Law of the Devil

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(Chapter 1 today)

Chapter 573 [Other Courts]

This is a remote little place, a town, a few hundred households, just over a thousand people, a few dozen kilometers from the empire.

This town is called Jumphorse Town. And next to the town is a strangely shaped hillside, a narrow valley in the middle, which cut the original hillside in half —— and locally, this hillside has a name that once made Dewey spit blood: Broken Back Mountain.

This is a very remote place, and if you look at the official map of the Empire, you have to be careful and careful to find the sign of the place. It produces neither valuable minerals nor is it geographically located far from the commercial road.

The only road outside the town, along this road for about an hour, can reach the official road to Didu, and then if you run on horseback, you may reach Didu in a day.

If you walk… it will take more than two days.

There doesn't even seem to be any famous big characters in history. A town like this, of course, is rarely known. Jumping town status is like that little thing on the map...

Of course, no one knows that this unknown town is home to Gandhof, the greatest magician and master of continental magic in two centuries.

Small-town folk style is even simple, and many people have lived together for generations as neighbors. There is only one tavern, two tailors and two grocery stores in the whole town.

Such an inconspicuous little place, without even its own religious house, the followers of the town, often even had to drive a carriage and walk for hours to pray at the nearest religious place in the city of Tiduwei.

Most of the inhabitants of the town are farmers, but every year during the rural leisure time, there are also some very powerful villagers who go to Didu, or a bustling guard city around Didu, to find a shorthand driver to earn some extra lumps and subsidize the household.

Without the accidental intervention of Dewey, it could be said that the town was a desolate and impoverished country.

But just about six months ago, a noble lord in Chinese clothes, said to be from Teito, arrived here in a beautiful carriage. The master paid a courteous visit to the mayor and talked to him all afternoon.

Finally, the mayor convened a meeting of all the inhabitants of the town to announce in public an exciting event:

The Duke of Tulip, the most prominent and powerful figure in the empire, decided to “invest” in this remote town - although most villagers did not know what “invest” meant, even the mayor did not understand. But it doesn't matter, because the noble lord from Teito, who calls himself Lord Tulip Duke, is named Mr. Zach Jr.

He announced that on behalf of the Tulip family, he would pay to buy the entire Broken Back Mountain! The official land buying and selling procedures of the Empire have been completed.

As for purchasing the entire back of the mountain, a portion of it will be divided equally among all the inhabitants of Jumphorse Town, with two silver coins for everyone.

The matter was immediately warmly welcomed by all residents.

Though you don't know what attracts the Duke of Tulip to the mountain behind the town —— it's a hillside that has no minerals at all, and apart from the woods on the hill, there are only stones and nothing else of value.

On behalf of the Tulip Family, Jr. Zach announced publicly that after purchasing the entire Broken Back Mountain, from this moment on, Broken Back Mountain is a private territory belonging to the Tulip Family, and no one is allowed to walk into Broken Back Mountain at will!

The grass and trees of the mountains, even inches of land, are sacred property of the Tulip family.

Well... you have no objection, because this order has little effect on people: except for some of the husbands who live off the wood in the mountains. But there are other woods around, just a little detour in the future. There's only one hunter in this town, and they won't be able to hunt in the mountains in the future —— that's okay, because the mountain is not big enough to find anything but rabbits or chickens, not to mention wolves, not even foxes!

Moreover, the Duchess of Tulips is particularly keen, and he runs a workshop in the town, close to purchasing food from farmers in the town to make wine. The factory also recruited a lot of people from the town to give them jobs.

This is indeed a good thing, and for a long period of time the inhabitants of Jumper Town have been very rich and everyone praises Lord Tulip for his kindness and grace.

In the next few months, soon, 300 heavily armed cavalry arrived in town!

Most of these villagers, who have not seen the world, have seen the men correcting the anger, riding the horses, wearing bright armor, the mighty cavalry, are shocked. And the cavalry soon drove to the back of Mount Broken Back.

Later, in barely a month, a new manor emerged in the back hills.

Built according to the mountain, the estate is in a great location, easy to guard and attack, and the rear mountain is large, the running horse is not a problem, and to get in, you have to go through the valley in the middle of the broken back mountain.

During that time, strangers often appeared in the town, all from the Tulip family. More than 500 Tulip family private troops arrived here.

Outside news, it is said that the Duchess of Tulip has taken a sight of the scenery, and he built a separate courtyard behind the broken mountain, which he used to come to spend his vacation time in the future.

Well, most villagers, you can't guess the mind of a big man like the Duke of Tulip. Anyway, I got enough in my pocket. Anyway, who cares?

Besides, with so many people from outside, the Tulip family lived in the back mountains, and they always had to eat and drink. On weekdays, they brought a lot of consumption to the town, making it more and more prosperous.

However, the Tulip family seems to have bigger rules.

From that time onwards, on the broken back hill behind the town, there have been Tulip family samurai patrolling back and forth, and no one is allowed to approach the hillside again.

There were once townspeople trying to get close, the first time they were politely driven away, and the second time this cheap greedy man tried to sneak into the mountains to cut wood - because it would take a long way to cut wood elsewhere. As a result, soldiers of the Tulip family patrolling the mountain were unnecessarily tied up and thrown into the town.

No one in town sympathized with the pimp because he had two silver coins for selling the mountain! Now that you've taken the money, of course, you can't just run off to people's land.

The vast majority of people in this town are still very simple.

The other courtyard of the Tulip family in the back mountain, surrounded by a high fence wall, built on the hills, in addition to soldier patrols on the mountains, surrounded by cavalry patrol teams rotating on a daily basis - this level of defense seems to be a little overwhelming, because the Duchess of Tulip has never been here on vacation.

It seems unnecessary to guard an empty courtyard. So people in the village often secretly speculate that the Duke raised some mistress here or something... Isn't this unusual in the aristocracy?

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In other courtyards, the walls of the tall courtyard are flat grasslands, one wooden simple building in the middle is evicted in just a month, and every day, every piece of the wooden shed will hear a scream like a young beast.

To cover up this sound, outside the estate, Little Zach built a row of stables to feed the horses.

In the evening of the day, the estate finally welcomed its true owner.

Instead of a big banner drum, Dewey arrived at the estate in a very simple carriage with a small group of guards.

As the carriage entered the estate, Dewey was very pleased with the vigilance of the defenses around the area.

At the time of entering the valley, a dark post had been arranged on the hillside on either side, and if the enemy had broken through, the dark post on the hillside on both sides would have fired a strong crossbow! More than a dozen strong crossbows arranged on both sides can blow a carriage to pieces in a very short time! And guardian archers, even hundreds of people trying to break in, will definitely be set up as hedgehogs!

Below, there are also a hundred elite cavalry patrols of the Tulip family, all mobilized by Dewey from the northwest, the true elite of the Tulip family, whose origins and family background have been scrutinized and who are absolutely loyal to the Tulip family.

Even these guardian teams can only be stationed on the outskirts of this estate and are not allowed inside!

So, what's the secret in this estate, even these soldiers don't know.

When the carriage entered the estate and finally parked next to a small building stacked with stones, Little Zach had turned over his horse for the first time, came to the carriage and opened the carriage door himself.

Thereafter, Dewey's guard elder cigarette took Dewey off the carriage and placed him in a ready wheelchair.

In the winter, Dewey was covered in a thick leather robe with a mink scarf, covering his face with a small half, sitting in a wheelchair and a thick blanket on his leg.

Looks like he really fits in with a seriously ill person.

But only he knows how ridiculous this outfit is.

He's seriously ill, but he's not so weak at all - on the contrary, I'm afraid he's never been better! His whole body was full of elasticity and strength. Even in the winter, he wouldn't feel a little cold in his close-fitting little coat. His face is red, and the whole person's health is appalling if they look purely on the surface!

But he had to wrap himself in a blanket and pretend to be seriously ill.

Because he's paralyzed.

In order not to cause more trouble with your tongue - it is difficult to explain to others why you are brightly reddish and glossy but are incapable of moving your body. The muscles are full of life and elasticity, but you can't even lift your arms.

In the palace, Prince Chen has recently summoned him twice, and he has been evaded by Dewey on the pretext of being seriously ill - so he has to “pretend" that even if he is really ill, he has to look “ill”.

So when Dewey sees the guests on a weekday, he has to dye his cheeks wax yellow.

The old cigarette pushed the wheelchair herself into the small building.

Then, in this little building, Duvi saw Hussein.

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Hussein looked at Dewey as he sat in a wheelchair, his eyebrows tightly twisted together.

“Don't look at me like that, it's temporary. It won't be long before I jump in front of you.” Dewey played a ha-ha.

Hussein was wearing a white cotton robe and when Dewey came in, he was gently wiping his sword with a sharpening stone.

The old cigarette came out of the room very cleverly and closed the door with his opposite hand.

“How have you been these days?” Dewey sighed: "You've lived here for months, are you used to it? ”

“It's okay.” Hussein has never had the habit of talking nonsense, and he went straight to the subject: “Starting last month, someone has been spying on us from the outside. The soldiers on patrol had two frictions with those guys, drove them off, and we had no casualties. But judging from what the soldiers reported, I think it's likely that the church did it. ”

(Continues later, there will be three chapters tonight)

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