Chapter Ninety-Six: The Struggle for the Throne
This is an elegant Chinese-style courtyard, full of antique and Suzhou garden style.
It's just that it doesn't match the dusty air and rusty sky, and if it is a pleasant scenery of green mountains and green waters, it will be so good.
On the vermilion lacquer gate, there is a purple plaque with two red gold characters on it. I didn't expect Zhang Yue's mansion to be really a humble house, it seems that this is not a humble word.
On either side of the plaque are four large red lanterns, and under the neat red beams of the eaves stand two heavily armed guards, dressed in bronze armor and holding a six-barreled rotary machine gun, like a miniature version of the "Frost Mecha" double-armed machine gun.
When they came to the door, they realized that there was more than one door. Rather, there are three doors that are not neatly arranged, which makes people wonder if they need to be guarded against thieves. How do they know that there is still feng shui in China?
Walking into the humble house, outside the carved and painted corridor, there are "Frost Mecha" and "Gluttonous Devouring Machine", the two mecha have been carefully cleaned, and they look brand new and shining.
What makes people puzzled is how to make two tall mechs pass through these narrow porches and park them in the courtyard.
This place is called the Humble House, but in fact it is not simple at all, and it is plastered with gold and silver everywhere, and it is a rich and luxurious scene.
The gorgeously dressed maid, under Zhang Yue's instructions, found a comfortable room for the warden.
After arranging for the warden to rest, everyone came to the Ming Hall to sit down.
Frankimir noticed that the table clock in the Ming Hall was past five o'clock in the afternoon, and it seemed that the day's time had been wasted.
Zhang Yue instructed his subordinates to arrange a few good dishes, and at this time, Franky Mill was very interested, admiring this antique traditional Chinese room.
Frank Miir didn't know what Zheng Banqiao's bamboo, Xu Beihong's horse, Tang Bohu's beauty, Zhu Zhishan's fan, Qin Taixu's couplet, and Yan Qingchen's fateh. It's just that it looks very pleasing to the eye, which is very in line with the Chinese impression in his heart.
In addition to these elegant literary and ink styles, there are also dozens of astronomical clocks of all sizes in the Ming Hall, and it seems that Zhang Yue is a woman who likes to collect clocks and watches.
Frankimir also noticed that there was also a strange small steam engine on the table of the Eight Immortals with a fan top. This steam engine is beautifully structured, and the parts are very smooth, but it is not known what this little thing is used for.
Frankimir looked around the room, trying to find answers from the others.
He noticed that Kafka seemed to be fiddling with something in his hands. It was like a worm, I don't know where he got such a disgusting thing.
At this moment, two elderly men hurriedly ran into the Ming Hall and came to Zhang Yue with panicked expressions.
"Your Royal Highness Princess, the old minister has been looking for you for a day." One of the thin old men said eagerly.
"What is the matter with Lord An looking for me?" Zhang Yue asked puzzled.
This Lord An did not answer Zhang Yue immediately, but just looked curiously at the strange guys in front of him who came from nowhere, wearing filter masks.
"I have something important to discuss with the princess, and I hope that the princess will retreat." Another slightly blessed old man said.
"Lord Lin said that it doesn't matter, there are no outsiders here, there is no need to avoid anything, they are all friends I invited. By the way, you can take off your gas masks, this place is much stronger than the outside, and you don't have to worry about getting tuberculosis. Zhang Yue said.
Hearing Zhang Yue say this, everyone present took off their gas masks one after another. To be honest, this thing is really uncomfortable to wear on the face, if it is not for the fear of dust in the air, which may lead to respiratory diseases, they don't think of wearing such a hindrance thing.
Lord Lin and Lord An glanced at each other, hesitated for a moment, and then said to Zhang Yue: "Your Royal Highness Princess, last night, General Shen Yong, defeated seven masters in a row, the old prince praised him very much, which is extremely unfavorable to us, so I rushed to discuss with the princess, and now it is only five days before the day of the duel, I don't know if the princess has found her son-in-law (the king of the northeast, who calls himself the king of heaven, positions his daughter as a heavenly daughter, and the son-in-law naturally becomes a son-in-law. )? ”
"Looks like we're going to have to find another way." Zhang Yue shook his head gently.
"Ahh However, in this world, who is more suitable than a son-in-law. Ann-sama asked.
"I don't know, but now we have new helpers, and I've seen them defeat monsters that are twenty meters high."
"You're right...... But they? The two officials, looking at the three men and two women in front of them, except for Frank Mire, the others did not look like people with great ability.
"Yes, it's them, maybe they can help us." Zhang Yue nodded.
Everyone looked at Zhang Yue with puzzled expressions, not knowing what they were talking about.
Kafka asked bluntly: "Your Royal Highness, I don't know what is going on?" ”
He was very good at observing words and feelings, so he immediately changed his name, and he didn't dare to call Zhang Yue by his name. He knew that in other people's acres and threes of land, if he was disrespectful to their princess, he would definitely have no good fruit to eat.
"It's not a secret, it's all because of the succession of the king of the Northeast." Zhang Yue sighed lightly and said.
"The question of heirs, since ancient times, has been a very troublesome matter wherever you are." Kafka shook his head with a look of embarrassment, as if this was his business.
"My father didn't have a son, so I had to choose between me and my sister. But we have never had a tradition of having a woman inherit the throne. Borrowing from some Western countries, we can only do this nowadays. My father originally intended for me to succeed as the king of the Northeast, according to the order of the eldest and youngest, which was very reasonable. It's just a pity that I'm not a belligerent person, I don't like to fight and kill all day long, I just want to live a peaceful life. My father had noticed this a long time ago, and he was very worried about it, because if his character of mine was a hundred years later, his ambition to be the king of the Promised Land would be ruined in my hands. In contrast, her competitive sister, who has been competitive since childhood, has a personality that is more like her father, so her father once thought of letting her sister succeed her as the king of the Northeast. So a month ago, after my father consulted with the tribal chiefs, he decided to decide through a duel who would succeed my sister and I as the king of the Northeast. Zhang Yue shook her head as she spoke.
"Oh! So that's what happened. Kafka nodded.
Kafka was about to say something, but he heard Lord Lin suddenly say: "The eldest princess didn't want to see flesh and blood cannibalism, and was willing to give up this northeast king to the little princess." But this matter will not be easily stopped, the eldest princess's nurse is the granddaughter of the sister of the Queen Mother of the West, and there are many conservative ministers in the palace, who will never agree to this kind of practice of abolishing the elder and the young, and the eldest and the young are out of order. On the surface, this is just a family affair of the old prince's family, but it is obvious that the future ownership of the throne is related to their respective interests, so they will never accept such a result easily. Not only that, the little princess is a strong and willful woman, her personality is the same as that of the old prince, under the instigation of her retainers, she has wanted to harm the eldest princess more than once, so this matter will never be easily stopped. For them, the legitimate heirs of the king of the Northeast do not need to have two, only one is enough. ”
"I seem to get it! That is to say, this is not only to compete for the throne, but also to protect oneself, if that little princess wins the throne, our princess Her Royal Highness may not be able to protect her life, don't you mean that? ”
"That's exactly what you can say." Lord Lin said in a serious tone.
"You want that Blok to help you, you can rest assured that we are here now, and we will be foolproof. Just wait and see how we help you win. In the end, let you, the noble eldest princess, become the successor of the King of the Northeast. Kafka's words were not small, and he didn't have any score in his heart.
But in front of the three beauties, how can they put on a cowardly look, naturally they have to show a bold general demeanor, maybe one day they can really be an invincible general.
Thinking of these Kafka's heart, I can't say how comfortable I am.
"You say yes! Frankimir, we're not the kind of people who don't save or help when they die. Before he could finish speaking, Kafka suddenly said to Frankimir, this is the first time Kafka has officially called out Frankimir's name.
Kafka was not a fool, and the experience of the Gulag and Moore Manor made him realize that this KGB secret police had better skills and abilities than himself.
Although Kafka was disgusted with Frank Mill, at such times, experience taught him that he could not help but give this guy a little bit. No matter what danger you encounter here, you can't go wrong by giving this guy a little bit.
When Frankimir heard this, he was angry. The purpose of his coming to the Twin Cities was just to find Zhukov and find out the truth that he had been framed out of thin air. Naturally, the more low-key and the less people attract attention, the better.
This kind of heir dispute, people with a little political common sense know that it is a thing that should be hidden as far away as possible, but I didn't expect that there would be a guy who stuck it upside down.
It's a pity that now in front of so many people, Kafka has talked to this point. If you don't nod your head and agree, it will inevitably seem that you are not enough of a man. He had no other choice, so he nodded helplessly, smiling and promised, but he couldn't stop scolding in his heart.
Frankie Mill thought to himself that sooner or later, he would have to cut ten catties of meat from this dead fat pig in order to relieve his hatred. It seems that this guy was born to do it against himself.
(Since this chapter, in order to ensure the flow of the story and blur the concept of different languages, each character has its own body language skills and comes with a translation artifact.) )