Eagle’s Glory

Seeing the Archduke say this, Major Hench also knew that it would be meaningless to say anything more, the other party had already made a decision.

Although he has only met once, his impression of Duke Reichstedt is quite good. Even if His Royal Highness committed the "crime" of fleeing the country later, for him, his impression has not changed.

After all, everyone knows that His Royal Highness is called a member of the royal family, but he is actually similar to a prisoner. It is only natural that he has resentment and wants to regain his freedom.

Archduke Karl asked him to help His Highness, and he had no objection in his heart—the Grand Duke was right, His Highness is indeed not an enemy of the Empire now, and even if he wanted to do so, he would not have the ability to do so, so helping him by himself counts. Not treason.

Although everyone knows that he definitely wants to restore, but at the moment he is still far from the throne...

Even if his dreams come true one day in the future, and he really wants to avenge the humiliation of the past, it doesn't matter if everyone comes back to decide the outcome.

The safety of Her Royal Highness Princess Teresa is more important now.

After making up his mind, he no longer kept it, but looked at the Grand Duke sincerely and made a promise. "Your Highness, please rest assured. Since this is your request, and since Princess Teresa needs help, it is my duty. I will arrange it now, and I will definitely achieve your wish."

"Very good." Looking at his sincere expression, Archduke Karl was also slightly moved, "Then I'll leave it to you. You hurry up, the sooner the better."

"Okay!" Major Henchy whistled, and his smile became even more sinister because of the tug of the knife scar. "Okay, you go to lunch with me first, everyone is waiting for you to appear!"

"Yeah." Duke Karl nodded.

Then he sighed again, "It would be great if he stayed here, how much trouble you and I can save..."

After having lunch with the veterans, Archduke Karl ended his inspection and returned to his manor in a carriage.

And his wife, Grand Duchess Henrietta, has long been looking forward to her husband's return.

As soon as he got home, the lady immediately walked in front of him.

"Honey, how's it going?" she asked nervously.

"It's going well." The Grand Duke nodded lightly, "Henchy speaks better than I expected, and after a little hesitation, he agreed to my order. He said he would choose someone immediately, and he would leave as soon as he was ready."

"That's great... The people you sent over must be veterans, so Teresa's side will be much easier to handle." Madam sighed with relief, her brows filled with joy. "His Royal Highness will certainly be very grateful to us."

"Does his gratitude mean anything to me?" Archduke Karl asked impatiently. "Okay, I've finished what you asked me to do, so let me take a break."

After he finished speaking, he sat down on the sofa angrily and closed his eyes.

Henrietta knew that her husband was in a bad mood right now, so she let him rest, while she walked to the desk, picked up a pen and paper, and started writing a letter to her daughter who was far away.

She was so attentive, smiling at times, as if the tip of a pen could gather and pour out her emotions.

It was this lady who was working in secret, while advocating for His Highness, and trying her best to provide support for her daughter. She strategized like a real general. The love of a mother for her children is really moving.

After writing the letter, she looked at her husband who was still closing his eyes.

"Judging from Teresa's letter to me, His Royal Highness's career is quite smooth! While recruiting his own forces, he has established a good relationship with the local people... It seems that his abilities are not limited to poetry and swordsmanship. It's not easy for us to find such a son-in-law."

Although he was reluctant to admit it, Archduke Karl also knew that his wife was right, that his prospective son-in-law was indeed hard to rival among his peers and was worthy of Teresa.

It's a pity that such talent cannot be used by the empire... If he is willing to act according to his own ideas, wouldn't everything be perfect?

"I said before that our daughter might be the queen." At this time, the wife's words came from Archduke Karl's ear again, and the tone was quite certain, "It seems that it will be fulfilled one day."

"Let's not talk about being a queen or not. Let's talk about protecting herself now." Grand Duke Karl replied angrily, "That **** is dreaming, don't you want to follow along?"

"Can't you put even a little good wishes on our daughter?" Madam frowned, and she was about to scold her husband again.

Just when the couple was about to quarrel again, fortunately a servant knocked on the door and resolved this small crisis.

"Come in!" cried the lady.

Then, a servant came in, first bowed respectfully to the Grand Duke and his wife, and then respectfully handed it a letter. "Madam, this is just sent by the palace."

The duke and his wife looked at each other, and then let the servant leave. Then the lady picked up the envelope and opened it directly, and then took out the letter and read it carefully.

The content of the letter seemed to be quite brief, and the lady read it all at once, but she seemed very surprised, raised her head, and looked at her husband blankly.

"Whose letter is this? What does the letter say?" Archduke Karl couldn't help but ask in a hurry.

"Yes... it's a letter written by Her Royal Highness Sophie." Madam returned to her senses, and then replied in a low voice, "She begged us, hoping to visit here tomorrow."

"What?" Archduke Karl was also greatly surprised, took the letter and looked at it carefully.

And the content is exactly as the lady said, she hopes to come and visit herself.

Although he had never seen Princess Sophie's handwriting before, judging from the texture of the envelope and letterhead, as well as the wording, it should be the princess.

However, he and her had no interaction at all. What did she want to do when she came to visit at this time?

For the couple, it was an unexpected development.

For a time, the couple were a little bit surprised, and no one knew how to deal with it.

"I remember that Teresa made a special trip to visit her before she left." After a while, the lady said suspiciously. "Although I didn't know what the two of them said at the time, it looked like they didn't have a good conversation..."

That's even more strange, since the two of them have a bad relationship, why do they still come to visit? The Archduke is getting weirder and weirder.

"Maybe they have friendship." Madam guessed in a low voice.

"The two of them haven't seen each other a few times, so where did they come from?" Archduke Karl asked back.

"How do I know, maybe our daughter has something to do with her in private?" Madame Henrietta shook her head, "In short, it's pointless to guess so much, let's prepare."

Apparently, as Princess Sophie, she was just asking for a visit, but couldn't refuse as a matter of etiquette—and they couldn't think of any reasonable reason to refuse.

The next morning, as a court carriage slowly drove into the manor, Princess Sophie arrived as promised, and she naturally received a grand reception from Archduke Carl and his wife.

Under the guidance of the maid, the Princess entered the living room of the Grand Duke and his wife.

In the eyes of the couple, today's Her Royal Highness Sophie is wearing a long light blue silk dress and a hat decorated with ribbons on her head. She is beautiful and graceful without losing her demeanor, but her expression is calm. With a little gloom again, there seems to be an inexhaustible sadness between the slightly frowning brows.

Although the Grand Duke and his wife belonged to the same royal family as her, their communication with each other was limited to various ritual occasions, and they usually did not communicate much. Judging from their previous impressions, this Highness has always been in high spirits, and even a little arrogant. , it's a bit strange to be like this now.

I heard that she had been seriously ill before, maybe this is the reason.

"His Royal Highness, Madam, I take the liberty to come to disturb you, I'm really sorry..." As soon as she saw the couple, she raised her skirt and saluted gracefully, "Please forgive me."

"It's our honor to have you visit us," Archduke Carl replied politely, "I'm just worried that our hospitality will not be so good that you won't be able to return happily."

"Happy..." Princess Sophie suddenly smiled bitterly, "You don't have to worry about this, because I'm not happy anywhere, so it's definitely not your responsibility."

Before waiting for the Grand Duke and his wife to ask her what she meant, she suddenly changed the subject, "I heard that you are a big happy family, can you let me meet your children?"

The Duke and Madam looked at each other again.

Princess Sophie's sudden visit, and the sudden request for this, both revealed an extraordinary feeling.

Could it be that the court already knew that Teresa was not there, so it came here to ask the guilt?

"I'm really making you laugh. Our children are still young and at an age that likes to be noisy, so I let them stay in my room, so as not to disturb your interest." Archduke Carl replied calmly.

"Okay... Maybe the other children are still young, but Teresa is old enough, I think we will have a lot to talk about." Princess Sophie replied with a smile. "Can you ask her to come and have a chat with me?"

Archduke Carl frowned slightly.

It seems that the court is aware of Teresa's departure.

Although he didn't expect this matter to be hidden from the world for a long time from the beginning, when he really faced the reality, it still made him a little unhappy.

But this is not right, after all, it stands to reason that even if His Majesty the Emperor wants to incriminate himself, Sophie does not need to come over.

Besides, even if you are guilty, what can you do to yourself? Archduke Karl thought to himself, and looked at each other proudly.

"I'm really sorry, Teresa was very depressed because of some things before, so in order to let her relax, I arranged for her to travel elsewhere. It may take a long time to return to China, which disappoints you." At this stage, he doesn't care about his attitude anymore, so although his tone is polite, his expression is not too polite.

Contrary to the Grand Duke's expectations, Princess Sophie's expression did not show any anger, instead it was mixed with bitterness, helplessness and confusion.

"So... it's really gone. She really did what she said." She sighed softly.

Then, she looked at the Archduke couple again, "To tell you the truth, when I met Teresa before, she told me that she wanted to leave our country and go to Duke Reichstedt."

"What?!" The duke and his wife looked at each other, shocked by the sudden news.

They couldn't have imagined that their daughter would have the guts to say such a thing to His Highness. Could it be that there is really any friendship between them?

Archduke Carl thought for a moment, but couldn't figure it out, so he didn't plan to go around.

"She...why did she tell you this?"

And when he asked that, it was tantamount to admitting that it was true.

"Why?" Sophie's smile showed a little mockery.

Of course she knew why, but she didn't plan to tell the parents now--because she still wanted to use their help and didn't want the relationship between the two sides to break down.

"Well... probably the two of us have very different personalities, so let's appreciate each other." She casually made up a reason, "When she told me about this, I wanted to stop it, so I scolded her... I didn't expect her to be so stubborn, she had to do it."

Archduke Karl was speechless for a moment.

"Hey, this girl is so self-willed, what can I do!" In the end, he could only sigh with a wry smile.

Then, he looked at Sophie again, "Okay, now you've seen it too, Teresa has passed, the two of us have been frightened all day, but there's nothing we can do."

"I'm afraid it's more than that..." Sophie asked back, "Is there no news of Teresa?"

"What are you implying?" asked Archduke Karl.

"I didn't imply anything, Your Highness." Sophie shook her head gently, "I only know that loving parents like you would never throw their daughter away and just leave it alone... so you must pay her back. There will be correspondence."

Archduke Karl looked at the princess and couldn't help laughing after a while.

"It's wonderful! You have some potential to be a police officer!" He smiled and admired, "Maybe yes, maybe not, so what? Are you here to interrogate me today on behalf of Your Majesty?"

"Don't get me wrong..." Sophie waved her hand hastily, "I'm just talking about a hypothetical question—"

"Hypothetical?" Archduke Karl was puzzled.

"Assuming that you do have contact with Her Royal Highness Teresa, and assuming that you do intend to maintain such contact, then you must have a messenger to find Teresa." Princess Sophie said calmly, "Then suppose I want to If I send some gifts to Teresa, I can also pass through you."

Archduke Karl was stunned again.

"Give her a present?" he asked in surprise.

"Yeah, it's just a little thought." Sophie smiled and nodded, "Although I don't agree with her willful behavior, I admire her determination and courage, so in order to express this respect, and to entrust her with a bright future I wanted to give her something - so I came to you. Oh yes, these are hypothetical and don't involve any reality."

Of course she didn't want to give Teresa a gift, it was just a pretense.

But she needed the pretense as an excuse.

Otherwise, she has to explain the reason... She is not afraid of being known by others about that affair, but God knows how her parents will react to it now, so she can only play tricks for the time being.

"What do you think?" Sophie looked at Archduke Karl calmly with a smile.