caged robin

"Come and try—"

He picked up the blue collar first, and brought it closer to Aureas, but it was a little tighter.Picking up the black one again, this collar is more like a pet's collar than the blue one.

Oreas pressed his hand, his face gloomy.

He pushed forward, pushed his hands away, and straddled Oreas' lap.

"Good boy," he coaxed with a smile, took both ends of the collar with each hand, and sent it towards Aureas's neck, "I tried it, it's very soft, it doesn't hurt...Ah!!"

Suddenly he fell backwards and hit the soft bed, both wrists were clasped by Aureas, and the black collar was lost somewhere.Oreas looked gloomy, with a faint golden light in his eyes.

Abner swallowed.

He turned his head, raised his eyebrows, and just hit the wooden box when he fell down, and the dirty picture book inside was just lifted, he stared wide-eyed, swallowed again, turned his head stiffly, and looked straight at O Reas, asked: "What are they doing...?"

Oreas glanced at the picture, squinted his eyes, leaned down, and whispered into Abner's ear, "Do what a partner should do."

Abner shuddered.

Aureas chuckled, a short and scorching air flow sprayed on the tips of his ears, and the tips of his fragile ears trembled and heated up quickly.

Oreas thought that Abner needed to relax for a while, so he let go of his wrist, stroked his hair, and straightened his upper body.

Suddenly Abner grabbed his collar, pulled it hard, looked at Oreas seriously, and said, "I want you to do this to me too."

After finishing speaking, Abner closed his eyes, raised his head slightly, and gently rubbed the tip of his nose against Oreas's.

But Oreas held his hand and said softly, "Wait until you get older."

Abner opened his eyes, frowned and said, "I hate hearing this! That's how you promised Lance at the time, didn't you? In the end, he died without waiting for you to fulfill your promise!"

Abner stared at Oreas closely, his chest heaving violently due to excitement.

Oreas was taken aback, then gently stroked Abner, his voice was low and gentle, "When you were my companion, you still had the chance to choose and give up, I won't hug you, but when you grow up , I will never let go."

Abner frowned, "I'm already an adult."

"No," Aurelia paused for a moment, and continued, "During the time you spent here, a dew accumulated on a flower of the spirit beast clan just fell. You have to think about it, I don't want to hurt you."

Abner looked at Oreas quietly, a pair of blue eyes showed a slight coldness.

"I see, let's go."

Abner pushed Aureas away, got under the quilt, and buried his whole body.

After a while, a muffled voice came from under the quilt, "Why don't you leave?"

Oreas chuckled, "Wait until you fall asleep."

Abner snorted softly, stretched out a hand from under the quilt, jumped around, and jumped to the corner of Aureas's clothes. Aureas held the hand, and it stopped peacefully.

After a while, there was a steady ups and downs of the quilt. Aureas lifted the quilt a little and saw that Abner was fast asleep, so he extinguished the candle, put his hands under the quilt, and pulled the quilt down to expose his head.

He bowed his head, kissed Abner's forehead lightly, and then walked out of the room.

"Brother, are you not feeling well?"

It was the morning, and Abner still couldn't get himself up in the face of the fragrant mint tea. Seeing this, Jonny asked with concern.

"Baby, don't worry about outsiders, the egg tarts won't taste good when they're cold." Rhea glanced at Abner and said to Johnny.

"Mother!"

Abner found out that Oreas had returned to the spirit beast family early in the morning, and his empty heart became even more depressed. Now he heard Rhea's mocking voice, and he was even more irritable.

Alvin was gone, and his father was seriously ill in bed, so he had nothing to worry about.So he put the spoon away and left the table.

Suddenly there was a sound of orderly and loud footsteps at the door, Abner turned around, and saw a group of honorary knights walking in solemnly, the leader was Sir Rich Monferrato, whom he had not seen for a long time. The beard grows thicker, and behind Ricky is Keener.

Rich's face was originally serious, but when he saw Abner, his eyes suddenly widened, his mouth opened wide to give an order, and he froze there, surprised with excitement.

But Rhea's face was ugly, staring at Keena intently, as if staring at an ant.But Keener just glanced at her coldly, then at Jonny behind Rhea.

Abner secretly clicked his tongue, Rhea and Keener can be regarded as siblings.

"Morning, ser, what's the offense here?" Jonny's words broke the silence.

Rich straightened his back, bowed slightly to Jonny, and said, "We are ordered to protect the safety of Mr. Wang Fu, and please ask Mr. Wang to take us to Mr. Wang Fu's bed."

"What happened to father?" Abner frowned.

When Rich heard Abner's voice, his beard trembled slightly.

At this moment, Keener stepped forward, bowed slightly to Abner, and said, "Please, Master Abner, come with us to see His Highness. Your Highness will clarify the specific matters."

Abner felt that something was wrong, but apparently Keener would not say anything here, so he looked up at the room where his father was upstairs, turned around and said, "Let's go."

"Everyone stand up!" Rich led the knights to hurry upstairs.

Jonny was leading the way, and Abner stood beside Keener, seeing that his figure, which had been staring at Jonny, was submerged.

"What's the matter?" Abner asked. Since Keener and Rhea were brother and sister, Keener could be considered Johnny's uncle.

Abner raised his eyebrows, thinking that Keener still looked too young.

Keener was silent for a while, then said: "It's nothing important, I just feel a little strange."

"Oh?"

"Just now, I felt like I saw the young Lord Rolek," Keener smiled. "Master Jonny really looks like the young Lord Lord. It's a bit strange and a little uncomfortable."

Seeing that Keener's smile was a little stiff, Abner probably recalled what he had experienced when he was young, so he patted him on the back, and the two walked towards the audience hall in silence.

When Abner walked in, he saw that there was not only Sean alone in the hall, but also the king, Wens and some important officials.They were discussing something nervously, and when they saw Abner coming, they all raised their heads at the same time, especially some people who had not seen Abner had complex expressions and opened their mouths in surprise.

"Father, you should teach them how to be calm," Sean said to the king.

After the king heard this, instead of being angry, he reprimanded those unsteady ministers.

Abner raised his eyebrows. It seemed that Sean had a good relationship with his father in the past two years.

Abner stepped forward, and Sean greeted him.

"Your Highness, is there anything I can do for you?"

Sean was silent for a while, and said, "Abner, I'm sorry, damn Aaron Ackerman escaped from the dungeon."

Abner frowned, "When?"

"It should be last night, probably when changing the hay yesterday, while the guard was not paying attention, he inhaled the pollen of Tongluohua."

The pollen of Tongluohua can make people unconscious for a period of time, and it is not harmful to the body. Many doctors always keep some by their side to help children who need stitches to reduce the pain.

"How could he have this?" Abner said to himself.

Sean sighed, took out a handkerchief, and unfolded it, revealing a few dry flowers and plants, "We found a mouse hole in his dungeon, in the mouse hole besides the quince flower, there are white wattle, yellow tongue grass .”

Abner looked at these dusty flowers and plants, and asked, "Why doesn't he use white wattle and yellow tongue grass? Obviously these two are more poisonous, what is he paying attention to?"

Sean shrugged, "It is said that he had sores on his feet before he escaped, so he shouldn't have run too far. I have already sent someone to track him down. I will also send someone to watch over the Duke's place. Don't worry."

Abner was silent for a while, and said, "I want to go to his prison."

There is a damp atmosphere in the dark dungeon, like the coldness of the soil on the grave after the rain. A narrow road leads to the depths of the dungeon, and the fires on both sides burn silently, lengthening the shadows of people indifferently.Abner gasped, the last time he came here was the disaster at the Holy Dragon Festival.

Aaron's cell contained only hay, a crude table and a torn book.Abner walked over and picked up the book, which was written in faded quinces.He flipped through it, and it was full of introductions of herbs, and there were records next to some herbs, and Aaron's handwriting was more neat than those scholars in Baihan Tower.

"Want to see that mouse hole?" Sean asked beside him.

Abner nodded, and put the book down. The last page of the book was tilted up. He glanced at it unintentionally, and suddenly froze.

On the verso of the last page of the book is a small hand-drawn illustration: Arrows and Crosses.

It was exactly the same as the one seen under his father's bed, and this small hand-painted picture was more exquisite. Abner vaguely felt that the arrow in it was like the badge of Wang Fu that his father had always worn before.

And what does this cross mean?

Abner stared closely at the cross.

"What's wrong?" Sean saw that he didn't move.

Abner retracted his eyes, "Nothing."

He followed Sean to the mouse hole in the corner, a very inconspicuous place, if there was a mouse living there, it would be a very small mouse.

Suddenly there was a slight creaking sound from the hole, Abner squatted down quickly, and after a while, a silver-haired mouse slipped out of the hole, which looked much better than those dirty and gray mice .

The silver-haired mouse creaked and crawled to Abner's feet, sniffed it, raised its head, saw the row of tall guards and the cold-faced Xiao En behind Abner with its black eyes, and the silver-haired mouse was startled. Then he quickly grabbed Abner's stockings and quickly climbed up until he reached Abner's shoulder. Seeing Abner frowning at himself, he hesitated to reach for Abner's neckline , squeaking, rubbing fur.

Abner: "..."

And those tall guards were staring at the ermine and Abner closely, with some love in their eyes.

Abner glanced at them, "..."

"There are such honest mice in the cell?" Abner said.

Sean shut up.

Suddenly the ermine climbed down again, burrowed back into the hole, and soon came out again, but this time it pushed out a tiny wooden bowl with its pointed head, and the bowl was pushed to Abner's feet. , then straightened up, with two little paws in front of him, looked up at Abner, and kept squeaking.

Abner: "..."

Sean glanced at the ermine and asked, "Is this asking for food?"

"Maybe."

Abner squatted down, picked up the extremely small bowl and looked at it.

At this time, the sound of food delivery came from outside, and Abner shuddered. During the few days in prison, apart from the sound of the food delivery truck, there was the unknown sound of water droplets, which was really damn torture.

Xiao En glanced outside and said, "This ermine really knows the time, it just happens to be meal time, and his nose is really good."

"No," Abner said, holding the bowl to the firelight and looking at it, "this is Aaron Ackerman's ermine, and he feeds it every now and then."

Sean was taken aback, and saw that Abner was looking at the small bowl carefully.

"This small bowl was polished by Aaron with broken wood. When I was young, Aaron would often give me these little things. Although the bowl is very rough, I can tell that it came from his hands." Ai Buner puts down the bowl.

Sean frowned, "You mean Aaron keeps mice here?"

Abner nodded.

"What the hell a doctor should be raising these filthy things!"

Abner put his hand in front of the ermine, and the ermine sniffed his hand and quickly crawled to the palm of his hand.

"Are you crazy?" Sean put his hand on the dragon's teeth, and the muscles on his arms twitched.

"Calm down," Abner patted his hand, and then put the ermine into his pocket, "The mouse has a very sharp nose, not to mention that it was raised by Aaron."

Sean paused, feeling reasonable.

Abner picked up Aaron's book and walked out of the cell.

When we returned to the Yufu Building, the meal was over, but the inside and outside of the building were still very lively. Several maids were hurriedly carrying baskets full of flowers, and several male servants were holding a huge rose garnish. Cheng Yinhuan walked upstairs.

All are making final preparations for tomorrow's Duchess' birthday.

Abner learned that his father had been sent to the doctor for rehabilitation, and no one should disturb him, and Rhea was standing on the high steps in a purple dress directing the servants.

He crossed the hall in disgust, hurried into his room, slammed the door shut, took a deep breath, and sat down by the window.

"Squeak..." The ermine got out of his pocket and climbed onto the table.

Abner glanced at it, crumbled the bread and scattered it in front of it.It happily buried its head in the bread crumbs, grabbed a relatively large piece, stood upright, and gnawed quickly. It looked at Abner with dripping black eyes, as if it was not afraid of him at all.

Abner: "..."

"Aaron even raised you, so why did he treat my father so hard?" Abner asked the ermine.

The ermine tilted its head and continued to chew on the bread crumbs.

He sighed, and took out Aaron's medicine book, densely packed words rushed to his face, he flipped through it casually, and suddenly he turned to a page with notes, and there was a travertine flower in this page, the flower It's not completely dry yet, as if he was deliberately asked to turn this page.He took out the tonic flower.

This page talks about a kind of herbal medicine that can clear away heat and relieve cough, but the note next to it reads:... If you inherit the poison from your blood, you will die short... Take the human heart as medicine... Take it for 21 days... Take the heart of your parents ...

He watched and couldn't help breaking out in cold sweat on his back. This is about how sick and weak children born to close relatives can prolong their lives!

Suddenly he felt a pat on the shoulder, he closed the book in fright, turned around, and it was Aureas.

His hanging heart was relieved, Oreas gently rubbed his head, and said, "What's wrong? Why is your face so ugly?"

He breathed a sigh of relief, hugged Oreas, buried his head in front of Oreas' chest, and said with a bit of grievance in his voice, "I miss you."

Oreas stroked his hair and said softly, "Sorry, there are many things in the clan."

He nodded, "Yeah."

Aureas' whole body was wet again, and he should have been driven back from the Sufeng tribe's mother's womb again, and after going back and forth, it seemed that Aureas had been walking for a long time, but in fact he didn't even take a bath there. Not enough time.

He raised his head and hooked Oreas' neck, allowing the water on Oreas' body to soak his clothes, "I'll ask someone to bring the tub over."

Not long after, a few male servants delivered the bathing items to Abner's room, and without daring to say a word, they went out with their heads down.

Abner pulled the curtains tight, and there was only one faint candlelight in the dark room, and the lingering mist covered the two of them.

The outside of the room is cold and lively, while the inside of the room is hot and quiet.

Abner was dazed by the steam, and directly climbed onto the bed covered with cornflowers on the towel, onto the warm body of Aureas, like a bird seeking warmth.

"When you were away, I told my father that I wanted to take him out of here..."

Abner's voice was soft, as if he was talking to himself. Oreas hugged him, listened to him quietly, and stroked his back and hair.

"You tell me what to do...Oreas, I don't want to leave anyone...I close my eyes, hear your breathing, and want to hide every wisp of breath around you...I'm too selfish I want to monopolize everything from you, but I want you to tolerate my thousands of bad habits...I want to cover your ears, and you want to hear me say I love you, I want to cover your eyes, and you See my body...I want you..."

Abner fell asleep while talking, and Aureas didn't say a word from the beginning to the end. He didn't hug his back tightly until he heard his steady breathing. His face was still hot and wet after taking a bath. It was crimson and stuck tightly to Aureas' heart.Oreas bowed his head and whispered something in his ear, then kissed him on the forehead.