Duke Robette, the head of the Isère family of the "Uncrowned King", has a high reputation among all classes of the kingdom of La Velis.

For the residents of the royal capital, the auxiliary princes who punished the best bureaucrats, reformed taxes and fees, and vigorously promoted public utilities were their grateful benefactors. For the soldiers of the kingdom, Duke Robette, the founder of the air force of the kingdom of La Velis and a former ace pilot, was their idol. As for the important officials of the court, most of them came from the disciples of the Royal Academy, and Duke Robette, who was the head of the academy, was their respected teacher.

Whether it is in the people, the military or the court, Duke Robette has such a reputation, and as for his three daughters, they are all heroines in their own right. It is not an exaggeration to call such a prominent family the title of "uncrowned royal family" - but these are things of the past. Whether it is the Duke of Fuguo, who rectified the rule of officials, the ace pilot who created the Air Force, or the academy director of the Taoli world, they are all things in the distant past, and they have nothing to do with the current Duke Robett.

The present Duke of Robette was nothing more than an ordinary old man who was far away from the court, at home, chattering about his daughters' marriages, and spending his days leisurely—at least, the Duke himself thought so.

For the duke, who considered himself retired, apart from being annoyed by the delay in finalizing the marriage of his daughters, he was quite satisfied with his current life. For example, on a day when the sun was not strong like today, watering, trimming leaves, pruning, picking fruits, etc., in his carefully cultivated private vegetable garden in the Duke's Palace was his favorite pastime.

"Mmmm, life is like this, right, what are you talking like fighting and killing all day long......"

The duke, dressed in a mud-stained coarse cloth trouser and a shabby straw hat, dressed like a peasant, carried a hoe and made his way through his beloved little vegetable garden.

Since it had just rained last night, the Duke had saved the effort of watering today. Looking at the wolf peaches on the vine trellis, which were moistened by the rain, the duke's heart was full of peaceful joy. Summer is the ripe season of wolf peaches, on the vine trellis has been hung with a green and lovely little wolf peach, some of them have been red and began to turn red, and in the most sunny place, you can already see some red and bright shadows, I believe that even if you pick it off and eat it immediately, you will not feel astringent.

Seeing that months of labor had finally borne fruit, the Duke was so overjoyed that his beard trembled. He put down his hoe and carefully walked through the gaps in the pergolas to the ripe wolf peaches.

The Duke looked up at the red fruit and suddenly frowned.

Because almost every ripe wolf peach now has a notch on it that looks like it has been gnawed by something.

"It's ...... What's going on?"

With seven points of annoyance and three points of confusion, the Duke carefully examined the gap in the wolf peach. Judging by the shape and size of the gap, there is no doubt that the prisoner must have been human, and the murderer seems to take a bite on each wolf peach, and then pick a wolf peach that is ripe enough to pick it. As evidence, there are still many parts of the ground that have been bitten off and spit out, and all the wolf peaches in the best places are gone.

As there was no such situation during his inspection of the vegetable garden yesterday, the Duke assumed that the culprit must have committed the crime today. He picked up the wolf peach on the ground and compared it with the gap in the vine trellis, the traces of both were quite fresh, and there was juice flowing out, and it was almost certain that the time of the crime of the prisoner would not have been ten minutes ago.

"Which bastard did that?" the Duke was so angry that his beard crooked.

Everyone in the Duke's Palace knew that this private vegetable garden was the most precious pastime of the head of the family, and no one dared to enter it except for a few princesses. Therefore, the duke's suspicion naturally fell on someone who had just arrived at the Duke's palace and was afraid that he did not know the rules.

"To deprive the old man of what little fun he has left...... Even if he is a prospective son-in-law, he can't allow it! You have to teach him the rules of the Duke's Palace!" The duke was indignant and searched carefully on the ground.

The mud was quite soft after the rain, and some dukes could easily spot the footprints left by the prisoners and chased them all the way.

The footprints stretched from the pergola to the outside of the garden, trampling on the seedlings and destroying the fence and making a mess of the garden, which the Duke had carefully cared for. Watching all the way, the duke's anger grew stronger and stronger.

After passing through the fence wall of the vegetable garden, the footprints disappeared on the stone path of the courtyard. Still, the Duke had no fear of losing track of the prisoner, and he peeked out of the crack in the fence wall and glared through the lawn of the front courtyard through gritted teeth.

Following the duke's gaze, a leisurely figure could be seen.

Precious silk cloaks were casually spread out as dinner cloths on the wet lawn, and in the corner of the cloak were placed four or five bright red fruits. The man reclined on his cloak in an indescribably lazy position, holding a book in his right hand and a fruit in his left, reading a page of a book and nibbling on a fruit, with a leisurely and relaxed expression, completely ignoring the juice that had leaked and scattered on his luxurious clothes.

When he saw the man throw away half of the fruit that had only been eaten a few bites in his hand, and then brazenly went to take another fruit, the Duke felt that a string in his heart had broken.

"Xiudedede!" the duke rushed out with his hoe in hand. "You bastard, you bastard, ahh

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Twenty-six years old, Shode Brando-Ravillis was the twenty-third king of the kingdom of Velis. After the death of the first king five years ago, Xiude, as the crown prince, succeeded to the throne with the assistance of his teacher, the "Auxiliary Duke" Duke Robett, and a number of important ministers. In the first two years of his reign, Xiude won the support of the people in the country with his diligent work for the people, and was known as the "virtuous king".

However, the good times did not last long, and since the "Auxiliary Prince" of the important ministers retired for some reason, the prime minister's faction with Prime Minister Katos as the prime minister rose rapidly. The ambitious prime minister used all kinds of ingenious means to empty the authority of the new king, build his own sphere of influence in the court, and gradually encroach on the supreme power of the country. Faced with the situation of the dictatorship of the ministers, Xiude, who should stand up the most to stop Katos's ambitions, I don't know what considerations, he actually allowed the prime minister's faction to do anything wrong in the palace, while he hid in the harem, threw himself into the tens of millions of classics in the royal library, and lived a life of books as food every day.

The autocracy of the prime minister's faction has aroused complaints inside and outside the court, but Xiude has a deaf attitude towards this, and lives a decadent and rotten bookworm life in the library all day long. Because of this, the "virtuous king" praised by the people in the past has been unconsciously replaced by the title of "idle king" with helplessness and resentment. Of course, things like this also reached the ears of Duke Robett, but I don't know whether it was out of trust in his former students or simply too lazy to care about him, the Duke never made any comments on Xiude's behavior of abandoning the government.

As for Xiude, he rarely walked out of the palace because he was addicted to his life as a bookworm. Seriously calculated, since he came to the teacher last year, Xiude has not come to the Duke's Palace for almost a year, and the duke has neglected to take precautions, and as a result, his beloved vegetable garden has been murdered again, and has been brutally ruined by the unscrupulous students of the past. The duke was heartbroken by this, and on the other hand, Xiude, who had committed evil deeds, also suffered the same pain as the teacher, except that the duke was in pain in his heart, and he was in pain in his body.

"Pain, pain, pain......" Xiude knelt on the ground in an apologetic posture, covering the swollen bag on his head, and muttered and complained. "Teacher, you still don't show any mercy when you start......

"Shut up, you unscrupulous!" the Duke sat on the stone bench in front of him, drinking the tea offered by his attendant, still looking angry. "I haven't been here for half a year, and as soon as I come, I will destroy the vegetable garden that the old man has worked so hard to plant, and the old man doesn't have students like you!"

"Well, it was an accident, teacher...... Originally, I was looking for you, but when I passed by the vegetable garden, I suddenly remembered the days when I was taught under you, and I was touched by the scene......"

Xiude defended himself, but the Duke snorted, and the expression on his face became even more sinister.

"Are you talking about digging a pond with Titania and destroying your teacher's hard-working vegetable garden by flooding, or is it because all the water in the pond leaked and your teacher's favorite koi died like that?"

"Uh......" From the duke's words, you could feel the deep resentment that had been going on for many years, and Xiude's forehead couldn't help but break out in a cold sweat. "Teacher, it was more than ten years ago, and you haven't forgotten it......"

"Shut up, you unscrupulous disciple! In order to avoid a recurrence of the tragedy, it took the old man several years to move the vegetable garden to its current place, but he still can't avoid your poisonous hands!"

"For years...... Teacher, you're really idle......" Xiude sighed.

“...... The last person qualified to say this is your guy. The Duke looked at someone known as the "Idle King" with resentful eyes, and then suddenly lost his strength and shook his hand helplessly.

"Forget it, get me up, it's not the first time anyway......"

"Thank you, teacher~magnanimity~"

With a deliberately long voice, Xiude stood up, and the duke kicked over.

"Stop talking nonsense, tell me quickly, you're not in the palace, what's the matter with running to the Duke's Palace?"

"Actually, it's not a big deal, but I heard that Noin seemed to be in trouble yesterday, so I came over to take a look...... Teacher, is there anything I can help with?" Xiude rubbed his hands together and asked the Duke in a low voice, almost wagging his tail.

"Hmph, your ears are quite clear, but it's a pity that you're a step late. The Duke despised him.

"What!

"you! Who dares to ask my daughter for no reason? Noyin was saved by her prospective son-in-law. ”

"Quasi-...... Son-in-law-to-be?"

"Yes, son-in-law-to-be. ”

The duke touched his beard proudly, as if he was happy to see Xiude's appearance being thundered by the word "quasi-son-in-law".

"Who...... Who is it?" Xiu Dekou looked at the duke dumbfounded, and then cried out in grief. "Why haven't I heard this kind of news at all? Calling the son-in-law-to-be, has his relationship with Noyin progressed to that point? Damn! Who the hell is it? How dare you snatch love with a knife...... Alas!"

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