Chapter 9: Grimm (3)

The palace is resplendent with dark clouds in the sky, and the contrast is strong, as if the end is coming.

"There's a strong sense of final boss déjà vu, Bluebeard can't be the emperor, right?" Zhou Yu looked at the golden dome of the palace and asked.

"No, he's not the emperor, and he's not here, but we can't leave it alone, let's go and see it first." Green was reading again, and the flip was loud.

"Okay." Zhou Yu vented on the dwarf just now, and now he is in a good mood, it's time to enjoy the dream, as long as Green doesn't die, he doesn't die, he can always find a way to complete the task, anyway, the hint is to help Green, follow him, and help him all the way.

The two of them and a cat walked towards the palace.

There were no pedestrians in the streets, the doors and windows of every house were closed, and the whole city was silent, like a scene from a post-apocalyptic movie, but the curtains of some houses were lifted to reveal the faces of children, blinking with big eyes, looking at them curiously, and then being pulled back by the ears of adults.

The people in the city are still alive, just scared of something.

Without encountering any obstacles, they successfully reached the gate of the palace, and finally saw a person on the side of the road, it was a middle-aged man who hid his face and wept.

"What happened?" Green stepped forward and asked.

The man didn't expect anyone on the street, so he shook his shoulders and raised his head.

"This is a man with a story." Zhou Yu saw his face full of snot and tears, and felt that a big man crying like this must have experienced some great tragedy.

The middle-aged man wiped his face with his sleeve and whimpered: "The queen wants to kill the imperial chef's family, I ...... How will I live in the future, woo woo woo ......"

"The Imperial Chef can't live if he dies?" Zhou Yu began to wonder about the relationship between the two.

The middle-aged man talked for a while before he made things clear.

It turned out that he was the supplier of the imperial kitchen, and the new imperial kitchen would definitely have to change suppliers when he took office, and he had no source of income, so he would sit here and cry.

The cat in the boots pointed at Green and said: "Don't worry, this is the famous Marquis of Calaba, there are a hundred servants in the family alone, tell me why the queen killed the imperial chef, Lord Marquis can consider buying goods from you." ”

"Good! Deal! The supplier's eyes lit up - perhaps with tears in his eyes, and he swallowed his saliva and said in a deep voice, at a slow pace, "Once upon a time......

"Please get straight to the point and just talk about things related to the Imperial Kitchen." Zhou Yu interrupted the supplier, he was afraid that he would fall asleep.

"Oh......" The supplier thought for a while and said: "A few years ago, the prince kissed and woke up Sleeping Beauty, because of the relationship between the queen, the two got married secretly and gave birth to two children, the sister is called Chenxi, and the younger brother is called Sunshine, the prince did not dare to bring his wife and children home, until the king died a few months ago, the prince succeeded to the throne, and had power in his hands, so he took the sleeping beauty and the children back to the palace, and held a grand wedding, which lasted for three days! It's really a celebration for the whole country and a song ...... all over the world."

"Focus." Green also reminded him so that the supplier would not be intoxicated with his memories.

"Because of the queen's relationship, the prince doesn't dare to bring his wife and children home?" Zhou Yu thought of something terrible again.

The supplier continued: "Not long after the wedding, war broke out, prince...... No, now it's the king, the king himself led his troops out to fight the Emperor of Gondarabt and did not return all summer, no one expected, the emperor ...... The queen mother turned out to be a man-eating monster, and she took advantage of the king's absence, so she asked the imperial chef to make Xiao Chenxi lunch for her! ”

"Sleeping Beauty has such a plot unfolding?" Zhou Yu has completely forgotten the plot of this fairy tale, and only remembers the scene where the prince kisses and wakes up the sleeping beauty.

Green was not surprised at all by his calm face.

The supplier said foamingly: "The imperial chef couldn't bear to kill Xiao Chenxi, so he killed a lamb and pretended to be Xiao Chenxi for the Queen Mother to eat, the Queen Mother didn't notice it, she was very satisfied, but it didn't take long for her to want to eat Xiao Sunshine again......"

"Satisfied?" Zhou Yu frowned: "Didn't you say that you like to eat people?" Can't even tell the difference between human flesh and mutton? Could it be that the imperial chef is highly skilled and can make mutton like human meat? No, it's impossible to make it without tasting human flesh, and this imperial kitchen is not simple. ”

The supplier finished the matter in one breath: "...... The imperial kitchen couldn't bear it, and used lamb instead of little sunshine for the queen mother to eat, and finally the queen mother had to eat the queen, and the imperial kitchen used the deer to fool the past, and the three times were very successful, but last night, the queen mother stumbled upon the queen and the two children hidden by the imperial kitchen, and was furious, and arrested the queen, the little prince, the little princess, and the whole family of the imperial kitchen, and announced that they would be executed today, and they would be thrown into a large wooden barrel filled with poisonous snakes. ”

"This queen mother has a very strange idea, she likes to eat people, why don't she save the 'grain' and eat it slowly? Not to mention the waste, it also made the whole world know that he was a monster. Zhou Yu's brain hole couldn't be closed for a while: "Could it be that she is brewing some big conspiracy?" First vaccinate humans, get used to the fact that there are youkai, and then let the youkai coexist with humans? As a youkai, it's nice to watch the food walk all over the streets, but it's not good to reveal your identity, or the plan has been carried out to a certain extent, even if it is exposed, it doesn't matter. ”

The brain hole opened wider and wider, and it was about to twist into a Klein pot, but it was forcibly closed by Green's fear.

Green suddenly pulled out the short sword at his waist and shouted: "Rescue the queen's family and the imperial chef's family, the queen mother must die, let's go!" ”

Zhou Yu was excited, and hurriedly grabbed Green, and said, "Wait, break into the palace?" It's too messy, so let's make a plan of action first. ”

The guards of the palace, the heavily armed soldiers and the gnomes are not of the same level, and two people and a cat go to attack the palace, isn't this death? It's almost the same to call Gu Qi, Kenji Sakura and Miao Yi.

Green shook his head: "It's too late, it's almost noon, and the time for the execution is coming." ”

"No, you're mistaken." Zhou Yu's ring finger jumped frequently, pretending to be "It's okay, don't worry", his brain was overclocked, and if he couldn't find a good reason, Green would probably really go to the emperor.

After a few seconds, his eyes lit up and he said, "Actually, we are on the side of the Queen Mother." ”

"Why? The Queen Mother is obviously a monster. Green frowned.

"Because the Queen Mother is thinking about the overall situation." Zhou Yu said seriously: "The real sinners are the little princess Chenxi and the little prince Sunshine, and the queen mother should execute them." ”

"Are they sinners?" The-clad in the boots narrowed his eyes.

"Of course." Zhou Yu nodded: "The Queen Mother is a monster, the current king was born to the Queen Mother, and has monster blood, the little princess and the little prince were born to the current king, and there must be monster blood, before the old king died, the prince didn't dare to take the sleeping beauty and the two children back for some reason, and the two children have been in a free-range state, no one cares, and they have the instinct to eat people, so they let go and eat, and they can't quit." ”

"Little Dawn and Little Sunshine eat people?" The vendor was taken aback.

"Yes! Although the Queen Mother is a monster, she has been married to the former king for so many years, and nothing has ever happened in the kingdom, right? It's because she can restrain her cannibalism, why does she eat the little princess and the little prince when they come back, even at the expense of revealing her identity as a monster? It's because she knows that the little princess and the little prince can't stop eating people, and the royal kitchen ...... That's right, the imperial chef is the one who provides them with human flesh, and when they become princes and princesses, their every move is watched, and it is inconvenient to eat people, so they have to ask the imperial chef for help. Zhou Yu said this, squinting his eyes and looking at the supplier: "I am suddenly curious, where did the human flesh provided by the imperial chef come from?" ”

"No, no, no...... Not me! I only serve beef and venison! The supplier's forehead was covered with beads of sweat.

"I believe in you." Zhou Yu patted the supplier's shoulder to show comfort: "If you are a human flesh supplier, there will only be two situations, one is that you like to kill, and you have already killed a cold-blooded animal, and it is impossible to shed tears for some stinky money; The second is that you don't like to kill, but you are forced by the imperial kitchen, so you should be happy that the imperial kitchen is executed, and it is impossible to sit on the side of the road and cry, so I judge that you are innocent and lucky, and you were not used as feed for the little princess and the little prince when delivering the goods, the problem is that others will not believe you, it is better to run away before the matter involves you. ”

"That's right! Right! Gotta get out of here. "The supplier simply slipped away and disappeared.

"So, we are on the side of the Queen Mother." Zhou Yu looked at Green again.

"Makes sense." Green nodded, and the cat in the boots said coldly, "You reacted quickly." ”

Zhou Yu was glad for his wit, but his expression was still very serious: "The Queen Mother has revealed her identity as a monster, but Bluebeard is still hidden in the world, and no one knows his true face." ”

"Yes, Bluebeard must die." Green immediately turned around and walked out of the city.

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Leaving the city, they walked for a long time and came to a small town.

"Bluebeard's home is there." Standing on the main street, the cat in boots pointed to a villa building at the end of the street.

It was a beautiful three-storey villa.

"In the future, I will live in a mansion like this." Zhou Yu suddenly had a lofty ambition.

Green was reading again, and said in a cold voice: "Bluebeard's wives are all missing, in fact, they were all killed by him, and he has accumulated a lot of wealth because of this, and the bodies are all hidden in a small locked room in the villa. ”

"This is also a way to make a fortune, but it is easy to be targeted." Zhou Yu said secretly.

Green closed the book and said a little mechanically: "A month ago he got married again, yesterday the bride's relatives and friends came to visit their home, Bluebeard had something to do, so he gave the key to the house to the bride, and told her not to open the door of the small room, but the bride opened it curiously, and when she saw the corpse, she was so frightened that she dropped the key in a pool of blood, and the key was stained with blood and could not be wiped off, and Bluebeard found out and planned to kill the bride." ”

"This story is a logical accident." Zhou Yu said with a frown.