Chapter 40: Evil Thoughts
Il wandered around the city, unwilling to stay in the house, for it would make him upset and make him miss the woman who had come from him all the more. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info
This was the tenth day of their victory, and the city's acquisition was proceeding in an orderly manner, and the good news had been sent to the royal city as soon as possible. The army here had to wait for the king's orders before making the next move, so he has not left until now, often coming out to help the craftsmen in charge of post-war restoration work to repair damaged houses and walls.
He walked to a tavern, where there were many soldiers playing cards under the shed outside the house, these soldiers seemed to be in a pretty good mood, the war is over and they are still alive, this should be the most happy thing, and then think about the wife and children far away from home, life is complete!
Ilr also relaxed and went forward to watch the hot game of cards, each with five cards in his hand, the size of a palm, all cut into thin slices and polished by a draftsman, and finally a draftsman drew a beautiful pattern on the board.
Of course, the wooden board card is only the most common and cheapest card, some of the princes and nobles usually use the cards for entertainment are polished from the whole body of crystal, and then polished and carved by the most delicate craftsmen little by little, such cards usually have to sell dozens of gold coins, and naturally these soldiers can not afford it.
There are several groups of soldiers playing cards in the shed, and each of them has a shabby money bag in front of them, which is full of copper coins as gambling money, these soldiers have come out to fight for so many years, and the army is responsible for food, so everyone has some confidence, and this time the battle is won, His Majesty the King will also give them a huge amount of money as a reward.
A dejected soldier in the corner seemed to have bad luck, he had lost several times in a row, and the worn-out money bag in front of him was empty, and the soldiers at the same table began to laugh at his unlucky luck, and the soldiers watching the battle next to him even asked him to get off the table, and when he ran out of money, he quickly replaced him.
Of course, the soldier did not want to go down, and he wanted to turn over the book, so he awkwardly took out a fine calfskin money bag from his boo.
The soldiers around him all looked at him in surprise, this soldier is just an ordinary person, how can there be a leather money bag that only a noble lord would use to hold money? A tall soldier sitting opposite him directly asked him where he stole it.
The chatter here was getting louder and louder, and Il was curious to surround him.
I saw that the soldier grabbed two gold coins from the money bag and quickly stuffed them back into his arms, and the onlookers all made disdainful sounds, and the two soldiers in front of Il were also talking.
"Where did he get that money bag, you say? He can't steal it if he wants to?"
"I guess where he probably picked it up? Needless to say, that cowhide money bag is worth a gold coin, and I don't know where he got such good luck to pick it up, I think there is still a lot of money in that bag, is it all gold coins?"
Il, standing behind them and hearing these words, had a bad premonition in his heart, and he had to confirm the origin of the money bag.
"This soldier, may I take a look at the money bag in your arms? ”
Eir's voice rang out, and when the soldier saw the miraculous magician leading the way, they all quieted down and dispersed, allowing Eir to walk to the front of the table, and the tall man sitting opposite the soldier quickly got up and saluted.
Only the soldier who had lost the money sat there, and his heart was weak, not daring to look up into Il's eyes.
"Hey, Lord Electrolux is talking to you!"
The person behind kindly stabbed him to remind him, and the soldier stood up suddenly, raising his right hand as slowly as he could, his forehead was covered with cold sweat, and the people around him could see that his heart was weak, and they didn't dare to gasp.
Il, just standing there quietly waiting for him to take out the money bag, not afraid of his tricks.
The soldier finally took out the money bag, which seemed to be stained with blood. Ilr frowned, and as soon as he waved, the money bag flew out of the soldier's hand and landed firmly in Il's hand.
"Lord Electrolux, what are you going to do?"
The soldier was startled when he saw the money bag in his hand fly away, and was about to pounce and grab it, but Il instantly released a magic that made his feet firmly locked to the ground, and then carefully observed the money bag. The soldiers around whispered, but no one helped.
He knew the money bag, and the inside of the money bag was tattooed with a small camellia, which was the same money bag he had given to the old man in the forest that night!
"Where did you get this money bag?" asked Il, coldly.
"This is what my wife gave me, Lord Electrolux, even you can't steal other people's things. ”
Still hard-mouthed?
Yir opened the cowhide money bag and poured out the gold coins and gems inside, and the soldiers around him were dumbfounded, they had never seen so much money in their lives, and the people around them could not be so rich, let alone someone else would give them so much money.
Il used the most practical actions to expose his lies, even if he had the money to buy a cowhide money bag, it would never be possible to have so many gold coins and gems, otherwise why would he come to be a soldier?
"You little soldier, where did you get so much money? The camellia in this money bag is the emblem given to me by His Royal Highness Allen, and I gave this money bag to someone a few months ago, do you want to continue to lie?"
The soldier finally weakened his legs in fright, and knelt down, according to the law, stealing things and cutting off hands and feet is light, not to mention that the lord in front of him is still a noble magician.
"My lord, I really didn't know it was yours! I didn't steal your thing. This is an old man who gave it to me. ”
The indescribable feeling in Yir's heart, he no longer knew how to face the old man who was crying in the forest, and there was only one last hope left, hoping that the old man was still alive but the money was robbed.
"What about the old man?"
This is a soldier who knows that he has done something that he should not do, and he is afraid to tell the truth.
"I saw that the old man was so dirty that he could take out such a delicate cowhide money bag, and I guessed that he was a thief, so I arrested him. ”
Il was just about to ask the old man where he was locked up, when a young soldier suddenly shouted, he seemed to have endured it for a long time.
"You, you liar!"
Everyone's eyes shifted from the kneeling soldier to the little soldier, not knowing what kind of truth he would say.
"That day I went out of town to relieve myself when I was on patrol and I happened to see him outside the city when I came back. At this time, a very old man walked on the road in the distance. The old man looked like a refugee, apparently coming to us when he learned that we had won the battle and came to join us, but he stopped him. ”
"The old man took a gold coin out of his bosom and gave it to you, I thought you were taking him to the refugee shelter, but I haven't seen him since!"
The soldier's words were heartfelt, and the soldier was so frightened that he broke out in a cold sweat when he heard him tell the truth of the matter, and immediately kowtowed to Il and begged for his forgiveness. Il didn't need to ask anymore, the rest of the story must be that he robbed the old man's money bag and then found a place to destroy the body.
Hehe, it's ironic, the old man's family was killed by the soldiers of Shaki Country, and he thought that he could spend his old age in peace by defecting to Tamu Country, but in fact, the soldiers on both sides were the same.
I also blame myself for giving him so much money, but I caused this murderous disaster, hehe.
Gripping the money bag tightly, he looked directly at the soldier, the sun hung high in the sky, he looked up at the sun, the sun shone on his eyes painfully, and tears flowed out of pain.
He threw the soldier a gold coin, then closed his eyes, and the murderous soldier was consumed in flames at once, and the screams and begging for mercy continued for a long time before disappearing, and none of the soldiers around him interceded for him.
Countries and countries are the same, and what are we fighting when we fight? Fortunately, not all of us in this world are such people.
"What's your name, and if you will, be an apprentice with me. ”
The young soldier was there, and after a while, it wasn't until the people around him pushed him that he reacted, "Hurry up, Master Electrolux is going to accept you as an apprentice, you don't hurry up!"
Il was already far away, and the creep hurried to catch up.