Chapter 1993 The strange task of electing the king
After dismissing several of the guards around him, only the king, queen and his guard chief were left in the room.
The election king said: "There is one thing that I can no longer wait for. I hope to leave it to you and your team to handle."
"What's the matter? Your Majesty, please tell me."
The electoral king signaled to the captain of the guard. The captain of the guard took a picture scroll and walked to Scar and handed it to him. The electoral king said: "Please help me find the person in the portrait."
The portrait is of a child, who appears to be under 12 years old, wearing an algae-green robe, shorts and stockings.
Scar asked casually: "Who is this little guy?"
The election king said: "She is our child, uh... my daughter."
"Girl? I thought it was a boy, but I couldn't tell."
The queen coughed.
Scar realized that he had made a mistake and smiled awkwardly.
The election king said: "Our child is lost. The queen and I are anxious every day. Please find her as soon as possible. The queen and I really can't wait any longer."
"It's not a big problem to find her. I would like to ask how long she has been missing..." Scar suddenly stopped at this point: "Wait, that's not right. Your child is lost. Please ask our mercenary group to find her? You
It's the king. In this country, you are looking for someone who is much better than our little mercenary group, so there is no need to look for us."
"This..." The election king touched his beard and lowered his eyes to the table.
Scar looked at the girl in the portrait, then at the king and queen, and said, "If I'm sorry, Your Majesty, the girl in this portrait doesn't look like your couple's child. Your hair is golden,
She has very fair blond hair, but the girl in the painting has a bit of blond hair, but it’s more like silvery white.”
The election king said: "She is our adopted daughter."
"Adopted daughter?" Scar felt that he was not telling the truth: "But you still haven't answered why you asked a mercenary group to find your lost daughter? I think it is more reliable to mobilize your own people to search for this kind of thing, instead of looking for outsiders.
.Otherwise, if it spreads, it will only make the common people laugh."
"How do you know that I didn't mobilize the people around me to look for it?" The election king suddenly slapped the table and stood up, saying angrily: "Just look for the person and don't ask too many questions about why. If you find the person, I will reward you heavily.
,That’s it, do you understand?”
The queen took the king's arm: "My dear, calm down, sit down and talk."
The election king took a deep breath and sat back in his seat.
Scar held the drawing paper and was stunned for a long time. He shook his head slightly and said, "Sorry, Your Majesty, there are too many unreasonable things in your words. My team is really in trouble recently and I really want to earn your money, but I don't want to mess with you."
What a big trouble you're in. So I'm afraid I can't take this business. If you can't tell me the truth, then I have no choice but to leave." After saying that, he returned the drawing paper to the guard captain, turned around and left.
"Wait a minute." The queen stopped him and turned to the election king: "Tell him the truth. If you don't tell the truth, it will be difficult for another team to find someone for us."
The electoral king was silent for a long time, and then he slapped his big hands on the table helplessly: "Okay, tell me, I can tell you the real situation, but you can't tell anyone else about this matter anyway. It's best if no one else talks about it.
"
Scar was curious as to what could make the king so helpless.
The elector was silent for a while, and then said slowly: "The child does not belong to me and the queen. She is the daughter of the consul of Dismansi. I accidentally lost her." After saying this, the king looked like a child.
Like a deflated rubber ball, he slumped listlessly on his seat, his face full of despair and pain.
Scar thought for a while, shook his head and said, "I still don't understand. I can just find the child if I lose it. Why do you have to be so mysterious?"
Seeing that her husband had lost the energy to speak, the queen said to herself: "Sir, you don't know something. My husband and I are distantly related to the wife of the West Consul. The West Consul is a harsh man and never takes care of Asuna, but he always
He would criticize her very harshly. Therefore, Ashina would often come to our couple's place to play, where she could feel more relaxed and at ease. Recently, natural disasters have struck, and the West Consul is even more busy and has no time at all, and his wife also
There was no extra time to take care of the child. As a result, Asuna sneaked over to us alone. Fortunately, nothing happened to her on the way, so we quickly sent a letter, and her mother readily agreed to let us take care of her for a while.
.But just a few days ago, when my husband and I were on a nationwide tour due to a disaster, Ashina was lost inexplicably."
"How did you lose it?"
"I don't know either. There were a lot of people in the motorcade. I asked a few servants to play with Asheina, but this child liked to run around. As a result, the servants didn't pay attention and disappeared in less than a minute. At that time, I
I quickly mobilized a few reliable people to search around, but I could find them during the day and night, and then the next afternoon but couldn't find them. I could only arrange for people to continue searching in private, but the number of people who could mobilize them was limited, so I thought of it.
Find reliable mercenaries for help."
Scar was puzzled again: "Why can we only search in private and not mobilize people to search in a big way?"
The Queen said: "Because this matter must not be known to the West Consul. Although he doesn't care about the children, he pays close attention to them. The key is that he has a bad temper and is very violent. If he knows that Asuna came to us
It's lost here, I don't know what he will do."
The election king turned pale and said: "I know that person, he will kill me, he really will."
The queen closed her eyes and sighed softly, shedding tears and said: "So this matter cannot be publicized, and we husband and wife dare not mobilize the entire palace to look for it, because if we do so, the Western Consul will know the truth of the matter. We can only
I made up an excuse, saying that Asuna was ill and was taken back to the palace by my maid to recover."
Scar understood the reason for the matter.
The queen said: "I have briefly investigated the reputation of your mercenary group just now. To be honest, we should not have entrusted this matter to a mercenary group that we don't know well so rashly. But it has been five days.
We can't wait any longer. After two days of inspection, we found that only your bloody mercenary group is more reliable in the nearby places. So please don't disappoint us and help us find the child. As for the reward, no matter how much it is after finding the child,
We will all pay. Didn't you say that your mercenary group is having a difficult time now? I can immediately pay you one million gold coins as the cost of finding the child."
The captain of the guard took out a stack of gold coupons and placed them on the table.
Scar looked at the money, and he was indeed deceived. With this money, the group's current predicament could be overcome, but he still thought about it calmly and said: "Is it possible that it was a kidnapping? Or someone from the convoy.
Abducted the child?"
The queen said: "We have thought about all the possibilities you mentioned, but there must be a purpose for kidnapping people. We have not received a blackmail letter from the kidnappers. I have also sent trustworthy people around me to investigate the whereabouts of everyone in the patrol team. There is no one at the moment."
Any discovery. But the king and I are more inclined to think that she got lost. Asheina is too naughty. She is watched too closely at home. She always likes to run around when she comes out. Otherwise, she would not come all the way alone.
Disman's family has traveled more than 1,500 kilometers to here, and she is only a ten-year-old child."
"...This case is difficult to handle. What if we can't find it?"
"Please don't say that. Please, help us find the child." The queen begged.
"This..." Scar knew that this task was difficult to take on, and he didn't know what the consequences would be if he couldn't find anyone. But when he saw the photo of the female mayor Sally on the shelf in the corner, his heart
My heart was pounding, and I agreed: "We will accept this task, but I want to sign a liability exemption agreement with you, and there is an additional condition."
The queen said: "I know what you want to sign. I can promise you on behalf of the king that I will never hold you responsible for anything. However, you must find the person and find him alive, otherwise I will not give you anything. As for
Please tell me the additional conditions."
Scar looked at the photo and said: "Dear Queen, can you make an appointment with Mayor Sally for me? I would like to treat her to dinner."
"...Uh, okay, I'll try."
Scar shook his head and said: "No, it's not a try, it's a certainty."
"Okay, definitely." The queen said, "Before that, I will tell you the details of what happened before and after the child went missing."