Chapter 364 I am Lynch Leviv (two chapters in one)
The long-awaited dance kicked off with the joint celebration of both parties.
Lin Qi exhaled, picked up a glass of juice and drank it, then suppressed the hot blood in his chest.
Although he was just a bystander, he watched the battle that only existed in his consciousness just now with excitement.
In fact, neither Chairman Ole of the Archaeological Association nor President Gurman of the Arcane Research Society showed up at the dance, and Lynch believed that the enemy did not show up either.
But this is the power that a high-level person should have in his mind.
Fighting with fists and fists, fighting face to face, he is still at this level, still feeling complacent about killing a snake man. But as his strength increases, as long as he doesn't die, he will eventually reach this point.
I don’t know where I am yet, but my influence is imminent.
Just like the mountain elder Nikolai I met when I first came here, there is no need to take action at all, just a look from afar can induce devastating results.
He was awakened by the flood of applause.
When he came to his senses, he found that Her Royal Highness the Princess's opening speech on behalf of the King had ended.
According to Miss Valente, the royal family is really generous this time, taking out 20,000 pounds directly from the royal treasury to support disease prevention work in the Rhineland.
Not only that, once the situation becomes serious, the royal family promises to mobilize professionals from all over the country to support the Rhine, and we must win this war together.
This is how people’s hearts often come. It seems that this technology of turning bad things into good things is a must-have for politicians no matter where in the world they are.
It is indeed good news worth celebrating, but the atmosphere at the venue is a bit subtle. Not everyone is as happy as they seem. Lynch always feels that the smiles of some people at the venue are quite forced.
Lynch was thinking about the smiles of those people. The old Duke had already taken over the princess's speech, and with the blessing of the secret method of amplification, the voice spread throughout the venue:
"Today, one of the most beautiful flowers in our Rand, Blooming in my land of Rhine. Children of Rhine City, you are all outstanding leaders in wisdom and courage. How can you bear to watch such beautiful flowers bloom alone? "
This old man is young? He must have been a playboy when he was young. He used all the tricks at the dance and completely ignited the atmosphere of the young people with just a few words.
Lin Qi thought maliciously, aren't you, an old fox, afraid that you won't be able to get over it in the end?
"Now I declare that the ball has officially begun. Come on, children of the Rhine, let me see which young gentleman can touch His Highness's heart and be the first to kiss the back of His Highness's hand."
Bang bang bang.
This time it was champagne.
The golden wine sprayed into the sky, exuding dreamy colors under the lights, symbolizing the official start of the dance. The band played excessive music in a timely manner, and the soothing melody quickly relaxed the attendees Come down.
The flat and open bluestone floor in front of the door is the best dance floor. Under the illumination of gas lamps, the surrounding area is as bright as day.
The waiters began to hold trays and rush back and forth among the crowd. People gradually gathered in front of the door, waiting for the first warrior to appear.
However, the atmosphere fell into a stalemate for a while. Young men, you looked at me and I looked at you. No one dared to be the first to come forward.
Just as Lin Qi was looking around, the first brave man finally appeared. A tall young man in a white uniform strode towards the princess. When walking, the waist is straight and the distance between each step is very close, and the identity can be identified at a glance.
"Rand Navy, Southern Fleet, Captain of the Hope, Viscount Brad, I wish your Highness eternal youth. I hope to be lucky enough to be His Highness's dance partner and dance the first dance with His Highness."
Sure enough, At first glance, he looks like a soldier.
"Your Excellency, Viscount, I haven't seen you for a long time. It turns out that you were transferred to the Rhine for garrison. No wonder I didn't see you in Nolin." Princess Sofia smiled elegantly, "But Your Excellency, this is the Rhine City, so you can There’s no need to fight with your friends in Rhine. Why don’t you take a short break and I’ll dance the second dance with you.”
"Your Highness, His Excellency the Duke was looking for the best just now." He straightened his waist even more.
As expected of a noble, can even a soldier know how to curse in a roundabout way? Even he said in his mind, you are nothing, the Norin people actually came to our Rhine to run wild, let alone other people.
Sure enough, the next moment, a young man in a bright red dress strode out, sparkling and lightning all the way to the princess. The momentum along the way made Lynch think that he was an assassin rather than a competitor.
Fortunately, when he arrived at Viscount Brad's side, he just bowed deeply and said loudly: "I, Jet Williams, son of the Speaker of the House of Nobles, Williams, hope to dance with His Highness and pray. Your Highness appreciates it.”
“Speaker of the House of Lords Williams, a representative of the Rhine aristocratic forces and the arch-rival of Speaker of the House of Commons Grant, is smooth and has no sense of presence, but his son Jett is famous in aristocratic circles. Yes, he is considered a rising star in politics. Now that he has come out, then..."
"Didn't you hear the requirement? What is required is the best, and you don't meet the requirement at all." A traditional aristocrat wearing a wig. A young man dressed in stockings and stockings appeared behind Jet at some point and bowed to the princess, "Viscount Kellyn Jackson, a distinguished professor at the Institute of Badges and the third secretary of the Governor's Palace, invites Her Royal Highness the Princess to pay tribute to the whole Rhineland. Everyone can appreciate our perfect dance.”
As he said that, he turned around and winked at Jeter: "He is Viscount Jackson, not the son of someone else."
The son of Viscount Williams in a bright red dress snorted a sneer from his nose: "It turns out that his father is dead. If you can show it off early, then I am indeed not as good as you."
"You..."
"If you don't kill the other person with your hands, I wouldn't be able to bear it. I bite his ears, step on his toes, poke his eyes, oh..."
Natalie, you crazy bitch, why do you step on him? My toes.
“You are really saying such ungraceful things.” Miss Valente seemed to have not seen the scene of violence, and said with a snicker, “That’s about it, the military, the government, the Governor’s Palace, etc. That’s what I’m talking about, the trouble the old Duke and Princess don’t want to see may cause the other two parties to have ideas. It’s up to you..."
The usually calm noble lady's eyes narrowed. Under her gaze, someone else walked out from a slightly fat man weighing 200 kilograms, and that fat man was one of the people who showed an unhappy look just now.
"That is Anthony, Howard's deputy during his lifetime. He is almost certainly the next mayor."
"Huh? Doesn't the mayor have to be elected?"
"Haha... This person who came out is his eldest son James. It is said that he has studied abroad in Friedman for several years and has just returned to China for more than a year. However, his status is already very important in the circle of descendants of Rhine businessmen. What is he doing here? On this occasion, with the status of Her Royal Highness Sofia, unless there are special circumstances, no one without a noble title is qualified to invite guests to the first dance."
"I represent all members of the House of Commons and the Rhine. All the citizens of the city invite Her Royal Highness to dance the first dance." Lin Qi frowned: "Am I being represented again?"
Officer Natalie sneered from the side: "There are always some people who think they can represent everyone, but in fact they can only represent those with relevant interests."
Miss Valente didn't say anything, but looked solemn. He quickly scanned the whole place, as if waiting for something. Sure enough, another one came out soon.
This man walked out from Speaker Grant. Next to the Speaker was a man who was always bent over. The stooped man looked ordinary, even his clothes were simple, but the one who came out had waxy hair, was covered in jewels, and was dressed like a proud peacock. Before the person arrived, the man had already said loudly with a smile:
"Someone represents all the common people. Then I will represent all the ordinary young gentlemen in the Rhine and show His Highness the fiery enthusiasm of the Rhine people."
As he said this, he even took out a flaming red cigarette. rose.
"Sure enough... the one bending over is Beric of the Maritime Association. He has five fleets and a large business. He can be regarded as the richest man in the Rhine, together with Friedman and several people from the New World. He is not a member of the parliament, but he is secretly close to the parliament. A few days ago, it was said that Speaker Grant borrowed a large sum of money from him for some unknown reason, which seemed to be tens of thousands of pounds, so they left recently. Very close.”
Yeah, I don’t know, why would you borrow so much money? Lynch sighed subtly.
“The one who came out was his son Beric Jr. I don’t know about it. It is said that he is a standard playboy and very unpleasant, but because Beric values this son very much, his status is also very important. Gao. Represents the voice of a large number of business people. "
"Huh?" Both Lynch and the police officer looked like "You understand what?" Look at her.
"It's very troublesome to explain. In short, Howard is dead and Prince William's future is worrying. The parliamentarians may think they have been hit, so they use this method to force the other heir to express his position. If the princess is willing to compromise, go against the custom and jump to the first line with a non-noble Dance, it means that the royal family has given in. The conflict between the parliamentary faction and the royal family may temporarily ease for a period of time, but the royal family will make the nobles feel cold. But if the princess chooses the nobles, then the parliamentary faction is likely to cause trouble, and not only It’s the Rhine parliamentary faction, and I’m afraid there will be an uproar throughout the country.”
Miss Valente sighed, shook her head and said:
“It turns out that the parliamentary faction has this kind of mentality. I thought it was just a dispute within the aristocracy, but I didn’t expect it to be more troublesome. Mr. Lynch, have you decided who you want to dance with for the first time?”
"Huh?"
Miss Valente covered her face with a folding fan and whispered beside Lynch: "The situation is more complicated than imagined. If you come forward now, if you are not careful, you will offend all the forces in the Rhine. It will be very difficult. Trouble. And Her Royal Highness is the target of the attack tonight, and it might be dangerous during the first dance."
"Will the other party take action at such an obvious time?"
"This kind of assassination must be done in a public place. The more attention-grabbing the better, the assassination in a deserted place cannot be said to be meaningless, but it also has little effect."
Lin Qi nodded, no wonder the other party was in the princess I tried my hand at the opening of the consolation and dance party.
"So if you don't want to be involved in trouble, you might as well not go up and disrupt the situation. Your Highness the Princess may not be able to solve it by yourself. You don't have to worry about your first dance, anyway, someone will be inspecting it later. , I guess there is no chance to dance, so let’s wait until the princess finishes dancing and dance with her before the man goes on patrol.”
"I didn't go on patrol so early, and it's not like I went to Dreamland. I could come back. There's no need to use me as an excuse. On the contrary, some people attract so much attention. If they don't even have their first dance, If you don't get it, you won't necessarily be laughed at behind your back. You'll probably be humiliated for a long time. That person should mind his own business." Officer Natalie turned her head and sneered, "I'm going on patrol soon, so I won't be able to catch up. , it has nothing to do with me whether he dances or not, I don’t care who he dances with.”
Huh? What's going on with these two? Although they were quite touched, their attitude was not very good.
The key is that the two glances on the left and right made Lynch sweat profusely, and there were two more hidden in some corner behind him. Lynch always felt that a certain senior was waving to him with a smile on the boat.
"Ahem, I have accepted all the benefits given by others. I have to show my sincerity. But from the looks of it, I am under great pressure from competition."
As he spoke, Lynch put on his hat, pulled up his bow tie, He straightened his collar and dusted off his pants, smiled at the two ladies beside him, and put the wine glass into Officer Natalie's hand:
"It's show time, hold it for me, woman, wait for me Drink it during the victory. Hold it well and don’t let it get cold.”
The police officer looked at the red wine in her hand, tested the temperature with her finger, and then showed concern for the mentally retarded.
Lin Qi pouted, woman, you are not allowed to discriminate against disabled people, even if you are mentally retarded.
Then he coughed lightly, wagging his cane and walked up the stairs.
Oh, for a moment, Lin Qi felt that the eyes of thousands of people around him were focused on him. In addition to the observation, there were countless invisible eyes focused on him in various strange ways. Even the princess and the duke showed rare expressions of surprise and looked at each other, with surprise that was difficult to conceal in their eyes.
At this time, Lin Qi was extremely nervous, but also felt excited. He took a deep breath, raised his head and smiled at the sky.
What are you looking at? Get out.
After laughing, Lynch strode to the steps with his head held high.
Five young people were gathering at the foot of the steps, waiting for the princess's decision. They were still arguing with each other in a strange way. At this time, they felt something was different in the surrounding atmosphere, and they all turned around subconsciously, and then they saw a Lin Qi, who was dressed up, was standing proudly behind them. When he saw them turning back, he smiled brightly at them, raised his cane and called the two people in the middle:
"Excuse me, give way."
The two subconsciously took two steps back to make way for the passage in the middle. Lin Qi put his hands behind his back, nodded to them reservedly, thanked them politely, and then leisurely stepped up a few stairs.
"Stop, who are you and what do you want to do?"
Lin Qi paused and turned around slowly: "What do you think? Of course, I invite Her Royal Highness to dance first. Let’s dance, do you have any opinions?”
"Why, who are you?"
"Private detective, Lynch Leviv, as for why." Lynch turned to the two non-nobles and pointed to his nose, "I am also a civilian, But I hate being represented casually. You two have to represent me. Lynch will be very angry, and the consequences will be serious, so I will jump out now to make you remember. Are you not satisfied? Wait until you can. If you can win, I will have another attack."
As he spoke, he turned to the three nobles and pointed at his nose: "I am a commoner, but I devote my life and blood to Rand day and night. , I am qualified to stand here just because of my dedication. Your Highness always likes to be close to the people whom Rand values, do you want to destroy His Highness’s opportunity to show his image as a people-friendly person?”< br>
After quarreling all five people, Lynch took another step up. He still pointed at his nose and said to all five people: "Why? Why? I am Lynch Leviev, and the day before yesterday I was in the presence of His Highness. I was stabbed in front of me, and I shed blood for His Highness. The blood-stained clothes are still hidden in the cabinet at home. So, all you brave, noble, glorious and wealthy gentlemen, now face the piece that is not here. He touched his chest and told me, facing a brave man who saved the princess, who of you thinks you are more qualified than me to invite His Highness to the first dance? "
Looking at the faces of the five people? Sweeping them one by one, the aura he had developed during this period made him calm and confident. The five young people were speechless when asked. No matter how unwilling they were, they could only lower their heads with nothing to say.
"The most important thing is..." Lin Qi showed a bright smile again, "Inviting Her Highness the Princess to dance is based on whether Her Highness the Princess is happy, this person is happy, and those five people are unhappy. ”
With that said, Lynch turned back to the direction of the princess, quickly walked up the stairs, knelt down on one knee in front of Her Royal Highness Sophia, and raised his right hand upward:
"I, Lynch Leviev, only represent me. I invite Her Royal Highness Sophia to dance the first dance with me.”
Her Royal Highness the Princess stood upright in front of Lin Qi, staring at Lin Qi’s face with a lake-like gaze, and everyone in the audience held their breath. After staring for a long time in breathless silence, he suddenly burst out with a dignified smile, raised his hand and placed it on Lin Qi's hand.
"Boom!"
The fireworks suddenly lit up and the whole audience cheered.
(End of this chapter)