134. Bustling night
What do the soldiers who go out to fight look forward to the most? Naturally, they will return to their homes for reunion, and those who have no relatives will have fun. (Book = - house * 0 small -} say -+ net)
After returning from the war, the tired soldiers first received a severance pay, which was equivalent to the income of ordinary craftsmen for two months' work, and those who had military merits could also borrow the bonus that was about to be paid.
With heavy money bags, the men wandered around the city's entertainment venues. The twenty licensed taverns in the city of Peon had been open early in the morning, and every table and chair in them was crowded with people, foaming at the mouth and telling personal stories about the expedition.
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"I happened to be in the Duke of Boni's personal guard in the battle of Dom Province against Count Qilin, and the situation was so dangerous at that time! Count Qilin was holding a great sword taller than a man, at least five meters long, and when he swung it, the sword was full of light, and twenty or thirty people would have died at will, and he chased after him with his sword, but fortunately I fought hard to protect the Duke, otherwise I would have ....... ”
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"There is a knight in Dauphin County called "Tiramisu", this person is particularly powerful, he uses a fire-breathing "war halberd", people can not get close to within ten meters, otherwise they will be devoured by the fire dragon, and there is a war horse called "Ferrari", which runs faster than the wind, in order to win him, the top is very painful, and finally leads him to the lake, so that he can not escape, hundreds of people shot, his war halberd first knocked down into the lake, and then took his head ....... ”
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"I went to the royal capital this time, and attended the state council with the duke, and I met all the big people in Gaul, none of them looked more majestic than His Royal Highness, you know, the regent is a fart child, and he also brought two "big birds" to attend, there was a nobleman, because his speech was fierce, scared the regent, the protector was anxious, the big bird suddenly went berserk and attacked the nobles, and was Count Penny - now the "Marquis", one of his marksmen, shot down from the world, that hand archery is really amazing!"
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Ale wine, fruit wine, medicinal wine, as long as the drink that can make people drunk, is quickly digested, and in one night, hundreds of empty barrels of empty barrels came out of the city of Peon, and all the merchants in the city made a full profit.
The price of goods in the market has risen sharply, all kinds of meat have more than doubled, and every time the clock rings in the city, the amount jumps up again, and when the housewife who was too expensive just now changed her mind and wanted to come back to buy pork brisket, there were five more copper coins!
The most outrageous thing is the brothel, the hungry soldier has reached the point where there are "two lumps of meat" on the chest, and the most popular prostitute has even reached an outrageous 100 people a day!
"Long live His Highness Boni"
"Long live Young Lord Randall"
"Long live the Golden Lion"
No matter where you are in the city, these three cheers are pervasive.
The people at the bottom were very happy, but the superior still had a lot of things to deal with, this time the southern army caused a lot of damage to the central and northern parts of Gaul, coupled with the issue of dividing the land, many nobles were resentful, and after defeating Cupid, the southern army got the information and suppressed a wave of discontent.
In addition, it is also rumored that Boni failed to share the reward, occupied a large amount of property and transported it back to Grad (the situation is basically true), and there was also a tricky "assassination" operation, Sahan's relatives sent people to snipe Thor failed, and now there is a truce, and they must also give an explanation,
In the Moonlight Palace, Randall fought at night and dealt with the aftermath.
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The festivities continue until the third day (Bonnie's birthday).
On the morning of the third day, many half-eaten wheat cakes, meat skewers and unfinished fruit wine were dropped from all corners of the city, and the beggars ate their bellies upside down, and for the first time they knew the wonderful taste of fullness.
At dusk, the atmosphere of celebration resumes, people continue to seek joy, the sunset is like a brocade, but also the riverbank is crowded with people, lovers holding hands, talking to themselves, and young people with strong blood and strength, so they take heaven and earth as their bed.
Such indulgence is not enough, the security forces do not rest, they are ordered to "excrete", "fight", "mate" in the street, they will be imprisoned.
However, there are too many musicians, and there are still many places where there are riots of drunken disturbances, and compared with the presumptuousness of the lower classes, the middle and upper class people are much more restrained.
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The nobles of the upper echelons were gathering in secret halls for political meetings, the largest of which belonged to the party of Homer, the director of the Interior.
Fourteen core personnel, meeting in a mansion in Homer, Homer is not interested in the new county that is about to be merged, but looks at the province of Accor, and Siyi also attends the meeting, but the death of his eldest son in battle makes him listless.
At this time, Hu Li and his party will also meet, and they will also focus on the place, the previous "Finnish County", he got the information has been preempted by Shan Yang, although it is a pity to secretly say, but Randall is strongly leading, and he can't change it.
And this time, the aristocratic forces of Accor Province, except for a few old lords, were all eliminated by Bonibal, so much land and population, I heard that a county will be redivided, the county magistrate, deputy county magistrate, county treasurer, at least one of them, a large number of smear letters, Hu Li is ready, if the opponent gets these positions, he will fire.
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The upper class seeks power, the lower class eats, drinks and plays, and the rich people in the middle, the knights, are also engaged in exciting betting.
"This time I guess the singular, open!"
"Double. ”
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In a noble mansion, a gambling game was being played, and Weber, who had already lost all his money, walked out of the door, the more he thought about it, the more angry he became, and he re-entered. Relying on his face, he borrowed ten gold coins to re-enter the battle, and Weber chose a table, and his ass did not move.
On this expedition, he killed eleven people, and the credit of "undercover infiltration", he ranked third on a list of merits below the captain that flowed out, and this merit may be able to make him from a knight to a brigadier, so there are many people who are willing to lend him money.
"Uncle Wei, didn't the young master let you gamble?" A familiar knight of the opposite family.
"Entertainment among nobles, can this be called gambling? This is called intellectual competition, you uneducated person knows a fart, deal cards quickly. ”
This game is Randall invented three years ago, it is very popular in the casino, each person first bets on the chips, and three cards, and then you can choose to abandon the single, abandon the double or all discard, and then each card begins to add a bet, no one dares to follow the ante bet away, if there are people to follow, to collect seven cards when the hand stops, choose five of them than the size, from small to large is a miscellaneous card, a pair, two pairs, three of a kind, even straight, flush, four, flush.
After Webber joined the battle, the cards were lucky, five won four, the sixth, there were two people who were unlucky to leave, when the gambling game was going to disperse, a woman immediately joined, she wore a mask, a red hair, the bet was very small, and did not raise more when she got a good card, and as long as Weber scared her to shrink her hand, and won five in a row, Weber, with the alcohol provided by the servant on the side, the more he drank, the more he got carried away and said, "Women learn what to play cards, learn to warm the bed to please men." ”
The male knight at the same table also echoed his words, until the masked woman pushed all the chips down to express her dissatisfaction, Webber smiled, "For the sake of the money, sorry, I drank too much." ”
These words angered the lady even more, she joined only by the master's request, to help extend the game that was about to end, did not think about winning, looking at this still handsome face and stinky mouth, she concentrated.
In the days of the Moonlight Palace, she played cards every day, and her skills were the best among all the female dependents, plus Weber despised her, and she had to shout blindly to win the bottom with a very small deck of cards, and soon, there were more and more chips in front of her, and Webber spit out what he had won, and even lost one-third of the borrowed money.
Someone advised Weber not to play, but Webber sighed and got up to leave, but was ridiculed by the masked woman.
"Men learn how to play cards, go back and chop wood to cook for women. ”