Jiang Jin never expected that the cufflinks she had just given away yesterday would be back on her desk the next day.
At this moment, she felt a little headache. Looking at the bruised and battered men standing in front of her, she asked, "Tell me, what happened?"
"Why did you two start fighting? And the fight was so ugly?" Jiang Jin's fingertips tapped the table lightly, making a continuous and regular sound. This action showed that she was not in a good mood at the moment.
Balk's face turned pale and blue. He bowed to Jiang Jin with an apologetic look on his face.
"It's all my fault. I failed to control them properly, which led to this situation." Balke clenched his hands and lowered his head to restrain his unwilling look.
The faces of the people behind Balke were not in a good state. They all had injuries on their faces, their arms, waists and abdomens were all bruised, and some even had knife marks on their bodies, making them look particularly miserable.
Beside them stood four pot-bellied knights, with their hands in their pockets and a nonchalant look on their faces. Compared with the miserable state of Baroque and the others, they even seemed a little smug. They looked at Balk and the others as if they were looking at a group of slaves who could be strangled at any time.
"Balke, I don't need to apologize." Jiang Jin slammed the table, startling everyone in the room.
Balk suddenly looked up at her, and Jiang Jin said to him with a cold face, "It's not up to you to make a final conclusion on whether it's right or wrong. Explain to me the whole story clearly!"
"Yes... yes!" The reluctance and confusion in Balke's eyes quietly disappeared at this moment. He looked at Jiang Jin steadily, as if he saw his backbone.
The construction of the mission hall is still going on. Due to the lack of suitable tools and materials, many parts cannot be moved. Balk thought of the armband Jiang Jin gave him yesterday, and bravely came to the City Lord's Mansion to find Yager.
Everything went smoothly, except for the two knights at the door who were deliberately making things difficult for them.
Balk had a previous feud with one of them, Marvin. Upon hearing Balk's request and seeing the cufflinks in his hand, Marvin didn't give him the slightest bit of respect. He grabbed the cufflinks and sneered, "You think you can win the City Lord's favor? But you don't even take a piss and look at yourself."
"Return the cufflinks to the city lord. You'd better go to the temple and ask the God of Light to protect your brain, hahahaha!" Marvin and the knight beside him laughed so hard that they fell forward and backward.
Balk used to have a bad temper, but now, as time went by, he started to be humble. He put on a flattering smile and said to Marvin, "Master Marvin, if you can't help us pass the message, can you please return the cufflinks to me?"
He was so humble and flattering that the brothers behind him felt a little uncomfortable. Trem frowned and pulled Balk's sleeve.
"Huh? Give it back to you?" Marvin threw the cufflinks in his hand into the air, causing Balk to look over nervously.
Marvin suddenly felt a sense of malice and shouted to his companion, "Hey, catch it!"
As he spoke, he threw the cufflinks to another person. Balk didn't dare to be careless and flew to grab them, but there was no way! The cufflinks fell into the hands of another knight.
They were so amused by Balke's nervous behavior that they burst into laughter and even wanted to play a trick on him.
"Lord Marvin! Please! Give it back to me." Balk was anxious and angry. He was afraid that Marvin would lose this expensive cufflink. If that happened, how would he have the face to see Jiang Jin?
"Hahaha! Balke, if you want it, just come and rob it yourself. You were so brave when you were snatching prey from me. How come you have become so timid after a few years?" Marvin showed a sarcastic smile and threw away the armband again.
Balke gritted his teeth, and seeing the cufflink draw another graceful arc in the air, Balke jumped up and was about to reach out to grab it.
This time he has a one in eight chance to get the thing in his hands!
But at this moment, Marvin's expression changed, "How can I let you get this cufflink back so easily!"
Marvin whipped out his sword, leaped forward, and knocked his cufflinks off Balk's grasp.
The small, round cufflink slipped through the air. Balk estimated its location and realized it was about to fall into the moat of the City Lord's Mansion. He opened his eyes wide in vain, his heart clenched, "No!"
He ran fast, but the cufflinks fell even faster.
With a plop, the cufflinks sank into the moat. These were Jiang Jin's way of expressing her approval of herself! Balk pursed his lips and maintained the posture of extending his hand.
"Tsk tsk, look at this guy! If his luck gets bad, even if he prays to the God of Light, nothing will come of it." Marvin spat in Balk's direction and exchanged glances with the other knight. "If this thing is so important to you, why don't you jump down and pick it up!"
In this weather, Marvin even had bad intentions and encouraged Balke to jump into the icy river. He wanted Balke to die!
"Balke! Don't..." Before Trem could finish his sentence, he heard another loud plop.
Balk jumped down without a word! Triumph's scalp tingled, his anger surging with nowhere to vent, and his eyes fixed on Marvin.
"What are you looking at, you slaves? If you keep looking at me, I will dig out your eyes!" Marvin snorted disdainfully and made a gesture as if he was going to pinch the eyes of Trem and the others. He didn't even want to draw his sword, thinking that these slaves were not worthy of his sword.
"Bah, is there something wrong with the new city lord's brain? He is so close to these slaves." Marvin did not take Trem and others seriously at all, and even began to complain about Jiang Jin unscrupulously.
They were actually talking about Jiang Jin, who was a very good city lord! Trem couldn't help it!
He strode forward and punched Marvin in the stomach. Then, with Marvin's expression of shock and ferocity, he wrestled fiercely with him.
The knight next to him immediately came to help, and the people behind Trem were also not to be trifled with, and the scene suddenly became chaotic.
Logically speaking, a pot-bellied fellow like Marvin was no match for these hard-working people. Unfortunately, at this very moment, a knight who was about to take a shift came out and saw the knights from the City Lord's Mansion being beaten by a few slaves in rough clothes. How could this be tolerated?!
While Trem and the others were still throwing punches back and forth, the knights drew their swords and quickly pinned Trem and the others to the ground and beat them.
When Balke climbed out of the moat, four long swords were pointed at his neck.
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