Since the Accounting: A Chronicle of the Roman Khanate

Chapter 221 Secret Actions (Get some monthly tickets)
After understanding the general situation, Guo Kang took his leave and left.

Li Xuanying and Odocia 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." Eudocia also comforted in Chinese: "Investigate as you think, and I will try my best to help."

"Ah?" Li Xuanying didn't react for a while.

Eudocia went to the shelf and reached out to remove the costumes and curtains hanging on it.I saw behind the shelf, not a stone wall, but a large wooden board.

"This theater was leased to us not long ago, and my room was temporarily remodeled." She said: "We can't do too much remodeling, but temporarily added a thin wooden board to separate it."

"All, all, all heard..." Li Xuanying was taken aback, her face full of embarrassment.

"If I don't listen to such an important matter, how will I know if you will miss important information again, or just be fooled all the time?" Eudocia asked rhetorically.

"I've already said, don't be suspicious every day. This is my old friend for many years, how can there be a problem." Li Xuanying was not happy; "Fortunately, no one found out, otherwise how can I explain it?"

"Everyone you see is your friend. The liar Marco last time, you also said he was a friend. I told you not to believe him, but you didn't listen. What happened? I asked someone to help you with your bag of money. Yes, otherwise he would have just sailed out to sea." Eudocia retorted.

"But... I have already promised you this matter, so I will naturally do it myself." Seeing her mentioning her previous "mistakes", Li Xuanying had no choice but to assume the posture of the person in charge, stand upright, and teach a lesson: " You don't have to worry so much."

"Forget it." Unmoved, Eudocia put back her costume, glanced at him, and sighed: "That means your family is powerful. People like you wouldn't be able to live in a slum." to the second month."

"But Guo Kang is not an ordinary friend...he has always been very reliable." Li Xuanying was not convinced and defended.

"I know. You have told me too many times before. But do you know that whether a person is reliable or not depends on the specific situation." Eudocia explained with a wry smile: "For example, there is a friend beside me , when someone gives you three gold coins, you can prefer to fight against those Rose thugs. But if the other party gives 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 think much of 100 gold coins. Normally, they would not betray you for such a small profit, but have you thought about greater interests?" 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 find a way before, you told me that the Guo family is generous and honest people." She reminded: "But have you ever thought about how a group of generous and honest people rule in a big country like Rome?" Among those who have survived for generations?"

"Do you think that people are just like you, they just don't use their brains?" She glared at Li Xuanying with hatred.

Li Xuanying wanted to refute, but couldn't speak out, so she sat down and sulked: "What you said sounds good, if people are like this... Oh, then I will give you that jade pendant, how much are you going to give it away?"

"I'm talking to you seriously, why did you lose your temper like the little girl in the play?" Eudocia said helplessly.

"This thing." She grabbed a piece of jade pendant like a magic trick, "How do you want me to value it..."

"Mr. Mannicas told me a story. It is said that in ancient times, there was an extremely wealthy elder who grew up in a rich environment. Later, his friends took him out to play again. On the way, Everyone ran out of water, so the elder went to the tavern on the street to buy drinks."

"However, he didn't know how to buy the goods he needed. Because he drank clean 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 bartenders and drinkers, cheated out of a lot of gold coins, and left with a few 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 welcome opportunity to mock noble people." She sighed: "But behind popular comedies, there are often tragedies .”

"People in different positions have different ability to judge wealth. Because of the limitation of experience, they will restrict their ability to judge. Like this elder, he doesn't know how to judge the value of various items around the poor. .It's a sad divide between people."

"The reverse is also true. The last time Master Frajos came to the troupe and read our script, he mocked that we don't understand the way the upper class behaves at all, and the plots in the script are all our own delusions. Because we have never touched That kind of life, I can't imagine how they judge the value of things, and the value of various things."

"So you asked me to estimate the price, and I don't know how to judge." Odosia 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 peers, 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. It's just like what Frajos said, it's too rare and precious for people like me, So much so that I don’t know how to count things.”

"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 dumbfounded for a moment.

"My mother told me before that the people of the Guo family led the army to cleanse the city and killed many people. Their family is cruel, but they are very tolerant. They will not reveal their purpose until the goal can be achieved. ’” said Eudocia, “but that’s not what you say, nor what some of my friends say.”

"Every action has a target, and those who are hit must be unhappy." Li Xuanying pointed out.

"Yes, different people must have different understandings of their actions, because they were in different situations, which resulted in different encounters at that time." Eudocia said: "And it's not just different people. The same people In different situations, there will be different encounters.”

"You said that you want to seek the support of Mr. Guo, and I have no objection, because we actually have nothing to choose. But how to act, we still need to plan carefully."

"This matter is too big, so big that I think it will have an impact on the Senate. Under such circumstances, Mr. Guo's reaction may not be the kind of reaction you have seen on weekdays—this matter Already in his 'valuation range' and beyond the worthless odds that can be ignored. Do you know what I mean?"

"Understood, understood. I have been listening to your advice." Li Xuanying nodded again and again: "I am not a fool, I still know this kind of common sense."

"I wish, I wish."

Eudocia 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'm a fool, don't they?"

"What do you think?" Eudocia said bluntly: "Why do you think I even bother with a small chat? Is it because I am worried that you will not be able to explain it. Otherwise, are you hiding it from me after you promised your friend, or Go lie to your friends after you promise me?"

"Uh..." Li Xuanying really couldn't speak.

"So, just be a well-intentioned fool." Eudocia said mercilessly, "I'll be the classic villain. That way, if our plan fails, you can throw all the responsibility on me. "

"I'm a lower-class person who wants nothing but unrealistic things. I'm a person who does everything for the existence that shouldn't exist in my own destiny. In this way, everything can make sense. For me, the final outcome can't be worse Where did you go?"

"If Mr. Guo is a smart person, his first reaction must be to arrest the relevant personnel directly. Didn't he tell you to contact Prince Constantine? The meaning is already obvious. This is not an ordinary investigation, he hopes to obtain Authorize, and then with one quick action, grab everyone directly, and then ask for the information you need."

"I'm definitely on the 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 Do as I say, and it will be fine.”

"How good is this!" Li Xuanying finally realized, Guo Kang deliberately did not say anything clearly, and immediately expressed his objection.

"What's wrong with this. Through the reaction after this, we can more easily know what kind of plan this Mr. Guo has in his heart." Odosia stretched out her finger and pressed it accurately on his lips , stopped his words: "What we are doing now is itself a very dangerous and crazy thing. So don't ask questions about whether it is safe or not, okay?"

Li Xuanying hesitated for a long time, and finally nodded.

The two muttered for a while.After seeing him off, Eudosia also changed out of her costume and long skirt, and put on the normal clothes of an ordinary young man, blew out the oil lamp, and left the office.

The planks of the roof rattled softly.

This house was indeed as she said, it was temporarily rented by the troupe after it contracted the triumphant performance.When entering the theater in advance and setting up facilities for performances, this extra room was converted into a temporary office space.

And this house originally did not have a fixed roof, because the outer wall itself is also a part of the stage facilities.The theater troupe will temporarily lay floor slabs and set up hoisting equipment like a battle shed on a city wall to hang various stage facilities such as curtains and "mechanical seance" equipment.

Therefore, the roof of this house was also laid temporarily with the help of stone shelves left on the wall in advance.

But now, the gap between two of the boards gradually widened.The bright moonlight spilled into the pitch-black room, and finally, a small half of Meltem's face was revealed there.

"The bad girl is really gone," she muttered.

Meltham sat up straight, and carefully put the board back.Then he thought for a while on the roof.

"I don't know if it's true..." She scratched her head, "These Greek women are really annoying."

"If I tell my brother, my brother will definitely continue to meddle in his own business, and maybe he will offend his companion. But if you 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, isn't it? That way you don't have to worry about my brother getting into trouble." Meltem murmured, "Anyway, they are all cunning guys, and they happened to fight each other. Wouldn't it be best if we could die together?"

"Oh, Meltham is so smart!" She happily praised herself, jumped to the top of the adjacent apartment building.After a few jumps, he disappeared into the building complex under the night.

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(End of this chapter)