Chapter 9 Ella's Way Home (2)
That night, the news was sent to the Duke of Otto by the fast horse. When I heard that Ella had not only not afraid after watching the training of the guards, she also clapped hard, Otto punched the table with anger.
"We are completely regarded as monkeys!" he said gritting his teeth.
If Ella was just an ordinary nobleman, he would feel that she lacked political awareness. But now Ella is a "triumphant" who is famous all over the world with her military fame. Such performance only made Otto feel that he and his troops were despised.
Amy and her troops have caused a huge blow to the Almany Federation. Hamburg City and Bremen, the commercial towns in the northern part of the Almany Federation, have fallen one after another. The nobles who fell into Amy's hands have all been sentenced to death without exception.
A group of nobles, including Duke Otto, have asked the Earl of Ile de France for help more than once, but received no response.
In this case, supporting the reset of "Triumph" seems to be the best way - for those merchants, if the Triumph can be successfully reset, they will have the opportunity to reach a friendly agreement with the Triumph; for Duke Otto, as long as the Pirate Kingdom is in an infighting situation, he can take the opportunity to seize the profit.
The restriction of Ella's actions is due to the subsequent negotiations with Ella. Ella knows less about their dilemma, and they can have more bargaining chips when negotiating.
But at the same time, Duke Otto was also worried: just an unknown maid would have caused trouble in the northern part of the Almani Federation. If the "Triumph" was put back, would it become a tiger to return to the mountain?
So he arranged this exercise. He had to let the "Triumph" see the strength of their Almani Federation!
But this plan seemed to have failed. Perhaps in the eyes of the "Triumph", his troops were really just circuses.
He turned his eyes to the others in the same room—there were the major lords and merchants in the north of Almany. They had been here for several days in order to negotiate with the Triumph.
"Is it really good to let such a terrible person go back?" asked Duke Otto.
The mayor of Hamburg stood up. After Hamburg was occupied by Amy, he was actually a "former mayor", but relying on his property scattered throughout the federal federal Almany, the weight of his speech was still important.
"There is no other way at the moment," said the mayor of Hamburg. "I'll go and test her myself tomorrow."
That night, a carriage drove away from the capital of Duke Otto with the mayor of Hamburg. He arrived at the castle where Ella was located the next night. After a brief rest, early the third morning, he visited Ella with gifts.
"Oh oh! Do you want to give me so many gold coins?"
Ella looked at the box of gold coins, her eyes shining. When she was in the Seven Hills Empire, this kind of gift would definitely not be able to reach Ella's eyes. But she is now carrying a huge debt of 150,000 Nomisma, and she is afraid of being poor. Simply giving gold coins is much better than giving other gifts.
Ella's performance made the mayor of Hamburg breath a sigh of relief. The more Ella likes money, the more room for negotiations there is.
"We heard that the Swedish king came here, so we came to visit him." said the mayor of Hamburg. "It's not just me, this box of gold coins is a three-city city of Hamburg, Bremen and Lubeck to come together to give the Swedish king a gift."
"Oh oh oh oh oh! I will definitely bring a gift to visit again someday!"
"There is no need to visit again. This is just a trivial gift." The mayor of Hamburg bowed and said, "The three of our cities have decided to contribute funds to help the Swedish king regain the position of the Pirate Kingdom."
"Regain the position of the Pirate Kingdom?" Ella was stunned for a moment, "Is there something happened in the Pirate Kingdom...?"
"Ah, it turns out that the Swedish king 'knows nothing'." The mayor of Hamburg smiled unattractively, then took several letters out of his arms and handed them to Ella.
"This is……?"
The mayor of Hamburg bowed his head and said, "This is the current correspondence between the 'Swedish King' of Pirate Kingdom and us. There are three letters in total - about how to make the 'former Swedish King' disappear forever."
Ella opened the envelope with suspicion and pulled out the letter. After reading the content of the letter, her face suddenly turned black.
"I've already figured out the matter."
Ella threw the letter on the table and turned her back to the mayor of Hamburg.
"Let me think for a while, you go first."
The mayor of Hamburg took advantage of the situation and said, "King of Sweden, please rest assured that everyone who has seen this letter is on your side - because that Amy is a tyrant. No one will be willing to work hard for the tyrant..."
"I asked you to leave first, didn't you hear it?"
Ella's sudden voice frightened the mayor of Hamburg. From this position, he couldn't see the expression on Ella's face. He couldn't guess what Ella was thinking. After waiting for a while, he didn't see her talking, so he had to leave in disappointment.
After the sound of closing the door came from behind, Ella slowly turned around - she bit her lip and tried not to let tears flow out of her eyes.
In this state, she spread out the letters again.
The handwriting on the letter is crooked, as if it was caught by a cat, and there are many alterations on it. Ella is very familiar with these handwriting - this is from Amy. I remember that she taught Amy to write in person.
"Amy, why do you do this...?"
There are three letters in total. In the first letter, Amy told Almani that Ella had disappeared. She offered a series of conditions including trade privileges, hoping that Almani could get Ella out of her as she wanted to stabilize her status in the pirate kingdom. The last two letters were urging Almani to complete the matter quickly, with threats between the lines.
Ella's hand brushed through the words, intending to let the words tell her what Amy thoughts when she wrote the letter.
Words can't speak.
But Ella convinced herself over and over again: Amy wouldn't really want her life.
She looked at it from the beginning, hoping to see the words from the words.
She convinced herself over and over again: Amy must have wanted to tell something else through this letter, some information that could not be conveyed by the literal meaning.
Finally, she noticed a sentence in the first letter:
“…Send the little golden bird to the underground paradise.”
Ella wiped her eyes and wiped the tears that were about to overflow from her eyes.
Then, she smiled easily.
Chapter completed!