Chapter 18: Love as Poison
Wilphant Kai Empire, Saiser City, Pigeon Coop House.
The fundamental reason why people are accustomed to making the Infant Mansion the Pigeon Coop Mansion is because since the day the Emperor's Imperial Guards were born, the Pigeon Coop Guard, the fate of the Infant family has been closely linked to this team.
The Infant Generalissimo and the former Emperor Serres, the privy envoys of the Infant White Duke and Syser III, people have a strong curiosity about the relationship between the monarch and the minister of these two generations, and always want to dig up some new and exciting old history or new rumors from the pile of old papers, country workshops, or some unknown tavern to satisfy their imagination of the infant family.
Completely different from other royal families or royal families, the infant family is clean and transparent like a crystal without impurities, no bribes, no cliques for personal gain, no conspiracy to usurp the throne, no corruption and perversion of the law, even the most inconspicuous local squires or the most ordinary trainee guards are difficult to do without peachy scandals, and all members of the infant family can fully meet the standards.
The infant marshal has such a prominent status, but he has only married one wife in his life, has not divorced, has not taken concubines, does not drink, does not gamble, and does not recruit prostitutes, which is simply a waste of the rights and status given to him by God.
The most infuriating thing is that his only son, Infant White, who held the three important positions of Duke of the Privy Council, Grand Sima and Captain of the Pigeon Guard at a young age, Infant Zhibai lived in an era when the world demanded much more from him than his father, and he did more impeccable than his predecessors, and the people of Weishengkai regarded Infant as a shining example of the nobility of the sword on the one hand, and secretly disappointed because of the family's pure and unflawed prestige.
More than ten days have passed since Philian returned to Crimson Bay with the last of the Viaphant ships.
It was as if the Infant Mansion, which had been silent for countless centuries, was boiling again, even more lively than before.
Every morning from seven o'clock onwards, the mansion was more lively than the barracks, and seventy or eighty guards walked up and down the courtyard in turn, as if to keep the mansion on guard and deterrent, and they were fully armed and ready to deal with any contingencies.
According to the custom of the ancestors, the stairs of the infant family buildings were surprisingly wide enough for people to change another building on them.
Countless Viaphants who asked for care, or new recruits who had just entered the city, nobles from other provinces who came to marry their families and were likely to return disappointed, servants who wore different ornamental robes of other families to deliver letters or invitations, and so on.
The meeting room of the mansion was filled with ten people from morning to night, and the humming of conversation never stopped until late at night.
As long as he wanted, he could stand on the balcony of the upper floors of the mansion like a king and inspect his elite soldiers and loyal servants, but since the great captain of the pigeon cage had woken up from a long coma, no one had seen him except a few relatives and friends.
Not only that, but there was also a greater desire to meet his mysterious sister, who is said to have returned to VIA after her studies abroad.
People can't help but associate the return of Infant Mo with the awakening of Infant White, but just as the world has no idea the real reason for his fainting, no one can speculate the real clues from the two completely different "returns" of the brother and sister.
Infant Zhibai stood at his bedroom window, his original dark and hard face lines were now pale and soft, his sharp eyes had become sloppy and powerless, and his vigorous spirit had disappeared for the most part, he was like a wolf king who had just been rescued from the ice and snow, his bones and flesh were still there, but his spirit had been scattered like dust.
A pair of hands blindfolded his eyes, and the baby smiled. Dancing God eBook
"The next time you're playing this kind of game, can you wash your hands first," he finally smiled, as if the sun had broken through the clouds, "What other unmarried girl's hands smell so bad but you?"
"No culture, right? "Tut-tut!" Contrary to her brother, Ying Mo seems to have changed in just a few days, full of energy, loves to talk and laugh, although she still likes to talk to people with a gun and a stick, but her mood is much more cheerful than before in the red palm.
"This is a high-grade inorganic reagent, if it can be washed off, it means that the reagent is not pure at all, then we have spent so many gold coins in vain. Ying Mo opened the cabinet and began to climb over the wall to find clothes.
"You're not going to be doing any more aphrodisia potions, are you?" said Infant Shiro, glaring at her sister suspiciously.
"Brother, what I did when I was eight years old, when are you going to mention it?" Ying Mo shouted angrily, but her face turned red, "I wanted to make a new type of mask that was more breathable and fit the bones of the face at the request of Lu Wande - especially since we don't have so many professional anatomists to skin those intact death row inmates, it's a pity······"
"I really don't want you to deal with cold things like the dissection room, potions, and corpses all day long, Mo'er," Infant Zhibai rubbed Baby Mo's long hair affectionately with a licking calf, as if they were children, "At your age, you should walk in the sun with your beloved, or stroll in the fields, go to the ball, dress yourself up beautifully, and enjoy youth and love······"
"Captain Baby, Captain Baby, you speak more and more like Daddy now, no—like Mom!" Infant Mo said slyly, "Of course I'm young, of course I want to fall in love! But youth and love, I think as long as I desire, I deserve to enjoy it at any time—whether I'm twenty or seventy years old, can I say that I can't fall in love with other handsome old men when I'm gray-haired?"
Infant Zhibai laughed so much that tears came out, and he threw himself on the armchair, holding his forehead and shaking his head while laughing.
"Yes, absolutely. As long as I'm alive at that time, I'll pick you up when you go on a date. Lest any handsome and bad old man with bad intentions bully my beautiful old woman sister. ”
"Brother, you know, when you praise me for being beautiful, you are actually praising yourself for being handsome. Ying Mo said lively.
"Handsome?" Infant touched his face, as if recalling an unreachable word, "I did have a time like that······"
"Brother, I beg you!" Ying Mo ran over and hugged her brother's knee, "Don't be so discouraged, haven't we all survived?
"Mo'er, I'm not discouraged. Even if it's poisoned or assassinated, I don't care at all, dying in a conspiracy or a war is an honor for the men of the infant family - it's just," Infant White smiled bitterly, "It's just that I don't want to see her again, I really want to forget everything related to her······"
"Brother, you must go see her, before she dies. Ying Mo took her brother's head and gave him a firm look of encouragement, "You have to break everything with her completely! Then you can forget her forever, forget all the harm she has done you, come out again, and learn to love again - love as if you had not been hurt, and you will surely fall in love again!"
"I hope so. Baby's white smiled weakly.
"Xia Jin is a mistake, brother!" Ying Mo had tears in her eyes, pained by her brother's lost soul, "She has destroyed the body, mind and body of almost everyone who comes into contact with her—but I must not let her poison love and ruin your life's happiness······"