Twilight War

07

Early morning, Collins.

Mendun got up early to prepare for morning exercises, but as soon as he walked to the gate, he saw Huang Xuanjin leaning against the gate in the morning mist.

Huang Xuanjin was wearing a thin windbreaker, with half of his body leaning against the carved iron gate, looking a little sleepy.

It's only six o'clock in the morning, so it stands to reason that this guy should not be able to sleep on the black tower.

"Little Jhin? What do you need from me?" Mendun opened the door and asked with some doubts.

"Ah...?" He opened his eyes, looked at Montuel blankly, then lowered his head and thought for a while and said, "I'm looking for General Jiang De."

"What are you looking for with my brother?" Mendun led Huangxuan Jin up the steps, turned around and asked him.

"The queen asked me to come." Huang Xuanjin said without energy.

Montor knocked on the door, and a middle-aged man's voice came from inside, "Please come in."

After Huang Xuanjin walked into the door, General Jiangde raised his head and glanced at him, and then said to Mendun, "Go out for morning exercises first."

"Okay." Menton scratched his head, closed the door, and looked back and forth between the two faces several times as he left.

"Young Master Huangxuan, please sit down." The man had eagle-like eyes, and he raised his hand to signal Huangxuan Jin to sit opposite him.

General Jiangde's hand has distinct joints, and it can be seen that it is the hand holding the gun.

"You don't need to be called Young Master Huangxuan now." Huangxuan Jin said with a light smile, sitting opposite General Jiangde, "As you can see, I'm just a Donghuang thief living under the fence."

"For those who have never seen the Huangxuan family back then, nor the young master Huangxuan who was wearing brocade clothes and holding a sword, the young master is naturally just a stranger living in a foreign land. But the feast of the kings back then Afterwards, I saw the young master’s heroic appearance and the Jiangnan Huangxuan family with my own eyes. And I also personally experienced that war—the Second Twilight Battle.”

The title of Young Master Huangxuan is his respect for the Huangxuan family and that young man back then.

"Why did the young master come here this time?" General Jiang De asked.

"Three days later is the day when I will be officially awarded the rank of major general. Before that, there will be a communion feast, and eleven important ministers of the House of Lords will attend, including the general. Does the general know what will happen at the communion feast?"

General Jiang De looked at Huangxuan Jin and said nothing.

Huang Xuanjin didn't care about General Jiang De's silence, but went on to say: "The Marquess of Buckingham will not let me become a major general, and there are many people in the House of Lords who don't like me. They will propose when the Holy Communion is held. Oppose, as long as six people object, I will not be able to be the major general."

"The young master wants me to stand by your side?" General Jiang De said, staring at the young man sitting in front of him, his eyes were like vigilant eagles.

"I don't need you to be my accomplice, I just want you to keep silent." Huang Xuanjin said.

"Young master, silence is already standing in line." General Jiangde shook his head and said.

He has respect for Huang Xuan Jin, but he is a politician after all.

He became the patriarch of Jiangde's family at the age of 20, and drawing a sword for a little loyalty is not something he would do.

"Who else will stand by the young master now?"

"I don't know, the general was the first person I visited."

"The game is about to start, the young master doesn't even know his chips?" Jiang De said as if he felt a little ridiculous.

"Because I will bet on all the chips, so there is no need to be clear." Huang Xuanjin raised his head and looked at General Jiangde, with white mountains and black waters in his eyes.

Most of the time, the boy seemed to be awake. Even for such an important matter today, he was not very energetic.

He obviously came here to ask for help, to ask General Jiangde to help him, but he looked alienated from the world.It seems that he has to seriously think about how to get along with this world and get along with others before he wakes up.

But once he got serious, he reminded people of that woman back then, so bright that she was almost sharp.

Gold leaf roses, beauty can also hurt people.

"Then what can you give me? Once you choose to stand on the young master's side, it means breaking with those old nobles." General Jiangde said.

Huang Xuanjin thought about it, and then spread his hands: "I haven't thought about it."

"But I thought about it seriously just now, and it seems that I really have nothing to give the general right now."

General Jiangde couldn't help laughing. In all these years, he has never seen such a naive or stupid person as Huang Xuanjin in politics.That boy would run to watch the dusk and eat bread by himself while everyone was negotiating.

Perhaps with his IQ, he should have gnawed on his own bread with peace of mind, standing in a quiet place in the eye of the storm in a daze alone.

But now, he was about to walk into the most violent part of the storm.

The bread in his hand was about to be rolled away!

Thinking of this, General Jiang De suddenly laughed again, he wondered if that boy would foolishly chase after his own bread.

He would still stay where he was wronged, watching the bread being blown further and further away.

"Young master, please go back." General Jiang De immediately started to drive away the guests. "You haven't told me yet, will you stand by my side?" Huang Xuanjin asked with a frown.

"Since the young master has decided to go all out, why should he care about the chips."

After Huangxuanjin left, Mendun walked into the room and sat on the sofa, "Brother, what were you talking about just now?"

"About the major general of the empire." General Jiang De said.

"Her Majesty won't really want that guy to be a major general." Mendall said with a look of surprise.

"He, he..." Montuel held back for a long time and said, "He is an idiot! There is something wrong with his mind!"

"Monton, I told you. After the second twilight battle, the northern border was blocked for half a year. Because in that battle, we failed to stop the invasion of alien beasts in the land of Fenbul, Those alien beasts broke through our defense line, and almost all the civilians in the northern border died after the blockade."

Montuel nodded, "I've read the records of that war. It was indeed tragic, but there was nothing we could do about it. The military has done its best."

"No, we didn't try our best." General Jiang De said suddenly, a little tear seemed to glisten in his hawk-like eyes.

Shame, remorse, anger.

He closed his eyes and seemed to still be able to see the corpses everywhere they saw after they withdrew to the northern border, and the strange beasts biting human flesh.

"Because on the eastern defense line, a general defended their Great Wall with only 20 people. And there is the real battlefield. What they are facing is a herd that is several times that of the Westland. But they used 20 people to defend their Great Wall. People have kept what our 70 people have not kept..."

Mendun looked at General Jiangde in a daze. He had never heard his brother mention these things.

He knew that his elder brother had been unable to sleep at night since the war, patrolling the corridor late at night, but he never knew that his elder brother had been hiding these things.

"That general is Huang Xuan Jin."

General Jiang De said.

Death of Colonel Ghost, Assassination of Rosicrucian Church, Feast of Kings, Attack in Fire, Rebellion in Blood Sand, Second Battle of Twilight.

What that young man has experienced and achieved is enough to be remembered in history and remembered as a hero. It's a pity...he is Huangxuan Jin.

"You should be ignorant. The boy in Xilu became an adult at the age of 19, and the boy has already left the stage before you have stepped on the stage." General Jiangde said.

"You go out first, I want to be alone for a while."

After Montuel left, the man sat on the chair alone, looking out the window at the blue-purple sky in the morning.

He lowered the curtains, picked up a bottle of wine from the liquor cabinet, and poured five glasses of wine on the table.

At the end of that second twilight battle, he chose to retreat.

Preserving combat power is what a general should do.

But in the end, four of his servants died, in the villages in the north.

He felt that he had done nothing wrong and that he had something to give.He is a politician and a general.

But later he heard that a boy from Donghuang defended the Great Wall with 20 people.

He felt ridiculous, how could it be possible.

He wondered how that boy did it.

But he dared not ask.

Bloody, slaughtered villages.He shouldn't be so incompetent.

"Is this your art of war?" The man in the dark said: "Don't look at how many chips you have, just bet everything."

08

Two days later, Holy Rose Palace.

A row of maids walked into the dressing room behind the curtain with gorgeous trays. Isabel was picking out embroidery designs while holding sugar-coated raspberries on the tray with her fingers.

"That's it, um... this style is also good, show me here." Isabel said.

Huangxuan Jin struggled out from the pile of silk, breathing heavily, "Sister, let's not do it."

"You can lose your face, but you can't lose your face!" Isabel said firmly: "Come on, you can change these, and that kid Andre will come back for the Holy Communion. I will never allow him to surpass me in handsomeness." Brother's."

"Sister, have you already given up on me?" Huang Xuanjin said while leaning on the beauty's couch.

"It's not a question of giving up or not, but I won't give up. Do you think there may be six ministers on your side?" Isabel looked at Huangxuan Jin with a look of hatred.

"In this case, why did you announce at the banquet that you would make me a major general? Have you forgotten that since your ancestors signed the Magna Carta, the Vannes royal family has already said nothing?"

"For a while, the lights at the banquet were shining. As a queen, I can't do anything earth-shattering. Who would have thought that the Marquess of Buckingham would actually dare to unite with all the ministers to resist me. But it is, after all, I am withdrawing this time. Losing the cardinal is indeed a threat to them, and they are probably doing their last resistance!"

"You can just find a way to withdraw the Magna Carta, and regain the power and glory you deserve." Huangxuan Jin smiled treacherously, like a jester or eunuch who whispered in his ears, "All this should have been done. It's all yours!"

"No." Isabel shook her head.

"why?"

"In the long run, the Magna Carta is good for Varna. It limits the monarch's private rights and desires, and rights cannot be attributed to one person after all."

"Have you ever seen snow?" Isabel asked suddenly.

"of course."

"But when you just stand in the atrium of the Holy Rose Palace and look at the snow outside through the huge floor-to-ceiling windows. You will feel that this snow has nothing to do with you." Isabel looked out the window, as if watching Gullweger Square with falling snow.

"You can see the snow falling, and you can see the whiteness everywhere. But you can't feel the coldness of the snow, and you can't see the snow melting slowly when it falls on your hands."

"This snow has nothing to do with you."

"The royal family has stayed in this huge palace for a long time, and their life is only this palace. They can see the snow falling outside the window, but for them, Xueluo only has the romance of falling, without the cold and melting."

"So, Vanner needs more people, more people at the top of power, people who come across Gullweger's square, they will understand the cold outside."

"In the future, there will be more people in this palace. Those people have seen the muddy and dirty snow on Queen's Road, seen the frozen snow in the north, seen people who froze to death in the snow, seen A bird flying through the snow."

"The royal family split their rights, so Varna saw more."

"In general, what do you want to express?" Huang Xuanjin looked at Isabel and asked with a frown.

"What I want to say is that the "Magna Carta" still has its necessity, because not every monarch is like me - wise and powerful."

Isabelle said with a smile.

"Okay, then my wise and mighty sister, are you planning to give up on me?" Huangxuan Jin, who was piled up in a pile of clothes, asked.

"Actually, yes." Isabel nodded.

"Your Majesty, His Excellency Flamel asked me to deliver a letter to His Excellency Huangxuan." The waiter outside the door said suddenly.

Isabel took the letter and tore open the envelope.

There is only one sentence on one side.

—— Willing to serve you.

The paper was stamped with the Flamel family crest.

Huang Xuanjin was stunned, he couldn't remember what relationship he had with Flamel.

He took the letter and remembered the man sitting in the corner at the funeral of the old man in the mechanical junkyard.

The family crest she wears is exactly the same as the seal on the paper.

The old man spent the rest of his life doing nothing, and when he died, he left nothing behind.

But in the end, he left such a gift for him.

Huang Xuanjin laughed, not knowing why.

He covered his face, smiled but felt tears streaming down his face.

Obviously, he never cried at the funeral.

09

Corinthian suburbs.

Mrs. Habsburg got up very early today, and the old man usually slept very little, but Mrs. Habsburg usually slept very late before getting up.

Anna looked at Mrs. Habsburg sitting in front of the dressing table in surprise.

"Take out the Cincinnati I put in the cupboard, I'm going to wear it today," said Mrs. Habsburg.

"Ma'am? Are you going to a banquet? But haven't all the recent invitations been pushed back?"

"It's going to a dinner party without an invitation letter." Madam said looking at herself in the mirror.

Anna didn't seem to understand what Mrs. Habsburg meant.

"Isn't being an uninvited guest the funnest thing?" Mrs. Habs smiled mischievously and said, "Of course, teasing a cat is also fun."

Anna entrusted the gorgeous Xianxi diamond, which was once worn by the monarch of Vana on the crown, and was later mortgaged to the Medici family in the southern principality due to Vana's financial problems.

After that, no one saw this diamond for a hundred years, until 40 years ago, the head of Medici gave this diamond to his daughter.

So the eldest daughter of the Medici family married the young master of the Habsburg family wearing this world-famous Xianxi diamond.

And now she was going to wear this diamond to attend a banquet that did not send her an invitation letter.

On the streets of Corinth, gorgeous carriages run along the main road.

It was an old-fashioned four-wheeled carriage, and it could only be used on the widest main road, because people riding in such a carriage should not go to any narrow streets.

They only travel on their way to the grandest banquets, to meet the sovereign and the old nobles.

In the carriage, Mrs. Habsburg kept her eyes on her.

The bank of the Medici family should have sent the bank transaction numbers and arrears slips of several ministers to the mansions of those ministers by now.

The transaction of the Silver of the Abyss is not limited to the former Cardinal Gregory.And since Gregory's fall, life has not been easy for them.Once there is a gap in the running funds, the whole thing will collapse.

But she is old and kind-hearted after all.

Along with those sent over was an interest-free bill and a gold card from the Medici Bank.

Huangxuan Jin leaned against the pillar outside the palace, and everyone at the banquet had already taken their seats.

When Aquinas passed by him, he put a bishop's rose in his palm.

He didn't know who would be on his side, but it was probably uncertain.

He extinguished the cigarette in his hand and prepared to sit down.But he saw a gorgeous carriage approaching outside the door.

The door embroidered with oriental embroidery was opened by the waiter, and Mrs. Habsburg in purple stepped on the carriage, then looked up at him, "Come and help me, an old thing?"

"It's been a long time since I last came here." Mrs. Habsburg took the boy's arm and walked into the dimly lit corridor, like a godmother holding her dear godson.

The light from the long, narrow window on the side of the corridor fell on the two of them.

The glass on the long windows is still stained glass from centuries ago, and the mottled light and shadow fall on the ground, like a sacred monastery.

"Is Madam the only one here?" Huang Xuanjin asked.

"Of course. In my house I have my say," said Mrs. Habsburg.

"Won't Herr Habsburg resist?"

"What can he do if he refuses to give in? Last time we had a cold war for a long time over whether to go to the garden or go to the strip party on Sunday, but in the end he gave in."

"No way, who told me to hide his dentures."

"Finally you can go to the garden on Sunday forever." Huangxuanjin said.

"No, we can go to the strip party every Sunday.

"Why did Madam come here today?"

Mrs. Habsburg said after a long time: "I had a cat before, and it would not compete with other cats for food. But this cat is the most vicious in protecting food."

"I just came here today to see how you protect your things."

10

Meanwhile, the Habsburg mansion.

Mr. Habsburg sat at the empty table.

"Why nothing?"

"The chef was pulled over by his wife to drive," said the housekeeper.

"What about Anna?"

"He was taken away by his wife."

"Where are the other servants?"

"I was sent by my wife to deliver a letter."

The door at the end of the corridor of the Holy Rose Palace was opened by a waiter, and red candles were burning in the palace.

Madame Habsburg stared straight ahead as she recited verses from the Chinu beside the boy.

"—From then on, all the doors in front of you are opened for you, your path is unimpeded, and no one can stop you anymore."