[Devil's Law] When the Tulips Bloom

In fact, among the three annual festivals on Roland Continent, the summer festival, the New Year, and the Harvest Festival, the temples generally seldom participate in them.The only festival that involves the temple is the "New Year". According to tradition, when celebrating the New Year, the Pope will personally preside over a prayer ceremony.

As for the summer festival and the Harvest Festival, generally speaking, the temple would not participate.There is a traditional reason for this. According to the inside of the temple, especially the religiously fanatical Yeni sect, the two festivals, Summer Festival and Qingfeng Festival, have always been regarded as "illegal" in terms of religion.

For the fanatical believers, they believed that since the world was created by the goddess, people should be grateful to the goddess instead of any heaven and earth as festivals such as celebrating the harvest or summer festivals.They even tried to cancel the festival of Qingfeng Festival, but they met with so much opposition that it fell through.But above this kind of celebration, the temple will basically not show up, silently expressing their dissatisfaction.

But now, the Acting Pope has just arrived, which has never happened in hundreds of years.All the people in the main hall had various speculations in their minds. The music of the dance stopped, and everyone automatically separated to make way.

Prince Chen and Du Wei exchanged glances. Compared to Prince Chen's doubts, Du Wei, who roughly knew what the Acting Pope was here for, was very calm - anyway, there is no fake emperor today who is afraid of being exposed.Prince Chen got up from the throne, smiled and said, "Welcome, His Majesty the Pope."

Du Wei took advantage of this moment to look at the Acting Pope. To say that this was the first time Du Wei saw him, the other party looked very old, about 70 or [-] years old, with all white hair and a solemn expression. , but his eyes looked sharp.Even if it is a proxy, the Pope of the temple has never been an idle character.

"That is my honor, Your Majesty." The Acting Pope responded quite politely.

Soon, the court attendants moved a new seat, which was placed next to the throne of His Majesty the emperor, a little lower, which is also a tradition.In public, the seats of the emperor and the pope are generally side by side, and the only difference is whose "home court" it is.Today is in the palace, and the Pope is a guest, so his seat can only be slightly lower than that of the emperor.

After the two His Majesties sat down again, Prince Chen clapped his hands lightly, the music started again, and the guests below continued to dance - but no one was thinking about it.The Acting Pope and Prince Chen exchanged a few words and greeted each other, all of which were neither salty nor bland and meaningless.

Immediately afterwards, the Acting Pope changed the subject, but looked at Du Wei, and said kindly with a smile on his face, "This is Grand Duke Tulip... Ah, I made a mistake, it should be the place in the northwest of our temple." Your Excellency the archbishop of the diocese, I heard that under your leadership, the Northwest Diocese is very prosperous now."

Du Wei was drinking. Seeing that the Acting Pope suddenly turned his attention to him, he quickly swallowed the wine in his mouth, got up from his seat, and responded politely, "Thanks to you, the development of the Northwest Diocese is not bad. .”

The acting pope's tone became more and more kind, as if Du Wei was really just the archbishop of a diocese in the temple, not the duke of the empire, "Du Wei, my Lord Rudolph, don't be humble, you have done a good job Yes. I believe that if the bishops in all regions of the mainland can devote themselves to religious affairs like you, then our church will definitely be more prosperous."

When Du Wei heard the chills, what happened to the acting pope? Although he has no grievances with the temple on the surface, it can be said that he has a pretty good relationship with the Pope of their temple, Archbishop Maximus—— Of course, it is limited to the interest relationship, but he can't remember when he had such a good relationship with the acting pope.

"Your Majesty is really too flattering." Du Wei said dryly, "Most of the affairs of the Northwest Diocese are completed with the assistance of other personnel, and what I have done is only a small part of it, which is not worthy of your praise at all. "

"Oh, Du Wei, my child, at your age, it's very good to be able to do this." The Acting Pope smiled, and looking at Du Wei's loving appearance made people feel that he was not from the temple of light His Majesty the Pope, but an ordinary old man, "I believe you can go further in the future."

Du Wei didn't know what to say to flatter him anymore. The Acting Pope's attitude towards him was too weird, so let's get straight to the point.Du Wei cleared his throat and said, "Your Majesty, please rest assured that I will never disappoint Your Majesty's expectations. Speaking of which, this is the first time I have met Your Majesty. I did not expect it to be on this occasion. I am very honored."

The meaning of Du Wei's words is very clear. Your temple has always ignored the celebration of the empire's harvest. Your majestic Pope must have come here for a purpose. If you have anything to say, say it quickly. Leave when it's over, hello, hello, hello, everyone.

The Acting Pope didn't know whether he didn't understand the meaning of Du Wei's words, or pretended to be confused, but said, "I never thought that I would see you on such an occasion, my Excellency Bishop Rudolph." At this point, the Pope paused, and continued, "When you come back to the imperial capital, you should also come to the temple to walk around when you are helping His Majesty the Emperor's worries." The acting Pope looked at Du Wei meaningfully, "After all, you He is also one of the bishops of the temple."

Du Wei froze, and couldn't help but look up at the Acting Pope, whose expression was clearly marked with closeness.However, this is not normal!What does the Acting Pope mean?win over?What a joke, he is a powerful duke in the empire, no matter how he thinks he is on the side of the royal family, no matter how much the temple wins him over, it is impossible to win him over, right?That is to deliberately sow discord?But what can the temple provoke?The level of trust between him and Chen?Can the temple challenge this kind of thing?

Du Wei thought again and again, it wasn't to win or provoke, it shouldn't be a show of favor, right?Immediately, Du Wei threw this possibility out of his mind. This is even more inconceivable than the acting pope being hit to death by a carriage when he went out.

The other people present were more confused than Du Wei. Duke Tulip was valued by the emperor. He was capable and capable, but what happened to the Pope?It seems that the relationship between Duke Tulip and the temple is also very good?

Du Wei said helplessly against the eyes of the crowd, either openly or secretly, "Your Majesty's words are true, but I was negligent."

"It's nothing." The Acting Pope seemed to think that the influence he had caused was not enough. He motioned for Du Wei to come forward, and then, under the eyes of everyone, he reached out and patted Du Wei's shoulder gently, and said with a smile, "Don't worry too much, you seem to be very busy on weekdays."

Du Wei couldn't make up his mind at all. The Acting Pope patted him so lightly, and he felt that he was almost knocked down by him.The many eyes watching Du Wei behind him were not only surprised, but completely astonished.Du Wei sighed and raised his eyes to look at Prince Chen, who frowned slightly and was staring at him and the Acting Pope thoughtfully.

Where the hell are those magic sticks in the goddamn temple going?Du Wei couldn't help cursing severely in his heart.

In the following time, Du Wei was extremely depressed, and the acting pope almost completely ignored the emperor, and only cared about talking to Du Wei.The two had been talking about the Northwest Academic Affairs, and finally had nothing to say, just talked about the recent weather problems in the imperial capital, why it is too rainy to go out, and occasionally the sun is clear and there is no sunshine... Du Wei is about to be replaced by this agent The pope was completely defeated.It wasn't until there was nothing to say, that His Majesty the Acting Pope who came out of nowhere finally left Shi Shiran.

Du Wei sat back in his seat, and he didn't dare to look up to see the expressions of the nobles. He took out a handkerchief and wiped the sweat from his forehead, feeling extremely depressed.

The banquet lasted until late at night and finally ended. The guests left the venue one after another. Du Wei stood still and did not move. Prince Chen said, "Du Wei, come with me." When Prince Chen spoke, the queen had already stood up consciously He took the initiative to leave, and at the same time took his two children, Charlie and Karina, away.

Du Wei followed Prince Chen and went all the way back to the emperor's bedroom. As soon as the two entered, Prince Chen waved away everyone around him, closed the door, faded the fake expression on his face, frowned at Du Wei, and asked, "What's the matter tonight?" What's going on?"

"I don't know." Du Wei smiled wryly. He really had no clue. Who knew what the people in the temple were going crazy about?

Prince Chen frowned even tighter, and lowered his voice, "Did they know something? For example, Hussein? For example, the previous Pope..."

Du Wei was stunned. He thought that Chen, who had been in a bad mood after the acting Pope left, was thinking about whether he would have any deep involvement with the temple, but was he really worried about him?Feeling warm in his heart, Du Wei couldn't help laughing, the gloom he had accumulated all night disappeared, he stepped forward and hugged Prince Chen, "Chen, it's okay, my arrangements are quite comprehensive, I won't let them explore Such important news."

"That's good..." Prince Chen is still very confident in Du Wei, he is a little relieved to hear what he said, but he still advises, "But you can't be too confident, the power of the temple is far-reaching, and its appeal on the mainland is also top-notch Yes, any of the things you do can make the temple hate you, so be careful."

"Please rest assured, Your Majesty." Du Wei kissed Prince Chen, with a hint of lust in his eyes, it's a rare good time, it would be bad to miss it.

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Congratulations to the player Du Wei, who was attacked by the Pope of the Temple "gentle and amiable", and his confusion is 100%