Chapter 174.1 – He seemed to know something strange.
The premiere of the propaganda film to the Ice Empire of Mulheim was completed.
The first time he saw the expressions on the faces of the ministers, Hill knew he had achieved his goal.
Hill briefly explained the concept and some details of the film in the imperial meeting, and the people nodded their heads a lot.
Seeing that it was almost ready, Hill took Olivia and said goodbye, leaving the rest of the time to the Ice Emperor and his ministers.
When Hill was in Mulheim, he thought of giving every race a promotional film, and then use “The Dawn – Dreamtale”. Hahaha. The propaganda film tells the history of this race, telling some moving stories inside, showing the charm of the race, oh, put the handsome guy and beautiful.
Of course, before shooting the promotional film, you have to build these races’ territory.
Now that the main race territories in the demon realm have been completed, Hill plans to start implementing large-scale construction and renovation.
After Hill left, the ministers were immersed in the promotional film. As the core of power in the Ice Empire, they could naturally see how much good the propaganda film could bring, which could bring glory to the nobles, make the soldiers more loyal, make the commoners more attached to the Empire, and also greatly enhance the personal prestige of the Ice Emperor Claude.
In that case, it seems that it is also tolerable to let the Demon King himself appear on camera.
It was only after a night that the ministers reacted to the fact that, in such a level of propaganda film, the Ice Emperor and the Demon King shook hands – although they did not know exactly what the handshake represented, but generally understood that it should be a friendly gesture – this, isn’t this a slap in the face of the Church? The current Bishop of Winter City, Teresa Shelley, is a very crazy hawk (warmonger).
Oh, some time ago, Hill had Olivia bring a large pile of things to the Church as gifts, and then Teresa spilled that pile of things outside and burned it in the street. Many nobles were distressed, and then the king’s ministers in front of the king’s court became more aware of Bishop Shelley’s “hawkishness”. After all, as the saying goes, seeing for oneself is a hundred times better than hearing from others.
The next day at the royal council, the Minister of Finance, who had always been inclined toward the church, raised the issue of the church
In response to this, Hill and Ice Emperor Claude were prepared, and the Ice Emperor responded according to what they had talked about beforehand: “Because the matter of the prince of the Magnolia Empire caused a rift between the Magnolia Empire and the Demon Race, so now the relationship over there has dropped to a freezing point. That’s why the Demon King intends to establish a long-lasting trade cooperation with the Empire of Ice under His Highness Grindelwald for mutual material assistance: they buy coal in large quantities, and later give us low prices to sell various items of Black Dwarves craftsmanship, including military weapons in addition to the widely known parts of the Demon Realm Shopping Mall. Based on that, this handshake makes sense.”
Now that these movies and anime are shown, everyone has defaulted that ‘dwarven craft is equivalent to advanced’.
“Military weapons!” someone directly marveled out.
“Military weapons…” The Minister of Justice was a bit skeptical: “Would the demons be so kind?”
The Minister of Finance said with a bit of ridicule: “Then you must not have followed the anime and movies, the attitude shown by the demons in the anime has always been about wanting peace.”
The Minister of Finance said this with ridicule and sarcasm.
In fact, this is also the attitude of the general upper echelons of the Empire of Ice: those who are willing to believe that the demons are really pursuing peace are the nobles and commoners who are not in power. Other superiors, including the Minister of Justice who had been opposed to the Church, believed that their own interests were more important than the demons’ performance, and that they themselves should take more precautions against the demons. This is an act with a brain. You can’t just watch a few blockbuster American movies that preserve world peace and really believe that America wants to preserve world peace. Hehehe.
But what makes them feel unexpected is that Grand Chancellor Lennon is actually vaguely on the side of the demons.
The Grand Chancellor had two sons and a daughter, his daughter fell in love with a bard when she was young and eloped with him, then the bard sold her when he ran out of money, she went through a lot of trouble to get back to Winter City, by this time, her health was in shambles and she died after a month at home. His eldest son was not raised well when he was young and was an uneducated gangster who committed too many crimes, and the Grand Chancellor had a great headache about it, so he married a little wife and gave birth to his youngest son. The younger son was raised very well and was a very distinguished young man, and then died heroically in a war with the Dijon tribe. The couple was very sad. His eldest son also changed his ways after his brother’s death, but also went to the army against his parents’ advice. The Grand Chancellor used his connections to place his eldest son in a safe sector, but the eldest son’s superior was someone he had previously oppressed, and in a war, the other party placed his son in a dangerous unit, and then the Grand Chancellor’s eldest son died in battle that way.
Shortly afterwards, the Grand Chancellor’s wife committed su*cide.
He was forty-five years old.
And then he was alone for more than twenty years.
Now, the Grand Chancellor is about to turn seventy, he’s really tired, he hates war, he’s seen too much death. He had been catching up on “Violet Evergarden” and saw Violet’s despair when she finally learned of the Major’s death, “Why, why am I the only one who survived, this is strange…” She went to ask the Lieutenant Colonel, then went to the Major’s brother to inquire, and then took the train and went to the Major’s home, and when she finally arrived to the Major’s home, she was despondent and in a bad state.
The Grand Chancellor went to the front line to ask all those who knew his son.
Finally, Violet went to the place where the Major had died in battle and dug up the stones little by little.
When the Grand Chancellor arrived at the place where his son had died in battle, he knelt there for a long time and could not get up.
The sky was raining and the cold rain poured on Violet’s body.
The sky was bright, the war was over, the flowers were blooming, everything seemed beautiful, but the son could not come back, both sons could not come back, the lady was dead, the family was gone.
The lieutenant colonel found Violet and he said, “It’s time for you to go back.”
Violet asked, “Go back where? I can only go to the Major’s side.”
The lieutenant colonel said, “Back to the company, aren’t you our auto memory doll?”
The Grand Chancellor was on his knees in that field for a long time, and then he thought, ah, he has to go back to Winter City, he’s a Grand Chancellor, the Empire still needs him, the Ice Emperor still needs him.
This kind of thing, please don’t let this happen again. He is all like this and doesn’t want more people to go through this pain.
There were tears in the corners of his eyes after this episode was broadcast.
一一
The imperial meeting continued.
The Minister of Justice said, “I’m leaning more towards the fact that the demons want to sell us military weapons in order to pit us against the Church.”
“You still hate the Church so much.” The Minister of Finance said softly, “Just as I hate you so much.”
“Then you can shut your fat stinky mouth and leave the Imperial Council. I don’t think His Majesty will have a problem with that,” the Minister of Justice said coldly.
“Actually, my mouth isn’t very fat nor stinky, I’ve been on a diet lately.” The Minister of Finance said, “Have you seen the new diet pills recently launched in the Demon Mall?”
“Sorry, I don’t need it.” The Minister of Justice grimaced in disgust, “And aren’t you worried that it’s poison?”
“The demons won’t be as brainless as you are.” The Minister of Finance revealed a smile: “They need to worry about too many things, both the Demon King and that Royal Highness are shrewd people who won’t lose a big thing for a small thing.”
“Huh. That could also be chronic poison.” The Minister of Justice actually didn’t feel that way, but it had become a habit for him to go against the Minister of Finance.
“That doesn’t matter, in exchange for a life full of joy. It did make me lose quite a bit of weight,” said the Minister of Finance, “to compromise a few years of my life expectancy for a high quality of life, I think that’s okay.”
“You can go on a diet yourself,” the Minister of Justice said.
“I’m lazy. My mind is used to think about matters of state, unlike you who have time to ride and shoot every day,” said the Minister of Finance.
“Have you gone from being moralistic to being full of nonsense, Minister of Finance?” The Minister of Justice raised a carefully trimmed eyebrow, “I am ashamed to be in the company of such a man as you.”
The Minister of Finance removed his hat and gave a comical salute, “Then you may leave the Imperial Council, Minister of Justice.”
Seeing that these two were arguing again, Ice Emperor Claude was wandering off, and so was the Grand Chancellor, and no one was stopping them, the Chief Steward looked at the two and had to speak up himself: “You two are too rude!” The eunuch roared in the manner of the Grand Chancellor: “This is a meeting of the royal court, do you two have His Majesty in your eyes?! Shut up!”
These two also stopped, which is the usual flow of the royal meeting.
The Ice Emperor was awakened back to his senses by the Chief Steward’s roar, and he casually said, “Oh, maybe they only have each other in their eyes, and there’s really no me.”
He just blurted it out.
Then he saw a flush actually appear on the chubby face of the Minister of Finance.
Ice Emperor: ????
The Minister of Justice coughed, “Your Majesty, please don’t make such jokes.”
His voice wasn’t particularly justified.
Ice Emperor: !!!
He seemed to know something strange.
Chapter 174.2 – Interesting people always meet interesting things and have an interesting world.
Oh yes, these two did have a relationship when they were young. Later, they parted ways because of disagreement in opinions. Later, they rose all the way and finally climbed to where they are today. There is a saying that the best ex should exist as if dead, but the two of them face each other every day, coupled with the original disagreement. In addition, the Minister of Finance, who used to be handsome and dashing in the past, has now increased a lot in diameter… Oh, talking about gaining weight, not the diameter of that, it’s the body gaining weight. So that leads to this consequence.
Now, because of the demon diet pills, the Minister of Finance has lost a lot of weight, showing a bit of the old appearance, this is… eh.
Let’s go back to the propaganda thing.
If the Ice Empire explained that the handshake was because of trade, it would make sense, or just tell the Church directly that the propaganda film was made by the demons, and the demons wanted to add the clip, and it had nothing to do with him, it’s none of his business. This can also pick themselves out basically.
However, for the public, this scene has far-reaching significance. Although the ministers have a lot of opinions, they also understand that the final decision is made by the Ice Emperor Claude himself. After all, sometimes the Ice Emperor doesn’t even consider their thoughts at all. Because of this, everyone was desperately trying to bullshit around before the Ice Emperor made a decision. Cough.
At present, most of the powerful nobles are in a wait-and-see trend. Their proposal to the Ice Emperor is to first trade with the Demon Race to see how much benefit the Demon Race can bring to them, and finally decide how to explain this “handshake” – meaning, not to release the propaganda film first.
But there are also nobles who have different opinions, and that is the issue of sincerity. They think that maybe there should be more sincerity in the interaction between humans and demons. As His Highness Grindelwald said, ‘you were victorious in the Demon Realm, but you are in trouble in your own land.’
This is the main reason for the cults that have sprung up in Mülheim. The trauma of the war, the physical and emotional wounds of people… Under such circumstances, “Violet Evergarden” became so popular that many, many people shed tears.
So, they have to admit that no matter what everyone says on the surface, in fact, they have been affected deep down.
一一
Early morning.
Hill’s swordsmanship is very good now, and the paladins have nothing to teach him unless Monroe himself comes over. But Hill still maintained the behavior of exercising for a while in the morning, moving his muscles and bones, and cheering up his spirits.
A snake crawled through the grass, Hill thought about it and caught it. The snake fluttered and wanted to turn around and bite him. He thought about it and stretched out his hand to let the snake bite. Then the snake twitched twice and was poisoned by his blood.
Hill: …
Well, he didn’t mean to. Really not.
But hey, I have breakfast today.
In fact, snakes rarely take the initiative to attack people. If they take the initiative to bite you, there are generally three situations: 1. You scared him; 2. You entered his territory, and he warned you but you did not respond; 3. You are ugly .
Yes, you are ugly… ugly… ugly…
The third point is really heartbreaking.
Today’s breakfast includes beef soup in addition to snake soup, and a new dish: quail eggs with sweet and sour pork ribs.
The Demon Mall Restaurant has been launching a variety of new dishes, some are based on Hill’s recipes, some are improved original dishes, all dishes have to be tasted by Hill, oh yes, Hill himself is a taster.
Because the first batch of eggs of the quail raised by the Tauren hatched some time ago, there will be more delicacies about quail and quail eggs. Quail eggs themselves are a good tonic, known as “best in eggs” and “ginseng in animals”. Quail eggs in the demon realm are even more nutritious and delicious.
This sweet and sour pork ribs quail egg is very simple to make, fry the quail eggs first, then fry the ribs, pour water directly after finishing, add cooking wine, soy sauce, vinegar, sugar, ginger, and garlic, then put the quail eggs, use a small fire to simmer slowly for the ribs to absorb flavor, and then sprinkle a little salt when you’re done. Remove from the pot, sprinkle the white sesame seeds, and the color and flavor are complete. Attractive red sauce, rich-tasting pork ribs, smelling oily and fragrant, tastes rich and delicious.
There is not much beef in the beef soup, the soup is clear and the oil is light. After taking a big sip, the first thing you can taste is the light spice flavor, pepper, basil, and white carrots. The other is the meat flavor. All kinds of flavors stimulate the flavor of the beef itself, and the taste of the whole soup is very refreshing, drinking this is very comfortable. Then taste the beef again, it’s soft, savory, and delicious.
Ah. This is life, ah. So relaxing.
Hill comfortably spread out in front of the black dwarf elder without any image, and the black dwarf elder thought to himself, is the Demon King implying something like this? Is he cosplaying a slime? Could it be that Lord Demon King hinted to me that we should pay more attention to the slime family?
Soon after, the slime family received a lot of material aid from the black dwarves, the slimes felt a little dazed, and then they also returned a lot of specialties from their territory.
No one knew that this actually originated from a food paralysis of Hill. Hahaha.
After breakfast, Hill first went to inspect the Tauren’s territory. The tauren didn’t like palaces, they preferred wooden buildings. The Skeleton Construction Team worked with them to reorganize the territory. Overall, the changes were not particularly big, but in terms of details, it’s much more comfortable.
There is a huge flagpole in front of the Great Chief’s residence. The main body of the flagpole is made of thick wood. The surface of the wood is naturally polished. There is a huge ferocious beast fangs that bends from both sides on the flagpole, and the blood-colored flag hangs on it. In the center of the beast fangs is the symbol of the Demon Race, which looks like an ancient totem, sacred and intimidating.
Hill opened up an underground palace for the succubus race, which looks like an ordinary castle on the top, but there is something special underneath. The whole palace is black and red, with a pitch-black lake in front, and the water is translucent black, which looks chilling, but it is actually the color that Hill dyed to make it look good. Cough.
The succubus family likes the underground palace very much. They used to live in the abyss, and Hill pulled them out of it.
The lakeside wetlands have always been rich in vegetation. There are bird eggs everywhere in the grass, the demon realm is rich in products, and the demons are not exploited by the upper echelons, so they rarely go hungry. Just like the surrounding demons, if you are really hungry, you will pick up two eggs to eat.
Overall, if there is no Hill, the level of human civilization is quite a bit higher than the demons, but humans may not live more comfortably than the demons. A very scary fact is that civilization is precisely one of the reasons for depriving humans.
一一
The Fallen Angels are currently working on their next album, and at the same time have also started working on the Hell’s Frontline album.
Now, because of “Iron Man”, many people are also paying attention to the “Hell’s Frontline Rock Band”.
Hill directly sent the big move, and the title track of their album was “It’s My Life”. Bon Jovi’s “It’s My Life” has probably been heard by everyone. This is a song that has achieved great commercial and word-of-mouth success. The lyrics of the song are popular and positive, and it’s a great song from any point of view.
Then the second song was Linkin Park’s “New Divide”, the theme song of Transformers 2. Linkin Park was Hill’s favorite rock band on Earth, and after lead singer Chester Bennington committed su*cide, Hill also had a Linkin Park logo tattooed on the inside of his wrist in their honor. Hill intends to carry over many of their songs as planned, with each song stating that the original artist was Linkin Park.
The s*xual abuse of Chester as a child became a lifelong nightmare for him and for his fans. May there be no p*dophiles in heaven. Hill is really disgusted with this kind of behavior, and hates it immensely.
Lich Aligeli has always been with Hill as a special effects artist. This time, Hill asked the Lich Aligeli to use the projection stone to shoot the album of ‘Hell’s Frontline Rock Band’. Hill’s request was to follow the lyrics, but also to highlight the feeling of ‘hell’.
Hill was struck by the gloomy and mysterious colors when he finally got the dailies, so he shot a few more sunny shots, and then went into post-production—but it was still mostly gloomy. It turned out that the effect was quite good. Hill planned to train Lich Aligeli to become the second director of the demon realm, otherwise, Hill would be exhausted if he was alone.
In addition, Hill also added Yang Kun’s “Herdsman” to the first album. This song is relaxed and free, warm and comfortable, very bright and pure, full of charm. Hill thinks the natives of the Plague Islands will like this song.
However, it seems a bit strange for the tauren to sing this song, especially the tauren who wants to remove the “cattle” in the first sentence “the wind blows the grass and the cattle and sheep are seen”, because the lead singer tauren thinks this lyric is indecent. All right, just let him be. Hill laughed with tears.
After the album was almost settled, Hill took a look at the progress of the Bard Grant’s novel. Grant is currently writing about alien arrival and the Civil War among humans.
One of them is a scene in the military life where two soldiers are fighting shirtless. A group of people are rooting and cheering around them, and many of them are saying vulgar words.
“You write a little too poetic,” Hill commented after seeing this: “Fiction is different from poetry. Sometimes you don’t have to be so beautiful, you have to be realistic.”
It is true that bards are prone to such mistakes when they change their careers to become novelists.
Grant accepted it humbly, he said, “Then I’d better write some vulgar words from bystanders here?”
“Yes.” Hill nodded.
So, Grant began to write: “f*ck your mother” and “I’ll toss your ashes for you.”
Hill: “…”
Is this bard from Zaun (League of Legends)?
“You’re not very rude,” Hill commented.
Grant humbly asked for advice.
Hill pointed, “Suppose you see two shirtless men fighting each other, what do you think is vulgar?”
Grant said, “Kiss him! Kiss him!”
Hill: “…you are too vulgar.”
Too funny. Overall, it was a rather pleasant day.
It would be nice if every day could be so pleasant… um… But given Hill’s level of amusement, if there are no special circumstances, every day is quite pleasant.
Interesting people always meet interesting things and have an interesting world
Chapter 174.1 – He seemed to know something strange.
The premiere of the propaganda film to the Ice Empire of Mulheim was completed.
The first time he saw the expressions on the faces of the ministers, Hill knew he had achieved his goal.
Hill briefly explained the concept and some details of the film in the imperial meeting, and the people nodded their heads a lot.
Seeing that it was almost ready, Hill took Olivia and said goodbye, leaving the rest of the time to the Ice Emperor and his ministers.
When Hill was in Mulheim, he thought of giving every race a promotional film, and then use “The Dawn – Dreamtale”. Hahaha. The propaganda film tells the history of this race, telling some moving stories inside, showing the charm of the race, oh, put the handsome guy and beautiful.
Of course, before shooting the promotional film, you have to build these races’ territory.
Now that the main race territories in the demon realm have been completed, Hill plans to start implementing large-scale construction and renovation.
After Hill left, the ministers were immersed in the promotional film. As the core of power in the Ice Empire, they could naturally see how much good the propaganda film could bring, which could bring glory to the nobles, make the soldiers more loyal, make the commoners more attached to the Empire, and also greatly enhance the personal prestige of the Ice Emperor Claude.
In that case, it seems that it is also tolerable to let the Demon King himself appear on camera.
It was only after a night that the ministers reacted to the fact that, in such a level of propaganda film, the Ice Emperor and the Demon King shook hands – although they did not know exactly what the handshake represented, but generally understood that it should be a friendly gesture – this, isn’t this a slap in the face of the Church? The current Bishop of Winter City, Teresa Shelley, is a very crazy hawk (warmonger).
Oh, some time ago, Hill had Olivia bring a large pile of things to the Church as gifts, and then Teresa spilled that pile of things outside and burned it in the street. Many nobles were distressed, and then the king’s ministers in front of the king’s court became more aware of Bishop Shelley’s “hawkishness”. After all, as the saying goes, seeing for oneself is a hundred times better than hearing from others.
The next day at the royal council, the Minister of Finance, who had always been inclined toward the church, raised the issue of the church
In response to this, Hill and Ice Emperor Claude were prepared, and the Ice Emperor responded according to what they had talked about beforehand: “Because the matter of the prince of the Magnolia Empire caused a rift between the Magnolia Empire and the Demon Race, so now the relationship over there has dropped to a freezing point. That’s why the Demon King intends to establish a long-lasting trade cooperation with the Empire of Ice under His Highness Grindelwald for mutual material assistance: they buy coal in large quantities, and later give us low prices to sell various items of Black Dwarves craftsmanship, including military weapons in addition to the widely known parts of the Demon Realm Shopping Mall. Based on that, this handshake makes sense.”
Now that these movies and anime are shown, everyone has defaulted that ‘dwarven craft is equivalent to advanced’.
“Military weapons!” someone directly marveled out.
“Military weapons…” The Minister of Justice was a bit skeptical: “Would the demons be so kind?”
The Minister of Finance said with a bit of ridicule: “Then you must not have followed the anime and movies, the attitude shown by the demons in the anime has always been about wanting peace.”
The Minister of Finance said this with ridicule and sarcasm.
In fact, this is also the attitude of the general upper echelons of the Empire of Ice: those who are willing to believe that the demons are really pursuing peace are the nobles and commoners who are not in power. Other superiors, including the Minister of Justice who had been opposed to the Church, believed that their own interests were more important than the demons’ performance, and that they themselves should take more precautions against the demons. This is an act with a brain. You can’t just watch a few blockbuster American movies that preserve world peace and really believe that America wants to preserve world peace. Hehehe.
But what makes them feel unexpected is that Grand Chancellor Lennon is actually vaguely on the side of the demons.
The Grand Chancellor had two sons and a daughter, his daughter fell in love with a bard when she was young and eloped with him, then the bard sold her when he ran out of money, she went through a lot of trouble to get back to Winter City, by this time, her health was in shambles and she died after a month at home. His eldest son was not raised well when he was young and was an uneducated gangster who committed too many crimes, and the Grand Chancellor had a great headache about it, so he married a little wife and gave birth to his youngest son. The younger son was raised very well and was a very distinguished young man, and then died heroically in a war with the Dijon tribe. The couple was very sad. His eldest son also changed his ways after his brother’s death, but also went to the army against his parents’ advice. The Grand Chancellor used his connections to place his eldest son in a safe sector, but the eldest son’s superior was someone he had previously oppressed, and in a war, the other party placed his son in a dangerous unit, and then the Grand Chancellor’s eldest son died in battle that way.
Shortly afterwards, the Grand Chancellor’s wife committed su*cide.
He was forty-five years old.
And then he was alone for more than twenty years.
Now, the Grand Chancellor is about to turn seventy, he’s really tired, he hates war, he’s seen too much death. He had been catching up on “Violet Evergarden” and saw Violet’s despair when she finally learned of the Major’s death, “Why, why am I the only one who survived, this is strange…” She went to ask the Lieutenant Colonel, then went to the Major’s brother to inquire, and then took the train and went to the Major’s home, and when she finally arrived to the Major’s home, she was despondent and in a bad state.
The Grand Chancellor went to the front line to ask all those who knew his son.
Finally, Violet went to the place where the Major had died in battle and dug up the stones little by little.
When the Grand Chancellor arrived at the place where his son had died in battle, he knelt there for a long time and could not get up.
The sky was raining and the cold rain poured on Violet’s body.
The sky was bright, the war was over, the flowers were blooming, everything seemed beautiful, but the son could not come back, both sons could not come back, the lady was dead, the family was gone.
The lieutenant colonel found Violet and he said, “It’s time for you to go back.”
Violet asked, “Go back where? I can only go to the Major’s side.”
The lieutenant colonel said, “Back to the company, aren’t you our auto memory doll?”
The Grand Chancellor was on his knees in that field for a long time, and then he thought, ah, he has to go back to Winter City, he’s a Grand Chancellor, the Empire still needs him, the Ice Emperor still needs him.
This kind of thing, please don’t let this happen again. He is all like this and doesn’t want more people to go through this pain.
There were tears in the corners of his eyes after this episode was broadcast.
一一
The imperial meeting continued.
The Minister of Justice said, “I’m leaning more towards the fact that the demons want to sell us military weapons in order to pit us against the Church.”
“You still hate the Church so much.” The Minister of Finance said softly, “Just as I hate you so much.”
“Then you can shut your fat stinky mouth and leave the Imperial Council. I don’t think His Majesty will have a problem with that,” the Minister of Justice said coldly.
“Actually, my mouth isn’t very fat nor stinky, I’ve been on a diet lately.” The Minister of Finance said, “Have you seen the new diet pills recently launched in the Demon Mall?”
“Sorry, I don’t need it.” The Minister of Justice grimaced in disgust, “And aren’t you worried that it’s poison?”
“The demons won’t be as brainless as you are.” The Minister of Finance revealed a smile: “They need to worry about too many things, both the Demon King and that Royal Highness are shrewd people who won’t lose a big thing for a small thing.”
“Huh. That could also be chronic poison.” The Minister of Justice actually didn’t feel that way, but it had become a habit for him to go against the Minister of Finance.
“That doesn’t matter, in exchange for a life full of joy. It did make me lose quite a bit of weight,” said the Minister of Finance, “to compromise a few years of my life expectancy for a high quality of life, I think that’s okay.”
“You can go on a diet yourself,” the Minister of Justice said.
“I’m lazy. My mind is used to think about matters of state, unlike you who have time to ride and shoot every day,” said the Minister of Finance.
“Have you gone from being moralistic to being full of nonsense, Minister of Finance?” The Minister of Justice raised a carefully trimmed eyebrow, “I am ashamed to be in the company of such a man as you.”
The Minister of Finance removed his hat and gave a comical salute, “Then you may leave the Imperial Council, Minister of Justice.”
Seeing that these two were arguing again, Ice Emperor Claude was wandering off, and so was the Grand Chancellor, and no one was stopping them, the Chief Steward looked at the two and had to speak up himself: “You two are too rude!” The eunuch roared in the manner of the Grand Chancellor: “This is a meeting of the royal court, do you two have His Majesty in your eyes?! Shut up!”
These two also stopped, which is the usual flow of the royal meeting.
The Ice Emperor was awakened back to his senses by the Chief Steward’s roar, and he casually said, “Oh, maybe they only have each other in their eyes, and there’s really no me.”
He just blurted it out.
Then he saw a flush actually appear on the chubby face of the Minister of Finance.
Ice Emperor: ????
The Minister of Justice coughed, “Your Majesty, please don’t make such jokes.”
His voice wasn’t particularly justified.
Ice Emperor: !!!
He seemed to know something strange.
Chapter 174.2 – Interesting people always meet interesting things and have an interesting world.
Oh yes, these two did have a relationship when they were young. Later, they parted ways because of disagreement in opinions. Later, they rose all the way and finally climbed to where they are today. There is a saying that the best ex should exist as if dead, but the two of them face each other every day, coupled with the original disagreement. In addition, the Minister of Finance, who used to be handsome and dashing in the past, has now increased a lot in diameter… Oh, talking about gaining weight, not the diameter of that, it’s the body gaining weight. So that leads to this consequence.
Now, because of the demon diet pills, the Minister of Finance has lost a lot of weight, showing a bit of the old appearance, this is… eh.
Let’s go back to the propaganda thing.
If the Ice Empire explained that the handshake was because of trade, it would make sense, or just tell the Church directly that the propaganda film was made by the demons, and the demons wanted to add the clip, and it had nothing to do with him, it’s none of his business. This can also pick themselves out basically.
However, for the public, this scene has far-reaching significance. Although the ministers have a lot of opinions, they also understand that the final decision is made by the Ice Emperor Claude himself. After all, sometimes the Ice Emperor doesn’t even consider their thoughts at all. Because of this, everyone was desperately trying to bullshit around before the Ice Emperor made a decision. Cough.
At present, most of the powerful nobles are in a wait-and-see trend. Their proposal to the Ice Emperor is to first trade with the Demon Race to see how much benefit the Demon Race can bring to them, and finally decide how to explain this “handshake” – meaning, not to release the propaganda film first.
But there are also nobles who have different opinions, and that is the issue of sincerity. They think that maybe there should be more sincerity in the interaction between humans and demons. As His Highness Grindelwald said, ‘you were victorious in the Demon Realm, but you are in trouble in your own land.’
This is the main reason for the cults that have sprung up in Mülheim. The trauma of the war, the physical and emotional wounds of people… Under such circumstances, “Violet Evergarden” became so popular that many, many people shed tears.
So, they have to admit that no matter what everyone says on the surface, in fact, they have been affected deep down.
一一
Early morning.
Hill’s swordsmanship is very good now, and the paladins have nothing to teach him unless Monroe himself comes over. But Hill still maintained the behavior of exercising for a while in the morning, moving his muscles and bones, and cheering up his spirits.
A snake crawled through the grass, Hill thought about it and caught it. The snake fluttered and wanted to turn around and bite him. He thought about it and stretched out his hand to let the snake bite. Then the snake twitched twice and was poisoned by his blood.
Hill: …
Well, he didn’t mean to. Really not.
But hey, I have breakfast today.
In fact, snakes rarely take the initiative to attack people. If they take the initiative to bite you, there are generally three situations: 1. You scared him; 2. You entered his territory, and he warned you but you did not respond; 3. You are ugly .
Yes, you are ugly… ugly… ugly…
The third point is really heartbreaking.
Today’s breakfast includes beef soup in addition to snake soup, and a new dish: quail eggs with sweet and sour pork ribs.
The Demon Mall Restaurant has been launching a variety of new dishes, some are based on Hill’s recipes, some are improved original dishes, all dishes have to be tasted by Hill, oh yes, Hill himself is a taster.
Because the first batch of eggs of the quail raised by the Tauren hatched some time ago, there will be more delicacies about quail and quail eggs. Quail eggs themselves are a good tonic, known as “best in eggs” and “ginseng in animals”. Quail eggs in the demon realm are even more nutritious and delicious.
This sweet and sour pork ribs quail egg is very simple to make, fry the quail eggs first, then fry the ribs, pour water directly after finishing, add cooking wine, soy sauce, vinegar, sugar, ginger, and garlic, then put the quail eggs, use a small fire to simmer slowly for the ribs to absorb flavor, and then sprinkle a little salt when you’re done. Remove from the pot, sprinkle the white sesame seeds, and the color and flavor are complete. Attractive red sauce, rich-tasting pork ribs, smelling oily and fragrant, tastes rich and delicious.
There is not much beef in the beef soup, the soup is clear and the oil is light. After taking a big sip, the first thing you can taste is the light spice flavor, pepper, basil, and white carrots. The other is the meat flavor. All kinds of flavors stimulate the flavor of the beef itself, and the taste of the whole soup is very refreshing, drinking this is very comfortable. Then taste the beef again, it’s soft, savory, and delicious.
Ah. This is life, ah. So relaxing.
Hill comfortably spread out in front of the black dwarf elder without any image, and the black dwarf elder thought to himself, is the Demon King implying something like this? Is he cosplaying a slime? Could it be that Lord Demon King hinted to me that we should pay more attention to the slime family?
Soon after, the slime family received a lot of material aid from the black dwarves, the slimes felt a little dazed, and then they also returned a lot of specialties from their territory.
No one knew that this actually originated from a food paralysis of Hill. Hahaha.
After breakfast, Hill first went to inspect the Tauren’s territory. The tauren didn’t like palaces, they preferred wooden buildings. The Skeleton Construction Team worked with them to reorganize the territory. Overall, the changes were not particularly big, but in terms of details, it’s much more comfortable.
There is a huge flagpole in front of the Great Chief’s residence. The main body of the flagpole is made of thick wood. The surface of the wood is naturally polished. There is a huge ferocious beast fangs that bends from both sides on the flagpole, and the blood-colored flag hangs on it. In the center of the beast fangs is the symbol of the Demon Race, which looks like an ancient totem, sacred and intimidating.
Hill opened up an underground palace for the succubus race, which looks like an ordinary castle on the top, but there is something special underneath. The whole palace is black and red, with a pitch-black lake in front, and the water is translucent black, which looks chilling, but it is actually the color that Hill dyed to make it look good. Cough.
The succubus family likes the underground palace very much. They used to live in the abyss, and Hill pulled them out of it.
The lakeside wetlands have always been rich in vegetation. There are bird eggs everywhere in the grass, the demon realm is rich in products, and the demons are not exploited by the upper echelons, so they rarely go hungry. Just like the surrounding demons, if you are really hungry, you will pick up two eggs to eat.
Overall, if there is no Hill, the level of human civilization is quite a bit higher than the demons, but humans may not live more comfortably than the demons. A very scary fact is that civilization is precisely one of the reasons for depriving humans.
一一
The Fallen Angels are currently working on their next album, and at the same time have also started working on the Hell’s Frontline album.
Now, because of “Iron Man”, many people are also paying attention to the “Hell’s Frontline Rock Band”.
Hill directly sent the big move, and the title track of their album was “It’s My Life”. Bon Jovi’s “It’s My Life” has probably been heard by everyone. This is a song that has achieved great commercial and word-of-mouth success. The lyrics of the song are popular and positive, and it’s a great song from any point of view.
Then the second song was Linkin Park’s “New Divide”, the theme song of Transformers 2. Linkin Park was Hill’s favorite rock band on Earth, and after lead singer Chester Bennington committed su*cide, Hill also had a Linkin Park logo tattooed on the inside of his wrist in their honor. Hill intends to carry over many of their songs as planned, with each song stating that the original artist was Linkin Park.
The s*xual abuse of Chester as a child became a lifelong nightmare for him and for his fans. May there be no p*dophiles in heaven. Hill is really disgusted with this kind of behavior, and hates it immensely.
Lich Aligeli has always been with Hill as a special effects artist. This time, Hill asked the Lich Aligeli to use the projection stone to shoot the album of ‘Hell’s Frontline Rock Band’. Hill’s request was to follow the lyrics, but also to highlight the feeling of ‘hell’.
Hill was struck by the gloomy and mysterious colors when he finally got the dailies, so he shot a few more sunny shots, and then went into post-production—but it was still mostly gloomy. It turned out that the effect was quite good. Hill planned to train Lich Aligeli to become the second director of the demon realm, otherwise, Hill would be exhausted if he was alone.
In addition, Hill also added Yang Kun’s “Herdsman” to the first album. This song is relaxed and free, warm and comfortable, very bright and pure, full of charm. Hill thinks the natives of the Plague Islands will like this song.
However, it seems a bit strange for the tauren to sing this song, especially the tauren who wants to remove the “cattle” in the first sentence “the wind blows the grass and the cattle and sheep are seen”, because the lead singer tauren thinks this lyric is indecent. All right, just let him be. Hill laughed with tears.
After the album was almost settled, Hill took a look at the progress of the Bard Grant’s novel. Grant is currently writing about alien arrival and the Civil War among humans.
One of them is a scene in the military life where two soldiers are fighting shirtless. A group of people are rooting and cheering around them, and many of them are saying vulgar words.
“You write a little too poetic,” Hill commented after seeing this: “Fiction is different from poetry. Sometimes you don’t have to be so beautiful, you have to be realistic.”
It is true that bards are prone to such mistakes when they change their careers to become novelists.
Grant accepted it humbly, he said, “Then I’d better write some vulgar words from bystanders here?”
“Yes.” Hill nodded.
So, Grant began to write: “f*ck your mother” and “I’ll toss your ashes for you.”
Hill: “…”
Is this bard from Zaun (League of Legends)?
“You’re not very rude,” Hill commented.
Grant humbly asked for advice.
Hill pointed, “Suppose you see two shirtless men fighting each other, what do you think is vulgar?”
Grant said, “Kiss him! Kiss him!”
Hill: “…you are too vulgar.”
Too funny. Overall, it was a rather pleasant day.
It would be nice if every day could be so pleasant… um… But given Hill’s level of amusement, if there are no special circumstances, every day is quite pleasant.
Interesting people always meet interesting things and have an interesting world
