After understanding the general situation, Guo Kang said goodbye and left.

Li Xuanying and Odosia sent him to the door, and then returned to the room.

"Hey." Li Xuanying sighed and said hesitantly: "This matter is estimated to be more troublesome. ”

"It doesn't matter. At least we've got the right person. Odosya also comforted in Chinese: "Go investigate as you want, and I will try my best to help." ”

"Huh?" Li Xuanying didn't react for a while.

Odosia walked over to the shelf and reached out to remove the costume and curtain that hung on it. Behind the shelf, it was not a stone wall, but a large wooden plank.

"Not long after the theater was rented to us, my room was temporarily renovated." "We couldn't do much of a change," she said, "just by adding a thin wooden board to separate it. ”

"All, all, all heard......" Li Xuanying was taken aback, her face full of embarrassment.

"If I don't listen to such an important matter, how do I know if you will miss important information again, or simply be fooled all the time?" Odosia asked rhetorically.

"As I said a long time ago, don't be suspicious every day. These are all old friends of mine for many years, how can there be a problem. "Li Xuanying is not happy;" It's good that no one found out, otherwise how would I explain it? ”

"Everyone you see says it's your friend. Last time, the liar Marco also said that he was a friend, and I told you not to trust him, and you didn't listen. The result? I'll find someone to help you get your bag of money, otherwise he will run out to sea by boat. Odosia retorted.

"Yes...... I have promised you this, and I will naturally do it myself. Li Xuanying saw her mention her previous "mistakes", so she had to put on the posture of the principal, stand up straight, and teach a lesson: "You don't have to worry so much." ”

"Forget it." Odosia was unmoved, put back the costume, glanced at him, and sighed: "That is, your family is strong." If you were in the slums, you wouldn't live for the second month. ”

"But Guo Kang is not an ordinary friend...... He's always been reliable. Li Xuanying was not convinced and defended.

"I know. You've told me too many times before. But do you know that whether people are reliable or not depends on the specific situation. Odosia smiled wryly and explained, "For example, I have a friend who would rather fight those Rose thugs when someone gives him three gold coins. But if the other party gives a bank ticket of 100 gold coins, he can send me out directly to the enemy. ”

"Your friends are all upper-class people, and they don't think they can afford 100 gold coins. On weekdays, they wouldn't betray you for this little profit, but have you thought about the greater good? She asked, "If it comes to the interests of your family and the distribution of power within the Senate, have you reconsidered the credibility of these friends?" ”

"When we were trying to figure out a way before, you told me that the Guo family is a generous and honest person." She reminded: "But have you ever thought about how a large country like Rome, with a group of generous and honest people, has stood tall among the rulers for generations? ”

"Do you think that people are just like you, just don't use their brains?" She glared at Li Xuanying with hatred.

Li Xuanying had the heart to refute, but she couldn't say it, so she sat down and sulked: "What you said is good, if everyone is like this...... Oh, then I'll give you that jade pendant, how much money are you going to give it away? ”

"I'll talk to you seriously, why did you lose your temper like the little girl in the play?" Odosia said helplessly.

"This thing." She was like a trick, and grabbed a piece of jade pendant in an instant: "How do you let me estimate it......"

"Mr. Mannikas told me a story. It is said that in ancient times, there was an extremely wealthy patriarch who grew up in an environment of fine clothes and fine food since he was a child. Later, again, his friends took him out to play. On the way, everyone ran out of water, so the patriarch went to the tavern on the street to buy drinks. ”

However, he didn't know how to buy what he needed. Because he has been drinking clean water and wine since he was a child, he doesn't know those drinks at all. He had never seen a copper coin with such a small face value, and he couldn't figure out the relationship between price and conversion. Therefore, he was fooled by the bartender and the drinkers, cheated out of a lot of gold coins, and left with a few bottles of bad wine in embarrassment. ”

"Writers took advantage of the story and wrote a lot of short plays. The audience loved this kind of play because it gave them a chance to mock the nobles with their pleasure. She sighed: "But behind popular comedy, there is often tragedy. ”

"People in different positions have different abilities to judge wealth. Because of the limitation of experience, their judgment ability will be restricted. Like this patriarch, he had no idea how the various items around the poor were judged to be valuable. This is a sad gulf between people and people. ”

"The reverse is also true. The last time Master Flahos came to the troupe and read our script, he ridiculed that we didn't understand the way of the upper class at all, and the plot in the script was our own delusion. Because we have never been exposed to that kind of life, we can't imagine how they judge the value of things and the value of all kinds of things. ”

"So you asked me to estimate it, and I don't know how to judge." Odosia shook her head and said, "All I know is that it's very expensive. ”

"Here, my own life is worth it - in fact, I estimate that it has been valued more than once, according to the average of my peers, maybe 50 gold coins and half a bank note are enough."

"And this thing." She put away the jade pendant again: "I don't know how to value this kind of emotion that crosses the chasm. It's like Frajos said, something that's too rare and precious for someone like me to know how to count it. ”

"If you insist on asking me, I can only say that it is worth more than me anyway." She smiled and said.

Li Xuanying was dumbfounded for a while.

"My mother told me before that back then, the Guo people led the army to purge in the city and killed many people. The family is ruthless, but very forbearing, and will not reveal their purpose until the goal can be achieved. "But this is not what you say, and it's not the same as what some of my friends say. ”

"Every operation will have a goal, and those who are hit will certainly not be happy." Li Xuanying pointed out.

"Yes, different people must have different understandings of their actions, because their circumstances are different, and what happened at that time was also different." "And it's not just different people," said Eudosia. The same people will have different encounters in different situations. ”

"You said that you want to find the support of the Guo family, and I don't object, because we don't really have anything to choose. But how to act still needs to be carefully planned. ”

"It's so big, so big that I think it's going to have an impact on the Senate. In this case, Guo Gongzi's reaction may not be the kind of reaction you have seen on weekdays - this matter has entered his 'valuation range', and it is beyond the fraction of the worthless part that can be ignored. Do you see what I mean? ”

"Understood, understood. Haven't I been listening to your advice? Li Xuanying nodded again and again: "I'm not a fool, I still know this kind of common sense." ”

"I hope, I hope."

Odosia rubbed her forehead and sighed.

"No, you don't believe me one by one." Li Xuanying always felt that this scene was familiar: "Both sides think I'm a fool, right?" ”

"What do you think?" Odosia said bluntly, "Why do you think I have to worry about even small talk? It's not because I'm worried that you won't be able to explain it. Otherwise, do you promise to your friends and then hide it from me, or do you make promises to me and then lie to your friends? ”

"Uh......" Li Xuanying really couldn't say.

"So, you should be honest and be a well-meaning fool." Odosia said mercilessly, "I'm here to play the role of a classic bad woman." That way, if our plan fails, you leave all the blame on me. ”

"I am a person from a lower class, who is bent on extravagance and unrealistic things, and who will do anything for the sake of what should not exist in my destiny. In this way, everything makes sense. For me, the end result couldn't have been much worse. ”

"If Guo Gongzi is a smart person, his first reaction will definitely be to directly arrest the relevant personnel. Didn't he tell you to contact Prince Constantine? The meaning is already obvious. This is no ordinary investigation, he wants to get authorization, and then through a quick action, he can directly catch everyone and ask for the information he needs. ”

"I'm definitely on this list of targets myself, so if I suddenly disappear after that, don't rush to find it." "For your sake," she advised, "they won't do anything to me." You do what I say, and that's it. ”

"How good is this!" Only then did Li Xuanying react, Guo Kang deliberately did not explain it, and immediately objected.

"What's so bad about that. Through this reaction, we can more easily know what kind of plan this Guo Gongzi has in his heart. Odosia stretched out her finger and pressed it precisely to his lips, stopping him: "What we are doing now is in itself a dangerous and crazy thing. So don't say anything about whether it's safe or risky, okay? ”

Li Xuanying hesitated for a long time, and finally nodded.

The two muttered for a while. After sending him off, Odosia also changed out of her costume and dress, changed into the regular clothes of an ordinary young man, blew out the oil lamp, and left the office.

The wooden planks on the roof twitched slightly.

This house was indeed rented temporarily after the troupe contracted a triumphal performance, as she said. When the theater was moved into the theater in advance and the facilities were set up for performances, this extra room was converted into a temporary office space.

And this house, originally there was no fixed roof, because the façade itself was also part of the stage facilities. The troupe will temporarily lay floor slabs and erect hoisting equipment to hang curtains, "séance" equipment and other stage facilities, just like a war tent on the city wall.

Therefore, the roof of this house was also temporarily laid with the help of stone shelves left in advance on the wall.

Now, the gap between the two planks is widening. The bright moonlight poured into the dark room, and at last a small half of Meltham's face was revealed.

"The bad woman is really gone." She muttered.

Meltem sat up straight and carefully put the plank back again. Then he pondered for a moment on the roof.

"I don't know if it's true or not......" she scratched her head, "These Greek women are really annoying." ”

"If you tell my brother, my brother will definitely continue to meddle in his affairs, and he may offend his companions. But if you don't tell him, he has already intervened again, and he may suffer again. "Meltem tried to use his brain, to think.

Eventually, she had an idea.

"By the way, wouldn't it be nice to try to get the Greek cows to deal with the bad Greek women! That way, you don't have to worry about your brother being in trouble. "They're all cunning guys anyway, and they're just fighting each other." Wouldn't it be best if we could all die together? ”

"Oops, Mertem is so smart!" She complimented herself happily and jumped to the roof of a nearby apartment building. After a few jumps, it disappeared into the complex of buildings under the cover of night.

This time, the splash screen recommendation was drawn from last month's raffle. The results of this book are still far from the direct splash screen......

In January, I got three lucky draws, but in February, I only got enough one monthly pass. This month is not expected to be much. So keep asking for a monthly pass, at least you can draw more things. Thank you

(End of chapter)