Chapter 112: Crazy Flower of the End
There are not too many people to see him off, Zhou Yu is not used to this kind of parting, and he will always think of sending a funeral. Xerxes, Kezin, Janso, Smang, Vidi, and Che Laiman simply practiced for him in the morning dew of the steppe. Ansai cried to death in the crowd, and passers-by thought that someone had died in the house.
This reckless man who was mixed in the market really caught Zhou Yu off guard, but it is not difficult to understand when you think about it, the friendship that does not fight and does not know each other has upgraded into a deep combat friendship in a few run-ins, most of the heroes of this green forest are very inward-looking, if it touches the small pimple in their hearts, but it is more emotional than ordinary people.
"Old Xue, Lord Kejin, don't send it. Let's leave it at that! ”
"Take care, have a nice trip." Kazin put a few clothes that his wife had sewn with her own hands and gave them to the Grand Governor.
"Thanks, ahem!" Zhou Yu pretended to feel the wind chill, and his eyes were red for a while, and he didn't know if Nika in the Netherworld Valley was cold or not, and whether she lacked clothes.
"If you need help, you can send someone to invite you at any time!" Jamsor had his quiver in hand. Zhou Yu smiled, he was really not very good at archery, but he understood the kindness.
"The Southern Continent will be handed over to you, and only one scoop of weak water will be taken for three thousand! Goodbye! ”
Passing through the Valley of Guillot's along the way, Zhou Yu had a small reunion with Lancelot and heartbroken to inform him of Nika's fall. The knight on the lake was stunned for a while, he didn't expect such a flower-like girl to die like this, even if he was used to seeing big scenes, he couldn't accept it for a while.
The deceased is like this, may it be a sunny day.
There were still four or five days before the finals of the Tianmu Hunting Competition kicked off, and Zhou Yu and his party rushed to the outside of Drunken Flower City.
Drunken Flower City is built on the mountain, surrounded by water on three sides, magnificent, a meandering river separates Drunken Flower City from the outside world, looking like a castle hanging in the air from a distance. Towering arrow towers are lined up one after another, a majestic bridge stretches across both banks, hundreds of boats compete on the river, and pedestrians on both sides of the river are weaving.
The lively and prosperous scene reminded Zhou Yu of Yabed Taylor's famous saying: "Have you ever seen a castle built in the air? This thing should only exist in the sky, and it will be a wonder of time in the mortal world. ”
"My lord, are we going to sail or cross the bridge?" Bolada dismounted to help Zhou Yu cling to the bridles, obviously afraid that the crowd and carts would startle the horses.
Zhou Yu seemed to have not seen a river for a while, and said childlikely: "Bamble, you drive a few horses across the bridge." Marca and Borada crossed the river with me by boat, and the good wine didn't take a boat! When Bamble heard this, he drooped his head to put away the bridles one by one, and he didn't want to take a boat to experience the experience.
"Boatman, boatman?" Before reaching the shore, Zhou Yu shouted loudly to a boatman who was unloading people.
"Hello guest officer, but you want to cross the river?"
"Exactly, the three of us, can we ride in the same boat?" Zhou Yu took out a few grains of gold sand from his pocket and stuffed them into the boatman who was wrapping a rope around the stump on the shore.
"Well said, well said! Hehe, a few guest officers, wait a minute, it's convenient for the little old man to go over there, and he will go back when he goes. Let's go! The boatman ran away with his crotch on his crotch, probably choking enough.
"Sir, don't you ask for a quote either?" Boradachi said, this doesn't look like the style of the Grand Duke? When I bet on Gaba with him, I was very careful.
"Bolada, the poor family is rich, and the prostitutes are close to gambling. Now that we're on the outside, we're blinded by the black, and the problems that can be solved with money are not a problem. In some industries, reasoning is useless, only money can be used to speak. For example, the porter's trade, it seems that they are stragglers, and if one person suffers, then he can organize an armed force in minutes. ”
"Well, this reminds me that in the story of Journey to the West, you told the big guy on the way, the four masters and apprentices forgot to ask the old turtle in Tongtianhe about their lifespan."
"Haha, exactly! This is what I often say, and it is recorded in all the big truth villain books in the world! Let's go, let's go, the captain is back! ”
He was a man in his forties, with sackcloth trousers rolled up above his knees, and said that his name was Wansan, and that he had been eating on the river for thirty years. He was barefoot, lean, and holding a pole four or five meters long, and he looked like a master when he propped up the boat.
"The boatman is working hard, our brother is a little bit of a scale, and I'm causing you trouble!" Zhou Yutao said almost along.
"The guest officer is too polite, and all the guests who come are guests. Besides, the guest officer gave the small one a full day's surplus, how could he not sell some strength! Gong Gong said easily, but Zhou Yu saw beads of sweat oozing out of his forehead. As the so-called sweat drops go to the soil, sweat drops go to the soil! Regardless of the era, the working people are the most valuable asset of the ruling class.
"I'd like to ask you about something, boatman. The finals of the Pastoral Hunting Contest are about to start in the next few days, has business been doing a lot better recently? ”
"It stands to reason that these days of drunken flower city from all over the world to gather, it was the most prosperous day of the year. Alas, it's a pity... Halfway through speaking, the captain looked up and hurriedly silenced himself.
"Is there something unspeakable about the boatman?" Zhou Yuqi said. Why is it so unspeakable, why is there always a lack of Jie'er Yin lotion in the Borderlands?
"Guest officer, be quiet, don't be overheard by others, there are some things that we ordinary people can't afford to talk about, and we have to lose our heads!" The captain said shyly.
"Oh? Then I'm very interested, why don't you spend some time talking about it below. Below are the bards who have traveled all over the world, and they are very interested in the short and strange stories of these parents! Zhou Yu straightened his waist and put on a posture of listening to his ears.
Seeing that these people didn't look like wicked people, and they weren't the officials in Drunken Flower City, the captain cleared his throat and told them the story.
It turned out that when the Drunken Flower City was in the finals of the Celestial Celebration of the Heavenly Hunting Competition, there was a rumor that the old king had died, but everything in the royal city was the same, and it was not mourned. Others are speculating that there must be some attention to this.
Some people say that the little prince Sima is the mastermind of the usurpation of the throne, because he is the legitimate heir to the throne, but the old king once summoned his ministers to issue an order before his death, and whoever ruled the lord won the title in the Tianmu Hunting Contest could inherit the throne. This caused an uproar at the time, and the one who held the most grudge must have been Sima.
Therefore, even if the old king died violently, with those princes, nobles and ministers staring at him, he didn't dare to overturn his father's Jiuding words, so he could only hold back his grievances and honestly send people to participate in the competition. However, this also has a positive side to him, otherwise why would he risk the world's condemnation to kill his father? Because, the rules of winning and losing were set by the old king, and it was up to him to decide how to decide the outcome after driving the crane west. To put it bluntly, he can be both an athlete and a referee this time.
However, the captain finally added a sentence, these are all rumors, no one has evidence, and no one dares to ask about the royal affairs. What really had to do with them was the tax, or he didn't make any money, as soon as Sima became regent, he changed the tax policy of all walks of life in the royal city and all parts of Soracia, which was more than triple compared to before, and it was called raising funds for the competition. This is good, you have to pay twice as much labor as usual to have enough food, and everyone in every industry is complaining, and a good thing makes Sima play a disaster.
"Then why didn't he make the news of the old king's death public?"
"Maybe it's because you don't have a firm foothold and want to put a basin on the head of a dead man. Haha, it's just nonsense, it's just nonsense, and the guest has the right to listen. ”
"Oh, the drunken flower princess also let her brother come to the house?" Zhou Yu narrowed his eyes and pretended to be absent-minded and sent a sentence.
"Princess Drunken Flowers? There are three drunken flower princesses, I don't know which one the guest officer is talking about? The pole in the captain's hand stopped.
"Oh, it's Princess Philena."
"Hey, you're talking about the second princess! Now there is only the second princess left in the royal city who is still a little sensible. According to the news that came out of it, the palace was so fragrant at night, and the eldest princess and the third princess went into battle together, and the prince Sima was shirtless, and did things against the sky. Oops, it feels exciting and exciting when I think about it! The city routine is deep, and the guest officer should go back to the countryside! The captain opened the conversation, and the more he talked, the more outrageous it became. Speaking of the back, the Metropolitan Governor took a sip and thought to himself, this is a special fabrication, and it was picked up from an erotic novel website.
"Oh, that's what I said, and I'm going to come ashore as I talked. A couple of guest officers, please! Zhou Yu was stunned, and the ship had already docked. The majestic city gate is towering dozens of meters in front of you, and you don't know whether it is a blessing or a curse waiting for you inside.
"Boatman, there is still some gold sand here, I'll give it to you. Anyway, we don't have much money to spend on a few bards, your old family has a large population, and more is a little more! Let's come to Japan for a long time, maybe when it will be useful to go to your old place, please take care of it! Zhou Yu stuffed him with another handful of gold sand. Money is a thing, the more you spend it, the happier you are.
"Oops, thank you so much, thank you so much. In the future, if you want to use a boat, you can come to this river at any time to call me, and you will be on call, and you will never charge a penny again! As soon as the captain saw Qian Xi's eyebrows, his mouth grinned.
"My lord, are we going to report directly to the princess?" Bambul had been waiting on the shore for a long time, and when he came up, he asked.
"Wait a minute, go into the city and find an inn to stay in, and observe the situation. By the way, the scouts sent out in the early stage should have been in place for some time, right? Go to the contact point and find out about the current situation! Zhou Yu arranged with Bamble, and he ordered a team of fifteen people to disguise themselves as Hanako and ambush into Drunken Flower City more than a month ago.
The reason why the information age is so powerful is because of the speed of information transmission. If you want to be able to do what people can't in this wild land, you have to do what people don't do. Building a ubiquitous and pervasive intelligence network is the key work that Zhou Yu has always paid close attention to and personally implemented. It can be said that in this matter, no matter how much money is invested and how much money is invested, he will not blink his eyes.
The drunken flower city at night can really be described as drunk, flower, and city, with a patchwork of wine shops and teahouses, brothels and green buildings, and gambling halls full of people, all eyes are full of people. If the business is not good, you have to queue up, and if the business is good, you can't even get close, let alone queue.
"Oh, good fellow! Why do we look like old hats? ”
"Yes, Grand Duke, this place is much more lively than the City of Catching Winds, it is really the brightest pearl on Thoraxia, the City of Drunken Flowers!"
"Let's go, take a look over there!" Zhou Yu waved his hand and took his brother to the pile of people who couldn't get through.
"Bought it, bought it, bought it, and left it!" A bearded man with a chest full of heart hair knocked a gong in his hand, and the sound shook several times that the eardrums of the Dadu outside his head hurt. He wondered what the people in this little circle were buying.
"It's hot, it's hot, it's hot, it's here!" Zhou Yu picked up a teapot from the table of the restaurant next to him and squeezed it into the pile, this kind of hooligan trick is obscene and indecent, but it is undeniable that it works. The crowded crowd quickly separated a passage and let the "pot brother" pass, and someone on the side cursed: "Who the ordered the hot water?" "What kind of squeezing is this and drinking water?"
"Who? Which bunny cub is standing up! ”
Zhou Yu covered his face with a teapot, nodded and said, "I'm sorry, I'm sorry!" "Borrowed, borrowed, borrowed!" "Take, take!"
As soon as he entered the encirclement, Zhou Yu was dumbfounded, and almost ate the teapot he had just stolen. This is an amphitheater made of bricks and stones, at best only one meter high, twenty square meters, except for a man who beats a gong and two horses who collect money, two snake-headed eagles are tied to thick iron chains at both ends of the diagonal of the field, and the onlookers roar and throw gold sand into the arena, obviously betting on this kind of cockfighting.
"The second game is bought, Hellfire roars at Tianzun, I bought it!"
Good guys, these two pheasants still have special names, Zhou Yu smiled. Nima, if it's really an uncivilized thing, just such a game of cockfighting and lackeys leads people so crazy? Isn't this no different from cockfighting, snake fighting, and fighting crickets? It can be seen how lacking the spiritual life of these sons and idlers in Drunken Flower City is? Wouldn't it be nice to have the time and money to do something else?
For example, learning inorganic non-metals, condensed matter physics, PASCAL, Sinhala or something, all of which are all the skills to dominate the universe.
"Great, sir, shall we bet?"
"Bet, bet, gamble, go!" Zhou Yu went out again with the teapot in a daze. Good fellow, it takes ten times more effort to go out than to come in. As soon as he got out of the circle, Zhou Yu seemed to be sweating.
"What a mess!" He muttered to himself.
"My lord, there are few people here! Hurry, hurry! Borada pulled Zhou Yu and ran to a corner of the market, why wasn't this kid's leg so lame.