Chapter Seventy-Nine: Surprised, Frightened?
In the early morning in the city of silver tides, before the first rays of the sun reach the high spires of St. Loren's Cathedral, the noisy and busy day begins.
Having learned from yesterday's late arrival, when the carriage carrying the empty barrel passed through the alley for the first time, leaving a gurgling sound. Karl got up and set off to continue his work at the Abbey of Saint-Sullamel.
In fact, he didn't fall asleep at all last night. Yesterday, so many things happened, how could he possibly sleep. He and little Lucy talked about their magical studies, about their future plans for earning money, about how to avoid the eyes of the church, about how to set up a magic laboratory in secret secrets, and talked about many problems, until the East turned white.
Carl has a lot of ideas about how to make money, and with the knowledge he brings from another world, he is confident in his ability to make money. However, he was not familiar enough with this world, and out of prudence, he still asked a lot of information from little Lucy first.
Little Lucy was born at the bottom, and she didn't have the opportunity to contact the secrets of the upper world of this world, and her vision was not broad enough, but she grew up in the Silver Tide City, and she was very familiar with the bottom of the city.
Karl is going to continue working as a scribe in the Abbey of Saint-Sulamel today, and in addition to continuing to earn living expenses, he still wants to continue to contact the group of Georgie, Franco, and Levi. He has been in the society for a few years, and knows that in a society, if you want to make money and get ahead, in addition to your own ability, your connections are also very important.
Although the little fat man Georgie, the son-in-law brother Franco, and the romantic scholar Levi are not nobles, they are obviously quite famous in their own circles, and a good relationship with them is very beneficial to Carl's money-making plan and fame.
Carl is in charge of earning money, and little Lucy's task today is to use her familiarity with the Silver Tide City to survey the terrain and find a suitable place to do secrecy, so as to prepare for the two of them to build their own secret magic laboratory.
Walking through the city of silver tides in the early morning, Carl came to yesterday's post station without any problems. In the early morning, the post station is already very busy, and people who are ready to go out of the city have begun to line up in front of the ticket office with large and small packages.
"Hi Carl, good morning!"
Just as Carl was waiting in line, the little fat man Georgie suddenly came out from behind him, patted him on the shoulder, and greeted him with a smile.
"Hi, morning, Georgie!"
Carl also responded with a greeting, and continued to buy tickets while greeting the little fat man Georgie.
"Sullamel Monastery, two coppers each. ”
The conductor is still yesterday's middle-aged man, although he is burly, with a full beard and a fierce face, but his attitude is very kind.
"Get me one too!"
The little fat man Georgie took out two coppers and paid for it, Carl also took out the copper he borrowed from Uncle Tom to pay the fare, and the middle-aged conductor gave the tickets to the two of them, and the whole process was very smooth and unobtrusive.
"Haha, don't you think it's a bit expensive?"
The little fat man Qiao Ji walked to the carriage and said with a smile: "Half of this is the management fee for the Silver Dawn Mercenary Group, and the remaining half is the cost of riding the carriage!"
"It's also worth the money, though. You know, before the Silver Dawn mercenaries took over, it was a messy place. ”
"The tax collector sent by the city hall only collects taxes from the car owners, and does not care about the order of the post station at all. This is a paradise for gangsters, the 'Iron Hand' gang, the 'Blood Firs' gang, the 'Red-eyed Crow' gang, in addition to the 'water ghost' gang that controls the dock area, the gangs of all sizes in the Silver Tide City regard this place as a plate of fat!"
"In order to collude with the carriage guild, they fought for a share of the money, making this place a mess, not only feces and urine everywhere, the smell is stinking, the guests who come and go will lose things if they get off the carriage accidentally, the gold-fingered thieves, the theft gang, and even the unloading workers themselves are quietly stealing, and what is more, the security here is extremely poor, and it is very dangerous at night, and a few floating corpses can be found in the moat outside the city almost every few days!"
"At that time, all the people who came and went to the City of Silver Tide were warned that the public carriage station was an extremely dangerous area, and they must be extremely careful and stay away as soon as possible!"
"There have even been several appalling major cases here, the most famous one is that the young master of a big aristocratic family secretly ran out in disguise to take risks, only to be robbed here by a group of daring traffickers, and when the little young master was finally found, it was obviously too late, and the traces on the corpse showed that the poor young master suffered greatly before he died. ”
"It is precisely because this incident is so appalling that it has caused the collective anger of the Silver Tide Council, and ordered the Silver Dawn Mercenary Group, which is responsible for the security of Silver Tide City, to completely rectify this station. ”
"Silver Dawn sent a squadron to the public post station to expel the gangsters, clean up the thieves, and put an iron fist in order, and all those who dared to engage in theft, robbery, fraud and other criminal activities in the public post area were all hanged on the city gates, and half of the proceeds of crime returned to the bitter lord, and half to the silver dawn. ”
"I have to admire the efficiency of Silver Dawn, within a week, they have completely cleaned up and rectified the order of the public post station, and by the way, they have also cleaned up the gangsters in the lower city, and there is a big blood change!"
Little Fat Georgie was obviously as nagging as yesterday, and he was babbling a bunch of nonsense to Carl during the short journey from the ticket office to the public carriage.
Carl is not disgusted by his nagging, he is new to the other world, new to the world, although he has the memory of the original owner, it is not a black eye, but after all, it is not his own personal experience, so he still maintains a cautious attitude, less talk and more observe.
The little fat guy Georgie nagged and nagged, but the words he said were all very useful information, so Carl didn't interrupt him, just listened and remembered silently.
The public carriage to the monastery of Sulamel was a wide open carriage with four rows of seats in front and back, each row capable of four people, two more than one person tall, tall and sturdy horses standing quietly in front of the carriage, waiting for the signal to leave.
The car was already full of people, most of them young men like Carl and Georgie, some of them were dressed in high-necked shirts, well-dressed, clean and tidy, and some were just wearing a washed white gown, which was slightly shabby. But no matter how you dress, you basically behave elegantly and politely.
The carriages to the Abbey of Saint-Sullamel depart at regular times, so soon the carriages are full of passengers. However, just as the coachman had raised his whip and set off in his car, the carriage was suddenly stopped.
Karl's heart pounded when he saw the figure that had stopped the carriage—it was a young priest in a black priest's robe, with a gloomy face and a serious face, followed by two heavily armed cadet knights in half-knight armor and long swords.