The Sensory Animals of Ston Hill

Allen can always think of new and interesting places, and Grace suspects that he has taken him to visit the capital, except for the brothel-Grace once suggested it, but Allen rejected it.

Sunny days are starting to be a rarity after the day turns cold rapidly.Allen proposed to go fishing by the lake on a rare sunny day.He wrote in his letter: "The fish in this season have grown to the fattest, but the water is not too cold, so the fish dive into the deep water area... After the sun rises, not only the sunlight is very warm on people, but also the fish. Floating up because of the rising water temperature in the shallow layer, we are happy to bite the hook... We can sit on the comfortable rocks on the shore, or we can stay in the boat and paddle to the center of the lake...just catch a few big fish Fish, you don’t need to worry about the day’s food. The withered grass by the lake is the best bonfire fuel. Put the fish on a wooden stick and roast until the skin is burnt, and the fat under the skin is roasted until it’s sizzling. When it comes out, there is fresh and tender white meat inside, and it is delicious to eat directly, and if you sprinkle some salt and pepper, it will be the most craving game."

He knows exactly what Grace likes, the thorny fish growing in the natural lake can make Grace drool more than the tender pigeons that grow fat by stealing farmers' grain on the silver plate.

But the lake suitable for fishing is far away from the palace, and fishing itself is a time-consuming thing. They need to start before dawn and then stay outside for a day.

For the future queen, there is nothing wrong with going to the city for two hours, but if she goes too far and leaves the palace for too long, it will create opportunities for rumors.Of course there will always be rumors, but they are irrelevant, at most they are small entertainment provided by the enemy for the citizens.

In this regard, Grace has always done better than any previous queen.He has always been steady to dull, and he never shows up at balls, nor does he stay in the most lively theater in the capital until midnight every night. flirt.Even his most cautious predecessors had a bad track record with the Prince Regent as teenagers, and Grace managed to avoid all of those blunders.

It's not that Grace doesn't take risks any more, it's just that he's more disciplined and smarter than the others.

So when Grace wanted to go fishing, she asked Chris.

The King was surprised, and could be called flattered, by the invitation.But then he fell silent.During his silent time, Grace noticed that his face was thinner than before.

"I think you won't have as much fun as you want if I go," said the King at last.

Grace also noticed that his eyes were dull. "You shouldn't always stay so late at the banquet, and go to bed when you should go to bed," he couldn't help saying to the king.

Chris nodded, thanking him for the reminder, and didn't say that he had moved out of his room for a long time.

Grace almost relented, but he got himself under control.He knew very well that the reason why his and Alan's heads were still growing on their necks was only because he was cautious enough and Alan was smart enough, not because the king was kind to them.The constitution has not yet been promulgated, and the king can dispose of anyone he wants to disobey him at will, and he has already made Grace understand this.

Subjects can fear and love their king at the same time, but Grace can only choose one or the other.

Grace said: "Compared with the dinner, fishing is really too boring." After he finished speaking, he saluted the king, then turned and walked away quickly.

In addition to Alan and the two girls, Eva's younger siblings, Alan's classmate named James Lejan, and the four guards who often escorted Grace to travel were also there.

The men all rode horses, even Luca and Little John rode horses, sitting in front of Allen and James respectively.Grace was sitting in the car, looking out the window to watch them ride, and Ellen was watching him from the horseback.

Achilles took two steps forward presumptuously, and brought his head to Grace's window.Grace touched its nose and said happily to Allen: "It still remembers me!"

Allen lowered his head like his own horse, and asked him with a smile: "Want to ride a horse?" Grace wore men's clothing for the convenience of walking.

Grace looked at the white horse acting coquettishly at her, and then at the elated little John sitting in front of Allen, weighing in her heart whether it would be too domineering to drive Little John down.

Anna also moved her head closer, looked at the white horse with interest, and asked Allen: "Master Allen, is his name Achilles? It sounds like a foreign name!"

Allen then told the allusion of the mount of the sun god Apollo again.

As soon as he finished speaking, Grace lowered the curtain and said to Anna worriedly: "He always writes those letters in your name, will it affect you?"

Anna looked at him suspiciously.

Grace frowned and thought for a while, then explained: "He is attractive on the surface, he loves to laugh and talks sweetly, but for girls, he is actually not a good match."

Anna was shocked and asked him: "Master Alan treats you badly in private?"

Grace quickly asked her to keep her voice down, but said no, and tried to continue explaining: "He is the kind of man who doesn't like to get married, and he is too adventurous to be a husband."

Anna was even more puzzled, and tilted her head to look at him innocently.Eva on the opposite side couldn't help laughing, her demeanor was as gentle as usual, but it made Grace's heart thump, a kind of shyness that vague minds were penetrated by others.

It was just full light when they reached the lake.This lake is not like the lake in the summer palace, maybe because of the season, or because the shore of this lake is not fine sand, but stones and grass, which gives a sense of desolation.Grace hadn't seen the dewy grass for a long time, and it reminded him of the morning before he left the villa.

Girls spread blankets on the grass, and guards hooked grasshoppers to fishhooks.A boat was tied to the lake, and no one knew who it belonged to. James said that several of their good classmates would come to this lake to swim every summer, and sometimes they would use this boat and leave a coin in the boat.

Anna asked, "What if the money is taken by someone who is not the owner of the boat?"

James shrugged with a smile, "We have thought about this problem, but there is no better way."

It was still too cold for boating, so they sat down on a rock by the lake and fished on the shore.Allen found two stones that were close together, but far away from the others.

Grace kept laughing as soon as she sat down.Allen asked him why he was smiling, and Grace said, "You seem very experienced." Allen leaned over and kissed him on the lips abruptly.

Grace was taken aback, and quickly looked towards the other people, only to find that it was blocked by the reeds. She couldn't help but laughed again in relief, saying that Allen always moved around like this, and the fish were scared away by him up.Allen said that it is better to move like this, so that the smell of the bait will spread out, so as to attract the fish.

Grace believed it, and asked him, "Really?" Allen laughed again, and said that fish have very good ears, and they hear every silly question you ask.

They talked incessantly, and James, who was nearest to them, stood up twice in displeasure, and asked them to keep their voices down, saying that they were scaring the fish away.

"You invited so many people," Allen complained.

"It's always good to be cautious," Grace replied, "especially when it's getting close to the wedding."

After he said this, Allen didn't say anything, and James didn't complain anymore.

After a while, Allen suddenly asked him: "Have you thought about the future?"

"After what?" Grace turned her head and asked him, "Are you talking about the consequences of nobles refusing to pay taxes?"

Alan's eyes were deep, and he looked into Grace's questioning eyes for a moment, then turned back to the lake with a sigh.

At this time, there was a cry of surprise from the side, and Luca had caught a fish.Everyone ran to see, and Grace dropped her rod and ran over, but it was just a small fish.

Grace wanted to ask Alan: "Didn't you say that the fish in this season have grown fat?" But he turned his head and looked around, and found that Alan was still standing outside the crowd, and came towards this side only when he saw him looking over.

"The fish are still young," Grace told him.

"It's a matter of breed," Allen replied.

"I've seen bass fish in the water, but they don't like grasshopper bait...I can't remember what kind of bugs the bass fish like to eat," James said.

Grace looked at Allen with him.

"Bass fish eat earthworms," ​​Allen said, looking serious like a scientist giving a speech at the Academy of Sciences.

"Then let's go dig some earthworms?" Grace proposed to him, but she was afraid of being rejected, and added: "It's hard to find earthworms this season, but I'm very good at this job!"

Allen glanced at him, picked up an empty bucket and walked to the front.Grace hurried to follow.

They walked across the rocky beach and grass by the lake until they came to a place with trees.Grace grabbed Allen's arm and asked him, "After what did you just ask?"

Allen lowered his head slightly, covered the hand resting on his upper arm with his own, and begged: "Don't ask, Grace, just pretend I didn't ask that question."

But Grace continued to ask, "You mean after the wedding, don't you?"

Grace saw some changes in Alan's expression and was trying to restrain herself, but she still revealed expectations.Only then did Grace understand why Allen asked him not to ask any more questions, because he couldn't give an answer that didn't disappoint.

Allen held his hand in his own, squeezed it twice, and pulled him into the woods, "Go dig earthworms."

Grace is really good at this job. He can accurately judge which rocks must have earthworms under them. When one stone is lifted, three or four can be found, while Alan lifts a stone, and there is nothing underneath.

Allen couldn't help asking him, "How do you still understand this?"

Grace said that chickens love to eat this. There used to be a chicken he favored in the backyard of the villa, and he would dig earthworms to pet her.

"she?"

"Yes, it's a light gray hen that lays one egg a day, sometimes even two, and walks around my yard when it sees me."

Allen asked him, "Why do you raise everything?" He asked again, "Is that chicken still in the villa?" He planned to pay attention to it when he went home next time.

Grace gave him a strange look and said chickens don't live long.

"An inescapable law of nature."

"It's Christmas," Grace said.

"What do you mean?"

Grace pulled an earthworm out of the soil, threw it into a bucket, and made a tray-handling motion, "Christmas Plenty Table."

His calm appearance made Allen feel a little bit in his heart, and he blurted out and asked, "Did you cry at that time?"

Grace stared, "Are you kidding me?"

"no!"

Grace stared at him with a frown, realizing that he really wasn't trying to laugh at herself.He immediately understood why Alan would ask such a question.

He felt a little hurt in his heart.It's true that he won't do stupid things like shed tears for a chicken, but that doesn't mean he doesn't care about anything.He stole the chicken from the kitchen and was going to put it in the woods.Sophie found out and got spanked on the ass.Sophie told him that domestic chickens would not survive even one night in the wild.Being bitten by a wild dog is no more comfortable than being cut off by a knife, and it will bring bad luck to everyone in the backyard and kitchen.It's wrong to make people suffer for chickens, so he returned the chicken he had hidden.

Grace remembered that she had been trying to take some animal as her own, but the result was always bad, just like every time he had some unreasonable feelings for someone, the result was always bad.

This is what he thinks in his heart at this moment, but if he can't answer Alan's question, it's best not to say these thoughts.