Twenty Sided Dice

The tavern is located in the southern part of the city, also known as the commercial storage area. The goods unloaded from the port and from the inland are piled up here. The merchants can negotiate the terms of the transaction and complete the transaction on the spot. There are many taverns, inns, and exchanges, offering warm and attentive service to all. The Nancheng District is more than three times larger than the Beicheng, so it is inevitably a bit messy. From a height, the entire Nancheng embraces the port area like an arm, and a curved "Ping'an Street" connects the three largest goods in series. Area. The Foam Barrel Hotel is on the side of this road.

There's a lot of good and bad here, so Siegel changed into an adventurer's clothes so as not to look out of place in his surroundings. He rode through the alleys on horseback, from the flat stone street to the gravel and mud Ping'an Street. The Foam Barrel Tavern was unusual today, and there were drinkers early in the morning: more than a dozen sailors scattered all the tables, drinking and singing here. They kept shouting, thanking the Sea God for letting them go ashore safely, and repaying the Sea God with joy and devotion. According to the waiter, they arrived by boat in the middle of the night and came to the tavern wearing starlight. The sailors' festivities are now drawing to a close, and the tavern is in disarray. The guy who was already drunk fell asleep in the food scraps, and the naked ** tried to get the rest drunk, so that she could go back to sleep quickly.

Marcus Gollon is temporarily away. There is a problem with the red wine he wants, and he is arguing with the captain at the dock. The attentive waiter brought Siegel a table and chairs and let him sit by the window and wait for a while. Siegel ordered a fish and potato mash with a glass of well-watered ale. He still had a seaman's habit of liking big, oily, filling food. Following his old habit, Siegel stretched out his hand and pulled a loaf of bread and ate it.

I was eating happily when I suddenly heard a noise at the door. Siegel looked out the window and saw a few people standing in the grocery store opposite. The store owner and two burly guys were yelling at a guy who was wearing rags. man. There was blood on the man's arms and knees, and all the mud fell on his face.

"Bastard beggar, you want to leave after touching my cloth?" the boss yelled loudly.

The man seemed to be dumbfounded, and would only keep repeating in a low voice to the vicious shopkeeper: "I didn't hit you, but you fell on me. Green dog!"

A guy was furious and punched him, hitting the man in the nose and knocking him down on his back. The beggar lay in the mud with two lines of nosebleeds and kept shouting, "Why beat me! Why beat me?"

"You can't afford to pay for my cloth, so of course you have to fight!" The boss rolled up his sleeves and actually wanted to do it himself.

Siegel couldn't stand it any longer, so he hurriedly stepped forward to stop him, and shielded the man behind him. It was only after a closer look that the beggar was identified as "Bucktooth"-Johnny, but his iconic buck teeth were gone, and there was an obvious hole in the center of his mouth.

Johnny seemed to be in a daze, he didn't recognize Siegel, his eyes were still stunned. Siegel called him by his name several times, only to find that he knew how to agree. Seeing that the two people knew each other, the boss found a way to "make up for the loss". He reached out and grabbed Siegel's neck.

How could Siegel let him grab it? He swept his arm lightly and directly caught the hand that the hotel owner stretched out. The two clerks next to them were about to come to help when they saw this, and they clenched their fists and wanted to call. Siegel shouted: "Don't be rough, isn't it just a rough cloth? I bought it."

But the two of them didn't stop, their fists still wanted to fly over. Siegel was annoyed and punched. His speed naturally surpassed these untrained ordinary people, and his skills were completely suppressed. Only two bangs were heard, and the two clerks were already holding their crooked fingers and screaming in pain.

"Your half-roll of coarse cloth looks like it's made locally. It's worth half a gold coin at most. I'll buy it." Siegel took out a gold coin from his pocket, flicked it in the air, and quickly pulled out a black dagger from his belt. With a volley, then quickly sheathed. The gold coin was flatly cut in half, and fell silently in Siegel's palm. Siegel threw half a gold coin to the boss and pushed him into the shop. He pulled Janis with one hand, grabbed the cloth with the other, and returned to the Foam Barrel Tavern. The shop owner looked at the neatly cut surface of the gold coin, thought of the sharp knife light, swallowed hard, and dared not speak again.

"How did you come to Waterdeep? Why is it so miserable?" Siegel used ale to help Johnnys clean the wound, and tore the cloth to bandage him. Although the pain was trembling, I knew that Siegel was doing it for his own good, so I didn't cry out, just endured it. Siegel noticed that Bucktooth had a scar on the back of his head, as if he had been slashed with a knife. In addition to this, there are wounds on his shoulders and calves that were pierced by arrows.

"I don't know what trouble you have, poor bastard." Siegel moved a chair and let Bucktooth sit in front of the table. In order to allow him to clearly understand what he wanted to express, Siegel slowed down his speech, pointed to the fried fish and potatoes on the table, and said slowly, "Friend, let's eat."

Johnny looked terribly hungry. He reached out and grabbed the fish. He was about to swallow three or two mouthfuls. Siegel was so frightened that he grabbed the bone of the fish and pulled it out of his mouth to avoid the danger of his throat piercing. Malt grabbed the mashed potatoes with his hands again and shoved it all into his mouth. He simply chewed it twice and swallowed it.

Siegel hurriedly said, "What else do you want to eat? Whatever you want, I'll give it to you."

I don't know which nerve was touched by this sentence, Johnny's eyes suddenly turned red, and two lines of tears flowed down. He whimpered and said, "Bosun, I want to drink fish soup, I want to go to sea..."

"Let's go, let's go home!" Siegel pulled Janis, helped him get on the horse, and led the horse to lead him to the North City. Buck Teeth didn't say anything along the way, just lowered his head and nodded as the horseback bumped.

Arriving at the small villa in Beicheng, Siegel reached out and helped Bucktooth dismount. He called the cook to prepare the meal, took a bottle of wine from the cupboard and poured it on Janice, and brought a plate of smoked sausages. Johnny looked at the surrounding furnishings very crampedly, not daring to sit on the clean and soft sofa. He pointed to the clothes on his body and asked where he could rinse it.

"Drink two sips first, eat something, and treat this as my home." Siegel pressed his buck teeth on the sofa to reassure him: "It will take a while for the hot water to boil, so take a good shower first. , and then go to sleep again. I'm still your boatswain, and you'll stay here!"

Buck-toothed Johnny nodded, with hot tears in his eyes.

Siegel went back to the room to find a set of his own clothes, brought it to Johnny, and found that Bucktooth had fallen asleep on the sofa. He put his clothes aside and gently closed the door.

"Is that the young master's former friend?" Ms. Linda asked.

"That's right, we used to go out to sea on a boat and were acquaintances."

"He is also a sailor? There have been a lot of big ship accidents recently, and people in the port area are panicking. Several businessmen friends from my deceased husband's former business are now closed to avoid the limelight, and many people are unemployed. Carl said that recently, the temple has taken in many beggars and city watchmen. While posting notices to maintain order, we are also recruiting more members.”

"Do you know what happened?" Siegel asked with a frown. He has been studying spells recently, and he doesn't pay much attention to the changes in the city. After Ms. Linda said it, he also thought that when passing through Nancheng District today, several distribution centers were indeed quite empty.

"I heard that pirates are rampant, but I don't know the specifics." Ms. Linda said, "But the prices of grain, cloth and fish have all gone up."

"Did the lords do anything?" Siegel had a feeling that this matter would gradually expand and cause trouble.

"The lords haven't done much yet. It's just that the Merchant Guild has organized a few additional convoys to Mora's Peak and Xinlin, and the price is very suitable. I haven't heard anything else."

Siegel nodded, and then said: "If you see an increase in the number of homeless people on the street, you must pay attention to safety. You help me get five hundred gold coins and let Carl hand it over to the Moon Temple, just to be able to accommodate more poor people. donations from people."

Ms. Linda bowed and thanked her. This kind of thing is also very beneficial to her son. If you can bring donations, you may be selected to participate in the resettlement activities. If you behave well, you may be noticed by the pastor, so that it is possible to continue to learn more advanced knowledge in the temple.

There was a slight snoring sound in the living room, Siegel asked Ms. Linda to help take care of it, and he went back to the study. He wasn't called down until dinnertime, when Johnny had been groomed and changed into clean and tidy clothes.

"Thank you, captain, you saved me." Bucktooth couldn't hide his gratitude.

"I've been a sailor, and I understand that if I don't save my life, I'll bring bad luck," Siegel said.

"Good intentions are rewarded, captain, you have always been like this, so you can live a good life now." Johnny took another sip of whiskey to calm his mood. It is not easy to recall the disaster that happened, it is like tearing open a newly healed wound again. Siegel didn't rush him, just waited quietly.

"Our ship escaped the attack of the orc pirates. I told you about this~www.readwn.com~ Later, we loaded up the cargo and went to sea again. We took the northern route and transported a batch of good wood to Xihaiwang. A total of There were five ships, and most of them were loaded with goods sold by the top of Mora. In the evening, when we were about to reach the supply point in the port of Circle Island, we were ambushed by twenty orc clippers. They approached us and shot arrows. , throwing grappling hooks, throwing javelins. I was hit with a few arrows and my head was smashed by the grappling hooks."

"How did you escape? The supply point on Circle Island must have been captured by orcs, right?"

"Yes. The captain saw that the situation was not good, and the boat washed up on the circle island and ran aground on the beach. The orcs didn't want to wash their fast boat ashore, so they slowed down. It was getting dark, and we started from I got off the boat and scattered and hid in the woods on the island. I was injured and couldn't run very far, so I hid in the reef flat and passed out. When I woke up, I was floating not far from the coast After struggling to climb ashore, only to find that the island is like hell. They are all dead, their heads are stuck on sticks, and the rest are burned..."

Bucktooth needs a lot of effort to keep himself from breaking down. He threw away the glass, took the bottle and poured it hard. Siegel picked up the cup and said, "Pour me some and let's mourn the dead together."

"Well, you're right." Johnny stopped drinking, poured Siegel a glass, and said together, "May their souls rest in peace~www.readwn.com~Welcome all book lovers to come and read, the latest and greatest The fastest and most popular serial works are all at ~www.readwn.com~.\\u003c/a\\u003e