"All the moon seasons have been shipped back?"

Huggins touched the mustache on his chin, looked at the list in his hand, and said, "Well, except for the one in Her Majesty's hand, all the other 31 pots have been placed." ”

After a pause, he hesitated for a moment, and then said, "There is one more thing, those 'escorts' have not left yet. ”

Todd looked back in surprise.

"The troops from the palace have set up sentry posts outside the gates, but they don't look like they're watching us, they're a bit like they're ...... Protect us. Huggins closed the list and put it in his arms: "The royal family of the Silver Ring seems to take good care of our group, not only sending troops to protect us, but also chartering this inn for us to stay in temporarily. Well, my lord...... Are you sure you don't know the queen......?"

Todd shook his head and said, "Today is the first time we have met in the cathedral. ”

But in retrospect, he always felt something strange.

Todd, who had just returned from the banquet, was disgusted and disgusted with the beautiful queen who was on high above.

At first, he thought that because of the "tea party" in Twilight, Queen Mary colluded with those nobles who did not have a good impression of him, and jointly set up a plot to seize the "Grafted Moon Season" and humiliate him in public.

But after calming down, he noticed several strange places.

First of all, if the queen and those nobles are the same thing, for a little priest who has no power and no power, he only needs to lead the army to confiscate the carriage and drive him out of the Silver Ring City, and there is no need to go to great lengths to set up such a bureau.

Secondly, while the game was in progress, Todd, who was observing the surroundings, repeatedly found that the queen planned to stop the game.

There were two obvious ones, one when he lost the eleventh moon season, and the other time when he lost the penultimate game when he lost 150 silver moons. The timing was very interesting, the first time Todd lost a third of his goods, which was barely acceptable, and the nobles were in a good mood to win, and the second time when Todd was about to lose with nothing.

From the psychology of normal people, assuming that the queen is aware of the cheating methods of the gambling game, but does not know the existence of xenomorphic abilities, these two times are the best time to get out from Todd's position.

Finally, there is the matter of arranging guards.

If they rushed to the banquet, the purpose of the guards from the royal family could be said to be surveillance and escort, but after returning, they still stayed behind and took on the defense of the hotel, which is difficult to speculate with malice.

Doesn't the queen have other purposes than the nobles? Why didn't she invite directly, but made such a big detour with banquets and gambling games?

Just as Todd's brain hurts, Huggins poked him with his elbow, diverting the former's attention.

"What about that xenomorph girl? the one you brought back from the party. Huggins raised his arm, rolled up his sleeve, and showed Todd the two rows of thin tooth marks on them: "That girl seems to hate the church more than the nobles." I was bitten, and Edgar was so cold that he couldn't lift his hands. ”

With a long sigh, Todd's head hurt even more.

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"Thirty million silver moons?!This huge debt, not to mention Kennard's old bastard, is to empty the entire kingdom, it can't be scrapped!hahaha!" Guy VI put down the paperwork in his hand, listened to his wife with a happy face, told everything that happened at the banquet, and said with a smile while patting the armrest: "When I asked him for money, he always cried poor in front of me, and he couldn't wear old clothes at every turn. Buying a house but never seeing him stop, this is already the tenth. ”

The overall color palette of the bedroom is leaning towards white, with a fireplace decorated with delicate tiles, a skirt inlaid with silver-clad wood strips, graphics depicted in bright colors, and white candles made of beeswax burning quietly.

Queen Mary sat quietly on the wooden chair, like a slightly red congealed complexion in the snow, and under the warm candlelight, a light halo was lightly raised. She took off the heavy and intricate court gown of the day, and put on the bedding clothes she had designed and had someone cut for her.

The material of white fine linen, light silk is embellished on the shoulders, chest, and back, and the connotation of the morning glow and snow is faintly visible. There are embroidery and beautiful lacing on the cuffs, and there are several rows of convex stripes and filigree embellishments under the collar. This light-hearted style is incompatible with the secular dress codes required by the Church, but it is natural and generous.

"Your Majesty, this is not what I originally thought. Whether it's silver refining or the Vision of God, Father Todd's alchemy is well known, and if you can introduce him to become a royal alchemist, many problems will be solved. But in view of the tension between the church and the kingdom, our intention was to ease it with a banquet, but now it is self-defeating......" The queen leaned on the armrest, and the curve of her thin shirt dazzled those opposite.

Guy VI stood up, shook his head nonchalantly, took out a wrapped square item from a corner of the room, and handed it to the queen: "These can be talked about tomorrow, let us put aside those things first, and look at the gift I have prepared for you, the famous painting of Hetris, the master painter of Gutello." ”

Queen Mary, who was beaming with joy, couldn't wait to unpack it, looked at the beautiful patterns on the canvas, and laughed and said: "It's so beautiful, this is his late work, it is rumored to have been destroyed in the war, I didn't expect to see it here!

Thinking of the coins spent for this painting, Guy VI bit his lip painfully, and instead took his wife's hand: "The painting will only be here, it will not go anywhere, but our time is slipping away little by little, it's time to rest......"

The queen stiffened, but after a moment regained her composure, smiled and nodded.

The quiet moonlight disappeared into the clouds, and the dim night descended into the world.

A hand rested on Mary's waistline, and the king carefully came to her shoulder, and wrapped a soft word around the pillow.

"I'm sorry. ”

The former shook his head, still facing the other owner of the bed.

The man turned around and lay back on the bed.

After a while, he came to the queen's side again, and asked in a low voice, "Perhaps, we can ......."

Queen Mary wrapped the futon around her body a little tighter, and her voice was not loud, but her tone was unmistakable: "I said that I don't like to use those dirty things. ”

The man sighed heavily.

The woman buried her head and said no more.

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The eastern sky lit up slightly, and Todd woke up early in the morning.

He doesn't have any problems with the bed, but unlike in the town of Twilight, the unfamiliar environment and tense atmosphere in the city make it impossible to sleep peacefully.

To his surprise, Huggins and his subordinates were already fully dressed and patrolling the hotel and outside. The dark circles under their eyes prove that even with the 'guards' outside, these people are still doing their duty.

Knowing that Todd had a habit of eating breakfast, Huggins handed the former the rye bread and eggs that he had already prepared.

Drinking the water from the innkeeper, Todd took a sip of coarse bread and looked out the door. Yesterday's "gambling" incident made it necessary for him to think carefully about what he should do next.

Huggins didn't bother his thoughts, and walked a short distance to direct the farmers, and began to check the state of the flowers.

After about another half hour, Edgar and Jerry Jerry also came out of the room.

The former yawned and rubbed his eyes, walked up to Huggins, lifted his chin, and stretched out his right hand with the tips of his fingers bent inward. The latter rolled his eyes, shook his head, and handed over half of the wheat husk coarse bread that had been left in his arms.

Little Jerry came to Todd's side, and looked happily at the pigeons walking around in the open space outside the door.

Edgar took the coarse bread and sat down on the bench beside the priest, and devoured it. Todd glanced at him, then at the rest of the bread in his hand, patted little Jerry on the shoulder, and handed the food to the tall man crouching beside him.

After eating the coarse bread and licking each finger carefully, Edgar glanced at little Jerry enviously, suddenly remembered something, and said to everyone in a proud tone: "After all, I still have a way! The girl named Pamela yesterday, I have convinced her that we are good people!"

Huggins had a bad premonition: "What did you say to her?"

Edgar coughed twice and said in an unusually serious tone, "Miss, although we seem to be members of the church, we are actually the embodiment of justice. Or think about it, why didn't we send you to the Inquisition, but hid you here?"

Huggins aimed at the back of his head and slapped him in the face: "Just your words!"

After teaching the big mouth, the man rubbed his temples with his fingers, turned his face to Todd and asked, "What are we going to do today?"

Todd thought about it for a moment, and after a moment said, "If possible, I would like to go to the cathedral again, but the question is how to get out of here......"

"Is Master Todd there?"

A deep, loud voice came from the doorway, causing everyone in the lobby of the inn to turn their heads.

The rising sun shone on the glittering armor that had been cared for, and the reflected light was dazzling.

The visitor was an old man, who in his youth may have had jet-black hair, but now he is in the slightest mess despite his silver sideburns and white eyebrows. His eyes were bright and energetic, without the lifelessness and dimness of an old man, giving people a sense of inner piety and spiritual clarity.

Huggins saw who was coming, his face instantly turned from red to white, and he turned around in panic, and fled the hall with his hands and feet together.

The old man kicked up a bench with his foot and hit the man's back impartially, causing the latter to fall on the ground and gnaw on the mud.

Just as Huggins was about to get up, the old man hooked his leg in the crook of his leg, put him back down, and stepped on his spine.

A voice burst above the man's head, echoing through the halls of the hotel.

"Bastard! I'll settle your account with you later!"