"I believe that since Miss Suzanne is here on behalf of the Duke of Oldington, you can listen to what she says. Seeing that there was no better chip on his side, Tyre was the first to agree. The other patriarchs around him nodded in agreement.

And Manle looked at Susanna, who was wearing a goose yellow dress, and said: "If Duke Noo can make a reasonable suggestion, of course we are willing to listen, especially as a neutral country, he definitely has the right to speak." Manle couldn't get everyone to support him, so he had to let this woman say a few words.

Everyone looked at Barnes, but he just shook his head and said, "I'm sure that Duke of Aldington won't make a suggestion that won't benefit him, I think it's better to wait for our republic to deal with it internally! Unexpectedly, the Barnes Archon who greeted Suzanne warmly yesterday was the most faceless, but Suzanne did not mind, she opened the letter from Pedro and read it aloud.

"My father is first and foremost an absolute supporter of resisting the invaders, but our Duchy of Noo is about to form an alliance with the Kingdom of Cose, and my brother, Lord Luthers, will marry Miss Margaret, the princess of the Winter Kingdom," Suzanne said this, Barnes's originally calm expression instantly turned into panic, and Jack couldn't help but lower his head, as if hearing the death of his closest dearest," Therefore, my father, the Duke of Aldington, would like to see the elders and consuls of the Marvel Republic show mercy to Prince Jack at the wedding scheduled for next winter, when Luthes will inherit my father's title as duke. ”

Suzanne spoke the words of the letter in a righteous manner, and there was no mention of any benefit to the republic, but it was simply an unreasonable demand in someone else's place, and she felt that she was justified.

The group of patriarchs immediately began to talk about it.

"No matter how this works, our warriors have died in vain. ”

"Yes, what can you get in exchange for giving face to a duke?"

"What about after the wedding?

"It's a bit too deceitful, and it doesn't take our Maweil Republic seriously. ”

"This duke's words are so selfish, even if the alliance between the two countries is oppressed, it is impossible to compromise and make concessions to the invaders like this!"

The other citizens in the square also pointed at this Susanna.

The First Senate Tyre first responded to Susanna and said: "Originally, our Republic of Marveil and the Duchy of Noo have always been peaceful and friendly, if Lord Luthers wants to marry a wife or inherit the title, we will send someone to congratulate him, but just let Jack go."

Suzanne smiled, she turned the letter upside down, it turned out that she hadn't read the contents of the letter at all just now, she looked at the first senator Tyre and said, "Actually, those were just my own wishful thinking," Suzanne looked at the stunned faces of the hundred senators, and she could see the true mentality of all the senators, she secretly snickered at her own cleverness, "The first thing my father mentioned is how to repay you for repaying the brother-in-law of Duke Luthers after you released us." She glanced at a saddened Jack.

"Tell me, do you want to marry your sister to me, and then we can form an alliance?" Barnes already has a wife at home, but he still covets the beautiful women outside, like a male dog in heat.

"My father said it would"

Just as Suzanne was about to say a quid pro quo, Jack, the "green ghost" in the prisoner car, let out a hoarse and deep voice: "No, my sister can't marry that perverted guy from Luthus"

Susanna's eyes immediately changed from gentle to hideous, and she glared at Jack viciously and said, "Some people should be interesting, and they don't look at where they are, and they dare to talk about others!"

Margaret, who was sitting on the side, wanted to say a word to her brother Jack, but she just said silently in her heart: I volunteered.

Margaret recalls what had happened a few days earlier in her palace in Coseferti, the capital of the Winter Kingdom.

Sitting on the throne, Jack's twin brother is the current king of the Kingdom of Cose, Adam, the youngest king, who was only twenty years old when he succeeded to the throne.

The ministers are discussing how to resist the invasion of the Oguna Empire, and Princess Margaret, who has already begun to participate in politics, has been begging Adam to save Jack.

"Princess, it's not like you don't know that Jack is self-willed, even if he is sent to death, he will also bring 30,000 Kingdom soldiers," a minister persuaded on the side, "and pay the Chief of the General Staff Colin and the MONOCULUS mercenary group! Even if he becomes a prince, he will be responsible for his willfulness!"

And another minister rushed to say: "Fortunately, the Marquis of Ampvo rushed back overnight to help the war, although his army has not yet reached Cosseforti, but the soldiers on the front line received the news that reinforcements are coming, and their morale has greatly increased, if they still send someone to save the warlike prince now, I am so sorry for those soldiers who are guarding our territory on the front line!"

Another minister also said, "Princess, although you have begun to study politics after the king succeeds to the throne, you really shouldn't think about Jack's side this time, maybe the people of the Republic will release him back?"

In the face of the unanimous opposition of all the ministers, Margaret still strongly pleaded, but Adam, who sat on the throne, did not say a word about Jack's capture. It was as if in Adam's eyes, Jack didn't exist in this world at all—and of course the more than 10,000 captured infantrymen.

It wasn't until the next night that Adam would see her.

Adam's facial features are the same as Jack's, but his incessant coughing makes him seem worthy of being a king living in a palace, rather than a general leading an army to war.

"If the time is right, the Republic of Marver will judge my brother in four days," Adam said, looking at the state documents in his hand, and he had been working day and night and reading books since he took the throne, "It was the semi-annual meeting of the Republic, and many important matters would be decided on that day. ”

"Don't be afraid, we can write to the patriarchs right away and ask them to release Jack"

Adam slapped the pen in his hand on the table, he raised his head and said, "Do you think politics is our old game? If I say 'surrender' brother, he won't continue to fight me? The battlefield is not a game, and those old and old foxes are not my former brothers, and they will not let anyone go because of a word that has no interest." ”

Margaret looked sad, she had thought of many ways, but she was just a princess with no real power - even to gather the spies who had been lurking in the Republic of Marvil and go to escape from prison together, but the probability of success was too low.

"Maybe there's another way, or maybe we can give them a grace period of time. ”

"In exchange, the city or the treasure? We are now under attack, and the City of Honor may soon organize an army to attack us with the Oguna Empire. "It's like Adam was discussing how to get back an item he didn't really like, not his twin brother.

Margaret was speechless.

At this time, Adam closed the paper in his hand, and he tilted his head slightly, and his eyes looked up at his slim sister.

"There is another way," said Adam, as if looking at a crystal clear gem, "you will leave for the Duchy of Noo, and promise to marry Luthus, the eldest son of their duke, and say that I am willing to agree to a marriage alliance between the two countries." ”

When Margaret heard this, her red heart under her fair skin suddenly became cold.

"If you're lucky, you can let the people of their principality take you to the City of Honor right away, and then let the Duchy of Nuo, which is now at ease, pay the price on our behalf, so that we will only pay you - the only price" If you do this, you can kill three birds with one stone. First, it can have one more ally, second, it can keep its country and the Republic of Marvil in the negotiation stage temporarily, so that the Kingdom of Kosai will not be attacked on both sides, and third, this royal sister who has a good skin and loves Jack the most is finally of some use. When I was a kid, you only helped Jack, who was stronger than me, in the game, and that's still the case. That's all Adam had on his mind.

"Okay, I'll go!" Magalet didn't think as deeply as Adam thought, she just said yes right away.

"But I heard that Luthes is a little quirky, if he doesn't like women, then your efforts will be in vain," Adam saw that the other party agreed, he lowered his head again, and continued to work, "If you really want to rescue my dear brother, you better gather the spies in the Republic as well, they are all Jack's personally selected cronies elite, and they must be willing to sacrifice their lives to save my dear brother Wang!"

Margaret still feels chills when she recalls that night. Although the cold north wind has blown in Kosephoti, the capital of the Kingdom of Cosai, it is not because of the cold of the wind, but the coldness of people's hearts.

Margaret, who arrived in the Duchy of Noo overnight, immediately reached an agreement with the duke. Even the Duke of Aldington, who was over half a hundred years old, swallowed several saliva when he saw this ice beauty in the winter country who promised to marry into his family, and Margaret in plain clothes was the ice princess of the winter country as rumored.

The Duke's eldest daughter, Susanna, was also beaming, and took care of her as if she were her own sister when they first met. Aldington had Suzanne take Margaret in the fastest carriage and sent a personal knightly guard to the Republic.

As soon as Suzanne got into the car, she said to the anxious Margaret, "My good sister, don't worry, we will be here in two days and one night to the Republic, and we will definitely be able to save Prince Jack, and their consul Barnes is still my friend." ”

In this way, Princess Margaret, who had never stepped out of the Winter Kingdom Palace before, came to a foreign land in a short period of time, just for the sake of her brother, who was not treated by the minister and the king.

Even now here in Judgment Square, Jack whispered that she should not marry Lord Luthers, but all she could hear in her mind was what she and Adam had said that night.

Adam finally asked, "Are you really willing to do this?"

"Yes, I'll go!"