Two Hundred and Eighty-Three, Towering

The Glory of the Young Eagle text volume 283, with an unusually heavy heart, Alice bid farewell to the Earl, left her natal family, and quietly returned home.

She knew that Agnes must have known that she was coming, but until she left, her sister had not shown her face in front of her. The rift between the sisters made her heartache.

But even so, she has never regretted it at all. She has always been a consequentialist. Judging from the results, on the one hand, she prevented her sister from being in danger, and on the other hand, she also made great achievements and left a deep impression on His Majesty. Impressions are earned no matter what.

Based on her understanding of her sister, her sister will eventually forgive her. Even if she is angry for a moment, the feelings accumulated over the years will still make her forget the rift between the two people.

After she returned home, her father-in-law, the Marquis de Treville, called her to him.

"Alice, why did you and the Count come to your father again?" After seeing her, the Marquis asked directly.

Alice was not surprised by this. She had already known about it last time. The Marquis had arranged an informant for his father. It was normal for him to know the news.

Moreover, there was no need for her to hide it from her father-in-law.

"His Majesty wanted to summon my father, so he sent us to inform him."

"Oh?" The Marquis was a little surprised at first, and then he was relieved. "It seems that His Majesty is ready to ask your father to repay him..."

Then, he showed a bit of disdain, "But, can your father really take on any big responsibilities? I think it's quite doubtful."

Although Alice thought so too, he was her father after all, so she couldn't bear to add insult to injury behind her back. "After all, my father is sophisticated and well-known. Your Majesty must have wanted him to set an example and show his reconciliation with the nobles." Well..."

The Marquis of Treville naturally wanted to get this level.

But something else occurred to him.

He has always been good at discerning subtle things. Aiglon summoned the Duke specifically, although he did not say why.

But there will definitely be important matters, and this means that the Duke is likely to occupy an extremely advantageous position.

Although he and the Duke were "in-laws", they definitely didn't have any friendship with each other. Even if he wanted to temporarily increase their feelings now, it was too late - besides, he didn't bother to please that mediocre person.

To make matters worse, Miss Agnes is the Duke's daughter. Obviously the Duke has many "ways" to maintain his position in His Majesty's heart.

Although he also thought of "methods" to achieve this goal, the ideal situation he thought of was to let Alice control Agnes and then seek personal gain for the Treville family; and if the Duke gained power in His Majesty's mind, Then Agnes may have become a tool for the Nordlyon family to seek personal gain.

He doesn't doubt the affection between the sisters, but between the father and the sister, no matter how you look at it, the father is more important, right?

At this time, the Marquis didn't know that the Alice sisters had turned against each other. If he had known, he would have been even more worried.

There is no point in changing the plan when things come to a close. Now that we have seen the hidden dangers, we should find ways to eliminate them as soon as possible.

But after all, this is someone else's family matter, so what can I do to change it?

The Marquis frowned slightly, and finally his eyes fell on Alice again.

"Alice, are you willing to see your father in danger?" he asked tentatively.

"As a daughter, of course I am not happy to see my father take risks." Alice replied in a low voice, "But if he takes risks for the sake of the family's reputation and lintel, this is the natural obligation of the descendants of nobles, and I can only praise him for it." Pray and ask God to bless his feat."

The Marquis sneered again, and Alice's answer was impeccable, with no personal feelings visible - she was becoming more and more like herself.

After becoming a family, he could clearly feel the growth of his daughter-in-law. From an innocent and ignorant young woman at the beginning, she turned into what she is now in just two or three years, which is really amazing.

"That's right. If he really flourishes and becomes a prominent minister in the future, then you will definitely be honored too, right?" the Marquis asked again.

"I have never expected this." Alice replied with a wry smile, "My father already hates me. It will be a good thing if I don't get revenge from him in the future. How can I possibly take advantage of him?"

The Marquis was also speechless for a moment.

He originally hoped to rely on Alice to maintain the relationship between the two families, but from Alice's tone, he could not see any hope in this regard.

"Didn't you lend a helping hand to help him now?" He still persisted in asking.

"Your Majesty is the one who lends a helping hand, not me. No one will be grateful to me." Alice sighed sadly, "Besides, asking for help is humiliating. Who would like to have their humiliating side seen by others? ? Ordinary people can't stand it, let alone a noble who thinks highly of himself? Instead of being grateful to me, he will complain that I don't do my best to help him, and he will hate me for seeing him in such a mess that he will only hide from me. The further away the better..."

Alice was depressed and expressed her feelings, but it was so realistic that the Marquis suddenly resonated with it - after all, he had seen too many such things in his life where kindness was repaid with hatred.

In addition to resonance, the Marquis also has a fear of "losing all his previous efforts".

In the past, I and my son had tried every means to bring His Majesty and Agnes together, and their efforts had borne fruit. But if they won Agnes but couldn't reap any benefits, wouldn't it be all in vain?

Not only is the effort in vain, but with the Duke's relationship with his family and his petty personality, he may become an enemy in the future.

If that's the case, I'm just a fool who shot myself in the foot...

What kind of person is the Marquis de Treville? How could he tolerate others picking his peaches?

Trying to kill him? For a moment, a thought flashed through his mind.

This method is the simplest and most direct - obviously, as long as the Duke is dead, there will be no one in Agnes's heart who can compare with her sister, and then there will be no risk of her plan being derailed.

This idea was very tempting, but after weighing it for a moment, the Marquis gave up.

After all, the Duke is also a person. It is too difficult to remain unnoticed. There are too many uncontrollable factors and the consequences are too serious.

Then there is only one way left, find a way to make the Duke obey his orders.

The key, of course, still lies with Alice.

"Alice, I understand how you feel. I have seen too many ungrateful things..." When he thought of this, he changed his tone, "And, to tell you the truth, I have accumulated too much for him. The anger - he is hostile to our family, snubs you and deliberately shuts you out. Aren't all the cold looks and humiliation you have received in social circles all these years thanks to him? As a father, if he wasn't so heartless , how dare others treat you like that?"

Although she knew that the Marquis was deliberately provoking, Alice was still inevitably aroused in her heart.

Indeed, she had always seen what her father had done before and recently, and the humiliation and anger accumulated in her heart was also shared by her father.

But the more this happened, the calmer she became. She had learned her lesson, and now she didn't want to be easily swayed by other people's rhetoric.

"Dad, you are right, but it does not mean anything to the current situation." She replied coldly, with a hint of sarcasm unnaturally in her tone, "You have always taught me to face reality and not to dwell on temporary anger. Isn’t it?”

The Marquis frowned again.

He found that as his daughter-in-law, he couldn't see through it.

This is not a good sign. Being unable to see through means that she is elusive and difficult to control, which in turn means that she may have her own independent thoughts and calculations.

When did this girl become like this? He even felt a little at a loss for a moment.

Seeing the rare embarrassment of the Marquis, Alice snickered in her heart and suddenly felt a sense of revengeful joy.

"What's the matter, Dad? Don't you have anything more important to tell me?" She deliberately showed a gentle smile, and then asked the Marquis, "We are a family now, and as the parent, I have to listen to you after all. Opinions."

We are a family after all!

Alice's reminder actually made the Marquis wake up from a dream.

After all, he had experienced too many storms. Alice's initial prowess caught him off guard, but he soon adjusted himself.

"You are really good... Alice, I did underestimate you. It seems that you are much better than Ed. It's a pity that he didn't learn anything from you!" The Marquis nodded approvingly to his daughter-in-law, and then He sneered, "Okay, then you have seen the current situation. I would like to ask, what are your plans in the future? Do you want to continue to be disliked by your father and left out by the social world, or do you want to change your lifestyle? Do you want to step on their heads in turn?"

As soon as she saw the Marquis taking off his disguise, Alice cheered up.

"Of course I want these...otherwise I wouldn't be standing in front of you like this, but I am still a person after all. No matter how hard I try, my power is limited."

"Yes, I know this too, but you don't have to worry. After all, we are a family, right?" the Marquis replied with a smile. "To be honest, I have been worried about the future of our family. If you are willing to stand up and support me, I would be grateful."

He also knows that no matter what kind of conflict of positions there is now, the two people are already a family after all. To put it simply, they are like grasshoppers on a rope. Therefore, at least for now, the interests and positions of the two people are largely inseparable. are coincident.

Although the Marquis de Treville travels around, has the trust of the Bonaparte family, and is respected by other comrades, he is still alone after all, and often feels like he is "alone".

In this case, Alice is not willing to be an ordinary lady, and wants to use her talents to do something great, which means that she can help him, which is a big deal for him. good thing.

Anyway, Alice's future child will be his heir. No matter how much they fight, there is no need for him to break up with her.

Of course, if he knew in his heart that Alice resented him as much as she did her own father, and even secretly determined that she would never give birth to a son as soon as possible to "retrain" for him, then he would definitely have another idea.

"To be honest, Alice, I don't want to see your father become famous, and I guess you don't want to either, because it won't do any good to either of us." Now that the two of them have spread out, the Marquis has nothing to do with it. Scruples. "We have to find a way to prevent him from causing trouble to us."

"Your Majesty will not reuse him because there is nothing in him that Your Majesty appreciates. He is too mediocre." Alice shook her head, "I dare to assure you that no matter how high he is praised, once Your Majesty stands firm, If he gets out of position, he will be kicked away without any hesitation."

Because she had been treated coldly in front of her father just now, Alice spoke particularly ruthlessly.

"I believe you too, but my experience tells me that you must not place your hopes on time. Anything can happen in the future. Maybe he will really stand firm in the future?" Marquis Treville said calmly He asked rhetorically, "Besides, it's not like he doesn't have a trump card in his hand. Although His Majesty doesn't appreciate him, he definitely appreciates Agnes..."

"Agnes...?" Alice's eyes widened.

She had heard her father's thoughts just now, and now her father-in-law mentioned it to her again. Now she could no longer escape and truly faced the possibility that "Agnes might become His Majesty's lover."

But is this really possible? No matter what Alice thought about it, it seemed strange.

It wasn't that she objected to these two people getting together, because in her opinion, they were of the same age, both extremely talented, and had such outstanding looks that they were a perfect match. They even moved when they first met Aigron in Switzerland. To bring two people together.

However, a wife is a wife, and a lover is another matter.

She knew Agnes so well that it was really hard for her to believe that Agnes would do that.

"No...that's impossible." She shook her head subconsciously.

"How is it impossible?" the Marquis asked, "Do you think your father will not use his daughter as a tool to maintain his status?"

Of course he would, Alice thought to herself.

"I mean, Agnes wouldn't agree..."

"Don't be so absolute about everything. I've said it before, time can change anything." The Marquis shook his head again, seeming to be a little moved by Alice's innocence, "Are you really sure you understand everything? Besides, Well, Alice, do others understand you completely? At least you surprised me just now."

The Marquis' retort left Alice speechless for a moment.

But in her heart, she still couldn't believe that this would really happen.

But is it really impossible?

When she went to Switzerland for the second time, she could also feel Princess Theresa's hostility towards Agnes. At that time, she thought it was just bored jealousy and the princess was bothering herself, but...

"Your Majesty, do you really hope so?" With the last trace of luck, she raised her head and asked the Marquis.

"Alice, what are you asking me for? You have seen him more times than I have..." The Marquis sneered and asked, "You should tell me the answer, right?"

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