Although Miss Rabbit was in a hurry to go back to develop the steel industry, she still stayed in Rock Snow City for one more day to attend the funeral of the Marquis of Cullen.

As soon as it was dawn the next morning, Hulse led the nobles out of the city gate, all the way north, and came to the White Pine River, which was about ten miles away from Yanxue City.

The guards of the Figuerola family pushed the ash boat containing the corpse of the Marquis of Cullen into the river, and piled it with pine resin and twigs.

Quintus, the high priest of the Silvermoon Church, personally officiated at the funeral of the Lord of the West.

He placed an amulet on the corpse's chest and began to pray aloud.

The nobles on the bank of the river looked solemn, and no one made a sound.

When the High Priest had finished his last words, Huls stepped forward, took the torch from the guard, lit the boat, and watched it flow downstream.

Under the action of pine resin and twigs, the flames soon spread, and in a short time the entire boat was swallowed up.

The lady stared at the flames on the river, and a faint sadness arose in her heart, and she thought of the day she first saw the Marquis of Coullen, who sat on the main seat at the other end of the long table, with a straight waist and a majestic countenance.

Then Miss Rabbit thought of her stepmother, Vanessa, and her brother Blanco.

She and these two people haven't seen each other for nearly two years, and in order to compete for the position of the head of the Arias family, there was tension between the two sides, and even a war against each other.

The girl was also very disgusted with the mother and son for a while, but I don't know if it was because a long time had passed, and this disgust gradually disappeared, and the female lord remembered the time the three of them had spent together.

She is not particularly close to Vanessa, who clearly loves her own son more than her stepdaughter, but in all fairness, Vanessa is definitely not the vicious stepmother of fairy tales.

Although sometimes I can't help but sarcastically say a few words to her, I haven't deducted her in terms of food and clothing.

And it's not so much that Vanessa doesn't like Ilea's stepdaughter, but that she hates the house and Wu.

Miss Rabbit also figured out later, in the heart of her father Ruth, the love of her mother will always be her mother, Yolanda.

Until the last moment before his death, Ruth carried the same brooch that Yolanda had given him.

It's affectionate, but it's a little too cruel for Vanessa.

The female lord couldn't help but sigh, and when she looked up again, she found that the boat was gone, and Hulse and the other nobles were preparing to return to the city.

Miss Rabbit was about to leave, but then she saw Quintus coming this way.

"Sir Ilea, long time no see."

"High Priest Quintus, it's been a long time, I haven't congratulated you on becoming a high priest." The female lord looked at the man in front of her curiously.

Although Quintus was dressed in the silver moon robe of the High Priest, his face looked darker and his wrinkles seemed to be deeper.

"I actually prefer to preach in the countryside rather than become a high priest." Quintus Road.

This sounded hypocritical, but Miss Rabbit could sense that Quintus was speaking from the bottom of her heart.

"It's a pity that the western border has become more and more unpeaceful recently, and the church has suddenly undergone great changes, and I was elected at a critical juncture, so I can only grit my teeth and continue to do this, by the way, is the prophet Merlin not there?"

"What, do you Silver Moon Church still want to send someone to compete with the Shuangxiu Sect?" The female lord raised her eyebrows.

"How is that possible," Quintus shook his head, "when it comes to performing miracles, no one in the West is a match for the Prophet Merlin, and the church should not have pushed Adele out to humiliate herself in the first place.

"Not to mention trying to cover up a previous mistake with another mistake later."

Quintuston paused, "Actually, I came to Prophet Merlin in the hope that in the future, the Church of the Two Halves and the Church of the Silver Moon can live in peace in the West. ”

"Living in peace...... What is the meaning? ”

"It's about not encroaching on each other, and if possible, it's better to exchange information again." "After all, we all have a common enemy now. ”

"Are you talking about Herodotus?"

"That's right, he has distorted the original teachings of the Church, founded the Blood Moon Society, incited hatred in the West, gathered a large number of fanatical followers, and used poisoning and assassination as the main means to eradicate dissidents and threaten more people to join them, which is becoming more and more dangerous."

"Well, I've heard all the things he did some time ago, and the Blood Moon Society also did it to me once, at my birthday party, but I have the blessing of Saturday, and the Blood Moon Society didn't succeed in the end." The female lord said.

"Of course I want to catch Herodotus, but I heard that his whereabouts are very secretive, he rarely shows up, he sends his subordinates to do things, so many nobles in the West hate him to death, but there is nothing they can do about him."

"Of course we know what you're saying......," Quintus said after pausing and looking around before continuing.

"If you want to eradicate the Blood Moon Society, you must capture Herodotus, and as early as half a year ago, we sent a group of internal agents to pretend to join the Blood Moon Society.

"Now that some of them have gained the trust of Herodotus, they have gathered a lot of important information, one of which is related to you, and I will tell you this information in order to show our sincerity in cooperation."

"Something to do with me?" Miss Rabbit frowned, "Does Herodotus want to assassinate me again?" ”

"No, it's your family, your brother Blanco, you remember him."

"Uh-huh."

"We've been lurking in the Blood Moon Guild to get word back that Herodotus has been planning a crazy plan lately, and your brother and several other nobles will play an important role in it."

The female lord gasped when she heard this, "Did you say that Blanco and Herodotus are together now?" ”

Quintus nodded, "Just a week ago, they kidnapped Pep, the head of the Welch family. ”

"Pep?" Miss Rabbit remembered that she had just returned to the Westlands when she had received a letter from the head of the Welch family.

In the letter, Pep revealed that Vanessa contacted him again to borrow money from him, and in order to curry favor with Ilea, a fast-rising upstart in the West, and make up for the unhappiness at the previous birthday party.

Pep also hinted in the letter that he would take this opportunity to help the female lord secretly solve this hidden danger.

As a result, Miss Rabbit wrote back and told him not to meddle in his affairs, and the female lord had no intention of cutting the grass and eradicating the roots at that time.

Listening to Quintus say this, the girl realized that this was probably a trap.

Pep was still dreaming about killing Vanessa and Blanco to ask the female lord for credit, but he probably didn't expect that the other side was also coming for him.

However, Ilea remembers telling Pep not to mess around, why did he end up in Herodotus's hands, did the guy not listen, or was something else going on behind him?

(End of chapter)