Chapter 508: Next Steps
() In the end, under the protest of Princess Sophie's stomach, Lu Tao and the three of them finally changed places, the new place is a tavern near the hotel, and now it is lunch time, but it is as noisy as Lu Tao said, maybe this is because of the capital of Harias, Plaar, and most of the people Lu Tao saw when he was in Issos are different, the people of Harias are more rugged, which is reflected in the atmosphere in the tavern, Lu Tao is not in Issos has not been to the tavern, at least on the first day he went there, Mickey took him to eat some local food, There will be no noisy tavern here in Praar, the capital of Harias, especially those big men who are drinking in big glasses, Lu Tao can't even understand what they are talking about, or they are not talking at all, but just to add some condiments to the wine in the glass to make the atmosphere here less lonely.
"It's noisy here...... And I don't like the taste here...... Why don't we go somewhere else!"
Princess Sophie covered her nose as soon as she entered the tavern, frowned tightly, and seemed to have a lot of complaints about the taste here, which naturally complained about Princess Sophie, after all, most of the people in this tavern are men, and they are the kind of men with rich body hair and strong bodies, and there are even many people wearing colorful animal skins, mixing the taste of different foods, and the taste is naturally not much better, and even Lu Tao guessed that Princess Sophie I have never been to such a place before, whether it is the Tavern of Issos, the capital of the Republic of Carr, or the tavern of some other placeγ
"It's the best place to go, let's go, there's a vacant seat in the corner over there, let's sit down, Sophie, I know you've never been to this kind of place before, but now that we're too busy to take care of ourselves, we don't care so much." Mickey waved his hand and walked into the tavern first: "Come in quickly, there are so many people here, maybe there will be no place in a while." β
"Hmph!" Princess Sophie snorted, and finally followed behind Mickey, Lu Tao shook his head, it seems that although they ran out to forage for food for a common reason, there is still some tension between these two people, but these are not solutions that Lu Tao can solve, the relationship between Mickey and Princess Sophie is much better than that of him, a latecomer, and naturally they have their own ways to resolve disputes.
Maybe it was because there had been no woman like Sophie in the tavern for too long, that is, the kind of woman who was white and dressed in ordinary clothes, and where Princess Sophie and Mickey passed, the strong men who were drinking with a pair of copper bells and big eyes, as if under a spell, lowered their voices in unison, but those glances still betrayed their minds.
Finally walked to the empty seat in the corner of the tavern and sat down, Lu Tao breathed a sigh of relief, and at the same time, he seemed to hear that the strong men around him were also relieved, Lu Tao expected that the scene of accosting did not happen, and it was also possible to avoid conflicts, and he couldn't even eat a meal.
"Wow, this table is so dirty, it's covered with oily ......" Princess Sophie stretched out her fingers and gently wiped the dark tabletop, then showed a disgusted expression, took out the handkerchief in her pocket and wiped her fingers vigorously: "You won't get sick when you eat here, right?"
"You can get sick after a meal, the taverns are like this, and there are not so many people who come to wipe the tables so clean. β
Mickey answered Sophie's question nonchalantly, then reached out and beckoned to the tavern waiter who was wandering around not far away, and the waiter in this tavern was also a woman, no
He was already quite old, he looked at least forty or fifty years old, although the charm was still there, but the wrinkles on his face had already deeply outlined some shadows, and when he saw Mickey beckoning, he hurriedly walked over: "A few people, what do you order? We just got fresh ale here." β
"Then give one of us a glass of ale, food or something, pick up the specialties here and have one for each person, the portion is not too large, enough for the three of us to eat, and the rest here should be your tip." Mickey skillfully placed orders, speaking of which, although Mickey was a nobleman, he definitely went to the tavern much more often than Lu Tao.
"Okay, a few people, please wait a minute. The middle-aged woman who was waiting for her smiled and nodded, and by the way, she accepted a silver coin that Mickey had tossed on the table, and her smile seemed to become even brighter.
"Wait a minute!"
Just as the waiter was about to turn around and go to prepare the food, Princess Sophie stopped her, "Do you only have ale here?"
"In addition to ale, we have ......wine here," the waiter replied with a smile on his face, without adding the fact that wine is more expensive, as it seemed that the silver coins that Mickey had given him before were enough to exchange a glass of ale for wine.
"Then bring me a glass of wine, I don't like ale, it smells weird. β
"Okay ma'am, please wait. β
After the waiter left again, Mickey lowered his voice: "Okay, now we can finally discuss what to do in the future, since Proyas already knows that we are in this city, should we change countries or change cities? Harias is not the only city in Prar, and further up the river, I remember that Harrias has a big city, although it will not be as prosperous as Praar, but it is enough for us to live there." β
"Ah, are we going to run? If we continue to take the boat, I'm afraid I can't stand it, I was a little seasick when I took the boat before, and after I got ashore, I felt that the ground was shaking all the time, and now I haven't recovered......" Princess Sophie looked worried, as if she didn't want to flee to another place at all.
Mickey shook his head and said to Sophie, "That city is not far from Praar, it will take about half an hour to get there, if you don't want to take a boat, we can go by horse-drawn carriage." β
Lu Tao thought about it, but still interjected: "I don't think we need to be in such a hurry to go to other cities, if we have to avoid Proas's surveillance, then the best way is to go to another country, this is the best way to do it in one step, and we need to first find out what extent Proyas's surveillance of us has reached, and then make a detailed plan to go to another city, which only increases the difficulty of the other party's surveillance, I'm afraid it doesn't make any sense." β
After a pause, Lu Tao continued: "On the other hand, the three of us are not at any point where they can resist Proyas, there is no need for him to leave us here, if he wants to be unfavorable to us, he should just control us directly, where do we need so many twists and turns?"
"Who knows what he thinks?" Mitch continued to shake his head, "In case this is just an illusion, and he just thinks it's more fun to tease us like this, I still think we should move somewhere else before he reacts, at least take the initiative into our own hands." β
Lu Tao had no choice but to be silent, he naturally didn't want to put his fate in the hands of others, but in any case, Lu Tao didn't think that according to the current situation of the three of them, they would be able to escape Proyas's solidity, and it would be useless to do anything, of course, it would be best if Proyas didn't have the intention of monitoring the three of them at all, and in the end it was still useless.
Seeing that Lu Tao no longer objected, Mickey continued his previous words and said: "Let's rest for the night first, eliminate fatigue, and set off early tomorrow morning, try not to disturb others, and go out quietly." β
"Okay then...... It's really troublesome......" Princess Sophie showed a rather unhappy expression, and forgot what the three of them had come to such a place for: "Then let's hurry up and go back to rest, I want to sleep well, I didn't sleep well yesterday or the day before yesterday." β
Speaking of which, the waiter finally brought the food on their table, several wooden plates contained mixed colors of food, some were meat, some were plant stems, and some things that I didn't know what were mixed in, Lu Tao couldn't tell whether the leaf-like thing on the plate was a condiment or not, or if it was really just a leaf.
Although the quality of the food looks a little suspicious, but the fragrance emitted is real, Lu Tao and Mickey glanced at each other, picked up the knife and fork placed next to the plate, and began to eat the food on the plate, Lu Tao inserted a piece of meat into his mouth with a fork, and looked at the food on the plate in surprise, sure enough, there are so many people here for a reason, and the taste of the food is quite good.
Take the piece of meat that Lu Tao put in his mouth, the taste is a little like mutton, but there is no fishy taste of mutton, and I don't know if it is the role of managing those strange condiments, the tender meat makes people can't help but squint their eyes, which reminds Lu Tao of the steak that he had eaten in the original world, a steak of more than 500 yuan, of course, that steak was not Lu Tao's initiative to eat, he was poor at the time, if someone hadn't invited him, he wouldn't have spent 500 yuan to eat a steak, with so much money, it is better to stock up on more meat and put it in the refrigerator, and then prepare more delicious and inexpensive dishesγ
The taste of the ale wine is cold and cold, as if it has just been taken out of the refrigerator, with a slightly sweet taste, and a fragrance of wheat, mixed with the aroma of meat, it is really the best food Lu Tao has ever eaten since he came here.
"What is this? It's sour and astringent, and it doesn't taste good at all!"
Princess Sophie took a sip of the wine with a faint red glow, and then spit it directly to the ground, her brows furrowed even tighter: "This wine is too inferior, I have never drunk such a bad wine!"
The waiter, who was still standing next to this table and had not left, showed a embarrassed expression: "Miss...... This is already the best wine we have here......"
Princess Sophie wanted to get angry, but seemed to think of something again, and forcibly endured her emotions, Mickey took Princess Sophie's wine glass, tasted it gently, frowned and swallowed: "This wine is really not good, but it's good to be able to drink wine here, don't be suspicious so much, you must know that most of the ones you usually drink are more than the price of a glass of silver coins." β
As he spoke, Mickey turned his head to look at the waiter who was still standing there: "Let's bring him a drink of McBar, your wine here is very delicious." β