Chapter 34: Otto with a Black Belly
Caroline walked to the reception hall of her home, wondering what Elise was trying to do, but Caroline's overactive brain would always take Caroline's thoughts in some direction that was particularly dramatic. Pen, fun, and www.biquge.info
"Hey, forget it, I haven't analyzed any relevant news at all. When she meets the deity, she will naturally know what she wants to do. Caroline touched her head and quickened her pace towards the hall. I have to say that Carolan is actually a little wary of the woman Elise, after all, in fact, to a certain extent, Elise is not actually a friend of the Klose family. As for the mentorship between her and Herman? After Elise rejected Herman's request for marriage and returned to Denmark overnight, the relationship between the two families was long gone.
In every sense of the word, Carolan can now be described as a medieval East Franconian through and through. Now Carolan thinks about things first and foremost in the interests of his family, and many times he forgets that he has crossed over.
"Father, I heard that you have a distinguished guest here today?" Caroline walked into the reception hall and bowed to Herman in the main seat, and when Caroline straightened up and began to look at the situation in the reception hall, Caroline found that the situation seemed to be different from what she thought.
In the main seat of the hall were the Hermens, who were on the left hand side of the Hermens, and there was an empty seat below Rudolph, which was clearly reserved for Carolan. What made Carolan feel that something was wrong was the situation on the seat on the right hand side of the Herman couple, the first one on the right hand side of the Herman couple was a blonde woman, with a pair of sword eyebrows to set off her originally beautiful and delicate face full of heroism, just like the Valkyrie in Norse mythology, this is undoubtedly the Danish Elise that Rudolph has in mind.
If that's all there is to the people who came to Klose's manor today, there is nothing wrong with the situation in this hall. It's just that there seems to be an uninvited guest coming to Klose's house today, and there is one more person in Elise's seat who is extremely familiar to Caroline: Otto.
That's right, the current prince of East Francia, His Royal Highness Otto, the future king of East Francia, sits in the hands of a foreign barbarian princess in his own land, in the hall of the Klose family, the most loyal follower of the royal family. Although the strength of this barbarian is a bit strong, it is too unconventional.
At this moment, Caroline's mouth opened wide in shock, and then she looked at her stubborn old father, Herman, who had always been strict with etiquette, with an incredulous gaze. Was this a sign that the Klose family was ready to break away from the East Frankish kingdom and join the Danish tribe?
"Hmph,,,,,,, Carolan, find your place and sit down." Herman naturally noticed his youngest son's somewhat exaggerated expression, snorted with a dark face, and didn't explain anything, directly signaling Caroline to roll over to his place and sit down.
“。。。。。。。。。。。” Caroline, who thought it was strange how strange the situation was today, walked to his place in silence and sat down, but when he sat down, he looked up and saw Otto, who was sitting directly across from him, winking at him with a narrow smile, and then motioning for himself to look at Rudolph's expression with his eyes.
"Uh。。。。。" Caroline naturally glanced at Rudolph on her right, and it must be said that this glance at Carolan saw that there was an indescribable subtle atmosphere between Rudolph and Elise, who was sitting directly across from him.
Rudolph, who has always liked to show his masculine side in front of Carolan, has long since lost his previous momentum, and Rudolph is staring at his plate with a twist, not knowing what to think. However, when Caroline saw the heroic woman directly opposite Rudolph looking directly at Rudolph, she could understand why Rudolph looked restless now.
Caroline, who wanted to continue to observe this interesting scene, noticed that Elise on the other side seemed to be aware that she was observing her, and quickly withdrew her gaze, pretending not to squint, and took a big sip of the cup full of milk in front of her.
Caroline, who had taken a hard sip of milk, put down the glass and saw Otto directly opposite her, smiling at her, as if asking herself, "How's it going, is it interesting?" At this moment, Caroline felt that Otto on the other side exuded an aura that was very familiar to her, and the name of this aura was called: the breath of the same kind, also known as the breath of gossip.
When Carolan saw Otto's smile, she immediately understood why Otto had to sit in Elise's lower position, if Otto was sitting in the first position on the right hand of the Hermanns, where could she see such a rare expression of Rudolph? Although it is said that as long as Elise is present, everyone will definitely have a good show today, but how can it be compared to letting Rudolph Elise face to face like this. It's no wonder Herman has such a dark face, it seems that he also knows that Prince Otto has such a bad taste.
Seriously, Otto really threw away his own discipline in order to watch such a scene. Although the seating can be explained by humility, if the situation in the hall is spread to the public, it will inevitably cause a lot of gossip, and Otto, as if he had no idea that there would be trouble, did as he pleased, and forced Herman to agree to the idea. But Caroline really likes this kind of behavior too much, thinking of this, Caroline silently made an expression to Otto in response to Otto's smile just now, meaning: "Well done!" Caroline silently gave Otto a thumbs up in her heart.
Otto, who seemed to fully understand what Caroline meant, smiled treacherously at Carolan, then skimmed Herman and signaled to Caroland, you have something to say.
“。。。。。 Herman, who seemed to be uncomfortable with the strange atmosphere between his eldest son and his students, clapped his hands and signaled that he had something to say. When all eyes were on him, Hermann stood up with a glass of wine and said: "The most beautiful aurora in Jutland brings goodwill from Denmark and opens a new chapter in the relations between Jutland and the Kingdom of East France. With that, Herman raised his glass and drank it down.
"God forbid!"
"Odin is on top!"
Everyone in the room stood up, shouted their prayers, and drank them all. Then the people who had just sat down found that Herman did not mean to sit down, but asked Lady Canossa to pour herself a full wine, and then raised her glass to Elise alone: "In the same way, I would like to thank Her Highness Elise for her great help in the establishment of the Kingdom Cavalry Regiment, thank you for your generosity, without you it would have taken us a long time to gather enough warhorse armed forces." Then Herman drank the wine from his hand again.
"What's the situation?" Hearing Herman's words of personal thanks, Carolan looked at Otto, the only one present who could answer her doubts, in confusion. As for Rudolph? It is estimated that there are a few burrs on the wood on the table, where is the air pipe Carolan has any doubts.
"Icelandic horses!" Seeing Caroline's bewildered eyes, Otto read these three words with his mouth shape. Then he also stood up and raised his glass to thank Elise, indeed, as the prince of East Francia, he was to be thanked anyway after Hermann had spoken about it in public.
"I see." After seeing Otto's mouth shape, Caroline suddenly realized. You must know that heavy cavalry is very horsepower-intensive, and a qualified cavalryman often has to prepare three horses, one war horse and two pull horses. Although the Saxony region of the Kingdom of East Francia was a well-known horse-producing region, it was also unable to cope with the demand for horses brought about by the cavalry regiments vigorously organized by the bird catcher Henry in recent years. Although the number of horses is relatively sufficient, it is not just a horse that is armed and called a war horse.
There are many parts of the horse's nature that are not suitable for the battlefield, such as fear of fire, for example, fear of noise because of their sensitive hearing, and easy to estrus, etc., so war horses must be cultivated from an early age so that they can overcome these instincts and adapt to war.
In this era, people who do not have breeding skills tend to gather the most talented young horses together and then select the group of horses with the most suitable endurance and the best IQ. During this selection process, many horses are left with incurable injuries. For example, habit injuries, fractures, joint injuries and so on caused by repeated training. The number of horses that can eventually become war horses is often only about a quarter of the total number of horses to be selected, which also contributes to the scarcity of war horses. (Look at the bitter cavalry of the Song Dynasty in China to know how rare the war horse is)
But there was a magical place in this era, called Iceland. The Viking colonists invented the rudimentary breeding technique in Iceland a hundred years ago, so the number of war horses in Iceland is very large compared to this era, so it is not surprising that Herman contacted Iceland to buy war horses through Elise when there was a shortage of war horses. It's no wonder why the Klose family and Elise, who should have never gotten along, sat together in such harmony and drank and chatted again.
"Compared with the kindness you have been taught, what I have done is like the tiniest drop of water in the North Sea." After toasting Herman and Otto, Elise said.
"Digging a groove, is this a provocation, this cliff is a provocation!" Hearing this, Carolan complained frantically. If Elise had been taught by Herman in a serious way, then she had no problem saying that. But you must know that according to what Rudolph said at the beginning, Herman taught Elise to keep a hand, and then Elise deceived Herman of the housekeeping skills through the curve to save the country, and then ran away privately. In this case, you say that Ende is comparable to the North Sea, and this cliff is pumping Herman's face.
Caroline hurriedly looked at Elise, thinking that Elise was about to have a showdown with the Klose family. But when Carolan really saw Elise's expression clearly, Caroline froze. Originally, Carolan thought that she would see an expression that might be sneering, hateful, or disdainful on Elise's face, but Carolan didn't see it, and Elise showed an expression of sadness, emotion, and gratitude, and then raised her glass to Herman again and drank it all.
"Hey... Herman looked at Elise's face and was stunned, sighed as if he wanted to say something but didn't, and then silently gave Elise a glass of wine in return.
"And Rudolph。。。。。" Elise set her eyes on Rudolph and opened her mouth to say something.
"The meat is coming!!" Carolan instantly became excited, didn't she wait so long for this moment.
"Hmm." Rudolph's whole body stiffened when Elise said his name, but he still didn't raise his head, but Carolan looked at his bruised fist and knew that his brother was not in a calm mood, and similarly, Herman, who had always been strict with his son's rude behavior, sighed and did not blame his eldest son.
“。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。 Long time no see, are you okay... Elise whispered as if coming from out of the sky.
"Good!" Rudolph looked up suddenly, no longer avoiding Elise's gaze, looking directly at Elise and gritting his teeth in response.
Before I met her, I didn't think about getting married; After I met her, I didn't think about marrying anyone else. ----- wish Mr. Yang Jiang all the best.