On the road to Shanghe Town, a caravan is resting on the roadside.

    In the caravan, a little girl of four or five years old, holding several bunches of colorful flowers in her hand, trotted and stood in front of ARIF.

    Looking at ARIF, the little girl said carefully, "Lord ARIF, can I bother you?"

    "Of course," said ARIF. "Can I help you? Lovely lady."

    Being called miss makes the little girl quite excited and shy.

    With a sigh of relief, the little girl calmed her mood and tried to make herself clear: "Lord ARIF, when can we get to Shanghe town? Can we do it today?"

    Looking at ARIF, the little girl''s bright eyes were full of expectation.

    Elif put the food aside, looked at the little girl in front of him and said kindly, "little cute, you can see your father today."

    "Really!" hearing ARIF''s words, the expectation on the little girl''s face turned into a surprise, and she almost jumped up with joy.

    The little girl''s lovely reaction made ARIF laugh, looked at her and said softly, "of course, I won''t cheat a lovely girl like you. I''ve prepared food here. Can I invite you to dinner?"

    When invited, let the little girl know what to do.

    Hesitating, she first turned her head and looked at her mother. She saw that her mother was busy preparing food for herself.

    The little girl thought for a while and then said to ARIF, "I''m sorry, Lord ARIF. If I have dinner with you, my mother will have to be alone. I hope I can have dinner with my mother."

    With that, the little girl looked at elif with an apologetic face.

    "What a good boy." ARIF smiled and praised.

    The little girl''s voice was soft, and she tried to make it clear, which made her feel very cute, so she deliberately teased her and said, "you don''t have to apologize, but if you still have a chance to have dinner together in the future, you can''t refuse me. You know, I''ll be very, very sad to be rejected by a lovely little girl like you."

    "Yes!" the little girl said, nodding at ARIF.

    Then the little girl looked at the beautiful flowers in her hand. After a little hesitation, she straightened her arm and handed the flowers to ARIF.

    "Lord ARIF, these beautiful flowers are for you. Thank you for taking me and my mother to find my father."

    "Oh, thank you!"

    With a surprised look on his face, ARIF took several bouquets of wild flowers with both hands, put them on the tip of his nose, sniffed, and said with an intoxicated look: "beautiful lady, this is the best gift I''ve ever received."

    Elif''s exaggerated reaction made the little girl quite shy and said happily, "Lord elif, they are the wild flowers I just picked on the roadside!"

    Her gift was liked. The little girl was full of joy. She held her little hand and pointed to the place where she picked flowers.

    "Oh, my God! Did you pick it yourself?!" said ARIF more exaggerated.

    The little girl grinned and giggled when she saw an adult in ARIF.

    Just when they were having a good talk, the little girl''s mother hurried forward.

    "Melissa, come here quickly," she cried, coming forward and holding her daughter in a nervous tone.

    "You will disturb Lord ARIF''s dinner. You can''t be so naughty. Apologize to Lord ARIF."

    With that, she first bowed to ARIF and apologized for her daughter''s behavior.

    "Mrs. Winnie, you''re too worried."

    Arif stood up and said easygoingly, "I won''t feel disturbed by a lovely little girl like Melissa. Even this trip is full of joy."

    With that, ARIF smiled at the little girl who didn''t know whether to apologize.

    "Thank you for your tolerance." Winnie leaned over to ARIF again with a reserved look.

    Looking up at her mother, the little girl also bowed to ARIF and said, "Lord ARIF, I''m sorry to disturb your dinner."

    "Not at all." ARIF took off his hat and bent over to look at the little girl. "Beautiful miss Melissa, you are welcome to chat with me at any time."

    With that, ARIF winked at Melissa, and the little girl was happy again.

    After the mother and daughter left, ARIF sat down again, picked up the food and continued to eat.

    "Lord ARIF, when have you been so easy-going!" the mercenary asked loudly.

    Looking at the mercenary, ARIF threw a piece of dried meat into his mouth, chewed and said, "I''ve always been like this. Didn''t I tell you?"

    "Always? Hey, it''s not the first time we''ve dealt with!" cried the mercenary, obviously not believing ARIF''s nonsense.

    After drinking a mouthful of ale, ARIF said coldly to several mercenaries: "such a lovely little girl, do you want me to treat her like those slaves!"

    "Hey, hey, look, look! The little one has sent food to the slaves again," shouted the mercenary, nicknamed axe.

    While chewing food, ARIF and others silently watched Melissa running around in front of more than a dozen slaves with bread in their mouths.

    "Elif," said pace, the mercenary leader, "the mother and daughter are free people. You''re not doing anything!"

    Looking at pace''s poor eyes, ARIF glanced and said discontentedly, "master pace, what do you think I''ll do? Although I''m a businessman and don''t have your chivalry, no matter how bastard I am, I won''t attack a child of several years old."

    "Not for gold coins?" pace stared at ARIF, not knowing the truth of his words.

    "That depends on how many gold coins it is!" ARIF smiled and looked at pace. "Don''t worry. If you really want to embarrass them, it''s not their current treatment. I spent a lot of effort to find them."

    Elif looked at Melissa running around the slaves like an elf and said to herself, "in fact, the good days of their mother and daughter are coming."

    Turning his head and looking at the suspicious pace on his face, ARIF said with a proud smile: "remember the slave named torio last time? It''s the slave you saw in the street who changed into an aristocrat."

    "Is that his wife and daughter?"

    Pace glanced at Melissa and her daughter ahead. He had a deep memory of the slave named torio.

    With a smile, elif seemed to think of something beautiful: "yes, it''s the guy''s family."

    Seeing his smile with deep meaning, pace frowned and continued to ask, "did he ask you to do this? Just a family of honorary Knights doesn''t seem to be worth your treatment."

    "As I said, I, ARIF, have always been so kind and polite."

    Arif straightened up, but pace curled his mouth with disdain on his face, and the other mercenaries booed and laughed loudly.

    "Don''t you guys want a reward!" ARIF gritted his teeth when everyone laughed at him.

    But they didn''t care about his threat at all. They bumped into the wine cup and shouted to let him say something.

    "It''s nothing to tell you!" said ARIF discontentedly. "An honorary knight is nothing, but it''s the count of Lingfeng Castle who asked me to get their mother and daughter to Shanghe town!"

    When ARIF finished, he stopped talking, drank ale and smiled proudly.

    As long as he delivers the mother and daughter to Shanghe town safely, he will own the business of averier county and iron ore Bureau in the future!