I'm really not an old sword

"Not really."

"Scheherazade and Phony are both weak-willed and can tie anyone to death. In this case, the five people can be regarded as just three."

"Well, speaking of which, Longominiard has been spying on me. I guess the whole thing is being live-broadcasted. If I'm thick-skinned, I can definitely ask her to stay over there too."

Although it is weird to think about that scene, there is a good saying.

time does not wait.

The only thing I, Lin Qingsu, have going for me is my thick skin.

"So we can be considered two people."

"If I step forward and try to reconnect Guinevere and Nitocris, then we'll be alone, right?"

Although it cannot be said that in addition to love, there must be other things to do together.

But running five beds is completely different from spending time on one bed!

It definitely wasn't that he wanted to try sleeping in the same bed.

The only problem is that the relationship between Nitocris and Guinevere has been at a freezing point since "Sacrificing for Sisterhood".

......

"You want me to repair my relationship with Nitocris?"

Guinevere tilted her head and looked at Lin Qingsu with an innocent expression.

Lin Qingsu touched her nose awkwardly.

Listening to the chewing sounds beside him, he turned his head to change the subject and looked at Longominiade who was watching them play chess and eat supper, and pinched her face which was swollen like a hamster.

"All I do every day is eat."

Longominiard looked at him in confusion.

I don't understand why Lin Qingsu suddenly came over to bully me while they were chatting.

After thinking about it, Longominiard looked down at the half-eaten chicken leg. After hesitating for a while, he handed the chicken leg he had just taken a bite of to Lin Qingsu with a look of reluctance.

The corners of Lin Qingsu's mouth twitched slightly, and then she grabbed the chicken leg as if nothing had happened.

Not moving.

"Ok?"

'You bully me.'

"Eating too much is bad for your stomach."

Lin Qingsu spoke with a pleasant expression.

While Longominiade was pondering the meaning of his words, he lowered his head and bit the chicken leg in his mouth with lightning speed.

Longominiard opened his eyes wide, first revealing a look of disbelief, and then stared at him angrily.

She is just stupid, not dumb.

She still didn't understand that Lin Qingsu was deliberately deceiving her and tricking her into giving her the food.

There weren’t many to begin with!

"I remember you two didn't have a very good relationship before?"

Longominiard grabbed Lin Qingsu's arm and pulled hard.

'You stole my food and ignored me.'

"Hurry up and ask Guinevere to cook for me again, or I'll be really angry!"

Without looking at her, Lin Qingsu knew what she wanted to say.

Hearing this, Guinevere shifted her gaze from the 'silly' Rongominiard, glanced at Lin Qingsu, and then looked at Rongominiard who was getting angry with Lin Qingsu over a chicken leg.

Like a little kid.

Himself and his children.

"I'll make you something delicious after this game of chess is over, okay?"

Longominiard paused, turned his head to look at the smiling Guinevere, and blinked.

Guinevere tilted her head, her expression softening. "Let's go to the kitchen together. I'll make you whatever you want. How about we leave him alone?"

A look of interest appeared on Longominiard's face, and he hesitated for a while, as if he didn't expect Guinevere to be so kind to him.

"Don't worry about her. She keeps eating and getting fatter."

"I'm so angry!"

He steals my food and calls me fat!

Longominiard was furious, but didn't know how to vent for a moment. He noticed Lin Qingsu's waist out of the corner of his eye and reached out his hand without any instruction.

"Hiss?! Are you still twisting?"

"Don't worry about this bad guy, come to my place, I will take you to eat delicious food later, without him."

Guinevere's smile grew even brighter as she looked at Lin Qingsu's painful expression.

She still remembers the ruthless hatred of Ba Diao.

When Longominiard heard this, his eyes lit up, but after thinking about it, he loosened his grip on Lin Qingsu's waist and instead hugged his arm and shook his head.

"Do not."

Guinevere was not annoyed. She suddenly realized that she could treat this silly goddess as her and Arthur's child. Apart from being older than herself, she looked no different from their child.

Thinking about how to get her 'daughter' closer to her, Guinevere looked at Lin Qingsu and complained, "It's obviously all your fault, but in the end you push all the trouble onto me. I don't want that."

The deterioration of the relationship between her and Nitocris was entirely due to Lin Qingsu.

Everything turned around when Nitocris developed different feelings for Lin Qingsu.

Whether it's a physical or mental reason.

Lin Qingsu also knew this. While rubbing the idle Longominiard's head like a pet, she said, "I was wrong."

"That's easy for you to say."

Guinevere looked complaining.

I have no objection to getting closer to Nitocris.

even.

If it wasn't for the purpose of waiting for Lin Qingsu to take the initiative to find himself, Longomyniad and Nitocris to get closer.

She had gone to look for them long ago.

In her eyes, neither the foolish Longomyniad nor Nitocris were enemies. At most, they were his majesty's lovers and could not threaten her position in any way.

but.

Taking the initiative to do something and having others beg her to do something are two completely different things.

For the healthy development of relationships, such little tricks are necessary.

"It's because our Wei'er is loved by everyone."

"Okay, but you have to promise me one thing."

Guinevere glanced at Lin Qingsu, sighed, and frowned again with a helpless look.

"what's up?"

"She and I became estranged because of you, Your Majesty. Your Majesty, you also said that the enemy of my enemy is my friend. Your Majesty, you must find some common enemies for her and me, right?"

Chapter 42 We are friends

In the end, Lin Qingsu put the issue of harem harmony aside.

Ashiya Doman and his men took action.

"That's probably what happened."

Lin Qingsu looked at Nitocris with amusement at her furious expression.

"Why do you seem so angry?"

"Aren't you angry? Why did you involve so many innocent people?"

The cause of the incident was that the refugees who had sought refuge in the Holy City this week suddenly disappeared.

This is not normal.

Ever since Lin Qingsu used the Holy Grail to bring rain and transformed the desert near the Holy City into an oasis, there have been at least dozens or hundreds of refugees coming here every day. However, in the past few days, it seems that the number has reached its limit, and no more refugees have come.

Nitocris seriously suspected that someone was behind this.

However, due to King Hassan and Scathach in the dark, Nitocris did not dare to let the Knights of the Round Table go out for patrol.

after all.

No one could escape from them except Lin Qingsu and Longominiard.

And she couldn't let Lin Qingsu personally investigate an unfounded guess.

The only option is to ask the Knights of Rectification to expand the search area and send them deep into the desert to see if they can encounter some scattered refugee organizations.

I don't feel sad about the death of the Knight of Justice.

After several days passed without a single Knight of Justice returning, Nitocris confirmed that it was definitely the other party's doing.

Although Nitocris was angry at the time, she didn't say anything.

Population is the top priority for national development.

Although the other party's method of seizing people is despicable, there is nothing wrong with it.

However, that group of people clearly had no means to keep the refugees alive. They were short of food and water even for their own people, yet they still wanted to snatch the refugees away from them.

Even if you take all the people away, how can you let them survive afterwards?

This is why she was angry.

However, after reporting it to Lin Qingsu, she stopped thinking about it.

Today, the population of the Holy City has reached 60,000.

The limit has been reached.

You have to know that in this era, cities with a population of over 10,000 are already big cities among big cities. Even those extremely prosperous kingdom hubs and political centers have about the same number.

The population is expanding too rapidly.

There are management methods for a few thousand people, and there are management methods for tens of thousands of people.

Cities and towns are governed very differently.

When the population just exceeded 10,000, the rules set by Lin Qingsu naturally had to be reset.

She is responsible for reviewing all matters, big or small, concerning economics, politics, and urban planning.

She is very busy every day.

If this group of refugees had not experienced more than half a year of wandering life, their needs would be pitifully low.

As long as they are given a meal and some water, most of them will become very obedient. Nitocris feels that she will go crazy just dealing with disputes.

Even so.

As for those troublemakers, Nitocris would rather kill the wrong ones than let them go, and threw them all into the cells to spend their days in labor reform. She really didn't have the energy to take care of these idle people, even though she had tried her best to select many capable people from among the refugees.

but.

It is indeed difficult to be "wrongly killed" by the hands of the upright knights who are absolutely loyal to the queen and have no selfish desires.

"We shouldn't have let them go in the first place!"

Nitocris was indignant.

Although she is busy and often complains to Lin Qingsu, Nitocris actually likes her current life very much.

She was able to display her talents and turn a dilapidated city into a prosperous one bit by bit. This was a great sense of accomplishment for her. Although she was physically tired, she was mentally satisfied. Moreover, whenever she finished work late at night, the man would always compensate her day and night.