Throne Steps

At the beginning of the year again, Saenz had an audience with His Majesty the King openly.

Two hours later, Pure White, wearing a golden silk white robe, walked out of the palace and got into the carriage with the family crest.

"Thanks for your hard work."

As soon as he opened the car door, Li Chen smiled at him.The carriage slowly drove away from the entrance of the palace, Li Chen took out the refreshment and tea set in the hidden compartment under the seat of the carriage, and just set up the porcelain stove on the table to boil water to make tea, Saenz's fingertips moved, a small, with The fire magic of a certain duration rushed into the porcelain furnace and boiled the water directly.

Li Chen put the match back to its original place helplessly: "Stop showing off the control power of fire magic at this time, okay?"

"It doesn't take any magic power, I think female officials often do this when they are out." Saenz said as he took off the epaulettes, shawls and other robe decorations, "Why are you here?"

"You have come to see the king, can I not come to witness this historic moment?" Li Chen picked up his clothes, folded them twice, and put them beside him, "So, what's the result?"

"As we expected." Saenz raked the long hair that fell on his forehead, and let out a sigh of relief, "The king said he would consider it."

Li Chen raised his eyebrows and said, "Then it's time to check how much effort the little prince has made in the past year."

Saenz said with a smile: "Speaking of the little prince, he performed well today, and he is in sync with His Majesty the King."

"This also shows that he is full of confidence, doesn't it?" Li Chen opened the lid of the teapot, threw in the hollowed-out gold silk ball filled with tea, and closed the lid again, "Actually, it doesn't matter how good he is in front of you, the main thing is It is his acting skills in front of the king that are good enough."

"Speaking of this..." Saenz said with a low smile, "Will I be able to be the head of the family and still rely on his acting skills?"

"Then I don't dare to comment." Li Chen set up the cup and sugar cubes, "You are the one who interviewed the little prince alone, and you are the one who interviewed the king. How do I know if you take the IQ and EQ of these two into consideration?" What's your plan?"

"'IQ and EQ'?"

"It's just how smart and caring you are."

"... Is there a reason why you don't need to consider it?" Saenz laughed, "Or when you make a plan, you don't consider all the factors that can affect the plan?"

"You don't need to give me a tongue twister. There are so many words, just condense them into the word 'safety'." Li Chen took out the golden silk ball with tweezers, and then began to pour tea, "The owner announced that the purification ceremony has now fermented. A year and a half. So many people have guessed that you are going to fight for the position of Patriarch, and there must be some people who can guess that you will go directly to ask for a seal. Among them, there must be the king and the Patriarch of pure white color."

"Isn't that just right?" Saenz smiled meaningfully, "I'm afraid they won't be able to guess."

"Xiao En said that the messenger bird flying in the sky these days can last five days in one day." Li Chen said happily, "It depends on who is better at chess."

Saenz watched Li Chen pour the tea and put down the teapot, and suddenly pressed his hand that was about to pick up the teacup: "Let's make a bet?"

"What?" Li Chen raised his eyes and glanced at him, "If everything that happens next will go according to plan, I won't bet with you."

Saenz said with great interest: "Do you still remember that you once tricked me into drinking very sweet tea?"

Lichen, a professional prankster: "...Huh?"

"Try again." Four sugar cubes were added to the plates of the two, and Saenz put them all into a cup, "Can you still trick me into drinking it?"

Li Chen didn't know what kind of play this was, the corner of his mouth twitched, and he replied: "Yes—"

As he spoke, he picked up the glass without sugar cubes and drank it.

Saenz was taken aback for a moment, and then he burst out laughing: "This move is really powerful. If you change someone else, you might have to admit defeat, but you don't think it will work for me, do you?"

Going to be a hooligan again!Watching him approaching, Li Chen felt alarm bells ringing in his heart, but where could he hide in the carriage?As soon as Saenz grabbed Li Chen's hand, just when Li Chen thought he was going to drink the tea in the cup with his hand, Saenz's face suddenly moved closer.

He lightly licked Li Chen's lips.

"It's so sweet." Saenz said with a smile, "I lost."

Li Chen raised his empty hand and gave him a middle finger as a routine.

Saenz's trip to the palace is equivalent to moving "certain things" from the dark to the bright.

It is said to be a "battle for votes", but in fact it can basically be regarded as an intelligence information war between all parties.Even Sean, who had already made full mental preparations and entered the state two years in advance, felt that his brain was about to explode when the news of Saenz's meeting with the king officially came.

Saenz allocated more people to her at her disposal, lest Xiao En be overwhelmed and collapse.But for Xiao En, this is the most crucial battle. If he gives up here, all previous efforts will be for naught.

In March, the report sent by Sean stated the progress of several important events:

First, the king had already had the first discussion on Saenz's application for enshrining orders at the meeting of the Ten.Because of Saenz's outstanding achievements and glittering resume, no one in the ten-person court meeting dared to directly refute this application.According to this situation, it is estimated that one or two more court meetings will be able to determine the method of "decision by voting", but the scope of voting is still a problem.

Second, the intelligence organization on the Patriarch's side has also launched a "voter poll", and it seems that they have guessed that they are going to vote or have heard the wind.

Third, the justice still upholds the same style as before and did not express his position at the court meeting, but he is considered to "appreciate Saenz".

Fourth, all key personnel have "arrived" at their designated positions, and everything is proceeding as planned.

"The head of the family is conducting polls now, what results will he see..."

Li Chen was sitting at a round table, and on the table was something like a chessboard, but instead of chess pieces, there were twelve small wooden figures.

Sitting at the table were Saenz and several other henchmen.One of the confidantes responded to Li Chen's question while arranging the villains side by side: "According to the current relationship, if you vote among ten people, these three people should vote for His Highness, and these three people should vote for His Highness." It's Your Majesty's ticket..."

He divided the villains on the plate into four groups, three belonging to Saenz, three belonging to Vagchenau, four belonging to other people or neutrals, and two kings and princes.

Another confidant thought for a while: "The prince may have the right to vote." He reached out and put one of the villains in the group of two into one of the groups of three.

Saenz 4: Vagchenau 3.

The person next to him nodded: "Including the prince, there are 11 people in total, so there will be no tie."

"No, it's still possible to draw." Someone replied, "You can abstain."

"Forget about abstaining." Li Chen knocked on the wooden grid and said, "Tell me about those four votes that I don't know who I will vote for."

"Among them, there are two people who are neutral, and one of them is a freshly baked justice from the year before last." The confidant who had assigned the villain before said, took out one of the four people, and went to the faction to which Saenz belonged. The direction was pushed, but it was not fully merged, "If the justice does not abstain, then he should give His Royal Highness a vote."

Saenz 5: Vagchenau 3.

"However, the fact is that these two neutral people are likely to abstain." Another person took away the villain representing the justice, and took another person from the undeterminable three, and clicked on the leftovers on the chessboard. The two said, "These two are the key."

Saenz 4: Vagchenau 3.

"The relationship behind them belongs to the lords of the non-eternal color, especially one of them is still closely related to our deadly enemy - the great nobleman." A confidant said, "They may take this opportunity to create riots to weaken the pure white power. The power of color."

"In other words, these two votes are the most uncontrollable. We think it is difficult to handle, and the owner of the family will also find it difficult to handle." Li Chen said, "Then the current situation is 4 to 3, oh, counting the big Odds of judge, that's 4.5 to 3."

The confidantes smiled: "Sure enough, the probability of your Highness winning is very high."

Li Chen glanced at Saenz, but finally said nothing, lowered his eyes and hooked the corners of his mouth.

"is this okay?"

Li Chen leaned against the window sill, crossed his hands on his chest: "Is this how you keep it from them?"

"It's nothing good or bad." Saenz was still sitting in front of the table with the grid plate, his eyes were directed in the direction of the villain who was assigned, but he didn't focus, "Only if it fits or not."

Li Chen turned his head, hooked a crack between the curtains with his fingers, and looked out of the window through this space.Outside downstairs, several of Saenz's confidantes were leaving, their backs walking towards the distance.

Li Chen sneered: "I thought they were your trusted confidantes anyway?"

Suddenly, a feeling of someone approaching hit him, Li Chen turned his head, and Saenz had already walked in front of him.

Saenz stretched out his hands, supported Li Chen from both sides to the window sill, and locked him between his arms and the window sill: "It's a confidant, so what? Some plans, it's not that the more people who know the better, but no?"

Li Chen looked into his eyes and slid down silently, as if he wanted to get out of the encirclement.However, when he went down, Saenz followed him down, and finally locked him in the corner, and said happily, "What are you going to play?"

Li Chen sat against the wall, knowing that he couldn't escape, so he changed the subject and said, "If they find that the reality is different from the plan, they will come to the door, and you don't want to confess me."

"It's not that the reality is different from the plan, it's that the actual plan is different from what they thought, or the actual plan is longer than they thought." Saenz laughed, "And you are What's your attitude, do you think you've come up with a bad idea?"

Li Chen got goosebumps from his tone, and forced himself to calm down: "I don't think so. But the effect of the idea is not immediate, and I don't want them to squeeze in front of me and chatter before the result comes out."

"Don't worry, it's not their turn to speak up." Saenz slowly approached, "Who do I want to listen to, whose opinion I adopt, and I am responsible, eh?"

Li Chen put a fist horizontally in front of his mouth: "Can we keep a polite distance?"

"No." Saenz's palm wrapped around his fist, and then he pushed it away involuntarily, "There is no need for politeness between us."

Then, his lips fell.