Vol 3 Chapter 61: Unrest in Colombo

The inexplicably fragrant scene that appeared the night before did not affect Alexander, and he still got up early.
Or it was awakened.
It was still dawn, and the noise outside the house awakened Alexander. He walked to the window and saw countless figures outside, who were concentrating on the crowd, and were walking towards the mine.
Someone would look up instinctively when passing under the window. When he saw a figure standing in front of the window, he was terrified and immediately lowered his head. The voice of the people quickly became smaller, as if afraid of being heard, until they walked away. Will continue to whisper.
Alexander looked at the unstoppable flow of people facing the mining area, and at the same time he grasped what happened at night.
Conneau de Malindao will say that Lucrezia ’s husband Giovanni Sforza is trying to conspiracy against the Borgia family, which is a bit surprising, but it also happened after all. Things, so what Alexander really cared about was not whether she said it was true, but why the woman told him about it.
It can be seen that this woman should not be simple. Alexander did n’t want to trust her that way, and Colombo ’s attitude seemed strange. Although he was provocative from the beginning, Alexander always felt that Colombo did so. Is deliberately covering up something.
The door knocked gently, and Paul Busaco appeared at the door, followed by the maid he had seen before.
Following the maid to the side hall, Alexander saw Colombo and Connie who were already waiting.
Connie's expression was calm, at least she couldn't see the embarrassment that she had been naked and self-recommended not long ago, but was ruthlessly rejected. When Alexander came, she nodded slightly.
"Are you sleeping well," Colombo stood up and walked towards Alexandria. "I think you must have taught us the characteristics here, that is this kind of ubiquitous filth," Colombo said, grabbing in the air, and then A cloud of smoke clapped and clapped, and then he shouted to the servant maid next to him, "Did you see it? It was so dirty only one night. Hurry up and clean it up. If I come back at noon, it will still be the same. Go work on the mine. "
The maid nodded in horror and ran away. Then she dragged a wooden bucket filled with water from the corner and began to wipe in the hall.
"Come for breakfast, don't worry about her," Colombo said, beckoning Alexander to sit at the table. "We were actually talking very well yesterday. Let me tell you something more. I'm planning to expand this mine. Soon There can be more workers working here. There is so much coal nearby that you can bend it to pick it up. Anyone can make a fortune by shoveling a pit in the ground, so Rome hopes to restore coal supply to them as soon as possible. Yes. "
Looking at Colombo's smiling face, Alexander nodded intently: "But is it conditional, talk about what you want."
"That's right, it's conditional," Colombo patted the table excitedly, then turned his head to Connie on the other side. "Look, I know it's very simple. I like to deal with smart people."
Looking at Alexandria, Colombo said one by one: "I want the people of the Pogia family to pay me a better price. They should be very clear about the trouble of lacking something that can burn in this weather. Believe it. My frozen Roman city is a disaster for anyone. If the people of the Pogia family do n’t want to trouble themselves this winter, they will have to listen to my price, and I want them to admit that I ’m in Sanroni. 'S power is legal and protected and cannot be affected in any way by Giovanni's marital status. "
"I remember you were still filled with indignation for the injustice received by your cousin yesterday," Alexander asked ironically, his eyes flicking across Connie, but from the face of the woman who was just eating with her head down. There is no expression. "Why did you become a pure mine owner overnight?"
"Isn't that what you want to see," said Colombo, who was ridiculed to Alexander. "You want to get coal for Rome, and I hope to get more things. This will do no harm to both of us. You know, I am well aware of the current embarrassment of Rome. After that, people will rise up to protest against the people of the Pogia family. The Romans have always been impatient. "
Alexander had to admit that Colombo was right this time.
The cold winter different from previous years makes it unbearable for generations of people who are accustomed to the warm winter on the Mediterranean coast, especially many people who travel abroad are trapped on the road because they are not prepared for the cold, and some people are even frozen to death.
Even the city is also threatened by the cold winter, people have to collect wood for a long distance to get a little heating, or some people simply dismantle the furniture and use it as fuel.
At this time, the patience of the Romans is indeed as weak as Colombo said, or their patience has always been low. If the heating problem cannot be solved as quickly as possible, maybe the Romans will soon become irritable. Woke up.
But what caught Alexander's attention was the sentence behind Colombo. He was obviously suggesting that even if the Borgias and Sforzas become enemies in the future, they still hope to retain the rule of Sanroni.
Alexander glanced at Connie who was sitting across the table again. He remembered what the woman said to him about Giovanni Sforza at night. Looking at Colombo in front of him, he felt almost Know the intention of this person.
Obviously, this person is not optimistic about his cousin, so he simply bet on both ends, while showing support for the relatives by cutting off the supply to Rome, but at the same time wanting the woman to pass the money to Rome through himself. song.
Alexander somewhat felt that Giovanni Sforza, who had never met before, was pitiful, and it seemed that everyone, including his wife and relatives, was counting him.
"As for you and my friend, I won't let you get nothing," Colombo bent over slightly to lift a wooden box from his feet on the table, and then pushed forward hard. "This is yours."
Looking at the wooden box sliding in front of him, Alexander gently lifted the arched lid into a slit and looked inside, then closed the lid.
"So how much do you want Rome to pay for your coal?" Alexander asked.
Hearing this, Colombo's smug face showed a smile.
When the breakfast was over and Alexander offered to go out for a turn, Colombo not only agreed, but also asked if he needed to accompany him to see the entire mine.
Looking at spare no effort to show his fortune mine owner, Alexander was gently rejecting his good intentions.
When Alexander, who had only a few guards out, just left, Colombo immediately excitedly said to Connie who was sitting on the side: "I saw that I succeeded, whether it is Sforza or Poggi Ya Du can no longer everything from me. "
"Do you think you have succeeded?" Connie looked at Colombo and said she walked to the mirror and carefully looked at herself in the mirror.
Sensing Connie ’s deep tone, Colombo walked behind her in disbelief, stroking her hands on her smooth shoulders and gently stroking: "Is n’t it, as long as Gumbre went back to tell Bo this news Gia, they will make up for it without paying me, and they must agree to my conditions. Such a cold day is that many of us here can't stand it. I don't believe that the Romans can endure a winter. As long as the Romans are freezing , The Borgia family will not have a good life, and finally they have to beg me to come here. "
Connie was uncomfortable with Colombo's words. She only twisted her body a few times to make her curved curve in the mirror more prominent, and it seemed to reveal a faint charm.
There was a thirsty "grunt" in Colombo's throat. He pressed his hand on Connie's shoulder and began to slide down, but just around her waist, Connie had turned around and walked away.
"Do you really think that Gumbre took your money and everything will be easier to handle?" Connie asked disapprovingly. "Trust me, this person is not that simple."
Colombo frowned. He walked to Connie and asked in a deep voice: "Do you think he will cause us trouble? I have heard of this man. He is actually a Sicilian. Sicily sent to Naples. Messengers, you should know that many of these so-called messengers are actually exiled, but it is said that he is actually the illegitimate child of the Countess of Naples Modillo, the Countess of Cosenza, George Anne, so he has gained a small territory by virtue of this relationship. Speaking of which, Colombo originally had a contemptuous look on his face that was somewhat valued by Connie ’s words.
Because of this, he became Modillo ’s errand, and even sent food to Rome for his uncle. Although I heard that the Order Conference in Rome was organized by him, but now that this person is actually a puppet of Caesar, I also know that Caesar kicked him out of Rome after the Order Conference was completed, and drove him to San The Nile is here. "
Colombo groaned in a disdainful nose, thinking he wanted to please such a person, he felt a little annoyed. When he thought about the matter the night before, he looked at Connie a little angrily: "Actually, you used it yesterday Do n’t seduce Gombrecht. Let ’s see that I bought this guy for only 1,000 Florin today. You were a bit redundant yesterday and let him take advantage.

"Are you jealous?" Connie looked funny at Colombo's stinky face. "I said he is not easy because he didn't take advantage of me yesterday."
"What?" Colombo's eyes narrowed. His fingers began to tap lightly on the table. Connie's words obviously made him start to think about what was wrong with it. Finally he asked "What do you think of this person?" kind?"
"I can't say it," Connie pondered as she walked. "This man is very young. It should be very intolerable when facing a woman like me, but he didn't care about me at all last night, and I can see that he started from scratch. You are very vigilant and cautious at the end, but today you only bought 1,000 Florin and bought him off, which is a little different from what he did yesterday. "
"Maybe he's not a man," Colombo looked at Connie and smiled suddenly, but then shook his head. "If he really guards against you, why did he take my money today."
"So we have to be more careful," Connie whispered. "Don't forget that we are going to from the Sforza's mouth. I think you must not forget Forli's tigress, that The woman is a real Sforza. "
Colombo's face changed suddenly, and a "grunt" sound came out of his throat again, but this time it was not because of desire, but because he remembered some unpleasant memories.
"Maybe I can give him some more benefits. This person seems quite greedy," Colombo tentatively said. "It's okay to know that the mine can make us a fortune, and spending more money."
"Are you sure he just wanted to blackmail more bribes?"
Connie squinted at Colombo, her scornful eyes irritated the man, and Colombo walked back and forth a few steps to stop and looked at Connie: "So what do you think we should do?"
Connie crossed his arms, patting his arms gently, and seeing him like her, Colombo waited silently beside him. He knew that this woman was much smarter than him, even until now. The things that even his father, Old Colombo, did not know were actually planned by the woman.
"We have to figure out what he is going to do in Sanroni, is it really just that Rome wants him to make a passage, or has he found something."
"What did you find, did you say he knew what we were going to do?" Colombo's face changed a bit, he started to circle around again and again, and then he looked at the woman before him with some hesitation. "Maybe, maybe you You can go and find him again, I know that with your charm you can let men tell secrets, help me Connie, and help me again. "
Looking at the man's anxious face, Connie stood up slowly. She put her hand on Colombo's shoulder and gently stroked it, comforting him as if coaxing the child: "Don't worry, I must I will find a way to hook that Gombre. I will let him tell him his real purpose of coming to San Niro, and then we have a way to deal with him. "
Colombo was relieved. He believed that as long as Connie appeared, there would be no problem. Those people who had surrendered to her before would not be an exception.
Alexander led people along the slope, and it was dark everywhere. If you look closely at the fine powder floating in the air, Alexander tried to hold his breath and walked slowly on the gravel.
On the road, I saw a lot of numb workers passing by. When I saw them, these workers would try to walk away as far as possible, and they seemed to be afraid of getting close to them.
Alexander walked slowly, he was not in a hurry, and he deliberately walked slowly, and it did n’t take long for Paul Busako to whisper after the side report: "Master, someone behind us is staring, just after going out Keep up. "
Alexander nodded gently, and Colombo ’s bribe and Connie ’s strange visit late last night made him realize that this supposedly simple trip had become intricate and full of suspense.
"Sir, would you like me to kill the guy behind?" Paul Busako asked in a low voice.
"No, just don't let him keep up." Alexander told him to walk down the mountain following the original road. When he turned a corner, he saw the two guards who were staying next to him. Immediately accelerated the pace.
Not far behind came a panic and struggling sound ~ EbookFREE.me ~ Then quickly calmed down, and then the two guards chased up.
"We stunned the guy, a small child." A guard whispered to Paul Busaco.
"Where are they?" Alexander ignored the whispers of the people behind.
"Front." Paul Busaco walked a few steps and led Alexander down the path into the woods.
In the woods, the woman who had stolen coal was looking around nervously. Seeing them coming, she hurried up and took them to the flat ground in front of a tree.
A man leaned against the tree trunk panting, and beside him there were two other Agri soldiers dressed in civilian clothes.
Alexander looked at the man who was obviously sick.
"Adult, my husband knows a lot of things, I just ask you to save him." The woman said anxiously.
"Then tell me what you all know." Alexander said to the man.