Working Prophet.

Chapter 548
After Du Lun left Lard Street, he rushed to the outside of Earl Clyde's mansion without stopping.

As a result, from a distance, a group of people gathered there, basically the little nobles in the city and their attendants, filling up half the street.

Edward II died unexpectedly, and his eldest son Gals was about to succeed him as the emperor of the empire. At this time, the nobles in the entire royal capital were thinking about how to get closer to the new emperor.

For example, those big families can directly show their favor to Garth himself, but more minor nobles, those barons and knights, are not qualified to see Garth at all, so they turned their attention to the people around the new emperor.

Galth's swordsmanship teacher is obviously a good candidate.

When the new emperor is crowned, Clyde will almost certainly be entrusted with important tasks.

Sade, the wife of the Earl of Clyde, is currently entertaining those who come to visit in the front hall. After receiving the gift list from the butler, the smile on her face becomes brighter as she looks at the items listed on it. .

The Wendell family is not an unknown small family. They have a history of nearly 2000 years, even longer than the Vespasian family.

However, no matter how prominent a family is, there are times when it declines. By Clyde's generation, the situation is already very serious.

Although the family still looks glamorous on the surface, in fact, it has widened the gap with those real wealthy families, and has been overtaken by the rising upstarts.

Fortunately, Clyde is good at swordsmanship, and was invited to be the swordsmanship teacher of the eldest prince Gals, but this job only sounds good, and in terms of real power, it may not be as good as a small captain of the defense team.

But now everything is different. Once Gals is successfully crowned, with the relationship between Clyde and Gals, the Wendell family will also skyrocket.

Sade sneered in her heart, she always remembered those ladies and ladies who gave her supercilious looks before, and she will settle the accounts slowly one by one later.

Just when Sade thought so, she saw a guard hurried in from the outside and reported something to the steward.

There was a look of surprise on the butler's face.

Sade asked, "What's the matter, Franz?"

"There is a new guest outside, ma'am, he said he wants to see Lord Clyde."

"Clyde is not something anyone can see right now." Sade said proudly, "How many gifts did he bring?"

"He didn't bring anything."

"Then there's nothing else to say, just drive away such an impolite guy." Sade said with a cold snort.

However, before she finished speaking, the man had already walked in from the outside.

"Sorry, I came here in a hurry this time, and I really didn't have time to bring the gift. I'll ask someone to make it up later, but I have important business to look for your husband."

Sade couldn't help being surprised when she saw the appearance of the person coming.

"Sir Durham!"

"Madame Sade."

"Aren't you supposed to be investigating the murderer who assassinated His Majesty? Why do you have time to come here?"

"As I said before, I want to have a chat with Sir Clyde."

"Why? My husband didn't show up in the arena the day His Majesty was assassinated."

"I know that he was drinking at the Stag Tavern to relieve his sorrows. Ma'am, I don't mean any harm. I just want to ask your husband a few questions. This may be of great help to me in catching the murderer."

"But Clyde is not at home right now." The countess said with vigilant eyes.

"where is he?"

"I don't know, Your Majesty... The eldest prince Gals trusts Clyde very much. He has a lot of things to do, so he asks Clyde to help him deal with them."

"King's Landing Tower, Sir Clyde is in the King's Landing Tower, still with Prince Garth?" Du Lun frowned.

"My husband did go to the King's Landing Tower, but I can't guarantee whether he is still there now, and I can't get in the way of the men."

"Okay, thank you."

Hearing this, Du Lun didn't want to waste any more time here, but he paused again when he went out, pointing to a marble sculpture in the yard.

"I didn't know Sir Clyde was a follower of Papagani."

"Clyde is not, he is simply interested in these stones, he has collected a lot of these sculptures, different gods, heroes, but the same thing is that they are all from the hands of masters, perfect works of art, which also means that they very expensive."

The head of the Imperial Guard didn't say anything, just nodded and continued to walk outside.

Wherever they passed, the crowd moved away far away, as if they were avoiding the plague.

Although less than half a day had passed, with the assassination of Edward II, the fate of many people changed on this day.

If Prince Garth and his cronies are the most popular in the royal capital, then the most unpopular person is probably Du Lun.

Although there is no such thing as one king and one courtier on the continent of Bratis, when the power changes, there are very few cronies of the former emperor who can continue to be reused.

Moreover, Du Lun bears the inescapable responsibility for Edward's death, and he himself has sworn that he will give up his noble status and leave the capital in the future.

In other words, the once aloof head of the royal guard is not far from losing power completely.

That's fine, but the point is that he is still investigating the death of Edward II. No one wants to get involved in this matter at this time, and they wish to stay as far away from him as possible.

Du Lun could feel the disgust and alienation around him, he left Earl Clyde's mansion without saying a word, and rode on his war horse.

The head of the imperial guard hurried on his way, and after riding for about two streets, he met a boy dressed as a commoner, who picked up a fist-sized stone from the ground, and suddenly threw it at him.

Du Lun's reaction was very quick. Before the stone fell on his armor, he had already drawn his sword, and cut the stone in half with one sword.

But when he looked up again, he saw the young man quickly disappearing into an alley.

Because the alley was very narrow, the chief guard of the Imperial Forest decided to dismount and chase after it.

His speed and physical strength were undoubtedly higher than that thin boy, but the latter was more familiar with this area than he was.

So Du Lun couldn't catch him for a while, and the two just chased and fled. After a while, Du Lun took the initiative to stop.

Seeing that he stopped chasing him, the boy didn't even run away, and just made faces at him in front of him.

Du Lun was not angry, but said, "Okay, there are no people in this place, let the people behind you come out."

The boy looked confused as if he didn't understand what he said.

Seeing that Du Lun had drawn his sword in his hand, he stood quietly waiting.

(End of this chapter)