267. You should know how to do it
Madder ran all the way down the alley with his doll wife, and instead of choosing to go home, he rushed in the direction of Mia's church.
He knew that it was completely safe.
Unfortunately, he couldn't run far, and he was blocked in the alley one after the other again.
And the two people who came this time were also strong, but they were obviously not ordinary ruffians like just now, it was just the aura and fluctuations emanating from their bodies that made Ma De's legs weak and his teeth kept fighting...
This is not an enemy that other doll wives can deal with...
Damn, carelessly, shouldn't have given the master that check...
Is it my comfortable days that have passed too long...
Ma De couldn't help but complain to himself in his heart.
However, the two people who blocked him this time were much more polite, they touched their chests with one hand, bowed slightly to show respect, and whispered:
"Your Highness, I beg your pardon for our offense, it's just that your brother misses you very much and wants to meet you."
With that, one of them turned slightly sideways, revealing a black carriage parked at the entrance of the alley behind him.
"Ugh..."
Ma De sighed helplessly, followed the two men closer to the carriage, opened the door, and sat inside.
Waiting inside was a handsome young man with a glass of red wine in one hand and a beautiful girl in the other.
The girl looked delicate and charming, but her eyes were blank, her face was numb, and she let the other party go up and down, and there was no response, and it was obviously just a beautiful toy.
This girl Ma De also knew, he sold it to an old local customer a few days ago, but he didn't expect it to fall into the hands of the young man opposite.
"My dear brother, long time no see, do you want something to drink?"
The young man asked very kindly.
Ma De shook his head, sighed again, and asked rhetorically:
"Alas... Why did you come to me again? β
The young man did not answer, but reached out and picked up the chin of the beautiful girl puppet next to him, looked at it carefully, and then praised it sincerely:
"I really didn't expect that you have such attainments in puppetry, I'm afraid you've surpassed your teacher Jonesfield, right?"
"Sure enough, you've always been the smartest of us."
The fact that the other party was able to get hold of this puppet and tell him about the fact that he had studied under Master Jonesfield showed that he knew everything about Mader and had always mastered his whereabouts, and was not attracted by the check.
This made Ma De laugh self-deprecatingly, thinking that he was hiding well and could live so peacefully, but from beginning to end, he couldn't escape from the palm of others.
He simply let go, picked up the red wine and wine glass next to him, filled himself with a glass, poured two sips of coodong, relieved the dry mouth caused by the escape just now, and then asked directly:
"Can we be more direct?"
The other party smiled and shook his head:
"My stupid brother, can't you talk to me more if you haven't seen each other for so long?"
"There's a lot of time anyway, isn't it?"
Although the other party refused to explain his intentions, Ma De could guess something somewhat, so he took the initiative to ask:
"Father's body, is it not good?"
"Other than that, you don't have any reason to come to me."
The other party is indeed his half-brother, but there is no brotherhood between the two.
Because they come from a cold and heartless family, the Quintins, that is, the imperial royal family.
Although Mader always claimed to be from the remote countryside in front of Gallo, he was actually the emperor's third son.
And the young man on the opposite side is the second.
They also have an older sister in front of them, not an illegitimate child in the back, and a lot of siblings.
Marder left the royal family alone early because of his mother's early death, and then followed the puppet master Jones Field, and has been coming to the city of innocence, living a low-key but comfortable life.
The emperor did not come to him, nor did his brothers and sisters.
There are even many people who feel that it is a good thing and a smart choice for him to disappear obediently.
So it can only be that the emperor's health is not good, and others can remember him as the third child.
Sure enough, the young man opposite, the second prince of the empire, Rhodes, narrowed his eyes slightly, nodded slightly, and was finally willing to mention the matter:
"Father Emperor mistakenly believed in the Daystar Sect before, and used some of their methods to seriously injure his body, and now he has been bedridden for many days."
When he spoke of this, his expression was calm and his tone was flat, without the slightest sorrow or grief that he deserved, as if he were talking about a stranger rather than his own father's physical condition.
Speaking of the current emperor of the empire, Quintin III, from an objective and national point of view, can be regarded as a successful and responsible emperor.
He didn't have any hobby hunting for disasters to the country and the people, nor did he start wars with great joy, waste money and money, and manage the empire passed down by his grandfather in an orderly and prosperous manner.
The main black spot is the suppression of the orthodox religion and the wrong belief in the cult, but later it also knows that the mistakes can be corrected, and does not continue to support the Daystar Sect.
Overall, he is a qualified ruler.
It's a pity that his health has always been bad, even if he was born with a physical problem, and it is also related to the injury he was injured when he was young, so that he is now not yet 60 years old, and the children under his knees have begun to think about fighting for power.
You must know that in this world, because of the existence of magic and magic, it is very common for a prince to be seventy or eighty years old, but it is very rare for an emperor to disappear at the age of 60, if he fails to survive this time, I am afraid that he will become a short-lived emperor who will go down in history.
In the final analysis, it was because he had always had the idea of suppressing the Orthodox Church, otherwise with the resources and magic in the hands of the three major Orthodox Sects, it would definitely be no problem for him to live to be one or two hundred years old like his father and grandfather.
But in this way, he and his future emperors will always be constrained by sectarian forces because of the problem of longevity.
Therefore, he supported the Daystar Sect and tried to confront the Orthodox Church, which was also a rather far-sighted choice, but he didn't expect the Daystar Sect to believe in a super-large evil god who tried to destroy everything, and finally ended up like this.
In fact, these things don't have much to do with Mader.
Because of his mother's early death, the relationship between him and the emperor was very indifferent, and now he didn't want to wade into troubled waters at all, so he said very seriously:
"I will neither return to the Imperial City, nor will I participate in and follow your affairs!"
"I don't think I'm a prince, now I'm just an ordinary citizen of the city of innocence, and the national affairs behind you have nothing to do with me."
"Can I go?"
He said the truth from his heart, but he didn't impress his brother.
"My stupid brother, since we were born in the Quintan family, we are burdened with this fate, how can this be controlled by you?"
"You have no interest in that position, but your mother's former retainers, your grandfather's family, don't."
"You may not know it, but they're looking for you all over the world..."
As he spoke, Prince Rhodes suddenly raised his voice:
"It's just me!"
"Only I can give you the life you really want, and I can really keep you out of those whirlpools! I am the only one who really values brotherhood and is really good to you! β
"So, go back with me, you just need to be patient for a while, meet a few more people, talk to them a few words, and soon return to your current life."
At this point in his words, Ma De can be regarded as seeing his true intention.
This brother, who is only good for himself, just wants to use himself as a weight, using the emperor's guilt towards himself to win more support.
Made's mother was the imperial empress and the only empress, and even after her early death, the emperor never crowned a new empress.
So many people say that the empress is the woman that the emperor really loves.
This is probably because he fell in love with the queen when he didn't become the emperor, and he was able to fight his way out of the encirclement from other brothers and sisters and successfully ascend the throne, which was also strongly supported by the queen's family.
But the queen fell off a cliff during an outing and died unexpectedly.
Many people thought that this was a political murder, but the emperor may have been motivated by the stability of the situation, and did not track down the real culprit behind the scenes, nor did he appease Ma De, who was still young at the time, and even took this opportunity to suppress the power of the empress family.
At that time, Ma De naturally suffered a lot of bullying in the palace, like the second brother in front of him, he humiliated him more than once, and robbed him of a lot of things that belonged to him.
It's also thanks to Ma De's kind nature, otherwise he would have been distorted into an anti-social and anti-human pervert.
It was only because of this that he saw the indifference of the emperor's family and ran away from home.
After that, he became obsessed with puppetry, largely because of his childhood experience.
There are many people who wishfully believe that the emperor's guilt for the empress and Ma De, coupled with the political resources left by his grandfather's family, can come in handy in the struggle for the throne.
Prince Rhodes apparently thought so, and he had even taken this step into account when Mader had run away from home, and had been secretly monitoring his movements, intending to wait until such a critical moment to use him as a somewhat weighty hand.
And Ma De didn't expect that his brother's face could be so thick, and his heart was so dark, and he wanted to find himself back as a weight at this time.
He would definitely not go back stupidly, so he decisively refused:
"Thank you for your kindness, but as I said, I don't have the slightest interest in this kind of thing, and I won't go back with you."
"Please let me go!"
After hearing this, the prince of Rhodes on the opposite side put away the hypocrisy on his face, and his expression gradually became cold.
"It seems that you still don't understand your situation?"
"You shouldn't be naΓ―ve enough to think that someone is going to save you, do you?"
"By your ridiculous toys? Or is it the priest of that country sect? β
As the prince spoke, he kicked away the puppet beside him with a look of disgust, and then threatened with a fierce voice:
"Give up those unrealistic fantasies! You should understand your situation and identity, and if you don't want to suffer, just be obedient! β
As he spoke, he took out a small notebook from his bosom, turned one of the pages, and said:
"You've spent a lot of money to make friends with a priest from a small sect, a genius newcomer with a small reputation in the Orthodox Church, and you do have good prospects in the future..."
"Moreover, this small sect has a close relationship with the Divine Light Sect, and through this investment, you can not only build a genius in the religious world, but also take advantage of the relationship with the Divine Light Sect by the way, which is not a bad move."
"If you had taken this step earlier, maybe I wouldn't have done anything about you, but unfortunately, his movements are too slow, and everything is under my control, and your methods are childish and ridiculous in my eyes!"
After hearing this, Ma De did not get angry and angry, but just smiled bitterly and said:
"You've looked down on me since I was a child..."
"But this time, you may be really underestimating me."
As soon as he finished speaking, the two of them heard a man's voice from outside the carriage:
"Excuse me, my friend is in the car."
It was Gallo's voice.
Then, the voices of the two guards beside the prince:
"Sorry, you're in the wrong place, you don't have any friends here."
"Huh? No way? This little bird brought me here, and a letter..."
Gallo continued.
"If you say no, you don't have it, please leave quickly!"
The guards said impatiently, they didn't feel the slightest fluctuation of power in this young priest, they were just ordinary people.
So they don't bother to make a move, but they are also legendary-level powerhouses, and this pride is still there.
What's more, the City of Innocence is forbidden to enter the legendary-level city, and they also used potions and magic equipment to suppress the power fluctuations on their bodies before they mixed in, so if it is not very necessary, they don't want to make trouble.
They only slightly released some aura fluctuations on their bodies, trying to scare Gallo away.
If it is an ordinary person, as soon as he is affected by the legendary breath, he will be like Ma De before, his hands and feet will be weak and his whole body will tremble.
But Gallo was not affected in the slightest, and the other party's actions only made him more suspicious.
He hurriedly shouted into the carriage:
"Made, Made, are you there?"
"If you're kidnapped, blink!"
Hearing the movement outside the window, the face of the prince of Rhodes in the carriage suddenly became very ugly...
He really didn't expect that this younger brother, who had always been useless, could actually ask for help from the outside world under his nose?
Although such a rebellion is meaningless, his two subordinates can easily solve the matter.
It's just that Mader's out-of-control behavior made him very unhappy, as if he had been slapped twice...
So he lowered his voice and threatened:
"If you don't want something to happen to your friend, you should know what to do."
Mader nodded:
"Of course I know what to do..."
Then he suddenly raised his voice and shouted heartbreakingly:
"Master Gallo, help!!!!"
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I'm so sorry that I fell asleep in a chair last night with a write-and-write...
This chapter is 4K words.
There should be more tonight!