I'm working on infrastructure in Xihuan

Lucien went to the imperial capital and brought back a child.

There are also all kinds of gossip brought back along the way, which adds countless talking points to people after dinner.

After the enthronement ceremony of Luthers, in the customary part of distributing rewards to the local lords, His Majesty the Emperor stepped forward to adopt the newborn grandson of Earl Norborn's family to Duke Velvet as the heir—as if His Excellency the Duke was already seventy and eighty years old. As if born.

But anyone with long eyes can tell that Duke Velvet's body is many times healthier than when he left the imperial capital, and he has just passed his twenties, which is the time when he is young—the most fertile time.

At this time, the real power lord who has grasped the power of Velvet and managed the territory with great fanfare was forced to have an heir. Few people believed that it was a reward for him.

Rather, this is a warning to the lord who holds real local power and has rejected the consuls appointed by the imperial capital for several years in a row—in all administrative regions of the Central Empire, there are no consuls appointed by the imperial capital, and all the lords are in power But only Velvet's family.

If the Duke of Velvet was stronger and in better health, it would be entirely possible to completely separate this land after decades of Velvet's management and become an independent duchy of his own.

So it is only natural that he will be warned by the royal family.

However, such serious things only exist in the heads of noble officials, and the people at the bottom are not very interested in matters related to power struggles. What really sparked an upsurge of discussion was the child who was adopted to Lucien.

More precisely, it is the identity of the child.

Rather than believing that it was the little grandson of the Nuoborn family, whose lineage with the royal family was already far away, they were more willing to guess that it was the illegitimate son of someone in the royal family——His Majesty the Emperor is still young and vigorous, and the two His Royal Highnesses are also young. At the age when it is time to marry a wife and have children, no matter who is in love with the girl, it will not be surprising at all. Don't you see that Duke Velvet himself is the product of His Majesty's youth and frivolity.

It's even more unfortunate that the three members of the royal family are not set up to be self-confident, and even Lucien himself has been included in the list of candidates.

Here Lucien's carriage has not yet entered Velveer's territory, and the bards who have been squeezed by Velvet for a long time over there have given full play to their subjective initiative honed by Lucien for many years. Additions, deletions and revisions are made to create a love tragedy between a royal duke and a commoner girl.

The plot is lingering and full of ups and downs, including love at first sight, identity differences, life and death, and other hot elements, coupled with the new songs carefully composed by the bards, from the beginning to the end, people are tortured to the heart, as if their lords are really there. It was as if such a lover who fell in love and could not stay together secretly gave birth to him an illegitimate child whose identity could not be recognized.

"This also reflects from the side that they are really too idle. If they don't work hard, they will know that it is useless to arrange these things." Lucien remained expressionless, refusing to approach the annoying cub who was bubbling, And seeing Issie holding the child carefully is not pleasing to the eye.

Hmm... It's true that Yixi now has a tolerant and gentle expression on the corners of her eyebrows and eyes, which is very good-looking, and the soft eyes that look like water are also very beautiful. The male mother is really fragrant and makes him want to do something, but the premise is that the pair It wasn't the cub in his arms that he looked at tenderly with tender eyes, he was only given a perfunctory response of um, huh, huh.

He even put the kids to sleep trying to put them in their beds!

Lucien couldn't describe his shock in any words. He grabbed his notebook and almost pulled out a few pages abruptly.

This is not how it should be!

During the journey back to Velveerd from the imperial capital, this whimpering cub successfully used up Lucien's only sympathy and patience. He doesn't cry or fuss, and he is especially close to Lucien, as well-behaved as a chick just hatched, and is praised by Anna as the "cutest" child she has ever seen.

But Lucien still couldn't develop any feelings for him.

Maybe it's because the cub's gradually growing black curly lanugo and the pair of clean and ignorant blue eyes are too directional, and as we all know, a family cannot tolerate two cats.

Especially this kind of stealing cat that is trying to seize the exclusive favor of the breeder.

"Anna!" Lucien couldn't bear it anymore, and called out to his almighty head maid, "Take him out!"

Izzy couldn't laugh or cry, he stood up and approached Lucien.

It is meaningless to discuss with Lucien whether a mature adult should care about cubs. He just needs to take the initiative to sit next to the angry Lucien, and then take the initiative to kiss Lucien unconsciously. Mouth curled down—of course the cub in her arms was still handed over to Anna. The head maid didn’t react to the scene she saw when she entered the door, she just took the child carefully and took it out, patting it as if she was frightened Yes, the little grunting and whimpering cub.

Through a door, Issie could clearly hear Anna's voice coaxing the child. Her voice was gentle and loving, very much like a mother.

Well, it's only natural that Lucien would be unhappy.

Issie adjusted her sitting posture, held Lucien's shoulders and let him lean on her body. Lucien muttered "I'm still working", but his body pressed up honestly, rubbing against the side of Issie's neck. Rubbing, the curled curls were slightly itchy.

"You can continue." Issie maintained this posture, stretched out his arms around Lucien's waist, and said solemnly that Lucien could continue working. He just changed his sitting position and had no other bad intentions.

Lucien raised his eyebrows and looked up at him, then reached out and pinched the tips of his ears.There are several small earrings hanging on Issie's ears, which are beautiful styles carefully selected by Lucien. The gold and ruby ​​can't match the dark skin perfectly.

Issie held his hand and kissed his wrist sideways. Lucien narrowed his eyes and let out a small grunt in his throat. He really calmed down like a cat being patted, and turned his attention back to his hand on piles of documents.

He traveled back and forth to the imperial capital for several months, and there was a mountain of official documents waiting for his approval on the table. Although most of them were not urgent documents that needed his approval urgently, the details of the things that were not in a hurry were often cumbersome, and a document had to be read two or three times before it could be written. next approval.

——Lawrence began to prepare for the third phase of Velvid's infrastructure construction. The first phase of the project repaired the main road and the pier, and the second phase of the project leveled and repaired the branch roads between the city manors.

After the first phase and the second phase of the project, the land road of Velvet is basically completely unblocked, so the third phase of the project is aimed at the waterway, and will systematically plan the irrigation canals and boating waterways of Velvet to solve some problems in Velvet. Regional waterways are blocked and farmland irrigation is uneven, and manors compete for water canals.

In addition, the urban sewer will also cooperate with the construction, widen the pipeline, adjust the direction, increase the conversion magic pattern, and add urban sewage to the link of new fertilizer production.

The design of the entire third phase of the project was done by the old craftsmen of the Velvet Construction Union. Lucien exchanged some materials related to the design of water conservancy projects from the system for their reference, and then cooperated with the new project of the Mage Union. The waterwheel that has been researched will have a completely new look in the waterways of Vivid by this time next year.

——William routinely applies to Lucien every year to expand the recruitment of magistrates and judges. With the development of Velvet, the resident population gradually increases, and the people under William's hands are not so sufficient. After all, [-] For a while, but not [-], and Lucien is still engaged in legal work on a daily basis, and arranges mobile courts to go to the countryside from time to time, resulting in a huge gap in the position of judges.

This requires familiarity with the law and taking care of people. Occasionally, the job of a guest detective requires extremely high ability. Anyway, William has not recruited anyone in the past few years, so he can only dig a few talented beets into his department. , Slowly cultivate while working.

At the same time, I steadily apply to the lord and write reports every year, and I am eager to move on newcomers in other departments who seem to be very sweet, sweet and useful.

Lucien clearly remembered that when William first came under his command, he was still a peacemaker between Lawrence and Dalton, and it seemed that he would not do this kind of poaching.

William can only say that people change, especially the migrant workers who work overtime in [-].

And Dalton became even more.

——He submitted an application to Lucien, wanting to be transferred to the Civil Magic Research Department that Velveer had just established this year.

This was a development that Lucien was surprised but not so surprised by.

Dalton's obsession with magic is very clear to Lucien. It should be said that Dalton's obsession with self-worth has always been derived from the fact that he was "abandoned by magic". He has never really given up on magic. During the year, he was indeed keen to participate in Serge's magic research project, and just like what Lucien had peeped into the past, except for that little bit of talent, Doton was completely equipped for a top mage.

It is precisely because of this that Doton has no way to let go.

He still wanted to try harder, to... struggle to the death once more.

Lucien held the document carefully from beginning to end, then picked up a pen, and wrote his consent on the back.

"This choice is not very wise." Izzy commented.He could imagine how much resistance and criticism Dalton would face for his choice, and the probability of success was so small that it was almost zero.

No one could agree with such a choice. Even though Lucien had already passed the application, Izzy couldn't help thinking about having a good chat with Doton later.

"It should be said to be stupid." Lucien snorted, "But if you want to persuade him, I advise you not to waste your time—he has already thought about it, so don't try to persuade him."

The application that was handed over to him was clear and logical, and it was definitely the final version that Dalton had revised many times. In other words, it was the final choice that Dalton had made after weighing and considering more times than they did.

Absolutely cannot be said to be wise, this decision is so stupid that Lucien wants to jump up and knock on Dalton's head to see if it is full of water, he is sure that Dalton is also shaking and apprehensive at the moment, knowing his stupidity, and hugging him again. with little hope.

He was on the shaky single-plank bridge, and Izzy went to pull it, and Dalton would turn back.

"Then he will regret it." Lucien opened another document, "He will never have this courage again in his life, so he will regret it in his life."

"So don't try to persuade him." Lucien laughed, "I really want to see how far he can go."

Maybe, maybe the name of Doton will be left in history, as a magic researcher who has no talent but is better than any mage.

For Dalton, it must be the highest praise than any high-ranking officials, any promoters of the New Deal...

"Okay." Issy replied without hesitation, so happy that Lucien choked up.

Lucien pushed the documents in his hands aside, sat up and turned to stare into Issie's eyes, "What about you?"

Where do you want to go, what kind of identity do you want, what kind of evaluation do you want to exist in history, and what kind of mark do you want to leave behind.

He looked into Izzy's eyes, and Izzy looked into his eyes.

Lucien asked endless questions, but Yixi just understood.

He looked into those eyes and saw himself in those eyes.

He was submerged in the ocean-like blue, completely devoured without the slightest ability to resist.

Izzy raised the corners of his lips. He saw his expression was ferocious like a wild beast. He bit Lucien's fragile neck, and the tip of his tongue tasted the sweet smell of blood that made him dizzy.

Lucien gasped in pain, and Izzy heard Lucien grit his teeth and cursed him as a disobedient dog.

i want this.

he thinks.

I want to devour you to the bone and melt into blood.

I want hundreds of years, thousands of years and countless years to bear the imprint I left on you.

I want the history to go like this:

[The original Duke of Velveer, the handsome, arrogant and talented lord who has controlled Velvet for decades, the founder and pioneer of the new era—he belongs to Issy Holroyer. 】

【Lucien Velvet, before and after his death, all belonged to Issy Holroyer. 】

i want this.

Issie was silent.

Lucien leaned on his shoulder and took a bite as if to retaliate.

"Yes." Lucien agreed with a smile, "If you have the ability, you can take whatever you want."

[One point needs to be corrected here. 】

[The correct description should be—Issie Holroyer, the number one powerhouse in the history of the Hall tribe, the strongest mercenary in the mainland, a solid supporter and supporter of the reformist faction... in the name above Before the number, he belonged to Lucien Velvet. 】

[Whether in life or after death. 】

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