Chapter 29: The Game
"Your lunch, sir. ”
The sailors on board brought a lunch for three, with fish cut into pieces and white bread, and the fruit was a lemon.
From Calm Bay to Feldenberg, the route of the vast ocean is relatively smooth, at least, people can rarely feel the bumps when sitting in the cabin.
Unlike other passenger ships, the Mage Special Carrier is mostly converted from cargo ships, and is not a small room with a ticket. They were three people in a room, about two people wide, and there were two bunk beds separated from the top and bottom in the three-person cabin, which should have been accommodated by one more person, but the little fellow went to the deck to see the sea, probably because the atmosphere in the room was too strange.
The windowless cabin is not luxurious, but the bedding is quite thick. Gain's temperature was not particularly cold, and the final destination of the ships passing through the Norf Polar Region was the Far Sail City in the eastern part of the empire, which was the world-famous capital of alchemy and the best place for most of the middle and lower class people who could not enter the mage academy.
As far as Alexai knew, although the Empire had set up a special student loan for the Mage Academy, this low-interest loan in the thousands, which was not open to most people. The qualification requirements for lending are quite high, and if someone who does not have enough prestige and status in the local area writes a letter of guarantee, the family who wants to provide for their children to enter the academy to study magic will have to pay the high tuition fee of the academy in full for this unattainable dream. And that huge amount of tuition is usually unaffordable, not to mention the extra cost of herbs, ores and other things that need to be used in the experiment.
Thinking of this, Alexei became a little curious about Lan Meng, he forked a piece of fish, and suddenly said to the female mage who was munching on bread next to him, "Would you like to have some wine to accompany the meal?"
He held up the glass bottle at his feet, the light brown liquor with an alluring sheen, which caught the eye of Ngelin, who was sitting cross-legged on the floor.
"I don't want to drink it. Lan Meng paused, raised his eyes, glanced at the wine bottle out of the corner of his eye, and said in a somewhat disdainful tone, "Our voyage is very short, and we don't have to bend to drink horse urine by ourselves." ”
"If you don't want to drink it, why belittle it? ”
Alexei opened the cap of the bottle as he spoke, poured a little of the wine that had overflowed the bottom of his glass, and casually threw the bottle to Englene on the ground: "Remember, now half of your master owes me another bottle of wine." ”
"Hey!" Lan Meng tapped the table, "I didn't let you give him a drink, it has to be on your own." ”
Then he didn't refuse. Alexei shrugged his shoulders and motioned with his eyes for Blue Dream to look underground.
The moment Engelin received the bottle, he couldn't wait to satisfy his cravings, and he took a sip of most of the wine, and when he heard the roar of Lan Meng's "no drinking" in his ears, it was too late.
"You damn bastard, you're always playing some tricks of buying and selling. ”
"Well, then you have wronged me. Ngelen couldn't speak, but his eyes were hot. Alexei laughed, "I'm not unintelligible about his craving for sugar cane wine, are you right? ”
The sluggish Northlander nodded inexplicably.
"Alright. Lan Meng laughed angrily, "I know you're always right. So, this time you have some bad idea again. ”
"Life on board was so boring that we had two days and nights to get to Feldenburg. ”
"And then?"
"Let's play some games. ”
Lan Meng didn't speak this time, her eyes under the hood stared at the fish on the plate, and she suddenly picked up the fork and poked it fiercely, making a default.
"What do you want to play?" Alexei looked left and right, as Blue Dream said, their voyage was very short, and Alexei, who had little entertainment needs, forgot to bring the tools to play.
"You didn't bring Wang Qi. What else can we play?" Lan Mengmeng, who was indignantly cutting the pieces of meat on the plate, remembered the old things of the academy, "We always played this at the time, and the tutor would occasionally play two games with us, but I always won, and then there was no one to play with me. ”
"Let's guess if the silver coin is right or wrong. ”
Alexei took out an Adri, a thin coin with the family coat of arms of the Serchik family on the obverse, two zebu cattle wrestling, and an open sutra surrounded by olive leaves on the reverse side, symbolizing the Holy Spirit's Most Holy Message.
If it is a gold coin issued by the kingdom, the reverse side will be a jeweled golden crown, and on the crown, there is a canon so small that the olive leaf cannot be seen.
"Childish. ”
Blue Dream is clearly not interested in guessing games of silver coin tossing.
"Since you're bored, let's add some color. Alexei tossed the coin high, and when it landed on the back of his hand, he instantly covered it with his other hand, "Whoever guesses correctly will be able to ask the loser an irrelevant question, and no one can lie." ”
"Hmph, I won't play with you, what if you use magic to cheat?"
"Rest assured, I'm Adrian, Child of the Elements. I'm not going to do anything so tasteless, the game should be played well, and it won't be mixed with power. ”
"You've done enough of the unproductive, and now you remember that you're a child of the elements? ”
"On the other hand, you're wrong. Alexei opened his hand, and the silver coin on the back of his hand showed the open scriptures.
"Ask whatever you want, but like you said, I won't answer any questions that are personal. ”
"It's not a big deal, I just want to know how you got through the student loan qualification. ”
"A letter of guarantee, of course. Lan Meng looked at Alexei with your ignorant eyes, and then said, "I'm a princess of the former royal family, so I don't have any channels. ”
"I'm afraid that someone in the empire wants to use your identity to seize the throne. ”
"Whatever, I'm worth a little bit of money anyway. Lan Meng's face was full of indifference.
"You can see it. However, even your surnames have been almost forgotten from the memories of the people of the kingdom, and the living will only remember Selchik except for the dead. ”
“.......”
Lan Meng's eating action paused, and she then said casually, "Hey, I said...... Go on, I have something I want to know from your sore-covered mouth. ”
"Good. The silver coin was once again tossed high and landed on the flesh, covered by five fingers that were close together.
"This time, I'm guessing heads. ”
"Yes, you won. Alexei raised his hand, revealing two bulls with their horns.
"How did you get the three tickets? I don't remember any special days recently that had to disrupt the schedule of the special carrier. ”
"There was a pandemic in Feldenburg, and it just so happened that I knew the person in charge of Feldenburg, and she helped me to keep a cabin. ”
"The pandemic?"
"Yes. ”