96. Answering games
Valentina's carriage soon reached the end of their trip, it was a large hotel living in the city of Mia, it seemed that even the eldest lady of the Emperor of the Earth Emperor like Valentina needed to stay in a hotel like ordinary people, but there were some differences with ordinary people, she rented the entire hotel temporarily.
"After that, we still have to negotiate with the people of the snow fox race, this place is rented for special living, so it is better to clean up in advance, and it will be cleaner, right?"
Standing at the door, Hediline covered her mouth with a smile and said to Fisher, who was shocked by Valentina's wealth, that they had just gotten off the carriage, and that the carriages that had come from the port one after another, which were not as luxurious as the carriages they were in, also stopped, and from above came the maid who accompanied Valentina on the Narwhal.
The Turan family also brought a lot of classics about slimes and trolls, which were also piled up on the carriage and needed to be tidied up, but these would be taken care of by special staff, and Hedilyn would arrange all this, as an employee hired by Valentina, he, like Balzac, only needed to go to the top floor of the hotel and choose a luxurious suite as a place for himself to rest.
"By the way, Mr. Fisher, I'm going to be busy here for the time being with the things and the room, can I trouble you to help Miss Valentina push the wheelchair up for the time being?"
Fisher glanced at Valentina, who was sitting in front of the hotel, pushing the heavy wheelchair tires under her with both hands but not moving at all, since the cardinal of the wheelchair under her was damaged, she seemed to have become truly disabled, and the disadvantages of losing her legs were completely evident in her, and it was a little difficult to move without the help of others.
"Isn't that Phyllis's mission?"
"Ahh Every time she goes to a town, she wants to spend, and Valentina knows that she has this problem, and if she doesn't consume, she won't be able to enter the full working state. You see she doesn't know where she went now, I guess she went to spend it, right? ”
Hedilyn touched her cheek with some distress, and looked around with some distress, and sure enough, where could she still see the figure of the lion species,
"Well, Phyllis is very generous in this way, and she'll bring you souvenirs when she returns."
"Bring it to me?"
"Well, even Balzac and I will bring it. It's just a little bit of a gadget. Okay, okay, quickly push the eldest lady into the hotel and go to the top floor, it's cold outside. ”
Fisher blinked and thought for a moment, then slowly walked behind Valentina, who was pushing the wheelchair in vain, and while her white hand was still holding the handrail on the wheels, Fisher had spoken,
"Let go, I'll send you up."
Valentina was startled, and when she turned around, she saw that it was Fisher, who was expressionless, she hesitated for a second and let go of the handrail on the wheel, then turned her head and said to herself,
Phyllis, that fellow, ran around the city as soon as she arrived, and if it weren't for Hedilyn, she would have been busy with other things. I made a mistake. ”
The wheelchair moved forward slowly, Valentina's words were a little twisted, but it probably meant "I didn't need your help", Fisher heard her voice, but didn't nod or say anything else, he just lowered his head slightly, but suddenly noticed that on her petite back, the long white soft hair was slightly parted, revealing her white neck that was half wrapped in black clothes.
In the part of the neck that links her body, the jet-black crack-like marks are so eye-catching, adding a bit of fragility to her porcelain doll-like delicate body.
Is this what she calls a genetic disease? Or is this a sign of the phoenix bloodline in her body?
Fisher suddenly thought of the appearance of Zhen Ice when she was in Mia Harbor before, she seemed to be looking for something from Zhen Ice but was suddenly interrupted by the officer, she would definitely go to see that Zhen Ice again, not to mention that now that this Zhen Ice was here, wouldn't it be easy for her to see it?
If she "accidentally" discovers that she is secretly watching Zhen Bing, can you use this as a handle to cut into the mysteries of her body?
Fisher kept looking at her white neck, her eyes gradually darkened, and she saw a chill behind Valentina, and glanced back at Fisher, and sure enough, she found that he had been staring at herself in a daze, and she suddenly became ruddy and ashamed, gritted her teeth and said,
"What are you looking at?"
"Hair."
Fisher's face turned a little away, and he became familiar with it, hiding the little trick that had arisen in his mind.
"Hair? What's so nice about hair? ”
"Miss Valentina's hair is white, like pure white snow, and no one in my hometown of Nari has such a hair color, and it doesn't snow in winter."
"You've seen such spectacular snow in all your time in the North, right?"
"Actually, I met Miss Valentina when I first met Miss Valentina in the Southern Continent."
Valentina pursed her lips, one hand pinched the ring tightly on her hand, then slowly turned her head away, and took a few deep breaths before smiling flatly,
Flamboyant Nari. However, you were on the Iceberg Queen at the time, and Captain Aragina was also from the North, and she also had white hair, so the first time you saw snow should have been when you first met her. ”
Fisher's steps were light, pushing Valentina's wheelchair was neither fast nor slow, without Emhart's restraints, he felt a little freer, otherwise he would definitely have a look of contempt for himself at this time, which would not only disturb his state of mind, but more importantly, it would disrupt the implementation of his "Valentina's Hidden Bloodline Research Project".
But at this moment, Valentina mentioned Aragina, and Fisher couldn't help but think of the iceberg queen from the Sardinian country, and the old Jack and Isabel who she had brought out of Nari on her ship, and she didn't know if they had arrived at Pirate Harbor
Fisher shook his head, shook off the association in his mind for a while, and said with a sigh,
"This is different, Captain Aragina's white hair does not remind me of the wind and snow in the north, only reminds me of the waves of the blue sea, before coming to the north, I didn't know at all, it turns out that her temperament is not the same as that of Miss Valentina here, so that I can feel the pure northern temperament at once."
"Oh, that's it."
Valentina blinked thoughtfully, not asking what he meant by "pure northern temperament."
Because it was Fisher's wheelchair, Valentina didn't even lean her back on the wheelchair, she only struggled to sit upright, but after hearing these words, she hesitated for a few seconds and leaned back on the wheelchair.
Fisher pushed her to the door of the elevator, Celti and Balzac had not yet arrived, but he took care of himself and pushed his boss here, they seemed to be still busy outside, so he gave him and Valentina another chance to communicate, and after waiting here for a few minutes, Balzac and Celti came over.
"Sorry boss, I went to the bathroom, I was late."
"It's okay, let's go up and divide the room first, a lot of things haven't moved in today, and we'll officially start preparations tomorrow."
As Valentina spoke, Fisher behind her had already pulled her into the elevator, so she moved into the elevator as she spoke, waiting for the other two employees to come in, the elevator was quiet again, and Fisher temporarily released the handle of her wheelchair and closed her eyes to recuperate.
Only Valentina touched the ring, and suddenly glanced down at the long white hair on her shoulder, how could she feel that her long hair did not look like the wind and snow in the north.
"Aha! I'm back! ”
On the top floor of the hotel, Phyllis happily kicked open the door of the conference room with a large bag of things, she was the latest to arrive, so she didn't have the right to choose a room, but she didn't care at all after buying so many things.
I saw that her eyebrows and eyes were crooked, and the shape of a tiger tooth clearly appeared in her open mouth, and she didn't know how many things were in her arms, and the atmosphere in the conference room in front of her was also more harmonious, Valentina was sitting in front of the sofa with her hands crossed, and on the coffee table in front of her, a game of chess often played in the Western Continent had been killed in the middle game.
She was reading the encyclopedia in the hotel before, and now she is watching Balzac and Fisher play chess, anyway, there is nothing to do for the time being, originally Fisher wanted to engrave magic, but she didn't expect that even the magic materials had not been delivered, I knew that he would bring a bag with him first, they had nothing to do, so Valentina proposed to let the two of them play chess.
Fisher doesn't care, Balzac has a feeling of pearl dust since Fisher came, and of course he also has the meaning of secretly competing with Fisher, a scholar, so he readily agreed to the invitation to fight on the chessboard, and it became such a harmonious afternoon.
"Boss, Lao Ba, and this. Fisher, I've come back with a souvenir for you. ”
"Mom of the old man"
"Hey, let me see, are you going to lose?"
Phyllis approached, groping in the bag, while the man and beast stared at Balzac harmlessly and said, Balzac was so angry that he blushed and turned his head and gritted his teeth to look at her,
"You hillbilly can also read chess?"
"I don't understand, but looking at your face, I know at a glance that I'm being beaten up, here you go."
Phyllis casually threw a silk scarf in the style of Schwali to him, and then took out another cane from the bag that looked like Nari and handed it to Fisher, who did not expect her to give such an expensive gift, and borrowed the light cane with some surprise, and thanked him.
Take it and take a look, this cane seems to be a commemorative model made to celebrate the new emperor's accession to the throne, and a ring of small characters is engraved on the top.
"Your Majesty Godlin X, allow me to sing the praises of your decree with your writings, so that my family may be fed."
Fisher was a little speechless, holding the cane in his hand and suddenly feeling hot, for fear that it contained some Elizabeth eavesdropping and tracking magic, but fortunately, after checking it, there was nothing on it.
"Finally, the boss, this is for you."
Phyllis finally took out a small silver pendant from the big bag, on which was engraved a lifelike kitten, Valentina's face turned rosy for a moment when she saw the kitten, and only after a second did she cough lightly, stretched out her hand to Phyllis, and said with a smile,
"Thank you."
Phyllis wagged her tail and walked out of the room with the remaining bag of belongings in her arms.
"Then I'll slip away, I'll go back and clean up. It's over, didn't Hedilyn bring down what I put on the boat?! It's over, it's over."
As the door closed, the room became quiet again, and the three people who received the gifts had different expressions on their faces, except for Valentina, who carefully glanced at the kitten statue in her hand, and then put it in the palm of her hand.
Fisher and Balzac looked at each other, and then Balzac sighed and said,
"I threw in the towel."
"I conceded it."
Fisher's chess skills were taught by Damien, the dean of the Military Academy, who was a good chess player, and when he was taken to his office for tea, he often played chess to decide whether to punish Fisher, which could not only achieve the effect of disciplining Fisher, but also invisibly give the Royal Highness Elizabeth a little face.
Valentina watched Balzac lose three games after watching the whole process, and she couldn't bear to let her subordinates eat Fisher's deflated all the time, so she gently flipped through the books in her hand and said with a smile,
"Now that the game of chess is over, would you like to answer me a little question?"
"Answering questions?"
Balzac and Fischer turned their heads to look at Valentina at the same time, and she gently raised the historical encyclopedia in her hand,
"Here's a little bit of a summary of the knowledge about history, and now there happens to be nothing going on, so I'm going to ask two questions, you answer, and if you answer it, you get a point, and if you can't answer it, you don't get a point, and whoever has the most points wins. Of course, I'll make a little bet, well, the Turan family has a lot of interesting books that you can't borrow, and if anyone wins, I can get a list sent by the family, and you can pick one to read. ”
"Whether it's a long-lost magic tome, a history related to subraces, or the secrets of the Schwali Empire, there is a collection of books corresponding to the records in the family, how about it, do you want to participate in this game?"
Fisher was not interested, but when he heard that the subrace was related to the subhuman race, it was a magical tome, and Balzac was the same, for scholars like them, it was their dream to be able to explore more unknown texts and knowledge, so of course there was no intention of refusing.
Valentina pinched the small cat-shaped statue, smiled and spread out the book in her hand, and asked,
"In that case, let's get started, let's start with the simplest, how about asking eleven questions? Question 1: When Schwali founded the country, someone claimed that the first emperor had killed a white snake to ascend to the throne, so what happened in real history? ”
He did kill a white snake, but it was a hibernating snake he had picked up on the side of the road, and when he returned, he roasted the snake and boiled it in soup.
Regarding the question of the ancestors of his own emperor, Balzac, the expelled courtier, still retains the most basic respect, of course, it is impossible to talk nonsense, but as a result, this stunned god was preempted by Fisher,
"Fisher adds a point. Next question, there have been several major battles in the Misty Mountains of Schwali, please name them. ”
"Twice, the Battle of Kadu Extension, was made from the Misty Mountains in order to invade the distant Kadu; The Battle of the Mist, a naval battle with a small country far away from Kado, gradually spread throughout the Mist Mountains after the initial naval battle, and it was not until a few months later that Swali's legions cleared the guerrilla soldiers in the mountains."
"Very well, Balzac scored a point. Next, which ancient kingdom did the current Empress of Schwali inherit from in ancient times? ”
"Kado!"
"Very well, Balzac has one more point."
Fisher raised his eyebrows, and suddenly found that this guy was asking all about Schwally's questions, he glanced at Valentina, and the other party also noticed his gaze, looking at Fisher's resentful gaze, Valentina wanted to laugh out loud, but she had to remain reserved, and could only force her seriousness to maintain her "fairness and justice" as a referee.
Very good, you wait for me
Fisher interjected, his mind racing, and in the next few questions, whatever Valentina asked, Fisher reacted quickly and answered; After all, Schwaly and Nari were close, and Fisher knew a little about Schwally's history, but even so, he didn't know as well as Balzac, a native of the country.
Besides, there is a lot of knowledge that both of them know, and at this time it depends on who speaks quickly, and under such a question and answer, the two people took turns to answer, and Fisher quickly equalized the score to five to five with his fast mouth.
This made Valentina a little amused, she casually flipped through the pages of the book in her hand, and then finally saw an interesting line in a corner, and asked,
Okay, one last question. During the death rot epidemic in Schwally, the attitude of the church towards the plague changed, and they used to affectionately call the plague "
Balzac and Fisher answered at the same time, almost in no particular order,
"It's the Bladeless Knight."
"At a time when the plague was most hopeless, the Church declared that the plague was the punishment of Mother God for her own children, with the intention of cleansing mankind of its deep-seated sins. The plague could not be seen or touched, but everywhere it passed was a mournful wilderness, like a white knight without a blade, so in later versions, there was an additional reference to a bladeless knight in the Genesis Sutra. ”
Fisher explained, making Valentina nod in satisfaction and closing the book in her hand,
"Yes, two gentlemen, even if you are tied, rest assured, both of you will receive the reward I promised, and I will give you the bibliography when the time comes."
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