A Tale of Strategies For the Throne - 175. Chapter 175

In the spacious room, floor-to-ceiling windows were open, and bright sunlight came in from outside.

Garland sits on the olive wood chair above, with his hands resting on the smooth yellowish-brown armrests. Because the weather is relatively hot today, his clothes are loose and simple. A short and light cloak just over the waist hangs behind him.

Xiemur and Kaihuos stood on the lower side of his seat one left and one right, and a sturdy middle-aged man dressed in sacrificial robes knelt under him on one knee.

The Shamash rune on the shoulder of the sacrificial robe symbolizes the priest’s identity.

“You mean, because of the physical damage when I was a child, it is very likely that Xinyas’ brain was also damaged?”

“Yes, Your Royal Highness, His Excellency Shinyas lost too much in his childhood, which caused severe malnutrition, which lasted until his teens.”

The Raya priest was also very emotional and helpless.

“You sent us to protect Your Excellency Xinyas, we should do our best, but the loss of the body can be made up slowly, but…”

He stopped in the middle of speaking, obviously it is not good to continue.

“After examination, the doctor said that it is not only due to malnutrition, but also may be due to the long-term use of decoctions for Sin Yas since his infancy, which caused damage to the brain. Fortunately, Your Highness extended a helping hand in time to protect Your Sin Yas. , Otherwise his condition will be worse.”

“Did you have a brain injury when you were young? But I think Xinyas is normal?”

Although it seems a bit stupid…

“Yes, Your Majesty, Your Excellency Shinyas’ situation is very minor, but he may be a little slow in thinking, difficult to think about complex things, grow slowly in thinking, and he is very stubborn about what he thinks, and everything else is normal. .”

“According to you, Xinyas is actually lacking in his brain, he is a little bit naive, and his temper is very stubborn. Everything else is normal, right?”

“…” The Raya priest choked for a while before continuing to answer, “You can say that.”

“I see.”

Gallan nodded.

“In the past few years, you have worked hard.”

He said, “Xinyas is likely to mature later than ordinary people in thinking, and still has the temper of a child, but he also shoulders the heavy responsibility of a city. I am very worried that he will be coaxed or used by someone who is interested. ”

“Therefore, I can only rest assured if you, the upright priests of Shamash stay by his side.”

He smiled at the Raya priest and said, “Raya, my brother will also ask you in the future. He may not be smart, but I believe that under your guidance, he will grow into a Shamashna. Such a righteous and powerful person.”

The Raya priest leaned down deeply.

“I will certainly not disappoint your trust in your Highness.”

He answered with a little excitement.

For the priests of Shamash, praise them for their integrity is the greatest praise for them.

Especially this praise was uttered by His Royal Highness himself, which made him both happy and excited.

“By the way, will Xinyas’s mother come back to look for him?”

“No, your Royal Highness, the former city lord’s wife has never returned to Irmia since remarrying more than three years ago, nor has she come to your Excellency Xinyas.”

Mentioning this, the Raya priest frowned.

“…”

Gallan lowered his eyes, his eyes cold.

At the time, the old lady sent him a message that the woman just over a year after the death of her husband who loved her, she couldn’t wait to remarry to the dignitaries in another city, leaving behind the eleven-year-old Xinyas.

Gallan didn’t think that she could not marry again, but it would be too cruel to leave behind the sick young son at the time, and to ignore him for several years thereafter.

The woman used to take Xinyas very seriously and looked like a mother who loved him very much. In fact, it was only because Xinyas could guarantee her status. When the people she sent over suppressed her, she found that she could not After continuing to be her superior city lord’s wife, she immediately abandoned Xinyas.

She only loves himself.

That woman is like a dodder flower, she can only cling to and absorb the nutrients of others, so that she can bloom beautiful flowers.

Okay, just let that woman go far away.

Otherwise, with that woman’s character, Xinyas would be parasitized by her dodder for a lifetime.

“Raya, if…”

If that woman finds it back, don’t let her see Xinyas.

Garland paused when he wanted to say that.

Although Gallan didn’t take that woman seriously, to Xinyas, it was his biological mother after all, and he should remember that his mother loved him very much.

He has no right to make decisions for Xinyas and restrict whom Xinyas meets with.

“It’s nothing, you can go down.”

“Yes, Your Highness.”

…………

After Gallan finished his interview with officials and others in the morning, not long after he returned to the palace to eat at noon, his big brother ran over happily.

When Gallan told him that he still had something to do with him, and he didn’t have time to play with him, he sat on the side very obediently, watching Gallan with his eyes open, with a look of “I will be very obedient and won’t bother you.” expression.

The look that looked at him eagerly like a big dog made Garlan have no choice but to let him go.

Although he is now the crown prince, it does not mean that Garlan can handle government affairs independently. Sheemur will select some less important matters to give him, let him make comments and write down his own handling opinions.

Of course, what he wrote will ultimately be judged by people like Sheemer or Si, and find out the unreasonable points before teaching him.

When Garlan finally read all the pile of parchment scrolls that Sheemur gave him in the morning, and wrote down the handling opinions, when he looked up, most of the afternoon had passed.

He thought about it, bad, Xinyas is still here, he patronizes and these headaches are true, and forgets the existence of Xinyas.

Thinking like this, when Gallan looked up, he saw Xinyas sitting in a chair, his body slanted, his head tilted to one side, and he didn’t know when he fell asleep.

The mouth was still wide open, which made him look funny.

Gallan walked over and patted Xinyas lightly.

Xinyas opened his eyes, raised his head and looked at him, his eyes drowsy, and the whole person looked sleepy.

Rubbing his eyes in a daze, when he wakes up, he sees clearly that it is him, the boy grinned at him with a big mouth, how silly of the smiling face looks.

“Brother~”

Xinyas shouted at Garlan happily.

The boy’s eyes were bright and clean, like a newborn baby, and his eyes were full of Gallan’s shadow.

“Are you done?”

With the look of expectation, he knew at a glance that the next sentence he didn’t say was-can you play with me?

Gallan smiled.

He thought for a while and asked, “Xinyas, do you remember your mother?”

“remember.”

Xinyas answered very readily, which surprised Gallan a little.

He thought he would have a sad expression when he mentioned that woman Xinyas, but he didn’t expect that the child didn’t seem to care much.

“Then do you want to see her?”

Xinyas thought about it seriously, then shook his head.

“No need,” he said, “I just need to see you brother.”

“You don’t want her?”

Garlan asked curiously.

Xinyas shook his head.

“I want to see my brother because my brother’s eyes are very gentle when he sees me. I like to be looked at by others, and I like the way my brother looks at me. That’s why I will work hard to complete the agreement with my brother and come to see you.”

The boy said seriously,

“But my mother is different. She looks at me and her brother looks completely different from you. The way she looks at me is the same as she looks at the dog she raised. I don’t like it, I don’t like it very much, so I don’t care if I see her.”

“I used to listen to my mother because she said that I am a child and must listen to her mother, but now that I have grown up, I don’t need to continue to listen to her.”

Xinyas said, and suddenly smiled at Garlan.

“But what my brother said, I am sure to listen.”

He acted like a baby at Garlan, and there seemed to be a big black and fluffy tail behind him wagging at Garlan vigorously.

He looked at Garlan’s eyes brightly, and he knew what he was expecting.

Gallan laughed.

He stretched out his hand and touched the head of Shinyas who was sitting.

The big young man squinted his eyes, happily enjoying the feeling of being touched by his favorite brother, his mouth opened.

Xinyas is not stupid, nor is he brainless.

While touching Xinyas’ head, Gallan thought.

He is purely thinking like a child, straightforward, simple, black and white.

But just because he is a child, he can clearly feel the people around him who are kind to him and who are malicious to him.

Children are never bound by the so-called moral concepts and codes of conduct of adults.

Who treats him well, he treats him well.

The child’s thinking is so simple and clear.

And Xinyas is like that.

Garland thought.

After coming to this world, he has always had no good feelings for the original relatives of’Garlan’, nor did he want to get involved in any connection.

But now he feels that one more obedient younger brother seems to be good.

…………

After handing the pile of parchment scrolls with the handling comments to the door-to-door Xiemuer, he watched Xiemuer’s inspection and nodded and took the scrolls away together. Gallan was relieved.

He suddenly felt like he was back when he was handing in homework to Xie Muer when he was a child.

Ah, today’s task is finally completed.

He thought, who stretched long to face the bright sunshine.

Come for an afternoon tea.

Regarding Gallan’s suggestion, Xinyas had no opinion. For him, as long as he can stay with his brother, he is very happy to do everything.

Soon, the maids delivered delicious biscuit desserts and fresh fruits.

Xinyas sat cross-legged, holding a yellow-orange orange in his hand, and eagerly wanted to peel it to his brother by himself. However, just halfway through the peeling, he saw a maid serving Galan a glass of something. come over.

In the transparent glass cup, the light green liquid reflected the sunlight, refracting a little shimmer, which was very beautiful.

He watched his brother holding a glass cup, sitting with his knees bent, his body lying lazily on the soft backrest pillow.

Brother’s fingers are completely different from his, long and white.

He saw his brother sitting there, with long golden hair falling from his shoulders, and his eyelashes hanging slightly to drink, it was really beautiful.

When he was a child, he always heard that his mother was pretty, but Xinyas now thinks that his brother is better, better than anyone else.

He didn’t know why his parents didn’t like his elder brother, because he was so pretty as white as snow.

“elder brother.”

He looked at his brother and couldn’t help but want to act like a baby.

“I want to drink yours too.”

He has a keen sense of smell, and he smelled the wine. He has always been curious about what the wine tastes like, but the Raya priest said that he was still young and forbid him to drink wine.

Gallan was drinking fruit wine lazily and enjoying the peaceful time of afternoon tea comfortably, Xinyas said, he looked at the light green fruit wine in his hand and hesitated.

Although Xinyas looks tall and strong, he is only a fifteen-year-old boy. It’s not good to let kids drink, right?

He thought about it, and just wanted to refuse, when he looked up, he saw Xinyas eagerly approaching him. He looked at him with gleaming eyes, as if a pair of ears were moving vigorously on his head. The appearance of a dog begging for food is really overwhelming.

Hmm…It’s just fruit wine. The alcohol level is very low. He can drink it when he is about fifteen or six years old. Shinyas should be able to drink it too, right?

As soon as his thoughts turned, Gallan turned to look at the maid standing aside holding the glass jug, and motioned for her to pour a glass for Xinyas.

“You are still young, you can only have a drink.”

He said to Xinyas.

“Good~~”

Taking the fruit wine happily, Xinyas licked it with his tongue first.

Well, it’s sweet, with a strange taste.

However, it tastes good, and he also likes things that my brother likes.

Thinking of this, the boy drank the fruit wine in a few mouthfuls.

After drinking, he licked his lips, still a little greedy, and wanted to continue drinking, but his brother said that he could only drink one cup, he had to be obedient.

Obedient, my brother will like him.

…

Um……

Strange… Why did my brother become two?

Ah, it has become three again… Why does he feel dizzy? He obviously just slept just now, and now he seems to want to sleep again…

Hmm… so dizzy…

Watching Xinyas gushing a cup of fruit wine in one breath, Gallan didn’t react, and saw Xinyas grinning at him with a smirk, his face flushed like a red apple.

Then, the swaying young man smiled, suddenly closed his eyes, tilted his head, and fell asleep on the table.

Garland: “…”

This is what is commonly called, pour a cup?

His Royal Highness the prince stared at his younger brother, very speechless.

Such a big man, such a big man, was so drunk by a glass of low-concentration fruit wine.

Forget it, just wake up.

Gallan shook his head, but asked the maid to cover Xinyas with a thin blanket, and Xinyas went to sleep.

And he continued to lie lazily in the soft pillow of the backrest, squinting, and drinking the light green fruit wine comfortably.

The sun just happened to fall from the skylight, and it happened to shine on him, warm.

The room was quiet, only the rough breathing of Xinyas was ringing rhythmically.

The tiredness came up, Garland yawned, handed the little cider left in his hand to the maid on the side, said a word to tell her to retreat, don’t disturb herself, and then nestled in the soft pillow comfortably Dozed off.

…………

The crown prince took a nap in the room, and the several maids had already retreated outside the door according to his instructions, closed the door, guarded at the door, and waited for the crown prince to wake up and summon her to enter.

After a while, somebody came here before the call.

When the leading maid saw the visitor, she hurriedly bowed her head and saluted.

“His Royal Highness.”

“Gallan is inside?”

“Yes, Your Royal Highness, His Royal Highness Prince is taking a nap inside, let us not disturb.”

Hearing Garland taking a nap, Hiemos’s hand that was about to push the door paused, hesitating whether to wait until dinner.

And just when he hesitated, the maid said again.

“Your Excellency Sinyas fell asleep in it too, because he drank some alcohol and seemed to be drunk.”

“…”

The hand that stopped in front of the door pushed forward, and Huimos pushed the door open and stepped in.

He said, “You continue to stay outside.”

After entering, he saw at a glance that the big teenager who was lying on the table with his body slanted and fell asleep with his eyes closed.

Huimos’ eyes suddenly cold.

But Xinyas was so asleep that he couldn’t see the cold eyes of Huimos that made it difficult for ordinary people to look at each other.

When he moved his gaze away from Xinyas and fell on the person on the opposite side, Huimos’ gaze instantly became soft.

In the fluffy and soft velvet pillow, Garlan was nestled inside.

The flowing golden hair fell down the snow-white pillow, and the boy’s white cheeks and most of his body were plunged into the soft pillow, and the whole human nest became a small ball.

The pale pink lips were slightly open, exhaling a shallow breath.

Perhaps because of the fruit wine, a light pink is also glowing on the cheeks.

A glance made Huimos feel that the softest part of his heart moved.

He walked over, leaned over, stretched out his hands, and hugged Garlan, who was nestled in the pillow.

Going past Xinyas who was still asleep, he hugged the person in his arms and walked into the bedroom inside, then gently put Garlan on the bed.

Garlan, who was put down, seemed to feel a more comfortable place, and the corners of his eyes were slightly bent, as if contented.

Turning his head a little, the young man hummed his nose, adjusted to the most comfortable posture, and continued to fall asleep again.

The corners of Huimos’ lips couldn’t help but lifted upwards.

He stretched out his hand and touched Garlan’s head.

As long as he looked at this sleeping face, his chest seemed to be crumpled into a soft ball.

He just touched Garlan’s head, and Garlan in his dream seemed to feel it, and took the initiative to move his head over, rubbing his forehead against his hand.

It looks like a coquettish little white cat.

After rubbing, the lips were still pursed.

His eyes fell uncontrollably on the slightly pursed pale pink lips, and Heymos took a deep breath and another deep breath.

He wants to endure.

But the boy’s lips moved slightly, pink, and a little white came out of the slightly opened lips.

So I couldn’t hold back.

With one hand stroking Gallan’s forehead, Heimos, who was sitting on the side of the bed, leaned deeply, and the indescribable kiss softly landed on Gallan’s lips.

……………………

Xinyas slept soundly, suddenly something flashed across his forehead, waking him up.

He got up in a daze, rubbed his eyes, and saw that the annoying guy who dragged him away from his brother yesterday appeared again, and also took his brother away from him.

What woke him up just now seemed to be the cloak that floated behind him and swept his forehead when this person walked past him.

Xinyas just stayed for a while, and the person he didn’t like had already carried his brother into the room inside.

He quickly got up, too late to put on his shoes, so he chased after him barefoot.

As soon as he reached the door, he looked inside and his eyes suddenly widened.

What is that guy… doing to your brother? ! !