Chapter 017: Momo Tea
It was late at night when I got back to Zenda, and the sightly insane Shaw was still running around the square, and I was going to go to the tavern for a night's rest before registering with the sheriff to-morrow. After all, people work from 9 to 5 p.m.
When I entered the tavern, the merchant whom I had met several times before sat in his seat and got drunk.
"I used to be a rich man in Calradia......," he said.
Suke followed, "yes, yes......"
He said: "It's a pity that I was blinded by money, divorced my wife, and went to find a sixteen-year-old little Lori, thinking that this was the fashion ......"
Suke said, "yes, yes...... as he wiped his glass.
He said: "I didn't expect that once I went out to run a business, she actually had an affair with my housekeeper and ran away with all the money in my account, and now I haven't found it back......."
Suke said, "You are so pathetic......
He said: "I suffered this big loss, and several business partners came to collect the debt, forcing me to take a risk and smuggle a batch of velvet ......."
Sook said, "Wow......"
He said: "Who knew that in Riwache, he ran into the urban management law enforcement team, confiscated half of the goods at once, and fined me tens of thousands of dinars......
Suke said, "Alas......"
He said: "I thought, let's go to Zenda to hide first, who knew that I ran into Haikou on the road again, and now the remaining half of the velvet was robbed again, and I am now penniless......
Su Ke's face changed a little, and he said, "Then you're not eating the Overlord meal now?"
He waved his hand: "It's good that I hid five dinars under the insole, but after this meal I will be completely poor." ”
Su Ke's face improved a little, and he said, "It's okay, it's okay, you can pay for this meal first." ”
He paid the last five dinars, staggered out the door, and waved his hand as he walked in front of me: "Hey, buddy, do you know how to get to the river?"
I said, "What are you doing in Youhe?"
He said, "I'm going to jump into the river......"
I shuddered and dragged him down: "Dude, why don't you want to jump into the river......"
He said, "I'm bankrupt ......."
I hurriedly said: "It's okay, it's okay, I'm just organizing a team of bandits, see that you also have a few strengths, don't dislike it, just do it under me." ”
His eyes immediately lit up: "Yes, yes, is it true?"
I said yes.
He then asked: "Then, all of them are covered with food and accommodation, five insurances and one housing fund, holiday subsidies, high temperature subsidies, transportation subsidies, communication subsidies, and double wages for weekend overtime?"
My face was a little embarrassed, and I let go of my hand like an electric shock: "I haven't even yet, you better die......"
He suddenly didn't want to die again, and he smiled: "It doesn't matter if you don't, I'm optimistic about you, follow you, there must be meat to eat." ”
So I had this man named Manid, who was a bankrupt merchant's subordinate. This is my first subordinate.
The next day, I went to the sheriff to register, and by the way, I reported the results of my previous suppression of bandits, the sheriff's face was a little dark, and he took out six hundred dinars from his pocket and hesitated, and Manid on the side immediately said: "Your Excellency, our achievements today are inseparable from the correct guidance of the Earl's thoughts, and your warm care and careful greetings, Your Excellency, you are the greatest hero!" You don't have to give us this money, eliminating harm for the people is what we should do in the righteous path, and we are absolutely inseparable from those water thieves who disrupt social order and harm the township!"
The sheriff's face suddenly brightened, and he patted Manid on the shoulder and said to me, "You are a sensible man. ”
I said, "It's all taught by adults." ”
The sheriff laughed, and our registration was done.
Manid asked, "Boss, what are we going to do next, do you want to rub it off?"
I counted the dinars in my purse and said, "Rub it...... Forget it, I'll invite you to swim in the You River later, maybe you can catch a few more water thieves, and then you can pay a penalty. ”
Manid nodded, his face wistful, and his words dripped down.
I remembered that Lao Gao mentioned Mama Tea, and it happened that Xiao Yi ran in front of him.
I grabbed her: "Xiao Yi, have you heard of Mama Cha?"
Shoey said mysteriously, "I'll tell you a secret, I've hidden something in this Chanda city."
Manid shuddered, "Secret?
Shaw smiled but didn't say anything.
I said, "Mama Cha, have you ever heard of Mama Cha?"
"Nothing has happened recently......
I said, "Mama tea ......."
Shoey said, "Have you ever been to the You River, I heard that there is a goddess there who will grant your wishes." ”
I said, "Wish? Is it a wish?"
Shaw said, "I'll tell you a secret, oh, I've hidden something in this city of Zenda."
I said, "......."
Manid suddenly said, "Shoey, will Shu Huang take you to buy candy to eat?"
Shaw glanced at Manid with disdain and ran away.
Manid smiled awkwardly.
Ramon on the side suddenly said, "Are you looking for Mama Tea? I have news of him." ”
I immediately got up and asked with a smile, "Mr. La, do you know where Mama's tea is?"
Ramon smiled but didn't say a word.
I pulled out a handful of dinar and slipped it into Ramon's brand new leather jacket.
Ramon laughed: "Huh...... Mama Cha this person, I know, it is said that he is the best guide, tracker, and horse thief within a radius of 500 miles, if you don't worry about waking up your horse and luggage are gone, there are absolutely people like Mama Cha in the team......"
I then asked, "And where is he now?"
Ramon laughed again and said nothing.
I gritted my teeth and stuffed the rest of the dinar into Ramon's pocket.
Ramon said: "The last time I heard that he had been arrested in Živa Cheze, it seemed that he had been charged with stealing horses. The authorities wanted to deal with him and asked him to pay a fine of 100 dinars, but he couldn't pay it, so he was kept in prison. ”
I said, "Živa Ža, ......."
Manid's face suddenly became ugly: "I know that the urban management law enforcement team of Riwa Cheze has this business, and I got into it at the beginning...... But I paid a full 10,000 dinars that time, why only pay 100 for this grandma tea?"
Ramon whispered, "I heard that the leader of the relevant department is a......"
Manid's face turned white all at once, and I saw him tighten from behind.
Ramon said, "That's why Mama Tea has spoken, and whoever can help him out with this hundred dinars, he will promise him." ”
I let out an "oh" and stepped out. Manid immediately came up: "Boss, think twice......"
I said, "That Mama tea is ripe, you will be fined 10,000, and he will only be fined 100,000 yuan, and he will only be fined 100 ......."
Manid said, "Boss, the festival......"
I didn't speak, for a long time, looked up at the sky at a forty-five degree angle and burst into tears: "What am I doing this little bit of discipline for the sake of Calradia......"
Manid was silent. We packed up briefly, and I rode my horse, Manid with his burden, and set off from Chanda to Riwache. On the road, a few blind water thieves came to rob them, and they were scared away by my swinging of a knife.
By the time we arrived at the Riwa Chariot, it was dusk, and my stomach was rumbling with hunger, so I poured into the city in the midst of the crowds.
At this moment, the guards on both sides of the door suddenly roared, and two heavy long-bladed axes lay in front of us.
"What for?" asked one of the guards.
"We are from the Zenda bandit team, so we are here to replenish our supplies. I replied calmly.
"Show your ID. The guard said.
I touched my body and remembered that the sheriff hadn't come before he could get us a card. I smiled and said, "This little brother, we didn't have our documents with us, can you be accommodating?"
The guard grimaced and said, "No!"
I pulled down my face, grabbed Manid's fist and shook it in front of the guards, and said, "Have you ever seen a punch as big as a punching bag?"
The guards smiled coldly, greeted, and rushed out of the door with a dozen heavily armed hoplites.
Manid bowed his head in shame.
My face was full of frost, and I could not imagine that I could not even get into a small day wagon for the country and the people, so what could I talk about helping the world and unifying Calradia? When I thought of the difficulty, I could not help but feel a lot of emotion, and I took out from my bosom a hundred dinars that I had obtained from the bandits along the way and threw them in front of the guards. "Can you come in now?"
The guard's face was red and white, as if he was engaged in a violent psychological struggle, and finally he sighed, silently picked up the hundred dinars and put them in his arms, looked left and right, and made a way.
After entering the city, Manid immediately came up: "It's still the boss!"
I snorted, my heart dripping blood.
The next thing is to go to the urban management department to redeem the grandma tea.
This legendary guide is extremely bullish. The Chengguan Yamen of Riwa Cheze is extremely majestic, located in the center of Riwa Cheze, is a baroque style all-marble building, two guards at the door, a shiny whole body armor, holding a long-bladed axe, fierce and vicious.
Manid was already familiar with the city management yamen, and after a few casual clicks, we met the administrator. At this point, the Administrator's face glowed red and he hiccups contentedly. We offered to see Mama Tea. He lazily shouted, "Mama Cha, someone wants to see you." He pointed to the cell behind him.
We walked over and saw a short, wrinkled man with tears in the corners of his eyes, silently tying his trouser belts.
"Is this Mama tea?" I asked Manid.
"Probably, look at the way he's scattered all over the place. Manid nodded.
Mama Cha suddenly seemed to see a savior, pounced, grabbed the railing of the prison and cried blood and pleaded: "Fish me out, please!"
Manid looked coldly at Mama Tea.
Mama Cha was shocked and knelt down: "Get me out, please, I'm willing to do whatever you want me to do." As he spoke, he licked his lips intentionally or unintentionally.
I suddenly felt a chill all over my body. Manid's face turned green, and he turned to me and asked, "Boss, do you really want to save him?"
I waved him away, reluctant to speak.
An hour later, we left Riwa Cheze and rushed back to Chanda, and Mama Tea was also in the procession. Leaving the Riwa, he looked extremely excited, first kissing the ground under his feet, and then turning over his heel to open the way in front.
I thought about it, took out a long wooden stick from the horse's back and threw it to Mamacha: "Wukong...... Uh, no...... Mama tea, take it, you can do a good job for me in the future. ”
Mama Tea looked at me gratefully: "Boss, I will let you get what you want!"
I had another chill.
When he was still twenty miles away from Chanda, Mama Tea suddenly stopped, he grabbed a handful of dirt from the ground and rubbed it, then sniffed it again, and finally licked it, turned his head and said, "Boss, there is a large group of horse bandits around here, be careful!"
Manid asked curiously, "How do you know?"
Mama Cha proudly pointed to the ground: "You see, there are traces of a large group of galloping horses passing by, judging from the hoof prints, there are about forty to fifty horses, and the hoof prints here are relatively scattered, it should have been after a battle." ”
Manid asked, "Then how do you know that it is a horse bandit, maybe it is a patrol of Zenda?" ”
Mama Tea immediately said triumphantly: "So this is the difference between me and you, and my value is immediately reflected here." I know that these are horse bandits, and the key is that the lump of horse dung I smelled just now still has some residual warmth, which means that they have not gone far; the smell is a little spicy, which means that these horses mainly eat wild vegetables and grasses, not soybean grains; the taste is salty, bitter, and very dry, which means that these horses are relatively thin and small; how can the Zenda Patrol, as an armed force organized by the state, be equipped with such a rubbing of war horses?"
I felt a wave of nausea, and Manid's face turned pale, and he turned his head and threw up.
I adjusted my mindset and said, "Wukong...... Oh no, Mama Cha, it seems that it is really right to save you, let's be careful and try to get to Chanda safely, so as not to cause any problems. ”
Mama Cha made an OK gesture to me and ran to the front to explore the way.
Manid vomited for a moment, his face very empty.
I said, "Are you alright?"
Manid shook his head, looking weak.
Under the leadership of Mama Cha, we successfully escaped back to Chanda, it was already dark and the wind was high, and the square of Chanda kept echoing with Kai's voice: "Attention to all units, attention to all units, immediately enter the city wall post, all in place, this is not a drill, repeat, all units pay attention to ......"
I walked up to Kai and patted him on the shoulder, startling him.
"What are you doing, drilling?" I asked Kai.
Kai was a little angry, and he said, "Didn't I say this wasn't a drill?"
I said, "You say that every time, who knows which time it's true?"
Kai glared at me silently, seeing Mama Tea behind me. "You got this guy?"
"Well, subdued. ”
Kay didn't speak. Suddenly a series of torches lit up outside the city of Chanda, accompanied by many beastly howls. Kai visibly nervous in his voice.
"Horse thieves," he said, "you are lucky not to have touched them when you came in." ”
Kai seemed to be immersed in memories: "They've even been here for the panties of the ace bounty hunter......"
I ignored Kai and led the party back to Chanda's tavern. Chanda City is high and dangerous, and there is an incomparably mysterious guard of Calradia's first armed Chanda City Guard, and nothing can happen. When I entered the tavern, I saw Sooke with a black face.
"What's the matter, I don't owe you any money. I said, feeling a little empty, but I don't have much dinar in my pocket anymore.
Suker didn't speak, silently wiping the table, over and over again.
The next day, early in the morning, Su Ke knocked on my door at the door: "Don't you get up soon? If you don't get up again, everyone will collect their stalls, where are you going to collect protection money, have you ever seen such an unprofessional anti-bandit law enforcement team? If you don't make money, who will pay me rent, don't think I don't know, you only have more than 60 dinars in your pockets, I ordered it yesterday." ”
I immediately covered my wallet at my waist, and sure enough, there were traces of being flipped.
Mama Tea sighed: "This innkeeper has come and gone without a trace, and he is really not an ordinary person. ”
We packed up our guys and went out of Zenda, and as soon as we got out of Zenda, we found that it was clean in front of us, not to mention the water thieves, not even half of the fishermen, needless to say, it must be a good thing done by other law enforcement teams who got up early.
So we discussed it and prepared to go a little farther away, cross the You River, and go to Nord territory to fight the autumn breeze.
I heard that Nord is making trouble with pirates there, maybe he can rob a few pirates......
As I relayed my decision to Mama Cha and Manid, they both stared speechlessly at the scimitar at my waist, the only weapon of the three of us that had some deterrent power.
"Ahem...... Although our current conditions are a little more difficult, it doesn't matter, the protagonist of each story is poor at the beginning, and later he will want to do whatever he wants like winning the lottery, so don't worry. Then I announce that from today onwards, our old G Pirates will be officially established!" I said.
"Old G......"
"Pirates ......"
Manid was the first to react, and he immediately applauded: "The boss is the boss, this name is really domineering and extraordinary." ”
Mama Tea then agreed.
We crossed the Yuhe River and walked all morning in the direction of Tiha, and at noon we were confronted by a group of pirates.
At that time they were cooking, digging several pits in the sand, making a fire underneath and grilling fish on top.
The smell of the grilled fish was so fragrant that I was hungry when I smelled it from afar.
"Boss, do it!" Manid was hungry too.
I licked my lips and was about to make a move, when suddenly a voice came from behind me.
"What man!" I turned my head, and a big man at least two meters tall stood in front of me, wearing a Germanic helmet, wearing chain mail, and chain mail boots, and a two-handed battle axe more than a meter long hanging on his back.
I looked at the nomadic leather armor on my body, the rusty scimitar around my waist, and felt embarrassed.
Manid mustered up the courage to shout, "We are the old G Pirates, you must have heard of our name!"
Mama Tea continued: "That's right, we are the old G Pirates from countless distant planets light years away, even if you haven't heard of us, we won't blame you for being lonely!"
The big man was stunned, and after a while, he grinned, revealing his crooked teeth: "It sounds like a powerful look, although I don't know what I'm talking about......" He slapped Manid on the shoulder and slapped the thin businessman on the back: "Look at you guys in messy leather armor, and you don't have any guys in your hands, and you were also caught up by those bandit law enforcement teams in Chanda, you don't have to worry, everyone is a pirate brother, and when you come to my Nabar, you won't let you suffer." ”
This one, named Nabal, turned around and fished out three smoked fish from the sand stove and threw them to me, "Dude, eat and drink well, I'll find a few more good guys when I go back, you guys are in trouble, and I can't ignore it as the One Piece." ”
I was a little confused, Manid whispered beside me: "Boss, anyway, if you have food, you will eat first, and if you take it, we will also kill water thieves when we come out anyway, and Haikou is not our business scope." ”
Mama Tea nodded in agreement.
I thought about it too, so I let go of the food, and drank two large jugs of Nord honey with Nabal, and before leaving, Nabal gave me two battle axes, and I took the tea for Manid and Mama, and went back the way I came.
Manid said, "Boss, this Nabar is a man. ”
I didn't speak.
Mama Tea continued: "It's just a little silly. ”
I couldn't hold back and laughed.