The night was hazy, and the silver moon crept out of the clouds, blooming with a soft glow.

In a tent set up in the field, two figures were reflected.

Men are vigorous and women are graceful.

The two figures approached slowly, their lips slightly pursed, as if they were saying something, but the sound was inaudible and only they could hear it.

Slowly, the two figures gradually merged, and infinite spring was born in the tent, accompanied by a little sound and rough panting, like a song of life.

After a long time, it was low.

"Why?" asked Jackson, who was excited about his body as he slowly subsided.

"Huh?" said Melinda, who was still in the afterglow of happiness, lazily.

"I mean just now. Jackson said.

"Isn't that bad? haven't you always liked me?" Melinda said lazily.

"I love you, I love you. Jackson suddenly became excited, "But I don't want you to be like this, not for love, but like paying off debts, I don't want to be like this." ”

Speaking of excitement, he lowered his head, and a soft hand suddenly reached out, reached into his hair, and rubbed it.

"I don't deny that in our intimacy just now, I was a little apologetic, and I hope it will make you happier, because your smile is getting less and less during the time you follow me out. You know, it may be detrimental for me to let you confess to others, especially your Excellencies, the Asturian selling ambergris, but you did it anyway. ”

"That's nothing. I worked with Bernadotte and Jimenez, even though it was to make money. But the bigger reason was wanting to prove my own abilities. When I inherit my uncle's title in the future. No one would think that I was a second ancestor. But none of this matters after meeting you, Melinda, none of this matters compared to you. Jackson kissed her cold fingers.

"But, if that's utilization, I'm really using you. Melinda said a little helplessly, "Actually, you are so smart, you can guess it." What do I want to do. You don't have to feel remorse and guilt for your actions today, though. While half of the reason is that I feel guilty about using you, as if I was paying it back, the other half is that I am saying goodbye to the people I love. ”

"Farewell?" Jackson was overjoyed when he heard his beloved, which meant that Melinda really had feelings for him, but the word goodbye made his heart tremble.

"Yes, since you can guess what I want to do, I should be able to guess too, we are going to launch a general attack with ambergris. Melinda said, "It's about to start." ”

"But there is no need to say goodbye. Since you love me too, you do it. After success, we're together!" Jackson said, a little incoherently, "or let me join in, I can help you." ”

"No, no, you've already helped me a lot, you know?" Melinda touched her lover's face lovingly, "You helped me 'speak' to a lot of people, and I also learned a lot of information about the ambergris trade from you." Enough is enough, this thing needs me to do, but not you. If you stand up publicly, how will you face your fellow citizens in the future?"

Jackson shook Melinda's hand, "It's a big deal I don't want this title anymore, as for Bernadotte and Jimenez, to be honest they have made a lot of money, I don't owe them anything." They kept me the shares of the company, but I didn't need it, and they wanted to use my status to stop some people who wanted to attack the company. ”

He continued, "If you're still worried, then I'll stay in the Emerald Continent, as long as I can be with you, I won't go back." ”

Melinda shook her head and said, "Have you ever thought that when the ambergris trade is destroyed and the focus is successful, even if you stay on this continent, my compatriots and family may not like you. If they accept that the trade in ambergris should be banned, then you people, especially those who have sold it, are criminals in their eyes. Therefore, when the time comes, whether it is on the Emerald Continent or your continent, you will be condemned. The only way is for you to not participate at all, and before I start, you leave, immediately return to the east coast, and take a boat back to your continent, so that nothing is your business. ”

"But I can't leave you!" cried Jackson, "I will never leave you, there is a way, there is a choice." ”

"But I'm not going to promise you not to do it. Melinda sighed, "In any case, I can't watch ambergris destroy my home and my people on this continent, and I must stop it." ”

"Then we can go to sea, we can leave here, neither stay in the Azure Continent nor stay in the Emerald Continent, we can find an isolated island, or explore other planes, Asturias has many passages to other planes, we can escape to those places in the guise of merchants to live, promise me. Jackson stared into those beautiful eyes.

After staring at each other for a long time, a trace of softening finally appeared in those firm and beautiful eyes, "Okay, I promise you." When I succeeded, we went to live on an island together, or to an alien plane where no one else knew us. ”

"You must remember your promises. Jackson took her hand, then stretched it flat, their fingers crossed and intertwined like bodies.

He gasped and whispered in her ear, "You're going to make it, you're going to make it, you're going to be safe, aren't you?"

She regained his impact, but replied in a stoic tone: "Of course, of course it will succeed, and justice will triumph over evil after all! I will not let ambergris tarnish this wonderful age, it should be the best of times, because I met you"-

Twenty-five days later, inside the city of Peiji.

Melinda stood bravely in the square of the city, and around her gathered a group of High Elves, some from Pei Ji City, and some from other cities.

Melinda raised her arms and shouted, "Gentlemen and ladies, we will be messengers of justice." Go and expel the unscrupulous merchants who have ruined our fellow citizens with ambergris for the sake of our wealth. They lead our loved ones to depnement. We can no longer tolerate it. Today, we will punish them and we will expel them!"

"Good will triumph over evil!" cried the elves around her.

The huge crowd set out from the square, they gathered around Melinda, set up flags with words such as "No ambergris cream!" written in red on a white background, and rushed to the incense hall closest to the square.

"You, what do you want to do?" the guards of the incense hall were hired. But it's actually an ornament, because even if it's a rank, it's not necessarily as good as a high elf, and a high elf is a fifth-order creature.

In fact, the opening of the incense hall can only be maintained for a long time with the support of the high elf nobles or the permission of the archons, and those who participate or support the elves can initially get a large supply of ambergris cream for free, and then find that this is a good deal, and they can get rolling dividends without paying anything.

Therefore, there are usually a few family guards in the incense hall who belong to those nobles who are sent by the nobles, and they are well entertained by the incense hall all day long. The ambergris cream is also full, and when someone comes to find trouble, they will come forward. or force them to retreat by force, or put up the signs of the family behind them.

When Melinda and the others rushed into the first incense parlor, the guards hired by the merchant himself were like papier-mâché in front of the High Elves, and in a few strokes they were knocked unconscious and tossed aside.

Then the elven worshippers who cooperated with it came out to stop it, but they were dumbfounded when they saw the scale of this impact on the incense hall.

Many years ago, Melinda also did it once, but at that time, she was single-handed, and she almost blew up the incense parlor that her brother's best friend's family had sheltered, and also injured several high elves, but she was then forcibly taken away by the personal guards sent by her father, Edgar, the lord of Peiji City.

To be honest, Edgar doesn't care if Melinda is against ambergris, although he also incense, but as an archon, and his strength is far from that of ordinary High Elves, he is not very addicted to ambergris, and is in a controlled manner, mainly because sometimes he associates with other nobles, and people regard it as a fashion.

However, of course, taxation is one thing, and on the other hand, he thinks that his daughter is too fussy and opposes the families who support the incense hall for the sake of ambergris, which has an impact on his governance.

This time, when Melinda destroyed the first incense parlor and marched on to the second incense parlor, Edgar already knew that there was a sabotage campaign against the ambergris trade and the incense parlor in the city.

But when he knew the number of participants, he couldn't help but hesitate, this number had reached tens of thousands of high-level elves, and it was not only Pei Jicheng's family, but also several nearby elf cities who opposed the ambergris trade.

This was to be suppressed in the name of quelling the rebellion, and Edgar had to mobilize all his troops.

And since he would prevent his daughter from destroying the incense hall because he didn't want to offend too many elf nobles, are there any influential elf noble families among the tens of thousands of high elves now?

This caused Edgar to hesitate and hesitate, and it was only when he heard that even the third incense parlor had been vandalized and its proprietor had been thrown into the sea by the High Elves led by his daughter, that he smiled bitterly and decided to abandon the suppression, because it seemed too late.

It was his daughter who had taken the lead, and had already destroyed most of the incense parlors in the city, and I heard that a detachment had been sent to attack the trading ships that were calling at the port, and they were going to destroy all the ambergris.

This is already ironclad to offend those families, and it is useless to explain, unless he orders a suppression when it happens at the first time, otherwise such a large-scale action, with his daughter taking the lead, will not be washed even if he jumps into the sea.

"Father, father, is Melinda crazy, what has she done, you should stop her, Carl has just protested to us on behalf of his family, he is going to break off my friendship. Melinda's brother Lombana shouted.

"It's late. Edgar smiled bitterly, "Melinda has given me a problem, and our only option now is to make this matter a little bigger instead, and hope that this will happen in other places, and then force the Elven Court to make a decision to support the ban on the trade in ambergris, so that our family will not only have no need to worry about offending others, but also have no worries about being held accountable by the royal court, but will have merit." ”

"So, what should we do?"

"We'll go out now, and you will follow me. Edgar said coldly, "Go and declare that Melinda's actions are supported by the Archon Pei Ji City, and in the name of Pei Ji City, they will write to the Elven Royal Court, demanding that the ambergris paste be banned, and that the merchants of the Azure Continent be expelled or exiled." ”

Lombana gasped and stammered, "I, we're going to offend a lot of people." ”

"Yes, but there is no better choice, even if you put your sister to death, on such a large scale, no one will believe that there is no support from me. Edgar said angrily.

He was successfully coerced by his own daughter. (To be continued.) )

PS: Happy New Year everyone.

Oh, there seems to be a bit of a problem with the chapter name, this should be thirteen.