Chapter 3342 The Trial Of The Fool (One Hundred and Forty-Five)
Chapter 3342 The Trial of the Great Fool (145)
A long time ago, in the palace of the Kingdom of Solis.
A young lion man, wrapped in a tight gray cloak and with dirty gray-red hair, was quietly sweeping the fallen leaves on the ground in the courtyard.
On the other side of the courtyard, the white bear boy and the golden lion boy were sitting in the pavilion, enjoying afternoon tea.
"It's that kid again..." Elaine took a bite of the muffin and looked at the child in the gray cloak in the distance with some concern.
"Occasionally I see him sweeping the floor like this. Is he the child of a servant in the palace? Don't worry about it." Leoport smiled and moved a chess piece on the table: "General!"
"Uh. Uh-huh..." The white bear boy looked at the chessboard a little dullly, and then realized that it was a dead game, and there was no possibility of reversing the defeat: "Okay, okay. I lost again."
"You're so weak, hee hee hee." Leo smiled and said, "This is the 1,262nd time you've lost. I gave in to all of them, so I left one less knight and one less bishop. You're still the same."
Lose. Elaine still has to practice hard, otherwise he won’t be able to be my opponent, hehe~"
"I, I don't like playing chess." Young Elaine muttered.
"Please like it! Otherwise, it would be so boring if I were the only one playing!" the golden lion boy said willfully. At the same time, he put down the half-filled cup of black tea, walked over to the white bear boy, and hugged the child from behind.
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"Okay, it's so hot..." Elaine said in confusion: "You still do this on a hot day..."
"I will stop before it gets too hot, hehehe~" The little lion bit the little white bear's ear and played... just like a real big cat cub playing.
"It's not good to be seen by other people..."
"There's no one else here~" Leo still didn't care.
It would be incorrect to say that there was no one else around. Elaine turned her gaze to the young man who was cleaning fallen leaves in the distance. Judging from his height and body shape, that child was probably a few years younger than Leo, right? In short, he was a very young child.
.It is really strange that the people in the palace let such a child work in the palace.
"Do you still care about Xiao Hui?" Leo asked.
"Xiao, Xiao Hui?"
"That's the kid. He always wears that gray cloak, and the hair on his body is also gray-red, so I call him Xiao Hui." The golden lion replied: "I always feel that he is covered with dust and dirty.
It’s a feeling, isn’t it?”
Elaine didn't answer.
"Don't worry about him. Just leave him alone, okay?" Leo put his arms around Elaine's neck: "I tried to play with Xiao Hui before, but he was completely ignored and very rude. Father.
Later, when he found out about my contact with him, he became furious and slapped me. I don’t know why my father was so angry. My father clearly never hit me and was very kind to other servants..."
"Uncle, did uncle really hit you?" Elaine found it unbelievable. Was Leo talking about that king? The king who showed a gentle smile to everyone? Elaine had never seen the king look angry in his memory.
Not once, not to anyone.
He only saw the king looking out the window and melancholy at the night sky one night when he got up from the bed. Only at that time, the king rarely showed a gentle smile.
Why would the king get angry over something like this? It's incredible...
"In short, don't come into contact with Xiao Hui." Leo warned: "I suspect that the child has some terrible infectious disease. My father will be angry because he is afraid that I will be infected by Xiao Hui's disease. After my father beat me, he
After the slap, he dragged me into the bathroom and gave me a bath, maybe for, um...disinfection?"
The white bear boy didn't answer.
The same night.
Elaine, who couldn't sleep, got up from the bed.
Summer has arrived, and the weather is gradually becoming sultry. In this weather, the white bear people who were originally adapted to polar life are a little uncomfortable. The heat is not the biggest problem. The biggest problem is that sweating makes the body a little sticky. He urgently thought
I'm going to go to the courtyard to get some air to dry myself out.
Leo was sleeping so deeply that he couldn't wake up no matter how he screamed. Elaine sighed and walked toward the courtyard alone.
There was almost no one in the courtyard at night, and there were actually very few guards in the palace.
The Kingdom of Solis has always been a peaceful and comfortable country, and its citizens live a very prosperous life. There are almost no criminals or thieves. Even if there are occasional criminals, they are usually criminals smuggled in from abroad, and these guys are usually humans.
Moreover, the citizens of this country have never thought of harming the king. They love their king very much. If something happens to the palace, the residents of the town outside the palace will definitely rush to the rescue regardless of their own safety.
The few guards who occasionally patrol the palace only exist to prevent the intrusion of some dangerous monsters (which are almost non-existent in this country). They are just in case. And they have never seen any monsters in the palace, so
The patrols are also very relaxed. Naturally, the courtyard late at night will not be covered by the patrol routes of the guards.
Elaine came here quietly, and finally arrived in front of the pavilion. He and Leo often drank afternoon tea here, while reading books and playing chess. Under the illumination of the small number of long lamps with soft light in the courtyard,
The scenery around the pavilion is only vaguely visible.
Since there was no one around, the white bear boy boldly took off his shirt and tried to dry out the sweaty feeling on his body. If possible, he would even want to take off his pants, but he did not have the courage.
"Huh~" He sat on the stone chair in the pavilion to rest, feeling cool under the gentle night breeze.
Then, he fell into a drowsy sleep.
In a daze, he felt someone approaching. At first, he thought it was Leo coming to find him, so he didn't pay much attention. But the other person came over and covered him with a thin blanket, and the white bear boy suddenly felt strange. Because of Leo
Ou would directly wake him up and then ask him to go back to his room to sleep instead of covering him with a blanket. Strangely, he suddenly woke up. He opened his eyes and saw that the person covering him with a blanket was not Lei.
Oh, but the child wearing a gray cloak, "Little Gray".
"Ah!" When Elaine noticed his presence, the other party let out a childish snort, then turned around in a panic and wanted to run away.
"Wait, wait!" Elaine got up and grabbed the blanket that almost slipped from his body: "Yes, are you the one who covered me with the blanket?"
"Uh, um." The other party replied vaguely.
"Thank you, thank you, Xiao Hui... No, uh, you, what's your name?"
"We shouldn't have a conversation." The child answered Elaine in a low voice: "The king... doesn't allow it."
"But, but, at least tell me your name?"
"sorry."
"Are you the child of a servant in the palace?" Elaine felt very strange and asked: "Why do they let you work in the palace? It's obviously such a young child. Uncle, uncle is here
Bullying you? Do you want me to go talk to uncle?"
"No! Don't!" the other party said in shock: "Don't mention this to the king! Don't tell him that I have contact with you, please!"
The white bear boy frowned, becoming more and more confused: "Uncle, he...is really bullying you?"
"It doesn't matter... the king is very kind to let me stay here." Xiao Hui replied: "I'm leaving. Please forget what happened tonight, Your Highness."
"I'm not a prince..." Elaine wondered.
"You are. You are the adopted son of the king. Since His Majesty the king recognizes you, you are a prince - even if you are not related by blood." The other party said, and then turned around and wanted to leave.
"Wait, wait!" The white bear boy was anxious and reached out to hold the other person back. Then because it was dark at night, what he grabbed was not the other person's hand, but the cloak on Xiao Hui's body.
In fact, it's not a big deal to pull like this. If the opponent breaks free hard, he can easily escape. But Xiao Hui is thinner than expected, and his cloak is actually torn off with this pull, and then the lion man boy follows the trend.
He fell to the ground, made a splat sound, and slid exaggeratedly on the grass for a short distance.
"Oops, oops!" Elaine said in shock, and immediately stepped forward to try to help him up: "I'm sorry! You, you are not hurt, are you?"
"It's okay..." Xiao Hui tried to get up, but he showed a painful expression, as if he was really hurt.
Through the moonlight, Elaine seemed to be able to see the boy's knees bleeding.
"You, you're bleeding!" The white bear man panicked: "I'm really, really sorry! You need to treat the wound quickly!"
"It's okay, it's not bleeding." The other party said, reaching out and patting his knee.
There was indeed no blood there, but the bright red color spread under the moonlight. It seemed to be the original color of the child's hair. When he fell, his knees touched the grass, possibly soil or grass.
The moisture on his body removed something that was originally covering the hair on his body. After that thing fell off due to the moisture, the originally grey-red and dirty hair suddenly turned into a bright blood-red color. Look.
It looks like it's bleeding.
Although his knee was not injured and bleeding, Xiao Hui's movements were a bit reluctant when he stood up. He seemed to have sprained his foot.
"You, you are injured." Elaine said: "You still need to cure it. I, I will take you to the royal doctor?"
"No! Don't!" The other party refused: "Don't disturb the people in the palace because of this kind of thing! ... Please!"
"But, this won't work. Where can I take you for treatment?"
Xiao Hui suddenly let out a long sigh: "You are such a good person, Your Highness."
"No, not a prince. Call me Elaine." The white bear boy helped the other person up and tried to use his shoulders to support him: "Where are you going? Let's go?"
"Go to my lounge. Please, please don't be seen by others." Xiao Hui replied: "Here. Also, my cloak——"
"Here." Elaine returned the cloak to Xiao Hui, then carried the other person's shoulders and walked deeper into the courtyard with Xiao Hui leading the way.
The palace is very big, so Elaine naturally doesn't know every detail inside the palace. But he also didn't expect that there is actually such a small independent stone house hidden deep in the courtyard, and this small and independent stone house is hidden deep in the trees.
The small house is actually Xiao Hui’s home.
Elaine pushed the door open and saw simple but quite neat furniture inside.
This looks like a room for servants in the palace, but it seems that only Xiao Hui lives alone and no other servants are there.
There are wardrobes, beds, tables, chairs, boxes for storing sundries, and shelves for storing equipment for gardening. There are very few things in the whole room, but the basic necessities of life are still complete.
"You, you live here?" Elaine asked: "Why, why don't you live with other servants in the palace?"
"I have my inside story, please don't delve into it, please." The other party was avoiding Elaine's question. He sat down on a chair: "The medical kit is in the drawer in the lower right corner of the cabinet."
The white bear boy went to get it and soon found the medical kit.
"I can bandage it myself. Your Highness, please go back. This place is too dirty and is not a place where you, the noble one, should stay for a long time." The other party said again.
"I, let me help you bandage it?" Elaine said, "Let me help, I hurt you."
"After you bandage it for me, will you leave obediently?" Xiao Hui asked in confusion.
Elaine looked at the other party with watery innocent eyes and nodded.
"Okay... I'm done." Xiao Hui sighed again, opened the medical box, and took out some bandages and analgesic drugs.