In the middle of the afternoon sun, in the clear water lake of the Duke's Palace, a small boat floated aimlessly in the center of the lake, and on top of the small boat, there were two people.

Since getting on the boat, Situ Jin and Martil have not spoken again, and the two of them do not seem to have a host-guest relationship that they have not known for a long time, but like a pair of friends who have known each other for a long time and have a very tacit understanding.

Situ Jin was still in the same posture as before, with his hands casually pillowed behind his head, his eyes closed lightly, as if he had fallen asleep.

As for Matiel, at first her gaze was still slowly moving on the lake around the boat, but after some time, her gaze finally withdrew and rested on the face of Situ Jin, who was lying in front of her.

She just looked at Situ Jin's face so quietly, and didn't look away for a long time, not knowing what she was thinking in her heart.

Suddenly, those eyes opened, just in line with Matiel's, who was slightly stunned for a moment, and then turned her gaze back to the surface of the lake without a trace.

Although it seemed that this kind of vicarious inheritance was very natural and smooth, the movement of Matil's lips lightly revealed her true emotions at the moment. It's just that Situ Jin didn't notice this.

Matiel thought that Situ Jin, who opened his eyes, would take the initiative to ask her something, but until now, Situ Jin didn't seem to have the intention of speaking, and finally, it was Matiel who took the lead in breaking the silence between the two: "Won't the duke ask me if I have anything to say to you?"

"If you want to say it, I don't ask you to say it. ”

Situ Jin's eyes were calm, although he was already very clear about the fundamental reason why Situ Jin would behave so peacefully, and before that, this reason had made Martiel feel very admired, but now, Matil felt very displeased with the peace shown by Situ Jin.

She suddenly didn't want to say anything: "Okay! Actually, I just came here by accident while wandering around your mansion and happened to bump into you." ”

Mathil suddenly stopped calling Situ Jin "Duke", but used the most equal and ordinary "you and me", and she didn't realize this until after she had finished speaking, but she didn't seem to think there was anything wrong with it.

Situ Jin looked at Matiel, and confirmed his previous opinion, the man in front of him was indeed a little strange, but he didn't say anything, just nodded slightly at Matiel, and then closed his eyes again.

"Is it going to be drifted down by this little boat?" a gust of wind blew and blew the water of the lake, and Matiel's voice was a little clear in the wind.

Situ Jin didn't open his eyes, but said: "There are oars at the stern, if you don't want the boat to float freely, or if you want to go back to shore, you can row by yourself." ”

There was silence, and Matiel's somewhat uncertain voice sounded on the boat: "Me?"

It may be that Matiel's tone is too strong, Situ Jin opened his eyes and looked straight at Matiel, who was sitting in front of him.

At this time, Matiel's uncertain voice sounded again: "Am I rowing?"

The meaning of such a tone was already very obvious, and Situ Jin raised his eyebrows slightly: "What, as the envoy of the Star Sea Empire, is rowing a very worthless thing for you?"

Martil was slightly stunned, and then realized that her previous two extremely brief questions had made Situ Jin misunderstand something, she glanced at Situ Jin, did not explain anything, and directly got up and walked to the stern, trying to take the oars and row.

She only asked those two questions with a surprised face, of course, not because she was proud of her identity, although her identity was indeed noble. She just subconsciously sees herself as a woman.

To be precise, she had forgotten that she was not supposed to be a woman, but a young man of the same gender as Situ Jin. A man and a woman were on the same boat, and of course the person rowing the boat should be that man, that's what Martiel thought at the time, but Situ Jin wouldn't know what she thought, at least not now.

The two sticks of wood were pinned between the two planks at the stern of the boat, and Martil reached first to pull out one oar, then another.

At this time, there was a slight accident in what should have been a simple action, the wooden paddle behind it was too tight by others, and Matil was unable to pull out the wooden pulp for a while.

It's nothing, it's normal, just try again, Martil thought, reaching out again, a little harder than before, but still couldn't pull the oar out.

This made Matiel a little unhappy, a small oar dared to oppose her, and she reached out to hold one end of the oar for the third time, but this time with all her strength.

As all the strength of his body poured into the oar, the oar finally moved, but it did not go in the direction that Martiel's had expected.

"Smack!" With a crisp sound, the wood pulp halved in half with Matiel's strength.

It wasn't a big deal, but the problem was that Matiel had been too hard to retract her strength in an instant, so when the pulp broke in two in her hand, her entire body fell back uncontrollably and fell directly into the lake.

"Plop!"

"Ahh

Two voices sounded at the same time, but the latter was significantly higher than the first, and the voice was much sharper.

The moment Matiel fell into the water, Situ Jin opened his eyes, and then sat up from the boat, and he couldn't help but laugh when he saw Matiel waving his arms wildly in the water.

Although the smile is very restrained, the meaning in the smile is obvious, to be precise, there is no special meaning, I just think it is funny, I think it is interesting, so I laugh.

But this smile seemed very dazzling to Matiel, and while she was fluttering in the water, she shouted angrily to Situ Jin, "You are still ...... Laugh, not yet...... Hurriedly...... Save...... I ......"

It wasn't until he heard Martiel's last sentence that Situ Jin reacted, Matiel obviously didn't know water, so she had been splashing in the water since she fell into the water, and this was what made him feel funny.

Seeing that Matiel's body was sinking, Situ Jin finally put away the smile on his face, then stood up and jumped into the lake.

When his body appeared next to Matiel, half of Matiel's head had already sunk into the water, Situ Jin was quick-eyed, and directly reached out from behind Matiel to wrap around her upper body, but the next second, when his hand touched Matiel's chest, he immediately felt a softness.

Situ Jin's hand froze instantly, he lowered his head and looked at Matiel, who was resting his head on his chest, but found that the latter's head was unconsciously lowered a few points, which made him finally confirm the fact that the chief envoy of the Star Sea Empire, Matiel, turned out to be a woman, no wonder he saw each other twice, and he had a strange feeling that was difficult to explain.