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Chapter 2 Hoes and Malt

"Denia, it's starting again." The priest girl patted her forehead with a headache, and leaned over to the female knight and shouted loudly: "Catherine, Catherine, eldest sister, elder sister, wake up, wake up."

"Ah? What's wrong? Who shouted so loudly? What happened?" Catherine, the female knight, suddenly woke up and held the gold coins in her palm as soon as possible. She looked around until she saw the priest girl who looked bad and stared at her. She said with a smile: "Haha, haha, Lina is you calling me. The gold coins are a little dirty. I will wipe them casually, wipe them casually."

The priest girl Lina shook her head with a collapsed look on her face: "Sister, it's already very late!"

Catherine took the gold coins into her purse very seriously, put away her obsessive look, walked to the carriage that had stopped, knocked on the armor on her left shoulder with her right hand, and gave a very standard knightly gift to the driver: "Mr. Master, I am very grateful for your work in these three days. In addition, I am very sorry, I originally agreed to hire you for ten days, but for some reason, I had to terminate the agreement midway."

The 50-year-old man had dark skin, his face was covered with wrinkles, and his smile was a little restrained and nervous: "It's okay, a few young ladies, I've been having a lot of fun with the ladies these days, and I'm already very satisfied."

Catherine's expression was still very serious: "In the agreement, we rented your carriage at a price of one gold coin every day and hired you to drive for us. It was ten days. Now three days have passed, we should pay you three gold coins. According to the practice of adventurers, we terminated the task in advance and failed to complete the agreement, so we should pay half of your extra money on the basis of the agreed salary. In other words, we should pay you four gold and fifty silver."

"No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no," the coachman shook his hands with a little panic: "There are already a lot of three gold coins, enough, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no,"

Catherine shook her head: "No, an agreement is an agreement. According to the agreement, you deserve this money. We must give it to you, please accept it." As she said that, she counted four gold coins and five coins worth ten silver from her other pocket and put them into the coachman's hand.

The coachman smiled gratefully and kept thanking: "Thank you so much. I listened to you and that kid's argument along the way, and I thought that I was already very satisfied if you didn't deduct my money. I didn't expect you to..."

"I am a knight." A smile appeared on Katherine's serious face: "I will not pay less if we pay anything. I will not pay less if we pay anything. I will not pay more if I don't pay anything. This is the justice of the knight, or in other words, this is my justice. Maintaining justice is to maintaining the honor of the knight."

"It's getting late." The female pastor Lina came up and said, "Sister, you still have to find a place to live."

"Yeah." Catherine responded and continued to say to the coachman: "Mr. Trump, we will continue to look for suitable teammates tomorrow morning. We need to rest early tonight and we must take a step first. Then let's separate here, and I hope you will go well in the future."

"Wait a minute." The coachman called out to Catherine who was about to turn around and leave: "Although I don't know much about you, you should be looking for a powerful team member."

"Yes, do you have any recommendations?" Lina answered first.

"Hoe and malt." said the coachman affirmatively, "You can try your luck at the Hoe and malt tavern. It is the largest tavern in town, and the owner is the most informed person in Kanzier. Whether you are looking for a place to stay or inquire about the news, you should try your luck there. The tavern is in the inner ring area, with a very obvious sign."

"Thank you very much." Afraid of Catherine's long-term thanks, Lina immediately pulled Catherine and the little girl Vivian to run to the inner ring area, and she was still chanting excitedly: "Hoe and malt, what a strange name. The protagonist of the Dragon and the Empire said that there must be some adventure in this kind of bistro with strange names. Catherine, Vivian, go quickly, we have good luck."

"Ah? Where are we?" Vivian, who was pulled and staggered forward, was interrupted and asked blankly: "Where are we going?"

"It's okay." Lina replied angrily: "You keep thinking and just follow."

"oh."

Hoe and Ale Tavern, located in the inner ring area of ​​Kanzier town, is the largest tavern in Kanzier town and the most lively place in the town. Whenever the sun sets, the town residents, merchants coming and going, brigades of mercenaries, and adventurers in the team, these busy people will come to the tavern in groups in groups, tart a glass of mellow ale, so that the tiredness and spirit can be relieved under the influence of alcohol, chat with people around you or don’t know, brag about the proud things of your heroic deeds back then, and add a little more different fun to yourself or your ordinary and exciting life.

The tavern is actually not big. The hall is only about 300 square meters at most. Twenty tables are scattered all over the hall. Now there are many guests, and there are already guests next to the ten tables, making the tavern look very lively. Between the tables, two female waiters in their twenties, with professional smiles on their faces and trays filled with wine glasses in their hands. They skillfully avoid walking between the tables and big hands that stretch out to take advantage of them. Occasionally, when they don’t hide, you can hear the screams and fierce scoldings of the two girls who want to refuse, as well as the smug laughter of the men.

In the corner of the hall, there is a high platform half a meter above the ground and a width of more than ten square meters. The pub provides this place for free for bards who occasionally pass by here to perform on the platform to earn travel expenses. Facing the front door, facing the gate is a spacious bar, and the owner and the owner's wife are busy at the bar. Outside the bar is a circle of chairs, providing seats for guests who come alone. If you want to find a place to stay but are unwilling to go to a special hotel, the pub can also meet your requirements. There are more than a dozen rooms on the second floor of the pub, which are dedicated to serving such guests.

When Catherine pushed open the door of the tavern, what came into the ears of the three were the noisy vocals in the room and the low singing of the bard in the accompaniment of the Flarentian.

"The dwarf's battle axe swept away evil"

"The elves' feather arrows reburied the dead"

"In front of the magic swordsman, the sword energy and the brilliance of magic flash alternately"

"Where the knight's spear is facing, the heroic charge is unstoppable."

"What shines in the shadow is the dagger in the hands of the sand man."

"The souls of the orc ancestors sing around the totem pole"

"Belsman tore all enemies in battle cry"

"What resounds on the battlefield is the echo of the roar of the crystal gun."

"The Gemini of light and darkness acts on the wrath of the gods of light"

"The jumping magic element shows the glory of earth, water, fire and wind"

"The fangs and claws of the monster shine brightly in the darkness"

"The scorching dragon breath destroys everything and falls from the sky"

"The bones of the dead are piled up like hills"

"Through the obstacles, the heroes are close to where everything begins."

"The unyielding shaman dedicated everything to his ancestors"

"The burning life blocks the enemy, the soul returns to the ancestors and turns into a holy wolf running on the grassland."

"The heroes finally face the incomplete and distorted evil god"

"Everyone can do their best, and the war is flying"

"The desperate evil god rushed towards the heroes' positions"

"I want to seize the heroes' power and gain the power of the living"

"The fearless knight rushed towards the evil god, his holy body, and his filthy soul wrapped around the evil spirit."

"The evil god's conspiracy did not succeed. What pierced the knight's chest was the spear with virtue engraved in her own hands."

Catherine stood at the door of the tavern, silently listening to the minstrel's singing. At the end, her eyes turned red. A silver coin popped out between Catherine's fingers, drew an arc in the air, and fell into the hat in front of the minstrel.

"Ha, a silver coin." Lina said teasingly: "Why has the eldest sister become generous?"

"The person who can spread the hero's deeds." Catherine walked to the bar and replied: "I deserved the reward. I paid this silver coin myself."

Lina covered her mouth and smiled sly: "I see, I can't help but hear the name I admire."

"Actually, that's right." Catherine simply admitted.

The three girls walked all the way through the crowd in the tavern. When they saw the three beauties coming and wanted to get up and tangle, they saw the clothes and armor representing professionals on the girls and retreated one after another. There was only one who was drunk and wanted to touch her, but in the blink of an eye, the mace on the priest girl's waist somehow pressed against the tip of his nose.

Ignoring the violent threat behind him, the Knight took the two girls to the bar and sat down.

The owner of the tavern is a wolf orc, and his physical signs are not very obvious. If he blocks his ears and tail, it is difficult to tell his identity as a wolf. But he is particularly tall, standing behind the bar counter, his head almost hitting the cabinet at the top of the bar counter. The tall wolf boss was drying the newly washed plates and quilts with cloth, looking at the three girls, without making a sound. The beautiful fox boss lady stood beside the boss, busy preparing the drinks ordered by the guests. When he saw the three of them sitting down, he smiled friendly at them.

"One glass of ale wine, two glasses of dragon flame orange juice." Catherine took out five silver coins and placed them in front of the boss.

"Two are enough." The boss looked at the silver coins in front of him and whispered in a daze: "Okay, what's the problem with you?"

"It seems that you two are pros and adventurers, are you?" Katherine's approach is very experienced. She usually does the work of foreign negotiations in the team, at least she does it without entering the preaching mode or praise mode due to the outbreak of the chivalrous state.

"It's not an adventurer, it was a mercenary." The boss lowered his head and wiped the plate without raising his head, saying, "Until our deputy commander was shot by an arrow."

Catherine was stunned: "Why don't you become mercenaries when you were shot in the arrow?"
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