender limbs. He has some fields in his family and employs more than a dozen people to help him cultivate the fields. After taking the spice packet, he showed a sad look.

He thought about it for a while, and said to Tom, "Please bring me a message, and tell Elaine to ask her to make me a linen shirt, but after the shirt is done, it must be washed in a dry well, and in the Dry on a piece of dry grass. After the shirt is made, it must be able to wrap the water so that it does not leak. If we can do this, we can reunite and become each other’s true love.”

Tom & Hermione:  …

When they returned to the town, it was already afternoon.

Elaine was waiting for them at the entrance of the town.

After hearing Ben's reply, Elaine stomped: How can this kind of thing be done! Isn't it just a quarrel with him, why be so stingy!

She was a little angry, "Then please pass the word, I also have a request for him. I want him to use a leather sickle to harvest the millet, and then threw the millet on the wall, but not a single seed falls on the ground, If he can get this done, then we can get back together and be true love for each other."

Tom had already understood, the young couple was afraid they were arguing. However, I still have to bring a message. Tom knows that this couple is the key to completing this dungeon.

"Okay, I'll help you with your words, but if you want, my good friend can help you finish the shirt."

Ben's request is a bit outrageous, but it's not hard for a wizard to make it happen.

"Really?" Elaine raised her head in surprise, "Can you really make such a shirt?"

"Of course, we are travelers from afar." Tom smiled.

"But if you really like Ben, it's better to reconcile with him as soon as possible. The two need to tolerate each other when they get along."

Elaine lowered her head and said nothing.

Tom pulled Hermione aside and whispered to her what he had come up with. Then he set foot on the road to Scarborough Fair. Fortunately, for some reason, Tom, who has been running around for a long time, has no idea of ​​eating or drinking.

A day later, Elaine had the linen shirt Benn asked for. She gave the shirt to Hermione, and Hermione took the shirt into a dry well.

"Clear water is like a spring!" Hermione's staff tipped out a gurgling spring, and there was also a water source in the dry well. She successfully washed her shirt at the bottom of the dry well. The washed shirt was placed on a piece of hay, and Hermione used a floating spell to make the shirt and hay float in the air. Soon, the mountain wind blowing in the distance dries the shirt.

Finally, Hermione ordered a candle, as Tom had said, and smeared it over and over again on the shirt. When she was done, she rolled the hot pebbles on the shirt, and the wax melted into the gaps in the fabric. . Such a shirt, even if poured into a glass of water, can be leak-proof.

After the shirt was ready, Elaine asked Hermione to deliver the shirt for her, and to see if Ben was harvesting the corn as she asked.

Hermione shook her head. She felt that the couple really had a stomachache: they clearly had a crush on each other, but they refused to give in and gave each other problems.

However, Hermione believed that Tom had found a good solution.

With some stomach pain, Hermione set foot on the road to Scarborough Fair.

Meanwhile, Tom was already standing at Ben's threshing floor.

"Fantastic, how did you do it? You can make a leather sickle as hard as a stone!"

Tom:  …

This is nothing, some bosses can even make a knife out of rice, but Tom doesn't have that skill, so he can only make do with a petrification spell.

As for threshing the walls, Tom's solution was to put a layer of cloth on the ground. And in order to prevent the wind from blowing the millet away, he also covered a layer of gauze outside.

In this way, it is indeed possible to stand on the wall to thresh corn, and not a single grain of corn falls to the ground.

After the last handful of millet was finished, Ben was so tired that he almost collapsed. He staggered off the wall and walked up to Tom: "Excuse me, go and talk to Elaine, just say I've done it! Let's get back together."

Tom nodded and headed home again.

This time, he met Hermione on the way. After the two discussed it, he still felt that it would be better to bring Elaine to see Ben. The couple had an awkward quarrel. The bell man must be tied, so as to save Tom and the two from going back and forth.

But when they returned to the small town, an unexpected scene appeared.

Although the town is not prosperous, there are still hundreds of people living in it, and it has its own vitality. But when Tom came back here again, the whole town was in ruins, and even the tallest church was left with only broken walls. Other houses were turned into piles of tiles and coke, and were buried by wild weeds. Hollow skulls can occasionally be seen among the weeds.

Tom came to Elaine's house with memory, and found that Elaine's house, like the rest of the town, was also turned into scorched earth. He picked up a hair crown with brown spots in the wild grass and wiped it gently. dust on top.

"Tom, here...why? I don't understand..." Hermione said in disbelief, looking at this unfamiliar yet familiar scene, "We only left for half a day!"

"Go back to Ben." Tom immediately turned back with his hair crown. This time, the small village south of Scarborough Fair is still there But the moment Tom walked in, he felt that everything here seemed to be there. Subtle changes have taken place: the house and fields are still familiar, but the details have become out of place, and even the villagers seem to have changed.

He came to Ben's house, but found that the house was also abandoned for a long time.

Tom stopped an old farmer passing by, "Do you know where the owner of this house is?"

A look of memory flashed in the turbid eyes of the old farmer, "This house used to belong to a man named Ben. In the early years, the Viking pirates made a lot of trouble, and many towns in the north were razed to the ground. He took the initiative to respond. I went to fight with the Vikings after being summoned by the lord, but I never came back, and in the end I only sent a jar back... These are all decades ago... What are you asking about these things?"

"It's nothing," Tom shook his head, "then do you know where Ben was finally buried?"

"No!" The old farmer pointed to the house, and it was buried in his backyard, under the oak tree.

Tom and Hermione walked through the collapsed gate and entered the ruins of Ben's house. Under the oak tree in the backyard, they saw a small grave almost buried by weeds. There was only a two-foot-square stone in front of the grave. Engraved with Ben's name. Under the stone, there is also a necklace with a cross.

Tom took the linen clothes from Hermione's arms without saying a word, but the clothes quickly rotted and turned into fly ash as soon as they came into contact with the air.

Tom gently dug out the necklace and tangled it with the crown of hair.

[Double Dungeon: Scarborough Fair Clearance!

Mission Objective Achieved: Fulfill Elaine and Ben's wishes.

Dungeon Reward: Divination Talent +1]

[Divination: 4 (innate talent)]