Chapter 22: A dilemma
Since it was the biggest boss who spoke, Frieza had no choice but to shut up and silently wait for Xu Mo's final decision. It's just that what everyone didn't expect was that Xu Mo stood in a corner of the woods with the letter, silent for a long time, his face was cloudy and cloudy, and he seemed to have encountered a big problem.
Realizing that they couldn't stay here longer, everyone had no choice but to turn their attention to another person with the highest status, and it was not easy to be reprimanded by him after disturbing Xu Mo's thinking-Little Blakeney. Blakeney's nerves have always been as tough as iron, and when he saw everyone's eyes asking for help, he immediately walked up to Xu Mo and whispered, "Sir, is something wrong?" ”
"Huh?" Xu Mo woke up from a dream and came back from his thoughts, and when he saw little Blakeney beside him, he couldn't help but smile bitterly and handed the letter in his hand to Blakeney, and said to him: "Your Excellency Blakeney, we are in big trouble!" ”
Blakeney took the letter suspiciously, opened it and read it carefully, only halfway through it, he turned crimson and returned the letter to Xu Mo. This is a love letter from the woman to the man, which is full of affection, explicit language, quite provocative, obviously the man and woman have deep feelings, and there are many exchanges in some aspect in private.
"Isn't it that little white face and some noble lady's love letter?" Blakeney was slightly surprised, but quickly recalled the woman's honorific title for the man in the letter, "That little white face is an earl?" ”
Seeing that after Xu Mo took the letter, he was still staring at the letter without saying a word, as if he wanted to trace a flower on the letter with his eyes, a trace of anger flashed on Blakeney's face, "Sir, the Alfred I know is not such an indecisive person as now!" What about the earl of England, we are killing him like a dog here, and no one knows that we did it, and with some fragmented clues, what can the English prove? ”
Hearing Blakeney's words, Xu Mo suddenly shuddered and let out a long sigh, and finally made a decision, and his eyes returned to clarity, no longer at a loss. Seeing that Xu Mo had returned to normal, Blakeney also grinned and said, "I'll ask Frieza to get rid of those two people, and we'll get out of here immediately!" ”
"Wait, who said they were going to kill them!" Xu Mo helplessly stopped Blakeney, "This little white face can't be killed!" ”
"Why?" Blakeney's eyes widened and he asked, confused.
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"Your Excellency! Excellency! Frieza couldn't bear it anymore and wanted to kill the little white face to bury Kaye with him, but Ahan was stopping him, and the little white face said that he was a count and said that he wanted to see you! Raxiu hurriedly ran towards Xu Mo and the others, shouting as he ran.
"Damn it!" The anger on Xu Mo's face flashed, and he immediately handed the letter to Blakeney again, "Look at the signature of this letter!" ”
After Blakeney took the letter, Xu Mo immediately walked quickly to the carriage and looked angrily at Yahan and Frieza, who were confronting each other.
"Head!" Frieza saw Xu Mo's face full of anger, and put down the scimitar in his hand in disdain.
"Your Excellency!" Ahand exclaimed respectfully. With the development of the action plan, he no longer had the weird feeling he had at the beginning of calling Xu Mo Your Excellency.
"You two go away, go to Blakeney, and take that little girl with you, I'm going to talk to this gentleman alone!" Xu Mo said with a gloomy face.
Seeing these two people walking away, Xu Mo pulled out his knife and approached the handsome young earl. After the young earl had been captured, his expression was still calm, and even with a faint sneer on his face, he cooperated very well to let Lasius tie his hands and sit aside without saying a word.
However, just now, he was frightened by Frieza's vicious appearance, and he could see that Frieza really wanted to kill him. Finally, he explained that he was an earl, and asked Ahan and Lasiu, who were standing aside, to call Xu Mo, who thought that since Xu Mo had taken the letters, he should recognize his identity.
Now seeing Xu Mo approaching him with a knife, he couldn't help but move back in surprise, and said, "You should already know who I am, and you still want to kill me?" ”
"Of course I know who you are, Earl of Essex!" Xu Mo said coldly.
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"That little white face turned out to be the Earl of Essex!" After reading the signature of the letter, Blakeney also recognized who the woman in the letter really was, and said with a wry smile to the companions who surrounded him.
"Even if he's an earl, he'll still have to bury Kaye, knowing that all of our men who attacked the carriage are dead, who else would know that we killed the earl!" Frieza said without hesitation, not giving up the idea of killing people to vent his hatred just because the other party was an earl.
"We can't kill him!" Blakeney said bitterly, he already understood why Xu Mo was so hesitant, from the moment they attacked the carriage, they were in a dilemma.
Seeing that several companions were still confused, Blakeney sighed and said: "Frieza, do you remember, Stockholm once circulated a gossip joke about the English royal family a few years ago!" ”
"A few years ago?" Frieza frowned, he had never had any interest in gossip about the royal family, nobles, court, etc. Unless it's a very influential gossip content, he can't remember it. However, after recalling for a while, it really reminded him of a gossip joke about the English royal family.
"Oh! I remember, you mean the love affair between the Queen of England in her fifties and an aristocratic teenager under twenty? Haha......" Frieza's duck was only halfway through laughter, as if it had been cut off by a guillotine, and stopped abruptly, looking at Blakeney with wide eyes, "That little white face is ......"
"That aristocratic boy is called Robert, the Second Earl of Essex!" Blakeney's cute little face was wrinkled, as a nobleman, he knew a lot more than these junior sailors, "The Earl of Essex is not only the mistress of Her Majesty the Queen of England, he is also the court guest of King Henry IV of France, and he just led the army to help Henry IV fight the Catholics last year!" ”
"Then if we kill him, the Queen of England may not know!" Frieza said with little confidence.
If he was just an ordinary earl, of course he was full of confidence, and after a period of investigation, even if he still had doubts about certain things, he would choose to give up without evidence. But the identity of the Earl of Essex is different, and the Queen of England, who has lost her love, will definitely not give up the pursuit because of insufficient evidence, and they will be exposed sooner or later.
"Frieza! We can't afford to take that risk, or Sweden can't afford it, and no matter how secretive our actions are, they will leave flaws! Once exposed, it is possible that the sworn enemies of England and France will declare war on Sweden because of this man. Can Sweden be at war with two of the most powerful countries in the world at the same time? Even if it's okay on land, what about on the ocean? Blakeney stared at Frieza solemnly, with an irrefutable sternness in his tone.
"Got it, got it, poor Kaye!" Frieza was like a deflated ball, but he still muttered in his mouth, "I am young, I learned the same tone as Chief Alfred, and I guess I am a cold-blooded butcher when I grow up!" ”
Blakeney frowned and didn't hear Frieza's whisper, but Rasiu, who was on the side, heard it clearly, and then glanced at Blakeney and nodded approvingly. Yahan also heard it and touched his chin, Xu Mo and Blakeney did feel very similar to these plot sailors, just like the two brothers, but they hadn't seen Xu Mo as a reincarnation on the other side!
"Lord Blakeney, why are you and Chief Alfred so sure that little white face is the Earl of Essex?" Ahan's eyes flashed and he asked suspiciously.
"Look for yourselves, look at the signature of the letter!" Blakeney didn't bother to explain, and directly handed the letter in his hand to Ahan.
Ahan and Ratheus hurriedly met and gathered together, looked at the letter, and saw that the letter was signed by a very common Hebrew Christian woman's Christian name - Elizabeth!
There are countless women and even noblewomen who call this Christian name in England, but he can get an earl to live in the royal palace and send elite musketeers as his escort. Elizabeth had this right, and in England there was apparently only one person, Queen Elizabeth I.
In this era, there were countless scandals about the royal families of various European countries, and even used as gossip by the nobles and the royal families, and this letter had no effect other than to make them understand the identity of the Earl of Essex.
Kill, they don't dare to kill, release, and can't let go, and they can't kidnap him, the disappearance of this kind of character is actually not much different from death. At this time, the construction drawings of the battleship are already a trivial matter, if the drawings can be returned to the earl, let him forget about the current incident, and don't go to track down their origins, it is estimated that Xu Mo and the others will raise their hands and feet in agreement.
"So what now?" Arham also smiled bitterly, he felt that his luck had always been good, how could he encounter such a dilemma of bullshit, it must have been affected by some unlucky person among them!
"I don't know, isn't there still Chief Alfred?" Rahew shrugged his shoulders indifferently, without any psychological pressure.
Indeed, it seems that I don't have to worry about anything, anyway, I can't get the position of alternate non-commissioned officer at most. Ahan shrugged his shoulders as well, sat down on the ground, and reached for a flask and poured it into his mouth. Thinking of Xu Mo's current troubles, he didn't know why, and he had a refreshing feeling.
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"Kill me, and you Swedes will face the wrath of the great powers of England and France!" Facing Xu Mo who was wielding a knife, the Earl of Essex couldn't help but blurt out a threat.
"You know who we are?" The red light in Xu Mo's eyes was sheng, and the palm of the knife was tightened, "How do you know?" ”
Originally, he wanted to loosen the Earl of Essex and let him go, but now that the Earl already knew their identities, the situation was completely different, and at this moment, the idea of killing people finally overrode the idea of letting the Earl go.
(In this volume of the Battle of the Angry Sea, some of the famous historical figures involved will be very different from the real history in terms of age and life deeds, such as how many years of age difference, how many more years to live, please don't be more serious!) )