The old beggar is a believer in the God of deception, chuyt. He disguises himself and plays tricks and magic. These are his abilities to look after the house.
His task tonight is very arduous. First, he should hide near the conqueror''s castle, observe the movement and wait for Manda''s news.
When Manda moved Stanton away from the east of the city, the next step was to attack the evening tavern.
Stanton was the first one to set fire. The tavern is a special place. I''m afraid chuyt is the only one who dares to set fire calmly in full view of the public.
In this era, the floors of all pubs are paved with hay without exception. These hay are cheap carpets that can suppress flying dust and cover food residues falling from the wine table. The only disadvantage is that they are easy to cause fire.
The huge fireball fell on the hay, and the blazing flame lit up instantly. The drinkers made a mess and fled around. Guatel, hiding in the dark, controlled the spread speed of the flame with second-order technology, not only to make the hall into chaos, but also to ensure that the fire did not get out of control.
Chuyt grabbed the tavern owner, rowed from the bridge of his nose to his jaw with a short knife, and asked in a low voice, "where is the vault?"
The boss trembled and said, "this is a tavern. There is no vault."
Chuyt sighed softly, "you are a dishonest man."
With that, he cut the boss''s finger.
The boss covered his hands and cried, "do you know whose territory this is? I''ll break you to pieces!"
"You shouldn''t annoy me." chuyt cut him another finger.
The boss didn''t dare to cry. He cried, "I''ll give you as many gold coins as you want."
"This is not the answer I want." chuyt cut off his third finger. The boss rolled in pain, but he didn''t know where his strength came from. He stood up and ran frantically towards the door.
Chuyt stopped in front of the door, and the boss ran back to the door. As soon as he ran outside the door, she was carried by the lion girl with her collar and mentioned in the air.
"Fukaila, fukaila, where are you!" the boss called his thug.
The lioness covered his mouth and whispered, "fukaila is dead. In such a big tavern, you only find two first-class believers to be thugs. Is it a bit of a joke? I''ll ask you again, where is the vault? If you answer wrong, I''ll throw you into the fire."
……
Stanton took Manda to the north of the city and was blocked in the street by the sheriff dokeno in the north of the city.
Stanton wanted to search in the north of the city, but donock refused, which was related to his power and dignity.
"You know whose business the conqueror castle is?" Stanton said fiercely.
"Of course I know," dornock said without fear, "but dare you say the thief must be north of the city?"
Stanton pointed to donock''s nose and said, "dare you say they''re not north of the city?"
"I don''t dare to say..." donock pursed his lips. He didn''t have the confidence. Let alone robbing the conqueror''s castle, even those madmen in the north of the city could do it.
"You have to follow the rules," donock still didn''t give up. "Unless there is conclusive evidence, you can''t use force on my territory!"
Stanton said with a grim smile, "I see. You want to protect the thieves. When I find the evidence, they will have escaped from the king''s capital."
"Don''t be insincere!" donock gritted his teeth. "We''ll see the king now and let his majesty give me justice!"
During the dispute, a law enforcement officer ran over with a black face and gasped for a long time: "Sir, the tavern caught fire at dusk, the boss was seriously injured, and the money in the tavern was robbed!"
Stanton sat on the ground as soft as a bolt of thunder.
Donock laughed and said, "it seems that the thieves are not in the north of the city, as if they have not left the east of the city."
Stanton got up and took the man back: "chase! Chase me! Say nothing to let them escape!"
Donock shouted, "Stanton, remember what happened tonight. I''ll go to the palace early tomorrow morning. I''m not a bully!"
……
After searching all night without any clue, Stanton returned to the official residence dejected. Not long after he sat down, the king sent someone to the door and asked him to go to the palace immediately.
Stanton grabbed his hair and didn''t know what to do. Manda got up and said, "brother, let''s go. I''ll go to the palace with you."
"How can I explain to the king?"
"There''s no need to explain. To tell the truth, it''s not a big deal that a pub is on fire and a Fengyue is robbed."
"There are still dozens of lives."
"It''s just some thugs. If they have family members, give them a few gold coins. If they don''t have family members, find a cemetery and bury them. Their boss certainly doesn''t dare to say anything."
Stanton wondered, "why don''t you dare say it?"
"Poor people can''t even pay taxes. How can they get so much money to hire thugs?"
"Yes, but it''s the business of the foreign minister and the grand inspector."
"Do they dare admit it?"
Stanton looked up with some hope in his eyes, but the hope disappeared again: "even if they don''t dare admit it in front of the king, they will trouble me afterwards."
"I''ll go to the general for personal favor," Manda said with a smile. "The general is my friend. Remember, it''s just that two businessmen who can''t afford to pay taxes have encountered thieves. Don''t mention anything else."
"Me, my brother!" Stanton put his arm around Manda and tears ran down his cheeks.
The two men went to the palace together. When they met the king, Stanton briefly described the course of the matter, without mentioning human life or the amount of theft.
"Conqueror castle, I didn''t expect there was such a good place in the king''s capital," the king sneered. "Are the girls there good?"
Manda blushed and Stanton lowered his head.
As Manda expected, the king did not care about the loss of the evening tavern and the conqueror''s castle. He cared more about another thing.
"Stanton, for such a small matter, you took your people to the north of the city and wanted to use force against the sheriff in the north of the city?"
The king''s tone was very calm, but the atmosphere in the palace was very tense. Ultra vires meant contempt for the boundaries of power, which the king could not tolerate.
Stanton didn''t dare to defend. Fortunately, the king didn''t investigate deeply. He asked Stanton to apologize to donock face to face and paid a fine of 100 gold coins. After donock and Stanton left, the king frowned and said to Manda, "you have three wives. Why go to that place?"
This question embarrassed Manda. He was thinking about how to answer it. General longson motioned him not to speak.
The king sighed, "you are the one I chose. Don''t do such shameful things again. There are those damn thieves. I suspect they have something to do with the bandits in the south of the city."
Longerson nodded and said, "I think so, too. The bandits were afraid of the majesty of viscount munchke and did not dare to haunt the south of the city. Instead, they ran to the east of the city to commit murder."
The king nodded and said, "it seems that the punishers are still restless. They want to make trouble for me again."
Manda silently gave the king a hundred compliments in her heart, nodded and said, "Your Majesty is right. It was the God Punisher! I wanted to catch all the thieves, so I went to the north of the city with Lord Stanton."
"This is no reason!" the king said angrily. "For any reason, you are not qualified to enforce the law outside the south of the city!"
……
After leaving the palace, Manda returned to the official residence and slept soundly.
Late at night, he quietly came to a house outside the city and began to count the harvest of last night.
With 17500 gold coins and golden eyes, Manda couldn''t help sighing: "it seems that robbery is more reliable than farming."