15. Preparations before the meeting
After a quiet noon, Dearlando's words became true. Prince Huffman himself brought the summons of the Great Council, a few lines written on a fine piece of cardboard.
Dear His Highness Dearlando Birmington,
Please go to the Grand Council House at 8 a.m. on July 18, 5685 A.D., to attend a complaint against you and your pet for attacking and sabotaging the ships of a legitimate caravan and causing great loss of life and property to others.
Hovland Great People's Assembly, regardlessly
"Eighteen, like tomorrow?" Diarlandor took the little card, flipped it back and forth, and said nothing else. "I don't have an address or anything, how do I get there?"
Prince Huffman replied with a smile: "You don't have to worry about this, we will send a car to take you there." However, don't underestimate this trial, the conviction process here is completely different from what you've ever seen. We will leave the final decision on whether or not to consider you guilty to the elected representatives of the Fifty Civilians, and if most of them believe you guilty, then you will have to wait for the sky-high reparations. ”
"Ah, what is that, please tell the Prince. And I was forced to fight back at the time, otherwise I wouldn't have been able to let the King of Thorns arrest me. ”
"Did his fleet fire on you at that time?" asked Prince Huffman unhurriedly.
"Uh...... Not yet, but I see their ships confronting yours. Each other's weapons bays were opened, and everyone on board was fully armed. And I heard about his usual methods, so ......"
"Did his fleet fire on you then?" said the Prince. Deirrando had to honestly admit: "No...... I thought he was going to attack me, so I preemptively struck me. ”
But then he raised his head and asked in a loud voice: "Don't you know what his fleet is here for? At about four o'clock in the morning, so many fleets gathered on the civilian transit island, showing their weapons and sabre-rattling, are they here for an outing? Moreover, their ships are exactly the same as the pirate ships we met yesterday, and I can't catch them with my own hands." ”
Prince Huffman looked at him with a smile. Then he nodded and said, "That's right." You have to steer your reasons for attacking him in the right direction that ordinary people can understand. Also, don't act like you're arrogant and arrogant. The Great Council didn't like the prestige of others. in your country. Maybe you're a contractor of the Starlight Dragon, and you'll be admired by all. In our case, it will provoke the disgust of the reviewers. ”
Diarlando frowned and asked, "What are these councilors, and who are they qualified to try me? Are they elders like those elected by the patriarchal families in our country?"
That's the problem. The councillors come from ordinary people to lower aristocrats, of all races, and they don't like us high-ranking guys. But ordinary people like them. Trust them and be willing to use them as your own mouthpiece and speak on your behalf. ”
Prince Huffman's answer perplexed Diarlando even more, what was the right to give these people the right to judge things far beyond their own ordinary capabilities?
As he uttered his question, the older man let out a low laugh, patted Deirlandor on the shoulder, and said, "Don't underestimate the wisdom of the people, in fact I haven't found any wrong judgment in them for so many years. Don't worry, I'll let Loveland defend you, and she'll come over with the relevant procedures and paperwork to tell you what to do tomorrow. ”
"Wait, weishenme, she's defending me?" Diarlando couldn't help but exclaim, although he knew that Queen Allen would not let him go so easily, but shouldn't he find a more professional person to decide whether he could continue to stay in Hovland?
"Don't underestimate my daughter, her eloquence is very good, she often can't say a word to me and Allen, and obediently admits defeat. Seeing that Dillando's face was not in disbelief, the old prince shrugged his shoulders and said easily, "You'll know when you see it." ”
It wasn't long before Princess Loveland really came over with a large pile of documents, and the prince said a few more words, and left the two of them alone in the room, and walked away by himself.
After seeing off Prince Huffman, Diarrando closed the door, and the room fell into an awkward silence. Her Royal Highness did not speak, but sorted the documents she had brought with her, except for the rustling of the papers, and the room was extremely quiet.
Diarlando carefully found a place away from Lovelblanc and sat down, and to be honest, he really didn't know how to talk to him. In the past, when I was usually playing outside, those girls could easily get along with each other. Even Zoya can laugh at will, but this woman who has been stuffed to be his wife from the beginning makes him not know how to deal with it.
"That pet of yours...... Where?" was the first to break the silence was Lovellan, who spoke very dryly, without any uncomfortable look.
"You mean Riseth? It's not my pet, and you don't know the legend of the Starlight Dragon, so how could you keep it as a pet?"
"I hope you understand, Your Highness Diarrando, that we haven't seen a dragon here for thousands of years. Now the general view of the people is that these things are all psychotropic drugs that we fabricate to accumulate money and brainwash the people, intending to enslave them forever. They'll only think you've got a magical creature from across the Channel, but they'll not think it's a dragon, let alone the legendary Starlight Dragon. ”
Lovelan coldly answered Deirlando's question, and reminded again: "Leave all your knowledge of Turanda behind, our rules here are completely different. Everyone came to Zuihou's conclusions through implementation and well-founded debate, not by magic. ”
"And what is your mother's show, isn't it magic?" Diarlandor wondered. How can ordinary people here look at those abilities of Queen Bixia.
"That's the secret jishu that is monopolized by the monarch, and if I become king one day, I will make public those jishu that are suitable for the people and can improve everyone's living standards, and I won't be as mysterious as my mother. Again, what about your pet? If you waste so much time on every question, you won't even be able to listen to the process in an afternoon. ”
Dearlando was stunned by Loveland's bold idea, he did not expect to be born as the queen's daughter, who was so ignorant of her mother and her abilities. God knows who instilled these outlandish ideas in her. But now is not the time to explore these questions. He still did as he was asked to take Reses out of the star box. It was placed in front of the princess.
Ryses had fallen asleep comfortably at the Queen's just now, and he hadn't woken up yet, and he probably hadn't slept enough all day since he tossed it up early this morning to wipe out the fleet. So I slept comfortably.
"......," Lovelan looked at the tiny baby dragon the length of her index finger. The face was revealed. You're kidding me.
She flipped through the volume of records in front of her and read aloud: "At about four o'clock this morning, my Black Wind fleet was on a normal voyage on Aenason Island when it was attacked by an unknown monster. The monster was one hundred and fifty feet long. It can fly freely and completely destroy our six sky ships within 10 minutes, causing direct economic losses of 500,000 gold coins and more than 120 casualties......"
Reading this, she snapped and threw the scroll in front of Dearrando and said, "This is the other party's statement, the Black Wind fleet belongs to the Dreadhorn King's men, and it is his personal caravan and warband. Six of them have been destroyed in the blink of an eye, and you're going to tell me that this little lizard did it?"
Risen woke up with a sneezing sneez, "I'm not a lizard...... and woke up.
The sparks it spewed out immediately burned a few small holes in the statement pressed on him, and Lovelan hurriedly took it away, knowing that this was an official document, and if it was really broken, it would be considered to be contempt for the Great Council.
After Reses finished yawning, he looked left and right in confusion, and then continued to grunt and ask, "Who is so bold as to dare to call me a lizard?"
Diarlando immediately reached out to catch it, carefully soothed the young dragon, and then said, "No, no, you heard it wrong, she said Little Star." ”
Ryses wagged his tail, looked at the shiny scales all over his body, and said, "Well, I do look like stars, that's why I'm called Starlight." Woman, why are you here? Why are you calling my name? Seeing that you are quite pleasing to the eye, I will not hold you accountable for smashing me with something. ”
After saying that, it turned to its symbiote and said, "She's a little like you, is she your relative?"
Lovelan, who was completely ignored, angrily lined up the table and said, "Diarlando, you don't want to continue acting with your pet." The review of the Great Council is a very serious matter, and you are simply flouting the Council like this, and you will not cooperate with the investigation at all!"
Ryses flicked his tail and then scratched his ears with his paws, apparently a little uncomfortable with the strange woman's high notes. Diarlando immediately scratched its back to relax it, and then replied to himself: "Rises usually keeps a minimum mentality in order to conserve energy, and only grows up when necessary. ”
"And how is it a magical pet?" Lofelan heard Deirlando's serious answer, and sat down again, opening the stack of papers in front of him, and writing down notes on it.
"It's inconvenient to reveal, just like how the pumice steam engine is made. Having learned his lesson, Dearlando decided to use Hovland's own rules as they now exist to deal with its rules.
Sure enough, hearing this answer, Lovelan did not react violently, but nodded clearly: "Oh, trade secrets." You people, you just like to hide everything, and then after a few decades, you die, and jishu is lost. ”
She shook her head and sighed as she recorded: "In ancient times, there were so many divine jishu, which was called the age of magic, but now? How many are we left? Although Turanda still has so many remnants of ancient jishu, your royal family has used it in the name of magic and manipulated it in its own hands for its own benefit." ”
Ryses muttered again, "I'm not a pet, I really want to say, you inferior humans are my pets, women!"
Lovelan glanced at the young dragon disdainfully and said, "What kind of pet is really what kind of person, even people are arrogant, even pets are so virtuous." She looks so cute, but Weishenme has such a bad temper?"
Dearlando smiled and asked, "Do you think Ryeth is cute?"
Lovelan immediately lowered his face and said, "Be serious, I'm not here to talk to you. You're going to let Ryses attack the Black Wind fleet's airships?" (To be continued......)
PS: Feels like it's been squeezed dry...... tear