A Tale of Strategies For the Throne - 145. Chapter 145

Cass is a squad leader in Twyllur City.

In Aaron Landis, whether it is a city guard guarding the city or a corps fighting on the battlefield, the most basic is the squad. A squad is equipped with about a dozen to twenty soldiers. The leader of the squad calls it the team rate. .

In the city of Tweeul, he can be said to be an unknown team, and he has to nod and bow to his boss every day.

However, relying on nepotism, he hugged the thigh of the city gate chief, and did not need to work hard every day to guard the city gate or patrol the streets. The Lord of the City is a very strict person, and he has strict control over his subordinates. Soldiers are forbidden to disturb the people at will. There is no oil and water in doing these things.

And now, the chief of the city gate has handed over the taxation of some of the surrounding villages and towns to him.

This is a lot of oil and water, especially when soldiers like them have to hang their tails in the city. When they go out of the city to small villages and towns, they can be presumptuous and domineering. After all, the power to collect taxes is in his hands, and he doesn’t dare to talk too much, forgiving these mud legs.

Due to the slight movement a while ago, the area of Twyllur was lightly hit, so the taxation situation in the past two months is not very good. Cass’s thigh gate guard is also in a bad mood, and has been urging Cass to collect taxes as soon as possible in the lot he is responsible for recently.

Of course, the thigh’s order must be done with all your heart. The Cass team led a small group to start collecting taxes in the villages and towns he was responsible for without saying a word.

As for collecting more taxes than collecting less, it mainly depends on Cass’ mood.

If you are in a good mood, you will only charge a little more than the prescribed tax. If you are in a bad mood, then you will double the tax.

Of course, the extra part is naturally to fill his own pockets. Anyway, as long as the tax is paid in full, his thighs will not be overly concerned about other things.

After all, this is also commonly known as an agreement.

It is said that this small village where Cass is collecting taxes, originally looked at the poor search and found nothing, and planned to pay less, but the people here were ignorant and annoyed him.

Isn’t it just looking at the little girl who served him tea, she looked pretty watery, touched it, and then she screamed and splashed hot water on her body.

OK!

Not obedient, right?

I was too lazy to do anything, but as soon as the anger came up, Cass unceremoniously doubled the tax directly.

The village chief said tremblingly that the village was too poor. It suffered a disaster not long ago. He really couldn’t pay that much. He asked him to reduce taxes a little. After selling it to deduct the tax, the girl who splashed him with water just now naturally bears the brunt.

At this moment, the whole village was shocked. The families of the girls who were arrested desperately pleaded desperately, holding their children firmly and refused to let go, and many people knelt on the ground and begged the soldiers.

Some soldiers showed unbearable expressions on their faces. They looked at Cass and were severely reprimanded by Cass, and had to harden their hearts to force the girls away.

In the midst of the chaos, Cass, who was holding his hands and standing aside, sneered at the group of lowly civilians who were kneeling and begging for mercy. He didn’t notice the hostility on the faces of the middle-aged men in the village. Stare at him.

The nearby villages are close to the mountains, and many people live by hunting. Compared with other flat towns, the folkway is stronger and the body stronger. If they can survive, even if they just barely make ends meet, these guys will be honest. However, they suffered a disaster a while ago. It was a difficult time when life was difficult. These soldiers still ignored their lives and forced their relatives to force their relatives. They are already on the verge of breaking out.

The cry was getting louder and louder, an old woman who was holding her daughter tightly was kicked away by the soldier, and fell to the ground, her arm was bloodied by the stone, and the young girl who was dragged away was also miserable. Crying.

In the crowd, a strong man dressed as a hunter could no longer cover up the hostility in his eyes. He stepped forward and touched the hunting bow behind him with his hand.

At this moment, there was a sudden sound of horseshoes, breaking the noise here.

Everyone looked over there subconsciously, and saw a blond boy trotting over from the road on horseback.

When he ran here to see them, the boy stopped and looked at them.

“What are you doing?”

The young man looked at them with a curious look, as if he had never seen this scene before, so he felt it was very rare.

Cass, who originally wanted to warn the passer-by not to be nosy, didn’t care when he heard the young man’s curious tone that seemed to be watching a play.

Although this young man is pretty good-looking, no matter how good-looking he is, he is still a man. He has no interest. Also, judging from the appearance of the young man, he was raised quite tenderly, and the family should have a little family background.

“These guys resist taxes and don’t pay.” He casually responded, “It’s just a bunch of spoilers, you’d better leave it alone.”

Cass just doesn’t want to be troublesome, but if this young man is really just about to get involved in nosy, he won’t back down.

Moreover, looking at this boy’s attire, it doesn’t seem to be more powerful. It is estimated that there is only a little money in the family. If the other party dares to do something, he will directly grab this naive little boy together, just to hit hard. A sum of money in the kid’s house.

“Is that so?”

The young man showed a look of enlightenment, then shook his head and sighed.

“The state has stipulated taxes. Since you are protected by the state, you must pay taxes in accordance with the rules. How can you do things like tax resistance? This is against the law of the state.”

He seemed to be angry, and rebuked in a high-pitched tone. That kind of tone is very similar to the nobleman who eats meat, faintly revealing a bit of arrogance.

Then he looked at Cass.

“They resisted taxes because you didn’t do well. If you don’t punish them properly, you are also responsible.”

The teenager spoke with an obvious domineering tone, and this tone seemed to be taken for granted.

Caston was upset when he was suddenly scolded by a kid like that, and opened his mouth to scold him.

However, he hadn’t spoken yet, the young man riding on the horse seemed to raise his hand casually, and lifted a strand of blond hair from his forehead behind his ears.

Cass stared suddenly.

When the young man lifted the blond hair that fell in front of his ears to the back of his ears, the bright sunlight illuminated his long golden hair, and the reflected light reflected the emerald green on the young man’s earlobes in a tender and eye-catching way.

Malachite… earrings?

Cass was stunned.

But his brain started to revolve quickly.

Although this blond boy dressed ordinary, but, the tone of speech, the style of that suit… The most important thing is that the earrings carved from malachite…

This is definitely not an ordinary person!

Definitely a noble!

And it’s not an ordinary little nobleman.

You know, even if ordinary aristocrats can get such a precious gemstone as malachite, they don’t dare to wear it at will——

Almost all the precious stones that symbolize the major gods are engraved in the bottom of their hearts by the Aaron Landis people.

Even if he couldn’t wear it, he had secretly fantasized about it since he was a child, so Cass recognized it at a glance.

Reminiscing about the young boy’s arrogant look that seemed to be concealed but was obviously cultivated since childhood, and the condescending attitude of scolding people, Cass secretly guessed in his heart.

This seemingly ordinary boy is probably the playful young boy of a noble family who deliberately dressed up and ran out like this.

After all, those young aristocratic children read more adventure novels, and they dream about going out for adventure or something.

When I thought about it this way, Caston became nervous.

He thought carefully about whether he was impolite just now, and what was wrong in answering the boy’s words.

At this moment, the young man glanced contemptuously at the circle of civilians and spoke again.

“As the people of Aaron Landis, they resist taxes. This behavior is really shameful. You will arrest them all for me and put them in jail. I will tell Uncle Cannelius…”

As if he realized that he had missed his mouth, the boy coughed, as if to cover up something.

“…Will tell the lord of Twyllul about their guilt and punish them severely.”

Canine…Uncle?

The team was stunned.

Canine, this is the name of Lord Twyerul!

This young man can actually call out his name, yet he calls it so intimately?

This this this-

and many more.

What did this noble young master say?

Say you want to tell Lord Santos about this?

Cass’s heart was agitated.

no!

His boss, the guard of the city gate, opened his eyes and closed his eyes. He didn’t care about the people below who were fishing for oil and water, but the lord of the city was an upright person who handled things upright and treated people strictly. Once the city lord knew about it, he sent someone to investigate. …

“No, wait, this little master, it’s not like this, it’s not like this.”

Cass’ cold sweat has come down, and he quickly steps forward to explain to the boy.

However, he used the honorific name to make the young man stare unhappy.

“Don’t bark, I’m not a young master, I’m just a bard!”

Bah, how can a bard have your style.

Cass slandered in his heart, the young man denied it so firmly, and made him believe that this was the playful young master of which noble family.

He leaned over and laughed with him.

“Yes, yes, this… bard, in fact, these tricks… no, these civilians have paid most of them, and there is only a little left. I just scare them and let them pay the tax. It’s just to get together.”

He was suffocated badly.

Originally, I wanted to teach this group of unsophisticated people a good meal, but now I am unlucky to meet such a ignorant noble child. Not only can I not teach them, but I have to help them speak nice things.

“Actually, it is not easy for their family to suffer a disaster because of the recent earth movement nearby.” He laughed and said to the young man, “Look, you have to catch all of these things and be alarmed. Is it a bit too late for Lord City Lord?”

“Suffered?”

The boy blinked and thought for a while.

He said, “Well, although not paying taxes is not in compliance with the national law, but since the disaster has been hit, it can be considered excusable.”

“Yeah, yeah, it was a disaster.” Cass said quickly, “I scared them a while ago. They have already paid up the remaining taxes. When you came over, I was planning to let them go.”

“So…”

The boy nodded slightly.

Cass smiled fondly at the boy and relaxed.

This relaxed, and the tense and stiff brain began to turn again.

He suddenly felt something was wrong.

Even if a noble young master disguised himself and came out to play, the elders could not rest assured that such an innocent young master who had never experienced the world would go on the road alone.

It’s impossible to have no servants.

Cass thought this in his heart, and his thoughts turned, his eyes darkened. He looked up at the earrings on the boy’s ears, and raised his hand to grab the reins of the horse that the boy was riding.

He opened his mouth to try a few more words, and suddenly, a cold wind came.

I saw a sharp arrow shot from a distance, and inserted between the hand that Cass extended and the rein that was about to touch.

The tip of the arrow even pierced Cass’ fingertips, then puffed and plunged into the tree behind him.

As soon as Cass turned his head, he was in a cold sweat, and saw that most of the sharp arrow was submerged in the hard trunk, showing the terrifying force.

If the arrow was aimed at his head, he would be dead at the moment.

He turned his head again and saw a young man dressed as a bard galloping from a distance.

The young man was still holding a bow in his hands, and it was obvious that the terrible arrow just now was shot by the young man.

“Presumptuous guy!”

As soon as the black-haired young man arrived, he yelled at Cass.

“How dare you approach—”

He seemed to want to say something, but he swallowed it halfway through.

He said, “Humble fellow! Get out now!”

The young man’s eyes seemed to grow above his head, looking down at them condescendingly, with a pretentious look.

However, as soon as he turned his head and saw the boy, his arrogant attitude immediately softened, showing a flattering smile.

“Little master, I’ll wait a minute, so how can you go first.”

He said nervously, “Fortunately, you are fine, if there is a case, how would you tell me to explain to…?”

When he saw Shuros come out suddenly, Garlan’s eyes flashed with astonishment.

When Shuros said so, he immediately reacted, pretending to be impatient.

“Okay, let’s talk about it every day, just like an old man, it’s so annoying.”

He pointed to Cass and said, “This guy is not bad, I think he is very dedicated to his duties, and at any rate it is also Canine… the subordinate of the city lord, what are you doing to scare him?”

The black-haired youth who was smiling at the young man returned to his arrogant attitude when his gaze fell on Cass.

However, Cass dared not say anything at all.

There was some suspicion just now, but when he saw that this young man with amazing archery skills turned out to be the young man’s servant, he suddenly had no doubts.

He stood there with low eyebrows pleasing to the eye, looking very honest.

The young man glanced at him, seemed impatient to talk to Cass, and casually threw a dozen silver coins of Aaron to him.

“Okay, there is nothing to do with you here. This is the medical expenses that I hurt you. You can go.”

Cass caught the silver coin, exuberant. He also got the money, got a conversation with a nobleman, and was praised by the other party. He was in a great mood. He completely forgot the group of villagers. He nodded and bowed, leading the group of soldiers. We are gone.

Halfway down the road, he secretly looked back.

He saw that some of the civilians seemed to come forward and wanted to talk to the blond boy, but the boy didn’t even look at the group of civilians. He held his head proudly, turned his horse’s head and walked on his own.

The black-haired young man followed closely behind the young man, and ignored the group of civilians.

Seeing this, Cass no longer doubted, and led the soldiers on the road back to the city.

A man stepped forward and held the old man in his hand.

The old man was just the civilian who had just stepped forward to talk to Garlan, but was not taken care of. The man gave the two men who had left on horseback angrily, and his face was full of anger.

“All of them are the same. They don’t take us seriously. So does that noble young master—”

“Shut up, what do you know.”

The old man shouted.

He remembered the look that the blond boy took a deep look before he left. It was a pair of eyes that were as clean as a sunny sky.

He sighed, “That young master is saving us…”

“Huh? Save us? Just like him?”

“You can’t see it, so the team leader didn’t see it either.”

“But if he wants to help us, can’t he just order the group of soldiers to stop?”

“Fool, if he did that, he would be able to save us at that time, but the anger of the team and the adults will be scattered on us, and when he is gone, we will suffer in the end.”

After the old man finished speaking, he looked up at the back of the blond boy who was about to disappear in the distance, and muttered: “I don’t know which aristocratic young master, he has a good heart, and is so smart… The gods will definitely bless him.”

At this moment, the two who had already left were talking while riding forward.

“I said you, the arrogant and self-righteous young master, performed well~”

“Your dog legs are also well-behaved.”

“Hahahahaha, after all, acting is my job-but it’s just acting, it’s completely different from my nature.”

Shuros carefully reiterated that he was aware of his personality.

“…I thought you would go.”

“Well, let’s put it this way, I’m watching from behind. If you rushed up when you lifted the sword, I would turn my head and run away from you so as not to get involved.”

Shuroston gave a moment, and cast his lips down.

“But it’s not a good deal. The silver coins you gave me are gone, and you have to pick up more. Hey~ I can’t eat a big meal.”

“I will pay you back.”

Suddenly remembering something, Gallan sighed.

“But, in this way, we can’t enter the city.”

As soon as you enter the city, if you collide with that team of soldiers, you will be exposed.

“There is no way, let’s go directly to Tweelul Mountain, and when we finish watching there, we will go directly to other cities. At that time, you can invite me to have a meal.”

“Okay~”

Gallan laughed, smiling happily.

“Hey, it’s a pity that in this way, the beauties of Twyllul City can’t appreciate the beauty of Aaron Landis’ first handsome bard.”

Shuros raised his hand and stroked the black hair that fell on his cheek, and said regretfully.

“……You just want to be happy.”

Just in this conversation between you and me, two horses are galloping in the wind.

By the time the night fell, the two had already set foot in the area of Tweelul Mountain.

It is indeed a prestigious scenic spot, with lush woods, greenery everywhere, and clear mountain springs flowing in it. When the night wind passed by, the dense tree canopy rustled.

Even in the night, the scenery is extremely beautiful.

When Garlan was riding a horse in the mountain path, suddenly he caught a glimpse of something passing by from the corner of his eye.

He turned his head and saw that there was a dense forest, and there was nothing quietly under the bright moonlight.

“What’s wrong?”

Seeing him slow down, Shuros asked.

“I seem to see a white shadow in the woods over there…”

Shuros looked over.

“Nothing?”

The bard is extremely confident in his eyesight, even in the dark, he can see everything clearly.

At this time he looked into the forest, but there was nothing but trees.

“Well, I probably read it wrong.”

Gallan retracted his gaze.

Probably just the white light refracted by moonlight.

he thinks.