In the early morning, the little emperor Charles personally came to the gate of the imperial city to welcome Tulip Duke Duwei who returned to Beijing.
This was considered a great honor to the Tulip Duke who had once served as his teacher.
Du Wei arrived at the imperial capital in the middle of the night, returned to the Duke's Palace, hurriedly packed his luggage, and immediately rode to the palace at dawn.
From a distance, Du Wei looked at little Charlie standing at the gate of the imperial city. The young emperor was already dressed in fine clothes. Although in order to express his condolences, the clothes on his body were still mainly black, but judging from his sharp eyes, this young emperor
After taking charge of power, some hidden things in his temperament have gradually begun to be exposed.
Du Wei sighed inwardly, dismounted from a distance, handed the horse to the accompanying guard, and walked over slowly.
"Teacher." Charlie took a few steps forward and came to Du Wei, but he did not bow his head as before, and just spoke lightly.
Du Wei smiled slightly, guessing what Charlie was thinking, and took the initiative to bow his head and salute without making it clear.
A trace of satisfaction flashed in Charlie's eyes, and then he took Du Wei's hand and said with a smile: "You are my teacher, how can I let you salute me?"
Du Wei just smiled faintly: "Your Majesty is the king of a country now, and you cannot mess around with etiquette. Although I once served as your Majesty's teacher, I am also your Majesty's minister." After saying that, he still looked serious and finished the gift.
Then he looked at the little emperor with calm eyes.
Charlie was slightly embarrassed, but it only took him a moment to regain his composure, and his tone showed a trace of sorrow appropriately: "Before my father passed away, he told me that I should rely more on the help of teachers for state affairs. I have been looking forward to it day and night, and finally I have you back, teacher."
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Du Wei sighed inwardly and was a little polite.
Suddenly his eyes fell behind Charlie, a girl dressed in men's clothes a few steps away, and couldn't help but be stunned for a moment.
Duweidi's first impression was: It looks like it! It really looks like it!
The second reaction was to look at Charlie deeply and sigh in his heart: "That's it!"
As soon as he came back last night, he quickly summoned little Zach and others who were staying in the imperial capital at night, and asked about the situation in the imperial capital these days. He also learned that Gao Cha had dedicated a beautiful girl from his clan to
The little emperor pleases the little emperor's thoughts. This beauty trick of taking advantage of the opportunity to rise to power is old-fashioned, but for a young little emperor, the effect is unexpectedly good.
Looking at the appearance and demeanor of the girl behind Charlie today, with Du Wei's intelligence, how could he not have guessed the mystery behind it?
"Teacher... where is Muse?" While Du Wei was stunned, Charlie suddenly smiled: "I heard that Muse is back with you?"
Well, this guy is very sensitive to information. I'm afraid he secretly sent someone to keep an eye on me outside my house.
Du Wei frowned secretly and looked at Charlie, but did not answer. He just said softly: "Your Majesty, I'd better go and pay homage to the late king first."
This excuse was fair and aboveboard. The little emperor could not pursue other questions, so he could only nod his head. Then he suddenly pointed at the girl standing behind him: "Teacher... this is, she is a member of Count Gaocha's clan, counting. She
She is also Princess Delly’s niece.”
Du Wei nodded and looked at the girl twice. He was unhappy in his heart and did not express it on his face. He just smiled faintly and deliberately glanced at Charlie again and said slowly: "The late king has just passed away. As the head of a country, your Majesty
Please act with caution. After all, how many pairs of eyes are staring at you, Your Majesty."
The implication is that Wei Wei is accusing the young emperor of being stupid. His father has just died and he is focusing on having women, which is really outrageous.
After all, Charlie was still a little afraid of Du Wei. At first, one was the teacher and the other was the apprentice, but Du Wei still left some majesty in Charlie's heart. At this moment, Du Wei taught him a few words. Charlie did not dare to refute.
, but said nothing. His expression was inevitably a bit sarcastic.
Du Wei glanced at the girl a few more times, only to find that the girl was very brave. She actually stared back at him with her eyes. The arrogance between her eyebrows was indeed a bit like a muse, which made her feel more confident.
A somewhat absurd feeling.
If I had known that it would be so easy to deal with the little emperor, I would just find a replacement... This is a good idea, but I didn't think of it... Misstep, misstep!
In fact, Charlie deliberately asked this girl to accompany him to greet Du Wei, and he already had a trace of resentment in his heart. After all, he was still a teenager and always had some rebellious thoughts. He liked Muse before, but he couldn't, and he couldn't.
I witnessed with my own eyes that Muse and Gabri were very "close".
Since he was a powerless and empty-headed emperor in the past, and under Du Wei's power, he couldn't compete with Du Wei's younger brother for women, so he couldn't help but have some faint resentment in his heart. Today he brought someone who looked exactly like him.
When the Muse girl came to Du Wei, she actually wanted to show off: Aren't you trying to prevent me from getting the Muse? I found one myself, and it's not much worse than the Muse!
But Du Wei's eyes were clearly disdainful, which made Charlie feel a little discouraged.
In fact, his feelings for Du Wei are somewhat complicated. Du Wei was once his teacher, and when Du Wei taught him, he acted unscrupulously, had a unique style of doing things, and was eloquent, which won Charlie's love and respect. Plus
Du Wei's high power naturally gave him a sense of majesty. Charlie admired Du Wei for a while. Even in his heart, he vaguely felt that his teacher seemed to have extraordinary abilities, as if nothing could be done without him.
Whether it is to compete with the temple or to help oneself ascend to the throne.
It can be said that, apart from his father, the person he fears the most is Du Wei.
Otherwise, when I was eager to get the upper hand in the past, I would not have kept pestering Du Wei, hoping to get Du Wei to work for me.
But later, Du Wei always pushed Charlie away, which caused some changes in Charlie's mind: The teacher was obviously so capable, but he just refused to work for him. Could it be that he looked down on himself?
As a result, the original love and respect gradually changed, and there was a slight hint of resentment.
The "Muse" next to her was vaguely unhappy. The way the Tulip Duke looked at her just now was clearly a bit disdainful and mocking. Although the look was not strong, it was as if a sharp sword could see through people in an instant! She
She couldn't help but look unnatural, thinking to herself that she was now the emperor's woman, and the little emperor had personally promised to make her the imperial concubine in the morning. No matter how arrogant this Tulip Duke was, he ignored her and didn't even say hello.
Don’t fight, just look at it twice and pass...
"Let's go, take me to see the late king." Du Wei sighed, this time his tone was completely full of sadness.
Charlie did not dare to say anything and led Du Wei towards the palace.
According to the etiquette of the royal family of the Roland Empire, when the emperor dies, the body will be left in the palace, decorated in a place similar to a mourning hall, and will be buried after a month of hanging sacrifices.
Although Prince Chen did not have the title of emperor, he had the status of emperor, so everything in his funeral was carried out according to the emperor's specifications.
This specially designed mourning hall is solemnly decorated. A tall black curtain symbolizing mourning has been hung at the door. Walk into the main hall. In the empty main hall, there are several fire pots around that are burning all day long.
The flames extinguished the earth, and above the head was an illusion like a starry sky created by magic.
The sun, moon and stars rotate slowly above, symbolizing the immortality of heroic spirits.
At the top of the hall is a magic circle arranged with countless crystal stones.
This magic circle was put together by the palace magicians. The magic light shone brightly, and in the specially made crystal coffin in the middle, Prince Chen lay quietly there.
Under the influence of magic, in this crystal coffin, the body can be stored for many days without decaying. Looking from a distance at this moment, he is lying there quietly, as if sleeping soundly, still maintaining his appearance when he was alive.
Even under the influence of magic, his face even maintained a faint sheen, as if he would open his eyes and wake up at any time.
Du Wei walked in and saw Prince Chen lying in the crystal coffin. Suddenly, he felt a trace of sadness in his heart.
Vaguely, I seemed to see, in the past, under the high tower of the Empire Magic Guild, the young Prince Chen, dressed in flowing robes, walked towards me with a smile...
"My name is Chen. Chen Augustine is my full name."
And on the day of the coup, standing on the wall of the imperial city, the man with a calm and composed face faced the rebels' swords, but still made a bold statement with a confident smile:
"I will make you Duke, Duke of Tulips! As long as my flag of thorns is flying, tulips will bloom undefeated on this continent!"
Du Wei was thinking about it, looking a little dazed, but suddenly he strode up, walked directly to the coffin, and looked at the person in the coffin quietly.
Taking a deep breath, he suddenly reached out and held the coffin with both hands...
His move was undoubtedly unethical. Fortunately, Charlie behind him did not say anything. However, the two palace guards following Charlie changed their colors at the same time. When they were about to yell at Du Wei, Charlie waved his hand.
, shaking his head to signal them to shut up.
While looking at it, Du Wei seemed to tremble, but suddenly turned around and looked straight into Charlie's eyes: "Your Majesty, I have an unkind request. Please agree to it."
"Uh...Teacher, please tell me."
Du Wei took a deep breath, shook his head, and said with a forced smile: "I...I want to stay here alone for a while. I have something to say to the late king alone."
The palace guard next to him changed his color at the same time. Du Wei's request was not inappropriate, it was just nonsense!
As a foreign minister, how could he be allowed to stay alone in the mourning hall of the late king?
Who knew that Charlie agreed without hesitation and said softly: "Okay! I know that there is a special relationship between the teacher and his father, and I understand the teacher's mood. I will go out now... Teacher, you can do it later
Find me in the study."
After saying that, regardless of the looks of the guards next to him, Charlie waved his hand and said coldly and irresistibly: "Everyone, come out with me."
The emperor had already spoken, so how could the guards dare to tell the difference? But after walking out of the mourning hall, the "Muse" couldn't help but frown in a low voice: "This Tulip Duke... Humph!"
Charlie stopped. He looked at her deeply, then suddenly frowned and said, "Shut up."
Seeing "Muse"'s expression change, Charlie sighed: "You don't understand. No one else understands the relationship between my father and the teacher. Even I don't understand, let alone you."
After saying that, he took the girl and walked away.
In the main hall, Du Wei casually sat cross-legged next to the coffin. He leaned lazily on the coffin, holding the coffin lid with his hand, and was silent for a long time. Finally...
"Chen, you...you are really gone...really gone."
After a long time, Du Weicai said this softly, as if sighing.
This sentence seems to be light and airy, but it also seems to contain indescribable profound meaning...
As he said that, Du Wei's hand actually knocked twice on the coffin. The smile on his face was a little sad and a little bitter. His tone was very calm and calm, as if he was chatting with an old friend:
"To be honest, until just now, I still had three hopes in my heart. I hoped that you were not really dead. Alas, I always thought, how could someone like you die so easily? You
Guy...sigh."
Du Wei shook his head, his eyes were a little red, but he seemed to gently raise his hand, flick it quickly at the corner of his eyes, and continued to smile: "I always think about a few years ago. In the Palace Square, you guy, one after another, followed me.
One back move, one hole card after another, finally forced your brother, the eldest prince, to a desperate end. You guy... likes to keep a secret in everything, and never wants to reveal all your secrets to others. So.
Well, on the way here, I still had some illusions in my heart. I just hope that this time it was some kind of trick you came up with, pretending to be dead, and deceiving me into a big scam."
Du Wei forced a smile again and said in a low voice: "Hey, you guy... you used to always like to make some tricks for people to get into, why... you won't lie to me this time? You... I really hope
You lied to me again. Alas, you, alas...why didn't you lie to me, you guy."
"Actually, when I think about it occasionally, the two of us are quite interesting. I read the General History of the Mainland, and it seems that in the history of the empire, there are very few pairs of monarchs and ministers like us. Haha! Ha! But now, you are missing.
, I feel so boring by myself. You understand my thoughts, and I can also guess your intentions. You made me, a down-and-out little nobleman, become the Tulip Duke and the Imperial General in just a few years...
Sigh, you know... Well, I wouldn't dare say this to you when you are alive. I heard that in the aristocratic circle of the imperial capital, there are even some boring bird people who actually speculated whether you like men.
Feng, there are even some despicable bastards, guessing whether there is any ulterior secret between you and me, hahaha, you tell me, is it funny or not?"
After another pause, Du Wei's eyes seemed to be filled with tears: "But we know it. You trust me, and I trust you. That day, in the imperial city, your brother's rebels
Down there, you were joking with me... Well, do you know, that day, I almost wanted to kill you. But, you, this guy, actually smiled and brought a bottle of magic potion for me to drink...
Hey, hey! I have always wanted to ask you, that day, did you see that I had murderous thoughts in my heart? But you deliberately took a bottle of potion to impress me? You guys are always like that
Cunning, hehe! I guess you must have done it on purpose, hahahahahaha..."
Although Du Wei tried his best to laugh, he could not stop a few tears from flowing from his eyes.
Slowly, he stood up again and looked at Prince Chen lying in the coffin.
"Damn! I rarely shed tears, but now I shed tears again because of you! If you guys saw this, you would definitely laugh at me again."
As he spoke, Du Wei wiped his eyes, stopped smiling, and stared at the person in the coffin for a long time. Finally, he slowly and solemnly said softly:
"Hey, I have something to say to you..."
Taking a deep breath, Du Wei looked at Prince Chen's face and spoke in a serious tone:
