boy and bone

It was drizzling, and footprints of different shades appeared on the muddy ground. Gray was covered with a dark raincoat, which was tightly covered from head to toe, except that the heels of his boots were stained with mud.He pushed open a small old iron door in front of him with the rainy air all over his body. He leaned slightly and stepped into the door, and the lingering bard new music intertwined with clarinet and lyre lingered in his ears.

He chose a seat on the innermost side against the wall and sat down. The barmaid in a linen green robe approached him holding a clay pot.Gray took off his raincoat and threw it on the backrest casually. Water dripped from the corners of the raincoat and occasionally seeped into the cushion of the seat.Gray took the dry handkerchief from the waitress and stared at the main menu hanging on the wall: "Take two cups, and a jug of Bell Plateau spirits, to warm up first."

The barmaid should smile and write down that after a while, she put two oak cups on Gray's table and filled one, but when she was about to fill the second cup, Gray Stopped: "Pour clean water into this cup, someone fasting day."

The waitress should fill a glass of clear warm water with a smile.After the barmaid left with the jug in her arms, a man sat down on the seat closest to him with a familiar aura.

"Hi." The red-haired man frowned.

"Hi," Gray replied.

"Excuse me, do you know Grai?" The man pretended to be unfamiliar.

The corners of Gray's mouth raised slightly, habitually cooperating with him in playing this trick: "I don't know."

"Oh, that's a pity." Curris said in a regretful tone, and he continued, "I heard that he has a good mouth, and I want to play with him."

"You fucking..." Gray cursed with a smile and raised his hand to put the back of the neck of the person next to him who was speaking freely, and squeezed it a few times like caressing and hatred.

Curris lowered his head, with a sugar-like smile on his face, begging for mercy: "I was wrong, I was wrong. Actually mine is also very good, do you want to play?"

Glenner was still helpless, he pushed the oak cup filled with clear water in front of Kuris: "You are driven crazy by the fasting day, didn't you say that Rao is not allowed to drink alcohol, kill animals, and commit adultery on the fasting day? "

"Let's talk about it verbally, it's not taboo." Curris smiled and picked up the handle of the oak cup, and lightly touched the rim of the oak cup in Gray's hand.

"The person who is about to sit on the Pope's seat in the Elder's House speaks so presumptuously." Gray used a teasing tone to reveal his congratulations.

After Curris heard this, the corners of his mouth sank.Sensing the other party's emotional change, Gray put down his glass and asked, "What's going on?"

Currys said: "Idnonman Felinin did not intend to recommend me. He discussed with the other five chairmen and decided to send me to the Northern House of Commons."

"Idnonman Felinin... Wasn't that old man your teacher? I remember that he was very fond of you. After we left the palace, he was the one who found you a position in the Elder's Court." Glad said .

"Times have changed." Curris whispered: "He now regards me as a thorn in his side and is always on guard against me."

Gray was wondering, and suddenly felt someone's eyes following him around him.Looking up from the corner of his eye, Grai saw several strange men newly seated near the iron gate.Gray's sharp nerves honed over the years reminded him that these few visitors were not kind.Gray chose the innermost position in the tavern from the entrance so that he could keep abreast of the overall situation of the tavern and notice small changes, and when the erratic eyes of the other group of people always fell in the direction of him and Curris intentionally or unintentionally , Gray felt bad.

He never passively waits for danger to come to him.

Gray raised his head and swallowed a mouthful of spirits, smacking his tongue and said: "His wine is getting worse and worse." Then, he put down his glass and got up, he raised his hand and pressed Curris's shoulder to signal him not to move: "Here wait for me."

Gray walked straight towards the group of people who were obviously targeting them, and put his arms around one of the men's shoulders in a friendly manner, leading him out of the iron gate without any explanation, and the other people at the wine table also followed out after seeing this.

Curris was not surprised to see this scene, because he found someone following him on the way to the appointment.However, he wasn't worried and didn't plan to tell Grai, he could have solved it privately, but unfortunately those people were so stupid that Grai noticed his tracks.

Curris could probably guess that the real intention of the people who sent these thugs to harass him was to intimidate him. If he really wanted to put him to death, he deliberately passed through so many dark alleys and narrow roads. They didn't do anything, or even assassinated him. A novice who doesn't understand, or someone instructed them to beat him up in a crowded place, causing rumors of his misbehavior and intentional troubles to make him miss the seat of the Pope's rightful authority.

The blame is to blame the man behind the scenes for being too soft-hearted. He thought that intimidation alone would be able to drive back Curris' thoughts and curb his ambitions.

Curris quietly glanced out of the hexagonal window, and only Gray's swift and agile figure was really eye-catching during the fight.

The figure of the barmaid coming to the table holding the wine jug blocked Kuris' sight. He covered the wine glass that Grai had drunk with his hand, stopped the barmaid from refilling the wine, and smiled on his face: "Tune A glass of Bell Highland spirits is [-]% full, two teaspoons of green orange juice, two teaspoons of Mikansan sake, and five teaspoons of maple syrup."

The bartender was slightly taken aback and still memorized it. After a while, she carried the mixed wine and placed it on the table according to Culis's instructions. Culis took the wine glass and sniffed it under her nose, and then said with satisfaction: " Yes, Thanks."

Gray walked back to his seat, his breath still had the roughness of the fight, he took the wine glass and poured it into his mouth to force himself to calm down, but when he drank it all, it stayed on the tip of his tongue The taste surprised him, and he weighed the glass to re-examine the unexpectedly delicious drink.

Culis noticed Gray's small movements and smiled without showing any signs: "What's wrong?"

Gray thought he was asking about what happened just now, so he explained: "It's Idnonmann Felinin, who sent people to attack you. As you said, he doesn't seem to want you to be the Pope. seat. Why did he suddenly change his attitude, hasn't he always been nice to you before?"

Curris said: "People's hearts are unpredictable. I have no use value for him. Not only that, I have now threatened his status. It is reasonable for him to want to get rid of me."

Gray frowned deeply: "Fei Linyin is a highly respected sage of the holy law. It is said that he is the number one wise man. I didn't expect him to be so jealous."

Curris lowered his eyes and thought for a moment, and when he raised his eyes again, there was a cold light in his eyes: "Idnonman will not let me go, he will have a second time once."

Gray was also worried: "Why don't you tell him as soon as possible that you don't want this seat and let him send you to the Northern House of Commons. It would be good to go back to the Northern Territory with me, so that I don't have to run between Cosmoto and the Northern Territory."

Curriston said: "You let me give up?"

Gray said: "Ferring is already over 80 years old, and you are only under 40 years old. He doesn't have a few years left to live. If you have to endure a few more years, it will be enough to kill him. When he dies, you can start over again." Take the seat back. Sooner or later it will be yours."

Currys said: "Do you think he will keep me as a hidden danger? He already thinks that I am alienated from him. I have a lot of his secrets. For him, my life is a sharp sword hanging over his head, tied on the A wide rope around his neck, he won't let me have a good time in the Northern Commons."

"...He wouldn't do such an absolute thing." Gray protested in his heart.After all, this bad old man and the great sage once helped Curris to tide over the difficulties, and Gray still has a good impression of him.

As soon as the voice fell, Curris's face became gloomy and unpredictable.

Gray felt a chill in his heart, he understood that Curris had already made up his mind: "You really want to..."

Gray sat up straight, and he glanced around. The noisy people in the tavern only cared about themselves and had no time to pay attention to others.Gray said to the people beside him in a deep voice: "He is your teacher and your benefactor. He gave you a hand when you had nothing. Aspire to bring out your talents, without him, you would not be where you are today."

"That was all in the past. He is now my stumbling block and my enemy. He wants to kill me, but you want me to let him go! Your current behavior is betrayal!" Kuris whispered.

"You can stop being grateful, but I can't forget his kindness. You owe him this, and if you let him go once, you should repay his kindness." Gray insisted.

"Do you think why he helped me back then was because of his kindness and kindness? No, it was because of his cowardice. His weakness was in my hands. He played with a gangster to death, and I collected his body for him. His son didn't die young, that idiot was greedy for pleasure and ran out of the treasury, and I helped him escape from the country with the crime." Curris said with emphasis: "We don't owe anyone anything."

"..." Gray's firm eyes suddenly shook unsteadily.

"I didn't intend to dirty your hands. If you don't want to, you can send anyone under your hand." Kuris lowered his gaze, no longer looking at Gray, his fingers slid across the rough oak rim Round and round, waiting for Gray's answer.

Grai's heart was shaken violently. He never understood the cruelty of the power struggle better than now, which is more dangerous and cunning than the battlefield. dead hands.

Gray suppressed all the resistance in his heart and said: "If this matter is not handled properly, it will easily fall into the trap, and it cannot be handed over to others."

As he expected, Culis raised a bright smile, he held Gray's face, and said lovingly: "Not everyone loves me as much as you do. I don't want you to stab me because of those hypocrites again." Heart, I don't want to embarrass you."

Gray was silent for a while, and finally said: "For you, I admit it."

On the outer wall of the old-style domed castle, a figure like a winding green tendril gently folds into a window that slowly blows in the summer wind.Inside the simple bed curtain, an old man with gray hair let out a heavy breath.

The silver chain wrapped around Grai's waist like a belt gradually melted into silver beads, and the silver beads fluttered into Grai's lowered palm and recondensed into a silver sword reflecting a miserable white light.

Gray raised his hand and pressed the tip of the sword against the old man's neck several times. Through the old skin, he could still feel its sinking and powerful beating.

When he laid the sword across the old man's neck for the seventh time, Grai finally cursed secretly.

The silver sword in his hand has quickly turned back into a long chain. Grai wrapped the long chain around the old man's neck skillfully. Grai tightened the long chain backwards and dragged the old man out of bed. The suffocation made him turn pale with fright, the old man wanted to shout but could not struggle.

At this time, the assassin's deep voice came from my ear: "Someone has disliked you for a long time and ordered me to take your old life, but a Lord Tanley Burn offered a higher price and asked me to let you live. Said to repay your kindness."

After finishing speaking, Grai released the strength of his hands, and the long chain around the old man's neck suddenly disappeared.

The reborn old man knelt on the ground, coughing unceasingly. He raised his eyes, and the assassin's outline was blurred in the dark night.

"I will find a corpse in the morgue of the prison. From now on, Idnonman Felinin will be a dead man." The assassin said quietly in the dark: "Don't appear in Cosmoto again, don't Appear in the sight of the living. Otherwise, next time, you will definitely die."

……

After the old man left in a panic, the bedroom became empty. Grae lit the candle beside the bed and threw it close to the fluffy bed with his hands. The flame spread rapidly.Then he jumped out of the window without leaving a trace of his presence.

Curris looked at the castle's sudden fire from a distance to illuminate half of the night sky through the window of the carriage, and the corner of his mouth was half a smile.

The carriage shook quietly, and someone got into the carriage.

"Why make such a big commotion, it's not like your style." Curris smiled, his face darkened.

"I accidentally bumped into the candlestick when I opened the window." Grayton said, "It's good to be self-defeating and fake an accident, so I didn't clean it up."

Gray has no special habit of lying. Even if he reveals unnaturally, he will be corrected in an instant by the assassin skills he has trained. His expression has always been flawless.

Culis stared at him for a while, unable to find any flaws, and finally, as if convinced that Grai was not deceiving him, Culis's cool gray eyes melted in an instant, and he moved closer to Grai and kissed his lips.

At this time, Gray's heart was occupied by anxiety and guilt. He had committed a mistake like betrayal to the person in front of him, which made all his actions towards Curris extra laissez-faire and obedient. All possible compensations for the irreparable wrongs he has caused.

Gray's body became softer than before, and Kuris couldn't help hugging him tighter. He nibbled on Gray's solid but round collarbone, and half panting: "Next month is our anniversary. Now, where do you want to go on this honeymoon?"

"...Anywhere is fine." Gray closed his eyes, allowing the other party to pull him into an uneasy but irresistible vortex.He didn't know if he made the right decision this time, and he didn't have the energy to think about the consequences he would cause. He only knew that he couldn't say no to Curris, even if it was wrong.

His heart, his desire to protect the one he loves has never changed, but today's accident made him finally realize that he can't do it.There was nothing he could do to stop Curris from getting whatever he wanted, and Gray could only hope that someone else would stop his dangerous move when he himself was helpless, or that someone could stay behind at the last moment. Give Curris a chance.

In fact, their honeymoon that year didn't go anywhere, and Curris was busy with his succession ceremony, so their honeymoon was ruined.

For more than ten years since then, their honeymoon has always been missed due to various emergencies, sometimes aggression, sometimes assassination, sometimes imprisonment, sometimes feigned death and poisoning...

It was not really over until the last day came without warning.