Chapter 196： Return three

Ladi led the two of them to Quick, who had already fallen into petrification, and formally introduced to both parties: "Your Majesty, this is the Captain of the Nanfang, Quick. Mr. Captain, this is His Majesty the Grand Duke of the Duke of Eaton."

After finishing speaking, he pulled Quick's sleeve.

Captain Quick came to a sudden reaction, like a mechanical villain who was winding up a clockwork, he knelt down stiffly, recalling the plots of foreign envoys meeting the king in the third-rate dramas he had seen, and saluted lamely .

"Your Majesty, please forgive my impoliteness... I would like to pay tribute to you on behalf of Earl Greiman of the Kingdom of Aldo."

"No courtesy, no courtesy. You are all my heroes."

The Duke of Eaton helped him up with his own hands.

"You went deep into the wolves regardless of safety and rescued my wife and sister-in-law. On behalf of the Eton royal family, I pay tribute to you."

The Grand Duke thanked them with a pleasant face, mixed with some noble grammar that Quick could not understand, and Quick just responded with a "hmm", for fear of saying something wrong.

Damn, Master Grayman, what should I do now? ? ? ?

"Please also convey my respect to Earl Greiman. Arda has already won the friendship of the Duke of Eton. If he or his envoys come to Horn Bay in the future, the Duke of Eton will definitely welcome him warmly."

"Yes, yes, His Majesty the Grand Duke, I will definitely convey it truthfully."

"Then, please accept our thank you."

As soon as the Grand Duke clapped his hands, two attendants carried a wooden box and placed it in front of Quick.

After the wooden box was opened, the people around screamed.

The golden light was shining, and there was a box full of gold ingots inside.

"No, no, this is absolutely impossible..."

Quick's tongue is tied, he has never seen so much gold, how many Southern horns can be bought and made.

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

The two pushed back and forth several times, but Quick, who was not talking well, finally couldn't persuade the Grand Duke and accepted the gold.

"This is to poach the corner of 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 with a serious face, "Your Majesty the Grand Duke."

"You are?"

Duke Eaton asked suspiciously. Judging by the other party's attire, he should be a native of Jiaowan.

"My humble servant is Quiller Foster, the second son of the Marquis Foster of the Council of the Horn Bay Alliance."

"Oh, it turned out to be the child of the Marquis of Foster. I know your father. He is a kind and open-minded person. The communication between me and him was very pleasant."

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

"Then what is Master Foster here for?"

"Oh, the Grand Duke may not know it. The Foster family and the Greiman family are business partners. We are the exclusive agent of the Earl in Jiaowan. If my friend is leaving, I will naturally come to see him off."

Quiller emphasized "exclusive agency."

"Is Earl Greiman still doing business with Jiaowan?"

The Grand Duke still doesn't know that the porcelain that his court bought with a lot of money was shipped from the Northwest Bay by the Foster family.

But he soon understood what Quiller was cryptically referring to.

The Grand Duke smiled and patted Quiller on the shoulder and said: "I also cherish the friendship with the Marquis, so naturally I will not do anything to destroy the friendship. This time I came here purely to express my gratitude."

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

But he murmured in his heart: It seems that Paul's road in Jiaowan will become wider and wider, and he must remind his father to pay more attention to the Northwest Gulf.

…

Grand Duchess Helen pulled her schoolgirl over and whispered.

"Where's your adventurer friend?"

"After the dinner last night, the local adventurer's guild sent a letter, and they set off overnight because of something urgent."

"Speaking of which, how did that Earl Greyman treat you?"

"Lord Earl treats me very well. As you know, given the conditions in the Northwest Gulf, there is still a shortage of various types of manpower, so people like me who are too embarrassing to use are also highly valued."

"It's embarrassing? I finally heard you tell a joke, Ladi."

"Senior sister, I remembered something. What kind of reaction did the church have..."

Helen said angrily: "Hmph, now they can't forcibly show the 'evidence' to the public. It seems that they know they are wrong, and they didn't disclose it to the outside world."

After all, there is no direct evidence, and it is a serious crime to detain a female nobleman without authorization, and the church will not dare to cause public outrage in this regard.

"Have you ever negotiated with you?"

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

"Then what do you think?"

"How can there be such a cheap thing in the world? My husband has decided to try his best to promote and join the anti-church alliance. The reason why he didn't announce this incident is because the time is not yet ripe. Once the time is ripe, this will be one of the church's crimes." one."

"This... will not break out into war."

As a mage, Ladi would like to see the rulers of various countries unite to suppress the church, but if it leads to war, that is what she does not want to see.

"War? Impossible. The church only has some self-defense paladins. If all countries unite, will they have the courage to fight against it?"

The Grand Duchess is clearly optimistic.

"I hope so."

Having said that Ladi is not as optimistic as Helen in her heart, let alone the church's influence among the people, even among the ruling classes of various countries there are many faithful believers of the church.

I hope that no war will really break out because of this. Ladi, who is familiar with history books, knows the history of several religious wars in history. Unlike wars between countries that broke out due to interests, this kind of war in the name of faith is easier Break through the lower limit.

She didn't want to see such a prosperous Jiaowan turned into ruins.

…

After everyone had a conversation on the pier, the scheduled departure time finally arrived. Under the watchful eyes of Quiller Foster and the Duke Eaton couple, 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 place near the berth, they would have rushed over together.

A port officer on the shore untied the cable tied to the stake on the pier, and the sailors on the Southern received the cable on board.

Quiller shouted: "Hold the anchor!"

"one two Three…"

Many crew members chanted and pushed the anchor winch vigorously.

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

Since the South had no oars, several small galleys in the port were hired as tugboats to help her get out of the berth.

The sailors gestured to the tugboat, and the people on the tugboat began to paddle, and the Nanfang moved slowly through the cables.

Quick, Ladi and the others stood on the side of the boat and waved goodbye to the shore, and Quiller, the Grand Duke and his wife standing on the pier also waved back.

Nanfang slowly sailed away from the port and came to the open water. It untied the cable connected to the tugboat, raised the sail, and sailed to the open sea with the help of the wind, embarking on the voyage back to the Northwest Bay.