Chapter 1045: Return
"His Majesty the Pope has a high opinion of you, he wants to invite you to Sunset City, but it is convenient for him to speak, in case you refuse, it will lose his face, so he asked me to ask you when you have time." Kandy, who was standing in the confessional room next to the main hall of the church, was always talking, and he always seemed to have endless words, "Actually, it doesn't matter if you refuse, I don't like Sunset City either, they let me read all kinds of scriptures and codexes all day long, my head is a few laps, it's a terrible place......"
While waiting, Kandy kept talking to Doolin, and once again made Doolin realize that when a person's mouth is broken to a certain extent, even if you ignore him, he can continue to talk alone.
Fortunately, the wait was not long, the first chorus of the choir had finished in a smile that was about to stiffen, the classic wedding song sounded, Kandy barred his mouth, unfinished his clothes, and left the confessional room with Durin, and walked to the presiding stage of the church.
Outside the door, Leticia took Ophelia by the arm, and the two bishops opened the door, and the two slowly walked into the church to the beat of the wedding song.
Originally, Ophelia's father was supposed to do this job, but her father was in very poor health, bedridden for many years, and had lost the ability to move, so he could only sit in the first row to watch the ceremony.
It is said that this sickly-looking gentleman used to be very handsome and handsome, and had a very healthy body, and many noble ladies were infatuated with him when he was young.
Later, he chose Leticia, and at first the husband and wife were close and their lives were harmonious, but after giving birth to Ophelia, the gentleman gradually became decadent.
Maggs's reluctance to let his family advance because of his connections was too easy, and he didn't even allow them to enter officialdom, made him a little depressed and decadent.
In the following business activities, he lost a lot of money by stepping on the short twice in a row, gradually reducing the opportunity to show up, and his health began to be poor, and he finally lay on the hospital bed.
He has been diagnosed by several of the Empire's leading doctors, and the conclusions are surprisingly unanimous, he suffers from depression, and his political and business failures have left him languishing, but he bears the title of the Empire's No. 1, which gives him something he can't afford.
Every time he went out, he always felt that others looked at him with sarcasm and ridicule, which made him start to reduce socialization, close himself, and finally become like this.
If Ophelia wasn't his only daughter, and it was something to look forward to in his life, maybe his condition would be worse than it is now.
The slightly grey eyes lit up visibly when they touched Ophelia, but then became cloudy when they saw Laeticia.
There must have been something going on that was not known to outsiders, Maggs, who was sitting next to him, coincidentally captured this detail, but this was his sister's family affair, and it was inconvenient for him to ask more, especially if the other party was unwilling to take the initiative to talk to him.
Mother and daughter slowly walked through the long walk to Kandy, Leticia smiled and handed Ophelia's hand to Durin, "This is my most cherished treasure, and my only angel, I hope she can be happy forever!"
Durin bowed slightly, "Of course, ma'am, that's what I wanted. ”
With a light sigh, Leticia turned and walked back to the bench and sat down between Maggs and her husband, looking at her daughter and Durin with tears in the corners of her eyes, with an indescribable discomfort.
Even though she knew very well that all she needed to see her daughter was a phone call, and her daughter would soon appear in front of her, she still had a sense of loss, like the feeling that she once belonged to her, but now belongs to others.
In front of many people, Kandy finally behaved a little more normal, he looked at the lines on the presiding stage, and the short process ended step by step, and after the last game "You can kiss your wife", the wedding ceremony finally ended.
At this time, the sound of the choir gradually subsided, and the guests who had come to the ceremony stood up and celebrated the young man and woman becoming a couple with loud applause.
In fact, marriage is not the most important thing, it is important to let the people who come understand two things, the first thing is that Durin will be the political spokesman of Maggs to a large extent, which is a very important message. Even though Maggs has been saying that he will not use Durin to continue his political life, and that he will never touch power again after retirement, it is understood that Durin still represents Mags in some ways.
This is not something that can be completely denied by denying it, and even if it is not, any action by Durin will be interpreted as "Maggs wants him to send a signal in this way", and then go to great lengths to decipher whether Dürin's behavior has a deeper meaning.
The second thing, that is, the appearance of Kubar, the chairman of the old party committee, the whip of the old party, and others revealed another message to some people, that Mags fully supports the work of the old party, and that the old party is not unhappy with the political legacy and influence left by Mags, that the two sides are not enemies in the pure sense, that this is a reasonable, legal and appropriate change of ruling parties, and that there are no other problems.
There have been a lot of conspiracy theories that the old party was able to turn around, and now there is talk of what kind of shameless and despicable means the old party used to defeat the new party and take power.
Every day there are new versions and new stories, which is also a problem for the new party to govern.
They have all become the supreme masters of the empire, but the people have made fun of them and questioned the legitimacy of the power in their hands. It doesn't work for Kubal to clarify himself, or just for the party to stand up and be scrutinized, and people don't believe it.
So there needs to be a non-old party camp where people trust him and who have a lot of social influence to stand up and speak for them, and that person is Maggs.
As for getting married, as I said earlier, that's incidental.
After the wedding, most of the guests left, and Kandy invited Dorin, who was looking forward to his arrival, to make sure he visited Sunset City several times before leaving. Later, in front of many cardinals, he "whispered" to Dührin that he did not have to take these words seriously, and that he was only doing so that all the manifestations of what he said could reach the ears of His Majesty, so that His Majesty could be sure that he had done what he had to do.
The bigwigs are gone, but Durin throws a party at the manor to entertain Ophelia's classmates and some of her friends.
It's also a necessary part of socializing, they won't alienate anyone because they can't attend a high-level wedding, but if they don't even have a party, there's no need to lick their faces and have to be friends with whom.
Except for those in the specialty class, the students in the other classes in the Royal Academy still have a little backbone.
The party lasted until a little after one o'clock in the evening, and there were enough rooms in the manor to receive the students, almost half of whom were descendants of the nobility, and they would not borrow them to stay here, leaving a large part of the rooms prepared in the beginning to go unused.
In the evening Durin drank some wine, and Ophelia's classmates frequently asked him for a drink, and he somewhat understood why, and the girl also blocked him a few times, so he sat on the side.
After arranging for Ophelia to be sent to her room, Durin sent off the students who did not stay overnight, and after arranging for some of the other students to stay overnight, he returned to the room drunk.
He took a shower and threw himself on the bed.
Getting married is always sweet, but neither Ophelia nor Dohrin can maintain this sweet life forever, and Doolin will eventually have to go back to Ambiluo to work, and Ophelia also needs to take classes.
The girl shed a few tears as she stood at the station to see Durin off, not as shown in the third-rate knight, tears could keep the knight, but not Dorin.
Ophelia sighed as the train disappeared from view, followed by a smile on her face. She looked at the colorful gemstone wedding ring on her hand, and instead of feeling sad because of Durin's departure, it was even sweeter.
"I've been bothering you a lot these days, and I haven't said thank you to ...... you", looking at the good sisters around her, Ophelia said thank you to Melissa very formally.
Especially in the first few days, when countless people came to the door every day to congratulate and give gifts, Ophelia would not have any problems with reception and etiquette, but she could not be busy from morning to night.
Until the age of sixteen, she was educated at home as a governess, and in addition to the fact that most nobles would do so, she had to take care of her sick father.
There have never been so many people and so many gifts in the relatively simple life circle as in the past few days, and some of the burden fell on Melissa, who helped Ophelia a lot.
Melissa's eyes flickered and said that this was what she should do, and the two left the station with a smile.
On the other hand, as soon as Dülin returned to Ovisto, the capital of Ambiluo, he began to work on a plan for educational reform.
This was the slogan and political platform he shouted during his initial election campaign, and it was also a line that could never be shaken, according to which the Ministry of Education and Health Care of the State Ministry of Education had been split into separate Ministries of Education and Health Security.
In Dohring's view, the division of departments in the past was simply deformed, why should education be merged with medical care to become a department? Why should science-related functions be combined with the Ministry of Social Services? All kinds of inexplicable divisions have always annoyed him, and it just so happened that this time he became the governor himself, and directly reformed the state departments in a drastic way, and took out everything that should be dismantled.
This kind of move, which may be considered a maverick in the eyes of some stereotypes, is very popular in the state government of Ambiluo.
Because there are more jobs, power becomes more purely centralized, and that's a good thing for everyone!