under the field

colin

Six years ago, with the help of bribed guards, I met my father who was arrested and imprisoned for the first time.If his mother saw him like this, she would definitely tease him and ask him if she should get him another glass of mint special.When he saw me, he was sitting in front of the chessboard placed on the low table in the prison and playing chess with himself.

"It seems that you are doing well." I said, but I saw his bruises under the shackles, even though his face was still relaxed and proud. "There you are, Colin." He seemed not surprised at my arrival at all, as if he was welcoming guests to Castle Run.He stepped forward, the chains rattling, and he grabbed the iron railing between us.

"My son, I haven't seen you for three months, but you seem to have grown up again." He finally reached out and touched my face through the gap.

"I've been 17 since last night," I said, and my father laughed and said he remembered.Since he proposed to step down as prime minister, he was imprisoned by Kennedy II in a big prison. They tortured him in a place we could not see, but they still added the facilities he requested in his cell, as if telling him, we It can put you to death, but if you choose to obey obediently, we will not treat you badly, your life and death are entirely up to us to decide.

Seeing me looking at the chessboard behind him, he smiled and said: "Istilloweyouagame." He still remembers the chess game he promised me.During his three months in prison he had already missed Joyce's and my birthdays, and the host of Runrun Castle hadn't been at the dinner table time and time again.

"What the hell do they want?" I gripped the railing tightly and gritted my teeth.

"Everything, Colin, they want everything." Father's eyes were full, he had seen through these games.

"I have assembled eight families, and we will plan an uprising, father." I shook his mottled hand, vowed frankly, and whispered firmly. "I will rescue you."

He was silent for a moment, looked at me and said, "Go to Orlando and find a Viscount named Robert Hastings. He will give you good advice. Tell him that you are Nottingham's son."

"He knows how to lay out a route, and he'll tell you how to do it."

While I was gone, my father returned to the chessboard, picked up the knight, and placed it in front of the king.

That's Checkmate.

Orlando, everyone talks about it as a town with laughter and laughter. Eugene once visited that place. He said that the name of laughter and laughter there mainly comes from the fact that people can’t help talking to the beautiful local girls. , and achieved beautiful encounters under the pleasant conversation, so there are all kinds of happy faces there, but none of them have anything to do with me.

"Little gentleman, who are you looking for?" The carriage stopped outside Dindak Manor, and someone stepped down from it, and the man carefully led an elegant young woman down.

"I am Colin Nottingham. I am representing my father in Orlando to Mr. Robert Hastings."

Mr. Hastings smiled and turned his head to the curious woman behind him and said, "There is a visitor. Claire, please tell the girls that the horse riding time will be changed to the afternoon."

I followed Hasdin into the manor, and when I got to the house, I heard the girls laughing in the garden. There was a time like this in Riverrun Castle, especially the sharpest cry. I think Anna should be with her. She has a comparison. "That's Brianna, my second daughter." Mr. Hastings shook his head helplessly, "She's even more fussy than my youngest daughter."

In front of a mature and stable father and man, I prepared to explain my intentions nervously. He stood in front of the window and listened silently to my father’s experience, and then looked at me with a gentle smile, “You really are exactly like your father. , Iron-blooded, strong, and impressive."

"However, I have no men to offer you to join the uprising," he said.

I clenched my hands tightly: "You are a wise man, my father believes and trusts that you can provide us with a plan for combat."

Standing by the window on the second floor, you can see the figures of the girls running in the garden. A red and a yellow shadow scoop up the water in the fountain pool by the fountain and splash it at each other. The girl in the yellow skirt is on the attacked side. I was yelling, I think this is Brianna that Mr. Hastings just said.Mr. Hastings and I stood there watching for a while, and he twirled the silver ring on his hand: "Look how beautiful the scenery in Orlando is. Although this manor is not as good as the Duke's mansion, Riverrun Castle, it is also mine. Best home for girls."

"I don't have a son, I only have a daughter, but I can understand Nottingham's cultivation of you. We are all parents." Mr. Hasting looked at me with wise eyes, and I was moved by the answer he was about to give. Nervous because I knew he would be my last bargaining chip. "Colin, have you ever thought about it. If I help you, then these people and dangers will come to them."

Mrs. Hastings went to the fountain and scolded them softly. She lifted up the little girl in the red dress who was playing the craziest, and took the towel from the maid to wrap her up. The little girl in the yellow dress cried even louder. Mrs. Hastings hugged her helplessly.I know what Mr. Hastings means. If the royal family wants to take revenge on the Hastings, it will be easy. The laughter and laughter in this manor will no longer exist, just like Castlerun.I understand that this lobbying will end in failure. I convince myself to understand Mr. Hastings heart. He has someone he wants to protect. Like me, no one will sacrifice the life of his family for a stranger.

"Do you know how your father and I met?" Mr. Hasting said suddenly, and I shook my head.He replied: "We know each other because of playing chess." Then he pointed to the chess board on the desk, "If you win, I will help you. However, you can't put my name on the table, and you can't let people know about Hasting The family has anything to do with this uprising, please forgive my selfishness."

I'm actually more grateful for his willingness to give me hope.

When I left Tindalk Manor, I looked back and saw the girl running towards Mr. Hastings. Her galloping figure on the grass rolled up the red flapping skirt below her body, and she was firmly stuck into Mr. Hastings. Embrace, blooming on this land like the petals of a deep red rose. "It's time to ride!" She waved her arms high, beckoning like a victorious knight.

I got into the carriage and looked back at the peaceful and harmonious manor again. Just now, Mr. Hastings deliberately lost this game of chess to me.

I swear from the bottom of my heart that I will not implicate this beautiful family, and will not let them suffer what the Nottingham family is suffering. They should continue to live forever in this land full of hope. Every day in this garden Every sparkling rose should be cared for, maintaining every ounce of beauty and fragrance they should hold, and not being dealt with or tarnished by any bit of vulgarity and cunning in this world.

"My father actually saw me before the execution. I was standing in the crowd at that time. I didn't expect my mother to rush forward." His head rolled off the stage and landed on him. His eyes are still fearless, staring in my direction. "I smelled blood. I never thought my father would die. He was undoubtedly a great man." My mother shouted to You before she killed herself beside his father's body Kim, said "Take him away."

take him away.Take Colin away, leave here, there is no Nottingham family in the imperial city anymore.

"Although the uprising did not succeed in the end, Robert Hastings has done his best to help the Nottingham family's uprising. No one knows about this. But I still recognize this ring, because your father always does it. I will rub this thing when I make a decision, so I often notice that as long as Mr. Hastings makes this movement, does he have any new ideas."

The person in his arms was observing the silver ring, "I didn't know it belonged to my father, he never wore it again."

"I think he also wants to deceive people." I said, "But you said that your father was once threatened by the superior?"

She said: "Maybe someone knows from this that the Hastings helped Nottingham."

"No one but me knows about his helping the Nottingham family, and we have no contact after the uprising." This made us fall into deep thought.

She shook her head in disbelief and said, "I didn't expect my father to have such a deep friendship with you." She pointed to herself, "So did you know the Hasting girl from the beginning?"

"It's the'Red'Hastinggirl." I corrected. At that time, there was a mutiny in the brothel of Blair's gang. When she fled bloody, she squatted in front of me wearing a new red cloak. The look immediately reminded me of the manor. red dress girl rushing in.Then she covered me with the cloak, completely ignoring whether the new clothes would be stained with blood, and protected me from the icy cold that hit my face.

"Serendipity." She sighed softly, making people want to touch her face and touch her. I obeyed my heart and moved closer to her. "It's destiny." I said before meeting her.

I asked her to take the ring back, and she put the ring on, but the diameter was too large, and the ring was loose on her finger. "Okay, the story is over, you should also rest." I touched her forehead to make sure she didn't have a fever, "You have a lot of troubles today." Falling into the water in the afternoon, raining in the evening, "I bet You're bound to catch a cold tomorrow morning."

She sniffed, her nose was a little stuffy, and her little face was flushed under the fire in the fireplace: "It's a little bit now."

"Then go to bed." I easily lifted her from the recliner and placed her firmly on the bed.

I put one of the pillows on the floor and heard her whisper behind me, "Actually, you can sleep in the bed together." Then hurriedly added: "I mean, this bed is really big, and Lots of seats."

Seeing me lying down under the bed, she moved over and lay down on the edge of the bed overlooking me, a little annoyed at my ignorance: "Hey." I put my hands behind my head and looked at the funny and lively face above with a smile, and raised my eyebrows to signal her say.

"You don't even have a quilt, and you went into the water today and got caught in the rain."

"Girl Hastings." I said, looking at her face lying on the edge of the bed, some beautiful strands of hair fell on her cheeks. "Are you inviting a man into your bed?"

She immediately stared: "I was worried about you catching a cold! Jacob's people are still waiting for you to find Kennedy III, you can't just get sick and delay the mission!"

"So you're concerned about Jacob's mission being delayed?" Honestly, she's really cute when she's angry.

She was up there, so close that I could touch her as soon as I sat up.After a moment of silence, she replied, "No."

I lifted my body to approach her, and we were naturally pressed together. She parted her lips to invite me, and her breath was intertwined until we collapsed on the bed again.

"Having heard so many rumors about Jacob Colin, you know I'm not a saint, right?" I pressed her and said, she was like a poor unarmed rabbit quietly staying in the cage, I could clearly feel The ups and downs of her curves beneath her made things feel even more unmanageable to me.

She stared at me panting, her swaying lips were full of water, and she didn't speak.I couldn't help laughing when I saw her blankly, and finally I turned over and left her, and lay down beside her, "Go to sleep." I said.

I patted her on the head and rolled to the other side of the bed, which must be the farthest from her.She suddenly approached me from behind and hugged me gently, afraid of disturbing something, she whispered: "Those experiences and those encounters are in the past, Colin, they existed, they destroyed you, but now you are better than them." are even stronger.”

Then she rolled over to the other side of the bed like I had just done.I turned around and saw her shining eyes, she was lying on her side like a star, saying to me, "Good night, Colin Nottingham."

"Good night, Scarlett Hastings." We sat on either side of the bed, smiling at each other.