Chapter 218
Chapter 218.
Catherine returned to the palace and hurried to the Queen’s residence with the letter.
Just as she was about to enter, she found her mother, Queen Phyllis, surrounded by several noblewomen walking out.
The Queen had just finished her meeting with several noblewomen, and was now about to personally go out to see them off.
“Your Highness!”
When the several noble women saw the approaching Grand Princess, they all owed a bow, and Catherine nodded her head in greeting to them.
The mother and daughter duo returned to the Queen’s sitting room after seeing off the guests together.
Queen Felice asked strangely, “In these days, didn’t you stay in the military camp during the day? Why are you back so early today?”
Catherine pulled out a letter and shook it, “News has come back from my little sister’s side.”
The originally very calm Queen Felice immediately changed into an expression mixed with worry and excitement, reaching out for the letter in Catherine’s hand.
Catherine snatched it first, “Let me make it clear that Irene is safe and sound there.”
The look of worry on the Queen’s face then lessened a bit and she took the letter paper in her daughter’s hand and read it carefully.
After reading it, she let out a long sigh of relief, then began to grumble.
“Truly, a girl’s family, how can she net to do some work that men do?”
“That one surnamed Greiman is really something too, why do I feel that he is up to no good, he wouldn’t want to hit on Irene for anything, would he?”
Catherine smiled awkwardly, because her mother’s first sentence seemed to be not only directed at her little sister, now she shared some of her father’s political and military affairs, which were also “men’s work”.
“Mother, it’s rare that my little sister finds something she enjoys doing, so let her have some fun. My people report that Earl Gleiman is a pretty decent lord, so he shouldn’t have any bad thoughts about my little sister.”
The Queen’s face surfaced with a grudge, “She is having fun, and doesn’t think about her own mother who misses her all day long, I really raised a heartless daughter for nothing. Besides, a princess is working under a countryside lord, what kind of behavior is this, will not be laughed to death if it is spread out?”
The Northwest Gulf had always been regarded as a barren land by the people of the royal capital, and although the Gladman family’s title wasn’t too low, it was inevitable that they would still be regarded as country lords.
Catherine defended her sister, “Uh …… think of it as Erin going out for a trip to survey the people’s feelings, after all, she has also grown up.”
The queen sighed, “After all, we can’t let her stay there for a long time, it’s better to find a way to let her come back as soon as possible.”
Catherine gloomy: “Just father’s side …… Irene this child’s temper you also know, this time without saying a word to leave home is proof, I’m afraid to come back, father again forced her, little sister will do more extreme things.”
Listening to the words of the eldest daughter, Queen Felice also began to be difficult left and right, she heart Giles, Vibranium and others cursed all over, if not for this group of people blindly tossed, which would have caused her to be separated from her flesh and bones, and finally also piggybacked on her own husband.
“Alas …… it is better to let her continue to stay there for a while, you can send someone to keep a close eye on her.”
“Well, this I know.”
“And don’t let your father know.”
“This …… well.”
Without voicing her presumption that her father already knew of Irene’s whereabouts, Catherine caught up with her mother for a moment before leaving the sitting room and heading for the King’s office.
Halfway there, she ran into the Earl of Morin, who was in charge of the kingdom’s intelligence system, and the Earl looked hurried, as if he had something important to say to the king.
“Secretary Morin, are you in a hurry?”
“Your Highness, I have something important to report to His Majesty the King.”
“In that case, let’s go together.” “Yes.”
Earl Morin did not hesitate, after all, Princess Catherine was the king’s right-hand man, and during the king’s serious illness and coma, she had once directly assumed the duties of the head of a country.
……
Rodney XVI looked at his eldest daughter who had a stern face, his heart filled with helplessness.
Ever since Irene ran away from home, his own relationship with his family had instantly lowered a lot.
Luckily, his eldest daughter, Catherine, hadn’t let her personal emotions get in the way of business.
He already knew that Irene had settled down in the Northwest Bay, and he also knew that Catherine was secretly protecting her sister; if he didn’t even know about this kind of thing, he shouldn’t be the king.
At first, he wanted to immediately send people to capture his youngest daughter back, but the intensity of Irene s nature made him a little apprehensive, alas …… his own weekdays on this daughter s understanding is too little, once the joyful event turned into a funeral can be not good.
Later, from the east of the intelligence back to let him and Vibranium family marriage gradually fade, the situation is changing, Vibranium family seems to have decided to stand to the side of Giles.
If he married off his daughter at this time, it would be like putting a hot face on a cold ass.
The two biggest lords of the kingdom are working against the royal family, and their own king is …… really a failure.
Rodney XVI hesitated, whether he should take the youngest daughter back, apologize properly or something, and repair the relationship with his family.
But the dignity of being a king makes him resist this idea.
Alas …… it is better to put down the rebellion first.
The king rationalized his thoughts and opened his mouth to ask, “Secretary Molin, do you have anything to say?”
Earl Morin had a serious face, “Your Majesty, Your Highness, there is a slight hint about the idiosyncratic phenomenon on the side of the rebels in the Thorn Fortress.”
Rodney XVI and Catherine immediately raised their attention.
The rebels had launched an attack on Thorn Fortress, and a detailed report about the battle was sent to the royal capital.
One of the highlighted descriptions was that the rebel soldiers who wore leather armor that was impervious to swords and possessed a strange power were like knights versus peasants against ordinary soldiers.
The report was written by Duke Dodge and signed by Viscount Klein and Viscount Leicester, and the three highest-ranking commanders in the fortress confirmed that it was a true story.
Klein and Lester had also personally engaged these rebel soldiers.
Because of these strange enemy soldiers, the Thorn Fortress was almost lost, but fortunately, Duke Dodge used his last killer weapon – “Hellfire”, which was able to stop the rebel attack.
“According to the news that came back, it seems that there is the existence of ‘holy clergymen’ inside the rebel army, and after some …… kind of strange prayer ritual of theirs, those rebel soldiers turned into the appearance described in the report. ”
“Acolytes? Isn’t that from the Holy See?”
Although they were furious, neither the king nor the princess were surprised, the Holy See had always had a gap with the kingdom, and it was possible that they secretly supported the rebels, but ……
“I haven’t heard of any rituals from the Church that can turn people into that!”
Catherine was very puzzled, could it be that the gang of clerics had really impressed the Lord of Light to send down a miracle? No kidding.
The three of them continued their discussion in the room for half a day, still confused.
(End of chapter)