Chapter 17: The Late Night
If Mr. Cho knew what kind of changes the so-called "seed" of power he had given to Roddy - and even the world - he would not have done that!
Many years later, there was a proverb circulating around the world: a finger changes the world, and a seed collapses an empire.
Of course, the famous wise man Lord Seth, I don't know where to find a philosophical quote left by the Dandong sage, which can better explain the meaning:
Lost a nail, broke a shoe;
broke a farrier and broke a warhorse;
broke a war horse and wounded a knight;
wounded a knight, lost a message;
Lost a message, lost a battle;
Lost a battle, lost the whole battle;
Lost the entire battle, and lost an empire.
It's a very interesting passage - often something that is unusually small and insignificant, in the end, can produce unexpected results!
The "seed" of power that Mr. Qiu gave to Luo Di is like this!
It took a long time for Roddy to wake up after receiving Mr. Qiu's finger. He didn't quite understand the meaning of Mr. Qiu's finger, but subconsciously, he understood that he seemed to be a little different.
However, he couldn't say what was different.
Nicole had no intention of letting him contact outsiders, and after meeting Mr. Qiu, he was immediately taken to Nicole's small laboratory building.
"You're going to live here from today onwards!" Nicole said lightly, and prepared to leave.
"Wait...... Please wait!" Seeing that Nicole was about to leave again, Roddy mustered up his courage and couldn't help but shout.
"Huh?" Nicole looked back at the big boy.
Roddy slowly took off the mask on his face and sighed, "Miss Nicole...... Well...... Master...... Well...... I want to know, this face of mine...... Why?"
Nicole looked at him indifferently and did not speak.
Roddy continued, "I know, this face is exactly the same as your brother's, what are you turning me into your brother's appearance for?"
Nicole frowned, "You'll know when the time comes! Now you just have to listen to me!"
"No......" Roddy said cautiously: "Actually, I can already guess a little bit......" Speaking of this, Roddy hesitated for a moment, and then more carefully and gently tentatively said: "You...... You're trying to get me to pretend to be your brother...... Be...... Really?"
Nicole's face changed slightly, and she said lightly, "You know?"
"Of course......" Roddy pouted, "Just look at my face now, can't you guess?"
Nicole sneered a few times and asked, "Aren't you satisfied?" You know, my brother is a famous beautiful man in Yanjing, and his current face is more than a thousand times better looking than your original face!"
Roddy shrugged his shoulders and just said lightly: "It's a pity that no matter how good it is, it's not my own!"
Nicole was stunned for a moment, she didn't think that Roddy could have such an idea at such a young age.
Nicole took a few steps closer, glanced at Roddy deeply, and said slowly: "Do you know, I want you to pretend to be my brother to do me a great favor! Since you guessed it, I won't hide it! What is the identity of our family, you must also know! If this thing is successfully done! I will definitely not treat you badly! You see...... You can't go back to the academy anyway! I can send you to the army! Then you can become an officer in the future! This is my compensation for you! Would you like to?"
Army?
Officer?
Roddy was stupid all at once!
Willing?
Of course I do!!
Who doesn't know the status of the Tulip family in the military? Their family is the home of the Imperial Marshal! If Nicole intervenes to arrange for him to enter the army, then in the future, as long as Roddy does not mix too badly, a bright road will be laid in front of him!!
No matter how you calculate this, it's much better than staying in Yanjing and being an obscure samurai!
Even if you become a samurai, what can you do? Unless you become a top master, like Mr. Qiu! Yanjing has hundreds or thousands of ordinary samurai? Most of them are better mixed up than serving as guards and bodyguards for those nobles, and even worse, they are just reduced to being beaten on the streets - just like the kind of thing Roddy did last time!
There was already a light in Roddy's eyes!
Who doesn't want to get ahead in the future, especially a commoner-born man like Roddy?
Although Roddy didn't speak, the expression on his face was already clear.
"So......" Roddy thought carefully for a moment and said solemnly, "Okay, I promise you......! I have one more request! just a small request!"
"What?"
"That friend of mine......" Roddy said softly, "Miss Nicole...... I know that one more groom and one less groom doesn't mean anything to your family at all, you ...... Can you spare that friend of mine? Just let him go back to the academy!"
Nicole smiled: "It's not a big deal, but I warn you, although I can agree to your requests, but you'd better be careful! The most important thing in this matter is to keep it secret! You can't tell anyone about pretending to be my brother! If someone else knows, hum ......" Although Nicole didn't say what would happen, she just snorted twice, but Roddy immediately closed her mouth and didn't dare to say a word again.
Oh my God, she's even conjured a pair of rabbit ears for herself! God knows what else this woman can do!
"Okay! From today onwards, you will play the role of my brother! From today onwards, you will be Seth! Because you still don't understand my brother's habits, I will come and train you every day! Keep it a secret at home! Don't let anyone know your identity! I will declare to the public that because you ran away from the family without permission, I arrested you, and now you are locked up here for reflection! This will prevent you from coming into contact with outsiders!"
Roddy nodded: "Then I...... Can I read those books?"
Roddy pointed to the huge bookshelves around the room, the dense crowd of classical books.
Nicole sighed secretly: Since I was a child, my younger brother Seth has been locked up here because of mistakes and I don't know how many times, but that guy who doesn't know how to be motivated has always come in with the front foot, and the back foot has been thinking about how to escape, and he never glances at these books!
The kid in front of him, although he is a little stupid, is a very motivated teenager!
It's a pity...... If the heir of my tulip family is really like this, it can really save me a lot of worry!
Nicole sighed and said, "Yes! It's just that you can't touch those things on the second floor! And the drugs in these bottles! But I've put a magic ban on it, and you can't touch it anyway!"
With that, Nicole waved her sleeves and turned to leave.
Roddy finally breathed a sigh of relief when he saw that Nicole was indeed gone. With a happy look in his eyes, he cheered, ran to the edge of the bookshelf, and looked greedily at the huge bookshelf, his eyes full of excitement!
This night, Roddy simply did not rest. He excitedly picked up a stack of books from the shelf, and then didn't bother to run to the table, so he simply sat cross-legged on the floor with the books in his hands.
In the evening, he simply moved the candlestick in the room to his side, sat beside a mountain of books, and leaned against the bookshelf to read.
Frankly, Roddy had never been so comfortable in his life! Although he loved to read, and liked the strange things of the world, it was a pity that he could not meet his requirements in the Imperial Academy-you know, commoners were not allowed to enter the bookstores where precious books were treasured--it was the exclusive property of the aristocracy!
Just as Roddy was immersed in emotions of satisfaction and joy, he faintly heard a slight sound of footsteps outside.
The vigilance of being a samurai made Roddy nervous at once, and he jumped up from the ground and listened intently.
Sure enough, the gentle footsteps were getting closer and closer—Roddy was sure that the person who came was deliberately walking on tiptoe and taking a light step!
Roddy dodged behind the door and waited sideways.
After a while, someone knocked lightly on the door, and then a delicate voice said timidly: "Young Master Seth...... You...... Are you here?"
Roddy was stunned for a moment, not knowing how to answer for a while.
The door was slowly pushed open, and a weak figure flashed in.
Roddy stared at the visitor, but was startled.
It was the same beautiful little maid she had seen in the room during the day! At this moment she flashed through the door, her face full of shyness and nervousness, and her face flushed even more. His eyes didn't dare to look directly at Roddy, but he couldn't help but glance at him out of the corner of his eye.
"Master Seth...... I...... I heard you're being locked up here again by Miss...... So...... I...... Here you go...... Send a little ...... Food...... Well...... Food. ”
Angel's voice trembled a little, and her face was so red that she was almost oozing blood. Timidly handed over a basket. Although Luo Di didn't look carefully at the contents inside, he already knew what was inside from the fragrance that came to his face.
Angel looked at Roddy's handsome face, her eyes flickered, but she always unintentionally revealed a little obsessive eyes, those eyes fluttering, but they were always tied to Roddy's body.
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