The infrastructure of a city is an intuitive symbol of its vitality.
No matter how reliable the infrastructure built by our ancestors is,
Once the descendants start to ruin it and are too lazy to renovate it,
Over time, it will become too rotten to be used.
And by that time, it will be hard to come back.
When yesterday is gone,
Someone needs to step on the accelerator, drive a road milling machine, and shovel all the dilapidated old roads into pieces.
Only in this way is it possible to build a
Brand new asphalt road.
...
With a "squeak" sound, the wooden door of the tavern was pushed open.
The people drinking, talking, and bartending all turned their heads to glance.
The man in a cloak mask who exuded an aura of 'I am very mysterious' glanced around the store at the door, and then strode towards the bar.
"Thank you for your hard work, Axellarite." Chuyang greeted with a smile, "Has everything been done?"
Li Jia Shu pulled up a chair and sat down, "It's done. It will take the craftsmen two or three days to deliver the goods. It's just enough for the slaves to adapt to the environment. I will lead the soldiers to initially discipline them."
Then, the brass mask looked at the captain in black and said to the lord knowingly: "Chu Yang, who is this person next to you?"
The lord in purple velvet silk stretched out his right hand and signaled to Li Jiasu the captain in black.
"This is the captain of the Silencer, Mr. Pasha van der Zwihe. He is also a friend of my father's who has known him for many years."
Chu Yang said, adding an accent to the word 'friend'.
Then, Chuyang retracted his right hand, stretched out his left hand, and signaled Li Jiasu to Captain Pasha.
"Uncle Dezwih, this is my guest, Mr. Axelarat Li. He comes from the distant eastern kingdom of Seris and is extremely accomplished in civil engineering."
The pirate captain smiled and nodded, "You are taller than what my men described, Mr. Li."
"Ah, I'm so sorry." Li Jiasu's demonic voice came out from under the mask, "When I beat up your men earlier, if I had known that you, Captain, were Chu Yang's uncle, I would have struck more gently."
The devil put an accent on the word 'uncle'.
"Haha..." Captain Pasha looked at Li Jiasu, and then said calmly to Chuyang: "I have inherited three parts of your father's skills, Chuyang. The guest you have found is not bad either."
Chu Yang said in a calm voice: "As long as you are still my uncle, we will definitely be able to continue to cooperate in the days to come."
Captain Pasha stroked the black pearl necklace on his chest. After a few seconds, he said, "Of course, Chuyang."
"Of course I am your uncle."
Behind the bar, the waiter Hadir filled the pirate captain's and lord's wine glasses in a timely manner.
Li Jiasu nodded slightly.
Chuyang is even more outstanding than he expected.
Li Jiasu knew who the pasha captain was, and Chu Yang had communicated with Li Jiasu in the castle beforehand.
Of course Captain Pasha also knew that Li Jiasu knew who he was.
Moreover, he knew even more that Chu Yang knew that he knew that Li Jia Shu knew who he was.
The relationship between Captain Pasha and Li Jiasu needed a step down to ease the situation. Li Jiasu beat the pirates hard and slapped Captain Pasha in the face.
At the same time, Chuyang wanted to test, remind, and win over Captain Pasha so that he would be willing to maintain a "friendly" relationship with the Federesh family.
Is it possible that the interpersonal relationships of my father's generation will be inherited intact by me?
Once a person dies, many things easily change.
Besides, none of his father's friends are good people.
Between my father and those friends, is there more friendship or more interests? I don’t know the answer.
But in short, my father is dead.
Yesterday is no more.
He must bear the burden of the Federesh family, and there is no way out behind him.
...
Previously, before Li Jia Shu arrived at the tavern, Chu Yang and Captain Pasha were talking about the recent multi-faceted situation in the Kingdom of Spain, the Sreif region, and the Kingdom of France and Portugal.
Captain Pasha narrated all the news he heard while traveling on the route, and Chu Yang listened carefully.
The task of collecting news from various places outside the island is usually carried out in the port town by the waiter Hadir, the eldest son of the guard Hammer.
Maritime merchants and all kinds of foreigners come to the tavern to drink. The waiter Hadir will chat with the guests, collect various news from the outside world, screen it, and report it to the castle.
The news brought by Captain Pasha is more in-depth than what ordinary maritime merchants know. After all, he is the captain of the Silencer.
A great pirate who came into contact with extraordinary powers.
"Hey, Chuyang, seeing your young and immature face reminds me of the time when I was young, digging graves everywhere with your father and other companions in the Kingdom of France and Portugal."
At the bar, after the two of them finished playing each other, Captain Pasha drank half a glass of pomegranate juice cocktail, started talking, and recalled the past years to his juniors.
Maybe, Chuyang's sharp attack earlier really brought back memories of the great pirate, right?
Li Jia stayed aside and, together with Chu Yang, silently listened to the chatter of this middle-aged man in his 40s.
Well, the former lord of Gusi City, Wuyue Fedelesh, was indeed not a good person.
When Nu Ma Xianyi was a boy, Mr. Wuyue (still a young master at the time) left his hometown with a few losers and wandered around the historical sites in the Kingdom of Spain, hiding his name and secretly digging graves to see if he could find anything from the ancient ruins.
What a big treasure.
As a result, the Church of the Holy Atonement was offended, and the knights and inquisitors of the Inquisition were ready to capture Lord Wuyue and burn him at the stake.
Master Wuyue was so frightened that he sacrificed all his losers and fled all the way to the aristocratic territory near the sea. He boarded a passing merchant ship and headed to the Kingdom of France and Portugal to avoid the pursuit of the Inquisition of the Kingdom of Spain.
Unfortunately, what passed by was actually a disguised pirate ship.
Because the three-legged cat had some black magic and alchemy skills, the pirate captain did not chop Master Wuyue into pieces and feed them to the fish, but chose to absorb this young man of unknown origin into the pirate group.
Spellcasters have always been a scarce talent.
And Pasha van der Zwihe was just an ordinary second officer at that time.
After a series of events, the two like-minded people stole the captain's secret treasure map together and followed the map clues in the Kingdom of France to find the ruins of the legendary underground Golden Kingdom.
Along the way, he got acquainted with the Saracen Assassin female assassin who had just killed her enemy, and the young Druid who was expelled from the tribe because he liked to grow poisonous mushrooms.
Li Jiasu sat aside and listened quietly to Captain Pasha's nagging memories, suppressing the complaints in his heart.
Good guys. A dark magic alchemist, a traitorous pirate, a female killer, and a poisonous mushroom druid. Is this a dark western fantasy adventurer team?! And the content is so rich! You could write half a novel with them all.
Got it!
Captain Pasha continued for a while telling the story of their youthful adventures.
At the end, he held the wine glass tightly in his right hand, and there was a hint of loss in his storm-torn eyes.
"...After we finished exploring the snow-capped mountain ruins, we parted ways."
"Pawama returned to his tribe and said he was going to seize the position of tribe leader. Jinghua returned to Saracen and said it was time for her to complete her ultimate revenge. I, along with Wuyue, captured a group of pirate ships.
, got rid of the disobedient people, and became the captain of the 'Silent One'."
"After rehabilitating people's hearts, Wuyue and I returned to the Kingdom of Spain together and sent him back to Gus City. Oh, your guard Hamo was the one we rescued at that time and brought him back to the island.
"
Captain Pasha glanced at the three soldiers and the guard Hamo who were drinking wheat beer in the corner.
"The contact with the other two people has been interrupted. As for Wuyue and I, either every two or three months or half a year, I will come to Gusi City every once in a while to do business with him and talk about several kingdoms.
Latest news from home and troubled areas."
The pirate captain in black drank the remaining wine in the glass in one gulp.
The waiter Hadir was about to refill the pirate captain's glass, but the latter waved his hand to indicate to the waiter that there was no need to refill the glass.
"I didn't expect that when I came here this time, I heard bad news."
The tip of Captain Pasha's nose was slightly red, and his eyes were looking at Chu Yang.
Yesterday is no more.
My fellow adventurers, let’s go and spread out.
Alas, Wuyue's youngest son is already 15 years old, but she is still single.
If I don’t quickly find a mother-in-law and have a few babies, won’t that Wuyue guy laugh at me when I go to purgatory?
Use your thumb to wipe away the undetectable half-drop of tears from the corner of your eyes,
Captain Pasha first looked at Axelarat Li, a stranger wearing a mask, and then looked at Chu Yang who was concentrating with his eyes closed and seemed to have no reaction to his previous nagging memories.
"So, my lord," Captain Pasha asked his old friend's son, "do you have any plans for the future?"
Chu Yang opened his eyes.
Li Jia Shu looked at the young man in purple velvet and silk clothes with great interest, holding his chin with one hand.
When yesterday is gone,
Young people have to face the future.
Of course, Li Jia Shu was happy to step on the accelerator.