Chapter 158 Chapter 158 The Pain of a New Life

Visiting Patience and Lacey in the evening was not as peaceful as expected.I knocked on the door, which opened after an unusual pause.I found things dumped and strewn about in the living room, worse than I had ever seen before, and Leixi was listlessly tidying up, and there were many more things piled on the floor than usual. "Is this a new plan?" I ventured, trying to look lighthearted. Lei Xi looked at me sullenly. "They came this morning and took away my lady's table, and my bed, and said they needed it for entertaining. Well, I shouldn't be surprised, since so much has been shipped upriver, But I really doubt we'll ever see any of the items again."

"Well, maybe they've been waiting for you in Commercial Beach." I said emptyly, I didn't expect Emperor Zun to be so unscrupulous. After a long period of silence, Lei Xi finally spoke: "Then they will have to wait, Fitz Horse. We are not on the list of people going to Commercial Beach." "No, we are members of a group of weird guys who were left behind, just like these broken furniture." Patience suddenly entered the room, her eyes turned pale with red eyes, and I suddenly understood that she was hiding when I knocked on the door just now. stood up, and waited until she had controlled her tears before appearing.

"Then you can go back to Xiliulin!" I suggested.My mind was racing, assuming Regal was going to move the entire royal family to Commerce Bank, now wondering who else would be left behind.I put myself at the top of the list, plus Burrich and Chade, and what about the jester?Maybe that's why he's been Regal's favorite lately, maybe that's why he's allowed to follow the king to the Merchant Bank. Strange, it didn't occur to me that not only Chade could not watch over the king and Kettricken, but I couldn't either.The Lord respects the new orders to confine me to Buckkeep, and I don't want to cause Kettricken trouble by disobedience.After all, I had promised Chade not to stir up trouble.

"I cannot go back to the Willow Grove, where the king's nephew Majesty rules. He was the leader of Galen's Skill Company before that accident, and he doesn't like me at all, and I have no right to ask to go back there. No, We're going to stay here and live as well as possible." I tried to comfort her with all my might. "I've got another bed. I'll move it down for Resh, and Burrich will move it for me." Leslie shook her head. "I made the floor bunk, which is comfortable enough for me. Leave the bed where it is, I don't think they dare take it from you. If it's here, it's sure to be moved tomorrow .”

"Don't King Shrewd care about these things at all?" Lady Patience asked me sadly. "I don't know. No one has been able to enter his room recently, because Regal said he is too ill to receive visitors." "I thought he just didn't see me. Oh, so he's a poor man, not only has he lost two sons, but he's had to watch his kingdom crumble before his eyes. Tell me, is Queen Kettricken all right? I haven't had a chance to visit her." "Well, at least the last time I saw her. Still mourning her husband, of course, but..." "So, she wasn't hurt by the fall? I'm afraid she's going to have a miscarriage." Patience looked away, staring at the empty wall where the tapestry had hung. "I was too timid to visit her in person, if you want to know the truth. I know too well the pain of losing this new life before I can hold a baby in my arms."

"Did she fall?" I asked stupidly. "Didn't you hear? Those dreadful stairs leading down from the Queen's Garden. Rumor had it that some of the statues in the garden had been removed, and she went up to see for herself, and fell down the stairs. Though she didn't fall down the stairs, But the condition is also quite serious, because she fell on her back on the stone steps." After I heard the news, I didn't have the mind to talk to Patience.She mostly complained that almost all the books in the library had been removed, which was something I didn't even want to think about, so I left as soon as possible and gracefully, promising to ask the queen directly and tell her, but in my heart Understand that this is a flimsy promise.

I hit a nail on Kettricken's door.Several ladies told me not to worry and don't worry, she was fine, just needed to rest, oh, but it was such a bad situation... I endured it until I was sure she hadn't had a miscarriage, and then I left. But I didn't look back for Patience, the time was not up.Then I climbed very cautiously up the stairs, oil lamp in hand, to the Queen's Gardens.I witnessed the expected misery at the top of the Beacon Tower, and the small precious statues were removed, while the large statues survived purely because of their weight, which I can be sure of.The missing statue disrupted Kettricken's carefully crafted sense of balance, making the Winter Gardens even more desolate.I carefully closed the door and descended the stairs, walking slowly and with extreme caution, and found my bane on the ninth step down.

I almost spotted it like Kettricken, but I kept my balance and squatted down to look at the stairway, seeing a layer of soot mixed with grease, tarnished into the well-trodden stairway.This happens to be the easiest place to fall, especially if the person descending the stairs is emotional, and it's close enough to the top of the tower that slips can be blamed on melting snow or mud on your shoes.I rub it down with my fingers and smell it. "This is good lard," said the Fool.I jumped up, almost fell, and then frantically stretched out my arms and spun around to regain my balance.

"Interesting. Do you think you can teach me to do that?" "It's not funny at all, Fool. I've been stalked lately, and it's getting on my nerves." I peered into the darkness below the stairs.If even jesters can follow me so surreptitiously, can't desire? "How is the king?" I asked quietly.If the trap was aimed at Kettricken, then I have no confidence in Shrewd's safety. "Tell me!" The Fool stepped out of the shadows, no longer in fine clothes, but in blue and red, old flower-spotted clothes.The outfit really matched the mottled fresh injury on one side of his cheek, his right cheek was bruised, one arm resting on the other across his chest, and I suspect he had a dislocated shoulder as well.

"Here we go again." I gasped. "As I tell them, they don't pay much attention. Some people just don't know how to talk." "What happened? I thought you and Regal..." "That's right. Let's just say that even jesters don't seem stupid enough to please Regal. Since they've been asking what happened that night at the king's banquet today, I'm suggesting they entertain themselves in other ways. My humor may be Too much, but I just suggested that because I didn't want to leave King Shrewdler's side, and they kicked him out unexpectedly."

My heart sank.I'm pretty sure one of the guards kicked him out the door, and like Burrich keeps warning me, no one knows what Regal will do next. "What did the king say?" "Ah! Don't ask if the king is all right, or if he's recovered, but what he tells them? Are you afraid of your life, little prince?" "No." I didn't feel the resentment in his question, and I didn't care about his tone, because I deserved it.I haven't been taking good care of our friendship lately, but he still comes to me when he needs help. "That's not true. As long as the king doesn't say that Verity is alive, Regal has no reason to..."