While Karl, a former wool bag buyer, was reminiscing about the past, Abu, a mercenary who had just provided many services to Her Majesty the Queen, was sitting in a tavern looking to the future.

The "goods" he had brought with him were sold for a good price at old Jacob's - although his buyer's face twitched a little when he saw the way the "goods" were bundled—and the payment was so cheerful that Abu immediately suspected that the real buyer of the business was coming. He asked old Jacob to pay for the boat for him, and that this request was fulfilled, which made him feel even more incredible.

Who are the real buyers of these "goods"?

As he walked through the streets of Tournest, Abu often thought about the fact that the elder Jacob was a very powerful businessman, and his workshop produced many products that were very popular in various countries, and Abu once thought that he had bought these craftsmen in order to further expand his business. However, now he feels that the old Jacob, although very capable, is just a salesperson at the front desk, and the real boss is hidden behind the scenes. The identity of this boss deeply aroused Abu's curiosity, why didn't a businessman who had the ability to instruct old Jacob reveal his identity? It stands to reason that pagan businessmen like old Jacob are hiding behind the scenes.

Of course, there were cases where pagan merchants like Jacob Sr. were the white gloves of some powerful who ran businesses that Orthodox believers could not, and in return they gave large sums of money every year in the name of "protection money" to the magnates who allowed them to carry out those businesses. It was a way for the powerful who were not allowed to run certain businesses themselves to profit from them, but Abu could not see which of the guirdles was violated by trading indigo, paper, and honey with the same nations as St. Omer and Kolomna. There had to be a white-gloved standing at the front desk, which really puzzled him.

This is just one of the many mysteries he encounters in Turnest.

He cares most about it. Or the warship he had encountered at sea, with no sails and no oars, and he had seen its power firsthand. If you can get one...... He knew what wealth it meant!

There were many witnesses that day, and there were many people who were interested in the ship, after all, Tournest was a port city, and those who ran and traded on the water saw the value of the ship, and many of them had already taken advantage of the location to inquire before Abu, and they inquired about the sailors who showed their booty and prisoners along the streets, and all they got was a "no comment". Then use wine and friendship to ask questions. They knew that the ship needed many sailors to operate, and that ordinary traders could not afford such expenses, and when they heard such a speech, those who fished and did the business of sea trade stopped asking.

As an outsider, Abu had many difficulties in inquiring about information, and Turnest was not his original territory, and there was no one for him to act on his behalf. So he sat patiently in the tavern where the sailors loved to go, and discerned all kinds of rumors, which was also his skill as a mercenary to find customers, and he spent a lot of time in the tavern. Absurd rumors spread there, such as "the Bishop placed the right hand of the Holy Aubrey on that ship, so the ship gained the power to protect Turnest and crush the pirates". "The pond is inhabited by a witch who devours children, and she was shot with an arrow by Lord Francis Knight, and this is what the latest miracle drama is about." "The Countess of Fisher first sent someone to assassinate her stepdaughter's son, and then sent poison in an attempt to murder her stepdaughter"......

When you hear the latter one. The old mercenary smiled, he knew that this rumor was absurd. But those who are born noble always do things without thinking about the consequences, thinking that they are decathlon, didn't he have taken many such deals? He pouted, seemingly mistaken by the rumor, but in fact considering how much Countess Fisher was willing to pay for her stepdaughter's death.

"What? You don't believe me? The sailor had already drunk several glasses of wine, and he thought he wasn't drunk, but his mouth was growing up, "My son was helping out in the kitchen of the church, and he saw it with his own eyes when the Assassin came!" ”

"It's horrible," Abu sighed, "how dare anyone commit such a crime in a sacred cathedral!" ”

"Isn't it, so Baroness Brad sent troops to punish her stepmother, and the Bishop blessed her for this action, for the Countess desecrated the church."

"If she really did it, then she would have lifted a stone to shoot herself in the foot, but the Baroness herself led the troops to attack the Earldom, and she was not afraid of being caught? After all, two fists are hard to beat four hands! Abu asked, "Or is it that because of such astonishing blasphemy, other nobles have allied themselves with her to punish Count Fisher?" ”

"Nope! Isn't it enough to have our bishop bless her? The sailor shouted, "It is better to have a god than to make an alliance with a king of the earth!" ”

Similar faith, which Abu encountered every day in Tournest, sighed inwardly, and actually sent it to the door himself because he believed in the blessings of the gods, it seems that he Abu will not be able to get the Countess's reward for the Assassins," said it. ”

"Besides, she didn't go alone, three thousand heavily armed men and horses went with her!"

"Poof!" Hearing this ridiculously exaggerated number, the old mercenary Abu spewed out on the spot, he had a count of the country's troops, a baroness with three thousand heavily armed soldiers and horses? Why doesn't she call herself Queen of Neustria?

She really called herself Queen Neustria, and when the news reached Tournest, the bustling tavern fell silent for a moment, more than they could have imagined. That day, when Abu left the tavern, he felt dizzy for the first time, well, just like he had felt when he had witnessed the destruction of the pirates at sea that day, this damn Tournest, he could hardly tell what was reality and what was dream.

"His grandmother's, how can I tell Ram about that? A boat that can run without sails or oars, a baroness with 3,000 soldiers and horses to crusade against her stepmother, and by the way, she defeated the northerners who have plagued the country for many years and proclaimed herself queen? They would have thought that I had drunk too much in the land of the infidels, or that I had gone mad, and that my grandmother's, if I hadn't experienced it myself, would have thought I was crazy...... Am I really awake? , I'll go back and have a drink to suppress the shock. (To be continued......)