78. Wait for May
"Look at you, like a wild monkey, how to seduce a rich young master!" Doro jumped to dodge Silko's attack.
"Doro Lesko, you're so annoying!" Silky suddenly stopped chasing after him, crouching on the ground and not moving.
Lycia sat in her chair and didn't pass her, and Doro seemed to be pressed the pause button.
He stood cautiously next to Silky Peach and heard her hugging her knees and sobbing.
"Silky Nut, Silky Sysoka, you won't, you're not a crying bag, will you. Doro mocked and crouched next to Silknut.
Lycia didn't feel like she was fit to be here, and she patted Doro on the shoulder. "If you like it, you have to talk well. ”
Doro glared and waved his hand. "Whoever says I like her, who likes her. ”
Silknut's cry was even louder.
Lycia had walked away, leaving Doro with some room to play.
Doro groaned for a long time, and finally couldn't help it. "Like like, I like you Okay, don't cry, don't cry. ”
Frightened, Silky stopped crying, and she lifted a wrinkled face to look at Doro.
Doro's face was already flushed.
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At nine o'clock in the evening, Lycia was just about to lie down and read a book when there was a knocking sound outside the window.
She sat up and took Selene out from the side of the bed, and since she knew how to control Selene's brightness, she had put the silver weapon at the bedside every day for a night lamp.
Lycia lifted the curtains, and one of the Joker's faces was pressed against the window, grimacing at her.
"What are you looking for me to do?" Lycia asked to open the window, but stopped the clown from letting him in.
"Fulin Dona asked me to come, but you never went. Bouddingket the Clown handed Lycia a letter. "Burn it after reading it. ”
Lycia patted her head. "Oh yes, and books. ”
The white oil paint on Puddingkit's face seemed to have turned a lot yellower, and he didn't know how long it had been since he had washed his face, and his hair was still sparse and hung on the top of his head.
"Take the book yourself. With that, Puddingkit turned into a puff of smoke and disappeared.
Lycia took the envelope and counted the time, there was a week to go until May, and she would soon be able to see her brother Keys.
"First question: the details of the D'Urberville family, Bott D'Urberville, the current head of the Praetorian Guard, had four children, one of whom was sentenced to a year's imprisonment in his early years for the public killing of a civilian on the Haillands, and died in the course of his sentence as a result of a sudden heraldic riot. Keith Campbell was passing by and then reported it. ”
Lycia didn't even know that her brother had done this, and it seemed that she had made enemies very early.
"There was also a child who drowned while playing alone in the fountain pool of the palace, and his body was found by Duke Michaeu Campbell. ”
"Second question: Futespa was found in Catherine Cathedral, in front of the statue of the goddess, at the age of ten he was able to draw a high-level magic circle, at the age of fifteen he was made bishop of the city of Lantkos by the emperor, refused the title of earl, at the age of eighteen he was elected archbishop of the Thorn Empire, at the age of twenty-two he resigned as bishop, and in the same year became the president of the heraldic college. ”
On the surface, Futespar's life is the life of a genius, but there should be a reason why she is not an archbishop and has to be the dean of the heraldic college, but there are only a few sentences in the letter.
"The third question: Duke Michaeu Campbell has repeatedly brought the circle to his wife's grave. He met with the Duke of Nuken in private, and took his eldest daughter Ash to visit the Duke of Nuken's house many times.
I've helped you filter out the information you need, and there's one piece of information that I think is important, although it's not within the scope of your inquiry.
Ash Campbell has repeatedly purchased hallucinogens and tricks.
Also, recently it was the clown who was looking at the shop, and I returned to Hail Street on May 3rd. ”
Lycia didn't want to go for a moment when she thought that the clown was watching the store, the shadow left on her by the group of dwarves under the floor last time was too great, and Fulin Dona was not in the store, so she didn't dare to go.
Still, why would Ash buy these things, what was she going to do, or what she did.
Could it be that Ash was the fault of her father's inability to sleep in the bedroom?
Lycia finds it strange to get to know her family through research, especially when she learns that Ash would have purchased these things.
But why did Duke Michau take the circle to his mother's cemetery, Lycia remembered Guise's reminder, and this time she had to face up to the problem, what if it was really Duke Michau who killed his wife?
Lycia looked at her heart, and if Duke Michau was really the murderer, she found herself less angry and sad.
Lycia suddenly felt as if her parents in this world were always other people, and she had lost her need for affection after constantly observing her affection for other people.
Her current relationship with Duke Mixiu is more like a game of interests, if one day there is conclusive evidence that Duke Mixiu killed his wife, Lycia's first thought is how to keep this matter from being discovered, and then, kill Duke Mixiu to avenge her mother?
Lycia burned the letter and lay down on the bed.
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Lycia pressed her swollen temples, where she had been sitting and listening to her father, Duke Michaeu, for three hours.
Two and a half months later, on the goddess's birthday, she will receive the ceremony of conferment of the title of heir.
From the dawn of the Thorn Empire, Michaux began to tell the history of the Campbell family.
The father didn't seem to be saddened by his son's escape, and he had been telling Lycia the family history sensibly and seriously.
It's like my brother doesn't exist. ’
The person sitting in front of her, whom she called her father, had a favorable opinion of her only about 20 percent.
And after her first yawn, her favorability dropped to fifteen percent.
However, she didn't have any emotional needs for her parents for a long time, so she was only thinking about how to go to the academy by herself tomorrow, and how to go to the next block alone.
"Lycia, I don't want to talk about your brother's affairs anymore, the reason why Your Majesty did not punish the family is because in the long five hundred and thirty years, our family has not made any mistakes. So, remember, think about your family before doing anything. Duke Michaeu deliberately made a tired appearance and beckoned to Lycia. "Come and help me straighten my collar, I'll be to the barracks in the afternoon. ”
Lycia had never been close to her parents and walked over a little overwhelmed.
"Lycia, you are better than your sister and brother, and you will inherit our family's family business in the future. ”
She didn't know how to straighten her collar, so she reached out and patted Michaeu's shoulder and collar twice like dust.
"Thank you for your trust. Because of her lack of experience in communicating with serious parents, Lycia could only say such things.
The awkward conversation would have continued, if it weren't for Ash's sudden invention.
"Daddy, you make Lycia your heir!" she wept. "Just because I don't have heraldic powers, I'm a crippled person. ”
Then she suddenly saw Lycia also standing there, and immediately stopped crying.
"Me. Lycia bowed her head and walked to the door. "Then, father, I'll go to my mother's place first. ”
Ash still had a handkerchief in her hand, and she felt completely embarrassed, she had never shown herself too much in front of Lycia, and she had always shown that she didn't care about the fact that she didn't have heraldic powers.
"You don't have to bother your mother, you go outside, as an heir, you should no longer just stay in the boudoir as before, you should also go and see the world. Mitheu was actually afraid that Lycia's past would cause his wife to be unhappy and make her aware of something.
"Good. "Lycia was worried that there was no reason to go out, and although it was not early in the morning, if she took the carriage to Hailland, she would be able to take a walk around before curfew and then go home.
She took a maid and a manservant out of the house.
The upper block, Croatian Street, is the closest to Haillandstrasse, but most of the people here are men, as it sells weapons, pipes, and books.
In the Thorn Empire, like all feudal countries, most women did not have the opportunity to study.
Everyone told them that they didn't have to study, so their life's rush was to get married, and even women with heraldic powers, few of them could really love these things.
"Hello, please hand me the silver sword blessed with the wolf's head crest. Lycia remembers that during the afternoon drill, many of them had their own weapons.
"Hmm, let me see. It's a young lady!" a tall, thin old man with round-rimmed glasses stretched out his withered hand and handed her a sword with a wolf's head carved into its scabbard. "This sword is too heavy and may not suit you well. ”
Lycia handed the sword to the valet next to her. "Whatever suits me, please give it to me, but I need this too. ”
The old man shook his head, and without even drawing his sword to try it, he immediately decided to buy it, and it must have been a great noble lady who came out to buy a gift for his father and brother.
"The soft whip, you see, can be used as a weapon and can be tied to the wrist. ”
Lycia took it, threw it into the air, and a gust of wind swept up the potted plants placed on both sides of the road ahead, and the manservant hurried over to discuss the matter of compensation with the sheriff who was running beside him.
"You have heraldic powers?" said Covey at this point.
'My heraldic power can still operate a weapon, just like that. In fact, Lycia herself wondered that she couldn't even move a watermelon before.
"Yes, sir. So there's a better weapon to use?" Lycia feigned incomprehension and put the whip back into the hands of the boss Covey.
"The undead thorns of the temple. He turned on the heraldic power and took a good look at the heraldic aura distributed in Lycia's body.
In Ruijin's book, her heraldic power appears on the thorn strip.
"Immortal thorns?" she had heard for the first time, that thorns could be used as weapons.
"It won't wither. Covey nodded. "Wait a minute. With that, he went into the inner room.
Lycia gave the maid a glimpse of the time, there were still three hours before the curfew, and it would be about thirty minutes to get home from here.
She just found one of the most famous weapons shops and took a casual look, where did she know that the owner was very idle, and even dragged her to try weapons repeatedly.
"You try this. He handed Lycia a brown, blackened thorn strip with no place on it, and Lycia didn't know how to hold it, it was full of thorns.
"Do you have gloves?" asked Lycia sincerely.
"No gloves are needed, the thorn doesn't hurt your delicate skin, it's only lethal when it's wielded. Pai Covey handed it to Lycia with both hands.
The feel is indeed soft, and after Lycia held it steady, she gently aimed it at the ground and waved it.
It's not more powerful.
The thorn strip is ugly, Lycia shook her head. "Give me a soft whip. ”
Pai Covey said regretfully, "You must be better suited to Thorn Strip, trust me." This one of mine is so bad that you can get used to it first and then look for a better thorn later. ”
"Alright then, wrap up both weapons, and pick a box that looks better and is more portable. Lycia perfunctorily agreed, and did not forget to explain the shopkeeper's packaging.
She couldn't afford to waste any more time here.
But how to get to Hail Street alone, Lycia has been shopping for an hour, and still hasn't figured out a way.
"Marianne, I need to go to the wine shop on my own, buy some gifts for my friends at school, and you wait for me in the carriage. Dorado was on his way to Hail Street, and Lycia casually made up a reason.
"Miss, I can accompany you. Fifty percent of the maid's favorability on her head made Lycia reject her unscrupulously.
"No, Marianne, your clothes are instantly recognizable as servants of the Campbell family, and your back is embroidered with the family crest, and our family has just had that kind of thing, so we should be more low-key. Lycia casually made up a reason.
The young maid, Marianne, was convinced, and bowed her head obediently. "I'll be waiting for you here. ”
Lycia had already taken a step towards the wine.
When he passed by the manservant, he was still negotiating with the sheriff over the issue of compensation.
"Oh, by the way, a welcome gift for you, and an exclusive perfume for our little princess. She first handed the princess the perfume, then took Lycia's hand and placed the box tied with a blue ribbon in Lycia's hand. "Miss Lycia, something cheesy, I hope you don't dislike it. ”
Viscount Fudomi's appearance is somewhat gypsy girl-like, with slightly higher cheekbones and wide, upturned lips.
"Thank you. Lycia smiled.
"By the way, I invited Miss Lycia over because I wanted to ask about something. Troy glanced at Dimitrius, who was only drinking tea, as if he had not heard him about getting down to business.
"Hmm. Lycia nodded.
"Ugh. Troy glanced at the crown prince again. "Where were you yesterday?"
Lycia froze for a moment. "Hail Street. ”
After she finished answering, Dimitri's Disgust Bar changed to a Favorability Bar.
"What did you do in the past in the next block, is it related to the former heir of the He family?" Dimitrius put down his teacup and asked this unspeakable question of Troy.
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