Volume 1 Don't Use the Hidden Dragon Chapter 40 The City State of the Sea
After more than a month at sea, Remut finally returned to the East Sea Harbor where they departed, and it was a merchant ship that pulled them back from the brink of death. As the easternmost seaport of the Zhenzhou Peninsula, the dawn is nearly an hour earlier than that of the Central Plains, and if it is summer, it will be dawn at the end of the day.
On the fifth day of the first month of the Heroic Era, that is, on the fifth day of the first month. The sun rising from the sea was already a bamboo pole high, but it still didn't feel any warmth in the East Sea Harbor, and it was even bitterly cold. In the past, every leap year was a leap month, and the spring of the following year should come a little earlier. But this past year, 13 months have passed, but how do you feel that winter has just arrived?
As the only seedling in the family, Remut is naturally pinned on by his mother. Especially after his father's fleet was wrecked in the Devil's Sea, the old lady was even more afraid that her son would miss a little. But the son-in-law, who has always been unruly, can stand the control of the old lady.
It was only half a year ago that a white-haired old man gave Remut a nautical chart marked the sea area where his father had an accident, and he decided to go to sea. When the old lady heard that her son was going to sea to find his father, she felt that her son was finally sensible.
But the white and chubby boy went to sea, and when he came back, he was as thin as a monkey, which really made the old lady uncomfortable. Seeing her son fluttering when he walked, the old lady instructed her subordinates to kill chickens and slaughter sheep, wishing that her son could become a fat man in one bite.
In the three years since Remut's father's fleet crashed in the Devil's Sea, no one in the family has gone to sea to trade. However, with the wealth accumulated over several generations, it is not a problem for Remut to squander most of his life. But the problem is that when the old family is gone, and the family is at the helm of an old lady, the other families have robbed the Remut family of the sailing business, not to mention, and are also eyeing up to swallow up their family's only remaining bazaar.
During the time when Remut went to sea, the prince who ruled Xucheng extended his greedy hand to the Canghai free trade city-state that remained neutral forever. And the other four families of the Canghai city-state actually tore up the contract of mutual non-aggression for the sake of a small profit given by the princess.
After the old man of the family was buried in the sea, Remut followed the old lady to the Canghai natural trade city-state to manage the family's property in the free trade city-state. When the fleet was gone, the trade route to the sea was cut off, and the business was divided among other families. But if the only bazaar is lost again, the family will go from decline to extinction.
The unruly Remut did not have the leisure to take care of the affairs of the family business, and everything was decided by the old lady. But recently, many prodigal sons have come to the market to pick quarrels and provoke trouble, beating and driving away merchants for no reason, and the old lady is helpless about this.
The old lady originally thought that if she spent some money to get rid of those little splashes, she would be able to get along. But anyone with a discerning eye can see that these little bastards are not here for that bit of broken silver at all. Far from stopping there, it became more and more rampant.
Remut, who had just experienced a slave life, was already on the verge of death. For these rampant scoundrels who pick quarrels and provoke trouble, Remut doesn't want to waste saliva and talk nonsense, just draw his sword and let them hang some color on their bodies.
The bazaar is a small four-gate city, and on both sides of each gate is the cyan dragon flag of the Remut family. In the bazaar, it is very lively, and there is an endless stream of businessmen coming and going.
The noon sun finally warmed a little, and the troublesome villains arrived at the market on time. When they entered the bazaar, they smashed the merchants indiscriminately.
The emaciated Remut, holding his sword in his left hand, swaggered forward and shouted at the top of his voice: "Where did the wild dogs come from?
Remut's voice managed to attract everyone's attention.
"Look for death!"
A brawny villain came straight at Remut and wanted to punch Remut straight to the bridge of his nose. Unexpectedly, Remut dodged sideways, took a step forward with his right foot to block the villain's foot, grabbed the villain's fist with his right hand, and dragged it back, and the villain was directly dragged forward and pounced. And the right hand, which was quickly withdrawn, slapped the villain's vest fiercely, and the villain fell a dog at once.
The head of the villain saw that Remut easily put down a strong man, and said, "Where did the skinny monkey come from?
The head of the villain is tall and big, with a tiger's back and a bear's waist, and he weighs more than 200 pounds. The health value is at least 10,000 points, which is a typical meat shield, and it is natural to resist beating. He was carrying a copper hammer in one hand, and at first glance he was not a good stubble.
And although Remut is too emaciated, his health is only 3,000 points at most, and his force value is only 95 points. However, Remut is very good at heads-up, and hand-to-hand combat is his forte, often swinging a thousand pounds in fours and twos.
Remut replied: "Hmph, dead fat pig, the whole market is under the control of Lao Tzu!
"Watch Grandpa hammer your dog's head!"
The leader of the bully, although he looks powerful, is a fat man after all, wielding a copper hammer, which looks very bulky. And the nimble Remut easily dodged the attack of the bully leader, and also used his strength to kick the fat man's neck directly. This kick directly kicked the big fat man to the ground.
"Get out of here, it's still too late, don't force me to draw my sword!" Remut didn't want to kill him, otherwise, it wouldn't be as simple as kicking.
The dozen or so younger brothers who were smashing rushed towards Remut one after another.
The leader of the villains got up and shouted, "Let's go up together and hide from this guy!"
"I gave you a chance to get out, but you don't cherish it!" Remut drew his sword, "Now, it's too late to get out! ”
Remut's movement is nimble and elegant, navigating between a dozen knife-wielding thugs. When the sword was sheathed, the thugs covered their hands and screamed. When I looked at the ground again, there were more than a dozen fingers. And each villain has a different finger cut off, two people have their left and right fingers cut off, and two people have their left and right index fingers cut off respectively......
Ten people, ten fingers that were cut off, just made up ten fingers of a pair of hands. Only the leader of the gangsters was not cut off his fingers, he was doing it on the ground at the moment, holding his hands and feet and screaming!
"Still feeling like!" Remut turned his back to the screaming thugs, "Do you want to be cut off your head?"
When the wicked people heard this, they ran away.
"Sons of bitch!" shouted the leader of the gangsters, "don't fucking run away by yourself, help Lao Tzu quickly!"
When the leader of the villains was helped away by the two younger brothers, he jumped on one foot, not to mention how embarrassed he was.
After dealing with the gang of scoundrels, Remut replied to the bazaar in the fortress. The fort was guarded by more than 100 guards, and of the more than 100 people, in addition to the 20 who were originally guarding the fort, more than 80 were temporarily recruited to guard against enemy attacks.
Prince Lauren Atlas, who fled from the kingdom of Atlas, and his party now live in the fortress of Remut.
The old lady was dissatisfied with this. It's not that she's not hospitable, it's that these strangers have added a lot of expenses to living here. Today, several major families are eyeing the bazaar in Remut. The old lady even spent the money to recruit guards, not to mention that these strangers had nothing to do with her.
And these are not the things that the old lady can't stand the most! The most unbearable thing for the old lady is that these strangers are likely to eat and drink here for nothing for a long time. I don't think the food is to taste, especially the pampered Prince Lauren, who even criticizes that the water in the bath is not hot enough. He really didn't think of himself as an outsider!
The only one in this group who satisfied the old lady was Josie Arnold, a half-breed. Not only does she speak the Middle-earth language, she is beautiful, but she is also very fond of old ladies.
Truth be told, several other foreign men, even Remut himself did not like it. If it weren't for Rodney Arnold's entrustment to take care of her daughter, and these disgusting creatures are her brothers and friends, Remut wouldn't be kind to these Atlases!
As soon as Remut entered the door, Josie greeted him, "Hey, Remut, it looks like you've solved your troubles!" she said, gesticulating a neck wipe.
"Do I look that brutal?" he asked.
"I saw that there was blood on my clothes, so I guess you were going to kill someone!" she said, "Take off your clothes, and I'll wash you!"
Remut looked at her with questioning eyes, "Master Arnold's daughter-in-law still does laundry?"
"What's that! Cooking is no problem! Would you like to try my cooking?"
"Lady of the Majesty," Remut smiled and shook his head, "you are really special to have lived yourself as a servant!"
"I often say that she misses the taste of her hometown the most!
"I've heard you say that, but I'm curious how she got to Atlas?"
"Like you, she became a slave to the Atlas at a very young age!" she said.
Remut looked at her very sincerely, "But she is a great mother, giving birth to such an excellent daughter!"
At this moment, Lauren Atlas came over and said to Josie in Atlas: "Josie, it's so bad here! It's a terrible weather, it's sunny, but it's cold!"
"Your Royal Highness, I think you should understand that this is Kyushu, not your court. Think about how you can adapt to the wandering life under the fence!" Josie said with a smile out of politeness, but her tone and attitude were not very tactful.
"I can't stand eating that shit-like stuff every day these days here!" he still complained, "Can you make me some Atlas food!"
"My esteemed prince," she was still polite, "I'm sorry, I've never been a servant, and I haven't done those menial jobs!"
Lauren Atlas shook her head helplessly, "It's terrible......"
Outside the gate, Scarface arrives with a group of brothers, and after being stopped by the guards guarding the gate as a thug who picks quarrels and provokes trouble, he insists on seeing Remut. When Remut heard that he had a scarface and a group of men coming to him in a menacing manner, he was still puzzled.
After returning to the East Seaport, Remut gave each of them another 20 gold coins, and the extra 10 gold coins were given as compensation. But why? Scarface came to him with his brothers in a menacing manner?
Remut eventually decides to go out and meet Scarface to see what he's looking for. As soon as he walked out of the gate, Scarface shouted loudly: "Little boss, you must help us, my brother, I can't live in the East Seaport anymore!"
"What's going on?" said Remut, "didn't I just give each of you ten gold coins! Why haven't you been able to live for two or three days?"
Scarface tells Remut the ins and outs of what happened. It turned out that Scarface and his party were overjoyed after getting the gold coins, they had never been so rich in their lives. Some people say that they want to take these gold coins home to buy three daughters-in-law, and some people say that they want to use the money to buy a good horse, but Scarface tells everyone that he wants to buy a big boat and be a captain.
However, Scarface's gold can't buy a big boat at all. Therefore, a group of people actually pooled money together to buy a big boat as shareholders to get a share. Unexpectedly, Scarface went to buy a boat with a bag of gold coins, but was blackened and eaten by the people of the four major families.
Scarface thought that Remut's family was also the fifth largest family in the Canghai Free Trade City-State. I thought that if I found Remut, I would be able to get back the money I had been hacked for. That's why I came to Remut in a hurry.
After hearing this, Remut was also indignant for Scarface and the others. But now, the four major families of the Canghai city-state have torn up the non-aggression pact with the Remut family. On the surface, secretly, they all began to sharpen their knives against the Remut family. Even if Remut really wanted to help Scarface and his party, there was really nothing he could do!
At this time, the only old oarsman who did not participate in the Scarface crowdfunding boat buying activity also came to Remut and asked Remut to make the decision for him. It turned out that the old oarsman took the gold coins allocated to him by Remut and was about to buy some family property, but the money was also hacked.
When Remut told them about the situation he was facing, no one could swallow the bad breath. Not to mention hacking their money, and letting the villains beat the merchants in the bazaar, this kind of bad behavior is really hateful. They immediately decided to stay and die with Remut's family.
At this moment, these brothers and sisters in distress originally came to ask for help, but instead became the ones who helped Remut, this kind of brotherhood is simply much more valuable than those gold coins that were hacked.