Do not confiscate my citizenship

Chapter 2 How Talia Is Shining

After breakfast, Lan Qi immediately found the housekeeper.

Mr. Butler was waiting outside the restaurant, looking at the boy who suddenly found him with a smile.

"Master, you seem to be in a good mood today?"

The man's voice was very low, like an old father who was exhausted.

But just the butler speaking made Lan Qi feel a chill that invaded his whole body.

In the memory of his predecessor, the housekeeper was the most reliable person in the house, and he was also the one who usually took care of him.

But Lan Qi found that the predecessor did not realize that this smiling butler was also the most dangerous guy in the house.

Just like the housekeeper is showing a [-]% smirk calmly now, but he is facing a dude who makes everyone in the family fear or hate him.

"It's okay, I have something to ask you."

Lan Qi said calmly.

"Please speak."

"It was the pigeon I shot back yesterday. I realized that it might be someone's familiar. If it were a noble person, I think it might cause a lot of trouble for the family, so I have to trouble you." You help me to manage all the people who may know about this yesterday."

"Oh?"

Lan Qi's words obviously surprised the butler a little.

He seemed to have observed Lan Qi carefully for a moment.

Does this young master think so much about his family?Was it a sudden whim, or he had other troubles.

However, the butler didn't intend to ask any more questions, and bowed slightly to Lan Qi and said:
"I would like to serve you."

"In addition, I also want to ask you to help me find someone."

"Please describe the characteristics."

"It's a woman who looks about my age, with gray hair and golden eyes, probably wearing a dark gray shabby cloak, looks like a homeless person, and please don't let her find out that I'm looking for her."

Lan Qi said while gesticulating.

This made the housekeeper look embarrassed.

"I'll do my best. But young master, you need to know how big this border city-state is. I can't guarantee that I can find her soon...Of course, if you can give her more precise characteristics, I should be able to avoid many investigations and screenings time."

"Is that so... If I can draw her, how long can you find her?"

"In a day, I can find anyone in this town I've seen, I promise you."

The butler smiled again.

He remembered that Lan Qi had indeed been able to draw, but since his parents raised him, he had never seen Lan Qi paint.

It was also from then on that the young master's character gradually became bad.

"Then go help me get some witnesses first, and I will draw a portrait of her before you come back."

Lankey nodded.

"Alright young master, I'll go first then. But you must remember to draw carefully. I can help you complete the first task before noon."

The butler put his hands behind his back with a smile, and walked towards the kitchen without forgetting to ask.

"Do not worry."

Lan Qi is best at painting.

You can draw Talia with your eyes closed.

He assures that no one in this world can draw Talia better than him.

Lankey breathed a sigh of relief.

Although the predecessor got into trouble, fortunately, there is still room for maneuver.

Of course, concealing the evidence can only make it more difficult for the demon princess Talia to find out the truth.

As far as Lan Qi knows, Talia has a magic that can see through lies, as long as she is patient, there is basically nothing she can't find out.

And according to Thalia's super vengeful character.

Once she finds out that she has hunted her familiar, even if she treats her kindly when she comes to him and asks her to hold back for now, when she rises up in the future, she will retaliate [-]% of the time.

If you really want to resolve Talia's hatred, you have to face Talia in person.

But the current self, at least before noon, just draw well.

……

At this time, Lan Qi had just walked to the second floor when he saw the maid who woke him up in the morning and was a little scared of him.

"I'll prepare it for you, master."

The maid has gotten used to it, and is going to prepare some good wine and the latest storybook for Lan Qi.

But soon stopped again.

Because what Lankey was saying to her—

"I'm going to the study."

Because of this sentence, the maid became very anxious.

"...Excuse me, are you talking about the study room?"

Her tone faltered a bit.

Lan Qi couldn't help showing a confused look.

"Correct."

Lankey affirmed.

He wanted to go to the study to look up information, and to describe Talia's appearance and send it to the housekeeper.

Before determining Talia's location, he has no other important matters for the time being.

However, when he opened the door of the study, he found out.

There was no table in the room, not even paper, but there were a lot of expensive looking wine bottles.

"Forgive me, sir."

"what happened?"

Lan Qi looked at the anxious maid.

"I, I haven't finished cleaning up the study room in the morning."

She lowered her head and muttered, as if she was ready to be scolded.

According to the young master's temper, he would slam the door and leave now, and then come back after getting drunk at night.

"Is that so? It doesn't matter if you don't clean it up for a day or two, as long as you prepare painting tools for me, it's the same if you go to other rooms."

Lankey sighed helplessly.

"No, master, how can this be!"

The maid stared at Lan Qi with wide eyes.

She became a little at a loss for a moment, surprised by Lan Qi's unusually easy-going attitude again today, and hurriedly said:
"Just give me 15 minutes and I'll make the den spotless! Then get the tools you need! My professionalism guaranteed!"

"Then trouble you."

Lankey wasn't worried about waiting so long.

Thalia's murderous intent made him a little panicked, but not completely panicked.

Because he already has a solution in his heart.

No one can prevent him from living a life of ease.

……

In about ten minutes, the maid finished cleaning the study as promised, and brought Lan Qi the best painting tools in the house.

Lan Qi looked at the pen in this world.

Although it was different from what he was used to in his previous life, he quickly figured out how to use it.

Then he sat in front of the canvas, composed the picture, started to paint, and drew Talia's portrait with a relaxed expression.

Lan Qi couldn't help laughing when he thought that he had once drawn the most perfect character, Talia, the majestic demon princess, but had to dress up like a beggar.

Even without thinking too much in my mind, the pen in my hand is already waving freely.

He had drawn Thalia too many times already.

Lan Qi bet on the technique honed for many years, with a slight smile on his mouth, he moved his pen calmly and skillfully.

He doesn't look like a great painter at all.

With a calm appearance, he is like a househusband preparing dinner.

But gradually, his attention was unknowingly devoted to the painting in front of him, as if he lost the concept of time.

He didn't even notice that the waiting maid was gradually blinking her eyes in surprise, and her mouth gradually became like a small round hole.

Escape with time.

Lankey's painting is almost taking shape.

I saw the young girl on the canvas, she was wearing an old cloak, but she was as beautiful as a wolf in the snow.

The gentle wind brushed her face, causing the gray hair under her hood to flutter slightly in the wind.

In the looming golden eyes, hidden under a thousand layers of ice is a raging flame.

Her lonely figure will not make people mistakenly think that she is a weak existence. The more dust on her body is covered, the more unable to hide her nobility and strength flowing in her blood.

"Complete."

Lankey smiled, finishing the last touch of refinement.

Until then, he took a closer look at the painting, and seemed to realize that he had accidentally drawn it too seriously.

"Oh my god, master, are your drawing skills already so superb?"

An exclamation sounded from the side,
"I was just imagining whether you were possessed by the god of art. This is the first time I have seen such a shocking painting!"

Until now, the maid could not calm down the excitement in her eyes.

She had seen Lankey draw a few years ago.

At that time, Lan Qi still showed a warm smile and never lost his temper. The scenery he painted was as beautiful as his heart.

Many servants in the house are looking forward to the day when Lan Qi will suddenly wake up.

Because they dare not imagine that if he continues to degenerate like this, what kind of life the servants will live when he becomes the real master of the family in the future, and whether they will all be driven away.

How the maid hopes that today's signs are not her illusions.

But the young master has really become gentle and considerate from the bottom of his heart.

"is it?"

Lan Qi smiled a little embarrassedly and touched the back of his head.

He is indeed a very good painter, but looking at the admiration in the maid's eyes, he almost regarded him as a revived Picasso and Van Gogh.

I felt like I accidentally fell into the painting just now, as if I had poured my heart and soul into it, and I felt a little dizzy the moment I finished painting.

But it shouldn't be praised like this, right?

"I can assure you that you will definitely become a great artist who will cause a sensation in the kingdom. Even His Majesty the King will want to get your paintings, and no matter how noble the card maker is, he will want to discuss painting skills with you!"

The maid clenched her hands tightly, staring at Lan Qi and said seriously.

After a moment of silence.

"hiss--"

Lan Qi suddenly realized a fact.

Oh yes!

This was originally a non-turn-based magic card game!

And I am the beauty again!
Many things in this world can be said to be drawn by him, including the prototypes of many rare and treasure-like magic cards.

According to the setting of this game, magic cards are equivalent to the packaging of skills, equipment or summoned objects, and are characterized by portability, tradability, and convenience of free matching.

Compared with spending a lot of money to learn spells, you can directly buy the corresponding magic cards in this world, and you can use the spells by binding them. You can also adjust your skill structure at any time according to the powerful enemies you need to challenge.

In addition, in the most difficult copy of the game, the challenger will be matched to a random time and space to obtain a unique identity and situation, and cannot bring any foreign objects with him, except for the magic card bound to the soul.

Therefore, magic cards are a must-have in this world for home travel, killing people and stealing goods, and fighting to make faces!

In addition to being produced in dungeons, expensive magic cards can also be made by card makers.

The skill of painting is inseparable from the production of magic cards.

"It seems that besides being a great artist in this world, I also have good potential in card making?"

Lan Qi rested his chin and thought deeply.

He had long felt that the magic cards in this game were all out of date.

And whenever the planners proposed cards that could enrich the game experience without disrupting the balance of the game, they were all rejected.

The planner said that he didn't have ten mothers who dared not install those cards.

"Master, is this the woman you like in the portrait?"

The slight probing voice interrupted Lan Qi's thoughts.

The maid who was waiting at the side found that Lan Qi had become extremely gentle today, causing the servants in the whole house to feel a little uneasy.

But the maid watched him for so long.

It doesn't feel like he's pretending.

In addition, he suddenly drew this kind of miracle.

Finally, the maid came to an astonishing conclusion——

He might be in love!

"..."

Lan Qi raised his head with a strange expression, looking at the maid who didn't know how to speak.

painted on...

A woman who could kill me.

But he looked at the painting carefully and thought about it.

If people in this world are shocked by his paintings, if the housekeeper is asked to find someone with the paintings, it may cause a lot of unnecessary trouble.

So Lankey pushed the easel away.

He deftly re-prepared the canvas, trying to paint a more ordinary portrait of Thalia's refugees.

however.

On the new work, he had just finished a few strokes when a strong sense of dizziness made him almost unable to see the canvas clearly.

The maid looked at Lan Qi's painful expression with some worry, but she didn't dare to forcefully interrupt his creation.

But hesitated for a moment.

She felt that perhaps today the young master really wouldn't blame other people indiscriminately.

So he swallowed, and said:

"Master, if you feel particularly uncomfortable, it may be that you have fallen into a state of mana exhaustion... You seem to devote all your heart and soul to painting and your own mana. I heard that there have been great painters or card makers in history. Hence the story of devoting one's life to art..."

"No more drawing."

Lan Qi put down his pen immediately after listening.

This is not something that you stay up all night to paint, and it will pass after a while.

This time he clearly felt that something strange was passing through his body when he was painting!

"Help me take this painting to the housekeeper, let him follow my instructions after reading it, and then help me put this painting away, and don't take it out of the house."

Lan Qi pointed to the painting he had drawn earlier and said.

When I relax, I feel sleepy.

The exhaustion swept in more violently like a wave that had just faded away, and he couldn't help but nod his head.

He found that with this kind of consumption, he might not have the strength to draw a second portrait that would allow the housekeeper to clearly identify Talia in a short time.

"And in any case, wake me up before dinner."

After explaining this sentence, Lan Qi stopped talking.

"I know I know!"

The maid carefully used magic props to speed up the drying process and seal the painting for preservation.

On the one hand, the price of this painting is incalculable, on the other hand, the young master has already passed out on the chair.

She was extremely pleased with the young master's transformation today, and couldn't help but be even more curious about the level of the young master's works.

So she secretly used identification magic, and finally saw the true face of the painting——

【Portrait · Mysterious Princess】

【Type: Artwork】

[Grade: Epic]

[rank: 1]

[People who appreciate this painting will recover a small amount of mental and physical strength, and their favorability for the princess in the portrait will increase, and there is a probability of increasing a small amount of mental energy. 】

……

When Lan Qi woke up again and opened his eyes to look out of the familiar window, it was already afternoon.

The setting sun gradually set in the west, and the reddish golden light permeated the clouds, and the light through the window rippled in circles, adding a touch of psychedelic color to the room.

It should be the housekeeper who carried himself back to the room.

Because there was already an extra letter beside his bed, with the butler's beautiful handwriting written on it - about Talia's whereabouts.

Lan Qi shook his head, and fell into a sleepy sleep.

But when he sat up and stretched.

I found an extra painting in a conspicuous place in my room.

This painting alone gave the whole room a bit of artistic flair.

Lankey sat on the bed, frowning at Talia's portrait.

Both the maid and the butler must have misunderstood him.

I don't want you to help me frame this painting and hang it in my room.

I want you to hide it for me!
Otherwise, if the deity on the portrait saw someone painting her so seriously, how embarrassing it would be!

"never mind."

Lan Qi reluctantly rolled over and got out of bed.

Talia hadn't had a chance to be in his room anyway.

It would be considered a success to lure her away from this country safely.

(End of this chapter)