caged robin

Abner suddenly opened his eyes. Under his body was the comfortable mattress—Oreas. The window was covered by thick curtains, and only the faint light from his body illuminated Aureas's sleeping face indistinctly.

He scratched his head, not knowing why he woke up suddenly. He didn't wake up until there was another scream from a maid outside the door. It was probably also a scream before.He pushed Aurelias awake as the screams outside drowned out another.

He hastily put on his shirt, put on his robe, and opened the curtain, it was already dusk outside.

Oreas put on his robe and opened the door. Abner hurried over and raised his eyebrows. The outside was already a mess, especially the garland made of roses and lilies in the center of the hall was sleeping quietly on the ground. petals scattered all over the place.

"Ah—there's a mouse—"

"Ah ah ah ah ah--"

Several maids were so frightened that their faces turned pale, and they screamed and ran around in the hall. The male servants were fine, and hurriedly pulled the screaming maids aside, and picked up the fallen garlands.At this time, Rhea came out of the room aggressively, and when she arrived in front of the maids, she slapped loudly.

"Damn it, it's just a mouse, what's there to be afraid of!" Rhea roared.

The maid stood aside with a red face and bowed her head.

Abner's mood was a little better because of this, he took Aureas's hand, and walked leisurely to the hall, Rhea saw that he was about to get angry, and suddenly saw Aureas again, with the anger on his face Freezing, twitching, very interesting.

"Squeak..." the voice of the ermine came from behind the curtain of the dining room.

Abner walked towards the dining room. There was also a group of giant decorative crossbows beside the curtain. The crossbows pierced straight at the birds on the curtain. Abner's shoes.

Abner frowned slightly, the ermine opened his mouth again, and burrowed into the curtain.

Abner opened the curtain, but the curtain is usually not opened, and a double layer was used for sunshade.

"Nothing." Abner said to himself.

The ermine came out again, bit his leather shoes, and then dragged the curtain to climb up. Abner looked up along the ermine, and saw that it got into the window curtain, which was made of semicircles. Below each circle are embellished gems and colored threads.The ermine kept squeaking inside the window curtain, as if there was something inside.But the curtain was too high, and he couldn't open it, so he had to poke his head over and look inside.

At this time, Aureas stretched out his arms, grabbed the colored thread under the curtain, and lifted the curtain.

Suddenly, everyone around screamed, Abner trembled heavily, and Oreas let go, blocking the things in the curtain again.

Abner held Oreas' hand tightly, his voice trembling slightly: "How could this be..."

Dozens of flayed birds hung on the crossbars in the window curtains!

This was an extremely vicious curse, and Rhea's face was also pale. After being shocked for a while, she shouted loudly: "Get rid of these damned unlucky things!"

Soon, some bold footmen brought sticks and chairs, and brought down the dead birds that were still in the bloody forest.

Abner stared at the creatures in the bloody forest. Judging from their size, they seemed to be adult birds, and they were all in pairs.

I always feel like I've seen it somewhere.

He clenched his fists.

"Go away too—you unlucky thing—this happened as soon as you came back—why the hell are you still alive—" Rhea yelled at Abner, her pale face was bright red Lips, as if a bird had just been eaten raw.

The servants next to him were stunned, looking at the hostess, and then at the poor young master who had lost his status.But Abner's expression was not as angry or sad as they imagined. Instead, he walked past their mistress extremely indifferently, and said coldly, "You can take care of yourself."

Rhea got angry again, grabbed the glass vase at the side and was about to smash it at Abner, Oreas grabbed her arm and squeezed it tightly, as if to crush her wrist alive.

The truth is, if Abner wanted to, he could.

But Abner took his other hand and said softly, "I don't want you to touch her."

Aureas let go, Abner hooked Aureas's neck, stood on tiptoe, and kissed Aureas under the astonished eyes of everyone, as if no one was there.

It wasn't until the ermine squeaked around Abner again that he recovered from the kiss, and Aureas lightly smiled and stroked his reddish cheeks.

"You, you..."

Abner dragged Oreas and ran out, leaving Rhea with a surprised and terrified face.

As soon as Oreas came out of the imperial auxiliary building, he turned into a leopard shape, and Abner was riding on his back. He jumped up and leaped over the high walls of the Duolun Palace. Abner heard the wind blowing in his ears. While whistling, the sun came towards him.

"Go and see where that little ermine has gone." Abner said, he vaguely felt that it could lead him to find Aaron.

Orreas led Abner towards an increasingly desolate place, until in a wild forest, Orreas turned into a human form, put Abner down, the little ermine ran straight forward, and the two followed closely .Suddenly they heard a faint coughing sound, and Abner immediately walked to the place where the sound was coming out vigilantly.

It is a huge tree.

"Ahem... oh..."

Abner supported the roots of the tree and turned slowly, when suddenly an old and weak voice sounded from under the tree.

"You are finally here, Master Abner, cough cough."

Abner stared wide-eyed, and saw Aaron hiding in the tree hole, with gray hair and skinny skin, with a long, thin and pale hand hanging on his leg.

"My lords, let the young master see me like this...cough cough, oh my lords, my little baby." Aaron picked up the little ermine, then supported the tree, and slowly stood up.

Abner glanced at his feet, wrapped in rags, the gray rags soaked with blood and pus.At this moment, he actually felt pity, so he turned his head and said coldly, "You must have let the mouse bring us here on purpose."

"Ahem, the young master is still so smart..." Aaron patted the dead leaves and dust on his body, and took a deep breath, "Then the young master must have seen the notes I left in the book."

Abner glanced at him, wondering what his intentions were.

"Master, don't worry, even if I have the intention to kill now, my strength is not as good as that of a little ermine, and I have exhausted the last bit of my strength to escape here." Aaron stroked the little ermine and said softly, " What's more, I don't think I have murderous intentions, not now, not in the past, and never in the future. I just want to talk to you alone. The cells in Silverbow City tend to make people gloomy. calm."

Abner frowned, "What are you talking about?"

Aaron smiled faintly, making Abner at a loss, because this smile was no different from the honest and silent doctor he knew before, the honest and silent doctor would secretly put sugar in his medicine and play tricks Coax him to take medicine, and bring him some gadgets polished with wood and stones every time... But he killed my father, Abner clenched his fists.

"Oh... this spirited young man belongs to the young master..."

"Partner." Abner interrupted Aaron impatiently.

Aaron was taken aback for a moment, then looked at Oreas with a smile, and said, "Young master has good eyesight."

Abner: "..."

Abner said: "Don't lie to me here, why do you want to kill my father?"

After listening to Abner's words, Aaron kneaded the back of the ermine's neck unhurriedly, and said, "Master, if you think I have harmed Mr. Wang Fu, why don't you just kill me?"

Abner frowned.

"You are also hesitating and doubting, aren't you? Before I entered the Duolun Palace, I received the favor of the Apocassery family and helped your father survive a serious illness. I said your father is blessed, and he really became the Wang Fu, I have served those young masters and ladies in the Duolun Palace for more than 20 years. My lords, your father is a shrewd man. He married the daughter of the Lorek family and soon gave birth to a young master. ——Johnny Apocasserie, this mother and son are just decorations in the eyes of Mr. Wang Fu, and he gave you all his love."

Abner took a deep breath, "So what?"

"Oh, master, there are some things that can only be seen from a distance," Aaron frowned suddenly, his feet shook violently, and then he took out a piece of dead grass from his worn-out pocket and put it in his mouth. After a while, fine sweat broke out on his forehead, he forced a smile, and continued, "Sorry, the sores hurt every now and then."

Abner moved his lips, wanting to let him sit down and rest, but when he gritted his teeth, the pain continued.

"A good glass vase is an ornament, but a glass vase with a broken corner is a murder weapon. It will use its sharp corner to pierce anyone who thinks it is an ornament. Master, your brother, Johnny Apoca Siri is a broken vase."

Abner was taken aback.

Aaron took a deep breath, as if solemnly announcing something, "Your brother is a product of incest."

"What did you say!" Abner grabbed Aaron's collar.

"Calm down, young master, your younger brother has nothing to do with your father, but the offspring of his mother and his maternal grandfather."

Abner trembled, Jonny was actually the child of Rhea and Earl Rorek!

He suddenly remembered what Keener said: Master Johnny is really too much like the Lord Lord when he was young...

But he still didn't let go, instead he held on tighter, "Why do you say that!"

Aaron smiled faintly, "Master, I watched you brothers grow up, a child born of incest will always be different from other children, I have given Master Johnny the medicine for so many years, there will always be Found the problem. And, one of the things that makes me more sure about his life experience is that... he is trying to find a way to make himself live longer."

"If blood is poisonous, life will be short..." Abner remembered Aaron's notes.

"This method is what I wrote in the book." Aaron's expression still didn't change much. "You need to eat the heart of the 21st day, and then eat the heart of one of your parents on the 22nd day, and then eat the heart of the 21st day." people's hearts."

Abner's back suddenly broke out in cold sweat, thinking of those corpses lined up.

"However, there are requirements for this. The heart must be eaten on the birthday of the father or mother to be useful... So, two years ago, Earl Rolek had his heart dug out on his birthday and died. The Earl of Rolek is a fake, but Earl Rolek is despised by the nobles, withdrawn, lewd, and silent...so even if he pretends to be inappropriate, it will not arouse much suspicion..."

"You're talking nonsense!" Abner interrupted Aaron, "How could this be true! I've never heard of using human hearts as medicine!"

"Master, I never thought that there would be such a cruel cure until I got to know the blood monkey. He tortured himself so badly, but he was a ghost. These were all written by the blood monkey. At that time, he wrote a This medical book, because it was too bloody, no one dared to ask for it. I managed to get it, but I was dubious about some of the healing methods in it. I would secretly read some at night, and then lock it in a box. But that day, Joan Master Ni's illness is very urgent, I went to check on his condition before I locked the book. At that time, I asked the room next to the study to decoct medicine. When I came back, I found that he was not on the bed. I looked around anxiously. He popped up again, pale..."

Abner felt his mind buzzing, he held Aaron's hand tightly, the back of his hand touched Aaron's old and dry neck, suddenly his eyes became blurred, and gradually only a piece of white remained, waiting When he realized it, a fetus had already appeared in front of him, which should be Aaron.

Abner was taken aback for a moment, he actually entered the mother's womb under such circumstances.

Soon he found the time Aaron said, he stepped in, it was a dark night, Aaron was decocting medicine with his back to himself, and Aaron was not so old at that time.He moved a little, and his body floated up, and he floated to the room where Jonny was lying. Jonny was breathing weakly at this moment, and got out of bed with difficulty, calling softly: "Aaron...I'm uncomfortable... "

His pale face was twisted into a ball due to the pain, and he walked towards the decoction room with difficulty, holding on to the wall, "Aaron...I'm in so much pain...I'm in so much pain..."

Abner looked at the little Jonny silently. If what Aaron said was true, then Jonny should already know his background at this time.

Johnny stood at the door and watched Aaron's back. After watching for a while, he turned around and walked back with difficulty step by step.When passing by the study room, he turned his head, glanced at it, then walked to the candlelight, stared at the book for a while, and turned to the catalog in front. The book "Five Hundred Kinds of Folk Ballads" is very similar. Jonny's little hand slid across the words on the catalog, and when he reached "Blood Relative Taboo", he paused and turned to that page.

Abner swallowed, the heart of the bloody forest was painted on it, and the words next to it were exactly the same as Aaron's notes:... If you suffer from the poison of blood, you will die short... Take the heart as medicine... Take it for 21 days... ...take the heart of your parents...

Jonny stared at the text closely. At this moment, there were footsteps in Aaron's decoction room. Jonny quickly turned the book back to the page Aaron was reading, and then hurried out clutching his heart. Just as he reached the door Just ran into Aaron.

"Master Johnny, you should rest on the bed." Aaron said softly.

Jonny nodded, and Aaron held the medicine bowl in one hand and helped Jonny back to the bed with the other.

"Aaron, what's wrong with me?" Johnny asked.

Aaron had a troubled expression on his face, "It's not a serious illness, just drink the medicine and you'll be fine."

Jonny took a sip of the medicine and murmured, "You always say that..."

With a complicated expression, Aaron stroked Jonny's head, "Master, you will be fine."

Jonny took another sip and nodded.

Jonny was drowsy after drinking the medicine, and Aaron stood by for a while, and soon the people from the Apocasserie family came to pick up Jonny and go back to sleep.

Aaron went back to the study and closed the book. Just as he picked up the book, his hands stopped, and he stared at the corner of the book for a while. A light red hair was caught in it. He sat back and opened it until the hair was caught. The page on the book was "Blood Relatives Taboo". He read it again and again, and then picked up another book beside the table. According to Abner, this book was exactly the one he found in the prison.

Aaron randomly opened the book and copied the passage about the taboo of blood relatives on this page.

Then lock the book.

Abner gasped and woke up from the womb.