"I say, old Vee, you've been working inside the palace for a long time, haven't you?" Haun asked.
"This is indeed, in the past I was specifically responsible for taking care of the old king, and then the duke said that you are his most important guests afraid of others to take care of badly before sending me." Vesey replied as he took a big sip of 1300-year-old wine.
Hahn saw that Vesey's glass was almost dry and hurried to refill it for him. Continuing, he asked, "I'm afraid none of the others have been around as long as you have?"
"That ~ ~ ~ that is indeed, although ~ ~ ~ although they are specially selected by the duke and princess. But the qualifications and experience and I am no way to compare" Vesey's alcohol seems to have come up.
"What do you think of this wine?" Hahn's fox tail finally showed itself.
"Good ~ ~ good wine, if not for you kind lords, we would never have been able to drink such good wine in our lifetime" Vesey had not yet discovered the trap, while Yas next to him had already started looking for a way to escape.
"I think this wine should be the best wine in your palace, right?" Hahn continued to entice. Just now the three of them went inside the wine cellar together to steal wine when they didn't find the desired variety, so Hahn kept hanging on to this matter in his heart.
The chief chief next to him was showing the courtesan the wounds on his body, what with the scar of the cut appendix being from the bloody battle with the 4 ghosts of the Yellow River. The wound of planting cowpox was from a sneak attack shot during the battle with 300 elves. And that only wound left in the chest during the battle turned out to be a glorious proof of his heroic rescue. After saying that he did not forget to ask the lieutenant to give him proof. The lieutenant, after answering twice, simply hid to the other side. At this time, Yas was quietly moving to his room.
After all, Vesey is old, a few glasses of wine after the stomach also began not sober. "This wine, although high-grade, but still not the most high-grade, to say high-grade ah ~ ~ ~ that ～～～～ " Vesey's mouth began to inflexible again.
"I'm afraid there is no more, but it's okay, after all, this wine is already considered very good." Hahn exclaimed.
"What! You underestimate our Duchy of Silliman, when 100 years ago, we were a resounding empire! An empire! What's this wine worth? Even the noble rot wine of the Sighing Desert, we have it all." Hahn finally scouted out what he wanted. At this time Yas has disappeared without a trace of course Hahn can not care about this now.
"If so, you'll bring it out and show us " Hahn continued to ask.
"Of course I don't have it, but Lord Hawat, the commander of the forbidden army, has the two bottles given to him by the old king back then, you can ask him if you don't believe me" Vesey finally said it.
Hahn nodded with a smile. Turning his head to look for Yas found that there was no longer in sight. Then look at the sky is almost dawn. It seems that today is no hope, but the desired message was obtained. So simply and everyone together with a hot barbecue to eat.
The night's make trouble ended only at dawn. Vesey was busy arranging for people to clean up the courtyard and instructed everyone not to tell anyone about last night's events. Hahn and others went back to their own rooms to sleep, the chief insisted to sleep in Yas's room, the people secretly snickered, of course, will not point out the mystery. The lieutenant did not sleep all night but felt very energetic. The first time I felt so relaxed lying in bed, I felt very strange until the morning when the princess sent someone to see if the lieutenant was awake, but still could not sleep, so simply do not sleep and follow the visitor to see the princess.
In the afternoon, when the lieutenant returned from the princess, she saw the chief and the two of them conspiring in Yas's room. She had just walked into the room when she heard Yas say, "I think it's better to forget about it, is it too much?" The chief ignored Yas and continued, "We can find a way to bring Rodman to take the blame, so that there will be more reason to go." Hahn: "Eh, the chances of success will also be much greater."
That afternoon the lieutenant returned from the princess's place and saw that the chief and others seemed to have finished planning. Each person was preparing for the action. Finally, she couldn't help but say to the Chief , "Sir, I have something to say to you."
The chief looked at the lieutenant and said, "Tell you what, let's take a walk outside together." After saying that, he did not care about Hahn's complaints, and went straight to the large garden outside the house. The lieutenant saw the situation and had to follow.
All the way to the depths of the garden, around a few small woods, before them appeared an artificial lake Chief Commander stopped and said to the lieutenant: "You can create a barrier to cut off the sound?"
After that day's roast incident the lieutenant was far from the businesslike attitude he used to have when facing the chief. So the first question was, "Why? Is it necessary?"
Chief: "Absolutely necessary, because the following issue I want to talk to you is top secret." said the chief with a serious face.
The lieutenant didn't say anything more, only to see a blue light shoot out from the lieutenant's brow. A blue barrier was formed like the one used in the defense against the enemy. The chief looked at it, and poked it with his finger uneasily, asking, "Is it safe?" Then he saw the angry look on the lieutenant's face. Hastily gave up the attempt to continue asking. In her mind, the lieutenant was thinking: "If this punk teases himself again like he did the Duke inside the Misty Pine Forest, I'll throw him into the lake."
The chief saw the lieutenant's expression is not good look at the lake next to rush to the formal content: "In fact, the king's capital O Ding is now in a delicate balance situation."
For his part, the lieutenant learned from the experience of the last lesson and did not dare to take a position easily.
The chief continued, "Tell you what, I'll tell you from the beginning."
The lieutenant nodded cautiously.
Chief: "When the Duke first came to greet us outside the city. Even if we had saved his life, there was no need for him to treat us in such an intimate way. After entering the city I found that the entire city of Odin was very well informed about Hahn's deeds. Obviously someone was deliberately spreading the word, and then later we were arranged to stay directly in the royal palace, although I don't know much about the customs here, don't you think this is still too rude?"
The lieutenant replied, "It's because he wants to recruit us, isn't it?"
Chief: "Even if it is to recruit us, it is too much, this kind of behavior is more like treating your own cronies than trying to recruit us."
Lieutenant: "What's the difference?"
Chief: "Of course there is, and there is a big difference. If we are trying to recruit us then to the others we are not yet the Duke's men, if we are treated like cronies then to the others we have long had a deep relationship with the Duke."
Here, the lieutenant also began to realize the crux of the matter and replied, "That is to say, the duke wants others to misunderstand our relationship with him."
The chief nodded.
Lieutenant: "But why would he do that?"
Chief: "There are two reasons, the first is that only one of the people who came to greet us that day was a civil servant from the Ministry of Household What's-it. This shows that the Duke does not have any roots within the civil service. The second I think is from within the military. The Duke is only 18 years old this year, even if he really has a majestic and there is little time for him to show, because he has two brothers above. Instead of saying that the Duke has recruited the majority of the military, it is better to say that the Duke himself represents a trend of thought within the military ------- to revive the glory of the Silliman Empire, so the military forces have taken the initiative to close to him, except for that Rodman and the prohibition of the army commander Harvat is absolutely loyal to him other military people are afraid that they do not have such a firm position, they seem to support the surface of the The Duke, in essence, is still waiting to see if he is worthy of their following."
Lieutenant: "That is, we are the ones who offered the Duke such an opportunity."
Chief: "Yes, the greeting ceremony that day can be more said to be done for others to see. On the one hand, it can show to the military their strategy and courage, on the other hand, more can deter the civilian staff in the country, because if others think that there are people of our species exist, naturally there may be more yet to reveal. Every person in power will suspect that the people around them are not secret spies, or whether they will suddenly die a violent death at home one day, think about Hahn's performance no one will doubt that he has the ability. Naturally, there is no way to unite against the Duke."
The chief waited for the lieutenant to digest what he had just said and continued, "In the situation we are in, it is obviously impossible to offer to leave immediately. At least until after the Duke's coronation."
Lieutenant: "Does that have anything to do with you guys messing around like this now? Even if we sit quietly we can still play the part, huh?"
Chief: "This you will not understand, later you go back to ask Hahn will know." After saying that, he was ready to go back, but he was bounced back by the defense barrier. Turned back to see the lieutenant staring at himself with a serious face. Only then did he remember that he had already used that move in the mercenary union.
The lieutenant looked at the chief very seriously and waited for the chief's answer. While looking at the lake next to him from time to time. The chief is also a little hairy in his heart, after all, the spring in Aodin is colder than the harsh winter in most places.
The chief said sheepishly, "You ~~ you ~~ wait, I'll give you an answer right away. For example, I hope you can relax yourself, is this answer acceptable?" The lieutenant did not respond. "For the sake of world peace and to show the glorious image of our great empire." Without waiting for the lieutenant's response the Chief Minister himself gave up on this answer. At this point the lieutenant had taken a step closer to him.
"STOP, stop, stop, peace, peace, let's solve the problem peacefully," the chief shouted in horror.
"We are here to show the Duke that we have no desire for a career and that we are rotten to the core. So that he can let us go in time so that I can go and finish the great task of reviving the empire on my shoulders." The chief shouted.
With a brush, the defensive barrier disappeared. It seems that the lieutenant accepted the last reason.
For the next few days, basically nothing major happened, the lieutenant went to the princess every day, the chief once asked what she went to every day, and the lieutenant was also very mysterious and refused to say. Yas locked herself up in the library to look up literature. Hahn and the Chief, on the other hand, spent their days calculating the wine of Hawat.
Finally, the two of them succeeded in their plot. Afterwards Hawat carried the axe and chased them to their residence, while the two men dodged to the side, pushing out Rodman and Yas, who had unknowingly shared the wine, to be cannon fodder. They ran off on their own to play outside the palace for a week before returning. Luckily, the Duke knew about it and gave the last bottle left in the palace to Hawat to settle the matter. However, Yas and Hawat did not fight, and the two masters of the axe became good friends after a few battles that could not be won or lost. Finally the bottle of wine given by the Duke was also shared by them and Rodman and the lieutenant together. Later, Hahn heard the news and was said to be in pain and almost committed suicide.
When the affair was completely over, people understood Hahn in a different way. Hahn, who often showed aristocratic temperament and manners, was no longer misunderstood as someone pretending to be an aristocrat. For, simply by virtue of Hahn's knowledge and appreciation of wine, he could well be treated as a true aristocrat. More importantly, Hahn may indeed be a true aristocrat, and a very respectable one at that. At this point, the wine affair has just passed the halfway mark.