Chapter 21 Buying a Store
The knight's banner took a few days to make, and while it took time, Evan and Deloris wandered around the city of London, hoping to buy a satisfactory shop.
Originally, Evan thought that he could solve this kind of thing alone, but Deloris said that he would follow him in everything. Evan had no choice but to let her.
The two of them held hands and walked down the street, but after only half a day, they regretted it, and Delores's feet began to hurt again. But now they are in the market, surrounded by shops, and there is no place to rest.
"I'm sorry...... I shouldn't have forced you out. Not only did it not help you, but it also made you spend a lot of money to buy me food, and it also delayed your time." Deloris apologized embarrassedly.
"Hahaha, it's okay, you're just a 15-year-old kid after all. These are all normal, and there is no need to apologize to me." Evan walked up to Delores, half-crouched down, waited for her to lie on her back, and slowly lifted her on her back.
Deloris flattened her mouth, and Ai Wenming in front of her was only 15 years old, but she always spoke to her in the tone of an elder, as if she could really become an adult in this way.
"I'm heavy, so let me go." Delores offered softly.
"Don't worry, it's not much from the Lord's Palace. You should not walk these days, take care of it, otherwise you will have a good ...... in ten years."
Aven's mouth seemed to have become a firing Gatling, and once it started, he couldn't stop, and he nagged all the way, and Deloris was dizzy when he heard it. From time to time, passers-by passed by on the road, looking at the duo in amazement, which made Deloris blush, like a ripe apple.
"Aven, there's a chair in front of the store, why don't you go and rest for a while?" Delores patted Evan on the shoulder and said excitedly.
Evan looked up, and there was indeed a very old-looking shop, with a few chairs neatly placed in the doorway. He walked over slowly, placed Deloris on the chair, and wiped the sweat from his face.
At this time, from the shop, an old man with gray hair slowly walked out and saw Deloris and Evan sitting at the door, "I'll leave today, the two adults don't have to worry about whether I will leave."
Evan and Delores looked at each other, and they came to sit for a while, how did they come to chase people.
Evan immediately stepped forward to explain his intention, "Hello old man, I am the Knight of Evan of the Barony of Larquis. This is my fiancée, Delores. We were a little tired from walking, and we saw that there were chairs in front of your store, so we came to do it for a while and take a break, and it didn't mean anything else. Please don't worry."
The old man was stunned and subconsciously asked, "You are not one of theirs?"
Evan shook his head and asked the old man, "Old man, who are you talking about?"
The old man sighed and didn't answer Evan's question, "Forget it, they are all rich and powerful people, and it's not something you two young people can afford to mess with."
Evan looked at Delores with a strange face, to say that the richest and most powerful people in London are not the Earl's family? Deloris glared at Aven angrily, and she didn't even have to ask to know that the latter must have thought it was from their family.
"Old man, this is the city of London, where the Earl of Morlore lives, and anyone dares to bully people here?" Deloris said in an unkind tone, "If you tell the Earl, you will be punished severely."
Evan nodded, he didn't know anything else, but Count Morol and Delores had been in contact for a long time, and he knew more about the Earl's family.
The Earl's upbringing was very strict, both for himself and for his children. Even the Earl's sons just like hunting and feasting, like Liu Chan, and can't really be called bullies.
"Well, they're all from the Chamber of Commerce. I usually have a good relationship with the nobles, so no one dares to care about them, and since they have money in their hands, no one wants to offend them." The old man sighed, as if he had spit out all the grievances he usually suffered.
Chamber of Commerce...... Evan sneered, this group of people has money in their hands, and if they don't beat it often, they will forget everything and dare to despise everything.
The infamous Fourth Crusade, the Venetians contributed a lot, the Eastern Roman Empire was not good, and it was gone directly after the battle, and the Latin Empire, built on the ruins, was simply a blasphemy against Rome.
"Grandpa, what do they want you to do?" Deloris asked curiously.
Evan glanced at the old man's shop and said nothing.
"They wanted to buy my shop, but they offered me less than I had bought, so I refused. They came several times, but when they saw me, they didn't agree, and they asked someone to come to me twice in three days to make trouble. After a few times, no one dared to come here." The old man said helplessly.
Forced buying, forced selling, violent intimidation...... Well, an Italian organization is coming to give you a thumbs up.
"This is the city of London, not the land of their chamber of commerce, and it's not their turn to be presumptuous."
The corners of the old man's eyes twitched, and he opened his mouth, a little shocked by Aiwen's words. Although he had the heart to persuade him, he didn't know how to persuade him when he looked at Aiwen's appearance.
"Grandpa, I don't know if you still have broth, I'm a little hungry, I don't know if I can have a bowl?" Deloris couldn't say things like Aven, she preferred to express her point in another way.
"But two, they'll be here soon." The old man had the heart to remind.
Evan took a gold coin from his purse and tossed it to the old man, who quickly and carefully took it. When he saw that it was a gold coin, his eyes suddenly widened, and he hurriedly said, "My lord, it's just a bowl of broth, just a dozen copper coins, how can you ask for so many."
Evan casually took an arm-thick wooden stick in his hand, and said casually, "Deloris has something to tell you. I'll take care of the rest."
"Grandpa, I have something I want to discuss with you, I don't know if I can discuss it with you." With Evan's support, Delores slowly walked into the shop and sat down.
The old man hurriedly agreed, and began to make broth for Delores, but in his heart, he hoped that the two young men and the people of the Chamber of Commerce would not have a conflict.
The aroma of the broth slowly wafts from the store, attracting the attention of many nearby shops. Many shopkeepers gathered in twos and threes, pointing at the old man's shop and discussing something in a low voice.
Evan waved his stick up and down, switching from one hand to the other, and used it as a practice.
Soon, a noise came from the corner of the street, and more than a dozen people rushed over with weapons in their hands, and the momentum made the people around the people who were watching the excitement retreat one after another, so as not to be affected by the pond fish.
Are you here, much faster than you thought, it looks like someone is keeping a sentry nearby, right? Ai Wen looked around with interest, although he didn't know who the sentry was, but he wouldn't go too far.
"It's coming so soon, I thought you'd have a little more time." Evan Pi said with a smile.
"Who are you? This is a private matter between our Chamber of Commerce and Kazik, and we ask your Excellency not to interfere. Afterwards, the Chamber of Commerce will be grateful." The man who took the lead, looking at Evan in front of him, did not blindly move.
After all, I don't know the details of the other party, and if I act rashly, it is likely to bring disaster to myself.
"The old man's storefront, we bought it. You can go back." Ai Wen waved his hand, not giving face at all.
The man's face immediately became gloomy, this is something that their chamber of commerce has taken a fancy to, but now they don't know where to snatch it away. This is to pass it back, so that the big guy behind him knows whether he wants to continue to work in the city of London.
"This is something that our Chamber of Commerce has a crush on, and since you want to rob it, you have to pay the price." With a wave of the man's hands, more than a dozen subordinates immediately rushed towards Ai Wen with sticks and swords.
"Oh no, they're going to fight. Miss, won't you go out and stop it? Those people dare to kill." How could the old man in the store not see the scene on the street.
"Grandpa, just watch. It's just a dozen ruffians, it's okay to bully and bully unarmed civilians, if you want to fight him." Delores said no more, and began to eat the broth on her own.
The old man saw it in his eyes and was anxious in his heart, but he was old and had no weapons, even if he wanted to help, he had no ability, so he could only pray to God silently in his heart.
The thugs, with their large numbers, tried to surround Evan, and then swarmed up and hacked him to death.
Unexpectedly, instead of choosing to defend, Evan took the initiative to attack. The gangsters secretly breathed a sigh of relief, it turned out that the person on the other side was a stupid hat, and there were fewer people and more people who took the initiative to attack.
In the exclamations of others, Evan smashed into the crowd like a meteorite. The old man in the shop stared intently at the battle on the street, for fear of missing any details.
On the street, after Ai Wen rushed into the gangsters, he immediately brandished the stick in his hand, opening and closing the posture, with a length of more than a meter, making it difficult for the swords in the gangsters' hands to get close.
However, it seems to be majestic, and Aiwen's physical strength is also rapidly depleting. So he abandoned the other thugs and went straight for one of them.
The bastard screamed, watched as Evan raised his club, as if to hit his head, and hurriedly raised the sword in his hand, hoping to block Evan from attacking. There was a crisp thud, and the thug clutched his waist and fell to the ground, letting out a painful wail.
The middle-aged man standing in the back had a bad feeling in his heart, and Ai Wen's stick was about to fall just now. But in the process of falling, Ai Wen suddenly turned to the side, his right leg was half bowed, and he forcibly changed the direction of the wooden stick in his hand, and instead of colliding with the blade, he hit his man's waist.
After repelling one person, Aven did not stop, did not retreat, but advanced, and hit the other.
The thug, looking at the previous person falling to the ground, a fierce light flashed in his eyes, and he swung his sword blade and slashed directly at Aiwen's neck. But Aven would not let him get his wish, and stepped forward, and the club pressed to the ground, hitting the thug's knee hard.
Yes! The thug threw down his weapon and rolled around on his knees, looking like it was choking in pain.
Seeing this, the middle-aged man hurriedly waved his hand to one of his subordinates, and after saying a few words in his ear, he urged his subordinates to hurry up. When he looked ahead again, he found that his men had fallen to the ground, and only two or three people were left standing trembling.
"Oh my God, he actually won!" The old man couldn't believe his eyes.
Deloris smiled, she had seen Aven's performance on the battlefield, so she was naturally not worried about a battle of this scale. Compared to the group of gangsters, she paid more attention to the man in the Chamber of Commerce, he had sent someone away just now, and he didn't know it would happen.
"The people of the Chamber of Commerce, that's it, is there any other means? I said that the shop is mine now, so you can stay where you go." Evan stared at the Chamber of Commerce man and sneered.
"Whoever dares to make trouble in the city of London will find death!" A voice came from afar at the corner of the street......