Above the clear blue sea, between the faint floating clouds, the biplane shaped like a big gull carries a classical and advanced romantic journey. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 infoLooking at the four worlds, in addition to the indescribably beautiful natural landscape, young couples who are close to each other do not need to worry about outsiders disturbing, and the particularly noisy roar of aircraft engines is not a problem.

"Actually...... Just a few days ago, I went to see your father and had a man-to-man conversation with him. I can see that he doesn't hate me, maybe he appreciates it a little! ”

"Men and men talking?" Charlotte was surprised and curious.

"Uh-huh!" Natsuki turned to her and said, "A man promises another man that he will be good to his daughter in this life, love and care for her with all his heart, and let her be a happy woman." ”

In order to please the opposite sex, men do not hesitate to offer all kinds of sweet language, Natsuki's words are only a regular grade, and there is a card in the flowers that little Wellington sends every day, and the content is sometimes full of poetry, sometimes sweet and greasy.

"And what did he say?"

"What do you think he'll say?" Natsuki asked rhetorically.

"I don't know...... If an unknown guy spoke to him like that, he would have been thrown into the sea nine times out of ten. Charlotte looked away from Natsuki, a look of loss on her face. The elopement proves her boundless dedication to love, but from another point of view, it is an extremely selfish act that puts the individual above the family. Therefore, no matter what choice she makes, she will face emotional pain entanglements.

Natsuki understands her plight and diverts the subject. But after a while, Charlotte suddenly "killed a horse pistol": "Actually...... He didn't say anything, did he? ”

"Hmm...... It seems that you know your father well. Natsuki said.

Charlotte didn't speak.

Realizing Charlotte's silence, Natsuki turned her head again, and sure enough, she looked sad.

"Don't worry, Xia Luo, I promise you, when the conditions are ripe, I will personally go to the UK to pick up your parents as guests." Natsuki reassured, "We have prepared some English suites in the castle and planted roses in the garden so that they can feel at home." If they want to, they can stay for a long time, our home is not as damp and rainy as in the UK, and it hurts people to move at every turn. ”

Charlotte looked up at Natsuki, the smile on her lips full of bitterness.

Facing the moment of reality, Natsuki no longer sighed, but bravely took on his responsibility: "I can understand your feelings, Xia Luo." In order to defend this precious love, I am also going against the wishes of my family, and there may even be a more violent conflict, but I am ready. No matter what, I'm going to be with you because you're unique in the whole world. If I miss you, I will be tormented by regret and remorse for the rest of my life. As long as I stay with you, even if I can only get the blessing of a small number of people, I will still persevere to the end. I think...... Our love will make a legend that the world will admire. Yes, legendary! ”

With Natsuki's encouragement, Charlotte's mood recovered a little, and she looked at Natsuki with teary eyes: "As long as I can be with you, Joheng, I don't care about anything, I'm not afraid of anything!" ”

"Let's go on bravely and without fear!"

Natsuki turned his head to look straight ahead. In order to carry on this precious love, this special journey must first be completed. After more than two hours of flying, the dark coastline of the European continent has appeared in the far end of sight. In this age without electronic navigation devices, the accuracy of long-distance flight relies mainly on the compass, manual calculations, marker recognition, and unquantifiable experience and senses. To be on the safe side, Natsuki asked Hugo Juncker to send the best pilots from the beginning, and Muller was the NO1 in his mind. The trip would have been less troublesome if someone with a great sense of direction and many flights could have served as an escort and navigator, but due to an accident during the landing at Hill Manor, Natsuki's decision meant that he had to take on the heavy lifting of the cross-sea flight alone, including finding and confirming the landing site from the air.

With no headwinds and plenty of fuel to spare, Natsuki was able to calmly identify the outline of the nearby coastline and compare it with a cropped map of the Netherlands to figure out that his position was not too far from the intended landing point. Next, he carefully flew along the coastline, and half an hour later, the large lighthouse outside the Dutch port of Haarlem finally came into view.

Natsuki pointed to the port below and told Charlotte, "We're here!" ”

From the moment she was close to the shoreline, Charlotte had been looking out to the outside world, and she was amazed by the unprecedented perspective.

"It's beautiful!" When she spoke loudly, her voice was still pleasant.

"The Netherlands, the land of windmills and tulips, where our free life belongs, will begin." Natsuki said, and saw a knowing smile on Charlotte's face.

About 10 kilometers south of the lighthouse, there is a flat and open meadow that is the private estate of a wealthy German merchant who was contacted by military intelligence through a diplomat in the Netherlands and assisted by him pro bono. When Natsuki flew over the meadow, it was like a clean carpet, and apart from the two cars and a few people waiting nearby, there was no longer anything out of harmony with nature.

Call...... God forbid!

Natsuki made a short but pious prayer in his heart, and with the lesson of his previous experience, he lowered his posture to the beginner level, repeating every step of the landing operation in his head, and was engrossed in it, without it in his head. Just when the wheels were about to touch the ground, a gust of cross wind blew, causing the fuselage to suddenly appear horizontally tilted, Xia Shu was suddenly startled, lest there be another problem with the wheel bracket with limited strength, and hurriedly pulled the plane up, regardless of whether the grass in front of him was enough to land normally, circled steadily for a week, returned to the upwind angle just now, cut in from the quarter width of the grass, and glided down extremely cautiously, and paid extra attention to the levelness of the wings...... This time, the creator finally stopped teasing the previously overconfident guy, and the plane came to a steady stop on the grass, and the people who were waiting for him quickly arrived to pick up the tired but excited Natsuki and his English girl. Although the journey is still long, the Netherlands is different from France and Belgium in that their government and people are independent and moderately neutral. Therefore, even if they were under diplomatic pressure from the British government, they would not forcibly stop Xia Shu and his party, not to mention that the Military Intelligence Bureau and the German diplomatic mission in the Netherlands had already arranged customs clearance in order to escort the brave elopement couple to German soil in the shortest possible time.

A few hours later, Crown Prince George, who had come to inspect the Admiralty building, summoned the Duke of Hill alone after finishing his business.

"I just learned about your granddaughter, it sounds like a very romantic love story, I wonder what your attitude is to it?"

Before George became crown prince, Duke Hill had worked with him for a long time. To be precise, Duke Hill was a highly decorated naval senior, and George was a high-spirited aristocratic officer, and the old and the new naturally alternated, leaving a good impression on each other.

"It's an unspeakable shame for the Hill family." Duke Hill replied in a heavy tone, "Considering that Charlotte currently has neither a title nor a special status, we intend to settle it in the same way as handling domestic matters, and I hope Your Highness can understand our feelings." ”

"Well, I fully understand your consideration, and this matter is really difficult for you." George's calm tone sounded like a lenient officer, but as soon as the "but" came out, his words immediately became sharp:

"I have heard, however, that Miss Hill was taken away by a young German, and that he was not an ordinary German. Actually, I myself am not against the freedom of marriage, and if an Englishman had taken Miss Hill out of love, even if he was a commoner of humble origin, I would have appreciated his courage, but the Germans were different. ”

Speaking of this, Crown Prince George paused, and at this time, Duke Hill almost opened his mouth, but the words in his stomach still did not come out.

"Because of luck, I have been ordering people to collect and organize all kinds of newspapers and periodicals in Germany, hoping that arrogance and aggressiveness are just the expression of someone. I despair that almost the whole German nation is controlled by this pathological mood, that they are eager to force the whole world to bow down by force, that they are eager to plant the banner of victory on land and sea, and that their efficient administrative and military apparatus take advantage of this desire to have the world's first army, and that they are moving rapidly towards the goal of the world's first navy, which, once achieved, is the beginning of the conquest of the world by force. Now I fear that the man who took Miss Hill not necessarily out of genuine affection for her, but out of a state of conquest, to show off the pretentious nobility of Germany. ”

Seeing that Prince George unreservedly expressed his indignation, Duke Hill knew that things were going to the point of no return, and the whole person looked very depressed.

"Your understanding is indeed reasonable, to put it bluntly, he is simply a kidnapper, a provocation and humiliation to the Hill family!"

"No, not just to the Hill family, but also to Great Britain." "If they are allowed to do so by such means, they will be allowed to do whatever they want in business, diplomacy, politics and even the military." Therefore, we should not tolerate it, but we should shame them with righteous words and use tough diplomatic opinion to force them to back down. If they were to intercept that guy this time, the Germans would be embarrassed in front of conclusive evidence. Yes, be sure to catch him! ”

"But, Your Highness, will this cause an unnecessary international dispute?" "And so long has passed," warns the Duke of Hill, "it is likely that they have left England or found a very secluded place to hide." Now, apart from the crashed plane, we don't have enough evidence to prove his involvement. ”

"There's a very popular novel series, Sherlock Holmes." Crown Prince George's words were not without contempt, "No matter how cunning a criminal is, he will leave clues in the process of committing the crime, and as long as we look carefully, we will definitely find it." ”

"This ......" the Duke of Hill was momentarily speechless, Conan Doyle's detective novel series was all the rage in the last decade of the late 19th century, and its protagonist, Sherlock Holmes, was almost a household name in England, but even so, he was never idle enough to sit down and read a serialized story in the newspapers.

"Then let's do it first! Your Excellency the Duke," Crown Prince George seemed to be about to end this conversation, when the Duke of Hill thought of his words:

"Your Highness, actually...... Personally, I am very concerned about a situation where the other side is well prepared before acting, and no matter how hard we try to search for interceptions, we will not be able to stop them from leaving the UK. So, I asked a friend from naval intelligence to keep an eye on the German side, and if they returned to Germany, either to Berlin or to Blomburg, and to keep an eye on both places, I should be able to catch them. ”

"Oh, that friend you're talking about is Colonel David Robinson!"

Crown Prince George seemed to say it casually, Duke Hill was stunned, and then immediately reacted, and his heart was suddenly a little depressed, but after thinking about it, Colonel Robinson was relieved that he was not only a friend but also a loyal and good general, and both sides were not offended.

"Actually, your consideration is not unreasonable."

Crown Prince George, who had already gotten up, sat down again and seemed to have a new interest in the matter.

"Since he took Miss Hill with him in a plane, it is possible that he will fly out of the UK after refueling or replacing the plane, and we will not be able to detect and stop the private aircraft in time. For the sake of the dignity of the British Empire, and for the sake of the Hill family, we must not stop there. If they return to Germany, then we will use both of them to find sufficient and strong evidence to put pressure on Germany and to force them to return Miss Hill to England. If we can't find any evidence, it means that they are cunning enough, so we will use more cunning methods against them. ”

"Yes, Your Highness, this is the consistent tactic we use against the Germans." Duke Hill responded, "Especially the second method you just talked about, which directly saves them the trouble of diplomatic friction, not only achieves the goal, but also gives them a slap in the face, making them lose without shame." ”

"Wonderful!" Crown Prince George boxer, "That's what we're going to do." Colonel Robinson, I'm telling him to do his best to show the Germans that we're good. ”

"Your Highness is wise!" Duke Hill bowed and praised.

(End of chapter)