Lord Highlander

  Chapter 176 175. Crowded City

  After entering Epsom City, the first impression it gives people is that it is crowded.

  Because of accommodating a large population, this city makes people feel a little overcrowded.

The shops lined up on the street are full of exquisite goods, but in fact there are only narrow fronts. The storefronts are long and deep, and the goods inside are hung all over the walls. On such a street, it is like walking through a tunnel. The buildings on both sides of the street constantly occupy the space at the height of the long street.

  People walking on this street are always a little worried. Once the attic above the head can't bear the weight and collapses, that's the worst thing.

   Of course, these civilians in Epsom City are not the most miserable.

There is also a group of people called pigeon people in the city. They migrated to Epsom City from other cities in the Warsaw plane. Their homes were invaded by evil spirits, so they moved to Epsom City, but they Unable to afford a house in the city, the only choice is to buy the right to live on the roof from someone in the city.

The roofs of almost all houses will be expanded with small wooden houses like pigeon cages. These wooden houses are usually only about four or five square meters, and can only accommodate one or two people to sleep in the wooden house. As for eating and washing, they must be in the public area on the roof. In the evening, when the sinks and public toilets are the most crowded, people here will always line up to wash in the pergola built to cool off.

  They work the hardest and cheapest jobs in the city, with the lowest wages, but they can only live like pigeons.

  Pigeoners have at least one nest where they can rest at night, and they are the bottom of the city.

There are many homeless people all over the street. Sometimes they lie on the benches on the street curled up and rest for a while. Running with clubs in hand to drive them away, these benches are not for them to sleep on.

These homeless people usually gather in the park, under the bridge, or near the station. They will beg along the street and pick up some household garbage everywhere. Even if they are starving and skinny in the city, they are unwilling to go out of the city to find more survival opportunities. , they are not only a group of tramps with nothing, but also a group of cowards who have been frightened by evil spirits.

   Their lives are more like walking dead, and they can even compete with wild dogs for a bite.

   Some homeless people even hid in the sewers of the city.

   In addition, there are a large number of slaves in the city.

  In Epsom City, the gap between the poor and the rich is huge.

  Nobles account for one percent of the city's population, but they own ninety-nine percent of the city's wealth.

  The civilians are struggling **** the line of life. They hate, envy, envy, and hate those nobles, but everyone wants to be a noble.

The sewer pipes in Epsom City are not designed very well. When the rainy season comes, the streets are always full of stagnant water. Only after the rain stops, all the street cleaners and night watchmen in those cities will be dispatched to dredge everywhere. drain pipe.

  …

  The Surdak knight led his horse and walked on the streets of the city, his leather boots stepped in the puddle, and the splashed water was full of rotten smell.

A group of vagrants came up to beg for him, with fear and numbness on their faces. Among the group of people, a few half-grown children as thin as monkeys emerged. Dak sells himself.

   "Master Knight, do you need a guide? I am very familiar with every street in Epsom City."

   "Master Knight, you can hire me, I can help you find a cheap and clean hotel, and I guarantee that you won't waste a single copper plate."

"Master Knight, do you need a girl? I can take you to a good place, where there is the most beautiful girl in Epsom City. If you want, you can sleep there until dawn, and the cost will definitely not be much more expensive than a hotel... "

'Suldak' chose the one with the clearest eyes among the group of children, stared into his eyes, and said to him: "Take me to a hotel with a vacant room, preferably within a distance of City Hall Square. closer..."

  The half-grown child cheered, celebrating that he had won a new business, and then offered to help Suldak lead the horse and disperse the crowd that had gathered.

  The older child walked in front, holding the reins of Gu Bolai's horse with both hands, and kept looking around with his flexible eyes while walking.

  When he was walking, his toes touched the ground, and every step he took, he had to jump up. The way was very strange. He took the initiative to say to 'Suldak':

"Hotels near City Hall Square are more expensive to stay in, but the law and order there is relatively better. The consumption level of restaurants there is also slightly higher than in the city, and not every hotel has vacant rooms. We may have to find two more."

  Suldak asked the older child:

"How much?"

  The older child scratched his head vigorously, and said with some uncertainty:

"The hotel near the City Hall Square costs about five silver coins a night, and a better room may cost seven. To be honest, I think that for this price, you really might as well go to the DC area to sleep with a young girl for a night... "

  Suldak coughed twice, and then said: "I was asking how much does it cost you to lead the way once?"

The older child's eyes lit up, and he said quickly: "Thirty copper coins... I can take you to the best hotel in the city. If you still want to go out for fun at night, if you need me, you have to pay me an extra fifty copper coins , Of course, I can also run errands for you, three copper coins in the near place, five copper coins in the far place..."

When passing a bakery on the street, the older child looked at the croissants and butter bread in the window with fascination, and introduced to Surdak: "The bread in this bakery is very good. If you don't For dinner, I suggest you buy some back home, the price of white bread in the hotel is at least twice as expensive as here, and there is not much butter."

  Suldak stopped, and after thinking for a while, he walked to the window and bought five golden croissants for ten copper coins.

   Sure enough, the inside of the paper bag exudes a rich creamy fragrance. In addition, he also bought a large glass of milk.

I took out a croissant from the bag, opened it and tasted it carefully. The surface of the bread was brushed with a layer of honey. It tasted sweet and ok. It was not as delicious as the older child said, but it was quite cheap.

  Suldak handed the paper bag to the older child with a sallow face.

  The older child was taken aback, and looked at Suldak in disbelief.

  Suldak set his eyes on the plaque next to him, rubbed the bridge of his nose with one finger, and said vaguely: "I don't like sweets, it's a pity to throw them away, I think you should like them very much..."

   "The milk here seems to taste very weak..."

   As he spoke, he stuffed a large glass of milk in his hand to the older child.

The older child devoured a croissant into his stomach, feeling that his stomach, which was cold and shrunk into a ball, seemed to come alive all of a sudden, and drank a big mouthful of fragrant milk, which seemed to be really slippery. It slid from his throat into his stomach, and then flowed from his stomach into his intestines in an instant. He couldn't store a single bit of food in his stomach. Even so, his stomach felt much more comfortable.

  The older child only ate one croissant, took a sip of milk, and refused to eat any more. He was carefully hugged in his arms, and led the rein of Gu Bolai's horse. He walked ahead, and his steps became more powerful.

  (end of this chapter)