603 Books Haewon Castle and Bukhae
The content of the sick princess's letter was not as peaceful and upright as she said, she didn't plan to hide it from Zhou Shu, but she had to say it step by step, anyway, there was time.
She confesses that the letter does cause problems for the Courier, who also has a very annoying task.
"It doesn't sound like it's dangerous. Zhou Shu thinks so. He felt that the sick princess's tone of voice was not strict, so this should be a small wit on her part, not a big deal.
Zhou Shu guessed correctly, but the sick princess would not admit this kind of thing, which would make him take it lightly. She won't let Zhou Shu do dangerous things, strictly speaking, she doesn't have much dangerous work at hand.
"Anyway...... "The sick princess pushed the box in front of Zhou Shu, "In addition to delivering the letter, you also need to bring two people back." ”
"Bring someone?"
The sick princess said that the letter in the box included an invitation in addition to greetings. As for the place to be sent, it is in the hands of Duke Triskett, the lord of the North Sea of the White Moon Country.
The coastline of the White Moon Kingdom is very long, and there are more forces in the coastal areas, and there are six duke lords. However, this area is far away from the war all the year round, and it belongs to the rear of the White Moon Kingdom, and the political situation is relatively simple and not complicated.
The more complicated one is the vicinity of the Red Moon Principality in the middle of the White Moon Country. There are a total of seventeen dukes in the entire White Moon Kingdom, which can be said to be a large number. Among them, the Red Moon Principality is the only independent and autonomous principality that is dependent on the White Moon Kingdom, and the other dukes are only lords.
The reason why the Red Moon Kingdom was able to stand on its own was simple, because she was small enough to pose no threat.
The Duke of Beihai is a middle-aged man who has no force value, but he is also the owner of magic power. He has only one twin child, who is only 12 years old this year. The two also inherited their father's mediocre magical talent. But this basically does not hinder their siblings, because they are destined to be leaders, not thugs. However, it is not easy to learn to take over the family business and the duke title smoothly as a child, and at this moment the sick princess is thinking about the two of them.
"You asked me to bring other people's children back to Baiyue Kingdom?!! "The word 'proton' suddenly came to mind in Zhou Shu's head.
That's exactly what the sick princess meant. The Duke of Beihai was not a good man. This was true for the Flemish royal family. His realm is the farthest away from the White Moon region of the royal family. And the cold climate is not a good place.
If you are poor, you will think about change, and the Dukes of Beihai in the past dynasties have not been on good terms with the Baiyue royal family. Always calculating that he can get some benefits from his neighbors, and even wants to fight the idea of the royal family. The last two generations of the Duke of Beihai had thought about the queen at that time fifty years ago. Marriage to a queen who has never been able to do it goes without saying. At that time, there were many great nobles who were managing this impure love, and the most attentive and fierce was the deceased Grand Duke. However, the Knight King was born that year. is in the limelight, but it also made him suffer a little, and he also broke a leg.
If there is one person in the entire White Moon Kingdom who openly holds a celebration ceremony because of the death of the Knight King, then this person must be the Duke of Beihai. Since the Duke of Beihai broke his leg back then, the royal family and the Beihai region are basically open confrontations, and they have no contact with each other.
Not being in contact does not mean that everything is safe. Arguably. The people of the North Sea region are opportunists, who are waiting for an opportunity to deal with the Flemish royal family. Now that the sick princess is about to be crowned, the sea has a strange disappearance. From the point of view of the Grand Duke of Beihai, this may be a godsend.
This Duke of Beihai has been very dishonest lately. The guy who incited the little lord to oppose the royal family was the one who the sick princess said before. For the little lord who made trouble in public, the sick princess didn't dare to send an army over to come over. For him, the black hand who is behind the scenes, he needs to be even more vigilant if he wants to seek revenge.
Zhou Shu listened to his eldest lady's description and frowned. "Please forgive me for interrupting me...... You said that the queen of fifty years ago had many suitors. Aren't you ...... now?"
Zhou Shu, who has lived for so many years and has never been in a serious relationship, opened his mind for the first time today and learned that there is a creature called 'rival in love' in the world.
The sick princess was slightly stunned when she heard this, and then patted her hand very happily. "Yes, yes, there are quite a few of them, and there are seven of them who have come to the city to be summoned. Would you like to see it?"
"There are so many seven?!" Zhou Shu was not afraid that they would snatch his cabbage, but he didn't want the sick princess to be remembered by others.
"It's very little, okay. The sick princess pretended to be dissatisfied and said to Zhou Shupu: "I am not an orthodox royal bloodline, and my physical condition is not very good in the eyes of outsiders, otherwise the number of people who pursue me would have exceeded 100 long ago." ”
"Isn't bad health a disadvantage? Isn't it an advantage?" Zhou Shu was shocked by this, and he thought of the young girls who married the rich old man.
"Of course not. The sick princess was not shy at all, and said, "The outside world doubts whether I am fertile or not, and no one would want to marry a wife who cannot have children, even if she is a queen." ”
For Bai Yueguo's upright people, Zhou Shu was completely speechless. He decided not to talk about this topic anymore, there were many things in front of him that were more worthy of his complaint, such as the problem of the Duke of Beihai's children.
This kind of thing 'proton' was quite popular in the true feudal era when China was still a feudal state, and due to the inconvenience of transportation, the Son of Heaven could not manage so many vassal states, so he could let them take care of themselves. In order to prevent these fellows from rebelling, having the kings of these vassal states send their heirs over as hostages was one of the ways.
Because there are examples like Qin Shi Huang and Zhao Gou, Zhou Shu always feels that these protons are not ordinary people. Let him come back with two twelve-year-old children, he is not morally repulsed, but he always feels that this task will not be easy for him.
The sick princess rarely used command sentences on Zhou Shu, and after telling the general situation, she walked up to Zhou Shu and asked, "How is it, are you willing to help me?"
"Help, of course. "Zhou Shu has been idle in the Gray Witch's house for the past three days, which is quite boring. The matter of returning to the first world was temporarily delayed because Yu Asuka needed to make the black dragon here, and he wanted to go back to the first world when Asuka was free, and by the way, he could get along with her for a few days.
Now his plans have been disrupted, and he is so bored that he has begun to wonder if he should leave for the West Country to catch rabbits. Now I have a closer assignment to do. It's better than venturing into the land of the west.
"But what should I do?" Zhou asked.
"It's simple. The sick princess lay down next to Zhou Shu's ear and whispered something.
Master Zhou looked embarrassed after hearing this, but he still nodded and agreed with the plan made by the sick princess. "By the way, when should I go?"
"The sooner the better. The sick princess pointed to the box on the table. "It's new here. The payment date is one week in advance. ”
From the White Moon area to the North Sea, it takes about half a month to ride a fast horse. The warrior ran errands to deliver letters, and he could run for a week. From this point of view, the payment time is OK.
Let Zhou Shu be a messenger, naturally it is impossible for him to walk on the road alone for ten days and half a month, and naturally he needs the gray witch to drive and pick him up. Now the Grey Witch is idle. There's nothing serious to do, I was collecting some things at Rozeravin the other day, and I'm back today.
"So, I'll leave in the afternoon?" Zhou Shu asked tentatively, wanting to see if the eldest lady had anything else to tell him.
The sick princess pursed her lips, as a queen who was about to be crowned, she couldn't bear not to be coquettish with the man in front of her. Let him go—
Master Zhou left the reception room of the sick princess with a box, walked to the balcony, made a call for the gray witch to come and pick him up, and then went directly to Beihai.
For the Grey Witch. A trip to the North Sea doesn't take much time. This task is not for her, she can go directly after putting Zhou Shu down. But she didn't have anything to do herself, thinking about helping Zhou Shu with her work, and did the work together.
"You're going to help too?" Zhou Shu didn't care, but the sick princess only gave him a messenger document to prove his identity. It's no problem for the gray witch to come, but in terms of identity, she can only be regarded as Zhou Shu's subordinate. At least in the duke, there is no VIP courtesy.
Zhou Shu didn't have the experience of helping a noble lord run errands, and he didn't even know what kind of etiquette he should have when he met the Duke of Beihai, but this didn't prevent him from doing this job.
His role in this work was not that of a full-time courier, but that of a warrior hired by the sick princess in the hope of having the letter delivered earlier. As a martial artist, it's not a big deal not to know the etiquette.
The letter was relatively simple, tactfully worded ordering the Duke of Beihai to hand over his daughter and son to the messenger of the letter, who would protect them as they traveled to the White Moon Kingdom to attend the coronation ceremony of His Highness Nalolo a month later.
The coronation of a princess as a queen is rare. The Duke of Beihai only sent a message to congratulate him, and said that he was not in good health and could not attend. The sick princess is ready to seize this opportunity to give this nasty guy a hard slap and make him increase his memory.
Zhou Shu can be said to be in no danger to his life this time, but it is only not in danger of his life. If the Duke of Beihai had a normal mind and had not suffered from Alzheimer's disease in his forties, he would certainly not be willing to hand over his only two children to a princess messenger who appeared out of nowhere.
Under normal circumstances, this duke only needs to drive Zhou Shu away, and then there will be no trouble. And what Zhou Shu needs to do is to make some mess for the duke, and the tanuki will change the prince to kidnap the hostages.
In fact, this kind of work is not bad for Ban Shi'er to do, but the sick princess really can't let her. Ban Shi'er and Nati are not as talkative as the Knights of the Archers, and they have little reverence for the royal family. These two people are patriotic and patriotic, but they can't agree with the fact that they are catching children back.
The privacy of this kind of work is quite high, and the sick princess has no right-hand man, so she can only bother Zhou to do this kind of work, which is still more handy, and the sick princess knows that he can become a living person out of thin air. In this operation, this strange force will always come in handy-
The main city of the Beihai region is not near the sea, but is located on a relatively less humid and cold plateau, called Haiyuan City, which is probably the largest city in the northwest of the White Moon Kingdom, and is about two-thirds the size of the defeated city.
As a city that does not need foreign enemies, Kaiwon Castle has a wall height close to that of a defeated city, and it is extremely high, giving people a feeling that they cannot be done by manpower at a glance.
Zhou Shu got out of the Gray Witch's taxi on the outskirts of Haiyuan City, said goodbye and watched her fly away with a 'boom'. The Gray Witch didn't plan to give Zhou Shu a current person, even if it was just her identity, so she decided to go back to Rozeravin to chat with Aleusha.
I came to the outskirts of Haiyuan Castle. The first thing Zhou Shu did was to find a place where no one was there and thicken his outfit. It's almost late autumn in the area. The sky here is dark, the grass is yellow, and it gives people a rather sad feeling. Zhou Shuhui felt this mainly because of the relationship that had just come from the garden of the sick princess, and the two were in contrast. The people of Beihai are indeed a little miserable.
It's just in the northwest of this White Moon Country. The soil is quite firm, which is not a good sign. This shows that the land here is quite difficult to make heavier.
Zhou Shu tried not to let himself judge the White Moon Kingdom through the common sense of the first world, the crops and animals here are strangely large, and there may not be material scarcity because of the slightest land reason.
In order not to attract attention, the gray witch landed in a depression in the suburbs and put down Zhou Shu. Master Zhou had just crawled out of this crater-like depression. I saw a huge wall not far away.
Due to the size of the city, the walls look endless. Unlike the Defeated Castle, a new city was almost formed outside the walls of Haiwon, full of buildings standing under the walls. Due to the constant need to meet enemy attacks, there are few buildings outside the city.
At this time, Haiyuan Castle was like a second ring road, with the inner city inside the city wall and the outer city outside the wall.
Zhou Shu hasn't acted alone for a long time. He doesn't feel alone. It's about enjoying this rare freedom. As he walked in the direction of Kaihara Castle, he flipped through the pages of the summoning book in his head, looking for beautiful girls nearby, looking for a chance to relax. Unleash your manly nature.
As soon as he walked to the edge of the outer city and saw some residents of Haiyuan City, Zhou Shu felt some very unfriendly eyes. The people here seem to be all civilians and even poor people in this Haiyuan City, and their clothes are far from decent, but they are all dressed well.
It is said that the more distinct the four seasons, the more elaborate the costumes. Zhou Shu didn't know what the temperature was like in Haiyuan City in summer, and he didn't know what country this place was equivalent to in first-world Europe, but it was really cold now.
Mr. Zhou, who had just returned from a business trip to warm South America, was not used to the climate here, nor to the eyes of the residents here.
He's always wearing a cloak on the South American side, and he's covering himself tightly on hot days. Now that he saw that his face seemed to be taken care of again, he was a little depressed.
"Do you want me to keep wearing my robe?"
With the temperature here, he really wanted to add a robe to himself.
He was now in a muddy street, as if it had rained not long ago. On the left and right sides are low-slung houses, with soil structures and thick thatched roofs, which look extremely ugly and do not have a lot of interior space.
This is only the most marginal building in Haiyuan City, and this shape basically makes Zhou Shumeng go back to the Middle Ages. Not the Middle Ages in a magical story, but that real, backward era when no one brushed their teeth.
This may be due to the fact that the geographical span in a short period of time is too large, and Zhou Shu is a little unable to accept the spiritual outlook of the residents of Haiyuan City around him. He shifted his gaze slightly from the building houses to the faces that guarded him, none of which were clean. Even the young women, whose faces were covered in black and ash, looked like workers who had come out of a coal kiln, wrapped their equally dirty hair in dirtier cloths, and hugged most of their faces as if they had no face.
Master Zhou suddenly felt that he was not hostile because of his yellow appearance, but because of his bright clothes. Although he did not know what the etiquette of a messenger should look like, he still knew how to dress appropriately to meet the Grand Duke here. He had little experience in talking to nobles on official business, so he was very cautious about it, and did not want to make jokes.
At this time, he was dressed like a nobleman who was going to a court ball, a dress with gold thread and a sunny appearance, which was incompatible with the gloomy and miserable atmosphere on the outskirts of Haiyuan City at this time.
Zhou Shu suddenly felt a little funny, and when he saw others murdering him, he thought it was racism, which was very black American. He was watched like an alien along the way, and finally walked under the city wall and came to the gate of Haiyuan Castle.
Unlike cities that are preparing for war, this city can be entered and exited at will, without the need to be checked. At this time, Zhou Shu hoped that someone would investigate, he had broken through the Defeated Army City before, and he had also broken into the Crescent Moon Port a while ago. As a result, I finally had a legal customs clearance document in my hand, but no one came to check on me, which is simply sad.
He touched the belt of space, like an office worker who wanted to make sure that he had forgotten his mobile phone and keys in his pocket. He didn't know if he should come here to finish his work, or if he should spend a day exploring the city and find out what the city was all about.
As far as the information brought by the Book of Summoning is concerned, there are no high-level warriors in the entire city. Master Zhou has never considered himself a core combatant, and he has always been someone else who fights and fights with soy sauce by himself. When he arrived in this city, he found that he seemed to be the one with the strongest combat effectiveness, and there were no warriors above the moon level in the city.
This good news made Zhou Shu more confident in completing the task of Shun Lì. It was a rare place of absolute safety for him, who had been in danger all the time. Therefore, he decided to go around and stay in the city for a day or two.