Chapter 933 The King's Entrustment
Earl Quin was stunned for a while, not even noticing that the wine glass in his hand slipped to the ground.
The moment he saw her, two names popped into his mind involuntarily - the former accompanied him for most of his life, but died in depression because of the loss of his love, and the latter was the lost love, and forever. People who can never meet again. Although she had grown a lot taller and looked more outstanding after being separated for nearly ten years, he could still tell the difference between them. Their expressions were so similar that he almost blurted out the former's name.
"Father, do you know her?" Horn's words finally brought him back from his trance.
Horford slowly stood up and asked in a deep voice, "Are you... Andrea?"
"What? You said she was...that, that one who has died..." Horn widened his eyes, looked back and forth at the two who were looking at each other, and murmured in disbelief.
"Master, it's really the eldest lady!" The old housekeeper's expression was more excited than anyone else's, "I will never admit it wrong, she has inherited all the characteristics of Madam!"
"It seems that you still remember me," Andrea said with a blank face, "then the next thing will be easier to talk about."
Horford couldn't help but feel a thump in his heart. The matter of his daughter's awakening as a witch was a secret to most people, even her mother and his wife, Fenache, kept it a secret. When the servant who served Andrea told him about it, he made a decisive decision-pushing the servant who knew it into the river, pretending to drown accidentally, and using his cronies to plan the incident of the carriage falling off the cliff.
Although he knew that doing so might make the other party hate him, hatred is also a way to commemorate the person who is gone forever. But once they meet again, such indifferent feelings become a sharp thorn.
Especially when he was not sure whether the original approach was correct, the stinging feeling became more and more obvious.
But the Count knows that there are more important things now - why Andrea appeared in Radiance City, whether her identity is true or not, and what the phrase "I don't think so" means, these are more than It is even more important to question the right and wrong of the past.
He suppressed all the doubts and thoughts in his heart, and waved to Horn, "You go out first."
"Father!" the latter worried.
"Do as I say!" Horford's tone was unmistakable.
Seeing that he had made up his mind, Horn reluctantly left the room.
"Don't disturb the others," the earl then instructed the butler. "At the same time, close the gate of the courtyard, and the lights in the entrance hall are also turned off. If anyone in the mansion asks, they will say that I am drafting documents, and no one is allowed to disturb me. do you understand?"
"I'll do it now! But..." The housekeeper touched his head, "What about the friends the eldest brought?"
"Friend?" He glanced at Andrea suspiciously, "Take it to the banquet hall first and treat it well."
"Yes, sir!"
As the door slammed shut, the study suddenly fell silent. The two stared at each other for a long time, until the count couldn't help breaking the silence first, "Although you and my daughter look quite alike, I can't just assume that you must be Andrea. After all, she was only sixteen years old when she left, and now she is -- 0---0---small---saying---this is a gorgeous dividing line---let go of that witch Please pay attention to the rest of your eyes when reading. 00 novel recommended reading: real force-0--0---small--said---this is a gorgeous dividing line---it's been almost ten years..." He paused. , "I mean, do you have any other way to prove your identity?"
In fact, he already believed in the origin of the other party, so asking this is just to find a confirmation - even the perfect disguise method can't change a person's inner self. From her every move, the Count could see the shadow of the Flower of Glory in the past.
Andrea didn't answer, but opened her hands directly, and then a golden magic bow appeared in her hands. This dazzling longbow gradually condensed and shrank a little bit, and finally evolved into a unique appearance - and that was the gift he specially asked the craftsman to create in order to celebrate his daughter's birthday.
At this point, Horford no longer has any doubts in his heart. This bow and arrow suitable for beginners has long been damaged along with the carriage, and now even he cannot accurately describe its appearance.
And Andrea, who has been particularly interested in archery since she was a child, obviously still has it in her heart.
"Sure enough..." The earl sighed, "Why did you come back? The reason I sent you away was to hope that you could live unharmed."
"That's all?" Andrea retracted her longbow, "Isn't it because of fear of being known by outsiders that the former Prime Minister has a daughter who was lured by the devil and fell? I don't feel that I am being protected, not abandoned. For witches, there is no real safe place, if it wasn't for my luck, I met a group of people with the same fate, I'm afraid I would have died in a foreign land by now."
He opened his mouth, but couldn't refute it, because this was one of his concerns at the time. If it is revealed that Andrea is a witch, the entire family may fall into crisis - not everyone can safely put their relatives in chains and send them to the church or other nobles. Rather than let the Quinn family face this difficult choice, he should make the decision alone.
"But that's all over now. I didn't come to you to turn the tables on you." Andrea said sternly, "You must be curious as to why I can enter the Earl's Palace in a grand manner. After all, the guards won't easily believe my words. In addition, after seeing the housekeeper, I deliberately waited outside the door for a while. Is the one called your father the family heir? When did I have such a younger brother? "
"He came from the branch... Your mother died a year after you left, and the Quinn family needs a successor," Horford whispered.
If the accident hadn't happened ten years ago, this position would have belonged to the eldest daughter.
After hearing the news, Andrea was stunned for a while, and then there was a bit of gloom in her eyes. She was silent for a while before opening her mouth, "Anyway, there is no way for the head of the Quinn family to be replaced for the time being. Your Majesty hopes that you can go further, rather than retreating behind the scenes now. With the current situation, except for the three families He does not endorse any agent except the head Earl Quinn."
"What do you mean?" Horford couldn't understand the meaning of the other party's words for a while. "When you said your majesty, you mean—"
"Of course it's the King of Greycastle, His Majesty Roland Wimbledon, I'm here at his entrustment." Andrea took a deep breath and asked word by word, "Lord Count, are you willing to become a newcomer? The Lord of Dawn?"