Chapter 466: Asking for Directions
Donovan tightened his leather coat and spat to the side.
"What the hell is it that it's so cold in early spring!", he muttered and complained.
He looked up and happened to see a lavishly decorated restaurant next door. The faint aroma came through the heavy glass door as he passed by, as if it had a temperature, dispelling a lot of the cold on his body.
"If only I could have lunch at this restaurant. Donovan thought so, but pinched the shriveled wallet in his arms, and he had no choice but to give up the idea.
"Damn the Holy Sect!", he cursed fiercely in his heart, of course, he didn't dare to say such words.
For a patrolman like him, if he had that dead salary, he would not have been able to live in this Shenghui City for a long time. The gray income that is distributed from above every month, similar to the "protection fee", is the main income of so many patrols in Shenghui City.
The income was so "lucrative" that a petty policeman like him could even have a full meal in such a luxurious restaurant if he had cut back for a month, and this was one of the main reasons why Donovan could put up with that nasty boss who killed a thousand knives.
It's just that since those priests don't know what kind of nerves they have had these days, and they have begun to raid the properties of those noble lords, the good days of a little policeman like Donovan have come to an end. Their "grey income" mainly comes from the major shops in Manni District, and now many of them have changed hands, and the owners have become holy religions, who dares to collect money from those priests.
Not only that, but perhaps because of the decrease in "income", his immediate boss has become more and more irritable lately, beating and scolding them little cops at every turn, and Donovan feels that he is about to take it anymore.
"Just quit your job as a patrol officer, and the province will suffer from this bird's spirit!", he had said to himself more than once in his heart.
Although most of the complaints in the past ended up without a problem, but this time Donovan was sincere.
Although he lost this skin, he became an inconspicuous ordinary civilian in Shenghui City. But Donovan saw with his own eyes that the civilians in Radiance City had risen to the top of their heads and their status had improved a lot over the past few days. Although he still nodded to the rich merchants and nobles, the humility in his bones was gone.
Donovan, who often dealt with them, felt the deepest, and the "community" composed of several civilians was not afraid of Donovan's leather coat, which was the first time he had encountered a new thing in his three-year career as a patrol officer.
"Is it because of the support of the Holy Sect? Maybe this Holy Radiance City is about to change the sky. ", he thought silently to himself.
In fact, this topic is not uncommon in the private topics of the patrol police, the patrol police are also people, and they also eat cereals, of course, they will chat about all kinds of market rumors and all kinds of peach gossip like a long-tongued woman. The hottest among them in the past few days is no longer the extramarital affair of a certain family, nor is it the brothel girl with the best skills, but the news that a certain family has been "raided" from outside the city.
"Hey, have you heard? Another viscount has been raided. Hey, it's said that from their cellar, two large chests of gold were found, shiny and shiny. ”
"You just blow it, it's just some hillbillies, and two big boxes, why don't you say two big boxes of jewelry?"
"Well, you don't know, I have a relative who lives there. On the day of the raid, the whole village ran over to see it, but it was lively, and he saw two large boxes of gold with his own eyes. ”
Conversations like this always happen from time to time, and for a while, the rumors of a certain nobleman being "raided" are like the central bell of this Shenghui City, rain or shine, if they can't hear it one day, they are still very unaccustomed to it. There were even a few patrol officers who simply quit their jobs because their families were divided.
In their words, they used to come to Shenghui City to beg for food, which was forced by life, and now that they can go back to be real people, why should they stay here as dogs?
Donovan remembered his conversation with his wife yesterday, and his hometown also sent a letter to him, and the family also got a large piece of land. Donovan had been tormented and wavering in his heart.
If you don't go back, this piece will definitely have nothing to do with you. But if you go back, how much effort will it take to become this patrolman.
Even if it's a dog, it's a decent dog that lives in Shenghui City.
He sighed and was called out, only to realize that he had unknowingly walked to the headquarters of the National Police Agency. He brace himself and get ready to meet the "storm" that hates his boss.
"Therefore, everyone must devote themselves to the recent patrol work with the fullest spirit and the highest fighting spirit. There must be no omission in the princess's wedding!", the broken gong kept ringing, as if the broken strings were tearing each other, and it was very harsh and unpleasant. If it weren't for the regulations, which stipulate that after the patrol every day, they must be reprimanded, who would stay and listen to this old ghost lose his temper, Donovan muttered secretly in his heart.
"In the past few days, some bad phenomena have happened in the patrol team, and I have found that there are individual patrol officers who are not serious, careful, and dedicated, and have failed the instructions of the hall chief, the ardent expectations of His Royal Highness, and the ......."
After spraying saliva for dozens of minutes, the lecture finally ended. Donovan rubbed his shoulders, feeling like his bones were about to fall apart.
"Go back and drink some hot soup and go to sleep. He thought, and was just about to walk out of the gate of the police department, when he met a woman who greeted him and said, "May I ask this policeman, where should the lawsuit go?"
Donovan looked at the woman in front of him in large numbers, and couldn't help but applaud in his heart: "What a peugeot woman!", what attracted his attention the most was that this woman had flame-like, beautiful red hair. Donovan just looked at the red hair, and felt that the "fire" in his heart burned with a sound, his shoulders were no longer sore, his legs were not stiff, and his whole body was hot.
Perhaps because he had patronized a large number of this woman, and had not answered her questions, another old voice came: "My lord, where should the lawsuit go?"
Only then did Donovan realize that the woman was followed by an old man with gray temples and a frail look. The old man's cheeks were sunken deeply, and his entire complexion took on an unhealthy pale color, like a dead body that had just crawled out of a coffin.
"I won't live long. Donovan thought to himself, and his affection for the beautiful woman and his sympathy for the dying old man dispelled his impatience to be delayed in returning home.
"Forget it, it won't take much to get down the road. ", he thought silently.
At this time, he never imagined that he would become a participant and witness to the turning point of the fate of the entire kingdom.