01.
When Hill walked into Jackson's house, the servants were walking around with fruit plates, candles, red wine and other things needed for the banquet. Jefferson Jackson's birthday party was held tonight. Jefferson was born in winter. Jackson Sr. once mocked his son and said that he thought he could be as strong and brave as a man born in winter, but it seems that he was born frozen and left sequelae, so the whole person is soft Chirp.
This is the common complaint of a father to his son. Although Jefferson did not meet the requirements of the old Jackson, he was already much better than his peers. ——Although the excellence seems to be worse than that. cough.
After Jefferson started joining Hill's work, he matured at a visible rate, and Jackson Sr. was happy with that. This birthday party was organized by old Jackson. To be honest, Jefferson should have gotten married long ago at his age. Seeing that his younger sister is engaged to Bingdi, he doesn't even have a lover. The last time Jackson Sr. discussed this with him, Jefferson said he liked Violet's best.
Old Jackson was speechless on the spot.
Old Jackson is actually a very open-minded father. He can accept his son's different sexual orientations. He can like men or women. Anyway, now that magic is developed, men and women can have children, but he didn't expect that his son no longer likes three-dimensional humans. , to like the paper man, this, this...
Old Jackson didn't know for a while whether he should blame Greenwald who moved the anime to the human world, or his own son... In the end, he rolled his eyes, forget it, what he doesn't see is what he loves.
Today, Hill was wearing a beautiful red coat embroidered with the flame logo of the demon world. The black velvet cloak was covered with silver threads and pearls. The gloves and cloak came in a set. It looked elegant and beautiful, but not too extravagant. Some snowflakes fell on the cloak, so Hill shivered on the porch like a big shaggy dog, and the servant who knew him immediately led him to the other room so that he would not be entangled by other guests, after all now Hill's popularity is really too high.
As soon as he sat down in the other room, a servant led him to another room, and Hill casually followed him to the old Jackson's bedroom. After passing through a corridor covered with golden carpets, Hill remembered something, and he said to the servant: "Get Theodore."
"My lord has also ordered this matter, but now Lord Theodore is in the palace... er, I mean, with Princess Lydia," said the servant. Now the relationship between Theodore and Princess Lydia is no secret, and Master Yulan also acquiesces.
Hill put on a domineering demon king: "Then find him too, drag me here even on the bed, and say that I am looking for him."
The servant bowed in reverence and fear, and left immediately.
When Hill walked into the old Jackson's bedroom alone, the old Jackson was watching "A Song of Ice and Fire". The fire in the fireplace was burning very luxuriantly, and the room was soaked in a warm orange-red light. The temperature was very high and steamy.
Hill opened his mouth and said, "Shocked! A certain duke actually invited the devil to his bedroom to do this kind of thing..."
Old Jackson didn't react for a while: "What?"
Hill continued: "Shocked! The devil who was invited into the bedroom by the Duke actually called a third person!"
Old Jackson reacted this time: "...you have cat cakes."
"Hahahaha..." Hill himself was happy for a while, and then said: "It's really hot here." Then he said: "Shocked, the bedroom of the famous duke is so..."
"Stop, stop," Old Jackson made a surrender gesture commonly used in the Yulan Continent: "Stop talking, I was wrong, I admit that I was wrong, although I don't know where I was wrong."
Hilton smiled even more happily, it was really interesting to entertain himself. Well... it's more interesting to base your own happiness on other people's pain. Hey.
"You are not the first person to say that the bedroom is hot." Old Jackson closed the book and tried to look serious: "Welcome, Your Highness Greenwald."
"Oh, thanks. Then, I must not be the last to say that," Hill said.
"Yes, when the third person told me this winter that your bedroom is too hot, I finally realized that I am old," said Jackson Sr., "I used to ride horses with Henry and MacPherson I have traveled across half of the empire, vigorous and powerful, but up to now, I can't even resist the cold of winter."
Hill was unmoved, he walked over and closed the "A Song of Ice and Fire" in front of the old Jackson: "However, your Emperor Henry is now a scrapped puppet, and your General MacPherson's power has been exhausted. You have been emptied out, and only you are at the top of the sky, why are you so cute? Old Jackson, your all-powerful situation is definitely much more powerful than it was back then."
Magnolia King Henry Lewis, General MacPherson Cecil and Elijah Jackson grew up together.
"It's just a little emotional." The old Jackson looked down at the hardcover cover of "A Song of Ice and Fire", on which there was a sentence: In the game of thrones, the wrong winner is only a dead end, there is no middle ground. Hill rubbed his fingers on the good parchment on the cover, and his fingertips led the eyes of old Jackson, and after tracing the sentence, old Jackson seemed to be talking to himself, and said softly: "I just found out I didn't do it right before."
"Yeah." Hill flicked the cover of the book with his fingers, then turned and leaned directly on the table, with a wild but comfortable posture, "If I were you, I would have disregarded the old feelings and gobbled up other forces. I wouldn't Give Emperor Yulan a chance to take power again, I will become a courtier to control the power, keep Emperor Yulan in the dark, I will make Emperor Yulan inseparable from me, from body to soul—of course it doesn’t mean that, that means, you understand ?”
Old Jackson's mouth twitched: "You don't need to explain, I'm not you, I won't get it wrong."
"Oh, I can hear you mocking me." Hill said, "You're talking about me, aren't you?"
"...Your Highness, let's get down to business." Old Jackson said with difficulty.
"Okay, let's get down to business." Hill actually put on a look of disappointment, and then he pulled the corner of his lower lip, with a bit of sarcasm: "You are too old, old Jackson, so you did not do well at that time." Qualified. You're a bit like Eddard Stark, he's had a lot of chances, you've had a lot of chances, and neither of you took them."
"I was so nostalgic at the time because he was nostalgic." Old Jackson sighed, "If anyone else talked back in public like I did, they would have been dragged down long ago."
"That's because you have too many principles." Hill said lightly: "He has feelings for you, and you have feelings for him. This doesn't solve any problems. It is a very stupid behavior to let emotions blind your reason, and what's more. What's more, you are still in such a position. This is the same as falling in love and getting married. He likes you, but he is crazy about cheating and sleeping with other people. What's the use of this kind of liking?" After talking about this, Hilton paused, "Play around You can not only talk back to him in public, but you can also talk back to him in other places.”
Old Jackson twitched the corners of his lips: "Although what you said is the truth, your example is still so vivid that I don't agree with it."
"So you also think my statement is very vivid." Hill said.
Old Jackson didn't know if he should keep this conversation going...
At this moment, Theodore and the servant came in together. Theodore was wearing a black soft armor, with a dark sharp knife stuck in his waist, and the neckline was tied with black belts interlaced. He looked clean and neat. Yiyi: "Your Highness, Your Excellency, good day," he said.
"You're here, sit down." Hill raised his hand and said teasingly, "I heard you're at Her Royal Highness's place?"
"Yeah." Theodore responded readily, "I plan to come to Jefferson's birthday party in a while, but I didn't expect you to come here, Your Highness, so I hurriedly bid farewell to Princess Lydia."
"It's so beautiful that I have nothing to say..." Hill murmured.
Old Jackson showed a horrible expression, he knew what Hill was going to say. But Theodore didn't know, he was a little confused, so he started another topic: "Damn it, it's been snowing recently." He complained: "Many caravans don't want to go out."
"I'll go back and see if we can equip our caravan with a magic stove or something." Hill said that when he took Alice to Mülheim, he gave her a stone full of fire elements to maintain the temperature. Also available for sale. Hill intends to pull a pile of stones in the dragon crater and sell them.
"That would be great." Theodore said happily: "Master Baker will be happy after hearing this."
The servants served hot black tea and snacks to Theodore. After taking a sip of the black tea, Theodore shivered and completely relaxed. At present, Yulan City has also entered winter in an all-round way.
"How's it going?" Hill asked.
"Basically stable," Theodore replied, "However," his voice was a little cloudy, "the church will send envoys to meet His Majesty."
"Oh, you can figure it out." Hill said, "It's time for the church to do something about it."
"Uh, Your Highness Greenwald, I may be limited..." Theodore tried to struggle.
"It's come to this point, if you still say that your ability is limited, then I will make your life limited." Hill showed a kind smile.
Theodore Khan: "Yes yes. I do."
Hill thought for a while, and said: "There are some eyeliners of the church in the palace. You and the princess will see how to clean them up, and also deal with the affairs of the Bolai family. You can't just leave it like this. Oh, there is also Mir among the guards of Emperor Yulan. Haim's eyeliner, don't deal with it, pack it up and send it back."
Theodore was taken aback: "How do you know?"
"I whispered something to Emperor Yulan, and the Ice Emperor will find out in a few days, isn't it obvious." Hill remembered the time when Ice Emperor Claude directly pointed out that he was the Demon King instead of a prince①, and he suddenly felt Somewhat upset.
Seeing that Theodore was about to say words of admiration, Hill quickly interrupted and turned to look at Old Jackson: "If there is any problem with the church, you can help solve it."
Old Jackson's mouth twitched, "Hey, Greenwald, this is not something that can be easily solved."
Hill waved his paw casually, "I believe you, old Jackson, you are the best, old Jackson, I'll go first~" While saying this nonsense, Hill actually got up and slipped away.
Old Jackson and Theodore were left behind, all showing twitching expressions.
This, this unreliable devil king!
After Hill walked out of the corridor, he saw almost all the guests in the hall, and a desire was stirring in his heart. He walked to the landing on the second floor and took a glass of wine from the servant.
At this time, many people have seen him, and someone has already screamed: "Your Highness Greenwald!"
"It's Your Highness!"
Hill raised his hand to signal them to be quiet: "Everyone, I left beforehand, and I feel sorry for not being able to attend Jefferson's birthday party."
At this time, Jefferson in another room had already rushed to the main hall, and he quickly said that he was fine, and the matter of His Royal Highness Greenwald was important.
"I would like to propose a joint toast here, wishing Viscount Jefferson a happy birthday." Hill raised his glass and said.
"Happy birthday, Viscount Jefferson." Everyone said in unison.
"And then birthday presents," Hill said, "a pair of dark elf bodyguards, a succubus butler, and 1,000 magic crystals—or 10,000 gold coins, Jefferson chooses."
As soon as Hill finished speaking, exclamations came one after another from below.
Jefferson Jackson himself was stupid.
This, what kind of gift is this...
In fact, leaving aside the demons, the seemingly crazy 1000 magic spar is just the income of a trip to the immersive theater. Now the "Pirates of the Caribbean" immersive theater has been held three times, and the money is really rushing into the pocket.
As for the Mozu. Now it's a tear with the church. For important people, just in case, Hill plans to send demons to protect them. This time, it was also given away in the name of birthday.
In addition, Hill has another plan, that is, the demons no longer need to sell miserably, and the direction of the demons will no longer be "we are so pitiful, please sympathize with us, the church of light is really bullying people qaq ", and use the prosperity and beauty of the demon world to arouse human yearning—of course, this transition must be done well, otherwise it will be too rigid.
After a moment of dementia, Jefferson came to his senses, and he said directly: "Thanks to Your Highness for the gift, I decided to donate all 1,000 magic spar to the 'Bird of Dawn' to help civilians."
Hill nodded, as expected of Old Jackson's son, he smiled and clapped his hands, "What an excellent young man, I'm glad Old Jackson has a son like you."
The other nobles in the hall also applauded.
Alright, after swiping each other's prestige points and pretending to be an X, they attracted a lot of attention, satisfied, and retired.
02.
"Invincible Hulk" filming.
In the different world of this period, tobacco has been gradually recognized by the public, but many people still regard it as a rare thing. During this period, tobacco was mainly used to cure diseases and play up the atmosphere of pretending to be ghosts.
Smoking does have a certain anti-virus effect. When the plague was rampant in England in the 15th century, the probability of surviving smokers was much higher than that of non-smokers. Later, London required all public schools, regardless of gender, age, to smoke to resist the plague. be punished. … is also wonderfully wonderful.
Hill first appeared in the movie about smoking. At the beginning of the movie, he directly explained in a few words how Master Banner mutated by injecting demon blood for experiments, and then shot the out-of-control Hulk and hurt many other people. General Ross of the Yulan Empire stood in the military hall, puffing out clouds of smoke. In the smog, there was a shot of Master Banner fleeing all the way. The broken silhouette, the army was dispersed, the famous mage was injured, and many people witnessed the huge green monster. …finally General Ross exhales a puff of smoke at the camera, and the smoke makes up the movie title of The Incredible Hulk.
Such a two-minute thing took a whole day to shoot.
In fact, most of the time is spent on the scene of Lord Anthony Blake, who plays General Ross, smoking a cigarette, and he is choking on the smoke. That's right, it's too difficult for a person who has never smoked to show calmness and aura while smoking.
Oh yes, it is Olivia's uncle Anthony Blake who plays the father of the girlfriend of Master Banner's girlfriend, and it was Ice Emperor Cloud who encouraged him to play.
After The Incredible Hulk, Hill reckons tobacco is on the way.
A similar trend... After the Fallen Angel promotional video was released, Hill went to collect some Fallen Angel feathers and sold them in the Devil's Mall. Three gold coins apiece were sold out in just one day, which surprised Hill very much. After he went back, he talked to the fallen angel, and stretched out his claws. The fallen angels protected their wings in panic. But later, some feathers were taken away by Hill. When Hill returned to the human world, he found that many unscrupulous traders used the black feathers of birds to pretend to be the feathers of fallen angels and sold them privately, and they sold well... Hill Couldn't help but twitched the corner of his mouth.
Afterwards, the price of the fallen angel's feather became 30 gold coins, which directly doubled by ten times.
The fallen angels thus have a good way to make a fortune. If they have no money, they can pluck a feather and sell it... It really is a million gold...
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