spartan ancestor

Jacintos was speechless and amused by Oss's attitude.

Who knew that a few words in sleep could make Oss worry about him until now?

But in fact, after confronting Aka for a while, Oss temporarily dropped his hostile attitude out of some other emotions: "Have you prepared the bouquet, Yashin?"

"You just watched me come out of the conference hall, what do you think?" Yacintos took another step, "I asked Aka to prepare."

"..." Oss' expression became extremely sensitive for a moment, but he finally endured it.

After the rain, the dense forest was quieter than usual. As Jacintos walked along the path to his mother's grave, he suddenly realized that this was the first time he and his elder brother came to visit his mother's grave.

Last time Oss's cleaning work was done well, the stele is still clean and there is no moss on it.

Yacintos took the flowers from Aka's hand, placed them in front of his mother's grave, and looked down the slope in the distance: "I don't know if you can see it, but I asked Aka to arrange the graves of the old Kesang's people." In the open, if you just stand here and look down, you can see it without much effort."

He was silent for a moment, then said in a low voice, "Your suffering is not in vain."

Aka looked over from the side, hesitated for a moment, and said in a low voice: "I don't know if I can ask, but I heard from many people that Queen Lutes was poisoned to death."

Oss frowned, as if he wanted to speak, but Jacintos said before he opened his mouth: "Really? According to the rumors you heard, who poisoned her to death?"

The tone of his question was a bit casual, if you don't listen to the content, it's more like chatting.

"People from the Senate and the Eurypontides family guess the most." Aka's eyes fell on Hyacinthus's face, as if observing his expression, he said slowly, " They said that Queen Lutus was ill before...the death. After the incident, it was found out that the reason was that Helotus, who took care of her, was dissatisfied, so she poisoned and murdered her. But not many people are aware of this investigation result Buy it, because everyone knows that Queen Lutes treats Helotus well."

At that time, there were already different opinions about the cause of Queen Lutes' death.

I don't know where the rumors came from, saying that Queen Lutes' death was related to the Senate and the Euripontides family.

These conservatives hated that Queen Lutes always meddled in Her Majesty Una's political affairs, and instilled some terrible ideas about equal rights in the little prince, so they sent someone to kill the queen.

Some time ago, the real cause of death of the old King Yagiade was found out, and the old Darth and others were sent to the execution ground. This kind of rumor became more real, and almost everyone came to a conclusion in their hearts. This is completely old-fashioned Shi, Queen Lutes must have been killed by someone in the Senate.

"Yasin." Oss frowned and grabbed Jacintos' wrist, casting disapproving eyes.

Yacintos patted his elder brother calmly: "She did the poison herself."

As the rumors say, life was not easy for His Majesty Una and Queen Lutes at that time.

The main reason is that their political opinions are clearly not in line with the interests of the nobles. The Senate and Old Xan are indeed quite dissatisfied with Queen Lutes' various behaviors.

Queen Lutes' physical condition was inherently weak, and the Senate felt that the queen would not live long anyway, so she began planning to find a new wife for Her Majesty Una very early on.

Preferably on their side, preferably young, healthy, and fertile.

After all, His Majesty Una's eldest son, Aos, is of mixed blood, and his second son was taught to be deviant by Queen Lutes. They were quite expecting that the new queen would bring them a perfect crown prince with pure blood and correct standpoint.

"...!" Os raised his hands and made an expression of "Are you crazy?!", the hostility that had been temporarily put down because of Queen Lutes was rekindled in an instant, and he glared at A-Ka, his eyes were a bit "from Where to start destroying corpses and eradicating traces" means.

However, among the other two people present, one didn't care about being stared at, and the other watched Aka being stared at with great interest, completely wasting General Oss's heart to protect his younger brother.

Jacintos shrugged and said, "Otherwise, why do you think I insisted on engraving Cleo? Because I have a big heart?"

"..." A-Ka was still having a hard time understanding, "The situation was so serious at that time? The queen was forced to commit suicide by drinking poison?"

Oss raised his hand in some collapse, touched his forehead, and finally gave up on himself: "No. It's the queen's body that really can't hold on. She said that she couldn't gallop on the real battlefield because of her body and gender, so politics is her. On the battlefield, even if it is death, it must be used to the greatest extent."

"..." Yacintos didn't speak, but nodded with a very faint smile, as if he was in the meeting room and was echoing someone's political views.

He remembered very clearly the day his mother died.

The weather was not different because of the death of a resolute and intelligent woman. When Hyacinthus was called back to the settlement by his father's guards, he was still squatting in the grass to guard a litter of lion cubs. Picked him up from the grass, patted the grass clippings off his stomach with a serious expression, and led him home.

Walking into his father's courtyard, he heard the sound of arguing, and when he walked along the corridor to his parents' room alone with vague anxiety, the quarrel just reached its peak, and then, a loud slap ended his father's rare Break the dullness and become an angry rebuke.

Hyacinthus heard his mother's voice say with a hint of toughness and coldness that patients rarely have: "Una, don't stop me from dying on my battlefield."

Hyacinthus didn't quite understand what his mother meant, but the sudden silence in the room made him panic. He looked around, trying to find a trustworthy adult, but the guard just sent him away. He had already left at the gate of the courtyard, because His Majesty Una did not allow any outsiders to step into his courtyard, and his 24-year-old brother Os was fighting outside and was not in Sparta.

This was probably the first and last time Hyacinthus felt fear since he was punished in the dark room, so that he stood at the door and never got up the courage to knock on the door. After a long time, his mother's voice came out again, Rational to cold: "You and I both know that I have the strength to argue with you now, which is basically equivalent to returning to the light. I can feel the effect of the medicine given to me by the doctor, and I can also feel that my body is like a leak. basin, life goes on and on."

"This glass of poisoned wine can help you fight against the marriage arranged by the Senate, suppress the momentum of the idiots of Eurypontides, and it can also help me ensure that Hyacinthus is the only crown prince of the Algiade family. I promise, after my death, you will teach him the same way I taught Yashin. I don't care what the short-sighted and stick-to-the-box old man in the Senate thinks. If Sparta wants to develop for a long time, if it wants to be a leader Equal rights is the only way for the overlord above the city-state."

It took a long time for my father's voice to come out, with rare pain: "I know you have great political acumen, but this is death... Can you stop being so calm in the face of death?"

Queen Lutes said in a disdainful tone: "It's really interesting, you would say to the soldiers who are about to go to the battlefield, 'Don't act so calm'?"

No, it won't.Queen Lutes persuaded Una again, and Jacintos, who was dazed and uneasy, heard his father strode to the door, opened the door with a creak, and then led him in without knowing what to say.

As before, he sat by the bedside of Queen Lutes, as if in some kind of absurd nightmare, and heard his mother say briefly, "I'm dying, and I'll drink it before I die," in the tone of "what's for dinner?" Poisoned wine" arrangement, and then the chubby belly was pinched by Queen Lutes.

The woman finally showed a trace of softness, sighed softly, and then her eyes became firm again, without hesitation, she sat Yacinthos upright: "The young eagle will leave the wings of its parents one day. Today It's a good day. I want you to promise me that you will never cry because of my death, and I want you to be proud of me. I want you to fight for the future of Sparta, or lead Sparta to glory, Or die on the battlefield."

She touched Hyacinthus's face: "Then we will meet in Hades' Hades, and you will be my glory."

The sun was as bright as ever that day, and in the next few days, until the burial of Queen Lutes, the sun still rose in the east and set in the west on time, embracing the Spartan plain warmly.

But Hyacinthus knew that no one would prepare just the right delicacies for him, nor would there be any soft and warm hugs for him.

He kept his promise to his mother, and never shed a single tear because of her. To this day, occasionally when he looks back on these past events, he still thinks jokingly, maybe it’s because of this that I haven’t shed a tear?

After all, if his mother's death couldn't make him cry, what was there to cry about?

Hyacinthus said these memories, with a faint smile on his face, even though there was no real smile in his eyes, but no tears, he turned his head casually: "...Brother, I am about to make a summary. "

But you seem to be taking the atmosphere a little too seriously, and he expresses condemnation with his eyes.

"..." Oss raised his arm, took up the corner of the red cloak, and blocked his tears with his arm, "I didn't..."

His voice trembled a little, so General Oss, who seemed rigid but delicate in emotion, swallowed the follow-up words.

Hyacinthus: "..."

So before in the Arcadia Forest, you really almost cried, didn't you?

To be honest, at that time, he really thought that his brother was red-eyed, or there was sand in his eyes.

Oss wiped his eyes vigorously with his arm, and put down his hands with red eyes: "You..." His voice was still a little trembling, so he paused for a while before he spoke again, "I'm sorry, the queen passed away at that time, I I was away fighting, and after receiving the news, I was so stupid that I thought there was no reason to return to this home..."

General Oss choked up again and lost his voice.

Hyacinthus: "..."

He slowly moved to Aka's side, and whispered in a low voice: "I just want to make a conclusion, saying that the reason why I carved the inscription for Kleo is because my mother committed suicide by taking poison, and I don't want my mother to die because of suicide." Wandering on the banks of the River Styx forever... besides onions, do you have any tricks to stop your tears?"

Aka: "..."

He wanted to say, the personalities of your mother and son are really strange, but when you think about His Majesty Una's character, he is not very normal. In comparison, General Oss is so normal that he is out of place in this family.

Oss wiped his tears rudely, only feeling a sincere desire to protect his chest, and his brother-in-law’s heart was burning hot, he took a deep breath: "Although this sentence is already late, I should have said that on the day the queen died, Promise to her, but I promise you, Yashin, I will be by your side every moment in the future, until the end of my life."

Oss raised his eyes and glared fiercely at Aka: "So, when is this guy going to get out...leave to build a branch? I remember I said before, is the branch going to be built outside the city-state of Sparta?"

Aka: "..."

Forget it, it's not a family, don't enter a family.

The author has something to say: This is the second update~