After bathing and before going to bed, Wu Lai would go to Helen's room to sit for a while as usual, to chat, and to be intimate, but he would always stop at the right time. After all, he had made a promise to Helen, and before he became a hero in Helen's mind, Wu Lai was not willing to do anything that was out of his will.
"You surprised me. I thought you were not good at fighting. You know, there were some bad rumors about you in the academy before." Helen said with a smile.
"You've already said it was just a rumor. It was deliberate slander from people who were dissatisfied with me. I never took it to heart." Wu Lai laughed.
"It's all my fault today. If I hadn't gone to the central square to ride a bike, I wouldn't have put you in this trouble." After Helen said this, her face suddenly turned a little bad.
Wu Lai smiled and shook his head: "You, you, don't you think about it? Who am I to you? Can I just watch you being surrounded and harassed by them?"
"But the other party's background is too..." Helen bit her lip and didn't say anything else.
"Do you look down on me so much? Then why did you fall in love with me in the first place?" Wu Lai joked.
Helen pushed away Wu Lai's outstretched hand and said, "Stop it. Putting this matter aside, I still have to take notes for you tonight."
"Oh, I almost forgot. Well, give me a kiss and I'll go back to my room to have a good rest. Otherwise, I'm so sore all over and I might need to ask Hippo and El to give me a massage to feel better." Wu Lai said with a smile.
"Why don't you go quickly?" Helen pouted and suddenly hugged Wu Lai's neck.
"You actually stole..." Wu Lai's words were blocked by his lips just as he was halfway through...
The next day, the first day of school.
Early in the morning, Wu Lai arranged for a carriage to take Helen, Ye Renwu and their luggage to the Assyrian Citizens' College, while he himself got on the carriage driven by Fox and went in the opposite direction.
Although Lini did not help to take care of the matter, Wu Lai knew that his teacher was really good to him. The notebook he borrowed yesterday recorded many situations of the top five Assyrian families, from the structure of the family members, the personality traits, merits and demerits, hobbies, as well as private secrets of the main members, etc., all of which were included.
Lini's leather notebook would not only record this. In fact, the content of the five major families only occupies a small part of the space. The content of the Assyrian legion, generals, and defenses occupies the majority. There is also a small part, which is the situation of the top three officials in each city-state. Judging from the records, Lini would revise and supplement it every year or so. Fortunately, the classification is well done, otherwise Helen would have to spend more energy if she wanted to copy all the five major families last night.
According to the records in the leather notebook, the Duncan family became the first family in Assyria fifteen or sixteen years ago. In that year, Qiyuan Duncan replaced his predecessor and became the chief of the Senate. At the end of the year, Weihuo officially took control of the First Legion. From then on, Duncan became the most popular family in the Assyrian territory.
But it is not just the Duncan family that is so popular. This is the same reason why it is impossible for the Duncan family to be friends with all the big Assyrian families. For example, the Duncan family does not get along well with the second-ranked Gerard family.
The person that Wu Lai was going to look for now was another big playboy in Assyrian city, Wright, Gerard Wright, who was two years older than Khufu.
In terms of moral character, Wright is only slightly better than Khufu. He behaves in the same absurd way, loves to spend money on women, and has the same mood swings. The reason why he attracted Woolley's attention is that two things related to Wright were recorded in Reeny's leather notebook.
First, Leiter bought one hundred slaves at one time. After granting them freedom, he gave each of them two gold coins for travel expenses and a bag of food. Then he personally rode on horseback to supervise and "drive" these one hundred Hurlites out of the Assyrian territory.
Reani made a special note about this matter - these one hundred slaves were all descendants of Hulett prisoners of war, including nearly forty children. During the period when they regained their freedom and returned to the Hulett border, none of them suffered from cold, hunger or abuse.
The second incident happened last spring. Wright was jealous of Huf, so he went to Duncan's house alone and made a scene. He beat Huf up and then got away with it. The matter was later left unresolved.
The first thing shows that Wright has a kind side, and the second thing, in addition to confirming Wright's audacity, also confirms the rumor that the Duncan family is unwilling to provoke the Gerard family.
There was only one reason why he didn't want to provoke him. Before the high priest changed his name to Saint Lean, his full name was Lean Gerard - he was the younger brother of Wright's grandfather.
In Assyria, there is a separation of powers. Although the chief of the Senate is extremely powerful, in terms of status, he is comparable to the high priest and the chief of the Supreme Noble Council. Among these three positions, the high priest is slightly superior to the other two. If the Gerald family had no other outstanding figures, the title of the first family in Assyria would probably not have fallen into the hands of the Duncan family.
It was not difficult to find Wright. During this period of time, he was either at home or in the backyard of the most luxurious tavern in Assyrian City, sleeping soundly with a young and lovely girl in his arms - these were what Ye Renwu told Wu Lai. Collecting these miscellaneous information was Ye Renwu's hobby.
Wu Lai planned to go straight to the tavern, because Ye Renwu also said that Wright spent most of the year in a tavern called the Golden Cup - this tavern was Wright's private property, and only by staying here would he not be nagged by his father or grandfather.
The carriage was moving like the wind. When Helen and Ye Renwu's carriage could only see the wall of the Civic Academy from a distance, Wu Lai had already stopped the carriage in front of the Golden Cup Tavern and then jumped down.
After a while, Wu Lai saw Wright's rebellious eyes, and of course, his face full of disgust and impatience.
"Are you here to die?" Wright looked at Wu Lai and asked.
Wu Lai smiled faintly and asked instead of answering: "The Golden Cup Tavern is considered a first-class tavern in Assyria, but that's all it is at the moment. If I say I have a way to make its business five times better and at the same time make those guys who are at odds with you envious but helpless, do you believe me?"
"I don't believe it." Wright answered simply.
"After being under the protection of Archpriest Saint Lean for so long, I have indeed become short-sighted and timid." Wu Lai shook his head and sighed in a pretentious manner.
The anger in Wright's heart was immediately ignited. He glanced at Wu Lai with a cold light in his eyes and said word by word: "Boy, you really came here to die."
"Yesterday, I beat up Khufu's eleven friends in front of him. They all fell to the ground." Wu Lai said calmly, "I plan to find a time in the next few days to beat him up in front of his eleven friends."
Wright was startled, then a smile slowly appeared on his face: "I heard about what happened yesterday. It turned out that you did it. You came to me, do you want me to support you?"
"Support? Oh, no, in my opinion, you don't have the confidence to support me." Wu Lai shrugged, "I came to you just because I heard that you beat up Khufu. It just so happens that you opened a tavern, and I can use some of my secret wine recipes. If I really need support, I think the Shuman family may be more reliable. I happen to know Eddie and Quick from the Shuman family. I studied with them in the Citizens Academy."
"The Schweinman family?" Wright's mouth showed a trace of contempt. "You want them to back you up? You're dreaming. Who are the Schweinman family? Those new generations of the Schweinman family you mentioned, how could they have the courage and ability to go against Khufu?"
Wu Lai smiled: "It seems that my trip was not in vain. You are indeed the first of the new generation in Assyria. You are brave enough, but you lack a little bit of heroism."
Wright frowned immediately...
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In the afternoon, Wu Lai walked into the dormitory he had not seen for a long time with a relaxed look on his face. Seeing him like this, Guru, who was tidying up his clothes, smiled and stopped and asked, "How is it going?"
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"Waiting to count the money." Wu Lai laughed, "Also, waiting to watch the show."
"I haven't heard back yet, but I think there should be no problem." Guru said with a smile.
Wu Lai nodded, patted Guru on the shoulder, and asked, "Guru, I'm relieved to have you here. I almost forgot that your sister is also in the Green Building."
"I can't help you with the Loli thing. If possible, I'd love for you to be my brother-in-law." Guru said seriously, "My sister, although a little bit willful, is a good housekeeper. With such a helper, you can worry less."
"No matter what happens in the future, we are brothers." Wu Lai thought it would be better to remind Guru first. Although the heads of the families in the Assyrian territories usually have no shortage of women, they can only have one wife in public.
"If you put it that way, Loli probably has no hope at all." Guru said half-jokingly and half-seriously.
"Gulu, my good brother, can we not talk about this? You know, I'm really upset right now. I don't know when Khufu will come and kill me. He's from the Duncan family." Wu Lai sighed in a pretentious manner and said...
While Wu Lai and Guru were laughing and joking, in another dormitory of the college, Eddie, Quick, Boti and Gu Kuredon, who had reunited, were chatting.
"If we mess with Khufu, Woolleglindo is almost doomed." Quick added with a smile after recounting what happened yesterday.
"That's hard to say. Khufu is quite greedy for money. I heard that Wu Lai is quite well-off. Maybe he is willing to spend money to avoid disaster?" Eddie said with a pout.
"Impossible." Quick smiled and waved his hand, saying, "Yesterday I reminded Khufu that Helen is the most beautiful woman in the Assyrian Citizen Academy, and she is priceless."
"Helen? Quick, are you talking about Helen Angelina who rarely appears in public?" Gu Ku at the side couldn't help but interrupt.
"Yes, that's her." Boti looked very proud. "Although Helen is indeed a beauty, her family is gone. She is just an empty shell. I also heard that the tuition fee was raised by selling the old house. I guess she came to Wu Lai for money. Wu Lai still treats her like a treasure. He must have been kicked in the head by a horse."
"That's not the case. Vice President Lini takes good care of her. Maybe, maybe..." Gu Ku suddenly sighed.
Eddie glanced at him with disdain: "Gu Ku, you must be obsessed with Helen. Look at what you have accomplished."
"I've strayed off topic. We were just talking about Wulai. Wait, Khufu will come to pick a fight with Wulai Grindo in the next few days." Quick said with a smile, "I'm afraid Wulai Grindo will suffer a lot. He is a good fighter. Khufu said that he would call all of his father's ceremonial guards. My goodness, that's sixty-four soldiers."
"But they can't come in. If Wu Lai refuses to go out, what can Khufu do?" Boti was stunned and asked.
"You're so stupid. The guards of honor are allowed to enter and leave the Citizens' Academy." Eddie rolled his eyes at Boti and said, "The guards of honor of the commander of the First Legion are actually General Wei Huo's private soldiers. In addition to being guards of honor, they are also responsible for executions. It seems that Khufu really wants to make a big deal out of this."
Quick nodded in agreement: "Of course, Wullegrindo has really offended Khufu this time."
"A country bumpkin from Seneca, he really doesn't know his own limitations. This matter must be kept secret. If he gets to know about it, he might just run away. That would be so boring." Eddie said with a giggle.