Chapter 203: "The Aristocracy"
Estes did have two brushes, but she couldn't provide much help to Ling Ze's cultivation, after all, Ling Ze's training method had also been professionally guided, and it was a scientific training method that was more suitable for him.
Ling Ze's training methods are not only the initial training methods he learned here from the "Special Selection Group", but also the training methods he learned from Kiyojuro Higu there.
The training methods that have been passed down for more than ten generations by Kiyojuro are actually authoritative from the perspective of practicing swordsmanship alone.
Otherwise, it would not be possible to cultivate a talent like Kenshin Shimura in a short period of time, and of course, this must also require the cultivator himself to have a certain amount of talent.
However, Estes can give Ling Ze some high-level advice in some places where he is more detailed and more experienced, compared to the combat experience of Estes, a battle maniac, Ling Ze is still a lot worse.
Ling Ze was not polite to Estes at all, as long as it was something that was helpful to him, he was willing to study seriously, no matter who taught him, as long as he was willing to teach him, he would be happy to learn.
After all, he is still very young, and he is still in the stage of accumulating strength, knowledge, and experience.
At least Estes didn't particularly recognize the strength of his physical body, and she felt that Ling Ze's body still had more potential waiting to be tapped.
However, that's because Estes has too high requirements for Ling Ze, and her expectations for Ling Ze's strength are much higher than those of Tazmi, not just to the point of stopping at the general level, after all, there are so many generals in the empire, and the concept of general level is too broad.
Estes's expectation for Ling Ze is at least to reach the point where several generals can't defeat him together, even if they can't do it to the extent that one person destroys the country, how can it be to the strength of one person to slaughter the army.
After all, Ling Ze and Tazmi did not have the same starting point, and Estes's requirements would of course change accordingly.
"Can we go out now?"
After Ling Ze's daily training was over, Estes continued to ask to go out shopping together, but this time Ling Ze didn't find another reason to refuse her.
Because Ling Ze knew that if he continued to reject Estes, it would be really a little ignorant and a little too "rat tail juice", which would definitely make Estes uncomfortable and make her feel unhappy.
After all, the boyfriend Estes hopes to find is a man who is easy to be dominated by her, not a man who is full of thoughts about dominating her, if the strength is stronger than her, then it's better to say, the strength is not as good as her and still wants to dominate her, even if you don't know how the word "death" is written?
Ling Ze knows his identity, what do you like or dislike, what's the use? In the final analysis, he is now just a "prisoner".
Ling Ze, who is extremely self-aware and very "rat tail juice", cleaned up, simply washed the sweat on his body, and followed Estes to the street.
However, because neither of them has any dating experience, Ling Ze also has a certain say in where to go around, after all, Estes, the "fledgling", really doesn't know where to go.
And Ling Ze didn't want to really go shopping with Estes and go to the shopping street for a romantic date or something, so he took Estes directly to the slums.
Ling Ze is going to take General Estes, one of the "twin walls of the empire", to see what the life of the poor people at the bottom of the imperial capital is like, and let her also feel the enthusiasm of the lowest and lowest people.
"To the slums? Is there anything interesting there? ”
Estes asked curiously while following Ling Ze, she and Ling Ze walked together like this, but they seemed to be a good match, whether it was from the appearance or from the body shape, they were enough to be called a talented woman.
Estes's height is not short, her net height when she takes off her shoes is about 1.7 meters, and after putting on her daily pair of high heels, her height is close to 1.75 meters, which is already about the same height as Ling Ze.
If it weren't for Ling Ze being a little longer, he would probably really be about the same height as Estes in high heels.
However, Estes obviously has a more CP sense than standing with Tazmi, after all, Tazmi's height is only one meter six or five, which is indeed a point that he himself cares about.
"Not really, it's just that in this imperial capital, I have only been to the slums, and in this imperial capital, I am only familiar with it, so I will say that I want to take you there for a walk, if you go to other places, that is if you take me to visit."
Ling Ze wasn't lying, because in these days in the imperial capital, he really spent most of his time in this slum, and he was really unfamiliar with other places.
"It's not bad, this place as big as a slum, maybe there will be something interesting, I really haven't been here much, this place is too marginal in the imperial capital."
Estes is not opposed to going to the slums, if it were an ordinary aristocratic girl, she would definitely not want to go, after all, the slums are a very dirty, inferior, and dangerous place in their eyes.
Without enough guards, they would never have come even half a step closer, and Estes was a daring artist, and she never had to think about safety or insecurity.
"Slums are not marginalized, the operation of the entire imperial capital is based on the existence of slums, without these poor people living in dire straits, all kinds of functions of this imperial capital will be paralyzed."
Ling Ze refuted Estes and emphasized to her the importance of the people, although there are indeed a lot of self-depraved scum in the slums, and it is true that human tragedies may happen every moment, but in this huge slum, there are still many people who are still full of love for life.
Leonay and her "Lionheart" children were able to survive in the slums without production, but they really needed the help of those well-wishers.
Of course, Leonay will also provide them with some help accordingly, although it looks like they are collecting protection money, but everyone is voluntary.
Leonay will help those who teach the real underworld people who collect protection money, and they will only be responsible for providing some of the children's daily meals and so on.
Leonay in the slums, just like the "Spider-Man" in Queens and the "Daredevil" in Hell's Kitchen, is really a superhero-like existence, and this is the reason why Leonay can't leave the imperial capital, she can't give up all this, and the people in the slums can't do without her.
"That's what they should do, the weak have to bear the responsibility that the weak should bear, the strong have the right to enjoy the convenience brought by their power, those things can't be done by the soldiers and generals of the empire, right?"
Estes was noncommittal, she didn't come here much, but it wasn't that she didn't know what life was like for the poor, but she had always thought it was the way it was, and she took it for granted.
"Shelf!! Frame!!! ”
Ling Ze and Estes were talking while walking on the road to the slum, a team of horses whizzed past the two of them, and looking at the Jiahui on their bodies, it was obvious that several nobles had come to this slum with their respective servants to have fun.
"Let's go along and see, maybe something interesting will happen."
Ling Ze glanced at him with an imperial tool when a fat-headed, big-eared nobleman rode by.
And the inhuman thoughts that Ling Ze saw immediately made him think that guy was a damn person.
"Do you know? It seems to be a few people from a small aristocratic family, and I can't even remember who they are just by looking at Jiahui. ”
Estes glanced at Ling Ze strangely, she didn't know why Ling Ze was suddenly interested in those people, those little-known little nobles couldn't get into Estes's eyes at all, she originally wanted to introduce Ling Ze, but found that even she didn't know those people.
"It's just some little nobles..."
Ling Ze couldn't help but sigh, this imperial capital is really not a good person, the big nobles have the play of the big nobles, and the little nobles also have the play of the little nobles, in short, it is not a good thing, the world is as black as a crow.
"How many goods have you caught this month?"
On a street in the slums, under the horrified gaze of the people around them, the little nobles were on horseback, one by one on their toes, and the leader of them was facing a man who nodded and bowed his head and kept accusing of something.
"There are only a few!? You bastard!! Who is this sending?! We gave you so much money, is that how you treat us and repay us? I think you're really tired of living and want to die, right? ”
The aristocratic leader of the horse team scolded the middle-aged man and scolded him with a head and face, and the horsewhip in his hand was raised high, all of which were a posture that would fall on the middle-aged man at any time, which was really a standard "aristocratic lord" style.
However, the middle-aged man did not get any sympathy, because what he was doing, everyone knew that if this kind of person was beaten to death, no one would shed a tear for him, of course, his child's parents may be heartbroken, but the bystanders will only applaud.
"Forget it, that's all for today, I'm afraid you won't have a lot of fun."
The "noble lord" put down the leather whip in his hand very disappointed, and when the middle-aged man thought that he had escaped and was thanking him non-stop, the "noble lord" raised the leather whip in his hand with a cruel smile again, and slammed it towards the middle-aged man's face.
The horsewhip of this fat-headed and big-eared nobleman is obviously not easy to suffer, but the middle-aged man who whipped it at once wailed, he didn't pretend, this horsewhip on his face really made him almost go into shock.
"Hahahaha!!"
Seeing this, the other nobles who followed the fat-headed and big-eared nobleman all laughed happily.
On the contrary, the merchants in the slums who set up stalls on the roadside were silent one by one, some were silently closing their stalls, and some were not daring to move, because the guards brought by the nobles had already sealed off the place.
Estes and Ling Ze were in the blockade circle, the two of them stood in the crowd and looked coldly at everything that was happening, Ling Ze felt that the middle-aged man had no value of being saved, and Estes only took this kind of thing for granted.
However, what happened next, Estes might still be able to ignore it, but Ling Ze couldn't stand it.
"Surround it, surround it! Don't let them get out! ”
The fat-headed and big-eared aristocrat, after beating the middle-aged man to his death, directly threw the middle-aged man aside and stopped caring about him.
He beckoned the guards to surround the city in a circle, and surrounded the more than ten children brought by the middle-aged man, and their fellows dressed as "noble lords" were also in the circle with horses and those children.
"This guy is too wasteful, I gave him a month to find me toys in the slums, and I found a few, and we won't let him find them next time, so we will directly let go of the restrictions on playing, compete in this slum, and see who can ride a horse and trample to death in the specified time!"
The fat-headed, big-eared aristocrat shouted, and spat on the body of the middle-aged man who was about to lose his breath when he looked at it, obviously dissatisfied with his work efficiency.
However, the middle-aged man was also very bitter in his heart, after all, there was an organization of "Lionheart Fans" in this slum, and most of the street children chose to get closer to the areas where the "Lionheart Children" were active from all over the slums.
And let this man go to the territory of the "Lionheart Lost Boy" to rob the child, he didn't have the guts, after all, he knew that he was just a dog, and he would never be able to leave the slums, if he really got that "Lionheart Lost Boy", I am afraid he would not be able to stay in the slums anymore.
Moreover, even the other underworld organizations that survived in that area were driven out by the "Lionheart Lost Boys", and he didn't think that his "Child Catchers" would definitely be able to beat the "Lionheart Lost Boys".
So they can only catch those street children who have not gone to the territory of the "Lionheart's Lost Children", so the efficiency will naturally become low, after all, those street children are very good at hiding one by one, and they are not so easy to find.
"Scum."
When the nobles started the game, ready to set up horses to see who trampled on the most children, Ling Ze finally opened his mouth.
With the sound of "dregs", the leading nobleman immediately twisted his legs, and the bones inside were shattered, and the horse under him was the same, directly throwing him out.
The nobleman fell in front of the frightened children, and he wailed and cried out in pain, and the snot and tears on his face flowed together, and he was already ugly.
And this sudden scene naturally shocked the surrounding onlookers, especially the guards and nobles, who were all a little stunned, and they couldn't help but exclaim, "What happened?!" ”
"Moths."
Ling Ze ignored them, he continued to speak, and as the words came out of his mouth, those nobles fell one by one, and one by one began to wail, and the scene suddenly became very chaotic.