The sixteen-year-old Princess Her Royal Highness wore elegant white long-sleeved gloves, folded her hands naturally in front of her body, and smiled at Jenkins. But because his family is there, he smiles very reservedly.
"I'm not late, am I?"
He spoke out of breath, and glanced at his pocket watch. It was ten minutes before the appointed time.
"It's about the same as I thought. You probably planned to come half an hour earlier, but you were delayed because of an unexpected situation, so you had to run so tired, but you were not late."
The short lady said that as he approached, Jenkins smelled a very pleasant scent of jasmine from her. Restraining his impolite gesture of shaking his nose, he greeted Salhi II again.
I haven't seen him for a few days, but the king of the Northern Kingdom looks pretty good, at least much better than that night when he was playing on the chessboard. He nodded to Jenkins and looked at his clothes:
"Are you wearing this to pick up my daughter?"
This is a very sharp and harsh question, but in terms of diplomacy and etiquette, the accusation is clearly justified.
Jenkins laughed awkwardly, looking at the eldest princess aside, hoping that she could say something to help him out. Her Royal Highness understood what he meant, put down her hand covering her mouth and chuckled, and then congratulated:
"Happy birthday, Viscount William. Let's take your birthday present together later. I wanted to ask Dolores to take it."
She did not address Jenkins by his first name directly because her father was by her side.
"You are very kind."
He said meaningless polite words, hoping that Salhi II would stop pursuing the matter of clothing. Sure enough, he didn't pursue it, because he asked another thing:
"So have you arranged your birthday dinner yet?"
"Of course... Bishop Parode will send someone to my house in a short while, and it will be arranged soon. Oh, Bishop Parode is..."
"I know who it is. But do you really think it's too late?"
The old king stood there with the support of his servants, and asked some serious questions.
"this… "
He really didn't know, he had never had a birthday dinner in this world...nor in previous worlds.
"I knew you would be like this. My daughter sent someone there in the afternoon."
The king shook his head:
"A qualified man should take care of his own affairs, instead of leaving everything to women."
"I've told Julia to keep an eye on the interior, now we'll just go straight there."
Seeing that her father wanted to say more, Dolores interrupted quickly.
So Salhi II looked at his daughter with a very sad look, and he didn't say to Jenkins again until he saw that Dolores was about to cry:
"But in any case, Dolores cannot spend the night with you tonight, and you will remember that."
Yani and her sisters all laughed.
"Yes, of course."
The righteous Jenkins said that the tone of his speech and his expression made people quite convinced him, after all, he could indeed do it. But Salhi II was still worried, until the silent Alexia promised to bring Dolores back before one o'clock in the morning, and the old king nodded with confidence:
"Miss Miller is a very reassuring teacher. Since she said so, then you can take Dolores away... But since you don't need to go home to arrange the dinner, you might as well stay here for a while. I have something to think about. If you want to ask you, Miss Miller can also come with you."
"Okay, what are we going to talk about?"
Jenkins, who was still thinking about how to borrow a carriage, was relieved. In this way, after the conversation ended, he could use "I wasted too much time here so the reserved carriage has gone" as an excuse, which is justified and does not lose face I have borrowed a carriage.
There was a smile on his face unconsciously, which made Salhi II feel strange.
The place of conversation was moved to the small study on the first floor, besides Salhi II and Jenkins, there were Yani, Dolores and Alexia. Salhi II didn't shy away from it either. He told Jenkins that after Dolores was officially crowned king, the eldest princess Yani would also participate in government affairs as her assistant, so it was very appropriate for the eldest princess to be here now.
"Then what do you want to ask?"
"What happened to your queen yesterday afternoon?"
The problem is as expected.
"The heir was killed by the old man. She cooperated with the tree house in an attempt to purify Miss Windsor's Middleton lineage, and then let Miss Windsor succeed her."
Salhi II showed an undisguised look of contempt on his face:
"That person is really old, and his sensibility has completely overwhelmed his rationality. There is a better choice, but he chooses to do such redundant and dangerous things... That Windsor..."
"Very solid, I could even invite her to my birthday dinner if I wanted to and she would never say no. Of course I just didn't."
In order to take into account Miss Windsor's face, Jenkins did not say that Miss Windsor had actively hinted that she wanted to participate.
"You have such an idea, which shows that you are a little more mature than I thought. But you should follow this idea instead of just thinking about it."
He said this in front of Dolores and Alexia. Of course, Salhi II knows who will be attending the dinner tonight, so this sentence actually expressly expresses that Jenkins should let Miss Windsor Really become his "people around".
Jenkins looked at the expressions of Dolores and Alexia secretly, but the two ladies were not angry.
"I knew he would do that."
Dolores was even a little happy, she said to her father:
"Miss Windsor is indeed very reliable. I have been with her for a while, and she is a very decisive and capable lady. Don't worry about her loyalty. I think even if Queen Isabella took the initiative to support her, she is not Possibly a betrayal of Jenkins, I'm pretty sure of that."
"But people always change."
The eldest princess said, Salhi II also nodded slightly:
"This is not a joke. Even if you trust others, don't risk your throne. Jenkins, you know how to do it."
Concerned about Alexia, an outsider, he didn't hint too clearly. But what exactly he wanted to express, everyone present understood.
Regarding the fact that Queen Isabella was placed under house arrest by the church for a day, Salhi II showed a gloating attitude. He respected the queen of Fidetictree, but he also loathed her.
After hearing about the specific situation from Jenkins, she even showed full sarcasm about her murder of the royal heir. Although Salhi II was a little stricter, at least he treated his family well. Like Jenkins, he hated this kind of behavior extremely.
After the conversation, Jenkins successfully borrowed the carriage. In addition to the passengers of three people and a cat, there were some gifts in the carriage. Contrary to Jenkins' expectations, Dolores' brothers and sisters actually gave him birthday gifts, and even Salhi II, as an elder, gave him a pendant symbolically as a souvenir.
Alexia said that this is normal. Jenkins is almost certain to be the prince of the Northland, and there is a greater than half probability that he will be the next king of Fidetictli. Of course, Dolores' brothers and sisters should express it on his birthday. , saying that it would be strange to do otherwise.
It was almost seven o'clock when the three of them returned to St. George's Street. When Jenkins got off the carriage, he noticed three carriages pulling goods parked at the gate of his yard. All kinds of things move into the house. On the other side of the street, the church's carriage had already arrived with helpers. They were not surprised that Salhi II sent someone to help. The two groups quickly mixed together to help prepare the dinner. .
"Mr. Williams."
Julia, who was in charge of scheduling in the house, noticed the three standing at the door and walked out immediately.
"I told you once, just call me Jenkins."
Alexia showed an ambiguous smile, while Dolores blinked at her maid, who resolutely refused to look at Her Royal Highness's face.
"It can be cleaned up at about 7:40, and the progress is very good now."
"That's good, are Hathaway and Britney at home now?"
As he spoke, he wanted to walk into the house, but Alexia grabbed his sleeve:
"what you up to?"
Alexia, who was exceptionally beautiful tonight, looked up and asked.
"Of course I'm going home."
Jenkins asked naturally.
"Don't you need to pick up Hesha and Mihail?"
"Why… "
Under the scrutiny of Alexia, Jenkins also understood:
"Okay, okay, I'm dizzy."
He patted himself on the head, turned around and told the carriage that brought the three of them not to leave:
"Then you go home first, and I'll be back soon."
As he said, he picked up the cat on his shoulder and wanted to put it on the ground:
"Wait for me at home."
"Meow~"
Quite unexpectedly, Chocolat agreed, standing on the path in the yard instead of jumping at Jenkins, but staring at him with wide eyes.
Thinking of the "gift" brought by the chocolate this morning, Jenkins felt that his cat's wisdom had finally improved a lot, and he became more sensible, and he felt relieved:
"Close the windows and doors for a while, and don't let the chocolate run wild."
He told Julia that he was actually worried that the chocolate would get lost when he was not at home.
He picked up Britney and Hathaway who were dressed up and waiting for him respectively. The two ladies also got ready early and waited for Jenkins to pick them up. Of course, both of them guessed it. It was definitely not Jenkins who thought of this, but seeing that he was still on time and today was his birthday, the girls were very considerate.
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