Qiu Xuan: "Antonio said, 'I don't know why I'm so depressed. You say that you are tired of seeing me like this, but I myself am tired of it. But I don't know how I can get my sorrow on me, what it is, and where it comes from. Sorrow has turned me into a fool, and I don't even know myself a little. ’”

She finished the passage in a quiet voice, lifting her eyelids and glancing around.

The commotion around has never stopped, except for a moment of silence when she and Hongfa appeared in the center of the venue at first, and then they toasted and greeted themselves, talking loudly about the affairs of the world.

Qiu Xuan: "Graciano said, 'Let me play a clown.'" Let me grow old imperceptibly in the laughter of giggling; It is better to warm my stomach with wine than to cold my heart with a groan that tortures me. ’”

No one cared what she was talking about. On the main seat, Jimma visibly looked like she had just gotten up from the hospital bed, but she was still forcing herself to pour wine for Lilia, who was sitting next to her.

Gemma's movements were a little cautious and natural in putting himself in a low position, and he probably didn't notice it himself, but just squeezed out a smile and whispered something next to the blonde lord.

The lord named Lilia didn't squint, and he didn't know if he had listened or not. And finally one time, she raised her head in the midst of Jimma's meticulous slander, and glanced condescendingly at Qiu Xuan, who was talking.

"When I practiced archery at school, every time I shot an arrow and I didn't know where it went, I would shoot another arrow of the same range in the same direction, and when I saw where it had fallen, I could often find the lost arrow; In this way, at a double risk, two arrows can be found. ’”

Gemma paused for a moment as he poured his wine, in fact he didn't care about the two circus members who were trying to entertain the public, and he didn't take the time to listen to the boring "show", and he didn't notice the blonde lord and one of them briefly making eye contact.

But he noticed that Lilia's toast had stopped, and as he followed, he saw the dark-haired circus member standing underneath.

"Hey! You, just you, what's your name?! ”

With a thud, he lowered his glass, and his short thick fingers suddenly pointed at the man standing in the center of the hall. Beside him, Kaya's eyebrows jumped, but he still leaned over and bent down and whispered in Jima's ear: "Her name is Afu, and she was introduced by Lin Buge." ”

"Limbug......" Jima muttered, looking back at what he was looking for in his seat. Eh, Limbug! ”

He shouted, and the dwarf merchant who was drinking followed the voice, patted the hem of his shirt and stood up. "My honor, Lord Jima, do you have any orders?"

"This is the person you found!" Jimma preemptively, "What kind of nonsense is spoken, I can't understand it!" Don't you see that the adults next to you are already yawning? What's the use of a circus, if we can't even entertain us! ”

Lin Buge bowed slightly, and his demeanor was still humble. "I'm sorry Jima-sama, I think ......"

Before he finished speaking, the main entrance of the hall was suddenly pushed open by several attendants dressed as maids!

At this moment, the groggy lords around them all shook their heads and barely woke up, and asked with their eyelids what happened. On the high seat, Jima's face was also extremely gloomy, after all, it was his own maid who "didn't understand the rules" now, and he could only endure it if he let those people see the jokes.

"What the hell are you doing......

He glared fiercely at Kaya, who was standing next to him, and Kaya whispered an apology to understand the situation, but the next second he heard the rumors, his whole body stiffened.

"What the hell is going on!"

"Your Excellency......" Kaya still looked incredulous, bending down and whispering something in Gemma's ear, and at this moment, there was one more person on the high seat with a stiff body.

"What's the matter, my hometown was bombed?" Qiu Xuan touched her nose inexplicably, looking at the people above like a few pantomime performers acting. She just wanted to say that if we take the opportunity to go down first, she saw the next second, the crisp sound of the very clear hard-soled upper stepping on the ground exploded in her ears.

It wasn't the sound of a single person walking, dozens of pairs of heels slammed on the ground in unison, but there was hardly a single abrupt dissonant sound.

Just like the military parade I saw before, hundreds of people all moved in unison, and there was only a uniform sound of stepping on the ground in my ears.

With such a sound of stepping on the ground, a figure appeared in the doorway.

His short black hair was neatly combed back, and he was wearing a very old medieval aristocratic male sock and leather boots, and he held an ebony cane in his hand. The man unbuttoned his cloak with one hand, and someone immediately stepped forward to act as a human hanger.

Qiu Xuan saw that if there were still voices questioning what was going on before, and since the moment that person appeared in the field of vision, the big and small lords who had fallen on the seat were all trembling and completely sober.

The stalemate lasted until a light cough, and in the dead silence, Penny took a few steps forward and saluted the man respectfully.

She said, "Lord Beelzebub, please take a seat." ”

Beelzebub.

Qiu Xuan glanced around a few times and found that those people were staring at the comer with a blank face, so she also mixed in the crowd and looked openly. The redhead beside him stretched the barrier with some complications, and said, "I didn't expect him to come." ”

"You know him?"

"Who doesn't know him?" "Beelzebub is the most powerful lord of the day, or he can't be called a 'lord,' and the fact is tacitly that he is the master of the beams. ”

"Huh." Qiu Xuan sighed very embarrassedly, "Then does he have anything to do with the fallen angel who fell because of gluttony in that canon?" ”

The redhead said truthfully, "I don't know how our canons differ from yours, but there is indeed a Prince of Hell in the world civilization I know. I don't know if this Beelzebub is related to that one, but one thing is that he has a nickname. ”

Qiu Xuan's interface: "Lord of the Flies." ”

"You know?" Redhead glanced at her in some surprise, "That seems like there is overlap between your civilization and this in that regard." ”

Jimma swallowed so loudly from the throne that almost half of them could hear the boss roll in his throat. And then, with a pale face, he stood up from his position as the only symbol of his master, and bowed to Beelzebub from afar.

"Your Excellency, ...... Please be seated. ”

Beelzebub glanced at him with a smile, "Jima, long time no see. You don't look good, is something going on? ”

The tone and demeanor of his voice when he spoke always gave Qiu Xuan a sense of familiarity, and this time it was not only she who had a sense of familiarity, but even the red hair next to her frowned as if she was recalling something.

"I've heard a lot of rumors, but this is the first time I've seen Beelzebub himself. Afu ...... Don't you think he has a sense of familiarity? ”

"I feel that way, too." Qiu Xuan nodded, "You and I feel déjà vu at the same time, which means that we must be chosen among the people we know together." ”

Jimma's expression became even more ugly, he raised the back of his chubby hand and wiped a handful of sweat on his forehead, and said, "Thank you for your care, I am just before...... It's just a little accident, so don't bother with it...... You may be seated, you may be seated! ”

So Beelzebub sat down very naturally, and there was not a single guest of his own who sat in the host's place. He even raised his hand, more like the owner of this mansion than Jima, and let the lords below continue to eat and drink, without worrying about himself.

I don't know if he really didn't see the ugly faces of those people below who ate dead flies.

"Lord Beelzebub." On the side of the original main seat, Lilia greeted her as usual. The latter smiled and whispered a few pleasantries, and the party day began again in such an eerie atmosphere.

Kaya came back to her senses and hurriedly gestured to the redhead and Qiu Xuan to stop standing on them. But just as they were all on the edge, Lilia suddenly stopped them from the high seat, and tilted her head as if she was very interested.

"Your name is Afu, right?" She had just learned the name of the performer from Kaya, "That story you just told is interesting, you're the author, can I know its name?" ”

The red-haired eyebrows twitched, Qiu Xuan paused, and raised her eyes to look at Lilia who was holding her head and looking at this side.

Beelzebub on the main seat also looked down at the position as if it had been intrigued.

"I'm not the author, it's someone else's work." "It's called The Merchant of Venice," she says. ”

"Well...... "what about the ending?" Lilia thought. What happened at the end? ”

Jimma looked a little embarrassed, after all, he had just taken it upon himself to think that Lilia was tired because she thought the performance was too boring, and he scolded Lilbug for it. But now Lilia could clearly see that she was very interested, if he had just asked her to take this circus member away, but now, Beelzebub was here.

He stole a glance at the man sitting in the master's seat, the dark-haired nobleman rubbing a wine glass, unable to tell whether he was interested or bored.

"The ending is...... Antonio is rescued, Graciano and Bassanio resolve a misunderstanding with his wife, and Shylock gets the punishment he deserves. ”

Lilia raised her hand to pin a strand of blonde hair behind her ear, and her eyelashes fluttered slightly. "So, the ending of this story is something that everyone is happy with, but Sherlock pays the price, right?"

"Yes." Qiu Xuan looked at her calmly, "If it's okay, I'll go down first." ”

"Although I seem to have missed a wonderful story," said Beelzebub, who had always shown an interest in one of the wine glasses in his hand, and his eyes rose from the glass and fell back to Qiu Xuan. "Can I take a moment of your time? Listening to your discussion, in the end, only the man named Sherlock was punished, why, because he did something unforgivable? ”

Kaya next to her looked at her, and his gaze had changed from "hurry up, it's none of your business" to "you're completely in trouble". Qiu Xuan glanced at her, but still stopped completely and turned back to face the high seat.

"Shylock was also a businessman, but unlike the decent and affectionate Antonio, he was a miserly and cruel usury businessman." She briefly explained the background of the character, "He felt that Antonio had influenced other 'normal' loan sharks by lending money without interest, coupled with personal vendettas, so he wanted to get revenge on Antonio for taking a pound of flesh from him." ”

Qiu Xuan paused for a moment, and raised her eyes to look at Beelzebub, who was smiling at her. "In the end, in the court, they took advantage of the loophole of 'giving flesh but not blood' to save Antonio, and confiscated Shylock's property for assault."

Beelzebub listened unusually quietly as she roughly recounted the whole story, and this time, under his influence, the other lords, who had not cared for much talk, were forced to listen to the whole story in silence.

Qiu Xuan stopped talking, "That's the ending, it's just a drama story." ”

Beelzebub's face still did not fluctuate in any other way, but after listening to it, he was silent for a while, and then asked rhetorically, "Do you think that this merchant named Sherlock deserves it?" ”

"You can interpret it however you want."

This time, Qiu Xuan somewhat understood what Shen Jingxue meant when she told her the story of the beast.

A story is just a story, it's out there, you can interpret it however you want.

Thinking of this, she suddenly laughed at the "simply crazy" eyes of the crowd, lifted her eyelids and looked directly at Beelzebub on the main seat.

"Then may I ask your understanding, is everything that 'decent' businessman Antonio does really symbolize 'justice'? A businessman who 'breaks the rules' in the circle of loan sharks, would you want to kill him if it were you? ”

Jimma gasped on it, regardless of whether the question was hidden or not, just by the fact that she was now asking Beelzebub in such a tone, if it was really investigated, the entire Jima family would probably be implicated in the water.

"Shut up! What are you ......?"

He didn't finish his sentence, for Beelzebub suddenly stood up.

"Adult ......"

"To be honest, I would want to kill him, but I would also want to use him." Beelzebub said,

"The rules are just agreed upon in circles. If there were no rules in the first place, there would be no deviants. ”

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