When she heard the words "my son", the Duchess, who had a somewhat provocative look on her face, suddenly darkened her face.

"Yes, you have a son, and although I have not seen him, I have heard of him, and he is said to be a young man as valiant as you. ”

There was a rare gentleness on the face of the José knight, and he recalled Vidia's face, and his heart was as soft as a ball of cotton.

"Madam, you didn't come all the way to praise my child, did you?"

The Duchess's face became a little pale at first, and then it seemed that she had regained her blood color by force, José was right, she was already the Duchess of a place, and until her son came of age, she would always be the lord of an empire, taking on the responsibility of managing the place, and not like the girl back then, who could mess with her own thoughts.

"Of course, knight, you probably don't know it yet, the Empire is afraid that something big is going to happen recently. ”

Sarina sorted out her mood and tried to make herself no longer the crying girl, but as an imperial lord, to talk to her former lover.

"Big deal? The big thing that can make my veteran, come in handy, isn't it that the empire is going to fight a war with the North Sea Kingdom?" Now that the words have been understood, then Jose's tone has changed again to the knight who is undefeated on the battlefield, and in just a few words, people can hear the fire that can still be lit in his chest, which shows that the things he had before could not be called what he said in his heart.

"North Sea Kingdom, why do you think about this?" a puzzled look flashed on the Duke's face, as if taken aback. Although the contradiction between Beihai and the empire has long been on the surface, she never thought that there would be a battle between the blades.

Knight José laughed dryly, he didn't give Sarina time to continue thinking about any issues, he never wanted to think too much about things that were particularly illusory, and in his words, he believed in the sword in his hand more than focusing on what he couldn't see.

"I guessed wrong. Isn't the Empire's attention on the Northlands?"

"From what information I have received earlier, it seems that our Emperor's goal is to ...... Wiegand people. After saying this, the Duchess was a little stumbling. It seems that even she herself can't believe this information.

The José knight was much more direct, he said decisively

"This is simply impossible, the Empire has a decisive battle with the Wiegand people, and for the Emperor himself, there is no recognition of the interests at all. Frankly, although I have only met His Majesty Nordin, I have to say that he is an extremely intelligent man......"

"Wait, knight, I do have one more message for you. Sarina was still a little hesitant, but after carefully studying the doubts in the eyes of the José knight for a while, she still decided to find out the truth.

"Your Majesty Nordin...... has been called. And now it was his son, His Majesty Perris, who had decided to attack the Northlands. The Duke's tone was quite gentle, and this tone often gave people a feeling of spring breeze, but the knight of José felt that his heart had fallen into an ice cellar.

"This is impossible again, His Majesty Nordin is younger than you and me, how is it possible, this is 。。。。。 ”

At this point, it was as if the strength of his whole body had been drained. He felt inexplicably humiliated, as a warrior, José conceited his own strength and believed that he had the ability to protect others, but the uncontrolled death of the rulers he was loyal to caused him to feel a deep sense of powerlessness

Is this also Sardinia's will?

Seeing that the knight Jose was about to fall to the ground, Sarina couldn't help it for a while, and wanted to step forward to support the knight, but when she just stretched out her hand, the knight shook his head with difficulty and firmly rejected her kindness.

"No, don't come, Sarina, I'm not old enough to stand on my feet. ”

The knight let out a long sigh, as if he were smiling bitterly at fate.

After making sure that José's face had become normal, the Duchess tried to ask again, "And what is your attitude towards this war...... Please forgive me for not talking about this topic in a formal setting, mainly because there are really no trustworthy strategists around me, and things are happening urgently, so. ”

"It's just a farce. ”

"What do you mean by that?"

As if unwilling to answer, the knight climbed on horseback, waved his hand, and said, "Madam, it is not the right time for you to come, I have just fought a bloody battle with a gang of bandits, and I have a terrible headache at the moment, and I can't discuss it. "Anyone can see that the death of Emperor Notting, who was only thirty years old, was a huge blow to him.

Sarina couldn't help but sigh softly, and turned away from the woodland as well.

Beyond the bushes, there was an elite guard of dozens of people.

It's just that the Duchess apparently gave the order before, so that they all stopped here. Seeing the lady return, the guards tidied up their manners, as if they could attract the attention of the duke, and they inadvertently showed the strong muscles of their arms to show that they were powerful.

But all the guards regretted that their wife seemed to be the same, and though she always had a gentle face on her face, she was never satisfactory in the affairs of men and women, as if her heart had been taken away years earlier.

"Madame, have you seen the view, and now we are going to continue our march towards the city of Valuno?" was a rough-voiced mercenary who had served the Donaldines for more than twenty years since the last Duke was still alive, perhaps out of loyalty to his ancestors, who, though he had never married, had never coveted the Duchess, and this loyalty eventually made him the first in the Duchess's guard.

"No need. Sarina replied a little sullenly. "Hop on the carriage now, it's time for us to return. ”

The Duchess's words caused a commotion among the guards, who knew that the purpose of Salina's trip was to sign a treaty of mutual protection with Valuno, in order to protect their interests in the next war, and that the city was now close at hand, and the Duchess chose to return home, which made them a little grumbling and puzzled.

Only a few of the older guards observed some clues, but they tacitly chose to remain silent, and under the leadership of these "insiders", the convoy turned around.

The maid beside Sarina seemed to be holding back, she was only fifteen or sixteen years old, and she was full of ignorance about the affairs of men and women, and there were no outsiders around her, so she couldn't help but ask

"Madame, how did you know that the Lord would be in this forest?"

If it were in the South, she would have been expelled from the court with just one sentence, this girl was too stupid and too straightforward, and perhaps she would never really fit into the rules of the nobility.

But the good thing here is the north. The maid was confident, and even the high-ranking duchess would never be angry with her when she asked this question, but not because the northerners were more civilized than the southerners, but because they were more primitive, and primitive people were created equal.

"I didn't know he was here, and I didn't expect to meet him here. ”

"Perhaps it was Sardinia's arrangement, or was it our gods of the Northlands...... Oh, I remember that the lord was a southerner, so it must have been Sadinian's arrangement, after all, you and he are both devout believers. ”

The maid's face flushed with excitement, as if she were also a client. Lady Sarina, on the other hand, had the same complexion, and she sneered calmly and restrainedly

"Tallinn, it's really annoying that you remember that we are all Sadinitian believers, so do you know that a woman like me who is married to a duke cannot remarry, and even more so that knight, he will never marry a widow. ”

"But I heard that he was never married, and he didn't even live with any woman. The maid was still a little unwilling, and she continued to retort.

"But he also has a son, who is even about your age. ”

This really left Tallinn speechless. It is a well-known oddity that the Knight José had an illegitimate child whom he was unwilling to reveal his mother's name and had placed him in foster care with a noble family.

Both in the Satinia Church and in accordance with the folklore of the Northland tradition. It is very unseemly to have an illegitimate child, and since he is not married, even if he marries the daughter of a commoner, it will not be easier to attract criticism.

A child is a gift from the gods to a pair of lovers, and if the "lovers" do not conform to the customary "law", then the crystallization between them will not be blessed by the gods. At the same time, the child is also considered a symbol of promiscuity, and usually in the future, he will prove himself in more difficult ways.

People come and go in the world, but it is really rare for a noble man with only illegitimate children.

The conversation in the carriage seemed to have reached a new impasse, and no matter how good the Duchess was, there was no way to continue the topic.

Fortunately, the movement outside the carriage slightly broke the embarrassment between the two, and after a few brief knocks on the door, a muffled male voice came in.

"Madame, perhaps my brothers and I have something to ask you. ”

Under normal circumstances, Sarina would probably have asked Brown to pull things down outside, but at this point, she would rather have asked him to come and sit in the carriage.

After getting the sound of Yingyu, there was a faint strange sound outside the carriage, the carriage shook slightly, and a bald head poked in from the outside. The carriage was not large, and Brown was stout, and he had just entered it, and it was almost the entire carriage.

Sarina faintly showed a hint of remorse. The style of this carriage purchased from the south was a little off, and perhaps the craftsmen who made him did not expect from the beginning that such a delicate thing he made would squeeze a strong man into it.

But Brown did not care in the slightest about the awkward position he was in, on the contrary, he looked at the scenery inside the carriage with great interest, and when he saw some of the bulges and links in the carriage, he would even reach up and pat it twice, and after the carriage squeaked and roared, he would praise him with a stupid "really sturdy." ”。

In order to prevent the middle-aged man from letting himself go, Tallinn reprimanded in an almost stern voice

"Captain of the Guard, Her Royal Highness the Duchess did not invite you to check whether the carriage was secure, it is the work of the craftsman to take into account, and you should now make clear your intentions, or leave here at once, and never try to come up again. ”

The guard seemed to be taken aback, and he immediately came to his senses and explained the matter in 1510.

In the eyes of those guards, the war was of course a male affair, and after the news of the impending war reached the Duke's Hall, the Duchess did not deliberately block the news, but just allowed it to spread in the territory.

Roughly because of the young age of the duke, and Sarina's female status, the guards had the idea of taking on more obligations, and as a result, they became more enthusiastic about the state of affairs of the war. Because they had worked with Valuno before, when the Duchess proposed to marry Valuno, the soldiers felt that the Duchess had made a very correct decision, but now that the city was in front of them, the act of returning home was really puzzling to them.

"In addition to this, I would like to ask you, what should we do next without the Valuno? ”

They are not official mercenaries, but more of a people in a territory, the so-called military service for the lord, half of which is obligation, and the other half is their own pleasure, these guards deeply feel that they are obliged to do more for the dukedom, and this is the source of their many things.

"The Valunos and the Weegand have a contract, and their mayor would never do such a self-digging thing, and I just met the White ......Knights of Valuno," Sarina said, pausing slightly, and then in an almost eccentric tone.

"He is not optimistic about this expedition of the Empire, but he thinks that there will be a war between the Empire and the king of the North Sea, and instead of discussing the question of whether to go on an expedition or not, it is better to consider how to take sides......

Palu touched his bald head and muttered with some resentment: "I originally thought he was a bright warrior, but I didn't expect him to be a tricky white face after all." ”

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