Good-looking, not allowed to farm

(One)

When Jamie was called into the palace, King Richard was standing in front of a small pot, brewing some strange medicine.

He was holding a pocket watch in one hand and a small spoon in the other, and he was concentrating on the pot. On the table next to him was a pile of messy herbs, stones, and even spherical organs of animals. Astonishing.

As a result, Jamie had a puzzled look on his face, and he couldn't help asking: "Your Majesty, are you...?"

"Hush, don't talk yet!" King Richard said without looking back, and continued to stare at the small pot.

After about a minute or so, the king glanced at the pocket watch in his hand, and then carefully put the spoon on top of the pot, shook it lightly, and shook out a little bit of poor white powder stingily, Then, as if he breathed a sigh of relief, he started talking to Jamie again: "It's not bad, it seems to be successful... Oh, yes, dear Louis, I heard that you were kicked out by Dressel yesterday." Are you out of the house?"

"What? Damn! There are enough people who try their best to spread rumors all day long. How can they get me kicked out of the house?"

Jamie looked curiously at the medicine stirred into a lump in the small pot, and explained casually: "I didn't always live at home. You know, living with my parents always It's not as comfortable as women living together... My God, Your Majesty! What the hell are you doing? It looks a little... Oh, excuse me, but it's really disgusting!"

King Richard replied with a smile: "Well, it's a good product for invigorating the kidney and a magic medicine for boosting happiness. My dear, do you want to try it?"

Jamie shook his head desperately thankingly: "It still doesn't work, I advise you not to try it lightly, it looks like poison."

King Richard was not angry, and explained with a smile: "It's not wrong for you to say that, because I also added a little bit of strychnine in it. If you eat too much, it will poison people to death. But a small amount If you take it, it can be regarded as a supreme elixir for boosting your spirits."

"As for the safety issue, you can rest assured, my dear! To tell you the truth, I am very good at making these things. I have been self-sufficient for so many years. After all, in this palace, if a person does not try his best to If you learn more knowledge, you will probably not be able to live well.”

Jamie glanced at the king with a strange expression, and then at the pot of so-called kidney-reinforcing medicine. He felt that everything was wrong from the beginning to the end, and he didn't know how to vomit for a while.

King Richard was still very proud of this, and joked with him and said: "You are young now, and you still don't understand the beauty of this medicine! But when I am my age... my dear, I bet you will come to find it sooner or later. I bought a magic medicine and tried it."

"I don't really believe it, Your Majesty. But it's not because I don't believe in your ability to make medicines, but..."

Jamie suppressed a smile and said, "Instead, I'm probably not as attractive as you. I have attracted so many beauties, and I've been working hard day and night for it..."

King Richard glanced at him with a half-smile, ignored the ridicule in his words, and showed a thoughtful expression: "You are quite right."

He joked very much in agreement: "It's strange to say that since I became the king of a country, I have an unprecedented attraction, let alone a woman, everyone in this country sees me as if they are seeing a treasure. .”

Jamie was instantly amused.

Therefore, King Richard looked at his beautiful smiling face with great pleasure, and after quietly admiring it for a while, he spoke again, and said softly: "Really, Louis. Seeing that you have not suffered so much Down, but still optimistic...my heart finally let go."

Jamie flinched slightly.

Such ironic and appropriate caring words, as well as the kindness of telling jokes before, if you don't know the selfish and ruthless nature of this majesty, you will almost be moved.

Or maybe it's because I think too much?

In fact, the king didn't pretend, and now his words and deeds are all due to the bond of blood between the same mother and brother?

Jamie had countless guesses in his heart, but his face only showed a moved expression, a flattered look: "Thanks to your majesty for thinking about it, I am really grateful..."

But no matter what he said, he still couldn't help thinking suspiciously in his heart: "Is the identity of Luis, the half-brother, so useful?"

King Richard was unaware of Jamie's thoughts.

At this time, he had put the ointment into the bottle and put it aside properly. After freeing his hand, he put his arm around Jamie's shoulder and said in a very affectionate tone: "Listen to me, Louis. You I know there must be a lot of gossip about the dismissal of my father Dressel. But you need to remember that it has nothing to do with you. You don’t have to stay behind closed doors with him, just go about your usual activities After all, although you are father and son in name, you are still two completely different people in essence, and his problem will not involve you."

After hearing this reassurance, Jamie believed it emotionally, and it could be understood that it came from the care of his mother and brother; but intellectually, he couldn't believe it.Because, a selfish and cold-blooded king should not talk about brotherhood even to his half-brother. Therefore, this kind of behavior is mostly a conspiracy.

But he didn't know what the king could get from him. After pondering for a long time and getting nothing, he had no choice but to continue to pretend to be innocent. While looking at the king sideways, he showed a shameful expression and said softly: "I can't do it." Helping Your Majesty a little bit, but receiving so much favor from His Majesty, I really don't know what to say to thank you."

King Richard immediately laughed, patted him on the shoulder again and said, "As long as you remain faithful to me, Louis."

He smiled and made a promise: "I will always support you."

Whether it's true or not...

Jamie naturally had to swear and swear to show his loyalty.

King Richard watched him perform with a smile.

At the end, I suddenly remembered something and said: "If you must thank me, why not write me a few more articles."

The smile on Jamie's face faded.

He hesitated and asked: "How many articles? What do you want to read, Your Majesty? Last time, the noble lady and the gardener... Uh, I haven't been able to write it yet. Sigh, I really don't know much, why don't you ask Judian Your Excellency! You also know that his father, Earl Hudgens, is more proficient at this, and he is best at writing about men and women..."

"Don't shirk, just write slowly..."

King Richard waved his hand: "The article I am asking you to write is not a popular novel, but a series of articles highlighting and promoting the glory of the royal family."

... In addition to extravagance and waste, the royal family also eats, drinks and has fun. Where can there be any glory to show and publicize?

Jamie muttered to himself secretly, but on the surface he still wanted to put on an expression of listening carefully.

King Richard thought about it and said: "Not long ago, Earl Saffir reported to me that some reactionary elements in the people secretly distributed some illegal leaflets and pamphlets. They had some impact."

Hearing this, Jamie couldn't help becoming nervous.

Although he knew that his vest should not be exposed so easily, he couldn't help being surprised when he heard this from the king.

But King Richard didn't notice his reaction, and said calmly, "I intended to capture and kill those people, but Safir said that the people are ignorant, and sometimes they may not even know." Knowing what you're looking at, trying to catch and kill them is like swat a fly, and if one dies, another one will come to you foolishly, which is really helpless."

"Thus, those who should be arrested and executed should still be arrested and executed, but those ignorant people should be dealt with in a different way, for example, promoting our own official reading materials to replace those illegal reading materials..."

Having said that, he raised his eyes and asked very confidently: "Louis, how about you come to do this?"

"What? Me?"

Jamie was very stunned: "But I won't..."

"Believe me, Louis, you've got talent for this."

King Richard, who can be said to be very insightful, said: "You see, from the earliest "Marian" to the later "Amazing Love", the scripts you produced are very popular. "

"So, it's just an ordinary official book, you have absolutely no problem. Write about the government, the country, and the royal family. Just write it completely truthfully... Isn't it very simple?"

"Write truthfully..."

Jamie repeated the words subconsciously, with a funny expression on his face for a moment.

Fortunately, King Richard didn't pay attention, and he had high hopes for him: "Let's book it like this, Louis. You go back and write an article today, and the pattern is probably like this..."

He took a document from the desk and handed it to Jamie, giving him another encouraging smile.

Jamie, holding the file, managed to return the smile.

However, in fact, he was already full of confusion deep in his heart!

Because most of the so-called illegal publications, such as leaflets and pamphlets, that the king talked about were actually produced by him.

But now, he is inexplicably responsible for the official legal reading?

Is this the legendary "my enemy is myself" and "the only one who can defeat me is myself"?

(two)

At the same time, it's different from King Richard and Jamie's happy and happy atmosphere on the surface...

The conversation between Lord Dressel and Duke Henry was extremely silent and stalemate.

In the early years, the relationship between Lord Dressel and the Duke Henry was not very harmonious.

Because this old man is wholeheartedly on King Richard's side, and often tells the king in private that Duke Henry is naturally ambitious and covets the throne, so he doesn't deserve the kindness the king treats him!When Duke Henry did the treason thing he did last time, he became even more convinced that this person was not a good person, and insisted on severely punishing the Duke!

However, feng shui turns.

Even if Duke Henry committed treason, he was still forgiven by King Richard; but the loyal Lord Dressel was rejected by the king instead...

With all the developments, people really don't know what to say!

But in any case, Mr. Dressel is stubborn by nature. Although he is disgusted by the king and has a job at home, he is not a sloppy villain like Judian.

So, just come to anyone, fool around a few times, let him change his course, and change the faction from now on...

That is absolutely impossible!

Therefore, although Duke Henry's attitude was very gentle, he came here specially to make friends.

Lord Dressel remained vigilant, and refused as soon as he came up: "Sorry, I can't help you anymore, Your Excellency the Duke."

"But I didn't come here to ask for help."

Duke Henry said with a smile: "I have something very important to tell you."

Master Dressel hesitated, after all, he still wanted to hear what he had to say.

So, he brought His Excellency the Duke into the study, and after pushing away the servants, he looked at him suspiciously: "My Lord Duke?"

Duke Henry walked over, purposely sat next to him, put on a gesture as if he had a very close relationship with him and said: "Master Dressel, now you and I are in a bad situation, and I don't want to continue talking about scenes. You have experienced that during the unsuccessful wedding between Mrs. Laureys and Louise, I did some misleading behavior..."

"Is that misleading?"

Lord Dressel sneered and said, "Oh, it turns out that conspiracy to rebel is a misunderstanding, but I have learned a lot!"

"I don't want to argue too much about the past."

Duke Henry didn't care, and continued to say cheekily: "But if you still have some memories, you should remember one thing, that is, there was an alliance between me and Earl Safire, although he later said He sold me out... However, during our brief covenant stage, I hid in his house, and that time was not in vain. It was necessary to buy one or two eyeliners in his house, and occasionally help me find out a little Gossip."

Master Dressel said nothing.

Although he disdains the Duke's behavior, this kind of relying on buying servants to inquire about information has already become a current social trend. What kind of wife secretly inquires about her husband's whereabouts; the husband in turn buys servants, Ask your wife how many lovers she has... There are countless things like this.

So, after hearing what Duke Henry said...

Although he was not happy, he nodded secretly because of the other party's frank confession.

Duke Henry continued: "Because of the fact that he betrayed me last time, I originally wanted to use some tricks to tease him, but who knows... I found out a few days ago that this Earl of Sapphire actually wanted to to murder you!"

There was a little surprise on Master Dressel's face.

But when he thought about it again, he didn't care about it, because the two were political enemies, one representing the new aristocracy, and the other representing the old aristocrat, and they had been fighting in the court all the time, so, Safir The Earl wanted to kill him, which sounds strange at first glance, but it is nothing new when you think about it.

Therefore, even with this news...

The old man was still calm: "Oh, he's going to kill me, but so what?"

A wicked look flashed across Duke Henry's face, as if he was expecting something bad to happen.

But that expression only flashed by, and then, there was an expression of sadness on his face: "The specific matter involves the dark line I am ambush in his house, I can't explain too clearly. But the general situation is that he bought A servant of your house..."

"Oh, is it poisoned?" Master Dressel asked subconsciously, listening intently.

"No!" Duke Henry gave a negative answer, and then looked at the old man with pity and sympathy: "The method is a hundred times worse than poisoning, that servant is infected with the disease..."

"……What did you say!"

Master Dressel didn't react at first, but then thought of a possibility, his face suddenly turned pale: "No, it's impossible!"

"Nothing is impossible, that's exactly what happened. In fact, not only the servant, but also the gang of scoundrels who almost broke into your house later, someone got money from it. Otherwise, why didn't they go to another place?" You’re making trouble here, and you’re heading straight for your house?”

Speaking of this, Duke Henry also sighed: "Your illegitimate son Louis is also considered a character! In such a terrible situation, he was so calm in the face of danger and dealt with it appropriately. He first ordered the servants to close the gate, and then sent someone to call the mounted police. Hurry up and come to support, otherwise...the group of mobs who are not afraid of death and just want to drag others to be buried with them before they die, don't know what terrible things they will do."

Following these words, Master Dressel's expression turned extremely ugly.

At that time, he was still grieving for the dead Susanna. Although he knew that a group of scoundrels had come to his house, he didn't know how serious the situation was. Now, after hearing Duke Henry's embellished words, he only felt that the other party was deceiving. It's too much, the anger in my heart is already out of control, if it's not because there are outsiders around, I have to smash things hard to vent my anger a little.

Duke Henry's face was heavy, but he was gloating in his heart.

Because this is exactly the purpose of his trip, vowing to stir up and stimulate the anger of this old man!Let him know how miserable his fate is; let him know... all these tragedies are caused by man... Therefore, revenge must be launched, tooth for tooth, blood for blood, so that it will be more convenient He profited from it!

As expected, Master Dressel showed an expression of uncontrollable anger.

He stared at Duke Henry with penetrating eyes, as if he wanted to see the color of his heart, liver and lungs at a glance: "Don't lie to me, Henry!"

His Excellency the Duke immediately raised his hand and swore to the gods that what he said was true.

Then, he added: "I guess, Safir wants your family to die! But who knows, everyone in your family is so hard-nosed, and everything is fine, but your daughter is very fragile... ..."

"Enough!" Master Dressel shouted angrily, he could no longer control his expression, he couldn't show the calm look before, his face was distorted like a ghost.

But he didn't think there was any problem with it, or even if there was a problem, he couldn't care less about it: "If making me angry and painful is the purpose of your coming here today, then, I must say, you succeeded! Now, if You have seen enough of my jokes, please leave!"

"I don't want to see your jokes."

Duke Henry hypocritically imitated King Richard's tone, and said aggrievedly: "My dear lord, you have to believe that I don't have so many evil intentions. Keeping in the dark, I don't know who the enemy is, so I came here to tell you."

Master Dressel didn't say a word, just looked at him coldly.

He knew in his heart that the reason why Duke Henry came here must be for the purpose of wooing, and all other words, whether true or false, all serve this purpose.

Because, although he was obviously removed from his position, he has been operating in the court for many years, and there are still some forces that will not be wiped out by King Richard for a while. Moreover, he has followed the king loyally for so many years, He has some extremely valuable information, so it is very valuable to attract.

"Safir is a hateful jackal!"

Duke Henry continued to fan the flames: "He is insidious, cunning and bold. To be honest, I sometimes think that if he had the chance, he would even dare to assassinate Richard! Unfortunately, Richard was deceived by him and dismissed. After you, you blindly rely on him, it's really not pleasing to the eye..."

Lord Dressel's heart was filled with grief, at this moment, the whole person felt like being fried in a frying pan, already suffering to the extreme.

But since the Duke was still there, he had to endure the suffering and asked sarcastically, "So, what exactly do you want, Your Excellency Duke?"

Duke Henry pretended to be very frank again: "My lord, you actually know me. I have always been very ambitious, and I think that I am more suitable to be a responsible monarch than Richard."

"So, since Richard doesn't want to use you anymore, why don't you try to rely on me and help me succeed? If I succeed, let alone one Safire, there are two or three, as long as you want Revenge, I can help you."

When Master Dressel heard this, he couldn't help falling into silence.

He knew clearly in his heart that Duke Henry was more untrustworthy and selfish than King Richard, but if it was Earl Safire who caused Susannah's tragic death, then he would find a way to take revenge no matter what , At that time, even if it is to take refuge in this... I have always disliked and unreliable duke, I will not hesitate!

"I know, it's still difficult for you to make a decision at the moment."

Duke Henry pretended to be considerate and said: "But my invitation remains the same. Richard does not recognize your ability and talent, but I respect you from the bottom of my heart. Lord Dressel, please consider this matter carefully." Something. I will visit again in three days, and at that time, it will not be too late to give me an answer, what do you think?"

There was silence in the study.

After a long time, Master Dressel nodded subtly.

Seeing this, Duke Henry seemed to have got his wish.

He immediately bowed with a smile and left happily.

Afterwards, Master Dressel sat in the study for a whole night.

He has experienced repeated blows a while ago, and he is already too old to look good, but now, it seems that a little spark has emerged from the dilapidated ruins, his hair is grizzled, his face is wrinkled, and his eyes are shining With a cold glow, it was obvious that he had murderous intentions.