Chapter 35: Daily life on the eve of collision
County of Formar, capital of Italica
Accompanied by the crowing of the rooster, the faint morning light gradually lights up on the eastern horizon. The chimneys of many houses in the city were already quietly emitting smoke. While the husband and children are still sleeping soundly, the hard-working housewives have prepared breakfast in advance and heated it in the pot, so that it can be eaten directly when the husband or children get up. Then, they wiped the stove ashes on their faces and went on to the next task. They put their dirty clothes in backpacks or shoulder baskets, and then walked in groups through the newly opened city gate and came to Wash clothes by the river.
In addition to the human citizens in Italica, the demihuman refugee women camped on the outskirts of the city also wash clothes by this small river. Different from human women, in addition to cleaning their clothes and bedding, they also need to clean the fur on their bodies. In fact, although they are despised as vulgar and barbaric people, quite a few orcs are very clean and care about their body surfaces. The accumulated dirt is even more unbearable than humans. It usually cleans its fur with its tongue and claws when there is nothing to do. If it encounters a place with water, it must take a bath no matter what.
Well, as long as you see that the cat is always licking its fur, and that the dirty bird has never been able to fly, you can probably understand it.
Humming a melodious morning song, the blond and blue-eyed winged lady Missali sat on a stone by the river, carefully taking care of the snow-white wings on her back with a brush. Although her body and appearance are almost the same as the angels in the earth's religious mythology, in the alien continent of Falmat, the status of the Winged Man is obviously incomparable to that of the angels on the earth. The Imperials only regard them as a relatively rare species among orcs. They are enslaved, hunted, and discriminated against. At best, their lives are similar to those of free black Americans before the affirmative action movement. However, even so, the aesthetics of humans in other worlds are still similar to those of humans on Earth. Therefore, the status of handsome winged humans in human society is still better than that of dirty and ugly pig-heads and goblins. Especially the women of the Winged Human Race are very popular in Fengyue Field.
Misali is a red card winger who used to work in the underworld of the imperial capital for a long time. Not only does she earn a lot of money, but she is also a very popular eldest sister. The gangsters around her, whether they were wingmen or not, respected her as a leader, thus forming a small gang of gangsters.
During the great flood that submerged half of the imperial capital, because the winged people still maintained the custom of building nests on cliffs and trees, and most other demihumans were also accustomed to living in high places, the result was that There were very few casualties in the floods, and there were not even many property losses.
However, due to the destruction of half of the imperial capital, the "prosperous and prosperous" black streets became water streets full of fish and shrimps. These wanderers in the imperial capital also had no trading partners, and some of them made a living on their own and returned to their hometowns. Or go to other cities to make a living. Most of the imperial capital's subhuman ***, including Misali, followed the large group of people over the Romanian mountains and arrived at Italica, the capital of the Earl of Formar. Compared with the other demihuman refugees who had almost nothing, Misali and the wandering warblers in the Imperial City who followed her were already in a good situation. At least, they still have some saved money and can rent a house in Italica instead of sleeping outside the city like the other demihuman refugees. You can also buy food from bakeries and markets in the city, instead of just drinking the gruel provided twice a day in the lord's mansion.
However, Misali is still very worried about the future, because these ladies have actually been sitting on nothing for a while - compared with the imperial capital of Urabianca, which has gathered the wealth of the entire continent, Itali is currently settled in Calgary is just a medium-sized city with a population of more than 10,000. It has no special products and the residents' spending power is quite limited. Now that there are so many people who have been having sex in the imperial capital all at once, the flesh business has naturally become extremely difficult to do. Even a charming red-card courtesan like Misali only received three or four business deals after coming here, which was not enough to pay the rent and daily food and drink. As for the little sisters who followed her to Italica, there were some who had never even opened their doors.
Once the savings around her are exhausted, Mishali simply doesn't know how a prostitute like her can make a living - some demi-human refugees may even be able to go to the native villages here and work as coolies, farming, and miners. Living hand to mouth. But for the delicate orioles like them, who have been hanging out in the sex scene for most of their lives, they can do nothing else except spreading their legs to the men on the bed and dancing.
However, no matter how worried she was, Misali had nothing to do: the world today is really chaotic. Although it is difficult to do business in Italica, there is still a minimum of order. Those places far away from the city are already rampant with bandits. Not to mention business, they can't even save their lives!
"...Sister Misali! Come and have breakfast! Fresh white bread just baked today! Everyone has a share!"
A childish greeting suddenly interrupted Misali's melancholy. Immediately afterwards, a young lolita prostitute from the Hobbit Tribe (harpy) jumped over from the city. He came over with a basket on his head, which exuded bursts of alluring aroma, making everyone salivate... The Orioles from the imperial capital suddenly cheered and took their picks from the basket. She took out the bread and ate it in large chunks. Although Misali also took out a loaf of white bread and grabbed it in her hand, she did not eat it in a hurry. Instead, she frowned and scolded the Harpy Loli: "... Tivol, why are you spending so much money again? White bread is three times more expensive than brown bread! Everyone is in a difficult situation now, so no matter how much money you have, you have to use it sparingly.”
"...Hey, hey! This is nothing! Sister, didn't I make a lot of money in the past few days?"
Harpy Loli Tivol smiled and stuck out her tongue, then took out an exquisite money bag tied with gold thread and embroidered with geometric patterns from her arms, weighed it in her hand a few times, "...unexpectedly That stupid knight who doesn't understand the charm is really rich. This beautiful purse alone is probably worth more than a dozen silver coins, not to mention the contents of the purse... It's not worth giving it to him together with the sisters. Kissed all over..."
(A winged man is a person with a pair of wings on his back, while the two arms of a harpy are wings and the palms are bird claws.)
When Tivol mentioned this matter, Misali remembered the "fat sheep clients" who were in the city five days ago - they were a group of guys suspected of being adventurers or noble guards, including magicians, knights, and Characters like housekeepers or servants, but each one is dressed in exquisite clothes and high-quality materials. Their gears and accessories are luxurious, and their armors and swords are not only gold-plated and silver-plated, but even inlaid with precious stones... Although they cannot see through their real details, the luxurious and extravagant outfits alone are enough to make many demi-humans with sluggish business run away. The orioles' eyes flashed, thinking they saw a big wallet that could only move.
However, both the magician and the knight were obviously dressed so luxuriously that they didn't look like they couldn't pay their bills. But no matter how Liuying tried her best to seduce them, the other party remained unmoved. No matter how you wink or seduce with a gentle voice, no one will take the bait - damn it! Since you have so much money, what's wrong with spending a little on poor women like us?
As a result, a few disgruntled demi-humans from the Imperial City secretly divided their labors and cooperated, deliberately surrounding a lone knight among the "fat sheep", and gathered around to offer kisses to disturb the knight's attention, and then the nimble hands and feet of the knight Harpy Loli Tivole took his money bag and another cat Er Loli pried away the ruby on the hilt of his sword... Although she was a little nervous at the time, everything turned out to be calm afterwards, and the harvest was surprisingly rich: she actually found five gold coins and more than 20 silver coins in one go, plus a piece worth of Expensive top-grade rubies...
Miss Misali didn't know about this until after the deal was settled, but besides scolding them for their audacity, there was no other way, "... Speaking of which, Tivol, you actually dared to steal the knight's Money bag? Were you really afraid of being chopped off by his sword?”
"...Don't be afraid! Sister, that handsome uncle looks like he has a good temper at first glance. Even if he is caught at that time, as long as he kneels down and pretends to be pitiful and begging for mercy, the knight uncle will definitely be reluctant to give up such a cute dick. Wall was hacked to death!”
The young prostitute Tivol said disapprovingly while chewing the bread, "...At worst, in order to make amends, I can just let him sleep a few times!
Alas, you are a little girl who has only been in the industry for a few months! I really don’t know how evil people’s hearts are! Pretending to be cute doesn’t work for everyone!
That many coins and a fine ruby are enough to buy several little demi-human slave girls like you!
Misali sighed helplessly, but didn't say anything else. She just silently ate the white bread Tivor bought with the stolen goods - for things like this, only through suffering can you truly learn a lesson... I hope The owner who had so many things stolen would not come to kill him!
——However, what they didn’t know was that the fat sheep knight who had been robbed was really coming on horseback menacingly...
※※※※※※※※※※※※※※※※※※※※※※※※※※※※※※※※※※※※ ※※※※※PS: I recently purchased a Xiaomi mobile phone online, and when I turned it on, the screen went black and never lit up once. Moreover, the alarm clock kept ringing. I had to remove the battery and it couldn’t be used at all. I went to argue and refused to return the goods. I argued back and forth many times, which made me feel very bad and wasted time. So I can only write this today. A little less. In addition, I would like to ask readers for their opinions. For the multi-racial alien urban management brigade that Comrade Wang Qiu is preparing, what kind of unique weapons do you think should be equipped respectively to better highlight the bunny girl, cat-eared girl, dog-eared girl, werewolf, etc. What are the racial characteristics of wingmen and tauren?