Audrey said with a sad expression: "Anna is my little daughter, and as a mother, I am reluctant to let her leave me. ”

Victor had just gotten rid of his charming emotions, and his mind was not clear enough, so he smiled when he heard this: "Randall is indeed quite far away from Viscount Fred, you should keep Anna by your side." ”

Audrey looked at him quietly, and after a while, he spoke: "When I was 12 years old, I came to the House of York from the Kingdom of Seuss, and Embiter's cousin, Wetus York, went to the House of Branstett. ”

Equal foster care between great lords is often a family marriage, which is essentially a blood exchange, but also to avoid the risk of family extinction. If the family loses the struggle within the kingdom and is purged by a rival family, the children who are exchanged also have the responsibility to rebuild the family. Therefore, the objects of such foster marriages are generally large families outside the kingdom.

Anna is the best of the descendants of the York family, but the York family is aggressive under the leadership of Sylvia, and the big forces of the Gambis Kingdom really dare not marry the York family, otherwise they will become a thorn in the side of the royal family. In this case, Sylvia can only choose a foster marriage partner among external forces.

This time, the envoys of the kingdoms gathered in the hills, and there were not a few kingdom forces willing to marry the House of York. Neville and Sassan's peak knight may have the mission of marriage, and maybe the children of the family who exchanged foster care are already in Goldwater City.

Whoever the York family chooses to marry, Anna is the one Sylvia to exchange. However, Audair and Fred are clearly unwilling to lose their beloved daughter.

In modern society, the separation of flesh and blood is undoubtedly a human pain. Victor was an orphan in his previous life, longing for the affection of his parents, and his host in this life was betrayed by his father and stepmother. As the great knights, Viscount Fred and his wife did not dare to disobey Sylvia's will, so they had to pin their hopes on Victor.

"The centaur hill is so big, can't it accommodate an Anna?"

Victor has no children, but Fred and Audrey's fists, but the love of his parents touched him deeply, thought about it, and said: "Sylvia is fair, gentle and generous, and has a preference for Anna, I will ask her to change the person to marry." Just keep Anna with you. ”

How could this kind of thing let Sylvia know in advance?

Audrey frowned slightly, hesitated for a moment, and said, "Victor, do you know the origin of Caterina?"

"Caterina, she's Embiter's personal maid, the noble daughter of the Joshua family. Since her promotion to Grand Knight, she has taken on the duties of the Duchess of York. ”

"Only Sylvia can have a great knight act as Embiter's personal maid. ”

Audair sighed, shook her head, and said, "After Duke and Duchess Joshua became Extraordinary Knights, their only daughter was Caterina. She was fostered in the Kite Castle since she was a child, and was trained as a knight of Princess Roland's squire. Caterina and Roland have a relationship like Trisley and Sylvia, and she almost became the queen of Gambis, but in the end, Sylvia snatched her and gave it to Embiter as a personal maid. ”

"What... What? Queen?" said Victor, dumbfounded.

"The concubine of the Duke and Duchess of Joshua, a close friend of Princess Roland, the fiancée of Prince Edward, and the future queen of the Gambis, she was snatched by Sylvia and became Embiter's personal maid. For this matter, Roland was furious and forced the Senate to demote our House of York to Earl Lords. ”

The corners of Audele's lips turned up, her moist eyes curved into crescents, and she couldn't help but smile: "But it's really relieving!" After a pause, he said: "More than ten years ago, we led 50,000 people to migrate to the centaur hills, passing by the Duke of Joshua, and Sylvia asked us to stop. Duke Joshua and his knights cowered in the castle and did not dare to move, allowing us to drive away the villagers, collect food supplies, and seize the village houses. After four months, when the Joshua family couldn't hold it anymore, they asked Caterina to intervene, and Sylvia detained her and took her to the Centaur Hills. ”

"Victor, you should understand by now. Sylvia's gentleness is only for you. Audrey said.

Victor gasped, Sylvia always showed helplessness, compromise and grievance to the Auguste family in front of him, as if the strength of the god knight was just a far-fetched legend, and she was still a gentle little woman in her bones. Today, Victor learns Sylvia's true colors.

The daughter of the duke, who is noble in blood and the future queen of Gambis, was directly taken away and given to Embiter as a personal maid. Both the royal family and the Duke of Joshua's faces were swollen by Sylvia, but they could only demote the House of York to an earl lord without pain, and the Senate eventually restored Embiter's title.

Sylvia is so strong that she is simply domineering.

Then again, the Joshua family was the trigger for the battle of the Three Provinces. The outer lords of the Yorkian bloodline pressed in, prompting Duke Joshua to ask the royal family for help, which indirectly led to the fall of King Lane. The York family was also a victim, not only losing the territory they had been operating for generations, but the outer lords also fell to Neovestre, and Sylvia had to lead the core members of the family to move west to the centaur hills to reopen the family territory.

The York family had suffered a huge loss for no apparent reason, and how could Sylvia endure this bad breath. Knock out the teeth of the initiators, and then force them to swallow, so as to show the true colors of the gods and knights.

But is Sylvia really just trying to get angry?

There are many strange things about Ryan's death, and Sylvia clearly feels the undercurrent surging, but she can't find the person behind it. In the face of unclear circumstances, Sylvia moved west against public opinion and decisively jumped out of the center of the vortex to avoid repeating Ryan's mistakes. However, the people of the York family are inseparable from their homeland, and they are so disgraced, and people's hearts will inevitably fluctuate. Sylvia robbed Caterina in order to boost the family's morale and show all the forces that the dignity of the Spirit Knight was inviolable. This is how her authority was erected.

On the other hand, ruining the marriage contract between Caterina and the Edward royal family, the Joshua family can only choose to support Archduke Williams. In this way, Williams has the confidence to argue with Queen Catherine, and the struggle between the Grand Dukes and the Queen Party is conducive to the integration of the Yorks into the territory of the Centaur Hills.

For Duke Joshua, losing a daughter can calm the anger of the August family and the York family, after all, he is the culprit, pretending to be a victim, he can exchange some sympathy, and secretly get in touch with the York family. After all, Sylvia is barren, and the heirs of Caterina and Embither will inherit the throne of the House of York.

Queen Catherine came from a small side family of the Wellington family, and she had a young foundation and needed the support of her mother's family more than the Joshua family. Catherine made Margaret Wellington the fiancée of Prince Edward, and Margaret was the daughter of the Marquess of Goron and the Duchess of Wellington.

So, Katerina is the only victim, and now is it Anna's turn?

Sylvia doesn't even give Anna a mount, which shows that her preference is only an illusion, and the pearl of the York family is probably just a compliment to sell Anna for a good price.

The question is, Anna is so gifted in blood, why would Sylvia send her away, unless Anna threatens the inheritance of Embiter's children.

For small families, the primogeniture system is an important condition for maintaining family stability and maintaining territorial integrity. But it is particularly ridiculous that the big powers still have to strictly adhere to the primogeniture system, in fact, the internal factions of the big families are complex, the struggle for the throne is very fierce, all kinds of intrigues and tricks are endless, and it is not uncommon for heirs to be exiled and murdered.

Moreover, there is a peculiar phenomenon in large families, the eldest son is often inferior to the younger son, and the reason is that the knight promotion order of the parents is in place. In order to maintain the status of the eldest son of his relatives, the great lord came up with a wonderful way to exchange the noble bloodlines of other big families with the excellent children of the family, and to ensure the bloodline advantage of his own branch through marriage, and by the way eliminate the contenders for the heir.

After thinking about it, Victor realized that Anna was a great threat to Embiter's heirs.

The lifespan of the Spirit Knight is comparable to that of the Silver Knight and far less than that of the Gold Kearner. The more the York family expands now, the more it will be suppressed by the major forces in the future, and once Sylvia falls, they need a strong leader to inherit the family throne.

Although Caterina is a great knight, Embiter is just an ordinary person, how can their heirs be comparable to Anna? Embiter's descendants will definitely not be able to withstand the heavy pressure within the family, and it is inevitable that they will lose their inheritance, and they may even be murdered.

For the sake of the family's long-term interests, Sylvia should choose Anna, but she owes Embither a favor and has made a promise of inheritance. Sylvia forced Caterina to be Embiter's spouse as part of a promise, but if she didn't send Anna away, the promise would be unfulfillable.

Victor asked lightly: "Sylvia is the woman I love, do you think I will betray her will and help you fight for the inheritance?"

"Inheritance?"

Audair smiled self-deprecatingly, shook her head, and said, "It's false to say that you don't want the inheritance, but we just want to protect ourselves now." ”

"There is enough land in the Centaur Hills, and the southern continent is still waiting for us to explore. The future of the House of York is magnificent, and every piece of power is extremely precious. ”

"You should know that marriage and foster care itself is to weaken the side branches, but the family I and Fred created is still shallow, and the eldest and second sons are mediocre, if there is Anna's help, Fred and I will be much easier, otherwise our family may collapse. ”

"Sylvia doesn't necessarily want to keep Anna, she just needs a step, and you and Sophia have that. Audrey said sincerely: "Since Anna is going to be the object of foster care, why should she be sent to Sassan or Neville? You and Sophia's heirs can marry Caterina's heirs, so as to ensure the inheritance of the heirs of this clan, and Anna can stay by your side, and the Randall family can also be strengthened." Wouldn't that be nice?"

Before Sophia's return, Victor was at best the interior minister of the York family, and after Sophia's return, the Randall family can be called a real family, and it has also become an extremely important political force in the Centaur Hills. The Freds used Anna to form an alliance with Victor, which was the most profitable choice.

Victor has a lifespan of 160 years, and if Anna becomes Victor's woman, she will retain the inheritance of the York family, and with the support of the Randall family, she will most likely become the leader of the York family. If Anna marries the heirs of Victor and Sophia, it is equivalent to the marriage of the Fred family and the Randall family, and the bloodlines of the two sides continue to be exchanged, and the Fred family will inevitably grow rapidly.

Fred and Audair are both husband and wife, and Anna is their daughter and subject. Blood, power, family affection, love, and interests are intertwined, intricate, and difficult to distinguish from each other.

This is family politics.

Watching Anna play happily outside, the confusion in Victor's eyes gradually faded and became bright and determined. At this moment, he is transforming from a small lord into a real nobleman.