Everyone has a disobedience. When self-consciousness loses control over mental and emotional emotions, people often make incredible words and deeds. Some people think that this is a manifestation of the subject's true wishes. The more depressed it is, the stronger the emotions that will eventually break out. However, afterwards, and reason regain the upper hand, they will inevitably be upset and regret.

the next day.

Xia Lan, who was as indifferent as before, could not see any strangeness on her body. He left the hotel and only did one thing, purchased a cemetery in the cemetery outside the city through an agency, and then buried Winnie's body completely.

There is only one line of words engraved on the tombstone.

Winnie.

I have tried to dream, I have tried to love.

Xia Lan stayed in front of her tomb for a long time, her eyes were deep and empty. All emotions disappeared with the wind. Only in her heart would remember that someone had been here in the past. Those spots of memories were applied layer by layer, just like thick powder makeup could not hide the paleness of memories. Those souls stripped from life sang or cried in the sky at midnight.

March in spring and March in summer, like the passing years.

In the blink of an eye, the harvest season is clear and the cool breeze has removed the impetuousness of the hot summer, bid farewell to the roaring cicadas, rolling over the dust, flying on the fields, and immersed in the colors of desolation and withering. The morning light shines, and the sunset in the mountains is filled with a faint and leisurely silence. The undercurrent of sadness and loneliness brings a hint of melancholy, a little sadness, and the promises and oaths are like falling yellow leaves, silent.

A week passed, and Xia Lan, who stayed in Cologne, seemed to have forgotten the mission he had carried. He was like an ordinary noble tourist on vacation from afar, lingering in the streets and alleys for half of his time every day. However, he had never been to the Green Wheat neighborhood where refugees were concentrated in the west of the city. Especially in recent days, demonstrations and marches broke out there. The reason was that someone was spreading the rumor that the city hall was about to drive out the refugees from the city, which led to collective protests by the refugees.

Coincidentally, similar things have happened one after another in the towns near Cologne. Anyone with a discerning eye can see that this is a targeted conspiracy. In order to maintain its image in the eyes of the world, the Guanghui Temple can only swallow its anger without conclusive evidence. Otherwise, if it does excessive behavior, I believe that the mastermind behind the scenes will inevitably smear the image of the Temple and directly push the reputation of the Temple to the bottom.

Through clever and sleek communication methods, Xia Lan successfully entered the upper circle of Cologne Town. With his good image and temperament, elegant words and deeds and badges and rings symbolizing his identity, he easily won the trust of the powerful. Because it is difficult for ordinary people to pretend to be nobles in this era to be as good as heaven, and identity symbols can be forged, but a person's quality cultivation and words and deeds cannot be disguised. The smart and worldly aristocrats can see through the truth at a glance.

In fact, the upper circles are often misunderstood, as if arrogance is synonymous with this circle. In fact, it is not. Everything has its own two sides. Only by standing from an objective perspective can you see the essence of things clearly. Most people will subconsciously think of decay and depravity when seeing the upper circle, but ignore the resources and insights represented by the upper circle.

Xia Lan got into it because she wanted to understand the future situation in Cologne and even the mainland more carefully through this circle, because a person's ideas are limited after all.

The political structure of the town territory within the sphere of influence of the church is similar to the system. Although the nobles have certain autonomy, they are far less free than the feudal aristocracy in other countries in the mainland. Whether in terms of governance, taxation, or judicial affairs, the church enjoys a transcendent status. Although the church does not interfere in local affairs on weekdays, once a major event occurs, the nobles can only stand beside them like a decoration after the church takes action.

Therefore, I mistakenly thought that the territory under the rule of the Holy Church was a solid piece, and the nobles with ulterior motives were very good. I am afraid that the person who was most happy to see the Holy Church was unlucky.

Every time he went to an invitation banquet, Xia Lan would prick up her ears and listen to the whispering conversations of the nobles, thus gaining many unknown secrets. For example, in the refugee incident, is it really impossible for the city hall to solve the refugee problem? No, there are actually many solutions, but someone insisted on obstructing it in secret. Otherwise, why would the city hall be divided into two parties due to the refugee problem be fierce? As a result, it was obvious that the temple had the upper hand, and the loser was naturally unwilling to be lonely, and then he released the news of expelling refugees, trying to completely disrupt the other party's plans.

The battle after the other is dazzling.

If he wanted to find out the seemingly dangerous and difficult master behind the refugees, Xia Lan found a very simple solution. He only needed to find the nobles who opposed the surface of expelling refugees and incite refugee riots behind his back to find them.

So he set his sights on someone.

Viscount Blaise, deputy speaker of Cologne City Hall.

He is over fifty years old, with gray hair, strong figure, and energetic spirit. He can't see any signs of aging. As one of the old aristocrats in Cologne, he has a very high reputation among the people and the nobles. He is the leader of the opposition to expel refugees this time. Strangely, no one has ever suspected that he had ulterior motives, because Blaze's piety to the teachings of the church is a well-known thing, and his two sons are priests of the church and the other are knights. In terms of background alone, will a noble family loyal to the church do things that are unfavorable to the church? It's a fantasy to think about it.

Blaze's lifestyle is very low-key. He will not easily see anyone without important official duties. Except for going to the church to pray every week, he is in a state of simplicity and rarely participates in banquets between nobles. However, since the refugee incident, he has begun to frequently go to and from the banquet venues. The radical changes in the front and back are the important reasons why Xia Lan targets him.

He had seen Blaise many times, and someone had warmly introduced Xia Lan to Viscount Blaise, but Blaise just made a few friendly words and left on the pretext of being a pretext. His attitude was quite cold. Every time he saw the other party, Xia Lan would find that he was whispering with two or three nobles in remote and uninhabited corners, and his behavior was full of mysterious and sneaky.

He wanted to eavesdrop on their conversation, but he didn't, because Blaze was always surrounded by a vigilant bodyguard. Once Blaze had a secret conversation with someone, the guard would release a strong sense wall around them, and he would notice the act of slight scrutiny.

This guard is very strong, and he has a preliminary judgment that he is at the middle level of the upper level. He needs to fight to know the specific strength.

Xia Lan asked a nobleman with good friendship about the other party's identity, and then learned that the guard was a friend of Blaze's son, the son of the Cultivator. It is said that the other party was a trial student at the same time when Blaze's son participated in the Cultivator's examination. After losing the election, he stayed at Blaze's family. Later, he did not participate in the re-examination and turned to serve the Blaze family.

In fact, many trial students from poor backgrounds will choose to rely on the nobles who recruited them after they were elected as knights of the Holy Tribe. After all, they show enough value to train the nobles. And those trial students who are eager to change their destiny or have no hope of re-examination in the future hit it off with the nobles. In addition, the complex relationship between the nobles and the Holy Tribes, it is really easy to get a trial student.

The nobles' persistent poaching behavior of the church not only strengthened themselves, but also weakened the armed forces of the church from the side. Why are there fewer new knights in the temple? The qualifications are worrying? The reason is nothing more than greed inside and aristocrats grabbing outside. Can the top leaders of the church see it? Perhaps they are not unable to see it, but they think that everything is in their control.

Time does not wait for others, and once your mind has a certain plan, Xia Lan will take action.

Tracking is like being a thief, the key is how to hide yourself from being discovered.

However, Xia Lan's follow-up target this time was not Blaise himself, but a companion who always guarded him.

Through detailed understanding from multiple channels, the bodyguard was named Selle. He was born in the small country of Pelidol, a small country on the south coast of the mainland. In 1120, the crescent Qimingli became a trial student of the Knights of the Cultivate. After failing the assessment, he was assigned to the Third Patrol Guards of Cologne. Later, he left the Blaze family and took his parents and sisters to Cologne a year later. In 1130, he was successfully promoted to the upper level. Viscount Blaze conferred him as a knight. Now he is married and has one son and two daughters. Both his parents, wife and children live together in the Blaze manor.

Sel is low-key and taciturn, often with Viscount Blaze's guard work, second only to the direct member of the Blaze family. It is rumored that his sister married his friend of the same period. Viscount Blaze's second son, the second son of the Knights of the Holy Trial, has created a solid alliance with each other.

He and Viscount Blaze are also of a kind of living in seclusion. They basically spend their vacation time with their parents, wives and children in the manor. They rarely see him go out alone. However, someone has witnessed him appear quietly in the wealthy district of Cologne, Saint-Berlin, with his travels quite suspicious, and the specific reasons are unknown.

Following this clue, Xialan thoroughly surveyed the surrounding residents based on the witness description where Sel had appeared, and then he discovered something very interesting. To be honest, he found a person, a woman who was out of touch with the surrounding environment.

This is a single woman who lives in luxury houses with nannies all year round. Her identity is mysterious and she rarely goes out. She basically doesn't interact with the neighbors around her. Most of the time she sees her, she looks sick. She looks over thirty years old, but she is extremely beautiful and charming, and has an indescribable charm all over her body.

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