Chapter 142 Shani Heading to Cow Castle
The morning fog had not yet dissipated, and Lann looked at the rocks and the outlines of many small islands not far away.
In the lazy delta current, the huge transport ship under his feet moved forward with a steady and determined momentum.
"Hahaha, Lan, this ship is not bad." Zoltan laughed and clinked glasses with Lan.
After spending so much time together, Zoltan has become quite familiar with Lan. Dwarves are not a race that adheres to class etiquette. They drank too much and even dared to wrestle with the prince, and then beat each other until their noses were bruised and their faces were swollen.
Because Zoltan was doing business in human society, he learned a lot of rules as the locals did, but he gradually relaxed under Lan's deliberate guidance. His favorite thing during this period was to teach the young earl to sing colorful songs while drinking with Lan.
"That's a big help, Zoltan." Lann drank all the wine in the glass. "It's an unexpected joy to be able to travel so comfortably. My soldiers can also relax and take a good rest, and they can also All thanks to you and your friends."
Zoltan laughed generously. After drinking the wine, he saw that Lan didn't seem to have any intention of refilling the drink, so he turned to find his dwarf brothers to continue drinking.
Lann looked at House and Levin who were always beside him, waved his hand and said: "You guys should go and take a rest. We are on the ship now, and there won't be any enemies that suddenly appear." House said seriously:
" On the water... maybe there will be water ghosts."
Lann sighed: "Isn't it my specialty to talk about water ghosts? And can you still fight against water ghosts in the river wearing this plate armor?" Looking at it
, Lan, the attendant who never left, said: "House, you are too tight. It's time to relax. One-fifth of the people on this ship are our soldiers, and we are the 'danger'." , understand?"
He pointed to the dwarves who were drinking and playing cards with other merchants on the ship: "Look at them, I remember you seem to like Quint too? Join them, I allow it. If you don't want to , just think of it as me ordering you - go play for a while."
After saying that, Lan strode towards the side of the ship, looking at the distant scenery while blowing the sea breeze.
Levin touched House: "Did you hear it? This is the order of the Earl. Quickly take out your Gwent deck. I have long heard that you have many collections of cards. Let me see them. ."
But House blushed: "This card is not mine. It was entrusted to me by a sacrificed comrade before he died. I can't let it be put on the table..." As he said this, his hands seemed to be uncomfortable
. Following orders, he took out a card from his arms. Milva on the side heard the movement and came forward to check out curiously, his eyes suddenly lit up.
On the card, a blond young knight, wearing a knight's armor with a lion's emblem, drove a wind-like black horse through the dense forest.
[Lion Knight Lann]
House waved this card in front of Levin and Milva, then immediately stuffed it into his arms as a treasure, and said: "Don't let the earl know that I have this card." The cards... feel weird."
The protagonist of this souvenir card is currently on the bow of the ship, reading a letter from Kaer Morhen in the sea breeze:
"...I sleep in a room called 'dormitory' In the small room, it was as small as a maid's room, but Geralt said that even the mentor of the Wolf faction slept in the same place as me. I asked him if Yennefer also slept in a similar room, and he immediately I won’t say anything anymore.”
Lan En smiled, worthy of the white wolf. He flipped through it and looked at the next letter.
"I was practicing swordsmanship on a very long beam today. I fell off it several times and bruised my shoulders, arms and thighs. I thought it would be difficult to walk on it, but Cohen could easily do it. Dancing the sword on it - By the way, Korn is also a gryphon. He said that he will leave Kaer Morhen after the winter. I am trying to persuade him to stay. But the effect is not very effective. I may still have to rely on you. Come and win over him, you have to come and see me soon."
Lann raised his eyebrows, Ciri had begun to consciously win over the demon hunters, not just the wolf faction, but also the griffins. The little girl doesn't need to use any social skills at all. Just showing her innocence and kindness is enough to enhance friendship with the witchers.
"Yennefer read my letter to you. She told me not to write too much about training and daily life in the letter, but to tell more about how much I miss you. Ha, she also taught me that before She secretly read the letter she wrote to Geralt, in which she called Geralt a 'dear friend' and what else: 'As the second person you turn to for help, I am deeply honored' to be on your list. "I'm even more flattered by being so tall," and so on. These two people are really awkward..."
After that, Ciri didn't send any letters. I don't know whether it was because she didn't have time to write them, or whether she finished them but was written by the witcher or the female. The warlock peeked, thereby depriving her of the right to continue sending letters.
He carefully folded the letters and put them in his arms.
Lann didn't notice that while he was concentrating on reading the letter, there were other eyes on the ship constantly looking at him.
A girl with short maroon hair had been observing Lan for a while. Because until this moment, he didn't have those guards around him who kept people away from him for thousands of miles.
She wanted to come up and talk, but she didn't want to express her emotions too directly. After racking her brains, she finally came up with a possible topic: "Excuse me...
are you Mr. Lannister? Please don't stand beside the boat, because It is said that there have been some big man-eating bugs here recently..."
The girl's voice interrupted Lann's thoughts. He turned back to look at the person who made the sound, his eyes focused, and he seemed to see a familiar person.
But he was not sure whether the other person was the person in his memory, because the other person's appearance was much greener than in his memory.
In front of him was a girl with maroon hair - Lan En had always met girls with this hair color recently - she was dressed like a student and looked to be only fourteen or fifteen years old.
She looked very cautious, as if coming to talk to Lan had already taken all her courage.
"Yes, I am Lannister." Lann tapped the lion emblem on his chest and said with a smile, "I wonder what I should call the lady who is talking to me?" "I am not a lady...
I My name is Shani. Hello, Mr. Lannister." Because of her nervousness, the girl named Shani was a little flustered, and for a while she even said a lot of things that she shouldn't say when introducing herself.
"I am a medical student. I just got admitted to Niu Bao this year and am preparing to go to school, so I got on this boat..."
Lann smiled, and it turned out to be her.
The girl in front of her is called Shani. She is a future master in the medical field and a true example of independent women.
She is a medical student studying alone in Cowburg. After graduation, she will shuttle between various wards and battlefields, and she will work in hospitals on the front lines of the war all year round to rescue the wounded. In the future, she will become the dean of Cowburg Medical College. She will be highly respected and will be written into textbooks after her death.
She would meet Geralt when she was seventeen or eighteen. Of course, there is nothing new in that she will change from a girl to a woman at that time. But she is not like other women who are entangled with Geralt. She only regards this as a precious friendship; even if she meets Geralt many times later, Shani will eventually fight for her ideal of saving lives and healing the wounded. Choose respectively. Her decision proved to be the right one.
So it's hard to say whether Geralt slept with her or she slept with Geralt.
However, at this time, the girl in front of her was still a female student who had not yet studied at Niu Bao, not a female doctor who would help the world in the future.
Simply put, this is another gold card for the future. And from a strategic perspective, it is much more important than Milva.
"In that case, you have to thank Niu Bao for giving you the opportunity to study, and I want to thank Niu Bao for allowing us to meet here." Lan En smiled, "But are you alone? This world is not suitable for single ladies. Friendly."
"It doesn't matter, I have a friend in Cowburg. He is a poet named Dandelion, and he is very famous. It was he who wrote a letter of recommendation for me and gave me the opportunity to enter Cowburg." Shani said about
Lan Enwen was a little flattered.
But the girl quickly adjusted her mentality. It can be seen from her future life trajectory that she is not the kind of character limited by the times and the world, otherwise she would not take the initiative to talk to Lan on a ship with so many people.
And under Lan's deliberate guidance, she quickly relaxed her nervous attitude at the beginning.
"I'm very sorry to disturb you, because I often hear your poems and rumors, and..."
Shani looked at Lann's lion eyes: "I often hear stories about demon hunters, and there are rumors that you have also become one. One of them, and you don't hide it. You know, I'm a medical student, so..."
Lann's expression changed.
Could it be that this little girl came to chat with me not from a female perspective, but from a medical perspective and became academically interested in me?
A face suddenly appeared in his mind, wearing a white surgical gown and holding a scalpel, with a sickly red light in his eyes.
Lan changed the topic without changing his expression: "You said before that there were big bugs around here and it was dangerous?"
Shani didn't realize the change in the topic of the conversation, or she thought this was what the witcher should talk about. He was taken away easily: "Yes, the delta area seems to be frequently infested with monster-like bugs. After hearing the rumors, I checked the biological illustrations and they seem to look very similar to dragon lice."
They leaned against the railing together and looked at the turbid, deep green water. By this time the high tide had begun and the stench of the water had become stronger. The first dead rat surfaced.
(End of chapter)