"Your Highness, you misunderstood." Zhang Yan said with some embarrassment. He knew what Alvin was alluding to.
"What's the misunderstanding? I didn't name who it was, why are you nervous?" Alvin said with a smile, "Even if it's not related to Count Oneyin's wife, it should be related to his family. "
After Alvin finished speaking, he glanced at Zhang Hao.
Zhang Yang lowered his head and was silent for a while, then hesitantly said: "Well... How should I put it? Your Highness, you may not know that the Marquis of Elu and the Count of Oneyin are brothers-in-law. In other words, their two ladies are sisters. .”
"Huh? What then?"
"Actually, there are three sisters in total. The eldest sister is married to the Marquis of Erou, the second sister is married to the Earl of Oneyin in the city, and the youngest is married to the quartermaster of our Principality of Boer─ ─Baron Corey.”
"Oh..." Alvin glanced at Zhang Yang meaningfully, already knowing clearly in his heart who he had a lover relationship with.
From what we just said, we learned that the Marquis of Elu and his family have been living in Nufandre for a long time, so the Marquise can be excluded. Judging from the fact that Zhang Yan just denied that he had anything to do with the Earl of Oneyin's family, she probably wasn't the Countess either. The only person who seems to have something fishy is the wife of Baron Corey.
After all, according to Alvin's last guess, Zhang Yan's former lover must have an unusual identity.
"The wife of Baron Korey should also happen to live in Zantz City, right?" Alvin asked knowingly and said narrowly with a smile.
Zhang Yang lowered his head in embarrassment. He didn't know why he wanted to confess these things to Alvin, as if the nobleman from the south in front of him had some special charm that could make him express his feelings freely.
In other words, Zhang Yan had a vague feeling in his heart that telling Alvin this would help Alvin a lot, although he didn't know what Alvin's future plans were. This can be regarded as a manifestation of Zhang Yan's desire to follow Alvin. Of course, it was very uncomfortable for Zhang Yan to keep these things in his heart. Finding someone to talk to was also an urgent inner appeal.
"In this time of peace, being a quartermaster shouldn't be a big deal, right?" Alvin was afraid that Zhang Hao would be embarrassed, so he changed the topic.
"Peace season? Not necessarily." Zhang Yan said, "I heard that Baron Corey has been very busy recently."
Alvin couldn't help laughing "ha" after hearing this. He nodded and teased Chi Gang for his "heard", and then changed the topic: "If something really happened, I saw that Rusty this morning, and he still... Dare you run to this city of Zantz?"
"Maybe it's not time for both parties to take action yet." Zhang Yan pondered for a while and said.
"Since Earl Oneyin and Marquis Elu are brothers-in-law, wouldn't it mean that the Philodi family has little chance of winning?" Alvin then asked.
"That's not necessarily true." Zhang Yan said.
"You mean... Looney's power should not be underestimated?" Alvin showed a playful smile and made a gesture of stacking gold coins with one hand.
"That old wine barrel is not an ordinary person. I have received a lot of gossip that he has contacted many mercenaries." Zhang Yan said.
When the two got excited about talking, the food they ordered was finally served.
Alvin looked at the several plates of food that were served. The aroma of fire vine snail fat was overflowing, and the juice of orange honey grilled chicken was flowing. It looked quite appetizing. He couldn't help but swallow. After all, he had been busy all morning, and he was really hungry now.
He glanced at Onian next to him and said that the food looked and smelled quite good. He didn't expect that there was such delicacy in this place.
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Even though Alvin and Onian were used to eating delicacies from the mountains and seas, when their tongues tasted this delicious stimulation, they couldn't help but stare in surprise.
"How is it? Your Highness." Looking at the expressions on the faces of the two people at the same table, Zhang Hao asked with a proud look on his face.
"It's...it's really good." Alvin praised immediately after swallowing the roasted chicken in his mouth.
The meat is rich and plump, and you will naturally feel greasy in your throat after eating it for a few bites. This is when pepper-smoked olives come in handy. This pickled pickled cabbage, which is full of pepper flavor, has been dried up and burnt by the smoke. It looks very unpleasant, but after eating it and chewing it for a while, the greasy feeling between the lips and teeth has disappeared without a trace. .
To be honest, this guy Zhang Yan still knows how to eat, Alvin thought in his heart.
"I have to say, the various churches in the principalities and principalities in the north are really in chaos." Alvin said this calmly after a storm.
When Zhang Yang asked before, he didn't want to say more, but now he admitted in disguise that he came from the south. This is actually a speaking skill, and of course, it is also an emphasis on identity. There are certain things that he can say if he wants to, without being asked.
Onian just pretended not to hear anything and continued to taste the food on the plate elegantly.
Zhang Tao was stunned for a moment, glanced at Alvin, and carefully pondered the meaning of his words.
"Tell me about this Earl of Oneyin in the city. What kind of person is he?" Alvin turned to look at Zhang Yan and asked.
"Currently, he is regarded as the representative of the conservative aristocracy in the Principality of Boer." Zhang Yan said, and then changed his tone, "In fact, this person has no ambitions and no ambitions. He appears to be tolerant on the surface, but in fact, he is full of love for the common people. Deep disdain."
Judging from Zhi Yan's tone, it seemed that he had a lot of objections to this Earl of Oneyin. I guess there must be some festival involved.
"Oh, what about his wool cloak?" Alvin joked.
Zhang Yang thought for a moment, and immediately understood the meaning of the "wool cloak", and said with a smile: "The earl's family is quite well-off, not enough, not enough."
Alvin was just joking. He naturally understood that as the leader of a noble family, he must still have some wealth.
"Oh, this world is really not peaceful anywhere." Alvin then thought about what Zhang Yan said that it was not time for the two sides to take action yet, so he sighed, and glanced at Onian by the way.
"You want to say that we are two disaster stars?" Onian wiped the corners of her mouth, looked up at Alvin, and asked with a smile.
Alvin smiled and looked away, raised the corner of his mouth and said "ha" several times.
Zhang Yan was a little confused at this time. He didn't know what the two people were talking about.
After a delicious meal, Alvin put a large pile of gold coins on the corner of the table in a sophisticated manner and went out with Onian. He knew that Zhang Yan was living in a tight situation recently, so he put some more there. Of course, the tip from the waitress was also included.
Naturally, Zhang Yan had something to talk with the waitress, but he didn't follow her. Anyway, he knew where to find Alvin and the others these days.
Alvin, on the other hand, took advantage of the walk to the Holy Emerald Cathedral to ponder over Elder Ria's intentions. He felt that what Onian said was very reasonable. Liya would not introduce people to him for no reason.
However, Alvin never intended to change his original intention, and what he was talking about here was the painting of the dome. After all, he does not have the consciousness of those painters who serve the nobility. Even if he says "Looney is supreme",
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But still act willfully.
How can a powerful person not know how to "destroy his eyebrows and bend his waist to serve the powerful"? It's just that he felt deep in his heart that if there really was a god like Universal Lord, it wouldn't want to see him painting with such humiliation.
This shows that people like Alvin are really quite complicated and contradictory inside. He could express his disdain for the content in "The Admonitions of the Universal Lord", but he also completed the church painting job with a sense of responsibility.
Even though he strongly denied the existence of gods in his heart, he still racked his brains to think of how to perfectly interpret the teachings of Universalism through pictures.
So in the next few days, Alvin immersed himself physically and mentally in creation, sometimes even to the point of forgetting to sleep and eat. This was so painful for Zhang Yan, who was waiting outside the church.
However, since the first day, Onian no longer accompanied Alvin to church. Because after meeting that "Rusty Philodie" that time, she understood that her beauty might bring unnecessary trouble to Alvin. Especially now that the two of them have not yet established a foothold in the north.
For example, Alvin would often say with a smile that going out with her was a kind of ostentation. Although Onian liked Alvin's coaxing method, she could still hear the underlying meaning behind his words. A vague worry.
Therefore, a sensible beauty is a confidant, and a showy woman is a disaster.
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It had just passed the sun and before the agreed half-month period, Alvin had completed the dome painting at a speed that was impossible for ordinary people to achieve. Being able to complete such a large-format painting in such a short period of time, and still using a seriously injured hand, it seems that Alvin does have talents that are different from ordinary painters.
Even though Onian wanted to live in seclusion, our great painter still dragged her to visit his masterpieces for nothing.
Onian looked at the huge dome painting above her head. It could indeed be called a "work of gods and ghosts", which made someone like her who was used to seeing masterpieces feel a little confused.
The painting shows an old and strong man holding up a half-naked woman with one arm. The woman only has a blood-colored silk scarf draped across her body. The woman looked at the man with fear, ridicule, and a desperate sense of belonging that fell in love. This infinitely amplified the audience's speculation about the relationship between the two. It was previously said that this man could not tell whether he was old or strong, because this man had a strong body, but his neck had "ravines" and his face was that of a young man, but his forehead had deep lines and his temples were gray.
What is puzzling is that the man's eyes are filled with endless silence, which can even be said to be terrifying indifference. You can't tell what kind of emotions he has for the woman in front of him. There may be a ripple in the deep lake in his heart, or there may be a savage beast hiding in it, which will devour the person in front of him.
You could say that the man wanted to strangle the woman to death, but a closer look doesn't seem to be the case.
His arm holding the woman's throat, Alvin carved the details very carefully, it was rough and powerful, with its meridians clearly exposed. But when it comes to the tiger's mouth joint that is holding the woman's jade neck in his hand, he can't see it clearly, because the projection of the man's lower jaw hits right here. This deliberately blurred technique makes people more confused and makes it difficult to judge what is going on in his hand. There is no effort. Even if you look closely, you can see that the curvature of the tiger's mouth opens outward intentionally or unintentionally.
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