The carriage was driven by a coachman in his forties or fifties, who already belonged to the "Bern" manor when the old count was alive, and had picked up and dropped off many nobles, so the carriage ran abnormally smoothly, so that Lucian in the carriage could not feel that this was an ordinary rammed earth road between the manors at all.
Thinking about things quietly, after an unknown amount of time, Lucian noticed that the carriage had stopped.
"Mr. Evans, you have arrived outside Sir Wayne's manor, do you need me to report?" The coachman turned around and asked in a low voice, in his experience, an elegant gentleman would not surrender himself to talk to the gatekeeper, this kind of thing was done by the servant or the coachman.
Lucian smiled gently: "No, my friend is also a knight's attendant, and I am not superior to him."
As long as the power of the bloodline can be stimulated, the status of the official knight is far higher than that of ordinary musicians, that is a real nobleman, of course, Lucian is now a quasi-knight.
Guarding the gate were Ian and Dorag, whom Lucian had met, and when they saw the carriage with the Hain family's flaming bull crest driving to the gate of the manor, they immediately held their heads high and prepared to welcome the distinguished guests.
But what surprised them was that what came out of the carriage was a poor boy who had met him before, who overwhelmed himself by asking questions and impressed him, and he was also wearing a white shirt with wide cuffs and a black dress coat, with a handsome and delicate appearance, like a real aristocrat.
Surprised, it wasn't until Lucian stopped in front of them that Ian came back to his senses: "Hello, are you here to find John?" The Hain family's carriage, as well as Lucian, who seemed to be completely a different person, made Ian temporarily forget the humiliation of the past and was full of politeness.
"Yes, please inform John." Lucian had almost forgotten about Ian and the others.
Ian nodded and said hello, and was about to turn around and walk into the manor, when Dorag spoke hesitantly: "Excuse me, are you Mr. Evans?"
After the success of the concert in the Hall of Psalm, even if John was not a person who loved to show off and brag, he couldn't help but tell the story of his friend Evans among his fellow attendants, and told his musical talent and previous experiences, the unprecedented enthusiastic response to that concert, and the praise of the archduke, cardinal and princess.
"Yes, I'm a good friend of John." Lucian replied calmly.
Dorag said with some excitement: "I have heard of your 'fate', just a few days ago at Sir Wayne's banquet, it is really an unparalleled work, I really like it so much, please forgive me for my previous attitude towards you."
Enthusiastic, sincere, and excited, Lucian didn't expect that Dorag was still a literary and artistic young man who truly loved music, which was not very coordinated with his thick arms and strong chest.
However, this is Aalto, and this kind of thing is normal.
"Thank you for the compliment, I am very happy and proud." Lucian responded politely.
And Ian on the side showed an awkward smile and said, "So you are Mr. Evans, please forget the rudeness in the past."
He was not an avid music lover like Dorag, but the knight he served, Vane, loved and admired the "Symphony of Destiny" very much, and even listened to it at banquets, so he had to express his kindness on the surface, but inwardly, Ian still hated Lucian.
Seeing this scene, Lucian could only feel that once his identity and status changed, the attitudes of other people around him would also change dramatically.
When Ian went in to look for John, Dorag was still excited, he rubbed his hands and looked at Lucian, but he didn't know what to say, and finally squeezed out a sentence: "Mr. Evans, can I invite you to my house?"
Lucian was a little embarrassed and could only find a reason to decline.
After a while, John followed Ian out and asked very confusedly: "Lucian, why are you here, I will be back at noon."
Lucian told the cultist that John was going home on Saturday was not lying, but he moved the time forward by half a day.
"Some things that have been resolved will be discussed in the carriage." Lucian pulled John into the carriage, and the old coachman was very sensible, tied the horses to the stakes, went to the side by himself, took out a leaf similar to tobacco, lit it, and smelled it under his nose.
John knew that Lucian was not a reckless person, and although he was full of doubts, he still listened carefully.
As Lucian spoke, John's face gradually turned blue, his hands were clenched tightly, and when he heard the three severed fingers, he made a sound of teeth clenching in his mouth, but he remained quiet, did not shout, did not curse, and waited until Lucian finished speaking before he let out a long breath, unable to speak for a long time.
Lucian accompanied him to calm down and also did not speak.
"Lucian, you don't have to blame yourself, although it is because you became the music advisor to Her Royal Highness that the devil's believers set their sights on your father, mother, and Evan, but it is their fault that they are the bad guys, not you, not your motivation to pursue the path of music. Even if there is no such thing, as long as you or I have the possibility of contact with His Majesty the Grand Duke and His Royal Highness the Princess, they will still do the same thing, and we can't be harsh on ourselves for the mistakes of the bad guys."
After John recovered a little, the first thing he said was to comfort Lucian, fearing that Lucian would not be able to let go of this matter and affect his musical path.
Lucian didn't expect John to say this, a little warm feeling welled up, and a little self-blame in his heart, which did not affect his emotions, slowly disappeared: "Thank you for comforting, John, I understand, we will never know that a bad guy can hurt us because of what we have done."
Confirming that Joel's family had been rescued by Her Royal Highness's knights, John immediately expressed his request to take leave to visit again.
"Wait a minute, John." Lucian took out a black bag containing moonlight roses, "There are twenty grams of moonlight roses here."
John looked at the bag solemnly, just now he had already learned the origin of the moonlight rose from Lucian's mouth, and after hesitating for more than ten seconds, he firmly took the bag without refusing: "Thank you, Lucian, I will definitely stimulate the power of the bloodline, only in this way can I have the ability to protect my family and protect my friends."
He didn't mention the words to return the money to Lucian, because he knew that he was not able to repay such a large amount of money before he could activate the power of the bloodline, and if he could successfully stimulate the bloodline to become a knight, it would be a simple matter to protect Lucian as a true nobleman, and to repay the Kintale.
"But you can't be too anxious, follow Sir Wayne's arrangement step by step. By the way, John, please keep the matter of the other twenty grams a secret for me." Lucian told him that the reason he had just told John was that when the cultist promised to help him stimulate the power of the bloodline as a reward, he proposed that he needed to provide him with moonlight roses, so he used 20 grams, but this kind of thing was afraid of angering the princess and did not mention it, only telling Natasha that it was the cultist's direct and non-refusable "help".
John replied with a worried smile on his parents' expressions: "Don't worry, I can keep secrets better than a dead person."
In his opinion, Lucian was forced to delay and disguise.
After making up for the final omission, Lucian asked the coachman to come back and drove the carriage back to Aalto City.
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Although most of the poor could not distinguish the coat of arms and know the meaning of each coat of arms like polymaths, they still knew some of the most famous families of Aalto.
Joel, Alyssa, and Evan had already been sent back by the church, and it seemed that they had not received any strong information from them.
Seeing John and Lucian get out of the carriage, Evan, who had matured a lot, suddenly cried, very sad, as if he wanted to wash away the unpleasant and sad memory quickly.
John touched Evan on the head and patted him on the back: "It's all over, everything is over, with the protection of the Lord, it will be fine."
Lucian hugged Joel and Alyssa, blending apology, worry, and joy into the embrace.
"It's none of your business, it's over." When they were in the hands of the cultists, they both thought they would definitely not be able to escape death, but they were unexpectedly rescued by the princess's knight in the end, which made them not only believe in the God of Truth more, but also become more tolerant and understanding.
After more than ten minutes of comforting each other, Lucian learned from Joel and Alyssa about the inquiries of the church and the Principality's intelligence, mainly because he wanted to know from Joel and the others the characteristics of some cultists, and why the guard knights escaped before they could kill the hostages.
But Joel and Alyssa didn't have the energy to pay attention to their surroundings when they were being abused, and then they were suddenly stunned by a loud noise, and when they woke up, they saw the princess's knight, and they didn't know what happened in the middle, and the rest of the hostages were similar, even if a few didn't faint, they heard almost nothing in the severe tinnitus.
The only thing that puzzled the inquirer was why Joel and Alyssa fainted after being taken to the cell and woke up in the cell.
That is, after the loud noise, because other things had to be prioritized, and it was not yet the last moment to clean up the hostages, the guard knight threw Joel and the others back to the cell to prevent them from escaping.
As Alyssa was talking about these things with tears in her eyes, someone came to knock on the door, and Lucian looked back to see her old acquaintance Correa and another church guard she didn't know.
"It's just that the high-ranking knight attendant came over, and it seems that I am not suspected much." Lucian said secretly in his heart.
Correa solemnly and politely invited Lucian to the small room and asked what happened, while Lucian told Natasha what he wanted, except for stimulating the power of the bloodline.
After taking notes, Correa stood up and thanked him with solemn courtesy: "Your Excellency has commanded me to thank you, if it were not for your intelligence, the Lord's night guards would have been defiled by all evil."
In the church's opinion, although things are a bit of a coincidence, this coincidence is beneficial to their own side, if it were not for Lucian's intelligence, then the Night Watch's losses would have been even heavier, or even wiped out.
Although Lucian is the witch's neighbor, he may have been in contact with the professor, but he is only suspected of having contact, with his merits and status admired by Her Royal Highness, it is difficult to arrest and torture, and if there is real contact, secretly observing and not doing anything to alarm Lucian can have a better chance of catching the cunning and vicious "professor"!
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After being questioned by the church, Lucian finally returned to normal life, began busy music studies and magic analysis, and let Alyssa's family move to their garden villa temporarily.
Lucian never looked at the magic circle mark in the corner, and even did not proceed with the final treatment of the magic laboratory, because he was worried that the church was closely monitoring the vicinity and looking for professors.
On this day, Victor began to teach Lucian, Lott, and Phyllis their "canon" form, a basic polyphonic music in which multiple parts mimic the same melody and appear in turn, cross each other, chase each other, intertwine with each other, and do not merge until the final chord merges.
This piece is beautiful and easy to learn, and even beginners can compose similar chords, so it's a good choice to try and create when starting to learn polyphony.
"Actually, Lucian, in your symphony of fate, you have unconsciously partially used the canon technique, and it seems that you have learned a lot on your own in the music library." Victor praised Lucian.
Lucian was thinking about another thing: "Although the famous Canon in D major (John Pachbel Canon) has a similar melody in this world, it was composed by a musician more than 80 years ago, and the similarity is more than 90%, but I can adapt it into a piano piece based on Pachbel's Canon, which can save time and have a certain degree of innovation, and meet the requirements of holding a concert within a year."
In Lucian's sense, John Pach Belcanon is more beautiful, and adaptation is the best way to put together a concert repertoire in a short period of time, of course, "original" and finale music is definitely needed.
More than 3,900 words to ask for a monthly pass~
(End of this chapter)