Chapter 1120: Father and Son (40)
Regardless of the universe, Asgard's night seemed quiet and deep, and Loki carried Helen to the washstand in the bathroom and let her get water from the faucet to wash her face, while he turned around and went out to the dressing room to change into his pajamas.
While he was belting his dressing gown, Helen's laughter came from the direction of the bathroom, and Loki hurriedly tied his belt, and when he walked out, he found Helen foaming all over her face, and drew a smiley face on the mirror with the foam.
Loki leaned against the door with one hand on his waist, and when Helen found him, instead of being frightened after the accident, she used her hand to form a circle and blew a series of bubbles at Loki.
Loki hurriedly waved his hand in front of his face to keep the foam from getting on his freshly washed hair, and he turned his head to look for a towel in the bathroom, only to find that the towel had also been touched to the ground by Helen.
Loki sighed, turned to go out, and as soon as he opened his door, he showed a hesitant expression, and he instinctively turned his head to look at the window in the hallway, the window frame sliced the moonlight into pieces, and when it fell on the ground, it was like a shattered mirror.
It was very quiet outside the window, and even the fire in the martial arts arena was extinguished, which showed that it was already late at night.
If it had been before, Loki would never have called the ceremonial officer or the attendant, because he didn't want these people to think that he couldn't even handle this little thing, and he would have to trouble other people's people.
Loki, who was standing by the door, took a deep breath, spit it out again, erased the memories in his mind, and then shouted at the staircase of the hallway, "Someone!"
After a dozen seconds, two squires in armor ran up, and Loki cleared his throat and said to them, "Help me get two towels." ”
Although his tone was very calm, the hand that was pinching the door frame was slightly exerting force until the green tendons were clearly visible, but the two attendants did not even raise their heads, bowed down and said, "Please wait a minute, the ceremonial officer will come over immediately." ”
Loki frowned and said, "Where did he go?" Why not at the post of the vigil? ”
The two attendants glanced at each other, both looking a little surprised, wondering why Loki knew so much about the staffing arrangements for the Asgard Vigil.
Asgard is a complex of accommodation and office, similar to Buckingham Palace in the United Kingdom, where the royal family lives and works, and in addition to the royal family, generals, messengers, diplomats and butlers who are allowed to stay overnight will also live here.
Because of the large number of people living in the house, there will be three attendants and a ceremonial officer on each floor to facilitate the various needs of the royal family or overnight guests, the attendant is mainly responsible for ensuring safety, and the ceremonial officer is responsible for the logistics of life and the notification of work and rest arrangements.
Loki stood at the door and waited for five or six minutes before the ceremonial officer arrived, Loki said he was going to get two towels, and before he could frown, the ceremonial officer frowned first.
Although he finally turned around and went to run errands, Loki could clearly see the impatience in his attitude, as if "I still have to do this little thing".
After the attendant and ceremonial officer left, Loki's brow furrowed even deeper, and the group of people actually didn't recognize him as Loki at all, but thought that he was Thor's guest.
Now, Loki lives on the 6th floor of Asgard, and according to what he knows about Asgard's hospitality, this is where the guests live, but even so, he asked the hostess to help get two towels, and the other party was reluctant.
Loki, who has lived on Earth, knows that not to mention the royal housekeeper, in New York, any five-star hotel will not be of this level of service, and even the waiter on night duty will have a better attitude, because the tips of guests are higher during this time period.
Asgard doesn't pay attention to tipping, but the ceremonial officers and attendants here are actually the children of fleet commanders or officers, and they come here just to fight for a place in front of Odin or Thor, and some of them are more fortunate enough to follow behind the god king and learn how to lead the troops.
But how could they have such an attitude? Even if the night duty is more tiring, but the manpower of Asgard Palace is very sufficient, and a person can work the night shift for two days a month at most, and he is still late and embarrassed, isn't this offending people for Asgard?
Loki's heart sank more and more, and since Thor succeeded to the throne, Asgard began to engage in frequent diplomatic activities.
In addition to summoning various fiefdom lords within the nine kingdoms, and inviting other interstellar civilizations to watch the ceremony, after that, Thor may have a grand wedding, which is a very important diplomatic event.
But if the attendants and ceremonial officials of Asgard all have this attitude, is this diplomacy? Isn't this the circumstance of going around in circles to offend people?
Loki had closed the door and shook his head as he turned back to his room.
Now, he had figured out that it wasn't him who was abnormal, but Thor.
As a monarch, Thor was too tolerant, careless, and informal, and the people under him did the same, and they might have to complain that the other guests were too troublesome and too troublesome.
Or, actually, what is special is Asgard.
After all, there are few civilizations in the universe that are bigger than their brains, and the vast majority of civilizations do not have the strong physique of the gods of Asgard, and if they want to develop, they will inevitably have to rely on geopolitics and diplomatic relations, so they are extremely cautious in this regard.
But the Asgardians are very arrogant, they feel that there was no diplomacy before, and they will not need it in the future, and the people on the other side are either defeated by their subordinates, or, in the future, why give them any good faces?
This reminded Loki of a phrase he had seen in the human world: the most terrible thing is not weakness, but arrogance.
If Asgard is compared to a human being, then he must be very arrogant, always follow his own way, unwilling to change, if others do not follow their way of acting, but the other party is hypocritical and troublesome.
The more Loki thought about it, the more he felt that a heavy boulder was pressing on his heart, and he couldn't solve it if he didn't solve it, but he couldn't find a good way to solve it, who made Thor have that kind of character?
But when he thought of this, Loki suddenly had a flash of inspiration, Thor is such a character, so what about Odin? Will Odin be unhappy about this?
As soon as this idea came to him, it startled Loki, why did he think of Odin? Aren't Odin and Thor carved out of the same mold?
But reason was telling Loki that it wasn't.
When Thor was still a prince, he acted in a reckless style and liked to go on rampage, that is, during the period of succession, he began to learn how to judge prudently and act rationally.
But according to Loki's understanding of Odin, from beginning to end, this father of the gods, who looks wild in style, is definitely not a reckless person, on the contrary, he is more cautious than anyone else.
During the period after Thor succeeded to the throne, Odin still stayed in Asgard to hand over the work, would he not have noticed the abnormality of the attendants and ceremonial officials in Asgard?
Loki came up with an answer in his heart that surprised and frightened him, and he was unwilling to let his logic follow this line and continue to deduce downward.
After a while, the hostess brought the towel, and when Loki took it, he found that the towel was not neatly folded, and the two towels were not of the same size, which looked a little funny, which made him feel even worse.
Walking back into the room, Loki picked Helen off the sink and wiped the foam off her face with a towel, but because she was upset and irritable, Helen sneezed twice.
Loki picked up the towel that was wiping Helen's face and looked at it, this towel was obviously over-dried and began to shed hair, and with a slight shake of his hand, the lint in the air was clearly visible.
Loki angrily threw the towel out, then squatted on the ground, covered her face with her hands, Helen rubbed her nose, turned her head to look at him, and said, "What's wrong?" You seem to be angry......"
"Fucking idiots!" Loki gritted his teeth and scolded: "I went to the inn to find two flying horses, and I did things with my hooves, and they did better than them!"
Helen didn't seem surprised at all, she shrugged her shoulders and said, "It's not a day or two, last time, the clothes they found for me, the pin on the collar didn't take off, and when Pepper took me back, he just found it and complained for two or three days." ”
Loki looked up at her, and he realized that the worst he had envisioned had come true, and Asgard was really a shame in the circle.
But Helen smiled and said, "I guess, you must be bothered by this, you think they are really careless, I don't know how many people have been offended in the subtleties, but in fact, it is not as serious as you think......"
Helen looked up at Loki and said, "Perhaps, you also know something about Tony and Pepper, so why do you think they are willing to send me here when they find out that a group of people don't care about me at all?" ”
Loki was a little stunned, he looked at Helen and asked, "Why?" ”
He was indeed a little puzzled by what Helen meant, Pepper found out about this, it seems that it was a long time ago, but after that, Helen still went back and forth between Asgard and Earth, and the relationship between the two parties was not affected.
While working in the Holy of Holy, Loki also knew something about Pepper, who was not called "Little Pepper" for nothing, and this housekeeper was resolute and strict, and was not willing to tolerate any flaws.
Why, then, was she willing to send Helen over when she found out that Asgard hadn't actually taken care of her?
As soon as he thought of the question, Helen opened her mouth to give the answer: "Because, of course, she thinks that I have much more to gain from Asgard than I have to lose." ”
"I can learn how to use divine power and hone my martial arts here, and besides that, I'm also happy here, Frigga and other goddesses are willing to play with me, and the warriors of Asgard are willing to take me out shopping."
Compared to this, there are some flaws in life, the clothes are not handled well, and the big deal is to bring her own clothes, Pepper often said that she should not expect a civilization like Asgard, which is full of muscles and only has a brain, to take care of the children", "
Loki stared straight at Helen, Helen shook her head lightly and said: "Asgard's style is known to the whole universe, and because you are strong enough, even if the other party is dissatisfied, they dare not say it, or they know, it is useless to say it, you are like this." ”
Loki pursed his mouth, looking a little dissatisfied, Helen grabbed his hand and shook it and said, "Don't be sad, I have to admit that it is good to have a big fist, as long as you are strong enough, everyone will forgive you." ”
"But if it goes on like this, it's not that we can't do it well, or that sentence, if you work a little harder, will you tire them out?"
As soon as Loki finished saying this, the expression on his face became a little hesitant, and he said, "I have a heart to change, but I know that I can't go to Thor, he will only persuade me not to worry about these ......"
After speaking, he looked at the towel he threw out again, and said: "This is no longer a personality problem that can be explained, it is completely casual and lazy." ”
"When there is a battle every day, these details are indeed not too important, as long as the martial arts are strong, but now, Asgard has stopped the pace of the war, let them continue to indulge like this, sooner or later there will be a rift inside"
"And what are you going to do?" Helen asked.
Loki bit his finger lightly again, and then said, "I have a bold idea, and it's a little scary. ”
"Oh my God...... How did I come up with the Father of the Gods...... No, it certainly won't work...... He couldn't have ......"
At this moment, there was a series of rapid noises at the door, and Helen ran to open the door, and outside the door stood Sylvie, whose face was full of tears and an anxious expression, and she shouted!
"Let's get out of here! In case, the director of the Time Authority finds here...... I couldn't have caused any more trouble for Thor!"