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Text 233 Chapter 233
Text 233 Chapter 233
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Just after noon, it was the time when the sun was blazing, but the courtyard of the palace was shrouded in a large canopy of trees and it was much shady.
The idol of the goddess Isdar in the middle of the courtyard was bathed in sunlight, holding stars in her hand, and water drops from her feet splashed into the fountain basin.
The thin water droplets formed a water curtain to dissipate the heat in the courtyard.
Hiemos stood by the fountain pond, reaching out to catch a few splashes of water.
The cool drops of water fell on his hand and wet the palm of his hand.
He was in a trance for a while, and for some reason, he suddenly remembered what happened here a long time ago.
At that time, he was only a teenager and had just entered the palace not long ago.
In the evening of the day, when the setting sun was like fire, he was just like now, standing in this place, standing in front of the little child sitting on the edge of the fountain basin.
At that time, he had already realized that the child occupies a very important place in his heart.
Therefore, he told the child that he would stay with him and protect him throughout his life, and would never let anyone hurt him.
That was the first time that he held his feelings in front of others.
That was the first time he wanted to protect a person so much, and wanted to be with that person all the time.
Looking back now, that might be his first confession to Garlan.
Then... he was rejected by Garlan, who was still a child.
‘I don’t need you to protect me. ’
'I hate you. ’
Children are very straightforward, like to like, hate to hate-although don't know why, Garlan, who was a child at the time, seemed to see him not pleasing to his eyes since the first sight.
And this kind of straightforward rejection can almost be described as cruel to him, who was still a teenager with high self-esteem and extremely sensitive and fragile at the time.
He even had a sense of shame as if he had been slapped in the face.
Feeling ashamed and uncomfortable, he swore secretly in his heart that he would never get closer to that child in the future!
Hmm, swear nothing counts.
It doesn't count.
Heimos, who was standing by the fountain, thought so, then raised his lips unconsciously.
What made the young self extremely uncomfortable at that time, now, in retrospect, turned out to be a special memory that can make him smile from the heart.
All the memories with Garlan, from small to large, are almost innumerable.
The good or the bad, no matter what kind, until now, as long as he thinks of it, he can feel warm and soft in his heart.
Just when Huimos was thinking about the past, the person he had waited for a long time finally came out of the room.
After detecting the sound of footsteps, Huimos, who turned around, looked up and saw Garlan walking quickly.
His long black hair was tied behind his back by a white headband, and the boy was dressed in a sleeveless tunic, similar to the vigorous outfit of a ranger.
Although Gallan is not prominent in height, he has a good proportions and extremely slender legs.
This allowed the thin short cloak behind him to only cover his thighs.
When the beautiful and brave young man walked towards him quickly, Heimos couldn't help his heart skip a beat.
He thought that no matter what time or appearance, his heart would only beat and lose control for the person in front of him.
It was like Afdomir begging for the pity of that beautiful young man, so he longed for the love of the man in front of him.
"Himos, sorry for keeping you waiting."
When he walked to Himos, Garland said, "Because it took Taputi to dye my hair, it took a little longer."
He fixed his gaze at Upper Huimos and asked suspiciously.
"What's wrong? Isn't I dressed up right?"
Huimos smiled.
"Do not."
He said, "I'm just thinking, since you have to dress up, why don't you just dress up as a female like last time..."
Before Huimos finished speaking, Gallan slapped his mouth with a slap, covering his mouth.
"Shhh!"
Gallan covered his mouth with one hand, and put his index finger up in the other, making a silent motion beside his mouth.
"You promised that I won't mention that again!"
While speaking in a low voice, the teenager looked around, and he was relieved after confirming that everyone around him, including Taputi, was far away and could not hear their conversation.
He stared at Huimos dissatisfiedly.
Huimos, Kayjos, and Shulos all knew about the matter of disguising themselves as women. There are already a lot of them, okay?
He didn't want one more person to know his dark history.
Grasping Garlan's hand and removing it from his mouth, Hiemos raised his eyebrows.
"It's okay not to mention it, but you have to answer me a question."
"what?"
"Why did you hate me when you were a kid?"
"what?"
"Here." Huimos pointed to the fountain next to him. "What you said at that time, you hate me and don't need me, why?"
Gallan was startled, then remembered.
When he was a child, he did say that in order to cut off Heimos's affection for him and alienate him.
"That is……"
He hesitated, but didn't answer immediately.
I can't say that because I was killed four times, I was afraid and didn't like Huimos at that time.
"Why hate me?"
Huimos asked persistently.
"...I don't remember what happened when I was young."
The golden red eyes narrowed and looked at Garlan.
But after watching it for a while, Hiemos didn't ask any further, which made Garland breathe a sigh of relief.
Then, he heard what Huimos said next.
"It doesn't matter."
Heymos, who squinted at him, raised the corners of his lips and said, "Even if you said you don't need me at the beginning, you didn't later say that you need me to be by your side."
If the corners of Huimos's rising lips revealed a bit of joy, it was obvious that he was in a very good mood at the moment, and he was a little proud.
Garlan looked at the man in front of him who was smiling happily, and then smiled suddenly.
"It's not wrong for me to speak, but I also remember that someone said,'I don't like men when I die,' and I swear to Shamash."
He said, "Why don't you think about it first? Don't like me anymore?"
The corners of Huimos's lips twitched.
Gallan didn't shy away, and smiled and looked at him.
——Come on, hurt each other.
In the end, as always, the black knight retreated.
As the goddess of love and beauty Afdomir said, in a relationship, the person who falls in love first is always a complete loser.
Huimos sighed and said, "Speaking of which, including the one I was a kid, I have been rejected three times by you. Don't you think I am sorry to be rejected so many times?"
In order to pursue his beloved, the invincible black knight on the battlefield like a bloodthirsty Shura shamelessly labeled himself a poor weak.
"Not at all."
The boy answered categorically.
You really have to calculate the ledger. You have killed me four times, and I only rejected you three times.
Gallan sneered in his heart.
Not to mention the rejection three times, the fourth time.
Therefore, Heimos, who wanted to gain a little bit of Garlan's pity and sympathy through the fact that he was repeatedly rejected, just pitted himself so hard.
And he himself didn't even notice it at the moment.
Just when the two of them were talking, Tal, the little fat man, had already come over.
"Are you going to go there?"
He ran up to Garlan in a hurry, pulling his head, rarely showing a worried look in front of Garlan.
In the more than a year since Garland became the throne, Taer rounded again at a speed visible to the naked eye. At this moment, the whole figure looked like a round ball of meat.
But fat to fat, he was always the fastest when he rushed to Garlan's side.
Tal’s ability in numerical calculations is almost well-known, but what makes everyone surprised is that after Garland became a queen, he did not put his confidant Tal to the Department of Finance, as everyone expected. Go to work and control finances through Thar.
The financial controller must be the confidant of the reigning king.
After all, in general, the new king will never rest assured that such an important financial power will continue to be controlled by the former king's confidant.
However, this young king seemed to be different. He let the Finance Department continue to operate according to the original staff and gave them full trust.
This made the old courtiers who had already completed the new king ascended the throne and would be retired to the King Garlan full of gratitude.
Garland hadn't planned to put Tal into the Finance Department from the beginning, he had his own plan.
In addition to the existing department, he set up a new department, directly appointed Taer as the head of this empty department, and then sent Taer out to do things directly.
He did this for another purpose.
…………
Skillfully exiting the palace from the side door as the guard of the palace, Garlan stepped onto the wide stone avenue in the palace.
The three of them rode horses, and Tar's chubby figure was lying on the horse, walking in front, and eagerly led Garlan to the side of the royal city.
Even after riding a horse for a long time, it was almost in a remote corner on the edge of the royal city before reaching the destination.
This is a huge open space surrounded by stone walls.
An arched high tower rises right in front of the stone wall, with a total of six floors. The bottom layer is embedded in the stone wall, just like the gate of the stone wall.
This was built by Tal in half a year, and it was also the office of the department under his command.
Garlan got off his horse in front of the outer gate, tied it to the stone pillar outside, and walked in straight through the gate.
Once inside, there is an extremely large hall, wide enough to accommodate thousands of people at the same time.
The end of the hall is arc-shaped and divided into dozens of separate rooms. In each room, there is a clerical responsible for the work and records.
The spaces leading to the back of those rooms are also separated by solid stone walls, that is to say, if you walk in from different rooms, you will reach different places.
In the middle of the hall is a huge railing made of cypress wood, which resembles an erected bulletin board.
It's just that this bulletin board is a square rectangular parallelepiped, and dozens of parchment papers are posted on the four sides of the board.
As long as the merchants here are willing to pay a certain fee, they can write the goods and prices they own on these long strips of parchment, so that everyone who enters the hall can see.
However, at the moment these long strips of parchment are all blank.
Huimos looked around the hall and asked Garland, "Is this the trade and trade office you are talking about?"
This so-called trade and trade office seemed to him to exist almost like a bazaar, and it was a commerce and trade center.
It's just that the bazaar is usually where the people go to the square to gather on their own, and here is a large-scale bazaar officially established by Garland in the name of the royal court.
Although this building looks extremely large and magnificent, the hall is very empty and deserted. Except for the clerks and others working here, almost no outsiders are seen.
You know, the location of Aaron Landis's king city is very good, almost exactly in the center of the entire continent, caravans are very frequent, commerce is also very prosperous, even if it is a day of transaction volume is extremely large.
However, this trade and trade office is so deserted that Heimos can't help but feel surprised.
Hearing Heimos's words, Tael looked at Garlan with an uneasy look, and he was not as lively as he used to be, and he looked sluggish.
"I'm sorry, Your Majesty, it's all my incompetence..."
This trade and trade office started operating half a month ago, and he has tried his best to promote its existence throughout the city.
However, those big businessmen or large caravans, as long as they hear that a certain percentage of fees are required to conduct transactions here, of course they shook their heads and were reluctant to come over.
You know, when they come to the Royal City for commerce and trade, they only need to pay an entry tax when entering the city, and they can trade freely in the Royal City.
Aaron Landis has no business tax. It should be said that there is no business tax in the entire continent. Most merchants need to pay customs tax, entrance tax, etc., which charge a certain percentage of tax based on transaction volume. The thing is simply unheard of to them.
If King Garlan forced the merchants to conduct transactions in this trade and trade office, then in the eyes of the merchants, it was that King Garlan was forcibly scraping oil from the merchants to grab money in another way.
Although they did not dare to resist, they were naturally not willing, and traders would bypass the royal city in the future.
As a result, Wangcheng's commerce and trade will gradually become depressed, and this behavior is equivalent to killing chickens and getting eggs.
But what gave the merchants peace of mind was that King Gallan did not force the merchants to trade in the department, but said that they came completely voluntarily.
In this way, businessmen who are accustomed to money-hungry are naturally unwilling to spend such an extra fee to pay any business tax, and of course they will not come to this so-called trade and trade office.
Therefore, after running here for a month, it still looks like this deserted and deserted one, and it has caused many people to secretly watch jokes.
They didn't dare to say anything about Garlan, they could only ridicule Tal secretly. Of course Tarr was very angry, but the reality was indeed the case. He was so anxious to get angry, but now he was being mocked from behind, so he felt more and more aggrieved.
He thought of a lot of ways, but because of the need to collect business taxes, business people were unwilling to come here to trade. Now, Taer really had no choice but to tell Garlan the situation reluctantly.
At this moment, he looked at Garlan blankly, for fear that Garlan would feel incompetent because of this mess.
Gallan, who was also looking around the hall that was becoming more and more empty because it was too spacious, turned his head and looked at Tar's wilting appearance. He smiled and raised his hand to pat the little fat man on the shoulder.
"It's not your problem."
He appeased Tardao.
People are always quite jealous of new things that they are not used to.
"Don't worry, I will find a way."
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After leaving the depressed Trade and Trade Office, Garland asked Tal to stay here to sort out all the information about the large commodity transactions in the royal city in the recent period. He was accompanied by Huimos in the middle of the royal city. Several well-known bazaars and trading places took a turn.
These places are all located in the square, which is a natural market for a long time. There are large and small, and you can buy goods from all over the country here. Therefore, it is very lively from morning to night. Those merchants who do not have much goods are direct come here.
However, some large merchants with backgrounds are scattered all over the city, and they have directly opened business offices. Many caravans for large transactions go directly to their businesses to sell or purchase goods that they transport.
After spending an afternoon strolling around, Garlan walked back while wondering how to open up the trade and trade office.
They walked out of a market entrance, and they were already hungry after a whole afternoon. When a scent of aroma floated from the stall selling snacks at the market entrance, Garlan's eyes couldn't help but glance over.
Himos on the side saw his appearance, smiled slightly, and walked towards the crowded food stall.
So Garlan stood there obediently, waiting for Huimos to help him buy something delicious.
After waiting for a while, heard a familiar voice.
Turning around, he was indeed an acquaintance.
Soga, the priest of Nanna under Huimos, was now wearing an ordinary costume, arguing fiercely with a woman wearing a strong costume on the edge of the market.
The woman has a heroic face, her sword eyebrows are raised, and her long light black hair is tied into a ponytail behind her head, giving people a sense of heroism.
Garlan looked at it, and felt that this woman seemed a bit familiar.
The two of them didn't know what they were arguing about, so that Suojia, who had always shown a calm and ruthless attitude, showed a little embarrassed appearance.
The priest of the night, who was able to calm down and talk before the powerful ministers, was forced to retreat in front of the heroic woman, and felt quite unstoppable.
Anyway, that appearance made Gallan who was hiding by the side watched with gusto.
And just when Gallan was eating melon-eating people enthusiastically, the woman snorted coldly.
"Suojia, I don't have to be you, as long as I like it, I can find another lover now!"
The woman turned around and left, just walking in the direction of Garlan, and strode past Garlan.
Garlan subconsciously stepped aside, and when he moved, the hood covering most of his face fell back a little.
Others may not be able to distinguish it, but when the woman who had passed by Garlan turned her head, she could clearly see Garlan's face.
Her eyes lit up suddenly.
There is no other meaning, her bright eyes are purely admiration and wonder for seeing beautiful things.
She stopped all of a sudden and looked curiously at the rare and beautiful black-haired boy in front of her.
"Fataya!"
The lover who was left behind hurriedly chased her, calling her name.
A trace of anger appeared on the face of the woman who recovered.
She glanced at Garlan, and suddenly her eyes lit up again, as if she had thought of a good idea.
She turned around and looked at Jinzo who was catching up with her eyes badly.
Then, she stretched out her hands and put her arm around Garlan's arm.
"Listen, Soga, I have already decided."
she says,
"He is my new lover!"
Garland, the crowd who eats melons: "???" Fupin Chinese
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