Chapter 333 Comic Book
“There are bugs in this powder.”
“So what, even if it is bugs, the bugs in Weisen State are 10,000 times more delicious than those in the Ghazi Empire! ”
Fatih didn’t know what to say for a moment. He originally thought he was kind enough to remind Olive, but he didn’t expect her to say that, and she didn’t look too happy.
Oliver continued: "So what if you eat bugs? You gentlemen have never seen it. We poor people even eat maggots when we have no food to eat. There are people outside Wanjing City using nets to catch mosquitoes in the swamp. Mixed into soy flour, only patients can eat it.”
"The masters in the city have fish, meat and wine every day, so how can they have time to care about the life and death of us insects."
"Oh, yes, there is a fire in my house, and I am the only one left to survive. , the masters came right away at dawn and scraped away all the valuable things, saying they still had to pay taxes."
"Look here in Weisen State, the masters here are. How to do it? It’s really okay. There are boiled potatoes on the roadside for free. The children in the school opposite are given a bottle of milk and an egg every day for free.”
“Look at the hospital here. , no matter who you are, it doesn’t cost half a copper to give birth to a child, and there are nutritious meals for free.”
Fatih stood up and left silently before she finished speaking, and never came again. Pass the barbecue restaurant.
The streets of the old town of Weissenburg are busy and lively.
Fatih and Hakan entered the city gate, got on the public train driven by the steam engine behind the city gate, and walked all the way to the center of the city.
Compared with the new city where I lived before, the houses here are much older and the streets are narrower. In addition to the main road leading to the train, you can often see three-wheelers riding on the branch roads on both sides. The cyclist asks others to give way.
What worries Fatih most is that you can see a kind of weird building from time to time in the city. It is much taller than the surrounding houses. Below it is a red brick city cylinder with a circle on top. The big head is covered with cement.
He asked the middle-aged man sitting next to him and learned that this was the water tower. With it, tap water could flow out of the faucet at home.
The middle-aged man said proudly: "With the tap water invented by Duke Wesson, we don't have to drink the well water that can easily make people sick."
"The wells in the past were all open. Sometimes there are rats and dogs drowned in it and we don’t even know it, and we get sick after drinking it.” The dirty things are in, so you can use it with confidence.”
Looking at his proud expression and skillful explanation, it was obvious that this was not the first time that Fatih introduced local characteristics to outsiders.
The middle-aged man got out of the car in front of Wesson Bookstore and walked in quickly. Out of curiosity, Fatih got out of the car and followed Hakan.
The Wesson Bookstore is in an excellent location. Next to it is a small square where soldiers usually set up stalls. Across the street is the Weissenburg Public Hospital. The first floor of the bookstore is about 400 square meters. There are spacious doors on both sides of the street. The second floor is The windows on the fourth floor wall are connected to each other with large pieces of transparent glass, and the outer wall is decorated with geometric patterns in relief.
Fatih looked up at the glass window and said to Hakan: "Where I live, the glass windows are not so big and there are so many."
Hakan nodded, a few years ago I heard that the glass industry in Wesson has developed extremely fast and is now ahead of other places. This seems to be true during this period.
The plate glass produced here is large and flat, clear and bubble-free. It is used to make a person-high dressing mirror that is priceless in the Ghazi Empire, but it is used to make window glass here, which is not the case in the palace. luxury.
Fatih made up his mind and said: "I will build a crystal palace with glass walls."
Later, the Crystal Palace was built, but half a year later it became a place where His Majesty the Emperor punished people. It was too stuffy inside.
There is a sign at the entrance of the bookstore. The first floor sells novels, poetry collections, comics and other general reading materials, the second floor sells various professional learning books, and the third floor sells magic books.
Fatih saw Hakan's eyes shining and said to him with a smile: "You go to the third floor by yourself first, I will go up one floor at a time."
Hakan He shook his head and replied: "It is more important to ensure your safety."
Anyway, he will reach the third floor sooner or later, and the most important thing is to protect the emperor. If His Majesty throws away his oily skin, his political career will be over.
Fatih just smiled and walked into the bookstore out of curiosity. The counter next to the door was full of people. There was a rope pulled here, and everyone was lined up. Most of them were adults with children, and there were many teenagers.
Fatih was stunned for a moment, it must be class time now, and then he immediately remembered that today is April 25th. Except for Sunday, the last day of every ten-day period, here in Weissensee, every Sunday is April 25th. I also have a half day off this afternoon.
There was an advertisement board next to the counter. It was an advertisement for the popular comic book "Pig Brothers Fighting the Wind Wolf". Out of curiosity, Fatih went to queue and bought a copy, which was just a meal of barbecue noodles. money.
The upper part of this comic book is composed of pictures, and the lower part is text. The story is based on the fairy tale of the hometown of Baron Adam, Minister of Commerce of Wessen, and was later written by Maria von El, the fiancee of Duke Wessen. Miss Tarr adapted it into a comic strip.
The story tells that the straw huts and wooden houses built by the eldest pig and the second pig were successively blown down by the wind wolf. The third pig imported cement from Weisen and built a strong house. In the end, the wind wolf blew it to death from exhaustion. The house was not damaged in the slightest.
After Fatih left the counter, he quickly flipped through the comic book and found that the text inside was simple and easy to understand, and even a beginner like himself could read it smoothly.
He looked at the children in line and thought that they should be able to understand it.
"Master." Hakan suddenly pointed to a counter next to him. A comic book placed there caught his attention. The person on the cover was wearing Ghazi Empire-style clothes.
There was no queue and Fatih quickly bought this copy of "The Loyal General".
The emperor and the God of Dharma stood in front of the counter and quickly finished flipping through the comic strips together. Fatih's face was not very good, and Hakan had mixed feelings because he showed his face in it.
The story of this comic book is very simple. The emperor of the Ghazi Empire sent General Arda to lead the Praetorian Guards to help the false emperor Phocas who stole Constantbulo.
After Alda arrived in Constantbul, he first had a conflict with Phocas because of the embezzlement of military rations, and then the conflict deepened because he dissuaded Phocas not to plunder villages during the march, but even so, he still obeyed the orders of Emperor Ghazi orders to help him.
Alda made a lot of correct suggestions to Phocas regardless of previous conflicts along the way, but the mediocre and cruel Phocas did not adopt them all, and ended up defeated.
When the wise and powerful Duke Wesson flooded the lake and drowned Phocas's army, Phocas also used a cunning trick to make Alda's army the victims of his escape.
Even so, Arda delayed Duke Wesson's pursuit, refused to surrender despite the heavy siege, and committed suicide after shouting "long live the emperor" while looking at his hometown.
At the end of the story, Emperor Ghazi listened to the slander of the defeated general who escaped and thought that Arda was greedy for life and feared death, so he captured his daughter and put her in a cage as a slave to be sold.
Fatih asked Hakan in Ghazi: "Is this true?"
The last Ghazi emperor in the comic strip is him. On the surface, this part does not seem to be written. Wrong, if it were written truthfully that he was punishing Alda's family in order to shift the blame, the situation would be even worse, because this is what happened to old Earl Wesson.
But he was not as clear about the previous details as Hakan, who was monitoring Phocas at the time.
Hakan replied: "The truth is roughly the same."
The plot in the comic strip is still a little biased after being simplified, but people have sold it in such large quantities, even if I am wrong, it is useless to say anything. .
Fatih sighed and lost interest in continuing shopping. He turned around and walked out of the bookstore and went straight back to the hotel.
Seeing that His Majesty the Emperor was in a bad mood, the servants carefully poured tea and water to prepare snacks. A maid turned on the radio.
The passionate voice of the announcer came from the radio: "Hong Kong Zhenploz, member of the Langnar City Council and director of the Red Pine Food Factory, said today that all the citizens of Langnar City unanimously support The Wesson Executive Council warned the Franconian Principality that if the Franconian Principality continues to persist in amassing troops on the border to stir up trouble, it will eventually suffer a devastating blow. ”
Fatih's attention immediately turned to the radio.
When they first arrived, they heard that the Duke of Franconia in the north was gathering troops on the border because the son of the Archduke of Franconia was sentenced to death for killing people in Wesson. They didn’t know if there would eventually be a fight. .
The radio broadcast a statement from the representatives of the major city councils in Wesson. All places support a war with the Franconian Principality. It seems that the war will not be too far away.
(End of this chapter)