Law of the Devil

Originally, Du Wei only planned to come here for a casual look. In the evening, he also had an appointment with Count Villa, Camisiro and others.

But seeing the appearance of the Continental Knights Association, Du Wei suddenly changed his mind, and simply sent someone with his own message to invite Earl Villa, Lord Camisiro, and Mount Delan Warcraft and others, why not just come to the headquarters of the Knights Association to have a gathering at night.

"Uh, you mean to eat here tonight?" Deron blinked, then smiled strangely, and roared loudly: "Dorf! Dove!!"

What he called was the lame old gatekeeper just now, who seemed to be a servant here.

Unexpectedly, after shouting twice, the crippled old man immediately appeared from a room, and yelled at Delong with a louder voice: "What's the noise! ​​I'm busy!"

Seeing his rude appearance, one would almost mistake Delong for his servant instead.

Delong didn't seem to care about it at all, he laughed and said: "Prepare more food, we have guests tonight."

The old Dove limped up to Deron with a displeased look on his face, and stretched out his palm with a displeased look on his face.

"What?"

"Money! My master!" The old guy snorted a few times: "I'm not a magician. I can't conjure food out of thin air! You have to give me the money to sell vegetables...Damn it, we have been I'm eating those cabbage boiled tomatoes, or tomato boiled cabbage! I'm with you. I haven't eaten meat for a month...you are fine. You can still go to the banquets of those noble lords every now and then to eat something delicious I can't take it anymore. Also, you still owe me half a year's wages."

Deron scratched the back of his head. Hehe laughed twice. Pointing to Du Wei next to him. Said: "See? This is a distinguished guest, the famous Duke Tulip! After entertaining this distinguished guest tonight, we can have beef every day from now on!"

"Really?" The old guy glanced at Du Wei. A little skeptical: "So we don't need to sneak out to the street outside to pick up vegetable leaves at night?"

It's just that the old guy glanced at Du Wei twice. He frowned and said, "He's a duke? I think he's not as old as my little grandson! Don't lie to me... Deron. Where did you find some cheaters?"

Du Wei sighed inwardly. He quickly took out a few gold coins from his pocket and handed them over. Put it in the hands of Old Dove. The old servant still looked at it suspiciously, and took the gold coin and put it in his mouth and bit it hard twice. Only then did he widen his eyes: "Oh. God. It's real gold coins!"

"Go quickly. Get some delicious food...and bring back some wine." Delong added: "You old drunkard, don't keep it secretly!"

The old lame stared at Deron. Then he took the gold coin and walked away quickly. It seems to be half a step slower. I was afraid that Du Wei would ask for the gold coins back.

Seeing Du Wei's strange expression, Delong said haha: "Hahahaha... this old Dove. He was my teacher's squire... well. My teacher was a real knight back then. Dove He has been a servant of my teacher all his life. When he gets old, his legs are also lame, so he can only stay here as a handyman for a lifetime. Speaking of which, he has been here longer than I am."

Deron quickly walked inside and kicked open the door of the innermost main hall of the Knights Association. I saw the dust behind the door. But he smiled as if he didn't care: "Please come in. How many!"

Du Wei smirked twice. But suddenly he pointed to the artifact "Longchinus' gun" that was still hanging on the saddle of Delong's "donkey". With a wry smile, he said, "Uh. My lord president. You won't just throw this artifact here."

"Artifact?" Deron curled his lips. Obviously, there was some disdain: "It's just a broken gun. Hmph. It seems to be useless. To be honest, this kind of thing is more meaningful than real now. It's just a symbolic thing. It can't be used for Hit it, but it’s just used as a decoration... Who cares about it. Later, I will ask Old Dove to find a room to clean and hang it up.”

Du Wei had some doubts about Deron's sincerity. In his opinion. Thank goodness that old Dorff didn't use the broken gun as a poker!

Sure enough, Delong pinched his chin: "Uh... Speaking of which, Old Dove has been complaining that there is a lack of a fire stick in the kitchen..."

Du Wei sighed: "Don't! This is an artifact after all! If it's not convenient for you to store it here, then let me take it back for safekeeping... Do you trust me?"

Delong immediately laughed: "Hahaha! What are you talking about! It's just a broken iron rod! Even if you go to get a pawn in the shop, it's not worth a lot of money. Why don't you worry about it. Since you Open your mouth and take it back first."

After all, Du Wei was somewhat dissatisfied: "This is an artifact after all! The gun of Longchinus..."

"So what?" Deron blinked his eyes: "Obviously. Since the regent is willing to give it to me, it means that it has no power at all! If it is so powerful, why would it be thrown to me? Now It's just a symbol...it's useless at all! To be honest, don't say it's it, I just got a gun, took it out and hung it on the wall. Tell outsiders. No. This is the knight's gun! Others Do you still believe it? This kind of thing...hum...just a decoration. Who cares if it is true or not."

It is God's will that the president of the Knights Association is actually such a person.

Du Wei couldn't speak, but walked to the side and picked up the gun of Longchinus, solemnly put it in his storage ring, and then followed Delong into the main hall inside.

But Du Wei didn't know. Just as he turned to get the gun of Longchinus. Delong behind him looked at him. A successful smile flashed in his eyes!

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It is clear. When the old Dove came back. Judging from the food and drink he brought back - this old guy regards Du Wei as a winner!

Du Wei gave him a full ten gold coins. Ten gold coins can be enough to eat a table of good food even in the most expensive hotel in the imperial capital. But the old guy took ten gold coins and went out. A little half a day of kung fu. Bring those things back. It is obvious that there is a lack of weight and two things - from Du Wei's perspective. The food that Old Dove brought back was worth at most three or four gold coins, which would be great. .

Such blatant corruption. Even Deron couldn't stand it anymore. He slapped the table. He stared and said, "Dorfu! What are you doing! What about the rest of the money!"

The old guy exchanged eyes with the president without fear. Patted his pocket: "It's in my pocket - don't forget. You still owe me

What about wages! A total of three gold coins! In the first half of the year, we built the shed together, and you borrowed four gold coins from me! Now that you have money, you don't want to pay me back. But think about eating and drinking first! If I don't take it myself, can you remember to change the money? "

The old guy has a really loud voice. Sitting next to him, Du Wei could neither cry nor laugh.

After all, Delong was short-mouthed in debt, and after muttering a few words, he had to sit down with a face of embarrassment.

Du Wei had no choice but to come out to act as a good person, and comforted him: "Okay. Master Delong, it seems that your life was really hard before. So, tomorrow I will send someone to bring you some daily necessities, as well as future funds. problem. You don’t have to worry about it.”

Only then did Old Dove turn around and walk out in a beeping voice. When he walked outside, he yelled: "I said Delong, you boy! Why did you throw the horse on the post again! After a while, this animal pulled horse manure, do you want me to sweep it?!"

Du Wei opened his mouth: How can there be such a servant in the world? Where is this servant? He is simply the father of the master! !

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Although Old Dove has a bad mouth. The temper is also violent, but even Du Wei has to admit it. This old guy is really good at cooking!

At least that mushroom soup is like that. Even Du Wei, who was sitting in the main hall, could smell the aroma coming from the kitchen.

At the moment Du Wei is asking Deron about the situation of the Cavaliers Association.

"Your Excellency Delong, I heard from you that there are six people in the headquarters of the Knights Association in the Imperial Capital. But it's getting late now... Where are the others? Why didn't you see them?"

Deron's face was a little embarrassed: "Oh. That's right. There are four other knights...but they...they are all on vacation recently. Resting at home..."

"Why?" Du Wei frowned.

"Because... because they were injured." Deron sighed.

"Injured?" Du Wei immediately understood that there must be something wrong. There is no war on the mainland, and nothing happens in the imperial capital. How could a knight be injured?

"Could it be that they fought someone?" Du Wei frowned, the knight was injured, and the comparison was due to a duel with someone else.

"Death? Ha ha..." After a few dry laughs, Delong revealed the details of the situation.

It turned out that the so-called other four "knights" didn't have much martial arts skills at all, they were just people with names here. With the current situation of the Continental Knights Association, it is very difficult to recruit any capable people with money. The four guys at the headquarters of the imperial capital are only slightly better than ordinary people. They are all low-level fighters who can't get along, so they can just make a living here-it's better than going to the street of the slave market to sell themselves.

But the bad thing is that Deron was ingenious a few days ago and used the vacant space in the headquarters of the association as a warehouse for rent, and the price was 30% lower than the rent of warehouses outside. This time, although it created income for the association, it blocked other people's business!

As a result, a few warehouse owners who were unhappy, brought a few hired thugs to the door to provoke...

Hearing this, Lao Yan and others behind Du Wei were stunned.

Go to... the headquarters of the Continental Knights Association to smash the scene?

Such a ridiculous thing actually happened? !

It's a pity that the few guys here are really not their opponents. The four poor "knights" were all injured. They were the soldiers of the public security station in the imperial capital after the old cripple Dove Jiling slipped out. It was only then that the thugs who came to smash the scene were driven away.

Du Wei swallowed hard, skipped this embarrassing matter, quickly changed the subject, and asked, "By the way, Your Excellency Deron. I really want to know more about the Knights of Roland's Sword... ..."

"The Sword of Roland?" Delong smiled, pointed to the surrounding towering walls, and said loudly: "The headquarters of the Knights Association in the imperial capital was in a glorious era. There are always 500 knights stationed here. That is the Sword of Roland The French Knights. This knight was originally responsible for guarding the spear of Longchinus here. Unfortunately, since the broken gun was lost, the age of knights has declined. Now, the so-called Knights of the Sword of Roland no longer exist. I'm the only one left...it's been like this for many generations. You see, the original knights lived in the ground floor on the west side, which can accommodate 500 people, and there is a stable at the back...the front is Martial arts training ground. It's a pity. Even my teacher has never seen such a splendid and lively scene in his life."

Du Wei pondered for a while: "Since we have decided to rebuild the Knights' Association, then the Knights of Roland's Sword, as the symbolic power of the Knights' Association, naturally have to be rebuilt!" Du Wei paused, then smiled: "Look, the Church has The Holy Knights. The magic union has a magician law enforcement team, so we, the Knights Association, can’t have nothing.”

"Yes! As long as I have money, I have no problem." Delong said slyly.

soon. The other guests that Du Wei made an appointment with finally arrived.

De Lanshan Warcraft. The Earl of Villa and the Deputy Minister of Military Affairs Camisiro rode in a carriage to the headquarters of the Knights Association. These three distinguished guests have just arrived here. I was also taken aback by the scene here. But Camisiro looked quite calm, as if he had been here before.

Just walked in. Watching three noble lords come in. Deron came up to greet him enthusiastically, but the old lame Dove poked out half of his head from the kitchen and rubbed his red rosacea. He muttered dissatisfiedly: "Hmph. There are three more freebies..."

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Several distinguished guests are used to extravagance on weekdays. How could the poor food at night catch the eyes of these people? Count Villa put down his glass after taking a sip of his wine. And Delanshan Warcraft, the big fat man, never picked up a knife and fork. After all, Camisiro had been in the army and ate a few bites.

Delong, on the other hand, let go of his bad image without any hesitation and ate it. His mouth was stuffed slowly, as if two balls were stuffed in his cheeks, and he greeted warmly from time to time: "Everyone, please don't be too polite! You are welcome!"

Du Wei knew that these three guys were waiting for their own explanation: why they suddenly rebuilt the Knights Association. .

However, Du Wei did not solve the mystery for the three of them, but quietly revealed a message: If you do this well, you will win the favor of the regent!

The way of officialdom lies in the subordinates flattering the superiors, not to mention the meaning of the number one boss in the empire?

Now that they understand that this is to please the regent, the few people don't care about the secrets--in many cases, it's better not to ask so clearly! They, who have been in the officialdom for many years, still understand this truth. Even Kamisiro, who is a little less experienced, after all joined the old prime minister's family, he was influenced by the old prime minister to create some cities.

Delan Mountain Warcraft immediately patted his chest, saying that to rebuild the Knights Association, his family will bear all the weapons and equipment needed, and provide them all for free-this promise is worth at least 100,000 gold coins! in Duvi

Here, under the Knights Association after the reconstruction in the future, there will be at least thousands of soldiers equipped with equipment that is naturally not comparable to ordinary cavalry! The equipment of thousands of knights is definitely worth 100,000 gold coins.

Although Du Wei is not short of 100,000 gold coins, he has other plans to join Ladlan Shan and others!

Count Villa thought for a moment, then smiled and said, "My family doesn't have much arms business, but there are still quite a few chambers of commerce in various parts of the mainland. In this way, if the association branches in various places want to renovate the clubhouse, I will Let the chamber of commerce in the family's locality assist more, and contribute money and effort, it's no problem."

Camisiro smiled. He and Du Wei are the closest in age, so he spoke more casually: "You guys, don't look at me! Although I am the Deputy Minister of Military Affairs now, my family background is far worse than yours. I really can’t afford much money. But in other respects, if Du Wei needs anything, I’ll do my best to help.”

He was telling the truth. It has only been less than three years since Camisiro has risen to the top. The family property is really no richer than the other two old guys, even if they are married to the old prime minister's family, the time is still short after all. I don't have much money in hand.

Du Wei said with a smile: "Of course I need your help! Lord Camisiro... um. What I need is a military license. There are some other things. You need to go to various places in the name of the military Announcement... I don't dare to bother those guys from the Government Affairs Bureau, the officials below are too slow in doing things, if I leave it to them, I'm afraid I may not be able to do it well next year!"

The three looked at Du Wei together: "What are you going to do?"

Du Wei flashed his eyes and said with a smile: "To rebuild the Knights Association, we must first revive the prestige of the Knights Association! If you have no faith, you will not stand! If you have no prestige, you will not stand! With prestige, the next thing will be easy! Everyone I'm not afraid to tell the truth, money. I'm not worried at all. But if you spend money to do this, this bottomless pit is still difficult to fill. We can't always rely on the few of us to support the Knights Association with our own pockets? Let the Knights The association has been brought back to life. It must first restore its prestige on the road!"

"Just say it straight. Du Wei, what are you going to do?"

All three of them had a look of trust. Having dealt with Du Wei for several years, the three of them knew very well that Du Wei always had a lot of wonderful ideas, and the three of them didn't know how much benefit they got from cooperating with him. The last time the hot air balloon airship was produced for the imperial military, the three companies made a lot of money.

Du Wei smiled and stretched out his finger. Dip it in a wine glass. Then he wrote a line on the desktop.

The three of them stretched out their heads, took a look, and couldn't help being stunned.

And Delong, holding a knife and fork in his hand. There is also a piece of beef hanging on it, see that line of writing. Also stunned.

I saw a line of big characters flying around on the table, which clearly read:

"The World's Number One Martial Arts Tournament!"

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That night, several people talked in the Knights Association until midnight. Only then did they leave one after another.

When Du Wei got drunk and rode away under the protection of the guards, Delong, who had fallen asleep on the table, sat up suddenly, his eyes bright at the moment. Where is the slightest drunkenness?

The old lame Dove limped and closed the door, turned and returned to the main hall, looking at Delong. He said in a rough voice: "My lord! If you have had enough, get out of the way. I have to clean up! It's already midnight, don't be afraid. My old bone still wants to sleep!"

Deron smiled and stood up: "Dove, do you think it will be successful this time?"

Old Dove gave him a sideways glance: "Why did you throw that knight's spear to that Tulip Duke? It's a sacred object of the association!"

Delong curled his lips: "I gave it to him because it was a holy object... Think about it, we only have two or three big cats and kittens here, so how can we have the energy to keep such a valuable thing here? I lost it to him, and I was much happier."

After a pause, he suddenly smiled: "But this Du Wei is really an interesting and wonderful person."

"Hmph! Are you tempted?" Dove said lightly, "You have been nesting in this crappy place for so many years, are your bones itchy?"

"Forget it." Delong shook his head and stretched his waist: "I have been lazy for so many years, and I really don't want to move anymore! It's not bad to just eat and die like this."

As he spoke, he looked up to the sky and laughed, and staggered to the back to sleep. Before leaving, he glanced at the line "No. 1 Martial Arts Tournament in the World" written by Du Wei on the table with wine...

The wine has dried up, the bright red liquid has solidified on the table, and the handwriting is bright red...

Delong froze for a moment, a smile appeared on the corner of his mouth, and suddenly stretched out his hand...

There was a ray of light on his palm, and the palm passed by on the table. In an instant, that line of words disappeared completely, without leaving any traces!

Turning around, he waved his hand, laughed and said, "Go to sleep, my dear Dove, I still have a lot of work tomorrow! Tomorrow, several families will come to drag away all the things in the warehouse outside... That's It's a laborious job."

Old Dove watched Delong enter the back door, but looked at the sky outside, and suddenly muttered in a low voice: "The world's number one martial arts tournament...huh, interesting!"

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In the morning of the next day, the imperial military used the method of expediting the military's emergency report, and countless horses and cavalry from the imperial capital left the imperial capital in separate ways, and galloped away in all directions and all parts of the mainland!

Their task is to send a circular to various places, and then send it to the place by the fast horses of the military layer by layer...

The content of this announcement is astonishingly:

"In order to revive the martial spirit of the empire! It is scheduled to be held after March, which is the second day of the new year, in the imperial capital to hold the first martial arts competition in the world! To promote the martial spirit of my Roland mainland! Those who are confident can go to the headquarters of the Imperial Capital Continental Knights Association ten days before the conference to register!

In this conference, a champion will be selected, who will be bestowed the title of the number one warrior in the mainland by His Royal Highness the Regent of the Empire himself! And conferred the post of head of the Knights of Roland's Sword! And give a set of golden knight armor, one hundred thousand gold coins!

At the same time, the top 50 in the conference can all be selected into the ranks of Roland's Sword Knights! Everyone was given a set of silver knight armor and 10,000 gold coins!

Other outstanding ones have the opportunity to be selected to serve in the main battle army of the Empire!

All knights who are selected as the Knights of Roland's Sword will swear allegiance to the Knights Association and become the guardians of the Lance of Longchinus!

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This long announcement was quickly passed on to all parts of the mainland.

It is conceivable that this news swept across Roland Continent like a whirlwind, causing a frenzy! ! .