A Tale of Strategies For the Throne

"Wow——————"

A little fat man on the street suddenly screamed like a pig, startling the passers-by, and immediately attracted the attention of most people around him. A group of soldiers patrolling nearby followed the sound.

"what's going on?"

The leading team asked.

"Wang, ah, woo, ah, my, my friend was killed by that, that person—"

After biting his tongue twice and finally swallowing the word 'Prince', Tal asked the team for help in a panic.

However, just in the middle of his words, there was a clatter of hooves, and the knight who scooped up Garlan and ran away came back on his horse.

The knight reined in the reins, and the steed raised its front hooves high and neighed before stopping in front of everyone.

A head of light black long hair is tied into a ponytail, flying high behind her head. The heroic female knight is dressed in a strong suit, wearing dark blue leather armor, fair skin, almond eyes, and raised eyebrows. The whole person looks alive Vibrant and full of energy.

She was riding on a horse and looking down at everyone, like a gust of autumn wind, with a heroic posture.

"Lord Fataya!"

The team leader yelled, obviously knowing this female knight, and the expression on his face was a bit dumbfounded.

"What did you do again?"

Suddenly he was picked up on a horse and taken away. Before he could react, he was brought back again. The little prince who was hugged by the female knight looked bewildered.

He turned his head and looked up at the female knight with his little head up, feeling confused.

As soon as the female knight lowered her head, she saw the child in front of her turn to look at her.

Under the fluffy soft blond hair, the skin on the palm-sized face was white and tender, as if water could be squeezed out with just a pinch.The widened and round eyes are like clear amber gems in the water, with the long eyelashes, and the slightly opened pink mouth, just like a porcelain doll.

Ahh, cute, so cute~~

The female knight only felt her heart being scratched hard, unable to control her hand, she rubbed the hair of the child in front of her.

Wow, it's so soft, it feels really comfortable to the touch.

"Lord Fataya!"

The captain's cry woke the female knight up suddenly. She looked at the eyes of the people around her looking at her, retracted her claws from rubbing the child's head, and coughed lowly as if she wanted to get rid of the awkward atmosphere.

But at this time, the little fat man ran up regardless, jumping straight beside the horse, his chubby body like a ball bouncing up and down, jumping hard while shouting at the female knight.

"Give me back, give me back quickly, you robbed people...well, kid!"

The little fat boy didn't say that word, but the people next to him understood it, and immediately coaxed them into laughter.

Amidst the laughter of the crowd, the female knight suddenly became embarrassed and didn't know how to answer.

The leader stood aside, lowered his head, as if he was holding back a smile.

He thought, this adult is usually very capricious, but today he was stumped by a child.

"I am the head of the gate guard."

The female knight said so, staring at the little fat man who was still bouncing up and down.

There are four gate guards in the city guard army of Wangcheng, which are responsible for the city gates in the southeast and northwest respectively, and the military officer who leads the gate guards is called the chief guard of the gate.

They also have the duty of patrolling the royal city in turn.

She looked down at the child in front of her and asked, "Why are you two children walking alone on the street? Aren't you afraid of encountering bad people? Where are your parents?"

Seeing the little blond-haired child looking up at her, Fataya couldn't help it, and stretched out her hand to pinch that soft little face.

The little fat man's eyes widened, and he almost yelled out the phrase 'bold and presumptuous, presumptuous and bold', but fortunately Garlan turned his head to look at him, so he held back.

He yelled at the female knight: "Don't think that being the mayor of the city is something, you can snatch the children at will, it's none of your business if we come out to play!"

Garlan also spoke, and he said, "Mom asked me to come out and play with my friends."

He opened his eyes, with an innocent and well-behaved look on his face, and held up a few broken copper coins in his hand to show the female knight.

"She said she was busy and asked me to buy the syrup myself."

His voice was different from that of the little fat man, it was soft and waxy, like the soft clouds in the sky, coupled with that innocent and cute little face, his lethality exploded in an instant.

"My sister will take you to buy it, and I will buy you a lot, as much as you want."

The female knight hugged him and did not let go, coaxing him with a smile and saying, "It's too dangerous for a child to walk alone on the road, sister bought syrup for you and sent you home, okay~~"

Gallan: "..."

not good.

Just when Garlan was in a bit of a hurry, there was a coughing sound from the side, and the captain coughed, as if reminding someone.

"Master Fataya, the patrol time is coming to an end, and you still need to go to the City Guard Division for today's report."

The captain's reminder made the female knight look regretful. She patted Garlan's head and put him off the horse with some reluctance.

"Remember to go home early, just play around here, don't get too close to the outer city, it's not very safe there recently."

She gave an order, and then let the steed under her trot away.

Tal tightly grasped the prince's hand which he managed to snatch back, and watched the female knight leave, he was relieved immediately.

He thought for a while, and said to the prince, "Wang...cough, that woman said that the outer city is not safe, so we don't want to go there, okay?"

Garlan nodded, indicating that he understood.

Knowing that it is not safe, he will definitely not go to that place, he is not stupid, and he has to go back to the palace before dinner.

He and Tal had just walked a few steps, when suddenly a boy caught up behind him.

The boy was about fifteen or sixteen years old, his clothes were a bit old, but they were neat, and he looked clean and fresh.After the boy caught up, he handed over a small bag.

"Little brother," he said, "you dropped something."

Garlan turned his head to look, then touched his waist, and found that the small bag containing the token was missing, probably because the female knight just tossed it and dropped it.

He wowed in his heart, thinking that fortunately he was discovered, otherwise it would be terrible.Because this token is very useful, it may be a bit troublesome if it is obtained by someone who is interested.

He hurriedly reached out to pick it up, but just as he touched the small bag, Tal bumped into him from behind, hit his arm once, causing his hand to deflect, and the boy over there just let go of his hand, so the two didn't connect. , the small bag slapped to the ground.

The small bag fell twice, and the rope unraveled a little, exposing the emerald green corner of the token inside the bag.

Because the bag was dropped, Garlan and the boy bent down reflexively at almost the same time, trying to pick it up. The boy lowered his head, saw the emerald green corner, and was taken aback for a moment, and the hand that reached out was also paused.

Therefore, Garlan picked up the token first, didn't open the bag to look at it, but touched it with his hand through the small cloth bag.

Well, neither broken nor broken, things made of malachite are relatively durable.

He thought with satisfaction, and tied the small bag around his waist again, this time it was a little tighter, and it was still tied at the place where the arm was hanging down, so that he could protect it with his arm and prevent it from being touched.

"This is important stuff, thank you very much."

When Garlan thanked him, the young man seemed to be in a daze. As soon as Garlan spoke, he reacted, waved his hand quickly, smiled, then turned around and ran away at a fast pace. His figure quickly disappeared among the passing crowd. middle.

Garlan felt that his dazed look was a bit strange, so he looked at the boy's back a few more times.

At this moment, little fat Tal suddenly tugged Garlan.

He pointed to a food stall by the side of the road. The pink and white sweet cakes exuded a strong aroma, which made him swallow.

"Prince, shall we go eat that?"

He asked Garlan with a greedy face.

Garlan was so entangled by him that he thought again, he couldn't run too far anyway, so he might as well take a stroll along this avenue.

So, he took the little fat man to the food stall.

So... After eating, I didn't stop.

Garlan felt that this child's body was really inconvenient - not only the lacrimal glands were well developed, in fact, he wanted to refrain from crying when he was injured last time, but the child's lacrimal glands were so developed that he couldn't help it at all.Now, the child's body has no resistance to beautiful and delicious snacks.

Although it may not be as delicious as the desserts in the palace, it has a special taste, especially when no one is staring at you, no one is feeding you, and you can buy whatever you want freely. It feels very happy to eat while walking on the mainland.

So they walked around and ate all the way before they knew it...

"It's time to go back."

Looking at the sun that was beginning to set to the west, Garlan felt a little overwhelmed and said that Taal's stomach was already swollen.

He thought, it's better to go back before no one finds out.And they were almost at the end of the street, and they would be close to the outer city any further.

Garlan remembered what the female knight said that the outer city was not safe recently, and decided to stop there.

Tsk, he's not a real kid, how could he run there knowing it's not safe.

The prince spoke, of course Tal nodded quickly.

The two children turned around and quickened their pace, wanting to hurry back to the palace.

Garlan was walking ahead, when suddenly, a person bumped into him from the front and hit his shoulder hard, causing him to almost fall down.

There was a sudden pain in his arm, and when Garlan lowered his head, he saw that there was a cut on the inside of his arm, and blood was already oozing out.What made him widen his eyes suddenly was that the small bag tied tightly around his waist was gone, only the cut rope remained.

As soon as Garlan turned his head, he saw a familiar figure disappearing into the crowd.

It was the boy not long ago——

my token!

This thought flashed through his mind, and Garlan had no time to think about it, and almost instinctively chased after him.

After running for a few steps, his body suddenly lightened, and he was picked up again.

This familiar feeling...

As soon as he looked up, as expected, the female knight looked at him with a smile on her heroic face.

"How naughty, I told you to go home early, and now you are still playing outside."

After going to the City Guards Department to report on his duties and report to his superiors, Fataya, who was about to go home, bumped into the cute child again by accident, and picked him up again.

"Come on, big sister will take you home... Hey, why did your hand hurt?"

"My order—er, the amulet!"

"what?"

Garlan anxiously pointed at the young man who was about to disappear, and said, "That person stole my amulet! It's very important! I, my family passed it down!"

"Don't worry, my sister will help you catch him."

The guards of the city gate had the duty of apprehending the thieves. Fataya comforted the child and immediately galloped after him.

Seeing the steed go away, the fat man opened his eyes wide, feeling like the same scene was happening again.

But this time, the steed wouldn't come back, Tal could only watch the prince disappear before his eyes, and ran to the outer city with the female knight.

The little fat man became anxious immediately.

He also didn't care about the exposure of the two of them running out to play, and hurried back to find someone to help.

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Has that boy been eyeing his own token for a long time?

Is someone instigating him secretly?

What are they going to do by stealing their tokens?

Is someone secretly planning a conspiracy against the palace, or against Brother Wang?

During the process of catching up, Garlan was full of thoughts like 'this must be a well-planned large-scale conspiracy'.

Suddenly, the steed stopped, and the female knight clicked her tongue.

Garlan took a closer look and saw that the wide road just now was gone, and all that appeared in front of him were crooked and messy paths, discarded garbage could be seen everywhere, dust was everywhere, and the road surface was uneven.

On both sides are low wooden houses, densely packed together.Skinny people stand scattered by the roadside. The burden of life and long-term malnutrition make the people here look haggard.

When they saw the female knight in city guard leather armor, they all avoided in fear.

Garlan couldn't help asking, "This is..."

"Ghetto."

Fataya replied, she got off the horse and carried Garlan down as well.

She tied the horse to a post beside it. The horse had the logo of the city guard on it. No one dared to touch the horse here.

"However, the king has recently issued an order to renovate this place. It was a good thing for these poor people, but those blood-sucking guys came here one by one, turning the good thing into a bad thing... Tsk, I said it You don't understand either. Anyway, there's been some chaos here recently, so don't leave my side. "

Saying so, she led Garlan into the alley.

Garlan tugged at her and said, "Since it's not safe, let's go back first and call more people?"

Fataya smiled and patted his head, and said, "Don't be afraid, I'm here, my sister is very powerful and will protect you."

No matter how powerful you are, you are still alone.

This might be a big conspiracy against the king.

Garlan wanted to leave, but Fataya grabbed his hand, and he couldn't break free, so he could only follow.

Passing through this small alley and turning another corner, Garlan saw the boy who snatched his token from the fence of a low wooden house at a glance.

With a shudder in his heart, he looked around vigilantly, wondering whether the young man behind the scenes was nearby, how many of them were there, and there were only two of them on his side, should he hide and check first...

Before he could finish his thoughts, the female knight stepped forward and pushed open the crude wooden fence door that was concealed, and walked in.

She stretched out her hand, and carried Garlan in as well.

Gallan: "..."

The young man standing in the small courtyard just took out the things in the small cloth bag, and when he saw Garlan and the others coming in, he was stunned.

Immediately afterwards, a fierce expression appeared on the boy's face, as if he was going all out.

Oops, he's going to call someone!

Garlan subconsciously looked around, feeling that a group of people would pop out immediately.

however……

I saw the young man put the token in his hand on the wooden stake, grabbed a big rock and smashed it down hard, smashing the token to pieces in an instant.

Then, he rushed in front of Garlan and the female knight in a few steps. Before Garlan could react from his smashing the token, he saw the young man kneel down suddenly and hit his head heavily on the ground. on the ground.

"I'm the one who stole! Catch me!"

He kowtowed vigorously.

"But please, the malachite talisman is broken anyway, keep it for my mother—my mother is dying, please!"

Gallan: "..."

Wait, what about the promised mastermind and grand schemer?