02 Stratagem
Three years after the 'Glorious Festival', the capital of the Wright Empire was 'Xi'an'. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info
"Dear Brother Doug!"
At this time, in a VIP private room on the middle floor, the fat owner of the 'Hot Sister' nightclub, 'Igve', who is in his forties, is diligently accompanying Doug, constantly pouring him bright red wine.
"Now you are a famous young warrior in the royal capital, I don't know how many beautiful young girls and young women are fascinated by you day and night! When you first came to the royal capital, your sister did her best to help you, and now that your sister is in trouble, you can't stand idly by."
The huge balls of flesh on Igve's chest were almost all pressed against Doug's arms, and the hoarse and ugly female voice desperately tried to show affection, but it turned out to give goosebumps all over the body.
"It's a bit of a hassle...... Well, Sister Igeve, for your sake, it's up to me. ”
With a swaggering smile on his face, Doug made what should have been a youthful and energetic face, but now he looked very arrogant.
Three years ago, after the money used to apply for the martial arts academy was stolen, he chased it down alone with his martial arts skills, only to be beaten to death by a group of street thugs who had no martial arts skills, and finally went home without a face and fell into the streets, the young edges and corners were quickly smoothed, the lofty and beautiful 'ideals' quickly became 'delusions' before reality, and after hope turned to despair, he melted into the dark bottom of Xi'an with an astonishing speed of depravity, becoming a hyena who fed on blood with a dagger.
Fortunately, he was still sober-minded, and his luck was good, and one day he seized the opportunity to save the baby illegitimate son of the 'Imperial Speaker's house's gatehouse, and took advantage of such an opportunity to fall from the sky to get a job in the Speaker's Mansion to protect the house, because of his burly and tall stature, coupled with the similar age, he was soon taken by the Speaker of the Parliament, known as the 'Fly of the Royal Capital', and became a personal companion, and since then he has followed. The flies of the royal capital's bullying men and women to cause trouble, have really done a lot of similar things, and have become one of the hated faces of Xi'an citizens, and have been quite deterrent among ordinary citizens and the lower class of the royal capital.
Naturally, some people came up with his idea of 'deterrence'.
When the 'Hot Sister' had recently expanded into the eastern half of the royal capital, she had come into contact with another force, and after several confrontations between the two sides, each suffered some small losses, and no one could help the other, so Igeve turned her brain to Doug, who had also taken over some work from her when he was wandering the streets, such as 'carrying a dagger to visit a ruined nobleman who was in debt in the middle of the night', and it was a little 'friendship'
"Dear Doug!" Listening to Doug's words, Igv immediately choked up in surprise, her face was dressed up in a dramatic effect with heavy makeup, and her amazingly thick arms hugged Doug again, almost burying his face in Roshan: "I knew your heart was the best!"
Several of Igeve's men who accompanied him also offered praises, and according to them, Doug was a figure who should have been sung by the bard for a hundred years.
"Don't be so polite, Sister Igve!"
Doug hugged her back with a smile, and deftly took a heavy money bag under the table, just like this, he already knew the weight of the gold coins in it, and smiled with satisfaction: "That, I've been out for a long time, and Master West is probably looking for me......"
He deliberately accentuated the pronunciation of the words 'Master West', and the expression on his face revealed a blinding smugness.
"Oh, of course!" Igfu immediately let go of her arm when she heard this, covered her mouth and giggled: "Who doesn't know from the royal capital, the person who the speaker and young master West trusts the most now is Brother Doug! In this case, we won't take up your time, my sister's store has just recently entered a batch of high-quality goods, my sister keeps the best ones for you, you must come when the branch opens!"
"Oh, the new color, I'm sure I'm going to see it. ”
Doug showed an undisguised anxious expression on his face, although the grade of 'Hot Sister' is not high, but Igfu is a woman with a very unique vision, and she can often buy some 'futures' with great potential, he has been famous for a long time: "Wait for me to go back and see the young master's itinerary tomorrow, if you are lucky, you can open a branch tomorrow night!"
"Woo, Brother Doug, I'm so impressed......"
...... In Igeve's hoarse 'moved' voice, Doug left the VIP room with a heavy 'harvest'. Thinking that he would become West's number one personal in a short period of time, he couldn't help but smile proudly, and the heavy money bag on his waist tugged on the ground during the walk, which made him feel even better.
But what Igfu asked, he wouldn't mention a word to Master West. Now is the time when he is just getting his favor, and it is taboo for 'pampered and arrogant' to make demands on his master, and besides, Shadamo's men are just a group of simple-minded rabble, and with his current position, there are many ways to clean them up......
"Little handsome guy, do you want to have some fun?"
As he passed through an alleyway, a sweet voice that trembled a little suddenly sounded beside Doug, and then a bouncy heat fell on him, interrupting his thoughts.
It's a newbie......
Doug, who was already experienced, instantly discovered the truth from the pretended skillful actions of the woman beside him, and when he turned his head, a young and innocent face hidden by clumsy heavy makeup fell into his field of vision, and he couldn't help but feel a move in his heart.
"Do you want to make more?"
He stretched out his hand and skillfully twirled a gold coin between his fingers, listening to the sudden rapid panting beside him, and the plan in his heart slowly took shape.
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Although the Wright Empire also adopted a parliamentary monarchy, due to historical reasons, the emperor himself firmly held the military power, and the parliament held the lifeblood of daily life by controlling the merchants, so in this period of temporary peace, the authority of the speaker is almost a few points heavier than that of the emperor, and as the only child of the middle-aged baby of the council, West Cabecht has naturally become a character that no one in the royal city can afford to provoke, and even the princes do not want to provoke him.
"I Daog, where the hell are you hearing?"
At this time, this 'Fly of the Royal Capital' was walking around the civilian area of the Royal Capital with a few of his subordinates, dressed in ordinary samurai clothes, and a pair of slender eyes swept around, as if he was very excited.
He was born only three months earlier than Doug, his body is on the thin side, and because his biological mother is a famous beauty, he looks very good, but he has been pampered for a long time, and his face always has a disliked nostrils on his face.
"It's coming soon--young master, you can't help it, are you?!" Doug, who was wearing an ordinary samurai uniform of the same style, approached with a smile, joking in his mouth, but his eyes searched around.
A little boy dressed in dirty clothes quietly appeared at the bend of the alley in front of him, and after seeing Doug, he casually took off his tattered hat and waved it casually, this action looked in Doug's eyes, and he couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief.
-- The first step went so smoothly that it seemed that there was no need for other arrangements.
"Young master, look, the inn in front is it!"
Doug suddenly pointed to an old inn in front of him, and deliberately walked a few steps faster as he spoke, and West, who was beside him, was refreshed when he heard this, and couldn't help but speed up his pace. Intentionally or unintentionally, he was placed at the front of the line by Doug, and separated from the swordsman master 'Enlo' who was directly sent by the speaker in the team to protect him.
"Catch him!"
"Stop, you little cub raised by a stinky woman!"
Suddenly, there was a noisy noise in the alley beside him, and then a short figure in tattered clothes quickly ran towards Doug and his party, and the footsteps passed through West's eyes with a wrong and dexterous step, and before everyone could react, a group of fierce and vicious big men had rushed out of the alley, just when Enluo was stunned and just held the hilt of his sword, Doug suddenly pushed West, and with a sharp sound of breaking the air, a cold dagger from the group of murderers passed through the place where West was standing just now, and flew in the direction of the short figure, but the short figure seemed to have prophecy, suddenly changed direction, slipped into another alley opposite, and disappeared without a trace.
"Boom!"
After exhausting his strength, the dagger plunged into the crack in the stone slab on the ground, and at the same moment, Enlo swept to West's side like lightning, and the sharp greatsword was already unsheathed, coldly pointing at the group of hideous-looking thugs.
"Fence them up!"
Doug shouted at the group of thugs with a grim expression, with a murderous aura on his young face, the second to support West after Enlo, the dagger at his waist was held in his hand, and his burly body covered West behind him, completely sacrificing himself to protect his master.
"Raised by a female cousin, who are you?"
The one at the front of the mob roared like thunder, and Enlo frowned, and a dodge appeared in front of him like a ghost, and slammed an elbow into his mouth, and the screams of teeth and bones suddenly rang in everyone's ears.
The rest of the entourage also took action, and after a few brief clashes, the thugs, who had a few more wounded, realized that these people seemed to have a certain point.
"Who are you?"
A thug who seemed to be more aggressive stopped the noise of the others and asked with a hideous face: "I am Captain 'Shadamo', the liaison officer appointed by Major Sormorton of the City Defense Army, do you want to go to the prison of the City Defense Army?"
In the past, it was not that no one had come out to act bravely, but as soon as he shouted like this, those people would have a hesitant look on their faces, and then find a reason to retreat - but this time the situation was greatly unexpected to him, and none of the people on the other side actually paid attention to him.
Behind Doug, West patted him on the back, revealing his figure.
"A bunch of filthy stupid scum......"
With a look of disgust on his face, his eyes swept over the dagger stuck in the ground, his eyelids jumped suddenly, and his anger rushed to his heart: "Send me all to the headquarters of the city defense army!" Tell the pig in Samoton that the young master of the Kabechi family was almost injured in the siege of this mob who claimed to be his liaison officer, within his garrison - let him choose whether to explain to me or to the old man!"
"Yes, young master!"
Enlo responded in a deep voice, and then nodded approvingly to Doug on the side, and when he gave an order, a series of screams immediately sounded in the field, and the entourage of the speaker's family cleaned up these street thugs who only knew how to fight fiercely, of course, they were caught, and in just a few minutes, all the thugs were lying on the ground with injuries of varying severity and groaning.
"Who the hell threw the knife!******-"
Shadamo's furious shouts rang out along with the men's gossip of denial, and he couldn't help but smile when he fell into Doug's ears.
West didn't want to look at these 'scum' for a second, so he gave the order and continued to move towards the small inn, Enlo quickly assigned the men to escort the 'wounded', while Doug stayed where he was for the time being in the name of 'seeing what he could ask', and after the group was far away, he kept a vigilant posture and quietly moved to the door of a nearby grocery store.
The vagrant who was wielding his hat was curled up listlessly in the doorway and dozing off, and Doug seemed to let go of his hand as he passed by, and a gold coin that had been held in his hand quietly fell on the tattered cloak of the wanderer, without making a sound, and the cloak shook and quickly covered the gold coin.
It's amazing how smoothly everything is, as if you have been blessed by Lady Luck!
Doug turned his head again, looked at Shadamo who was groaning on the ground, and smiled in a good mood. With West's words, it is estimated that the lives of Shadamo's group will be difficult to save after they are sent to the headquarters of the city defense army, and to achieve such a satisfactory result, he only paid a mere 15 gold coins:
The little cubs were hired to deliberately linger near the Shadamo's den, and were chased away by the mob, and then, when the group arrived, they threw a bag of 'human excrement' at their door in a vengeful gesture to attract them to chase them, and spent a total of 2 gold coins, one in advance, and one just now;
It cost 1 gold to hire a wandering magician to throw a dagger, and the stinky woman with a clean face arranged in the inn in front of him cost him another 2 gold coins - and 10 other retinues that were used to deal with other followers in advance, which turned out to be a waste of money - but Doug had always been cautious, and if this simple plan didn't work, they would still be able to use them in the next steps, so he didn't think it was a waste.
All in all, it's a pretty good result.
Doug came to a conclusion satisfied, completely letting go of the matter in his heart, and involuntarily thought of Igve's 'extra reward' in his mind, and the corners of his mouth curled irrepressibly.