623 Books The Daily Life of Princesses
In the past few days that Zhou Shu went to Haiyuan City, the sick princess was not idle. She hadn't done anything herself, and since she had returned to the castle, she had hardly even had a chance to get dressed on her own when she got up.
She has been lobbying the council for two things lately. First of all, as the new queen, the budget for the mountain castle on the outskirts of White Moon City needs to be increased a bit. The council is not very willing to do this, but it does not prevent the queen from raising funds on her own, so she does not have to worry about the restrictions on specifications. As long as there are enough funds, even if a Tower of Babel is built, the council will say that there is no opinion on its side, and no one will spray any extravagant and wasteful nonsense afterwards.
Secondly, the sick princess planned to build a palace in the city. Although the White Moon royal family has always lived in castles, they have become accustomed to it after so many years. However, the sick princess was very envious after seeing the bright and spacious house of the First World, and wanted to make a similar one for her man after the marriage, so that he could feel the architecture of his hometown.
You must know that the sick princess has never seen a castle in the first world, and the spacious and bright building she has taken a fancy to is actually an airport. The government that Zhou Shu loves is also for investment to stimulate the economy, and has invested heavily in this kind of infrastructure and façade work, which shocked the sick princess once.
In this regard, there is no small treasury of the money royal family, and the queen who suddenly became material just wants a piece of land in the city. Actually, it didn't matter, but razed the hunting grounds in the city behind the castle and built a palace there.
The prime minister of the kingdom, who had always been against the children of the royal family before, said nothing and did not object, so it was also passed. So the sick princess was very short of money, so she asked the archer knight to go to a place with her second sister Princess Fuhu and the two princesses' kingdom knights to earn some extra money.
In the White Moon Kingdom, the rich people are not such a family as the Kou Chi family. They are nothing more than the richest of the common people. And the money is taken to run the business. In addition, Il himself had organized several legions to prepare for a rebellion, but in fact, he had problems eight hundred years earlier. If it weren't for his clever financing methods, this would inevitably cause a big mess in the Kou Chi family.
Richer than the Kochi family are the magicians of Rozeravin. Magicians don't actually have much real money, but they have a lot of valuable magic items. A few of these things can flow out casually, and it is enough for some big families to squander for a few months. But that's also in the past. Two years ago, a magician fell out with Rozelaven and single-handedly took on the entire magical city.
The magician, with some tricks of deception, made a bet to win a lot of good things from the magicians. Although they are all magical items that are not very useful like gemstones, such as lampstands that can change color with the weather and are covered with gems. The practical value is a little worse, but it can be sold for money.
According to the law of Baiyueguo, the scope of personal income tax also includes gambling income. But that magician is really a bit powerful, and the local tax collector can't handle it at all. In addition, there is a war with the forest country, so this matter has been delayed.
Now the sick princess also remembered this guy who should have been settled by the queen of autumn a long time ago, and sent out her absolute combat strength to find him uncomfortable. Because of his blatant resistance to taxes, this magician has already committed the death penalty. For this kind of very rich guy who doesn't listen to discipline and is useless, it's only right to find a place to bury it after he dies.
Wealthy people are willing to live in lively places. As the capital, White Moon City is actually not the most lively. After all, not everyone can afford a house in the capital. On the outskirts of White Moon Castle there are a number of mountain villas built by wealthy families, and there are also towns and villages nearby, and the population here attracts many merchants to set up bazaars. The rich magician's mansion was near the bazaar.
Princess Fuhu had gone to deal with the Lantern area before. The situation there was quite troublesome, and the cousin of the Iron Princess's man, Kath Bay, became a puppet duke. Controlled by some bad guys.
Princess Fuhu worked with the first and second knights for a while, and only killed half of them. The other half are now vigilant, and there is really no chance to start.
For this kind of political matter, it is indeed not a political art at all. However, it was all a local problem, and the royal family did not dare to intervene in consideration of the people's feelings. Now the dead are nothing more than a group of hateful lords who usually do a lot of evil and cause trouble in the village. Not to mention that Princess Fuhu did her job neatly, and no one could frame her for this. Even if the royal family confesses and believes that Cassbello's little cousin is a duchess, she can only be grateful, and she can only surrender after she is done, but she will fight against the royal family.
Princess Fuhu led a group of people. It didn't take him a few hours to come to the magician's house. It was a typical fortress building, with huge bricks piled up into a ten-meter-square stone box and twenty meters high. There were no windows on all sides, only an entrance at the top of the fort.
This style of building is supposed to prevent the magicians of Rozeravin from summoning some imps and mobs to play human tactics. He just needs to guard the only entrance, and the real sense of the word is not open.
The sick princess didn't plan to attack the magician's workshop, it was looking for death, as long as the mechanism was activated, the earth would turn into lava in minutes and take her own life, which is no exaggeration.
She was waiting for the magician to come back from his outing. Without those magic arrays carved in the workshop, the combat power of the magician is like that. However, I heard that there is a very powerful magic engraved on the back of this magician, which is not easy to deal with, and it also caused a group of magicians to capsize in the gutter back then. However, considering that there is only one type of magic, even if it is strong, the variation is limited. Now there are the combined skills of the first knight and the second knight that can be used, and there is such a nominal strongest in the continent, the new helper of the old sister has turned into a hard bow in the dark and is ready to sneak attack.
It is estimated that solving this magician should be a matter of moments.
The sick princess didn't know if the magician had gone out today, but it didn't matter, the sixth sense of the four-month-level martial artists together showed that today was a good day, and she shouldn't let herself wait too long. They all have some levels of internal organs, and they are used to acting with the sensibility brought by the ability of the internal organs, and if this sensibility is not reliable, they will not develop this habit.
A good habit is a good habit, and Princess Fuhu grabbed the information booklet of the magician called 'Star Dust' that gave people a headache. Staring at the portrait section above. No sooner had she memorized the old face with the wrinkled and white beard in the picture when she saw an old man walking towards her in the same black silk robe, with only his head exposed.
Princess Fuhu has always given people a bright and upright appearance all her life, but in fact it is completely false, otherwise she would not have let the Bow Knight Cat ambush five hundred meters away.
As a suburb of the capital, the neighborhood is actually a little more desolate than expected. The teacher of the magician Star Scrap is a certain life mage who is very famous in China. It is also surprisingly caring for life. Princess Fuhu looked at the waist-high weeds around the fort and suspected that the reason why Stardust didn't clean them up was because she cared for plants.
Now she stood among the weeds, beside two knights dressed in brocade and armed with hammers and swords. Princess Fuhu was sure that if she could see this old man, he would definitely be able to find out too.
Soon, the mage stardust squinted his eyes and poked his head, staring back and forth at the three people standing in his direction in the distance, apparently discovering that the comer was not good.
"Oops, oops. This martial lady with a raging flame tattooed on half of her cheek. Could it be Her Royal Highness Princess Fuhu?"
Stardust's voice is the same as that of an ordinary old man, but the speed of speech is very fast, which is a common problem of magicians. Generally speaking, a scholar needs to think in his head at a fairly fast pace, and as a great magician, he also needs to stand on the podium and give lectures to students. Although more than ninety percent of these students cannot become magicians.
These things give the magician a good level of eloquence and expressiveness, and the speed of speech is also one of the characteristics.
"I'm here to collect taxes from you on behalf of the royal family. "Princess Fuhu can be regarded as acquiescing to her identity. She pulled out a stack of files from the space props, "You've been accused of long-term tax evasion, and these are the evidence." However, Her Royal Highness the Regent is willing to absolve you of your sins in this regard. There is a rule in the kingdom that the elderly over the age of 80 will not be imprisoned. But the fine is still required. ”
Stardust listened halfway, and held out a hand to signal that he was going to interrupt.
"What do you want to say?" Princess Fuhu was also quite magnanimous to the old man.
"Your Majesty, how much taxes and fines does the old man have to pay?"
"My current status is that of the law of the Kingdom, not the second princess. Don't call me '陛xià'. Princess Fuhu deliberately showed a confrontational attitude, saying that she came this time because she was not good. Then faced with the problem, she also honestly said her sister's appetite. "For your punishment, according to the law of the kingdom, the lightest is to raid your home. That's what we're here for. ”
For an old man who has won a lot of money in Rozelaven and is rich enough to rival the country, copying his home is not an ordinary strict zhòng.
In fact, in the plan of the sick princess. This batch of ripe rice from the star chips should have been cut a long time ago. Strictly speaking, Bai Yueguo deliberately let this old guy evade taxes for two years in order to have an excuse to raid his home. The sick princess also had a rare exploit in her own law, no way, after all, the reason for the fight with the forest country before was money, and she would naturally take a qiē method to get money.
Now that the war is over, she has no intention of letting go of this extra income. Considering her material life after marriage, she sweetly read Zhou Shu's name in her heart, and at the same time found her old sister and knight, ready to kill an eighty-year-old man.
The guilt of killing the old man is almost zero for the sick princess, who made him openly resist taxes. The law of the country cannot be challenged, and you can't make an exception just because you're old and a magician with strong combat power. Most of her guilt is placed on calculating the entire family property, in fact, Bai Yueguo has always had the strength to adopt a policy of enforcing this tax.
Princess Fuhu showed the old man the text in her hand from a distance, and she didn't care whether he could see it clearly. Anyway, she still has a job this afternoon, and she is going to a trading house to attend a drinking party, and show herself as a monkey to the merchants, so that they can praise her, the number one martial artist. This work is also for the old lady's castle and palace, those merchants are suppliers of building materials and raw materials, some price issues have not been negotiated, and the transportation capacity also requires more efforts from the merchants.
Stardust didn't expect the royal family to be thinking about raiding their own home, and they also sent the princess and the knights of the kingdom to carry it out.
"The first martial artist in the mainland, the second princess, the head of the Wang ** regiment, Her Royal Highness Princess Fuhu. The old man smiled and sorted out the name of Princess Fuhu. "Now for the sake of the old man's family property, he has the title of tax executive. The old man was deeply honored. ”
"Honored, isn't it?" Princess Fuhu yawned. Pulling out the Sun Sword at his waist, "Then let's work quickly, I still have something to do in the afternoon, so I can't delay." ”
Stardust seems to want to continue chatting. Seeing Princess Fuhu draw his sword, he squinted his eyes from afar for a long time, "Your Majesty's hand." It should be the Excalibur Burning Sun created by Her Royal Highness the Iron Princess, right?"
Princess Fuhu nodded, proudly affirming that she had borrowed this sword with great difficulty.
In Zhou Shu's territory before, Lieyang slashed too many boring things, and finally absorbed a whole Winter God's magic ice pick to awaken Yang Xi in order to save people, and the entire sword could be renamed from Lieyang to Extreme Cold. After bringing it home, she had the Iron Princess fix it and remove the Winter God's terrifying ice picks from her sword.
The Iron Princess has been given a brand new Sun, and enough Arctic Matter to craft a new magic sword. She's happy about it. Very generously, he lent the sword to Princess Fuhu again, and he was also waiting to harvest more good things.
The sun has two stalks, and the other one is in the hands of the Knight King. He's dead now, but the sword is still there. The sick princess also brought this high-end goods with her to ward off evil spirits.
For her, who doesn't know how to use a sword at all, holding that thing can really only avoid evil, and if she doesn't know it, she will be hurt by the magic blade.
Star Dust was confirmed by the sick princess, and suddenly a very fake hahaha laughed three times. Then he touched his beard and read the lines very idolically.
"Your Majesty, the old man has always admired the Iron Princess. I've always been curious about the magic weapons it forges. Since you appeared with the sun as the first martial artist, the old man naturally would not let go of this opportunity to learn. If you want to fulfill your responsibilities as a tax executive, you must first beat the old man. ”
Princess Fuhu knew that things would develop like this, which is why she brought so many people. She believed that the old man's nonsense was an excuse, even if she had brought a shoddy border sword. The old man could also find other excuses to fight him.
The first and second knights on one side also pursed their lips after hearing the words of the old scoundrel in front of them.
"Fight and fight, a magician, why dress yourself up as a martial hero. ”
The stardust is getting old, and the ears are quite sensitive.
"It's the first knight and the second knight, right? The joint attack of the two had no effect on the old man. ”
As he spoke, he suddenly closed his eyes, and then grabbed a waist-length weed beside him. The light flashed in his hand, and then the magic activated.
Princess Fuhu flipped through the booklet in her hand that recorded some of the deeds of the stars, trying to figure out what kind of magic this guy would throw when he encountered herself in this wilderness.
She is not afraid of any fireballs and ice arrows, which Zhou Shu has taken her through before, and she has a lot of experience in dealing with them. Considering that this old man is famous as a fraudster, and he has cheated a rich country out of gambling, the magic used should not be so straightforward.
The things in the booklet were very limited, and no one drew a key point for Princess Fuhu or anything, and she didn't find any useful clues for a while. By this time, the magic of the stardust had taken shape.
The weeds that the old man had nested in his hands suddenly grew wildly, and the weeds swirled and twisted together, and flowed to the ground like a cascade of water from a waterfall, and then suddenly to the sky like sprouts from the seeds.
Almost instantly, a huge fortress-like house appeared. The room was made of grass stems, the thickness of which is unknown, but it is estimated that the walls should be one or two meters thick. The important thing is that the house is completely locked in the stardust, and it is impossible to see where he is now.
"Use magic to speed up the growth of plants and create a fortress...... Is this tactic of locking yourself up, and I'm really not afraid of the teaming up of my knights."
Princess Fuhu looked at the boring thing in front of her, turned on her transformation ability, and began to nourish her muscles with magic power, ready to fight a protracted battle.
The First Knight and the Second Knight have two mutation abilities, the Eye of the Snake and the Eye of the Sheep, respectively, one can tempt enemies and the other can make enemies fearful. Under the combined efforts of these two extremes, any enemy will become an invincible save, who can only stand there and be slaughtered. Princess Fuhu and these two people couldn't fight, so they could only close their eyes and run away before they threw out their transformation ability.
Tempting and frightening, apart from the two knights of the kingdom, there are probably only horror movies. Now that the Grass Stem Fortress blocked the view, the knights of the two kingdoms said they were helpless.
Princess Fuhu was not too worried about this battle. The opponent is a magician, and sooner or later there will be a day when the magic runs out. And as long as he throws a stone at him, he will hang, and it will take him a while to defeat him. And Princess Fuhu believes that this guy doesn't dare to really take the initiative against his father, even if he wants to kill him.
She continued to flip through the pamphlet, trying to find out what the magic was. Knowing oneself and knowing that the other is invincible, this sentence is understood by her very well.
As a result, I looked for a while, but there was still no response.
"Her Majesty, Princess. Stardust seemed to be a little impatient to wait, and Tongguò magic amplified his voice in the grass stem fortress to say this. "The old man has bad legs and feet, and he can't stand for long. Don't you have something to do in the afternoon, don't you want to let the old man die of exhaustion?"
"Wait a minute. The sick princess said in her usual voice, believing that the magician could hear her voice and that there was no need to shout. "I'm looking up the type of magic of yours, sharpening the knife and cutting wood, you wait a little longer. ”
This answer made Stardust very depressed.
"I'm afraid the old man doesn't have this body. I'm afraid Your Highness doesn't have that time. You are laymen, and it is difficult for you to judge this magic. ”
"Then you can take the initiative to sue us, and then swear to God that what you said is true. Princess Fuhu said. She believes that the other party will probably really say that it will be exposed when the fight starts anyway, and he probably doesn't plan to win, he just wants to get rid of himself, so there is nothing to hide.
Sure enough, Stardust giggled, letting the laughter echo through the wasteland for a moment, and then said succinctly: "The old man only carries a kind of personal magic on his body, which can make the things in the old man's hands full of life. ”
As he spoke, he slit his palms in the black-smelling fortress of grass stems, allowing a few drops of his blood to be 'mastered'.
Immediately afterward, the ground near the Grass Stem Fortress gradually turned blood red, and the blood danced as if it was alive and slowly attacked in the direction of Princess Fuhu.
Princess Fuhu sighed, "That's right, I understand." He is worthy of being an excellent disciple of the life magician. (To be continued......)