Throne Steps

Li Chen went to Saenz's mansion again, and it was already December.

Saenz also just returned to the mansion.He took a trip to the Northland and the color of the sea blue. These two places were not on the way, and it took him until December.

On the day when Li Chen arrived in the capital of the temple, he just walked into the yard when a grain of snow fell on his shoulder.

He was taken aback for a moment, stretched out his hand to continue, and looked up again: "Is it snowing?"

The butler smiled from behind: "Yes, the first snow this winter."

The snow particles were still very small, Li Chen stood there, looking up at the gray sky.The environment is always very calm when it snows, but Li Chen half-closed his eyes, and the anxiety in his heart could not be concealed.

"What are you doing standing there stupidly?" Saenz suddenly appeared under the eaves, "Snow melting on you can freeze you to death."

The housekeeper nodded to Saenz, and stepped back first, while Li Chen walked towards Saenz: "I just feel that time is passing too fast."

Saenz knew what he was talking about, so he raised a smile: "Are you in a hurry?"

Li Chen asked pointedly, "Aren't you in a hurry?"

Saenz entered the gate of a small two-story building, and Li Chen followed behind him.He didn't answer for a while, and Li Chen was not in a hurry, but took off his cloak and hung it up with a shake, and began to look around the room.

"Has it been redecorated?" Li Chen looked at the ceiling, then at the carpet under his feet, "I remember it was just a flower house... decades ago."

"It's also a greenhouse now." Saenz stood in front of the fireplace, turned his head and said, "Half of the second floor is a greenhouse... want to take a look?"

Appreciating flowers in winter can be regarded as a kind of fun, Li Chen smiled: "Let's go."

Facts have proved that in the winter...the north really has no flowers to enjoy.

Standing in the greenhouse with his hands in his pockets, Li Chen looked at the pots on the table, the rows of green leaves and the fully wrapped plant seedlings. After a long time, he managed to say something: "...so healthy."

Saenz said happily: "This is not in the south. It's good that they can survive the winter. Don't expect too much."

Without air-conditioning, the greenhouse technology of the Raetia Alliance is far from developed, and its thermal insulation capacity is also very limited.The first snow fell, and the weather has dropped to around zero degrees. It is not bad that the greenhouse can be a few degrees higher than the outside.Maybe after the snow covers here, it can improve the insulation effect to a higher level.

In this case, it is enough that the broad-leaved plants that do not shed their leaves in winter can survive, and there is really no hope for more.

Li Chen glanced at Saenz next to him: "Then you still let me watch it now?"

"You are curious about the newly renovated place." Saenz looked at the plants in the greenhouse and smiled lightly. "Soon, spring will be a different scene."

"'When the mountain flowers are in full bloom'..." Li Chen chuckled twice, "Spring should not come so soon."

"what?"

"Nothing." Li Chen replied, "What else are you planning to do this winter?"

"I stayed here years ago. I have to see how these plans for this year are going." Saenz replied, "After the New Year, I will go to the capital."

Li Chen raised his eyebrows: "Looking for the little prince... or the king?"

"Little prince." Obviously the prince is already an adult, but when Li Chen mentioned him, his tone was as if he was talking about a child. Saenz couldn't help laughing, "The king... I will see you too, but not now."

Li Chen thought for a while: "Can I ask a question?"

"Ok?"

"You want to let the king directly issue a seal order, am I right?"

"...You really never let me down." Saenz laughed out loud, his blond hair swaying slightly with his movements, and his joyful appearance was quite contagious.I'm afraid that even if all the flowers in the greenhouse are in full bloom at this moment, they will be overshadowed by his comparison.

Saenz laughed enough before continuing: "Everyone in the alliance is wondering if I'm going to press a sword on the neck of the Patriarch to force him to hand over the position of Patriarch. Only you, openly ask Me, am I going to skip the patriarch and ask the king directly for a seal order.

"I'll answer you now—yes."

Li Chen also showed a smile: "Sure enough... I wasn't sure at first, but you agreed to let Cervantes destroy the cultivation base, I think it's pretty close. By the way..." He turned He looked over at Saenz, "I told Cervantes about this speculation, let him prepare, you don't mind... ok..."

Saenz raised his hand to pinch his chin, leaned over and kissed him lightly: "I don't mind."

Li Chen looked at him blankly, but his right hand had already been withdrawn from his pocket calmly, and then he punched suddenly!

Snapped!

Saenz caught the punch in a leisurely manner, while wrapping his palm around Li Chen's fist, he also squeezed it.

"Physical skills still need to be strengthened." He said with a smile.

It is impossible to beat the pure white color after practicing until death.Li Chen thought to himself, but said coldly: "Can't you just stand there and get punched by me?"

Saenz grabbed his fist, kissed on the knuckles, and said happily, "No."

Li Chen withdrew his hand, gave him a middle finger by the way, and left the greenhouse first.

There is really not much time left for Saenz.

A very typical point is that it was not only Li Chen who came to his mansion in December this year.Two days after Li Chen arrived, Sean, the first person in charge of Saenz's intelligence organization, came.

Sean didn't look like he came to see the pure white color at all, and he didn't activate the "witch" aura, and he looked very tired with a listless look.Thinking about it, she was thrown into the front line of destroying the alchemy group last year, and then cooperated with the attack on the power of the big nobles for more than half a year.Not only did she want to find out why she hadn't heard anything about this breaking news before, but she also had to quickly collect all the movements after the news came out, and Saenz's plan also required her cooperation.

It can be said that this is definitely a non-stop year.

As for the sweetness of Li Chen sending Akeye to the front line to destroy the alchemy group, it can be completely ignored, who has time to fall in love!

As for Saenz, Li Chen, and Xiao En, the last time these three people got together to analyze the news was when the first Northern War just calmed down and the battle of Suoyang was clouded.After that, they were busy with each other, sometimes meeting each other, occasionally appearing at the same party, and most of the time still relying on various news to communicate with each other.

However, this time we got together not only to analyze the existing information, but also to clarify what to do next.

"Before we start the discussion, can I have a cup of hot tea in peace?" Sean lay weakly on the single sofa, his eyes fell in the direction of the fireplace, and it was difficult to focus, "I haven't had enough sleep recently, and the north wind is still blowing. It's giving me a headache... I can't think of anything."

Li Chen filled her with hot tea, and Saenz smiled: "It's okay, we won't discuss this afternoon, you should have a good rest."

"Really?" Sean's eyes lit up, "Then I'll drink this cup of tea and go to sleep when my body is warm."

Li Chen said happily, "Can you still fall asleep after drinking tea?"

"Okay, okay, sleep every minute." Sean took a sip of tea, then stretched out his hand to pull in Li Chen's direction, "Little Swan, give me your Clermont, I really don't have time to chase him , he is dangling in front of me and I am annoyed!"

Li Chen squinted at her, and said calmly, "If he wants to leave, I won't stop him."

Sean rolled his eyes: "Bah, what's the difference between talking and not talking."

She glanced back and forth at the two men meaningfully, and then sneered: "Forget it, I'm not the only one anyway, so why should I be in a hurry."

Li Chen listened to what she meant, and sneered, "You know what the hell."

"Yo, is there anything else I don't know?" Sean regained some energy, "You..."

Saenz said, "Sean, if you have the energy to gossip, why don't we start talking about business."

Sean stopped immediately.

The witch got up very late the next day because no one called her.

She was a little flustered at first, but then she thought that if she didn't call her, she would definitely be able to let her sleep for a while, and she quickly calmed down again.And after thinking about it, His Highness probably wants to be alone with the black swan, so he should not just move forward when he has nothing to do.

"Ah, single people are the most exciting..."

Sean lay on the bed for a long time before slowly getting up.By the time she packed up and walked out of the room, it was already 10 minutes later.

She was walking slowly towards the restaurant, but she met the butler on the way, and the butler smiled at her: "Good morning, Miss Xiao En. Did you sleep well last night?"

Sean glanced at the sun outside the window in the corridor, and replied without shame: "Good morning, housekeeper, I slept very well." You can understand from the fact that I just came to have breakfast now!

"I'll prepare some breakfast for you right away, but it will be lunch time soon, so I won't prepare anything too full for you." The housekeeper laughed again, "His Royal Highness and Li Chen are in the piano room. They asked me to tell you that if you want to If you go there, you can go, and you can take some breakfast to eat."

Xiao En smiled mischievously: "Then there's no need..." Did you take breakfast to see other people's "Qin Se He Ming"? Didn't your brain get kicked by a donkey?

The butler seemed to see what Xiao En was thinking, and explained: "This morning, Your Highness received the script of a new play that will be performed in the melting pot next year. There is a sheet of music included in the script. Now, Your Highness is recruiting all the people in the mansion who can play musical instruments. Now, I want to hear how it plays out."

Sean's eyes lit up immediately: "Then I will go too!"

The butler was not surprised by this quick change, and said with a smile: "Then please go directly to the piano room, and I will bring your breakfast over later."

Sean walked away a little dazed.

From yesterday afternoon to this morning, I ate and slept, slept and ate, and now I can still have breakfast and listen to the concert...

This life doesn't look like working overtime, it's a vacation!

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