noble pharmacist

The weather is warmer and cooler than any season, and when you open the windows, you can see the calm ocean and the dying beech forest.The sky was so clean that there was no speckle of color, and leaden gray cumulus clouds began to appear in the far edge.Girls passed by the window with wild jujubes in their skirts, their faces were flushed, and their eyes were big and bright.Anderson folded his summer shirts in a closet and pulled out a dark wool cape.Autumn is a season of contradictions, between the scorching heat of summer and the coldness of winter, between decadence and maturity, with bright colors and mild atmosphere, people don’t want to do anything all day long, just lean on the old rocking chair and read Wordsworth "Ballad Collection".The envelope on the table was slightly damp, and it might rain in the afternoon, so it was better to put a plaid blanket on his knees, because the morning and evening moisture made his knees, which had been injured by swords, ache faintly.

Anderson, the only pharmacist in the town of Cole, opened a pharmacy here five years ago.At that time, the Aiyebao rebellion had just subsided, and the parchment offering a reward for the rebels of the royal family was pasted from the royal capital San Warsaw to this coastal town, and there was a lot of turmoil for a while.

But that's all in the past.

Anderson draped a thick blanket over his knees.

Ryan Black pushed open the door of the living room, raised his chin and lowered his head to kiss his cheek: "The Countess of Bacons, who lives in Maple Leaf County, is ill and needs a pharmacist. I only need to work for fifteen days. One hundred gold coins. My dear, I recommend you."

Anderson shook his head: "I won't go."

Ryan took out a small sheepskin bag and shook it: "Pay [-] pieces first, and I have already agreed to help you." He skillfully rummaged through the long-necked glass bottles full of medicine racks: "Tequila, lost incense, Faith Stone... Dear Anderson, if you blatantly display banned drugs like this, the Royal Knights will come to your door sooner or later—”

"If the Liberals could come and go in my room like this every day, the Royal Knights would come after me."

Ryan put a finger on his lips, and smiled mockingly: "At present, no one knows that I am a Liberal Party. Don't worry, if I am hunted down, I will never implicate you."

Ryan Black, an agent of the Liberal Party, owns a circus troupe, roams the towns and villages in Denton as a troubadour, flirts with all kinds of women, and plays in rough country pubs and duchess castles. The luxurious hall in the middle and the middle is also mixed like a duck to water.All his circus troupe belongings include an open carriage, two clowns, a girl playing the harp and a handyman, and he himself acts as a coachman and accountant.His long black curly hair was carefully pomaded, and his bonnet was decorated with a peacock feather.The robes were a striking dark purple, embellished with dramatic gold patterns.If it weren't for the ironic smile on his face and the fancy clothes, Anderson almost thought he was a rare handsome man.

Speaking of his relationship with Ryan, it can be said that they are friends and lovers.

Weapons smuggling, illegal drugs, poaching, what did Ryan not do?He took the circus troupe to dig graves in the churchyard there during the royal rebellion in Chateau Ayer five years ago.In his words, he wanted to pick some dead people's teeth and go to the market for money.Unfortunately, when a new tomb was dug, the handsome boy in the coffin was still alive.

Ryan admits that he saved Anderson because of his face - "Christ, I opened a coffin and saw my Sleeping Beauty!" So when Anderson said he was penniless, asked him When asked how to repay, he reminded without hesitation: "Honey, you can sleep with me."

Ryan is a cynical playboy. When he had sex for the first time, he jokingly squeezed Anderson's ass and pried his mouth open with his fingers: "Moan a few times, baby? Otherwise it will make me feel like I'm raping someone. corpse."

When Anderson was pulled out of the coffin, his chest was covered with red scars. Ryan hung the bloody bandages from his knees on the open carriage as a circus logo, and it didn't fade for three months.The sword wound on his knee was too serious, so when he arrived in the coastal town of Cole in the spring, Ryan said that the air by the sea was warm and humid, and suggested that he stay here to recuperate.Anderson claimed to be an apprentice pharmacist, and Ryan offered gold coins to help him open a pharmacy.

The last time Lane came to see him was last winter, bringing him some fancy trinkets from the castle.The two of them were in full swing on the bed at night, and when Anderson woke up the next morning, he found that the bedside was empty, Ryan had disappeared, and only thirty gold coins were left on the breakfast table. Bundles of freshly chopped firewood.

As an agent of the Liberal Party, his footprints were all over Denton, and his whereabouts were elusive.

Denton is a country formed by the union of four principalities. Along the Agate River that runs through the whole territory, from south to north, there are Maple Leaf County on the south coast, Cornwall on the east plain, Thurso in the west desert and the northern forest. Fritlander.The Royal Capital is located in Watermouth, the Mid Lakes District.This is the world Dentons know.Further north in the northern forest, there are snow-covered mountains all year round. Legends of dragons and elves once spread, but no explorers who came back alive have confirmed it.

Now is not the time for Dentons to care about legends, the country is in real danger of disintegration.The Lancastrian family that ruled this land became increasingly corrupt. Since the previous king, Andre III, levied heavy taxes to rebuild the hot spring palace, the people's life became more and more difficult, and the slave trade became more and more rampant, which finally triggered an uprising.

The insurgents called themselves the Liberal Party, played the banner of freedom and democracy, and demanded that the current King of Denton, Curtis Lancaster, abdicate and support his half-brother, Ansel Lancaster, the illegitimate son of Andrew III. Stuart is the new king.

"The problem is——" Lean leaned his head on the high-backed chair with flannel cushions in front of the fireplace. He noticed that the fog in late autumn was getting thicker, and Anderson's fireplace was still not lit: "The problem is that we didn't find that at all. Damn Prince Ansair! The Liberal Party’s senior General Bruce even privately expressed doubts about whether King Andre gave birth to this child. From the information I have collected, this Prince Ansair was sent to the He was adopted by a noble family trusted by the king, but after searching 36 possible castles in the four duchies, he couldn't find a suitable candidate!"

"The Liberal Party has always announced that it has the support of Prince Ansair, but you have never seen a single hair of the prince, and it will become a joke if you spread it." Anderson flipped through the "Ballads Collection" without interest, perfunctory He: "Can't you just find someone to impersonate? Anyway, no one has seen it."

"According to the words of the old woman Betty the prophet, only a true prince can lead the people to freedom. And only the blood of the Lancaster family can summon the dragons. We need the support of the dragons." Ryan shrugged: "So I have been I'm looking for a 23-year-old blue-eyed young man with light blond hair and a broad forehead. I found a boy with light blond hair exactly like Curtis Lancaster, but his forehead is as sharp as an awl..."

He suddenly remembered something, jumped up from the armchair, grabbed the book in Anderson's hand and threw it aside, carefully observing his face.

She has sharp cheeks, a straight nose bridge, and a broad forehead. Because she has not been exposed to sunlight for many years, her skin is so pale that it is almost bloodless.The hair is indeed a very pale golden color, so light that it seems to absorb the sunlight that falls on it at any time.

"Ann, are you 23 this year?"

"Huh?"

But his eyes are not the sapphire blue that is unique to the Lancaster family, the pupils hidden under the thick and long eyelashes are a smoky light grayish blue.It was a very clean and pure hue, reminiscent of the crystal balls used for divination by the wizards of Futrunand in the northern forest.

"Honey, I have to admit that you look very attractive, and I'm in love with you." Ryan threw the book back to him: "Come with me to Maple Leaf County."

Without waiting for Anderson to refuse again, Ryan shook his slender fingers: "Listen to me, there is information I desperately need. I must find a way to stay in Countess Bacon's castle for half a month. I know You are the only one who can prepare a solution of agave grass. I have promised the count that if you don't go, I will be in big trouble. This medicine is very special, it needs to be made on the spot, and it may have to stay there for fifteen days. By the way, This time it is not only the countess who is sick, but also her maid, Miss Marianne—you have to give it to two people."

Anderson agreed to come down and spent two days packing.There are five types of brass frying pans, and the medicinal materials are all neatly stacked in thirteen small square boxes. He silently calculated that as Maple Leaf County is so big, the castle of Countess Bacons is five days away from Castle Aiye. Will run into Seth.

Speaking of Marquis Seth Elberd, the first commander of the Royal Knights, Ryan also had a headache.He changed his traveling jacket and leggings, and stuffed Anderson and his luggage into his open carriage: "We will go up the Agate River, turn west when we reach Edinburgh, and go around Chateau Ayer. Thirty Liberals were arrested and hanged by the Royal Knights in Fryland. Seth has given us enough trouble. I'd rather lose three hundred gold pieces than meet him this time. "

Ryan was afraid of Seth, and Anderson didn't want to see him.

Knight Templar, Commander of the Royal Knights, Marquis of Fort Aiye, Nemesis of the Rebel Army, a figure who made the Liberals fearful, Seth Elberd.When Seth Elberd swore allegiance to the new king, Curtis Lancaster, five years ago, he felt a stab in his heart.Over time, it becomes numb.