After understanding the general situation, Guo Kang said goodbye and left.
Li Xuanying and Odosia sent him to the door, and then returned to the room.
"Hey." Li Xuanying sighed and said hesitantly: "This matter is probably quite troublesome."
"It doesn't matter. At least we have found the right person." Odosia also comforted in Chinese: "Just investigate as you want, and I will try my best to help."
"Ah?" Li Xuanying didn't react for a moment.
Eudosia walked to the shelf, reached out and took away the costumes and curtains hanging on them. What I saw behind the shelf was not a stone wall, but a large piece of wood.
"This theater was rented to us not long ago, and my room was temporarily converted," she said. "We couldn't make much modifications, but we just temporarily added a thin wooden board to separate it."
"Everyone, everyone, heard it..." Li Xuanying was shocked, her face full of embarrassment.
"If I don't listen to such an important matter, how will I know whether you will miss important information again, or simply be fooled by others?" Eudosia asked in return.
"I've told you before, don't be suspicious every day. These are my old friends for many years, how can there be any problem." Li Xuanying was unhappy; "Fortunately, no one discovered it, otherwise how could I explain it?"
"Everyone you meet says he is your friend. The liar Marco last time also said he was a friend. I told you not to believe him, but you didn't listen. What's the result? I'll find someone to help you get your bag of money. Otherwise, he would just take a boat and run out to sea." Eudocia retorted.
"But... I have already promised you this matter, and I will naturally do it myself." Seeing her mention her previous "mistakes," Li Xuanying had no choice but to assume the posture of being in charge, stand up straight, and teach her a lesson: " You don’t have to worry so much.”
"Forget it." Eudocia was unmoved, put her costume back on, glanced at him, and sighed: "That means your family is powerful. People like you can't survive in the slums. By the second month.”
"But Guo Kang is not an ordinary friend... He has always been very reliable." Li Xuanying was unconvinced and defended.
"I know. You have told me too many times before. But you know, whether a person is reliable or not depends on the specific situation." Odosia explained with a wry smile: "For example, I have a friend next to me. , when someone offers three gold coins, you can rather fight against those Ross thugs. But if the other party offers a bank note of 100 gold coins, he can directly send me out to the enemy."
"Your friends are all upper-class people, and they probably don't care about 100 gold coins. Normally, they wouldn't betray you for such a small profit, but have you ever thought about greater benefits?" She asked: " If it involves the interests of your family and the distribution of power within the Senate, have you reconsidered the reliability of these friends?"
"When we were trying to figure it out before, you told me that the Guo family are all generous and honest people." She reminded: "But have you ever thought about how a group of generous and honest people can rule a big country like Rome? Among them, who has remained standing for generations?"
"Do you think that people are just like you and just don't use their brains?" She glared at Li Xuanying as if she was steely.
Li Xuanying wanted to retort, but she couldn't say it. She sat down and became sulky: "What you said sounds nice. If people are like this... Oh, then I will give you the jade pendant. How much are you prepared to give it away?"
"Let me tell you the problem seriously, why did you lose your temper like the little girl in the play?" Eudosia said helplessly.
"This thing." Like a magic trick, she grabbed a jade pendant in an instant: "How do you want me to value it..."
"Mr. Manicas told me a story. It is said that in ancient times, there was an extremely wealthy senator who grew up in a well-fed environment. Later, his friend took him out to play again. On the way, Everyone had finished drinking the water, so the senator went to buy drinks from the tavern on the street."
"However, he didn't know how to buy the needed goods at all. Because he had been drinking pure water and fine wine since he was a child, he didn't know those drinks at all. He had never seen copper coins with such a small face value, and he couldn't figure out the price and conversion relationship. Therefore, he was fooled by the bartender and the drinkers, defrauded of a lot of gold coins, and left in embarrassment with several bottles of bad wine."
"Writers have used this story to write many short plays. Audiences like this kind of play because it gives them a chance to laugh at noble people who they like." She sighed: "But behind popular comedies, there is often tragedy. .”
"People in different statuses have different judgments on wealth. Because of the limitations of their experience, their judgments will be restricted. Like this senator, he has no idea how the poor judge the value of various items around them. . This is a sad gap between people."
"The same goes for the opposite. Last time Mr. Vlahos came to the troupe and read our script, he ridiculed us and said that we didn't understand the ways of the upper class at all, and the plots in the script were all our own delusions. Because we had never been exposed to it. In that kind of life, I can’t imagine how they judge the value of items and the value of various things.”
"So you ask me to estimate it, and I don't know how to judge it." Eudosia shook her head and said, "I only know that it is very expensive."
"Here, my own life can be valued - in fact, I estimate that it has been valued more than once. According to the average level of my colleagues, maybe 50 gold coins and half a bank note are enough."
"And this thing." She put away the jade pendant again: "I don't know how to value this kind of emotion that crosses the chasm. As Vlahos said, it is too rare and precious for people like me. Something that I don’t know how to calculate.”
"If you insist on asking me, I can only say that it is worth more than me anyway." She smiled and said.
Li Xuanying was speechless for a moment.
"My mother told me before that people from the Guo family led the army to clean up the city and killed many people. Their family was ruthless, but very tolerant and would not reveal their purpose until the goal could be achieved. ." Eudosia said: "But this is different from what you said, and it is also different from what some of my friends said."
"Every action will have a target, and those who are hit will definitely be unhappy." Li Xuanying pointed out.
"Yes, different people must have different understandings of their actions, because their situations are different, which leads to different experiences at the time." Eudosia said: "And it's not just different people. The same people In different situations, you will have different encounters.”
"You said that you want to seek the support of Mr. Guo, and I don't object, because we actually have nothing to choose from. But how to act requires careful planning."
"This matter is so big that I think it will have an impact on the Senate. In this case, Mr. Guo's reaction may not be the kind of reaction you have seen in ordinary times - this matter It has entered his 'valuation range' and is beyond the worthless fraction that can be ignored. Do you understand what I mean?"
"I understand, I understand. Haven't I been listening to your suggestions?" Li Xuanying nodded repeatedly: "I'm not a fool, I still know this common sense."
"I hope, I hope."
Eudosia rubbed her forehead and sighed.
"No, you all don't believe me." Li Xuanying always felt that this scene seemed familiar: "Both sides think I am a fool, right?"
"What do you think?" Eudocia said bluntly: "Why do you think I even worry about small talk? I'm just worried that you can't explain it. Otherwise, are you hiding it from me after making a promise to your friend, or are you hiding it from me? Are you going to lie to your friends after you promised me?"
"Uh..." Li Xuanying really couldn't tell.
"So, just be a well-meaning fool." Eudocia said without mercy: "I will play the role of a classic bad woman. This way, if our plan fails, you will throw all the responsibility on me. "
"I am a person from a lower class, who wants unrealistic things and will do whatever it takes to get an existence that should not exist in my destiny. In this way, everything makes sense. For me, the final outcome will not be worse. Where have you gone?"
"If Young Master Guo is a smart man, his first reaction will definitely be to directly arrest the relevant personnel. Didn't he tell you that he wants to contact Prince Constantine? This meaning is already obvious. This is not an ordinary investigation, he hopes to obtain Authorize, and then in one quick action, catch everyone directly and ask for the information you need.”
"I must be on this target list myself, so if I suddenly disappear later, don't rush to find me." She warned: "For your sake, they won't do anything to me. You Just do as I say and you’ll be fine.”
"How good is this!" Li Xuanying finally reacted. Guo Kang deliberately didn't explain clearly and immediately expressed his objection.
"What's wrong with this? Through the reaction after this, we can more easily know what Mr. Guo's inner plan is." Odosia stretched out her finger and pressed it accurately on his lips. , stopped him: "What we are doing now is very dangerous and crazy. So don't talk about whether it is safe or not, or whether it is risky, okay?"
Li Xuanying hesitated for a long time and finally nodded.
The two murmured for a while. After seeing him off, Eudocia also changed out of her costume and dress into ordinary clothes for an ordinary young man, blew out the oil lamp, and left the office.
The wooden planks on the roof creaked slightly.
This house was indeed, as she said, temporarily rented by the troupe after it contracted the triumphal performance. When the theater was moved into the theater in advance and the facilities were arranged for performances, this extra room was converted into a temporary office space.
This house originally had no fixed roof, because the exterior wall itself was also part of the stage facility. The theater troupe will temporarily lay floor slabs and set up lifting equipment to hang curtains, "mechanical deity" equipment and other stage facilities just like a war tent on a city wall.
Therefore, the roof of this house was also temporarily laid with the help of stone shelves prepared in advance on the wall.
But now, the gap between two of the wooden boards is gradually widening. The bright moonlight shone into the dark room, and finally, a small half of Meltem's face was revealed.
"The bad girl is really gone," she muttered.
Meltem sat up straight and carefully placed the board back. Then he thought for a moment on the roof.
"I don't know if it's true..." She scratched her head: "These Greek women are really annoying."
"If we tell my brother, he will definitely continue to meddle in his own affairs, and he may offend his companions. But if we don't tell him, he has already intervened, and he may suffer again." Meltem tried to use his brain to think.
Finally, she had an idea.
"By the way, let's try to get the Greek cows to deal with the bad Greek women, wouldn't it? Then we don't have to worry about my brother being in trouble." Meltem murmured: "Anyway, they are all cunning guys, and they just happen to fight each other. Wouldn't it be best if we could die together?"
"Oh, Meltem is so smart!" She praised herself happily and jumped to the top of the nearby apartment building. After a few jumps, he disappeared into the buildings under the night sky.
The splash screen recommendation this time was drawn from last month’s lottery. The performance of this book is probably still far from a direct flash screen...
I got three lottery chances in January, but the monthly ticket in February was only enough for one. This month it probably won’t be much more. So keep asking for some monthly tickets, at least you can get more stuff. Thank you everyone
(End of chapter)
