Chapter Seventy-Six: People Can't Get Old, and When You Get Old, You Lose Everything, and if You Must Be Old, Die Before You Get Old
There are a lot of things to do when he returns to the imperial capital this time, and Wren can't accompany Celeste to have a good time, so he can only ask Tillet's wife, a very gentle woman, to take Celeste around the imperial capital. For such a request www.biquge.info Twright agreed without thinking about it, and he and Wren were tightly tied together, even closer than outsiders knew. Speculators tend to be desperate, and Twright fits that trait, leaning almost all of his resources towards Wren. He's gambling that Wren's Thorn family will one day get back on their feet.
It is far better to have your back against the thighs of the golden nobles than to eat mud behind the noble group.
Early the next morning, Wren drove into the palace.
He did not meet with Pars, who was now in the process of familiarizing herself with the process of the coronation with the help of the ceremonial officer, and was in rehearsal. Many people may think that such a complicated ceremony can be passed at one time without any mistakes, but in fact, this is the result of several or even dozens of rehearsals.
Directly entering the old emperor's bedroom, Wren suddenly felt a clear difference from the bustle of Her Majesty the Empress Pars's bedroom, which was so deserted that there was not even a minister. The servants and maids are also two or three big cats and kittens, and the faces of these people actually show emotional things, resentment, dissatisfaction, and unbridled pleasure. When they heard footsteps, they put away the expressions on their faces and became cold and dull.
Wren's pace did not stop because of this, he walked straight to the old emperor's bed, lifted the curtain, and carefully looked at the old emperor at this time.
The old man was curled up sideways and lay on the bed, his face split vertically into two halves from the middle, half normal, half with crooked eyes and crooked mouth, still drooling, and a small sheet of wet sheets.
Hearing the voice, the old emperor opened his eyes, looked at Wren carefully, his distracted gaze gradually became bright, he bowed slightly, raised his trembling hand, and then fell heavily on the edge of the bed. Wren then sat down, and half of the old emperor's face showed a satisfied look, and he squeaked and said, "It's been a long time...... You...... Good....... ”
Wren stared at the old emperor's eyes that had begun to cloud, and thought for a moment before he said, "You said that I haven't seen me for a long time, and it's great that I can come here, right?"
The old emperor nodded again and again, he was eager to say something, but the more anxious he was, the more he couldn't say the complete words, all of which were incomprehensible syllables. Wren looked at the servant on the side, who lowered his head, not knowing what he was thinking, and ignored Wren. Wren frowned slightly and asked, "I heard that there is a board with words inlaid with words, where, take it." ”
The servants lazily carried over a three-meter-long and two-meter-wide plank. One of them put a wooden strip on the old emperor's index finger, and the old emperor moved his fingers slightly, constantly clicking on a few words, "I... Think... Get out... Sun... Long... No... Get out ......."
"Go push the wheelchair here. Wren casually instructed, but the servants did not do it, but looked embarrassed, Wren looked at the servants again with displeasure, "What? Don't understand me? Or do you think you are qualified to ignore my request?"
One of the servants had a bitter face and said, "Your Excellency, His Majesty Pars said that it was too windy outside to let him out, in case he contracted the wind cold......
Wren turned his head to look at the old emperor on the bed, "Is that so?"
Obviously, this is not the case, the old emperor's emotions suddenly became excited, his face turned red, and the saliva exposed at the corners of his mouth increased sharply, and Wren understood in an instant.
Golden nobility, holy bloodline, royal family, these noble words do not make people sacred, divorced from reality. No matter how noble words are placed on people, people are human beings after all, and families are families after all. As long as you are still a mortal, as long as you are still a family composed of mortals, there will inevitably be all kinds of contradictions and conflicts.
After Empress Pars ascended the throne, the old emperor handed over his power, he has become a "thing of the past", people are happy to show themselves in front of the new emperor, and the old emperor is gradually forgotten. The purpose of this forgetfulness was to prove their loyalty to the new emperor, but they ignored the fact that doing so would hurt the feelings of the old emperor. Moreover, the old emperor could not speak, and he was seriously ill, and no one knew when he would die, no matter how loyal he was at this moment, he could not prove his worth.
The old emperor has been heroic all his life, and in the end he ends up like this, and naturally his temper and personality will undergo great changes and distortions, which also makes these people even more reluctant to walk around in front of the old emperor. They were willing to lower the curtain to separate each other's sights, ignoring the old emperor's requests, rather than having too much communication with this noble golden nobleman, His Majesty the former emperor.
Thinking of this, Wren's heart was naturally filled with a trace of pity, and he ordered: "Go and push the cart." ”
The servant still looked embarrassed, for some reason there was a fire in Wren's heart, and suddenly he broke out, kicked it sideways, and the servant closest to him flew out sideways with his waist and eyes, and after rolling twice, he half-knelt on the ground, his forehead was tightly pressed against the ground, and he looked pained. The other man came back to his senses, and the way he looked at Wren changed slightly, and before he could speak, a stinging pain in his neck stopped him.
Blair heard the sound and immediately ran in, drew his sword and put it on the servant's neck.
Wren looked at these servants in disgust, along with those maids, he sneered, and ordered: "Kill them all, it's disgusting to watch." ”
There were only a few servants and maids in the main hall, and a dozen or so servants and maids suddenly changed color, and they ran towards the door with screams. Blair laughed fiercely, the long sword in his hand flashed coldly, the knife rose and fell, and a big head rose to the sky, and the blood sprayed more than two meters high like a fountain, exuding a fishy sweet smell. When Wren turned his head again, the old emperor already had a distorted look of pleasure, and the hatred in his eyes made people's hearts palpitate. His face was flushed, and he seemed to be very satisfied, and Wren could understand the old man's mentality to some extent.
Some time ago, he was the ruler of this empire, he could prosper a country with a word, and he could destroy a country with a word, and he was like a god of this country, looking down on all things, beyond the mundane. But now? He didn't even say yes to a trivial request, and the contrast made him angry and frightened. At this moment, the stimulation brought by death is like a small sharp arrow, poking the old emperor's chicken point back and forth, and the old emperor is in an instant. Death gave him unprecedented satisfaction and made him feel the value of his existence.
In a moment, there was a corpse lying on the ground in the hall, and Wren personally pushed a wheelchair and asked Blair to carry the old emperor to the wheelchair, and Wren pushed him out of the hall.
The weather at the end of February has warmed significantly, the fourteen or fifteen degrees of climate has been unable to stop people's footsteps, and the fresh air is blowing in the face, so that the old emperor lying on the sickbed is in good spirits. He expressed his attitude very slowly and as slowly as he could, "I... Know... You... What are you doing. Although some of the syllables were still very vague, they could be heard more or less clearly, and it was obvious that his mental state was excellent at this time, and his body also changed.
"I... Hand... Ring... You take it... This... Key...", the old emperor's glasses looked at his unconscious left hand, on which there was a strangely shaped ring, like a miniature castle, and some of the windows in the castle still emitted fluorescence. The moment Wren took off the ring, all the windows in the castle went dark and lost their light. At the same time, a small opening appeared on the old emperor's finger from which the ring had been removed, and dark thick blood beads were bubbling outward.
"Dai... On!", the old emperor said with great difficulty, and only the expression of pain appeared on his ordinary face, and with every word he spoke, he could feel that something in his body was torn apart again, and the pain made him almost crazy.
Wren did not hesitate in the slightest, he believed that the old emperor did not need to harm him, and he could not harm him. The moment he put the ring on his hand, there was a sudden slight stinging pain in his finger, and something was embedded in the flesh through the bottom of the ring. The miniature castle on the face of the ring suddenly shone brightly, and every window lit up, much brighter than when it was on the old emperor's finger. The old emperor watched all this happen in shock, and his eyes were about to stiffen.
As a member of the Divine Bloodline, his bloodline has always been very pure, but he didn't expect that Wren's bloodline was even purer than him. He understood better than anyone else the meaning of the Divine Bloodline, an extraordinary meaning. He reluctantly raised his head and looked at Wren for a long time.
Wren looked at the ring curiously, the light in the castle was too bright, and he didn't like it. Just as he was considering whether or not to take off the ring, a thought crossed his mind, and the castle immediately dimmed until there was no light.
The old emperor almost glared at the only remaining intact eyeball, and his broken body suddenly erupted with a strong killing intent, which came and went quickly. Wren looked thoughtfully at the ring on his finger and laughed happily.
"Is this ring related to some secret treasure or something?", there was no one around, Blair was guarding in the distance, only him and the old emperor in the here and now, "Let me guess, first of all, this is a key, you also said, someone told me yesterday that Pars is about to enter the secret cave, so is this ring the key to open the secret cave?or is it a secret key in the secret cave?", ignoring the old emperor's eyes full of murderous intent, Wren continued to guess, "What was the light just now?" There are when you wear it on your hand, and it is also when it is worn on mine, but I believe that it is not when it is worn on the hand of my general, which shows that this ring can detect divine blood. ”
"I've always been curious, we people...... It seems that there is indeed some secret of this bloodline that I don't know, or that most people don't know. ”
"It just so happened that before I came to the imperial capital, I built a church in Ortlenburg. You know, it's almost impossible to go outside in the winter in Ortlenburg, so I have to spend my extra time reading. ”
"There are a few books, especially interesting!"