"Why is it so expensive? This shabby hotel of yours is full of rats and cockroaches. The bed boards are so uneven that I can't sleep well every night. The ventilation in the room is also very poor. Look, my second brother is covered in hair.
Do you still have the nerve to charge me so much money? Do you treat us distinguished guests from far away with this attitude, you profiteer, profiteer!"
Fengtie tried hard to look fierce because he was negotiating the price with the hotel owner.
After understanding what happened at the market, Yolanda enthusiastically invited the Manniu warriors to move to the guest room of the Chamber of Commerce. On the one hand, it was to repay Manniu for his help, and on the other hand, it was also to guard against Prince Gallie secretly attacking him in anger.
The bull fights for revenge.
Manniu, who came here alone, accepted Yolanda's invitation without hesitation, which made Feng Tie feel very unhappy. The duck that was about to reach its mouth flew away alive, and no one can let this happen.
He would not be willing to give in, let alone Baron Fengtie, who was so good at plucking hair that he could even trick a poor woodcutter into drinking a few sips of his bad ale.
So Fengtie ignored Luofu's dissuasion and insisted on Yolanda arrange for them to stay in the guest room in the backyard of the Chamber of Commerce.
"Hmph, you bastard, you are robbing me of women, wait until I move here and see how I deal with you, you ungrateful and shameless villain!" Feng Tieyou felt indignant at himself.
"Um, I'm talking about this guest." The hotel owner said to Feng Tie with a grimace: "It really can't get any cheaper. These big-bellied men you brought have almost eaten up half the food in our hotel for half a year. I just have to
Two silver coins from you is not much."
"Oh, it turns out that the food cost is more!" Feng Tie rolled his eyes and enthusiastically hooked the hotel owner's neck, "I think it's not too much if you think about it. By the way, I want to ask you
It’s a matter of fact.”
"No matter what, as long as you give me a lot of money, I can do anything." The hotel owner was very unaccustomed to Feng Tie's affection.
"Do you think there are ghosts in this world?" Feng Tie asked with a wink.
"No, no, guest, why do you ask this?"
"No?" Feng Tie looked at the hotel owner suspiciously, "Then why does that old lady in your store who brings me supper every night always tell me that your store is haunted? I'm still wondering how many days I've been here.
I didn’t even see what the ghost looked like, she must be joking with me, hahahahaha, it’s so funny!”
"Customer, guest, guest, please don't scare me. I'm getting too old and I can't stand it any more. Apart from my son who is the chef, I am the only one in the shop. Where did the old lady come from? Besides, in our shop
I have never given you any late-night snacks in the middle of the night. Look, what you said is so scary, I, I..." The hotel owner's face turned pale with fright, and his upper and lower teeth kept chattering.
"Oh? Really not?" Feng Tie said doubtfully, "Then there is something fishy about this matter. Just wait here for me and don't leave. I'll go out and call the city guard to call the police first."
"No, no, guest, you can't do this. What will happen to my business if this spreads out? Guest, just do it. I'll charge you one less silver coin. Do you think you can do this?"
"What, I only charged one less silver coin, and you sent the beggar away?" Feng Tie was dissatisfied, yelled at the top of his voice and walked out the door, "Everyone, come and see, this hotel is haunted and has eaten all the guests.
, don’t miss it if you pass by, ghosts are not something you can see anytime and anywhere, everyone is here..."
"Stop shouting, guest, please stop shouting!" The hotel owner quickly pulled Feng Tie back from the door, "I won't charge you any more money, I don't want a penny anymore, please stop shouting."
"Really?" Feng Tie didn't believe it.
"Really!" the hotel owner cried, "please take your people and leave quickly, don't come back again, wuwuwuwu..."
Feng Tie patted the boss on the shoulder with satisfaction: "That's right. Doing business requires honest management and customers first. I am very familiar with the captain of the city guard who is in charge of your area. I will ask him to award the best merchant tomorrow.
I’ll give you the honorary card. Goodbye, my dear!”
Feng Tie was afraid that the hotel owner would regret it, so he rushed out of the door to catch up with Luofu and Xiong Da who were ahead of him. The hotel owner was left alone with tears streaming down his face: "Who are these people? I must not have done anything good in my previous life to touch them."
When it comes to such a thing, where is the law of heaven!"
"Sneeze!" Feng Tie sneezed loudly, "Who is scolding me?"
Tiger knocked on the half-opened door: "Your Excellency, Baron, our lady invites you to the pavilion for tea."
"Come here!" Feng Tie was about to go out. After thinking about it, he picked up the repaired scimitar from the bed and inserted it into his waist. Shi Shiran walked out.
Yolanda had taken off her men's clothing and was only wearing a homely lavender floor-length floral dress. She had an exquisite gold Hibiscus flower brooch pinned to her tube top, and her hair was tied into a ponytail to reveal her smooth forehead.
He personally poured thick red tea soup for Fengtie and Manniu from an exquisite copper pot.
Feng Tie took a sip and immediately tasted that the drink was added with tea leaves, salt and some other spices, mixed with the strong fragrance of poppy petals, which was very strange.
Feng Tie wondered why the things this woman drank had such a strange taste. Could it be that she had a tendency to self-abuse, or that these things had the effect of enlarging breasts? Feng Tie took a secret look at Yolanda's pair of terrifying 34e,
I thought for a while that I would get the formula and go back and give it to Linda and Lucy, the two little girls.
"Mr. Artillery, please have tea, and so will General Luofu and His Excellency the Baron." Yolanda sat down on the stone bench in the pavilion and extended an invitation to everyone with her charming eyes.
"puff!"
Feng Tie spat out a mouthful of tea: "Cannon? Who is Cannon? Is it you?"
After receiving Man Niu's affirmation, Feng Tie burst out laughing without caring about his image: "Why did your father think of giving you such a name? However, it is quite consistent with your personality."
The Manniu warrior named Cannon rubbed his hands in embarrassment and explained: "I have no father and no family. I have been taken care of by my neighbors since I was a child on the edge of a forest in the Fire Horse Kingdom. When I was ten years old, I
I was brought into the regiment to learn martial arts by Uncle Bainon, the leader of the Iron Flamingos. Because I had a bad temper and always got into fights with others, the leader gave me such a name."
"Oh, I'm sorry, I didn't mean to laugh at you." Seeing Can Pao's honest and awkward expression, Feng Tie was a little embarrassed, "I just think your name is very, very vivid and very appropriate. It has no other meaning, hehe."
Yolanda gave Feng Tie a fierce look, and said to Cannon with a smile: "My father told me that life only lasts a hundred years, and the most important thing is to live your true self, not to do bad things, to help others more, and to
You can support yourself with your own hands and be a person worthy of heaven and earth. Your name is just a code name, Mr. Artillery doesn't need to worry about it."
With Cannon's IQ, it was obvious that he could not fully understand Yolanda's words of comfort, so he had no choice but to giggle, pick up the cup in his hand, drink the tea soup in one gulp, and smack his lips with unfinished content.
Upon seeing this, Yolanda quickly stood up and poured another cup for Can Cannon, and carefully asked Can Cannon to drink it slowly and not to choke.
Feng Tie's eyes were so angry that they almost bulged out of their sockets. He thought to himself, these girls really can't tell the difference between good guys and bad guys. I am the benefactor who used my supreme wisdom to help you resolve a disaster. If you follow that stupid guy's rules,
With your reckless way of doing things, you may have been tied to the tiger bench by Prince Galilei and force-fed pepper water.
At this time, Tiger came in from outside and respectfully handed Yolanda an exquisite sheepskin booklet: "Miss, this is the list of goods we will auction tonight, please take a look!"
Tiger took out an open birdcage from behind like a magic trick again. On the birdcage squatted a black bird, only the size of a fingernail: "This is the parrot beast sent by the Presbyterian Church. They hope that this little thing
If it can fetch a good price at the auction, I have blocked the Parrot Beast's ears, so you can rest assured, Miss."
"Okay, I understand. You can go ahead and make arrangements for the evening, and report to me when you need me." Yolanda said calmly.
When Tiger left, Luofu, who had always been taciturn, suddenly spoke. He asked Cannon curiously: "Why did you come alone? I don't think you have any luggage. Steel Flamingo will not send you alone."
Come to this grand ceremony empty-handed. Besides, we have so many troops in the Fire Horse Kingdom, why haven’t I seen any other mercenary teams?”
Hearing Luofu's question, Cannon's eyes were red. He looked excited and slammed his fist on the stone table, causing the copper pot and tea bowl on the stone table to rattle.
Listening to the inarticulate Cannon's intermittent and inconsistent narration, Feng Tie and Luofu exchanged shocked looks at each other.
In order to participate in this mercenary ceremony, a total of seventeen teams came to worship from the Fire Horse Kingdom, fifteen of which were well-known mercenary groups in the kingdom, as well as an assassin family and an underground killer organization. In addition to the killer organization's
In addition to acting alone with mysterious whereabouts, the remaining sixteen teams set out on the road together with the caravans who came to join in the fun and a few noble men who wanted to participate in the auction. The team reached a scale of thousands of people, but I don’t know why.
On the way, mercenary groups kept quietly withdrawing from the team and disappeared without a trace. In the end, only the three ten-man teams of the smallest Steel Flamingos were left to protect the caravans and nobles and continue on their way.
Until one evening, when everyone was camping and resting by a waterhole, a man wrapped in a black cloak found their captain, Dushi. The two had a fierce quarrel in the tent of Boulder. In the end, the man in black got angry.
The ground left.
Then Jushi called everyone together for a meeting. Jushi said that the man in black claimed to be a noble of the Fire Horse Kingdom. He also said that the other mercenaries who came with Flamingo had already joined his team. Now they are short of manpower.
They also wanted to temporarily hire Steel Flamingos to carry out an assassination mission with a large sum of money. This request was sternly rejected by Ju Shi on the grounds of group rules. Before leaving, the man in black put down harsh words and threatened to make Ju Shi and his team never live again.
Unable to reach the destination, he was slapped in the face by the upright and hot-tempered Jushi, who made him dizzy and left bitterly.
Jushi told everyone to be alert in the remaining half of the journey, to be careful about the goods they carried and to protect the safety of non-combatants. However, in the following time, the merchants and nobles still left the Iron Fire.
Bird walked back, not because they had any doubts about Flamingo's professional ethics. In fact, such a small number of people could not guarantee the safety of everyone carrying a large amount of valuables and gold coins.
Artillery's eyes were filled with anger as he recounted this: "Unexpectedly, an accident happened. In a dense forest very close to Dema City, we were attacked by many assassins when we were camping. I don't know what tricks they used to kill our food.
There was poison in the food. After eating the poisoned food, my comrades had no strength to resist. They were all killed by these crazy assassins. The property they brought to participate in the auction and a gold armor inlaid with gems were also lost.
It was plundered."
Yolanda gently patted Can Cannon's fists, which were clenched with bulging veins due to excessive force, and continued to listen quietly to Can Cannon's story: "I escaped because I was sent out by the captain to find water. When I came back, I saw me
The corpses of my comrades lay scattered on the ground. The blood in their throats and hearts had dried up. Their bodies had all turned blue and purple due to poisoning, and their heads and faces were so swollen that I could no longer recognize them..."
"With tears in my eyes, I buried my comrades and their weapons together, and came to Dema City in despair. I didn't know where to go. I could only wander around the city in a daze, looking for the murderers I had never seen before. I couldn't
Knowing how I will report to the leader when I return to Flamingo, sometimes I really think I might as well go on the road with them so that I can have a joking partner..."
Luofu sighed, knowing in his heart that Batu must have done this, but now he didn't know how to comfort the affectionate big man in front of him, so he could only look at Feng Tie with pleading eyes.
"Ahem."
Feng Tie cleared his throat and cautiously said to Cannon: "I know who did this, and I can also tell you how to find them, but you have to promise me something first!"
"Really, do you really know?" Huo Pao suddenly stood up, grabbed Feng Tie's collar and lifted him up again, "As long as you can help me find the murderers, I can do anything you want!"
"Uh... uh... oh..." Feng Tie tried to break open Cannon's big hand. When Cannon saw Feng Tie's face turned purple due to difficulty in breathing, he quickly let go of his hand and threw Feng Tie hard towards him again.
ground.
Artillery embarrassedly pulled Feng Tie up from the cold ground and apologized: "I'm sorry I lost my temper. Please don't mind. Can you tell me the whereabouts of the murderers now?"
"No!" Feng Tie said decisively.
"Why?" Cannon glared at Feng Tie fiercely.
"No reason." Fengtie said leisurely, "I am very principled in life. My principles can be summed up in only three words: It depends on my mood! What you did makes me feel very bad now, so this young master is inexplicable
I don’t want to talk about it anymore.”
Author's note:
They are all big chapters, brothers, with more than 4,000 words. Alas, it’s a pity to click.