Ladislaus walked along the way and saw his garden full of strawberries and blueberries planted by the chefs, and maybe some mulberries.

Berries are one of the most valuable agricultural products, and many "backbone" and "elite" grade nutrients can be used to improve the quality of some berries.

And some of the berry variants, such as the half-blue and half-red mulberries that Ladislaus just saw, combined with other raw materials, can even make several "protector" nutrients, which can maintain the physical condition of the "protector" samurai, or give the "core" samurai a greater chance to upgrade.

However, even by the standards of "national protection" nutrients, this is a very rare and uneconomical production process, because the yield of berries has always been very low, and the variants in it are extremely rare.

Because berries are not an economical source of nutrients, humans would otherwise be eating Rosaceae instead of grasses.

Growing berries is the most labor-intensive agricultural product.

Ladislaus never checked the kitchen ledgers, he only focused on the total consumption of the palace each year, and did not allow overspending, and then left all the problems of the ledger to the female chief Margarita.

However, Ladislaus did not trust the chefs, and even if he did not check the accounts, Ladislaus knew that these berries would never be supplied to his court for free just because they were planted in the back of his kitchen.

Even if the head steward of Margarita and the female chef were by no means friends, it was impossible to squeeze all the extra money out of the chefs, because in addition to half of the berries that would be handed over to the public as an explanation on the scene, more than half of the berries were used by the female chef to manage her connections in the court, and the remaining small part was the welfare of the chefs.

There were many people in the court who coveted this profit, but whatever they calculated, the female chef had little to no personal interest in the berry business. Of course, she still has her own share of management compensation, but with such a small benefit, it is not worth fighting.

So if the Margarita lady doesn't want to be the target of the public, then she can only accept her own share of the berries, close one eye, and let things run smoothly.

To be fair, of course. Growing berries is tiring work, such a small garden has exhausted most of the chefs' spare time, and the dishes are unpalatable, according to the highest to nitpicky court standards, and it takes a lot of time.

However, for the chefs, it was only a matter of ten minutes to walk back and forth, and Ladislaus went to walk inside for hours.

As he walked farther and farther, his surroundings became more and more humid. The light is also getting dimmer.

Towering and dense vegetation blocks out the sun.

The garden seems to have become a rainforest.

And along the way, there are more and more uncommon and beautiful berries.

Ladislaus had walked a long way, tired and thirsty, but he did not dare to eat them, because he knew that many of these berries were poisonous.

To make matters worse, there was something else testing him besides the berries that he couldn't eat.

Ladislaus felt his toes go numb. At first he thought it was a normal reaction to walk for a long time, but the next moment. He realized that only one foot was numb.

The last time he was here, the druid had reminded him that something was sucking his blood, and that he couldn't remember the name of the bug.

Warlocks are like that.

I thought it was a numb foot, but when I remembered the appearance of the worm, I thought it was pumping its own blood between its toes. The handsome warlock is a little weak.

Ladislaus hurriedly tried to find a place to sit down, and then poured out the bug called something, but as soon as he sat down on the stone that seemed to be covered with moss, he realized that it was not good.

He was bitten.

Ladislaus ignored the sharp pain in his buttocks, and hurriedly performed a "ghost face technique" on himself.

That "stone" was a huge green toad. It stabbed Ladislaus in the ass with its long tongue.

It was hunting, but looking at the magic on Ladislaus, and the sheer size of the human, the toad finally cursed in his heart and jumped away.

'Bad luck! Ladislaus only dared to curse in his heart, for fear of finding other predators.

Ladislaus didn't dare to take off his boots in the end, but he didn't know how long he would have to last.

Fortunately, after a few more steps, Ladislaus saw a huge fuchsia berry, the height of a two-story building.

This thing seems to be a mixture of snakeberry and strawberry, but magnified by a factor of 10,000.

A giant lizard with white markings guarding the berry, which Ladislaus remembers as the druid's animal companion.

Of course, if you are a mage, you will remember that this is a flesh-ripping dragon with celestial blood.

Seeing Ladislaus approaching, he immediately jumped over and "hissed" at him.

"Hey, what about people?" Ladislaus immediately yelled at the big berry, but received no response, "I'm tired, open the door!" ”

"Da Wang, don't make trouble, don't you know me?" Unable to respond, Ladislaus could clearly feel the lizard's growing hostility, and he had to make a fighting stance, ready to unleash his magic, which further intensified the lizard's vigilance.

It did remember the handsome warlock, and if it hadn't remembered that it was the master's lover, it would have pounced on it.

"Don't make a fuss, I don't have a lot of spellcasting materials on me! And if you hurt Dawang, won't you have no one to watch your house? Seeing that the big lizard was about to pounce, Ladislaus took out the lunch box that the chef gave him, "This is your favorite biscuit, this ghost place doesn't have it, what a pity to be eaten by Dawang." ”

However, Ladislaus's roar turned out to be fruitless, and he walked into the berry and pushed open a depression.

This action activates the lizard's defenses, and it rushes from behind and knocks Ladislaus to the ground.

Ladislaus fell to the ground, and the lunch box in his hand was snatched from him.

A low temptation, a female voice that relieved Ladislaus finally sounded: "How can you enter the lady's bedroom without being invited?" It's so rude. ”

"Didn't I tell Mary that I was coming? I strictly follow your requirements. I'll give you two weeks' notice! ”

"You let her say it, but did I agree? Well? ”

"If I don't come, you lose your temper, if I come, you .......... me like this"

"If I hadn't been asked for something, would you come? this road. You don't know each other anymore, you forgot about that corner that saved half the distance, you men, you men. ”

"I was wrong, I was wrong, you let this thing .......... first" Ladislaus's salutation made the lizard very unhappy, and it pressed its slimy head against the warlock's bright gown, "Punch away, beat away!" ”

"This is the formal dress for the New Year's banquet. Hundreds of thalers a piece............ Ladislaus was really anxious, "I can toss as much as I want, don't be embarrassed by money." ”

After a snap of his fingers, a deep voice rang out: "Let him go." ”

Ladislaus did not stand up after the lizard left, but immediately took off his boots.

Then the big lizard pounced on him and bit something off Ladislaus's feet, along with the socks and the flesh.

"Juana. You're crazy, ah! Ladislaus screamed. While observing his feet, fortunately, although the flesh and blood were blurred, it was only a skin trauma, "My toes were bitten off, ah! ”

"That's what happened if you didn't come to see me for three months!" Juana listened to Ladislaus's screams. Finally, he was a little unbearable, "Stop howling, Galilei, get him some ointment." And give me the biscuits, don't let the dog get close to the biscuits. ”

The object of her order. It was a man covered in only a few tattered animal skins, with a wooden stick pinned to his body and a dozen bottles tied to his belt.

The eyebrows and eyes look like they are in their early thirties at most, but their complexion is very old, physically and mentally exhausted, like a migrant worker who can't get paid for the New Year.

The flesh-ripping dragon Dawang hung the worm torn from Ladislaus's feet, and was about to swallow it alone, but the beast-skinned man grabbed him by the neck, and then both sides roared and tore, and finally most of the worms fell into the hands of the animal-skinned man, and he put it into a bottle on his belt.

"You're really, Da Wang is so cute, what's the matter with letting him eat something good?" Juana looked at her biscuits worriedly, "Hurry up, give him the medicine, give me the biscuits." ”

"Twenty thalers." The tired man threw the biscuit to Juana, not asking for a price for his biscuit, of course, he pulled out a bottle and prepared to apply the ointment to Ladislaus's toe.

However, hearing his price, Ladislaus hurriedly stopped screaming and quickly stuffed his feet back into his boots: "Damn liar, nasty embryo, do you think this is the holy water blessed by the cardinal, such an ointment will charge me twenty thalers?!" ”

The fur-skinned man Galilei did not take back his bottle, he did not react to Ladislaus's slander, but said calmly: "If the holy water blessed by the cardinal is only sold for twenty thalers, it may be equivalent to treating minor injuries. For the wound bitten by the black-faced grasshopper, it will take about a large vat to heal, and my antidote made from the larvae of the black-faced grasshopper can cure you with only twenty, and it will not make you unable to sleep for several days in a row, nor will you be unable to walk for several days, which is really a fair price. ”

"I'm fine, I don't need any ointment!" However, Ladislaus resolutely refused, is this clearly a blackmail method, have you never seen it as Uncle Ladislaus?

He limped into Bigberry, which, unlike the original outside, had a gorgeous interior and all kinds of furniture.

"Paint him and put it on his account." However, Juana knew how much pain this black-faced locust could cause to people, "Don't make a fuss, I've been bitten by this thing, he didn't talk nonsense." ”

Since Juana said so, Ladislaus could not refuse.

He took off his shoes and let the other man apply the medicine to him.

Galilei applied the potion very carefully, a thin layer, but it covered the entire wound, and it seemed that the potion was indeed very expensive.

When he finished, he bowed to Juana: "Then that's it, Your Majesty, the potion of twenty thalers, along the way to protect His Royal Highness the regent through the corridor two hundred thalers, a total of two hundred and twenty thalers." ”

Before Juana could speak, Ladislaus yelled again: "What? Are you protecting me? When that toad bit me. Where are you?! ”

"I'm blocking its wife." Without the protection of the druid, a warlock would not be able to cross this rainforest, "Apple toads are hunted by husbands and wives, and female apple toads are ten times the size of males, and believe me, you won't want to see it." ”

What else Ladislaus wants to say. Juana spoke first: "Okay, you did a good job, made him tired and afraid, and didn't let him suffer any major injuries, count it as overdone, a total of four hundred talers for you." ”

With a few words, Juana gave Ladislaus the gown.

However, the fur man Galilei was not too happy, he still had that sad face: "Then I'll go first, today's five-berry sauce hasn't been stirred." ”

"Let's go visit the Pop tribe first. Tell the chief that this was the last time he would be warned, and that the next time I would visit him. Juana's words made the beast-skinned man's face ugly, but he knew that what he said was useless, so he nodded, and continued to walk out.

Ladislaus stopped him, "Don't go, Galilei, I'm here to get you a big deal." ”

"Just tell Her Majesty the Queen." However, Galilei was reluctant to stay. In fact, he didn't like being around Juana very much. "The price is right, I'm here for you, Your Highness Regent."

"Speaking of which, today is the New Year's Day of the Lord Plane, maybe you should go back and see your wife?" Ladislaus said and handed him a large lunch box, "There are about a dozen quails you like." ”

"New Year's Day. The main plane is 1535, and we just met half a month ago. Galilei wanted to ask a few more questions, but he still had a lot of work to do, and in the end he just asked Ladislaus to help with the conversation, "When you go back." Say hello to her on my behalf and give her this bottle of healing cream. ”

"No problem." Ladislaus took a small bottle.

Juana knocked on the wall, and the berries shook slightly and sank into the ground.

Galilei hadn't gone far before the queen had pressed Ladislaus down on the bed, and while taking off Ladislaus's clothes, she complained: "I haven't come for so long, do you know that I'm lonely here?" And I'm not very happy to see Mary, haven't you pampered her well? ”

"The Buda Cathedral has been converted into a mosque, her husband's grave has been bulldozed, and the bodies of successive Hungarian kings have been desecrated." Mary was the queen of Hungary, the sister of the emperor, "and she has never been able to let go." ”

"I've always disliked her dead ghost husband, it's just a dead man, why are you so sad? This child is with me, when her father died............." Juana comforted Ladislaus, "but if you die and are dug up and crushed to ashes, I will definitely be sad." ”

Ladislaus didn't know what to say about it, so he had to divert from the topic.

"And why did you dismiss all the maids, the next time Frentzberg came to you and saw you living with that Galile, he would be cranky, I don't care." Ladislaus reached out and hugged the woman and began to undress her as well, "But if someone slanders it, His Majesty the Emperor's mother's reputation will definitely bother His Majesty the Emperor." ”

"The tribal tribute that provided me with the maid has been in arrears for too long." Juana's body was more tense and elastic than last time, "Besides, Frentzberg and my son don't care about such a thing, admit it, you're actually jealous yourself." ”

"I'm jealous, jealous, but I owe you tribute, so you sent the maid back?" Ladislaus struggled to win Juana's favor while mentally calculating how many precious potions the queen had consumed to maintain her youth, "How much does that Galilee owe us now?" ”

"Send it back? Hehe, I fed them and their parents to the berry mothers. Juana found her place and sat Ladislaus into her body, "How much does Galilea owe me?" Two hundred and twenty thousand or two hundred and twenty thousand thalers? Where do I remember this kind of thing clearly, don't we have accounting? ”

"I mean, you don't just forgive his arrears, back then, ............."

"He has worked hard all these years, and now that the berry field is about to mature, you can raise one more protector in the future. Galilei has no place to be sorry for us. And you think I'm alone in this hellish place? It's not easy for him. ”

"His wife isn't in my kitchen, they can see each other at any time."

"What do you mean to be able to meet at any time, they are really squeezed to death by you. In short, you can't ask someone else to do the work without giving them benefits. Okay, don't talk about these troubles, you pay attention to me, and I'll give you the power of the ox. ”

………….

After that unpleasant meeting, Ambassador Molocini had thought that he would not be summoned again.

Wu Xin didn't even send a secret messenger to ask him for the information he hinted at.

As mentioned earlier, Molocini was not a professional diplomat, and he only got this hopeless messenger because he had paid a little money.

But even so, he knew that diplomats couldn't say that to their face.

He had a hostile relationship with Austria, and any detail of the connection could be considered as provoking relations between Tripoli and Vienna.

This kind of intelligence is not a diplomatic bargaining chip, it can only be communicated privately.

But Molocini was not a diplomat after all, and did not know that diplomacy was originally just a continuation of politics, and that diplomats were powerless when the general situation was unfavorable.

Seeing that things were about to fail, he became impatient, and eventually he did what he quickly regretted.

But he did not return to Venice at once, he loved his country, but he did not dare to return there, he was afraid of its selfishness and greed.

So even though he couldn't find a way to see Wu Xin again, he stayed in the port of Tripoli and moved around, hoping that he could create a miracle.

After that meeting, of course, he completely offended the Deverich family, and he could not see the old Deverrich at all.

He also couldn't see a powerful figure like Father Erlan or Cassano Shouza, and he couldn't send money.

By early January, his piety seemed to have taken effect, and he was summoned by Wu Xin again. (To be continued.) )