Yuri was a little confused after hearing my words, and he closed his eyes and exhaled. I told him that my family was a small aristocratic family in Swadia, and that I needed to go back to my hometown to deal with some family feuds, but of course, I didn't explain the specifics to him.

"Well, Victor. That's all you want to do? Flee to Svadia when the family needs you most? ”

"Yes, my family does need me the most right now. In addition, I would like to visit His Holiness the Maharaja of Kalinin. ”

Yuri nodded, saying he would arrange it, and then he rattled the bell, summoned the maid, and sent us out.

We were placed on the second floor in a newly built stone house, and an uninformed servant said that this was my future residence and that I could come back at any time. He also said that if I stayed for a long time, he would ask the housekeeper to arrange a personal servant for me. After putting away the luggage, the servant told me that Yuri would arrange a dinner a little later and tell me to keep an eye on the time.

I had nothing to do, so I got a wine from Kruscal and went to visit my 'aunt'. She lived alone in a small house with a garden, which had been temporarily converted from a gardener's house. Anyway, this woman will leave Xiaodonghu City soon, and she will not return to live permanently in the future, so she did not arrange a permanent house for her. When I went there, an old woman was explaining to her about the princely family of Ryazan Fort, telling her what kind of man her future husband was, and what kind of temper he had. When she saw me coming, 'Auntie' motioned for the woman to go out.

"Young people. What's the matter with you? ”

"I'm 'Victor,'" I guess it's unlikely she'll know who Timmy is. Just use the name I used when I was at Romanovburg, "above the pier." Someone asked me to bring you a little present. ”

"Oh, thank you from the bottom of my heart." Something suddenly occurred to her, "You're the little Romanoff going to Riverlands, aren't you?" Kalinin never knew how to take care of his children, so you have to be careful when you go to that place. ”

"Thank you for your concern. A lot of people know about this? ”

"It's not too much, for a while Lord Kalinin was sending people around looking for you." She said, "They also said that if you were here, they would let you escort me to Ryazan Fort, so that you could make more friends with the nobles." After you go to the riverland, you will not be left without relatives and helpless. ”

"Oh, I see." I didn't know how to answer her, she looked cautious and weak. "They seem to have arranged it that way."

She heard that I didn't want to talk to her more, so she stood up with a light smile, "It's okay, it's not too boring to have a family member with me on the road." She said almost sadly. In the future, I won't see a family member in Ryazan Fort.''"

Family? This is only the first time we have seen each other, and it is a little too early to call it family. While at Fort Romanov, I spent the whole winter walking around the fortress. There was only a wall between them, and the family at that time. At the same time, I felt that this woman was very pitiful. She was so reluctant to leave the family that she was an illegitimate child with the name of Romanov. It can also make her feel kind.

She smiled and walked to the door, "Then I won't delay your time." You must be busy. ”

She didn't dare look me in the eye, and my scar was a terrible mark for a noble woman who had lived within the walls all her life.

I nodded to her, "Madam, I'll take my leave." ”

Back at where we were staying, the three Kujits were too lazy to move, so they slept on a few blankets spread on the ground, and followed our pioneers into the city to contact their local members. When Copernicus saw me coming, he took me to see the play called "The Great Love."

"Why am I going to see this?" I asked him curiously.

"You are a distinguished guest of the Romanov family, they will definitely let you in, I can't run around casually myself." Copernicus said, "This play means a lot to me. ”

I think Copernicus must have been a poor man, and his wife must have been fascinated to death by this kind of drama. When I was in Romanovburg, the girls loved to read the stories of knights and princesses, and at the end of the story they always had to kill many dragons to vent their hatred, and the knights would rob the dragons of all the gold and silver treasures, and then the king suddenly thought that the knight, who had always been unpleasant, was a good man, and acquiesced in the fact that his daughter was with the knight, and they lived happily ever after. I'm not interested in anything like that, but I want to see the conquest stories written by the ancient Zen masters, at least they tell some about the various peoples of the earth, and there are no dragons flying around in the sky. There is a playwright, named Martin, who is particularly fond of writing stories about dragons eating people, such stories can often scare those country children who have never seen the world out of the urine, they have just fallen in love with a hero, and in the next scene, this hero is bound to be eaten, this Martin loves to torture his audience like this, causing tears to the eyes of the noble lady, so that everyone in the aristocratic teenagers wants to go out to hunt a dragon, or specifically find a guy named Martin to fight.

Copernicus told him many of the merits of the play, as if he had written it, and I was annoyed by him, so I agreed.

The two of us walked in the chic courtyard, watching the servants go back and forth, and a passing boyar, who seemed to know me, greeted me. Two Burke merchants sat on a long stone bench and discussed things, and as Copernicus and I walked by, they kept silent and just smiled as we walked past. The little theatre was at the easternmost end of the fort, and in front of it was where the carriage had stopped, and by this time the sun had set in the west, and it was estimated that it would not be long before the scene was dispersed, and the next one would be played out after supper. It's good that way, it saves me more time in it.

When we entered the door, an actor said to us that it was rude to enter at this time. I thought it was time to leave, but Copernicus recited a few lines from the play, and the actor listened to it with a look of confusion. Copernicus slapped his head. After trying to translate it in WikiAsian again, the actor smiled disdainfully: "What version are you?" Which poor acid troupe translated it? It doesn't rhyme, and it's not meaningful. Still. It looks like you like this show very much, so I'll make an exception," he pressed his finger to his lips, "Be sure to enter gently from behind, it's full of celebrities and nobles in the city." If you are caught, you must not say that I let you in. Do you understand? ”

Copernicus understood. I stared at him a few more times and kept him firmly in my head.

Strange to say, although I no longer consider myself to be from the Romanovs, an outsider came and told me to follow the rules here. I still have the feeling of wanting to refute him to his face. It felt really pointless, and it made me feel like a different person.

Copernicus took off his shoes as soon as he entered.

"What are you doing?" I asked him.

"It's like this in Svadia, and after the show begins, no one is allowed to enter. If you really want to enter, you have to take off your shoes to show respect. ”

I didn't want to take off my shoes here, so I walked inside, and Copernicus followed me, muttering all the way, "You can't be so vulgar in the future." For the aristocracy. Etiquette is sharper than a blade. There must be silence in here now, the audience is so moved by the performance that the sound of your shoes on the ground will disturb you'''"

Before he could finish speaking, a burst of laughter erupted that seemed to lift the roof. Someone shouted inside, "Hit him!" Hit him! Right, right! Knock his crown off! "Haha, that's good. That woman is yours, fight with him! "Damn the king. Damn the village elders, your time to die is coming! "The audience seemed to be cheering for the actors.

I lifted a curtain. Almost all of the audience stood and cheered at the people on stage.

On the stage, the two men we saw in the afternoon had lost their swords, taken off their shirts, and were fighting together, on one side was a dwarf king who was shouting with a huge beard, and on the other side was a woman with heavy makeup and a sign on her chest that read 'Beautiful Woman', as if worried that the audience would not understand that she was actually going to play a beautiful girl. There was no way to sit on the first floor, so we walked up a turning stone staircase to the second floor, where a man and a woman were having a tryst, and when they saw us coming, they muttered discontent and headed downstairs. The second floor is much quieter, with a semi-circular countertop divided into six separate boxes, where some people watch quietly but can't help laughing, but here the men keep their mouths shut when they laugh, and the women take out handkerchiefs to cover their faces. It's a strange custom, and if women cover their faces with tulle like Salander women, I can understand that they cover their mouths with handkerchiefs when they laugh, but these women clearly even show their necks, and they don't shy away from sitting with men, and they don't know what to hide.

We found an empty room and walked in, there were only three people here. Two men and a woman. It was very dark, and they heard somebody, and they looked back and saw that we were just looking for a seat, and wanted us to go somewhere else, and the woman said, 'It's okay, we'll be going to eat in a minute,' and we found a seat and sat down. I felt the woman looking at me, and for a long time.

Copernicus found the play a comedy, and the grief and indignation were palpable, and everyone on the stage tried to amuse the audience below. The performance of these people is like a circus performance inserted in the middle of a regular repertoire, just to wake up the audience who are about to fall asleep, so that they can have the energy to watch the main play below. After a while, the character named Sabel was stabbed in the belly. The audience shouted that he couldn't get enough and demanded that he die again. So Sabel, who was dead, gladly accepted the order, got up and was stabbed in the belly again, and there was a sound of cheers below.

"Timmy." Copernicus endured a long time in silence, and finally said angrily, "This is a blasphemy." I should have listened to your advice and stopped coming to see this show. ”

"Come on, this is East Wiki. The following are probably the boyars of Little East Lake City, they have come in here for a recreation, and they will go to the battlefield tomorrow. Do you expect them to like to watch the crepe stuff? ”

"Uh" "They shouldn't use this drama, there are many farces." Copernicus gave one last disgruntled look at the cheering crowd below, turned and walked outside.

At this time, it's good to go out, and you can eat after walking around. When the time comes, I'll talk to Yuri carefully.

After Copernicus had already walked out, I also took a few looks at the actors who were making noise on stage. That's when the woman called me from behind. "Victor. Is that you? ”

I thought it was a familiar sound, but I couldn't make out anything in the dimly lit box. This time. I was immediately sure who it was.

"Ekaterina?"

The two people sitting behind her asked her in a low voice, and she said softly, "You guys go out." ”

One man immediately got up, the other hesitated, and was pulled away by his companions, and as they passed me, the second man shoved me and told me to get out of the way. I vaguely remember these two men, who seemed to be Catherine's knights.

"You can sit down." She whispered. "I have something to tell you."

"I've already met Yuri, and I think I know what you're going to say."

"Oh, yes." She was stunned for a moment and replied, "What do you think?" ”

"Will you dine with Yuri later?"

"The servant has already reported that Lord Yuri asked me to go to dinner, and I didn't expect to see you."

"Then Yuri will tell you what I think."

"You're proud, aren't you?" She asked me sarcastically.

Her arrogance annoyed me a little, "No, Miss Catherine. ”

"That's my family's land. It's not a piece of paper agreement between the Burks and the Wikibians. My relatives will never agree. ”

"Your most powerful relatives have gone to Ivangelod to pay allegiance."

"It can't be."

"Yuri will tell you everything."

"Your family tore up the agreement."

"Can your family overthrow it, then?"

I could feel it in the dark. Catherine's anger was rising. I felt a thrill of revenge. But this boredom was quickly suppressed by me, and I would not stay in Vicchia in the future, and there was no need to torture an irrelevant person before leaving.

"All right," I said to Catherine. "I turned down the engagement. You won't marry me. ”

"Huh?"

"I've found my loved ones." I walked outside, "I'm going to get out of this place." However, Miss Catherine. I think the best thing for you to do now is to accept the new Earl as your husband. He'll be a puppet, and you and your father. is the true master of the territory, and without the support of your father and daughter, he will not be able to maintain his rule there. Although the family will be passed down by another name, at least those children crawl out of your belly. This is your best choice right now and you should cherish it. Think about what you're like when you're in the West. ”

"You're so vulgar in your speech. Are you kidding that? ”

"I promise you, when you swear to the priest to marry, it's not me standing next to you." I nodded at her, "Do you need me to call them in?" "I'm talking about the two knights who are on guard outside the door.

"No," said Catherine, "there is no need. I'll be alone for a while. ”

"Okay." I headed outside.

"Victor." Catherine couldn't help but shout at me, "Are you really unwilling to accept this marriage because you have found a relative?" ”

"Miss Catherine, I don't have much to do with you. Can you find one thing, I deceived you? ”

"You didn't tell me you were bastard in the first place."

"Come on." I think she can't be reasoned, "I'm not an illegitimate child in the first place. ”

We fell silent, and the jubilation on the stage made the box seem extraordinarily quiet.

"Miss?" One of the knights heard that we were not speaking, and asked with concern.

Catherine ignored them.

After a long while, Catherine came out with a voice that suddenly dawned on her, "Viktor, I know why you left Romanov, I really didn't expect that you could do so much for her."

"Huh?" For a moment, I really thought she knew everything. But I immediately denied this conjecture, how could it be, only a few people knew about it, and Yuri probably couldn't figure it out now.

"It's for Miss Micella." She said calmly.

I was speechless for a moment, wondering why women were so relatable.

"It's useless," she sighed, "to leave the family in order to pursue her?" Victor, you're too naïve. Mycera is the hottest woman in Vicchia right now. ”

"What do you mean?"

She said in my voice, "Yuri will tell you." (To be continued.) )