Chapter 011: Sudden Accident

The characters in this chapter: Manid, the down-and-out merchant, Suke, the tavernkeeper, and Niza, the bard. Pen, fun, and www.biquge.info

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Sooke snorted, and from Manid's answer, he could not see a glimmer of hope for the return of the gold coin.

"Uh, isn't there a shortage of people in your shop—" Manid was about to say what he thought.

"What?" the tavernkeeper Suke didn't seem to believe his ears.

"I mean, I'll be your buddy, fifty dinars a month, and besides, with such a big tavern, can you take care of a single man?"

"How can you have such a terrible idea, you can drink my wine, and beat me for money. Suke glared at Manid.

"Oh, friend, listen to me and tell me we're just exchanging for an equal price!" Manid quickly explained.

"Don't think so! Do you know how much tax the tax collector charged me a month? 500 dinars! And you want me to add another 50 dinars?"

"Do you know how much you can sell for 50 dinars, it's the equivalent of 5 big bags of beef jerky, 10 bags of smoked fish, 4 bottles of wine, he can even get a down-and-out aristocratic lady to sleep with you, and you want me to give you so much in a month, oh my God, do you want my life!!" Suke jumped to his feet and shouted loudly.

Everyone around looked at him, which made Manid extremely embarrassed. "Then what do you want me to do! I want to work here to pay back, but you can't even pay your salary, how do you want me to pay it back, do you want to block the road and rob it?"

"Let you go to run the merchant and be afraid of encountering ringing horses and water thieves, let you participate in gladiatorial battles, you are afraid that you will not be able to beat them, what else can save you?"

"Anyway, I've made up my mind, and I won't give up until someone hires me now!" Manid looked like a dead pig who was not afraid of boiling water.

Su Ke thought for a moment and said, "Well, when you go out and turn right, you will see Lord Sheriff, who needs someone to help him catch the water thief." Suke sat back in his chair and folded his arms. "As you said, you've had a heart to be a freelancer since you were a child. ”

"Oh no!" Manid widened. "My caravan was broken up by the pirates, and Jim and Saren were killed by the pirates.

"I... I saw Jim ...... with my own eyes Jim's got the back of the head struck by a water thief's axe, and his eyes were like that... Flip it up... Saren was stabbed in the stomach with a rusty scimitar, and his screams ...... His screams, screaming like pigs tied up on a board......"

"Alright, alright!" Sook hurriedly pressed the trembling Manid, who trembled like a sheep's epilepsy every time he spoke of his companion's death, and it seemed that the city guard really needed to be summoned to solve the problem.

A mercenary came in from outside the door and asked the tavernkeeper for an ale, and after taking a sip of it, he asked, "Where is the nearest brothel and house?"

Then. There was a commotion, and at the table next to them, a drunken drunkard was talking loudly with his fox friends, and as for what they were talking about, it was nothing more than the ways in which they insulted women.

The drunkard's voice was so loud that everyone in the tavern frowned. Manid turned his head and looked at him quickly, dressed in a sackcloth shirt and straw sandals, and looked like a countryman.

"You, you, just you, what the are you looking at?" the drunkard noticed him and shouted at him.

Manid hurriedly turned his head back, and Suke gave him a look and told him to ignore the other.

The drunkard staggered out of his seat and grabbed Manid by the shoulder, "What the were you looking at?"

Anger and fear surrounded Manid. The whole tavern fell silent, and Manid noticed that the drunkard had a sword hanging from his waist, and thought to himself: If I fight him now, I guess my life will be given here.

"I'm sorry, please accept my apology. Manid squeaked.

"Then I'll make your smile disappear from your face forever!"

With the sound of a sword unsheathed, the mercenary fled upstairs, and Sooke hid behind the bar, the bard threw his instrument to the ground in terror, and the traveler fled through the main entrance.

But the drunkard's fox friends shouted, "Give him some power!"

The blade reflected the faint light of the tavern, and Manid jumped up the moment he swung his sword, and the sword slashed on the table. Manid's pupils constricted, if he had been a little slower just now......

"You're still hiding, I'm going to give you something powerful today!" the drunkard raised his sword again, and at this moment, the bard jumped up and rushed behind him, and grabbed him: "Quick! Manid, take his sword!"

It took Manid two seconds to react, and as he stretched out his hand, the drunkard broke free of him with an "ah!" and the bard fell to the ground, as if his strength was not small.

"Dare to sneak up on Lao Tzu! Lao Tzu will let you die first!" When the drunkard swung his sword again, the bard had already run away.

Manid's mind went blank, and when the drunkard turned to him again, he didn't know how to dodge, his eyes staring blankly ahead, and his body was already unconscious.

The sword stabbed at him, and he closed his eyes......

At the moment when the drunkard stabbed Manid, the bard got a sword of his hand out of nowhere, quickly blocked it for Manid, and then in less than half a move, the drunkard fell to the ground. "This scumbag ......," Niza said.

The tavernkeeper stepped up to the bard from the bar and looked at the drunkard lying motionless on the floor, "Oh, damn it, Niza. He shouted anxiously. "You killed someone, what are you still doing in a daze, run away, if you wait for the guards to come, you won't be able to escape. ”

"Niza, my dear friend, thank you for saving me," Manid said gratefully. "Run......! Go to the city of Decherim, where James is, go find him. ”

The troubadour, who had come to his senses, hurriedly threw away his bloody sword, hurried out of the tavern, and ran out of the city all night.

After the bard fled, the fox friends who were lying on the ground and had no life in the drunkard slipped out of the tavern, presumably to report to the patrolling guards.

"Damn it, Manid," Sook cried sullenly. "It's all your fault, what are you doing standing here, waiting for the guards to come and arrest you?"

"Oh, Boss Sooke, how did it become my fault," Manid said with an innocent expression. "It was this drunk guy who made the first move, and I didn't kill this idiot either, I didn't even touch him at all!"

"There are so many people here, why would he want to trouble you?" said Su Ke's tone with a rare scolding. "If you hadn't looked at him and didn't smirk at him, would he have done anything to you?"

"Damn, you're in a tavern," Manid explained, somewhat unpleasantly. "Is there anything wrong with everyone sitting together and looking around? I don't smile at him, do I have to pretend to look at him with a fierce look?"

The door to the tavern was pushed open again, and a group of guards, led by the sheriff, rushed in, followed by the drunkard's fox friends, who skimmed to the informant next to him and asked, "Tell me." Who's the murderer?"

"My lord, it's him," said the thin man, pointing to Manid across from him. "It was this merchant's companion who killed Ham. ”

Suke stepped forward and gave a brief explanation: "Lord Harryk. No, let me explain, it was this drunken man who drew his weapon and tried to kill my friend, and the poet who was a performer with me was forced to kill him. ”

Harrick frowned. "Suk, you should know the law of Chanda, and any act of assassination, revenge, etc., in Chandha under any circumstances and for any reason, will be considered murder and execution, whether you are a knight or a commoner. ”

Manid was in a hurry, and he hurriedly defended: "But my lord, I did not kill him, and his killer has fled." You don't have the right to arrest me. ”

After Harrick questioned the testimony of most of the people in the tavern, he suddenly ordered: "Someone, take the body away, and immediately send someone out of the city to hunt down the murderer." ”

"Yes, sir!" replied the captain of the garrison.

Harrick then led six heavily armed city guards out of the tavern, leaving Manid behind the trembling man who had been standing there.