In the afternoon, the Palace of the Blue Lion City.
With the sound of horseshoes, Li Cha returned to his own residence with the guard captain and his party.
The first thing that appeared in the field of vision was a huge square with a radius of nearly 100 meters, paved with large smooth stones, clean and spotless. On one side of the square, there are dozens of steps ascending one after another, and above the steps is a huge palace.
Li Cha got off his horse in the square, and the captain of the guard clearly commanded the soldiers to remove the dead python and send it to the palace, followed by Li Cha. Before he took a few steps, a voice sounded behind him, followed by hurried footsteps, and a person chased after him.
“Your Highness, Your Highness…”
Turning his head, Li Cha saw a young man in his twenties chasing up behind him. He was dressed in extremely gorgeous clothes, with gold embroidered sleeves and complicated patterns tattooed on the collar. A head of golden hair is shining like gold, and a face full of kindness seems to be able to dissolve all malice.
The other party is Li Cha’s personal guard captain, responsible for leading the entire personal guard to protect Li Cha’s safety. His name is Edward Angelet, and he has an unusual status. He is the son of an earl, which means that the other party is a nobleman. The reason why Li Cha is willing to serve as the captain of the personal guard is not that the other family is down and out, but that the other family shows loyalty to the royal family in order to build a good relationship with the royal family.
This is a very common behavior of nobles in the Middle Ages. In a sense, this is a kind of hostage behavior, but if it is done properly, it may not be impossible to get huge benefits. For example, if Richard becomes the king of the next generation, Edward and his family, who are the captain of the personal guard, will naturally receive special treatment. At that time, it may not be the earl, but the marquis.
Edward himself obviously understands this, and he spends his time serving Richard with all his heart. But it may also be that the other party’s thoughts are put on this, and their own strength is very weak. They only know a few tricks of court swordsmanship, and they are okay for performances, but they are not as good as a soldier for fighting.
So this time when Li Cha went to the dungeon to catch the python, he didn’t inform the other party at all, but he didn’t know where the other party heard the news…
Just as Li Cha was thinking, the captain of the guard, Edward, had already caught up and stopped a step away from Li Cha. He took a breath and said, “Your Highness, I heard that you went to the dungeon this morning? Take the people from the dungeon to the outside of the city, what kind of python did you catch?”
“En.” Li Cha responded, and stepped forward.
Upon hearing Richard’s confirmation, Edward immediately became anxious, and said, “Your Highness, I am the captain of your personal guard, and the personal guard is your most loyal subordinate. You leave us alone to find the dungeon, to catch What if you catch a python, what if someone is against you? If you are injured, our entire guard will commit suicide, and there is no way to wash away the guilt.”
Li Cha glanced at Edward, and didn’t feel that the other party was telling the truth, but he didn’t bother to delve into it, and said lightly: “Edward, if your swordsmanship can be better, then I will consider bringing you a sword next time. Let’s go to you. Besides, who in the entire kingdom would dare to harm me?”
Edward’s eyes flickered, he leaned closer to Li Cha, and reminded in a low voice: “Your Highness, you must be really careful, the eldest prince has always been unfriendly to you, and now His Majesty is sick again, in case… In case…”
“There is no chance.” Li Cha shook his head and sneered, “The king is not dead yet, so my dear brother—William Austin dare not do anything to me.”
“But…”
Edward still wanted to say something, Li Cha waved his hand and ignored him, walked to the end of the square and climbed up the stairs. After passing through twelve marble pillars with the thickness of one person’s arms, and into the hall of the palace, Edward had to hurry to keep up.
The entire hall has an area of more than 200 square meters, which is supposed to be extremely wide. But in fact, it was very crowded inside at this time. Dozens of tables are placed on the floor of the hall, and there are various instruments and equipment on the tables. In front of each table, there is a maid who is busy, fat or thin, tall or short, black or white, nervously operating instrument.
On a table near the door, there is a whole set of crude distillation equipment. The core is a pot that is being heated in boiling water. The mouth of the pot is sealed, and only a leather tube leads to the outside. The roots are connected by iron pipes with weird shapes.
The middle of the iron pipe is soaked in water. On both sides, one end is high and the other end is low. colored liquid.
“Pu Chi Pu Chi”, because there is some problem with the connection of the equipment, white mist is constantly sprayed out, the surrounding air exudes a slightly pungent smell of wine, and the speed of liquid dripping into the porcelain bottle at the end is getting faster and faster. slow.
“Tick-tick-tick-tick-tick-tick-“
A maid with a ponytail looked at the device in front of her at a loss, her eyes widened, not knowing what to do.
Li Cha frowned, and when he walked closer, the maid with ponytail immediately seemed to have been shocked, and her body froze: “Your Highness… Your Highness…”
“I asked you to distill high-strength alcohol, how are you doing?”
“I…I…” The ponytail maid’s voice trembled a little, but in order to avoid being scolded, she still answered bravely: “What I did… It’s okay…”
“Okay?” Li Cha was expressionless, pointing to the pungent white mist that was constantly touching the device connection, and asked, “Is this what you said is okay? What about the airtightness I asked you to do? Alcohol vapor is leaked, so how to collect high-concentration alcohol solution?”
“I…”
Li Cha reached into the water basin soaked in the iron pipe again, felt the temperature and said aloud: “How long has it been since you changed the water? The water is hot, do you think it can condense the water?” ?Do you think this can make the high-temperature alcohol vapor turn into liquid droplets when it is cold, and then be collected into the bottle by the horn tube? I remember that I just told you and the rest of the essentials of distillation yesterday. Why did you do it? become like this?”
“Your Highness, I…I…” The maid with the ponytail trembled, her voice was filled with tears, “Your Highness, I was wrong… My brain is too stupid, I can’t remember. King… …His Royal Highness, please give me another chance, I…I will definitely…”
“Forget it, no need.” Li Cha said lightly, “As I said before, the maids in my palace can make any mistakes, even killing people. But there is one thing that must be done, and that is After the explanation, understand what I said, and then implement it.
If you don’t understand or forget, it’s not that you are stupid, but that your learning ability is too poor, and the last thing I need is a person with poor learning ability. Because I don’t have so much time and energy to popularize science, and I don’t have so much time and energy to train everyone into a junior high school student with scientific accomplishment beyond the limitations of the times.
So, from now on, you are no longer a person in the palace, you pack up your things in the afternoon, and then leave, don’t let me say it a second time. “
After Li Cha’s words came out, the beautiful maid with the ponytail trembled and her face was pale. Once she is kicked out of the palace, it will mean that she will no longer be able to earn five silver coins a month. Her poor family cannot sustain it at all, which is undoubtedly a disaster for her.
The maid with the ponytail couldn’t help shouting: “Your Highness, Your Highness! Please, give me one more chance, I… my father owes a lot of money to others, if I leave here , if there is no money to pay him back, he will be beaten to death, please.”
Li Cha didn’t seem to hear it, and walked towards the depths of the palace. The maid with the ponytail looked a little desperate.
Edward, the captain of the personal guard who followed Li Cha, saw it. He glanced at the handsome face of the ponytailed maid, and then at the rest of the crooked maids who were busy in the hall, his eyes flickered.
Quickly walked a few steps, caught up with Li Cha and said, “Your Highness, I think the maid named Aifu just now is actually pretty good, but it may be that she came here for a short time and she is not familiar with it, so she didn’t do well. .Her family is so difficult, or leave her for a few days, in case she is willing to work harder…”
Li Cha stopped and looked at Edward with extremely calm eyes.
Edward’s body shook, showing some fear, “Your Highness, I…I…”
“I know what you’re thinking.” Richard said, “But I have to tell you Edward: I can tolerate a person’s ugly face, bad character, and corrupt behavior, as long as she can complete the task assigned. On the contrary, if a person has insufficient IQ, low ability, and poor learning ability, then no matter how beautiful she is, I will never bear it. Because in the field of science, there are only numerical values, but no beauty.
In a word, I am very busy. I have been very busy since I came to this world for more than ten years, busy to understand some supernatural things, and then answer a question. So, everything that affects me is an obstacle, and I will never live with an obstacle. If you pity the girl, well, yes, she can stay, but only if you help her get things right, that’s all. “
“I…” Edward lowered his head, and his expression changed rapidly. After a while, he lowered his head and said, “I see, Your Royal Highness,” before turning around and walking towards the maid with ponytail.
The ponytailed maid watched Edward approaching, her eyes flickered, and she whispered tentatively: “My lord, look at me…”
Edward didn’t speak, and continued to approach. The girl showed a puzzled expression, and retreated subconsciously. Edward suddenly stretched out his hand.
“Ah!” the maid exclaimed, and her ponytail was grabbed by Edward.
Edward pulled hard, and the girl was in pain so much that she was about to shed tears. Regardless, Edward strode out of the palace, dragging the maid’s hair, then pulled the maid to the ground with force, and said coldly: “I warn you, you have offended His Royal Highness, get out of the palace immediately, don’t Appear in front of His Royal Highness again, or be careful of your life!”
“I…” The maid stood up in horror, Edward had already flicked his sleeves, turned around and entered the palace again, chasing after Li Cha with a smile on his face.
“Your Highness, I have already dealt with that pig-headed maid for you. In the afternoon, I will have someone find someone who is smarter and more obedient to replace her. Do you think it will work?”
“Eh.” Li Cha said, noncommittal.
“Actually… Your Royal Highness, I think you can order some things of yours, and there will be many people who will help you to do them well, so you don’t need to do everything yourself. After all, you are His Royal Highness, and you should do something more important It’s the right thing.” Edward said in a persuasive tone.
“For example?”
“For example… ahem, look, Your Highness ~IndoMTL.com~ Your Majesty the King has been in poor health, and he is bedridden this time, so I don’t know if he will be safe. In case something unexpected happens, the eldest prince will succeed to the throne, it is inevitable There will be some things that are not good for you. It is better to prepare early. You might as well contact some nobles and win their support. This way at least you can ensure that your own interests will not be violated, and you can get a piece of A satisfactory territory and a satisfactory Grand Duke title.”
Swallowing his saliva, seeing that Li Cha didn’t have any big reaction, Edward continued: “In comparison, I think that your Highness is now looking for all kinds of weird things and doing all kinds of research related to wizards. It’s really not necessary. It’s okay as a hobby, but it’s really irrational to devote all your energy to it…”
“Heh.” Li Cha chuckled, “Do you mean to let me get involved in the crown prince’s politics?”
“Ah, this…”
“Edward, let me ask you, do you think crown prince politics is more important to me, or wizards and spells are more important to me?”
“I think crown prince politics is more important to you, Your Highness.” Edward said seriously.
Li Cha shook his head lightly, stepped forward, pushed open a red wooden door, and walked in.
Edward’s expression was slightly stiff, and he stopped in front of the door. He knew that the door was Li Cha’s independent laboratory, and it was usually used when Li Cha did some special research. At this time, Li Cha hated others very much. disturb.
Sighing softly, he stopped outside the door, looking at the wooden door in front of him, Edward couldn’t help but murmured to himself: “Your Highness, you have to listen to what I say, otherwise… …It will be difficult for me to do. My family has pinned all hopes of rising on you, and now the king is seriously ill, if you do nothing…”
……