Lady of the Lord From the East

Mirabelle was given a tit-for-tat drug and was about to die soon. The king did it very secretly, even in order to protect the reputation of the royal family and not let the scandal spread. The person who was poisoned was Mirabelle, and even the insiders in the palace kept their mouths shut and were not allowed to talk nonsense.

It was not until the royal palace lifted the ban and allowed nobles to enter and leave again, and no one heard that the queen was too tired to take care of the poisoned king, and she fell ill, and now she was sent to another palace of the royal family to rest.

"It's a pity, it's rare for me to think about visiting her, but it turns out she's gone. When was she sent away?" Countess Nelson, who had not seen her for a long time, carefully took a sip of the fragrant tea cup from a china cup. Milk tea, showing an intoxicated expression: "Sure enough, I knew that you must have milk tea here. This drink is much better than the one in the store."

Since milk tea appeared in Sardinson, the dining mode of afternoon tea has gradually become popular in other regions, and shops specializing in afternoon tea and snacks have also opened one after another, and they are very popular in various places, including the Williams family. Of course, because tea is currently only available in Sardinia, it is difficult for others to get this imported product from the East, so in addition to being able to drink authentic tea leaves in Sardinson In addition to the milk tea, most of the herbal teas sold in the stores in Wangdu are all kinds of herbal teas with health-enhancing effects. As for milk tea, it is a daily limited product. Although the price (for the nobles) is not very expensive, it is You have to wait in line to get a chance to buy it.

Similarly, the original popular pastries are things like honey pancakes and flat hard biscuits. Nowadays, many people have learned the basic cake practices by imitating and learning Sardinson's baking techniques, but even the practice of cream they I haven't figured it out yet, let alone other more complicated cake styles, so in other stores, I only buy snacks such as biscuits and chicken cakes, far less than Satinson's desserts. The variety is great and the taste is good.

Therefore, as long as there is a milk tea shop opened by the Sardinsons, the nobles will choose to buy snacks and tea from their shops. Therefore, afternoon tea is the first popular among the nobles, and everyone can use the deliciousness of Sardinson. It is a pride to entertain guests with pastries. If you can match it with a pot of milk tea, it will be even more face.

Countess Nelson is obviously a frequent visitor to the milk tea shop and has drunk milk tea many times, but she swears that Wei Wei's here is definitely different from the one sold in the shop.

Of course, it is different. The milk tea leaves in the milk tea shop are made of inferior tea leaves. Many of them were re-dried after being dampened before, and the taste was inevitably damaged. Of course, Wei Wei drank the best batch. Even this year's new tea.

Her tea trees have been planted for several years, and this year she has officially started picking tea leaves to make tea. Although there is not much output, it is no problem to supply her own tea. Although the technology of fried tea is still being explored, making tea The new tea made by us is completely inferior to the craftsmanship of Huaxia, but what the Song Dynasty embassy sent for trade was originally ordinary tea, and the taste of new tea and old tea is also very different. When you bring it home, it may be reheated when you enter the population, which is different.

Listening to her compliment, Wei Wei just smiled and said, "If you like it, I'll give you some tea, and you can drink it by yourself when you go back."

She didn't mention the matter of testing Mirabelle's message in her mouth.

The news that the king is going to execute the queen is a secret. Even people around him don't know about it, but Wei Wei is one of the few who knows, and even the medicine that Mirabelle used was sent by her.

After confessing the reason and process of her poisoning, Mirabelle could not provide an antidote, but she also explained the preparation method of the secret medicine. Wei Wei needed to study the antidote, so the formula was copied and sent to In her hand—she estimated that the king himself kept a copy, this secret medicine is so useful, it is impossible for him not to keep it—in order to determine the correctness of the formula, it is natural to make a copy of the medicine first.

In the end, the secret medicine was all taken away by the king to entertain Mirabelle.

Wei Wei hadn't seen Mirabelle since her arrest, but if the king fed all the medicine to Mirabelle at one time, even if it was a chronic medicine, it would probably turn into an acute drama. It was poisoned, so Wei Wei guessed that the current Mirabelle was probably lying in bed and couldn't get up.

She knew very well that Countess Nelson, came to talk about Mirabelle, in addition to really want to know the situation of this former enemy, so as to further ridicule her, I am afraid there is also a temptation.

Although the king did not say that the queen had anything to do with his poisoning, the queen suddenly fell ill at this time and was sent out of the palace to recuperate. No one had seen her from beginning to end, nor did she know where she was, so the nobles were very easy It was noticed that she was afraid that the king's poisoning had something to do with her, and from the current situation, the relationship was not small.

So there are naturally many people who want to know about her. Countess Nelson is the first to ask, but she will not be the last.

Seeing that she didn't say anything, Countess Nelson didn't continue to bring up this unpleasant topic - anyway, she mainly wanted to see the woman's dejected appearance. Although it was regrettable that she couldn't see it, she was relieved when she knew that she was not good. Then he changed the subject naturally and explained his willingness to visit today: "I'm here to thank you."

"Thank me?" Wei Wei didn't know why: "Thank me for what?"

After the ban on the palace was lifted, some noble ladies came back one after another. The first ones were the king's mistresses, and then the noble ladies who held positions in the palace. She regained control of the power in the palace, but they came back a little late. Elena has learned how to handle official business during this time. Although she is not experienced enough, she has the support of the king and prince behind her, and she is familiar with the affairs of the palace. It is not easy for those noble ladies who thought she was not afraid to hide from her, especially now that the king's poisoning incident has just happened, and the king is not worried about these people's control. Palace affairs, otherwise I wouldn't teach everything to a little girl like Elina.

Of course, Countess Nelson was not included among those who re-entered. Originally, Countess Nelson was a social celebrity in the aristocratic circle, but since the rebellion of Duke Romanov, the situation of her family has become not very good.

Although the countess is said to be the cousin of the former queen, their family should have paid more attention to the two crown princes born to the former queen and queen, but unfortunately the crown prince's health is not good, and most people have tacitly agreed that he would not succeed the throne , even Countess Nelson herself, is more inclined to support Prince Andrew.

However, Earl Nelson is obviously more optimistic about Duke Romanov. He believes that compared with the poor crown prince and incompetent Prince Andrew, Duke Romanov is obviously more suitable to be the next king, so although the king still has no He directly and openly chose to stand on the side of Duke Romanov, but this tendency of Earl Nelson is still revealed in daily life.

Especially when the king fell ill, Countess Nelson almost changed from the neutral party to the duke's party. If it wasn't for Countess Nelson because the crown prince and prince were her cousins, and she had grown up since childhood, Helping them persuade the Earl a few words, and let Earl Nelson hesitate for a while that there is no real team. At this moment, their family may also become one of the targets of liquidation.

As long as they think of the implication of the nobles who stood on the Duke's side because of the Duke's rebellion, the Earl Nelson family is now terrified.

But they weren't completely spared.

When the Royal Knights first arrested the Duke's vassals, Earl Nelson was also one of the arrested members. Obviously, his wavering attitude had already annoyed the king. He didn't care about it before, but it was not time to settle it.

Since Count Nelson was arrested, the Countess has been very worried, because this time the matter is too big, if one is bad, her husband may even be executed, how it depends entirely on the king's mood.

She is also one of the people who are running around for help. She wanted to ask Wei Wei for help from the very beginning, but unfortunately she also couldn't see anyone. Even because Wei Wei was in the palace, the letters could not be sent in, so she could only go to Fei Wei. Lix helped, but the latter, for Wei Wei's sake, did not reject her directly. Although she did not accept the gift, it also gave Countess Nelson hope.

Later, as soon as the news that Felix pleaded for the nobles and was reprimanded by the king came out, Mrs. Nelson intuitively thought that he was being reprimanded for speaking for them, and now Earl Nelson has been successfully released from prison, although their family has Lost a large amount of property, but the money did not hurt the Nelson family who had made a lot of money in cooperation with Felix in the past few years. It was easier than the execution or demotion they had worried about. many.

Although the Nelson family lost the respect of the king because of this incident, and she could no longer hold a position in the palace, Countess Nelson was still very grateful to Felix and returned all this gratitude to her. Wei Wei's body, that's why she came to visit Wei Wei specially to express her gratitude.

This is embarrassing. Although Wei Wei has a good relationship with Countess Nelson, she and Felix did not speak for them. Countess Nelson is completely misunderstood, but Wei Wei can't refute anything, the king If you want to make a face for Felix, she can't grow out and make a face on her own.

So aside from smiling and tacitly saying that it's nothing, so that she doesn't have to worry about it and is embarrassed to accept her gift, what else can she do?

But Countess Nelson only thought she was humble and said this, but she was even more grateful, and she refused to take back the gift she brought.

"You have helped our family so much. If you don't even accept this, then I can only go back and prepare better gifts."

Wei Wei had no choice but to take everything away.

Drinking afternoon tea, instead of exploring the secrets of the king and queen, Countess Nelson endured her gossip for a while, but she couldn't help but start to break out. She first mentioned Felix who was on the expedition: "I heard that Your Excellency the Marquis The performance on the front line is very good, I think it won't be long before you defeat that guy Romanov and come back victorious, right?"

Speaking of this, the smile on Wei Wei's face deepened. She knew a little more than Countess Nelson. At present, Felix has taken the army and hid back to the other nobles who were standing by Duke Romanov. The territory, and is advancing to the duke's fief, the discerning person can see that the defeat of the duke is only a matter of time.

The better Felix performed on the front line and the smoother the battle, the sooner he could come back. For her husband, who has been on the expedition for almost a month, Wei Wei is worried about his safety every day, even every other day. A letter was sent back in a few days, and it couldn't give her complete peace of mind.

She smiled and nodded: "If it goes well."

Countess Nelson didn't really care about the fight either, she really cared about something else.

"I heard that His Majesty the King is very happy recently because the battle on the front line went well. It seems that he is planning to hold a banquet, right?" She shook a fan to cover the corners of her mouth, approached Wei Wei with a mysterious look, and whispered, "And I listen to Said that His Majesty still intends to choose the crown prince at this banquet? Do you know about this?"

"Where did you hear so much?" Wei Wei glanced at her helplessly: "I know this is what you want to ask."

The ban in the palace was recently lifted. After the ladies moved back, many people wanted to visit Wei Wei, but Wei Wei never invited them to any party after receiving them once on the first day. As for refusing The excuse, of course, is that she wants to treat the body of the king and the crown prince, and there is not so much free time.

Although this is an excuse to shirk, in the eyes of others, it is actually a fact. There are no secrets in the eyes of the lady in the palace. They all know that Wei Wei took over the crown prince while detoxifying the king. The daily life revolves around these two noble people. Even the king's mistress may not have as many opportunities to accompany the king as she does. That is to say, being able to talk and chat with him, all nightlife is avoided, and the king has been so busy recently, being able to call his mistresses back is already a priority for them, where is there so much time to spend with them.

It's not that no one has some bad guesses about Wei Wei because of this, but even the three mistresses would not say these words, because every time Wei Wei gets along with the king or the crown prince, there will never be a lack of servants, especially the king's. On the other hand, apart from checking her pulse regularly, she seldom goes there, and the fact that the two patients were asked to abstain from **** is also a big gossip in your husband's mouth, so even if everyone thinks about some lustful news, they will not say it. , so as not to be offended by hearing it, now everyone knows that this is the big red man beside the king, no accident, her beauty can continue to the next king.

Yes, the next king, after the duke's rebellion, the nobles who had been ready to support Prince Andrew after the wives of various families re-entered the palace to serve, they were informed by their wives that the crown prince's health had begun to improve.

They didn't believe it at first, but the changes in the crown prince can be found just by seeing him, and because the king was happy that his son's health was getting better, he would say it when he saw people, and in the end everyone knew about their crown prince soon. Although his health is still very bad, the message that he can't live beyond the age of 20 is completely unbelievable. Even if he is well cared for, he will not only live a long time, but also get married and have children. There is no problem at all.

This is good news for everyone. Those who originally supported the king felt that with such an excellent heir, the regime of the Prady Empire would be more stable. The successors who came to the opportunity had to rest their minds because of the improvement of the crown prince.

Then many people took the position of the crown prince.

If the king said in the past that he would choose a concubine for the crown prince, I am afraid that few would really like it. After all, if you marry in the past, you will be a living widow, and it is very likely that you will become a widow soon, without a husband and no children. How tragic.

Especially the example of the former crown prince is still there.

But now the situation is completely different. The crown prince's health is getting better and better day by day, and the biggest competitor is ruining his future. As long as he can marry the crown prince and give birth to an heir, even if the crown prince still hangs up, the crown prince's children will also be destroyed. It will be the sure-fire heir, the one ahead of Prince Andrew!

Where is such a big piece of cake, who wouldn't be tempted, especially recently, many nobles have been implicated in the matter of Duke Romanov, which has led to a great decline in the power of the family, and they are trying to recover, and the position of the crown prince is obviously A chance for them to rise again.

For this opportunity, even if the crown prince is not in good health, they can use the girls at home to fight, not to mention that the crown prince's current situation is different from before, and the benefits that can be obtained are even greater.

So when they heard that the king might choose a concubine for the crown prince, how could they still sit still and try their best to investigate whether the news was true? The first people to be asked were the people close to the king, and most of the others went to find a few. The mistress has inquired about the news, and Countess Nelson, because she has a good relationship with Wei Wei, wants to try to ask some information from her.

She was not embarrassed when her thoughts were seen through, but she admitted generously: "You also know the current situation of my family. If possible, I still hope to seize this opportunity."

Wei Wei said helplessly: "But even if it is true, there is no suitable candidate for your family, right? If nothing else, the former Crown Princess divorced from His Royal Highness because of blood relationship. You are the Crown Prince's cousin, Earl Nelson. There is also royal blood, even if your family has a daughter of the right age, it is impossible for the king to take his fancy."

The news that intermarriage is not good for the next generation is still circulating in the capital. Although some nobles believe it and some don't, everyone has begun to consciously avoid marriage within three generations, and the king, because he cares too much The future grandson. When he chose Prince Andrew to choose his concubine, he had already eliminated all the people who were close to the royal family. Otherwise, he would not have chosen Elina in the end, but came to the crown prince, because Wei Wei Tell him that asthma is hereditary, so he is even more certain that he must not find a blood-related crown princess.

Earl Nelson's house is obviously not in his choice.

Countess Nelson actually knows this, so although she herself has a daughter who can start looking for marriage candidates recently, she does not plan to let her daughter try to become a crown princess.

When she said this, Countess Nelson instead confirmed that the news that the king was going to choose the crown princess was true.

This cheered her up all of a sudden.

"I'm thinking of other candidates." Countess Nelson didn't say who she was optimistic about, she just analyzed herself: "We all know the conditions for your majesty to choose the crown prince, and based on his requirements, basically the big noble family's conditions. The daughters can be excluded, so the identity and background of the new crown prince should be relaxed, right? Although my family is not good, but I know a few good girls, maybe they will be very suitable for the crown prince, but their birth is a little lower , I wonder if Your Majesty will mind."

Generally speaking, the status of the crown prince and concubine must be noble enough, but now that the blood relationship has to be eliminated, it is naturally impossible for the great nobles who have always been married to the royal family, and even the slightly more prominent nobles may not be in the eyes of the king. , After all, the noble circle can also be called the circle of relatives, and each family can basically find a connection if you count them up.

Wei Wei understood: "So you want to ask me, what are your requirements for the background and identity of the Crown Princess?"

Earl Nelson nodded.

"I really don't know about this." Wei Wei didn't plan to introduce someone to Prince Edward, so naturally she didn't ask such a thing.

However, since Countess Nelson had provided her with a lot of information about the royal capital in the past, Wei Wei still revealed something she knew.

"If His Majesty really wants to choose the crown prince and concubine this time, the crown prince has the final say on who the final candidate is."

Yes, although the king intends to choose the crown prince and concubine for the crown prince, he did nod and let Crown Prince Edward choose himself. The only requirement is that the other party must be healthy and born a noble. As long as this is met, even if the conditions are a little worse, the king will No objection anymore.

As for the reason, apart from the fact that people with high status can basically be related to the royal family, the king who is worried that his grandson may inherit the problems of the crown prince in the future is a little worried, so in addition to relaxing the conditions, it is also related to Wei Wei.

Because she told the king that the better the crown prince's mood, the better for his body, so choosing a wife he likes will be very helpful for his future life.

So the king thought, anyway, the conditions have been relaxed, and there is no need to pay too much attention to the family background of the future crown prince and concubine, then let the crown prince choose the one he likes, there is nothing wrong.

After hearing what the king said, Crown Prince Edward thanked Wei Wei for it, and was not so indifferent to the fact that the king wanted to hold a banquet to help him choose the crown princess. I heard that he would occasionally ask when the banquet was held Well, apparently looking forward to it.

When Countess Nelson heard that Wei Wei even knew about this kind of news, she immediately asked, "Then do you know what kind of girl the Crown Prince likes?"