News of the truce quickly spread throughout the Red Dragon Principality.
The war ceased just a few days after it started. Naturally, no one would celebrate the end of the war, but there were some exceptions at Chen Xing's mansion in Orchid Town...
"Master, the war is over, should we celebrate?"
"Come on, come on, we haven't had any fun in a long time."
The maids have won the master's affection, knowing that the master is bored at home every day, but now that the situation is tense, it is difficult to engage in extravagance and waste, and it is easy to cause gossip. Now I have an excuse to have a good time.
"Then what suggestions do you have?" Chen Xing asked.
"Let's perform a song and dance show. Each of us will prepare one or two performances. The performance stage will be set up on the small platform in the middle of the stairs in the hall." "Okay, okay..."
"Okay, let's celebrate a little."
"Yeah!" "Long live the master!"
Chen Xing readily agreed, and the maids cheered.
At night, the lights are on. The mansion was decorated with lanterns and colorful decorations, and there was singing and dancing.
There are more than thirty maids plus the housekeeper, cook, female worker, and Claire's mother and daughter. The performances are designed to be lively and colorful, and the girls have been trained since childhood to be good at singing and dancing. Even the worst ones can become nightclub singers.
There were no performances or those who hadn’t started yet were just spectators down there, and the scene was so lively.
Chen Xing sat on the main seat in the middle, drinking jelly wine from a goblet while admiring the graceful dancing of the maids.
They are enthusiastic and unrestrained, twisting their waists and ogling their owners from time to time, and are full of coquettishness.
During the intermission, Chen Xing suddenly noticed that Xiao Yang's eyes were dull, as if he had something on his mind.
Xiao Yang is one of the people closest to him. He has followed him since he was the captain of the security team, has been his driver, and later served as the assistant to the mayor. He has a gentle personality and is serious about his work. Although he cannot be of much help, he is also considerate. If he were placed in ancient times, he would be the little eunuch beside the emperor.
So he asked with concern, "Xiao Yang, what's wrong? I seem to be a little out of mood today."
"No, no..." Xiao Yang hurriedly denied.
"If you encounter any difficulties, just tell me. I'm not an outsider." Chen Xing smiled, "Did you have a quarrel with Xiaoxuan?"
Usually there are only two things that men worry about, one is money and the other is women. As the assistant to the mayor, Xiao Yang's salary is not low, and he is also very economical. Most of the money will be saved, so the woman can only be worried.
"No, Xiaoxuan is a very nice person. We have never had any quarrels." Xiao Yang explained.
"Then why do you look so distracted?" Chen Xing asked. He also found it strange that he had just given Xiao Yang a month's vacation and a bonus of two hundred gold coins to fund their date, but why he was so restless and in a trance just a few days after returning.
"I..." Xiao Yang hesitated for a while, as if he had made up his mind, and said, "Boss, I want to be a mercenary?"
"Being mercenaries?" Chen Xing was a little confused, "Aren't we just a mercenary team?"
In essence, they are private armed forces, and the false name of the mayor of Orchid Town still hangs on Pang Youcai's head.
"No, no, boss, I, that's not what I meant..." Xiao Yang waved his hands hurriedly.
"Then what do you mean?" Chen Xing was a little confused.
"I, that, this..." Xiao Yang was a little clumsy and gestured anxiously. It took him most of the day to speak clearly.
It turned out that he wanted to be an ordinary mercenary at the grassroots level.
"You don't have a fever, do you?" Chen Xing looked at Xiao Yang as if he were a gorilla.
The salary of the mayor's assistant is thirty gold coins a month, with room and board in the mayor's mansion, while the salary of the low-level mercenary is twelve gold coins a month. Not only does he have to live in the open, but his life is in danger. As if his brain had not been caught by the door panel, he would definitely not have said such words.
As the saying goes, people go to higher places and water flows to lower places. How can you live longer and return home?
Xiao Yang felt a little guilty. After a while, he finally plucked up the courage to say, "I want to train myself and make myself stronger."
"Oh?" Chen Xing's face turned cold and he said matter-of-factly, "On the battlefield, people will die."
"I, I'm not afraid!" Xiao Yang said bravely, although the hand holding his pants tightly revealed his inner nervousness and uneasiness.
That way, he looked like a boy scout who was always ready to go to the battlefield and die generously.
Chen Xing couldn't help but feel a little strange. The other party was clearly not a particularly courageous or ambitious person, so why did he suddenly change?
Is it the cruelty of life?
Or is the old monk suddenly enlightened and his thoughts sublimated?
Or read some poems and chicken soup for the soul from afar?
He thought carefully and came to the conclusion in less than half a minute - the problem must lie with the woman.
So he asked in a subtle way, "How are you and Xiaoxuan? Have you concluded the negotiation?"
"It's a deal." When talking about Xiaoxuan, Xiao Yang looked particularly excited, his eyes sparkling, "She said she likes me, and as long as I can pass her test, she will be my girlfriend."
"What, a test?" Chen Xing suddenly had a bad premonition, "You mean, you have been talking to her for a month, and she just gave you a chance to test?"
"Yes, girls must be more reserved, especially girls with good backgrounds like Xiaoxuan." Xiao Yang said.
"In other words, you don't have that one yet?" Afraid that Xiao Yang wouldn't understand, Chen Xing emphasized again, "You should know what I mean by 'that'."
"What are you talking about? Xiaoxuan is a traditional girl and will not have sex with others casually!" Xiao Yang said excitedly, as if Chen Xing had blasphemed the goddess in his heart. But he soon realized that he was talking to his boss and apologized quickly, "Boss, I'm sorry, my words were too extreme."
Chen Xing ignored it and asked, "How far have you developed? Have you kissed?"
"Kiss? No, no, we haven't even held hands!" Xiao Yang blushed and stuttered a little because of nervousness.
Chen Xing showed a "Sure enough" look and asked, "Where is the bonus given to you, has it been all spent?"
Xiao Yang scratched his head and admitted, "I spent all my money. I eat in restaurants every day. Girls, girls love to be beautiful. I need to buy clothes and cosmetics. They are so expensive..."
"What about the savings?" Chen Xing asked.
"Yeah, it's all spent..." Xiao Yang scratched his head and hesitated, "She fell in love with a mithril necklace and said that every time she saw Silver Shining, she would think of me..."
"Mythril necklace..." Chen Xing touched his forehead, "Then what?"
"I, I bought it for her..."
Chen Xing couldn't help but sigh in his heart. He was indeed right that day, Xiaoxuan was a green tea lover.
I spent hundreds of gold coins, but in the end I didn't even get my hands on it.
"Did she ask you to become a mercenary?" Chen Xing asked again.
"Yes, she said that the mercenaries are very handsome. As long as they keep working hard, they will become stronger and stronger, and maybe they can even become a guard." Xiao Yang said vividly.
Not only do they squeeze out the last drop of profit and water, but they also deceive the opponent into going to the battlefield and use the last remaining value to gamble on lottery tickets. If you win the lottery, you can also become the mayor's wife. Anyway, you won't lose anything if you don't win the lottery.
It's too cruel, really too cruel.
He really wanted to do justice for heaven and punish the other party on behalf of Xiao Yang, but this would cause secondary harm to Xiao Yang, which was really a headache.
He finally understood Xiao Yang.
Some women have "scumbag physiques" and are particularly prone to encountering scumbag men and being defrauded of money and sex. And Xiao Yang has a "spare tire physique" and is prone to encounter various "green tea goddesses", be squeezed out of the last drop of oil and water, and then be ruthlessly abandoned.
There is Qian Ying in the front and Xiao Xuan in the back.
It's not about money, it's not about status, it's just about character. With a spare body constitution, even if there is a mountain of gold and silver at home, and the status is as high as the king of a country, he will be squeezed out when he encounters the naturally restrained green tea goddess. Just like sugar cane, it is squeezed clean by a juicer, leaving only a pile of dregs.
It has to be said that this Xiaoxuan is a high-power juicer. It is efficient and powerful. It squeezed Xiaoyang dry in a month and was ready to be sent to the battlefield to play lottery tickets.
Chen Xing feels a little powerless. He can help with ideas and funds, but he can't help with sex, right?
That's all, this is fate, even gods can't solve it, what can a mortal like him do?
Just concentrate on watching the show.
Just as Chen Xing was sighing helplessly about Xiao Yang's matter, in the living room of the auxiliary tower of the Red Castle in Dragon City, the eldest prince Gavin Maris was talking with his staff Ricardo.
"The armistice has lasted four months..." Ricardo shook the red wine in his glass and sighed, "I underestimated this Fox of Qingqiu."
"It doesn't matter if we disband these local troops, it doesn't matter if we don't disband them." Gavin Maris beat the armrest of the sofa, appearing to be in a dilemma.
To demobilize these local troops, a severance payment of three months' military expenses would be needed, but if they were not demobilized, the military expenses for these four months would be equivalent to supporting idlers.
Four months is neither long nor short, no matter what you do, it will be a loss. Moreover, when marching and fighting, it is important to go all at once. Again and again, it declines, and three times it becomes exhausted. Repeatedly like this, the morale of the soldiers was exhausted before the war even started.
It has to be said that Lin Yuanzheng's move was so ruthless and spicy that he stabbed the Red Dragon Principality hard.
What the Red Dragon Principality lacks most is not combat power, but money.
Ever since Crow City, the most economically powerful city, was burned down by Aria, the Red Dragon Principality has been unable to make ends meet. The treasury was empty and the finances were in dire straits.
And now the situation is chaotic, business is down, the economy is in general decline, and tax revenue has dropped by forty percent. At present, four months of military expenditures will be lost, which is nothing more than adding insult to injury.
"How about we propose to attack the Water Weasel Principality? Although they are a little poorer, at least they still have a few kilograms of meat to eat." Gavin Maris suggested.
"Do you want the Four-Nation Alliance to become the Five-Nation Alliance?" Ricardo asked, and the eldest prince immediately stopped talking.
At this moment, in Qianzhu Hall, they were also stuck in conversation.
After a long silence, the eldest princess said, "I still have some secrets there, let's take them out first to tide over the difficulties."
"I can go to Crow Market to raise some donations..." the high priest followed.
"Put away these boring thoughts..." The girl on the throne stood up and said, "I won't use your little treasury yet."
"I need to leave for a few days." She walked to the door and pushed it open. "You should take care of your home during this time."
"yes!"
A few days later, the girl returned to Qianzhu Hall carrying a big bag.
"Huh, I'm so exhausted..."
The girl sat down on the throne, looking a little lazy and tired. Her clothes were torn in many places, and her exposed skin was covered with scars, as if she had just experienced a big battle.
The high priest hurriedly stepped forward, his hands glowing with emerald green light, and used healing spells to heal the girl on the throne.
However, despite her full efforts, the scars on the girl's body were still healing very slowly. Until cold sweat broke out on her forehead, the wound was only less than one-third healed.
"Don't force it." The girl gently moved away the great priest's hand and stopped the input of life energy.
The energy levels of the two were so different that the great priest's life energy was like a mud cow entering the sea and could not be filled up in a short period of time.
"Thank you~" The eldest princess stood on the other side of the throne. She pressed a pair of soft hands on the girl's shoulders, kneading them gently and slowly, massaging and relaxing her.
After a while, the girl regained some energy and kicked the big bag.
The bag tipped over, and with a crash, a large number of objects emitting various shimmering colors scattered out.
"Go and change it into money~"
