No sooner had Koeman tied the queen to his chair than there was a knock at the door. Queen Chloe immediately looked eagerly at the door, she must have counted on the faithful lord outside the door, and when she saw her former queen suffering in such a way, they would rush in and rescue her.

Unfortunately not. The maid stood outside the door, and she didn't even lift her eyes to see who was in the house, much to Koeman's satisfaction. Koeman took the tray and laid out the contents on the table: ten hollow bamboo tubes, a jar of water, a roll of cotton yarn, an iron, and finally a round-bellied knife with a magic quenched blade.

Queen Chloe closed her eyes and her lips turned white, "General Koman," she tried to call him, "Actually, I never understood why you followed my daughter, especially after you helped her take the throne. You have more powerful magic, more powerful than any of us, and you can take the place of my reckless daughter and rule the Land of Midsummer. Koeman put the hollow bamboo pipes on the Queen's fingers one by one, moving slowly and methodically, unbelievably bewitched by her words. The Queen's hands were as cold as ice and trembled slightly, and it was clear that she did not want a single finger to leave her. But she didn't give up and continued her topic, "I can see that you don't love my daughter, your eyes tell me, you don't love her, and you don't love yourself." Her words were soft and mournful, as if she really cared about him, "And what do you love?" There must be something worth doing to sustain him on his way, either love or hate. ”

I only want Solandar to give it, so don't waste your time. Coman sat across from the queen and looked at her with a blank expression, "Pick one." I'll start with my little finger because you hardly need it. ”

"No!" The queen screamed almost uncontrollably, "You can't do this to me! I'm the Queen! ”

"The Queen of Severed Fingers. If you don't choose, then I'll do it. Coman tugged at the Queen's right hand, and the magic knife bit it.

"No!" In a panic, the queen shouted, "If you're angry at Vanessa's threats to you, I can sue you that she's just talking big, and she won't really come to you, because she's not my daughter at all!" ”

Coman stopped, raised his eyes and looked at the Queen, unsure if she was lying. Eventually, he decided to continue his work, for the woman in front of him had betrayed Solanda, the daughter she had always acknowledged.

"Trust me, she's really not my daughter." The fascia of the finger had been cut open, revealing the snow-white bone, but the white was immediately covered with bright red blood, and the queen inhaled in pain, "God, can you listen to me!" ”

"Can you please shut up!" Coman glared at her complainingly, "The more you move, the more blood will bleed, and it will be ugly to cut it with a misaligned cut." ”

"You don't believe me?" The queen writhed desperately, "That's right! She cried out, "Strips of cloth! That's a strip of cloth! ”

This time Coman stopped what he was doing, he put down the knife, dipped his hand in the jug, and wiped the blood with cotton yarn, "You are finally willing to say?" ”

"I know you don't believe it, but it's true that I passed it on." The queen let out a sigh of relief. After the strip of cloth was caught in a basket and delivered to the kitchen in Neverwinter, Corman came to the prison to question her, but she flatly denied that she had done it, saying only that Weimar had used a kind of magic to get Ilia away.

"Say, what's going on?" Coman ordered, and he began to wonder that this woman could always make a move at a critical moment, and he couldn't help but admire.

"If I say it, you will let my finger go. From now on, I will stay in prison and never show up again. "The Queen's conditions followed.

"One finger, one secret." Coman played with the magic knife in his hand, his beard was full of smiles, he felt that the queen must be hiding a lot of interesting secrets, and she was not as kind and pure as she usually seemed, since her fingers would not fly away, why not listen to her story.

"I don't know if you've heard that curse about our family," the queen said in a grim tone, trying to make the story compelling, "it comes from Ivan the Cursed, the last ruler of Neverwinter. Coman nodded, and she continued, "The Delin family is called the 'Usurper' because of him. My ancestor was a vassal of Ivan, and because he was dissatisfied with Ivan's brutal rule, he staged a coup d'état, and Ivan cursed before his death that the rule of the Delin family would be short and full of thorns, and a hundred years later, the Delin family would not come out again, and the entire country of Midsummer would fall into chaos, and Ivan's descendants would return to the throne, and the rule of the Delin family would disappear from the ground like yellow sand that had been wiped out by the wind. ”

"After all, it will be exactly a hundred years since the throne passed to me." The queen stared at the half-cut finger and stopped to say, "Is there any wine?" I need a glass of mulled wine. ”

Coman stood up and walked to the window, picked up a jar of lime wine from the city-state, poured himself a glass, and when he saw the queen glaring at him, he spread his hands, "Believe me, your majesty, wine is harmful to your wounds." "He took a sip from his glass, and the wine was sour, but not strong, like water, and I wonder how the nobles of the palace liked to drink it," he continued. ”

The queen had no choice but to continue, "In order to break Ivan's curse, we began to breed royal heirs like crazy, and even thought of intermarrying brothers and sisters, but every generation got daughters, and we forced the children to marry with Delin's surname, and only to noble families with strong magic, in order to keep the magic pure. We also married girls to other countries in the hope that intermarriage would lead to a boy, and when I was very young, my sister Doreen was married to the land of ice, where she gave birth to three girls and a deformed freak in a row and died tragically, and the blood of our ancestors was thinning and weakening, and we could only watch and do nothing.

"We also sought out Ivan's descendants and wanted them to help break the curse," Queen Chloe tapped on the table with her uninjured hand, "They said that only Ivan's direct blood relatives had that ability, but the children ...... during the coup."

"The kids were all gathered and shot," Coman said for her with a blank face. "They were carried out of bed in their sleep, and they didn't have time to utter any curses."

The Queen's eyelashes fluttered in the candlelight, "That was a mistake. ”

"Why, speaking of the child's death, touching your weak and kind soul?" Coman was not without mockery.

"Since you want to kill him, you should kill him cleanly, those side branches and second sons are illegitimate children, and even the brothels and camp prostitutes they have patronized cannot be spared!" The Queen's true thoughts at this moment were a powerful response to Coman's ignorant mockery.

"But it's too late," the queen hung her head, "and their people fled in all directions, disappearing from all corners of the world, and Ivan's curse hung over my head like a sharp sword."

"But I don't have time to think about the curse, I inherited the throne of the Land of Midsummer from my mother, and I inherited it in order," the queen said, glancing at Koman, "my throne was not stolen. ”

Coman put down his glass and fiddled with the magic knife.

The queen immediately surrendered and continued, "Solanda was born at this time, and I had a hard time taking care of the children while taking care of state affairs, so Zach hired a wet nurse for me, that is, Weima. Weimar claimed to be from Longji Town, which had just been hit by a great flood that took away her family and newborn child, and I thought she was healthy and well-fed, so I left her behind, and from then on, we got along like family, she was an optimistic and cheerful fat person, and she always brought laughter to the children - I wonder if her death brought you laughter too. ”

"No more than the clown in Scambra, who almost broke my gallows."

The queen nodded, "You should have foreseen this. My husband always complained to me that Weimar didn't listen to his orders, and I didn't care at first, after all, Zack was not the king, and everyone below took his words as the wind blowing through the treetops, but later, of course, after I understood it, I found out that Weima not only didn't listen to Zack, but she always disobeyed my orders, and now that I think about it, her loyalty does not belong to the royal family," the queen looked up, "but the princess." ”

"Hmph, it's definitely not Solander." Koeman said nonchalantly.

The queen glanced at him, wondering if this guy was really stupid or fake, "She's only loyal to Vanessa." And this was only after I sent Ilia to Weimar. "Damn, that was a fatal mistake, the queen shouldn't have trusted, I shouldn't have believed anyone, and as a result, my little Eliya, the last weapon in my hand was taken by the ugly fat man Weimar, and it was given by me myself!

"Tell me, how did you get our little princess out, huh?" Koman played with the magic knife, the cold air wrapped around the knife emitted a faint blue light, it is said that this kind of magic is only found in the land of ice swamps, craftsmen in the ground at minus forty degrees with divine fire to forge weapons, heating, beating, stacking, heating, knocking, stacking, and finally quenching into the magic of ice, ice and fire blend to form those gorgeous ripples on the blade, as if wrapped with a faint ghost fire, reminiscent of the evil spirits in hell, people dare not approach.

"During the coup d'état, I ripped off three jade stones from the necklace and pressed them into the wound on my leg to bandage them, one of the philosopher's stones had the ability to teleport, but it could only teleport small things, so I teleported Ilia to Weimar." The queen recalls what happened after that: when Illya told Weimar what had happened, and then took out the communication stone and asked her to contact her, Weima refused to obey her orders, threatening to hide her, and saying that I was not worthy of being her mother! Who gave her the audacity to accuse me like this! Everything I do is for a reason, for the sake of the Land of Midsummer and my people!

"Knock knock" Coman knocked on the table reluctantly, the sun had climbed into the middle of the sky, and the outside of the Longbow Hall must be crowded with people waiting for the edict, maybe a hundred, maybe a thousand, that means a hundred questions and a thousand chattering mouths, and he, the acting city lord, had been listening to the parents of the previous queen all morning, and he really didn't know what he was doing, but forget it, to hell with those noble lords and lowly commoners, he wanted to listen to the previous queen today.

"Weimar betrayed me," the Queen's eyes swelled with anger, her body was tied and she couldn't move, otherwise she would smash her fists on the table and stomp on the floor with her feet, "She's going to give Elija to Vanessa - her only master, I don't know what they want my Elija for, I was afraid that my daughter would be hurt, so I tore off a strip of cloth from my body, wrote in blood 'Weima stole Elija', and sent it away in a meal plate." The queen looked at Coman with contempt, "As a result, not only did you not pry my daughter's whereabouts out of Weimar's mouth, but you also put the only clue on the gallows!" If Ilia has three longs and two shorts—" The queen trembled and wanted to make a deadly threat, but she knew that no matter how threatened, this young man in front of her, who was colder than the ice boor hell, would not be moved, he was like a ghost floating through Neverwinter, leaving a terrible shadow in your heart, and you could do nothing about him.

"Believe me, Your Majesty, that fat man has tasted all the torture in the torture chamber - her loyalty to Vanessa is not as fluffy as her flesh, and she doesn't scream as loudly as you when we cut her fingers." Coman glanced at the Queen, "Anyway, she has earned our respect, and she won't say anything. In the end I had to order her to be hanged so that she would not eat more of my oatcakes, which she was too good to eat. And your Elia, Sorenda has long wanted to kill her, whether she is hidden, tied with a bow or given away, without her is like a mouse missing in the cellar, no one will care. ”

Oh, you will. When my little Elijah returns, you'll understand how important she is. The queen was silent, she didn't want to argue with Coman on the matter.

Corman stood up and paced back and forth around the room, "Wait, how can you be so sure Vanessa isn't your daughter?" ”

"The magic of the major families is in its own vein, although there is overlap, but there is no contradiction." Be careful, the queen told herself, from now on she must weigh her words, "The magic of our Delin family belongs to the 'control zhì' system. For example, my magic is 'deterrence' and makes those around me submit to me, Solanda's magic is 'blood rage', she can infect her comrades when she is angry, Ilia is small, but she also has her own magic, once I saw her dancing in the woods, she attracted the attention of everyone around her, and until she finished dancing, they were as still as as stone. These magics, whether they are 'deterrence' or 'petrification', are the ability to control others, and Vanessa, I always thought that her magic was 'soft', Vanessa is a girl who is loved by everyone, and Weimar ** has to understand the rules and etiquette, a standard lady, who likes it when she sees it, so I stupidly take it for granted. It wasn't until I was locked up in that unknown prison - and honestly, I don't know exactly where you were holding me - that Elija told me and Vanessa suddenly disappeared that it dawned on me that Vanessa's magic was teleportation. This kind of magic is completely different from the magic of the Delin family, and it has nothing to do with it, so I'm sure she's not my daughter. ”

"Could it be that Old Delin's blood changed when it came to their generation?" Coman touched his beard with interest, "Or are you unfaithful to your husband and slept with the stableman?" ”

The queen glared at Coman and said word by word, "I love my husband." However, she found that there was little point in discussing this topic with him, how could a hairy boy understand things between adults, "No matter how much foreign blood is washed, Delin is always Delin." If the system doesn't change, the magic doesn't change. Vanessa's statement in the Philosopher's Stone that she had been in another world for four years and that ours had only been in the past month shows that her magic was not even teleportation, but more subtle than that, and I couldn't imagine what kind of magic it could be. ”

"Subtle and profound" Coman played with this sentence, he walked up to the queen and slammed the magic knife on the table not far from her little finger, Queen Chloe was shocked, Coman leaned close to her face, and her black eyes flashed with cunning and cruelty, "My Majesty, the story you made up is like a mirage in the desert, subtle and profound, but not reliable. I'll give you one last chance - to be honest. ”

"I'm telling the truth." The queen looked straight into Koeman's eyes.

"You've run out of opportunities." Coman said calmly. At the same time, he pressed the magic knife towards the Queen's fingers.

The queen let out a hysterical scream

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