On the second day of Lin An's sneaking into the hunting ground, the grand autumn hunt also happened to be the penultimate day. [*****$100=degree=search=four=library=book=small=say=net=look=most=new=chapter=section*****]*

These last three days were the high days of winter hunting, and a large number of nobles entered the hunting grounds at the same time, no longer competing with each other in class groups as in the previous days:

Merlin attaches great importance to force, and there are fewer unspoken rules for the selection of the strong, although the top few of this kind of hunting competition in previous years are still big nobles, but everyone is a clear-eyed person, and the knights and retainers who really gain face and glory for the lord are often rewarded and promoted by the emperor and the head of the family, and there is even no shortage of those who have won the favor of the superior and ascended to the sky.

Therefore, in this kind of large-scale hunting, those retainers and knights who expected to obtain the rank of advancement often spared no effort, and the nobles with heads and faces competed with each other in terms of strength, and the competition was quite fierce.

At this time, Lin An was in the wine cellar at the back of the hunting ground camp, directing the servants to carry the wine.

"Torizza Estate, thirteen years old...... That's right, it's this bucket, carry it up! ”

"Be careful!"

"Be careful! Don't fall over the keg! ”

As Lin An signaled, two servants stepped forward to carry down the thick wine barrel that the adult man was hugging together, and the people next to him also stepped forward, moving carefully with their hands and feet, and at this moment, a servant who was guarding outside the wine cellar ran in.

"Vivien, there's someone out there looking for you!"

Lin An turned around, "Who is looking for me, don't you know that this barrel of wine is what Chef Moore is anxious to use?" ”

Moore is the fat man who brought Lin An into the hunting ground that day, the pastry room manager and chef in the back kitchen of the hunting ground, Lin An learned that the other party would come to the barracks that day, so he made such a scene that day.

"Looks like Chef Moore's people called you!" The person who came said and secretly gestured to Lin An.

"Okay, you guys hurry back with your wine!"

Lin An saw it, quietly motioned for the others to continue working, and walked out with the comer.

Came to the back of a row of shaded trees. The dense tree cover blocked the view from the direction of the wine cellar, and Lin An turned around and said, "Why did you come here at this time?" Something? ”

"Sure enough, someone from the barracks went to the manor to find out your background."

The speaker's face was oily with acne sores, and he looked like he had been working in the kitchen all day, but his voice was Salin's, low and magnetic, but it was with his present countenance. There is a sense of contrast that people can't bear to witness.

The corners of Lin An's mouth twitched a few times, and he couldn't help laughing, "It's not strange, strange faces come in, or into the back kitchen, how do you have to get to the bottom - you have to deal with it, right?" ”

"Andre, they also helped." Saleen nodded, and then asked, "How are you doing here?" ”

"It's not good, although the place where the emperor is is always monitored and controlled by the ** division, but if it is not the core area. It's relatively loose, and they probably won't think that someone is right under their noses! ”

Lin An smiled, "The kitchen is one of the most well-informed places, I hear all kinds of true and false news all day long, like the third prince has a bad stomach and eats less recently, and I feel dizzy when I hear it." ”

"You're not going to contact Lancet or Byron?" Privately, Salin addressed these Venerables by their first names.

"Look at it again, after all this effort, I don't want to be the prey of a headlong hunting net."

You must know that Odin also sent someone to track her whereabouts before, and now Lin An does not come back with Byron. Everyone knew that if she wanted to find out, she would most likely be looking for Lancet and Byron.

"You're worried that Odin is still staring at you—at a critical time like this?" Saleen narrowed his eyes.

"Who knows? The logic of a madman is incomprehensible to a normal person. Lin An said lightly.

She didn't understand why Odin was so obsessed with herself, even if she had already left the brigade before, and chased after her so persistently, it stands to reason that even if he wanted to take revenge, he shouldn't take the initiative to get on the side at such a critical time, although she didn't doubt that Odin was definitely determined to kill her - just like she did with Odin.

If it weren't for Odin's surveillance, Lin An wouldn't necessarily have planned to come back, after all, she hadn't figured out the emperor's whole game of chess at that time, so the situation was unclear. Lin An instinctively chose to stay away from the danger, so as not to accidentally become cannon fodder.

A cold light flashed in Salin's eyes:

Regarding Odin's intentions for Lin An, as a man, he can empathize more, Lin An underestimated her temptation to men too much, for a man like Odin, the most beautiful woman is actually equal to the highest power and the most powerful power at some point.

Lin An is the culprit of Odin's current situation, but in a certain way, the greater the price Odin pays on her, the heavier Lin An's weight in his heart, whether this weight represents hatred or **.

"Actually, I've been thinking about what I would do if I were Odin." Saleen said.

Lin An raised his eyebrows, "Do you have an idea?" ”

"First of all, the first question is, will Odin jump this game of the emperor." Saleen Road.

Lin paused, "Judging from the news circulating in the kitchen, the news of the Saxon's assassination did not spread, and the emperor probably blocked the news, otherwise the entire hunting ground would not be so peaceful." ”

"We expected that, but no matter how much the Emperor tried to hide it, Odin must have known the news," said Salin, "and even if Odin's eyes and ears can't get the news, someone will be happy to act for him." ”

"We can guess that, and of course the emperor can guess even more, so this is a game, and he has to see what Odin will do." Lin Andao.

"But since you can see the emperor's game, do you think Odin can see it?"

Salin's question made Lin An stunned for a moment, and then she smiled:

"Yes, he should be able to see it, but that doesn't change the fact that his only son is dying. A first-in-line heir to the throne without an heir is just a lonely man, and when the news spreads, his status will be decided by the emperor in a thought, if I were Odin, step by step to get to the point where I am today, I would never be willing to give my fate to the emperor - if the emperor continues to sacrifice the Saxons as ruthlessly as before, then Odin, the first heir in line, will become a joke. ”

"So, from the current point of view, the probability of Odin entering the game is more than seventy percent." Saleen Road.

Lin An was slightly surprised, "I thought it was at least eighty percent." ”

"Suppose the Saxon was not seriously wounded, but died on the spot. That's eighty percent. Salin pursed his lips slightly.

Lin An pondered, nodded after a moment's silence, "You're right." ”

She suddenly understood what Saleen had deliberately reminded her:

The seventy percent probability and the eighty percent probability seem to be about the same, but in fact, there is still a difference, and the reason for this difference is actually the influence of Odin and the dependent forces behind him on Merlin;

And the presence or absence of heirs. Undoubtedly, it is also one of the factors that can influence this influence, once Saxon dies, the power of Odin's family will undoubtedly decline, and the tree will fall apart, thus increasing the possibility of Odin's dog jumping off the wall, from the point of view of probability. The table xiàn is the difference between seventy percent and eighty percent.

And Salin deliberately argued with Lin An about seventy percent and eighty percent, of course, not to be idle and bored, but to remind Lin An that there is another possibility, and this possibility is-

"Vivien! Vivien! ”

A shout was heard, and Chef Moore, with his white apron and bulging abdomen bulging like a ball, appeared behind a row of walls. Salin gave Lin An a knowing look, and quickly disappeared from the depths of the woods, while Lin An walked out from the shade of the tree, and responded:

"Here I am, here I am!"

"Where have you gone, have you run out and been lazy? Hurry up, I'm waiting for you to make a drink! ”

When Chef Moore saw Lin An, he didn't care about scolding, and walked back quickly with Lin An.

"What's the hurry, Chef Moore, there are so many people in the pastry room! Are you going to get your hands dirty? What kind of people are so pompous. It's even possible for Chef Moore to do it himself! ”

Lin An smiled and hurriedly sent a sycophant.

As the person brought into the kitchen by Chef Moore himself, although she is often scolded and scolding to work, compared to others, Chef Moore has taken care of her, and many people in the kitchen are envious and jealous of this, but they dare not say anything, because Chef Moore has an unusual status in the pastry room, and is the emperor's royal pastry chef, and ordinary people dare not use him. Lin An was also stained with it-

Of course, Chef Moore took such good care of her, which was naturally the effect of magic, but the enchantment spells were hidden when controlling others, and Lin An did not dare to use them too much in the hunting ground, so as not to expose the hidden ones.

"You little girl doesn't pat much," but Chef Moore still laughed, touched his fat chin very proudly, and explained, "Of course, ordinary people can't use Old Moore to do it himself, and those who can let Old Moore do it himself, of course, are not ordinary people." ”

Lin An chuckled in his heart, thinking to himself that he had just discussed it with Salin, could it be so accurate?

But she still had a look of curiosity and adoration on her face, and quietly made a spell casting gesture in her hand, asking, "Who is that?" Could it be that Her Majesty the Queen has appointed you to make dim sum? ”

"It's true that the queen appointed me to make it, but the person who eats it shouldn't be Her Majesty Xià......"

Chef Moore hesitated for a moment, and under the influence of Lin An's spell, he looked around a little mysteriously left and right, and then whispered:

"Although there is no exact news, but the kind of wine biscuits that I was designated to make this time are His Royal Highness Odin's favorite food when he was a child, and every time His Majesty the Queen knows that His Royal Highness Odin is back, she will ask someone to prepare, I guess, probably His Royal Highness will be back in these two days!"

……

Knock ——!

Knock ——!

Knock ——!

The slanting sun gradually hung in the west, and the dull drums sounded in the yellowing sunlight, startling the birds from far and near, fluttering through the air.

Looking down from the sky, a team gradually emerged from the vast mountain forest, like countless tributaries, gradually converging to the east, between the barking of dogs and the howling of horses, a lump of prey on the back of the horse, full of loads.

When the nobles who had gone out to hunt themselves returned to the vicinity of the sheds, the duel between the two knights was still going on in the dueling arena between the sheds.

The duel, which was supposed to be exciting, was not warmly cheered, and the two opponents of the duel were also a little absent-minded, and when they saw the hunting procession returning with the sound of drums gradually entering the field, they hastily divided the winners and bowed.

The first hunting team to return was the hunting team of the Bencent family led by Leonardo, and Leonardo's entry naturally ushered in bursts of cheers, the cheers were still warm, and the applause in the shed was thunderous, which seemed to be no different from usual.

But there is no difference is the biggest difference, the last three days of the winter hunt hunting and the previous hunting is not the same, in the past has always been the winter hunting of the high dynasty, as a rare competition between the nobles, countless nobles including female dependents are full of enthusiasm, secretly betting and private small friction festivals. I don't know how much has happened before the game.

Leonardo is good at reading words and colors, so he can naturally hear whether the cheers are sincere and enthusiastic, and he is keenly aware that there is something wrong with the atmosphere at the table, and there seems to be some subtlety hidden under the enthusiasm.

While his men had not yet lost the excitement of returning from the hunt and happily rode around the field, Leonardo, who was also waving around the field, swept his gaze to the seat, quickly shifting from the direction of the eyes of the people who stood up and applauded enthusiastically. Perceive where their focus is.

Leonardo's gaze swept to the seat in the center, and His Majesty the Emperor was in front of the throne in the center, and he had already stood up, talking to Count Jefa who was standing beside him, and looked at him with a smile and a slight bow, as a sign of appreciation;

And next to the emperor. The queen's throne was empty, as was the seat of Prince Byron, and Charles and Douglas, who were sitting opposite Byron, were nowhere to be seen.

Leonardo didn't have time to take a closer look, and after his hunting party circled the field for a week, the largest brown-clawed fox bear that Leonardo would hunt was carried out by six knights. Dedicated to His Majesty the Emperor.

When Leonardo led the way up to the fox bear, the emperor stepped down from the stage, patted him on the shoulder while laughing, and said with a smile: "Come back so quickly, Leo, you are lazy today!" ”

"Your Majesty has wronged me!"

Leonardo bowed slightly, his hand in his heart, and his face was exaggeratedly aggrieved, "If you don't go deep into the mountains and forests, you can't hunt such a big fox bear - for this winter hunt." I specially brought a batch of good horses from the territory, Your Majesty, look at it, the leader of this winter hunt, the Bencent family is going to be decided! ”

"Yes, Your Majesty, there are two days left, you just look at Leonardo's watch!"

Count Jefa on the side joked, and the three of them laughed.

Then the nobleman who acted as the inquisitor reported the number of hunts of the Bencent family hunting party today, and it was as Leonardo said.

The nobles watched the atmosphere on the throne and cheered enthusiastically, and the knights of the Bencent family received handkerchief folding fans thrown from the women's table. The whole scene was very enthusiastic, and the atmosphere finally returned to normal, and then it was the turn of the second team to enter.

Leonardo retired, got down from the chairman, followed the silk handkerchief all the way, nodded to the nobles, his face was smiling, the tail of his eyes was smiling, and when he returned to his position, his whole face was like a chrysanthemum, and the smile could not fade at all.

A gust of wind blew beside him, and James sat down from his seat.

He is not a member of the Bencent family, no matter how much he slaps the blue lion family in the face, it is impossible to go hunting with Leonardo, otherwise the old lion should be so angry that he galloped three hundred miles from the territory and whipped this unfilial son to death.

"Why did you just come back and see our team's prey!"

Leonardo stood up and patted James, laughing and whispering, the people nearby laughed, James barely smiled without smiling, the two sat down, James squeezed his voice out of his teeth and whispered:

"Is that enough? How long am I going to keep this idiot smile? ”

Leonardo laughed so much that he almost showed a mouthful of white teeth, and listened to James's words, as if completely immersed in the excitement of returning home with a full load and the emperor's reward, but the words in his mouth were completely different from his expression, and he lowered his voice:

"What just happened? Her Majesty the Empress was unwell again...... Oh no, the two princesses are still there. ”

He had already seen the location of the two princesses, Victoria and Elizabeth, who were sitting with their fiancés and had not left with their brothers, and it was clear that the queen's departure was not due to illness.

"There may have been a dispute between the two Majesties at the table just now, and the queen's face was a little bad, so she withdrew, and then Her Majesty said something to the three highnesses, and they also left, as if there was something to do, but it didn't seem right to look at their faces."

James knew what Leonardo was going to ask, and the pair in the content "may seem to seem" made Leonardo understand the reason for the difference in the atmosphere before.

Of course, it is impossible for the two Majesties to argue openly and loudly at the table, even if it is a temporary quarrel, there will be a perfect disguise in the countenance, which is a compulsory course for every nobleman, just like Leonardo and James at this time.

But the nobles are the best at observing words and feelings, and the two majesties are undoubtedly the focus of the banquet, every move, even if it is a detail of the action of grasping the silk, or the change in the face of the courtier's wife next to him, will attract people's attention.

If only a vague clue, in the absence of evidence. The nobles didn't hold on to it, but then the queen withdrew and the three princes left, which undoubtedly made many nobles wonder, and naturally they couldn't see how exciting the duel in front of them was.

I'm afraid that when Leonardo entered the game, more than eighty percent of people were haunted by questions. It wasn't until the emperor personally expressed his appreciation for Leonardo that the scene became enthusiastic again.

"Two days ago, Count Jefa didn't go back to the camp, and the words in the palace couldn't come out, and then I learned that it might be related to Her Majesty the Empress, and it was said that I was a little uncomfortable, and I thought that the two Majesties might not be present today. But looking at the current situation, it seems even more wrong than imagined! ”

Another hunting party returned, and Leonardo stood up with a smile on his face, clapped his hands, and then asked without moving his lips, "Then you just left." See something? ”

"Her Majesty the Empress is really unwell, go back to rest, Byron and Douglas The two Highnesses took people away from the hunting ground, looking at the direction of the palace, and His Royal Highness Charles went to the direction of the barracks."

"Barracks ......" Leonardo paused with a smile, "It's not strange that His Royal Highness Charles goes to the barracks every day, hehe." ”

"If he hadn't been afraid of being too conspicuous, he would have almost wished he had eaten and clothed in the barracks," James snorted. There was a hint of mockery in his eyes, "As if I was afraid that people would not know that he was the second prince who was allowed to lead troops." ”

"Third place!" Leonardo corrected from between his teeth, "You forgot His Highness Byron. ”

"Forget it, even he himself probably doesn't dare to put himself in the eyes of others, and the first one who doesn't take him in his eyes is His Majesty," James snorted lightly, "You see that he brought so many things back, how happy the two Majesty are, but in the end, what he got was just more rewards and fiefdoms, the position that was taken away before." His Majesty didn't mention it at all. ”

"Hey, His Royal Highness Byron has even stimulated the silver-green bloodline, what else is there to say, I think when he returns to the imperial capital, he will go to the Sword Saint Mountain - this may not be a way out!"

Leonardo said, and then said to himself, "Strange, leave the table halfway, one goes to the barracks, two go to the palace, what are you going to do?" ”

As he was talking, an earth dragon came from a distance, and seeing that the size of the team was no less than two or three hundred people, the people on the table stood up one after another.

"Hey, which teams happened to come back together so coincidentally?"

"It's northwest, is there any team running in there?"

The hunting ground is huge, there are many wild beasts, and it is not uncommon for several teams to run around with the prey on the way.

When everyone was talking and looking forward to it, the emperor's hand holding the scepter in the middle of the seat tightened, and the Count Jefa standing below him seemed to think of something, his smile was slightly stiff, but this expression was only instantaneous, and then he returned to normal, and came to the armrest of the emperor's throne, and the emperor seemed to want to stand up, but in the end he didn't move and sat on the throne.

The terrain of the hunting ground is peculiar, high in the east and low in the west, and the location of the royal family camping and building the colorful shed is on a high ground in the east, just overlooking the hunting ground, with a good view.

The gray-yellow earth dragon approached from a low place in the northwest, stopped about a mile or so, and after a few moments, rode in through the gate.

The knight on horseback, dressed in the silver-white armor of the garrison guard, came to the bottom of the high platform of the emperor's throne, turned over and dismounted, landed on one knee, and reported in a loud voice:

"Newspaper - 陛xià! Prince of the Imperial Dragonspine Highlands and now Captain of the Royal Guard, Odin. Sodelov....... Phillips. Merlin, the elite of the Shuai Guards with 300 men, has arrived at the camp gate! ”

Leonardo opened his mouth, and there were quite a few people next to him who had similar expressions to him.

The whole scene fell silent for a moment because of the knight's report.

The emperor swept away from the heights, and most of the people's faces were revealed under the canopy, and their faces showed a look of astonishment and surprise, but it is unknown how many people had the same expressions and moods.

"His Highness Odin......"

After the silence, there was an uproar, and everyone looked at the emperor on the high platform.

The Emperor had already risen from his throne at this time, and without the support of Count Jefa, he walked to the edge of the stage with the lion's head golden scepter representing Merlin's supreme power in his hand, his face was full of excitement and joy, and he waved his right hand vigorously:

"Come in! Don't let him in yet! ”

Seeing this, there was a sudden burst of joy at the table, and people had already stood up, and at this time they crowded to the side, and the mixed voices were buzzing:

"It's His Highness Odin! His Highness Odin is back from the Southern Front! ”

In the chaotic scene, no one noticed that Count Jefa, who was a few steps below the emperor, stepped back, lowered his voice and coldly asked a guard behind him:

"How could His Highness come from the northwest? Who is the commander of the garrison over there? Who put people into the hunting grounds? …… And the two highnesses who went to greet them at the palace, didn't they come back with them! ”

(To be continued)

ps：

Thank you Snow Dance and Saka Orlando for the big pink ticket! o(n_n)o~

Yesterday's update topped up ...... Ouch, it's only been a week, and sure enough, the lazy muscles have popped up, and I'm not used to it at all! I've been going out lately, and I'm not resting very well, and I'm actually having a headache~

Sorry for being a little late today, but it's okay, a certain P person's RP is still strong!