Before, Ling Xiao thought that the people in the City Lord's Mansion were following the pharmacist secretly to ensure the safety of the pharmacist. Now he realized that he had overestimated the people in the City Lord's Mansion and probably had the idea of monitoring the pharmacist.
Maybe he is thinking of destroying the power around the pharmacist as well? If the pharmacist does not have his own power around him, the city lord can control the pharmacist better.
If this was the case, the city lord's level of sinisterness would skyrocket. Ling Xiao recalled the news from Kun and found some clues. He discovered that the city lord, who looked extremely irritable, actually had no shortage of sinister moves.
After the people from the association learned that the six pharmacists had happened, they asked the city lord. After getting the answer that they didn't know what happened, they did not immediately lift their suspicions about the city lord.
In the eyes of the association, most of those nobles are people without conscience and conscience. In order to achieve their own interests, they cheat and cheat, and they dare to do anything. Naturally, they will not believe the words of the city lord. This time Ling Xiao goes to the city lord's mansion, it is like a sheep entering a tiger's mouth.
, Naturally, we have to send someone to keep an eye on it.
Even though Ling Xiao was very capable, the association would always think about how to help. If Ling Xiao didn't come out, other pharmacists would come out and help, thus saving the lives of the two pharmacist guards.
After Ling Xiao discovered problems with these arrangements, the association specifically told Ling Xiao, not wanting to cause misunderstandings in the future, so Ling Xiao would not be afraid of the other party's calculations after the city lord took out the contract.
After this time, one thing can be determined. Judging people by their appearance is likely to lead to big misunderstandings. People who appear to be grumpy do not mean they are incapable of calculation. It is even possible that the city lord has created a grumpy persona to prevent others from thinking.
Dare to provoke him easily.
Another situation is that there will be a gap between the rumored historical figures and the real historical figures. For example, the image of Zhang Fei in the eyes of the general public should be like a reckless man. The most glorious moment is when Changbanpo drinks loudly and the river water
Backflow.
However, this image of Zhang Fei is artistically processed and has nothing in common with the real Zhang Fei in history. The real Zhang Fei had good calligraphy, and his daughter was even the wife of Shu Liu Chan.
No matter whether the character is good or the image that has been processed through art, it cannot represent a real person, and the current situation of the city lord just confirms this. Fortunately, Ling Xiao does not believe that the city lord is a reckless man who only knows how to fight and kill. He has always had
I was wary and contacted the association.
After the showdown with the association, Kun did not say who paid for the murder. Even if he caught the person, it would take some investigation to find out who was behind it. Some things take time.
Just before they went to refine the water of life, news came from Kun that those who targeted the pharmacist must have been paid, and they didn't want the pharmacist alive.
?????Don’t let the pharmacist live? This idea is a bit evil. And how can a pharmacist offend people? So much so that someone pays to kill the pharmacist?
Ordinarily it's impossible! Pharmacists rarely sell goods to private individuals themselves, and usually use consignment sales, so it's impossible for people to hate them so much just because they refine some potion.
Ling Xiao wondered why the pharmacists were being assassinated. He quickly came to a conclusion: the pharmacists might have become a fish in the pond, or they were treated as thugs. No! It should not be thugs, but money makers.
machine.
Thinking of this possibility, Ling Xiao wanted to curse, "If the pharmacist really becomes the city lord's money-making machine, it will not be his will, and he may be assassinated. His life is too humble."
The nobles who are above them look at the common people like ants. When the common people are not willing to obey the nobles' orders, they will only think that the common people are too bad and think about how to plot against the other party without any feeling of guilt at all.
This is why the city lord and the others were unwilling to back down after several pharmacists were tricked. They felt that lowly pharmacists should serve the nobles. Even at this time, they would not change their ways. They should still be thinking about how to get through.
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Neither the city lord nor his opponents really respected the pharmacists. Even though the pharmacists were at the top of the civilian population, they were still civilians, so they didn't care about their lives at all.
This shows how unscrupulous the so-called elites, that is, the nobles, are, which is why Ling Xiao is unwilling to have anything to do with the nobles of this world.
Of course, it can be seen from this incident that nobles are also human beings, with their own emotions and desires, and their own loves and hatreds. Therefore, they will have their own allies and naturally their own enemies.
For their opponents, most of them find ways to kill with borrowed swords, or use some stumbling blocks in daily life. Even the most powerful ones always find someone to assassinate them.
As a nobleman, he always carries a bodyguard wherever he goes. Under normal circumstances, assassination attempts cannot succeed. It may only add some minor problems to the other party, but of course there will definitely be cases of successful assassination, and then someone will pay to kill someone.
It's just that hiring a murderer means spending a lot of money to hire those desperadoes. If you do it a few times, it will definitely affect your personal life, so even if this kind of behavior occurs, it won't be considered too much. Unless someone has a good way of making money, or his family has deep wealth,
That kind of expensive expenses can be paid continuously.
Nobles look down on each other, and starting a secret fight is a small-scale fight. If there is a problem between countries, and once the conflict breaks out, the problems involved will be huge.
I think of the assassination of Crown Prince Ferdinand of the Austro-Hungarian Empire (1) in Sarajevo. This incident became the trigger that eventually led to the outbreak of the First World War. As a result, how many people lost their country and had nowhere to go.
refugee?
Kun's information also mentioned that some of the killers were hired by the blond beauty's enemies with money. What? There is also the blond beauty's 'credit' in this? Why does the blond beauty also have her own enemies?
This discovery made Ling Xiao excited, because he didn't expect that the blonde beauty also had enemies, so how did she get the hatred of outsiders?
You must know that a woman as beautiful as the blonde beauty is really the top beauty in the mortal world. This kind of beauty can easily make people fascinated and forget their original intention.
Fortunately, Kun's information gave the answer. It turned out that the nobles of the Kingdom of Saint Laurent had forced the abducted nobles to become slaves, and were unwilling to return them after their relatives found them.
Even the Saint Laurent royal family pretended to be an ostrich after learning about it and did not mediate at all, and did not even ask anyone to hand over the traffickers. Over time, it attracted the resentment of many foreign nobles.
You must know that some nobles give birth to a single child in their lifetime. After being abducted, the title will naturally become that of an outsider, or there will not even be a blood relationship found. In this case, it is natural to take the found person back.
After a lot of wrangling, and even having to pay a lot of money before you can take your children home, this situation is completely enmity, and you will often hold a grudge against those who instigated it.
The members of the royal family of the Saint Laurent Kingdom are also a part of the hatred of many victims. Seeing Ling Xiao nodding here, he asked himself that if he were a victim, he would find a way to repay him after he took control of the real power. Even if he could not actually take revenge,
I also think about disgusting the other person.
It seems that the fallen Saint Laurent royal family was not very popular in the minds of the nobles. This laid landmines for the princesses who led to the subjugation of the country. As a result, the subsequent descendants of the subjugated princesses, the blond beauties, would encounter nails one after another in their later lives.
There are soft and hard ones.
Since some people hate the Kingdom of Saint Laurent, naturally there are also people who like the Kingdom of Saint Laurent. Therefore, the blonde beauty still has certain companions, either because of her beauty or to try her luck for her own future, which will make her surrounded by ambitious people.
people.
These people are often bold and unafraid of others' attention when doing things. Being accustomed to being aloof, they naturally don't care about the wishes of the common people at all, as if it is an honor to work for them.
Thinking of this, the corner of Ling Xiao's mouth curled up slightly. This was not because she was looking for trouble, but because someone wanted to plot against her, so don't blame yourself for messing up the matter.
Having made her decision, she lay on the window and looked outside. At the same time, she was still thinking about the information she had collected, and she also had some energy to pay attention to those who were monitoring her.
Even if she felt someone was staring at her, she did not shrink in the room, but opened the window and looked outside with interest. Anyway, she would definitely be able to contact the person she wanted to contact the association.
Moreover, Ling Xiao is not afraid of the city lord. The worst outcome is a war. What is there to be afraid of? If there is no way to fight, she is not afraid of others chasing her. It is not certain who will kill whom.
After Ling Xiao left, the faces of the city leaders were not very good. Martin was so frightened at this moment because he never expected that the people in the association would be so stubborn, but he had no choice but not to interfere in related matters.
Because he is very clear about his position. He is just a subordinate of the city lord, a confidant? He is indeed a confidant, but he is definitely not the only confidant of the city lord. He is considered an incompetent person among his confidants, and he does not know the most secret part of the city lord at all.
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Therefore, he still doesn't know what the so-called contract is. The moment Ling Xiao stood up to resist, Martin complained in his heart that Ling Xiao was ignorant, why did he go against the city lord?
But as the two people started to argue, Martin felt something was wrong. The city lord and the female pharmacist were on opposite sides, and both had their own reasons.
Martin couldn't help but glance at the paper contract. He felt as if there was something wrong with the contract. But after he saw the furious look of the city lord, he didn't dare to look again, for fear of discovering more problems. Sometimes knowing too much is not enough.
good.
As a person who is trying hard to survive, Martin is not very smart, but he has the most accurate intuition. He has always been very low-key around the city lord and will never get involved in bad things.
Over the years, the city lord's confidants have come and gone, and some once-famous confidants disappeared overnight. Martin didn't think much about it before, but now he feels something is wrong. Are the confidants alive or dead?
Thinking of this, Martin didn't dare to think about it any more, because if he thought about it any more, he might be discovered by the city lord, so Martin pretended not to think about anything and silently led the people out.
Huh? I don’t know what to do? There are some dark clouds in Martin’s mind. If he offends someone from the association, will it lead to revenge and counterattack from the association? And don’t get close to Ling Xiao in the future, uh, the other two
Don't pay attention either. Martin warned himself not to meddle in other people's business.
The three pharmacists who were trapped in the City Lord's Mansion were in their rooms. Ling Xiao had to wait for the association to find more people. This would take time, so there was no panic at all. The other two pharmacists also worked hard to suppress
Panic-stricken, waiting for the battle between the two sides to begin.
Time passed little by little, and on this day Martin came with someone, saying that the city lord was holding a dance in the evening, and he would invite the three pharmacists from Ling Xiao to attend.
A dance? Ling Xiao twitched the corner of his mouth. What kind of dance would they attend at this time? It would be better to take a good rest if they had that time, but Martin insisted that the city lord told them that they must go.
Ling Xiao lowered his eyes and had no expression on his face. For a moment, he had a feeling of being inaccessible, which made Martin feel a little scared, because he was afraid that if Ling Xiao refused to leave, he would be the unlucky one!
Martin wanted to beg Ling Xiao to go to the dance, because people who are useless in the city lord's mansion will be abandoned soon, especially when the city lord is not in a good mood, he is really afraid.
But in the end he didn't say anything, he just bent down. After just a few days without seeing him, he seemed to have aged nearly ten years, and his originally tall and straight figure suddenly became rickety.
Ling Xiao wanted to curse at this moment, but even if there was no Martin, there would still be those serving people. It was really hard not to go at this time, and Ling Xiao also wanted to see what the so-called dance was like.
So Ling Xiao nodded and agreed to attend the dance. When Martin heard this, he bent down again. When he looked up again, his eyes were a little red and his lips moved, but in the end he didn't make a sound and he backed out.
Ling Xiao didn't care when he saw Martin's expression. Everyone's life is not very happy. There are many unsatisfactory things in this world. As a human being, you can only move forward and cannot retreat.
After she decided to attend the ball, someone sent a women's dress. Ling Xiao looked at it again and again, as well as that kind of corset vest. Ling Xiao was completely unwilling to wear it. If she wore this kind of corset mask,
, she didn’t wear it just because she couldn’t take a deep breath.
It was the first time for Nian Zai to observe the life of aristocrats up close in this world. Ling Xiao put on his own cassock, which could be transformed into a formal dress, but there was no vest at all.
The hair of the original owner of this body is dark brown, and even the eyes are brown, but the skin of the body is very white, and overall the appearance is pretty good-looking, but it also has a shortcoming, that is, the chest of this body has no career line.
Most women in this world have well-developed careers. This situation makes this body look undeveloped. Ling Xiao didn't care after taking over.
This is very good, and it is very easy to do exercises. In fact, she is very grateful that her body is in very good condition, and she is doing well in all aspects after exercising.
Today, Ling Xiao looks like she is wearing a dress, but in fact it does not affect her actions at all. She still has to protect herself in the city lord's mansion who wants to plot against her, and she also wants to see what the city lord wants to do?