News of the truce soon spread throughout the Red Dragon Principality.

Just a few days after the war began, there was a truce, so naturally no one would celebrate the end of the war, but Chen Xing's mansion in Orchid Town was a little exceptional......

"Master, the war is over, shall we celebrate?"

"Come on, come on, we haven't had a lively scene in a long time."

The maids are deeply interested in the master, and know that the master is bored at home every day, but now the situation is tense and it is difficult to engage in extravagance and waste, and it is easy to cause gossip. Now there is an excuse to have a good party.

"And what do you recommend?" Chen Xing asked.

"Let's do a cabaret show, we will each prepare a show or two, and the stage for the performance will be set on a small platform in the middle of the stairs in the hall." "Okay, good, good......"

"Okay, let's celebrate a little."

"Yay!" "Long live the master!"

Chen Xing readily agreed, and the maids cheered.

At night, the lights come on. The mansion is lit up with lights, singing and dancing.

More than 30 maids, plus housekeepers, cooks, female workers, and Claire's mother and daughter. The performances are well designed, and the girls are trained from an early age to sing and dance, and even the worst can be a night singer.

If there is no performance or it hasn't started yet, they will be the audience below, and the scene is not lively.

Chen Xing sat on the main seat in the middle, drinking frozen fruit wine from a goblet while admiring the graceful dancing of the maids.

They are enthusiastic and unrestrained, twisting their waists and throwing flattering eyes at their owners from time to time, full of anger.

During the intermission, Chen Xing suddenly noticed that Xiao Yang on the side had a dull gaze and seemed to have something on his mind.

Xiao Yang is one of his closest people, he has followed him since he was the leader of the security team from the beginning, and has been his driver all the time, and later as the assistant to the mayor. Gentle personality, serious work, although it can't help much, but also considerate, if placed in ancient times, it is a little eunuch next to the emperor.

So he asked with concern, "Xiao Yang, what's wrong, it seems that I am not in high spirits today." ”

"No, no......" Xiao Yang hurriedly denied.

"If you encounter any difficulties, just say that my brother is not an outsider." Chen Xing smiled, "Did you quarrel with Xiaoxuan?" ”

Usually there are only two things that men worry about, one is money, and the other is women. As the assistant to the mayor of the town, Xiao Yang's salary is not low, and he is usually very economical, and most of the money will be saved, so it can only be a woman who is worried.

"No, Xiaoxuan is very nice, we have never quarreled." Xiao Yang explained.

"Then why do you look like you're not giving up?" Chen Xing asked. He also felt strange, obviously he had only given Xiao Yang a month's vacation, and gave a bonus of two hundred gold coins as their dating funds, why did he look restless and in a trance a few days after he came back.

"I ......" Xiao Yang hesitated for a while, as if he had made up his mind, and said, "Boss, I want to be a mercenary?" ”

"As a mercenary?" Chen Xing was a little puzzled, "Aren't we just a team of mercenaries?" ”

In essence, they are private armies, and the false name of the mayor of Orchid Town is still hanging on Pang Youcai's head.

"No, no, boss, I, I didn't mean that......" Xiao Yang hurriedly waved his hand.

"And what do you mean?" Chen Xing was a little confused.

"I, that, this ......" Xiao Yang was a little stupid, anxiously gesturing, and it took him half a day to make his words clear.

It turned out that he wanted to be an ordinary mercenary at the grassroots level.

"You can't have a fever, do you?" Chen Xing looked at Xiao Yang as if he was looking at an orangutan.

The salary of the assistant to the mayor of the town is thirty gold coins a month, and the food and accommodation in the mayor's mansion are twelve gold coins a month, and the low-level mercenaries are twelve gold coins a month. If it weren't for the fact that my brain was caught in the door panel, I would definitely not say such a thing.

As the saying goes, people go to high places and water flows to low places, how can there be more and more people who go back?

Xiao Yang was seen as a little weak-hearted, and after a long while, he mustered up the courage to say, "I want to train myself and make myself stronger." ”

"Oh?" Chen Xing's face turned cold, and he said matter-of-factly, "If you go to the battlefield, you will die." ”

"I, I'm not afraid!" Xiao Yang said stiffly, although the hand holding the trouser tube revealed the tension and uneasiness in his heart.

It was like a Boy Scout who was ready to go into battle and generously serve his duties.

Chen Xing couldn't help but be a little strange, the other party was clearly not a person who was particularly bold and ambitious, why did he suddenly change?

Is it the cruelty of life?

Or is it an epiphany for an old monk and a sublimation of thoughts?

Or what poems and distant chicken soup for the soul you read?

He thought about it carefully and came to the conclusion in less than half a minute - the problem must be with the woman.

So he asked sideways, "How are you and Xiaoxuan, have you finished talking?" ”

"It's done." Speaking of Xiao Xuan, Xiao Yang seemed extremely excited, her eyes shining, "She said she likes me, and as long as I can pass her test, she will be my girlfriend." ”

"What, the test?" Chen Xing suddenly had a bad premonition, "You mean to say that you talked to her for a month, and she just gave you a chance to test?" ”

"Yes, girls must be more reserved, especially a girl from a good background like Xiaoxuan." Xiao Yang said.

"So, you don't have that yet?" Afraid that Xiao Yang wouldn't understand, Chen Xing emphasized again, "You should know what I mean by 'that'." ”

"What are you talking about, Xiaoxuan is a traditional girl, she won't have a relationship with others casually!" Xiao Yang said with some excitement, as if Chen Xing had blasphemed the goddess in his heart. However, he soon realized that he was talking to his boss, and quickly apologized, "Boss, I'm sorry, I overspoke." ”

Chen Xing ignored it, but asked, "Then how far have you got, have you kissed?" ”

"Kiss, kiss? No, no, we haven't even held hands! Xiao Yang blushed, and stammered a little because he was nervous.

Chen Xing showed a look of "sure enough", and asked again, "What about the bonus given to you, have you spent all of it?" ”

Xiao Yang scratched his head and admitted, "Flowers, it's gone." Eat restaurants every day, women, girls love to be beautiful, they want to buy clothes, and cosmetics, so expensive......"

"What about the savings?" Chen Xing asked.

"Also, it's all spent......" Xiao Yang scratched her head, hesitating, "She fell in love with a Mithril necklace and said that every time she saw Silver Shining, she would think of me......"

"Mithril Necklace ......" Chen Xing touched his forehead, "And then?" ”

"I, I'll buy her ......"

Chen Xing couldn't help but sigh in his heart, he was really not wrong that day, Xiaoxuan is a green tea.

It cost a few hundred gold coins, but in the end I didn't even touch my hand.

"She asked you to be a mercenary, right?" Chen Xing asked again.

"Yes, she said that the mercenary is very handsome, as long as he is willing to work hard, he can get stronger and stronger, and maybe he can become a town guard." Xiao Yang said vividly.

Not only squeeze out the last drop of oil and water, but also fool the other party into going to the battlefield and use the last bit of residual value to gamble on the lottery. If you win the jackpot, you can still be the mayor's wife, and you won't lose anything if you don't win the lottery anyway.

It's too ruthless, it's really too ruthless.

He really wanted to punish the other party for Tianxingdao and Xiao Yang instead, but this would cause Xiao Yang a second injury, which was really a headache.

For Xiao Yang, he can see it.

Some women have a "scumbag physique", that is, they are particularly prone to meeting scumbags and being cheated of money and sex. And Xiao Yang is a "spare tire physique", easy to encounter all kinds of "green tea goddesses", squeezed out of the last drop of oil and water, and then ruthlessly abandoned.

There is Qian Ying in front and Xiaoxuan in the back.

It's not about money, it's not about status, it's about character. Spare tire physique, even if there are mountains of gold and silver at home, and the status is as high as the king of a country, when you meet the goddess of green tea who is naturally restrained, she will be squeezed dry. It's like sugar cane, which is squeezed clean by the juicer, and only a pile of dregs remains.

I have to say that this Xiaoxuan is a high-power juicer, efficient and powerful, and he squeezed Xiao Yang dry in a month, ready to be sent to the battlefield to gamble on the lottery.

Chen Xing felt a little powerless, he could help with ideas, and he could also help with funds, but he couldn't help, right?

That's it, this is fate, the gods can't solve it, what can he, a mortal, do?

Let's concentrate on the show.

Just as Chen Xing was sighing helplessly about Xiao Yang's affairs, in the living room of the Red Fort and the Vice City Tower in the Monitor Lizard City, the eldest prince Gavin Maris was talking with his staff member Ricardo.

"Four months ......of truce," Ricardo sighed, shaking the red wine in his glass, "this fox of the green hill, I underestimated him." ”

"These local troops, we are not disbanded, nor are we not disbanded." Gavin Maris thumped the armrests of the couch, looking a little torn.

To dismiss these local troops, a severance pay of three months' military expenses is required, but if they are not dismissed, the military expenses for these four months will be equivalent to supporting idlers.

Four months is not long or short, and everything you do is a loss. And marching and fighting, pay attention to one drum. Again and again, again and again, and again and again, and again and again, and again and again. This goes on and on, and the morale of the soldiers is exhausted before the war begins.

I have to say that Lin Yuanzheng's chess move is ruthless and spicy enough, which is equivalent to stabbing the Red Dragon Principality fiercely.

What the Red Dragon Principality lacks most is not combat power, but money.

Ever since Raven City, the strongest economy, was burned down by Alia, the Red Dragon Principality has been in a state of making ends meet. The treasury is empty, and the finances are in difficulty.

And now the situation is chaotic, business is sluggish, the economy is in a general downturn, and tax revenues have been reduced by forty percent. At present, there is a four-month deficit in military spending, which is tantamount to adding insult to injury.

"Otherwise, we propose to attack the Weasel Principality, although they are a little poor, but at least they still have a few catties of meat to eat." Gavin Maris asked.

"Do you want the Four-Nation Alliance to become a Five-Nation Alliance?" Ricardo asked rhetorically, and the eldest prince immediately stopped talking.

At this moment, in the Hall of Thousand Candles, he is also in the predicament of talking.

After a long silence, the eldest princess spoke, "I still have some private secrets there, so let's take them out to get through the difficult time." ”

"I can go to the Raven Ruins to collect some ......," the Grand Priest followed.

"Put away these frivolous thoughts...... "the maiden on the throne said, "I'm not going to use your little coffers." ”

"I need to be away for a few days." She walked to the door and pushed it open, "You have to take care of your home during this time. ”

"Yes!"

A few days later, the girl returned to the Hall of the Thousand Candles with a large bag on her back.

"Whew, I'm tired ......"

The girl sat on the throne with her ass on her head, looking a little lazy and tired. I saw that her clothes were torn in many places, and her exposed skin was covered with scars, as if she had just experienced a big battle.

The Grand Priest hurriedly stepped forward, his hands glowing with emerald green, and he used healing techniques to heal the maiden on the throne.

However, despite her best efforts, the girl's wounds healed slowly. Until a cold sweat broke out on her forehead, and the wound had only healed less than a third.

"Don't force it." The girl gently removed the high priest's hand, ending the input of life energy.

The difference in energy levels between the two is too great, and the life energy of the great priest is like a mud cow entering the sea, and it can't be filled at all in a short time.

"It's hard work~" The eldest princess stood on the other side of the throne, a pair of soft Yi pressed on the girl's shoulder, kneading it gently, and massaging her to relax.

After a while, the girl regained some of her energy and kicked her big pocket.

The pockets fell crookedly, and with a bang, a large number of objects emitting various shimmering lights scattered.

"Let's go and exchange it for money~"