Law of the Devil

The head waiter took Du Wei's reward and didn't dare to neglect, and trotted all the way to bring Lao Yan after a while. Du Wei was changing and washing under the service of a few palace maids. Seeing Lao Yan walking into the room in military uniform, he couldn't help laughing and said, "How is it? Are you used to living in the Imperial Forest Army's barracks?"

Others don't know, but Lao Yan knows the meaning of these words. After all, he was once a member of the Imperial Forest Army. He hesitated for a moment, then shook his head calmly and said, "It's better that our military camp in the northwest is comfortable. Everything here is very enjoyable."

Judging by his indifferent expression, it was obvious that he no longer had the slightest affection for the Imperial Forest Army.

After Du Wei waved the waiters out, he said seriously: "Old Yan, you leave the palace immediately and go to the city to find Mr. Lan Hai! You should know Mr. Lan Hai's name! Go there quickly and tell him that I have something important Please ask him for advice. Please wait for me at our Duke Tulip’s mansion tonight!!”

As he spoke, Du Wei asked Lao Yan to stretch out his hand, picked up a pen on the table, and wrote a Chinese character "ji" on Lao Yan's palm. Others can't understand this thing, but as the most outstanding disciple of Daxue Mountain, Lan Haiyue will definitely understand it. And time is running out, Du Wei is afraid that the blue sea will not come, so he can only use this method. If you want to come to Lanhai and see this word, you will definitely come out of curiosity.

Lao Yan was not a talkative person, he just did what Du Wei told him to do, he didn't speak at the moment, just nodded and went out.

After Du Wei had breakfast, a court magician in a red robe came to see Du Wei.

Du Wei knew that Prince Chen had mastered the power of a court magician since he was a child. It can be said that in the entire palace, the people he trusted the most were not the Imperial Forest Army, nor those palace guards and waiters, but the court in this palace. Magician Power!

The court magician's face was indifferent, and he didn't say much when he saw Du Wei. He directly brought Du Wei back to the palace where Augustine VI lived.

Du Wei saw the substitute Groom, the poor man looked very painful - he knew that the voice-changing medicine he gave him had worked.

Groom's throat was swollen high, and when Du Wei arrived, he was rolling on the bed clutching his throat in pain. At this time, Prince Chen was also standing by the bed.

Seeing Du Wei walking in, Prince Chen had some doubts on his face: "Du Wei, what did you eat for him? How did he become like this? His throat is swollen like this. The banquet the night after tomorrow..."

Du Wei shook his head: "The lump will go away tonight. Your Highness, the food I let him eat can change his voice. Don't you think his voice is too different from the former emperor's?"

Prince Chen's face looked much better now. He smiled: "Okay, Du Wei, I'm also a little anxious. You know how I feel right now."

Du Wei shrugged his shoulders, and then took out a small ice berry from his bosom. Carefully separated out a little bit of the size of a grain of rice with his fingernails, and stretched out his fingers in front of Groom's ground: "Eat it, and your pain will be relieved a lot."

Of course Prince Chen recognized what it was, he just raised his eyebrows. Did not say anything. In his opinion, it is meaningless to use expensive ice berries to relieve pain on this dying person.

Groom obviously trusted Du Wei to the extreme. After he swallowed that bit of ice berry. Soon it was quiet.

After Du Wei pulled him to sit down. Look carefully at Groom's face.

He drew a lot of lines on Groom's face last night, leaving marks and lines according to how he planned to dress up and transform the muscles on Groom's face.

Groom remembered Du Wei's words. I haven't scrubbed my face, so at this moment, the lines are still very clear.

Right under the eyelids of Prince Chen, Du Wei took out the tools he found in the room last night, and some medicines prepared last night.

He first dyed Groom's hair gray with medicine, and then a bottle...

Only he himself knows that in this bottle is the spring water of the passage of time! But of course it is not the original solution, but diluted with water at a ratio of about one to one thousand.

This ratio was tested by Du Wei in the Northwest.

Du Wei believes that even with perfect makeup, it is impossible to turn a forty-year-old into a seventy-year-old. Although the features on Groom's face resembled the old emperor's, there was a huge difference in age, whether it was wrinkles, muscle elasticity, or skin luster, there were huge differences. If you only rely on makeup, you can't hide the surprise of the years.

Since he couldn't make up, Du Wei decided to be ruthless and let Groom grow old!

Seeing that Groom drank a sip of water from the bottle, Du Wei immediately took the bottle back and put it back in his pocket calmly.

Then, under the surprised eyes of Prince Chen, Groom's appearance began to change!

He seemed to be aging at a speed that could be discerned by the naked eye! Wrinkles soon appeared on the forehead and the corners of the eyes! The originally clear eyes gradually became cloudy. The color of the skin began to fade and age, and the cheeks that were a little too plump became shriveled...

In less than a meal, Groom, who was about forty years old, looked twenty years older!

Not only that, but even one of his teeth fell out!

Originally, Prince Chen's eyes were pure surprise, but at the end, seeing that the middle-aged man who was more energetic just now turned into a dying old man standing in front of him, a flash of light suddenly flashed in Prince Chen's eyes. Be vigilant!

Yes, be vigilant!

He immediately glanced at Du Wei subconsciously!

Although Prince Chen himself is also a magician, he has no idea what kind of magic potion Du Wei just gave Groom. A magic potion that can make people age instantly!

Many, many thoughts immediately came to his mind: Could this kind of thing be the most terrifying poison?

If you use this kind of thing to harm people, wouldn't it be...

"How did you do it, Du Wei!" Prince Chen's tone was serious. Of course Du Wei knew what the king was worried about. In fact, he didn't want to take out the time-lapse spring water, but now he has no choice. Only this kind of thing can hide Groom's age to the greatest extent.

"It's just a secret magic potion I prepared." Du Wei tried to pretend to be as calm as possible. .

"Can it make people age? Or is it more effective?" Prince Chen asked.

"No." Du Wei made up a lie: "It's just an appearance, it doesn't really make him old, Your Highness. After time passes, its effectiveness will disappear. Then

It will return to its original appearance. The potion I prepared is effective for about five days. "

Du Wei thought: the day after tomorrow's banquet is over, I'm afraid this Groom is going to die. This lie of oneself will be dead without proof.

"It's just an appearance?" After hearing these words, Prince Chen felt a little more at ease. In any case, this potion is really terrible.

He didn't open his mouth to continue to ask about the formula of this potion - after all, Prince Chen is also a magician, and he knows that any magician keeps his secret formula extremely secret. Will not easily reveal to others.

"Then...if it is taken in excess, can it directly cause aging to death?" Prince Chen couldn't help asking.

"No." Du Wei's answer seemed calm: "As I said, it just makes people look old, and it's not true. Excessive consumption is of no use. After time passes, it will return to its normal appearance." gone."

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Prince Chen is the regent after all, he can't stay here all day, and watching Du Wei make up Groom is also a very boring thing. Soon he was gone. He still has a lot of official business to deal with from all over the country. But when he left, out of trust in Du Wei, he didn't leave the court magician to supervise him.

"Okay!" Du Wei stood up and patted Groom on the shoulder. I looked at Groom's appearance from the left and right angles.

Now it seems that there are almost no loopholes!

After aging Groom for more than 20 years with the time-lapse spring water, he originally looked exactly like the old emperor. It's more like that now.

And Du Wei used some subtle makeup techniques. Some subtle changes were made in the places where his face was marked with some magic potions. It made his face look like a revived Augustine VI!

"The night after tomorrow. It's the real test." Du Wei sighed: "The biggest trouble now is that you really don't behave like an emperor."

"Because I was just a tailor." Groom's voice was hoarse.

"Okay, tailor." Du Wei muttered, and suddenly his eyes lit up: "Stand up."

Groom stood in front of Du Wei as promised.

"Hold your hands behind your back... well, hold your chest up! Groom!" Du Wei suddenly shouted: "Remember, you are not you now! You are an emperor now! A man who once controlled the entire Empire, the emperor who is rich in all things in the world! Hold your chest up! Don't look to the left or right! Yes!"

He adjusted Groom's posture, and said sternly: "What court etiquette, temperament and other things, you can't master it in just two days. So, let's make it simpler... Remember, from From now on, you are not allowed to laugh, just keep a straight face..."

"My lord, even if I want to laugh, I can't laugh at a person who is about to die." Groom said lightly.

Du Wei nodded without saying anything: "Actually, this is what I need, Groom. The real Augustine VI has lost his authority, and he has actually abdicated. For an empty emperor who has lost his power, He must be in a depressed mood. So the depressed mood you are showing now fits this well. I ask you to keep this expression on the night after tomorrow, keep a straight face, and show love to anyone who talks to you It’s fine to just ignore it. Also...impatient, can you make impatient eyes? Yes, that’s it! If you feel that someone is talking to you and you can’t answer, just snort and pretend not to A look of patience means that you are now disheartened and indifferent to anything, that's fine."

After a day of training, Du Wei discovered that after leaving behind the burden of fear of death, this Groom is actually quite talented in acting—he really should not choose to be a tailor, but an actor— —Oh, although there is only opera in this world.

"In order to avoid loopholes, at the beginning of the banquet, as His Majesty the Emperor, you have to say some toasts, but you don't need to make a long speech. You just need to raise your glass, and then say "Long Live the Empire" indifferently, impatiently, and indifferently. , remember to use that very frustrated and boring look."

Du Wei sighed.

In fact, for a dying person, pretending to be an emperor who has lost power is quite similar in terms of emotional expression.

"A little bit of rage, a little bit of frustration, a little bit of impatience, and a little bit of indifference." Du Wei said carefully: "If you grasp these four points, you can fool most people. And you can rest assured that the night after tomorrow , I will always be near you to protect you."

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In the afternoon, Du Wei even did an "exercise".

After he obtained Prince Chen's permission, he intentionally ordered the kitchen in the palace to send some delicacies for His Majesty to enjoy.

And when several servants in the palace who didn't know anything about this matter came here with food, "His Majesty Augustine VI" tasted it casually indifferently, and probably felt that the taste was not suitable, so he immediately became furious and threw a price Qianjin's crystal bottle was thrown out of the hall, even smashing the head of a poor waiter.

Everyone present saw the angry roar of "His Majesty the Emperor": "Do you still think I am the emperor! Are you neglecting me in your heart now!!"

Everyone looked at the furious monarch who had lost power tremblingly, and no one dared to speak.

Everything... flawless.

Du Wei hid behind the wall in the palace and breathed a sigh of relief.

After everyone left, Du Wei patted Groom, who was covered in cold sweat, and said with a smile, "You did a good job. The anger you showed just now was very good."

Groom's reaction was very cold: "My lord, I didn't perform, I am really angry..."

"Hmm..." Du Wei looked at the person in front of him.

"I don't understand, I'm a good person, I haven't done anything wrong, I treat my work with all my heart, I love my family... But why, I have to die inexplicably? Yes, I am a small person, a cat Little ants, but my life can be taken away at will." Groom's voice was very soft, full of frustration: "It's not fair! It's not fair!"

The cry of this little man, at this moment, left Du Wei speechless...