"What do you think about revenge," said the man who claimed to be Copernicus, sitting across from me, "what do you think?"

He took me to the woman, but the whole time, neither of us said a word, the woman just looked at me and seemed to want to see the clue in my face. She finally nodded to Copernicus, who came over, patted me on the shoulder, and led me out of the round room to a room with a balcony. At least the sun is shining here, and there is a drink boiling in the room that exudes a bitter and fragrant mixture, presumably a spice brought by the Orientals.

As soon as I had sat down, he lifted the little copper kettle and poured me a drink of his, then picked up a flask and poured a little milk into my cup. He held out his hand and motioned for me to taste it.

I threw it up as soon as I drank it.

This thing is frighteningly bitter, and my lips are numb, so it doesn't have poison.

He pretended not to see it, "Anyone who drinks this thing for the first time is like this, but it's quite refreshing." It was a small fruit that the Creel peasants had discovered, and when the sheep had eaten it, they had gone upside down, and they had collected it and found a way to deal with it. I helped them improve the process, and now it's what's in this cup. Creel's swelling had hope, and when such a drink was accepted by the townspeople, their lives would be a little better than they are now. ”

He took a few sips of his own and seemed to see through my thoughts, so to prove that this thing was indeed a harmless drink.

As a courtesy, I took another sip and it still felt terrible.

He looked at me with a smile and said that I wasn't that tall last time, and that I was more skinny than I am now. Then he asked me where I had been and who I had met over the years, and I could see that he was very interested in my experience at Vekia. After a while, while he was still asking me, I put down my glass and asked him. "Are you Copernicus?"

"It's like a fake." The man opposite smiled and said that his eye sockets were a little sunken and black, which seemed to have something to do with the fact that scholars like to stay up late to write.

"How did you and my father meet?"

"In Svadia." Copernicus said, "It was easy for young aristocrats and scholars to come together." Moreover, Suno is not a metropolis like Paravon, there are few places to spend time, and many nobles can be recognized with a few banquets. ”

"I heard from the hostess that you and your friend were my father's teachers, but in Rhodoc." I asked, confused, "How did you end up after you were separated?" Met again so far away. ”

"You should ask a priest about this. Ask him why God made this arrangement. Copernicus said. However, there are many people who have the opportunity to be together, but there are not many like-minded people, as for finding friends that you can trust completely. That's another matter at all. It's not so much that we end up together, but that we have a lot of similar ideas, and we always find a place to meet in the end. The mercenary will always go to a barracks, the nobleman will always marry a noble girl, and he will meet another daughter at the market, and that's the way it is. ”

"Yes," I asked him, "but you said my mother was a bulging daughter, and she didn't look like someone who would get together with my father." ”

Copernicus looked slightly embarrassed. But then he smiled appreciatively, "Because your father is a special nobleman." In fact, counting from your grandfather, your father was only a second-generation nobleman, and he also played with the children of commoners from an early age. To say that your father really made friends in the aristocracy. Let's also start with Wright, your father funded Wright while he was in school. Your father was really accepted by the nobles after he achieved military exploits. ”

"Wright? My father financed him? He's a royal prince. ”

"There are two kinds of royal family in the world," said Copernicus, "one is born with a purple robe and a laustrous forehead, and the other is a man who marries the former." Wright falls into the latter category. He was appreciated by Harlaus, so Haraus arranged the marriage for him to marry a purple-robed woman, and in the course of an afternoon he ordered Wright's former wife to go to the convent and dissolve their marriage. ”

"What kind of hatred did he have with my father, why did he kill my father?"

"Your father had a close relationship with the nobles of the east, and if you count it, the emperor to whom your father was loyal was Frederick." Copernicus said, "No matter how strong a young friendship is, it can be destroyed by such circumstances." ”

"In Vecchia, a nobleman is worth a fortune, and no one will kill a nobleman, not even a low-ranking boyar." I told him, "The Nords even allowed the hostages to go home early, as long as the ransom was paid in the next few years." The Salanders treated their captive nobles poorly, but were able to place most of them under house arrest rather than executed. Why did Wright kill my father? Even if my father is executed, my father is a baron, at least his feudal lord should be present, that is, the count of Upper Suno has the right to execute my father with his own hands. Why would Wright do this, how dare he do it?"

"Because it's the emperor's order. In fact, your father's fame is more influential than his title, even more than some of the great nobles. "This makes your father's decision seem crucial." In fact, such a situation was not impossible to reverse, and many nobles were forced to choose between two emperors. As long as you completely fall into one of them, you won't end up like that. But your father didn't do that, and he seems to feel that neither side is up to his request. So for Frederick, he was an elusive outlier; Haraus, for his part, was a rebel with little background. One side will not protect him, but the other side will inevitably punish him. In the last few years, in order to win over each other's nobles, the two Majesties naturally tolerated the nobles in every way and tried to remain merciful. But you must know that at the very beginning of the split of the empire, when both sides were unstable, it was not a good choice to fight for the wavering aristocracy. ”

"What's a good choice?" No one has ever told me the story of the aristocracy in the civil war.

Copernicus's eyes suddenly became cold, "Warn the nobles who have been loyal to themselves not to make bad decisions." In a chaotic situation, both sides must first ensure that their camps remain united, and for this purpose, killing becomes one of the options. Moreover, ordering a nobleman to purge a rebel has two advantages, firstly, the unstable people in their own camp will be eliminated, and secondly, the nobleman who executes the rebel can no longer be recognized by the opposing camp, so he has to be loyal to himself. Haraus after Wright executed your father. He was promoted, and now he was in direct control of the cavalry regiment of Paraven, having been a count five years ago. Such a rate is unimaginable for a declining family, and in the last hundred years, only seven people have risen from the rank of nobility to earl in just one generation. ”

"Wright killed my father as a sign of loyalty?"

"What could be more reassuring than killing one's best friend?"

"What about my grandfather?"

"Actually, he also died at the hands of Wright."

"What?"

"Harlaus's clumsy trick." Copernicus pursed his lips, "At the wedding." Wright toasts to your grandfather. The poisoned wine was served to Wright by Harlaus. He was instructed to do so. This gave Wright a great deal of notoriety. Soon, however, some servants and nobles spread the truth in private. But Haraus didn't care about that, he only cared about a capable young nobleman who would always fall to his side, and all the nobles were given a stern warning. "Copernicus's cup was empty. He stood up and walked to the window to look at the crowd below, where countless people were clamouring, begging for food and help. "The emperor needs minions, he needs people's fear, and that's enough."

"My grandfather took part in the rebellion? It seems that every member of my family participated in the rebellion. ”

"Your family, for this age," Copernicus turned, "is a rebellion that will not end. ”

He ran his finger across his forehead. Walked behind his desk, closed a book, and stuffed it into a silk-covered shelf, "If you thought that your family was involved in a contest between nobles. Then you are underestimating your father and your grandfather. You won't understand why a baron and a knight can be loved by so many people. ”

"Are you going to tell me about the Pioneers' evil again?"

He looked at me a little stunned, then a little annoyed, and the speed of his speech quickened, "These reckless guys, they think everyone is their apprentice. I'm certainly not a lobbyist for them. ”

"I thought you were one of the pioneers."

"My wife is. I joined them, but I quit. ”

"Why? Isn't it safe?"

"Just to be on the safe side, I wouldn't have joined them in the first place." Copernicus said, "In the beginning, they sponsored bachelors, gave relief to the poor, sailed to the end of the sea, and almost every scholar was naturally close to them." They were the first to accept my new theories about the earth and the sun, and they helped me a lot. But once they have fame, they are desperate to change everything. This was not good, as the food given to the poor was used to recruit mercenaries, the maintenance money donated to the library was used to hire Assassins, and the investment in navigation was used to build barracks. Now that they are meddling in Salander's affairs again, they are no longer the pioneers of forty years ago. ”

"But you're convincing Jill to help them, aren't you?"

This sentence silenced Copernicus for a long time.

Finally, he spoke slowly, as if his lips were dry, and joined together, "I'm guiding Jill on a path of redemption. ”

"Redeem what?"

"Your family."

"What?"

At this time, he suddenly changed the topic and asked a question, "What do you think about revenge?"

The bachelor speaks so intermittently, skipping to the next without finishing one thing? I tried to figure out what this scholar wanted to do. In the end, I didn't think of anything.

"I don't know." I said to him, "Give me a crossbow and let the pioneers send me twenty yards from them, and I shoot them in the throat." ”

"There are hundreds of people in the world who want to kill them like this. But your enemies have been living well all these years, and I'm afraid this method will not work. ”

"I don't know." I say.

"Actually, you have three places to go." Copernicus nodded and said, "First, you can go to the Frost Castle." ”

"Frost Castle?"

"That's right. Your father is still a vassal of the Frost Castle, and Frederick did not confiscate your father's fief. Even those places are all run by your father's vassals and noble friends. ”

"After the death of the noble, the fief will be revoked."

"Your father has many old troops and comrades in the Legion, and these people are convinced that your family still has orphans in Svadia. They know you, but they can't find you. So when Emperor Frederick asked about it, your father's friend persuaded Frederick to suspend the revocation of your father's fief. When they find you, you can inherit your father's land and title. ”

"This," may not be the importance of a noble title for those who are born into a nobility, but I know, I know how much a boyar's title has, "I'm afraid it's not as simple as you say." ”

"Naturally, otherwise anyone can pretend to be you." Copernicus said, "Over the years. The person pretending to be you to inherit the land can almost form a citizen fire squad. These boys are now all working as charcoal burners in the Royal Forest. It is necessary to serve unpaid until the age of twenty before leaving. ”

"Could it be that everyone knows about me in Frost Castle? So many people ran to impersonate me. ”

"Of course many of the nobles knew," said Copernicus, "that most of these children were instigated by some nobles." Some aristocrats wanted to try their luck once the imposters were identified. It's a lot of good for them. ”

"You're saying that I'll go back to Frost Castle to pledge my allegiance to Frederick, and then wait for revenge?"

"It's a choice." Copernicus said in a calm tone, "Once Sisvadia fell apart, Frederick united all of Svadia. You'll get a chance for revenge. ”

"Even so, I'm afraid it won't be my turn to slaughter them. In the letter you sent me, every enemy is a nobleman. ”

"And," said Copernicus, "these nobles are intertwined, even if Svadia is united." They also have more than enough protectors. Many families deliberately bet on both sides so that no matter what the outcome, the family will not perish. ”

"It seems that you don't support me going to Frost Castle."

"If it's for revenge, it's not a good road." Copernicus said, "But if it is to obtain the status of nobility." Then sit comfortably on the foundation of your parents and be content with the status quo for the rest of your life, which is the best choice. When you reach adulthood, marry the daughter of a former friend of your father's and join their group, and your offspring will become a decent nobleman. ”

"What about the second way?"

"Jill. Bianwen. ”

"I hate the Nords."

"But you shouldn't hate your uncle."

"What?"

Copernicus said, "There is a spice bucket under my table, and the spices have already been cleaned by me." But there's one thing that doesn't. You can take a look at that stuff in a moment and go to Jill with this letter. He will be your uncle. ”

"You said Jill was just a student of my grandfather." I said to Copernicus, "I didn't say that Gil was his illegitimate son. ”

"What bastard?" Copernicus was bewildered, and then quickly understood that I had misunderstood what he meant, "Your grandfather was a noble man of good character and had no selfish son. But he's the most far-sighted man I've ever met, and the reason for all of this is as you can see when you open this bucket. ”

The goblin carried an empty bucket to the table and tapped it.

"What about the last one?"

The goblin said, "Your grandfather and your father were extremely intelligent people, and you are their offspring, and you should figure it out for yourself." Copernicus pointed to his head, "The last way, in your mind, you find it yourself." ”

As he finished, he seemed relieved as he stood up and prepared to leave the room. "There's no one to bother here, and you can think about it for a long time," he said. As for this bucket, whether you want to see it or not is up to you. ”

"I hate guessing puzzles."

"A person must learn to guess riddles in his life." Copernicus's voice disappeared behind the door.

I chased after him, opened the door, and asked his back, "Just now, when you talked about Jill, you said that you want to redeem my family, what do you mean?" You can always say that. ”

The figure of Copernicus was stunned in the darkness, and without looking back, he walked into the darkness.

His voice was like a breeze blowing from the ground, "Because of a prophecy." ”

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