Chapter 1147 69. The Bitter Pill of Trust
“Even drinking tea requires a cumbersome set of etiquette rules: to lift the tea cup, you need to lift three fingers, pinch it with only your thumb and index finger, and keep it fixed The posture of raising your head is just a rule for ordinary nobles. If you are a big noble, a businessman, a commoner, or a slave, you need another set of rules."
"Isn't that formalism?" Annan said.
“What is formalism?”
Annan considered: “It means not implementing the original intention, but just modifying the surface.”
"That's true..." Prince Aidan whispered, "The kingdom is already seriously ill. If you want to be cured, you can only break all the rules and completely purify."
"You are too extreme."
Prince Aidan looked at Annan: "Compared to the kingdom, am I really extreme?"
Annan thought for a while: "There is something more terrifying than order, and that is the loss of justice. and a society of rules."
When Prince Aidan showed his disappointment, Annan said again: "When I talk about it, I think of a story."
"What?"
"Fast always bullies Martin. They are all your friends. On the surface, you have three choices: help Fast, be neutral, and help Martin. But in fact, you only have two choices. . Helping Fast and being neutral are actually just sitting back and watching Martin continue to be bullied."
After saying that, Annan shrugged: "I am not from the Kingdom, and I don't know how bad the Kingdom is. My opinion is not important. But I really don’t like the fact that a farmer’s son can only be a farmer.”
Prince Aidan smiled again: “Interesting statement...”
“Speaking of which, what do you think. Are the attackers related to the Kingdom of Paem? ”
"I'm afraid... not." Prince Aidan's expression was full of sincerity, "The kingdom has no reason to rekindle disputes."
Annan clearly remembered that Prince Aidan said that the kingdom had fought with the elves and drove them out... But since he said so, he had no reason to doubt it.
After asking Prince Aidan some inside information about the kingdom, Annan got up and left.
Prince Aidan sent Annan to the door, watched him walk towards his wooden house, and then turned back to the wooden house.
The quiet wooden house suddenly heard the voice of a second person.
"Your Highness, why didn't you say it was a kingdom?"
"We are about to be exposed." Prince Aidan said.
"How could it be..."
"Many people in the kingdom know that Vaughan is mine. The elves have already gone to question him. My brothers know the situation and will only do two things. "Prince Aidan thought of Annan's story, "Put all the blame on me, or refuse to admit it and arrest me secretly."
"What if the kingdom chooses the former?"
"What you say won't happen."
Prince Aidan has foreseen what his brothers will do: find a way out of the rule book that fills the library.
As long as the arrangement is completed...the kingdom will never be able to escape the relationship, and the anger of the elves will overwhelm them...
The voice continued to ask: "He killed Vaughan , ruined our plan, why didn't you kill him..."
"I thought he was the same person as us before, but now it seems..."
"What does it look like?"
Prince Aidan shook his head and said no more: "Inform other people in the Utopia that we will meet at the hiding place No. 13."
The voice disappeared, Prince Aidan finally forgot to look out the window.
"I hope to meet again, we will not be enemies..."
...In the Elf Flower Garden, several Elf elders looked sulky, looking at the middle-aged man in rich clothes opposite the Magic Gate talking. Ertan: "This matter has nothing to do with the kingdom."
“The Vaughn you mentioned is indeed a person, and he is indeed someone close to Aidan. However, after investigation, we learned that he was bribed by a group of rebel forces and lurked around Aidan. This matter It has nothing to do with him or the kingdom. "
"You mean, the attack has nothing to do with you...?" Elder Ares whispered hoarsely, new and old hatreds adding up.
"The existing evidence is really not enough to explain anything." The man smiled politely: "There have been elves attacking villages in the kingdom. Are they also under orders from the Elf King's Court?"
Three The prince's evasion made the elven elders glare. It's not that they haven't come into contact with humans, but the shamelessness of the humans in front of them is far beyond their imagination.
He continued to add fuel to the fire: "I implore you not to let unnecessary prejudices tarnish the supposedly harmonious relationship between the elves and the kingdom. You-"
At this time, a dull and distant voice Suddenly it rang in the ears of every elf elder.
“Proper lessons need to be given to arrogant and rude humans to let them know that the dignity of elves cannot be violated...”
Another high elf elder said: “Ares , lead people to capture that human prince!”
The third prince of the kingdom looked at the elf elders suddenly saluting in the void, and after making this decision, he realized that something unknown had happened.
"You -"
"Put away your nonsense, humans." A moon elf elder's beautiful eyes flashed with anger, "The elves have heard enough of your hypocritical words, and they should learn a lesson. "
......
Annan returned to the wooden house and held the doorknob. When he was about to push it open, he suddenly stopped there.
Aidan is the prince of the Kingdom of Paem, but he is too calm, as if he doesn't care that this will start a war between humans and elves...
He suddenly remembered a question that Prince Aidan asked him a few days ago: one of his friends caught an enemy who broke into his home, and he found out that the enemy was a friend of his friend. He was worried that killing the enemy would make his friend sad, and He turned against himself...
It happened to coincide with the time when Yililanze disappeared.
And Prince Aidan’s broken artifact...
Annan let go of his hand and knocked on the door of the Skeleton King next door.
Soon the door opened, revealing the tall Skeleton King.
"Mr. Leoneffa, do you know about Rudolph's Eye?" Annan asked.
"That artifact refined by demigods in the Kingdom of Paem?" As expected of the Skeleton King, he is knowledgeable and knowledgeable.
"What does it look like?"
The Skeleton King used magic power to condense a scepter in mid-air.
Annan stretched out his hand in confusion and covered half of it - the remaining part was the artifact of Prince Aidan that Annan had seen.
Annan hurried to Prince Aidan's cabin, but he was still late... Prince Aidan had already left, leaving only a piece of parchment on the table.
Annan picked up the parchment with still wet ink.
[Annan, you are one of the few friends I have, and I don’t want to be your enemy.
You caught Vaughn, I don't blame you because you don't know anything. I just realized part of the truth with my own intelligence and sensitivity. As for your elf friend, I'm sorry. I will return her to you when this is all over.
Please forgive me and accept my final advice as a friend: stay here until daybreak.
If the Elf Royal Court arrives here first... Get ready, executioners, the people of Lost Township are here to take revenge. 】
(End of this chapter)