Chapter 199 Return 3

Ladi led the two to the petrified Quick and formally introduced them to each other: "Your Majesty, this is Captain Quick of the Southern. Captain, this is His Majesty the Grand Duke of the Principality of Eaton."

After saying that, she pulled Quick's sleeve.

Captain Quick reacted with a start, like a mechanical man with a spring wound up, half-knelt stiffly, recalled the plots of foreign envoys meeting the king in those third-rate dramas he had seen, and saluted awkwardly.

"Your Majesty, please forgive me for being rude... On behalf of Earl Graman of the Kingdom of Ordo, I pay my respects to you."

"No need to be polite, no need to be polite. You are all my heroes."

Grand Duke of Eaton personally helped him up.

"You risked your life to go deep into the wolf pack and saved my wife and sister-in-law. On behalf of the Eton royal family, I pay my respects to you."

The Grand Duke thanked them with a pleasant face, mixed with some noble grammar that Queke couldn't understand. Queke just responded with "hmm", fearing that he would say something wrong.

Damn, Lord Graman, what should I do now? ? ? ?

"Please also convey my respect to Earl Graman for me. Alda has won the friendship of the Principality of Eton. If he or his envoy comes to Horn Bay in the future, the Principality of Eton will certainly entertain him warmly."

"Yes, yes, Your Majesty, I will convey it truthfully."

"Then please accept our thank you gift."

The Grand Duke clapped his hands, and two servants carried a wooden box and placed it in front of Queke.

When the wooden box was opened, the people around exclaimed.

It was shining with golden light, and it was actually a box full of gold ingots.

"No, no, no, this is absolutely not allowed..."

Quick's tongue was tied. He had never seen so much gold before. How many Southern ships could it buy?

But the Grand Duke said firmly: "No, please accept it. Half of it will be given to the warriors on the ship, and half will be given to Earl Graman."

The two pushed and shoved it back and forth for several times. Quick, who was not able to speak fluently, finally couldn't resist the Grand Duke and accepted the gold.

"This is to steal my Foster family!"

The second son of the Foster family sounded the alarm in his heart.

"Uh-huh!!!"

Quiller cleared his throat loudly and said seriously: "Your Majesty the Grand Duke."

"Who are you?"

Grand Duke Eaton asked doubtfully. Judging from the other party's dress, he should be a local of Jiaowan.

"I am Queller Foster, the second son of Marquis Foster of the Council of the Horn Bay Alliance."

"Oh, so you are the child of Marquis Foster. I know your father. He is a kind and open-minded person. I have a very pleasant communication with him."

"Thank you, Grand Duke. My father must be honored to hear your evaluation of him."

"So, what is Master Foster doing here?"

"Oh, Grand Duke may not know that the Foster family and the Graman family are business partners, and we are the Earl's exclusive agent in Horn Bay. My friend is leaving, so of course I have to come to see him off."

Queller emphasized the word "exclusive agent".

"Does Earl Graman still do business with Horn Bay?"

The Grand Duke did not know that the porcelain he bought at a high price in his court was shipped from the Northwest Bay by the Foster family.

But he soon understood Queller's implicit reference.

The Grand Duke smiled and patted Queller on the shoulder and said, "I also cherish the friendship with the Marquis, and naturally I will not do anything to destroy the friendship. I came here just to express my gratitude."

Queller breathed a sigh of relief and smiled at the Grand Duke.

But he muttered in his heart: It seems that Paul's path in the Horn Bay will become wider and wider, and I have to remind my father to increase the importance of the Northwest Bay.

……

Grand Duchess Helen pulled her schoolmate over and talked quietly.

"Where are your adventurer friends?"

"After the dinner last night, the local adventurer guild sent a letter. They set off overnight because of an urgent matter."

"By the way, how did Earl Graman treat you?"

"The Earl treated me very well. You know, with the conditions in the Northwest Bay, all kinds of manpower are still relatively scarce, so people like me who are not very useful are also valued."

"Not very useful? I finally heard you tell a joke, Ladi."

"Senior sister, I remembered something. What is the reaction of the church..."

Helen said unhappily: "Huh, now they can't force the public to show the 'evidence'. It seems that they know they are in the wrong and have not disclosed this matter to the outside world."

After all, there is no direct evidence. It is a serious crime to detain a female noble without authorization. No matter how arrogant the church is, it dare not offend the public in this regard.

"Have you negotiated with you?"

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"No, they probably just want to let it go."

"What do you think?"

"How can such a good thing happen? My husband has decided to do his best to promote and join the anti-church alliance. The reason why he didn't make this incident public is because the time is not yet ripe. Once the time is ripe, this will be one of the crimes of the church."

"This...will not lead to a war."

As a mage, Ladi is happy to see the rulers of various countries unite to suppress the church, but if it leads to a war, she doesn't want to see it.

"War? Impossible. The church only has some defensive paladins. If the countries unite, do they have the courage to resist with arms?"

The Grand Duchess is obviously optimistic.

"I hope so."

Having said that, Ladi is not as optimistic as Helen. Not to mention the influence of the church among the people, there are also many loyal believers of the church in the ruling class of each country.

I hope that war will not really break out because of this. Ladi, who is familiar with history books, knows very well the course of several religious wars in history. Unlike wars between countries that broke out for interests, this kind of war under the banner of faith is more likely to break the bottom line.

She doesn't want to see such a prosperous corner bay turned into a ruin.

...

After everyone talked for a while on the dock, it was finally time to set sail. Under the watchful eyes of Queller Foster and the Grand Duke and his wife Eaton, Quick, Ladi and others boarded the South.

The departure of the strange ship attracted many people in the dock area to look here. If it weren't for the guards of the Principality of Eaton blocking the area near the berth, they would have rushed here together.

A port staff member on the shore untied the rope tied to the wooden piles of the dock, and the sailors on the Southern received the rope on the ship.

Queller ordered loudly: "Hold the anchor!"

"One, two, three..."

Many crew members shouted and pushed the anchor winch hard.

The huge and heavy anchor was slowly pulled up from the water under the action of the winch.

Since there were no oars on the Southern, several small paddle boats in the port were hired as tugboats to help it leave the berth.

The sailor gestured to the tugboat, and the people on the tugboat began to paddle, and the Southern slowly moved through the rope.

Quik, Ladi and others stood at the side of the ship and waved goodbye to the shore, and Queller and the Grand Duke and his wife standing on the dock also waved in response.

The Southern slowly sailed away from the port and into open waters. It untied the ropes connecting it to the tugboat, raised its sails, and sailed out to sea with the help of the wind, embarking on its journey back to the Northwest Bay.