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The captain of the City Guard who is keeping vigil at the East Gate tonight is Swift Burnie, who is thirty years old this year, and has a kind smile on his face at all times, if it weren't for the City Guard uniform on his body, I think one hundred and one out of a hundred people would think he was a businessman. The squad leader was known for his approachability, tolerance and kindness, and was known as "Swift the Soft-Hearted." ”

As the capital of the Kingdom of France, the city of Paris is also the largest, most populous and most economically prosperous city in the kingdom. Thousands of people entered and exited the city every day through six gates in all four directions of the city, but Paris only levied an entry tax on the caravans, so for Captain Swift and his thirty soldiers, they only had to watch out for the wagons with the caravan's flags.

It was 8:15, and Captain Swift had just finished his routine patrol, climbed down the ladder from the top of the city wall, grabbed a soldier and asked, "Where is Cook, did you secretly go on a date with someone again?" Cook was a young soldier who was supposed to stand guard on a lookout high above the city wall, but Captain Swift didn't see a single ghost on the lookout, which annoyed him.

The soldier who was questioned was obviously quite familiar with Captain Swift on a regular basis, so he shrugged his shoulders and put a clueless expression on his face: "Who knows, I heard from Cook yesterday that he was going to let the girl move into his cabin in two days, but I have seen the girl under her armpits, and the fox smell under her armpits can be smoked even ten meters away." Hey, maybe that's what people often say about love that makes people lose their sense of smell. As soon as the words fell, the surrounding soldiers couldn't help but laugh, causing passers-by to cast strange glances.

"Don't talk nonsense here, is that what you say, it's obviously love that makes people blind!" Captain Swift scolded with a smile and patted the soldier on the shoulder: "You kid will go up to the lookout for me to be on duty immediately, otherwise if General Blind finds out, we will all have to walk around without food." ”

"Head!" Another soldier under Captain Swift approached him and said, "There's a wagon outside trying to enter the city, waiting for your inspection at the front. After a pause, the soldier whispered to him again, "It's from the Louis Chamber of Commerce." ”

Captain Swift's face changed slightly, and he shouted to the few soldiers around him: "Don't make trouble, there is a convoy coming, you guys follow me." After speaking, he walked towards the outside of the city gate, the Louis Chamber of Commerce is one of the largest chambers of commerce in the Kingdom of France, its background and financial resources are very strong, and the actual controller behind the scenes is the Duke Louis, the current military minister of the kingdom, such a background can not be neglected.

With the help of the bright lights on the city wall, Captain Swift could clearly see at least one group of carriages neatly parked on the side of the road, and at a cursory glance, there were at least ten or more carriages, each carriage was planted with a small flag painted with the logo of the Louis Chamber of Commerce, and the dozen or so burly men next to the carriage were also wearing uniform chamber of commerce guard uniforms, which looked quite intimidating.

The people in the convoy also clearly saw the pot-bellied Captain Swift and several soldiers behind him, and a guy who had been sitting side by side with the coachman in the carriage at the front of the convoy immediately jumped out of the carriage to greet him, and shouted very enthusiastically: "Captain Swift!" Long time no see. ”

Swift was stunned for a moment when he heard this, and then immediately recognized the voice, and the captain's fat face immediately showed a smile comparable to that of a businessman, and his pace immediately sped up a little: "Yo, I thought it was Polly, it turned out to be Deacon Polly." "This deacon named Polly has been leading the convoy in and out of the east gate all the year round, and he can be said to be an old acquaintance of Captain Swift.

The hands of the two were tightly clasped together, and it took several seconds to separate. A very heavy bag of money was subtly transferred from Deacon Polly to Captain Swift's hand during this handshake.

Captain Swift slid the small money bag in his hand slightly, feeling the weight in it. Then the smile on his face immediately became brighter, stretched out the index finger and middle finger of his left hand and signaled to the subordinates behind him, don't look at the captain when he made the gesture a little careless, in fact, this gesture is still exquisite, three fingers usually represent strict inspection, and the meaning of two fingers is to tell these subordinates, just look at it so-so.

These soldiers were not following the captain for the first time, and they immediately walked towards the convoy behind Deacon Polly.

Although the money has been collected, the form of the trip still has to go, so when his subordinates inspected the convoy, Captain Swift did not leave in a hurry, but stood in place and chatted with Deacon Polly: "Deacon, your Chamber of Commerce has done a lot of business recently, and there are large goods entering the city at two ends in three days. If you continue like this, I don't think you're far from the day of ascension. The "big goods" in the captain's mouth are naturally those shady things in the team.

Deacon Polly said with a smile: "Where, the captain said that he was laughing, brother, I am just a brick of the Chamber of Commerce, where I need to move it, what is high or not is the idea of adults, brother, I don't dare to hope for it." ”

"What a good one to move wherever you need to," Swift's eyes lit up, and he praised: "Deacon Polly is indeed a man with ink in his stomach, and what he says is different from those of us who are soldiers, and everything is reasonable." ”

"Where, where, the captain praised it." Deacon Polly hurriedly shook his head, and then immediately sent out a high hat: "Speaking of which, I can only say this with a person like you, the captain, who knows how to understand the philosophy of life, and it is simply impossible to talk with other people, the captain is simply my confidant!" ”

The two of you blew me and I praised you, and they chatted happily for a while.

If this were the case, Captain Swift's men would have walked around the convoy and headed back to the city with the captain, and then Deacon Polly led his wagon into Paris City in the darkness of the night. But just when everything was about to be completed step by step, the whole thing suddenly changed to the surprise of everyone present.