Verse 27: The lion opens his mouth
There was a lot of laughter from the drinkers and the tavernkeeper, and Bruce and his party were laughing inexplicably, Mavis was a little dissatisfied, and as soon as she reached out of her sleeve, a colorful spider crawled out, and the big spider jumped onto the bar, and when the tavern owner laughed, he reached out and touched a furry thing, and he looked at it and screamed.
The tavernkeeper was so frightened that he dodged backwards, but his feet stepped on a sleeping cat curled up, and the cat whose tail was stepped on jumped up with a scream, and unceremoniously scratched the tavernkeeper's face with his paws, and the people in the tavern laughed at him when they saw the embarrassed owner.
"Come back." A strange smile appeared on the corner of Mavis's mouth, and as soon as she stretched out her sleeve, the spider jumped back again, and her movements were so agile that everyone didn't even react.
"And where is the knight you mocked at now?" Bruce became increasingly curious about the pale wandering knight, and he asked a drinker.
"Upstairs, my lordship, your valiant knight is sprinting with his spear, oh, this knight is not wasting every penny." The drinker with the wine glass said with a lewd smile.
"That's right, the ** people in this town are very grateful to him!"
"Hahaha, I just don't know if he can still pick up a real sword and spear?"
With the foul language of the drinkers, Bruce had a bad premonition in his heart, but since he had already arrived here, he had to bite the bullet and go upstairs, the tavern is usually two floors, the first floor is for guests to drink and eat, and the second floor is for the guest rooms.
"Don't go with it." Bruce turned and said to Annie and the others who had gotten up and were about to follow behind.
"Why?" Mavis said unconvinced.
"Listen to the lord!" Huntress Eve seemed to realize something, reached out and pressed Mavis down, and the three of them sat back in their seats.
Bruce stepped on the wooden staircase, the wooden staircase creaked, and when he came to the wooden staircase corridor in front of the guest room, Bruce heard a burst of rude gasps, and a woman's coquettish gasp, it seemed that someone was doing something very gentlemanly.
"Ping-pong-ping-pong." Bruce frowned, but still knocked on the wooden door, and after a while the door opened, only to see a ** man wrapped in a skirt and showing smooth shoulders looking at Bruce with a sloppy smile.
"I'm looking for the wandering knight here, uh, his nickname is the Pale One." Bruce said to the woman.
The woman got out of the way, Bruce walked in, a sour smell rushed straight to his nose, so that Bruce couldn't help but block it under his nose with his left index finger, after the ridicule of the drinkers in front, Bruce had already imagined that he would face a very unbearable guy, but when he really saw the wandering knight, Bruce couldn't help but want to turn away, this guy really lived up to the nickname of the Pale One, a pale little face was obviously too kidney-deficient.
"Who are you?" Edward, the wandering knight, looked curiously at the man in front of him, a boy who looked to be only fifteen or sixteen years old.
"You're Sir Edward?" Bruce frowned, looking at this thin man with ribs exposed, and wondered in his heart, is this guy really a knight?
"That's right, I'm Sir Edward, a knight from Waleshire in Kate's kingdom." Edward draped an undershirt over his body, and he said nonchalantly.
"Five copper pesos." The ** on the side put on his dress and stretched out his hand to Edward and said.
"Five copper pesos, why don't you rob it, are you inlaid with gold, or are you the illegitimate daughter of the king?" Edward was immediately annoyed, and he immediately burst out scolding.
"What? Bastard, you let the old lady serve for three days and three nights, and you still haven't given me enough to eat, five copper pesos is already very cheap, if you don't pay, I'll let the weird eye clean you up. Not to be outdone, the red-haired ** scolded her, her fat body was big enough to top Edward two, and she rolled up her sleeves to reveal her thick arms.
"Okay, okay, five copper pesos is hell, this place is even so expensive." Edward had no choice but to shut his mouth, took out a deflated money bag from under the bed, and took out five copper pesos for a long time and handed it to **, while ** rolled his eyes and snorted coldly and turned to leave.
"Uh, forget it, looks like you should be busy." Bruce looked at the scene in front of him, and was completely disappointed in the knight, and he turned to leave.
"Wait, what are you looking for me?" But Edward stepped forward and patted Bruce on the shoulder, pinned him to the only wooden bench in the room, and said to him enthusiastically.
"Okay, I'm the lord of Glinton, and I want to hire a knight, but I think your Excellency is extraordinary and brave, and my small territory shouldn't be able to hire you, so I think it's better to forget it!" Bruce stood up and tried to leave as he spoke, but Edward's eyes lit up.
"Don't worry, lord, I'm a real knight, if you hire me, pay me five silver coins a week, and give me an independent house, two servants, and a piece of land that can be cultivated, how about it?" Edward immediately spoke enthusiastically to Bruce.
"Five silver coins?" Listening to Edward's conditions, the corners of Bruce's eyes twitched, this is complete blackmail, does this guy think that he is young and thinks he is very good at deceiving?
"Why, my lord, do you think it's expensive? Tell you that I am a pure Kate nobleman, my family can be traced back to the time of King Arthur, my ancestors had a duke and three earls, and I myself was the winner of the Notting tournament, if you don't believe me, look at this pedigree certificate. Edward tried to convince Bruce, he pulled out a boot from under the bed with his bare feet, and pulled out a roll of parchment from the boot, the yellow stained parchment depicted the family tree, and the bifurcated family names represented each generation of the family, Edward opened the parchment and poked it in front of Bruce, and pointed to the name in the lower left, which was written on it. Valentine, and the family crest of the Valentine family is a mermaid.
"This?" Bruce looked at the pedigree certificate in front of him, at first glance it seemed to be very old, and a knight of pure blood was also very useful, but this guy opened his mouth widely, and the price Bruce used was enough to train twelve militiamen.
At this moment, the door was suddenly kicked open, and five strong men rushed in, and Edward screamed and fled towards the window.