The thick beef soup has a strong aroma, and the brown sauce soup is covered with dishes such as potatoes, carrots, broad beans. A clean clay plate is filled with a few small muffins and bread, and the jar next to it contains jam, and two large glasses of yellow ale.

For the young citizens who live in Nancheng for many years, this can be regarded as a hearty meal. Lu Xi picked up the tableware and feasted, but the daughter Karin just helped to pick up the soup with a spoon, but in the end she didn't bring the food into her mouth.

"You said it was a midnight snack, but I thought I was going to invite me to Ailan Lixia Palace for tiramisu and five-colored muffins..." Karin pouted her rose-colored lips and muttered in a low voice.

"Hey, I'm just a national civil servant who earns a dead salary. How can I afford the snack shop that sells flour higher than gold?"

"That must at least be the Black Forest Cake on Bedandol Street, right?"

"That's just a matter of changing from gold to silver? Is there any difference for poor people? Is there any difference?"

"Hmph, I'm dating a beauty like me, but I chose such a popular place for dinner... What a man who is confused about the charm, or are you all magicians like this?"

"I bought something for most of the day when I visited the street, it turned out that the woman with swords was not qualified to say to me... Wait, is this a date?"

"A man and a woman went out for a walk in the middle of the night, and now she is sitting on the same table in a dimly lit bar. Isn't this a date? Do you have to go to a hotel to open a room?"

Such a powerful answer made Lu Xi inexplicably think of Primra and Sexiliu. He could only laugh a few times, sip a big sip of ale, and then quickly changed the topic.

"Like the places you mentioned just now, the young men who are willing to invite you to line up can stand on Guanghui Avenue for two round trips. Why should you be upset? Only in such a remote shop can you taste the real delicious food."

Karin looked at the soft beef stewed in the sauce soup and couldn't tell anything special: "Really delicious? I really can't tell."

"That's because you still can't learn to appreciate it." Lu Xi put down the spoon and stared at Karin's eyes. "This bowl of ordinary beef soup has a taste of happiness."

"The taste of happiness? Hehe, it sounds quite romantic."

"For these people living in the South City, is the luxury and elegance of the North City, the intrigue of princes and nobles, the glory and power of the empire related to them? After working hard, I sat in such a small bar with my friends, drank a glass of ale, laughed loudly and scolded, and if there was still a hot beef soup, it would be extremely happy for them."

"Oh... this is very different from the education I received."

"That's of course. A grandparents like you should have received the most orthodox bride courses since childhood, right? Well, they will basically spend their time at endless tea parties, banquets and dances. The people around them talk about expensive jewelry. Of course, they will also discuss the young men and men born in the same family, who are more handsome, whose family property is richer, and who will like women more."

"Oh, why did I smell a strong sour smell? Are you jealous? Must be jealous?"

"Come on, I prefer this kind of environment than the lifeless aristocratic life of jewels but lifeless." Lu Xi spread his hands, and the noise was filled with lively and noisy sounds. The laughter and scolding were filled with slang and swear words unique to the city, and the boiling breath mixed with the stimulation of sweat and alcohol lingered in his nose.

"How is it? A very lively world?" Lu Xi picked up the wine glass.

A small gambling table next to it had a small conflict. The gambling players who were drinking happily quickly turned the dispute into a fight. A man punched his nose and fell less than two meters away from Karin. The bold and generous man opened his eyes in confusion in pain and happened to see Karin's amber eyes. It seemed that he wanted to show his masculinity in front of the beauty. The man climbed up with difficulty, but a sneak attack bottle hit his head. The man collapsed on the ground and never got up again.

Looking at this scene, Karin looked at Lu Xi with a smile in her eyes. She raised her wine glass: "Well, it really opened my eyes."

The two clay cups filled with ale touched each other hard, Karin looked at Lu Xi, and imitated each other to raise the clay cup, and killed the wine in one sip.

"Happy!" The two of them sighed happily at the same time.

Perhaps it was the first time I drank like this, Karin's face soon climbed up rosy: "I now know why my grandfather and grandmother liked to come to these places when they were young. Sure enough, it is more realistic than the serious palace."

Speaking of this, your grandfather and grandmother are not very serious. It is indeed the origin of family education!

"This is natural. These ordinary people are the cornerstone of the country and society. If the superiors think that the court and the nobles are the whole world, that is the real disaster. Well, from this perspective, your grandparents are also wise."

Karin nodded very much. She seemed to be very respectful to her grandparents, but she said, "Haha, are they as great as you said? I think they just simply think that these places are easier... Well, just like me."

"That's better than the arrogant aristocratic arrogance." Lu Xi smiled and said, "If the superiors are willing to experience the life at the bottom and are willing to communicate with the people at the bottom, then no matter how unreliable it is, it will not be unreliable."

"I just regard this sentence as a compliment to my grandparents and my lady." Karin squinted her eyes and smiled, her red face shining brightly through her white skin: "But, my grandfather is old after all, and she actually listened to the instigation of my uncontrollable uncle and wanted to marry me to a young man who had never even met."

"The old man might want to see his beloved granddaughter put on a wedding dress and be a bride happily." Lu Xi shrugged: "But why is it your uncle? What about your parents?"

As soon as this was said, Lu Xi felt a little regretful. Since Karin was talking about her grandparents in her words and outside, there were many stories in the family. Fortunately, Karin’s personality was even more casual than Lu Xi imagined. A hint of melancholy flashed across her face, but her tone was a little calm, calm to the point of calmness, but there seemed to contain a kind of sadness that made Lu Xi even heartbroken: "My mother died of dysfunction when she gave birth to me. As for my father... his health has always been not very good, and he went there two years ago."

"That...sorry."

"He's fine. He went to heaven to accompany my mother. I'm sorry that I'm alone and alone, and I'm still bullied by my uncontrollable uncle... Do you think I'll say that?" Karin's words suddenly changed, and her bright smile crawled onto her face. The so-called gloom and sorrow seemed to be nothing more than a cloud. "Do you really think I'm the kind of Cinderella who is a fatherless person who will be bullied?"

...So Zhang Wuji's mother said that women can lie, and the more beautiful a woman can lie.

"Actually, if you think about it carefully, my uncle treats me well. He wants to marry me out, maybe he is being instigated by my aunt who is not in tune with me." Karin tilted her head, as if she was thinking solemnly.

"Isn't it because you can't stand you anymore that you will let you get married and harm others?"

Karin did not refute, but nodded seriously: "This is also possible."

I really have self-knowledge...

"Your in-laws must be very pitiful in the future, right?"

"So, I want to find a stronger man... Well, although your appearance is far from being strong, I still like it quite. Why not consider elopement with me seriously?"

"I don't want it. I don't want to become a substitute for your miserable future husband. Besides, don't you know? My biggest dream in my life is to be a living otaku, besides living a lifelong otakus. Putting a queen in the crystal palace is equivalent to raising sharks in the goldfish tank?"

"You men's **... is really clear at a glance, and it's so vulgar. Also, who is the shark? Who do you call it a shark?"

If Karin's parents knew that the daughters who had spent countless efforts and money would have been celebrating with a man who had only met twice in such a small bar where "lower people" had gone to, I wonder what kind of reaction would be.

In this noisy environment, whispers sounded at the adjacent table.

"Hey, have you heard of it? A few days ago, the people from the Northern Army fought with the imperial guards again."

"What's so strange about this? Don't they have to fight so many times every day?"

"Now it is His Majesty's birthday, and people from other countries are here... Isn't this a shame for the empire to fight in front of so many envoys from countries?"

"Anyway, it's for the supreme Jade Throne... I'm just fighting now, and when the fire broke out that day, I'm not surprised at all..." The third voice suddenly sounded, and the tone seemed a little clumsy and low, obviously with a confused and drunkenness.

"Huo Bing?!" The first voice seemed a little terrifying, "Isn't it in the imperial capital?"

"Who knows," the second voice was a little helpless, "Those high-ranking big men can't care about the lives and deaths of us ordinary people..."

"Does Your Majesty ignore it?"

"Hey, I'm old, so I can't control it anymore."

It seems that no matter which era or country, as long as they live in the capital, even the most ordinary people have special intelligence channels - their efficiency and scale of information acquisition are even far more than ordinary local lords. Of course, these "information" extracted mainly by gossip and rumors are easily unrecognizable during the dissemination process, but they will not affect the love of the people in the imperial capital to "discuss state affairs" at all. This is quite similar to the men of Jiucheng in another world.

Of course, from this point, we can also see that the Auckland Empire under the rule of Emperor Sun was still quite enlightened.

Lu Xi kept his heart secretly. In his opinion, the information these drinkers talked about was not more real than the gossip of the neighbors, but at least it could be seen that the contradictions caused by the inheritance of the empire's reserve throne have become very clear.

The line of defense connected by six fortresses in the north of the empire and twelve border cities is the front line of Auckland to defend against the Vigia Empire in the northwest and the orc tribes in the northeast. The ones stationed there are naturally the most elite border troops in the empire. Marquis Golros Van Dorheim, who is responsible for the northern border defense, is the most famous general in Auckland and even the world, the guardian knight of the church, the member of the Aurora Saint Hand Society, and the wife and brother-in-law of the late crown prince and the princess' uncle.

Of course, such a clear kinship relationship has already decided: Golros will definitely be from the royal granddaughter.

The emperor's second son, Iken, was regarded as the best candidate for the future throne after his elder brother's death. He replaced the elderly emperor for a long time and was fair and harsh. Although he was somewhat rude and ruthless, he gradually gained the support of the nobles of the imperial capital and some local lords, and controlled part of the imperial guards.

Now, the contradiction between the two factions has gradually become clear, and there is only one opportunity to break out. The most common problem is that the highest ruler of the empire, the Sun King Guyus, not only did not stop this crisis. His ambiguous and swaying hesitant attitude is the best catalyst for intensifying the contradiction.

"The Sun King is really old..."

In this world, it is probably only the hero who is older than her face. Lu Xi sighed in her heart, and then saw a hint of unnatural twitching on Karin's face.

Since Karin was also a great nobleman in the imperial capital, her family must have been involved in the war of succession to the throne. Maybe many friends who grew up together are now in the other party's faction, and she must have suffered a lot.

If a girl on the date is in a low mood, it must be a sign of the boy's incompetence. Lu Xi decided to find some ways to make Karin happy. He was silent for a moment and took out a dice clock from under the table, which contained six dice. In the taverns like this, basically every table is equipped with such gambling tools for guests to use at any time.

"Can you play?"

"That doesn't matter, but I don't. You have to teach me."

"It would be strange if you know it." Lu Xi said, "Let's just play the simplest thing, compared to the size."

"It depends on who we throws out the points higher?"

"Well, but it's too boring to be bigger. How about being younger than you?"

"In other words, the smallest one should be six ones...ah, no," Karin frowned and thought for two seconds, "the smallest one should be stacked together, that is, one."

"Hehe, you're so icy." So if a woman is too smart, she is not cute at all.

"So how much are you bet?"

"I just said that I am just a civil servant who earns a lot of money. Isn't you seeking death by betting on money with you, a daughter? Besides, gambling is really too sad and very vulgar."

"You can't just gamble without gamble, wouldn't that be boring?"

Lu Xi tilted his head and thought for a while, suddenly raised his head and showed a pranky smile: "If I win, I will kiss you. If you win, you will kiss me. How about this?"

"Oh, you're very cold and snowy, too." Karin chuckled, "It sounds like a good idea, but I still refuse. Why not do that? If you win, I will let you kiss you, but if I win... you jumped on the table and shouted three times, 'I'm a little surrender, requesting support'! How about this?"

"Hey, this is too vicious, right? Then again, you, a daughter, know so many tricks?"

"Oh, even a daughter of a daughter must have her own information channel. In short, are you playing?"

"Why not play? I am a dying civil servant. I am not afraid of wearing shoes with barefoot people. I have no reason to lose to a young lady who is not diligent in four bodies and is not diligent in all kinds of grains!"

"Okay, then I'll shake it first." Before Lu Xi could react, Karin had waved his hand and grabbed the dice clock. She gently shook the dice inside, listening carefully to the sound of the collision of woods, distinguishing the subtle differences between them. She squinted her eyes slightly, without saying a word, and looked like she had entered a state of meditation in the old monk.

At the same time, Lu Xi, as a magician, felt a subtle change. An energy that was completely different from arcane was slowly brewing in Karin's body.

"No, you just play dice, you also need to use the Holy Fu technique?"

The so-called holy breath technique is the users of divine art - priests and paladins, who use divine art and prayer to bring their bodies into a complete state of spiritual consciousness, allowing themselves to gain more sensitive five senses and intuition.

After a few minutes, Karin seemed to have captured the subtle changes in the center of gravity and one-sided side of each dice. She raised her head, smiled at Lu Xi Yanran, and suddenly flipped her wrist. The small dice clock seemed to have turned into a living elf, jumping and flying in her hands, dazzling the other party.

"Bang!" The dice fell on the table, and Lu Xi then realized.

"I'll drive it."

"Open it." Lu Xi said helplessly. In fact, he knew the result without opening it. Just from the techniques just now, we can see that Karin is definitely a master of divine arts and martial arts. Although it was the first time, it was not easy to play a few small dices.

Sure enough, the dice on the open dice clock was a typical pillar of the sky. The dice on the top was still rotating, but the obvious red dot on it could be seen.
To be continued...