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Standing for others to take pictures is actually very boring, but while smiling, Xia De's eyes are also flicking in the crowd.
So, he once again saw Miss Bayas in the brightly lit banquet hall. This time it was definitely not a hallucination. The long-haired brown-haired sorceress was wearing a long dress. When Xia De saw her, she immediately made a silent movement, then turned her head and plunged into the crowd. It seemed that she did not want Xia De to know what she's doing.
"At least she wasn't dressed as a maid this time."
Xia De whispered in his heart.
In the following long period of time, Xia De did not see Miss Bayas again. After the complete process of conferring knights, Xia De, under the arrangement of the attendants, stood with several dukes, waiting for the king to present awards to other people who had received medals of honor.
He held the antique knight's long sword in his hand, and kept rubbing the ruby on the scabbard with his fingers. This is just an ordinary item. Even if it is properly maintained, the erosion of the years still makes this sword useless at all.
During the boring waiting process, Xia De thought about hanging this sword in the living room of Room 1 on the second floor, so that every guest who came to entrust it could see it.
Only two people won the Medal of Honor, and they were awarded separately. After that, the dozen or so people who received special awards did not have the honor of being awarded by the king. They went on stage together and were jointly awarded the "Tobesk Special Contribution Medal".
As for those without medals, such as Captain Lades, they just read their names to thank them for their contributions to the king. But this is enough for the captain, such an honor is enough to wash away his title of "Captain of Eight Guns". After tonight, Captain Laddus can pack his bags and wait for notice.
After this whole process, the time has gone from seven to eight thirty.
The busy king will not stay here any longer, but will return directly to the city. As for the other dukes, they have their own plans.
Probably because Miss Galina had a special conversation with Xia De, the other dukes also said a few words with him, so they knew each other. Because of the curse that the witch was carrying, Miss Galina rarely showed up in public. This time's attitude undoubtedly showed that Xia De was the one she liked.
After the awards were presented and the king left, the banquet officially began.
The dukes returned to the third floor together, and immediately a group of people gathered around wanting to talk to Xia De. The reporters also followed up with notepads. The business cards received by Xia De in just ten minutes were actually more than those sent today. There are even more people going out.
Priest Augustus had warned that open interviews were necessary, so Shad had to take turns answering everyone's questions.
Even when someone asked him what he was thinking when he stopped the bullet, Xia De, who was already dizzy from the question, opened his mouth and said:
"Everything dies, and people die..."
My head immediately cleared up, and I threw away the idea of searching for the heavier mountains in this world:
"Maybe a person's value is limited, but when he makes a contribution that exceeds his own value, his personality and soul will be sublimated at this time."
Xia De didn't know what he was talking about, but seeing the people around him nodding, at least he didn't say anything wrong. Of course, I did not forget to praise the importance of the royal family to Delarion, praise the righteous **** [Mr. Dawn], and at the same time help the church to promote Holy Prayer.
In short, Xia De is really not used to this kind of social situation.
It took a full forty minutes to get rid of the reporters, and when he was finally able to escape, Xia De was surrounded by a group of young girls before the men who wanted to chat with "Miss Galina's close servant" came up.
Shade had a few polite words with the girls, and some people wanted to "talk alone in the garden" with him, or wanted to listen to him tell some "detective stories" in private.
Xia De is not stupid, of course he knows what this means, but he is very uncomfortable with the enthusiasm of the girls, so he can only shirk and have other things. But even so, some handkerchiefs were stuffed in his hand, and the address was written on the handkerchief with lipstick or powder.
"You have to get used to it, Mr. Hamilton, no, Mr. Hamilton of Regard."
Baron Lavender, who came to him to play cards, greeted him with a smile.
"Are all the girls now so enthusiastic?"
He held those handkerchiefs and didn't know what to do with them.
He smiled ambiguously, and while joking, he patted Xia De on the shoulder, and then walked towards his friends with Xia De holding the sword.
From the first floor of the banquet hall to the second floor, the Miss Bayas whom I saw half an hour ago was nowhere to be seen again. Although Xia De was worried, nothing happened when he met her last weekend, and now that Miss Galina is on the third floor, she didn't have to worry about any emergencies, so she was invited to join Baron Lavender and his friends. card game.
These gentlemen had the best seats in front of the floor-to-ceiling windows on the second floor of the banquet hall, occupying sofas and coffee tables. Sitting here and looking out, you can see the night view of Tobesk city and the starry sky in summer night.
But people are more concerned about the Rhodes card, but after Xia De and Baron Lavender walked through the crowd at the banquet, they congratulated Xia De one by one. Although most of the people present had knighthoods, their status was higher than that of Xia De, who only had the title of "Knight", but the Duchess valued him so much that his status was not as simple as a knight.
After the courtesies were over, Xia De was urged to show the new special cards.
Every gentleman under the gaslight was very excited. Xia De took out the cards in his pocket, and took out the other three special cards without touching the [Ancient Fairy Tale: The Flower Girl] that Baron Lavender was familiar with:
"Look."
He took out [Northern City Lengshuigang City], [Old Continent Eastern Style Lake Tees] and [Primitive Steam Engine Mark IX], and people circulated and told the history of the past appearance of these three cards that they knew.
Among them, there were some people who knew Shade's [Founding Silver Moon] because they attended Duke Lucas' Rhodes card game last Sunday night. Now that Xia De took out these three cards, there are some people who have heard about the deck that day but don't know who it is, so they think that the owner of the rumored founding series of cards is the young detective.
Baron Lukes was one of the people who thought of this after seeing the three cards. But Baron Lavender didn't know, he just told people excitedly that he had seen the [Northern City Lengshuigang City] at the auction house ten years ago.
When I heard that Xia De got the cards from an old professor, I guessed the buyer. Later, I resold the cards because of the financial situation, and lamented that Xia De’s luck is very good. Although these cards with special rules are not expensive It is very expensive, but it is not necessarily available if you want to buy it.
Shade is the protagonist tonight, and of course people let him choose opponents for the game. After inquiring, Xia De did not choose an acquaintance, but chose to let Baron Cobol, who was relatively young in the group, compete with him.
Baron Copper is only about thirty years old. He was introduced by Baron Lavender just now, and he inherited the title from his father. This baron belongs to the richer type of nobleman, who likes collecting antiques and Rhodes cards. He has a total of five special cards in his hand, so Xia De wanted to see them.
So the two sides of the game sat down on each other, and others sat on the sofa, or stood behind the players, with their hands folded on their chests, ready to watch the game.
The corner on the second floor of the banquet hall suddenly became lively, and from time to time someone would come over to join the spectators. According to the "common sense" that Baron Lavender spread to Shad, there would always be people playing Rhodes cards in the corner at banquets with a little bit of class, which could be regarded as part of the culture of this era. The Rhodes cards issued by the Prophet Association to make money at the beginning have become an important part of the Sixth Epoch civilization.
For outsiders, a different world without entertainment is undoubtedly very boring. Occult books and the refinement of the powers of a ring warlock are fun, but find some other entertainment once in a while. Xia De's attitude towards Rhodes cards gradually changed subtly because of this. At least tonight, he still enjoyed playing cards while watching the night scene in front of the floor-to-ceiling windows.
There are 54 cards in a deck, and of course Shad will not put [Founding·Silver Moon] in it, so the deck has four special cards, while Baron Copper has five special cards in the deck. Although the two did not gamble, they just simply enjoyed the fun of playing cards, but the people watching them bet with each other on who would draw the first special card.
The answer is Xia De, [Ancient Fairy Tale Match Girl] appeared first, although the special rules could not be triggered, but the points themselves helped him win that round. The Baron's special card Moon 13 [Pirate King Skeleton Captain Victor] only appeared in the fifth game.
The special rules of this card are very simple, throw a 20-sided dice, if the points are less than or equal to 10, the number of this card will be adjusted to 22; if the points are greater than 10, then the points can be adjusted between 13 and 1.
It cannot be said that this card is useless, it can only be said that there are very few occasions where it can be used.
The Baron has been exposed to Rhodes cards since he was a teenager, and he is a real master of Rhodes cards, while Xia De is purely by luck. As a result, although Xia De won more, the overall results of the match between the two sides can barely be called evenly matched.
Baron Cobble was aroused by this tense game~www.mtlnovel.com~ and even suggested that the two sides use their own special cards to bet against each other, but Shad politely refused:
"I rarely gamble."
While talking, he looked up and saw Miss Bayas again at the stairs leading to the first floor. She seemed to be forcibly held by someone's hand, dragged and forced to go to the first floor.
"Um?"
He stood up with his eyes wide open, and sorted out the cards in his hand:
"Everyone, I'm sorry, I still have something to do, I'll be back later."
As he spoke and pointed upstairs, the others nodded in understanding, thinking that he was going upstairs to meet the big shots. So Baron Lavender, who had been waiting for a long time, took Shad's place.
The unusable and expensive antique knight longsword was temporarily left here, and Xia De walked towards the stairs. Looking back, he saw that the people by the floor-to-ceiling windows were nervously paying attention to the game, and no one looked in this direction, so they quickly walked down the stairs.
Whatever happened to Miss Bayarth, he could not ignore it.