caged robin

"Master Divine Bird! Wake up! Wake up! Don't scare us!!"

Abner woke up from the drowsiness, and had to admit that a large part of it was awakened.

He squinted his eyes and looked at the three faces in a daze: Vince with a serious face and frowning; Tommen with everything written on his face and chirping; accept.

He breathed a sigh of relief and finally came back.

"Give me a glass of water." His throat was dry and sore.

Keener hurriedly turned to pour water, while Wins took a damp cloth from Abner's forehead, and the water evaporated in the breeze, giving it a cool feeling.

"What's wrong with you?" Vince asked.

"What do you mean?"

"My lords, take a look at what you have been burnt to. We are really afraid that something will happen to you."

Only then did Abner feel his face was hot, needless to say it must be very red, he unbuttoned his shirt and found that his chest was slightly red.

"Lance..." The unfamiliar words still vibrated the eardrums.

"Damn it." Abner jumped up from the bed, pushed open the window next to the bed, and let the cold wind blow through the window. He didn't know why it was so hot.

It was only then that Wens realized that Abner's side face seemed to be a little bruised, and there was a terrible long gash left on his arm at some point, and his tone suddenly became softer, with endless apology: "Sorry, I didn't know it was so dangerous..."

"It's okay." Abner said, turned around, and returned to that casual look.

Abner took a sip of the water, smacked his lips exaggeratedly, and then smiled at Wen Si with a bit of schadenfreude.

Wen Si: "..." I suddenly understood ** in my heart.

Abner said: "Now you have two options. One, hold your head and ask the king to find the fire priest."

"There are two more?"

"Second, go find that ghost leopard, no no," Abner thought for a while, then continued, "Maybe it's a man."

Vince: "Man?"

"To be precise, it's a pervert."

"..."

"Sorry, I had some trouble with that pervert, and I don't know where he went afterwards. This time I will definitely not get involved, you can figure it out." Abner didn't want to be caught by that naked man Male restraint.

Vince watched him closely.

Being watched closely, Abner jumped out of bed and said furiously, "I'll help you find it at most."

Wen Si patted his head with satisfaction, "You rest."

Abner fell asleep until the sun was shining, and in the haze, Mr. Alvin came in to remind him twice. Facing the young master who hardly responded, he finally turned off the fencing class in the morning with a sigh.His father, Duke Apocasseri, was busy with business affairs early in the morning and had no time to take care of him.The Duchess seemed to have sneered outside the door, and Abner only went in his left ear and out his right ear.

Finally he felt that he had gotten enough sleep, took a hot bath, then changed out of his pajamas, put on a dark green robe, and went downstairs to look for something to eat while wearing slippers.

It was a little deserted downstairs, and the servants were all busy with their work at this time.Abner called a servant who seemed to be at ease to help him get some food from the kitchen.

"Is there anything you want to eat, Master?" the servant asked.

Abner waved his hand, "Just what's left in the morning, and a pot of mint tea."

"Of order." The servant left, and Abner glanced casually at his back. He was of medium height, a little strange, and he couldn't remember where he had seen him before.However, Abner was not too entangled. Anyway, there were only 30 of his father's bodyguards. There were also servants in charge of finances, preparations, and serving... Just those who were responsible for preparing the three meals included cooks, kitchen handymen, and bakers. Master, butcher, food chef, wine maker, sauce maker... He didn't bother to recognize it.

Abner's stomach was growling. He scratched his head and looked up to the third floor in boredom. He happened to meet the eyes of a young maid with an arrogant face. Meaning, then turned and walked towards the hostess' room.

"By the way, there is also the servant of 'Flaming Stork'." Abner looked at the maid and thought.

"The Flamingo" was Shaun's nickname for Abner's stepmother.At that time, the king was celebrating Sean's tenth birthday. Abner's father had not yet become the royal assistant, but Abner and Sean were already close partners. The Duchess wore an exaggerated cap on her red hair A hat with many pink feathers and rubies on it, a velvet skirt with taupe-colored embroidered white border, and an amethyst stone hanging around his neck.As soon as she saw Sean, she kissed him affectionately on his immature face, and sweetly presented him with a toy sword inlaid with black pearls and emeralds that she thought boys would like.

"How can you bear her enthusiasm?" Sean got rid of the crowd, and sat beside Abner with a dark face, and there seemed to be a faint smell of makeup on his body.

"I swear to all the kings, her own son, Jonny, has never been treated like you," Abner said.

Sean fiddled with the bulky toy sword in disgust, "I think it's for little sisters."

"Keep it well, at least it's worth 50 gold coins."

"She was like a 'flamingo' today," Sean said.

"what?"

"The flamingo."

Abner saw this beautiful and proud animal on the lawn of Earl Adair Caroline's manor, and couldn't help laughing.

"I was wondering how to address her." Abner smiled at Sean.

When the "flamingo" got married, he brought a large number of personal servants, from the personal servants, maids to dress servants, standing in a long row in a row.

Abner didn't like being touched by strangers, especially when he was taking a bath with a manservant holding a towel beside him, and he had to ask the manservant to help him undress when he was sleeping.He would rather sleep with a cat in his arms. Over the years, his "bed companions" have had raccoon cats and orange cats...but they were all sent away because of a feud with the bird.There is also the "big cat" who had only had a "one-night stand", which he found in the garden. Its appearance is somewhat different from ordinary cats, but he fell in love with that shiny black hair at a glance. When he hugged him on the bed, He vowed that if the big cat could stay, he could dismiss the "harem".

Of course he wants the black panther more. As a big cat lover, he has an unusual obsession with "big", "black" and "fluffy", and the giant black panther satisfies his desire for size, color and The highest imaginable touch...

God knows why he suddenly turned into a perverted naked man.

"Lance..." Abner suddenly remembered the deep whisper, and the eardrums vibrated slightly.

"Master, do you want to eat here or have it delivered to your room?" The well-trained voice of the servant interrupted his thoughts.

Abner knocked on the table, "Here it is."

The valet put the tray of food on the table, white bread, cheese, boiled eggs, mint tea, and a saffron tart.

"Isn't this Jonny's favorite food?" Abner asked.Jonny is his half-brother who likes egg tarts the most, so every morning he has to add an extra egg tart.

The servant bowed slightly, and replied: "Master Jonny has chest tightness this morning. Lord Aaron Ackerman prescribed medicine for him, and he is still resting." A frequent visitor to the Wang Fu Building in the Tower of Honor.

Abner thought of Jonny's thin and thin body, pale face, brown red hair and thin chin inherited from his mother, his voice was as thin as a mosquito ant, and he coughed without saying a word.He has been drinking medicine since he was in the womb, and the medicine he has drunk in the past 13 years is enough to circle the guard of honor tower.

"Is Jonny okay?" Abner asked the valet. He suddenly remembered that the valet was Jonny's personal valet. He dressed and undressed Jonny every day. Now that Jonny was resting, the servant was free. .

The servant smiled softly, "Thank you for your concern, Master. After taking the medicine, Master Johnny has stabilized. I'll go and see if he wakes up later."

Abner took a bite of the bread, pushed the egg tart aside, and said, "Bring this to him, I don't like it."

"Thank you, master." The servant put the egg tart back on the tray.

After eating and drinking, Abner went upstairs and returned to his room, and asked the servant to make another pot of mint tea and deliver it to the room.He pushed open the door and saw his feather bed, and the deep sleepiness hit him again. He rubbed his eyes, shook his head, and reminded himself that his father was coming back.

In order to make himself more energetic, he changed his loose pajamas into a daily suit, poured himself a cup of tea, sat by the window, basking in the sun and blowing the cool breeze, and stood on tiptoe to relax freely from the high fruit wood cabinet. He took out a book, which was an old "History of the Four Kingdoms".

"Damn it." He threw the book back in a hurry, by all kings, he could fall asleep reading it even when he was awake.

He touched it again, and it was the "Red Dragon Bible", and the ironic words of the chief historian Aubrey Fernando suddenly sounded in his ears, "It will be destroyed in a sea of ​​fire in the future".He frowned, if he hadn't heard this sentence in the performance of "Mockingbird", he really didn't know that this sentence came from the "Red Dragon Bible".So he was a little interested and opened it, but the densely packed words made him fear instantly. He had read it once under the persecution of his father. I just felt like reading a very strange fairy tale, so he chased his father and asked all kinds of questions, such as "Why did the red dragon save us?" "Which one will win the fight between the red dragon and the god?" How long is it?" "Who is the baby dragon's mother?"

"I don't know, you just need to carry it on your back, Ai Wen." The father was at a loss when he was questioned, and replied coldly.

Poor little Abner carried the book and memorized it for a long time, and he still had those weird questions in his mind. In the end, he could only memorize the first chapter. Fortunately, the dragon envoy didn't make any trouble every time he went to the minaret to pray. He, and later only let Abner symbolically say "serve my lord" twice and it was over.

Abner closed the book again, put it back, and continued to touch it. Every aristocrat in Silver Bow City must have three books in the bedroom, two of which are "History of the Four Kingdoms" and "Red Dragon Bible". It is said that there should be a copy of "The Proverbs of the Silver King".Legend has it that it was written by the builder of Silver Bow City, and no one knew his name, so he had to be called "Silver King".The book roughly starts from the agreement between the Four Kings and Chilong to the early construction of Silver Bow City, and finally ends with the Silver King saying "I will sleep under the city forever, and the people of Dragon Wing will live forever".Abner thought that this was the history book of Silver Bow City, and it was more vivid than "History of the Four Kingdoms".

Abner couldn't find it after groping for a long time. He only heard the chirping of birds outside the window. He turned around and saw a few gray field thrushes flying in, each holding a small note in its paws.He quickly took them down one by one, and took out the corn kernels from the cabinet and put them on the windowsill.

"Thank you, babies." Abner stroked a field thrush, and the field thrush affectionately pecked at the back of his hand, and then flew to eat corn kernels.

Abner unfolded a note with the simple word "not seen."

In the second one, I exchanged simple greetings for a while, and then wrote "I didn't see it", and finally said some comforting words.

The rest of the notes had similar meanings, and Abner sighed, and unfolded the last note without hope. His eyes widened in an instant, and he read it several times excitedly:

I saw it near Cloud Blood Desolation.

"Big or small?" Abner said to himself.

Cloud Blood Desolation is a small uninhabited island on the Wuxi Sea. The island is covered with red cloud blood flowers. From a distance, it looks like a sea of ​​blood, which is especially creepy. It is nominally within the scope of Silver Bow City. But in fact, no one has lived there so far, so there are very few records about the Cloud Blood Desolation.The king will send people to guard it symbolically, but the guards only live in the White Gull Tower near the Wuxi Sea, and they dare not approach the island for half a step. Just waking up every morning and seeing a sea of ​​blood is enough to torture people.Sean's uncle, Duke Nero Margeri, lived in the White Gull Tower before his death. He drank alcohol day and night, lost his mind, and finally died there.In short, apart from fishermen and guards, no one wants to set foot on the border of Silverbow City, which is always associated with wandering and death.

"What is the perverted leopard doing there?" Abner pondered.

"Dong dong." There was a sudden knock on the door.

Abner hurriedly put the note away, "Who?"

"Brother, I'm Johnny." A soft and small voice came from the crack of the door.

"come in."

Jonny is not alone, Jonny is held by his manservant, with a pale face and fluffy red hair, although he has just passed his 13th birthday, he looks only 10 years old, and in the arms of the manservant Dying.

"Brother, thank you for the egg tart you left me this morning. The nanny brought me a lot of grapes, and I want to give some to my brother." After speaking, Johnny took out the glass bowl in his arms, which was full of purple grapes.

Abner quickly took the grapes. The grapes were plump and covered with drops of water, and they were very attractive. After he said "thank you", he felt a little embarrassed.Because the Duchess was always standing in the middle, although he didn't dislike this skinny brother, he was still a little distant. Apart from giving each other presents on birthdays, there was almost no intersection.

Jonny broke the short silence first: "This is the grape of Cargallos, very sweet."

Abner ate one, it was indeed very sweet, peeled another one and handed it to Jonny, who said, "I've already eaten a few, Master Ackerman told me not to eat more."

Abner's hand froze.

"But I want to eat what my brother peeled." Johnny stretched out his upper body, wrapped his small mouth around Abner's fingers and grapes, swept his dexterous tongue over his sensitive finger pads, and then bit off the grapes. He straightened up, with squinted eyes, and smiled sweetly at Abner.

Abner had never thought Johnny was so cute, and he reached out to wipe off the residual juice from the corner of his mouth.

"Get well soon." Abner said from the bottom of his heart.

Jonny smiled and asked, "Can I play with my brother when I get better?"

"anytime."