Marcus Norman, who had not gone anywhere, got into the carriage after coming out of the throne hall, after all, his mansion was the farthest away from the old king's place, and if he had walked by foot, he might have been able to walk until the middle of the night

"Master, may I go back to the mansion directly, or?", the coachman has always taken the trouble to ask such questions, after all, maybe Marcus is happy, and he can follow him to Flower Street today to play with him, after all, not everyone has such a good opportunity to serve the patriarch of the Marcus family in person

"You stallion who can't be idle, don't you want to have some fun with me?" , Marcus also smiled, although he couldn't see the appearance of the middle-aged man at the head of the carriage, but Marcus knew that this guy must be hungry and thirsty, after all, the limelight has been tight recently, Marcus doesn't want to casually go to the Cohen family's boundaries to be happy at will, but the few flower street buildings in his family's control, business is not very good, and the women in it have already been played by Marcus and his subordinates, so Norman hesitated a little, should he find some opportunity to indulge and indulge, anyway, as long as he dresses up, maybe he won't be seen by Cohen's eyeliner, and he was interrupted alive on the way to the fun, hey, it's still early anyway, or go and have fun

The Marcus family, to be honest, is much worse than the Cohen family in terms of business acumen. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info but it started from the underworld, and collecting protection money has become a conventional mode of thinking for this family, so it was not until Marcus's generation that he changed slightly, learned from Cohen, the first wealthy man in Wangcheng, and opened a flower shop. But I didn't expect Marcus to owe a lot of debt on this matter, just the money to buy a few buildings on Flower Street, it was worth the number of giant whale cubs hunted in the first half of the year or so, this is just the beginning, the Cohen family is like a blood-sucking locust stuck to Marcus's head, forcibly pushed the eliminated products of several flagship stores to Marcus's small buildings to do business, claiming that these girls are all full of figures, and they can earn a lot of money every night, but I didn't expect that soon Marcus would have to dismiss these girls who had been infected with the disease, and he also spent some gold to repair the lower half of his body, just this matter, Marcus, who wanted to make a fortune with Cohen, tasted the taste of being cheated for the first time, but Cohen never seemed to feel that there was anything unfair about this matter, but most of the streets were Cohen's sphere of influence, and if you Marcus wanted to partner together, you must have to make some blood

However, Cohen really did what he said, using the tens of thousands of gold coins provided by Marcus to hold the first [flower show] in the history of Intramura Flower Street, which was an unprecedented move that made all competitors dumbfounded. The girls walked out of the building, facing the dim light of the lamps in the night, dressed up more charming than the flowers in the sun, not to mention the fact that these girls directly and boldly made all kinds of sultry acts, but they were not obscene at all, whether it was the milk slowly falling from the top of the neck, letting the ecstatic guests drip from under the jade peak, or sprinkling a little whale oil along a long wooden pillar, dancing and dancing in place, these tricks were all promotional methods that no other store in Flower Street had. Perhaps, this street was originally operated only by the Cohen family, but I didn't expect that Laust and Lucas conspired to prop up another small family in the royal city that started by human trafficking, Dast, and obtained permission from Lao Wang to buy the small half of the street alive. Although the Daxter family is a human trafficker, it is not humans who are trafficked, but the cubs of the Night Beasts, after all, the Valley of the Giants and the Mountain of Bones, as well as the wind-cooled cliffs further east, the tribes of the Night Beasts in these places have long been destroyed by the army of the old king, and there are only a few elites left, and it is not difficult to occasionally catch one or two cubs who come out to forage

Seeing that the situation of Flower Street was about to become a two-way world, Cohen hurriedly pulled Marcus into the gang, and used various unheard-of means to attract customers, so in the field of business, the results of the major families competing for each other turned out to be cheap for those retail investors who bought drunk and hunted for beauty, and even made the nobles between several wealthy families or the people who went to the hall happy. After all, Lao Wang's position does not want a family to dominate, this point, Marcus is very clear in his heart, and Cohen is even more clear in his heart, so several wealthy families, except for Julius who does not seem to have settled here, are more or less involved in this cash cow-like place, and the reason why Flower Street is called Flower Street is because of Cohen's swagger through the market, so that the girls have to throw a flower from the window after they are done, so that those guys who are greedy for pictures and happy will honestly grab the next moment to experience the good taste, in Cohen's dozen or so flower shops, it is not money that can solve personal problems, after all, having money is just a beginning

Thinking of this, Marcus's head began to grow again, although under the protection of Cohen's forces, his own flower shops can also ensure normal revenue, but when will they be able to return to their capital, it is simply far away, every year's rookie Oiran is always selected from Cohen and Daxter's stores, and there has never been Marcus's share, thinking of this, Marcus simply feels like a wronged leader, and has become a tool to help the Cohen family make money. But then again, Cohen seems to have done a good job, the three major trades on the port of Fira, whale oil, weapons, and seafood, the Cohen family is relieved to give their part of the whale oil procurement rights to the Marcus family, which is not a small size, so dare to gather a hunting team to go whale hunting, only Marcus, Cohen, Lucas, and even Lauster are unwilling to divide their troops here, in case the heavy cavalry of the entire ship is buried in the belly of the fish, this is a big loss

So Marcus also had to accept the status quo, this is simply a situation where he is willing to fight and suffer, after all, Marcus knows how difficult it is to take root in the royal city, the former family is because he wants to be friendly with all the major families, but he fell into the tragic situation of not having a family to help in a time of crisis, so the Marcus family took away the mansion that belonged to them, as well as the sphere of influence. To say that this family competition is a bloody competition in the four major aspects of people, wealth, materials, and energy once every ten years, although often there is not the slightest blood in the process, but those who are really forced to leave the royal city and go to other parts of the mainland are often only gradually extinct. First of all, this family competition is the rule set by Lao Wang, only the five largest wealthy families can take root in the royal city and have their own mansions, while the other side branches can only develop slowly, if they really grow stronger one day, they may not be able to glorify their ancestors in this royal city. The purpose of this decree is very simple, to keep the royal city active, to maintain the passion of the common people, as long as the struggle, in this world may be promising, but the king must also realize that once a family rises, it is often difficult to decline for a hundred years, and during the period of the family, even individuals, the road to rise will be extremely difficult. It is said that the land of the far north, the Valley of the Giants, and even the three continents of the Golden Sands Capital, have made it clear that they are extremely dissatisfied with this way of selection, why are everyone under the leadership of Lao Wang, each managing their own fiefdoms, but after arriving in the royal city, he still wants his grandmother to pay attention to the high and low, can't the family settled in the royal city, it is just a waste of materials?

However, the reason why Lao Wang did this must be because he is unwilling to explain it directly, and it is easy for everyone to speculate wildly. To tell the truth, Marcus is very grateful for the gift and mercy of the old king, the ancestors of his family worked hard in Fira, but always lived a life of licking the blood with a knife, and finally when the heaven-sent good fate went to the royal city to handle the transfer of whale oil, Marcus's grandfather actually had a whim, saying that the distance between the royal city and the sea is too high, if there is a rope to connect it together, in case of something urgent, maybe there is no need to board the ship through the honey harbor hundreds of miles away. Unexpectedly, Lao Wang actually slapped the chair and cheered loudly this whimsical idea, so regardless of the obstruction of the Cohen family, he forcibly cut down all the offerings of several wealthy families for nearly two years, and built an iron cable passage with the same thickness and size as the young body。 When is the time for retribution, Marcus smiled bitterly, picked up a bottle of wine that had been placed next to the seat, tasted it, and remembered some things about the family competition in his head, next year, it will be a new tenth year, whether his family can continue to gain a firm foothold in the royal city, it depends on the grasp and interpretation of the information, and whether the mercenaries in the family who rely on gold and women to eat are powerful

Then again, the first thing that comes to mind in Marcus's mind is not the [person] who is the first of people, wealth, things, and energy, but the last [ability]. This is the biggest pain point of the Marcus family, to talk about other families, the Lucas family has a Moore, this person leads a huge Blood Moon Knights, can be called one of the best young heroes in the royal city, and his father Descartes is also a general who is well versed in equestrianism and leading the army, the entire Lucas family, following the old king to fight in the south and north for many years, although he can make a singing chapter in the decisive military opinion, but his military achievements are second only to the Lauster family. Besides, this Lauster family, it is as if they have taken a secret medicine, charging into battle in the battlefield, beheading the enemy in an instant, of course, who let this family support most of the royal city heavy cavalry group, not to mention the secret seven sword moves, even the night beast has to dodge three points when encountered. These two families can only make Marcus look at it, and then talk about Cohen and Julius, a family is good at business and making false accounts, and always steals from various fiefdoms, it seems that the tax has not increased by a point, but the price of eggs and fish continues to rise every year, which is reasonable, and only a few people can see the clues. Not to mention the Julius family, this family is the most mysterious, as the old king's close attendants, almost never show their faces, all hidden under the white mask, it seems that no one wants to go to the Julius family as a guest, if the guys in front of them are all wearing gray robes and not showing their faces, it is estimated that the guests under the seat will be disgusted and can't even eat dinner. But this clan is more able to collect intelligence than any other family, and its efficiency and quality are unmatched, I really don't know if these guys can spread the news for thousands of miles? So as the fifth-ranked Marcus family, it is quite rare to be in this position, it can be said that the entire family has neither the talent for combat, nor the arrangement of information and intelligence that spreads a wide net, let alone the ability to control the economic lifeline, if it is the next so-called [competition] Come, can the family still survive like grandpa's generation?And in the next few competitions, in addition to the calves that can hand over extra portions, the only thing that can satisfy the old king is the [Resurrection Liquid] from the Knight Kingdom Every year, with 200,000 gold, you can buy three or five bottles of recovery liquid on the edge of the dock of the knight country, and this year maybe you can't buy it, because the matter of the old king's assembly of troops in the Starlight Plain must have already been passed to the eyes of the knight country, if you use the hunting boat to go to the open dock, maybe you will be shot into a hedgehog by the heavy crossbow on the cliff before you get off the ship

Marcus has a headache, the only two life-saving straws, one has been broken alive, and this is what Lao Wang cares about the most, what can I do?

However, Marcus had already learned the essentials of the whole analysis from his grandfather and father, and he did not stick to a small detail and stagnated, so he continued to think about [people] on the rickety carriage

It's not that the Marcus family doesn't like to have children, but they have inherited a belief from the thinking patterns and living environments of the past generations that the more people in the core, the more troublesome things will be. Therefore, the Marcus family believes in the only son, and the blood relationship is crystal clear. If a woman is born in the family, he will be sent back to the harbor of Phila to take care of affairs, until Marcus Norman is almost fifty years old to have a noble son, although this boy is intelligent, but he is also a bastard enough, since he was a child, he knows what it means to flirt with a good woman, and the angry Marcus can only send it to Phila to see what the real cruel world is. Therefore, in the entire Marcus family mansion, there is only one Marcus left, as well as the old ministers of several branches, and the people of his own clan are not prosperous, which can be lost to the four major families in front, and even those wishful thoughts who follow closely behind, are always salivating over the territory and interests that the Marcus family has worked hard for. Anyway, in terms of people, it is true that the Marcus clan can be ranked behind, and even the leader of the Cohen clan cannot be compared

But Marcus relied on his family's ruthlessness and thoughtfulness to get to where he is now, so Norman didn't worry too much about it. After all, as long as he can occasionally make Lao Wang happy and be a clown in the hearts of the major giants, it is better than competing with these huge forces, Marcus Norman has long seen through the heat of this world, compared to his position in this royal city, Norman often compares himself to the captain of the ship that sails in the port of Fira, and his fate seems to be in his own hands, but in fact, those business giants waiting next to the dock to collect seafood and whale oil are the real masters of Fira

But when it comes to [wealth], Marcus is still a little confident, after all, the family's expenses are not extravagant, and he doesn't pay attention to pomp and circumstance at all, and I still remember that once Lauster Fein came to visit, and he didn't talk for a long time and wanted to leave quickly, and this person left a joke between the wealthy families of the royal city on the spot, 'I didn't expect that the wine given to your family was fed to maggots by his grandmother?' Look at what you're drinking, it tastes a little worse than water, but you're also the leader of the Marcus family, one of the five major families, why are you doing this to yourself?', but Lauster didn't know that this inferior wine was an ancestral motto passed down from generation to generation in the family, and if you didn't work hard, you might not even be able to drink this bad wine tomorrow. So at that time, Raust ate a very difficult dinner to swallow, and the table was full of delicacies from the mountains and seas, but when he wanted to taste a good wine, he almost didn't vomit out all the food in his stomach. However, the Marcus family is not short of money, and even if the investment in Flower Street was not successful at the beginning, it cannot be regarded as a complete failure, after all, there are only a few backgrounds that can do business on that street. And to say that the real treasury of Marcus is not in the royal city, but in Fira. But it's not in the form of gold, but the dozens of large and small whaling ships, and the experienced old captains and sailors on them, these people can't buy gold to continue to lay golden eggs. Therefore, in terms of financial resources, the Marcus family is actually not more reliable than the Cohen family's empty gold, and in Fira, he also learned from Wangcheng to build a flower street with the same name, most of which are controlled by the Marcus family, and the rest are all occupied by the Lucas family, just a month's income on this street can top the Wangcheng Flower Street for half a month, after all, in this territory of its own, there is a war between humans and other races every day, whether it is a young female birdman who was captured, or a half-spider man with eight legs but a human body, as long as they are drugged enough and tied upThe profits they create are no worse than those of humans, and the hybrids born to these miserable night beasts can also be used as [bait] on the whaling ship to eat, and if there is any irregularity, they will directly erect a wooden post on the edge of the dock and be executed on the spot. After all, Lucas has also invested a sufficient number of security forces in Fira, making this mixed land seem to have some taste of safety. However, the real biggest source of income, Marcus has never disclosed to anyone, that is, to use the hybrid of the half-mermaid to collect the treasures of the middle sea, these beads are the favorite of the noble ladies in the royal city, whether they are used as jewelry or ground into powder to eat, or even smeared on the face to pretend to be young and white, its demand is extremely large, but the hateful thing is that since this matter was known by the Cohen family, they have squeezed in alive to ask for forty percent, and kept saying that this is the promotion fee, and the angry Marcus family almost didn't say that Cohen was slaughtered to the end in the middle of the night, but Marcus also knew that if there was no Cohen, maybe in this royal city, his own clan had no chance to gain a foothold, so he endured it like this

Speaking of the last key point, [thing], this is the competition capital that the Marcus family is proud of and can get, after all, Lao Wang likes to collect some strange things, such as Marcus's grandfather once gave Lao Wang a fist-sized dragon bone fossil, which made Lao Wang happy for a while. And Marcus's father during his tenure as the patriarch, he also offered some ancient paintings painted with unknown leather, which was a rare treasure directly snatched from the hands of a mermaid hybrid who was not familiar with the world, and it is said that there is still a glimmer of light under the seabed, otherwise he would not have noticed the ancient painting that has been half buried in the sand, but this painting is really magical, soaked in the sea for I don't know how many years, and it has not been corroded at all, and the strange text on it seems to be the dragon script that has died out on this continent, so Lao Wang didn't look at it for long, and threw it to the black robes to study。 In the last two or three years, there have been fewer and fewer treasures that can be salvaged from the middle sea near Fira, but Marcus has some inventory, waiting for the day of the competition and then dedicated to Lao Wang, because the other family businesses do not involve the scope of the sea area, so Marcus decided to continue to expand the scope of the whaling ship, and continue to salvage in those sea areas where the night beasts are often infested, and he may be able to hit the luck like his grandfather

Unexpectedly, Marcus was excited to go to Flower Street to relax, but Lao Wang's secret order was like a disobedient roundworm in his stomach to mess around, which made Marcus start to fidget, plus thinking of next year's competition, which made Marcus feel that this trip was not easy again, so he tasted the familiar taste of bad wine again, and Marcus continued to fall into deep thought

However, the carriage and the happy guy in the carriage did not know the thoughts of the owner of the carriage at all, and unknowingly drove into the flower street

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Wangcheng's Flower Street, originally known as the Third Commercial Street, was originally used to sell a wealth of products transported to Wangcheng from all over the mainland, whether it was spices, rare ingredients, or finely woven fabrics. But since this place used to be called the third commercial street, it means that there are two more nearby, and the other two commercial streets are the storefronts of merchants and small-scale families on the whole continent, and the goods sold are cheaper, and they are determined to compete with the third commercial street, which originally belonged to the Lauster family. However, under the persuasion of Lao Wang, Lauster had to sell the entire street publicly, in line with the principle of fairness first, the Cohen family bought out most of the third commercial street, and the other was bought by the Lucas family, and then sold a small part of Lauster at a high price

Since the third commercial street fell into the hands of the Cohen family, Cohen's predecessors have been unswervingly developing towards the affairs of men and women, originally Lao Wang wanted a royal city without prostitutes and bustards, but under Cohen's lobbying and leadership, Lao Wang's private visit to Weifu back then, even found a moment of pleasure, and said three good things, so that Cohen's shameless deeds continue to get bigger and bigger. Seeing such huge profits, Lucas and Lauster began to gradually work overtime to invest manpower and material resources to build this street that sells but does not sell goods. So the whole street is alive from the architectural style and decoration, there is a period that directly highlights three completely different flavors, Cohen's signboard **** Painted a passionate nude woman, and Lauster is more direct, when the night comes, a transparent window in the transparent window wearing only a little obscene clothes of women jumping back and forth, presumably, Lucas found another way, has always claimed that his girls are from the golden sands of the capital of black hair, white skin rare varieties, the entire third commercial street, staged an extremely cruel soliciting battle, if not for Lao Wang personally out of the horse, the three families will really want to be here again red knife in, white knife out. Fortunately, the biggest initiative of Cohen Manny's life was to re-rest this obscene and dirty street, and greatly improved the status of this street in the hearts of everyone, including Lao Wang, with precious flowers and unique performances, so the third commercial street was naturally called [Flower Street] by everyone , in order to commemorate Cohen Manny's astonishing act of turning war into jade silk, at least, this street is now lit up every night, so that the inspectors of Wangcheng are hesitating, is it that the lamps assigned here are inexplicably more and can't be. In the spring, the snow-white gardenias spread on the ground, and in the summer and autumn, it becomes a cheaper lavender, and even in the winter, the street is still covered with plum brought from the capital of the golden sands. In short, this street is forbidden to travel with carriages and horses, and it has become a pedestrian street, with signboards large and small that understand all kinds of women who come from all over the mainland to pan for gold, and if they are really willing to bid, they can also find the night beast tied up in a small house in Lauster, "Here you can find paradise", this is the original words of Lao Wang, so it was engraved on the archway of Flower Street, and became a place that attracted all the men and even women who came to the royal city

Marcus got out of the carriage, chatted casually with the black boy named Jim on the roof of the car, and determined the route of this trip, after all, although he was called this mouth, but because of the busy family affairs, there was a new celebrity with fine skin and tender meat in the flower shop, or some small buildings were engaged in discount signing activities, all of which were handed over to Jim to inquire clearly, fortunately, when he had time, he would not be confused about the direction, and a few times Marcus was busy and dizzy, and he unknowingly entered his family's shops, and the angry Marcus almost didn't directly remove the signboard at the door of the flower shop, Because it is full of sweaty guys in the rain, Marcus's stores have become the best business on the entire flower street, but there is no taboo low-end consumption place, the little knights in the royal city who just got a few salaries, or those guys who came here to spend the fire festival, are really in love with Marcus's shop

However, these people will almost never be able to reach those famous shops in the center of the flower street to nourish themselves, and the expenses there are enough for a knight to live in the royal city for more than half a month, and the flower shop that he can enter with a bid of thirty to fifty gold coins is the goal of Marcus this time, and one of the shops is because of a new [sacrificial girl] who came from the Sleepless Gate If you want to kiss Fangze, not only will the bidding in the bidding process be among the top three, but also accept the selection of this [sacrificial girl], so both parties can enjoy the joy of the clouds and rain, so not only to have money, but also to look decent, but for such challenges, Marcus has always had a certain confidence, even if he is already half an old man, but the vicissitudes of his face and the confusion in his eyes can often impress these dusty women

"Hey, I heard that this little girl only has eyebrows and hair, and the rest of the place is simply clean~", Jim, who was following him, said with a smile, while snatching a flower thrown from the window, it seems that this donkey is going to slaughter his master today, his grandmother's, Jim chose this shop, and the entrance fee alone costs twenty-five gold coins

However, Jim would not leave Marcus's side until his master did that terrible thing, so why this kid was chosen by himself to be a coachman, that is, by virtue of his good skills and a little head that still understands the world. So a master and a servant walked towards the one that said [City of Famous Flowers] The shop walked over, this shop is the power of Lauster, this family has always been poor, sold the entire commercial street for 700,000 gold coins, and then bought five or six houses on this commercial street with 550,000 gold coins, just this thing that made Lao Wang laugh for almost a whole month, forever became an indelible stain in the history of the Lauster family, so instead of having fun in the Cohen flower shop that exists like his old club, it is better to come to Laust's side like a breeze to have fun, at least not when he is ready to go, suddenly Cohen Manny's lewd smile appears behind his buttocks, and this disgusting guy even occasionally cheers himself up, the originally masculine and upright weapons will be turned into soft leather whips alive. Moreover, Marcus didn't want to see anyone from the Cohen family, after all, Lao Wang's words made Marcus extremely flustered

So Marcus didn't pay attention at all, and he was completely in the process of thinking, and he collided with a tall person in front of him, and the [coat of arms] that he took out of his pocket also fell to the ground~, this coat of arms printed with the head of the Kraken is Marcus's gold, after all, the high-end flower shop spends a lot of money every time, and he can't carry hundreds of gold coins with him, and the heavy weight is enough to make Marcus sweat~

Unexpectedly, a familiar arm helped Marcus who almost fell to the ground up, and in this person's other hand, he actually pinched Marcus's baby coat of arms back and forth several times before returning it to Marcus with a smile on his face

"Hey, isn't this Uncle Marcus, how did you come to the capital of famous flowers to play? Eighty percent of you know about the sacrificial woman, haha", it was none other than someone else who spoke, it was a sharp sword of the Lucas family, Lucas Moore, the head of the Knights of the Blood Moon

"Ah, I didn't expect Master Moore to be interested, don't be too ruthless when bidding later, so as not to hurt my old face~", Marcus has always respected anyone, after all, Moore is also a banner of the Lucas family, so he can't be lazy

"There, uncle, you are simply smiling, I won't tell you, I just want to see what the priestess looks like, it will take twenty years to come from the Sleepless Gate to collect debts, is it the legendary national beauty Tianxiang? I don't believe that she can be more beautiful than my Princess Joy, hahahaha", Moore's voice was so loud that the room had to frown

As far as the eye can see, there are already more than a dozen people sitting under this small attic, only a few of them are guys that Marcus doesn't know, and the others all have heads and faces, and even the Cohen family has sent Old Krone as a representative to seize tonight's Oiran, this meeting is like a throne hall council held in another place, which makes Marcus's mind hot, I didn't expect this priestess to be so tempting, is she really in the wrong place. So Marcus didn't bother to say anything, and was about to leave, but his other hand stopped Marcus, who had just gotten up

"It's all here, let's take a look~"

This voice is too familiar, day ~~~~

The person who speaks is Lao Wang!