September 4, 1025 in the steam calendar.

The Imperial Celestial Tower, the fifty-ninth floor, is the second of the three upper floors of the Celestial Tower.

A private banquet was also held on the floor of the emperor's residence, with only two people at a large square table. One is the emperor of the empire. And the other is Lance Flame Sifen who came from thousands of miles away.

There are only six simple dishes on the table, and the style is simple and there are no patterns of silver cutlery. Even the dining lamps were not sought after at aristocratic banquets, white rose essential oil candles and platinum lamps. Instead, electrically charged incandescent lamps and lampshades were used.

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The state banquet of the Empire is usually on the fifty-second floor.

It was a special hall for state banquets. The patterns of the monsters painted in gold and silver are lifelike, and the cutlery adopts a highly skilled hollow pattern. The tables and chairs are carved in jade. A place to entertain important ministers and diplomatic envoys for the Empire.

And now in this living floor full of home-style living style, all the simple style utensils seem simple, but every plate and spoon is the personal utensils of Emperor Saint Sauk.

Even the dishes on the table are said to be the result of the queen's hands (assisted by servants). His Majesty the Emperor rarely invites people to dine at his residence, which may only happen once in a few years. And Gun Flame Sifen was invited here, and he has always been in a state of flattery.

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St. Sauk, Authority, Jialong. Wiped his mouth with a napkin. said: "Sifen, your appetite is much smaller. ”

Si Fen said: "Thank you, Your Majesty, the minister is fine. ”

Jialong: "Hey, your two sons had an accident, and they are both fathers, so why don't I know." ”

Sifen: "Your Majesty, my family affairs are always a waste of Your Majesty's energy, and the ministers are afraid. ”

Jialong waved his hand and said, "Binghe is a smart child, and he likes it very much. Intentionally nurture him. But Lone couldn't have imagined that kind of accident. ”

Speaking of which, Jia Long took out a notebook. It was handed to Sifen. This notebook is the notebook that Bing Core once recorded. At the time of Bingnu's injuries at the train station, the personal belongings were sealed in a safe. With the disappearance of Bingnu, the Imperial Gendarmerie began to investigate, opening the safe. Eventually found this thing.

This book has a lot of information recorded, with a lot of strange mechanical diagrams, chemical equations. as well as chemical parameters. Of course, this book records a variety of law vein specifications.

Binghe used the Imperial Transcript in this book, as well as a variety of symbolic records. All the contents of the modification of one's own lineage are recorded in Chinese characters, and all operations are recorded in Arabic numerals, and the results are explained in pinyin. No one in the empire can understand it.

Of course, the imperial royal family still learned that Binghe was studying the law lineage through the details of the law lineage outlined in Binghe's small book, as well as the characteristics and summaries of each law lineage error. Note: A twelve- or thirteen-year-old kid studies all kinds of Dharma veins, which is a very unknowable thing.

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The Emperor's spy organization also investigated Binghe's search for the Pulse Technique (together with the Body Fixing Technique) in the Imperial Library

The agent made a basic inference. Binghe was studying the lineage, and he was very obsessed, but in general, there was no treason information, otherwise the emperor would not have invited Si Fen to have dinner together.

Of course, there are still some things in Binghe's notebook that are of great interest to the Imperial Intelligence Department, that is, on the morning of February 3, 1025 in the steam calendar, Binghe met two people in the novice machinery shop, and Binghe used a large paragraph in this notebook to explain that the lineage of those two people is very special. And also delineate the divisions of these lineages.

Almost immediately, the Imperial Intelligence Organization went to the Mercenary Association in the Imperial Capital and turned over the information inside. (The president of the Mercenary Guild wants to cry without tears.) ）

In the end, the director of the General Intelligence Administration, Xu Ling, determined that Binghe only met these two suspicious characters by chance, and did not deliberately interact.

The pages of the records of the description of the Dharma Lineage recorded in the Binghe notebook and related to the encounter with the Burning Sun and the Bright Moon are now torn out, but the Empire's intelligence organization is now following this clue to investigate.

At this time, the notebook handed over to Sifen by the emperor did not have these pages.

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Now at this family feast, the emperor is as peaceful as a father. Binghe's notebook was handed to Sifen, indicating that the Imperial Family had been diligent in investigating Binghe's disappearance over the past few months.

The royal family's emphasis on the Gun Flame family has always been the same. It's not like the rumors outside say, the royal family is planning anything.

The reason why Binghe's disappearance seems so strange is because Binghe's interests and hobbies seem to be different from normal nobles, so there are a lot of misunderstandings in it. His Majesty the Emperor hoped that Count Sifen would not have any psychological burden on the royal family.

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Earl Saffin's pages and pages of Bing's notes are like parents looking through their children's report cards.

Si Fen raised his head and said to the emperor: "Your Majesty, the inferior son has worried you, if I find him, I will completely pull out his stubborn tendons." Of course, whether Binghe is alive or dead outside now, Si Fen does not have any confidence, and these words at this time are just an expression of the loyalty of the subordinate nobles to the royal family.

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The Imperial Garden

A flat area on the outer periphery of the ranch.

Binghe, who was riding on horseback, shuddered for no reason.

Binghe checked the thickness of his clothes.

Now that autumn has arrived, the weather has become cooler with air currents from the northeast. The migratory birds in the sky are migrating.

Binghe opened the wooden box beside him and took out this pure steel crossbow arrow.

As a mechanic, no, as a mechanical controller, Bing He, picked up the crossbow in his hand, and inspected it according to the family's good habit of inspecting armament parts.

When Binghe's finger touched the crossbow, the fingertip tremor spread throughout the machine, and the mechanical tremor responded to Bingcore's finger. In this way, the state of each part is determined, and the weapon is operated by Bingnu.

Then Bing Nucleus switched some of the Dharma Lines.

Binghe activated the concentration technique, dynamic vision. Nerve activation, air separation, charge balance control (similar to electronic ignition).

An optical matrix appeared in the pupils of Bingnu, a marked pillar of light appeared directly in front of the eyes, and ripples of air flow appeared in the air around the fingers in the glowing spell light on the fingers. An optical distortion like hot air wrapped around the shaft of the arrow.

At this time, the arrow on the crossbow of the Binghe crossbow is a multi-prismatic pyramid, but the arrow feather is directly cut off by the Bingnu, but there are multiple holes drilled in the hollow arrow shaft.

Oxygen has been poured into the shaft of the arrow. Bing picked up the crossbow, pulled the trigger, and followed the crossbow arrow out of the chamber. As the electric current ignited, the arrowshaft flew out of the crossbow machine, and an extremely brief spark began on the shaft. The entire shaft of the arrow spun in the spray.

Note: The crossbow bolts of the Bing Core do not have a feather, and they are kept stable according to the spin.

The crossbow bolt flew a hundred meters in the sky, crossed a curved arc in the air, and directly hit a wild goose in the sky, and after this wild goose was hit, it just fell a few meters before it was caught by the falcon, glided for twenty seconds and fell. A few minutes later, the hound on the ground bit it, and the wild goose, which had been seriously injured but still moving, was sent to Binghe.

Judging from the fact that the new spells have just been activated at the same time, Binghe is biased towards the marksman class. But in reality, the shooter does not separate this new spell from the air in the body. Binghe's current legal lineage system is definitely evil in the eyes of the orthodox profession.

It's like killing pigs and playing the violin skills together. There is absolutely no profession that requires both skills that do not match at the same time. Only in some very special circumstances will two skills that are not compatible suddenly become useful. For example, kill a pig who likes to listen to the violin!

At this time, in this era of guns, hunting migratory birds with crossbow arrows belonged to the special situation of the old aristocracy chasing the ancient style.

At this time, the configuration of some mechanic spells and some archery spells is so capricious!

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Riding his horse, Binghe hooked the prey on the ground with his hook and tried to return to the side rest area.

The Imperial Garden (Viscount's second son) next to him rode a horse to Binghe's side.

Nuclear shooting is a manifestation of skillful use of multiple new spells at the same time, in the eyes of those who care about the Imperial Garden. The people of the Imperial Garden family only know the spells of the beast master department, and they don't know the situation of other middle-level professions, and the operation of Binghe shooting down the migratory birds in the sky makes the young masters of the Imperial Garden vaguely judge that Binghe is the target (the middle-guard profession promoted by the shooter. ）

After the horses were pulled by the Imperial Garden, he smiled aristocratic and said, "Mr. Ronggang, why don't you continue?" This is the only time of year when migratory birds fly over the place in flocks, and if you miss it, you will have to wait for the next year, so you should have fun today. ”

Binghe: "Three is enough, I have a habit, I do it to warm-blooded creatures, no more than three on odd days, and no more than four on even days." (The truth is that Binghe thinks three is enough.) ）

As he spoke, Bing Nu gently swung the reins with his hand, keeping the seated pony at a distance from the Imperial Gardener's mount.

Yuyuan suddenly used a little regret: "If Mr. Ronggang is willing to show his skills, then today's hunting meeting will definitely be very exciting." ”

Hearing this half-encouraging tone, Binghe undeniably gave a sentence: "Really? Then he shook his head and left tactfully.

Binghe said lazily in his heart: "It's not a competition, I can participate." You're not Saint Sauce. I'm idle and have nothing to do, going to your boring competition? ”

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It's been more than a month since Binghe came to the Yuyuan family.

As a bystander, Binghe has long seen that this family is not so harmonious. Under the harmony of the authority of the patriarch, the intrigue below is very serious. The sons of the Viscount of the Imperial Garden are all in charge of a piece of the family estate, and they are fighting with each other. The way to dump is to make trips between each other.

Before that, Binghe caused the death of several stags in the Bailin Swamp Ranch, and Qi Xuan suspected that this incident was caused by her own brother, so Qi Xuan did not hesitate to use cruel means to try to deter all the people in the family who might help her brother plot against her.

Such a family relationship made Binghe amazed. I couldn't help sighing: "The old aristocracy is idle, and the infighting is really serious." ”

Note: The Gun Flame family does not have this atmosphere of infighting, compared to agricultural production, the industrial production management class has to cooperate a lot, and each factory needs to provide each other with parts to provide data verification, and people in the world to engage in mutual infighting mode, which will not be able to do things.

The same is true in the 21st century, where the wolf nature of the workplace is emphasized, the workplace environment should be tilted against each other. In fact, the focus of the enterprise is not on technology.

Technology is about cooperation, solidarity and communication. Under the system evaluation to regulate competition, the interpersonal environment is not a gladiatorial arena.

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The factions of the sons and daughters under the viscount of the Imperial Garden family are brain-burning and ridiculous.

Binghe had to devote three points of attention to prevent himself from being involved. Now on the edge of the hunting ground, Binghe jumped off his horse and threw his prey to the hunting grounds' cook.

After a few minutes, the duck feathers are stripped off by the middle-aged maids in boiling water, smeared with a sweet sauce, stuffed with deodorizing herbs, and sent to the oven, where the ducks turn golden brown after half an hour of flame roasting with high-quality charcoal.

During this time, Binghe only needs to observe at the edge of the hunting ground.

The daily activities of the Misono family are a very interesting observation project for Gunfire Bingnu

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The busy heirs of the Mien family are holding a hunting meeting at this time.

Hunting Club, as the name suggests. A meeting of friendship in the name of hunting.

With the noise at the gates of the hunting grounds. A group of well-dressed men rode into the hunting grounds, with a humble demeanor and deliberate salutes, imitating the etiquette of high society.

In fact, as Binghe saw in the empire, those noble children who were born into wealthy families would never be so rigid.

For example, Kajette and Coffey just do aristocratic moves to show elegance when they are most suitable. They don't make every move that conforms to the norms of aristocratic etiquette, but when they make aristocratic etiquette in conversation, it's the most appropriate time. So it's very smooth and natural.

Narrator: If the children of the great nobles feel that the elegance and reserve of being around someone is useless. Ahem, that's going to be ————

For example, Liyun is not a noble lady who does not show much in front of Binghe. Among the upper-class ladies in the imperial capital, Binghe has the aura of being unladylike.

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Those who tried to imitate the manners of the upper class were the local nobles, wealthy merchants, and their children.

They were invited by the Gyoen family to participate in the hunting party. Now one by one, they are holding the invitations and passing through the doormen of the Imperial Garden family.

And these local celebrities brought this gorgeously dressed teenager and girl into the hunting ground, gathered in a cluster, a cluster, and began to communicate with each other.

Binghe observed the group with a rather curious attitude. In Binghe's impression, his family does not seem to have engaged in this kind of friendship with local wealthy businessmen.

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In fact, this kind of 'friendship' gun flame family is held every year, but it will not be at this kind of meeting in the family manor, Binghe was very stupid when he was young, and no one told Binghe about this kind of family-operated activities.

The Gunflame House would have done a similar party in a conference building in the city, but Count Sfen would not be present at the meeting. Instead, a mechanical controller represents the Gun Flame family and informs the wealthy merchants in the territory of the Gunflame about something.

The meeting between the Gunflame family and the wealthy merchants in the territory was to talk about the supply of some raw materials, as well as the road traffic planning in the territory, so that the merchants in the territory should pay for the construction of roads and roads, and should purchase certain raw materials, and buy them in advance as soon as possible.

And what about the current hunting meeting of the Mien family? In essence, it is to make the merchants of the territory pay money, which can be said to be protection money. Now these wealthy merchants who have arrived at the hunting ground of the Imperial Garden family have come to contact each other with rich gift money.

For these wealthy merchants, it was a necessary investment to spend a lot of money and squeeze into this local aristocratic circle.

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On the edge of the hunting grounds

Bing He borrowed a small bench from the cook, sat down, and watched with great interest the performance of these rich merchants and their children in the hunting grounds. At the same time, I couldn't help but pick up my own small notebook to take notes.

Seeing the children of those nobles and wealthy businessmen talking eloquently in the face of such an occasion, Binghe looked at these young people who were not much older than himself with admiration.

Binghe looked at the smooth communication between these teenagers and girls, and couldn't help but sigh: "Amazing, no stage fright." Thinking about my days in the Celestial Tower, hey, it was really clumsy,"

Binghe couldn't help but be reminded of his previous memories,

Binghe found that the conversation between him and Khajit had been dominated by Khajit, and when he was satisfied with the promise of Ginghe in the topic, Binghe himself could say his request. There is also the exchange between Kofi, Bolun Voyage, and Liyun, which is almost like this.

Binghe suddenly found that in the aristocratic circle, a place that requires the eloquence of politicians, he was such a failure.

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After many young heroes met each other and boasted about each other's business.

They began to pick their horses

Then the boys and girls drove their horses and consciously lined up in front of an open field.

The housekeeper of the Imperial Garden family walked to the center of the field and solemnly announced the rules of the hunt: "Thirty arrows per person, until the shooting is finished, the number and weight of each person's prey will be counted at the end." And the winner of the result will be linked to xx. (What exactly is the linkage, Binghe didn't hear it clearly, and he didn't care, judging from the expressions of the rich businessmen, it was nothing more than interests.) ）

After the steward waved the flag, the hunt began.

The crossbow held by the young man in the field worked hard to wind it to the strongest. Then shoot at migratory birds in the air. With the crossbow arrows shooting towards the sky, the birds in the sky began to fly around in panic.

The children of these wealthy merchants who were present had obviously also practiced archery, but the crossbow arrows in their hands were not rifles, and the crossbow arrows were very easy to deviate in strong winds. Most of the people here are far away from the profession. Only some of them have reached the threshold for the next profession. But even then, it can only be achieved with one out of three shots at most.

However, this was already very good, and several young people who had performed well quickly obtained the qualification to stand next to the young ladies of the Imperial Garden family. In this social environment, Qixuan was like the princess of the imperial capital at this time.

Everything is caused by the difference in status, and the daughter of a viscount must be treated as a princess among the children of the small nobles of a baron, a lord, and a wealthy merchant family.

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However, the rich businessman boy that Binghe saw behaved appropriately in his words and deeds in the identity of the gap. The ego began to be ashamed and annoyed

"Meet the prince before the trial" and "Face the emperor at the end of the trial", in these two scenes, Binghe's incoherent and inconsistent sentences are embarrassing, and now they begin to remind how inferior Binghe was at that time.

Well, there is no harm without comparison, Binghe couldn't help but stomp his foot at the thought of these unhappy things, trying to drive away the bad memories.

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In the hunting grounds

"Miss Qixuan, today's demeanor makes me feel the blue wind (music) of Luo Gadi (the bard of this world) blowing in my ears" A young man, trying to show his talents.

And Qi Xuan nodded slightly, maintaining a cold expression without any big lake. Frustrated the local elites' plans to start a conversation.

At this time, this kind of social interaction makes Qixuan very bored at this time. Literature, art, these topics are discussed around every year.

Because of these topics, it is considered to be in line with the aristocratic temperament. Of course, because of her aristocratic status, Qixuan can't openly express her boredom with these topics. I can only helplessly keep cold and deal with it.

"The princesses of the imperial capital, how did they get into these social scenes?" Qi Xuan thought wildly.

In the midst of boredom, she suddenly thought of the melted steel she had found.

She vaguely remembered, "In this hunting venue, Ronggang was invited to be there, but what about the people now? ”

Qi Xuan's searching gaze looked around.

However, after looking around, I soon saw Binghe again. I saw that I was alone on the edge of the venue, looking down at the ground, stomping my feet suddenly, and my leather boots trampling on the poor turf. It's really—it's so cute.

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The activities of the hunting ground, in the perspective of Bing's nuclear observation, ended tepidly.

The children of several wealthy merchants won this hunting competition.

So the applause of the people in the hunt congratulating the winner is very neat and very hypocritical. There was no surprise or surprise on the faces of the petty nobles and wealthy merchants present. Obviously, the winner is a matter of course. None of the four young men were dark horses.

The four young men fell down on one knee to accept the Viscount's encouragement and the other rich merchants' insincere compliments.

Let Binghe analyze: These four winners are already well-known in the local area for a long time.

Even the family behind them has been established in the local area for many generations. It belongs to the local noble clan and assists the Goen family to control the local area for several generations. There is even a marriage relationship between them. Of course, the Imperial Garden family and these small families are generally the sons and daughters of the concubine who go out to marry.

Binghe, who was standing on the edge of the field and gnawing on the roast duck legs, looked at this situation, and couldn't help but sigh: "In this world, it is not easy for a family to strive for success." ”

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Trying to prove one's abilities in war, and chasing noble women to gain the ladder, are both essential for small families to enter high society.

Binghe has a vague knowledge of some black history about the arduous ascension process of his Gun Flame family back then.

Nine hundred years ago, the Gun Flame Family was the Qingjun family that served the east. Obtained the Mechanic Inheritance, which was not very important at the time. The most important inheritance in the first few hundred years of the Steam Calendar was still the knight inheritance, and the important knight inheritance at that time, which was guarded to death by the old aristocratic families, was impossible to pass on. Only unimportant professions have the possibility of being spread. The Gun Flame family was inherited at that time.

Of course, now with the rise of the Industrial Revolution, the mechanical controller profession, as an important median professional inheritance, is also guarded to death. There is no possibility of any spreading.

Back then, the ancestor of the Gun Flame family, in the battle of the Saint Sauk family, actively applied some of the mechanical skills passed down by the Qingjun family to the war, which led to today's title.

And the entry of the Gun Flame family into the aristocratic circle, Qingjun plays an important role as a medium. The Gun Flame family seems to have an important marriage relationship with Qingjun until now.

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The wonderful young people around Qixuan and her sister are busy offering their courtesies, while the Imperial Garden is surrounded by warblers and swallows.

Binghe, who was at the edge of the field, began to take the remaining duck bones and tease the dogs who had been drooling for a long time.