To be honest, Rebecca is really not good at this aspect, even if Gao Wen has explained it to her, she just can't understand it—but she understands one thing, that is, her own His ancestors don't seem to have a good impression of the current King Francis II.
"It's not enough to be hostile, but it's absolutely necessary to be on guard," Gawain replied casually upon hearing Rebecca's question. He glanced at Amber standing next to him, but still said generously, "The first The Second Dynasty, don't forget that it is now the 'Second Dynasty'. For a royal family that is not very legitimate, the Cecil family can be said to be after the founding heroes, but it can also be said to be... people from the previous dynasty Even if we don't have the heart, Francis II, as the king, has to have concerns in this regard, and his concerns determine my vigilance."
"So you want to trouble His Majesty the King?" Rebecca asked with blinking eyes.
"No, I don't actually want to trouble him," Gao Wen shrugged, "I'm just making trouble."
Rebecca: "Huh?!"
Gao Wen really couldn't explain this issue to Rebecca, so he directly changed the subject: "Forget it, these are not important, let's continue the topic just now. Amber..."
Without waiting for orders, Amber raised her hands to express her understanding: "I know, I know, go and watch outside, right—hey, hard work..."
"No," Gao Wen raised his eyebrows, "I mean you can stay by the side - of course, if you feel bored, you can go back to your room to rest first, you should be tired after all the hard work tonight, right?"
Amber looked at Gao Wen incredulously: "Hey, are you suddenly showing kindness?"
Immediately afterwards, she shook her head and moved slowly to the desk: "I'm not going back, I want to see what you two are up to... By the way, it's not really about sharing the inheritance, is it?"
Gawain shook his head, ignored the half-elf, and placed the previous platinum disc on the table again.
"You said it was a key just now," Rebecca remembered what Gawain had just said, "Could it be our family's secret treasure?"
Amber immediately froze her ears, but still deliberately looked around, as fake as she wanted.
Gao Wen smiled: "It is indeed a treasure. It is a hidden treasure house located on the southern border, but it was originally prepared for the Kingdom of Ansu. Of course, it should not be considered a treasure for the Kingdom today. What a huge wealth—but for the pioneering team that had just fled to this land that year, it was half the property of the expeditionary army."
Rebecca's eyes widened.
"It was originally an important insurance for the Kingdom of Ansu. After all, in those days, no one knew what would happen the next day," Gao Wen said with a smile, and said the real purpose of this trip to the capital. The team fled from the Gondor wasteland all the way to the north. As we moved, we incorporated and gathered the surviving survivors on the wasteland, and collected various resources at the same time, so the team became larger, bloated, and eye-catching. As a result, we crossed the dark mountains At that time, an army of monsters wandering from the wasteland found us. The army covered the civilians and moved in the mountains. Of course, the speed could not keep up with those restless monsters, so a fierce battle broke out. The battle lost a lot Big, when counting the losses after the war, Charlie and I realized one thing: those monsters will not let it go, if they continue to carry all the luggage over the mountains, the whole team may die on the road, so the two of us made a decision...
"We kept a part of the luggage that would seriously slow down the team, and hid it deep in an abandoned frontier fortress. At the same time, we imposed a strong seal on the treasure house, and then the team moved lightly and continued to march north.
"You also know the history after that-the pioneering team established a firm foothold in the north, and established a new kingdom center between the Holy Spirit Plain and the mountains in the north. Charles I built a city in the Sunil area, but the south The batch of supplies... is still lying there quietly."
Rebecca asked curiously, "Why didn't you take them back?"
"In the beginning, it was because the situation was unstable and the cost was too high," Gao Wen explained, "At that time, the pollution was still spreading, and the monsters even spread the corruption area to the north side of the Dark Mountains, so the place where we left the luggage was It has become a polluted area, and it is unwise to send a team to pick up goods from that place. And more importantly, we have found abundant resources among the mountains in the north of the kingdom, and the Plains of the Holy Spirit have also begun to produce a steady stream of Wealth, it won't take long for these newly added wealth to surpass the supplies left in the south, and under these two factors, the treasure house in the mountains in the south is slowly being forgotten."
Rebecca looked at the platinum disc in Gawain's hand: "But it doesn't seem to be completely forgotten..."
"Yes, of course the pioneers remembered where they hid their treasures. Although that wealth will become less and less important in the foreseeable future, it is after all a 'commemoration' of that epic development, and we I thought that when the magic tide will eventually subside naturally, future generations will be able to retrieve those things safely one day, so Charlie and I made an agreement: our two families will keep this secret separately, and we will keep those things in the south. The story of the treasure is passed down from generation to generation, and the heirs of the Cecils and the Moenes will know all about it, and if one day the tide subsides and the kingdom needs the property, we will take them out. Just think, The ancient secrets that have been passed down for hundreds of years, the treasure house passed down from generation to generation by the royal family and the founding nobles, and the legacy hidden in the mountains, you need a token to open it—Anyway, that old middle schooler Charlie thinks it will be cool.”
Amber looked Gao Wen up and down: "Is this decision you two made after drinking too much?"
Gao Wen: "... You can almost think so."
Rebecca stared blankly at her ancestor, and said after a long time, "But I, the heir of Cecil, have never heard of this story..."
"This way of inheritance is always prone to problems," Gao Wen sighed, "The death was quite sudden back then, and I didn't have time to explain it to future generations..."
Rebecca: "…"
"But Charlie seems to have passed the secret to his descendants very well," Gao Wen coughed twice to break the embarrassment, and at the same time raised the platinum disc in his hand, "I'm here to confirm this Is the key still there? If it is still there, it means that in the past 700 years, the Ansu royal family has not used that property. Charlie knows this secret, and so do his descendants who have passed it down normally, but— The illegitimate child doesn't know."
From 635 to 636 in Ansu, a civil strife destroyed the inheritance order of the royal family. The king did not have time to leave heirs, and all the brothers and sisters of the king died in the civil war. I don't know if it's true or not, the illegitimate child ascended the throne...
Even if the illegitimate child is real, it is impossible for him to know the secret of the southern treasure house.
"Those things..." Rebecca looked at the "key" with bright eyes, but then frowned, "But can we really use it casually? That's..."
Gao Wen glanced at the great-granddaughter on the N+1 floor: "Of course, you are the heir of the Cecil family, show some confidence. Charlie and I buried those things together. Except for Charlie himself, the world Is there anyone in the world who is more suitable to inherit that property than me? I don't believe that Charlie can jump out of the coffin like me... "
Rebecca thought for a while, then suddenly turned her head and grabbed Hu Po's arm: "You must not dig the imperial tomb!"
Amber: "...what?"
Immediately afterwards, the half-elf lady suddenly became excited, and stared at Gawain nervously: "Wait! I... I heard such a confidential matter... You don't really intend to take this opportunity to kill me, do you? "
Gao Wen really wanted to slap her on the wall with his sword at this time: "I want to kill you, so I have to wait until now?"
The tension on Amber's face didn't go down at all: "Then, what you two said made me an outsider, wouldn't it be..."
"First, I trust you quite a bit now. Second, I know that you are actually a smart person." Gao Wen raised the disc in his hand, "The only bold idea you might have is to steal this disc, but However, this disc must be activated by the blood of the Moen family or the Cecil family, and it is hard to say whether the blood of the Moen family really exists in the world, so obviously, if you want to get some benefits, you can only …”
Hu Po took a step forward, raised her chest and raised her head righteously: "It is a great honor to serve the founding hero, and I, Hu Po, will do my best to do my duty with all my heart—what is the point of money for something so epic, right?"
"Then I really won't talk about money with you..."
"Of course, if you insist on talking about money with me, I can't help it."
It was the first time for Gao Wen to see a person who was shameless and at the same time righteous to such an extent...
In the second half of the night, there were finally no visitors to disturb.
The row of mousetrap and nails that Gawain placed on the window sill of the study failed to be of any use.
Although these things are not very useful to shadow stalkers who don't speak science...
On the second day, after recuperating, Gao Wen and his party arrived at Silver Fort.
It was still yesterday's inner court official who was in charge of the reception, and Francis II also reproduced the grand welcome scene yesterday—the work for face can be said to be sufficient.
And this time, two teams of messengers specially rode out from the Silver Fort, patrolled along the two main roads outside the Royal District to clear the road, and used amplified magic to convey loudly, "The Founding Duke of Ansu, Gawain... Cecil is about to step into Silver Castle" news.
It seemed that Prince Edmund had conveyed Gawain's wishes to his father very well, and Francis II had done enough to show off in front of outsiders.
I just don't know how the shadow guard reciprocated after returning - this point should be easy to judge after seeing Francis II's face.
After tidying up his appearance and attire, and making sure that the Pioneer Sword on his waist was in the most eye-catching position, Gawain strode into the Silver Castle with his head held high.