Chapter 141 Prison Visit Fees

The mist rises and the aroma of meat overflows.

"Haha, done!" David cheered and sprinkled a handful of red powder into the pot.

In the cold season, there is nothing more enjoyable than eating a spicy hot pot. Ever since Josiah popularized this method, the hotpot trend has immediately sprung up in the area. However, the gray clothes army's supplies are really limited. The auxiliary vegetables can be replaced by wild vegetables, but sliced ​​meat is difficult to deal with.

This was also the reason why David and the others immediately became confused after seeing the horses in front of the station. As for why they had to choose Philip's carriage to start with, it was because they had eaten this variety before, so they looked familiar and started without hesitation.

"Well, fufu, that's how it tastes. It's so refreshing, fufu... this horse meat is really good!" David ignored the hot meat slices and gulped it down while commenting.

"Well, after we finish eating, let's go back and drag the remaining horses over." Harry nodded repeatedly, then rolled his eyes and made suggestions.

"Haha, you can consider this!"

“Strongly agree!”

... Tang En stroked his forehead on the side. Why did he feel like he had cultivated a bunch of thieves now... "Wow, this smell... is very fragrant."

Um? Everyone who was eating horse meat turned around and saw a richly dressed young man walking towards them with his nose twitching.

noble? The people wearing this kind of attire among the Gray Army must be the nobles who came to negotiate.

"Hi, everyone, my name is Philip!" Zilaisu introduced briefly, and Philip kept staring at the rolling red soup. "What is this? It looks delicious!"

Tang En touched his nose: "This is hot pot."

"Hot pot? I've never heard of it, but the name is quite appropriate." After saying that, Phillip sat casually on the ground next to Tang En, regardless of his luxurious clothes.

"Uh, where are the knives and forks?"

The Gray Space members looked at each other, and David curled his lips: "Why should I give it to you?"

"Uh, don't be like this, I am also a guest after all!" Philip spread his hands and smiled.

Mi Xiu on the side looked cold: "There are many kinds of guests, and we don't welcome bad guests!"

Philip didn't take it seriously, but still shrugged and said calmly: "You should give a glass of water to a bad guest. Besides, even a prisoner on the gallows will have a good meal."

David became impatient: "Want to eat? Okay. Buy it with money, one piece of meat for one gold coin!"

Just as Bran officially said that the Gray Army was a mob, everyone in the Gray Army did not have a good impression of the nobles. One gold coin and one piece of meat, which is of course absurd, and the rejection is obvious.

Phillip didn't seem to think this request was too much, and said cheerfully: "Ha, I told you earlier, this is what you should do!"

Uh, are all nobles so rich? David suddenly had the urge to change one gold coin to two...no, five gold coins. In fact, David still underestimated the true value of this horse. This kind of purebred horse has a price but no market. Even if an ordinary noble wants to buy it, he can't find a way... But Philip took a look. Behind his pocket, he stretched out his empty hand and scratched his hair: "Well, can you pay the debt first? I'll pay you back later."

Of course Phillip is not short of money, but having money does not mean that he has money with him. Paying bills is the job of the housekeeper.

"Haha, you are boasting. If you don't have money, just say it." David mocked mercilessly.

"Hey, I have it!" Philip took off the sapphire blue ring on his hand and handed it over, "I can use this to pay the bill."

David took it and looked around: "You want this broken stone... eh?"

Harry pulled him from behind, looking at the ring with bright eyes, his mind spinning at an extremely fast frequency.

"Stone? This is a sapphire!" Philip opened his mouth and said helplessly.

A sapphire, one of the finest diamonds, with Philip's color and purity, coupled with the master-level craftsmanship of this ring, has a market price of at least fifty thousand gold coins.

"It's not just a stone!" David curled his lips, but after seeing Harry's anxious look, he reluctantly nodded: "Okay, this counts as five gold coins."

As a lesson from heaven and earth, for David, five gold coins was really an incredible sum of money.

The calculating Harry at the back was stunned, and then looked at David with admiration, "You are cruel, you are more suitable to be a profiteer than me."

"Five gold coins? Come on, why does this cost 50,000 gold coins!" Philip was also shocked by David's domineering bargaining, and then said dissatisfied.

"Fifty-five-five, fifty thousand?" David opened his mouth wide and looked at the other party with contempt, "You are insulting my IQ!"

Wipe... Harry's face was filled with tears. He felt like his IQ had been shattered to pieces!

After some haggling, the two finally settled the deal for fifteen gold coins. At this point, David kept mumbling and let Philip take advantage of him.

Upon seeing this, Tang En talked for a long time and thought to himself, should I let David take charge of the team's funds... Here, Phillip finally got his wish and ate hot pot meat slices.

"Hmm, um, um..." Hot pot is still extremely lethal to those who eat it for the first time. Philip praised it full of praise, "It's delicious, haha, it's so refreshing. It's even better now that I have some wine. Ha ha……"

The iron pot is so big that if several people share it, the meat slices inside will be destroyed quickly.

"Where's the meat? Put it in more." Philip, who had just become addicted to eating, urged urgently.

"What's the rush? You've already finished your fifteen slices." David shook his head as he took the horse leg and cut off the meat.

"No, why didn't I eat so much just now...eh?" Philip, who was trying to please and defend himself, was suddenly startled, pointing at the white-haired horse's legs and stammering, "Horse, horse, horse, horse..."

"It's just a horse, why don't you eat horse meat?"

"That's my horse!" Philip roared suddenly.

...The members of Gray Space, including Tang En, were all stunned. Damn it, why are you so accurate? The master of suffering comes to your door so quickly? And they just took someone else's horse and openly asked for money... Huo... Phillip stood up, his expression changing.

David and the others also stood up instantly. At this moment, a dozen daggers had slipped to their cuffs. After all, the beloved horse was killed, and no one knew whether the other party would suddenly attack.

"Good kill! It's so delicious! It's so damn worth it!"

...If they were stunned just now, now Tang En and the others are completely dumbfounded. Who the hell is this guy... "You cut the meat into slices." After leaving these words, Phillip ran back, "No stealing is allowed. , I’ll get a bottle of wine!”

...... Philip here is completely out of business, but his role in the negotiating team is originally dispensable, so in the afternoon, the negotiations started as usual.

After adapting and running in in the morning, negotiations at this time are most likely to produce results. This is indeed the case. In the afternoon, a preliminary plan was made for 70,000 kilograms of rice and 80,000 kilograms of flour, totaling 150,000 kilograms of grain.

Of course, this is only a preliminary draft and may fluctuate later due to the trade-offs of other conditions. But no matter what, these 100,000 kilograms of grain and grass are almost ready to enter the gray army warehouse.

Losa and the others are satisfied with this result. In fact, their original goal was to get 100,000 kilograms, but now there are so many more, and they feel like they have been hit by a pie.

As for the expressions of the old nobles, they were a bit complicated, not because of the food, but because of certain people.

"Haha, it's getting dark now. If you don't mind, you can stay for dinner before leaving." After achieving such a result, Luo Sha was in a good mood and tried to persuade the other party to stay.

"Uh, thank you, no need. Let's go after visiting the juniors."

"That's no problem. You have paid for the visit and the prison visit fee, haha..." Luosha agreed with a spring breeze on his face.

Visiting fees... The corners of the eyes of the old nobles twitched and they couldn't help but glance at the cold and charming Josiah behind them.

Damn, how did you come up with this idea? We have lived for most of our lives and have never heard of prison visit fees... In fact, these old nobles are still very confident about the afternoon negotiations. After all, the experience is there, how can it be impossible to defeat these country bumpkins?

But they soon discovered that the pace of negotiations was completely controlled by the other party, or to be precise, by a young man and woman named Josiah and Borg.

The beautiful girl was as calm and sharp as she looked. When the afternoon negotiations fell into a passive position, they were ready to use some usual methods, such as avoiding the important and taking the easy one, or deliberately changing the topic to disrupt the other party's speech rhythm. This is very familiar to them who often attend parliament. Given a cup of tea, they can talk for hours without repeating themselves, and of course, there is no substance at all.

But this time it didn't work, because every time at this time, the girl who had been silent would stand up, or speak a few words, or point to the center, and quickly bring the topic back to the negotiation.

This method is undoubtedly rough. If it were at any other time, this negotiation would have collapsed long ago. But this negotiation is different. The other party has the absolute initiative. If it breaks down, they will be the ones to repair the relationship painfully in the end, and even pay the price for it.

Moreover, the beautiful woman named Josiah had a very strange mind. When they asked to visit the unlucky descendants, she actually asked for the visiting fee, and also listed a lot of reasons for protection, accommodation, food, etc. It sounded like they all felt that it would be unreasonable to refuse to pay... After being disrupted several times, the young man named Borg took advantage of the situation, gave various data in detail, and finally settled on the preliminary compensation for food. .

This group of old nobles also realized their problem at this time, which was that they didn't pay enough attention.

The excuses that were originally raised, such as the lack of materials in the legion and the shortage of food in the north, were all blocked by Borg with various rigorous data, and in the end they were left speechless.

When this happens, it is obvious that the other party has spent a lot of time preparing for this negotiation. Relatively speaking, they knew little about the situation of the Gray Army. After the bribery plan that they first used as a trump card failed, they fell into a completely passive state.

The afternoon negotiation lasted only a few hours, but it was definitely their most painful negotiation experience. They couldn't remember how many times they took out their handkerchiefs to wipe the sweat from their foreheads when they were being pricked by acupuncture.

After leaving the tent, feeling the cold evening breeze blowing on their faces, they all felt a sense of relief... "Well, here we are, right here!" Luo Sha said, pointing to the only wooden house in the camp in front of them.

Bolette touched the several-foot-thick wooden board and looked at the wooden house with no gaps except for a small window. He became furious and said, "Is this the accommodation you provide? This is simply a wild boar shack."

"Your Excellency Sir Bollet!"

Bolette's eyelids twitched as he watched the beautiful girl walk out again.

"It's cold in the north. The wild boar shack you mentioned can perfectly resist any cold wind and maintain the indoor temperature." Josiah curled up his lips slightly and showed a smile. "Besides, this is also for safety reasons. Oh, by the way, you guys I don’t know yet. Three days ago, a group of bandits with bad intentions broke in and even injured the finger of a noble young man. So for this reason, we specially built this absolutely solid wooden house to ensure their safety."

"..." Several old nobles couldn't help but feel silent for a while when they heard the girl's emphasis on "you don't know yet". Of course they know what those "robbers with bad intentions" are about... "Uh, grandfather? Save me, grandfather!"

"Uncle, I can't stand it anymore, please get me out quickly, wuwu..."

"Speak, please speak quickly..."

In the small window, the pale faces of aristocratic young men, either fearful and ferocious, or crying bitterly, appeared in turn. They really couldn't stand it anymore. Except for the light that appeared every time the meals were brought in, the hut was completely dark at all other times.

No one interrogated, no one asked questions, not even the person who delivered the meal said a word. And because it is so well sealed, there are no cockroaches, rats, or ants... at all.

Nothing but darkness, darkness. Except silence, still silence. Except for the heartbeat, everything here is frozen, even time... After being held here for two days, they racked their brains to talk about all their memories, even some of the unethical behavior deep in their hearts about climbing into the bed of their father's mistress. Come out... There is no doubt that this was Tang En's idea. Since they can't torture their bodies, they have to change their minds... Those old nobles can't understand the pain of confinement. They just think that these younger generations can't bear this kind of humiliation, so they all comfort them with gentle words, but they all respond. It's a crazy roar.

After a moment, bang - a soldier closed the wooden window expressionlessly, and all the noise disappeared.

The old nobles were stunned, not yet fully waking up from those deafening roars. Turning around, looking at Luo Sha spreading his hands, he left without saying a word.

They knew that it was impossible for the other party to open the wooden window again, unless of course they were willing to pay the expensive prison visit fee.