Chapter 1 Joe
Medland (middleland--China)!
Honey and milk flow, the paradise of blessings of the gods, the place where civilization is recast, and all glory belongs to Medland.
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Tulun Port, the most eye-catching jewel in the crown of the Delun Empire, a place where gold and silver flow, and a place where sins are overwhelming.
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August 15, 1379, Medland Glory Calendar.
In the evening.
From north to south, next to the twelve giant group sculpture fountains lined up along the central axis of the square, cheerful people gradually gathered.
When the two rows of gas street lights were on the roads on the east and west sides of the Queen Square, the square was filled with laughter.
Tents with blue and white or blue and red stripes were like mushrooms, emerging from the crowd at any time.
Men and women with gorgeous clothes and perfume smell were surging in and out of tents. The huge beer mugs in their hands were wooden, iron, copper, and even large beer mugs carved from crystals. The beer mugs collided happily together, splashing large white beer foam.
'cheers'!
'cheers'!!
'cheers'!!!
The cheerful shouts were like the thunder of a summer night, rolling through the dark crowd and spreading to all directions.
Outside the tent, on grills of large and small sizes, bunches of plump sausages were grilled to make them squeak and oily. The rich aroma floated freely in the air, stirring the appetites of countless people.
At eight o'clock, the plump and round face of "Muteste" climbed into the night sky little by little, and the silver light shone on the earth like water. On the north side of the Queen's Square, the landmark building of Tulum Port, on the bell tower of St. Heard's Cathedral, which is 224 meters high, several priests in black held their breath and pulled the machine with force. The twenty-four giant copper bells rolled left and right, making a huge roar.
The thick and loud bell spread around the sea wind.
"Mid-Autumn Night!"
“Harvest Night!!”
"Night of Silver Osmanthus!!!"
Thunderous cheers erupted from the crowd. Among the buildings facing the east, west and south of the Queen Square, all the windows were opened hard. Many girls in gorgeous long skirts were carrying small baskets and sprinkled green silver osmanthus leaves and light silver osmanthus flowers downwards.
The Queen's Square suddenly started to move.
The clown musicians dressed in glitter and twisted their bodies with great amplitude and played various musical instruments in the crowd. The cheerful music inspired the happy young men and women. They held hands and lined up into long dragons, wandering and dancing around the square quickly.
The nuns of the Yingui Church, a team of ten people, walked slowly around the square with candles in their hands. They wore white linen skirts, lowered their heads slightly, and walked while singing chanting hymns praising Muteste.
Acrobatics of all kinds were showing off their skills in the midst of the crowd.
The mouth is blew flames, throwing wooden balls with hands, riding a wheelbarrow on the wire rope, and the colorful flowers are constantly emerging from their hands, or directing colorful parrots to fly over the crowd with various tarot cards in their mouths...
The children surround these acrobatics, screaming and laughing, jumping around like drunk monkeys.
Among them, some ragged teenagers or young people were flexibly shuttled through the crowd like fish, with keen eyes concerned, swept across everyone's waist with concern, and their fingers were like oily moray eels, which slipped into their belts and gently pinched out bulging wallets.
In the southeast corner of the square, under a bronze victory column, on the temporary whistle, Qiao gently patted the raised beer belly with both hands, looking at the cheerful crowd with melancholy.
At this time last year, Joe was still one of the crowd. He wore a gorgeous holiday dress, carried grilled sausages or other delicious food in his left hand, and raised his wine glass with his right hand, just eating and drinking in the crowd, having fun, sweating and squandering energy.
On the night of mid-autumn, the birthday of the sister of the Supreme King of Gods, "Mu", and the goddess of Silver Moon, "Muteste", is also the traditional carnival of praying for a good harvest in the Delun Empire.
Crazy celebration, three consecutive nights of joy, and a night of miracles that can happen.
On the night of mid-autumn the previous year, Qiao gave her first kiss.
On the night of mid-autumn last year, if it weren’t for the timely stopping of his family, Qiao almost sent out his first-ye.
Before the previous year, on the night of mid-autumn for several consecutive years, Qiao ended up drunk on the streets, was found by his family from the pile of drunken men, and carried them home.
Every mid-autumn night is so exciting, unrestrained, like a beautiful dream, making people immerse themselves in it.
And this year's mid-autumn night.
Qiao stood silly on the wooden platform, wearing a heavy, brass-cast high-top police helmet on his head; wearing a thick, breathable, black linen with a police uniform linen with a barbed wire; a thick cowhide and a hard copper-headed armed belt around his waist; a long boots that were made of thick cowhide, tightly wrapped around his entire calf.
On the left, there was a two-foot-long lead-filled copper baton hanging on the left; on the right, there was one and a half feet long, which was also deadly and sank. It had been filled with ammunition and stuffed with soft leather. There were three long handcuffs on the back of the waist, which were still deadly and sank, and long chain handcuffs made of fine iron!
The blue-white lights of the gas street lights illuminate the Everglades Wolf Shield Pattern Badge in the middle of the high-top police helmet.
"Gorkin, the Imperial Army, wore a handsome military uniform and marched in the Gran Province, and he was so glorious that he had been swaying around the city, and he took back the old land that the empire had lost for more than a hundred years."
"Countless enthusiastic girls threw themselves into their arms. Gorkin and the others had to pretend to say to the cute girls, Oh, no, no, really not, because of the Imperial Military Law, we can't do this!"
Qiao let out a breath, looked around, and gently loosened the armed belt on his belly.
He reached out and touched the wolf badge in the middle of the police helmet on his head, and Qiao sighed in a very melancholy.
"And what about me? A freshly baked black leather dog in the police station, with a silly dog-head badge on his head, standing here stupidly, sweating profusely, dry mouth, watching them eat, drink and have fun!"
A month and a half ago, at the end of June of this year, Qiao was honored to join the Tulun Port Police Department with an excellent subject assessment and the first place in total score points, under the manual recommendation letter of the dean of the Tulun Port Judicial College.
"For three years, I have worked hard to be late and leave early, I have been working hard to fight, I have been thinking about drinking and fighting, I have been persistent in absent from the exam. I even took a desperate gamble on the eve of graduation and burned the college office building!"
"And I am still a good student and an outstanding representative of this class of graduates of the School of Justice!"
Once again, Qiao looked around and secretly untied the flintlock gun hanging on his belt and the long chain handcuffs, and placed them on a small square table behind him.
"Is it great if you have money at home?"
"It's so dark!"
Two ragged teenagers sneaked over the police whistle. They were bulging around their waists, and through their ragged clothes, they could see several wallets made of silk.
Qiao looked at the two boys in a sad way, sighed, turned his head, and pretended that he hadn't seen them.
The two teenagers grimaced at Joe with a smile: "Hey, a black-skinned dog, look at him so stupid!"
The boy's teasing was extremely light, and the people around him were noisy, and the noise was extremely loud.
But Qiao's ears trembled, and he clearly heard the laughter and scolding of the two teenagers.
Chapter completed!