Chapter XVIII: The Empire of Mantis
"Fun little house. www.biquge.info Lisa said happily as she looked at the small house floating on the water and grass, wanting to step forward but not daring, and looked at Eric to ask what he meant.
"Do you like it?" asked Eric with a smile. Lisa nodded busily, "I like it, of course I do." ”
"If you like it, I'll give it to you. Eric approached the small house with Lisa. The door of the small house is a drainage grass, and if the bottom is braided together and tied to the aquatic plants underground, it is equivalent to closing the door, and if it is untied, the aquatic plants will automatically float up, so that the door will open.
Lisa happily walked in and out of the small house, hiding among the weeds and telling Eric to find her, and then jumping out of her own and sneaking up behind Eric to attack him.
Seeing Lisa's happy appearance, Eric was infected and frolicked with her among the water and grass. The two of you chased after me, you hid from me, and before you knew it, a day passed.
Eric and Lisa were happy to play among the water and grass, but Li Yiheng and Xiao Ji outside were very unhappy. When I got up early in the morning, Eric was gone, Lisa was gone, and Li Yiheng and Xiao Ji searched everywhere they could but couldn't find it.
In the evening, Eric came out of the island lake and went directly to the city lord, telling him that he had sent Lisa away. The city lord wanted to praise Eric a few words, but Eric had already turned and left.
Dejected, Eric returned to his apartment, plunged into his bedroom and never came out. When he returned, he didn't alarm anyone, and everyone thought that he was still discussing things with the city lord. It wasn't until Li Yiheng went upstairs and passed by his door and saw that the door that was originally closed had opened a crack in the door, that he knew he was back.
"It's back!" Li Yiheng pushed the door open and entered, but before he could enter the door, he was startled by the mess in the place. Eric lay on his back on the bed, his eyes staring blankly at the roof. Li Yiheng couldn't help but wonder, he had been missing for a day, could it be that something had happened?
"Where's Lisa, where have you been?" Li Yiheng stepped to the side of the bed in a few steps, "What's wrong with you?"
Eric turned his head to look at Li Yiheng, turned over and covered his head with a pillow, and Eric's faint voice came from under the pillow, "You go out first, I want to stay alone for a while." ”
Li Yiheng looked at Eric's appearance for a while, and pulled off the pillow on Eric's head, "This whole day, you have disappeared without a trace, and I don't dare to go to someone to ask, find someone to find, do you know how anxious I am? Now that you're back, where is Lisa? Where did she go?"
Erik, who was burying his head in search of another pillow, stopped what he was doing, and just stiffened for a long time, trying to sit up, "Lisa is fine." Later, I'll take you to meet her. ”
Finally with Lisa's news, Li Yiheng breathed a sigh of relief, but what does Eric mean by this?
"My father wants me to send Lisa away, or else he will send Lisa away himself. Eric's words were full of helplessness.
"Why?"
Eric took a deep breath and replied, "He wants me to marry Carol." ”
"Carol?" Li Yi sat down next to Eric, "who is this?"
Eric moved back, sat down with his back against the head of the bed, faced Li Yiheng, and replied, "Carol is the daughter of the richest man, and I can be regarded as partners who grew up together. ”
"Then why does your father want you to marry her?" Li Yiheng is not very good at these things, "Is there a marriage contract between you?"
"Marriage. Eric's answer was very simple, "Father means that Carol's father is the richest man in Furatu and will be able to help me become the lord of the city in the future." ”
"What about you, what do you think?" Li Yiheng looked at the mess in the place.
"Of course I don't want to. Without thinking about it, Eric replied, "I like Lisa, and I'm going to marry Lisa as my wife." Speaking of the back, his voice was much lower, obviously he was not sure and had no confidence.
"You see, you don't have enough confidence to marry Lisa as a wife. Li Yiheng looked at Eric and said seriously, "I'm not interested in politics, and I don't know much about politics, so I won't express my opinion on your father's decision to let you go to Carol." ”
After that, Li Yiheng stood up and put the pillow in his hand back on the bed, "This kind of thing is best handled by your parties, and everything I say is false." Think to yourself whether it is more important to stay with Lisa or whether it is more important to have a relationship with Floatu, which of the two is more important for you, or whether there is a way to get the best of both worlds. But remember, you have to know your heart and follow your heart. ”
Li Yiheng said as he walked towards the door, stopped when he was about to go out, and turned to look at Eric, "If you need help, just ask, as long as I can do it." ”
Eric sat dumbfounded, muttering, "Is there any room for manoeuvre in this matter?"
Deep under the sea, the palace of Mantis is in chaos, because the youngest mermaid princess has disappeared, and she has been looking for many days, but there is still no news.
"Wow-" There was a sound of something falling to the ground, followed by the Queen's hysterical roar, "Look for it! Find it quickly! What's the use of me raising you? I can't even find anyone for so long! I can't find Lisa again, and you don't come back, go and feed the fish!"
The queen was so angry that her chairs flew away, and a large group of officials and guards lay trembling in the mess and did not dare to come out.
The queen looked at the guards and officials lying on the ground with another burst of anger, the fishtail swept away, and the nearest chairs and tables were smashed into pieces, "What are you doing in a daze?
"Yes, yes......" After a sudden commotion, the officials and guards supported each other and withdrew. A few of them accidentally stepped on something and tripped on the ground, and they didn't get up anymore, so they just dragged others out like that.
The queen looked at the mess and was angry again, "Come on, clean up this place!"
The hall that was full of mermaids just now was silent at this time, if it weren't for the mess all over the ground, it is estimated that no one would believe it, and there were hundreds of mermaids gathered here a few minutes ago. Some maids hurried out to clean up the mess on the ground.
In the apse, the queen looked at the furnishings in the house and felt sad for a while, and fell on the soft couch and cried.
A mermaid walked in, gently wrapped her arms around the queen, and comforted, "Queen Mother, don't worry, the seventh sister will definitely come back safely." ”
After crying, the queen sat up, looked at the daughter in front of ......her, thought of the little daughter who was missing, and wept again, "Liya, where do you say Lisa will go?
Lia hurriedly wiped the queen's tears with the handkerchief in her hand, and comforted her, "Queen Mother, although Lisa is playful, she is smart and clever, and she will be fine, maybe it is to see where it is fun, and she wants to play for a few more days, and she will come back when she has had enough." ”
"Her Majesty. ”
The queen looked out the door, where a maid with a guard was standing.
Seeing the guards, the queen wiped away her tears, collected her emotions, swept away the sadness just now, and her majestic and neutral voice sounded, "Is there news?"
"Yes, Her Majesty. The guard replied respectfully to the Queen's words, "We have detected an additional island in the sea, and it is very likely that the little princess is on that island." ”
"How could Lisa run to the island?" the queen wondered, "have you searched all the bottom of the sea?"
"The bottom of the sea has been searched, and there is no trace of the little princess, and now there is only that island left. The guard replied, "I have already investigated, and there is a huge cover on the island, but there is a lake in the center of the island that is connected to the sea, and under the lake is a huge plastic net, in which many fish and shrimp are netted. The little princess may have been caught in that net, and then escaped and could not be caught. ”
"How can this be reasonable!" the queen was very angry when she heard that Lisa was most likely caught in a rubber net, "It is so bold to dare to treat my princess of Mantis like this. Go and deliver your life, gather the army, and follow me to save people. ”
"Queen Mother, you can't go!" As soon as Lea heard that the queen was going to personally lead troops to attack the island, she hurriedly dissuaded, "Queen Mother, you can't go, you have to stay here." ”
The queen had made up her mind, and was not willing to change it at all, and ordered the guards to prepare immediately.
"The Queen Mother. Seeing that she couldn't persuade the queen, Liya stopped persuading her, "Queen Mother, I know you're worried about the seventh sister, but you can't do without you here." In this way, I will go in your place, and if the seventh sister is on that island, I will definitely bring her back safely. ”
The queen looked at this daughter with a burst of guilt, she has been busy with government affairs, and rarely took care of their sisters in person since she was a child, Lisa, Lishan, and Lini are almost all brought up by Lia's eldest sister, Lisa has been naughty since she was a child, and Liya doesn't know how much **** cares about this youngest sister.
The queen would love to take her troops to fetch Lisa herself, but Lia was right, she couldn't leave Mantis at will.
"Leah, Queen Mother...... The queen mother ...... "The queen wanted to say something to Leah, but found that she couldn't say anything at this time.
"Queen Mother, you are the queen of Mantees, and you have to take care of the millions of people of the empire. Lia helped the queen back to sit on the soft couch, "You can rest assured that you can wait at home, I will definitely bring Lisa back safely." ”
"Your Majesty, the army has been assembled. The voice of a guard came from outside the door.
Leah shook the Queen's hand and said, "Queen Mother, I'm going." ”
"Okay, stay safe. The queen confessed and said no more, and she suddenly found that she didn't know when, the eldest daughter had grown so big. In the past, she only thought that she took care of a few younger sisters and looked like an older sister, but now she can share her worries.
At dawn, Li Yiheng, who was sleepy, was woken up by a "chirping" sound, and when he opened his eyes, he saw that Xiao Yi was flapping his two wings around his head in a circle. Li Yiheng waved his hand away and turned over and continued to sleep, "It's early in the morning, don't make trouble." ”
"Twitter-" Xiao Ji didn't give Li Yiheng face at all, and continued to circle around him, as if he didn't call Li Yiheng up, he would be unwilling.
"Alright, alright. Li Yiheng sat up in a daze, squinting at Xiao Ji, "What happened?"
Xiao Ji saw that Li Yi was up horizontally, and began to shout out of the window vigorously. Li Yiheng suddenly felt that he had two big heads, what was wrong?
Liya looked at the rubber net floating in the water, and felt worried for a while, most of the weapons she carried were spears, and there were no weapons such as knives and axes that were easy to cut the rubber nets. It is not uncommon for men to use axes in Mantis, but they are very rare, and besides, only the Queen's personal guards are swordsmen.
In desperation, Leah had to order someone to return to Mantis and bring more than a dozen sabers from the queen's personal guards, which cut a large hole in the rubber net, but after the rubber net was cut, it could be glued back together very quickly. There was no way, Liya could only ask someone to pull the edge of the cut and the others hurry in.
The plastic mesh was hundreds of meters long, but Liya was extremely fast, and it didn't take long to swim into the lake in the middle of the island. The situation on the island has been reconnoitred clearly, and Leah no longer wastes time sending people to investigate the situation, and directly leads people out of the lake in the heart of the island. A steady stream of merfolk emerged from the lake in the heart of the island, and soon, an army of Mantis appeared in the shallow waters.
At this time, it was early in the morning, and the patrol guards on the street had just come out, and when they saw the mermaids wearing battle armor and holding javelins in the lake in the center of the island, someone immediately ran to report to the city lord, and the rest of the people automatically formed a team to defend, and the surrounding city residents also joined the defense team with weapons.
Lea looked at these people on guard, and also made the mermaid warriors behind her ready for battle, took a step forward, and said in a loud voice, "Who of you here?"
Everyone looked at each other, and a captain of the guard walked out, "Hello, I'm the biggest person here, what's the matter with you?"
"Who's in charge of your city?" Leah looked at the captain of the guard, "I need to talk to him." ”
The captain of the guard looked Liya up and down, but he didn't mean to despise him, and he spoke extremely politely, and replied, "Someone has already gone to find the city lord." If you must find the lord of the castle, just wait a little longer. With that, the captain of the guard took a few steps back and returned to the group.
Leah looked at the guards and citizens across from her, her eyes appreciative. Although it is possible that Lisa was captured by the people here, this does not hide some of the characteristics of the city, such as the fact that all the people are soldiers, which Lia appreciates.
When the city lord heard the guards' announcement, he immediately thought of the mermaid that Eric was keeping, and these mermaids must have something to do with the mermaid, but didn't Eric already send him away?
Eric thought about it all night, but still didn't know what to do. Carol is indeed a good girl, but she really doesn't like her, but how can she make her father change his mind?
There was a knock on the door, and Eric rolled over in frustration and covered his head with the quilt.
The door was not locked, and as soon as Eric covered his head, he heard footsteps approaching, and the butler's voice came, "Young master, the city lord has sent someone to deliver a message to you." ”
"Tell him to go, I don't want to hear it. Eric didn't even lift a crack and said in a muffled voice.
There was another sound of footsteps, "Young master, there are a lot of mermaid warriors in the island lake in the city. ”
"What?" said Eric as he lifted the covers and sat up. He also panicked, if Lisa caused trouble to Fratu, then it would be even more difficult for his father to accept Lisa in the future, "What the hell is going on?" ”
Eric didn't sleep all night, and with two big black circles under his eyes, he startled both the butler and the guards.