"Mother… "
A gleam of sadness flashed in Aisha's eyes, but it disappeared quickly.
However, Colin still caught it keenly.
No matter how Mrs. Sharon treated Aisha before, even if she tried to murder Aisha, she is Aisha's biological mother after all.
"How did mother die?" Aisha tried her best to maintain a calm tone, but it showed her inner unrest.
"It was poisoned." Colin sighed, and said again, "I have already sent someone to investigate who may have been in your mother's room last night, but I'm afraid there may not be any results."
Aisha nodded, understanding what Colin meant.
She also knew that the two of them didn't pay much attention to Madam Sharon's security before, after all, they didn't expect that someone would come to kill Madam Sharon.
At this time, something happened, and Aisha realized something was wrong after a while, and asked, "Why did someone kill mother?"
"Duke Miller and Mrs. Sharon were not included in the rebellion planned in the east."
After Ke Lin just said a word, Aisha understood the key point, and immediately said: "Mother has been silenced, so besides the East Realm, there is another force playing tricks in Silvermoon City?"
"Yes." Colin nodded and asked again, "Have you paid attention to the Miller family recently? Do you know which forces they may have contacted?"
Aisha thought for a while and asked, "Colin, do you know your mother's background?"
Seeing Colin shaking his head, Aisha continued, "Actually, my mother's surname should be St. Hilde."
"What? Saint Hilde?" Colin looked shocked.
"Yes. Strictly speaking, my mother is still the aunt of the Duke of the North."
"Why have I never heard of Vera?"
"Because my mother is an illegitimate daughter, and she is also the offspring of the previous Duke of St. Hilde and a half-elf of a different race. So my mother never dared to call herself a descendant of the St. Hilde family, and the St. Hilde family would not make it public. Acknowledge her existence.
However, even if it is a lowly illegitimate daughter, the noble blood of the paladin family still flows in the mother's body. She may be looked down upon by human nobles, but she is still noble in the eyes of us half-elves.
So, she later married my father. "
Colin nodded, and suddenly realized: "No wonder the Duke of St. Hilde of the previous generation wanted to marry Vera to Prince Tupe, and your Miller family was so active in trying to make this happen. So there is still such a relationship exist.
Your Miller family has a close relationship with the St. Hilde family, and you can even be regarded as a half-elf collateral branch of the St. Hilde family. "
"Yes." Aisha continued, "At the end of last year, when Queen Midella came to Silvermoon City to crown me, she was also very affectionate to the Miller family, especially my mother. I didn't think much about it at the time, thinking that they The intimacy is only due to this layer of blood connection."
"Queen Midella..." After hearing this name, Colin immediately narrowed his eyes and fell into deep thought.
Although Queen Midella had already formed an alliance with Colin in Yulongcheng and decided to fight against the power of the church together, but Colin would not naively think that Queen Midella would really think of "allies" everywhere , without any concealment and small tricks.
When Queen Aisha was crowned last year, Queen Midella coveted the Half-Elf Kingdom and tried to provoke the relationship between Queen Aisha and Colin.
Fortunately, the relationship between Aisha and Colin is not as simple as Queen Midella thought.
But Queen Midella may not stop there.
Now it seems that the Duke of Miller and Mrs. Sharon may be the hidden children left behind by her.
Aisha looked at Colin and asked, "Do you suspect it's Queen Midella?"
"It is indeed possible." Colin nodded and said in a deep thought, "She wants me to fight to the death with the East Realm, so she has enough motives. If Mrs. Sharon doesn't expose and you have an accident, I will only Put this account on the heads of the Eastern border people who launched the rebellion, and they might send their troops eastward in a fit of anger."
"It makes sense. Then do I need to send someone to interrogate other members of the Miller family? Maybe I can find out something."
"You can try. However, even Mrs. Sharon has been silenced. Presumably, even if there are contacts in the Miller family, they have probably been cleaned up."
"Well, I just want to take this opportunity to rectify the Miller family, so that things like before can't happen again."
"Okay." Colin nodded, with a flash of sternness in his eyes, "This time, don't be merciful, all hidden dangers and suspicious people will be cleaned up, we can't be constantly being attacked by the rebel forces in the half-elf country Pull energy."
"I see."
While talking, the two came to the artificial lake in the backyard of the palace.
Red maple trees are planted by the lake, and when the wind blows gently in late autumn, the flaming maple leaves fall down one by one, dancing lightly among the blue sky and green water, until they can't resist the temptation of gravity and fall on the lake. A white gull flits across the lake and picks up a white-breasted fish, causing the same species to chirp and compete for food.
Colin naturally embraced Aisha in his arms, resting his chin on her head, smelling the fragrance from her hair, immersed in this picturesque beauty, enjoying the solitude with his lover and daughter time.
At this moment, all the schemes and intrigues were quietly gone, and Colin no longer thought about the intricate entanglements of interests in Silvermoon City.
Sometimes, Colin even wants to leave everything behind, and take only the people he loves and the people he loves to fly away and live in seclusion.
Of course, this kind of thought just passed by in a flash, and was left behind by Colin.
After all, Colin is not stupid. He knows that this is just unrealistic and cranky thinking. If he really loses his title, territory, and army, what awaits him is not freedom, but imprisonment and even death.
Strength is the foundation of his foothold in this world.
Unless he can learn from the elves, seal off an entire forest, and completely cut off contact with the outside world.
But even the elves probably couldn't continue to live in seclusion.
The mysterious prophecies of the Savoy family, the strange behavior of the high priest Trisley, and the appearance of the Phoenix blood on Sylph all seem to indicate that the reappearance of the elves is not far away.
Once the ban on Huiyue Forest is lifted, it will have an impact on the status quo of this world, and Ke Lin is a little unclear.
But he knew that he was destined to be involved.
So before that, Colin had to stabilize his basic base—the northern border and the half-elf kingdom.
As for the Eastern Territory, he has no plans to send troops in a short time. After all, there is such a natural moat as the Nushui River, so sending troops is always the worst policy.
What's more, what the northern border needs now is to recuperate. Continued militarism will only continue to consume the war potential of the northern border. In the end, it will lose both sides in the fight with the eastern border.
But not sending troops doesn't mean that Colin has nothing to do with the East Territory.
(end of this chapter)