I was ushered into a well-appointed room.

The walls here are lined with waist-high wood, and on top of the wood, they are decorated with colored bricks, and the furniture is very densely arranged, which looks magnificent.

The maid led me down on a small round table, where some simple food had been prepared. I couldn't help but think bitterly that Yuri had already made this arrangement, and it was by no means an impromptu scolding me.

I ate sullenly, trying to listen to the movement outside.

About half an hour later, the people in the restaurant came out one after another, and the Romanovs were discussing something in a whisper. I took a sip of wine, rinsed the beans and roast from my throat, and waited for Yuri to arrive.

Outside, I seemed to hear Mycella's voice, but it was hidden in the whispers of a group of women, and I couldn't hear it. When I had finished eating, I stood up and looked at the room, but I couldn't seem to see anything. Books, candlesticks, glasses, blunt swords on display shelves'''

There was a sound of footsteps, and then someone pushed the door open, and two men entered: Yuri and Copernicus.

Copernicus's face was calm, and Yuri's anger still had a hint of it.

What I want to know most now is what Copernicus said at that sloppy dinner. I don't really want him to tell Yuri about my family's hatred, and I can't guarantee what Yuri will do with these things. If he detains me in Little East Lake City, then my plan is over.

"Finished eating?" Yuri asked.

"Yes, my lord."

"Okay." Yuri opened the door to the inner room. "Let's go inside." He said to the maid who came in behind, "Don't let anyone in. ”

"Okay. My lord. The maid replied,

She took my plate. Quickly put away the leftovers of my food, like a tame cat, and left the room lightly.

Separated by two walls, it is estimated that the people in the corridor will not be able to hear us.

"Should I call you Victor, or Timmy?" Yuri asked.

"As you wish."

"All right, Victor." Yuri found a comfortable seat and sat down, "How does it feel to be separated from the Romanovs?" ”

"Very good." Valan's Vi ''I'm not a softbone,'' but you'll have to make this public sooner or later. I just didn't expect to use such an approach. ”

"Ha, yes, my father is right, you little bastard has no skills, but you have a Valanyan temper. I'm surprised that Giovanni didn't find a chance to kill you. ”

"He almost succeeded. When I had the pestilence, he threw me into the pile of the dead. ”

"Who can save you?"

"I crawled out on my own."

"Well, The Adventures of Victor," Yuri said. "You dog, you gave me such great news as soon as you came back, huh?"

"I should have told you."

"Don't want to stay in the Romanovs at all?"

"I don't belong here, my lord."

"Victor." Yuri paused for a moment and said, "You already have Romanov blood in you, purer than many Romanovs." ”

"Oh."

Copernicus did not interject in our conversation. He walked over to the library and pinched his chin. Look at the names of those books. After Yuri said this, he turned to call him. "Bachelor."

Copernicus turned his head, "My lord? ”

"If you like any book, take it with you. This is what my father used to decorate the courtyard, and no one in our family looks at the rags. So, what you just said in the restaurant, is it true? ”

"Nature is true." Copernicus walked across from Yuri, "I have a lot of proof here. If you insist on it, I think the Pioneers can get you more proofs, even the entire Timmy family's archives. ”

"I don't believe you have such a thing." Yuri said, "If I heard me right, you said that his family is a rebel family on the wrong side, right? ”

Hell, Copernicus said.

"That's right." Copernicus nodded.

"It doesn't matter." Yuri said, "Just join the other side. How big is the Timmy family's territory? How many soldiers are there? How high is the knighthood? Does the family have allies? How far is it from Vecchia? Does Timmy have a marriage? ”

"The territory has four villages, a fortress, in a small valley; There are about thirty family soldiers, who can mobilize more than 100 people to fight near their hometowns; The highest title is the title of baron; The family has no blood allies, but many friends; It's a long way from Vekia; Timmy's father had agreed to marry one of his friends, but it was only a verbal agreement, not a formal contract. ”

"Hah! Baron! Yuri showed a distorted expression, "Vidor, the way you turned down the Count of Donbass made me think you were the illegitimate son of Haraus!" Then he asked Copernicus, "Does that friend of his father have any soldiers?" Will the marriage contract be recognized? ”

"Timmy's father died at the hands of this man. I don't think I'll recognize the marriage contract. ”

Yuri was silent for a moment. "If he goes back and swears allegiance and confesses his sins to the emperor, will he get the family land? Will I be rewarded or compensated for my allegiance to another emperor? ”

"His Majesty the Emperor gave the order to kill his father. Another emperor was cold to this. ”

Yuri was silent for a moment again, he sorted out the meaning of this sentence in his head for a long time, and his eyes became a little confused, "Victor, your family is the same as you?" ”

I was a little puzzled, "I haven't seen my family. I don't remember exactly, but when your brother found me, I could barely remember anything. ”

Yuri tried to straighten out what I said to Copernicus, but couldn't figure it out.

"What family would offend so many people"

After a while, he licked his lips before saying in a strange tone, "Victor, did my ears hear it wrong?" You don't want to throw a seed in the Donbass--- this land, and you can grow crops yourself; You don't want a delicate girl--- sleep with this girl, and you will have thousands of soldiers and a large piece of land for you to take care of for a lifetime; You don't want one of the most promising families in Eastern Wiki--- you just say the name of the family and you can move freely throughout Eastern Wiki. You don't want any of that. Just for a little barony? ”

"There are no more baronies." Copernicus added, "The barony was abolished. ”

"This'''"

"And the emperor and many nobles hated him and his family."

"What are you going to do? Victor? Ride a horse to the palace. He said to the Emperor, 'Ah. I've made a mistake, let's forget the unpleasant past', and then go back to your territory and do it again? Fiterrick's rebellion was provoked by your family, right? ”

"Lord Yuri," said Copernicus, "is his business as to what Master Timmy is going to do. He came to say goodbye to you and your father for reasons I did not understand. You know, I thought he was coming to marry some girl. Or maybe they're here to propose. But that's not what he told me. Aside from getting married and having offspring, I don't actually know if he has any important things to do right now that he must come to East Wikia. He didn't admit it, but I do suspect that he came back because of some girl. Mistress Yuri, if you can find this girl, I hope you will give her to my family, Master Timmy. After the Timmy family is innocent and noble, that girl must not have the grievance of marrying'''"

Copernicus's words put me in a passive position. He wanted to know through Yuri the purpose of my visit to Eastern Wikia. Obviously, in Copernicus's mind, I didn't really have anything really important in East Wiki. Otherwise, he wouldn't have allowed an irrelevant person to ask me about my purpose.

However, Copernicus's words clearly misled Yuri.

Yuri's expression was cloudy for a moment, "Victor." You'd better not tell me what your bachelor said is true. You did this specifically for her? If it's really for her. You're stupid at this. ”

Copernicus was a little surprised when he heard this, "Huh? Is there really such a girl? ”

"It's not about you."

"It's not about you."

Yuri and I turned to him almost at the same time.

Copernicus opened his mouth slightly. He squinted at the two of us and told us with an expression that he had understood the complex relationship inside.

Yuri bit his tongue and tried to open his mouth several times to tell Copernicus not to think about it, but finally shut up.

Yuri rubbed his thumb and forefinger together and thought for a moment. "Victor, you know what? If you really want to leave the Romanovs for this purpose. I have only one thought, and that is that what you say is all nonsense: your family is fake, this scholar is a lie that you found people, and your story is made up. So, you have another chance to tell me what exactly you are going to do and why you have to see my father. If I feel that this reason is appropriate, I will give you a horse and let the food team that will go out of the city tomorrow take you, and you will have the opportunity to go to my father and tell me the rest. If this reason is a bit bad, then Victor, listen: you will never get her, your ridiculous plan is wishful thinking. If you really want to deceive, you should also say that you are the bastard son of the king, not a baron, you idiot. ”

"Who the hell are you talking about?" Copernicus couldn't help but ask.

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Yuri and I both felt that this was not the right thing to talk about.

"Lord Yuri," I said to him, "what kind of person can be named boyar?" ”

"Do you think it's hard for me to beat you up now, or simply stab you in the belly with a sword?"

"No, I want you to tell me what kind of person has such qualifications."

"First, the only heir to a certain dead boyar. Second, when the boyars were not numerous, they were promoted by the six big boyars, that is, the Vecchia parliamentarians. ”

"The Great Boyar is an honorary title."

"That's right, boy. My father and I were the Great Boyar, and there were three or four of them in Ryazan Fort and Little Donghu City. If boyars can keep boyars, a drunkard boyar can make a bunch in one night. I'm running out of patience, tell me what you want to do. ”

"I want you and your father to nominate me as a boyar. I know that the boyars are divided into lord boyars and landless boyars, and the lord boyars need a piece of fiefdom. The latter can be sent with a set of armor. I don't need a fief, I just need a boyar title. ”

Yuri's patience seems to run out. The mood was even more than angry, and he was just crying and laughing now. Just trying to figure out why I'm crazy.

"Victor." Yuri said, "You made a joke that wasn't funny. He pressed the handle of the dagger on his waist, "You want to break with the family, no problem, at dinner, I've made your goal achieved." Do you know? This is what you owe me. Because my grumpy dad won't follow your wishes, if he wants you to go to the Donbass, no matter what you say, you really don't want to go, he's going to cut your tongue. Tie you up on a horse and send you to the Donbass. Anyway, to get a woman pregnant, you don't need a tongue, and it's troublesome to talk nonsense with a tongue. I am not my father, and since you have proposed to leave the family, I will satisfy you. After all, there are many Romanovs who can make Ekaterina's belly bigger, but a Romanov with a bit of background is rare. ”

"Do you know how much trouble this can be? I'm going to find a new Romanov who is not married, and if I happen to find no such person, I'm going to arrange for a Romanov to divorce first. Then inform Lech and the damned Ivangelod Council. Inform Catherine and her daughter again--- and their scheming relatives are going to be sad, he likes you, Victor. During these times, every prince would rush to marry Catherine. Behind our backs to contact the Burkes, or to play tricks in the council. I just scolded you and declared a break. You are no longer a Romanov. The rest is troublesome, but it's not impossible. ”

"You opened a market. I also bet. But for now, it seems that your gamble is very bad. I still don't know what I'm going to win. ”

"Victor," Yuri said to me with a cold gaze, "you're not a Romanov at all. You'd better convince me and find a good reason. Otherwise, I would have slaughtered you just because you deceived my brother and infiltrated my family under the guise of his illegitimate son. ”

"I want to see Kalinin," I said to Yuri, "send me into Varankov." ”

"Peace?" Yuri's face immediately darkened, "Ha, who do you think you are?" Victor, you may not survive tonight. What kind of person was Giovanni? If he lives in Vekia, he will definitely make a comeback. In Eastern Wikia, he and my father could only live one. The council will not allow peace, those people are not idiots, they want the siege to last forever, so that Giovanni and our family's blood can be drained. ”

"It's not peace."

"So what do you want to do? End the siege? ”

"Yes, end the siege. At the end of the siege, I hope that you and your father will invite four more honorary boyars to give me the title of boyar. ”

"Why?"

"Because if my plan is accomplished, the Romanovs will have two thousand fewer soldiers, and these men will go home alive to harvest wheat; The dignity of the parliament will be lost, and the Romanovs can turn it into their own advisory body; The city of Valankov will re-raise the double-headed eagle flag. I slowly said what I had in mind, "and Giovanni, who will disappear into Vecchia forever; The Nords, who are now your rivals in Eastern Wikia, will be dealt a head-on attack. ”

"How do you do that?"

"First of all, let me go to Lord Kalinin."

"What do you need?"

"Give one horse to my people." I said to Yuri, "Then let tomorrow's food team take us." ”

"You're talking gibberish, Victor." Yuri said, "Giovanni taught you well, and you haven't spoken until now." Okay, I'll arrange your mounts, but I'll also have a swordsman for each of you. If you lie, these people will cut off your heads, marinate them in lime and bring them to me. ”

"Okay." I answered him.

"Victor."

"Yes, sir."

"If you can do those things." Yuri thought about it for a while and said, "You can write to her later, and I will check it, and I don't promise not to tear it." Maybe there were a few, she could see. ”

"I said, ''''" Copernicus couldn't help but speak.

"Shut up."

"Shut up."