Book 551 The Sick Princess in Glass Masquerade
Zhou Shu hated conspiracy theories and the like the most in his life, but now there are some things that are justified, and he can't be allowed not to think about it.
Urami had said before that the battle between the White Moon Kingdom and the Forest Country looked strange, as if someone had provoked it. She thought that the knight king was playing tricks before, but the reason at that time was that the knight king's identity as a military king was itself, and almost all military governments in history liked to fight, otherwise their core values could not be realized, and soldiers could only rely on war if they wanted to be promoted.
Now a more favorable point of view has emerged, but Ula Mystery still does not dare to guarantee 100% that this is the truth of the matter, it is just a guess. The Knight King is now dead, and his death is unknown. Zhou Shu felt that this guy's death was comparable to the death of Xiaoao at the end of the rivers and lakes, and he thought it was *oss, but it was inexplicably gone.
However, the boss in Xiaoao Jianghu hung up, ushering in a perfect ending, Zhou Shu didn't think that his life would be perfect because of the death of an old man.
Now the ultimate cultivation magic array in the Knight King's hand has not been found, that thing is too dangerous, and it must be recovered as soon as possible. The second is those monsters in the valley mountains, which must be eradicated as much as possible.
As for the rest, it didn't seem to be a big deal, at most the sick princess needed to worry about her state affairs for a while.
Early the next morning, Zhou Shu and his party received a formal invitation from the sick princess, asking them to go to Baiyue Fort as guests, so they also went.
As soon as the carriage and horses had just set off, the wheels had not rolled out a few laps before a group of vehicles were stopped. The sick princess is a letter to one of her guards maids, Zhou Shu still doesn't know what she is called, she is always a girl who is somewhat similar in appearance to her eldest lady, but has a very different temperament.
The guards opened the carriage window and reported to Zhou Shuyu, "It's the prime minister's car, he heard that you are guests of Her Royal Highness the princess, and he wants to pay a visit." â
"No, no. Zhou Shu really wanted to say that. In fact, now is a good time to contact the prime minister. Ula Mystery said that this guy may not be a wicked person and does not want to harm the White Moon Kingdom, but he just acted according to the orders of the Knight King and did what a king's hand should do.
Now the king is dead. If the prime minister really guessed that, I'm afraid he was ready to confess something, right? It's always good to meet with him before that.
Zhou Shu thought so, said to the two witches in the same car, and then got out of the car and opened the door of Nati and their car, and the six of them went to meet the prime minister together.
At this time, the prime minister was in the car and looked out of the window and looked in the direction of the carriage where Zhou Shu was. The two vehicles stopped at the corner of the wall of the Gray Witch's mansion. This is a complete mansion area, and the Gray Witch's neighbors are all knighted, between mansions and mansions, in fact, each of these neighbors is almost half a block away.
The prime minister has a mansion near here. But he is not a permanent resident. This time, it was not by chance that he stopped the sick princess's carriage to find Zhou Shu, and he had been waiting here for three hours. Fortunately, there is no one here, and it is deserted, otherwise if the prime minister and his attendants and subordinates are parked by the wall for so long, I am afraid that tomorrow someone will make up some stories like 'tryst between the prime minister and his lover in the car'. Spread to the tavern.
Seeing the target get out of the car and walk in his direction, the prime minister also stepped out of the car door to greet him. He didn't know Zhou Shu, and this didn't know his name, but he only knew that there was such a person around the sick princess. Alien, black-haired, with a thick accent, but with a three-series star martial arts level.
The prime minister did not do much to investigate Zhou Shu. Today I didn't stop the carriage specifically to meet him. What intrigued him was Ban Shi'er, a fourth-line moon level, and two female magicians who were also foreigners.
Zhou Shu has always hidden himself behind the scenes, rarely exposed. He also knew that the prime minister might not have come to meet him, unless he already knew about his adultery with the sick princess, which seemed unlikely. In order to continue to keep a low profile, Zhou Shu walked and walked, and retreated behind the girls very naturally.
In fact, he was a man in the middle of five beautiful young girls. It was impossible to keep a low profile, so he had to try to make himself look like a protector of the girls, or a horse or something.
Although the prime minister looks a little weak, he has to carry a straight back quite majestic, and the same is true for the sick princess. This is true of everyone in the royal court. The old man came into contact with Zhou Shu and his party, and sure enough, he greeted the Gray Witch and Aliusha first.
"The guests of the two princesses are bothered. â
The guards maid who was following on the side saw that the prime minister was not waiting for others to salute him, but took the initiative to greet him, and suddenly felt as if he had not woken up, which was contrary to common sense.
The Grey Witch and Aleusha imitated the appearance of the ancient court family on TV, and smiled at the Prime Minister with a pinched demeanor, they have never been so restrained in this world.
"Hello, Prime Minister. â
The two witches were smiling, and bad water was brewing in their stomachs, trying to find a way to control the guy in front of them.
It's not just the vampire's teeth and the Book of Summons that can control others, witches are the ancestors when it comes to doing such things. As long as they spread their legs apart in front of the man in front of them, they could easily manipulate all the rest of his life. Of course, both the Grey Witch and Aleusha felt that the old man in front of them was not worth letting himself do this, but when they thought about it, if they could control him, many things and puzzles would be solved at once, which made them very conflicted.
"Two magician ladies, I don't know what to call them. â
The Grey Witch and Aleusha didn't say their real names, but replied with a lie: "The Prime Minister can call me a shadow mage, and this one next to me is a metal mage." â
The prime minister nodded, said the title of the second middle school, and then looked at Ban Shi'er and the others.
"I don't know how many of them are?"
The prime minister was now a little frightened in his heart, and the powerful magician and the powerful martial artist of the multi-line moon level who suddenly appeared next to the sick princess made him feel uneasy. For hundreds of years, it is rare in this world that so many powerful people gather together, and only in those times of absolute chaos will these people come together for some purpose.
Zhou Shu saw that the prime minister seemed to really don't know Ban Shi'er and them, and he was sure that this guy didn't know about the Knight King using the ultimate cultivation magic array to create super agents in the hunting ground forest behind Baiyue Castle. He can't say whether the news is good or bad, anyway, let's see the situation first.
The three of Ban Shi'er called themselves rangers very smartly, and then bowed down to the powerful old man in front of them to say goodbye. Zhou Shu saw that the prime minister surrendered his gaze to him, so he also said, "Ranger Zhou Shu, I have seen the former prime minister." â
Two magicians. The four rangers??The prime minister had a little calculation in his heart, and soon saw that these people were quite defensive of themselves. He could see very clear traces of the aristocratic woman from Ban Shi'er and the archer knight, and what he saw in Nati's eyes was the innocence of the little girl, which a well-informed wanderer would not have. Especially a female ranger.
As for Zhou Shu, a black-haired alien, the Prime Minister didn't bother to think about it. He was too old to think as quickly as he did when he was younger, and he couldn't think about much in such a short time to say hello.
"You're coming back from the South-Central Plains. The Prime Minister asked.
The Central South Plain refers to the Iron Key City, the valley mountain range is the southern valley, and beyond the valley is the southern coast of the White Moon Kingdom, but now there is no zĂ i sea and no shore, only a rocky beach continental shelf.
Ban Shi'er replied truthfully to the prime minister, she didn't know that this guy and Zhou Shu and the gang had a suspicion, and she said it quite politely out of respect.
Zhou Shu didn't know where this guy heard about his own itinerary. It's not a good sign, though. The prime minister didn't seem to intend to let them go to see the princess lightly, and quickly threw out the next question.
"I heard about the Vale and Iron Key City, and it seems that something is wrong. Do you have any information when you come back from there?"
Zhou Shu was pondering how to answer this question by himself, when he was suddenly interrupted by the sick princess's guard maid.
"Your Excellency, Prime Minister. Her Royal Highness still has important business to attend to, and she doesn't have much time to get together with friends. If you have anything you would like to ask, why don't you go back with us and wait for Her Royal Highness the Princess to gather with her friends. â
"It's fine. "The prime minister is not prepared to entangle with the princess's guard maids, the guards are not a job but members of the royal family, and the top boss only has a higher level of the royal family, and he will definitely not buy his own account as the prime minister.
The prime minister returned to the car. Before leaving, he invited Aliusha to sit and chat, but was stopped by the guards maid tactfully using the excuse of 'men and women are different'. Zhou Shu was really afraid that this old man would ask him to accompany him, if that was the case, he would definitely have to be tricked. He was lucky, the prime minister had no intention of doing so.
Arriving at the castle, the carriage passed through the main hall, the garden promenade and a small lake. Go around to the tower where the royal family lived. Since there is no habit of using glass as a window in this world, only tall towers are buildings with good lighting. In addition, the construction can rely on magic to help, so there are many tower-shaped buildings.
The sick princess was like a housemaid, she still appeared indoors, and Zhou Shu was a little suspicious when he saw her. How long has it been since this guy left the house? But considering that her house is really too big, it's normal not to go out of the house. The famous Marie Antoinette, the beheaded princess, also never left the Palace of Versailles. Zhou Shu thinks that maybe these women are all about the same.
The sick princess invited them in this time as a gesture, and she personally guided the six of them into a spacious room with a red carpet, velvet curtains, and huge stained-glass floor-to-ceiling windows. This is probably the first room with glass windows in the White Moon Country, and the glass making process is still consulted by the Gray Witch, and the Gray Witch specially used her mobile phone Wikipedia for this princess.
"How's it going, this room, just renovated. The sick princess chatted with Zhou Shu and the two witches about their home decoration. Zhou Shu felt that it was okay, and the first impression of stained glass on him was that of a church.
The sick princess smiled and asked Zhou Shu to come closer to the glass window to see, there were a lot of impurities.
"The ordinary windows of yours can't be made by the craftsmen under my hands. In order to conceal these imperfections, only color can be added to make stained glass. â
Zhou Shuxin said, you didn't come to show me the glass of your house, did you? He never thought in his life that someone would show off such a thing to himself.
In the eyes of the three of them, the price of glass is comparable to that of gold and precious stones. They thought that the sick princess was a virtuous princess, but after seeing this scene, they only thought that this was a stupid woman who pursued luxury and spendthrift.
It was rare for the sick princess not to see through the minds of the three people, and her head could not be exhaustive, ignoring the feelings of the three of them when they saw the glass window.
The sick princess invited a few people to sit down, moved a stool for herself to sit in front of them, and then complained to Zhou Shu.
"Last night and now, I called you mainly to show off to others. I can only make sure that there are no ill-intentioned ears outside the walls of this one room, and that the rest of the room is not to be said. â
"The wall has ears?" the Knight of the Bow stood up from his seat and saluted the princess, then said with a feigned indignation, "Who would dare to spy on the future queen." â
The Knight of the Bow heard the sick princess talk about this intimate topic. Not to mention how happy you are, this proves that people don't treat themselves as outsiders. Now that the Knight King is dead, she knows that she has lost her identity as a secret agent. In order to continue to serve the royal family, she naturally turned the finger to the sick princess.
The sick princess said with a sad face, "Let you see the joke." Excuse me. When the king died, I was always a thorn in the side of some people as my successor. In this castle, the only people I can really trust are a few sisters. â
It was the first time for Zhou Shu to see his eldest lady talking in such a fake way, and he also felt a little interesting, and watched with interest.
The bow knight had already sensed that the sick princess intended to appoint him, and he also pretended to be angry and said some words according to the words, and finally promised that he was willing to serve the princess's majesty.
When Lord Zhou heard this, he was already waiting for his eldest lady to draw out his sword and knight the archer. The archer himself is a knight with a knighthood, and if he is promoted, he will be given a fief.
In fact, Zhou Shu just thought about it like this. And Bai Yueguo is not used to using a sword to go straight in front of people at all, and there is no such etiquette. As a result, the sick princess seemed to have recognized the confrontation with Master Zhou, and after the bow knight expressed her position, she smiled and praised her with a 'heartfelt heart', and directly said that she would reward her with land.
"No!" Zhou Shu couldn't hold back, and was frightened by the situation in front of him. Whether it is sealed or not has nothing to do with him. He had no idea how the government of this world was turning, and he wasn't that interested. His old man was frightened by the drama-like process of the sick princess, and he once again discovered the upright side of the inhabitants of this world.
This blurted out sentence ushered in a hateful eye knife from the archer knight, and shocked Zhou Shu again, and it was the first time that he felt that the archer knight didn't seem to be as cool as he appeared.
The sick princess has no bird's own frightened boyfriend, after asking about the family of the Bow Knight. Promise to find a piece of land south of the southern coastline, no less than the size of a valley, and give it to the Archers. The archer actually guessed that all she could get was the land that emerged from the hind legs of the sea, but in fact, she didn't have any ambitions, and she could have this kind of desolate land, so she had a base camp that could develop slowly.
Zhou Shu heard this. I am also amazed by the strength of my eldest lady who promises empty promises. Although he went to Hanhai City on this trip, he didn't have time to investigate the situation on the coastline, and he didn't have time to see it at all. But the desolate scenery is conceivable.
After getting an archer knight, the sick princess surrendered her eyes to Natty and Ban Shi'er, who was missing an arm. Compared to the archers, the two of them are much more disciplined. And for the words of the sick princess.
First of all, although Ban Shi'er is just a small nobleman, he still has one acre and three points of land under his own name, owns two small towns, and has no interest in the land returned by the sea.
As for Nattie, she has no ambition at all, and she is not interested in the land at all. Because of the disgust brought on her by the glass windows of the sick princess, she did not really want to work for this poor and extravagant princess.
The sick princess didn't expect this to happen, scratched her head a little, and turned her eyes to Zhou Shu for help.
Master Zhou wondered, and said that if you want to accept the little brother, it's okay to tell me in advance, why are you so quiet.
Zhou Shu had mentioned Nati and them to the sick princess many times before, and the sick princess also learned about them being secretly summoned by the Knight King. Now that the Knight King is hanging, she wants to take over these people. The Knight King had already made a judgment of loyalty and had screened the candidates, so the sick princess thought that the three men could at least give a preliminary trust.
Nati and Ban Shi'er were more or less favored by Zhou Shu, and Zhou Shu was also the latter's life-saving benefactor. As for the grudge, Zhou Shu did join forces with the Gray Witch to kill Nati's two male companions, but they didn't know each other very well. As for some of the other small frictions, with Nati's big grinning temperament, I'm afraid I've forgotten about it.
Zhou Shu felt that he could still talk in front of these two people, but he really didn't know what to say. Do you force people to serve the princess?, so he looked at the sick princess with an apologetic expression, but he also promised in his expression that he would help with this matter later.
The complicated eye contact is played by the two of them, and the sick princess decides to withdraw the topic and talk about something else. She poured out a few small notes from a book in her desk drawer.
The strips were two fingers wide and rolled up, like letters tied to a bird's leg.
Human beings have a long history of using the migratory habits of birds to send letters, and Baiyue City, as the capital, has to send some letter birds raised by themselves to the city lords of other cities every year, and then exchange them for the letter birds they raise.
The contents of these pages are basically the same, and they are all reporting the fall of the city. However, these are not from one city, although the Iron Key City is also among them, there are only two, and the rest are undoubtedly from the Valley Mountains.
There was no date on the note, but Zhou Shu was sure that the time it took for his eldest lady to see these things was estimated to be less than thirty hours. These distress notes from the three cities of the Valley Mountains should have been withheld by the Knight King, and only now have they seen the light of day.