Throne Steps

As one of the two fronts of "Black Swan", Akye has almost absolute trust in him from Lichen, and it is definitely unnecessary to pass on such things before meeting people.Although Li Chen insisted on passing the butler's biography in front of Saenz, it was to make Saenz's aristocratic style no exception.Akeye and Fudexi are two mercenary men, Li Chen is not going to show off with his own people in "Black Swan".And Akeye was the first person to be loyal to Lichen, and Lichen even gave him the privilege of "if there is no movement when he knocks on the door, he is allowed to break in by force".

Just when Li Chen responded with some doubts to the female officer to let Clement come in, the female officer said that Clement went back to the room first to tidy up and would come later.

Li Chen suddenly found it funny.It must be that Akye was caught in the rain outside, so he went to change his clothes first.Being uttered by the female officer with such standard speech skills, it feels like a rough man turned into a mother.

Akye came after a while, and he really knocked on the door and walked in.Li Chen stood up at once, and pre-emptively said: "The picture album... has an appointment?"

Thinking about it carefully, Li Chen is obviously the author of the script, but if he wants a picture book, he has to order and buy it himself, which is quite funny.However, he himself doesn't like collecting these things very much, so he didn't make an agreement with the chamber of commerce to get "sample magazines" routinely.

Seeing that Li Chen jumped up to ask about this, Akeye thought that the album was really important to him, so he answered with a bit of solemnity: "The appointment is here."

"I'm sorry, I forgot to tell you before." Li Chen showed a slightly embarrassed smile, "I'll go to the performance directly, I don't need a picture album... just treat it as a gift from me? Forget it, I'll send someone to deal with the funeral, you don't have to worry about it."

Akye asked back, "Are you going to the performance? Have you bought a ticket yet?"

Fordhi rolled his eyes.I didn't care about the trip for nothing, but I cared about whether I could buy a ticket for the performance. Clement was so used to this bastard.

Li Chen blinked and said with a smile, "Travel at public expense."

As soon as Akye heard it, he knew whose masterpiece it was, and even understood that Xiao En's request would not be fulfilled.He nodded and replied: "I see. I will finish this matter and the witch's request. You can watch your performance."

This is a bit ambiguous, and there is a hint of jealousy in the sentence.But with Akeye's usual indifferent tone, it wouldn't seem too ambiguous.Akye can say such sentence patterns, Li Chen is definitely the main influencer.The culprit heard the subtlety in the sentence pattern, so he just smiled and let Akye sit down, poured him tea, and added water to Fudexi's teacup.

"This house is not bad. No matter who we come to the capital of the temple in the future, we will have a place to stay." Li Chen glanced out the window, it was very muddy after it rained outside, and there were very few pedestrians, "Who chose it?"

Fudexi glanced at Akye.

Akye was originally as motionless as a mountain, but Li Chen and Fudexi kept staring at him, thought for a while and said, "It's a bit beyond the budget."

There are not many people in the "Black Swan", and seeing the completion of the temple, most of them are about to move in.He wanted to buy a house in the capital of the temples, but Li Chen considered that he would come here often, and that other members would also be brought into Saenz's mansion.For such a two-story single-family building, Li Chen could guess that it was over budget, but he wouldn't be upset with the two responsible persons because he bought a house over budget, and he was quite satisfied with the house.

The way Lichen expressed "it doesn't matter if you exceed the budget" is very special: "I caused you to go for nothing, and you caused me to exceed the budget. We are even."

I really have nothing to do with feelings here.Fudexi drank tea slowly at the side, trying not to let these two disgust him.

But sitting in this room, he couldn't really get away from it.Li Chen finished feeling disgusted with Akeye, and turned to ask him: "Those people have returned to Yanying?"

When Li Chen and his party went to Samir, they originally only wanted to complete a single two-star mercenary mission, so they hired a few "Black Swan" members, plus Akeye who was on the road of "Personal Butler" .Later, after receiving the news of the monster from Fudexi, he quickly seconded some rock eagle people from the mine station, and only then did he catch up with the monster.However, after the hunt was completed, Rock Eagle's mercenaries followed them out of Samir to rest, and Li Chen hurried back to the capital of the temple to put out Saenz's fire, and hurriedly took care of the monster trade. Ran.The follow-up is followed by Fudexi and Akye.

"Going back. I also answered Yanying's letter." Fudexi replied, "Warcraft's income is [-] to [-] percent."

"Three sevens?" Yan Ying's people put in a lot of effort, which Li Chen personally experienced. At that time, he thought that it was at least four or six.Now that Fudexi got another [-]% back, Li Chen couldn't help asking: "Has Kaga let go?"

Fudexi took a sip of tea, and replied: "They don't have to rush out the magic crystal, this benefit will naturally be given up."

Li Chen listened to him saying "them" and "Yanying" one by one, and smiled secretly in his heart, this is also a guy who does not give an inch.Earlier everyone felt that he was a loner and out of place, but who knew it was such a penny-pinching nature.Kajia was at a disadvantage in his hands, and Yan Ying must have hated himself for seeing him wrong, and let him go so easily.

However, Yan Ying and Saenz have shared interests for a long time, so the pure fun of you coming and going will not cause stalemate.

Li Chen thought for a while and said, "The money will be invested in the temple, and two more people will be hired to oversee the work, and we will try to complete the project within the year."

"A good person has been selected early, and he will be in place in a while." Fudexi glanced at Li Chen, as if it meant "it's not rare for you to order", then raised his eyebrows and sneered, "The supervisor of the temple, the four of you, Your Highness, we Four, the real 'master' is letting himself go."

"Him? He can't even handle himself." Li Chen sneered, "After you reminded me like this, I remembered that His Highness wants to send us two female officers to station first, and the group of girls from the Great Prophet will be fine in the future." Take care of us."

Fudexi put the teacup back on the tray, and asked: "Didn't your highness send a female officer? We will send two more. It seems that the witch and Dan Lu can't answer the people they want?"

Li Chen smiled, and told the two of Saenz's plan of getting three out of two, and refilled his teacup before expressing his opinion.

"They are the ones who run the temple behind the scenes, so they won't mix with petty women. After all, they only have a suppressive effect." Li Chen stroked the teacup in front of him, "His Royal Highness wants us to control the interior of the female officials."

"It's the girls chosen by the prophet." Fudexi didn't hide his disdain, "I'm afraid our female officers will be infected and become stupid."

"Our female officer is here to support the situation. Is it possible that there are still people who want to destroy their own situation?" Li Chen smiled lowly, "Besides, it is also the nest of the 'Black Swan', so it's not for him to say the same thing."

Hearing this, Fudexi understood that Saenz might be disappointed with Wiggins again, and was preparing to further adjust the equipment of the temple.If you say that Wiggins is really a pig brain, don't think about how logically Saenz only rewards him and doesn't ask him to do things.

Oh, by the way, Wiggins seems to think that his "peeping" is to do things for the revered pure white color.I don’t know if he has peeped at Saenz’s office. If he saw Saenz’s real confidants, would he wonder why Saenz didn’t introduce these people to him.

After thinking about it, Fudexi brought up another topic: "When I went to the chamber of commerce, I heard something. I don't know if it has something to do with what I said before that there is a fight for independence."

Li Chen looked at him.

Fudexi said: "It is said that there is a place called Suoyang in the southwest. The tax system is basically separated from that of Retia, and there has not been a blessing ceremony for at least ten years."

"This location... His Highness mentioned it, but he didn't say it clearly. However, His Highness's power and reputation have been in the Northland these years, and he will mention it, probably because the royal court has already paid attention." Li Chen rubbed his chin, "Still I trouble you to inquire more and see if this Soyan has claimed independence."

Although Li Chen asked, he guessed that there was probably no Declaration of Independence.Since the establishment of the Raetia Alliance, no one has dared to make such a move.If they dared to express their separation publicly, they would have already exploded in the royal court. How could they let them collect taxes so leisurely?

Fordhi nodded.

"Hey, a small border town is still trying to break away from the alliance and become independent. It will be fine if you don't make a sound? It's a dream." Li Chen lowered his eyes, "In no more than three years, the alliance will definitely start to deal with these aliens."

The two youngest heir candidates of Pure White will turn 20 in three years, and the battle for the head of the family will start in full force at that time.Today's Saenz has already made great achievements in battle, and Fujalal has also been forced to show a bit of blood.To stand firmly on the stance of being invincible, regaining lost ground for the country is definitely one of the great opportunities.Thinking about it carefully, it took so long after the signing of the "Contract for Humanity" that a frontier land declared independence. These lords of Raetia are really content with the status quo.

The three of them each said something, and Fudexi went out first. The current location of the "Black Swan" is not in the capital of the temple, not even in the pure white territory.If Li Chen wanted to go back in person to arrange personnel changes, they would have to leave in a few days, so that Li Chen could rush to Kieran one week before the performance.And this newly bought house will be the foothold of the temple capital in the future, and someone has to look for it all the time, and Fudexi has to take care of these things.

Akye stayed by Li Chen's side as usual when there was nothing necessary.The two asked the female officer to exchange tea, and after a moment of silence, Li Chen asked, "Is there really something wrong with your former subordinate?"

Akye was already dull, but when this topic came up, he became even more depressed: "Yeah."

"It's not that I don't trust your vision, nor do I deliberately investigate behind your back." Li Chen nestled in the chair, his eyes were cast in front of him, but without focus, "But the authorities are obsessed. If I had talked openly with you about this matter from the beginning , I’m afraid you will scare the snake—after all, you know each other very well.”

Akeye looked at Li Chen, without saying a word.He used to think that he had told Li Chen all the truth, but he never thought that he had been deceived.If Li Chen hadn't thrown a thick stack of documents in front of him a while ago, I'm afraid I still wouldn't be able to recognize the true face of the person I once trusted the most.

"I asked you to reveal the final truth with your own hands. It is to warn you and to remind myself." Li Chen sat up straight and looked at Akye, "Don't let me down."

This refers to Akye's ability and also Akye's loyalty.Although there is a contract to forcibly connect the two, the range of non-betrayal is too wide. What Li Chen wants is someone who is positive rather than inaction.

Akeye looked straight into Lichen's eyes: "I won't let you down."

Li Chen smiled and said, "You don't have to be too obsessed with snake shadows. You just decide, just do it, but remember to leave a way out."

Akye lowered his eyes: "Yes."

Li Chen laughed again: "Now that the dissidents have been eliminated, you can also start to determine which old subordinates can enter the 'Black Swan'."

Akye looked up at Li Chen in surprise, and nodded in response two seconds later.