Chapter 18 Escalation

Alfonso, who was fine for a while, lived a life of going to class, horse racing, sleeping, and three o'clock and one line.

This peaceful and decadent life lasted until the appearance of a newspaper.

Lunch break after class,

"Alfonso, this is you, is this true?" Na Si pointed with a trembling finger at the picture on the front page of the French weekly newspaper.

The picture shows a sketch of a teenager riding a horse against several cavalrymen, with a small line underneath: Copied from the Spanish priest Father Enrique.

"I knew this day was coming." Alfonso held his forehead with one hand and said helplessly: "It's me." ”

In fact, the day came relatively slowly, mainly because after Isabella wrote to Napoleon, the other party did not go everywhere to say.

The French weekly newspaper is also a relatively pragmatic newspaper, and after hearing the news, it did not report it immediately, but sent people to inquire and collect evidence on the spot, which only dragged on for almost a month.

"You fight a bunch of people by yourself and kill seven?" Nashiro's voice became sharper in surprise.

"I'm not alone, I have teammates, and one of them is Lucio, you saw it the other day."

"It doesn't matter, it's very clear above, you cut down four, shoot three!"

Nasi really didn't expect that Alfonso, who fooled around with Edward every day to bet on horses, was as beautiful as a girl and had a good temper, and had killed so many people.

He picked up Alfonso's arm and squeezed it, "It's just a little bit of muscle, it's not like a few boxers I've seen before." ”

Alfonso pushed away Nasi, who still wanted to pinch his face, rolled his eyes and said, "Okay, don't make a fuss, which Bonaparte emperor didn't kill more than me, it's just that I did it myself." ”

He looked at the text next to the newspaper – Father Enrique's "Prince of the Forest" would be exhibited at the Paris Art Exhibition in a week.

"You are a Spanish priest who came to attend a French art exhibition, so forget it, you are mainly a realist painter." He complained inwardly.

Although he complained in his heart, he didn't stop it, and it was not a bad thing for the nobles to show martial prowess, even if it was slightly exceeded.

The only drawback is that when you walk on the streets, you will often have to be recognized as a ruthless sharkman.

But it doesn't matter, anyway, he's walking down the street now with a 300 percent chance of turning back.

This report is still fermenting.

Even Eugenie, who has always been more serious, came to ask in person.

In the afternoon, he also saw Rudolph, the Austro-Hungarian crown prince, whom he had not seen for a long time.

At this time, he and Nasi had just finished their day's study, and as soon as they walked out of the room, they found Rudolph and Foreign Secretary Anton waiting at the door.

Rudolph didn't look much different, he still looked ugly and cute, and Anton was obviously much haggard than he had seen before.

Seeing Rudolph, Nasi was a little unhappy.

On the one hand, he heard that Rudolph and Alfonso danced at the previous dance party that he hadn't gone to because he was lazy.

On the other hand, he doesn't like to play with ugly children.

Alfonso tugged at Na Four, stopped him from speaking, and asked with a smile, "Your Highness Rudolph hasn't seen you for a long time, let's sit down first." ”

Rudolph shook his head and sighed: "Don't sit down, we are about to return home, France and Prussia will not be able to talk for a while, they refuse to form an alliance with us." ”

Nasi interjected: "There is no need to form an alliance, once there is a change in Prussia, we will defeat them without much effort, just like 60 years ago." ”

"I hope so." Rudolph was too lazy to argue with Na Four.

"So you're here to say goodbye to me this time."

"Yes, goodbye, Your Highness Alfonso, I will miss you, and I invite you to Vienna as a guest.

I really wanted to stay a few more days, but unfortunately I couldn't get to see Father Enrique's masterpiece. Rudolph said regretfully.

Rudolph's child blindly trusted Alfonso's strength, and if he didn't confirm it, he was sure that the encounter in the forest was real.

Bidding Rudolph farewell, Alfonso felt as if he had forgotten something.

He remembered that the day he met Rudolph, he also met a boy......... Francois!

Francois!

He had previously asked François to either go to the supermarket renovation site to find someone or to the Élysée Palace.

But now the Champs-Élysées has been demolished, and the news has been out for some time, and François has not been seen in either place.

Thinking of this, although someone could be arranged to go to the station to ask about the situation, Alfonso decided to go and see it for himself.

On the one hand, François still owes him 90 francs, and on the other hand, the daily horse race is indeed a bit boring.

"Eugène, let's go to the train station."

"Huh? But I've already used the excuse of going to the opera three times this week and visiting the museum twice, and today I was supposed to go home before 7 o'clock..."

"Don't pretend, don't you just want me to help you ask for leave, okay, keep up, I'm a little bored by myself." Alfonso said dismissively.

Because Eugenie is a Spaniard, she has a natural respect for him as the crown prince, and Alfonso likes her very much, and often takes leave that she can't ask for, and Alfonso can ask for it.

"Yay!"

The two got into the carriage bound for the train station, with only two guards with them, one from Dias and the other from Nasi.

After listening to Alfonso's narration, Nasi said with disdain: "Oh, so it's a poor boy who knows a few Chinese languages, and he doesn't know a few words."

Is it worth the trip? This kind of person just ask me as much as you need. ”

Alfonso said lightly: "It's not that simple, a newsboy, I gave him the opportunity to work for the nobles, but he didn't come, I suspect something happened."

Have fun, people are stupid to read every day, and I don't allow anyone to owe me money and not pay it back. ”

When they arrived at the station, Alfonso and the four of them searched back and forth, but they did not see François and the middle-aged man who was making change, nor did they see anyone else selling newspapers here.

"Are you off work?" Take four to speculate.

Alfonso was speechless: "It's only 5 o'clock, and the government officials at this point haven't gotten off work yet, and the newsboy would have starved to death if he got off work at this point." ”

"Maybe it's a job change!"

Alfonso frowned, "I can't rule out this possibility, but what kind of job can the other party find as a minor is better than following a nobleman."

And selling newspapers at the station should be considered a better job that poor children can find.

When I came here before, there were several newsboys selling them in addition to François, but now there are none, and there must be demons when things go wrong. ”

Nasi was also a little interested, which made him feel like he was playing a detective game, and immediately proposed: "Then let's go to the person in charge of the station and ask first." ”