noble pharmacist

Anderson found Vincent Williams an interesting man.He went to various social occasions, was familiar with the etiquette of the upper class, was proficient in pharmacy, and had a witty conversation.When Anderson showed him the homemade liquid extractor, Vincent expressed his great appreciation.The traditional pharmaceutical method is to boil the medicinal materials in a crucible to extract the ingredients that can cure diseases.However, some medicinal materials lose their efficacy once they are heated, such as benzia, which has a miraculous effect on plague, and it cannot even be preserved for a long time in hot summer.Anderson's instrument is very simple, an inverted cone-shaped copper funnel, the bottom is placed on the powdered and moistened medicinal materials, and the powder is covered with fine yarn and flax.The water is poured from the top of the funnel, filtered through the linen cloth for the first time, and then slowly passes through the medicinal materials and flows into the wide-mouthed cup below.

Cole is a remote town with a small population and few patients.When Anderson is bored, he often makes some weird things to pass the time.He usually just made some improvements to the instruments recorded in the ancient books, and never thought that these things would be of great value.

Vincent praised unabashedly: "Ann, this is an amazing discovery - you have perfectly solved the problem of An Xiteng's heat resistance! This is a small gift, as a friend, to show appreciation."

He hugged him happily and pinned a white rose to Anderson's buttonhole.

Vincent liked the big double white roses, Ryan didn't.He tore the flower off Anderson's chest and threw it away, frowning and saying it smelled bad.

Anderson scoffed at him: "Your nose is not for elegant things."

Ryan stretched his neck and sniffed him up and down, pinched his waist: "Honey, you smell so sweet."

The Countess' banquet season is over, and the noble gentlemen and ladies from afar have already returned to their respective manors in their luxurious carriages.Ryan really continued to stay in the castle in the name of Anderson, wandering around every day, flirting with various women.He would come to Anderson suddenly in a panic, throw him on the bed, wipe him dry and eat him indiscriminately, and then be kicked out of the bed.Once he kissed Anderson's earlobe in front of Vincent, and Vincent, who has always paid attention to etiquette, had a rare expression on his face.

In the end, the only pharmacist left by the countess was Anderson.It is said that he is the only one who concocted the truly pure tequila water.Vincent William lived temporarily in the castle as a guest.He was often invited to join the Countess in her daily walks and hunts.Of course Ryan also goes to these events.Lane didn't like Vincent, and every time he brought it up he said he was an upper-class hooligan who wore a mask of politeness to everyone and only God knew what he was planning.

He tried to persuade Anderson to stay away from Vincent: "Honey, do you think I'm a hooligan?"

Anderson made the comparison seriously: "The rascal is nobler than you."

"Know that birds of a feather flock together. I knew he was my kind at a glance."

Of course Anderson didn't trust Ryan, who had never spoken reliably.Ryan, however, started packing his travel suitcases ahead of time and urged Anderson to return to Cole as soon as the tequila solution was prepared.

"I have collected the information I need." He stuffed handkerchiefs of various colors and brooches inlaid with fake gemstones that he used to wipe tears during the performance into the travel bag: "The gatekeeper's wife told me that 22 years ago someone hugged a The blue-eyed baby had come to the countess. It was late at night, and her husband himself had opened the door for the stranger with the child. The countess had not kept the child, but had sent him to Chateau d'Ayer. The time coincided with Ann The birth of Prince Sier coincides with... I have to go to Castle Aiye first to find a man named Owen Custer."

"Be careful to meet Seth there," Anderson said.

Ryan looked relaxed: "The Marquis Elberd never returns to his castle, and Aiye Castle is almost an empty city." He suddenly bent one leg like acting, and exaggeratedly pulled the back of Anderson's hand and kissed: "Melancholy Your Royal Highness, I love you."

Anderson raised an eyebrow.

Ryan began to work: "I love your body and soul deeply. Since the soul is too noble, I decided to start with the body first—what's wrong with you, dear?"

Anderson took out a vial from his close pocket, pulled the stopper and shook it in front of him, then threw the unconscious person out the door, patted the dust off his hands, patted the goosebumps off his body, and closed the door as if nothing had happened.

While Anderson was still sleeping the next day, Ryan was already on the road with his circus.He wrote a letter in the carriage and protested aggrievedly: "My dear, you really don't have fun."

The letter was not received by Anderson.At first he was busy mixing tequila water.The countess asked a lot, but fortunately Vincent often came to help.He adjusted it for seven days and filled fourteen oak barrels.On the last day, the countess formally summoned Anderson in the hall. The old butler stood beside her, and the number of gold coins in the buckskin bag in his hand seemed to be far more than 150.

Vincent sat next to the countess, gracefully folding his long legs.He held a pharmacopoeia in his hand, and his posture was natural and comfortable. When he saw Anderson, he narrowed his eyes and smiled.

This was the first time Anderson met Countess Bacons.Wrapped in opulent jewelry and a velvet dress is a 40-year-old obese woman who fears death.Time has left a large number of fine lines on her face and the corners of her eyes, and Zeng Jin's green grandmother-like eyes have begun to become cloudy, reminiscent of the eyeballs of dead fish.

She desperately needed tequila water for her rejuvenation.

Anderson suddenly remembered that when she was a child, her stepmother once commented on the Countess of Bacons, saying that she was an old madman desperate to preserve her youth, and spent a lot of gold coins on maintaining that unattractive face.

The countess praised his potion and skills, and suddenly suggested: "Mr. Boots, you have to thank Vincent. His Majesty the King lacks an exclusive pharmacist. He wants to recommend you to serve His Majesty at the Hot Spring Palace. Can you be given by Mr. William?" It's an honor to be in the picture, he's—"

Anderson turned to Vincent suspiciously.Vincent suddenly reached out to him and interrupted the countess: "Ann, please trust your friend. I appreciate your talent, and it happens to be related to this... The carriage is ready."

Lane blamed himself for a long time afterwards.If he knew who Vincent was, he would never leave his lover here alone.

Anderson was smart, he said, allow me to think about it for a day.

When he left, he hesitated for a moment, turned back, and said to the countess: "My lady's shell-carved brooch is so beautiful. I saw the same style in Aiye Castle when I was a child-of course, the degree of exquisiteness cannot be compared with yours. I bought it for me. It's a boy named Owen Custer."

The countess exclaimed in a low voice, her hands were powerlessly covering her chest: "I don't know anyone born lowly."

Anderson bowed and left in disappointment, thinking that Ryan might miss out.

Anderson certainly wouldn't be so stupid as to go to San Warsaw with Vincent.The last time he saw Curtis was five years ago during the Aiye Castle Rebellion.The new emperor stood on the step of the carriage, arrogantly looking down at his father and stepmother.Seth Elberd was standing beside him, helping him out of the car respectfully.

What happened after that was the Aiye Fort Rebellion as recorded in the history books.

Curtis brought the Royal Knights and a large number of soldiers from San Warsaw. The 17-year-old Anderson only remembers standing on the tower and looking at the black soldiers in silver armor and knights on horseback standing on the road outside the castle, with no end in sight.

They are silent.

quiet.

Poker face.

Seth took the emperor out of his father's study and took out the letters and documents about the rebellion accurately, and found bows and spears from the arsenal that greatly exceeded the limit.

The whole process was as quiet as a ceremony.

The duchess and his wife's blue eyes were cast a hopeless gray.

Anderson stood alone on the tower of the castle overlooking everything that happened below.For the first time he saw Seth with the gorse of the Royal Order on his chest.He stood straight beside the new emperor.

He still remembered how the man knelt before him and swore allegiance.

He was a wandering knight brought back by his father from Cornwall on the eastern plains.When he met the Duke of Aiyebao, he was so hungry that he wanted to exchange his sword for a piece of bread with the Duke's guards.

It is said that his swordsmanship is very good.

The duke called for little Anderson.

"You don't have to repay me, you might as well be Ann's knight. He has a weird temper."

When Seth looked up at himself, Anderson felt a little nervous.He couldn't tell what was weird, he just thought Seth had the eyes of a hunter in hunting season.

I checked and confirmed again and again, and then knelt down to swear allegiance.

Of course, now that he knew, it was all prearranged.Rebellion documents and letters that did not exist before, weapons that suddenly appeared, and witnesses who had never met.

He remembered the first words he heard after being rescued from the coffin by Lane.The youngest daughter of the innkeeper, with brown curly hair, said: "I heard that the people of Aiye Castle are all dead? Oh, this is terrible!"

Ryan was applying an anti-inflammatory herb to the sword wound on his knee: "Following His Majesty's will, the entire family of the Duke of Aiye Castle was sent to the capital San Warsaw to be hanged. The new king has established himself as the king—speaking of which, Curtis has to call him uncle.”

The Duke of Ayerburg is the only younger brother of King Andrew.

Curtis should indeed call his father an uncle.

"I heard that many people died, and none of the three young masters escaped. The two older ones born to the duchess were sent to San Warsaw to be hanged with the duchess. The younger illegitimate son (called Andre Lancaster?) died in the castle on the spot, and the body was buried casually. All the male and female servants, grooms and cooks in the castle were killed, and no one escaped."

The proprietress who was cooking the broth hurriedly pushed her daughter out of the door and blamed Ryan: "How can you tell her these things?!"

Anderson once thought of taking revenge on Curtis. For a long time, he devoted himself to the preparation of poison, and finally died without a problem.He is the product of a one-night affair between the Duke of Ayeburg and a maid with gray blue eyes.As an illegitimate child, he once hated his own nondescript bloodlines, and despised the blood-sucking life of nobles. He wanted to be a free and ordinary pharmacist, to cure diseases and save lives, and provide help to the people in his territory.He doesn't like the Duke and his wife, but he likes the old housekeeper who always brings him rare herbs, the cook who secretly delivers steaming meals when the Duchess punishes him to starve, and the laundryman who comforts him when he is bullied by his two brothers room maid...

Seth once joked with him: "Master Anderson, if you succeed, you will be a very good emperor."

These once-living beings, whom he considered family, no longer existed.

He is on the side of the people.

He approved of the Liberal Party's behavior and volunteered to provide Lane with the poison he needed.

He trusted Ryan.

He hoped that even a drop of the poison would find its way into Curtis's breakfast soup.

Although he knew that most of these things were used to try to poison the Royal Eagle Dog Seth Elbold.

He dared not think about it.Whenever I think about it, my chest hurts inexplicably.

Anderson is not a fool. Vincent doesn't know who he is, but it doesn't mean that Curtis doesn't know.Before Curtis took the throne, they had met no less than ten times in Fort Aiye.If he knew that his father's family had an heir, he would have to go into the coffin again.

He promised Vincent to think about it for a day.After dinner at dusk, I excused myself to take a walk out of the castle.Go all the way south.

He met Vincent at the gate of the castle.

Vincent and his medicine boy stood in front of the castle gate to enjoy the sunset.

"Mind if I go for a walk with you?"

Anderson smiled: "Of course not. I went to the stables to borrow horses just now, but I couldn't borrow them. Can you borrow two horses from the groom? I'll wait for you here."

Soon Vincent returned with two saddled long-haired horses of chestnut color.As he walked, he talked to his drug boy: "It's a pity, when that pervert Seth finds out, Ann will die... Good things should actually be hidden. You don't know that one of his hobbies is collecting Is it similar? A gray-blue crystal ball produced by Futuiland, light cherry red porcelain, even women with light blond hair..."

Suddenly someone asked: "Really? Who told you, Vinny?"

Against the light, the face of the knight under the arch of the castle could not be seen clearly.He reined in the horse and stood there, playing with the whip in his hand.Vincent noticed that the whip was decorated with a woman's dark blue long hair braided, and the workmanship was very delicate.

"White Rose Knight, Vincent William, maybe you should keep your mouth shut. Or are you tired of staying in the Royal Knights?"

Seth's voice was not loud, perhaps with a smile on his face, but Vincent suddenly broke into a cold sweat in the late autumn weather.He bowed deeply: "I apologize, Marquis Elberd."

Vincent handed over the horse to the servant boy, and took Seth's rein by himself: "I have found a suitable medicine man for His Majesty. He is talented but unknown, and he is very suitable. He is waiting there—"

There is no one outside the city gate.

Anderson and Seth pass each other.Seth was galloping along the road when he reined in the horse and turned back.The people behind have already staggered a long distance away, and only a tall and thin figure can be seen from a distance.Seth froze on the horse, watching the traveler's light-blond hair gradually blend into the sunset at the end of the horizon with complicated emotions.

Anderson went far south, off the main road, and down a clover-grown side road.