Be a matchmaker in an otome game

Chapter 63 Old Rhodes

That person stepped out of the shadows, and a face was slowly revealed to Safi and Fred. It really was Martin.

"Martin," Safi's eyes lit up, and he looked him up and down, "Are you okay? Your sudden disappearance really frightened us."

Martin looked at Safi with a complicated expression, and shook his head: "I'm fine, I left with my family."

family?Safi frowned. As far as she knew, Martin was an orphan. Where did his family come from?

Martin saw Safi's doubts, and pointed to the person tied aside by Safi: "That's my Uncle Sok."

Safi remained silent, and changed the subject bluntly: "I thought you couldn't accept Ms. Anna's...some bad words before you left."

"What words?" Martin was puzzled, and then suddenly realized, "Ah, I don't care."

"I've heard these words too much, and it's no longer painful." Martin shrugged, imitating the ease of an adult, but it seemed ridiculous for a child to make such an action.

Safi lowered her eyes and got used to it. So how many times have you heard such words, and how much you have endured for such a young child.

If it were her, how many words like this could she bear?

I'm afraid she can't bear a single sentence, she must not let her reputation be stained in any way, it will drag her parents down, and if His Highness doesn't let go, it will also drag His Highness down.

"This is a wrong idea," Fred said. He came over and put his hand on Martin's shoulder: "I heard Ms. Anna mean that I suspect that you stole dinner, did you?"

"No." Martin shook his head.

"Then you can't bear the blame for nothing," Fred said. "Self-esteem is not given to you by others, but earned by yourself. If you keep silent in the face of others' bullying, how can you expect others to think highly of you?"

Martin looked at Fred blankly, and said a little at a loss: "But I did do a lot of bad things."

Cheating, kidnapping and stealing have long been commonplace for children like them who have been begging for life on the street since childhood.

"Then tell them out loud that you're not going to do something like this again and that no one who has corrected a mistake is to be blamed."

Safi suddenly raised her head and looked at Fred blankly.

Suddenly, this sentence was not directly addressed to her, but she still felt comforted.

She once had such a light as His Highness, and this light once warmed her, which was enough for her gloomy life.

"Well said."

A hoarse, ugly sound like a broken bellows sounded, and everyone turned their heads to look over, only to see a limping figure jumping down from upstairs.

Martin's eyes lit up, and he ran towards the figure: "Grandpa Rhodes!"

Although Rhodes had a lame leg, he steadily caught Nading who threw himself into his arms, which showed that his foot was extremely stable.

He led Martin to Fred.

Fred guessed that this was the leader of the group: "What's your name?"

Rhodes waved his hand: "I can't afford to say, "Your Excellency, just call me Old Rhodes or Old Lame."

Fred nodded: "Mr. Rhodes, this is Fred, this is Safi, nice to meet you."

Rhodes smacked his lips, sat down in front of Fred, and then greeted the two of them: "Sit down, sit down, what are you doing standing up?"

Fred helped Safi to sit down first, but he couldn't help frowning when he touched Safi's hand: "Why are your hands so cold?"

As if waking up from a dream, Safi withdrew her hand and pulled the corner of her mouth reluctantly: "I'm fine."

Although he felt that something was wrong with Safi, in this environment and in this scene, Fred didn't have any extra thoughts to take care of her. He shook her hand vigorously, and Fred's attention turned back to Rhodes again. .

"You took Martin away?" Fred looked directly at Rhodes, "Why didn't you tell our people? Safi and I are very worried about him."

Regarding this question, Old Rhodes laughed: "Your Highness is joking, for us, nobles are more terrifying existences than guilds. We originally wanted to use codes to see if we could catch people from guilds, but we didn't expect it would be You two bite the hook."

That set of codes is a contact method created by the people living on the abandoned avenue. Because they are illiterate, they can only use various codes to replace them. Safi has seen these patterns before, although not everyone knows them, but as long as they understand these patterns After the logic, it is not difficult to guess the meaning.

Fred's brows darkened. Old Rhodes compared him with the members of the guild, which made him extremely uncomfortable. Anyone with good intentions was treated as a donkey's liver and lungs.

"I have no intention of hurting you," Fred said, suppressing his emotions. "If you can really save Martin, why did he come to me for help?"

"It was indeed our mistake. During that escape, Martin was separated from us." As he spoke, Old Rhodes stroked the top of Martin's head, and Martin approached Old Rhodes with attachment, "We are very grateful that Your Highness did not let us He suffers."

Old Rhodes was willing to protect Martin, and it seemed that Martin had a lot of affection for him, which meant that the two had known each other for a long time. In other words, Old Rhodes was willing to fight against the guild in order to protect Martin.

"Then you should know that we have no malicious intentions." Fred glanced at Martin, "We both have a common enemy now, don't we? If the guild is not wiped out, Martin will be hunted down all the time, so he doesn't plan to fight with us." Is there a cooperation?"

"No plan," but Old Rhodes flatly refused, "Your Highness, the cooperation is not so easy to achieve, the guild is dirty in your eyes, but for us, we are very familiar with the rules of the game they made, and We can also use these rules of the game to counter them, and cooperate with you, what can we get?"

After all, what Fred wants is obedient pawns, be it Martin or Rhodes, the first thing he considers is what kind of benefits or functions these people can bring to him, as for the idea of ​​pawns, he doesn't know No attention required.

Maybe it sounds cold and heartless, but this is indeed the education that Fred has received since he was a child. As a king, the suggestions of his subjects can only be suggestions. He must maintain an independent thinking and must not be led by the nose of others Walk.

So Fred would always presuppose the position of others, think about what kind of speech he would make from their position, and then how to refute it himself, so as to make the other party succumb to his reasoning.

It's just that his set is good enough to deal with the prime minister and Safi, because they are reasonable people, so Safi can always be persuaded by his "reason", but at this moment But it doesn't work anymore.

The reason is simple. Fred's reasoning is far from Rhode's. Fred can't understand Rhode's thinking, and naturally he has no way to presuppose a position to persuade.

Fred thought he was well intentioned, but others may not need it.

(End of this chapter)