To be honest, Rebecca was really bad at this kind of thing, and even if Gawain had explained it to her, she only knew a little about it - but she did understand one thing, and that was that her ancestors didn't seem to have a good opinion of the current King Francis II.

"It's not hostile yet, but vigilance is absolutely necessary," Gawain replied casually when he heard Rebecca's question, he glanced at Amber standing next to him, but still said generously, "Second Dynasty, don't forget that it is now the 'Second Dynasty', for a royal family that is not very justified in itself, the Cecil family can be said to be the founding heroes, but it can also be said to be ...... The people of the previous dynasty. Even if we don't have this heart, Francis II, as king, has to have this concern, and his concern determines my vigilance. ”

"So you're going to trouble His Majesty?" Rebecca asked, blinking.

"No, I don't really want to trouble him," Gawain shrugged, "I'm just doing something." ”

Rebecca: "Huh?! ”

Gao Wen really couldn't explain this problem to Rebecca, so he directly changed the topic: "Forget it, these are not important, let's continue the topic just now." Amber ......"

Amber didn't wait for the command and took the initiative to raise her hands to show her understanding: "I know, I know, go outside and keep guard, right-hey, toil......"

"No," Gawain raised an eyebrow, "I mean you can stay around - if you're bored, you can go back to your room and rest, you'll be tired tonight, right?" ”

Amber looked at Gawain incredulously: "Hey, are you suddenly so kind?" ”

Then she shook her head and moved to the desk: "I'm not going back, I want to see what you two are going to do...... Anyway, it can't really be a share of inheritance, right? ”

Gawain shook his head, ignoring the half-elf, and instead placed the platinum disc on the table again.

"You just said this is a key," Rebecca remembered what Gawain hadn't finished just now, "Is it our family's secret treasure?" ”

Amber immediately pricked up her ears, but she deliberately looked around, as much as she wanted.

Gawain smiled: "It is indeed a treasure, it is a hidden treasure trove located on the southern border, but it was originally prepared for the Ansu Kingdom. Of course, that shouldn't be a huge fortune for the kingdom today—but for the pioneers who had just fled to the land, it was half the property of the expeditionary force. ”

Rebecca's eyes widened.

"It was originally a double insurance for the Ansu Kingdom, after all, in those days, no one knew what would happen the next day," Gawain smiled, saying the true purpose of this trip to the royal capital, "The pioneer team fled all the way north from the Gondor wasteland, and we moved while collecting and gathering the surviving remnants of the wasteland, and at the same time collecting various resources, so the team became larger, bloated, and more eye-catching, and as a result, when we crossed the dark mountains, an army of monsters wandering out of the wasteland found our traces. The army covered the movement of civilians in the mountains, and of course they could not keep up with the monsters that never sleeped, so a fierce battle ensued. The losses in that battle were huge, and when we counted the losses after the battle, Charlie and I realized one thing: those monsters were not going to rest on their laurels, and if they continued to carry all their baggage over the mountains and forests, the whole team would probably die on the way, so we made a decision......

"We left some of the baggage that would have slowed down the team, hidden in the depths of an abandoned border fortress, and placed a powerful seal on the treasure vault, and then the team drove lightly and continued north.

"And then you know the history - the pioneer party established a foothold in the north and established a new kingdom center between the plains of the Whitsunday and the mountains of the north, and Charles I built a city in the Sunil region, but the supplies in the south ...... But he was still lying there. ”

Rebecca asked curiously, "Why didn't you get them back?" ”

"Initially, it was because of the instability and the high cost," Gawain explained, "and the pollution was still spreading, and the monsters even spread the corruption to the north side of the Dark Mountains for a while, so the place where we left the baggage became a polluted area, and it was not wise to send a team to pick up the goods there." And more importantly, we have found abundant resources among the mountains in the north of the kingdom, and the plains of the Holy Spirit have begun to produce a steady stream of wealth, and it will not be long before these new riches will exceed the little supplies left in the south, and the treasures in the southern mountains are slowly being forgotten. ”

Rebecca looked at the platinum disc in Gawain's hand, "But it doesn't seem to be completely forgotten......"

"Yes, of course, the Pioneer remembers where he hid his treasure, and although that fortune will seem less and less important for the foreseeable future, it is the epic Pioneer after all." Remembrance', and we thought that the tide would eventually subside naturally, and that future generations would one day be able to safely retrieve those things, so I made a pact with Charlie that the two of us would keep the secret, and that we would pass on the story of the treasures of the South from generation to generation, and that the heirs of the Cecil and Moen would know all this, and if one day the tide subsided, and the kingdom needed the property, we would take them out. Think about it, the ancient secrets that have been passed down for hundreds of years, the treasure trove passed down from generation to generation between the royal family and the founding nobles, the inheritance hidden in the mountains, and a token is needed to open - anyway, Charlie, the old middle two, thinks it will be cool. ”

Amber looked Gawain up and down: "It's the decision you two made after you two drank high, right?" ”

Gawain: "...... Pretty much so. ”

Rebecca looked at her ancestor in a daze, and then said, "But I, the heir of Cecil, have never heard this story......

"The inheritance of this method is always prone to problems," Gawain sighed, "He died relatively suddenly, and he didn't have time to explain it to his descendants......

Rebecca: "......"

"But Charlie's side seems to be doing a good job of passing on the secret to his children and grandchildren," Gawain broke the embarrassment with a dry cough and raised the platinum disc in his hand, "I'm here to make sure the key is still there—and if it's still there, it means that the Ansu royal family hasn't taken that property for the past seven hundred years." Charlie knew the secret, and so did his children and grandchildren, but the bastards didn't. ”

In 635-636, a civil strife destroyed the royal lineage, the king did not have time to leave an heir, and several of the king's brothers and sisters died in the civil war......

Even if the bastard was real, there was no way he would know the secrets of the Southern Treasury.

"Those things ......" Rebecca looked at "Key" with glittering eyes, but then frowned, "But can we really use them as we please?" That's ......."

Gawain glanced at the N+1 layer great-granddaughter: "Of course you can, you are the heir of the Cecil family, show some self-confidence." I buried those things with Charlie, and besides Charlie himself, is there a better place in the world to inherit that property than me? I don't believe Charlie can jump out of a coffin like me......"

Rebecca thought for a moment, and suddenly turned her head and grabbed Amber's arm hard: "You must not dig the imperial tomb!" ”

Amber: "...... What? ”

Immediately after that, the half-elf lady suddenly became excited, and stared at Gawain with a nervous face: "Wait! I...... I listened to such a confidential thing...... You don't really plan to take advantage of this opportunity to kill me, do you? ”

Gao Wen really wanted to slap her on the wall with a sword at this time: "If I want to kill you, do I have to wait until now?" ”

The nervousness on Amber's face didn't go down at all: "Then wouldn't it be ...... for me to hear these things that you two talked about?"

"First, I still trust you a lot, and second, I know you're actually a smart person," Gao Wen raised the disc in his hand, "The only bold idea you can come up with is to steal this disc, but this disc can only be activated by the blood of the Moen family or the Cecil family, and it is difficult to say whether the bloodline of the Moen family really survives in the world, so obviously, if you want to make some gains, you can only ......"

Amber took a step forward, raised her head and said sternly: "It is a great honor to serve the founding heroes, and I, Amber, will do my best to be loyal to my duty - what is there to talk about such an epic thing?" ”

"Then I really won't talk to you about money......"

"Of course, if you have to talk to me about money, then I can't help it."

It was the first time that Gawain had seen a person who could be shameless and at the same time righteous and strict to such an extent......

In the second half of the night, there were no more visitors.

Gawain's row of rat traps and nails on the windowsill of his study didn't come in handy.

Although these things are not very useful to the unscientific Shadow Stalkers......

On the second day, Gawain and his party arrived at Silver Castle.

It was still yesterday's court official who was in charge of the reception, and Francis II reproduced yesterday's grand welcome once - the face work can be said to be very sufficient.

And this time, two teams of heralds also rode out of the Silver Castle to tour the two main roads on the outskirts of the Royal District, and used amplification magic to convey the news that "Gawain Cecil, the founding duke of Ansu, is about to enter the Silver Castle".

It seems that the Prince of Edmund had done a good job of communicating Gawain's wishes to his father, and Francis II had done a good job in front of outsiders.

I just don't know how the shadow guard will return after he goes back - this should be easy to judge after seeing the face of Francis II.

After arranging his grooming outfit and making sure that the Pioneer Sword at his waist was in the most prominent position, Gawain strode into the Silver Castle.