European Emperor Cultivation System

Chapter 21 Strange Things

"Bruno, wake up, you can't be a good knight like this."

Li Peijun didn't need to guess who was calling him. He first closed his eyes and put on a disgusted expression, then opened them reluctantly. It turned out to be Bernard.

"What time is it now?" Li Peijun touched his head, feeling a little sore from his sleep, and couldn't wake up for a while.

Bernard pointed to the moon that was already hanging on the window, "It's already night, it's almost time to go to bed."

"What? Sleeping at this time? But I'm very energetic now." Li Peijun moved his shoulders and walked out of the door to see what other people were doing.

There were only a few candles lit in the corridor at night, and the atmosphere was very strange, giving it a sense of déjà vu in a horror movie.

Suddenly, a door next to Li Peijun opened quietly, and a hand stretched out from inside to grab Li Peijun's wrist.

Li Peijun's reaction was also quick, and the sharp sword was drawn out of its sheath.

"Shh, it's me." A low and familiar voice murmured.

After a closer look, he found that it was Cohen. Li Peijun inserted the sword back calmly, glanced at the door, and found that Tiddell was also inside. The two gestured to Li Peijun to come over, and Li Peijun hesitated for a while. , and then made the same gesture to Bernard at the other end of the corridor, and all four of them squeezed into a room that was not too spacious.

"What's the matter?" Li Peijun didn't understand why the two were in the same room.

"Have you noticed anything strange?" Tidel said in a serious tone.

Li Peijun glanced at him, then at Cohen, "Huh? Indeed, we haven't had dinner yet."

Li Peijun rubbed his stomach, and felt a little hungry after sleeping.

"We've already had dinner. I wanted to wake you up in your room. Mr. Bernard said we'd wake up after eating." Cohen spread his hands to express his regret. Li Peijun turned his head and gave Bernard a white look. He woke up after eating. Why, just sleep until dawn.

"I still have unfinished bread on the table, do you want it?" Bernard took out a long loaf of bread, and Li Peijun took it and squeezed it.

"Hey, this isn't hard bread." He just gnawed on it.

"Tell me, what do you think is strange." Li Peijun ate the bread cleanly, not letting go of any crumbs.

"Have you noticed that there are many garrison troops in the city?" Tiddell said his discovery very seriously.

"Isn't this normal? He's a big lord, and he's not as small as the baron's castle. Isn't it normal that there are so many people stationed there?" Li Peijun thought that Tiddell had discovered something extraordinary, but it turned out that just this.

"I went out to have a look before. There are at least two to three thousand troops stationed here, but the Marquis only sent three to five hundred to support them. Don't you think it's strange?" Tiddell was still puzzled.

"What's so strange about this? If it were me, I would also preserve my strength. It would be fine if the numbers matter." Li Peijun still laughed that Tiddell was too young.

"The troops we encountered today were basically light cavalry, and there were a lot of heavy cavalry left in the city. Didn't they also say that there might be a frontal exchange of fire? Why didn't they send heavy cavalry with stronger combat effectiveness?" Tiddell still didn't give up. .

"What do you care about these things? We'll just wait here for the baron and the others to come back. Let's have a good time, but we're always thinking about these things."

Li Peijun couldn't answer these doubts, so he simply dismissed them.

Tiedle kept scratching his head with his hands, and shook his head, "No, my chivalry taught me to ask for information. I'm going to the front line to see." After speaking, he got up and wanted to leave the room.

"Hey, hey, there's no such thing as seeking knowledge in chivalry." Li Peijun wanted to go up and tug Tiddell's arm, but he threw it away immediately.

"I'll just ask you, it's late at night, do you know how to get there? Do you go on foot?"

Li Peijun's consecutive questions stumped Tiddell, and he stopped, "We can borrow war horses, or ask for directions."

Li Peijun almost laughed out loud. Although there is already a leasing business in this day and age, who would lend out such things as war horses? After all, they are strategically scarce resources.

"Give up, you can't borrow it."

"How do you know if you don't try?" Tiddle ran out regardless of Li Peijun's dissuasion, and Li Peijun and others had no choice but to go out after seeing this.

Tiedle should have explored the way earlier, and found the stable without any detours. "Look, aren't there a lot of war horses here?"

Li Peijun rubbed his still-swollen head, "Good guy, this is the property of someone else's Marquis's family, and it's not a stall opened outside. How could they lend it to outsiders like us?"

While Li Peijun was still complaining, Tiddell had already quarreled with the guards.

"This stubborn guy is really worrying." Li Peijun followed up helplessly.

"We'll just borrow four horses for two or three days. If you want money, we'll give it to you. Hurry up, it's an emergency." Tiddell was arguing that he couldn't speak clearly.

The man just refused, saying that the war horses inside were private property and could not be borrowed, just as Li Peijun guessed. However, Tidel, who was short of strength, still kept talking and unknowingly rolled up his sleeves. He got up and looked like something big was going to happen.

"It's over, it's over, you pig has attracted all the patrols." The noisy movement of the two attracted the nearby patrolling guards.

"What happened." Li Peijun looked at the guards here and they were well equipped. Many of the patrols were on horseback.

"I'm reporting to your lord, this man insists on borrowing a war horse. I've been telling him for a long time and he just won't listen." Li Peijun heard this title and realized that the lords all have people patrolling the streets. The marquis has quite a lot of people under his command.

The lord looked at Tiddell, who was making trouble, and had to say that he was tall and strong, a rare strong man, and under the light of the torch, his delicate face was also shiny.

"He is really a warrior." The Lord sighed with emotion, and continued to ask, "How many war horses do you want to borrow, and why do you want to borrow them?"

"We need to borrow four horses, and we are going to the front line." Tiddell's answer was straightforward.

The Lord's eyes hesitated, and he kept controlling the reins of the horse to prevent the restless horse from moving.

"Let's make a bet. If I win, I will lend you a loan without charging any fees."

"What's the bet?" The stubborn Tiddell replied that everything was simple and rude.

"Bet whether you can beat my empty fist with bare hands, I want to see who has the stronger muscles between the two of us."

The lord got off his horse with one stride, and after taking off his clothes, he revealed muscles as strong as Tiddre's.

"Oh my God, what a collision between two macho men." Li Peijun looked on in shock.

(End of this chapter)