Chapter Eighty-Eight: Meeting and Not Knowing Each Other
(Habsburg women are not easy to mess with, even if they are just little girls.) I won't talk about how difficult it is to mess with it, everyone who knows knows it. It's a bit of a card update today, hahahahaha)
Goo-goo-goo
Ellie wrinkled her little face and drank the whole pot of tea in one go. And Nanoka on the side was much more indifferent, and she also drank it all. The second daughter also picked up the white-glazed teacup and motioned for the servant next to her to add another cup.
The corners of the servant's mouth twitched, and he watched the actions of the two Miss Fanzhuo. As a servant, he could not resist a guest and had to turn his gaze to his master for help. But his master only smiled and did not mean to help him in the slightest.
The servant had no choice but to fill the cup of the tyrannical young lady again.
A certain baron and Madame Butterfly have been mysteriously discussing something these days, and have no time to spend with their two lovely daughters. Fortunately, the two little ones still have the young lady Shanaiduo, and they are not lonely.
On this day, the equally bored Shanaiduo, in Dublin Castle, invited two little ones to be guests.
Unlike the black tea that Madame Butterfly invited a certain baron to drink, this time the servant's master invited the two ladies to taste the famous tea from Seris. Cyris's distance from the empire is immensely long, and a single round trip can take years. Coupled with the various dangers during the journey, tea has become more valuable than gold. What's more, this kind of tea is a famous tea even in Seris.
In the eyes of the servants, these two eldest ladies drank not tea, but gold. He began to doubt his vision, could these two in front of him really be the incomparably noble Byzantine princess?
Imperial Princess, the noblest princess in the world.
Ahh Even if it is used to invite the great emperor, there will be no rudeness in the tea leaves! It was drunk by a cow like this!
The grief and indignation in the servant's heart is naturally unknown to his master. But even if he knew, I'm afraid Shanaiduo wouldn't mind such a trivial matter. In her brother's palace, she was accustomed to seeing all sorts of noblewomen who were twisted for the sake of so-called elegance. The aristocrats spoke hypocritical words in an extremely sincere tone. Hiding his true face behind layers of masks, even his relatives refuse to show it lightly.
Those people, with their own goals, deliberately came to please her and get close to her. For this qiē, Shanaiduo has long been tired of it. Living in this world, even the great emperors and the pope have to face some things that don't go their way. But instinctively, she loathed the hypocrisy.
And Ellie and Nanoka are obviously not such people.
The bitterness on the tip of the tongue never dissipated, and it lingered in the mouth. Aili wrinkled her bun face and complained to Shanaiduo: "Huh, Sister Shanaiduo, these teas are so bitter, they don't taste good at all." ”
Tea is of high value and is one of the symbols of nobility decency. In Aili's mouth, I can only get this kind of evaluation.
"Really? Then try this. Under the servant's desperate gaze, Shanaido handed a small white-glazed jar in front of him to Ellie. The little blonde girl opened it curiously, and found that it was full of sand crystals as white as fresh snow.
"This, is it salt? Why is it so white? Ellie dipped her finger in some "grains of sand" and looked at Shanaiduo. Under Shanaido's smiling gaze, he shoved it into his mouth. "Hmm! This is so sweet~"
"Nanoka, Nanoka, you can taste it too, this is so sweet!"
Blood began to drip from the hearts of the servants on the side, such pure sugar. You know, sugar is in the empire, and its value is not below the tea at all. Especially such a beautiful crystal that is snow-white and does not have the slightest variegation at all. I don't know how many times I have to go through sifting, how many processes I have to go through before I can pick out such a little bit of white sugar from the generally yellowed sugar cubes. But his master gave the young lady a taste
This is a birthday present from a certain Duke to His Excellency the Governor!
Blood was dripping from the servant's heart, and he only hoped that the two young ladies would not break any of the porcelain on the table—that was the last thing the servant wanted. If one of them is really broken, I am afraid that the enraged governor will hang him directly on the gallows. As the younger sister of the Governor's favor, Shanaiduo and her guests naturally can't be wrong. It will only be their clumsy servants who will make mistakes.
The red-haired girl with faint dark circles in the corners of her eyes also looked at the smiling Shanaiduo, and saw that she didn't have the slightest objection, so she stretched out her finger and dipped some sand grains into her mouth, just like Ellie. Nanoka is a fool who forgets time when she gets to work. In the past two days, Sinloth didn't have time to care about her, she had been staying up late for that first commission—without the relevant tools, even if it was an alchemist master, it would be quite laborious to make these originally extremely simple things.
The pink tongue gently licked the crystal, and Nanoka closed her eyes as if savoring the taste of what was in her mouth. However, only she knew that out of the habit of an alchemist, she was subconsciously analyzing the composition of these grains of sand.
It's just ordinary white sugar, using a fairly old process, and it's been left for a long time, and there are so many mites in it. Other than that, nothing special, there's something wrong with this sugar!
The girl opened her eyes suddenly, and said loudly to her sister, who was holding the spoon and was about to scoop another spoonful, "Sister, don't eat!" This sugar is poisonous! ”
"Huh?!"
"Miss Christina, go back quickly. If you keep running around like this, Madame will be angry. ”
The green-haired maid followed behind the wayward eldest lady, patiently persuading. Although this eldest lady is very cute, although she is young, her appearance already has a bit of the noble and elegant shadow of Madame Butterfly.
And that's just the surface.
The wayward eldest lady can't listen to anyone's teachings at all. often does something that disobeys her mother's orders, and Madame Butterfly, who has a lot of energy, is often angry with her. Even Shanaido's ball, she missed because she ran to meet a soothsayer.
Madame Butterfly usually has too many things to deal with, and it is not an easy job for a lady to support such a large county, and to carefully deal with those stupid nobles who come to the door from time to time to court. For his daughter, it is inevitable that he will neglect to discipline him. By the time she realized this problem, her daughter had become a wayward lady.
Countess Rosa didn't think of wanting to be heavy-handed and teach this disobedient daughter a good lesson. But as soon as she saw her daughter's stubborn eyes, her determination vanished.
She, I'm sorry for this daughter.
"Hmph, Mom must be discussing something with the counts again. What is there to discuss with those mud legs, in the past few years, I haven't seen her discuss anything, I don't care about me at all, don't talk about her. Sister Merope, help me take a good look. The soothsayer said, "My prince, at this time today, will appear before me." ”
Christina still has a good impression of this maid who was suddenly accepted by her mother. These are the few people who are willing to listen to her complaints, willing to listen to her heart. Unlike Madame Butterfly's arbitrariness, this green-haired maid has a motherly tenderness that she has longed for. No matter how willful she is, she will always get her gentle smile. So, soon, Merope replaced the head maid and became her exclusive maid.
And she always calls her sister.
"Divination witches? Do you mean those Roma women? Their words are not credible, and they dare to say anything for the sake of money. ”
As a witch, Merope is a bit of a prophet - though her prophecy, like most mages, is pretty bad. And it is precisely because she knows the prophecy that she knows the profundity and obscurity of this spell. If you don't have any special talent, you're afraid you won't be able to touch the door for the rest of your life.
Among the magicians of their generation, only Lord Andiel, a once-in-a-millennium genius, has attained some attainment in prophecy, oh, and by the way, there is also the crane tail of Hermint, who is always the last.
Thanks to Helmint, Merope was not the last of all the mages. Although, she is still the last of all the witches.
"It's not those Roma, it's a very powerful old woman." The eldest lady waved her arms and proclaimed to the maid the greatness of the witch, but it was clear that she had failed.
Under the maid's confused gaze, Christina also gave up. She hugged her shoulders and said weakly: "Anyway, it's very powerful, believe her, there must be nothing wrong." Help me keep an eye on it, my prince, it must be very conspicuous. It must be recognizable at a glance Yes, she must be wearing a white knight's outfit and riding a white divine horse. With a gentle smile on his face, eyes as clear as a lake, and beautiful blonde hair"
Merope followed in Christina's footsteps and walked the streets of Dublin. There are many people here, but there is no one, as Christina described. As Christina described, he was a prince at all. How could a prince come to this rural part of Ireland?
If it weren't for him, he would really look like a prince. Merope suddenly remembered a pair of gentle black eyes, and unconsciously, she was so distracted
"Woo, Nanoka, someone actually poisoned Sister Shanaiduo's sugar"
Ellie hung her head, and her two little golden braids were also weak. In her small world, I can't understand why someone would want to use poisoning to deal with a gentle and beautiful person like Sister Shanaiduo?
"There are probably a lot of reasons."
Nanoka really didn't know how to comfort her sister, although she had heard similar stories when she heard her grandfather's stories before. But this is the first time this has happened. In the world of Belica, which advocates force, if you really hate a person, the best solution is always to take your own wand and directly bombard the opponent to slag. Instead of using poisoning, even if you succeed, you will only be spurned.
"Fortunately, Sister Shanaiduo usually hardly eats sugar, this kind of ** with low intensity, if she doesn't eat it for a long time, or if she eats too much in one go, it shouldn't have any effect on her, but the expression of the servant next to Sister Shanaiduo was so terrible at that time."
When Nanorka said that the sugar was poisonous, the servant was at first surprised, then disapproving - a little girl's words were not to be believed. But at Shanaido's insistence, he poured all the precious sugar into the water, and then brought a sheep and made it drink all the water. After that, the servant's face changed.
Because, the sheep died.
In that case, even the two little girls, who were not very well-versed in world affairs, knew that it was inappropriate for them to stay there, so they hurriedly took their leave. And after Shanaiduo kept them a little, he didn't force them to stay.
"If something like this happens, Sister Shanaiduo must be very sad, right?"
"yes."
The two little girls, accompanied by three female knights, whispered to each other, expressing their worries about Shanaido. At this moment, Ellie accidentally saw that the handkerchief of a noble little girl in a gorgeous dress in front of her fell to the ground. And the aristocratic little girl, still unaware, walked forward with her maid. Unbeknownst to her, the handkerchief on her body was gone.
Ellie wanted to call her, but in this noisy crowd, it was clearly not a good idea. Ellie hurriedly left her sister behind and trotted to pick up the handkerchief. In just a moment, the smooth and light feeling of Seris's characteristic silk was faithfully responded to by Ellie's nerves to her little head.
"Hey, wait a minute, wait a minute"
Ellie panted and ran to the noble girl's side, and handed the handkerchief to the noble girl's eyes: "This is your handkerchief, give it back to you." ”
The aristocratic girl looked at the handkerchief in Ellie's hand, and then at the low-key, unluxurious imperial princess dress on her body, and raised her little head high: "The daughter of the Habsburgs will not pick up what has fallen on the ground." Since you've picked this up, I'll give it to you, hurry up and get out of the way, I still have very important things to do. ”
"Huh?"
It was her, the man's daughter.
"I'm sorry, young lady. Miss Christina is not, miss, wait for me. The green-haired maid wanted to apologize to the little blonde girl, but Christina didn't wait for her in the slightest. In desperation, Merope had no choice but to confess to the girl, and instead chased after the eldest lady with her skirt, leaving Ellie, who couldn't figure out the situation, to stay where she was.
"Woo, this handkerchief is so expensive, so I don't want it"