The Law of the Silent Gentleman

Chapter 41 – Debut

After three days of training, Giuliano and Enzo finally got Resch’s permission to perform with him on stage. The performance venue is in the Golden Trout Tavern. Leixi reached an agreement with the boss early in the morning, using the performance to cover the cost of board and lodging. There are singers or musicians in the tavern, and the business is often more prosperous. There are even examples of a tavern on the verge of bankruptcy that was brought back to life by recruiting a famous musician. Leixi is such an outstanding bard. Lei Xi said that he would bring two more people to accompany him, and the boss agreed without saying a word.

The moment the sun goes down is when the show begins. The three of them put on the butterfly mask and sat in a corner of the first floor of the tavern. The position was very particular, and the arrangement was just right, so that all customers could see it, but it was not too eye-catching. After sitting down, Leixi tuned the strings for a few minutes, drank a few sips of water, and then tuned the strings for a while, until someone yelled “Hurry up”, and the bard officially began to play.

At this time, there were not too many guests in the tavern. Lei Xi played a vulgar tune popular in Zanodia, and the cheerful sound of the piano floated from the tavern to the street outside. Giuliano accompanied by the sound of the flute, and Enzo played the tambourine from time to time, his eyes were full of love. Giuliano almost laughed, but in order to hold back his laughter, he played several wrong notes, which drew Lexi’s reproachful stare.

As night fell and the music was brisk, the number of guests gradually increased. After the three songs, the tavern was overcrowded, and the boss had to put more tables and chairs in the aisle.

Giuliano found that every time before the start of a song, Rexi would dawdle for a while, or exchange a few words with others, or ask for a few sips of a drink. Swallow ready to play. This seems to be a customary habit of Zanodia. The singers and musicians always dawdle before starting to perform, while the audience is quiet and urging at the right time, and the two cooperate seamlessly. Performers starting too early or too late, or the audience rushing too quickly or too late, are considered insolent. Such a peculiar custom opened the eyes of young apprentices.

Amidst the sound of music, customers pushed cups to change cups, and the boss smiled happily. But making money isn’t their real purpose, it’s one thing to attract customers, it’s another to show enough talent to win the favor of the big shot. “The Mill Girl’s Thighs” and “A Night in the Rye” are not needed at a nobleman’s masquerade.

After attracting enough guests with slang ballads, Resch began to play his favorite hero sagas, first the “Dalian Wars”, and then “Omaran Poems”. By this time, the guests didn’t really care what he was playing… He continued to sing “Blessed Antonio”, “Matia the Law Operator”, “Six Knights of the Long Bridge” and other songs. When the clock struck midnight, Lexi ended the last piece properly, stood up and bowed to the enthusiastic applause and cheers of the crowd, and then led Enzo and Giuliano upstairs to his bedroom on the second floor.

It was almost when the tavern was closing, the boss came forward to apologize, saying that the business hours were coming to an end, and the unsatisfied customers checked out one after another, and the boss knew that they would definitely come back tomorrow. The white-haired bard is like a cash cow, and the tavern is making more money today than in the past month! What a stroke of luck to meet him!

The tavern soon emptied, leaving only tables and chairs with messy glasses and plates. The boss was about to ask the waiter to clean up, when suddenly someone stopped him.

A few minutes later, the boss knocked on the door of Reich’s room. At this moment the bard is pointing at Giuliano’s fingering. Giuliano was actually not interested at all, but he still had to pretend to be listening.

“Master, there is a guest asking to see you.” The tavern owner was afraid that he would interrupt the important teaching of the master.

“Who?” Reich asked absently.

“Sir Diego Gombet, a businessman.”

“Please come in.”

The boss backed out of the door and said “Come in”, and then a man wearing a crimson shawl entered the door. He had a neat beard, a soft hat, and a pair of calculating blue eyes that swept across the crowd quickly. The boss closes the door. The man bowed slightly to Lei Xi, and Lei Xi nodded in return. Enzo and Giuliano stood still like two marble statues. The bard glared at them, and they nodded perfunctorily.

“My name is Diego Gombet, a native who operates maritime trade routes.”

“Lexi, the bard. These two are members of my orchestra, Enzo and Giuliano. I’m not very polite when I first arrived in Guibao, please forgive me.”

“Where is it, I am bothering you, and I would like to ask you to forgive me for being presumptuous. I was just passing by the Golden Trout Tavern, but I was attracted by the music wafting from it, so I couldn’t help but walked in. It really shocked me Eye-opening! To hear such a natural sound, I just feel that I have no regrets in this life!”

“It’s absurd. Such crude music, I’m afraid it will pollute your ears.”

The two of you come and go, Giuliano is so bored. This is probably some kind of custom, right? It took them a long time to get down to business. Lei Xi asked: “What do you want to do?”

The businessman showed a kind and charming smile. This smile must have made him successful in business. Of course, the other three were not bewitched at all, only Giuliano was slightly shaken, but he looked at Enzo, sneered in his heart, and soon became determined.

“I would like to invite your orchestra to perform on my boat,” said Diego Gombet.

“On the boat?”

“Exactly. You probably don’t know the customs of Zanodia. After a new ship returns safely from its maiden voyage, a grand welcome banquet will be held on board. My fleet has just added a new ship, and I just finished a business trip , The reception banquet is scheduled for next week, and such excellent musicians will definitely add luster to the banquet. I wonder if the master is willing to condescend to come?”

“Thank you for your love, I am very honored, but please allow me to think about it for a while.”

Diego Gombet beamed with joy: “Then I will send someone over tomorrow.”

He touched the brim of his hat, saluted the three of them, and exited the room. As soon as he left, Enzo called the tavern owner on his back.

“Who is that Diego Gombet?”

The boss rubbed his hands: “He is a respectable businessman who specializes in cargo ships, and his fleet is one of the best in this city.”

“Oh? So, there must be many celebrities attending his banquet?”

“That’s right! If you don’t invite a few high-class people, how can you show your status?”

Enzo nodded: “Go do your work.”

After the boss left, he turned to Lei Xi: “His banquet is a great opportunity to make a name for himself. If I had known earlier, I should have agreed to him directly.”

“You don’t know, it’s a custom. When an artist is invited, if he doesn’t want to go, he will just say it. On the contrary, if he says ‘Let me think about it’, it is a tactful acceptance. It is rude to directly agree, and it will be rejected by the employer. despise.”

Enzo and Giuliano were silent at the same time. The profession of bard is not easy to do either!

In the early morning of the next day, Diego Gombet indeed sent a servant with a beautiful invitation. Lei Xi wrote back to the businessman, agreeing to his sincere invitation in elegant terms. In the next few days, they still performed in the Golden Trout Tavern. Soon Giuliano discovered that the “white-haired bard and his orchestra” had already become famous in the neighborhood. When Lei Xi went out, passers-by would take off their hats and salute him, and the vendors would give him special discounts. During the evening performances, many people come here from other parts of the city. Once when Giuliano and the others came to the Golden Trout Tavern, they found a large bouquet of flowers in the corridor outside Lexi’s room, which was given by an admirer who did not want to be named.

The tavern owner was afraid that Lei Xi would move to other places if he became famous, so he did everything possible to keep them, and his attitude towards the three of them became more and more hospitable. He ordered someone to tidy up the attic, and arranged it magnificently. Lei Xi didn’t even need to open his mouth, and he served fine wine and food. He even planned to order a sign to hang outside the tavern, engraved with “Master Lexi and his orchestra perform here”, but felt that the name was a bit cumbersome. He asked Resch if they had an official name. This stumps the bard – because there really isn’t one.

“You can get one on the spot,” said the boss.

Leixi pondered for a while in embarrassment: “Then let’s call it ‘Poetry of Frost’.”

“Uh, is there any allusion to the name?”

“There is no allusion, I thought of it on a whim.”

So the boss officially put up a signboard saying “The Frost Poetry Orchestra is performing again” outside the tavern door. Soon, the name “Poetry of Frost” spread throughout the streets and alleys of the dock area, like an autumn storm, advancing unstoppably to other areas.