The sky is blue, the clouds in the distant sky are rolling, quiet like a painting, the clouds are three-dimensional and infinitely high, like a giant god statue, standing on the planet.

This is undoubtedly the excellent climate of the Imperial Capital Star, but at this moment, people have no time to appreciate such a beautiful scenery and climate, at this moment, on the other side of the galaxy in the distance, the war about the fate of the empire is like a sword of Damocles, hanging high above everyone's heads.

This is destined to be the beginning of the most difficult years.

At the castle of the Earl of the Riverside Star, a member of the House of Commons in the Xinglitian District of the Imperial Capital, Earl Lin Wei, who came back from County Street, got out of the car and was taken over by the housekeeper Donnahai. The suitcase was full of imperial jiàn brought back for processing, both electronic and paper. The empire has entered a state of war, and the Cabinet and the House of Parliament are fully engaged in this war.

This is a matter of life and death, a crisis from outside the sky, and an absolute force that changes the power structure of the empire with every fluctuation.

In the past, the various factions within the Congress, which crushed each other, all changed their will without exception in the face of this war, from gaining political influence to sparing no effort to devote their own forces to the battle against Sipon.

To put it bluntly, this is a new round of battlefield.

Whoever can keep this empire will be the greatest hero! Whether it's the oldest royal family, or the nobles of the round table with different hearts, or the cabinet that painstakingly wants to create a new ecology...... And now, Earl Lin Wei stood here, thinking of the information he had only gotten from the county street today, and the guidance of the war, he only felt that a turbulent era had arrived, and there was a kind of mood in his heart that stood on the sea cliff and looked at the tide from afar.

The uncertainty of the world situation of the Star Covenant and the invasion of the Sipang people have undoubtedly brought the greatest threat since the founding of the Great Eagle Empire. However, this is also the beginning of a new era, since the troubled times, a large number of bright and bright moon and morning stars can emerge, which is a big situation that the world has not experienced in the past thousand years! There is undoubtedly a sense of grandeur in being in it, and even the Count feels lucky and proud to have been born in such an era.

Think of the old earl Lin Lei back then, his unyielding will forcibly tore open the iron curtain of a lily round table family in peacetime. And Lin Wei felt that compared with his father, it was difficult to compare. However, the arrival of this war gave him the opportunity to forge honor! Every nobleman has a dream of chasing glory and a strong land in his heart. Such a dream appeared in the aristocratic families that once guarded the birth and rise of this empire.

It's just that the long period of peace and comfort has corroded the material conditions, which has made such dreams and beliefs dimmed, and their spears have been rusted because they have been lost for too long.

Earl Lin Wei can see that this war is slowly awakening these long-standing things step by step, which is the most fundamental belief buried in the hearts of every imperial person, and every family has a place in the empire back then! It was the age of true aristocracy, "sacrifice", "freedom", "piety", "protection of the weak populace and heroism against brutal enemies", "dignity", "glory", "dreams", these things that are now despised and once chased after by those glorious times!

is being awakened by the upheaval of the outside world! Because of this era, these things are needed! Without this, there would be only one way to perish in this kingdom!

Today's Lin family, compared with the usual, is very unusual.

Lin Wei was greeted by Donnahai and stepped into the lobby of the ancient castle. Donnahai grasped the doorknob, the electronic sensor activated, and the retro-style high-ceilinged carved bronze door pushed inside, like a curtain, pushing away the family members in various suits standing inside.

The solemn atmosphere is coming.

The first ones were the elders of the pillars of the family, such as Lin Jiang, Lin Yuanshan, Lin Nan, Lin Xiao, and Lin An, and their various faces and eyes gathered on Lin Wei's body. Behind them, there are three generations of descendants of children and nephews, Lin Wei, Lin Hao, Lin Delun, Lin Ke, Lin Ken and so on, without exception, they are all dressed in formal clothes, soft tweed suits and satin-like long skirts outline their figures straight and long, in such a dress and gathering environment, you can see their delicate and slightly tenacious brows that are vaguely similar to each other inherited from the Lin family's blood.

Some people are married, holding their beautiful and elegant other half, or relying on a man who is also dressed in formal clothes and has a calm face.

"Lin Wei!"

"Mr. Earl!"

"Uncle Lin Wei!"

In the face of Lin Wei's arrival, everyone gathered in the hall stepped aside.

Lin Wei nodded, looked around at everyone, and then turned his head and asked Donnahai, "What about Lin Hai?" ”

"He's in the castle's secretary's office......"

"Hmm," Lin Wei nodded, and then took the lead up the spiral staircase, "Let him come to the meeting hall on the third floor." ”

Lin Wei walked up the stairs, like some kind of ritual, all the family members in formal clothes behind him, followed by him, under the dense and compact footsteps in the castle, all the heavyweights of the family who had been waiting for the arrival of the head of the family for a long time gathered in the lobby, and rushed towards the meeting hall on the third floor.

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Lin Hai, under the guidance of Li An's notice, went to the meeting hall on the third floor of the castle.

The two stood in the doorway, pausing slightly.

Then Ang Lee pushed the door. The door slowly opened. I can clearly feel that all the people inside the door seem to be invisibly straight.

Ang Lee felt his heartbeat pound at this moment.

And Lin Hai beside him didn't seem to be aware of anything, he felt that how could this guy be so calm, how could he be so calm? In front of him are all the heavyweights of the Count of Riverside Star family of the House of Commons, including the elders with the highest seniority in each room, the core of the board of directors. These people are waiting for battle, and they are all dressed in formal clothes, which is called a majestic one. But at the same time, Li An also knew that the guy next to him was also a monster, playing formula races, killing the speaker, Lin Ziying was in danger, and he was a master of the black list...... Even his sister has become his right-hand man, and what happened to this guy is indeed not something that ordinary people can bear, so in the face of this situation, it is estimated that it is also pediatric.

The door was completely opened this time, and seeing those eyes that were looking over, Li An paused to breathe.

Lin Hai walked in.

"Lin Hai, come to my side." This is the voice of the Count. He's in the middle.

With his opening, all the people in the core of the Lin family at this moment spontaneously retreated to the side, cracked, and made way for a way.

In front of Lin Hai, the eyes around him were always focused on him.

Ang Li tried to see something from Lin Wei, who was dressed in a red dress, but she looked at Lin Hai demure and couldn't see anything.

Lin Hai stood beside the Count. Looking around, he knew the status of these people in front of him in the family, and he also knew that they were old nobles who professed orthodoxy. In the Empire, this is almost a representative of the roots, all the nobles of the Empire are like having a huge library of numbers in their brains, no matter how remote and unpopular those aristocratic families are like stars, as long as they report their names, they can immediately tell the ins and outs of your family. Aristocracy is aristocracy because they once had a source of glory and have always been proud of it.

This is the reason why Lin Hai's identity as an illegitimate child was despised in this world.

No matter which family you come from, the rules of the sacred nobility are the untouchable line, which is like the norm of the whole society, the bastard, the illegitimate son of the duke with the highest tree-like hierarchy, will feel ashamed and unable to raise his head in the face of even the orthodox heir of an earl family.

And now, Lin Hai came to Lin Wei's side, turned around, and faced the entire family.

"Now...... You can get started. The count's face was calm, and there was a complicated look in his eyes, and his tone seemed to be making some kind of ritual declaration.

Lin Wei stared at Lin Hai without blinking for a moment, her red pupils glowing in the depths, like a little girl, looking at a dusty stone, peeling off the outer skin in front of her, revealing the crystal nucleus inside.

"When Uncle Lin Lei was here, this guy was so arrogant, and he always wanted to replace him because of this unpleasant look over the years, but he didn't expect that he would still have to face his stinky fart today......" The corners of Lin Yuanshan's mouth showed a hint of self-deprecation, but when facing Lin Hai, he was solemn, in a typical old-school aristocratic tone, his left hand touched his chest, half bowed his body, and his slightly gray head was combed very neatly backwards, and he lowered it.

"I, Lin Yuanshan, take the title of Lord of Bordeaux as my hostage, and swear in the name of the King who bestows upon me the glory of the King—I offer my sincerest apologies and guilt for the arrogant attack I once inflicted on my nephew, Lin Hai, who was once centered on narrow personal self-interest, blinded by prejudice!"

His voice was slightly heavy, "I hope that I, an old guy who has lived for most of my life, will regret it belatedly, and it is not too late!" ”

The atmosphere fell silent at this moment.

All of them fell silent.

Li An on the side, even if he vaguely knew something, at this moment, he only had his mouth wide open. Lin Yuanshan, Lord of Bordeaux. The patriarch of the family, who lived by stubbornness and bigotry, once even wanted to take away the position of head of the family, was the representative of the diehards in the family. But at this moment, he swore an oath in the name of the honorary title and service to the king, and used the nobleman's harshest apology to apologize to Lin Hai.

Then, when everyone saw it, the corners of his mouth scratched and muttered, "Really...... It's been a long time since I've done that noble salute......"

Then he knelt on the knee of his right foot to the ground. Facing Lin Hai and half-kneeling, his head buried, the cane he had been holding resting on the ground, his hand reaching out, touching the ground, his posture made this qiē have a certain old and dignified weight.

"I, Lord Bordeaux, since the death of my last allegiance, I am willing to pledge all my life and will to the new heir before me! I will follow as a knight, love as a squire, my fate is closely related to you, and my sword lives and dies with you! ”

Pledge of allegiance! This is an ancient family allegiance ceremony! The last time Lin Yuanshan performed this salute, it was a few decades ago, as a teenager, he half-knelt in front of Lin Lei, the head of the Lin family at that time.

It is an oath, a promise to be kept by the orthodox aristocracy, as long as the oath of allegiance is sworn to, it becomes a part of it, a follower, is the most primitive, but also the most effective means of controlling the family, if such a ritual is performed on the loyalist, and the betrayer, will be spurned by the whole aristocratic world, because this is the embodiment of the true aristocratic spirit, it is the thing that has long disappeared from the former empire, but because it is already rare, it is highly valued. The oath of allegiance is only lifted after the death of the person to whom allegiance has been performed.

After the death of Lin Lei, the Earl of Riverside Star, a family elder like Lin Yuanshan has never performed this kind of follow-up ceremony to a second person, even Lin Wei, who is the current head of the family, because it means commitment and responsibility, and it means that the head of the family can no longer be taken away! Don't have a different heart. This is the law of the aristocracy.

And now, after that apology, the following ceremony has returned.

Before Lin Yuanshan's words fell, Lin Jiang on the side lowered his head and apologized, "As an elder of the family, I have repeatedly done a lot of dishonorable tricks to you because of your father's mistakes!" Looking back now, I am really ashamed of those ancestors who once shed blood and sweat for this family! What I have done is a disgrace to my family!"

"While we slandered and attacked you, you endured the indifference and hostility imposed by all the clans, participated in the equation, fought against Garnathan, and when the clan was in the most danger, it was you who took all the blows for the clan despite the white eyes and contempt of those who once became!"

"I, Lin Jiang, am not blind! It's not that you can't see it So after this qiē happened, I never realized what kind of narrow-mindedness I had and what kind of disgusting face I once had! When I woke up, I began to feel that I was hateful, and I began to be afraid, what kind of monsters our prejudice and arrogance had created! ”

"Yes, we're just a bunch of monsters! Externally weak and incompetent! Internally, we can't wait to oppress ****, for fear that you will take away your living space and resources! We are powerless to fight against the outside, so we can only shrink into each other's enemies, and we and our people were once brothers, but we are biting like mad dogs in order to get more material benefits...... What made us what we are? What makes us so cruel to our loved ones? ”

"It's sophistication, it's selfishness, it's human greed! It is our drifting conscience! ”

Lin Jiang said, his face was slightly distorted, his eyes were red, and his son Lin Delun wanted to come and help, but he pushed him away.

"And what's even more terrifying is that I'm only waking up now...... Without your presence, we would all fall into the abyss! This family will be full of holes and will no longer exist zài! Maybe all of us won't die well! How scary? ”

"Terrible, that's the kind of human heart! I'm afraid that in the end, I can't reverse the mentality! ”

"Fortunately, in our family, you are the one who understands! You have always known and watched our ridiculous performances all the time, you have pity, helplessness, and even bitterness, but you have been ignored by our arrogance and despised by our prejudices! It's ridiculous that we don't know in vain what a huge mistake we have made? ”

Boom! Lin Jiang also knelt down on one knee.

He said, "Even countless sorry can't make up for my mistakes." There is no way, my mood is difficult to appease, there is only one possibility, that is, I, Lin Jiang, from now on, I am also willing to use the rest of my life, my qiē, to follow and be loyal to you! Uncle allegiance to his nephew, this is not a joke, but the beginning of a journey, and one day in the future, future generations will remember our lost and returned, which is the dawn in the gloom and darkness of that time! May they forgive us our former sins! “

"I firmly believe that you will be the hope of the family! I, Sir Total, would like to dedicate the rest of my life to you! My fate is closely related to you, my sword is with you, life and death! ”

"Together, life and death are together!"

Lin Nan, Lin Xiao, and the top elders of the family, at this moment, all made a circle with Lin Hai and performed allegiance.

This scene made all the children behind them either take a step forward, or moved, or deeply shocked and wanted to help, but they all stopped this subconscious behavior.

*******

Then, Lin Delun knelt down on the right knee with Sir Father, "I, Lin Delun, the third generation descendant of the Xinglin family on the riverside, am willing to swear allegiance to Lin Hai in the name of the family's free will!" ”

This time it was Link who also knelt down, "I'm Link...... Swearing-in allegiance to Lin Hai ......"

Lin Hao knelt down, and Lin Ken half-knelt down in turn......

The third generation of heirs has been half-kneeling.

If you have a partner, bring your female or male companion and bow on one knee at the same time.

Only Lin Hai, standing here. In the slightly trembling gaze, there was a circle of people who half-knelt down.

Then, at the end of his gaze, Lin Wei Miaoman's posture swayed lightly, it was a red dress, she bowed slightly, the skirt hung to the ground, her two slender legs arched, and she knelt on her left knee and bowed to Lin Hai.

"Lin Wei, I am willing to follow Lin Hai with allegiance, my fate is closely related to you. My long sword, life and death with you! ”

Lin Hai's pupils reflected Lin Wei's thin face, and her flush seemed to be burning.

*******

In the face of this qiē, Lin Wei had a kind of blood of his own, flowing in the body of that young man, and he was burning with pride.

This is an opportunity for him, and it is also an opportunity for the family. Because in this, there is a son born of his bloodline, although it does not belong to orthodoxy, but his future path is so limitless, although he is the illegitimate son of himself and the beautiful Star Alliance outcast, although he was not valued by the family at the beginning, and was even rejected by the strict aristocratic laws of the empire, but as the youngest recipient of the Order of Bath in the empire, he is also the fastest officer to be promoted from a brigadier to a junior colonel after a difficult trial in a place like the Royal Young Knights...... As long as he thinks about it deeply, Lin Wei still has a sense of unreality that is hard to believe.

But this qiē did happen. Lin Wei's former family members who had doubted, even wavered in their beliefs, and emerged from their two hearts, Lin Yuanshan, Lin Jiang, and Lin Xiao, also began to shed those arrogance and prejudice in the crisis that the family had rescued from the quagmire again and again, and witnessed the process of sacrifice and rise, the ice in their hearts also began to be shaken, shattered, and melted, eliminating selfishness and selfishness, and restoring the sense of responsibility to unite the family for the unity.

The whole family is united like never before.

The fact that the Lin family was able to enter the House of Commons is inseparable from Lin Hai's contributions. If Lin Hai can do this, then what about himself fighting against the powerful round table nobles of the empire who once dared not offend because of the strict hierarchy of the nobles?

It was at this very moment.

Lin Wei and Lin Hai's eyes met.

Lin Wei thought that many years ago, he had neglected some of the most important things for the sake of ridiculous dignity and honor.

Now, let me abandon the useless things of dignity, honor and disgrace, and be what a father should do, so as to add some weight to your worries......

The next moment, Lin Wei's body moved back a small step, as if to brush away the dust in front of him, and then, he fell down, also kneeling on one knee.

"Count Linwei, Earl of the Riverside Star, in the name of free will...... I swear...... My life is thicker than your blood, and our destiny is closely related...... My sword will fight for you...... Until the end of life and death! ”

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A few days ago at the annual meeting in Shenzhen, to be honest, although I was tired, I saw a lot of friends I had never seen, leaders of this industry, editors, and authors, and I was happy and excited. I love my job, I love writing stories to you, thank you, you have the grilled fish, and I hope that in the future, we will still be together for a long time, and many years later, I will write stories for you again, and I can still touch you. Relatives or male companions, and bow on one knee at the same time.

Only Lin Hai, standing here. In the slightly trembling gaze, there was a circle of people who half-knelt down.

Then, at the end of his gaze, Lin Wei Miaoman's posture swayed lightly, it was a red dress, she bowed slightly, the skirt hung to the ground, her two slender legs arched, and she knelt on her left knee and bowed to Lin Hai.

"Lin Wei, I am willing to follow Lin Hai with allegiance, my fate is closely related to you. My long sword, life and death with you! ”

Lin Hai's pupils reflected Lin Wei's thin face, and her flush seemed to be burning.

*******

In the face of this qiē, Lin Wei had a kind of blood of his own, flowing in the body of that young man, and he was burning with pride.

This is an opportunity for him, and it is also an opportunity for the family. Because in this, there is a son born of his bloodline, although it does not belong to orthodoxy, but his future path is so limitless, although he is the illegitimate son of himself and the beautiful Star Alliance outcast, although he was not valued by the family at the beginning, and was even rejected by the strict aristocratic laws of the empire, but as the youngest recipient of the Order of Bath in the empire, he is also the fastest officer to be promoted from a brigadier to a junior colonel after a difficult trial in a place like the Royal Young Knights...... As long as he thinks about it deeply, Lin Wei still has a sense of unreality that is hard to believe.

But this qiē did happen. Lin Wei's former family members who had doubted, even wavered in their beliefs, and emerged from their two hearts, Lin Yuanshan, Lin Jiang, and Lin Xiao, also began to shed those arrogance and prejudice in the crisis that the family had rescued from the quagmire again and again, and witnessed the process of sacrifice and rise, the ice in their hearts also began to be shaken, shattered, and melted, eliminating selfishness and selfishness, and restoring the sense of responsibility to unite the family for the unity.

The whole family is united like never before.

The fact that the Lin family was able to enter the House of Commons is inseparable from Lin Hai's contributions. If Lin Hai can do this, then what about himself fighting against the powerful round table nobles of the empire who once dared not offend because of the strict hierarchy of the nobles?

It was at this very moment.

Lin Wei and Lin Hai's eyes met.

Lin Wei thought that many years ago, he had neglected some of the most important things for the sake of ridiculous dignity and honor.

Now, let me abandon the useless things of dignity, honor and disgrace, and be what a father should do, so as to add some weight to your worries......

The next moment, Lin Wei's body moved back a small step, as if to brush away the dust in front of him, and then, he fell down, also kneeling on one knee.

"Count Linwei, Earl of the Riverside Star, in the name of free will...... I swear...... My life is thicker than your blood, and our destiny is closely related...... My sword will fight for you...... Until the end of life and death! ”

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A few days ago at the annual meeting in Shenzhen, to be honest, although I was tired, I saw a lot of friends I had never seen, leaders of this industry, editors, and authors, and I was happy and excited. I love my job, I love writing stories to you, thank you, you have the grilled fish, and I hope that in the future, we will still be together for a long time, and many years later, I will write stories for you again, and I can still touch you.