After making a special mark on the confidential letter, it was rolled up and sealed with sealing varnish meticulously. After all this was done, Viscount Andrew exhaled lightly, recalling whether he had missed or made mistakes.
Probably not anymore—the previously agreed content has been written in the secret letter, and the writing is very true and reliable. Viscount Andrew is quite confident in his ability to fabricate stories. He feels that anyone who sees the secret letter will believe it He really was a witness to "that thing".
All that remains is to see if the old king far away in the capital is willing to believe this matter itself.
No, it should be said that he wants to admit the authenticity of this matter.
This was a somewhat risky move, but Viscount Andrew was not a person who resisted taking risks—if he hadn't taken risks, it would have been impossible for him to stand out from the seven siblings and become the heir to the Leslie family.
He just didn't expect his new adventure to be tied to the Cecil family.
That family that was already in decline, withdrew from the political center of the kingdom a hundred years ago, is so thin that it is about to die out naturally in modern times.
Viscount Andrew has always been very concerned about his "neighbors". This is not only because the territories of the two sides are adjacent and there are many trade contacts on weekdays, but also because the decline of the Cecil family has become more serious in the past two years. If the original progress continues, basically in Andrew's lifetime, he can expect to double the territory of Leslie's family - the little girl who hastily inherited the family business is not a qualified lord at all, although she is working hard, she is sure I can't keep my family business.
It's just that fate made a joke for everyone, and it was in a way that no one could have imagined: when he heard that Cecil was destroyed by monsters, Andrew was completely dumbfounded; He was still ignorant when the magic wave creatures were very close; he was also ignorant when he heard a merchant who entered the city mention a dragon appeared; when Rebecca Cecil and Hetty Cecil brought When a man claiming to be their ancestor entered the castle... Viscount Andrew showed great composure and acceptance.
That's because he finally got used to it.
But after finishing talking with the "Master Ancestor" and returning to his dormitory, Viscount Andrew felt that he had made the right decision.
A soon-to-be-dying noble lineage and a land that has been burned to the ground are worthless, and no amount of squeezing can squeeze out any water. If you want to recover the cost, you might as well turn from a greedy squeezer into a generous good neighbor, Moreover, the existence of that "Master Ancestor" is even more crucial - Viscount Andrew has now 90% believed in the authenticity of this matter - whether Cecil's family has that old ancestor is completely two concepts.
He sealed the secret letter into a silver tube, and wrapped a circle of magic silk around the silver tube, and then handed it to the old steward standing beside him: "Give it to the best ranger courier—set off on a griffin, and let the courier arrive in the first place." Send it to Silver Keep when the messenger arrives and before the Cecils arrive."
The butler took the silver box and was about to turn around and leave when Viscount Andrew stopped him: "Wait a minute, and you go to the silver vault—return the gold and silver belonging to Cecil's family as they are."
"Yes, Lord Viscount. But is it okay to just return it as it is?"
"It's enough to return them as they are. When they leave, I will prepare a little more in the name of travel expenses."
The situation has changed. The "fee" charged for that ridiculous greed has now become a hot potato. Returning it as it is is only the first step, but it cannot be overdone all at once.
Viscount Andrew seriously weighed in his heart, and hoped that the ancient man seven hundred years ago could understand his sincerity.
It was dark.
Gawain put on his nightgown, pushed open the balcony door of his room, and came to the balcony on the second floor of the Viscount Castle.
There is no moon in the night of this world. In the deep sky, there are only stars that are more dense than on the earth. Those twinkling stars bring a cool brilliance to this land. Every starlight is special to Gao Wen strangeness.
Ever since he came to this world, he has loved looking up at the sky—whether it is day or night. During the day, look at the huge but not too dazzling "sun", and at night, look at the moonless night.
His eyes moved among the stars, trying to find a static and special celestial body among the twinkling stars.
But this is doomed to be a futile attempt. There are so many stars, and he doesn't have enough information and calculation data, it is impossible for him to find the position where he looked down on the earth, and even if he finds it, he has no way to distinguish it from the sky full of stars.
But he just couldn't help it, because he knew better than anyone that there were secrets hidden in the sky of this world. There's something there, maybe some kind of surveillance device, a satellite, a space station, or a ship. Although it is very likely that it has stopped now, it cannot be ruled out that there are other things that have not stopped still hanging in the sky.
He used to be part of that surveillance device—this was the closest guess Gawain came up with after thinking about it for many days.
If he didn't have the experience of looking down on the earth, if he passed through Gawain Cecil as soon as he arrived here, then he would not have this cognition at all, and would not have the corresponding pressure, but he is Knowing something, and being a modern-minded earth soul, he couldn't help his curiosity about the sky...and worry.
What is that hanging in the sky? What effect will it or they have on the earth? Will it or will they hang there so peacefully? What purpose did it or their makers—if there were makers—have
All this gave Gao Wen a sense of urgency that could not be understood by outsiders, as if a person on earth suddenly knew that there was an alien spaceship parked in the orbit above his head, even if the ship was hundreds of thousands of years old or even Being motionless for hundreds of thousands of years, it is difficult for people living on the ground to settle down.
You have to understand it or their ins and outs to sleep soundly.
And even without this worry, Gawain couldn't turn a blind eye to the sky just out of curiosity.
"Say you look up at the sky every day—either the sun or the stars."
Suddenly a girl's voice came from behind him. Gawain looked back, but saw the half-elf lady thief sitting on the railing of the balcony with her back turned to the outside, looking at him with a smile, her legs dangling under the railing. Swing back and forth, not worried about falling.
Gao Wen glanced at her: "It's not very polite to sneak up on other people's balconies in the middle of the night to scare people."
"Night is my world, there are shadows everywhere, I can go wherever I want," Amber swayed on the railing, her body melted into the shadows, and appeared on the other side of the balcony the next moment, "And you are so dignified The great hero of a hundred years ago, are you still afraid that someone will suddenly talk to you at night?"
Gao Wen didn't have the nerve to admit that he did have goosebumps just now...
"By the way, what are you looking at every day?" Amber saw that Gao Wen didn't say a word, so she changed the subject, "Looking at the sun during the day is to identify the direction, but looking at the stars at night is astrology? Do you know astrology?"
"What do you think there will be in the sky?" Gao Wen asked the other party.
"Heaven? Isn't it just the stars and the sun?" Amber replied casually, "Oh right... You don't want to tell me that the palaces of the gods are also in the sky, and then preach to me? Then I'm not interested ——I believe in the Goddess of Shadow and Night, that is, Lady Ye. Lady Ye’s divine kingdom is in the deepest part of the starless night, which is completely different from the sky in the real world. I just need to close my eyes and pray every day. God bless you!"
"Are you really a believer of the Goddess of the Night?" Gawain glanced at Amber in surprise. Although he has no beliefs, he still knows a lot about the world's religions from Gawain Cecil's memory. , those various gods and sects of all sizes opened his eyes, but at the same time kept them at a distance, but he didn't expect that the thief in front of him, who seemed to have nothing to do with piety, turned out to be a person of faith.
"Believe it casually. Anyway, Ms. Ye neither asks for offerings, nor does she know how to give oracle, and she doesn't need to pay regular visits to worship or sacrifice. It doesn't cost me a copper coin. Why don't I just believe it?" Amber said casually in the real Hearing the rebellious words of the believers, "And the way of shadow has something to do with the power of Ms. Ye. Sometimes I feel that I can really become a little bit stronger after praying—although it turns out to be an illusion after drinking too much. .”
Gawain curled his lips, and decided to ignore this half-elf who had no clue.
It's a disgrace to the elves—no matter what her other half bloodline is, it's also a shame to the corresponding bloodline.
"Hey, why don't you talk anymore?" Amber didn't intend to let him go, "You haven't said anything yet, what are you looking at?"
Gao Wen squinted at her: "Have you ever heard a saying that after death, a person's soul will return to the sky, wandering among the stars, and each star is actually the soul of an ancestor..."
"I have never heard of it. I heard that after the death of a person with faith, his soul will be taken away by the corresponding god he believed in, and then he will be happy in the kingdom of God, while the soul of a person without faith will be taken away by the god of death after death, and then The wife of the god of death combed out all the memories with an iron comb, and then threw them back into the world—so some people say that all beings in the world are believers of the god of death by default regardless of their beliefs," Amber Barabara said, "but this one of yours The saying is also very interesting, people will go to heaven after death? Is this a religious saying seven hundred years ago?"
Gao Wen was a little embarrassed: "No, this is..."
"Ah, that's right! You were dead before!" Amber looked at Gao Wen with wide eyes as if she had discovered a new world, then came to him with a sway, leaned over and asked anxiously, "Did you die that year?" After that, he went to heaven where he was? What is it like to die? Tell me about it!"
"Go, go, go!" Gao Wen pressed Amber's face and pushed her away forcefully, "When a person dies, he doesn't know anything, understand? I was just idling and talking nonsense!"
"Tch..." Amber stared at Gao Wen for a long time, and turned away after confirming that the other party really didn't want to tell her, "Old people are so boring."
Gao Wen: "Say it again?!"
In a flash, Amber was gone.