Chapter 224: Final Decision
In the study where Fitosher lived, a dozen elderly people and Fitosher sat around a round table, and around the room, some well-dressed middle-aged people stood on either side of the desk.
With a "bang", Fitosher's thick slap slapped on the desk in front of him, making a loud noise.
"For the sake of the god Raphael, doesn't anyone realize that now we must make a decision at once?" Fitosher stood up from his seat, his face flushed with excitement, and pointed in a direction outside the room, "The lackeys of the Kelsman family are less than a hundred miles away from us!
Fitosha propped his hands on the table, leaned forward, and said loudly, "Gentlemen, I don't think you should know how far a hundred miles is!"
The spacious study reverberated with Fitosher's thunderous voice, and the others quietly and intently looked at the middle-aged man who was making an impassioned speech.
Fitosha said in a loud voice: "Gentlemen, we are not discussing what to eat today, nor are we discussing whose daughter we should marry, let alone where we are going, we are discussing the fate of our Clumbel family and the entire family! Can we, our great family, continue to continue, or will we be cut off from this glorious land!"
Fitosher was not tall and not very good-looking, but he had the same oratorical talent as Kirk, Fernandez, and other high-ranking people, and when he spoke in front of the senators, his powerful voice amazed the most hated enemies: he always grasped the emotions of his listeners and got what he wanted from them.
"Now, I need the Senate to authorize me......" Fitosher entered the end of his impassioned speech, and was about to see the end of the dagger...... Hand over Tang Jie and Princess Angel and the girl who brought us calamity, and then let us send an emissary to sue for peace with the Kelsman family!"
As soon as he finished speaking, there was a buzzing sound in the room, and the people in the room couldn't help but turn their heads to each other.
There was a little chatter in the room, and a bald old man with a goatee picked up a silver bell in front of him and shook it with a crisp tinkling sound.
As soon as the voice sounded, the voices in the room fell silent.
Goatee put the silver bell down, and then said in a dry voice, "Fitosha, if Hasalit, the god of wisdom, has not taken my brain and my memory, it seems that you were the one who persuaded us to accept these people and propose an alliance with them a few days ago, right?"
Fitosha nodded without shame on his face: "That's right, Honorable Grand Elder Tospanini!"
Tospanini snorted, "But, can you explain why you completely changed your mind in just a few days?"
"Because we haven't been able to convince that damn black-haired guy in the last few days!," Fitosher exclaimed, "And now, we've wasted our most precious time, and we should make that megalomaniacal pirate pay!"
Tospanini's deep-pocketed eyes shot a sharp gaze: "It's not us, it's you...... Fitoshe, it's you, you're the leader of this family, it wasn't us who made this decision, you made us make this decision!"
Fitosha was secretly angry in his heart: You dead corpses waiting to die, you will know to push me when something happens!
But his face did not show the slightest discoloration, but showed a look of shame and determination: "I know, this is my decision-making mistake, but now we still have a chance to save it!"
Tospanini sneered, "Save?Leave the fate of the family to Margaret, the little girl who is even more vicious than a femme fatale?Fitoshe, for the sake of Hassalit, the god of wisdom, you should wash your face and make your groggy brain sober." β
In the face of these words that bordered on reprimand, Fitosher's face remained unchanged, and he said in a voice like iron: "Respected Grand Elder Tospanini, there are only two ways in front of us now! One is to continue to choose to believe in that black-haired fellow, and then sit back and watch these wild dogs from the imperial capital swallow every bone of our stomach, and the other is to negotiate with these jackals and buy time for our family!" We don't necessarily have to fight for the forgiveness of the Kelsman family, we have to fight for the forgiveness of the God of Time!"
After Fitosher finished speaking, there was another buzz in the room, this time the voices of the crowd were louder than before, and Tospanini shook the bell vigorously, loudly dissuading the panicked nobles of the realm: "Gentlemen, be quiet, please be quiet!"
But no one in the room listened to Tospanini, for the problem at hand was so serious, and they were faced with a cruel multiple-choice question, whichever one seemed unpleasant.
Just as Tospanini was about to stand up as he watched the room get out of control with some annoyance, suddenly there was a cacophony outside the room.
"Miss, you can't go in, Miss, please stay, you can't go in......"
The sound came to the door, and it stopped abruptly, replaced by the sound of a "bang" pushing the door open.
The noise in the room suddenly disappeared, and everyone turned their heads and looked at the person who broke in at the door in surprise.
This person is none other than Princess Angel, who married far away to the Pound Empire.
Although Angel pushed the door with a lot of force, she looked domineering and rude, but after she pushed the door open, Yingying walked in with a very elegant posture, she was like a crane walking alone, her chin was slightly raised, her posture was arrogant and reserved, her slender figure and her light steps made her look full of charming aristocratic temperament.
Angel came to the table under the gaze of a room full of stunned men, her eyes wandering, her eyes quickly rolling on the faces of everyone in the room, and then giggled, "I hope I didn't disturb you, gentlemen." β
Fitosher's face was very ugly, this was their confidential meeting, but Angel, an outsider, broke in, and he, the president of the Clumbell family, could really throw it on the ground and stomp on it a few times.
"What are you doing here, Your Highness Angel?" Fitoshe is indeed a deep city and has excellent cultivation, after he took a deep breath, he forcibly endured a breath, and said coldly, he turned his head, looked at the helpless guards behind Angel viciously, and glared at them.
Before Angel could speak, the guards chasing after him came up sweating profusely and wanted to step forward and take Angel away.
"Slow ......down," said Archelder Tospanini in a sudden deep voice, "do not be rude to our distinguished guests. β
As he spoke, Tospanini waved his hand at the guards, who glanced at Fitosher in a dilemma, but saw that Fitosher nodded with a pale face, and they retreated as if they had been amnestied.
After the guards closed the door, Tospanini slowly got up from his seat, walked up to Angel, gave her a noble kiss gentlemanly salute, and then said in a very elegant tone and smile: "I have heard rumors about your great name and your peerless appearance and wisdom and bravery, and to be honest, I have always felt that rumors cannot be believed. But now ......"
Tospanini held Angel's white-gloved hand, turned to the noble gentlemen in the room and smiled: "Who doubts these rumors now, for the sake of the god Raphael, he should punish us old men who are stubborn!"
The men in the room all laughed, and the laughter suddenly diluted the tense smell of gunpowder smoke in the room.
Fitosher is indeed the patriarch of the family with real power in Clumbell's hands, but Tospanini is the soul of this family, this patriarch entered the family senate at the age of thirty-two, and has a history of fifty years, and is the oldest person in the entire family.
Angel's eyes were full of appreciation and respect for the elderly man in front of him, although this old man seemed to be able to push him down with a single finger, but the wrinkles on his face like ravines, the wise and deep gaze in his eyes, and his witty and witty conversation, made Angel's eyes shine.
Angel squatted slightly, took her skirt and gave a ladylike salute to the nobles in the room: "I'm really sorry to meet you in such a rude and rude form, if you can, I hope we can have a better opportunity in the future to get to know each other again." β
As soon as Angel finished speaking, there was another good-natured chuckle in the room.
Angel has a natural aristocratic temperament, which is a deep royal heritage, and this kind of thing can most resonate with the nobles in this room and accept her.
If Tang Jie is replaced, his arrogant arrogance of "going to heaven and earth, I am the only one" will definitely be able to make these men extremely unhappy, even if they can only cooperate with Tang Jie, these people are afraid that they will find some fault in the dark and disgust Tang Jie.
In this sense, Angel is Tang Jie's best negotiator.
Angel knew this very well, so when she knew that Fitoshe and the senators would hold a family meeting inside, she broke in desperately, and even used her identity in the Pound Empire to suppress these guards.
After the laughter in the room was a little softer, Tospanini smiled and asked, "Dear Highness Angel, I wonder how you managed to convince the guards to let you go?"
Fitoshe, who was pale-faced when he said this sentence, couldn't help but prick up his ears, what he had been thinking about in his heart just now was to severely punish these guards, in his opinion, these guards were simply dereliction of duty, they completely forgot their duties, forgot the family's severe punishment!
Angel smiled and said, "I'm just telling them: if I want, I can go and marry the young Emperor Luther, and then I will be the queen of this empire." Then I asked them: Do you dare to stop the queen of the empire?"
The answer, of course, is no!
As soon as Angel finished laughing, Tospanini burst out laughing, but no one in the room was laughing except him.
Fitosher's face was extremely ugly, his eyes changed, and the nobles next to him exchanged their eyes without saying a word.
The sound of an old man's laughter resounded in the quiet room, a situation that was both oppressive and suffocating.
These noble gentlemen knew very well that Angel was not just saying this to the guards at the door, but to everyone here: once you betray me, then you must be careful of the vengeful anger that comes with me!
Although most of the nobles here are full of brains, they are not stupid, of course they know that if Angel can make a private agreement with the Kelsman family and marry the newly enthroned Emperor Luthor, then she will definitely not be implicated in the coup d'Γ©tat, on the contrary, she will still ascend to the throne that belongs to her!
When the time comes, this woman will definitely come to hunt them down in a frenzy, and her means will definitely be a hundred times more ferocious than Margaret!
The reason is very simple, because if they betray her, then they will definitely betray Tang Jie, and this woman loves Tang Jie deeply, which is something that fools know. In the imperial capital, in order to save Tang Jie, the agreement that this woman reached privately with Prince Kirk was not airtight, and if she didn't love this man to the extreme, how could she abandon her glory and wealth and flee to the end of the world with a pirate?
If a woman takes revenge for love, she can do anything!
In the face of this suggestive threat, the men in the room chose to remain silent, and the elders of the Senate turned their attention to the Grand Elder Tospanini, while the younger nobles turned their attention to Fitosher.
Fitosha said in a deep voice, "Are you threatening us?"
Angel looked surprised: "No, why do you say that? Aren't our interests the same? Aren't our enemies the same? Aren't our goals the same in the future?"
Angel's three "can't" showed her superb negotiation skills at once, and in the blink of an eye, Fitosher's questioning was resolved, and at the same time Fitoshe was squeezed into a corner, giving him no room for rebuttal.
Tospanini on the side glanced at Fitosher, who had an ugly face, he stretched out his hand to stop Fitosher's words, then turned to look at Angel and said: "Your Highness Angel, it is true that as you said, our interests, enemies and future goals are the same, but it is useless for you and us old men to confirm these things here, and the people who can really confirm and affirm these points are not here. β
The subtext of this sentence is to tell Angel: The real choice is in Tang Jie's hands, not in your hands, whether you choose to be a friend or an enemy, it depends on him!
Angel smiled faintly at this hidden sentence, and said: "Ah, it turns out that you were talking about this just now, you must have felt very distressed, right? I can imagine the anger in my heart that has been dragged here for so long by a hesitant guy." β
Fitosche listened, and a cold snort came out of his nose.
As if she hadn't heard, Angel smiled and said, "Now, you don't have to worry about that, our captain has already made his decision!"
"What?" Whether it was Fitosher, Tospanini, or the other senators and nobles in the room, they couldn't help but hold their breath and wait for Angel's next words, because the following words were the words that would directly determine their fate.
Angel looked at these people around her, she suddenly had an inexplicable pleasure, this is a feeling of holding the fate of others in her own hands, this is a pleasure of manipulating everything in her hands, although this feeling is short-lived, but it still makes Angel feel a kind of stimulation and happiness like taking drugs.
Under the gaze of everyone, Angel said slowly: "He has decided, marry Miss Agatha, and make an alliance with the Clumber family!"
The room suddenly buzzed, and the senators and nobles talked loudly, Fitosha squinted at Angel and asked in a deep voice, "Is this true?"
Angel nodded gracefully, "Of course, Your Excellency Fitosher, do I look like someone who can lie and joke?"
The corners of Fitoshe's mouth drooped, and his eyes were full of suspicion: "Why didn't he come in person, but asked you to pass on the word?"
Angel's eyes flashed with gloom, but she still had a smile on her face: "Our captain is now busy with some personal business in the room with your daughter. β
Fitosha was stunned for a moment: "What is the private matter? What is the private matter now?"
Angel giggled, and she leaned into Fitosher's ear and whispered, "What private things do you and your wife do in private?
The expression on Fitoshe's face was red for a while, white for a while, his expression changed, and it was extremely exciting, and he gritted his teeth and whispered: "This bastard ......"
He himself is an old aristocrat, with outdated ideas, although he has a lover himself, but in his thinking, his daughter's chastity should be saved until the wedding night before being dedicated to his man.
Can ...... now
What annoyed Fei Toshe the most was not only Tang Jie's behavior of getting on the bus first and then buying a ticket, but that this man did these things, but he could only watch and have nothing to do with him.
Who made him and his family rely on this dark-haired pirate to escape this catastrophe?
Tospanini, who had been watching coldly, suddenly shook the silver bell in his hand, and when the humming in the room gradually stopped, he said loudly: "Well, the honorable and beautiful Princess Angel has brought us great news, and we old men can finally stop sitting here and arguing endlessly about certain issues." Now that the matter before us is clear and clear, let us dismiss the meeting! There is not much time left for us, and we should not waste time here on something more precious than gold!"
After speaking, Tospanini shook the silver bell again, indicating that the council of senators announced its dissolution.
Angel smiled and said goodbye to the elders and nobles in the room, turned his head and whispered to Fitosher, who had a very bad face, "Dear Excellency Fitosher, I have a question I want to ask you. β
Fitoshe said angrily, "What's the matter?"
Angel asked, "How many troops can Miss Lydia mobilize here?"
Fitoshe was stunned for a moment: "What does this mean?"
Angel said lightly: "It's not interesting, just to remind you, don't just look at the enemy in front of you, but also beware of the hidden dangers around you......"