Chapter 429: Two Flowers Bloom

Loulan City.

At the last banquet, Du Wei secretly returned to the castle and met with Luoxue and Queen Medusa in the castle, more than twenty days have passed.

And the secret of Lord Tulip Duke returned, and then quietly left, not many people knew. There are only a limited number of people who know, such as Vivien and Philip. As for the outside news, it is still that Duke Tulip is busy with magic research and has not returned.

Philip is busy these days and is in a bit of a nervous mood.

The first reason is that last time Du Wei came back in a hurry and left in a hurry, before leaving, he handed over the power to himself. Moreover, Philip could see a faint anxiety and panic in Du Wei's face. He was sure that Du Wei was probably in trouble. Moreover, it has been more than 20 days since the adults left, and there was not even a single news......

The second reason is because of the princess Louise in the city, and the future princess, Miss Delis.

Since Miss Dai Li came to Loulan City and sent someone to secretly contact the holy woman, Philip has become more and more sure of one thing: this future princess is definitely not simple! Especially now, everyone knows that the Tulip family and the other party's family have actually become political enemies.

These days, Philip has sent several times as many people to secretly and firmly monitor the Southern Chamber of Commerce where Miss Daily and Princess Louise live. And. Both eldest ladies refused to live in the castle - even Philip later approached Madame Liszt and suggested that Madame Liszt help her - and even Madame Liszt's invitation to the princess to live in the Liszt family was denied. With the friendship between Princess Louise and Madame Liszt, she actually refused such an invitation, then it must be Miss Deli, the future princess, who is doing the trick.

Philip asked Uncle Alpha to take the class. rì rotated at night, closely monitoring the two noblewomen.

The news I got was extremely mixed. Miss Dai Li has not been at ease in Loulan City these days.

It is said that she met with representatives of more than a dozen southern chambers of commerce in one go. Later, he even attended nine banquets held by the representatives of those chambers of commerce - a somewhat puzzling move.

After all, Miss Daili's identity is the future princess, and she may even become an imperial princess! Her brother is the commander of the empire! Such a proud status of the heavens, she actually put down her body and went to mingle with those vulgar businessmen, if it is placed in the eyes of any real nobleman, it is a [**] part of the move. And. According to the news from the watchman, this Miss Dellie is really well-connected, or rather, she does not put on a show at all - she is simply willing to hand over to anyone! Miss Dai Li lives in the headquarters of the Chamber of Commerce. She was contacted by countless people, including fur merchants, jewelers, livestock merchants, and even the leader of a small mercenary group. From the head of a chamber of commerce in a province to a shop owner in a city. Miss Dai Li has seen more than 40 guests these days!

According to Philip's orders, all the guests that Miss Daily saw were assigned to be monitored.

And after verification. The materials that came into Philip's hands. But there is no valuable information.

"Is she just meeting these people to chat and have tea?"

The Alpha Knight below is already complaining.

After all, this Miss Dai Li has too many contacts, and there are not many secret agents under Alpha after all, and at the same time, she has to take care of the news exchanges in the northwest grassland. Only a fraction of the people who remained in the city remained. These days, Miss Daily has seen too many people, and every guest has to go to follow and monitor the investigation, which makes the Alpha Knight start to run out of manpower.

The more Miss Daily behaved so strangely, the deeper the uneasiness in Philip's heart became! The more certain he was that there must be a reason why this woman had come to the Northwest!

Moreover, Philip can't put all his jīng power on just one woman.

Before Du Wei left, he entrusted the power of the northwest to Philip, and now the young Philip has become the temporary head of the entire Tulip family territory! Every day, all kinds of official affairs in various places have to be passed back, waiting for him to decide and arrange.

Finally, on this day, someone suddenly came back to report that they saw that in the chamber where Princess Louise and Miss Dellie were stationed, the guards and knights and servants were nervously packing their bags and carriages, and seemed to be about to leave.

"Are they leaving?" Philip's heart suddenly frowned deeply, and he suddenly asked again: "In the past few days, is there any news from the sect?" The Holy Highness, didn't she make any moves, and her subordinates immediately replied: "No, as usual, Her Highness the Holy Maiden will go to the Holy Knights every three days to preach the teachings." Three days earlier, however, after her Highness had returned from the Holy Order, she had sent a plea asking for her to follow the clergy of the religious institute to the family's private army to comfort the soldiers and preach the doctrine. However, this message has already been reported to you, and you have not yet approved it. ”

Philip nodded, "That woman wants to preach doctrine in our army...... Hmph, God knows what the hell she wants to do, ignore it for now, and hang her. ”

Philip walked a few steps back and forth in the room, thinking about Miss Deli.

Could it be that this future princess really came to Loulan City, stayed there for 20 days, attended a few banquets with a group of merchants from the Chamber of Commerce, and then went home?

Anyway, even if there are any doubts in my heart, I can't stop them from leaving. After all, the other party's status is noble. Just leave, and you can't run to check yourself.

"Let them follow them all the way out of town......" Philip sighed. I felt a little helpless. He had a strange feeling, as if he had been tricked.

When he watched his subordinates go out, Du Wei's number one staff member suddenly felt a move in his heart, and re-opened the detailed information and list of all the guests that Miss Dai Li had seen these days. And her servants went in and out of the headquarters of the Chamber of Commerce, where they went, who they met, and all the information, Philip flipped it out again and read it again.

Finally, after re-reading the list, Philip suddenly picked up a quill on the table, and quickly circled three names on the list of chambers of commerce that Miss Dai Li had contacted.

Because, on this list. The three names circled by him are different from the other people on the list!

The leaders of these three chambers of commerce all met with Miss Dai Li yesterday! And according to the information collected by his subordinates. Before they meet Miss Delphie. They all rushed to Loulan City in a hurry before meeting Miss Daili!

According to detailed verification, the leaders of the three chambers of commerce, before returning to Loulan City, each took their caravans and ran to the north of the province of Dessa, supposedly to sell horses and furs.

Three businessmen who rushed back from the north at the same time, went to see Miss Daily on the same day?

Philip immediately moved and quickly stood up. Walk over to the wall.

The walls are hung on the ground. is a map of the province of Dessa. Philip's eyes flickered, his eyes shrouded in the northern area of the province of Dessar on the map, and he searched carefully.

Soon. His eyes widened...... Northern!

Northern?

In the territory of the province of Dessa, in the north, there is actually no other important place, only one! and it is a vital core area for the Tulip family!

After that, he immediately called someone to find the official documents of all the chamber of commerce caravans in the city in and out of the territory of the province of Desa, and he quickly turned out the three chambers of commerce whose names were circled by himself, and found out which places in the north they went to before returning to Loulan City, and after this investigation, it made Philip even more frightened!

It turned out that these three caravans had almost all approached the city of Gilliat!

Because the city of Gilliat had become the family's production base, it was not allowed to be entered by outsiders, so any passing caravans could not enter it, and could only go to the surrounding cities to do business.

And these three merchant groups all stopped in a small town closest to Gilliat a few days ago, and they stopped for two days!!

"Hmph!!Three medium-sized large merchant groups stay in a small town with a population of less than 2,000 at the same time! What kind of business can they do in that kind of town? And they can do it for two days at a time?! There must be ghosts!!"

Philip sneered on his face, he finally found the flaw!

"Someone! someone!!" he snapped, and immediately one of his men walked in.

"Is there any official document or news reported back to Gilliat?"

The subordinate immediately shook his head: "My lord, we will hand over all the official documents to you as soon as possible every day, and there will be absolutely nothing left." There has been no news from the city of Gilliat for the past two days, everything is fine, nothing special...... I think they should have learned a lesson from what happened last time, and now it should be a strengthened security defense force......"

As the subordinate was talking, Philip suddenly glared at him and shouted, "What did you say! What happened last time!What did you learn a lesson?!"

He suddenly took two steps forward and grabbed the placket of this subordinate hard: "What happened last time!!"

Seeing Philip's reaction like this, his subordinates couldn't help but be a little scared: "Last time...... Last time, in a routine report from the city of Gilliat, it was said that there had been a slave escape there, but the four slaves who escaped were eventually found by the pursuing soldiers. All four of them are dead, and they don't run out alive......"

"Bastard!!" Philip was furious: "This kind of thing, why didn't you report it to me!!"

His subordinates hurriedly shouted, "My lord! How dare I hide such a thing! But this happened more than twenty days ago! At that time, Lord Tulip himself was in the city of Gilliat. The Duke himself had already dealt with that matter. Therefore, it was not reported separately, but only filled in the monthly routine notice...... And, I remember, when I brought that routine notice in, you. "What am I?" said Philip.

"You saw that there were already words on it that Lord Tulip himself had written on it, and you didn't pay attention to it yourself. ”

Philip was stunned for a moment, then sighed.

Indeed, he vaguely remembered that there seemed to be such an event. After all, some time ago, the Duke was in Gilliat City, so about the affairs in Gilliat City, basically, there is the Duke as the number one leader. I don't need to cāo heart. Therefore, all official affairs concerning the city of Gilliat were handled by Du Wei on the spot, and only in the regular official report every month. Pass it back to the Governor's Palace for keeping. I was also busy during that time. So I didn't care much about the news of Gilliat City - after all, the Duke was in charge himself, so did he still need to pay attention to himself?

But Philip didn't know that although Du Wei was in Gilliat City in those days, Du Wei was busy studying how to hatch dragon eggs, and he didn't pay too much attention to the official affairs in Gilliat.

"Quick! Get that document back for me! I want to see it! I want it now!" Philip looked anxious.

It was rare for his subordinates to see this usually calm and calm adult show such an anxious look, and hurriedly rushed out with a roll. A moment later. An official document was handed over to Philip.

Philip looked at it, and his eyes immediately changed!

After reading it carefully, Philip took the case. His face was still a little hesitant, but then a trace of absoluteness flashed!

Suddenly, he took out a gold tulip badge from his bosom, and then summoned the elder of the palace guards.

"Old smoke! you take this badge of mine and immediately go out of the city to the barracks, and order General Longbottom, within a moment, to lead a thousand cavalry around the city to the east, and pursue along the main road!! Be sure to intercept Princess Louise and Princess Dellie and her party for me!!"

When Lao Yan heard this, his face changed, and he couldn't help but exclaim: "My lord, intercept ...... Send troops to intercept the princess and princess?"

Philip's face sank, and he said hatefully: "Now the matter is urgent, there is no choice! I know that this matter is very serious, intercept the carriage and horses of the princess and princess...... Hmph, if you change someone else, I'm afraid you won't dare. This kind of thing is something that only General Longbottom dares to do! Hurry! Go quickly! If it's too late, something big will happen!"

Lao Yan stiffened his head, and was just about to go out, but he walked two steps and came back, gritting his teeth and saying, "My lord...... If...... What if they resist during the interception?"

Philip's face was covered with frost, and he said in a deep voice, "Except for the princess and Princess Deli...... If anyone else resists, they will be killed!!"

When Lao Yan heard this, he couldn't help but tremble in his heart!

Obediently, it looks like something big is wrong!

Once this kind of thing breaks out, it will be terrible!! After taking a deep look at Philip, Lao Yan's heart was horizontal, and after he gave Philip a military salute hard, he turned around and ran out like the wind.

Philip returned to the table, grabbed the official document again, and carefully looked at the handwriting on it...... "Three rì ago, three fugitive slaves in my city sneaked out of the canal in the evening of the second rì. Soldiers pursued the three and found the bodies of the three men at noon on the third day, fifty miles east of the city. After verification, the three people died in order to escape. Three slaves, respectively .................."

To Philip's horror, two of these three slaves were in charge of different processes on the gunpowder assembly line in Gilliat, and the other was responsible for the production of the "Decepticon Knights of the Sky" broomsticks!!

Hmph! On the way to escape, he lost his strength and died?

Joke!!

Philip's face was like frost: "What a Miss Delphie, what a Princess Delly!! It turns out that he wants to steal the foundation of our Tulip family!!"

Whether it's gunpowder or a broomstick, it's the top secret weapon of the Tulip family that now stands on the continent!!! Thinking of this, Philip immediately strode out of the door and summoned his men:

"Prepare your horses!!All the guards on duty are assembled!Follow me out of the city to do big things!!"

"Send an order to the Decepticon squad! Order all the people left behind to set off for me! Go east to search, the search covers an area of six hundred miles! Find me the whereabouts of the princess and Princess Dellie at all costs!"

Loulan City.

At the last banquet, Du Wei secretly returned to the castle and met with Luoxue and Queen Medusa in the castle, more than twenty days have passed.

And the secret of Lord Tulip Duke returned, and then quietly left, not many people knew. There are only a limited number of people who know, such as Vivien and Philip. As for the outside news, it is still that Duke Tulip is busy with magic research and has not returned.

Philip is busy these days and is in a bit of a nervous mood.

The first reason is that last time Du Wei came back in a hurry and left in a hurry, before leaving, he handed over the power to himself. Moreover, Philip could see a faint anxiety and panic in Du Wei's face. He was sure that Du Wei was probably in trouble. Moreover, it has been more than 20 days since the adults left, and there was not even a single news......

The second reason is because of the princess Louise in the city, and the future princess, Miss Delis.

Since Miss Dai Li came to Loulan City and sent someone to secretly contact the holy woman, Philip has become more and more sure of one thing: this future princess is definitely not simple! Especially now, everyone knows that the Tulip family and the other party's family have actually become political enemies.

These days, Philip has sent several times as many people to secretly and firmly monitor the Southern Chamber of Commerce where Miss Daily and Princess Louise live. And. Both eldest ladies refused to live in the castle - even Philip later approached Madame Liszt and suggested that Madame Liszt help her - and even Madame Liszt's invitation to the princess to live in the Liszt family was denied. With the friendship between Princess Louise and Madame Liszt, she actually refused such an invitation, then it must be Miss Deli, the future princess, who is doing the trick.

Philip asked Uncle Alpha to take the class. rì rotated at night, closely monitoring the two noblewomen.

The news I got was extremely mixed. Miss Dai Li has not been at ease in Loulan City these days.

It is said that she met with representatives of more than a dozen southern chambers of commerce in one go. Later, he even attended nine banquets held by the representatives of those chambers of commerce - a somewhat puzzling move.

After all, Miss Daili's identity is the future princess, and she may even become an imperial princess! Her brother is the commander of the empire! Such a proud status of the heavens, she actually put down her body and went to mingle with those vulgar businessmen, if it is placed in the eyes of any real nobleman, it is a [**] part of the move. And. According to the news from the watchman, this Miss Dellie is really well-connected, or rather, she does not put on a show at all - she is simply willing to hand over to anyone! Miss Dai Li lives in the headquarters of the Chamber of Commerce. She was contacted by countless people, including fur merchants, jewelers, livestock merchants, and even the leader of a small mercenary group. From the head of a chamber of commerce in a province to a shop owner in a city. Miss Dai Li has seen more than 40 guests these days!

According to Philip's orders, all the guests that Miss Daily saw were assigned to be monitored.

And after verification. The materials that came into Philip's hands. But there is no valuable information.

"Is she just meeting these people to chat and have tea?"

The Alpha Knight below is already complaining.

After all, this Miss Dai Li has too many contacts, and there are not many secret agents under Alpha after all, and at the same time, she has to take care of the news exchanges in the northwest grassland. Only a fraction of the people who remained in the city remained. These days, Miss Daily has seen too many people, and every guest has to go to follow and monitor the investigation, which makes the Alpha Knight start to run out of manpower.

The more Miss Daily behaved so strangely, the deeper the uneasiness in Philip's heart became! The more certain he was that there must be a reason why this woman had come to the Northwest!

Moreover, Philip can't put all his jīng power on just one woman.

Before Du Wei left, he entrusted the power of the northwest to Philip, and now the young Philip has become the temporary head of the entire Tulip family territory! Every day, all kinds of official affairs in various places have to be passed back, waiting for him to decide and arrange.

Finally, on this day, someone suddenly came back to report that they saw that in the chamber where Princess Louise and Miss Dellie were stationed, the guards and knights and servants were nervously packing their bags and carriages, and seemed to be about to leave.

"Are they leaving?" Philip's heart suddenly frowned deeply, and he suddenly asked again: "In the past few days, is there any news from the sect?" The Holy Highness, didn't she make any moves, and her subordinates immediately replied: "No, as usual, Her Highness the Holy Maiden will go to the Holy Knights every three days to preach the teachings." Three days earlier, however, after her Highness had returned from the Holy Order, she had sent a plea asking for her to follow the clergy of the religious institute to the family's private army to comfort the soldiers and preach the doctrine. However, this message has already been reported to you, and you have not yet approved it. ”

Philip nodded, "That woman wants to preach doctrine in our army...... Hmph, God knows what the hell she wants to do, ignore it for now, and hang her. ”

Philip walked a few steps back and forth in the room, thinking about Miss Deli.

Could it be that this future princess really came to Loulan City, stayed there for 20 days, attended a few banquets with a group of merchants from the Chamber of Commerce, and then went home?

Anyway, even if there are any doubts in my heart, I can't stop them from leaving. After all, the other party's status is noble. Just leave, and you can't run to check yourself.

"Let them follow them all the way out of town......" Philip sighed. I felt a little helpless. He had a strange feeling, as if he had been tricked.

When he watched his subordinates go out, Du Wei's number one staff member suddenly felt a move in his heart, and re-opened the detailed information and list of all the guests that Miss Dai Li had seen these days. And her servants went in and out of the headquarters of the Chamber of Commerce, where they went, who they met, and all the information, Philip flipped it out again and read it again.

Finally, after re-reading the list, Philip suddenly picked up a quill on the table, and quickly circled three names on the list of chambers of commerce that Miss Dai Li had contacted.

Because, on this list. The three names circled by him are different from the other people on the list!

The leaders of these three chambers of commerce all met with Miss Dai Li yesterday! And according to the information collected by his subordinates. Before they meet Miss Delphie. They all rushed to Loulan City in a hurry before meeting Miss Daili!

According to detailed verification, the leaders of the three chambers of commerce, before returning to Loulan City, each took their caravans and ran to the north of the province of Dessa, supposedly to sell horses and furs.

Three businessmen who rushed back from the north at the same time, went to see Miss Daily on the same day?

Philip immediately moved and quickly stood up. Walk over to the wall.

The walls are hung on the ground. is a map of the province of Dessa. Philip's eyes flickered, his eyes shrouded in the northern area of the province of Dessar on the map, and he searched carefully.

Soon. His eyes widened...... Northern!

Northern?

In the territory of the province of Dessa, in the north, there is actually no other important place, only one! and it is a vital core area for the Tulip family!

After that, he immediately called someone to find the official documents of all the chamber of commerce caravans in the city in and out of the territory of the province of Desa, and he quickly turned out the three chambers of commerce whose names were circled by himself, and found out which places in the north they went to before returning to Loulan City, and after this investigation, it made Philip even more frightened!

It turned out that these three caravans had almost all approached the city of Gilliat!

Because the city of Gilliat had become the family's production base, it was not allowed to be entered by outsiders, so any passing caravans could not enter it, and could only go to the surrounding cities to do business.

And these three merchant groups all stopped in a small town closest to Gilliat a few days ago, and they stopped for two days!!

"Hmph!!Three medium-sized large merchant groups stay in a small town with a population of less than 2,000 at the same time! What kind of business can they do in that kind of town? And they can do it for two days at a time?! There must be ghosts!!"

Philip sneered on his face, he finally found the flaw!

"Someone! someone!!" he snapped, and immediately one of his men walked in.

"Is there any official document or news reported back to Gilliat?"

The subordinate immediately shook his head: "My lord, we will hand over all the official documents to you as soon as possible every day, and there will be absolutely nothing left." There has been no news from the city of Gilliat for the past two days, everything is fine, nothing special...... I think they should have learned a lesson from what happened last time, and now it should be a strengthened security defense force......"

As the subordinate was talking, Philip suddenly glared at him and shouted, "What did you say! What happened last time!What did you learn a lesson?!"

He suddenly took two steps forward and grabbed the placket of this subordinate hard: "What happened last time!!"

Seeing Philip's reaction like this, his subordinates couldn't help but be a little scared: "Last time...... Last time, in a routine report from the city of Gilliat, it was said that there had been a slave escape there, but the four slaves who escaped were eventually found by the pursuing soldiers. All four of them are dead, and they don't run out alive......"

"Bastard!!" Philip was furious: "This kind of thing, why didn't you report it to me!!"

His subordinates hurriedly shouted, "My lord! How dare I hide such a thing! But this happened more than twenty days ago! At that time, Lord Tulip himself was in the city of Gilliat. The Duke himself had already dealt with that matter. Therefore, it was not reported separately, but only filled in the monthly routine notice...... And, I remember, when I brought that routine notice in, you. "What am I?" said Philip.

"You saw that there were already words on it that Lord Tulip himself had written on it, and you didn't pay attention to it yourself. ”

Philip was stunned for a moment, then sighed.

Indeed, he vaguely remembered that there seemed to be such an event. After all, some time ago, the Duke was in Gilliat City, so about the affairs in Gilliat City, basically, there is the Duke as the number one leader. I don't need to cāo heart. Therefore, all official affairs concerning the city of Gilliat were handled by Du Wei on the spot, and only in the regular official report every month. Pass it back to the Governor's Palace for keeping. I was also busy during that time. So I didn't care much about the news of Gilliat City - after all, the Duke was in charge himself, so did he still need to pay attention to himself?

But Philip didn't know that although Du Wei was in Gilliat City in those days, Du Wei was busy studying how to hatch dragon eggs, and he didn't pay too much attention to the official affairs in Gilliat.

"Quick! Get that document back for me! I want to see it! I want it now!" Philip looked anxious.

It was rare for his subordinates to see this usually calm and calm adult show such an anxious look, and hurriedly rushed out with a roll. A moment later. An official document was handed over to Philip.

Philip looked at it, and his eyes immediately changed!

After reading it carefully, Philip took the case. His face was still a little hesitant, but then a trace of absoluteness flashed!

Suddenly, he took out a gold tulip badge from his bosom, and then summoned the elder of the palace guards.

"Old smoke! you take this badge of mine and immediately go out of the city to the barracks, and order General Longbottom, within a moment, to lead a thousand cavalry around the city to the east, and pursue along the main road!! Be sure to intercept Princess Louise and Princess Dellie and her party for me!!"

When Lao Yan heard this, his face changed, and he couldn't help but exclaim: "My lord, intercept ...... Send troops to intercept the princess and princess?"

Philip's face sank, and he said hatefully: "Now the matter is urgent, there is no choice! I know that this matter is very serious, intercept the carriage and horses of the princess and princess...... Hmph, if you change someone else, I'm afraid you won't dare. This kind of thing is something that only General Longbottom dares to do! Hurry! Go quickly! If it's too late, something big will happen!"

Lao Yan stiffened his head, and was just about to go out, but he walked two steps and came back, gritting his teeth and saying, "My lord...... If...... What if they resist during the interception?"

Philip's face was covered with frost, and he said in a deep voice, "Except for the princess and Princess Deli...... If anyone else resists, they will be killed!!"

When Lao Yan heard this, he couldn't help but tremble in his heart!

Obediently, it looks like something big is wrong!

Once this kind of thing breaks out, it will be terrible!! After taking a deep look at Philip, Lao Yan's heart was horizontal, and after he gave Philip a military salute hard, he turned around and ran out like the wind.

Philip returned to the table, grabbed the official document again, and carefully looked at the handwriting on it...... "Three rì ago, three fugitive slaves in my city sneaked out of the canal in the evening of the second rì. Soldiers pursued the three and found the bodies of the three men at noon on the third day, fifty miles east of the city. After verification, the three people died in order to escape. Three slaves, respectively .................."

To Philip's horror, two of these three slaves were in charge of different processes on the gunpowder assembly line in Gilliat, and the other was responsible for the production of the "Decepticon Knights of the Sky" broomsticks!!

Hmph! On the way to escape, he lost his strength and died?

Joke!!

Philip's face was like frost: "What a Miss Delphie, what a Princess Delly!! It turns out that he wants to steal the foundation of our Tulip family!!"

Whether it's gunpowder or a broomstick, it's the top secret weapon of the Tulip family that now stands on the continent!!! Thinking of this, Philip immediately strode out of the door and summoned his men:

"Prepare your horses!!All the guards on duty are assembled!Follow me out of the city to do big things!!"

"Send an order to the Decepticon squad! Order all the people left behind to set off for me! Go east to search, the search covers an area of six hundred miles! Find me the whereabouts of the princess and Princess Dellie at all costs!"

After giving two orders in one breath, Philip gritted his teeth and announced: "Give another order! The first person to be found will have a bounty of 10,000 coins! The official position will be promoted to three levels!!"

Philip knew that he had no authority to reward official positions, but he knew that things were no longer allowed for him to do the same!

After giving two orders in one breath, Philip gritted his teeth and announced: "Give another order! The first person to be found will have a bounty of 10,000 coins! The official position will be promoted to three levels!!"

Philip knew that he had no authority to reward official positions, but he knew that things were no longer allowed for him to do the same!