The new Duke of Lionheart is really ...... Not aristocratic......

Looking at Leon, who was carrying the old butler who was foaming at the mouth in the distance and hurriedly ran towards the huge carriage, the corners of the middle-aged lady's mouth couldn't help but tug at the corners of her mouth extremely speechless.

Although I don't know what the other party said in the end, I actually made the old housekeeper so angry that he fainted on the spot, but the previous "or...... Or......" she vaguely heard it.

At this moment, the only thought in the heart of the middle-aged lady is that the Lane family is really unlucky, and after such a maverick new duke, the Lane family is estimated to have entered the countdown to the end.

Well...... If you think about it this way, Her Royal Highness Veronica is actually quite good.

Although she is sometimes a little undignified, and she always can't help but do something out of the ordinary in private, at least she can communicate normally most of the time, and she can listen to persuasion on important occasions, and she will not toss herself desperately like Duke Lionheart tosses the old butler......

……

"Haha, this is the right time!"

Unlike some middle-aged ladies who were sad about their dead rabbits, after watching the farce up close, Queen Veronica hurriedly retracted and then slammed the window of the carriage shut, letting out a burst of "choppy" laughter.

After a long while, when she had almost laughed enough, she raised her hand to wipe the tears from the corners of her eyes, and while gently rubbing her flat lower abdomen through the gown, she complained with a sigh:

"Oops...... My stomach hurts from laughing, this new Duke Lionheart is really going to toss people...... Well...... But it's not bad to be human."

When she looked back through the air window and saw that the people of the Lane family were really paying compensation, and even helped to straighten the overturned carriage one by one at the request of the new duke, Princess Veronica's eyes couldn't help but flash a look of appreciation, and then smiled and said to the middle-aged lady:

"Seriously, it would be nice if he inherited not the title of Duke Lionheart, but some other title, if he was the Marquis of the Silver Calendula or the Light Shield family, maybe he would have a chance to be my prince, but it's a pity~???

After hearing the words of the princess, the middle-aged lady couldn't help but tremble suddenly, and then said with a somewhat stiff expression:

"Your Highness? You...... You're not kidding me, are you?"

Looking at the frightened expression on the middle-aged lady's face, Queen Veronica couldn't help but smile, and then shook her head and replied:

"No, I really think he's good, not to mention anything else, if there is such a person as my prince, the future will definitely be very interesting."

「……」

Interesting...... I think it's terrible! If he really became your prince and infected you with the disease of love to toss, I would have to live at least ten or eight years less!

"Her Highness Veronica!"

Looking at the princess's brilliant eyes, she found that she seemed to be really interested in the Lionheart Duke, in order to avoid her fate from moving closer to a certain unlucky butler, the middle-aged lady hurriedly reminded:

"He's really not a good fit for you! Even if the Lane family becomes an empty shell, it is still the nominal leader of the old nobles, and all the old nobles who have an in-law relationship with the Lane family will not tolerate the Lane family getting closer to you!"

"Hehe, don't worry, I understand this."

Looking through the air window at the back of the two-wheeled carriage, looking with a little regret at the carriage carved with a lion, and looking at the middle-aged lady with a nervous face on the opposite side, Queen Veronica smiled and quipped:

"Look at your nervous ...... Those words just now are just casual words, and I don't just choose someone to be my own prince.

Well...... When it comes to choosing a prince, my father is actually more inclined to marry me off than to let me choose my own prince, and I have recently proposed a number of candidates, such as the fourth prince of the kingdom of Molne, the grand duke of the kingdom of Hesse, or the leader of the labor party of the kingdom of Alesund.

So if nothing goes wrong, the final choice should be one of these...... Hehe, to be honest, in terms of conditions alone, they are not necessarily as good as the Lionheart Duke."

「……」

After hearing the words of the princess, the middle-aged noblewoman's expression couldn't help but be surprised

He was slightly stunned, and then fell into a deep silence.

If Her Royal Highness Veronica is married, she will leave her homeland and stay away from the kingdom, not to mention, although these candidates proposed by Her Majesty are all famous nobles and extremely powerful, but the average age is close to forty years old.

Moreover, the fourth prince of Molnar was once married, but his wife died in childbirth; When the Grand Duke of Hesse was a child, he fell off his horse and lame, and his personality seemed to be a little extreme; The leader of the Labour Party in the kingdom of Alesund is also said to be a difficult person to get along with.

Although with the skills of His Royal Highness Veronica, even if he marries, he will probably not suffer, and he even has a great chance to turn against the guest, guiding the forces behind the other party to slowly move closer to the kingdom.

But this kind of political marriage between the two sides is very different, and it is natural that the political marriage maintained purely by interests is insulated from happiness, so once it is really married, the rest of Her Royal Highness Veronica's life may not be very happy......

……

"Huh? Why are you still taking care of me?"

Seeing the worry and reluctance on the face of the middle-aged lady, the princess couldn't help but feel a slight warmth in her eyes, and then smiled and comforted:

"Don't you know what I'm capable of? Not to mention these neighboring kingdoms, where it is convenient to take advantage of the situation at any time, even if I don't bring a single person, I can live very comfortably and marry alone on the other side of the sea, don't worry!"

Oh, yes...... You can live well wherever you go, but ...... Will you be happy?

Looking at the princess who had a smile on her face, but her eyes were calm and indifferent, the middle-aged lady couldn't help gritting her teeth, and then lowered her voice and asked:

"Your Highness, you must marry outside, can't you stay? Even if...... Even if it's the Lionheart."

"It's not whether I want to get married or not, but it depends on what my father thinks, after all, this kind of thing is not for me to decide from the beginning."

After hearing the middle-aged lady's inquiry, the princess's eyebrows couldn't help but raise slightly, and then she said calmly:

"After the defeat in the battle for the treasury, my father seemed to be no longer on the council and handed over all the royal manpower to me, but he never gave up the idea of completely controlling the kingdom.

And if you want to control the kingdom, nothing more than legislation, personnel, military power, and financial power, Joshua's mother happens to be the sister of the Chancellor of the Exchequer, and when he grows up in a few years, as long as he agrees to let him inherit the throne, the Chancellor of the Exchequer is very likely to fall to the royal family.

In addition, at that time, whether the reform I presided over succeeded or failed, it should have completely angered the old nobility and the House of Commons, and my father could easily calm everyone's anger by announcing that I would be disqualified from inheriting the throne and marrying directly abroad.

In doing so, I will not only be able to take over most of the power I have wrestled from the old aristocracy at the lowest cost, gain strong support from outside the kingdom, and pave the way for Joshua to succeed to the throne, but also make the Chancellor of the Exchequer fall to the royal family, and thus completely control the treasury.

Hehe, just the eldest daughter's failed marriage can gain so many tangible and intangible benefits, and with what I know about my father, he will never let go of such a good opportunity."

"This ...... How can this be?!"

After listening to the princess's inference, the middle-aged lady couldn't help but stand up suddenly, and said with anger in her eyes:

"You've done so much for the Kingdom over the years! Even if Your Majesty doesn't let you inherit the throne in the end, you shouldn't do this to you! And also! If someone else inherits the throne, it doesn't matter, His Royal Highness Joshua doesn't ...... at all Not...... Anyway, that's too much!"

"It's not too much."

Queen Veronica shook her head and said with a smile:

"As the King's daughter, I had everything that ninety percent of the people in this country could only dream of before I was born, but at the cost of it, I also lost something.

Besides, you don't have to feel sorry for me, I just lost the right to choose my marriage, Joshua is really pitiful, because of his father's excessive doting on him, Joshua even lost his brain, isn't he worse than me?"

"When is it, why are you still saying such quips!"

Looking at the princess in front of her who seemed to have accepted her fate and was even in the mood to joke with herself, the middle-aged lady couldn't help but stomp her feet and said:

"Your Highness! Why aren't you angry at all! Are you going to admit it?"

"What can I do if I don't recognize it?"

Hearing this, Wang Nu's eyes flickered twice, and then she asked calmly:

"If I want to reject this future, should I immediately overthrow everything and make friends with the old nobles? Or should we try to move closer to the prime minister in Parliament and let the so-called 'economic bill' that wantonly oppresses ordinary people be passed?

Or maybe you will pay a big bounty and hire someone to assassinate my brother? Or do you just stage a coup d'état, take the people from the military department into the palace, and hang my father on the gallows with your own hands?"

「……」

Looking at the princess with a calm expression that was almost indifferent, and her eyes revealed a deep tiredness, the middle-aged lady who was speechless when asked only felt a sour nose, and her vision in front of her suddenly blurred.

She has taken care of the princess for so many years, and when she was a child, she was obviously a very lively child, playing crazy in the garden of the palace all day long, often rubbing her whole body with mud, even if she was scolded, she was not sad, and she always had a bright smile like the sun on her face.

Although she still likes to laugh when she grows up, I don't know when her smile has secretly changed, laughing gently, helplessly, laughing self-deprecatingly, and laughing tiredly...... It seems that I don't smile from the bottom of my heart like I did when I was a child.

In my memory, when was the last time she smiled so brightly? Three years ago? Five years ago? Or longer?

"Oops! Look at you! Why are you still excited?

What I just said is all guesswork, even if it happens, it will be a long time later, and there will be other turnarounds in the next few years~"

Looking at the middle-aged lady who wanted to pounce over and hug herself after listening to her words, her eyes were slightly red, and the corners of her mouth began to tilt down uncontrollably, as if she wanted to pounce and hug the middle-aged lady who was crying loudly, the princess couldn't help but smile, and then joked:

"For example, if the Duke of Lionheart, if he was fascinated after seeing me one day, and insisted on using the entire Ryan family as a dowry to propose to me under the pressure of all his in-laws, then the situation would have been completely reversed.

In the face of the opportunity to completely control the Ministry of Road Administration and the Ministry of War, my father is estimated to arrange for Joshua to marry a female monkey, and then kick him across the sea and weld the throne directly to my ass~"

"Poof!"

Hearing the cold joke told by the princess, the middle-aged lady couldn't help but burst into tears and laughed, and then rarely didn't pay attention to her demeanor, and directly reached out and twisted it the princess's waist, and then glared at the still red circles under her eyes and complained:

"You're embarrassed to say that, too! That Duke Lionheart hasn't even reached twenty this year, and you're already twenty ......."

"Oops!"

Seeing that some of the kingdom's top secrets that could not be revealed were about to blurt out from the mouth of a middle-aged noblewoman, the princess, who had always seemed quite calm, finally panicked, and hurriedly rushed over to cover her mouth, and then gritted her teeth and threatened:

"Okay, don't talk about this! If you dare to mention this again, I will marry you across the sea with me!" Strap you to a rod to catch sharks when you cross the ocean!"

"Hmm...... Don't mention it! Isn't it okay if I don't mention it? You...... You move your chest a little bit away...... I'm almost out of breath......

……

The two men in the carriage seemed to have reached some kind of consensus, avoiding the topic of future marriage, and instead relaxed and frolicking.

The carriage carved with a lion in the rear, after stopping for more than twenty minutes, finally got back moving, quickly crossed the road that had been given way by the small merchants, and drove a certain reluctant duke to the Lane Manor at the end of Redwood Avenue.

After the extravagant Lionheart had left, the two men in the two-wheeled carriage counted the time of the knighthood ceremony, and found that it seemed that it was almost impossible to make the opening, so they drove from the freight road to the gallop for the nobles.

Under the continuous acceleration of the coachman, this two-wheeled carriage for sightseeing was speeding all the way, and the wheels were almost upside down

Just before the sun had fully risen, Kankan sailed through the gates of Lane Manor.

"Okay, okay! It's just getting started!"

After stepping on the footstool and getting out of the carriage, handing the invitation card with a false identity to a maid, looking at the door of the main building of the manor that had not yet been closed, the princess who was anxious to see the excitement hurriedly lifted her skirt and ran up under the persuasion of the middle-aged noblewoman.

"I'll go first! You run faster, too!"

"You! Wait!"

Looking at the princess who was running with her skirt without manners, even if she was covered by a shawl, she still ran "magnificently", the middle-aged lady couldn't help but stomp her feet again and again in anger, and she couldn't wait to pull her back and take a dozen more etiquette lessons.

But seeing that the princess Veronica was running farther and farther, worried that her identity would be recognized, the middle-aged lady had to sigh secretly for two sentences of her life, and then she picked up her skirt and ran behind her, reminding breathlessly as she ran:

"Dimension...... Winnie! Deportment! Pay attention to your demeanor...... Huh?"

Looking at the princess who suddenly stopped after running to the door and stood outside the door in a daze, the middle-aged lady couldn't help but feel a pang in her heart, thinking that her Royal Highness Veronica's identity was exposed, so she hurriedly ran over, wanting to help cover up one or two, but ......

"Smack!"

In the hall of the main building, there was an extremely loud slap.

The middle-aged lady who rushed to the princess's side was extremely horrified to find that a certain new duke, who was supposed to be receiving congratulations from the guests, actually picked up His Royal Highness Joshua with one hand, spat at his swollen old face, and then sneered:

"Can't I be this duke? Okay! You'd better do what you say!"