Sword and Magic and Clear Flow

Sean's hummingbird swished into the palace, a pair of wings vibrating at high frequency, and only a blurry phantom could be seen.

This historic Planting Palace has been expanded and rebuilt several times in the old Sous era. It covers a vast area. The power center that once controlled the huge kingdom still maintains a magnificent body, but there is no endless stream of tributes and envoys. Among the dignitaries and vassals, the quaint sandstone brick wall presents a quiet and peaceful milky white in the sun.

The main hall in the center has a dome like an ice cream ball upside down, and on both sides are asymmetrical flat-topped bell towers, auditoriums, temples and sentry towers. The hot climate makes the architectural pattern here very transparent, and the light is spliced ​​through translucent gemstones. The dome illuminates the entire hall resplendently.

Hummingbird Xiaomi flew into the main hall through the tall pointed arched corridor, and saw several men and women dressed as servants sweeping the marble steps, trimming and decorating the green plants and flowers in the hall, and the women wore brightly dyed linen blouses and skirts, showing Two clean arms and calves, and the male wears the same cool double-breasted vest and loose trousers.

Thin smoke overflowing from the censer entangles the unoccupied throne high above. It seems that the king is not at work today.

The second half of the palace is where members of the royal family and ministers live. In the past, the king of Sousse also owned the Sangong and Liuyuan. After the disintegration of the kingdom, it followed the trend of Pislan and became monogamous. Therefore, many palaces have been kept for a long time. Idle down.

Professor Yin may live in a certain harem, Xiao En guessed, controlling the hummingbirds to shuttle through the garden paths paved with colorful bricks, and when they saw patrolling guards, they would pounce on the roadside flowerbeds and stick their sharp beaks into an orange flower. In the red single rose stamen, pretending to be an ordinary passerby bird.

Soldier A: "Look, that bee is so big."

Soldier B: "Is it a big moth?"

Soldier C: "I didn't see the tentacles, it should be some kind of bird."

Patrol Captain: "Come on, let's go and have a look."

Through the screen transmitted by Xiao Mi, I saw Xiao En surrounded by a circle of soldiers: "..."

Soldier A: "It's really a bird from a closer look."

Soldier B: "I didn't expect that there are hummingbirds here. This one is so beautiful."

Soldier C: "Does the rose have nectar? What is it eating?"

Patrol Captain: "Pollen, maybe?"

Sean: "..." Brothers, are you busy at work?

He asked the little secretary to fly left and right, quietly sneaking into the depths of the vegetation to hide his whereabouts, and the team of soldiers watched the flowers and plants for a while before continuing their patrol mission, chatting while walking, as leisurely as an outing.

The inner court of the royal palace is the same as the residential buildings in Planting City. A large number of hollowed-out window lattices are used to maintain heat dissipation and ventilation. The outside is a wooden casement that is open all the year round. After closing, it can isolate the wind and rain.

The hummingbird flew for a while, and found that there were too many guards standing guard outside a certain corridor, so it passed over their heads, let its small body slip through the window lattice and entered the room, and stopped on a cluster of brightly colored and densely flowered arbor potted plants. This is a spacious study, and neither of the two people in the room noticed it.

At this time, an old man with a goatee had a serious expression, sitting at the table and frowning at a thick tome.Another young man was dressed gorgeously, with a silk robe casually draped, exposing a large and strong chest, and wearing a scimitar wrapped in a sharkskin scabbard on his waist, dotted with dense gemstones, and a whole piece of blue magic the size of a child's fist was inlaid on the handle. Crystal, with a crown of gold silk braided on his head symbolizes his identity-King of Sous.

He stepped on the open-toed slippers made of twisted gold thread, and kicked restlessly on the smooth parquet floor tiles. "It's unreasonable for them to write it out and sell it to us without thinking about it!"

"Your Majesty, calm down." The aged minister closed the book with a sad face, unable to say any words of comfort for a while.

This is a history book of the Kingdom of Sousse, which records the events of large and small people in the past 50 years, covering all royal families and nobles to outstanding civilian warriors and mages, including official decrees and folk culture. The author is Moonlight The elves of the forest.

The fact that the elves wrote history books and sold them to the royal courts began 1000 years ago. In order to establish the Central School of Magic, Emperor Louis of the East Empire spent a lot of money to copy and buy a large number of books from the elves, and found that their chronicles were particularly important. After being detailed and accurate and more advanced than the imperial chronicle method at that time, I even bought all kinds of history books together.

With such a wise monarch in front of him, even if other countries have compiled their own history books, they will buy another version written by the elves to check for gaps and fill in gaps.At that time, the Snowman Kingdom, which had just established its kingship of the orcs, simply hired the elves as historians just like the Sail Xien and Salmon Principalities.

The printing and publishing industry of the elves developed rapidly, and later, it became the practice of the monarchs to buy a new edition of the history book every 50 years, just like the mandatory subscription of the half-century magazine.In addition to the basic religious functions, the tree temples in various places also serve as chain bookstores. They are open to people of all ethnic groups. They mainly sell poetry and literature and also sell miscellaneous leisure books. wrong.

Of course, the chronicles that can be bought by the people are not as thick and comprehensive as the tomes collected by the monarch. Generally, only significant content is compiled and sold with sharp exclusive reviews.

Even if the Sous royal family is reduced to the only city lord of Plantin, this subscription right still exists, and any other powerful nobles do not have this honor-they can only buy a simplified version of the tree temple.

In the past, he reluctantly spent money to buy the chronicles of the elves, but now it has become the justifiable reliance of the royal family of Sous, and it is the king's last face as a monarch of a country.

However, the current king only feels pain in the face.

The content of the tome is informative, even including many secrets that are not known to outsiders, such as - the current king of Sous, Wornat, was born as an illegitimate child.

In the ancient Chinese court, as long as the birth mother was upright, the child was considered a legitimate son no matter when it was born.However, the feudal system of Pislan Continent is mixed with some ancient religious factors, and things are not that simple. The crystallization of discordant behavior before marriage is considered illegitimate, and those born after marriage are legally legitimate children—even if it is done with a big belly The ceremony, the birth of the child on the hind foot, that is also legal.

The traditional right of succession is illegitimate son > concubine daughter > concubine son > concubine daughter > illegitimate child. Now except for Emperor East, no other monarch has three wives and four concubines. Excluding concubines, the inheritance rights of legitimate children are always ahead of illegitimate children. For nearly a thousand years The order of gender and birth order is not so important, it all depends on the preference of the monarch and the support of his subjects.

The late old king and queen were said to be a union of true love, but before that there was a queen who had a political marriage. She didn't marry Warnert's mother until she died of illness. At that time, Warnert was born for more than two years.

In order to cover up this fact, the old king deliberately hid Woernat outside the palace and was raised by his cronies secretly. After marriage, the queen was faked pregnant, and then he borrowed a baby "Wornat" to pretend to be a married child and organize a birthday ceremony. It's all calculated seamlessly.

The real Wornat was eight years old, and the old king brought his favorite son to the world and named him the five-year-old crown prince. Everyone praised the crown prince for being smart and strong, far superior to children of the same age, and he was quite like a father.

All this fooled everyone, except the elves.

Warnert has been on the throne for three years. There is a half-brother and elder sister from the former queen on the top, and a younger brother with the same father on the bottom. All three of them are more qualified to be on the throne than him, even if Wornat is essentially no different from them, but legal inheritance is just that bad.

Yesterday, the new edition of Soth's 50-year chronicle was just delivered by the elves to the royal court of Plantin. Warnert glanced at it from the back to the front, and was stimulated by the words "cheating affair" and "illegitimate birth". Hei, withhold the book on the spot, not allowing the court historian to take it away.

It won't be long before the Temple of the Tree will sell a simplified version of the history book to the public. If the fact that the late old king took pains to conceal is exposed, it is not difficult to imagine what kind of turmoil it will cause.

Warnert walked around the room anxiously, and when he was tired from walking, he sat down opposite the goatee minister and said with a headache: "Where did the elves learn those secrets? It's like, just like Like..." He was lying on the roof and peeking at the private meeting of his parents.

"Be careful, Your Majesty." The goatee minister is the old king's confidant who secretly raised Wonut. His grandson even pretended to be the newborn baby "Wonut". As a participant in the incident and a vested interest, he firmly supported the current The king, it's just that he is getting old, and how long he can protect him, it is impossible to predict what others will do.

King Warnut got up again and opened the curtains to look outside. There were only royal soldiers standing guard outside, but who knows, maybe the secret conversation between the two of them could not be hidden from the elves.

"The family of the former queen mother is very powerful. They have always been dissatisfied with my father's appointment of me as the prince. Now they have a ready-made reason to overthrow me." Warnert said desperately, "Sous died early, and there is only one Planting left." There are still a bunch of bad guys fighting back and forth, so what can be done after the fight, can it be restored or unified."

The minister said worriedly: "Your Majesty, don't give up, there must be a way."

Warnert threw the tome on the ground, broke the pot and smashed it: "Don't call me Your Majesty, what is the meaning of what the king does? He is either dealing with family disputes or on the way to deal with disputes all day long. There are not many serious state affairs. , I'm just tired."

"How about... call Ilya to ask?" The minister suggested, "He is very smart, and he is a vassal hand-picked by His Majesty. There is no doubt about his loyalty to you."

Xiao En, who listened to the corner of the hummingbird for a long time and finally caught the key words, was refreshed. He finally saw the real owner, and then he was a little worried. If Professor Yin got involved in the king's secret, would he be able to escape smoothly and fly away?

After a while, Professor Yin, who had a shiny head, was brought by the guards. He was not interested in the mystery of the past. He patiently read the relevant records in the chronicles, and then saw the king and his ministers' watery faces. The look of asking for help was also a speechless expression.

After they met and muttered for a while, Professor Yin grasped the point: "...that is to say, only the elves and the three of us know the contents of this history book?"

Warnert: "That's right, others haven't had time to read it yet—but the elves' practice has always been to sell the bulk of the tome to the royal court for collection, and then sell the simplified version to the public. It's useless to hold this matter , sooner or later it will be made public.”

Professor Yin: "Then we can find a way to negotiate terms with the elves and let them cut this paragraph."

Minister: "This... can it work? The history of the elves has always been known for being fair..."

That's not necessarily the case. The monarch of each country can only receive the chronicles of his own country, and there is still a time gap between the simplified version and the public. He doesn't believe that there is no room for manipulation here.Professor Yin said: "Even if it cannot be deleted and falsified, it can be made public after His Majesty's throne is completely stabilized."

Warnert is not very confident: "Don't talk about stability and instability, it's better to wait until I die before making it public."

Professor Yin and the courtier: "..."

"Please let me go to the Planting Tree Temple to negotiate with the priests of the elves." Professor Yin said to the unlucky king, "The elves will definitely raise conditions. May I know what the upper limit of your majesty's acceptance is?"

Warnert: "Well... the conditions are whatever you want, as long as I have them, I will definitely give them, as long as I don't get kicked off the throne."

Professor Yin: "Then please write a personal letter authorizing me to talk to the elves."

Without hesitation, Warnert picked up a pen and began to write. After sealing the seal, he solemnly handed it to Professor Yin: "Ilya, it's all up to you!"

Professor Yin: "Your Majesty will definitely live up to his high expectations... There is no need to delay, I will go now."

The king and his courtiers bid him farewell, and sat in the study and began to wait anxiously. Professor Yin didn't even change his clothes, and left the palace directly with the letter in his mouth.

Sean controlled the hummingbird to land on his carriage, and he pulled Gu Qinghe up and ran to the Temple of the Planting Tree to intercept people.