Chapter 14: The Unprovoked Thief
The idea of opening casinos was eventually extinguished, because in the empire, all casinos were run by the government, and private individuals were not allowed to open casinos. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ļ½ļ½ļ½Uļ½Eć ļ½ļ½ļ½ļ½
There may be people who have a fluke mentality and secretly open casinos, but the laws of the empire are extremely strict, and once discovered, it must be beheaded for public display, and all family members are bought into slaves in other provinces, and all property is confiscated. So no one wants to take that risk.
Soon it was dinner time, Li Zhan sat at the table with everyone, talking and laughing, he did not have any racial discrimination, and he would not look down on other people because of their lower status than himself, but talked to them happily like good friends.
Heita is naturally a straight gut, not to mention that he also has a fateful friendship with Li Zhan, so he naturally likes this atmosphere very much. As for Emile and McCann, they have long been accustomed to this kind of thing because they have been in contact with Li Zhan for a long time.
On the contrary, the four new slaves looked at Li Zhan and them in disbelief, they couldn't believe that the owner of the manor would actually eat at the same table as them, and they didn't look like a fierce slave owner at all, but like a friend.
Li Zhan also saw the strangeness of the four of them, which was the same as McCann's performance at the beginning, so he gestured to McCann with his eyes and asked him to adjust the atmosphere. Of course, McCann's cooking skills are not bad, and he understood what Li Zhan meant, and took the initiative to tell the four people about the life of the manor.
At the same time, Li Zhan also took the opportunity to tear up the slave agreement of the four of them, which indicated that the four of them were already free.
After McCann's painstaking nudgets, and Li Zhan's tearing up of their slave agreement, these four people finally let down their vigilance and quickly integrated into life here.
After dinner, Li Zhan stood alone on the balcony, while the Black Tower stood beside him.
Black, his skin was already very dark, if he hadn't seen that his eyes still had white spots, Li Zhan really couldn't have seen that there was a person standing next to him.
"Blacktower, sometimes I feel lonely." Li Zhan's heart suddenly swelled up, and when he woke up, he found that he had suddenly appeared in this strange world. The identities of all are different, there are slaves, slave fighters, and some junior gladiators. He didn't know exactly where he was, or why he was there.
In the dead of night, there was always an inexplicable sense of loneliness in his heart, and he wanted to know where this place was, or rather, who had brought him here.
During this time, Li Zhan also inquired about some things everywhere, and learned that this country was called Rome, and the town of Castel, where he was located, was a small town in the province of Dacia, and it was more than a hundred miles east to the port of Guardland.
He had some vague impressions of the country of Rome in his head, but he couldn't put it all together.
With gladiatorial arenas, slavery, so-called farmers and an aristocracy he had never seen before, it was hard to imagine what a chaotic political system it was.
"Loneliness?" Heita looked at Li Zhan suspiciously, put his hand on his shoulder and asked, "Now that we have so many friends in our manor, why do you still feel lonely?" ā
"Do you think Emile isn't pretty enough? I don't think the big one is still here, why don't you give me ten gold coins, and I'll buy it for you? ā
Hearing Heita's words, Li Zhan rolled his eyes at him: "It's really playing the piano to the cow, the loneliness I'm talking about is not this!" Besides, Emile was only sixteen years old, and he was a minor. ā
Originally, he played the piano to the cow, Li Zhan appeared in this world for no reason, and Heita has been living in this world for eighteen years.
"I said, Li Zhan, Emir is already sixteen years old, my mother was only fifteen years old when she gave birth to me, and the empire stipulates that a woman can get married and have children when she reaches the age of fourteen." Heita still didn't understand what Li Zhan meant by loneliness, and thought it was because Emir was young, so he gave him a good science popularization of the laws of the empire, "A man is considered an adult as long as he is sixteen years old, and a woman is fourteen years old..."
"Black Tower..."Li Zhan interrupted Black Tower's chatter, the current situation is completely chicken and duck talking, one is talking about sorrow, and the other is talking about loneliness.
"Shh Suddenly, Heita made a silent gesture at Li Zhan, and gestured to him: A thief is coming!
But Li Zhan only heard "shhhhh
"The thief is coming?" Although he didn't see the movements of the Black Tower, it can be guessed that it was probably the Black Tower who discovered the traces of the thief and asked him not to speak, so Li Zhan asked the Black Tower in a very small voice, "Can you see how many people?" ā
"Ten soldiers!" With a strange scream, he suddenly pulled Li Zhan and ran away, during which he kept saying, "It's a Persian soldier!" ā
Persia?! This term is also very familiar, Li Zhan frowned and thought, why did he run away when he met a Persian soldier? Could it be that Persia was hostile to Rome?
Just when Li Zhan was confused, the ten Persian soldiers had quickly approached his house, and at the same time, Emile and McCann also heard the cry of the Black Tower, and they all rushed to Li Zhan's house.
Ten Persian soldiers knew that their whereabouts had been exposed, so they simply stopped sneaking around, lit torches openly, and held a wide back scimitar in their hands, and surrounded Li Zhan and them.
Ten torches lit up the whole house, Li Zhan and the others were completely exposed to the light, while the ten Persian soldiers were wearing masks and black night clothes, and shouted menacingly: "Hand over all your money, or I will kill you!" ā
Li Xianzai, who had not figured out the situation just now, finally knew why Heita was running away when he saw the Persian soldiers, this Persian soldier was a bandit, and he was a bandit of a very high rank, because he found that the system showed that among the ten Persian soldiers, there were eight junior gladiators and two intermediate gladiators.
If it is evenly matched, Li Zhan will try it, after all, he already has the ability of a junior gladiator, and after these few gladiatorial arena matches, he also has some mastery of fighting skills. However, the current situation is obviously that the enemy is too strong, and it is a little difficult to escape alone.
"Who is the owner of this manor?" A Persian soldier led by him stepped forward and asked Li Zhan, "Are you the owner of this manor?" ā
Little white face? Li Zhan felt that this Persian soldier's statement was a little inexplicable, he was obviously brown-skinned, where was it white?
But when he looked back at the people behind him, he finally admitted that he was a little white face, because everyone except Emile had black skin. Among these people, he is really a little white face.
"This manor is mine, what do you want to do?" Since there was no escape, Li Zhan had no choice but to ask the Persian soldier, "If you want money, I have 300 gold coins here, and you can take them all." ā
Li Zhan untied his money bag, and then threw the gold coins in the money bag. The gold coins arced in the air, and landed behind the Persian soldiers.
He wanted to distract the Persian soldiers with the gold coins, and then take the opportunity to flee with everyone. As long as it is a person, when you see so many gold coins, you will definitely go crazy to grab it.
But they never expected that those Persian soldiers would stand motionless when they found Li Zhan throwing out the gold coin, and they didn't even raise their heads.
"Oops, this is a bunch of well-trained soldiers!" Li Zhan saw the performance of these Persian soldiers, and his heart was also tight, seeing so much money without even raising his head, if he wasn't well-trained, he would definitely be a ghost.
"Hamas, go see what he's missing!" At this time, the Persian soldier who had just led the way shouted at Hamas behind him.
Hamas heard his captain shouting to him to see what Li Zhan had lost, so he took two steps behind him, squatted on the ground and shone it with a torch: "It seems to be a gold coin, let me try to see if this gold coin is real." As he spoke, Hamas put a gold coin next to his tooth and bit it hard.
"Really, really gold! Captain Hard, it's really gold! Hamas shouted as he picked up the gold coins on the ground and stuffed them into his purse around his waist.
When Hader and the other Persian soldiers heard Hamas say that they were real gold coins, they quickly turned around, cheered and joined the ranks of picking up gold coins.
Ten Persian soldiers were in a mess, completely forgetting about Li Zhan behind them.
As for Li Zhan, his idea just now was completely wrong, not because Harder and they were well-trained, but because Li Zhan flew over their heads when he threw gold coins, and the light of the torches was limited and could not reach the top, so they didn't know that Li Zhan was throwing gold coins.
If it had been daylight, they would have been robbing the gold coins long ago.
"Run!" Li Zhan shouted at the Black Tower and the others, "Let's go and report to Mayor Vic!" The Persians have invaded the empire! ā
They were deserters from the Persian Empire, who had been severely punished for committing some crimes in the barracks, and were then placed as the vanguard of the attack on the province of Dacia, that is, the cannon fodder troops.
In order to escape death, they escaped from the barracks, and because they did not have a different direction, they accidentally broke into Li Zhan's manor. Originally, I didn't have much hope, thinking that I would rob a few gold coins at most, but I didn't expect the other party to throw out so many gold coins so suddenly, which is enough for ten of them to eat and drink well for a lifetime, what kind of soldier are they!