The King's Follower [Rebirth]

William was able to sneak over thanks to Elizabeth who helped divert Stephen's attention. Elizabeth has always been very caring and likes to take care of the young little orcs. She has the best attitude towards Stephen among all the servants , Stephen also likes her very much.With Elizabeth's help, William seized the opportunity and slipped out smoothly.

It's not that he doesn't want to stay with his younger brother, it's just that the crown prince's current state is really worrying. He has never seen Edward so sad, and even the last time he was assassinated, he never showed such discouragement.This made him feel uneasy.It's just that Edward didn't allow others to enter the door, and William couldn't directly disobey his orders, so he could only take advantage of a grammatical loophole and climb in through the window.

Edward's condition was worse than he thought.When there are outsiders present, Edward will still pretend to be a little bit, and hold his breath, but when he is alone, his whole body seems to collapse, as if he had a serious illness, and every muscle on his face is exposed. With deep decadence, even the frequency of blinking makes people look tired.

Seeing Edward like this, William was a little frightened. He ran to the sofa and squatted down, hugged his knees, raised his head, and asked softly, "Your Highness, what happened?"

Edward sat up, stroked his hair, and reached out to hug him.William quickly stood up by himself, climbed onto the sofa, sat on Edward's lap, and lay down obediently in his arms.

"Don't climb the window in the future." Edward hugged William, touched his ear and cheek with one hand, and patted his back lightly with the other hand, and said weakly, "What if I fall down? I know you are an orc, and you can't take injuries at this height, but you will always hurt when you fall."

"I see, I won't make you worry anymore." William pressed his face tightly against Edward's chest, listening to his heartbeat, slowly stretched out his arms to hug his waist.Although he really wanted to know what happened, William subconsciously felt that it was better to keep quiet now.The crown prince is already very tired, he thought to himself, he has no strength to speak, so let him have a good rest.

The ceiling is covered with finely divided rose patterned wallpaper, which is so gorgeous that it is dazzling. After just looking at it for a while, Edward felt his eyes a little sore.He closed his eyes, and continued to pat the little orc in his arms with his hands.The weight in his arms made him feel at ease, like the seed under the dandelion umbrella, preventing himself from being blown too far by the wind.

William grabbed the clothes on Edward's waist, carefully listening to his breathing, trying to grasp the smallest changes in the frequency and strength of his breathing, so as to distinguish whether he was crying.However, Edward's breathing has been steady and slow, like a heavy heartbeat in his ears.William listened, and gradually felt that his eyes could not hold on.Can't fall asleep, His Highness is still sad.He was thinking in his heart, but his eyelids were slowly glued together, this thought hadn't disappeared from his mind yet, but he had already fallen asleep.

The breathing in his arms suddenly became a lot heavier. Edward opened his eyes, tilted his head slightly, and saw William's closed eyes and slightly opened mouth.

He couldn't help grinning, looking at the little orc's red lips, he couldn't help but tease him, and quietly licked the pouty lips with his index finger, but the little orc took it in his mouth and sucked it familiarly When he got up, a hand that was holding his clothes slowly moved up, holding the back of his hand.

Edward laughed silently, and with a smile, tears fell down.He raised his head, covered his mouth and nose with his other hand, and took deep breaths until he finally calmed down again.

William opened his eyes abruptly, and his first reaction was "Oops, I actually fell asleep!" He raised his head abruptly, and there was a sound of gasping immediately above his head. At the same time, he found that there seemed to be something in his mouth Something seemed to have been bitten by him just now.

"Yes, I'm sorry!" William quickly loosened his teeth and sat up, half of his body was a little numb from the incorrect sleeping position, which almost made him slip off Edward's lap.

Edward helped him: "Have you not slept in the past few days? How can you fall asleep anytime?"

William smiled sheepishly.He has been sleeping in Stephen's guest room for the past few days, and the two of them would talk until late every night. Now that he is young, he can't stay up all night, so he doesn't seem very energetic during the day.

Edward patted the place next to him, let William get off his lap, took out a silk handkerchief, and wiped his fingers slowly.

Seeing the obvious teeth marks on Edward's index finger, William blushed and scratched his head, thought for a while, and then asked: "Your Highness, do you feel better?" When he woke up, he felt that the lingering on Edward's body The deep sense of burnout seemed to have disappeared quite a bit, which made him feel relieved and ashamed, naturally because Edward's mood improved, and ashamed because he didn't seem to be able to play the role he had hoped to play: he He tried his best to sneak over from Stephen just to comfort Edward, but in the end, he didn't do anything, and fell asleep on Edward's body. When he woke up, he had already adjusted himself.

Edward put away the handkerchief and pinched William's nose: "Sleep well at night. If you feel uncomfortable wearing braces, then forget it. We'll go back to the doctor and see if there is any other way."

The crown prince's inexplicable depression at noon was resolved inexplicably in this way.Seeing the crown prince smiling again, Hyacinth Manor became active again, and everyone heaved a sigh of relief.Except Stephen.At the garden party in the afternoon, he refused to sit with William, and refused to speak to him again.

William looked at Elizabeth helplessly, hoping she could give him some help.But Elizabeth is only a half-grown child, and she doesn't know how to solve this situation. She can only speak well of William in front of Stephen as much as possible, hoping that the two brothers can reconcile as soon as possible.This caused William to get several more rollicks from Matthew.

In the evening, when it was time for the evening class, Edward welcomed an expected guest in his room.His evening classes for the past few days are all led by the personal priest who accompanied him exclusively for the crown prince.What happened in the morning, Bishop Idris must come to him as soon as possible to explain.

Bishop Idris received all kinds of scrutinizing eyes along the way, and when he arrived at the crown prince's room, the underage little orc servant who opened the door seemed to want to tear him apart.Bishop Idris smiled wryly in his heart. He heard about it when he was still in Aisha Cathedral. Everyone was guessing what he had done to the crown prince, as if he had committed a heinous crime.

"Good afternoon, His Royal Highness Prince Edward." Bishop Idris bowed deeply, while looking at the crown prince's expression calmly, but the other party had completely calmed down, and looked at his expression except for a little indifference, The others were as natural as if they had never known about Bryant.

"Good afternoon." Edward nodded politely to him, then turned his head and said to the servants and valets in the room, "You can leave first."

William's face puffed up: "Your Highness, can I not leave? I want to stay and do evening classes with you."

"Be obedient." Edward said, "I want to discuss some issues with Bishop Idris that you are not suitable to listen to."

William nodded reluctantly, then gave the bishop who was standing by the side a hard look, and then dragged his feet and left the room with everyone.

Bishop Idris thought that Edward would take the opportunity to ask himself something. On the way here, he had sorted out his thoughts for a long time and imagined many questions.However, Edward just walked to the altar in the corner of the room, clasped his hands, looked at him indifferently, and said, "I usually have evening classes for at least an hour. Please start."

Bishop Idris carefully observed Edward's expression, and finally he put down the small book "Hadith" in his hand, walked slowly to Edward and stopped, and said softly: "I'm afraid you misunderstood something, I Want to talk to you."

Edward hooked the corner of his mouth slightly: "Please do the evening class first. I don't want everyone to postpone the meal time because of my personal problems."

Bishop Idris had no choice but to start evening classes.He limited the time to 10 minutes, and wanted to use the extra 10 minutes to talk to Edward, but Edward ignored him, but knelt in front of the altar and prayed for more than 20 minutes.After the one-hour evening class, it was just time for dinner, and Edward calmly invited Bishop Idris to have dinner together.

Not knowing that Edward was the reborn Bishop of Idris, he couldn't help but secretly sighed in his heart that Edward was worthy of being a crown prince who had received a court education. He had just learned that his biological father was still alive, and yet he could hold his breath so calmly.Bryant wasn't as wealthy as he was when he was young.According to Edward's performance of Bryant, Edward already knew his life experience, and it seemed that he should have a little understanding of the discord between the king and the future, at least aware of it.That being the case, the following things will be much more convenient.Bishop Idris thought, and accepted the dinner invitation.

So Edward called the servants and readjusted the seating of the dinner table.

Edward didn't want to care about what Bishop Idris was thinking. Compared with a father who appeared suddenly, what he needed to pay attention to now was Sir Knightley's visit at tea time the next day.