People in the Middle Ages, draw cards to get promoted

Chapter 504 Codex
After a while, Miss Lavinia, who had changed into a brown slim-fitting casual dress, came back to the two of them.

After changing into the judge's robe, she has a bit more affinity as the big sister next door. On the bridge of her pretty nose, the thin golden legs with glasses extend from the end of the short brown hair beside her ears, adding a few more touches. Intellectual beauty.

"Come with me."

The nice restaurant Lavinia mentioned was located deep in the alley next to the courthouse. The twists and turns along the way made Elemor wonder if she was going to lead them into a dead end, so as to take this opportunity to kill people. .

They sat down in a corner of the restaurant.

After ordering.

Lothar was the first to speak: "Let me formally introduce myself. I am Lothar from the Saluzzo family, and this is my partner, Elamo from the Saluzzo family."

Lavinia nodded slightly and said, "Lavinia Bologna."

"Miss Lavinia, I have investigated you."

Miss Judge was not surprised by this. She just picked up a piece of beef with a fork in a calm tone, chewed it carefully, and then slowly said: "What was found?"

"You seem to be a symbiotic person."

The coexistence faction, to put it bluntly, means that wolves and humans coexist equally. In Lothar's view, this is obviously an idealistic and unrealistic idea. It is difficult for one nation to coexist equally, let alone two different races.

Miss Judge shook her head and said: "I'm not that naive, I just think that if the wolf clan continues to behave like this, it will lead to destruction sooner or later."

"I'm convinced of that."

Lothar nodded and said: "In fact, if neither Germany nor France wanted the other to bring the Apennine states under their own rule, the Wolf clan might have turned into ashes under the crushing force of the two powerful countries."

Lanivia frowned and said, "Why are you telling me this?"

Lothar smiled and said no more.

His understanding of Lanivia was limited to the information he had gathered, and it was not enough to talk about innovations or even introduce her to the Wolf Federation in Texas.

Lavinia's tone was calm and firm: "No matter what your intentions are, it is impossible for people to be taken away by you. In order to complete the so-called family's mission, you will not care about the lives of ordinary people at all. Such people must be punished." punish."

"it is good."

Lothar smiled: "Miss Lanivia, I deeply agree with your approach, and as far as I know, you even sent a wolf who was in a similar situation to Lorenzo but belonged to the Bologna family. Leaving prison is enough to prove your righteousness and goodness."

"But if you do this, your life must not be easy, right?"

Lanivia was slightly startled.

In fact, there have always been voices within the clan who regard her as a traitor.

If the clan leader hadn't valued her talent enough and the city-state laws favored family members, she would have been expelled from the family long ago and sent the family's "liquidator" to hunt her down.

After all, how could a family known for its unity allow such an act of "killing relatives for justice"?

"What do you want to say?"

"Miss Lanivia, laws are always made by people, and city-state laws, from the very beginning, have nothing to do with the word sacred. If you kill several people in a row, even if you are punished with full punishment, you can only be imprisoned. 12 years.”

Seeing that the other party fell into silence, Lothar added: "We are still caught. In fact, most family members cannot be caught after the murder."

“Does it really make sense to uphold such a law?”

Lavinia whispered: "If Lorenzo is allowed to go out like this, the family will be more emboldened, so no matter what you say, I will not change my decision."

Lothar picked up the wine glass and took a sip.

"But this is likely to trigger a conflict between Bologna and Saluzzo, conspiracy to assassinate, gunfights in the street, and armed fighting. Saluzzo will not allow Bologna to provoke himself, who is the top twelve families, at this critical moment, and also Those who can escape unscathed."

Lavinia was silent for a moment and then said, "It has nothing to do with me."

"So, you are only upholding the not-so-sacred city-state code?"

Lothar emphasized her tone: "Miss Lavinia, there are 1000 million farmers in the Apennines. At least one-third of them don't even have a wheelbarrow of their own. It takes six months to bake bread once." , every winter, before they eat, they have to split the bread with an ax and then soak it in water before they can barely eat it."

"But the city-state code requires them to pay a door and window tax every year as the price for their enjoyment of air and sunlight."

"Even the church, which has long since declined, will still advise the rich to help the poor to avoid the punishment of hell. However, the so-called city-state code tries its best to plunder the last lira from the pockets of the poor."

Lothar repeated it again: "Is upholding such laws really to implement justice and goodness in your mind?"

Lavinia's tone became weaker: "The city-state code may have shortcomings in one way or another as you said, but it is my duty to maintain the sanctity of the code."

Lothar sighed, stuffed the last sausage on the plate into her mouth, took off the tablecloth and wiped her mouth, stood up and said: "Miss Lavinia, it's a pity that we can't reach a consensus, but no matter what Neither Saluzzo nor I personally would have thought of treating such an upright, brave, and kind-hearted judge of the city as an enemy."

Lavinia frowned and looked at Lothar's hand.

Hesitate for a moment.

She still held out her hand for him to hold.

"Losa, I'm very confused. Are you really just a member of the Saluzzo family?"

Lavinia frowned lightly. In her eyes, this Lothar's aura was unbelievably strong. He was obviously someone who had been in a high position for a long time. Even if he was the patriarch of the Saluzzo family, she would only lament that this person could be like this. Young, rather than doubting his identity.

"Of course, I would never cheat on a beautiful lady like you."

Lothar smiled and took off his hat.

Looking at Lavinia's retreating back, Lothar suddenly stepped forward, opened the door for her, and whispered:
"Miss Lavinia, there is an old saying in the East that a gentleman has no talent. The implication is: a person with outstanding talents should not be trapped in his own career. In my opinion, Miss Lavinia is completely capable of doing this. to more.”

Lavinia's eyes widened in surprise. She paused slightly and hurriedly left the restaurant without saying anything.

Elamo chased him out and said with some confusion: "Losa, she didn't agree to let him go, right?"

"Correct."

"Then why are you so eager? Could it be that I really hit the mark and you have fallen in love with her?"

Seeing that Lothar didn't refute, Elamo raised his tone and said, "You're crazy, Lothar. This is an important task assigned to us by Miss Valentine. If we just go back in despair, what will Miss Valentine think of us?"

"if not?"

Lothar asked back: "Miss also said that even if the two of us combined are not enough for others to beat, do you still want to use violence?"

"No, I mean."

"She should have a weak spot, such as friends and colleagues."

Lothar was stunned for a moment, then raised her hand and patted Elamo's shoulder: "Have you often done this kind of thing before?"

"No, I just heard about these methods. Generally speaking, they are very effective."

"Don't do that."

Lothar shook his head: "At least, don't do this when you are partnering with me."

"Oh" "No, why should I listen to you? We are on the same level!"

"Because I don't like it."

Elamo was a little unconvinced and said: "Are you teaching me how to do something?"

Lothar looked at him with a smile and a calm expression.

Elamo was stunned for a while, nodded angrily and said: "Okay, I'll just give you some face, but I will definitely put all the responsibility for this matter on you."

For a fringe member of the family like Elemer, it was rare for him to have an opportunity to be valued by the higher-ups. He just died out. To be honest, it was quite beyond Lothar's expectations.

Lothar smiled: "Let's go and tell the lady what happened here and our guesses."

"What are our guesses?"

Lothar said angrily: "Of course this is the characterization of this matter. The judge lady most likely acted spontaneously, and there was no boss of the Bologna family behind it."

Elamo looked confused: "How can you tell?"

Lothar pointed to his eyes: "You can see it with your eyes."

The two chatted as they walked through the narrow alley where the restaurant was located.

"Elamo."

"Ok?"

"Did you feel anything was wrong?"

Elamo shook his head. Everything was normal around him. On the second-floor balcony above his head, there was a middle-aged woman who was drying clothes, humming a popular ditty.

boom--

A shot went off.

The gravel is flying.

At the critical moment, Lothar stepped back from Elamo, who looked surprised.

The woman above her dropped the half-dried clothes, skillfully closed the window and drew the curtains.

Some restaurants that were open in the alley also slammed their doors and drew their curtains - they had seen too much of this kind of vendetta, and they were frighteningly skilled in how to deal with it.

"Damn!"

Elamo got up from the ground. The attacker stood at the end of the alley, wearing a gray top hat and covering his face. His exposed eyes were full of surprise. It seemed that he did not expect that just two ordinary horned men could actually hide. Fire your own fatal shot.

"It seems that this task is really not that simple - to be precise, someone doesn't want this to be so simple."

Lothar sneered and warned: "Elamo, go find the lady and tell her to be careful."

In fact, there is no need for this.

For a strong man like Valentin who specializes in assassination, the cost of assassinating her is too high. Lothar feels that there is a high probability that there will be no problems with her.

Lothar just felt that a helper of Elemor's level would not only be unable to help him, but would become a burden to him if he stayed by his side.

Elamo's expression changed. He was not very smart, but he was not a fool.

"Can you handle him?"

Those who can handle this kind of magic gun are generally not top experts, but in Elemor's opinion, it is definitely not something that Lothar and a marginal horned man like him can deal with.

"Of course, I am a direct descendant of the family."

Lothar urged confidently: "When I competed with you before, I just deliberately let it go in order to take care of your self-esteem."

As he spoke, the shining cross sword slowly appeared in his hand.

the other side.

Lavinia had almost reached the end of the alley, her steps seemed particularly heavy.

Lothar's words made her a little confused - to be precise, she had always been confused in her heart.

Her law teacher was also a very decent person in the beginning.

until later
At first, he just opened the door for his family and relatives. Later, this scope was extended to all kinds of so-called "friends". He was like an out-of-control carriage, rushing straight towards the destination. Falling into the abyss, picking up all kinds of windfalls along the way, rising steadily and rising step by step.To this day, he has reached the upper house of the Turin City Council and has become the spokesperson of the Bologna family.

Her classmates once drunkenly cursed at a party: "He taught us conscience, responsibility, and responsibilities, but when it was his turn, he completely ignored them. He is a liar."

Later, this classmate of hers had his throat wiped in the street on a rainy night because he defended a civilian who was oppressed by family members in court and did something similar to her today.

At a funeral to commemorate this classmate, she met her teacher.

The teacher told with tears on his face that he had tried to insist on justice and kindness in his heart, but the next morning, he gave up after seeing three severed fingers belonging to his son placed neatly beside the pillow.

"What can I do?"

"Lavinia, we are not a family member like you. We are just ordinary people. They will not have any scruples when they attack us. Even if we can all guess who did it, it is meaningless without evidence."

Lavinia didn't forgive her teacher, but she didn't have much to blame.

"Losa is right."

"There is no point in maintaining a code like this."

"But what do I do?"

boom--

She was a little lost in thought and suddenly raised her head.

A dim yellow light shield appeared in front of him, and a bullet was embedded in it. The majestic kinetic energy caused its metal warhead to break and deform under the impact.

The attacker immediately retreated. After taking a few steps, Lanivia found that the attacker seemed to have been prepared. The retreat route was extremely tricky. He disappeared among the layers of buildings within a few steps and had to stop.

"Could it be someone from Saluzzo?"

Lavinia frowned and immediately denied this speculation - as long as she investigated carefully, she would know that her strength was among the top three even among the entire Bologna family.

How could a mere centurion-level gunman pose a threat to his own safety?

Her steps suddenly stopped and she quickly turned back.

If the assassin's purpose was to provoke a fight between Saluzzo and the Bologna family, then the two envoys of the Saluzzo family she had just met were probably also attacked.

(End of this chapter)