New Century Kitchen Warrior

Chapter 160 Old Residence
Grady kept rubbing her hands together like a fly, very excited, almost embarrassingly excited.

The first meeting ended quickly in a relatively harmonious atmosphere, but it ended so quickly because Grady was in a hurry to get out. After leaving the restaurant, she immediately wandered around the casino, as if she wanted to quickly inspect her newly acquired territory.

Lei Ye followed her and took a walk around. The area of ​​this place was about six times the size of Yuzu Fort. One fifth of it was the owner's private area, which was like an emperor's palace.

The other four-fifths are for gambling. Looking down from the edge of the second-floor balcony, the exquisite gambling tables are neatly arranged. Lei Ye seems to be able to see all kinds of people shouting and yelling in front of the roulette wheels. The bunny girls serve them with a smile on their faces, without even looking at some people slumped in the corner. Soon the bodyguards will throw out those who can't take out the chips.

These are just minor incidents. The second floor is full of small private rooms. If you open a door, you might be smelled by a foul fishy smell or see bloodstains on the walls that cannot be washed off. It is not difficult to imagine that those who can go to the second floor are all wealthy people who have been squeezed dry here quietly.

Looking at the blood dripping on the wall, Lei Ye shuddered silently. He wondered what the man with blood had experienced in the end that forced him to attack the group of people in black who he knew he could not defeat.

There is another bigger question: are these people idiots? Even if they can't see the problem with the gambling equipment, they still come here to give money to others after watching people fall here one by one?

Forget it, this casino will never exist again.

"Although I don't like this new little brother very much, at least he gave this place back to you straightforwardly. That's good. I tell you that this place doesn't need any major changes. Replace the gambling equipment with dining tables and shelves, and open half of it as a restaurant and the other half to sell magic props. Considering that the venue you provided is large enough and you also contributed in the research and development stage, we can split the profits 60% to 40% this time." Lei Ye was not wandering around aimlessly. He had been thinking about how to modify this place. At the moment, it didn't need to be demolished and rebuilt.

But Grady was silent for once with a strange expression on her face and did not respond to the topic.

"Son-in-law, let's walk around for a while longer and then we should go change our clothes. The wedding will start soon." Acai, who was following behind him, suddenly stepped forward and whispered.

When leaving the restaurant, Cai Guangjin and his three companions also followed out, as if they had really become Lei Ye's bodyguards, following behind him with a fierce look in their eyes.

Lei Ye glanced back at the three people. One was a tall and handsome guy, but as soon as Lei Ye turned around, he subconsciously put his hand to protect his crotch. One was a shorter but strong man who looked a little ugly. The other was a charming woman. Lei Ye couldn't comment on whether she was pretty or not. He just felt that her makeup was too exaggerated and cheap.

Facing Lei Ye's gaze, the three of them stood up slightly, expressing "I am reliable" and "We are strong".

"Tsk," Lei Ye retracted his gaze, "I forgot to explain this matter clearly just now."

As Morton returned the big casino to Grady, Lei Ye felt that there was no need to be tense. Besides, he had already made it clear to Losia about his identity. When he walked out of the bathroom, he assumed that there was no need to talk about it anymore. But when he recalled that at the dinner table just now, Morton had always addressed him as son-in-law.

No, we have to go back and explain everything. There’s a wedding going on over there.

"Acai, take Aguang and Ajin back first. I have something to talk to Hachioji alone." Suddenly his arms were hugged.

Lei Ye turned his head and saw Losia with a dull expression, pretending to be intimate with him and getting very close to him.

"I'm not some eight"

"Aaaaaah dear."

Losia got closer to him, shook her head and rushed into Lei Ye's arms, interrupting him. Lei Ye couldn't avoid it because his arms were hugged.

The trio hesitated for a moment, as if they had never seen Losia like this, and walked away with a floating gaze.

As soon as they disappeared from sight, Losia let go of her hands and fell to her knees.

"Brother, it was difficult for me to talk to you because there were so many people around. I kneeled down in front of you and begged you, brother, can you please help me?"

This.

A straightforward kneeling made Lei Ye confused. It seemed that Losiya was not a fool. He saw that Lei Ye would not be hard-pressed, so he changed his strategy and decided to say something nice.

But
"No, I really can't help you with this. To be honest, if you are threatened by a high-ranking official, even if it's an official in the royal city, I can think of a way for you. Or if your relatives are taken away by a beast, even if it's a dragon, I can fight it and treat you to dragon meat later. But what kind of favor is this? You want me to help you? Are you going to find a married man to hold your wedding?"

Since the other party had already knelt down, Lei Ye did not act too rudely. He sincerely helped Losya up and said that he was really unable to do it.

Although there is a little error in the last sentence, he has not had time to get married, and he and Buyadi have just confirmed their relationship as boyfriend and girlfriend, but in Lei Ye's heart, his wedding can only be between him and Buyadi, and he will not betray this idea in all the save files.

"Well, you just don't need to explain. Godfather seems to have some strange misunderstandings. Now it's good like this. Please, brother, I will do anything as long as you don't explain things clearly." Losiya was almost crying.

For a moment, Lei Ye was somewhat moved by Losiya's filial piety. He did not expect that this child was so concerned about helping his father escape.

"I'm going out to play later and won't attend the wedding." Lei Ye's tone relaxed a little.

"This..." Losia gritted her teeth, "No problem! It's up to you. I'll take care of everything else."

It's really interesting. Before he died, did the groom ever think that he was going to attend a wedding where the groom didn't have to be present?

He thought about it in his mind, there was no marriage certificate, no wedding, no sex, and it was not under his own name, so if that was the case, then it was nothing.

"Whatever you want." He waved his hand.

In an instant, Losya's eyes, which were filled with sorrow, sparkled with light. She got up and trotted back, just like a bride who was in a hurry to attend her own wedding. She looked quite pitiful.

He turned around and patted Grady on the shoulder.

"Why don't we go out and have a look now? I feel like the housing prices in Bologna aren't too expensive. We can get some real estate later. I tell you, this is very profitable."

Grady remained silent.

The look he gave Lei Ye was strange, as if he had made some kind of decision.

After visiting the big casino, they decided to take a good tour of Bologna. This was their original purpose, to investigate whether Lei Ye’s three industries had the potential to flourish in this city.

When leaving the casino, the trio followed again. This time they followed from a distance and did not say anything about the wedding being about to begin. I guess it was Losya who said something to them.

Lei Ye decided to ignore them and walked the streets of Bologna with Grady.

Unexpectedly, when he stepped onto the streets of Bologna again, Grati seemed to have found a familiar road, turning left and right and walking through the alleys.

"You are very familiar with the terrain." Lei Ye exclaimed.

"Yes, knowing the location of the casino helped me find the way. Left, straight, left, left, etc. I just kept repeating this in my mind." said Grady.

Lei Ye's heart moved. When he was a child, he lived in a bungalow area. Before the demolition, he had this mantra in his mind. He walked straight to the wasteland in the west, where there were piles of sand left by construction workers. He asked people to go there to play with sand every day.

Looking around, there are only some shabby small bungalows here. It is hard to imagine that these buildings are in the same area as the big casinos.

"More than a hundred years have passed, and surprisingly not much has changed here."

Grady muttered, and climbed over a low wall lightly. Lei Ye said nothing more, and took out some snacks to block Gratini's mouth. He saw that Grady's heart was gradually filled with complicated emotions about returning home, and he didn't want to disturb her.

He envied Greti very much, as he could go back to his hometown to have a look. If possible, he also wanted to go back to his hometown to see the buildings made of sand. However, he knew that in his heart he had gradually given up on returning to his hometown.

Grady walked for a long time and finally stopped in front of a house. She thought it was her home.

Unexpectedly, it turned out to be a rather large house. From what Grady had said before, her childhood seemed to be very difficult, so Lei Ye thought that her house in Bologna would be a rather old and shabby little house. But it made sense. When she left Bologna and returned to Jiaotu, she even had a casino in her hands, so she was naturally not short of money.

Standing in front of the door, Gretty slowly squatted down. Lei Ye rarely saw Gretty, who always tried to be elegant, posing like this. She looked like a country girl who had no family to take care of her. She had no one to play with in her rare free time, so she squatted on the side of the road with a dull look in her eyes, watching people coming and going.

Grady suddenly turned her head and saw several children on the street, chained by an adult.

She observed for a moment, then stood up and walked over there, asking softly.

"How much."

"A small gold coin."

"Huh"

Grady raised her eyebrows slightly. She touched the top of the head of the child closest to her, gently pulled up her hair and looked at it, then suddenly raised the corners of her mouth and smiled.

"I want them all."

Lei Ye watched her pay the money neatly, and then lead the children over like they were lambs.

"The price has gone up. Guess how much a child like this would have cost about two hundred years ago?"

"Five big silver coins?" Lei Ye said after thinking for a while.

"Yes, some defective ones are discounted and sold for only five small silver coins."

Five small silver coins are approximately equal to five hundred yuan. Lei Ye was a little surprised when he converted it in his mind. He suddenly remembered a word that Grady said, "cheap people".

"I am the defective product. When my parents passed by, they saw someone selling a child here, so they sold me. Maybe I was a burden to them at the time. Originally, they asked for a large silver coin, but the family living here pulled my hair and saw the two small horns on my head, so they lowered the price to five small silver coins."

"This is really good value for money," Lei Ye didn't know whether she said this to comfort him or just to talk about her past, so he just complained, "If I came here and saw you being sold off, I might come over and increase the price to buy you. Five hundred bucks is a bargain."

"If that's the case, then maybe I wouldn't have committed a serious crime. I would have been your maid or something, and I would have been stubborn and nice to you. I told you I was pretty stupid when I was little," Grady smiled. She wasn't disgusted by the assumption that she was bought as a slave. "Anyway, it's better than being sold here."

Grady checked the shoulders of the children one by one, and found simple slave tattoos engraved on that position.

"It really hasn't changed at all." She complained in a low voice.

"By the way, Bologna is surprisingly tolerant of the demons," Lei Ye sighed, "Your parents can actually come here to sell their children. Even in Hillius, the slave trade of the demons can only take place in the deepest alleys."

Grady's expression suddenly changed violently. She turned her head, pushed open the door and strode in.

The small yard had a desolate feeling as if no one had lived there for a long time, and the soil was barren.

Taking a deep breath, Grady suppressed the complicated emotions in her heart. She knew that she could not let go of her feelings anymore. It would be bad if she said more. She looked at everything in front of her in silence and felt sad in her heart.

When I revisit my old place, things have changed and people have changed.

When she was a child, she was a country girl, being ordered around in this small yard. Her biggest wish was not even to gain freedom, but to be assigned less work so that she could have some time of her own. Besides, she was not a strong child and could not withstand the high-intensity labor.

She looked down at those anxious children, as if she saw herself in her childhood who was in constant fear, but at this moment she was empathizing with the middle-aged human who had long been dead. Was this how he felt at the time? By paying a small amount of money that was nothing to him, he could override these cheap lives.

So money is very important. Money is very important.
The flame of greed burned in her heart. During the years when Jiaotu was obsessed with magic tools, she actually forgot her most profitable business.

She glanced back at Lei Ye, then silently opened the door and went into the room.

There was a fragrance and a stinky smell in the room, a mixture of medicine and the smell of a garbage dump.

someone.

Grady was stunned for a moment, then she realized that this house had been vacant for hundreds of years and would certainly be targeted by homeless people who would sneak in and use it as a temporary base. That's why Grady didn't lock the door, otherwise they would pry open the door and smash the glass. It was impossible to expect law enforcement officers in Bologna to guarantee that her house would not be invaded. Grady just hoped that they would not make her old house too dirty.

She tried to push open the bedroom door, and sure enough, there was a person lying on the adobe bed, but she didn't look like a homeless person, but more like a fragile and delicate flower. Grady was surprised by her beauty. Although she was not a top beauty, she was a rare pretty girl in this area.

The girl was very weak, covered in sweat, and her skin was as pale as paper.

Lei Ye followed in behind her and saw the girl at a glance. He immediately went over, took out the noodles and stuffed them into the girl's mouth.

Needless to say, there are plenty of noodles in stock, and it has become a physical memory to stuff noodles into people's mouths when I see someone injured.

However, it was of no use. The girl who ate the noodles did not open her eyes and her body was still shaking slightly.

The effect of Raino Ramen is that it can heal injuries for six hours, but the girl has no injuries and looks like she is sick or cursed. In this case, healing potions and the like are useless.

"It's a bit troublesome," Lei Ye hissed, turning his head and giving Grady a thumbs up, "By the way, you still keep such a delicate flower in your home? You're a good person!"

Now Grady was a little disgusted with the word nice person. She shook her head, "Not me."

Of course Lei Ye knew it wasn't Grady. This person probably sneaked in just like Lei Ye sneaked into Jiejie's house.

This symptom was a bit tricky. He had never learned any purification magic. If he wanted to save the girl, he could only buy some alchemist's equipment nearby and use the alchemist's knowledge in the old archive to make a bottle of purification medicine.

In other words, it is not impossible to save it, so it is good after all.

At this time, footsteps were heard behind me.

The one who followed into the room was A Guang, the ugly-looking older man. When he saw the girl, his face lit up with joy, and he gave Lei Ye a thumbs up.

Lei Ye was a little confused, but he gave A Guang a thumbs up and watched him stride forward, ready to pick up the girl.

"Hey?"

(End of this chapter)