The golden sunset fell little by little into the mountains and forests, painting the surrounding clouds with a golden outline. The sky is like layers, turning from blue to white, then from white to red, and finally turning into afterglow to the earth, making the lush grass turn red.
At the end of the Glen family's territory, there is a raised earth slope, standing on it, you can see the living house, farmland and the woods connecting the valley at the same time. As a child, Nightingale liked to ride on her father's shoulders up low slopes, so that she could have a panoramic view of the whole house. So when the scarred remains of her parents were returned, and the servant asked her where she wanted to bury them, she chose the slope without hesitation.
At that time, although she was devastated, she still didn't want to believe the sudden departure of her family. She only thought that if her parents could open their eyes again, no matter where she and her brother stayed in the house, they would be able to first. See for a while.
Now that she was in front of her parents' tombstones, Nightingale had a completely different mood.
There was not much dust on the stele, and it was obvious that someone was still cleaning it. She leaned down and neatly folded the stack of white paper in her arms before the two steles.
It was the judgment book of Viscount Sommer.
In the face of irrefutable evidence, the Viscount's defenses soon fell apart. After Roland promised that he was not guilty of underage children, he not only admitted the fact that he was selling Dreamland Water, but also explained all the reasons for the annexation of the Glenn family. come out.
It turns out that the valley that separates the two families' territories really contains treasures, but it is not a gemstone vein, but a suspected gold mine.
It was the farmer of the Somer family who discovered it.
Due to the different terrain, the ravines that were considered valleys for the Ge Lan family, gradually became level with the ground in the Somme territory, and farmers would often go downstream to fetch water and bathe. It wasn't until one day that a lucky man found a gold sand from a flowing mountain spring and called in other people to rummage and loot it, that it attracted Dort Sommer's attention.
He immediately blocked the news and sent people along the valley to find the source of the gold sand.
However, the return of his men greatly disappointed him.
The searchers did find more gold sand upstream. It seems that the erosion of the rain caused the valley walls to continue to collapse, allowing the free rough gold to fall into the water, but there is increasing evidence that the gold mine is likely to be located in Glenn. On the home side, this made the exploration operation have to be terminated.
Because of the special status of Silver Light City, the knights and crowds that the nearby nobles are allowed to have are more or less restricted. It is impossible to snatch it out, and Viscount Sommer is really unwilling to give up this huge treasure. He had no choice but to hit the abacus on Viscount Glenn's head.
His breakthrough was the distant relatives of the old Glen Glenn family.
The plan is simple, yet ruthless. He took advantage of the weakness of old Glenn that he had neither title nor fief, to tempt the other party to cooperate with him, and promised that as long as he gave him a piece of land, the Glenn family could change the owner. The latter obviously failed to resist the temptation to become a real nobleman and agreed to his conspiracy.
So Dort bribed the mouse and took advantage of the refugee riot to kill the Glenn and his wife, while the old Glenn took in the underage Hyde and Nightingale in time and began to manage the territory on their behalf. As long as Hyde becomes an adult, forcing him to give up all his fiefs and titles is just an easy task. A heir who has lost his asylum is no different from a caged bird. Even if other nobles are suspicious, they will only think that Old Glenn is too greedy.
At this point, it can be said that it is a foregone conclusion, but Nightingale's awakening made a flaw in this plan. After she killed Old Glenn on the day of her adulthood, she disappeared without a trace, and the latter did not wait until the moment he died. 's title.
Dot Sommer had to change his plan. He could win over old Glenn, but he couldn't make everyone in the Glenn family fall to him. After all, there was only one title that could be used as a bargaining chip, and he had to use it on the blade.
Ironically, he ended up finding Hyde.
At that time, when Nightingale heard this, she only thought it was ridiculous that something that should have belonged to Hyde was used as a bargaining chip, and the latter naively thought that the other party would help him, and agreed to kill the relative without much hesitation. 's proposal.
With the support of the viscount, Hyde stood out from a group of relatives who were fighting for power and profit, and finally kept the title and became the official heir of the Glenn line. Then he merged into the Sommer family as agreed. It's not that he kept his promise, but that the family industry was on the verge of collapse after the infighting, and nine-tenths of the people were lost. Apart from taking refuge, he had no other way to go.
After ten years of planning, the Viscount finally got what he wanted. Even the huge principal required for mining, he also accumulated a little bit by smuggling dream water. As long as the location of the ore vein is discovered, the Sommer family can obtain wealth that lasts for hundreds of years.
However, Roland's appearance shattered his dream.
For a suspected gold mine, he murdered aristocrats of the same rank and broke up several families... The vicious trick that killed nearly 20 people before and after was replaced by a noose around the neck.
From the beginning to the end, he never saw the gold mine.
Nightingale took out the scythe and lit the judgment book.
She once heard Roland say that there is an ancient way of mourning, which is to tie the paper into the shape of the object you want to pass, and then burn it with fire, so that the deceased can receive the object. Because fire can be psychic, fireworks with special will have a certain chance to pass through the gate of life and death, especially at dusk when the two worlds are the closest.
Nightingale hopes that through such a ceremony, the news of the murderer's execution will be communicated to the souls of the parents. Although Roland added later that he didn't really believe in the existence of life and death, she didn't care.
Because this move is not so much to comfort his parents, but more to comfort himself.
By the time she walked down the dirt slope, the sky was completely dark.
Roland was waiting for her not far away, and it was not until she saw the familiar figure that her heart with nowhere to turn suddenly fell to the ground.
"Is this really good? Let that guy leave unharmed," Roland pouted, "I wanted to teach him a lesson a long time ago."
"Oh? In what capacity?" Nightingale raised her eyebrows.
"Uh..." he coughed twice, "of course as a king."
Nightingale smiled and shook her head, "His matter is over, and it has nothing to do with me anymore. If you really want to, you can send someone to find him and beat him up again."
"Since you said so, forget it," Roland spread his hands.
"Well, by the way..." Nightingale suddenly stopped, knelt down on one knee, and saluted her chest like when she swore allegiance for the first time, "Your Majesty, can you allow me to stay by your side and serve you from now on? ?"
"Why did you mention this all of a sudden?" Roland was stunned, "Didn't you say it earlier?"
"But I want to hear you say it again," Nightingale insisted.
Roland shrugged helplessly, turned around and walked to her side, patted her head and said, "Then listen carefully, okay, okay, okay... 100 answers are okay, are you satisfied? ?"
The string of magic power did not tremble at all, and it was as quiet and soft as the earth caught in the darkness.
It was great to meet him.
Nightingale raised the corner of her mouth and smiled, "As you wish, Your Majesty."