Giovanni wandered from house to house like a bird

Several times I thought he was going to fall down the street, but he soon appeared on the roof of the opposite building, beckoned to me, and showed me the way forward: from one beam to another; From one balcony to another; Grabbing a rope and crossing the aisle a few meters wide, the whole world quickly retreated around me, and all kinds of strange circumstances rushed to my face, and Giovanni, like a never-tiring monkey, quickly fled with me in the loudest place, there were not many guards on the street, and it was impossible for them to catch up with us if they chased through the street

By the time Giovanni finally stopped on top of a covered room, I was out of breath and crawled over a wide plank of wood to his side

I was a little surprised by the layout of Xiaodonghu City, the houses were built so closely, once there was a fire, the whole city would be affected, and I felt that the reason why Xiaodonghu City was not destroyed was because their houses were mainly made of stone, otherwise, this place would have been a mass of ashes

I took a closer look at the place where we had escaped, it was far from here, several blocks and one if it was daylight, we would have been mistaken for madness, and would have provoked the whole city guard to come and hunt us down, but fortunately it was in the middle of the night, otherwise I would not have been able to run this far

I remember that when I ran through the tiled roof of someone's house, I stepped on it and bumped under my feet, and if there were any residents inside, I would have heard these people tell the patrolling soldiers about our movements.

I asked Giovanni curiously

Giovanni's face was dripping with sweat, "No," he said, "The inhabitants here never cooperate with the patrolling soldiers, the soldiers here are blood-sucking villains, and they are only responsible for a few families in Little East Lake City, and no citizen likes these soldiers."

"Just like Valankov?" I say

"Uh," Giovanni wiped the sweat from his face, "that's not the case, and besides, how do you feel that Varankov doesn't have so many buildings to jump around?" ”

"I almost died," I feared, "I slipped my foot and almost fell off when I ran over the roof with the chimney."

"Didn't you fall yet," he looked around and looked at the place, "Okay, we're not far from the target."

"Where?"

"East Lake Wharf"

"The one we came in the afternoon?"

"No, that small wharf is to send people into the city, we are going to the lake above Xiaodonghu City, which will freeze all within a month, it is estimated that the last batch of cargo ships will leave the port in the next few days, we have to find a way to mix it" The gas he breathed turned into a white mist, "Your face is so white, are you peeing your pants?" ”

"Almost," I stuck out my tongue, "next time I do something like this, I'm sure I won't follow you, I'd rather stay."

Make a fire in that house and wait to be beaten the next morning."

"Whatever you want," said Giovanni, "let me see what you've gotten, and if you get a whole bunch of rags and rags, we'll be finished, and we'll have no money to get on the boat, we'll have to swim to the river."

"Can't we go back?" I couldn't help but propose, "We were originally going to Dadonghu City to sell grain, can't we go back to the barracks after selling food?" I almost fell downstairs a few times today, and if I do it again tomorrow, I'm going to fall down."

Giovanni didn't seem to hear me, and he opened the pouch in a leeward corner

There were several official documents in it, one of which was a patrol certificate that the captain of each patrol team had such a certificate that could prove that he was serving the town council, and limited the size of his team: the old man Tuke's team could only have a maximum of thirty-five people, and he was responsible for the maintenance of a section of road more than six miles long, and if there was any damage, he had to pay for it and hire someone to repair it, and the road should be built that could carry a four-wheeled carriage full of wool as a reward, Tuke could have levied a tax on the three olive groves, a date farm, and a small pasture on this stretch of road, and the tax was one-fifteenth of the estate's yield, which I felt was a bit small, and it was no wonder that the old man Tuke's team was so shabby, and that he had to extort passers-by on the road

Giovanni carried the material in his arms, and then continued to shake the belt until his little purse fell outGiovanni weighed the purse in his hand, kissed it twice, and then opened the bag, he counted it simply, "Damn, this old pervert cost me nine silver coins and a small gold coin, I thought his old friend wouldn't ask him for money, where did he spend the money?"

said angrily, "Maybe he took it to buy a coffin himself"

After that, there was a map, a tax receipt for an olive grove, two Burke daggers, and a silver box with iron chains, and inside the box was a portrait of a woman with a wisp of head in it

Giovanni looked at the portrait, which showed a woman with a double chin, this woman with red cheeks, although dressed in fashion, but with a slightly restrained demeanor, should be the sweetheart of the old man Tuk

Giovanni whistled, "Victor, we're in trouble, this old Tuck man is probably going to chase us to the ends of the earth and kill us both, these things are not of much use to us, but for Tuk's old pervert, it is estimated that it is the root of life"

"Let's return this picture" This small silver box made my impression of Tuke inexplicably better

"And then he was grabbed and beaten by Tuke and thrown into the dungeon?" Giovanni shrugged his shoulders, "Don't worry, I'll send these things to him"

The bag was empty, and Giovanni stared at it thoughtfully

"Where did you see this purse?" He asked me

"On a bedside table, old Tuke

The chief is estimated to have a sailor, and he tied a sailor's knot."

I was about to show Giovanni what the sailor knot was, but he didn't seem interested in it, just let out an "oh".

He took out the dagger, licked his lips, and then plunged into the strap of the leather bag, he gently cut the leather of the belt The sound of the leather shattering came out Suddenly, his dagger stopped, he took the dagger, and with a light tear of his fingers, a few small beads rolled out, fell on the snow, and sank into the snow

Giovanni picked it up with a smile, looked at it carefully, bit it with his teeth, and handed it to me

Six golden beans

These little golden beans are about the same size as the nail shell of the little thumb, although they are not worth much, but they can still help a lot when it is critical

"Remember, Victor, if you're going to search someone else's property in the future, check the Salander's headscarves, Swadia's boots, Rhodok's underwear, Vecchian's belts, Nord's leather helmets, and Burk's stomachs" He stabbed the dagger into his purse and tore open the compartment, "People always hide their money in the most important places on their bodies, they think these places are safe and secure, in fact, the safest thing to do is not to bring money"

I felt like he was saying it for nothing, but I was a little curious about where he said the money was hidden, "Burke's belly?" Do they swallow the gold coins? ”

"No," said Giovanni, "for in the time of war, a Burke's heart is worth twelve dinars, and this is probably the most valuable thing on his body."

"Who's paying for this?"

"I don't know," said Giovanni, "the nobles who have been driven away from the Riverlands, or who wants the rotten meat?" ”

Giovanni tore open the purse and laughed happily

As soon as he emptied the purse, his hand shook slightly, and the shiny coins fell from the mezzanine onto the snow

I counted forty gold coins, eleven large gold coins, and twenty-nine small gold coins, which were enough money for us to eat and live for a while, and even buy a horse to send us back

Thinking of this, I suddenly chuckled in my heart, "What about my iron feet?" ”

"What iron feet?" Giovanni's eyelids didn't jump, "That lame horse of yours?" ”

"It's not lame"

"It is," said Giovanni, "I can see that the front hooves of that horse will be uncoordinated as long as it has traveled ten miles, and that riding on such a horse on the battlefield is to kill oneself, and there is nothing to wait for someone else to return to the barracks, and I will get you a good horse."

"I don't want it," I was a little angry, "I want my iron feet, which I brought from Romanovburg"

"I guess no one else wants it, so it's for you, huh? Little bastard? Giovanni packed the coins separately

I couldn't find a way to refute him, "That horse has a good temper and listens to me, I've had it for a long time."

"You don't need to

If you want the horse to kiss you, you just need it to carry you to the battlefield" Giovanni patted me on the head, "When I came, I already asked the people at the dock to send the horse to Dadonghu City, those people are estimated to be on the road now, I told them that after delivery, each person will be rewarded with seven dinars"

"But those people are old Tuk's people, and old Tuk will stop them"

"No," said Giovanni, "if Tuck dares to cut off the fortunes of his own people, it is estimated that his men will rebel, and it is possible that he will sell our horses, which will make more money, but it depends on whether he can catch up with those men who have seven dinars, and he will be able to make money in half a day's journey, and this is an easy deal, and his men will probably be on the road in the morning."

I don't know what to say, I regret saying to Giovanni that I'm going to go out for a walk, if it weren't for that, I'm still in the barracks with a fire, helping the soldiers to write, eating and drinking every day, and sleeping with my own blanket

Giovanni stood up, walked to the edge of the roof, leaned down, and looked at a square square below

He came back to me and said, "There's a griffon market down there, we're going to go down there tomorrow morning, there's going to be a lot of people, and we're going to go down and no one notices," he said, looking at himself, "we're going to have to get rid of what we're doing."

"How do you know about this place?"

Giovanni wiped his nose, "When I was your age, Konstantin brought me to sleep with a woman, I had a lung disease at the age of twenty, and I spent half a year recuperating here, if I didn't know this place, I really lived to be a dog."

"What if someone recognizes you?" I asked Giovanni

"That's not true, I wore a cloak when I went out, and there were no more than ten people who knew me, but the people we were going to find at dawn knew me."

"Who to go to?"

"I'll talk about it at dawn"

I stayed with him in a corner of the roof, shivering until dawn, and then began to tear off the strips of white cloth from his body, and threw them into several piles into the surrounding chimneys, before dawn, there were a few soldiers in the street who were making noise, but we couldn't hear what they were calling, and we didn't know if they were arresting usFrom four o'clock, some people who transported vegetables and fresh fish began to carry boxes into the market, and some small traders also began to come to set up their stalls

Giovanni said to me that it was not very safe to go down at this time, because these small traders knew each other, and the two strangers were very conspicuous, and when there were more people who came to buy things, it would be much more convenient to go down, and he also said that if he could, he would spend money to hire a few singers to sing and charm others, and he would be able to hide in the crowd without knowing it

When the day dawned, the sun shone thinly, the cold water vapor filled the surroundings, and the damp feeling crept all over my body, and I felt colder than the night

Giovanni found a small alley, and from there the two of us tiptoed on a stake

Climbing down, an old man scavenging saw us, but he was expressionless, and walked away slowly, carrying a large bag behind his back

There were no stakes at the bottom two or three meters, and we jumped and fell on a pile of snow, but fortunately we didn't bend our feet

Giovanni and I took off our clothes, our clothes were black on the outside and white on the lining, we put our clothes on our backs, then put our cloak on our heads, and walked into the city with our heads down, and few people noticed us, but I was alarmed, I was worried that Tuke was in the crowd and that he was already there

The smell of fishy fish and hay mildew came to the nostrils, accompanied by the smell of human sweat, and the smoke made the ground swaying and sloshing, full of mud, and the ears were full of shouting, bargaining, shouting, and scolding, and two beggars fought, people were watching the excitement, and a few children took the opportunity to touch the pockets of the people who watched the excitement

We walked through the market to a stone staircase, and when I looked up, the house was unlike any other, and was topped by a moon and three stars connected together

"Salanders?" I was very curious

Giovanni knocked on the door

After a while, the door creaked open, and a dark-skinned Salander poked his head out, "What are you doing?" ”

"I'm coming to Ali"

"There is no Ali here"

Giovanni looked at the man and said, "I'm here to pay Ali back, and if he doesn't want it, I'll take my leave."

"Please wait".

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