18. Colombo at night

There was a knock on the door, and Sonia grabbed the bath towel, sloppily around her body, and went over to open the door with the Moon Blade. Pen | fun | pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

It was Jessica who knocked on the door, and behind her was another skinny-looking girl. Both men carried a large wooden basin with a lid on it, and a stream of fragrance came out of the gap between the lid and the basin.

Seeing Sonia with the sword, Jessica pretended to be startled. She patted her plump breasts, causing most of the snow-white balls to squeeze out from the sides of her apron.

"Miss, it's lunch today. I've got it for you. ”

She gestured to the wooden bowl in her hand, "This is our signature chowder." I don't know what your taste is, one is an assorted and one is a seafood barbecue. She pulled the little girl behind her, "This is little Amy, it's my daughter." It's the personal maid I recommended to the two young ladies. He is a smart and clever child. ”

"Well, it looks like a smart kid. Sonia coped casually. Her stomach was rumbling in protest, and after taking a shower, the protest was even more violent, and now all her attention was on the food.

When the basin was opened, there was a black pottery disc with a high rim and a diameter of thirty centimeters. The plate is filled with snow-white rice. Plump rice with breaded fried shrimp, chopped peanuts, peas, meat floss, smoked fish, eggs, pineapple pulp, chives and vinegar celery. Sprinkle with a sweet, slightly spicy rich sauce. Such a mixed chowder is full of portions, with 500 grams of rice alone, which is enough for a big man to have a full meal.

Sonia swallowed her saliva, still insisting on opening another wooden basin, the same black pottery dinner plate, but with different delicacies inside.

"This is a seafood chowder, and it looks pretty good. ”

"Of course, there are the freshest and sweetest Colombo scallops, the black fish of the Pervas River, the purple root seaweed of the windless sea, the hotel's secret barbecue honey shrimp and the best spicy stir-fried snail lion meat. The smell of river seafood gathers. ”

"That's great!" Sonia looked left and right, not knowing which one to eat. She looked at the closed bathroom door and made up her mind to eat them all.

"Whew~" Sonia let out a sigh of relief. The rebellious stomach is appeased, and the taste is greatly enjoyed.

Jessica's mother and daughter silently watched as Sonia ate two large portions of chowder by herself. With more than three pounds of food in her stomach, Sonia still looked unsatisfied.

"Well, the other lady hasn't eaten yet. Jessica disagrees with Sonya's behavior of eating up lunch alone.

"Oh. Sonia sighed, "That's easy." She took out the token card she had just arrived and threw it to the skinny girl. "Little Amy, go for a run, buy more delicious food and come back. Remember to buy as much as you can! the more the merrier, just spend all of this card. ”

Little Amy nodded shyly, and then ran out.

"Jessica, Amy is really your daughter, how old did you give birth to her?" Sonia was a little surprised at the proximity of the mother and daughter.

"Amy is twelve years old. Jessica tugged at her long sideburns. "I was born to her when I was twelve. ”

Sonia was visibly stunned. "Having a baby so early!"

She thought about what she had been like when she was twelve, mingling with the boys outside every day, and getting covered in dirt. Then I went home and was made by my mother to make fried meat on a wooden plank. On the worst occasion, he took Esther and them to ambush the famous Fat John, the waste knight of Bellafa. The scene of the big fat man, who weighed 200 kilograms, was kicked into the trap by himself, and then stuck in it because the diameter of the trap was too small, made all the children involved in the ambush laugh for a month. That pit was still dug by Easter, and only he could dig such a creative pit.

Shortly after that, he reached level ten. No longer interested in mingling with the little ones. Each of the knights in the West Forest became the object of his own challenge, and made it clear that many of them were useless bales.

"Please, miss, who wants to have a child at such a young age. That's going to be terrible. Jessica looked at the stunned Sonia and said helplessly. "I was a contract slave, I was sold at a very young age, I was given a bed at the age of twelve, and then I had Amy. ”

"What! Slavery has long been abolished! It was abolished long ago at the time of the Great Frontier!" Sonia could not have imagined that there would be slaves in the capital of the kingdom.

"That's just talk. I was sold without remembering. I don't know who my parents are or where my home is. ”

"Is it a human trafficker?" Sonia remembered that there had been child thieves in the West Forest area. However, most of these people have suffered a miserable fate. It's too remote over there, as long as you hold the line of the Tieshu River, no one can escape.

"Who knows. Maybe my parents sold me!"

"It's unimaginable. Sonia barely knew what to say. She wanted to comfort Jessica, but she didn't know what to say.

"Oh! If you really have compassion on me, give me a little more money. Jessica saw Sonya's embarrassment and joked casually.

"This kind of fact is all too common. All the girls in this inn are indentured servitudes. You can't help everyone. Esther said in a low tone as he wiped his hair out of the bathroom. "This is not the West Forest, the population is plentiful here. So even the inefficient nature of slavery remains. ”

"Huh?!is this?" Esther glanced at two large empty plates on the dining table. "Sonia, it's too much for you to keep me at all. The hunger in East's belly turned to rage. He looked at Sonya indignantly, which made the former very embarrassed, but he still had to maintain his sister's momentum.

"I eat first, you eat later, what does it matter. ”

"It's too bullying. Esther glared at Sonya. Just before a fierce conflict erupted, there was another knock on the door to the room.

Little Amy took seven or eight hostesses, pushed several food carts, and carried a large number of food boxes.

The abundance of food quickly melted away the tension. The food war eventually erupted into a big stomach match.

After the war, the cups and plates were in disarray. Both of them ate until they couldn't stand up. Jessica and Amy's mother and daughter are busy cleaning up the house.

Sonia burped and turned reddish. "Amy, you change your clothes, let's go out later in the evening. You have to lead the way. Lead the way, I've got good things for you here. ”

"Well, let's rest (digest) for a while, Amy, come to us at seven o'clock in the evening. Go freely now. Esther shifted to a more comfortable position and lay down on the bed.

At seven o'clock, before it was completely dark, Amy and her mother went to the room on the fourth floor. Amy and her family live in the basement of the hotel, except for the poor lighting, the other conditions of the house are the same as the upstairs rooms.

In the end, Jessica was still worried about Amy going out with the two out-of-town girls, so she told the lame Richard and decided to accompany the three of them on the journey.

The four of them decided to finish dinner at the inn before setting off. Sonia even planned to go to the White Tower at night and hand over the letter from the Warrior Guild. Because he was going shopping, Esther locked his backpack in his room and put only two swords in the weapon bracelet Amanda gave him and put them on Sonya's wrists.

"Colombo, Colombo, you are a city that never sleeps. Singing, laughter, singing and dancing. Bursts of singing came from inside the buildings on the side of the road. The most of them is this "Colombo at Night". This is the famous work of the famous composer Gold more than 80 years ago, and it has been sung for a long time. Almost every Coronian has heard the song, and Sonia and Esther are no exception.

Sonia looked at the bright and colorful magical light sources on the buildings around her, and then looked at the dense street lamps on the side of the road, and finally believed that the song "Colombo at Night" was real.

"It's unimaginable. Sonia exclaimed in heartfelt admiration. "In the West Forest, except for Bellafa, it's pitch black at night. Even Belrafa's street lights are only on until 10 o'clock at night. No one would put a magic light source on the roof of their house. ”

"It's just a cost. Used to solicit guests. In addition, it is one of Colombo's main hubs. Esther looked around a little bored, compared to the night neon of the super-metropolis in the previous life, the night in Colombo was still too monotonous, at least most of the magic lighting did not change brightness and shape. "But where is that?" Esther pointed to a magical light source in the distance, which was constantly changing.

It's a very characteristic magic light source. The shape of the light source is constantly changing, sometimes it is a variety of weapons, sometimes it is a warrior in different postures, and it stands out compared to the rigid light sources that are set in the same way around it.

Jessica glanced at it and said with certainty: "That's Palazzo Valentino, the famous palace of Duke Pervas's family. She also pointed to the ever-changing magical light source, "A year ago, the current Duke of Pervas turned it into an arena and held the Coronian Kickboxing Tournament with the Warriors' Guild. "It's a great place to make a fortune, and if you pick the right players and bet on them, you can make a fortune." ”

"Kickboxing? Let's go check it out. Sonia was immediately interested when she heard this. She remembers her main purpose in coming to Colombo – to play against a wide variety of opponents.

Jessica was refreshed when she heard this: "Miss, do you want to place a bet too?" I have acquaintances there, so I can go in through the back door without buying a ticket." ”

"Bet? no. I'm going to the competition. I'm going to beat all the Colombo masters!" Sonia smiled sincerely, and said something that Jessica couldn't believe.

Not caring about Jessica's mother and daughter who didn't react, Sonia took the lead and walked in the direction of the changing light source.

Sheriff the Rat and his boss, the only son of the Docklands Police Commissioner, the umbrella behind half of the Docklands gangsters (the other half is protected by the Commissioner of Revenue), and the bad to the bones and nicknamed 'Lieutenant Governor', Belyev Tiga, with their two younger brothers, observe the four women walking in front of them through the shadows of the building.

"Are these the two twins? It's really exciting!" After receiving the news of Shelif, he sent his younger brother to quietly follow the two girls' The 'Deputy Governor' sent a message to affirm the value of Shelif's news. A younger brother who had been staring at the end of the afternoon did not forget to boast at the right time: "Boss, these two chicks really scared me when they lived in the sea wolf." You must know that the cripple is not easy to mess with, and they all say that he has something to do with the eldest master. But we still stared at it all afternoon. ”

"Okay, you're done, go back and get a thousand yuan per person. Sherif interrupted the younger brother's performance. "Boss, these two girls came with weapons in the morning, but now they don't, this opportunity can't be missed. ”

The 'Deputy Governor' touched his chin and asked with some doubts: "Are you sure these two girls have a martial arts? How many people are we going to come? This is the territory of the 'madman' Arbus, and it is difficult to handle too many people." ”

"That's ......" is really a problem. Sheriff couldn't solve it either. But he quickly came up with a plan.

"We can choose to do it when they go to the White Tower. Just now, the younger brothers posted over and heard that they were discussing going to the White Tower. That's our territory. ”

The 'Lieutenant Governor' nodded and patted Sherif on the shoulder. "Mouse, you're still the most reliable. This time, it must have helped you take the position of the dead fat man. He turned his head and instructed his younger brother to find someone to ambush near the White Tower, and then look at the four people who were pointing at the changing light source. "They seem to be going to Palazzo Valentino, let's follow. ”