Chapter 14: Locke's Confession!
Although Parmenides still maintained a calm and indifferent appearance on the surface, he was already anxious inside. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. biquge。 info
At this time of the change of co-owner, the other four major families and the palace came to the door to ask for an explanation, if they can't give a reasonable explanation, these people will take advantage of the topic to play, and the custom of a family holding the government for ten years will be broken.
Especially, it is even more precarious when the royal palace is also involved, you know, this generation of Babylon king Theodosius has long been ambitious to take back power!
Sure enough, the more you are on the cusp of the storm, the more troublesome it will be, and you must be careful in whatever you do.
So, Parmenides was dragging at this time, dragging until his father returned.
"Young Master Parmenides, Your Majesty asked me to come, but the time is set, and I hope that Young Master Parmenides will inform the reason as soon as possible. Char, the commander of the Praetorian Guard, began to urge.
With the person who takes the lead, the rest of the people naturally have a reason to follow the trend.
"That's right, Young Master Parmenides, the five of us can be said to be one, but we are not in a hurry, but the palace can't help but be in a hurry. ”
"I hope that Young Master Parmenides will give an explanation earlier, or does Young Master Parmenides feel that there is no need to give an explanation to the palace?"
This sentence is a bit heart-wrenching.
Since the implementation of the co-ownership system in the Kaiyuan era, in the past three hundred years, each co-owner has carefully handled the relationship with the palace.
As long as there is a trace of disrespect for the royal palace, then the rest of the major families will definitely unite and attack the co-main family, which is the balance between the major families and the royal palace and the rulers.
Parmenides smiled lightly and said, "Mr. Wells's words are too serious, the reason why Parmenides is slow to say it is not because he is disrespectful to the palace, but because Parmenides is not really an adult, and the major affairs of the family have to be decided by his father, not to mention that this involves the safety of Babylon? You may wish to wait a little longer, my father should return within half an hour!"
The man known as Wells would not stop there, and he stood up and said, "Can the ban on the whole city be lifted?"
"The warrant must be lifted!" Parmenides replied without flinching.
Wells stood up abruptly and stretched out his hand to point at Parmenides: "Then the loss of tens of millions of gold from my Sykes family in Bihai Yuan will be compensated by your Yord family?"
Parmenides beckoned, and two shadow guards walked in the door.
Parmenides picked up the wine glass in his right hand and said slowly: "At a time when this kingdom is in danger, the communist lord has no choice but to issue a blockade order, and the Sykes family is still thinking about their own family interests? If this is the case, it seems that I can exterminate the Sykes in the name of treason!"
Beads of sweat began to dripping from Wells's head, if it was really planted in the name of treason, even if the co-owner did not destroy Sykes, those stupid citizens would gather and let Sykes live like a year!
Thinking of these consequences, he sat down curtly and said, "Sykes has always put patriotism first, naturally...... Naturally, there will be no treason. ”
Parmenides swept around and asked softly, "So, what about the family you represent?"
The other three families nodded in agreement.
Char, the commander of the Praetorian Guard, sighed and said, "It's worthy of the demon fox Parmenides, then wait another half an hour!"
Time passed minute by minute, half an hour, but in the blink of an eye, it had passed cleanly.
Wells got up again, and asked with an irritated face, "Oh, guys, am I getting old and my eyes are not working?"
Goode, the man from the Mance family, really took out his pocket watch, pretending to be very surprised: "Sure enough, half an hour has passed like this, if it weren't for Mr. Wells's reminder, I might not have noticed!"
Wells shook the pocket watch in his hand, and his eyes stared at Parmenides: "So, Parmenides the demon fox, can you give an explanation?"
Parmenides frowned, and was about to speak when a hearty laugh came from outside the door!
"Hahaha, I didn't expect so many people to come to visit the old man when I was away!
Everyone followed the sound and looked, who was the head of the Yord family who was not striding over?
Locke took three steps and two steps, and walked into the living room, but when he stepped into the living room, his face changed, and he shouted: "Shadow Guard, take down everyone in the Mance family!"
The air fluctuated twice in succession, and two shadow guards dressed in black and wearing black masks appeared beside Goode out of thin air, and one left and one right.
Goode looked at Locke inexplicably and asked loudly, "Your Excellency, what does this mean?"
Locke smiled and glanced around the people around him, and then said unhurriedly: "Aren't you the reason why you want to blockade the whole city this time? The reason is that the Mance family colluded with the spider to subvert Babylon!"
Goode was shocked and shouted, "How is it possible, Locke, you are framed!"
Locke beckoned slightly, and a team leader behind him threw Sylo, who was already left with only the lower half of his body and a skull's head.
"This is the proof!" Locke stared at Goode and said lightly.
Although Sylo's body has been changed beyond recognition, the family emblem belonging to the Mance family on the placket is still clearly visible!
That's enough!
Goode looked up at Char and said indignantly, "Your Excellency, Yord is blatant in a blatant frame-up! Maybe he killed a member of my Mance family!"
Locke didn't pay attention to Goode, but looked at Char and said, "Your Excellency Char, the dark aura on this corpse is quite obvious. How about I propose that Goode be handed over to the royal palace with this corpse for examination?"
Char's pupils shrank slightly, and after Locke said this, he wasn't sure if Locke was framing the Mans family.
After thinking for a while, Char could only nod: "In this case, I will escort them back to the palace first and hand them over to the guardians for review!"
Locke smiled slightly, and smiled very politely: "Your Excellency Char, please!"
Watching Char escort the bodies of Goode and Sylo away, Locke looked back at the representatives of the other three families, and said coldly, "What, do you still want to stay for the party?"
Wells hurriedly got up and bowed slightly: "Oh, no, my lord, the head of the family is still waiting for me to go back for afternoon tea." ”
The other two got up one after another, and after showing their attitude tremblingly, they left quickly.
At this time, Locke looked at Parmenides and said softly, "Good job!"
Witnessing the appearance of a mouse seeing a cat after seeing his father, Parmenides shook his head: "Compared with my father, I seem to lack authority, and no matter how resourceful I am, it is difficult to achieve the effect of my father." ”
Locke was slightly stunned: "As the mastermind, you are already very good." ”
"What about Rand?" asked Parmenides, with a gesture.
"Riding the God of War behind, it's estimated that it's almost there!"
Riding the God of War?
There was a faint wry smile on Parmenide's lips, but he immediately lost the bitter expression.
"What's going on?" Parmenides asked, pretending not to care.
Locke sat down, gave Parmenides a general explanation, and then said: "Rand's 'reading' seems to be a little strange, wait a while, you can analyze it for him." ”
After a pause, Locke whispered, "It's best to dispel his thoughts of cultivation! His thoughts are not suitable for cultivation!"
Parmenides was still immersed in the magic of the white flame with a look of amazement, and when he heard Locke's words, he was first amazed, and then suddenly realized why his father had decided in such a hurry to pass on the position of head of the family.
With this in mind, Parmenides nodded.
At this moment, the laughter of a child was accompanied by the whine of a big dog, which was getting closer and closer.
In the yard, a snow-white dog, more than one person tall, carrying a small boy, rushed over with a running and jumping.
The big dog looked helpless, but he also had a long-lost enjoyment, enjoying the young man on his back grabbing its ears with one hand, and poking its nose with the dog's tail grass with one hand.
Rand was full of laughter, and finally returned to his long-lost childlike innocence, and felt very happy in his heart.
See this picture. Parmenides was slightly stunned, if his half-brother hadn't died, he would have been so old and would have played like this.
Locke patted Parmenides on the shoulder and said softly, "That's all my fault, stop hating him, he's also your brother!"
Parmenides nodded slightly, but said nothing.