Chapter 106: Small country, leopard print, civil war and artistic stone statues (2)
After about a few minutes, whistles sounded from behind the carriage. Guards holding short sticks rushed into the crowd and began to disperse the pedestrians on the white road.
"Everyone, please leave the white road consciously and do not hinder the passage of carriages!"
A guard held a loudspeaker and shouted to the crowd.
Seeing the guards coming to drive them away, the sensible people left the Baidao one after another, but some more stubborn people were unwilling to leave and even came forward to argue with the guards.
Annan noticed that a young-looking guard was blushing at the words of the tourists. He couldn't help but raise his stick. Before he could swing it, he was stopped by the officer on the side.
The officer squeezed in between the young guards and tourists, smiled and apologized, and handed a few black square cards to the tourists.
This made Annan interested. He looked around and found that whenever tourists had a conflict with the guards or when tourists were unwilling to leave, the guards would give them such black cards. After that, these tourists would leave with a smile on their face.
"I thought the guards would beat them with sticks." Annan muttered silently in his heart, "I just sent them away without thinking of a few cards."
"Mr. Annan need not be surprised."
The housekeeper smiled, as if he could see what Annan was thinking, "The card the guard gave them is a priority ticket to attend the king's succession ceremony."
"Most tourists at this time are going to watch His Majesty Monto's succession ceremony, so giving them priority tickets is the best choice to appease them."
It's very uncomfortable to have a stranger see your inner thoughts, at least for Annan. Once may be a coincidence, but twice is not necessarily a coincidence.
Annan looked at the butler from top to bottom and said tentatively: "You are indeed the king's butler. He even knows what I am thinking. Can he read minds?"
The butler still maintained a smile, and the gray beard on his lips was slightly raised, "Mr. Annan was so complimentary, the ability to read minds is not something that a little butler like me can master. As you said, I am just
After staying with the king for a long time, I naturally learned a set of skills of observing words and emotions."
Annan thought about it, and it seemed to be right. There is an old saying in the South China Sea, "Kings and sea kings often make people around them worried." It is impossible for this old housekeeper to follow the king for so many years without two brushes. Then he turned around and continued to watch.
Outside the window.
After a while, all the pedestrians on the white road were asked to leave, and the carriage slowly picked up speed and drove towards the Capital Kingdom.
At this time, the guards who stayed in place also began to leave in batches.
"Sir, why bother giving people like these who disobey orders? Why don't you just go up and give them a stick like before?"
The young guard who almost had a conflict with the tourists before put away his stick and complained to the superior in a low voice, "Give them the invitations to the succession ceremony. I haven't attended the king's succession ceremony yet, why give these to them?"
People."
"You idiot!" The officer glared at the young guard, dragged him to his side, and pointed at the carriage where Annan and others were not far away.
"See the standard of that carriage?"
"I saw it."
"From now on, you must keep this symbol in your mind."
"Why?"
"This is His Majesty the King's special car. The people in this car are either kings or foreign dignitaries. We, the people, must not offend them. Especially we must not do bullying things like beating civilians in front of their eyes." "Making the masters angry? You can't." The young guard didn't understand. "I beat them just to make them convenient. Why would I make them angry?"
"In the countryside, when those aristocratic lords encounter common people who are in the way and are in the way, the harder the thugs beat them, the happier the aristocratic lords will be."
"Don't use what you do in the countryside to the city." The officer raised his hand and slapped the young guard on the back of the head, "This is the Stone Statue City, the second largest town in the Kingdom of Kunta!"
"Since you are a newcomer and don't know the rules here, I will tell you now." The officer said seriously.
"In the future, when you encounter a carriage with this sign, you should act more civilized and have a better attitude towards the civilians. Don't hit people with a stick or put them on the ground and handcuff them if you don't understand."
"The people in the carriage are kind-hearted and don't want to see the people here suffering."
"Ah? Didn't you say that when you first came, you encountered disobedient people..." The young guard still didn't react.
"You are such an idiot!" The officer slapped the young guard on the back of the head again. "If you don't want to be like your predecessor, who offended the people on the carriage and was sentenced to death by stoning, just do as I say!" "Ah, yes!" After the young guard heard the word "rock punishment", his mind suddenly came to his senses.
"But sir, why did His Majesty the King order someone to carve a stone sculpture exactly like him after he was executed and send it to us?"
"This is the king's elegance." The chief said, "Do you know why we call this city of stone statues? It is because the king gathered all the stone statues from all over the country here. If you go further on the carriages, you can see various kinds of statues lined up on both sides of the road.
All kinds of stone statues."
"This stone statue continues all the way to the palace, but you will never see it again in this life." The officer sighed and looked at the newly renovated wall not far away, "We locals cannot go outside the wall." "You can't say for sure," the recruit replied. "The wall collapsed a few months ago. Who knows what will happen in the future."