boy and bone

The entire territory of the Yishakel clan seems to be covered in a gloomy rain tonight without exception.Tragedy always plays out in such weather.

Duke Yishakel has only one son under his knees. It is conceivable how much he cherishes and loves his only child for the old duke.

It's a pity that the boy died soon.

"Dad, Dad, am I going to die?" Saying such heart-wrenching words was a boy with a haggard pale face and sunken eyes that looked too gloomy. He lay on this pearl crafted by 93 top craftsmen. On the bed, every riveting detail on the bed embodies purity and preciousness.

The duke didn't know how to answer, he pursed the corners of his trembling lips, that mouth that talked endlessly in the clan council, that mouth that could deny the value of human life with a single sentence, trembling and pretending to be silent at this moment.

He held the slender hand of his favored son, and kept kissing the immature fingertips that were gradually losing their color. He wanted to use his kisses to awaken the warmth of those little hands like a little sun.

Despair had never been closer to his heart than it was now.

Intense sadness spread from the bed to the entire bedroom like a small palace, the inaudible sobs and the dying breath of death shrouded the surroundings as if solidified, and a relief door carved with flower gods and scepters was silently closed The relief of the flower god, which originally meant dreams and hopes, lowered its eyes sadly at this moment, as if silently praying, and also as if it could not bear pity.

The duke was going mad, and he was tormented.He didn't know what he did wrong to be tortured like this.He kept repenting and praying in his heart for all the wrong things he had done before, but also asked God Rao not to take away his only child for the sake of the good deeds he had done.

Regret filled the Duke's chest, and tears welled up in his chest.Just when the duke's emotions that had been accumulated for a long time were on the verge of collapse, someone came to visit him.

"My lord, the Kiranji clan is here to visit." The butler stood silently behind him.

The Duke restrained his grief: "Please."

The pungent smell of medicine and the smell of rotting flesh covered up by the rich fragrance of flowers make this bedroom not suitable for entertaining guests. Duke Yishakel turned back and said, "Wait for me in the hall."

"Duke Yishakel, long time no see, you've lost weight." As soon as the hall door was pushed open, a hoarse voice greeted him, if one wanted to find flaws in this slim beauty waiting in the hall , the only thing is her frosty voice. According to others, she accidentally scalded her throat when she was young, so she has always maintained a clear and slightly hoarse child voice even after many years of adulthood.

"Yuexi, long time no see." The Duke approached cordially and hugged this dignified lady.At this time, he noticed that beside Yuexi was a young man who looked unfamiliar to him, his meticulous appearance exuded a clean and noble air, and he thought he was the son of some clan.

"Who is this?" asked the Duke.

Yuexi introduced: "My younger brother, Man. He travels abroad all year round to study, so he doesn't always attend inter-clan gatherings. It's natural for the Duke to feel strange."

The Duke nodded slightly, and stretched out his hand to greet the man, but he saw that the man did not show the slightest intention of communicating.

"I don't agree, sister." The man raised his hand: "We will come to celebrate the Duke's birthday banquet every year. I should see the Duke the same number of times as you, but he is familiar with you, but he is not familiar with me. The Duke They are all sitting on a high position with you, and the people below me are just in the eyes of His Majesty the Duke for the first time today, so of course His Majesty finds them strange."

"Man." Yuexi raised his voice and read his name, intending to remind him to be careful.Instead, Yuexi walked up to the Duke, and said softly: "Man has been lazy outside for many years, and his father recently wanted to train him, so he asked me to take him with him, so that he can get more familiar with some family affairs."

"Your Excellency Yuexi is extremely intelligent, and he is a leader of the younger generation. If your younger brother can learn half of your demeanor, it will benefit a lot." On the young man.

"My lord duke is awesome." Yue Xi took advantage of the situation to change the subject, she waved her hand, and the maid standing beside her respectfully held out a simple earthen pot.

Under the candlelight, this docile maid like a puppet is dressed in black and white, and her every move is natural and decent. However, the palm exposed outside the frilly sleeves of 'her' is glowing with polished metal, and 'her' moon silver The flat face under the long hair is obviously welded by two metal skins of different materials, and the different shades of the upper and lower skin reveal a lifeless cool color.

This "maid" who only obeys Yuexi Kiranji is a humanoid machine made by the most advanced mechanical technology. It is Yuexi's personal valet. The mechanical maid has become one of the striking features of Miss Yuexi.

The Duke has seen a lot, and this mechanical maid who seems human but not human will no longer cause him discomfort.

Yuexi took the clay pot from the maid's hand, the delicate pot was about the size of a palm: "Young master is smart and cute, it's really heartbreaking to encounter such a thing, this is the potion that my father ordered people to rush to make overnight, although it can't completely eliminate Although it is a disease, but it has a good restraint and calming effect, my father ordered me and my younger brother to send it to express my heart."

The Duke took the clay pot delivered by Yuexi, his originally calm gaze revealed sadness, and he handed it over to the butler behind him for safekeeping: "Say hello to Duke Guilanzhi for me, and I will come to thank you when my son recovers."

"The capital city of Guilanzhi is far away from this Dolan. You must have had a tough journey here overnight. Please rest for a while. I will order someone to prepare dinner." The Duke gave the butler a look, and the butler exited the hall knowingly.

"Hearing the news of the young master, my father was anxious. As soon as the potion was prepared, my father ordered us to leave immediately. As a result, we didn't consider the time. Unfortunately, we came so late to bother you." Yue Xi said .

"After so many years, Duke Guilanzhi's personality has not changed. He is still frizzy." The tone of Isakel's old friend, there is a dark velvet bench in the living room, and the Duke invites two guests as if leading the way. take a seat.

Yuexi nodded slightly to express her gratitude, while Yuexi's younger brother showed uncomfortable willfulness. He just took a look at the bench and said, "No need. I'm tired, I want to rest first."

Although the Duke did not show displeasure, he did not have a good impression.He casually pointed to the other servants waiting in the living room: "Take this lord to the guest room to rest."

After Man left the living room, Yuexi tried to smooth things over: "My younger brother has not been feeling well in the past few days, and he has been riding with me in a bumpy carriage for many days. He is so rude. I hope you will forgive me, Uncle."

The duke's expression was not good: "You call me uncle, and I will tell you bluntly, the same journey, the same bumps, you, a girl, have not complained, but he, a man, is weak... Your brothers are not mature, I didn't expect This little one is the same."

"Since uncle said so, then Yuexi is going to complain, her stomach has been rumbling for a long time..." Yuexi showed a daughter-like playfulness.

The Duke smiled affectionately: "It was I who neglected Lord Yuexi, please take your seat."

"Don't dare to be, dare not be." Yuexi sat down with a nod of her head, with her aristocratic demeanor properly retracted, showing her unique feminine charm at all times. Everyone knows that Yuexi Guilanzhi is the one who is most likely to be under the rule of Guilan. The heir of a duke, she is not only young and promising, but also the only daughter of the Guilanzhi clan. Everyone believes that she is the reincarnation of the legendary spirit of the deep sea.

Kiranji is a strange clan. For a long time, there has been a mysterious legend that has accompanied each generation of Kiranji.

This surname first appeared in an ancient book, which described such a story: There is a kind of holy spirit who lived in the deep sea for a long time. They inhabited the world in the age of ancient gods, but they were shy by nature, and even the gods were afraid of them. I have never seen their real appearance. A curious god wanted to go deep into the center of the sea to find this kind of holy spirit. Unexpectedly, he drowned in the middle of the sea. When the god was helpless, the spirit of the deep sea came Help him out of the predicament and send the gods back to the shore. Afterwards, those mysterious holy spirits fell into the sea like stars in the sky and disappeared. The gods were grateful and vowed never to disturb their peace again.Thousands of years after the gods left the world and handed it over to the human race, a blind girl bride who got married from the sea in a small boat met a deep sea spirit who was shot down by lightning and thunder in a storm.The kind bride rescued it, and the holy spirit merged with the bride's eyes to thank the human bride. The bride not only saw the light, but also possessed a powerful and unique magic power. In the battle between the great kingdoms, the victorious kingdom respected the bride as a goddess, while the defeated kingdom did everything possible to avenge the goddess, and they invited a dark witch from another continent.Due to the power of the powerful spirit of the deep sea, the witch cannot harm the goddess herself, but the dark witch knows that the blood of the spirit of the deep sea will always flow on the descendants of the goddess, but only descendants who are also female can awaken the power of the holy spirit , in order to get help from the spirit of the deep sea in times of crisis.So they used all despicable methods on the children born by the goddess. The newborn and fragile sons of the goddess were unfortunately cursed. The evil kingdom and the witch cursed the descendants of the goddess for generations to be men, and generation after generation will never awaken. possible.

This curse, until the goddess passed away, did not find a way to break it, and the spirit of the deep sea that became the eyes of the goddess also returned to its hometown, the deep sea, with the death of the goddess.

Regardless of whether this legendary story has added some fictional elements out of some real interests, it is true that the Kiranji clan did not have a single female birth from the beginning of its establishment. Together with the founder of the clan, Rao Natsu Kiranji, one of the heroes, is a man.

And Yuexi Kiranji is the only daughter of the Kiranji clan, but she really exists. 20 years ago, the birth of Yuexi Guilanzhi was like a miracle, which made everyone have high hopes for her.Although she has not yet shown the strange power of the deep sea as in the legend, her excellent command of magic elements is enough to crush her peers, which really makes people believe in her as the number one woman of the clan.

Even if he didn't have such a life experience as if a god descended into the world, Duke Isakel would be sure that the next Duke Kiranji would definitely be Yuexi.There are actually four elder brothers above Yuexi, but they are not as capable as Yuexi in any aspect.Earlier he had heard that Yue Xi had a younger brother of the same father and the same mother, but judging from tonight's situation, compared with his sister, the other noble son of Kiranji's family, not only was he of mediocre background , the arrogant appearance is even more unpleasant.

Another "unachievable" man of the Kiranji clan who hurried to the guest room alone - Man Kiranji, he knew early in the morning how much he would get in the back if he walked side by side with his god-like sister Tips: It is said that he has a sister like Yuexi as a role model, but he turns a blind eye to it, looks at it coldly, and even confronts her everywhere; it is said that he is idle all day long and does not get close to the family, he is obviously a son of an orthodox clan, but he is actually with a bystander He is like a random person, not many people know his face at all, and so on...

But he himself didn't care about these at all, he still went his own way, wandering around like a ghost all day long, if it wasn't for his father's explicit recall this time, he probably wouldn't know where he was wandering.

After the butler led him to the bedroom, this noble young man with a very weak sense of existence plunged into the soft bed, feeling sleepy as if he was about to fall asleep.But when the butler left, he immediately sat up from the bed, locked the door behind him, and quickly walked through the window.

With rain on his feet, he pushed open another window of the Duke's mansion and jumped in.

"Hmm..." As soon as he got into the window, he covered his mouth and nose, and said in disgust, "What does this room smell like?"

"Man." The sickly boy on the bed was not intimidated by the sudden person, he smiled weakly.

"Can't you even smell it?" Man Guilanzhi walked to the bed, took out a colorful feather from his arms, waved it in front of the boy's eyes, and inserted it into the porcelain white vase on the bedside cabinet. The pale interior was decorated with some color, and he asked, "How are you doing?"

"It hurts a little." The boy said lightly.

The man with a pair of deep sea blue eyes lifted the blanket covering the boy, and a strong smell of corruption came out. The man with blue eyes frowned, and the boy seemed to understand: "Man, tell me, I Are you going to die?"

"..." The boy's question left an adult at a loss as to how to answer it.

"Dad also has the same expression as you. He doesn't tell me anything, but I know everything." The boy's eyes became empty.

"Kid Jiajia, what do you know?" The man pinched his face lightly: "I'm here this time to deliver medicine to you. That medicine is the most expensive, and it will work if you use it."

"Haha, thank you." He had never used any expensive medicine, and the boy smiled vainly: "Man, have you gone home yet?"

"I can't do it if I don't go back. My old witch sent more than 40 people to escort me back. Don't mention how embarrassing it is." Man hummed with a smile.

There was a little joy on the boy's pale face. Just as the atmosphere was harmonious, the boy's pain suddenly intensified. He endured it for a moment: "Man, I want to..."

"What do you think."

"I'm going to die, but I've never been outside. I want to see the bustling market, I want to see the dragon clan in a foreign land, I want to take an airship to cross the mountains..."

Hearing this, Man immediately dispelled his thoughts: "There is nothing good outside. The small workshops in the market are smelly and dirty. The dragon clan is big and rough, and their speech is obscure and ugly. It is the worst thing to deal with. People from the Southern Machinery Alliance will come in a few days. You You can order an airship from them, not to mention the mountains, the clouds can be pierced, why go outside to play."

"Why did you go outside to study?" the boy asked: "The magic qualifications of the teachers hired at home are all sage-level, and many of them are old school directors in the university town."

"You don't understand." Man said in a daze.

"You don't understand either." The boy replied angrily.

Seeing the boy's stubbornness, he wanted to be perfunctory: "If you want to go out, wait until your health recovers."

"I'm not going to get better!" The boy suddenly turned up his voice with the strength he didn't know where he came from: "Can you stop comforting me like them?"

"Curse! I am infected with a curse!"

"Everyone who comes to see me wears black silk gloves like you! Do you think I know nothing when I am a child? You are also afraid of this curse. Some people dare not even approach my room, as if Breathe here a few more times, talk to me a few more words, and the curse will infect them."

"I don't live long..."

"I don't want the last thing I see on earth to be this empty wall above my head."

"Man, brother. Please."

On both sides of the long table in the living room of the Duke's mansion, there were two people whispering by the candlelight of Jin She.

The butler walked over quickly, breaking the originally peaceful dinner.

"Master." The steady voice finally contained urgency.He leaned over and whispered to the Duke.

The Duke's face changed suddenly, he jumped up from the dining table, he didn't care to explain to the guests next to him, he hurried upstairs, his steps were messy.

Yuexi Guilanji at the table felt that something was wrong and followed him.

Upstairs, the windows in Master Isakel's bedroom were wide open, and the night wind lifted the gauze curtains, leaving no one in sight.

"Rhea!" the Duke looked at the open window in disbelief.

Yuexi, who followed, quickly understood what had happened. She glanced hurriedly, and happened to see a piece of letter paper under the vase placed on the bed cabinet. She lowered her head and glanced at the contents of the letter paper. With a flash of thought, she quietly curled up the letter and hid it under her skirt while no one was paying attention.

"Uncle, I'll send someone to look for it right away." Yue Xi replied.

"Okay, okay, okay." The Duke rushed to his head in a sulky mood, and he didn't feel his body swaying. He held on to the steward beside him tightly: "Bring me the Knights, and let them get rid of all the affairs at hand... ...remove them all for me."

Yuexi left the room but didn't order to arrange manpower, but returned to her guest room while taking advantage of the chaos.

Keeping moving with Yuexi, the mechanical maids on the left and right locked the door.

Under the lampstand, Yuexi spread the stolen letter paper on the table. She carefully studied the content on it, and then took out one of the letter paper placed on the table, and copied it according to the handwriting.