The King's Follower [Rebirth]

"May Orgunra's love for you grow day by day, may he bless you with countless happy years, so that no sorrow and darkness can touch your robes, and may joy and peace remain in your heart forever. May your mercy Chanting with Yingming on the continent where Orgonla walked, may your subjects love you forever, may..."

The valets in the room had already started to snicker. Although they didn't laugh out loud, they all pursed their lips and exchanged glances, and then continued to look at the new valet standing in front of Edward, the youngest son of the Duke of Shiring, 13 The year-old Matthew Sutherland greeted Edward in a hymn-like manner with obscure grammar and flowery rhetoric.

Edward rubbed his temples tiredly. He was disturbed by the king's beating last night. He knelt by the altar and prayed for two hours, but he couldn't fall asleep again. When he woke up this morning, he felt dizzy.Now he has to cheer up to deal with this new little servant who has long had a grudge with Matthew, for fear that the two children will not deal with it at the first sight.

Although the Duke of Xialing does not belong to the eighth-level powerhouse with only a few hundred people, he also has a seventh-level intermediate level. After that, the Duke of Shiring left the army and became a businessman. He has a sensitive nose and can smell the slightest opportunity to smell money. In less than 20 years, he became the richest businessman in the entire empire. , almost about to control the country's economic lifeline, but fortunately, he knows what a big tree attracts the wind, and gives more than half of the opportunity to make money to the country, thus preserving the safety of the Sutherland family and the status of the number one consortium in the empire. Also got the post of Minister of Finance.

Just like what Elizabeth said to William last night, if the two children had a dispute, Edward really didn't know who to speak for. What's more, it was impossible for the king to arrange Matthew by William's side just to let He learned how to get along with people who didn't like him but had to work with him. He probably hoped that William and Matthew could become friends.

The eldest son of Duke Shiling, the biggest profiteer in the empire, is the complete opposite of Duke Shiring. The Duke's heir is more interested in fighting than money, and has made up his mind to stay in the army and become an officer.Matthew inherited his father's profiteering nature. When he was five years old and playing house with other children at home, he would fool his friends into playing the game of merchant and customer, and deceive other children with his own pastries and drinks pocket money in your pocket.In the future, the eldest son of the Duke of Shiring will inherit the duke title, Shiring Castle, ancestral antiques and land under the Duke's name, but Matthew will inherit the most meaningful assets of the Duke of Shiring, which is the Duke's assets in the business world and connections, and his genius money-making mind.This is what the king values ​​most.

After two hours of prayer and a night of rest, Edward has broken free from the fear and worry of last night. He knows that his loyalty is firm and sincere, and he will never betray the Lancaster family. You need to pay attention to your own words and deeds, and the sense of distance happens to be what he is best at. As a crown prince, he can never get too close to anyone, including the valet who grew up with him for more than ten years, and William is just a special accident.

He has more important things to care about now, and that is how to ease the relationship between the two children.The king talked about letting William learn to deal with it himself, but the actual meaning is probably to let Edward use his status as the crown prince to mediate.It's not that he hasn't dealt with conflicting servants before, but that's mostly reprimanding, and it certainly can't be the case for William and Matthew.

At this time, Matthew had finished reciting the long lines, and saluted William in a standard manner, then looked at William standing next to Edward, and gave him a look of complacency and contempt.

William snorted, thinking of Elizabeth's instructions, he didn't say anything more, but moved a little closer to Edward's direction, bent slightly to Edward's ear and asked in a moderate voice: "Your Highness, would you like Do you want tea?"

Edward wasn't thirsty at all, but he could see that William was demonstrating to Matthew, so even if he didn't want to drink tea, he couldn't refuse William's kindness, hurt his self-esteem, and make him lose face in front of Matthew, but he couldn't be too Leaning towards William, Matthew felt that he didn't like him, and said: "Okay, thank you, William. Matthew, please sit down, I think you must be thirsty too, Elizabeth, please pour Matthew a glass Tea."

William didn't ask anyone to help him, and poured a cup of tea himself to Edward's hand, while Matthew, who had already taken the teacup from Elizabeth, took a sip of tea and said with a smile: "This marlena black tea The taste of the tea is really wonderful, the taste of the Malina black tea in my father's space is not as good as that in your Highness's place, the fruity flavor in your black tea is more mellow, I don't know which sub-orc space it came from."

If Matthew is an adult, this kind of gentle smile, this kind of elegant and standard tea drinking action, and this kind of polite compliment will make him look extraordinarily personable and win the favor of many sub-orcs.But he is not yet an adult, sitting on a chair, his feet can't touch the ground, his face is full of chubby baby fat, and his slightly high pitch turns his cadence into a child's exaggerated recitative performance, obviously I want to imitate the adult's mature way of socializing, but in the end there is only cuteness left. The sub-orc servants in the room finally couldn't help laughing. There are a few older orc servants, although they don't look taller than Matthew How much, but I have seen a lot of things in these years. When I think back to the funny appearance of a child pretending to be an adult, I turn my head away and stop watching Matthew's exaggerated performance.

Edward did not laugh at him, and replied calmly: "The black tea comes from the wife of the female general Wen Xiao. She used to serve in the church. The black tea produced in her space has the effect of strengthening the body. Since you have become my valet, I will drink this tea often in the future.”

No matter how old Matthew is, he is still an underage child. He was very nervous when he heard the laughter of the other servants. Fortunately, Edward was still very gentle and kind to him. The gentle and friendly smile on the crown prince's face made him feel more relaxed. .Edward asked him some more questions, comforted him a few words, and asked someone to take him to see his room, explain the duties of a valet, and then took William to continue to attend the king's business.

Matthew jumped down from the chair, bowed and sent Edward out. When he straightened up, he saw William who turned his head, and the latter hooked the corner of his mouth at him, opened his mouth silently, and said with mouth: " Posture! Coward!"

Matthew was so angry that he almost rushed to beat him.That day in the palace, he was beaten so helplessly by William, he was so frightened by a small wound that he thought he was going to die, and he hid in his father's arms crying and making noise. When the children met him, they would tease him with this incident first.He has been tortured by these "humiliations" in the past few days, and he is "worse than death". As soon as his injury heals, he clamors to report to the crown prince. revenge.

Calm down, Matthew Sutherland.he said to himself.Time is still long, just wait and see!

Antonio was left in the capital by Edward, so the crown prince lost another valet.This time, the king didn't compete with the queen any more, and he had to be relaxed in everything he did, and he couldn't just press on blindly. It wasn't the time to tear himself apart with these potential traitors, so he couldn't leave the queen alone.

So the queen was satisfied and left the unexpectedly vacated position to a young sub-orc in the Ablos family, August Ablos, whose orc father was the queen's brother and the queen's father Palma. The Duke's heir, August, is one year younger than Edward and is Edward's cousin. He didn't go out often because of his poor health.

August is very beautiful, extremely feminine and handsome, with exquisite features but not stingy, slender but not weak, but he was in poor health and was a little thin. Apart from that, he can hardly pick out any flaws. He has fair skin and hair It is very pale gold, and wearing a white robe embroidered with golden dark patterns, it looks like the servant god serving Orgonla in the murals, standing in Edward's room, radiant, Lian Ya The orcs couldn't look away.His eyes are slender and long, perhaps he inherited the blood of the silver fox from his sub-orc mother's family. Edward always felt that he looked a bit like a fox, lurking in the dark with a gloomy temperament, the corner of his mouth Always with a smile that looks soft but actually cunning.

Edward was a little uncomfortable with the arrival of his cousin August. Of course, the biggest reason was because he was a member of the Ablos family. Besides, he remembered that in his last life, his cousin would be in the He died two years later, and the last queen arranged beside him was another orc cousin. That orc cousin was only one month younger than Edward. , Even if you can't get married, you can get a lot of benefits from being the crown prince's lover.Moreover, Edward vaguely remembered that although August died in an accident on the surface, according to the news circulating in the aristocratic circle, August was actually forced to death by several adult orcs. In retaliation, he forcibly broke into and tore his space, causing him severe mental trauma, and died after two days of emergency treatment in the hospital.

A person who will die in an extremely miserable way two years later is standing in front of your eyes. No matter which family he is from, Edward will feel a little weird, but thinking about his last life, he only lived longer than this child It's only been four years, and Edward is relieved again. This child will stay by his side in this life, and he will never meet those gangsters again.But no matter how pitiful his background was, he was also a member of the Ablos family, and he was the nail placed by the queen by his side, so he had to guard against it.

Throughout midsummer and June, Edward took William to the king's council every day during the day, and took him to various social activities in the evening, so that he could see the world.Because of the king's warning, Edward made up his mind to keep an appropriate distance between the monarch and his subjects with William, but now he is the king and William is the subject, and the status between the two will not be reversed until William becomes an adult.

Edward's estrangement made William very distressed. He suspected that Matthew's arrival distracted Edward's concern, but Edward did not touch Matthew's head, and his smile was still warm and friendly to himself. This made William feel better, but it was more serious. Desperately learning etiquette and aristocratic accents.He didn't know that his biological father was the culprit, but he simply thought that the crown prince would like him more if he was better.

William's foundation was too poor, the king specially arranged several tutors for him, and then returned to Somerset with Edward.The queen had a headache because of the king's special treatment of the illegitimate child. Fortunately, because Edward was worried about August, he took him by his side every day, pretending to love his cousin, which made the queen bear it. .

Soon, the midsummer holiday in June was over, and Edward had to leave the palace and return to his fief.The king held balls for the crown prince for three days in a row.On the first day of July, the king and queen personally sent the crown prince away from the gate in the east of the capital. The long convoy and escort stretched for several kilometers, and rows of blue flags embroidered with the royal family's emblem were flying There was a hunting sound, very imposing.

Edward kissed the two His Majesties goodbye, and got into the carriage amidst the cheers and praises of the people. Following an order, the convoy began to move forward slowly and embarked on the return journey.

The speed of the return trip was as slow as when he came, but the slow speed when he came to the capital was Edward's intentional delay, and the slow speed when he returned had another reason.

"Why can't we go back by flying beast?" William asked, "These one-horned winged horses fly so fast, Somerset is not very far from the capital, we can fly there in two days."

"Oh, Your Excellency William, do you think His Royal Highness the Crown Prince is those ordinary civilians who are busy on their way?" Matthew said in a strange tone.Ever since he came to Edward's side, it seems to be to show the difference between himself and William, Matthew always speaks in such an exaggerated way, and there is a stubbornness in Matthew's character, even if he knows he is wrong , but also to make mistakes.On the first day, he was ridiculed because of this pretentious way of speaking and acting. Not only did he not restrain himself, but he became even more flamboyant.Edward was very troubled by this. He decided to ask a valet who had a good relationship with the Sutherland family to have a good talk with Matthew. wrote.

William ignored him at all, but looked up at Edward sitting beside him: "Why, Your Highness?"

"Because His Highness is the Crown Prince of the Cuthbert Empire, His Majesty the future King." August, who was sitting on the other side of Edward, said, "His Highness will appear in front of his subjects from time to time, to show them the respected status and dignity of the royal family. The noble and heroic appearance of the crown prince, only when they are familiar with their own ruler, understand the strength of the monarch, and be subdued by the royal demeanor, will the subjects dedicate their loyalty to the Lancaster family and believe that the crown prince has the ability not to wear it on his head. His crown is dusted with dust."

Sure enough, soon, when the crown prince's convoy passed through the forest outside the capital Leman and arrived at the first town, the people in the whole town put down their work and crowded on both sides of the road, admiring the mighty power of the crown prince. The intimidating Guards and the presence of the Crown Prince himself.

The orcs of the crown prince's guards are male orcs on the left, and female orcs on the right. The male orcs are tall, strong, and handsome, and the female orcs are bumpy, tall, and charming. They wear shiny armor , straddling the backs of lion-headed dragon-body winged beasts wearing battle robes embroidered with the royal emblem, leather tights and knee-high boots wrap their shapely and slender legs, and armor hats are decorated with Red feathers, the armor on the upper body is inlaid with a double-petalled white camellia carved with crystals on the chest, which is the national flower of the Cuthbert Empire, Catherine Camellia, and the armor of the female orc is even more plump. tempting.

"Long live Prince Edward! Long live Lancaster! Long live His Majesty the King!" The crowd on both sides of the road cheered loudly, throwing flowers, herbs and handkerchiefs with their names embroidered on the officers of the Guards.Some officers caught the handkerchief, put it on their lips, kissed it and threw it back. The female orcs would smear their lips red, and the handkerchief was printed with lip prints. For this kind of handkerchief with lip prints, the sub-orcs almost huddled together .

The guards of the king, queen and crown prince have always gathered handsome men and beautiful women. Although Cuthbert is extremely protective of marriage and legitimate children, and tries his best to suppress illegitimate children and those who destroy marriages, he is not pedantic and conservative. In fact, the folk customs are quite open. There are many sub-orcs who are willing to have a good time with these officers of the Guards because of their admiration. As long as there are no scandals about illegitimate children and private life, a beautiful love affair is actually quite memorable and enviable in private. good thing.If the crown prince's convoy arrived at the town in the evening, I'm afraid that by the time the crown prince's convoy left the next day, all the orcs in the town would have been slept by the crown prince's guards.But speaking of it, no one can tell whether the orcs took advantage of the sub-orcs who were sent to the door for free, or whether the sub-orcs in the town just played with these high-quality high-level orcs that were not usually available.

Edward asked people to pull the curtains on the carriage window, opened the window, and waved to the people outside.The people cheered Edward's name and shouted long live. Precious flowers and herbs rushed towards the Crown Prince's carriage as if free of money, and fell into the Crown Prince's carriage.

William was hit in the face by a rose, startled, and whispered: "Your Highness, this is too dangerous! What if someone throws a blasting scroll into the carriage?"

"If the people loved me sincerely, they wouldn't assassinate me, but if they think I'm not qualified to be crown prince and sit on the throne, then I deserve to be assassinated." Edward said earnestly, "The ruler must dare to put his own Life is in the hands of the people, and the hearts of the people are a sword hanging above your head. The other end of the rope tied to the hilt is in your own hand. If you relax, you will inevitably usher in the end of perdition. "

William nodded thoughtfully.August glanced at William, then at Edward, covered up an unexplained smile at the corner of his mouth, and turned to look at the people outside the window.

Several children caught up with the carriage and looked into the carriage. When they saw Edward, they quickly took off their hats and shouted as they ran, "May Orgunra bless you! Your Royal Highness!"

"May Olgonla bless you too." Edward said with a smile.

"Ah! The crown prince is talking to me!" The child screamed in a fuss, and continued to run after the carriage, waving at Edward more vigorously, or trying to hand flowers to the crown prince himself.

Edward asked people to take out the gold coins he had prepared long ago, and threw them out of the window one by one.This kind of rich and friendly behavior is very popular with everyone, and the money is all the crown prince's own money, and the taxpayers' taxes are not used.

Amid the cheers of the crowd and the rain of flowers and herbs, the Crown Prince's motorcade left the town and continued on its way.

A magic circle that expands the space is engraved in the carriage. This kind of magic circle requires a lot of magic spar to maintain energy. For ordinary people, it is better to buy another carriage, so only rich people can afford such a magic circle. All Edward's valets were more than sufficient.The journey was long and boring. Some of the servants were playing cards in the corner, and some were riding horses outside. The active orcs turned into animal shapes and ran with the convoy. Anyway, they would rest at the post station at night to wash and change clothes.

However, Edward did not let William go out. He called the teacher assigned to William by the king into the car and asked him to give William a general introduction to the history of the country, the current international situation in Salman Continent, the diplomatic situation between countries, and common sense of the country's laws.William listened to Edward very much, studied hard, and was not lazy. In addition, he had a clever mind. When he entered the gate of Drey Town, the capital of Somerset, he could already recite Cuthbert fluently. The names of the royal families, kings and queens of the past dynasties, their achievements in power, decrees promulgated and political mistakes, can also discuss with the teacher whether the Cuthbert Empire was a republic or a constitutional monarchy 500 years ago. Development will be better.