When Xia De got out of the carriage at the door of the **** shop and entered the door, there was no one in the usually deserted **** shop, not even Old John was there, only the bronze incense burner on the counter sprayed out the water vapor with a strange fragrance .
The **** shop is still the same, it looks like a dump with a mountain of garbage, but carefully discerned, every item in the store has value. All kinds of clocks and clocks are hung on the east wall, and there are metal harmonicas in boxes and music boxes for dancing in the window.
The old museum-worthy steam engine that Shad had seen the first time he came was still in the corner. On the other hand, there was something extra on the shelf, and the brass mechanical bird deformed by the gear mechanism made him very interested. He remembered that there were similar things in Miss Galina's study.
After he rang the bell on the counter, the old man in an apron came in from the back door:
"Oh, I thought it was a guest, it turned out to be you. Detective, wait for me, I will process the potion ingredients later. You know, if the six-leaf coral grass produced in the Pontal River Valley is not processed, the taste will be rotten." Keeping the entire street from eating lunch."
"Am I not a guest?"
Shad muttered under his breath, but still waited for a while. "Here's the framed picture you asked for."
Ten minutes later, when the old man came back through the back door, he carried a picture frame and put it on the counter. The framed oil painting was drawn by Hayla Oxenfurt for Shad, a portrait of the young detective standing in the barren snowy back garden.
When Xia De was walking the cat with Luvia last night, he entrusted the old man to help frame it and let him handle it with special means so that the oil painting can be preserved for a longer time. He did not expect him to finish it so quickly.
"It's a nice painting. I bet it wasn't drawn by a human being. There's enough emotion and soul power in it to last the next millennium, detective, you've found a good painter."
The very knowledgeable old John said, Xia De nodded:
"The final payment will be paid later, the gold and jewelry that I entrusted you to sell before."
That is the money he and Iluna found from the sewers in the Randall Valley. It was the military expenses raised by the rebels from the citizens before the unification of the United Kingdom of Carson Rik.
"It's sold. This kind of thing is easy to sell. You don't need to give me the final payment for the picture frame. As usual, I will deduct five points as a middleman's fee for your treasure. This is too much money."
The old man said, Xia De would naturally not mind. However, when he was about to leave with the bearer draft and the framed picture frame, Old John stopped Shad again.
"Why, you've made this big deal, do you want to give me some merchandise? I see that the gas lamp socket on the shelf over there looks very nice, can you give it to me?"
"Oh, detective, it cost five shillings to collect. It's a second-hand item from decades ago. I want to ask, have you heard about the Randall Valley?"
Xia De put away his wallet and paused for a moment, turned around and glanced at the door before nodding:
"Of course, how could I not know about such an important matter. Speaking of which, is there any information that the Priory can share?"
Old John raised his eyebrows:
"Of course, we have people there. Judging from the current situation, the church and the summoner have prevented the disaster of the earth from sweeping the entire world. But the observation of the monastery is not optimistic. It will definitely come to the end, and It doesn’t disappear because of this. Even if the filth of the earth is cleared, the earth becomes unstable because of it. In recent years, various strange natural disasters have occurred frequently.”
This is the same as what Xia De heard from the guardian. I didn't expect that the Priory would even know this kind of thing.
"But what those of us living in this era can do is do our best to change the tragedies that are destined to happen. Even if we can't succeed, at least we have to do something."
Shad said:
"This time, everyone in the Randall Valley has done well enough." Old John smiled and nodded:
"You are really suitable for us. But, how does your tone sound like, you are also involved in the Randall Valley?"
"I wish I had participated, like the audience in an opera house, watching the tragedy happen step by step on the stage, but I can't change it, I can only usher in the final ending, that's too bad."
Xia De sighed, this is also his true thought.
"But no one can be an audience. We were born in this world, and we are destined to be buried in this world. The net of fate has been intertwined with our souls as early as when we uttered our first cry. We are all stages people above."
Old John sighed, and then promised Xia De that if the Abbey had any first-hand news about the doomsday and disaster, he could tell him.
When Xia De carried the picture frame and returned to Saint-Andreens Square in a carriage, he was surprised to find that Miss Galina's carriage had stopped in front of his house.
However, it was not the red-haired duchess in the carriage, but the black-haired lady maid.
"Come in, I'm sorry, I thought you'd be coming back later. Oh, Tifa, don't you have my house key? What are you waiting for outside?"
Xia De invited her to enter the door, and the maid waited for the carriage to wait at the street corner, and then followed behind him with a smile:
"The key was left for us for cleaning. It is the maid's rule not to enter and leave the master's room at will during non-cleaning hours."
"Actually, you don't have to be so rigid. Besides, I trust you." After a pause, he added:
"The relationship between the two of us is not"
"You can't say that now, at least not today."
Xia De nodded slowly. Although he didn't understand why, he still took Tifa upstairs, put down the picture frame first, and prepared tea:
"Miss Galina, what exactly do you want me to do? Didn't she come?" He also sat down and hugged Mia.
"Miss didn't come, but it is indeed an important matter."
The maid sat on the sofa very seriously, with a smile in her eyes, but her expression was a bit serious: "Detective Chad Sullen Hamilton of the Hamilton Detective Agency, on behalf of Duke Galina Cavendish, Send me an invitation to entrust."
"Consignment?"
Although he didn't know what the witch wanted to do, Xia De still nodded as if receiving a client:
"It's an honor. Speaking of which, since the incident in the Randall Valley, I haven't taken over the commission seriously. Then, Miss Maid, may I ask what kind of commission the Duke asked you to bring?"
Tifa said:
"The Duke ordered, detective, you must find five legendary treasures and send them to the Duke before sunset today, no matter what method you use."
"Then which five legendary treasures are they?" The beautiful black eyes blinked:
"The crown of His Majesty the King, the spring that can spout endless wine, the red-red sage's stone that symbolizes priceless treasures, the holy grail used to worship the ancient gods in the distant era, and, your heart."
"Um"
Xia De tilted his head and thought for a while, and couldn't understand what the witch was trying to do. But fortunately, the task is not difficult. Except for the doctor, no one knows what Xia De got from the devil: "What does Miss Galina want these things for?"
He chose to ask directly, but Tifa shook her head;
"This is a commission from the Duchess, and it is also a test given to you by the Duchess. Detective, you just need to say whether you want to take it or not."
"Since it's an entrustment, what's the reward?"
Xia De asked again, Tifa has long been prepared, or Miss Galina has long been prepared:
"That reward is a treasure you cannot refuse. If you can bring these things to the manor before sunset, the Duchess of Saladir will definitely not break her promise."
Xia De thought for a while:
"Then I'll take it. For Duke Galina, the guardian of Saladir, I will do my best to bring back those treasures. But, no
Knowing this beautiful lady maid in front of me, can you give me some tips? After all, these treasures are too difficult to obtain. "
he asked tentatively.
"You want me to betray the Duke?"
The loyal maid asked suspiciously, and Xia De then took her hand and kissed the back of the white hand:
"This is not betrayal, but to allow me to prepare those treasures for the Duke." Tifa let him hold hands and laughed:
"Okay then, but the hint is not for nothing. Mere rhetoric is not enough to impress me. I gave you the hint. When you come to the manor in the evening, you will have to pay me."
"no problem."
"Of the five treasures, the easiest one is actually the Holy Grail. Miss knows that you don't have the Holy Grail anymore. But you can go to the chosen one in the Randall Valley, he can detect the area where the crazy land appears, I want you to make another Holy Grail."
"Well, UU reading www.uukanshu.com makes sense." Xia De nodded slowly. So Tifa continued;
"Other treasures need to be obtained by yourself. But the really difficult ones are only the "inexhaustible fountain of fine wine" in fairy tales and the rumored Philosopher's Stone. "
Xia De nodded again:
"These two are indeed almost impossible to obtain."
"As for the king's crown, although it is very difficult to steal it, His Majesty the King will not wear it all day. Maybe you can use Princess Leizia to find out the frequency and occasions when the king wears the crown, and find the right opportunity." Come out'. You are a six-ring magician, you have your own skills."
Tifa said with a smile, but in the last sentence, her expression was very serious: "As for 'your heart', Shad, you need to figure it out yourself." "I understand."
Although Xia De didn't understand what was going on with the commission, he still nodded:
"One day is indeed a little tight, but miracles will always happen. I will accept this task, and I hope His Highness the Duke will be satisfied."