After becoming a disciple of the Pope

The rising sun illuminates the new silvery white snow, which spreads all over the sky one after another. Overnight, the earth is covered with white snow, reminding people of the arrival of the new year.

Ye Shaoqing only slept in the latter part of the night, when the knock on the door woke him up from the bed, he wiped his face casually, and opened the door with his head on Xiaoji who refused to leave.

Not surprisingly, there were Mai Wei and the housekeeper standing outside the door, still wearing the solemn navy blue uniform, wearing a thick fur coat, with a faint blue eye, obviously they didn't sleep well after a busy night last night.

"President Mai, is Miss Mai alright?" Ye Shaoqing let him into the room, and the butler neatly pushed the breakfast cart in, serving the dishes in silence. The domineering and arrogance of yesterday was gone, replaced by apology and respect. .

"It's much better, she's still sleeping, and I didn't wake her up. Alas, I didn't expect such an accident to happen on the eve of the upcoming engagement. Hmph, if I find out that someone is behind the scenes, I won't let you down!" Mai Wei's eyes flashed After a bit of anger, he poured tea for Ye Shaoqing himself, calmed down quickly, and said, "Yesterday I sent someone to investigate overnight, and it was confirmed in the morning. Three days ago, we set off from the imperial capital to Fanzhou. Dahei didn’t come back all night, I don’t know where he went, and he ran back the next day. After returning, he was much quieter than usual. On the way, he either stayed with my daughter or stayed in the room. Nothing suspicious happened. .”

Ye Shaoqing rubbed his chin, frowned and said: "That is to say, the source is probably not here, but in the imperial capital?"

Mai Wei nodded: "I spent the whole night inspecting Dahei's body, and its crystal nucleus was indeed polluted, but the strange thing is that the traces of pollution are very different from the beasts infected with animal plague, not the kind Black, but light gray, and the crystal nuclei with animal plague will gradually be corroded and fragmented with the deepening of the pollution, and finally completely eroded, and the strange beast will die as a result, but the big black crystal nuclei are not corroded at all After it dies, the crystal nucleus can still be used normally."

"In other words, its situation is fundamentally different from that of animal plague. It is not animal plague at all!"

There was silence in the room.

After a while, Ye Shaoqing said: "The president suspects that the black wolf has encountered some kind of unknown vicious magic? It may even be a murder against you or your daughter?"

"Very likely!" Mai Wei gritted his teeth and nodded heavily. After a long time, he said again, "If so, although the possibility of a large-scale outbreak of animal plague is ruled out, in terms of contagion, the situation is equally bad. No, if someone is behind Manipulation, it may be even worse. I will immediately set off to return to the imperial capital and report this matter to the Central Holy See and His Majesty the Emperor."

Ye Shaoqing didn't express any opinion. As a little priest with a low voice, the people above would worry about such a big matter.

Mai Wei looked at him, suddenly changed the subject, and asked in a deliberate tone, "Excuse me for asking, Your Excellency's father doesn't know any job?"

Ye Shaoqing was silent for a while, then said: "Actually, I don't remember who my father is."

"Don't remember?" Mai Wei was stunned. He had already made many guesses last night, but he never expected that the other party would give such an answer.

"Yes, as long as I can remember, I stayed in a small remote town and had no relatives." Ye Shaoqing's eyes were far away, and there was a little melancholy in his daze, like a child who was sold to a ravine when he was a child and had been separated from his family for many years. Abducting children, Mai Wei and the housekeeper looked at him lovingly, their eyes full of sympathy and affection.

"It turned out to be so, poor child."

Mai Wei looked at him with concern, and asked: "Since you live in a remote town, how can there be a holy light in your body? With all due respect, all the children who have been blessed and awakened by the holy scepter over the past few decades are all They are the descendants of the famous nobles in the imperial capital, and I have never heard of them wandering outside."

The blessing of the scepter?Ye Shaoqing curled his lips, the scepter was in his head, but he pretended to be stupid to the end: "I don't know, it's naturally there."

"Could it be..." Mai Wei stared at him eagerly, his eyes were sometimes excited and sometimes puzzled, and he couldn't come to a conclusion after thinking for a long time.

Ye Shaoqing's eyes flickered slightly, and he suddenly asked something irrelevant: "President, have you heard the rumors that the Holy See has arrested any wanted criminals recently? What usually happens after they are arrested?"

"Wanted criminal?" Mai Wei frowned suspiciously, "If caught by the adjudicative court, the sentence will be executed according to the verdict after the trial. Why do you ask this?"

"Then, what about the alien beast?"

Mai Wei said: "If it is a dangerous beast judged to be extremely destructive, it should probably be executed on the spot."

Ye Shaoqing almost knocked over the water glass in shock, a chill came up from the back of his head suddenly.

Mai Wei looked at him in surprise: "What's wrong?"

"...It's okay." Ye Shaoqing lowered his eyelids, his fingertips felt cold for no reason.

Mai Wei smiled and said: "If your Excellency needs my help, please feel free to say it. Anyway, I also bear the name of the president, so I can still help a little."

"Thank you." Xiaoji squatted under the table and hugged the master's leg, Ye Shaoqing patted it on the head, suppressing the worries in his heart.

"By the way, I almost forgot one more thing." Mai Wei frowned, and cast a look at the butler. The latter understood, and immediately brought in a cage that had been prepared in advance. It was covered with a layer of black cloth to completely block it. up the light.

"This is?" Ye Shaoqing looked at it strangely for a while, but his perception was also blocked by the black cloth, so he couldn't guess what was inside.

"Your kindness, it's hard for Keke and I to repay it. Unfortunately, this time I went out hunting with my daughter to relax. I don't have anything worth giving away. This is a strange animal I caught in the hunting ground a few days ago. Beast, as a gift to Your Excellency, to express your heart. When you return to the imperial capital, please come and talk."

Under Mai Wei's signal, the butler slowly lifted the black cloth, revealing an exquisite semicircular birdcage, inside which squatted quietly a fiery red sparrow, with uneven feathers and an unremarkable appearance, with a pair of small black bean-like eyes , staring vigilantly at the stranger outside the cage.

Mai Wei said: "This bird looks like an ordinary cardinal, but the strange thing is, under my spiritual perception, I found that the bloodline is not a cardinal. Although its crystal nucleus is small, the spiritual force it emits is abnormal. Powerful, I think its parents are likely to be the combination of two different genera of birds, which gave birth to this mutated little guy, under normal circumstances, it is difficult to produce offspring from the combination of different genera and different species of birds."

"Mutation?" Ye Shaoqing squatted down in front of the cage, looked at the bird, stretched out a finger to poke through the gap in the cage, it boldly leaned over, looked at Ye Shaoqing and looked at the finger again, opened its mouth and pecked !

"... Hiss." Ye Shaoqing's eyelids twitched, and he suddenly felt that Xiaoji was much cuter than this guy.

Mai Wei couldn't help laughing, he laughed a few times and said, "I originally planned to take it back to Haosheng for an appraisal, to determine its grade and type, but it seems to be quite repulsive to my spiritual power, and it will never let me approach it. After so many years as a teacher, this is the first time I have met such a stubborn little guy. Looking at it now, it might like you more."

"... Bite me if you like it?" Ye Shaoqing shook his head helplessly.

Xiaoji, lying on top of his head, stared wide-eyed, raised his tail upright as if meeting a natural enemy, uttered a provocative growl at the caged bird in a very unfriendly manner, grabbed Ye Shaoqing's head tightly with his limbs, Like a kitten protecting food.

The little bird turned its head away to show its disdain.

"It doesn't have a name yet, so come up with one."

Ye Shaoqing gave up his strength, pulled Xiaoji from his forehead, plowed his messy hair, and said without thinking, "Since it's a bird, let's call it a sparrow."

sparrow:"……"

Xiaoji covered his stomach with a muffled laugh, and threw himself to the side of the cage, stretched out his paws to tease it, a small one, much younger than Xiaoji, and seemed harmless except for pecking.

The big devil has rolled the ball, and finally there is a newcomer who can bully him, taste what it's like to be the boss!

Thinking about it this way, it doesn't seem so unbearable for the master to have one more spirit beast.

Then, Xiaoji found that the claw that he stretched in was bald.

Xiaoji: "...Aw?!!!"

Throwing out the last feather, the sparrow fluttered its wings nonchalantly, its sharp beak shone with a metallic luster under the light, Ye Shaoqing finally knew why Mai Wei said that this guy liked her better, and where the beak pierced was not a big hole ? !

My fingers didn't even scratch the oily skin, what a true love!

Ye Shaoqing hugged the aggrieved and weeping Xiaoji in a dumbfounded way, and stretched out his hand to the sparrow again. The invisible spiritual power surged, tentatively rushing towards its sea of ​​consciousness, his fingers lightly flicked out the engraved runes in the air, he now Both mental power and control are not what they used to be, and the time to perform the engraving technique has been greatly shortened.

The sparrow struggled slightly, and after feeling the holy light in the depths of the other party's gentle spiritual power, it gradually calmed down, allowing him to engrave a spiritual imprint smoothly.

The brilliance of the engraving technique gradually dissipated as the imprint fell completely, and a pinch of feathers on the sparrow's forehead began to grow gradually, and finally formed a fan-shaped crown feather, which was bright red.

With two clicks, the little sparrow bit off the two bars of the birdcage without changing expression, flew out as if nothing had happened, landed on Ye Shaoqing's shoulder, and yelled a few times in protest at Xiaoji.

Xiaoji drooped his ears, and immediately became more melancholy.

Mai Wei noticed his engraving technique and had new doubts about his identity.But he didn't ask any more questions, but asked the butler to hand over a scarlet invitation card.

"It will be my daughter's engagement banquet in the near future, please be sure to honor me at that time."

Ye Shaoqing thought that if Yezheng was really caught, he might have to ask President Mai for help, so he agreed.

He opened the invitation, and saw that there were two big characters written in the line of the groom's name——Ye Ke.

Seeing this name suddenly, Ye Shaoqing felt a sudden palpitation as if a bullet had passed through his heart.

He confirmed that he didn't know this person, but what happened to the sense of familiarity that came over his face?

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