() When I returned to the tavern with a few Valan soldiers, the Rhodoks had disappeared, and on their seats sat a few singers from unknown places, who, seeing us, asked if we needed to order a song called "The Wife of the Nords", which cost only six copper coins. ： ..

After getting rid of these third-rate singers, I found the owner of the tavern. The boss was angrily reprimanding one of his helpers for not keeping an eye on the guests just now, and as a result, a group of people ran away without settling the liquor bill.

"The men are very cunning," said the helper, with a sad face, "and they order a drink, ask for a drink, and pay for another drink when the second is finished; Then two, then four, and they were always able to pay for it afterwards. But after they had drunk dozens of glasses, they suddenly left, and I couldn't stop them at all. ”

"You're a fool," scolded the tavernkeeper, "it's the worst trick of all, and only you'll be fooled." You should ask for the money to be paid first, and then the wine. The boss noticed that we were on the side, so he turned around, "I said, what are you guys here for?" ”

"That's right," said one of the Valans, "a couple of Rhodoks have beaten us Valans, and I'm looking for them." ”

"Coincidentally!" The tavernkeeper said, "These Rhodoks have offended me too, they owe me more than half a barrel of wine, and if you can beat up these bastards, I'll treat each of you to a drink." ”

"Where did they go?"

"I heard I'm going to the tower." The helper said. "The one that you Valans have taken possession."

"It can't be," said the Varan soldier, "we've just come from there. ”

"I saw it with my own eyes," the helper remembered the beating I had just done, "and when they had finished beating the young man, they went to the Valans, the path they might take. ”

It dawned on me, "I know what's going on, I've been skeptical for a long time." That Cruzkal is a poisonous snake, and after he figured out who I am and what we are doing. They wanted to betray me. Find Giovanni's allegiance and go it alone. ”

"You recruited him?" One of the Varan soldiers said, "Recruit a Rhodok? ”

I said, "Yes, my Valan soldiers ran away at the time, what can I do." ”

"We'd better hurry, anyway," said the shortest of Valan's soldiers. "Go meet this Cruzkal."

Along the way I spent the whole time describing Cruzkal's appearance and his accomplices to the Valan soldiers, and I hoped that after beating them, I would have carved words into everyone's faces, as if I had been engraved on my arm when I was captured. The Valans got impatient and told me to shut up, for it was useless for me to come up with ideas for a long time. "We'll catch those people later, and you can just beat them. Those who owe you, we will help you get it back. Engraving on the face or something, we don't interfere. It's one thing to help a friend, it's another to make a feud with a stranger. ”

We arrived at the tower, and sure enough, there was a Rhodok at the door, talking to a Valan guard, smiling.

There was mud all over the ground, and I grabbed a piece. Throw it in the face of which Rhodok. The mud splashed across his face, and the man immediately reached for his waist to prepare for the sword. The Valan guard who had spoken to him was quick to respond. When he saw that we were going to have a conflict with this Rhodok, no matter how happy the conversation was, he immediately hugged the Rhodok and clasped his two arms behind his back. As the Rhodok started cursing, I punched him in the stomach and stuffed a cloud of mud in his mouth.

The Valan guards held him in and shouted, "Don't make a fuss, just talk about it!" ”

I asked the guards, "What about the other Rhodoks?" ”

The guard bluffed, "Victor, what else do you want to do!" But his mouth slid into the door, accompanied by a sly blink of his eyes.

These Rhodoks must have been in the house.

My Varan helpers then crowded into the house and made a noise up the stairs.

When I kicked open the door of a room, I saw Giovanni with his hands folded behind his head, his feet folded on the table, talking to a group of Rhodoks standing with their backs straight. Before Giovanni could ask us what we were doing, we jumped on the backs of the Rhodoks and knocked them to the ground with our knees, and I noticed that my fists became nimble and played quickly, almost with the same momentum that Jack had when he had beaten me, of course, in the case of the Rhodocs being attacked. The Rhodok under me quickly reacted, and with a sideways push, I fell to the ground, bent his knees and ready to stand up, but a Valanite kicked him hard in the calf, and the Rhodok groaned and curled up with his calf. I sniffed and kicked the guy a few more times.

Giovanni squinted at us beating people, as if his head was turning very slowly, not knowing what we were going to do. It wasn't until we had beaten enough people that the Rhodocs on the ground were lying on their backs, panting with their bellies heaving, that Giovanni became angry.

"Huh? How do you beat people? He looked solemn, "This is my Rhodok guest!" ”

He slapped the table and called out a few names. A few clever guards came inside the house, drove us aside, and protected us in disguise from waiting for the Rhodok to fight back.

The Rhodoks helped each other to their feet, and Cruzkal spat on his comrades as they supported him, opening his comrades' hands, "Don't touch me, I'll get up on my own." ”

The Rhodoks looked at us with resentment, and Cruzcal asked Giovanni questioningly, "Your Excellency, we have come to ask for an alliance with good intentions, and that's how you treat us?" ”

Giovanni said, "If you ask for an alliance, then you are not an ally." What have I done to you? I don't care if these people have any conflict with you. ”

"Your men hurt people," Cruzkal said with suppressed anger, "in your place." ”

Giovanni said, "First of all, this Lord Victor is the boyar of Vecchia, and de jure is not my vassal," de jure vassal, this is what I said to Cruzcar, and now Giovanni is using it to ridicule me, it must be this Cruzcal who said, "Second, this place is the tower of the eunuchs of Salander, how can it be my place." ”

"You bastard!" I scolded him, "It's just a short-lived mercenary of Rhodok who has defected several times." None of the mercenaries lived to be thirty-five years old. You short-lived ghost! Giovanni and Soldier Valan both frowned, each wondering how old they had lived.

Kruccal avoided arguing with one of my children and simply asked Giovanni to give him an explanation instead.

"I don't have any explanation, I don't know what is going on here, and I don't care too much. Also, the Kugit people can come. The more people, the better, and if you know what I mean, get out of here and go find your Salander gelding!" They must be reassuring to you now, aren't they? Who doubts your loyalty after being beaten up in my place? Go and help the eunuchs guard the door. You bald dogs. ”

In fact, the bald man is only the one who is big, and the other Rhodoks are scolded as bald dogs, which is inevitably a little wronged. The Rhodoks looked at each other, as if considering whether to move or not, and Cruzcard and Giovanni looked at each other for two seconds, then said a few words to their comrades about mercenaries, and the group left the tower in anger.

"Victor, Victor, Victor." Giovanni tapped his riding boots with a horsewhip. "This Cruzkal told me the story of your presence in the woods. Ah, how warm, the great knight met his followers, and then made a contribution, tsk, Victor, I thought you were already a standing man, but I didn't expect to believe in this trick. ”

The blood rushed up my face, and I felt a little pain in my hand at this time, and I had just beaten it so hard that the back of my hand was bleeding.

"Let me kill him," my anger almost drove me crazy, and now it wasn't a big deal for me to get beaten, but it would feel bad if I looked stupid, "just give me a knife." ”

"A knife for you?" Giovanni sarcastically said, "Tomorrow there will be another corpse at the door of the Rhodok, with a knife stuck in his belly, and the thing underneath has been cut off and stuffed in his mouth." Do you know what you did? ”

In front of outsiders, Giovanni protected us, but when there was no one else, Giovanni became stern.

"Just beat up a bunch of Rhodok bastards." I said it with a hard mouth.

Giovanni had a seizure and threw tattered boots at us behind the desk, which were all garbage that had been piled up in the tower, and Giovanni had these things collected in the hope that they could be cut out and put together into something else to continue to use, as the proverb goes, 'A mercenary is a mercenary, and a dead man is used to refine oil'. His hands were so strong that the boots hit us like it was raining hard.

"We don't have many people in the first place, but now that others are kind enough to come and form an alliance, you will call others away! Eighty percent of the people of Salander are now peeing, and they are going to laugh and bloom! ”

A boot struck a Valanite in the face, who glared at Giovanni, "Are you enough!" ”

Seeing someone come out to confront Giovanni, everyone breathed a sigh of relief. I just felt sad, and was still thinking about how I had been deceived, and besides, if these Rhodoks were really because I had run away to the Salanders, it would have been too light for me to be beaten. The Kujits, the Salanders, and the Rhodok are the enemy, and I don't think I'm doing anything at all.

But what's wrong with Giovanni? He seems to be nonchalant until now. In the past, when he encountered so many enemies, he would definitely have resolutely ordered him to turn around and flee at full speed, but now he stayed here and did not leave, but he had a bit of heroism.

The man who contradicted Giovanni kept exposing Giovanni's shortcomings, saying that Giovanni was in love with a baroness, but was despised by the woman; said that Giovanni was a vassal and elegant, pretending to read a book, but he took it down; said that Giovanni liked young girls, and liked to look at girls when he saw them, and so on. Our understanding of Giovanni is much deeper.

Giovanni finished throwing away his boots, let's get out of here.

As they walked out of the tower, the Valans came up to me, "Victor, your next bottle of wine is mine", "Remember that the second half of your salary is mine", "Give me your cloak, you can't wear that thing anyway", these Valans demanded payment from me.

Having sent away the helpers, I found many merchants with mule teams and horses, leading carts and carts toward the main road leading outside.

I asked the Valan guards on the side curiously, "Where are these people going?" ”

"The Salanders have closed the bazaar, and gathered all the men into their manor fortress," said the Valan, "Victor, don't hang out these nights, for the Salanders are ready to come." ”

ps: I'm sorry, I've been busy lately, forgive me