Volume 1 The Road to Rise Chapter 045 The Queen's Summons (2)
Nock, who had been waiting in the lounge for a full hour, finally waited for the queen to summon him.
Standing in the door of his study, Nock took a deep breath, trying to ease the tension in his heart.
The noblest men of the kingdom were behind the door, and they were not nervous.
He was so old that the most powerful person he had ever seen was the countess who had come to visit Sister Merry.
In my vague memory, it seems that the countess was still very fond of him, and once offered to adopt Nock, but was rejected by Sister Merry.
"Father Lane, please, don't keep Your Majesty waiting."
Mr. Butler intimately reminded him to wake up Nock from his trance.
Nock also straightened the robe on his body with an apologetic look, and after making sure that there was no rudeness, he gently pushed open the door and strode in.
Since it was already evening, the light in the study was not very sufficient.
Even though the room was already lit up, the dim light still made Nock not recognize the queen sitting behind the desk as the noblewoman he had met several times.
Seeing the smiling old woman sitting behind the desk, Nock knew that it must be Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth Tudor.
Therefore, he hurriedly bowed his head and saluted.
"Holy Church Father, Nock Lane has seen Your Majesty, may the Holy Lord bless you with a long and holy Ann. Amen! ”
The queen looked at Nock with a sickly face excitedly, and the weakness after recovering from a serious illness made Nock look sickly beautiful.
It was so beautiful that the queen felt distressed.
Fortunately, the head maid next to her noticed the queen's gaffe, and hurriedly reminded in a low voice: "Your Majesty, Father Lane greets you." ”
Only then did the queen come back to her senses and hurriedly said, "Oh, oh, Father Lane is exempt. May the Lord bless you too. ”
"Father Lane, please be seated." Yuria, the head maid, pulled up a chair in front of the table and invited Nock to sit down.
Alan Cowater didn't do that before.
But Nock didn't know that.
As an orphan, although he learned some etiquette from Father John, Father John did not teach him the crooks in the aristocratic circle.
Therefore, it is not clear to Nock how honored it is to have a seat in front of the queen at all.
Not to mention that he was personally invited by the Queen's head maid to sit opposite the Queen.
"Thank you, dear lady."
Nock thanked the maid and sat down unceremoniously.
At this time, Nock had a chance to look at the legendary queen opposite.
It's just that as soon as he raised his head, he met the queen's smiling and kind gaze, and suddenly jumped up from the chair in shock.
"Bang!" The chair is knocked over by Nock.
Nock screamed, "How could it be you!" ”
In a gaffe, Nock forgot about his honorific title and directly addressed the queen as "you".
Seeing this, Yulia frowned slightly, and wanted to open her mouth to scold, but was stopped by the queen's look.
The queen laughed mischievously, "Why can't it be me?" Are you surprised to see me? ”
Nock clutched his crazy heart and glared at the queen coldly: "What do you say! ”
Nock's gritted teeth made the naughty queen laugh.
"Hahaha, let your little ghost be unkind to me, now I'm scared!"
Nock wasn't frightened, Yulia didn't know, but she was taken aback by the queen's actions.
How many years! She hadn't seen the queen laugh so much in years.
The heart that originally wanted to scold Nock for being rude also pressed down.
She stepped aside silently, giving up space to the two of them.
Nock wasn't so conscious, he didn't expect that the old lady who had been at odds with him was actually the queen herself!
When the "enemies" meet, Nock doesn't care if the other party is the queen or not.
The grievances I have received in the past few days have erupted one after another.
"I'm going to be scared of you? You think I'm scared! ”
"I'm Nock Lane, I've been blinded, I've been run. The water was released in front of the gates of hell, and the legs were stretched out in the River Thames. ”
"At the age of eight, he beat the gangsters with a stick, and at the age of fifteen, he became a leader in the Holy Lord. I've killed monsters and scolded aliens, and I'm afraid that you won't be able to do it for half a hundred old women! ”
Nock didn't know why he knew that the old lady in front of him was the queen, but he wasn't afraid and worried at all.
dared to anger the queen to her face.
"Presumptuous!"
Yulia didn't expect that her indulgence would make Nock offend Her Majesty. (Note 1)
"Yuria, stand down!"
To the surprise of the other two, instead of being angry with Nok, the queen drank off the head maid Yuria.
Yulia reluctantly retreated, but her eyes glared at Nock.
She looked at Nock and asked seriously, "Do you think you're so chic?" With an ostracized identity, with a group of drag oil bottles, wandering on the edge of danger. Is this the kind of life you want? ”
"What do you mean?" Nock wondered.
He didn't understand why he had offended her, and the queen didn't get angry.
Legend has it that this is not a soft-hearted person, when he ascended the throne and became the queen, he immediately sent her own sister, and the queen went to Scotland, and her sister "died of illness" the next year.
People who are so ruthless to their loved ones, Nock will not feel that the other party cares about him.
Looking at Nock with a defensive look in his eyes, the queen felt a faint pain in her heart.
But his face said quietly: "What do I mean? Naturally, it's to ask you when to shake off the oil bottle next to you and leave your unsightly monastery. In England, one church is enough. That is the 'Green Emerald' Cathedral of the Church of Nature. ”
"Huh——! What a joke! My Holy Church has stood on the continent for thousands of years, and when did the church of My Holy Church become superfluous! Do you dare to say this to the Pope in the Holy Court of Rome? Do you dare to say it to the king of the empire! ”
Nock retorted without backing down, his face full of sarcasm.
The queen said proudly: "Why don't I dare! Under my new policy, the kingdom of Lionheart is growing stronger, the new army is equipped with advanced muskets, and the navy that is being prepared is about to take shape. ”
"It's only a matter of time before my Lionheart Kingdom leaves Gran Island and shows its fangs to the world!"
"What about your Holy Church? The internal system has rotted, and the top is consumed by the lust for power. The most important thing is that they don't practice good religion, and they have to meddle in the internal affairs of the empire. Even two hundred years ago, the Pope changed the Holy Empire to the Holy Empire in defiance of everyone's opposition. ”
"What's wrong? Afraid that others don't know that there is no emperor in his eyes? ”
"Yes, we kings need the consent of the church to ascend the throne, but the church doesn't look at what they do to us!"
"In the past, even if the king of a subject country ascended the throne, it was crowned by the pope himself."
"What about the last 100 years? Dare to appoint a regional bishop to crown the king! Even the cardinal refused to send it! You are gods! So arrogant! ”
"Without our kingdoms paying 'taxes' for you, you wouldn't even be able to raise an army!"
"Why sit on our heads and be mighty?"
The queen did not hesitate to unveil the fig leaf of the Holy Church.
The once behemoth has gone into its twilight, but the people of the Holy Church are immersed in the glory of the past, and no one wants to accept this fact.
Even if there are smart people who see the facts, they will not bring them up.
Nobody wants to be the second "Dante"!
What the queen said made Nock feel like a lightning strike.
He had been living in a monastery, and he could not have imagined it.
The glowing Divine Church recorded in the literature would actually be the declining existence in the Queen's mouth.
"You're lying!"
Nock kicked away the chair that was in the way, crossed his hands on the table, and glared at the queen condescendingly, trying to find a look of weakness on her face.
But the queen was not afraid of Nock's gaze, and looked directly at him.
"Nock Lane, don't be obsessed. Leaving the Holy Church, renunciating the status of a priest, I can give you a chance. ”
"Join my army, as long as you make meritorious service, I will canonize you as a baron of the kingdom, and when you mix up your qualifications for another two years, I will let you be promoted to the commander of the army."
"When the kingdom goes to war with the outside world, you only need to take the troops around the battlefield, and when the time comes, it will not be a problem for you to be promoted to the rank of Earl and Marquis."
"Even, if you do well, it is possible to become the youngest Grand Duke in the kingdom! When the kingdom dominates the sea and continent and establishes the Lionheart Empire, you will be the youngest Grand Duke of the empire! ”
"Isn't that better than you wading through the years with a few oil bottles!"
The queen's bitter heart fell into Nock's ears and became a mockery of Hongguoguo.
This kind of lie can be told! Now there are only three Grand Dukes in the kingdom! One of them is hereditary.
But even so, the Grand Duke Kepler, who inherited the title, is forty-seven or eighty this year!
How old is Nock, sixteen!
The old woman in front of him dared to fool him, and let him become a marquis and duke in two years?
Are you kidding!
Nock isn't her grandson!
Besides, with this ruthlessness, I'm afraid that my grandson won't end well.
Nock wouldn't believe her painting unless he was sick in the head.
"Enough! Stop it! You really dare to say anything to eradicate our monastery. ”
Nock yelled loudly, "Don't take me for a fool! I said that the bad luck of the monastery has been going on lately, it turns out that you old woman calculated it! ”
"Let the Sherlock Holmes family cooperate with the acting, trick me into the wild and try to trap me! I didn't expect to escape without dying. Cred's secret is also discovered. ”
"That's why you can't wait to arrest my brothers and sisters and blackmail me. When it didn't work, they set fire to the monastery and tried to burn us to death. ”
"But I didn't expect that our lives would be saved by the neighbors."
"As a result, you came up with a poison plan overnight, trying to frame me as a murderer [ripper], and you didn't want to be in public, the evidence you forged was untenable, and I refuted them one by one."
"So you decided to take it upon yourself to get me to the palace."
"Then don't talk nonsense, let's do it! Will I be hanged for offending the Queen, or will I be an assassin and have the guards hack me to death with my sword! Come on! I'm not afraid of you! ”
"But you're coming at me for something! Let me go Ashley and Hawks! They are just children and will not hinder you! ”
[PS: I accidentally wrote a crooked style.,After writing two chapters, I found out that the painting style was wrong.,I had to delete and rewrite.] It was finally completed before 0:00.
Note 1: There is no word for His Majesty in the English title, I just write it according to the custom here. Although it is a medieval style background, it is naturally more popular when it is written for Chinese people. 】