Huggins touched the mustache on his chin, looked at the list in his hand, and said, "Well, except for the pot in the hands of Her Majesty the Queen, all the other 31 pots have been placed."
After a pause, he hesitated for a while, and then said: "One more thing, those 'escorts' haven't left yet."
Todd turned around in surprise.
"Those troops from the palace have set up sentries outside the door, but it doesn't look like they are monitoring us, but more like... protecting us." Huggins closed the list and put it in his arms:
"The Yinhuan royal family seems to take good care of us. Not only did they send troops to protect us, but they also booked this hotel for us to stay temporarily. Well, sir...are you sure you don't know the queen...?"
Todd shook his head and said, "Today was the first time we met in the cathedral."
But in retrospect, he always felt something was strange.
Todd, who had just returned to the hotel from the banquet, felt disgust and disgust towards the beautiful and aloof queen.
At first, he thought that due to the "Tea Party" in Muxi Town, Queen Mary colluded with the nobles who did not like him to jointly set up a scheme to seize the "Grafting Rose" and humiliate him in public.
But after calming down, he discovered several strange places.
First of all, if the queen and those nobles are of the same species, then a powerless little priest can just lead the army to confiscate the carriage and drive them out of Silver Ring City. There is no need to go to such trouble to set up such a situation.
Secondly, during the gambling game, Todd, who was observing the surroundings, discovered many times that the queen was planning to stop the gambling game.
There are two obvious ones, one was when he lost 11 pots of roses; the other was in the penultimate game, when he lost 150 silver moons. The timing of these two times was very interesting.
De lost one-third of the goods, which was barely acceptable, and the nobles were in a good mood after winning; the second time was when Todd was about to lose everything.
Based on normal human psychology, it is assumed that the queen is aware of the cheating methods in the gambling game, but does not know the existence of alien abilities. Both times, it was from Todd's standpoint that it was the best time to escape.
Last but not least, there is the matter of arranging escorts.
If they rushed to the banquet, the purpose of the guards from the royal family could be said to be to monitor and escort; but after returning, they still stayed behind and took on the defense of the hotel. It is difficult to speculate on malicious intentions.
Could it be that the queen was different from those nobles and had other purposes? But why didn't she invite her directly instead of making such a big detour with banquets and gambling?
Just when Todd's head ached with thought, Huggins poked him with his elbow, causing the former to divert his attention.
"What about that alien girl? She's the one you brought back from the banquet." Huggins raised his arm, rolled up his sleeves, and showed Todd the two rows of fine tooth marks on it: "Compared to the nobles,
That girl seems to hate the people of the church even more. I was only bitten, but Edgar was so cold that he couldn't lift his hands."
With a long sigh, Todd's head hurt even more.
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A white candle made of beeswax burned quietly, and Queen Mary sat quietly on a wooden chair beside the fireplace decorated with complicated patterns. Her creamy skin, with a slight blush in the white snow, gently glowed under the warm candlelight.
There was a halo of mist. She had already taken off the heavy and complicated palace dress she had worn during the day, and was now wearing bed clothes that she designed herself and had someone cut them.
On the tight-sleeved long coat of white linen, thin silk seams are embedded on the shoulders and chest, and the inner surface like snow reflected in the morning glow is vaguely visible. The cuffs are decorated with fine embroidery and beautifully patterned laces, and the collar
There are also Tyro convex stripes and filigree decorations below. The lively style of this kind of clothes is obviously contrary to the secular dress precepts required by the church, but it still looks natural, generous and unique.
"Thirty million silver moons?! This is a huge debt. Not to mention that old bastard Kennard, even if he empties the entire kingdom, he can't even pay it! Hahaha!" Guy VI put down the document in his hand and looked cheerful.
Listening to his wife narrating everything that happened at the banquet, he patted the armrest and said with a smile: "When I ask him for money, he always cries about poverty in front of me and puts on old clothes at every turn. But he never buys a house.
When I saw him stop, this was already the tenth time."
"Your Majesty, this is different from what I originally thought. Whether it is silver refining or the Eye of God, Father Todd's attainments in alchemy are obvious to all. If he can be recommended to become a royal alchemist, many problems will be solved. But test
Considering the tense relationship between the church and the kingdom, our original intention was to use a banquet to relax, but now it is self-defeating..." The queen leaned her body on the armrest, and the curve under her thin shirt caused the person opposite to tremble.
dizzy.
Guy VI stood up, shook his head nonchalantly, took out a wrapped square object from the corner of the room, and handed it to the queen: "We can talk about these tomorrow, let's put those things aside first
, look at the gift I have prepared for you, a famous painting by Gutero’s master painter Hertris.”
Queen Mary, with a happy face, couldn't wait to open the package, looked at the beautiful patterns on the canvas, and laughed happily: "It's so beautiful. This is his late work. It is said that it was destroyed in the war.
I thought I could see it here! Another piece of space in my gallery has been filled!”
Thinking about the money spent on this painting, Guy VI bit his lip in pain, and then took his wife's hand: "The painting will only be here, it can't go anywhere, but our time is changing."
Sliding away little by little, it’s time to take a rest..."
The queen's body froze for a moment, then she regained her composure, smiled and nodded.
The quiet moonlight disappeared into the clouds, and the dim night fell into the world.
A hand was placed on Mary's waistline, and the king carefully came to her shoulder, and whispered a word around the pillow.
"Feel sorry."
The former shook his head and still turned his back towards the other owner of the big bed.
The man turned around and lay down on the bed again.
After a while, he came to the queen's side again and asked in a low voice: "Maybe, we can..."
Queen Mary wrapped the quilt tighter around her body. Her voice was not loud, but her tone was unquestionable: "I said, I don't like using those dirty things."
The man sighed heavily.
The woman buried her head and was speechless.
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The sky in the east was slightly brighter, and Todd got up early.
He doesn't have any trouble sleeping, but unlike Muxi Town, the strange environment and tense atmosphere in the city always make it impossible to sleep peacefully.
To his surprise, Huggins and his subordinates were already fully dressed and patrolling inside and outside the hotel. The dark circles on their faces proved that even with the "guards" outside, these people were still loyal.
Responsibilities.
Knowing that Todd had the habit of eating breakfast, Huggins handed the rye bread and eggs that had been prepared to the former.
Drinking the water sent by the hotel owner, Todd took small bites of the rough bread and looked outside the door. Yesterday's "Gamble" incident made it necessary for him to think carefully about what action he should take next.
Huggins did not disturb his thoughts. He walked not far away to direct the farmers and began to check the status of the rose flowers.
About half an hour later, Edgar and Jerry also walked out of the room.
The former yawned, rubbed his eyes, walked up to Huggins, raised his chin, stretched out his right hand in a familiar manner, and bent his fingertips inward. The latter rolled his eyes and shook his head.
He handed over the half-eaten wheat bran biscuit in his arms.
Little Jerry came to Todd's side and happily looked at the pigeons walking around in the open space outside the door.
Edgar took the cake, sat on the bench next to the priest, and wolfed down the cake. Todd looked at him, then looked at the half of the bread left in his hand, and patted Jerry.
With his shoulder, he handed the food to the tall man squatting next to him.
After eating the biscuits, Edgar licked each finger carefully. He glanced at Little Jerry enviously, suddenly remembered something, and said to everyone in a proud tone: "After all, I still have a way! That one yesterday
The girl named Pamela, I have convinced her that we are good people!"
Huggins had a bad feeling: "What did you say to her?"
Edgar coughed twice and said in an extremely serious tone: "Miss, although we seem to be members of the church, we are actually the embodiment of justice. Otherwise, think about it, why didn't we send you there?
Instead of the Inquisition House, they hid you here?"
Huggins aimed at his head and slapped him: "You're the only one who talks a lot!"
After teaching this loudmouth a lesson, the man rubbed his temples with his fingers, turned his face towards Todd and asked, "What should we do today?"
Todd thought carefully for a while and said after a moment: "If possible, I would like to go to the cathedral again, but the problem is how to get out of here..."
"Is Lord Todd here?"
A deep and loud voice came from the door, making everyone in the hotel lobby turn their heads.
The rising sun shone on the gleaming armor, and the reflected light was dazzling.
The person who came was an old man. When he was young, he might have had black hair, but now, even though his hair was full of silver hair and his eyebrows were white, it was not messy at all. His eyes were bright and lively, without any signs of aging.
The lifelessness, darkness and turbidity of people give people a feeling of inner piety and spiritual purity.
Huggins saw clearly who was coming, his face instantly turned from red to white, he turned around in panic, and fled the hall on his hands and knees.
The old man kicked up a bench and hit the man on the back, causing the latter to fall to the ground and chew the mud.
Just when Huggins was about to get up, the old man hooked his leg with his leg, put him down again, and stepped on his spine.
A voice exploded above the man's head, echoing in the hotel hall.
"You bastard! I will settle your account with you later!"