After walking into Epsom City, the first impression you get is that it is crowded.
Because this city accommodates a large population, people feel that it is crowded and a little breathless.
The shops lined up on the street are full of exquisite products, but in fact they only have narrow fronts. The stores are long and deep, and the products inside are hung all over the walls. The lofts above the shops are almost connected to the lofts protruding from the opposite side of the street.
Walking on such a street is like walking through a tunnel, with buildings on both sides of the street constantly encroaching on the space at the top of the long street.
People walking on this street are always worried that the worst thing would be if the attic above them could not bear the weight and collapse.
Of course, these civilians in Epsom City are not the most miserable.
There is also a group of people in the city called pigeon people. They migrated to Epsom City from other cities in the Warsaw plane. Their homes were invaded by evil spirits, so they moved to Epsom City, but they
If you can't afford a house in the city, you can only choose to buy the right to live on the rooftop from the city.
The rooftops of almost all houses will be expanded with small wooden cabins like pigeon cages. These wooden cabins are usually only about four or five square meters and can only accommodate one or two people to sleep in the wooden cabin. As for eating and washing, they must be in the public area of the roof, early in the morning and
In the evening, wash basins and public toilets are the most crowded. People here always set up pavilions to enjoy the cool air while queuing up to wash up.
They work in the hardest and cheapest jobs in the city and earn the lowest wages, but they can only live like pigeons.
The pigeon residents at least have a nest where they can rest at night, and they are considered the lowest level people in this city.
There are many homeless people on the street. Sometimes they will lie on the benches on the street and curl up to rest for a while. However, this kind of rest can only last for a while. It won’t be long before the knights from the guard camp will ride their horses.
They ran over with sticks in hand to drive them away. These benches were not meant for them to sleep on.
These homeless people usually gather in parks, under bridges, or near stations. They will beg along the streets and pick up domestic garbage everywhere. Even if they are starving and skinny in the city, they are unwilling to go out of the city to find more survival opportunities.
, they are not only a group of homeless people with nothing, but also a group of cowards who were scared to death by evil spirits.
Their lives are more like walking zombies, and they may even compete with wild dogs for a bite to eat.
Some homeless people even hide in the city's sewers.
In addition, there are a large number of slaves in the city.
In Epsom City, the gap between poor and rich is huge.
The nobles account for one percent of the city's population, but own 99% of the city's wealth.
Common people are struggling hard in life. They hate, envy, envy, and hate those nobles, but everyone wants to become a noble.
The sewer pipes in Epsom City are not very well designed. When the rainy season comes, the streets are always filled with stagnant water. Only after the rain stops, the city's scavengers and night watchmen will all go out to dredge everything.
Drainage pipes.
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Knight Surdak led his horse and walked on the streets of the city. His long leather boots stepped into the puddles, and the splashing water was filled with the smell of rot.
A group of homeless people came around to beg him, with fear and numbness on their faces. Among this group of people, a few half-year-old children who were as thin as monkeys emerged. They squeezed to the front and tried hard to ask Sur.
Duck sells himself.
"Sir Knight, do you need a guide? I am very familiar with every street and alley in Epsom City."
"Sir Knight, please hire me. I can help you find a cheap and clean hotel, and I guarantee that I won't waste a single coin on you."
"Sir Knight, do you need a girl? I can take you to a good place with the most beautiful girls in Epsom City. If you want, you can sleep there until dawn, and the cost will definitely not be much more expensive than a hotel...
…”
'Suldak' chose the one with the clearest eyes among the group of children, stared into his eyes, and said to him: "Take me to a hotel with a vacant room, preferably close to the City Hall Square.
Closer..."
The half-grown child cheered, congratulating himself on grabbing the new business, and then took the initiative to help Surdak hold the horse and disperse the crowd that had gathered.
The older child walked in front, holding the reins of the ancient Bolai horse with both hands, and kept looking around with his nimble eyes as he walked.
When he walked, his toes touched the ground, and he would jump up every step he took. The way was very strange. He took the initiative to say to 'Suldak':
“The hotel accommodation near City Hall Square is more expensive, but the security there is relatively better, and the consumption level of the restaurants there is slightly higher than in the city, and not every hotel has available rooms.
We may need to find two more."
Surdak asked the older child:
"How much?"
The older child scratched his head vigorously and said with some uncertainty:
"The hotel near the City Hall Square costs about five silver coins per night, and a better room may cost seven. To be honest, I think for this price, you really might as well go to Dongcheng District and sleep with a young girl for one night...
…”
Surdak coughed twice, and then said: "I'm asking you how much does it cost to take a trip?"
The eldest child's eyes lit up and he quickly said: "Thirty coppers... I can take you to the best hotel in the city. If you want to go out for fun at night, if you need me, you have to pay me an additional fifty coppers."
Coins, of course I can also run errands for you, three coppers for the nearby place, five coppers for the far place..."
When passing a bakery on the street, the eldest child looked at the croissant butter bread in the window with a slightly fascinated look, and introduced to Suldak: "The bread in this bakery is great. If you don't have it,
For dinner, I suggest you buy some back. The price of white bread in the hotel is at least twice as expensive as here, and there isn’t much butter.”
Suldak stopped and thought for a while, then walked to the window and bought five golden croissants for ten copper coins.
Sure enough, the paper bag exuded a rich butter fragrance. In addition, he also bought a large glass of milk.
I took out a croissant from the bag, broke it open and tasted it carefully. The surface of the bread was brushed with a layer of honey. It tasted sweet and ok. It was not as delicious as the older children said, but it was
Quite cheap.
Suldak handed the paper bag to the older child with a sallow face.
The older child was stunned and looked at Suldak in disbelief.
Surdak focused his attention on the plaque next to him, rubbed the bridge of his nose with one finger, and said vaguely: "I don't like sweets, so it would be a pity to throw them away. I think you should like them very much..."
"The milk here seems to have a very bland taste..."
As he said that, he gave the older child a large glass of milk.
The older child voraciously swallowed a croissant into his stomach. He felt that his cold and twisted stomach suddenly came to life. He drank a big mouthful of fragrant milk. The milk seemed to be really smooth.
It suddenly slipped from his throat into his stomach, and then flowed from his stomach into his intestines. He was unable to store even a tiny bit of food in his stomach. Despite this, his stomach felt much more comfortable.
The eldest child only ate one croissant and refused to eat any more after taking a sip of milk. He carefully held it in his arms, held the reins of the ancient Bolai horse, and walked in front, his steps becoming more powerful.