Chapter 156: The vacation is over
The bard wore a specific robe, and the badge with his name on his chest was not arbitrary, which meant that the bard was responsible for what he said, and that there was a decree. However www.biquge.info because the group of bards is too large, it is too difficult to supervise, and it is also difficult to obtain evidence, and there are generally no serious consequences, and most of them turn a blind eye.
But if nothing happened before, it doesn't mean that there will be no day of reckoning. You can't say, "I said that before, why is it okay?" If you really say that, the result can only be "It turns out that you have said this before, then you have spread rumors more than once, and you will be guilty of one more crime." ”
Kevin just blocked the doorway, and the six bards looked around in a hurry, losing their attention for a while. They couldn't escape, they couldn't do anything with Kevin, and no one in the tavern was going to help him. Just now he was still boasting about this person named Kevin, who has a lot to do with it, and now Kevin has reported himself, who dares to talk nonsense here.
"Big brother," one of the bards was quicker to respond, bowing his head and starting to say nice things, "Don't do that, I apologize to you." We weren't right. ”
The person on the side hurriedly agreed: "Yes, yes, everyone eats together, it's not easy." "Big brother, either we're private. "Tell me, how much does it cost. ”......
Kevin stood still: "It's not a question of money or not, it's a matter of a person's reputation." Can reputation be measured in terms of money?"
A few bards were helpless: "Okay, let's change the version immediately in the future, we will praise you, we will go to various taverns to praise you." ”
Kevin sneered: "Say, how much money did you charge?"
The bards looked at each other, then laughed dryly: "What do you say?" "How much does it cost?" "I don't understand." ”
"Then there's not much to say," Kevin replied, "and it's clear that you're employed, planned, organized. I can't figure out who is behind the scenes, can't I still deal with you? Today is a lesson for you, don't just take money from people in the future. ”
The bards were embarrassed, and the drunkards below had already pointed fingers at them, and it was estimated that they would not be able to mix in this generation.
In a moment, two sheriffs arrived, and Kevin stood at the door, of course, to meet them as soon as possible. However, Kevin was dressed in civilian clothes, and the sheriff did not know who he was. Kevin simply took the initiative to greet: "Two chiefs." In the military, when you don't know a stranger, you will call "sir" out of politeness, even if the rank is obviously lower than your own.
"Are you?" the two sheriffs wondered.
Kevin introduced himself, then pointed behind him to indicate that the bards were there. At the same time, he said that the sheriff had worked hard, and it was already the middle of the night. There are not many people who can come out to maintain law and order.
Several bards were taken away immediately, each dejected, and Kevin had to go along, and of course he had to go through a procedure as a witness and the accuser, which was actually quite troublesome. For the sheriffs, no one will be happy when they go to work in the middle of the night, and it is estimated that they are also thinking in their hearts, "We have to come out for a trip with such a matter", but for the sake of the face of the Thunder Knights, they will not say anything, and their actions are also very quick.
It wasn't until dawn that the matter was really over. Kevin tries to dig up who is behind them, but it is obviously unlikely, and the sheriff is not very cooperative, and seems to be in a hurry to end the case. Speaking of the city's expansion, the sheriffs have been busy lately, and they really don't have much attention to managing rumors and the like.
In the end, the verdict was pronounced that night. The crimes of the six bards were punished by 3 days' imprisonment and reported to the Bards' Guild for their crimes, which had not yet caused serious consequences. The Bards' Guild also gave sanctions, and when the punishment accumulated to a certain extent, their bard badges would be revoked. For the bard, too, it was a disgrace.
In the tavern, Kevin is indignant, and when he comes out of the sheriff's place, Kevin is yawning. If you want to really bring down a few people, you always have to spend a lot of energy. But anyway, on vacation, you can play with them when you have nothing to do.
But there is a question that must be considered, is it only these few people who are behind the scenes? Kevin has only one person and one mouth. How can a person confront the other side's systematic public opinion warfare? Public opinion warfare is also a war, and it also requires an army and soldiers.
Back at the hotel, I was lying in bed alone but couldn't sleep for a long time. How to keep your reputation, how to break this deadlock, reputation is a thing that you need to be a soldier or a bard. If others see that this author is a scumbag, then who will read the novel?
Kevin thought about it for a long time, but he couldn't do anything after all. Even if you make great achievements, the other party can still make alternative misinterpretations. Don't underestimate the power of the mouth cannon, some people often despise that strength is everything, mouth cannons are empty talk, but I don't know that some people can only rely on the upper and lower mouths, the living people say dead, the dead say "alive", confuse right and wrong, reverse black and white, it is difficult to distinguish loyalty and treachery, the mouth cannon is a bloodless blade, sometimes even sharper than the bloody blade.
In the end, Kevin can only sigh, maybe this is the only way for everyone to become a character, and if you want to become a character, you will inevitably block the path of another group of characters, then it will inevitably attract criticism. The main reason for this is that civilians are blind, easy to be instigated, and easy to maintain their first impression. Believe what you want to believe, don't believe what you don't want to believe.
Kevin couldn't help but think of the group of bandits, they were fooled by the theory of the protagonist's aura, and what Kevin did was also enlighten the bandits. Rumors stop at the wise, and if the commoners are wise people, then the rumors will naturally be self-defeating. But that's not something Kevin can do alone.
If you can't break the game, then you can only accept it silently, believing that time will tell. Kevin couldn't help but think that at the end of the year, when the first parrots were retired, there would be an Internet, and the speed of information circulation would be accelerated, and civilians would receive more information at that time. Maybe in the age of the Internet, rumors will decrease a lot, right?
In the last days of the holiday, Kevin was walking around the city. The speed of the expansion of the main city is almost described as galloping, and the most common question Kevin asks here is how to get on the road, and about 80% of the locals don't know, and 10% of the locals are pointing the way. Only 10% of people can answer, but that's just an approximation.
Towering water towers have been built in the city center, which store water and connect to all nearby residents through a network of pipes, so that residents no longer need to go to the well with buckets to carry water. The magic array engraved with the water system in the water tower only needs a few low-level mages to manipulate it, and it can suck water from the underground water well to the upper part of the tower. Then, through the water level drop, it is automatically transmitted to nearby residents, and of course residents have to pay water bills.
The road has been widened three times, and there is no problem with the four horse-drawn carriages side by side, and the shops of various colors are neatly arranged on the roadside. The roadside no longer uses braziers for lighting, but instead uses brilliant magic crystals as street lights. In fact, these spars are relatively cheap and belong to extremely low-grade road goods. But under the operation of a large array of magic in the whole city, it naturally glows at night, but after all, the quality of the spar is low, and the light emitted has a lot of variegation, but it is also because of some variegated colors, but it is more gorgeous.
Large libraries, large theaters, large parks, large factories, large markets, large colleges, large websites, and so on began to be built in an orderly manner. Although the network will not be connected until the end of the year, the website will have to start building in advance. By the time Kevin left, the walls of the city had not been picked up, and the expansion continued.
The only pity is that there are still many people in the tavern who are very resistant to the expansion of the main city, not only the bards, but also some ordinary drinkers. However, I haven't heard anyone scolding Kevin anymore, maybe they have some kind of contact between the bards, and they will restrain themselves for a short time.
Kevin could only speak with interest, and when he felt tired, he would drink for a while and take a break. This kind of large-scale urban construction will inevitably damage the interests of some people, either abroad or at home. Kevin has been to the Ryan Empire, and the city facilities are actually far from the Paule Country, and now they are just starting to catch up, but it's better to rush than not to move. Kevin doesn't have much foresight to see through decades from now. But secretly thinking that even the Grand Magus himself does the work, it will not be a superficial article.
As for disturbing the people, there is no way to do it. There must be good and bad in everything, and if you want to catch up, you must work day and night. If you want to develop fast and sleep well, how can it be so easy. It's just that this can't be said in front of civilians, this group of people are deeply troubled by all kinds of noises, and their hearts are full of fires, and if they say a good word to the project, they will be sprayed immediately.
In mid-May, Kevin finally ended his 40-day vacation and officially returned to the Knights of Thunder.
With some food and drink in his hand, he can be regarded as bringing some gifts to his comrades-in-arms who have been sticking to their posts and comforting them. In fact, they are all bought casually in the outside market, and they are not valuable.
Happy days are always short-lived, and looking back on 40 days, it seems that I didn't have much fun. Looking at the familiar gate of the barracks and remembering the many uncomfortable things that happened here, Kevin's heart couldn't help but be blocked. It's really cool to take a vacation, you can get up whenever you want, you can sleep whenever you want, everything is trained on time here, and there are a lot of troubles.
But the time to come is always coming, and after a few deep breaths, Kevin stepped through the door. When the recruits standing guard at the gate saw Kevin, they immediately saluted and shouted, "Sir!"
"Yes. Kevin was carrying something in his hand, and he couldn't return the gift, so he nodded, "Register me, and say I'm back." You're not late, are you?"
"Nope. The doorman hurriedly went in and checked the notebook, and then quickly registered.
"What's going on in the barracks lately?" Kevin asked casually.
"It's not a big deal," replied the doorman, then smiled, "It's the sir's catapult brigade, and quite a few people have been added. ”
Kevin was stunned: "Really?"
"The chief will find out when he goes back and looks. "The doorman seemed pleased.
Kevin nodded, just worried about whether he would be missing something. All the way to his catapult camp, all the sergeants who passed by saluted him, and even those of higher rank shouted their names as a sign of affection. Kevin could only keep nodding, very surprised in his heart, and said who are these people?
With a stomach full of questions, return to the catapult camp. As far as I can see, there are many more people. There were about twenty of them, with very raw faces, and it seemed that they were not originally from the Thunder Knights, but all of them were recruits. At this moment, they were rolling around with the stone bullets, making them roll all the way to the distance, hitting several bottles. It seems to be a sport of bowling, and there is laughter and joy on the field.
Stat sat on one side, his back against a wall, a hat buttoned over his face, as if he was napping, while Sain was nowhere to be found.
These recruits saw Kevin coming, but Kevin hadn't changed his clothes at this time, and none of them knew Kevin, but they just looked at Kevin a few more times curiously.
Kevin remained silent, carrying his things into his room. There was no change in the room, but to Kevin's surprise, there was actually someone sleeping in his bed, this person slept with his head covered and didn't know who it was, looking at the military uniform he took off on the bed, it was just an ordinary recruit.
Kevin was finally angry, the recruits outside the door were all playing and he was very unhappy, and now he was actually sleeping during training time? Still sleeping in my bed?
"Get up for me!" Kevin kicked up, and the man woke up immediately, lifted the blanket and sat up. Then both sides were shocked at the same time, this person was actually a staff officer? Kevin was stunned, looked at his clothes again, and instantly understood that the staff officer had been demoted to private, and he was actually sent to him.
The doorman recruits exploded with a whoosh, and they saw Kevin enter the house, and they didn't know who Kevin was, so they looked at the door. Seeing Kevin kicking people, they were so frightened that they exclaimed again and again. This exclamation woke Start up, and he walked over impatiently and reprimanded the recruit first: "What is it called?"
Then he came in and saw Kevin and the original staff officer, as well as the footprints on the blanket, and after three seconds, he instantly understood everything. Looking at Kevin's sweeping eyes, Starter laughed dryly: "That...... Have a great vacation. ”
Kevin: "......" (To be continued.) )