When the job was robbed...

Qiao Lai withdrew from the mother tree and sat quietly in front of the window. He held a gray-green leaf in his hand that was dim. He pondered for a while, put away the leaves, and walked slowly to the window.

Outside the window, snowflakes fell silently, and the winter in the northern highlands was extremely cold. Qiao Lai wrapped himself in a black robe unnaturally, feeling the cold air, thinking of the elf he met in the mother tree, he couldn't help but raise the corners of his mouth , his complexion softened a lot.

At this moment, a maid quietly appeared in the yard outside the door. Qiao Lai's eyes turned cold, and she turned back and walked to the table to sit down.

The maid politely knocked on the door, and after getting permission, she opened the door and entered. She walked slowly to Qiao Lai, and said softly after saluting, "His Royal Highness, please go to the study."

Qiao Lai looked at the snowflakes outside the window indifferently, without saying a word.

The maid saluted and left, Qiao Lai sighed slightly, stroked the leaves in her arms, and walked towards the study.

Even if the innocent girl back then became the eldest princess who put interests first, he still couldn't get away from her because of the common goal.

"So you agreed?" Qiao Ting sat next to Qiao Lai with her knees hugged, playing with Qiao Lai's long golden hair, and asked curiously.

Jolie sighed, "Yeah, if it has to be."

"Can you concoct poison?"

"Every elf pharmacist is a master at concocting poison." Qiao Lai said lightly, "The difference is that the brothers in the clan will not study this aspect."

"What did the girl do with the poison?"

Qiao Lai twitched the corner of his mouth coldly, "Of course it's murder." After a pause, he said expressionlessly, "Maybe it's a threat."

"Then do you think it will be successful?" Qiao Ting braided Qiao Lai's long golden hair into several small braids with nimble fingers, and compared with the bamboo braids he once picked up in the garbage dump, he felt that the elf's hair was still resilient. , not to mention soft to the touch, it is golden and looks good.

Qiao Lai watched helplessly as her long hair turned into a braid, and the boredom in her heart became much less, "I don't know."

After he finished speaking, he repeated in a daze, "I don't know."

Qiao Lai looked down at the little elf who was having fun playing with his hair, softness flashed in his eyes. In front of Qiao Ting, he always subconsciously gathered up the bloody darkness. A dirty elf like him, and little The elf is willing to approach and talk to him, and he feels that he is already very happy.

Thinking of seeing many human children surrounding those jugglers on the street during the day, Qiao Lai tentatively said, "Memphis is about to usher in the Winter Festival in the past few days, and the streets are very lively. Do you want to hear it?"

Hey, kids...all like lively things, right?

Sure enough, the elf's eyes lit up instantly, "Really? I want to listen~!"

"Okay." Qiao Lai, whose brows and eyes softened a bit, slowly began to talk about the Xie Dong Festival in the northern plateau. The elf's tone was long and rhythmic. Qiao Ting listened very attentively, and soon forgot the previous topic.

After bidding farewell to Jolai, Qiao Ting jumped over the fence outside the elder's yard. In recent days, the elder has been arguing with the dwarves again, because those greedy dwarves said that the gold given by the elves was not of good quality, and the trade Needs to be revisited.

The irritable elder led a group of equally irritable elf guards to the dwarf land to negotiate with the dwarves. Rika, one of Jordin's parents, also left with the elder with a large number of long arrows and a large bag of medicine. Tianmanya's spirit is very bad, she is always worried about Rika's accident, so naturally she doesn't have the heart to discipline Qiaoting.

On the way home, Qiao Ting slipped into the second elder's herb garden and picked some milk fruits. Regarding Qiao Ting's stealing behavior, the second elder turned a blind eye and ignored it, and still focused on I made a mistake in my own experiment, Qiao Ting ate a lot of milk fruit and touched a handful of green leaves. Green leaves can relieve fatigue and soothe the soul, and can improve the success rate of making healing potions , while doubling the effect.

This made the second elder's heart tremble, and he was in so much pain.

The old elf chased after him with his big staff in hand. Qiao Ting jumped three feet high and ran around the tribe resolutely. The elves around him all laughed kindly.

"Oh, the boy from Manya's family is so naughty~"

"Second Elder, the barrier outside your herb garden needs to be improved~ the little elves have gotten in~"

"Shut up all of you!"

"Isn't it just a few leaves ~ stingy!"

"Stop, you boy!! What do you mean by just a few leaves?!" The second elder blew his beard and stared, "These leaves are very useful!!"

Qiao Ting pouted in her heart, nonsense, she sneaked away only because she knew it would be useful!

Looking back at the wrinkled face of the second elder, Qiao Ting stuck out her tongue mischievously, turned around and ran happily again.

After slipping away from the second elder and running for a long time, he was still the second elder's son. A tall elf with a smile on his face dragged the old man back, and Qiao Ting was relieved.

Panting heavily, Manya dragged her home, raised her hand and handed in the green leaves she picked up, "Manya, I read yesterday that eating this leaf will make you feel better. Manya, you have been frowning lately. Eat this Try it?"

Manya, who had been staring at Qiao Ting, was taken aback for a moment, and the anger in his heart slowly disappeared. He was quite relieved, seeing the child's bright eyes, his heart softened, he took the green leaves, and said angrily, "Don't do this in the future." Done!"

Qiao Ting's eyes dimmed.

Manya nodded Qiao Ting's forehead, and said slyly, "Even if you touch it, don't let it be discovered!"

Qiao Ting's eyes brightened again, and he showed a bright smile, "Yeah!"

After Manya went to deal with the green leaves, Qiao Ting went to his den and took out a large notebook from under the rattan bed. He sat in front of the table and began to record the information he got from Qiao Lai today.

"There is a country on the northern plateau called the Seaman Empire..."

"The capital of the Seaman Empire is Memphis. Three days later, that is, March 874, 3 in the Human Race Continental Calendar is the traditional festival of the Seaman Empire, Xiedong Festival..."

"The Xie Dong Festival is a celebration to celebrate the goddess of ice and snow leaving the world and returning the sun to the earth..."

"The northern plateau has fought against the barbarians in the northern region for years. The northerners are bold and rough, and they like to drink..."

"..."

Qiao Ting wrote several pages in a row before stopping. He rubbed his wrist, looked at the Chinese characters on the paper, and raised the corners of his mouth, so that even if other people accidentally read this book, they would not be able to know what he wrote.

After finishing writing, Qiao Ting picked up the thick book of magical plants on the desktop and rummaged through it carefully, and finally stopped on a certain page.

"Kudzu vine..."

Qiao Ting thought of Qiao Lai's vague words, combined with the effect that the girl wanted to achieve, the fastest and best effect was naturally kudzu vine, and the phantom potion made of this kind of branch combined with several other materials had the best effect .

Manya never taught him these things when teaching him herbs, but some things had already been soaked into his bones. After reading the description of kudzu vine in the book, Qiao Ting thought of several configurable poisons reflexively, and combined them According to Jolie's words...

Qiao Ting resolutely marked the words "experimentable" on the page of kudzu vine's notes.

He is still too young now, and it is impossible to get these things for experimentation. Does he always steal from the second elder's herb garden?

Qiao Ting curled his lips and shook his head helplessly. He can guarantee that the enchantment level of the garden will definitely increase again tomorrow.

Well~ the future is long~

It's a pity that some things in the world cannot be solved in a short period of time.

Three months later, the Great Elder looked proud and returned with a large number of weapons and armor. Rika, who left home with the Great Elder, also returned with the elf guards. Manya happily rushed forward and met Rika. Embracing, they kissed passionately, blinding Qiao Ting's golden eyes.

My parents stumbled home and went to make love. Qiao Ting, who felt a little lonely, spontaneously ran to the mother tree to seek comfort from Qiao Lai. When passing by the elder's yard, he saw the elder mourning his lost lover sadly and brightly. , The slightly bent fingers lightly brushed the armor covered with magic patterns, sighing endlessly.

Qiao Ting paused, he looked at such a great elder curiously, and realized something in his heart.

For the elves, love is the salvation of the long years, and even the memories left by death are enough to support them to show a happy and warm smile.

Suddenly, Qiao Ting thought of Qiao Lai who was far away on the northern plateau. He and Qiao Lai had maintained such a strange relationship for a year, and one year was enough for Qiao Ting to understand what the girl in Qiao Lai's mouth looked like.

In Qiao Ting's opinion, that girl is not worthy of Jo Lai at all. Although Jo Lai's research on dark magic is an evil heresy in the eyes of the world, Qiao Ting thinks that Jo Lai is just a simple-minded person who is obsessed with a certain purpose. Just a silly elf.

Jolie doesn't really like that girl, but his purpose...

Qiao Ting frowned. He also tested Qiao Lai on this point. Unfortunately, Qiao Lai was more sensitive to this topic and never revealed it, which made Qiao Ting very frustrated.

A year of getting along has already made Qiao Ting regard Qiao Lai as his family. Seeing that his family will fall into the hands of an unpredictable woman, Qiao Ting feels uncomfortable no matter what he thinks.

Coming to the inside of the mother tree familiarly, Qiao Ting habitually asked to enter the light spot that he had entered last time.

But this time the mother tree didn't respond.

Qiao Ting froze for a moment.

Only dead elves will lose their light spots. He can't find Jolai's mark now, so it can only explain one point.

Joey is dead.

At the same time, at the northernmost tip of the entire continent, the Heman Empire on the Northland Plateau changed its owner.

The original emperor died, and the emperor's uncle was sentenced to hang for killing the emperor. The emperor's sister, Princess Christine, ascended the throne.

After ascending the throne, Her Majesty the Eldest Princess bloodbathed the entire Nochas royal family and many great nobles in Memphis. On that day, the burning place of Memphis was always covered in thick smoke, corpses kept flowing, and blood flowed like a river.

Everyone in the world was shocked by Her Majesty's iron-blooded wrist, and many eyes fell on this ice and snow plateau, waiting for her next move.

And Her Majesty the Queen was sitting on the large throne, holding the supreme scepter, her face was as cold as the snow in early winter.