Chapter 142 Chapter 142 Choose to pretend to be deaf and dumb

We rode towards the city gate. "We should be able to catch them before Queen Kettricken reaches the coastal road." Burrich had just finished speaking when a guard stepped out to block our way. "Stop!" he ordered us, his throat almost broken. Our mount reared up in panic, so we pulled on the reins. "What's going on here?" Burrich asked. The man stood firmly. "You may pass, my lord," he told Burrich respectfully. "However, I have orders not to let the little bastard leave Buckkeep." "Little bastard?" I've never heard Burrich speak so angrily. "Say 'Fitz Stealer, son of Prince Steward'."

I saw this person staring at him dumbfounded. "Say it now!" Burrich barked, resolutely.His figure suddenly doubled in size, and I also felt waves of anger in his expression. "Fitz Junqi, the son of Prince Junqi." The man repeated perfunctorily.He took a breath and swallowed. "But no matter what I call him, I still have to obey orders not to let him out of town." "Less than an hour ago, I heard the Queen order us to ride out of the city with her, or to catch up with them as soon as possible. So you mean that your orders are more important than hers?"

The man seemed to have lost his mind. "Wait a moment, my lord." He walked back to the guard room. Burrich scoffed at that. "The man who trained him should be ashamed. If it weren't for our honor, he could ride away now." "Maybe he just happens to know you," I suggested. Burrich glared at me, and then the Chief of the Guard came out, grinning at us. "Ride well, I wish you all the best in Jieyi Bay." Burrich gave him a gesture that was somewhere between a salute and a farewell, and we rode out of town.I let Burrich lead the way, and though it was dark, the road was straight and level as we descended the hill, with a little light from the moon.Burrich was as irritable as ever, for he rode on and on at such a pace until the Queen's bodyguards appeared before us, slowing down just as he was about to catch up with them, and they recognized us as soon as they turned. , one of them raised his hand to greet us.

"It's good for a pregnant mare to get some exercise early in pregnancy." He looked at me through the darkness. "But pregnant women, I don't know." He said hesitantly. I smiled at him. "So you think I know?" I shook my head and said more seriously, "I don't know either. Some women don't ride at all when they're pregnant, but some do. I don't think Kettricken would be the only one. A real child poses any risk, and she's safer with us than in the castle with Regal." Burrich said nothing, but I sensed he agreed with me.But that's not all I feel.

We are finally hunting together again! Quiet!I squinted at Burrich beside me, trying to hide my thoughts as I warned him. We are going far away, can you keep up with the horse? They can outrun me for short distances, but no animal can run farther than a trotting wolf. Burrich straightened up a little in the saddle.I know Nighteyes is jogging in the shadows by the side of the road, and it's nice to be out and walk beside him again, and it's nice to be out and do things.I'm not happy that Jie Yi Wan was attacked, but that I finally got a chance to do something, even if it doesn't hurt to clean up the mess.I glanced at Burrich beside me, and saw an angry gleam on his face.

"Burrich?" I asked. "It's a wolf, isn't it?" Burrich said reluctantly into the darkness.He's staring straight ahead, and I know what he's muttering. you know i am.It was a tongue-in-cheek answer. Burrich flinched slightly as if he had been prodded. "It's Nighteye," I admitted quietly, trying to put into words the image of its name.I was scared because Burrich felt it.He knew it, and it was useless to deny it.But I also breathed a sigh of relief, because I am already tired of all kinds of lies in my life.Burrich rode silently, not looking at me. "I didn't intend for this to happen, but it just happened." It was an explanation, not an apology.

I left him no choice.Nighteyes teased the silent Burrich. I put my hand on Soot's neck, feeling the warmth and life there, and waited for Burrich to speak back, but he didn't say a word. "But it's not something I can choose, it's in my nature." We are all like that.Night Eyes said with a playful smile.Come on, Heart of the Pack, talk to me!Doesn't it please you that we hunt together? Heart of the herd?I wondered. He knew it was his name.All the dogs who admired him called him that, teasing each other like this when they were hunting: "Heart of the pack, here, here, the prey is here, I found it for you, I found it for you!" So, they They all scrambled to bark at him, but now they were all carried away far away.They didn't like to leave him, and he knew he heard them even when he didn't respond.Don't you hear them all?

I guess I try not to listen. What a waste.Why choose to pretend to be deaf and dumb? "Do you have to do this in front of me?" Burrich's voice was stiff. "Sorry." I really felt that I had offended him deeply.Nighteyes snickered again, and I pretended not to hear, and Burrich didn't look at me.After a while, he nudged Hong'er and trotted forward to catch up with Kettricken's bodyguard, and I followed him after a moment's hesitation.He gave Kettricken a formal report on what he had done before he left Buckkeep, and she nodded deliberately, as if she was used to such reports.She then gestured for us to ride proudly on her left rear, while the captain of the guard, Fox Glove, rode on her right.The rest of the Buckkeep cavalry caught up with us before dawn, and Foxglove slowed down to let their horses catch their breath as the cavalry joined us.But when we came to a stream for all the horses to drink, we decided to speed up.Burrich still wouldn't speak to me.

A few years ago, I served as Verity's special envoy to Jieyi Bay.It was a five-day journey, but then we rode in carriages and palanquins, with jugglers, musicians, and servants; but this time we rode with experienced warriors, and it didn't have to be Take the wide coastal road.The only problem we had was the weather, as a winter storm hit on the first morning of our departure.Riding a horse in such bad weather is really uncomfortable, not only because of physical discomfort, but also because I worry that gusts of wind will delay the boats that cooperate with us.Whenever we could look out to sea from the road, I kept an eye out for boats on the water, but saw nothing.