Chapter 29 Murder in the Wharf Area I
The time is coming to an end, and the Dragon's Mouth is still in a bustling and noisy scene. There are several more ships moored in Longbite Bay today than yesterday, filling the entire bay. The news of Xin Gang's new defeat of the king of dragon duels spread quickly even at sea. Traditionally, budding dueling newcomers with potential will be persuaded by the Great Martial Arts to sign a good contract, and the Overlord Martial Arts has just lost their ace warrior, and they will definitely compete with other martial arts that are ready to compete for the black warrior who became famous overnight.
But that's not the most fundamental reason for attracting people to the dragon. At the time of the tree this afternoon, the cabinet announced three important news: the first is the selection of a new dragon monarch, the younger brother of the former king Long Xingtian, the great general Long Chengtian, will become the next ruler of the kingdom, and the enthronement ceremony will be held two days later, that is, on the 29th; the second is that the funeral of the state minister Xia Yang will be held tomorrow morning; and the third is that the execution of the former dragon monarch's chief bodyguard, Yu Jian, will be scheduled to be carried out tomorrow afternoon. These three pieces of news spread rapidly in a short period of time, and the hotels of the royal capital were instantly full, and those who did not book a room could only go to sleep in the stables and cellars, which was lucky, and more people could only stay overnight on the streets, or find a tavern or brothel or something like that to stay up for a few nights. The ships that originally planned to leave the port have canceled their scheduled trips, and foreign guests from nearby provinces will inevitably gather in the royal capital on these two days when they hear the news. At that time, the entire dragon will be overcrowded, and I am afraid that both sides of the dragon avenue will be full of homeless people and spectators who cannot find beds.
Zayimo sat on the periphery of the wine ring and took a shallow sip of wine, this kind of roasted knife wine tastes good, different from the sweet spring wine of the island country, it has a lot of stamina, and now it is exactly what he wants. He hated to get drunk every day, so as not to think of the beauty that was close in front of him and far away when he woke up.
Now his sweetheart is imprisoned in the heavenly prison, and it is said that he also committed adultery with a dragon monarch guard, and the child in his belly is afraid that it is not the young master of the Qin family. No one should be a man. He didn't want to believe it, but he couldn't deny that he was madly jealous of the guy who was known as the first samurai of Xianglong.
How lucky Yu Jian was! Before Long Dailan got married, he served as her martial arts teacher, and he could easily meet and talk with her in the name of teaching and guarding! If he talked about martial arts alone, he believed that he could also become the teacher of the Xianglong princesses, although he didn't know boxing, but the islanders had the skills of the islanders. As the third prince of the Moro Kingdom, he has studied under the master of the Fire Dragon Spring, Yusiza, since he was a child, and is proficient in hidden weapons, short swords, throwing knives, bows and crossbows, and stick skills, and has also dabbled in disguise, flying eaves and walls, shadow hiding and other skills. He may not be Yu Jian's opponent one-on-one, but if he deliberately hides and escapes, Yu Jian will never be able to find him, and then he can wait for the opportunity to ambush and sneak attack, and he may not have no chance of winning.
Of course, if he said this blatantly, the boxers would scoff at him, and his princess would probably look down on him. But the islanders are not so brainless, and it is not cowardly behavior to run away if they can't fight, it is a wise move to preserve their strength in order to fight again. If you can't beat him, he will be killed by the neck and killed on the spot, won't he make the enemy cry out? As long as he can manage to kill the enemy, he has the ability. No matter where you go in this world, you will either die or die. Only a fool would choose the latter for the sake of so-called honor, what is the use of honor for the dead? Can honor make the family of the deceased turn sorrow into laughter?
Earlier, the Qin family left the Qunying Palace and went to visit Long Dailan in the Qingfeng Hall of the Royal Palace, but they were reluctant to take him with them, saying that they had obtained the concession, and he was not one of them. He knew that he was not liked by the "little giant" in the princess's mouth, and the little giant did not give him a good look from the golden castle all the way to the dragon. As a result, since he came to the dragon, he had hardly had the opportunity to meet the princess he had been dreaming of, and he had only been able to see him from afar at Nioh's funeral, and he had not been able to talk to him much. It's even harder now.
Not necessarily, though. If he made a request to the Cabinet in his capacity as Prince of Moro, the Cabinet would not necessarily refuse. Five years ago, when there was a civil strife in the kingdom of Moro, my father asked for the help of powerful neighbors, and it was the great general Long Chengtian who led the fleet across the sea to help his father quell the rebels. Nioh's two younger brothers, he knows them, and he still has this affection.
There was no match scheduled for tonight in the dueling arena of the Dragon's Tooth Tavern, and the wine ring was once again the center of the crowd, and the most discussed thing among the drinkers was about the new king. An Etalai bard plucked the lute on the stage and sang a mournful song in the lingua franca.
"The sparkling blue Tani River flows from the west to the east.
My beautiful hometown is on the riverside, the beautiful town of Tani!
She is peaceful and peaceful, like the blue Tani River, and she is warm and bright, like the blue Tani River.
The sparkling blue Tani River flows from the west to the east.
My eternal love sings for me on the riverside.
He is resolute and calm, like the blue Tani River, and he is loyal and persistent, like the blue Tani River. ”
The poet's voice is a little hoarse, full of vicissitudes, and the tune has a distinctly exotic flavor, singing about a woman who misses her hometown lover. Such a song was in line with his state of mind, and he was unconsciously immersed in it, and a beautiful woman sat by the river and sang mourning, mourning the dead.
In fact, there is still a market for such sad melodies in the Dragon's Tooth Tavern, and business travelers from the north and south, especially the wandering sea seekers, are happy to listen to such songs. Most of them are far away from their hometowns all the year round, many elderly people don't have much time to spend with their wives and children all year round, and many people don't even have families. But who hasn't had one or two unforgettable lovers, in those ports where they occasionally stay, on isolated islands that are rarely climbed?
This song won a round of applause. In the midst of his boredom, Zaima saw a blonde man sitting in the inner ring of the wine ring standing up, holding his glass high and calling out to the poet, saying in the Eta language: "Golini from the town of Tani gives you a glass, my good poet." The poet smiled at him and walked up to him for a drink.
Most of the Eta people who often run the Xianglong Kingdom can speak a little Lingua franca, and conversely, few boxers can speak the Eta language. Therefore, what the blonde man said was basically incomprehensible to the boxers. However, Zaima could understand the Eta language, and he showed an amazing talent for learning languages since he was a child, and he was proficient in the lingua franca of Xianglong, the languages of the three kingdoms of the Eta kingdoms, and even the native language of the distant land of the sun. The blonde man spoke the Kamon language, and was undoubtedly from the kingdom of Kamon.
He looked closely at the Eta man, who was in his early forties, with beautiful blue eyes, as deep as the sea, with a golden beard, richly dressed, and on his right hand sat several Eta people who were constantly pushing cups and changing lamps, and looked like a merchant traveling together. There was also a group of boxers beside them, dressed in the two-tone coarse cloth clothes common to sailors, with fluffy cuffs and short coats with open chests, and they were kept in the company of the sea breeze all the year round, and their exposed skin was very rough, and their uniform bronze complexion was not to say that they were all sailors on a certain ship.
Zayima saw a man with a big waist and round shoulders among the sailors, with a big beard on his cheeks, his originally black hair was almost shaved, the remnants of his head were tattooed with a full bow pattern, and a long braid was left on the back of his head, and a red ribbon was tied on the braid, which was a very peculiar hairstyle in the Xianglong Kingdom, and people could recognize him from afar.
The full bow pattern is the emblem of the strong bow number. It was a two-hundred-pound cargo ship, with a steel plate on its hull and a heavy battering plough in the bow. When Zaima was bored walking in the loading area, he saw a full-bow flag flying high on the mast.
Most of this big man is the captain of the Strongbow, the third of the Iron Bow. I saw the big man smile at the blonde man and said, "It turns out that your hometown is from Tani Town, and you must be full of emotion when you hear the song of your hometown in the dragon." ”
The Strongbow runs everywhere, crossing the Azure Strait to Etta, or sailing to the Brilliant Isles of the Immaculate Sea, where the language of Etta and the island can be understood.
The blonde man, Golini, replied in the lingua franca of the Dragon Kingdom: "Captain Ironbow, this is a very famous song in our town of Tani, everyone can sing it, and the lyrics and songs were written by a very beautiful girl in the town, ah, that was a few years ago. Listening to this song, I was reminded of the girl and her touching story. ”
The third iron bow raised his glass and toasted him, saying, "That must be a story worth remembering." However, he didn't seem to be interested in the story, and instead said, "I think the Overlord Martial Arts will definitely be able to sign that, my good businessman, shall we take a gamble?"
Gollini smiled: "You really want to gamble all the time, that's not bad, I'll bet with you, anyway, you have already won me twenty gold yuan on the ship, and I am not afraid of losing more." How about a hundred gold yuan?"
The Iron Bow Elder narrowed his eyes. One hundred gold yuan, that's a lot of money. Zaima knew the dragon's market, a best dock porter earned five silver baht a day, and only three gold yuan for two months in a row, and for the average laborer, a hundred gold yuan was more than their combined income for ten years. How much can the Strongbow earn by carrying these Eta people, looking at the luxurious clothes like merchants, most of them carry a lot of goods, but even if the lion opens his mouth, at most thirty or forty gold yuan, this bet of one hundred gold yuan, it seems that these Eta merchants want to save the round-trip fare.
"Okay, that's it!" Iron Bow Old Three's head was stuffy, and the desire for a hundred gold circles excited him.