Chapter 3373 The Trial Of The Fool (One Hundred and Seventy Six)
Chapter 3373 The Trial of the Great Fool (176)
Bailey left the harmonium near the camp for anyone to practice with. So the harmonium was in Edmund's hands, and the guy took advantage of the night to play the harmonica here for Elaine to hear.
Elaine was quite surprised to find that it was Edmund who was playing. As soon as he was surprised, he immediately lost his balance while crawling and almost fell. Although his center of gravity was stabilized again, one of Elaine's feet rubbed on the ground and made a sound.
There was a sound of sand.
"Who?!" Sensing Elaine's approach, Edmund stopped playing.
Seeing that she could no longer hide, Elaine walked out of the shadow of the building.
His face must be very ridiculous at this moment: he was crying, covering his mouth, showing a sad and incredible expression.
"Why, why do you know this piece of music?" he asked.
"Oh, this? This is... a song popular in the Kingdom of Solis. Most lions can play it."
A drop of sweat broke out on the forehead of the white lion boy: "You, you said before that you couldn't play the mouth organ..."
Edmund was stunned for a moment, as if he was thinking about how to answer to get through.
"It's true that I'm not very good at playing. I'm afraid of making a fool of myself in front of His Majesty the Prince." Edmund explained.
Of course, such a far-fetched explanation cannot fool even a fool like Elaine. The music Edmund played just now was so smooth and beautiful. Without super proficiency, it would be impossible to play music of that level.
"Then leave me alone, you, keep blowing." Elaine said in a stronger tone.
"Well, this is really inconvenient." The Blood Lion excused: "I was a little drunk just now and couldn't sleep, so I played a tune for fun. It's better that no one saw it. His Highness the Prince is watching now. I
I'll be shy."
You won't be shy. Elaine thought to herself.
"Blow to me." Rarely, the white lion boy ordered in a tough tone.
Edmund sighed: "Your Highness, why are you so obsessed with this..."
"I, when I heard this piece of music last time, I couldn't help but cry." Elaine replied, "I, I cried this time too. There must be something strange about this piece of music that reminds me vaguely of the past."
So, please, please play it again. Maybe I can really remember it."
Edmund closed his eyes: "What is there to remember about the past? Even if I remember it, it might just be a painful memory."
"That is, even so, I want to remember." Elaine sat next to Edmund. If Edmund didn't play the tune, he didn't intend to let Edmund leave.
So the Blood Lion sighed deeply again. This time he didn't say anything more and just started playing.
As the melodious tune of the mouth organ played, Elaine's tears began to well up.
It's almost like... being cursed.
A curse that makes you cry when you hear this music?
How could something like that exist?
However, a memory emerged vaguely. The memory of the past was like a silhouette, a vague portrait.
A long time ago, under the setting sun, the back of the child sitting on a stone by the lake playing the mouth organ flashed before his eyes. He vaguely remembered what he had agreed with Leo when he was still a child at that time. But no matter what
I can't even remember that promise.
But is that really Leo?
Under the setting sun, the lion boy's hair seemed not to be golden, but as bright red as blood.
Is it because of the rays of the setting sun that it turns bright red?
Or is it because he is actually another person?
"Eddie..." Elaine groaned, covering his head. His head was in severe pain.
Edmund stopped playing.
"Wu... Ai... Di..." The white lion boy sobbed as if he was dreaming.
"Stop it, Your Highness." Edmund said: "Don't think about it. Memories will only make you painful."
"Ugh...um..." His head was throbbing, and Elaine lost to the severe pain. He knelt on the ground holding his head and panting. His mind went blank, and the things he was supposed to remember gradually disappeared like clouds of smoke.
, failed to gather into real memories.
"Ai...Eddie..." But he still remembered a name.
Who is Eddie?
"Your Highness..." Edmund muttered in a low voice, "Did you really remember something?"
However, a severe headache prevented Elaine from thinking, and he fell to the ground.
There was really nothing he could do to deal with Elaine, so Edmund had no choice but to come over and carry the White Lion boy on his back: "I'll take you back to the camp, Your Highness."
"But...I..."
"I said, even if you think about it, it will only cause you pain, Your Highness." Edmund sighed deeply: "Some things are best not to be remembered."
Elaine did not reply and fell into a hazy state due to a headache. Blood dripped from his nose and fell to the ground.
"Sending His Highness the Prince back to the tent now will only wake up His Highness Bailey. Why don't you rest in my room for a while first?" Edmund carried Elaine and walked back to the camp: "I'll make some herbal tea for His Highness the Prince to drink.
, it will have a certain effect on relieving headaches."
Elaine nodded wordlessly.
Elaine was placed in the room, lying on an animal hide to rest, trying to close her eyes to relieve her headache. Next to her, Edmund was making tea with a small portable gas stove, and the firelight from the stove shone brightly in the dark room.
The smell of vanilla also echoed in the room. This seemed to be the spice that Edmund brought here.
"Your Highness, are you not asleep yet?" A few minutes later, Edmund came over and said, "The vanilla tea is ready, why don't you take a sip while it's hot?"
"Um..." Elaine slowly got up, her head still heavy.
He took the tea that Edmund handed him and took a sip. In fact, the tea itself had no taste because Elaine couldn't taste it. But the aroma of the vanilla tea itself echoed in his mouth and then in his nasal cavity.
Edmund is right, this tea can really soothe the nerves.
"Smells, vanilla?" Elaine asked in a low voice.
"Yes." The blood lion also took a sip of tea and replied: "I found this precious spice in the Vikings' inventory before. It was probably something they robbed when they were pirates and robbed merchant ships. I just...
...Borrowed it for use."
"Yes, it's stolen goods." The white lion boy wondered.
"Yes. I'm sorry."
"No, it's not a big deal." Elaine continued to drink tea: "I always feel like, a long, long time ago, someone and I drank vanilla tea late at night in a small room like this."
"His Royal Highness Prince……"
"Then, what happened to that child now?" Elaine took another sip of tea and sighed: "I hope he lives a happy life."
The tiredness was getting stronger and stronger, maybe because the herb tea had a soothing effect on the nerves. Elaine felt very sleepy, so she quickly drank the tea and then lay down on the animal hide.
"Good night, Your Highness." Edmund covered Elaine with a blanket and quietly stepped away.
"I'm just a passer-by in your life. I'm really happy that you can still remember such an insignificant guy like me." He whispered, "I also hope you can always live happily, Your Highness."
Elaine, who fell asleep, naturally did not answer.
A certain day of a certain year and a certain month.
The white bear boy suddenly got up from the bed.
He found himself in a cell, the same underground prison where Eddie had been imprisoned.
However, Eddie was no longer among them, and the cell door was already open. The king was waiting quietly for Elaine to wake up outside the door, as if he had been waiting for a long time.
"Uncle, uncle?"
"Are you awake?" The king walked into the cell and sat next to Elaine: "I know you are waiting for your friend. But he has been sent away by us and will never come back."
"You, where did you send Eddie?" Elaine asked.
"Abroad. A human country. Although the personnel of the Kingdom of Solis will protect his personal safety until he reaches adulthood, he must be self-reliant after he reaches adulthood. His own safety will be guaranteed by himself. He will be in a strange place.
In this country, he is discriminated against and alienated. He will never be allowed to return to his hometown. This is the punishment given to him - the punishment for framing you and hurting you."
"Eddie didn't, didn't hurt me. He is my friend." The white bear boy whispered.
"Yes, you must think so." The king touched Elaine's head: "Because you are a good boy, because you have no wit and don't think so much."
Elaine looked confused.
"So, is Eddie really sent away? I have no chance to see him again?"
"No, his ship will only leave tonight. In order to ensure his safety, we will take him to Egypt by night ship." The king replied: "Probably in the early hours of tomorrow morning, he will arrive in Egypt, and then
Let it be secretly hidden."
Eddie was in Egypt. Elaine remembered it. Although he remembered it, it was impossible for him to go to Egypt alone as a child. He thought about going to Egypt to find Eddie when he grew up, but things would really be like this
Was it as smooth as he thought?
"I have already agreed to his last request, letting him see you again before he leaves." The king said, "But it is true. I will take him away from you like this, but not let you see him one last time before he leaves."
, seems a bit unhuman. So, do you want to see him again? It’s not too late.”
"I, I want." The white bear boy replied: "Please, please let me see Eddie again."
"Well, since it is little Elaine's request, there is nothing we can do." The king picked up the white bear boy and said, "But before that, go back and freshen up, and then have breakfast. You look terrible. This prison
This is not the place you should be. By the way, if Leo asks you where you were last night, just answer that you spent the night in my room. Don't mention Eddie's matter, okay?"
Elaine nodded.
"Very good. Little Elaine is the best behaved." The king smiled and rubbed Elaine's head hard.
Time turned and it was already evening.
Elaine, wearing clean clothes, appeared at the dock with the king.
"Can't find him?" the king said to the sailor on the dock: "Has he escaped?"
"No, I just said to go away for a while and probably come back before sailing," the sailor replied.
"He better be. Otherwise, I will issue a wanted order and arrest him until he is brought back." The king was a little angry: "That brat will not make people worry until the last moment."
"I, I need to go to the bathroom." Elaine said.
"Go, but remember to come back before sailing. Otherwise you may miss seeing him for the last time." The king said with a smile.
"Okay, okay."
Elaine then ran towards the restroom. The restroom at the pier was located on the riverside, just to allow the sewage to be discharged directly into the estuary. While urinating, Elaine wondered whether the design of this restroom was polluting the environment, but he finished urinating after all.
While washing his hands, he heard a sound. The sound of a mouth organ.
Elaine had heard Eddie play this tune in the cell before. He immediately recognized that Eddie was playing it and ran in the direction of the sound.
Sure enough, it was like this. When Elaine came to a small lake connected to a small river, he saw Eddie sitting on a stone playing the mouth organ.
Under the setting sun, the child's hair was dyed fiery red, which was brighter and more dazzling than the original red.
Elaine just watched all this quietly until Eddie finished playing the tune.
"Your Highness." Eddie finally stopped and turned to look at Elaine: "This is the last song I dedicate to you. Thank you for coming, and thank you for listening to it to the end."
"Ai, Eddie..."
"Everyone in this world treats me like nothing. No one takes me seriously." The young lion man whispered: "Only you, Your Highness, treat me as a friend and play with me. You
He is the only friend in my life. He is now, and maybe he will always be in the future. You never know how important this is to me.
——So, I promise you, I will not die easily. No matter what, I will see you again. No matter what, I will make you happy and make you smile from the bottom of my heart. We have made an appointment."
"It's an appointment, it's an appointment." The white bear boy replied: "Ai, Eddie, you also want to live a happy life."
"I will try to do it, Your Highness," the blood lion replied with a smile.