"Anyway," concluded Elena, "you can get some wine that has just been spilled on the ground."

"Huh?" Holder frowned, "Am I going to dig through the garbage heap?"

"I'll leave it to you." Elena smiled subtly.

Mr. Holder felt very aggrieved.

However, there is no better way, you can't let the two young ladies do this kind of rough work, right?

Besides, he actually wants to get to the bottom of things.

It seems that there is no way, so I have to grieve myself.

After Holder leaves, Elena explains her thoughts to Bella.

"Judging from the situation just now, it is very likely that someone has drugged him." Elena said.

"Drugged?"

"That's right."

"But why?"

Why drugged the envoys from France?

"Well, it's complicated." Elena wiped her mouth with a handkerchief, "The current political situation is very delicate."

"Huh?" Bella also put down her knife and fork and listened carefully to what Elena had to say.

"Now the Austrian duke will marry the Dauphin of France, which means the establishment of the Franco-Austrian alliance. So think about it, who is most threatened?"

"Prussia or Ottoman?" Bella tried to guess.

"That's right." Elena nodded, "Austria and France have been fighting each other for so long, and the surrounding small countries have taken this opportunity to develop. As soon as the two great powers reach a reconciliation or even an alliance in the future, those who have reaped the benefits of the fishermen before will naturally feel threatened. If the representative of one of the parties is allowed to have an accident at the wedding banquet, it will be a very serious diplomatic accident, and it may even provoke a war again."

"Isn't that troublesome?"

"That's true. So there's a good chance that Empress Teresa will hide the truth of the matter."

"But, if that's the case, there's one more thing I don't quite understand." Bella said.

"What don't you understand?" Elena asked.

"If it's really like what you said, once something happens to the envoy, the direct damage is naturally the two sides who want to promote the alliance, and the other small countries are the real beneficiaries. So, if you think about it the other way, aren't the last things you want to happen to Austria and France? I don't think Versailles would have been ignorant of this?"

"That's right," Elena picked up another piece of ham and bacon, "but you know, politics is quite complicated. Here in Schönbrunn Palace alone, there are the main battle faction and the main peace faction. Versailles is even more complicated, and I heard that there are at least three factions. To put it simply, not everyone is in favor of this pile and pro. Even if we don't talk about other countries, it's just within Austria, and it's not the same mind. The enemy is often hidden."

Politics is really intertwined, and Bella is a little big to listen to.

"What Miss Medici said is not wrong at all." I saw Mr. Holder come back with a dirty rag, "What you want."

"Yike——! Stay away from me, you idiot!" Elena hurriedly shrunk back, "I'm eating!"

"Ahh Holder put things away apologetically.

"So, what did you find?" Elena asked.

"Well, I took a look at it, and it seems to be just ordinary red wine, and it doesn't have any special taste." Holder replied.

"Oh." Elena replied lukewarmly.

"Why, doesn't Miss Medici inspect it herself?"

"No, I trust you." Elena nodded in satisfaction.

"Huh? Ahhh Mr. Holder was stunned, "Don't you distrust my judgment?"

"Oh, did you mean when you were in Valdraz before?" "I did say that men are rough. But if you can't even do that, you're going to be a waste."

"Uh......" Mr. Holder smiled awkwardly, "Then why did you ask me to bring something here?"

"I just asked you to look for clues, but I didn't let you get it back." Elena pursed her lips, "Sure enough, men do everything with a tendon."

"......," Mr. Holder said with black lines on his face, and the corners of his mouth twitched slightly, as if he was so blocked that he couldn't speak.

"Don't be angry, Mr. Holder." Bella tried to lighten the mood, "You know, that's how Elena is. But at least it means that she's starting to trust you now."

"I'm so honored, Miss Medici." Holder said angrily.

"It's good to know." Elena continued her meal in a happy mood.

"Mr. Holder agrees with Elena," said Bella, "that means there are a lot of people who might be doing something to Dulfurt?"

"Yes." "I don't want my sister to marry in France, but now that it's done, I'm going to try to make sure that this marriage doesn't happen in a way that goes into the bigger picture. I think most of the opposition should think the same way."

"In other words, although some people do not approve of the marriage, but the matter has come to this point, and it will not be deliberately sabotaged again?"

"You can understand that."

Even the main battle faction that does not approve of marriage will not openly break up.

"In that case, the range can be narrowed, right?" Bella thought for a moment, then suddenly asked, "Could it be related to the arms case that Mr. Holder tracked earlier?"

"I was thinking about that just now." Holder replied, "If their purpose is to undermine the Franco-Austrian alliance, then this wedding is the best opportunity. But what I never understood was why the arms were going to Venice?"

Hearing this, Elena suddenly stopped the knife and fork in her hand.

"Could it be that ...... is involved?"

Elena stopped talking.

If that shipment did go to the Apennines, then Venice, Florence, and Rome, the largest city-states, would have been involved, and the Medici would not have been immune.

"But there's another possibility." "If Venice were just a transit point, then the real direction might be towards the Balkans—the Ottoman Empire, then everything would make sense. But on the other hand, it's not easy to get things out of the country through a lot of checkpoints, and I think there will be people in Austria who will take it."

That's what Holder fears most.

As Elena said, the enemy is likely to be hidden.

"In that case, what is Empress Teresa going to do?" Elena asked.

"The Queen Mother said that she would wait and see what happened, and let me continue to investigate secretly." Holder replied.

"It seems that the Empress trusts you very much."

"Actually, it's mainly because I don't have much to do on weekdays, in other words, I'm the most idle. It was also because the royal brothers in the family were very busy that they sent me to the invitation to Valdraz Castle."

"Wouldn't that be nice?"

"It's not good, if it goes on like this, several royal brothers will have corresponding positions, and in the end, the throne of Austria can only be inherited by me. That's really a tragic fate!"

"Huh? Is Mr. Holder so disgusted?" Bella felt a little sympathetic to him.

"Of course, when the time comes, you can't do anything, your marriage is not free, and you can only serve the family business for the rest of your life, becoming an emotionless machine. No matter how you think about it, it's a bleak future!" There was a clear sadness in Holder's tone.

"Poofha——! Elena let out a happy laugh, "It's ironic that you abandon the throne that no one else can compete for!"

"Is Miss Medici praising me or hurting me?"

"No, it's just that I suddenly think it's funny." Elena took a sip of red wine and moistened her throat, "Life is really full of drama!"