Chen Huijie, I am not a good person anymore!

It was not until Luo Ya died that Chen Huijie began to understand everything about him. She found that her view of Luo Ya was indeed one-sided, ridiculous and stupid. Ninety percent of her prejudice came from various news that no one knew whether it was true or not, and the remaining ten percent was her own imagination.

"That's right. He rarely talks about his past with others. Officer Wei and the others may know more."

No one knew what Luo Ya did after he stopped Wei Yanwu that allowed him to directly sit in the position of deputy director of the Longmen Guard Bureau, but Wei Yanwu and others knew the most about Luo Ya.

The two drove to the cemetery of the Guards Bureau. Luo Ya's grave was not conspicuous but very clean. There was a bouquet of flowers placed next to the grave, but the plate was empty. There was also an old man in tattered clothes next to it, holding the buns that should have been placed inside.

"This guy……"

"Don't go." Jiu held Chen Huijie's shoulders. "This is not the first time. Besides, Luo Ya has thought that someone would do this."

Luo Ya had thought about how he would be despised after his death, and he even joked with Jiu that the offerings to him didn't need to be too good, just enough to make sure they were full, because he was afraid that some people wouldn't have enough to eat.

"But this is too much."

"But if Luo Ya was here, he would probably laugh and tell that guy not to choke to death, and then go over to scare him."

This was indeed something Luo Ya could do. Chen Huijie clenched and unclenched his fists, then chose to let go.

It was not convenient to help with the tomb sweeping with others around, so Chen Huijie and Jiu could only go to the welfare home first. Seeing that she seemed to be still a little depressed, Jiu really felt that if she could have tried to understand Luo Ya better earlier, she would not have regretted it now.

Winter in Longmen comes earlier and longer. Chen Huijie suddenly feels a little cold. The scenery outside the car window keeps receding rapidly, from the colorful high-rise buildings with bright lights and wine to the dilapidated and short buildings. The playful crowd gradually turns into slum residents wrapped in tattered clothes.

There are no festivals or joy here. Happiness and a good life belong to the citizens of Longmen and have nothing to do with them. Jiu and Chen Huijie looked at these people, not knowing what they were thinking.

On the other side, seeing Chen Huijie and Jiu leave, Lin Yuxia, who had originally planned to visit Luo Ya's grave, came out. The cheap silver pendant on her chest never left her body.

"Aren't you afraid of retribution for eating the offerings of the dead?"

Placing the flowers in her hand in front of Luo Ya's grave, Lin Yuxia really didn't know what to say to the skinny old man in front of her.

"I, well...I'm really hungry, miss."

"I know that during the New Year month, the welfare house in the slums will distribute food. You can go and get some. These offerings have gotten cold. If he's still here, I'm afraid he'll laugh at you for almost choking yourself to death just now."

Lin Yuxia was not angry. She knew Luo Ya better than Chen Huijie and Jiu. How could that man get angry over such a small matter? He would probably go buy a bottle of drink, pretend to be a passerby, drink half of it with the old man, and then brag about his contributions to Longmen. Shamelessness is also his strength.

Afterwards, when the old man is enjoying the meal, he will probably tell the other party that it is his offering, and then he will laugh when he sees his frightened pale face.

"Miss, are you familiar with this gentleman?"

There must be someone in Longmen who doesn't know Luo Ya. The scavenger old man doesn't think that someone like Lin Yuxia, who looks like a lady from a wealthy family, would not be unaware of Luo Ya's bad reputation. Of course, Luo Ya's reputation seems to be gradually improving now.

"He owes me half a year's worth of food and a wedding."

"Is that so... This kid, I was scared to death when he stopped Mr. Wei's car, but he really became a big shot."

"You know him?"

Lin Yuxia looked at the old scavenger with some surprise, and the latter nodded slowly.

"He and I begged together, and I gave him two meals. When we met later, he said that I could eat whatever offerings were made on his grave in the future."

"This guy..." Lin Yuxia reached out her hand to wipe the dust off the tombstone. She recalled how Luo Ya had been desperate for his life in missions in the past. "He never thought that he would have a good ending from the beginning."

Luo Ya said that after his death, Longmen would inevitably be in turmoil. Chen Huijie should have stepped on him to become a new symbol that would make all the restless elements in Longmen dare not act rashly, but Lin Yuxia disagreed. She would not let Luo Ya get his wish.

"He can't eat this cake anymore, so I'll leave it to you."

Lin Yuxia left these words and put the cake she bought on the ground. She had other things to do. After losing Luo Ya, her work was busier than before. However, Wei Yanwu had completely handed over the command of Hei Suo to her, which in disguise helped to relieve the pressure.

The scavenger sat on the ground, thought for a while, took out a bottle of wine from his pocket, opened the box of cake and cut out two pieces.

He placed a piece in front of Luoya's grave, picked up a piece, drank a sip of wine to warm himself, poured the rest on the grave, and then ate the cake, just like that rainy night when he and Luoya sat next to the garbage dump, with the bright lights and feasting city in front of them and the stinking garbage dump beside them.

[I tell you, sooner or later I will become a big shot in Longmen. When the time comes, I will treat you to a meal. I will also make sure that everyone in the slum can afford to eat. And those children, they shouldn’t beg. School is where the children should go. This is what an old man told me.]

"Boy, there are still people who remember you. But the one who promised to treat me to hotpot is dead. It's really annoying. I even asked that boy to move you to that seat.

"Tsk... forget it, the world is unpredictable. I really don't understand why some people like to eat sweet food when chili is obviously the best."

After eating the last bite of cake reluctantly, the old man shook his head. The white dragon tail behind him swayed and then slowly disappeared like an ice cube melting into water, but no one noticed this scene.

........................

On the other side, in Victoria Oak Forest County, Luo Ya felt someone was talking about him behind his back and looked back, but there was nothing there except the building of Oak Forest County Publishing House.

"what happened?"

"Nothing, let's find a place to eat, the cake shop over there is pretty good."

The publication of the fairy tale has been completed, and Luo Ya even got a very good contract. The other party is willing to help with the publication and pay half of all his profits. In this era of low communication efficiency, this is undoubtedly a very high reward. After all, the printing and promotion of the fairy tale are all paid for by the publishing house, and they are also the ones to find the channels.

Of course, Luo Ya felt that this might also be because of Abrana. The head of the Oak Forest County publishing house seemed to know her and respected this descendant of the red dragon as much as the hospital director Eric.

"It's obviously me who paid, why do you act like it's your treat?"

"I'm treating you and you pay the bill, so you get to choose?"

Abrana looked around and thought, there wasn't really anywhere to go, so she could only choose the cake shop that Roya pointed out.

However, after the two walked into the cake shop, a passerby who had been following them from the beginning took out his communicator.

“Yes, the target has entered.

Chapter 45: An Accident in Oak Forest County (Two in One)

"You don't like desserts so much, why do you come to the cake shop?"

Although she was treating everyone today, Abrana was surprised to see that Roya only ordered a small cake and even bought the juice at a convenience store.

According to her idea, this shameless guy Luo Ya should have ordered a lot of snacks and cakes. Rafshini always brought a lot of snacks to share with Rosemary and the others, but most of them were probably eaten by Xiao Ke.

"It's your treat, so I'll let you save some money."

"Now you're really considerate." Abbrana took the dessert menu and asked, "Does your head still hurt?"

"is a bit."

Curing a person's muteness was a heavy burden for Roya, and it was inevitable that he would have a headache, so when he was discussing cooperation with Oak Forest County Publishing House just now, he basically nodded his head, and even Abrana helped him fill in the pen name. Considering that the pen name Dragon Knight was a bit unrighteous, he changed it to his similar homonym "Noah" instead.

"Then eat more desserts to relieve the pain. I still have this little money."

"Why don't you buy some materials and I'll make it myself later."

Luo Ya rested his chin on the table with one hand, and poured juice with the other hand, not forgetting to share a glass with Abrana.

"This is the first time someone has dared to treat me to a pound of cheap juice."

"This pound came out of your pocket."

Looking at Roya's teasing eyes, Abrana couldn't get angry at all. She just tapped his calf with her tail and continued the previous topic.

"Can you bake cakes?"

"I learned it in prison. The prison I was in was quite special. There were people from all walks of life there, and the daily management was not strict. I was the youngest and was the most cared for, so I learned a lot."

This was actually thanks to the judge whose name Luo Ya could not remember. Luo Ya's situation was very special and the incident caused a lot of public opinion. He would not have been held accountable originally, but that would have meant that he would be caught up in the social trend and no one could say what his future would be like. So the judge sentenced him to a local prison that specializes in accommodating criminals who were sentenced to light punishment for serious crimes, and asked the warden to take care of him.

In prison, Roya learned a lot. An old teacher in his sixties taught him literacy and arithmetic, and another older brother who could rub bombs by hand taught him chemistry and physics.

"...Your prison is really full of talented people."

After listening to what Luo Ya said, Abrana felt that this guy was not going to jail at all, but was going to study. Are there so many talented people in prison?

"Don't think you'll find another person like me. The hundreds of people in that prison aren't that bad. They all have their own reasons. Otherwise, they wouldn't be in that prison. For example, the one who taught me how to make bombs was a chemistry teacher. His son was killed in a car accident, and the other party refused to pay compensation and sued him for extortion."

Having given up on Abrana's idea of ​​recruiting talent from prison, Roya just drank the juice instead of eating the cake in front of him. After taking a bite, Abrana found that it tasted pretty good.

"I'm suddenly very curious about your origins. Are you from Dayan?"

"Maybe half of it. Dayan is a bit like my hometown, but not too much. If I have the chance, I actually want to go to Dayan for a visit."

"Then maybe you can visit Da Yan as our Victoria's envoy in the future."

Abbrana's words were another form of expression. Roya picked up the knife and fork and pointed at herself and the cake in front of her.

"That's a good suggestion, but I refuse."

After taking a bite of the cake, Roya gave Abrana a look, and the latter calmly and gracefully cut off a piece of cake and put it into her mouth.

"Why refuse?"

"First, tell me why you want to become the monarch of Victoria. Don't talk about ambition and power. It sounds like an old plot from a TV series."

Although it was such an outrageous topic, Roya and Abrana seemed to be chatting without caring about being overheard.

"It's a long story. My parents have filled me with expectations since I was a child. They told me the history of Tara and even... treated me as a monarch instead of a daughter. I also responded to their expectations by mastering my own power and learning all kinds of knowledge and tactics, although it seems that they are of no use to you at all?"

"After all, you can't give me anything I really want."

How to manage subordinates, win people's hearts, and balance one's position between various forces, Abrana did a good job until she met Roya, but all her methods did not work on Roya from the very beginning. She had basically tried them all since the first day Roya joined the company.

No matter if it was coercion, inducement or anything else, Roya was as unresponsive as a stone. He only signed a five-month construction contract with Abrana. Now that Kal'tsit has clearly been able to cure Rosemary's illness, she feels somewhat uneasy. Who would be willing to let go of such a good subordinate like Roya?

"Sometimes I envy Ravshini. She really is just like an ordinary girl. But how can we really live an ordinary life?"

Abrana looked at the gradually thinning crowd outside the window and used a knife to cut the sweet cake.

"More than ten years ago, our parents died in the New Year's bell. I fled with Ravshini and sought refuge from my enemy. I lay dormant and killed him after growing up for ten years. Now I have formed an alliance with the Iron Duke. So, as you said, I am actually a woman with a venomous heart."

"I'm just surprised that you could put up with him for ten years. If it were me, I would have come to your house to collect the debt."

After Luo Ya finished eating the cake, he looked at the cake shop that was bustling just a few minutes ago, but now there was no owner to be seen, and he couldn't help but knocking on the table.

"Do you think we have reserved the place?"

"Oh, if you really want to book the whole place, I can invite you to the noble restaurant in Londinium and personally cook a dish for you."

"Don't mess with other people's pots and pans."

The sound of orderly footsteps and the friction of armor could be heard on the street. While Roya and Abrana were chatting and laughing, the guards from Oak Forest County had already surrounded the entire cake shop.

Heavy-armored soldiers stood in the front row to protect the crossbowmen. Hundreds of automatic crossbows were aimed at Abrana's head. A middle-aged man dressed as an aristocrat stood in front of the guards with a smile. Roya remembered that he was the manager of this city, the Earl of Oak Forest County.

"You called him?"

"Do you think I'm stupid?"

Roya rolled his eyes and was about to finish his juice, but a crossbow arrow shot through the glass and shattered his cup.

"You can actually surrender. Rosemary's disease can already be cured. Deep Pool is useless to you. As long as I die, no one can threaten you. At that time, you can use the information about Deep Pool to exchange for the right to live. If the Earl of Oak Forest is not mentally ill, he will not kill you."

"But do you think he looks like a normal person?"

Abrana laughed at this, she found that Roya could always bring some joy to her when she was in a bad mood.

Under the gaze of hundreds of people, Abrana smiled like an ordinary girl rather than a noble red dragon, but Roya just sighed. He really thought that the Earl of Oak Forest County was a fool. Did he really think that he could capture Abrana with such a small number of people?

If it were in the past, Roya would indeed consider selling Abrana to save himself and take Rosemary and Xiaoke away, but he didn't want to do that now, not to mention that he didn't believe that Abrana didn't have any backup plan.

"Your Highness Abrana, there is an old saying in Dayan that a man who knows the times is a hero. I think even you don't want to be shot to death by arrows, right?"

The Earl of Oak Forest was a middle-aged Filin man, rather broad-set, well-nourished, and somewhat complacent.

"The cake you two just ate contained poison that I ordered someone to put in it. You didn't expect that I have been keeping an eye on you since you entered the city. Your every move has not escaped my sight."

"It's just poison. Are you afraid?"

"If I really ate it, I would be scared."

Roya pointed at the plate, and Abrana saw that there was a small water stain on both her and his plate. It was the poison of the Earl of Oak Forest County, and it was also the thing that Roya had truly "rejected" just now.

In fact, the two knew from the very beginning that they were being followed, but Roya and Abrana didn't care about it at all, and even deliberately walked into the trap that had been prepared long ago. Abrana thought that this was a trap set by Roya for herself, but now this doubt was completely dispelled. She suddenly realized that she had an indescribable sense of relief and pride, and her trust was not in vain.

"Before, you asked me why I wanted to be the monarch of Victoria. Of course, I want to tear the throat of every enemy and burn every piece of their flesh and blood, so that no one dares to defy my will. Then, I will build a better country, just like the king you told me about."

Purple flames gradually emerged from the corners, clambering over the walls, tables and chairs, with a tendency to spread outwards.

The Earl of Oak Forest County waved his hand without thinking. Even though the lord behind him said that capturing it alive would be the best, getting rid of it was not impossible. There was still a red dragon anyway, and he would take people to catch it later. The spy said that it would be easier to control.

"stop."

Like an order without any emotion, the sound of the cold wind and the sound of the crossbow firing all stopped, the flying crossbow arrows and the flames of Abrana all froze into a three-dimensional picture. Roya finished the last piece of cake and relied on the sweetness to relieve his headache.

"Put away your flames, don't be afraid of scaring others. We can take some things back from this store as gifts later."

Luo Ya patted Abrana's shoulder gently. When he said stop, he meant everyone except Abrana. The range was limited to within 200 meters, but it was estimated that the nearby streets had been cleared and it should not affect others.

"Your abilities have become stronger?"

"Yeah, Originium skills just require more practice."