Meat Meat
Meat Meat
“Umm…”
My fingertips trembled. Jamel held out his hand toward the card, trembling with a more cautious expression than ever before. Jamel’s hand is now four cards with strawberry pictures and two banana cards.
Strawberries had to come out of the card now turned over so that there were five identical strawberries, and Jamel’s victory could be confirmed.
Even the stakes in this edition alone amounted to 78 candies, 2 bags of crispy snacks, 5 bottles of cold drinks in one bread with plenty of cream.
Those snacks were all the snacks currently on the Water Swallow. It’s literally a game of victory with everything.
Because it was such a game, it was very natural and natural for Jamel’s fingertips to tremble wildly.
Knock.
A single drop of sweat ran down her chin and landed on one of her strawberry cards.
“ha.”
Jamel sighed deeply and looked up at the Mother of Decay. The mother of corruption was also the one who bet everything, so the mother was very nervous and focused all her attention on Jamel’s fingertips.
The mother frowned when she realized that Jamel was looking at her.
‘Say hat!’
He urged me not to procrastinate and to pull it out quickly.
“I’m going to kiss you! I’m going to pull it out!”
‘Say hat!!!’
“Oh, you weren’t afraid? Do you think that Jamel, who is a gambler and a winner, would be scared by such a small game?”
I don’t know how he understands his mother’s words that he can’t hear, but Jamel answered her mother’s words well.
It’s probably because if you get a rough idea of your mother’s personality, you can usually tell what she’s talking about just by looking at her expression.
“Pick! I really pick it up!!!”
‘Say hat!!!’
Jamel flipped the card over and held it up without hesitation and let out a scream.
“I got it!!! Hee hee profit!!! what! What’s that!!! Is it a picked strawberry?”
dump.
‘ㅅ…a…r…h…s…’
A face stained with despair. The mother sat down on the floor helplessly and muttered, ‘Why… here… Strawberries…’.
As soon as he confirmed his mother’s despair, Jamel’s face brightly bloomed with hope.
“It’s a strawberry! Strawberries!!!”
Jamel jumped up and down in place after checking the card he had held up.
“As expected, I believed! There’s no way this gambler Jamel’s winning streak will fail! cancer cancer! Yay-ho! So, are these all mine? Remember what you promised earlier! I will never beg you for just a few candies with an open review like last time! Hee hee hee!”
The time when Jamel pulled out the stack of sweets and candies.
“for a moment.”
Pearly, who was quietly looking at the card, stopped Jamel with a smirk.
“Do you want to see my next card?”
“Eh?!”
“Actually, you don’t even need to see it!”
Pearly turned over the cards in front of her in turn without even reaching the seventh card.
Watermelon Watermelon Watermelon Watermelon Watermelon Banana.
Five fruits like jamel, but different. That is, the number of watermelons increased by one in turn.
“Straight Watermelon Flush…?!”
dump.
Jamel, who was in despair, couldn’t hold on to that gloomy feeling and sat down on the floor. Pearly smirked and scooped up all the sweets.
“Then this is all me… Huh?!”
Dakia came out of the room and shook her head while tugging at Pearly’s ear.
“Stop stealing snacks from those two and treat me to my partner.”
Pearly laughed briskly, holding her ear lobe.
“What if you don’t like it?”
“If you pick it anyway, you don’t eat it, and you always give it back after you add medicine. Please help me during that time. yes?”
“What good! good! Instead, don’t look at me this time?”
“I never asked to see it. Seriously jump in. I will give you a very harpoon.”
“okay!”
After the incident with Pearly, Dacia treated Pearly quite comfortably. Perhaps thanks to that, looking at it now, the relationship between the two has improved to a moderate bad friendship.
When the winner suddenly disappeared, Jamel and her mother, who remained at the table, exchanged glances. Jamel was the first to speak.
“If Pearly wasn’t there, wouldn’t I have won with the next best hand?”
‘Say hat!!!’
They both lost anyway, and they shouted that they couldn’t count it that way.
“Then… shall we risk everything and play a new round? Fair and fair?”
‘Kill and kill.’
One word very good.
Having succeeded in a dramatic compromise, the mother secretly pulled out a card and sat down on her hip while Jamel was sweeping the cards on the floor. Naturally, Jamel pretended to collect cards and secretly hid one.
A clumsy person could not survive in the sweets gambling board of the Wet Swallow, where all sorts of slander were rampant.
However, both of them were clumsy in their movements, so if you watched from the side, you could see them all.
There is a high probability that today, both of them will find out that each other has hidden a card from each other, and the fight will end in half-and-half.
“Yuna.”
“yes.”
A pair of deep blue eyes gently looked down at me. As usual, Master Pridiya came to me accompanied by a khadi show.
“Why don’t you go to the evening training?”
“great. Because I had nothing to do.”
“You thought well.”
I grabbed my sword and stood up.
It was truly a series of extremely peaceful days.
***
After arriving here in the capital of the Northern Empire, a series of incidents continued for several days, but after Pearly and Dakia had an accident, a strange peace continued for a while.
In the meantime, I asked Pearly several times when the ‘bowl’ would be completed, but Pearly always replied that according to what she found out, it was almost finished, but the final finish was failing. After saying that, he always added that it wouldn’t take long, so don’t fret too much.
The sound of clattering horses’ hooves. An endless procession of wagons.
All sorts of Northern Empire nobles and their deputies were constantly arriving here at the ‘Grand Conference’ of the Northern Empire, which had come a few days later.
“It is very crowded.”
“That’s it, there’s nothing you can do about it. No one leaves the city, they just keep coming in.”
Putting down the fruit she was examining, Giselle stepped closer to shoulder to shoulder with me. Normally, Jamel and Mother would have followed along to shop, but as the grand meeting approached, they both got tired of the crowded market streets and preferred to play in the boat instead of the tiresome grocery shopping.
Moreover, after Giselle stopped the two people from buying a lot of snacks whenever they came to the market, the two seemed to have completely let go of their cravings for shopping.
Daciana Cardisho was in the midst of intense training, so it was sometimes interrupted.
In the end, at the end of my consideration, the groceries became Giselle and I’s responsibility.
“The condition of the fruits as a whole has deteriorated. No, not just fruits, but all food ingredients.”
Giselle grumbled as she inspected the fruit in the new fruit shop.
“Is this because the nobles paid a premium and wiped out all the high-quality fruits and ingredients?”
“miss.”
The middle-aged owner glared at Giselle with an uncomfortable expression on his face. Giselle glared at the shopkeeper.
“If you are going to gossip about the nobles in my shop, please leave immediately. If you don’t buy it, there are a lot of people who will buy even that much fruit.”
“Please count this.”
Giselle put the selected fruits in a small basket and presented them to the shopkeeper. The shopkeeper accepted the money given by Giselle without saying anything and served the fruits.
In fact, the store owner and we were familiar with each other while shopping. Giselle also said that the quality of fruit here is better than other stores.
The shopkeeper added curtly as he watched Giselle pack a bag of fruit.
“Day or night, your ears are always open, so be careful what you say, especially when there are a lot of nobles like now.”
“Ah, you’re good at it, so sell fruit well.”
“Tsk tsk. It’s short-lived after acting like that. And be polite to adults…”
“Yes, yes.”
“Tsk, take one. Bonus.”
Giselle lightly caught an apple thrown by her owner. She handed me a paper bag of fruit and dragged me out of the store by the arm.
Unsurprisingly, Giselle was fighting with the shopkeepers on this market street like that, but she managed to buy things and get a decent amount of extras.
Everyone in our party is full of people who have no interest in this kind of housekeeping, so thanks to the unexpected housekeeper Giselle, we were able to get good quality items at reasonable prices.
Seeing that, I praised him for being really slim in the past, and she replied, ‘If you go around with Jamel, you’ll naturally get used to this kind of slimmer.’ Giselle grumbled, saying that if she hadn’t been tidied up, she would have been rolling around the streets without a penny every time she worked.
“Now I have to buy the last meat… Since the last time I saw it, all the meat was in really bad condition. It seems that all the really good parts have already been bought by nobles. look at that.”
There were all kinds of voices coming and going here and there on the street lined with butcher shops.
“Is this really all?”
“I know who I serve!!!”
“Are you selling this as meat?!”
“What can I do with nothing!”
“Already sold out! It’s sold out!”
Arguments between the well-dressed crowd and the butchers didn’t seem to end. There is a high probability that they are servants of noble families who serve their respective masters.
Seeing the scene, Giselle sighed deeply.
“ha. Looks like I’ll have to eat fish for a meal today. Shall we go buy some vinegar? When I saw it yesterday, it was almost gone.”
“hmm.”
Yesterday my mother whined that she wanted to eat meat. How can there be no way to get some decent meat?
“Look. Are you in need of meat?”
A man wearing a hooded hood approached us in a narrow alley that was half-lighted even though it was midday. He looked around and looked around, then whispered softly.
“If you match the price, you can get decent meat.”
Giselle frowned at once.
“What do you believe in buying meat sold this way? The quality of the meat is questionable. Do you have a day to eat strange meat and ride? Let Marnak go.”
If I buy meat, my mother will be very happy.
I smiled.
“First, let’s hear the story. It might be a really good deal, isn’t it?”
“ha. As I said beforehand, I don’t like this idea. And if you grill the fish well, it’s delicious.”
“Please guide me to the place that sells meat. I will decide after seeing the condition of the meat.”
The man glanced around and nodded.
“Good idea. Come with me.”
***
He took the lead and led us off the butcher’s street and into the outskirts of the capital.
“By the way, what kind of meat are you selling like this?”
The man who identified himself as Terry shrugged.
“It’s usually good meat. Although there are minor problems with the slaughter process.”
“What’s wrong?”
he replied politely.
“I didn’t officially report the slaughter.”
Is it tax evasion after all?
In addition, due to the sudden increase in demand for meat these days, the nobles forcibly paid a premium and even slaughtered livestock from farms near the capital.
In particular, the slaughter of livestock to be used for farming is more carefully controlled and strictly controlled like a knife.
“Here.”
The smell of blood and flesh wafted from everywhere. Unexpectedly, the place he brought us to is where abattoirs handle most of the capital’s meat.
Giselle glanced around and whispered to me.
“If it was slaughtered on this street, the quality of the meat itself might be really good. The price will be a bit high, but.”
“Here it is.”
He directed us to a slaughterhouse on the outskirts. I met a familiar face there.
“Whew~”
a playful whisper. Two feathers sticking out like ears on top of a dark brown robe and hat. A woman with a pair of owls on her shoulders looked at me indifferently.
That mercenary shaman was guarding the place meant that the odds that this illegal slaughter had something to do with the anti-emperor faction were very high, given who she was primarily working for.
“hmm.”
Anti-Emperor…
I thought about it for a while, but I put my worries aside at the face of the meat-loving mother who shimmered in my head.
“why? What’s wrong? Hurry up and follow me.”
At Terry’s urging, I shook my head.
“No, there is no problem. Please continue to guide me.”
Well, just buy meat quietly and go out.
