Chapter Twenty-Three: Peace
Early morning.
Dora Wolfitz washed up, stood on the scales and weighed herself, breathed a sigh of relief at the numbers, and then put on her coat and trousers. The weather is gradually warming, so she chose a more slim style, which looks youthful and dynamic. When she went out, she happened to see Zhang Qingyi who was going downstairs, so she greeted: "Hi! β
"Hi. You're so beautiful today. The other party laughed.
"Thank you." Dora was a little happy in her heart, secretly remembering this style, and said, "I'm going to the playground with my friends now, will you go?" β
"I'd love to go, but I just had an appointment."
"Another appointment? Got a girlfriend? Dora deliberately laughed in a sneaky and ambiguous manner, appearing very gossipy.
Qingyi laughed: "It's the friend you've also seen!" I'm so homely, how can I have a girlfriend. β
"Oh!" Dora breathed a sigh of relief as if she had weighed again. She and Qingyi went downstairs together, and finally shouted: "I have a party at my house tonight, you remember to come over!" β
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Today and Sunday, Qingyi went to see a psychiatrist, and Li Mo accompanied him as usual.
Along the way, Li Mo chirped crookedly, complaining about this troublesome thing, that thing troublesome, just like a middle-aged and elderly woman who has entered menopause. Qingyi knew that this guy came to complain, and secondly, he took the opportunity to report his work, and he couldn't help but feel funny. When he heard that "Prince Saramonro is ready to surrender to Bigbower", he became serious.
His Royal Highness the Prince of Saramonro has always been at odds with the Dusk Empire, and it was he who came forward to stimulate Qingyi with words and force Qingyi to give up the surname Saramonro, and then later, for example, Qingyi lifted the time magic for his beloved son, and His Royal Highness the Prince also secretly targeted it. Now that the capitulation faction within Saramonro has raised its head, it is strange to say that the prince did not play a role in this.
"It's not a good sign." Qingyi blinked and remembered the past: "I signed a blood oath with King Saramonroe and will never betray each other, but Saramonro is not his alone now, so he can't help himself many times." β
"You mean, it would be much better off without his brother?" Li Mo said with a smile. His words meant that many people were going to die.
"Not really." Qingyi's noncommittal answer means that many people don't have to die. "Forget it, with Love and Oscol to deal with, there won't be any twists and turns in this matter. How is Ann Gill doing? β
"Your son is fine, but he has to deal with religious affairs every day and is very busy."
Qingyi shook his head. The young Pope, who sounds very powerful, is actually a hard-pressed child who urgently needs to be relieved. But everyone has their own way to go, and Qingyi will not interfere. He suddenly remembered his daughterβshe must have shed a lot of tears in the Savage Secret Realm, right? But that's also the path she chose.
When he came to the clinic, Li Mo sat in the reception room as usual and took out an old machine. Qingyi saw that it was not a game console he had seen before, so he approached, and then pointed to the piles of squares on the black and white screen and shouted, "Tetris?!" Where did you dig out the old antiques? β
"When I was a child, my dad gave me a gift when I finished a whole set of Bagua Lotus Palms for the first time. Hehe, I didn't expect it to turn on! β
Qingyi "cut" and expressed disdain, although his father had never even given him a toothpick since he was a child. He pushed the door open, greeted Dr. House, and sat down. Dr. House turned on the music player, and this time it was not blues, but the well-known "Jasmine" by Chinese.
"Chinese classical music is beautiful, and my wife loves to listen to it." Dr. House turned the monitor away, "Mr. Zhang, you seem to be in the spotlight again. β
Qingyi glanced at the screen, only to see that it was displayed on the "Gospel" forum of "Qiankun", and seventy percent of the post titles on the front page of the forum were related to him. He shrugged: "A bunch of idle and boring guys. β
"You're not the Necromancer anymore, are you?"
"Don't go around talking about this secret." Qingyi was joking, which was a tacit acquiescence. He knew that Dr. House would never compromise the privacy of his patients.
The doctor turned the monitor back: "Since you are no longer the king of necromancy, have you 'put it down'?" β
Qingyi's smile froze, and then sighed, "No." β
When he was a child, he was attacked by dogs, but his father stood by and watched, which caused him to have a serious psychological shadow, which made him occasionally show a cold and ruthless side, and even erected the image of a white bone tyrant in his heart. Once he becomes a tyrant of white bones, he will do any cruel things. Jiang Huahuo once told him to "let go", which is the meaning of Oriental Zen - let go of obsession, put down the butcher knife, and be himself.
But he couldn't put it down. As Dr. House said, the Bone Tyrant is not the cause, but the result, even if Qingyi turns back into an ordinary player, his psychological shadow still lingers, and he can't "let go". He was still afraid of canines, and he still hated his father, and he never knew what a life of fear and hatred should be like.
Dr. House smiled gently, "It's okay, let's take our time, this kind of thing can't be rushed." Have you seen any visions of a bloody mouth lately? β
"Nope." Qingyi thought about it carefully: "Yes, after losing the throne, I have never been sick, it seems that tourism really has a stress-relieving effect." β
"Traveling in the game can also be relaxing? It seems that I can recommend new ways to decompress to other patients. β
"Doctor, there are many advantages to traveling in the game, not only do you not have to spend high travel costs, but you can also see the ultimate scenery that you have never seen in reality."
"I feel like you travel for a purpose, not just for relaxation."
Qingyi thought about it for a while and said with a wry smile: "You are right. Although I can't govern, I never forget my responsibility, and when I see something that is beneficial to the development of the country during my travels, I think about how to get it back. Chinese officials go to study abroad for tourism, but I travel abroad for the purpose of studying. β
"What did I learn? Learn a new possibility. Instead of centralizing power, the 'Huaxia' Necromantic King chose a more extensive management model. I don't like this model because it's too easy to be betrayed; Even if no one betrays, the country cannot be united, and there is likely to be someone dragging its feet when defending against foreign enemies, and there will be internal friction even in peacetime. Of course, there are also advantages, if the manager can guide the unnecessary internal friction to healthy competition, the whole country will slowly improve the national strength, after all, born in sorrow, died in peace, the sub-feudal system can be regarded as artificially creating worries to stimulate the growth of national strength. When I completely put the Twilight Empire in order, I may adopt this system as well, so that I can be lazy. β
Dr. House said, "I thought kings liked to have a monopoly on power. β
"There's no one who doesn't like to have a monopoly on power, but not everyone likes to have a lot of opportunities. The ultimate goal of being a manager is to let the workers work hard for themselves, not for themselves, otherwise the money will collapse and no amount of money will be meaningless. β
"It's amazing that you know this at this age." The doctor exclaimed.
"It's not a big deal, it's just that I saw too much money when I was a child, and I felt that money was the least thing to be cherished." Qingyi spread out his right hand in front of his eyes, his fingers flexed and stretched to grasp, and said: "What is worth cherishing is always not easy to get and easy to lose." β
These words were old-fashioned, and the two were silent for a while, and then the conversation was hasty.
At the end of today's treatment, Qingyi chatted with Li Mo, and suddenly asked on a whim: "Do you know what 'all laws are clear'?" β
"Yes, but how do you know?" Li Mohu looked at Qingyi suspiciously, just like he was suspicious of the illiterate who knew how to memorize the "Preface to King Teng's Pavilion": "This is an extremely high realm in martial arts. β
"How tall?"
"Hmm...... I haven't heard of anyone practicing it in nearly a hundred years. Why do you ask this? β
"Just ask." Qingyi turned his face away, Li Mo knew that this guy was perfunctory, and he was so angry that his teeth itched.
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Bigbowo, the capital.
In the fifty-mile radius of the palace, there was not a single man armed with a weapon, nor was there a man in armour, for there was no fighting. The lady with the pet met with the gentleman on the street, and talked about the weather today and the anecdotes that had been circulating in other places recently, and by the way, they exchanged eyebrows; The little servant stood in front of the tailor's shop with a commanding attitude, making many picky requests for a new dress for the master's birthday party; The shabby-dressed flower seller stood timidly on the street corner, wishing the flower buyers with the purest smile, waiting for an opportunity to fly up the branches and become a phoenix. Here, there are no adventurers, no patrols, no guards, not even bodyguards.
It is a city of peace. While the lives of people in other countries are threatened by "funeral mold" and "death flu", the people here live in peace as if disaster would never befall β no, it should be said that the catastrophe is all newspaper gossip, a little more believable than the Arabian Nights. Compared to this place, Saramonroe's Plains of Happiness really doesn't live up to its name.
Saramonroe's envoy looked out the window, jealous and yearning. He suddenly felt that only this land had fresh air, and if he could move his family here...... It's time to think about your family. Save some money first, let your family settle here first, and then retire incognito and become a Bigbower. I have to find some way, send my eldest son to the gospel college, and then build a family for my daughter, and she must be a nobleman above the viscount......
He opened the window and asked the servant to pass a message to the carriage behind him, in which was occupied by men sent by Bigbowauer's intelligence, to spend a few days and buy some souvenirs. After a while, the servant returned with an ugly face, saying that the itinerary was set and that he must leave tomorrow. The other party is powerful, and the envoy dares to be angry and dare not speak, so he has to take advantage of the moment to go shopping and use the mentality of a small person to anesthetize the injured dignity.
"Oskol, our game begins."
Under the eaves facing the street, the Minister of Intelligence, who was standing straight enough to stick to the wall, watched the motorcade pass by and muttered to himself meaningfully. Where is the politics of the two countries more interesting than the battle of wits and courage with old rivals?