Throne Steps

Chapter 26 - The Preordained Fate of the Ignorant

The matter of Nie Wen is actually not difficult to find out, or it is not difficult to ask, especially when Li Chen puts some effort into asking.

It is said that Nie Wen's father was ill at the time, taking advantage of Saenz's vacation and staying at the mansion, he brought Nie Wen to visit the house a few days before he was going to ask for leave.It just so happened that Saenz's second sister, Lailier, came to visit nearby, and brought a saintly friend with her.This girl, who was famous throughout Raetia for her kindness and kindness, quickly intervened in this matter on the grounds that "the saint can handle it easily", and directly treated Nie Wen's father.Although Nie Wen's father still needed to recuperate, compared to Saenz, who was on leave, Lailier suddenly took the lead in handling this matter.

"Although he is quite innocent..." Li Chen commented on this little story, "But it is really not wrong to isolate him."

Although Saenz knew that he was a guy in his 20s, he still felt that his expression was a bit inconsistent with his apparent age, so he didn't follow his words, and only said: "You don't look like a child like this. "

"Why bother?" Li Chen knew that even though Saenz's words were sarcasm, the point was that he would expose himself, so he shrugged, "Besides, when we first met, didn't you watch me play 'child'?"

Saenz sneered in a low voice: "Even if you are in your twenties, you may not have so much thoughtfulness."

"It's only a matter of minutes before you squeeze me to death. Are you still worried that I will have two minds?" Li Chen held the snack and gnawed while talking like a child, "Speaking of which, are you sure you want Nie Wen Stay in this house?"

Saenz gave him a meaningful look, picked up his teacup, and asked, "What do you think?"

It is fair and aboveboard for Lairier to intervene in Nie Wen's father's affairs. If Saenz drives the father and son away because of this, it will inevitably get a reputation of being suspicious and narrow-minded.But if you stay in the house, it will definitely not be so comfortable.

Even if Nie Wen didn't have that idea, if Lailier really asked him to ask questions—of course, it would probably be some innocuous questions—I'm afraid she couldn't refuse.

This is probably the plan of Lailier, choking on Saenz, making him unable to get up or down.

"Fate..." Li Chen sighed with a low laugh.Fights between brothers and sisters are not uncommon, but it is relatively rare for Su Lingxuan and Su Lingran to perform their own duties.Li Chen thought for a while, gnawed the snacks on his hands, and said, "I don't like to see it, just take it away."

Saenz didn't seem to care much about it, he just shook his teacup lightly: "Do you have an idea?"

Li Chen didn't keep it up: "Go to school?"

Nie Wen has a talent for magic, so it's justifiable to learn it.

Saenz narrowed his eyes, and said with a low laugh: "Do you think I haven't thought about it?"

It's just that after much deliberation, it's best to let nature take its course, as long as nothing happened, and don't have to worry about such a trivial matter.

Li Chen turned around in his mind, and replied: "At this moment and at that moment, put it in Pesa, so that there will be no one gossiping behind your back. There are also a few children you recruited to watch, on the one hand, it shows that you are not Isolate him, and stare at him on the other side. The Second Highness can't get any real news, and it will always stop. Once her side forgets, he will be insignificant."

"Pesa?" Saenz raised his eyebrows, "He has the ability to get me into Pesa? What's the need?"

"Just give him a free exam quota." Li Chen's tone sounded lazy, "It's up to him whether he can get in or not. Anyway, whether he can get in or not is no different from now, so there's no need to worry about him." .”

"Impossible?" Saenz smiled, "You yourself have used a lot of brains on him."

"I'm bored." Li Chen followed suit with a smile, looking casually, looking casually out of the window.

In fact, after more than ten days in the house, Li Chen's attitude towards Nie Wen has become very clear.Before Li Chen came, Nie Wen was the youngest in the house and a little gardener who knew magic.So even if Lairelle's incident caused him to be isolated, the other servants didn't bother to embarrass him too much, and Saenz even asked him about his magic once or twice.After such a period of time, although Nie Wen was still cautious in dealing with things and did not dare to speak too much, he also let go of most of his defenses, and even felt that he could stand out among the servants because he knew magic.

But after all, he is a child who has never experienced anything before. How could he know that Saenz was just trying to avoid suspicion, and that Lailier almost forgot his existence because he was useless?

Originally, he was proud of himself, and others didn't care, but Li Chen appeared.When Nie Wen saw Li Chen, on the one hand, he felt that the "embarrassment" he had long forgotten seemed to have returned, and on the other hand, he felt that Li Chen had robbed his seat. He felt an inexplicable feeling of being trampled on, and even felt that Li Chen malicious.

At first, Nie Wen couldn't figure out Li Chen's origin, so he only dared to stare occasionally.Later, the fact that Li Chen was an orphan with no power and power finally reached Nie Wen's ears. Coupled with Li Chen's occasional counterattacks, Nie Wen completely misjudged the bottom line.Once, Li Chen and the bodyguard were still halfway through their morning exercise, so the bodyguard who accompanied him carried him back to the mansion through the garden through the back door; Nie Wen happened to be cooking in the garden, and in a moment of excitement, he taunted Li Chen for disturbing people's work .

Li Chen is not a fuel-efficient lamp, he confessed his mistakes to the guards around him like a child who did something wrong, and promised that he would never disturb the work of the garden again.

Even if Nie Wen originally said that Li Chen disturbed the guards' morning exercise, after one sentence, it turned into complaining that the two of them disturbed his work.After this real kid had recovered enough to understand Li Chen's real intentions, the entire guard team would have known about this conversation long ago.

To be honest, it's okay to have a fight with an evenly matched opponent.But after all, Nie Wen was isolated by other people in the mansion as soon as he arrived. He was still a child who didn't know what to do.He underestimated Li Chen, and only felt that it was rare for the other party to have someone he could bully.As for Li Chen, although the current lack of power and power made him uncomfortable "If the enemy moves, I will move first", but after all, he would not allow a half-sized death thing to step on his head.

Therefore, for Nie Wen, Li Chen only had a heartfelt smile: "If you don't do it, you won't die. Why don't you understand?"

Saenz didn't understand at once: "What?"

"It's nothing, I just want to have fun." Li Chen said with a smile, "You agree with me to handle this matter?"

Saenz sneered at Li Chen's behavior of asking for guarantees, and just laughed: "Can you still turn the world upside down?"

Li Chen really didn't intend to turn the world upside down.On the one hand, it is right under the eyes of Saenz, and no one can be out of line; on the other hand, as a conspiracy theorist, Li Chen naturally has no reason to play tricks on Nie Wen, just dig a trap and bait him and wait for the other party to jump .

The days passed in the occasional bickering between the two real and fake children, and in a blink of an eye the other three from the "Gang of Four" came.

Mills and Noah played on the same day, and Wiggins was two days late, but at any rate, he was still a month away from school when he came.

Li Chen didn't go back to Bolton with Wiggins, so he wanted to find time to inquire about Estor's current situation with Wiggins.But Wiggins obviously couldn't hold back, and asked Li Chen for gossip within two days.

"What's going on?" Wiggins looked eager, "How did I hear that you had a quarrel with the gardener at His Highness's house?"

Li Chen rolled his eyes silently in his heart, feeling that he had two things to ask Wiggins in the first place, one was to ask him about the situation of his family, and the other was to dig a hole for Nie Wen to jump from him.Who would have thought that this bully would hit the muzzle of the gun by himself, and jumped directly to the second one.

"It's not enough to quarrel, it's just a little difficult to deal with." Li Chen smiled, "Probably because I feel that my background is similar, and my talent is better than mine. I am a little bit unwilling that I can go to Pesa."

Wiggins asked strangely: "You go to Pesa, what does it matter to him?"

"Is it not?" Li Chen shrugged, "I probably feel that I have been buried by His Highness's side for so long."

Even Wiggins, who was born pure and simple, naturally understood after such clear words: "Is he sick? If he is capable, he will go to the exam."

"Not everyone can go to the exam without any scruples." Li Chen shook his head, somewhat recovering from the "bad words" side, and then changed the subject, "How about you going back for a month?"

Wiggins was about to continue expressing his opinion on Nie Wen, but Li Chen seemed to choke him when he asked this question, he was taken aback for a while before he asked in a daze, "What's the matter?"

Looking at his appearance, Li Chen knew that there was nothing wrong with Yue Mo - at least nothing serious, and he wouldn't hold back until now without talking about something serious.After thinking about it for a while, he casually changed the topic and continued to chat.

Li Chen, Wiggins, Noah, and Mills were already in a group, and Li Chen arranged Nie Wen intentionally or unintentionally from the very beginning.Even though Noah and Mills, one has no sense of existence and the other is very aloof, there is not much difference in the performance of reasoning and ignoring; but because Wiggins is especially bluffing, Nie Wen completely felt it in a few days What is called "defiant" style.

Get up together, exercise, study, learn from Saenz, and have afternoon tea.Even Li Chen, who would occasionally argue with Nie Wen, basically turned a blind eye.Even though Nie Wen had already been isolated by other servants, it was not obvious on the surface anyway.Now that he was blatantly hit by these children, he naturally couldn't hold back his face.

In Li Chen's eyes, why should he give in to such a shameless thing?

Wiggins was induced several times by Li Chen's words, and lived up to expectations and became the most tuneful young master.Nie Wen's magical talent, which he used to be proud of before, really pales in comparison to Wiggins.Although Wiggins himself couldn't immediately show off his impressive magic skills, Nie Wen could only hold a candle to him in terms of his magical talent so high that he could be admitted without the entrance exam.

Looking at Lichen, Noah and Mills in a blink of an eye, which one was not admitted to Pesa?Even though everyone understands the truth of "being humble", a few Pesa students really don't care about a person who really has nothing.

"Sense of superiority." Li Chen explained their behavior pattern to Saenz, "or it is called - showing off."

What Lichen really didn't expect was Noah's reaction.After the four children swayed like this for about a week, Noah came to talk to Li Chen in private.

"If you hate Nie Wen, I think it's a bit self-defeating." Noah said, "He is talented in magic and he is not very old. If you work hard to take the exam, it is not impossible to get into Pesa. And the three of us are originally People who pass the civilian exam, if you keep dealing with him like this, I'm afraid it will become a violent method."

What is needed is the aggressive method.Li Chen complained silently, but he changed his mind about Noah.Noah's sense of presence is too weak at ordinary times, but he is a clever character when he thinks about it carefully. Now these words are more obvious.Li Chen's heart changed, and he briefly talked about Nie Wen's father.Of course, there are some truths and falsehoods in the process of this expression, and some untraceable children's emotions are mixed in to some extent.

Anyone who knows the relationship between Lairelle and Saenz, and has not been caught by the door, can realize the strangeness here.And Noah is much more enlightened than Wiggins and Mills, so as soon as Li Chen finished speaking, he immediately connected the context.

"So..." Noah tried to ask back, "You want to get him out of this mansion?"

"Yeah." Li Chen rubbed his nose, showing a childish expression on purpose, "After asking for favors from others, he still wants to treat His Highness's garden as his own, and it makes him uncomfortable to see him."

"But Pesa...is it necessary?" Noah narrowed his eyes, "I think he will be more proud instead."

"It is a blessing from His Royal Highness that he passed the exam; if he fails the exam, he will understand that we are all different from him, let alone Your Highness." Li Chen also coaxed the child in the same way, "Anyway, when he leaves this mansion, It’s going to be hard to come back.”

"Uh..." Noah thought for a while, "Do I need to be a 'good guy'?"

Although Noah's proposal was still a little immature, it still made Li Chen think highly of him.With pushing and pulling, it was easier for Nie Wen to step into the trap: "I think Mills might be more suitable..."

Nie Wen's magic talent is not high, so he will probably be passed down to take the alchemy department.On the one hand, Mills himself is from the Alchemy Department, and on the other hand, he has always had a good eye but a low hand. If someone who is weaker than him but not low-minded gives him a grind, he is probably very happy.

"The two of them?" Noah was a little surprised, "It's no wonder that Mills would help him, but they have quite similar tempers."

Li Chen silently complained: Yes, it's the same as death.What pot goes with what lid.

Noah continued to smile: "Okay, I'll call Mills about this."

"Eh?" Li Chen hurriedly stopped, "Don't. If Mills finds out about this, maybe something will happen."

Noah paused, seeming to understand the meaning of the other party's words, then nodded: "Don't worry, I have a measure."

What I'm waiting for is your words.Li Chen thought in his heart, but still put on a hesitant expression on the surface, and nodded after a while.