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Rhine and Anthony met at Swan Castle in the Defelin family. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info

In the middle of the rippling blue lake, the pure white castle pavilion is as quiet as a beauty. Rhine and Anthony stood at the highest point of the castle, and the wind blew from the water, bringing with it the noise in the distance. A feast was taking place under the castle, and the young men and women of the nobility were chasing and playing with each other, some of them twelve or thirteen years old, but had learned to play and have fun like adults.

Rhine had a little cold, his body was wrapped in a white cloak, his face was a little red because of fever, and his voice was slightly hoarse, but he was in good spirits. He casually pointed to the young man below and asked, "How is my niece, Lord Anthony, do you still like her?"

Anthony doesn't really remember what Rhine's niece looks like, but he only remembers that she is a little girl whose baby fat has not faded. At this time, he glanced down aimlessly, and could not distinguish her from the many young ladies who were dissolute, so he had to follow the Rhine's style and recognize her as one casually.

"It's pretty lively," he said, "but it's too young." ”

"Then another one," said Rhine unconcernedly, "Mr. Defilin has been working hard to impregnate the slave girl, and has added many brothers and sisters to my mother. Then these siblings did the same thing as Mr. Defelin, and each gave birth to more offspring. As a result, I have dozens of nieces and nephews. I never really figured out who they were, and it was a hassle to know ordinary people, and I had to bother remembering what they looked like. ”

He changed his voice: "Aren't all people who don't have energy field traits the same for you? It's just an engagement, whatever, we don't need to waste too much time on it, I think we should end this as soon as possible. ”

"Do you think marriage is necessary, Lord Rhine?" said Anthony, smiling wryly, "and why does it have to be your niece? If you want to marry, the Defilin family is not without women who are adults and close to you."

"I don't think marriage is a big deal, though Mr. De Fillin has always been very noisy. It doesn't really matter if you're engaged to my niece or not, and I don't need you to take a position in that way, Your Excellency Anthony. Action is far more useful than a marriage contract of paper. Rhein interrupted Anthony, who turned his eyes in the other direction, "But I found that my sister seems to be in love with you." ”

Anthony followed Rhine's gaze to the Hanging Garden, where Anne de Filin loomed among the flowers. So he said, "Miss Anne is very gentle and beautiful, even if she has no energy field. ”

Rhine frowned slightly: "Many people are impressed by my sister. ”

"I know you very well, Your Excellency Anthony, we are all the same, I know you as well as myself. I've had a lot more kisses than you before I finally broke through. He flicked his hair slightly, as if to shake something disgusting out of his memory, and wrapped his cloak tighter. He seemed to be disgusted by such a conversation, but he couldn't help but continue, so he reluctantly made a pleasant face.

"You need support and friendship to build your own strength, and maybe you need a ready-made family name, and on that premise, it doesn't make any difference to you what kind of betrothed person you are," he said. And Mr. Defilin clearly covets you too. He needs you to carry the genetic fragment of ultimate potential in your body, which can satisfy his insatiable obsession as a fertility maniac, and he also needs to use you to fill the showroom of the Defilin family, which will ensure that the Defelin family will continue to prosper after my death. You each take what you need, marriage is a match made in heaven, and it is enough to sacrifice a lady with the title of Defilin and the same blood as me as me as cannon fodder. “

"I'm not against marriage," Rhine looked at Anthony, "but I don't want my sister to be the victim of family marriages and politics." ”

Anthony was surprised, as if it were the first time he had known about it: "It was surprising that you objected to me being with your sister, and I remember that it was Anne who opened the door and broke into your garden that day. ”

"It was just an accident, and the people who should have paid for it have already paid for it. There was a slight anger on Rhine's face, which was stunning when combined with his face flushed with fever.

"You've just arrived at Beacon, Lord Anthony, I don't think you understand," he said with some meanness and willful sarcasm in his tone, "and you'll find out when you stay in the Acropolis for a long time, that the so-called family is that there are always people who dare to make their own claims, and there are always some things that you only know about last." ”

"It was so unexpected, it was completely different from what I expected. Anthony took a light breath and said thoughtfully, "I feel that I should reconsider, maybe I am not so urgent, and immediately need a family name, through such a marriage as you speak." He smiled wryly: "I don't want to hide it, it feels very bad to be wantonly toyed with." Just Anne."

"It doesn't matter, I said that the marriage is not important, what matters is your position and actions, if you don't want to be engaged to my niece, then you can not be engaged," Rhein interrupted him, "You deserve to be compensated, Your Excellency Anthony, we all deserve to be compensated." If you don't want to marry another family and give their family names, then you can not marry the Defelin family. Mr. Defilin should be patient and wait for my nieces to grow up and I will give him orders. The only trouble is my sister, she seems to be in love with you."

"It's bad, she's attracted to you, you shouldn't have approached her in the first place, made her like you, fortunately she went to the auction yesterday......"

"It doesn't seem to be my fault, Lord Rhine. ”

"I know, but it's just as bad. Rhine furrowed his beautiful eyebrows, "If my sister asks me to be engaged to you, I will be very embarrassed." There's no way I'm going to refuse my sister, and it's impossible for me to force her to leave you and lock her up, because that would make her so sad and angry with me that she won't even see me again. ”

"So, Lord Anthony," Rhine looked at him, his gaze sharp and thrilling, "you must leave my sister and find a way to make her hate you." ”

"If you don't want to dissuade my sister from getting engaged to you by marrying my niece, then you'll have to figure it out yourself. It's also a good idea to do something brutal to prove that you're a beast, or simply find a few mistresses to snatch your ex-mistress back from David Duran. ”

Anthony was surprised: "What did you say?"

"Snatch your ex-mistress back from David Duran's hands, you heard me right, what's so strange about that? He can snatch you away, and of course you can snatch him back. ”

Rhine smiled, her beauty was stunning, as if even the stars had lost their brilliance.

"Don't you realize, Lord Anthony? There are still some fools in the temple who have illusions about David Duran, wishful thinking that he still has the possibility of falling to us, and therefore can fight for it. It is true that David Duran chose to support us in this incident, but those self-inflicted idiots will probably never be able to figure it out with their brains, and whether David Duran supports us or not has nothing to do with his actual position. ”

"Of course, you don't have to worry about what these idiots want to do right now. You just need to understand that the conservation of energy is the first law of the universe, and the galaxy is so big, and there are more resources to support him, and those that can be used to support you will inevitably decrease. ”

"You, and David Duran, will be in a lifelong rivalry until one of you falls, just like me and Maximilian. You must seize every opportunity to weaken him, strike him, and do everything possible to make him fall before you, because if not, it will be you who will be weakened, struck, and fall early. Competition, that's the whole essence of the political ecology of the Temple Age, and you'll get used to it very quickly. ”

Anthony was silent for a long time, then suddenly smiled.

"I don't know if it's because I was taken away, but I can't let go of it completely," he said, "maybe it's love." ”

"Hanhan, is that the name of your former mistress?" Rhein nodded, "Sounds good, like a different kind of mistress." ”

"Ah, with that said, I have a gift for my lords. Anthony put down his glass and called the servant.

Rhine was very surprised: "What is the gift?" ”

After a while, the valets brought in Anthony's gift, a half-man-tall tray covered with a velvet cover. Anthony himself went over and pulled off the cover, and on the giant tray sat a thin man with a dark face, who was the eunuch chamberlain who was with Emperor Seiffert XI of Ogra at the time of the New Year's Eve assassination.

Antony grabbed the eunuch by the back of the neck and lifted him up like a dog, and grabbed him to Rhine with his own hands.

"The one I picked up outside the Yingxing on New Year's Day seemed to have a seventh-level hypnotic superpower, and I heard that it was the secret guard of Emperor Ogra. He said, "He insisted that he was your man, so after thinking about it, I brought him to you." ”

Rhine was dismissive: "The three surnames are just slaves, and the sewers are as filthy as mud." ”

"You don't have to give it back to me," he said, "and keep it." He had been a personal guard of Kriticus, and he knew very well the sect of Kritticus and the situation in the country of Eugra, and if you want to restore Posis, it should be useful to keep him. ”

Seeing Antony's puzzled expression, Rhine further explained: "He was originally a guard of the suzeraint of Ogra, and after the great battle, he was sent by Shamanda, an attendant of Kriticus, to protect the new emperor. But then the emperor had a bad relationship with Shamanda, probably because he thought that Kriticus was dead, so he simply took refuge in the emperor. The Emperor had not been able to find a new protector for a long time, and he could not wait, so he secretly swore allegiance to me. ”

Anthony looked at the eunuch who was lying on the ground motionless and didn't dare to move, and said with an "oh" sound, "I see, thank you so much......

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