On one side is his brother, on the other side is his mother, who should he trust?
Sophia is caught in a contradiction.
"Your Highness Princess, please think carefully. You have watched Prince Sean grow up little by little. Please think carefully about his temperament. Is it really possible for him to give up the throne to you?"
This sounds reasonable.
From the day Sean could remember, he firmly believed that he would become a king one day, and he would not give up the throne to anyone. Looking back on what he just said, every word seemed to be false.
"I know you hate the queen, but she has to treat you like that. You are a witch, and there are many royal members who want to kill you. She can only use the most severe method to gain the king's sympathy. This is a choice made out of desperation.
"
This doesn't sound very reasonable.
Harsh? For the sake of the gods, that is not harsh, but cruel. No matter what the purpose, a mother should not treat her daughter like this.
Sophia fell into chaos, but the call of the guard came from the corridor.
"Princess Sophia? Your Highness the Princess?"
It's Butcher the Ox-Eater. Why is he here? Like himself, he has just arrived in the royal capital. He should not be allowed to enter the palace yet.
A maid stood up and said to Sophia: "Your Highness, please leave quickly and I will stop him."
The maid rushed to the door and soon had a conflict with Butcher.
"What are you going to do? Who allowed you to come here!" the maid roared.
"Who do you think you are talking to?" Butcher sneered, "I am now the captain of the king's guard. I followed the king's order to take Princess Sophia to the inner palace."
"Nonsense, the king is already dead!"
"Shut up! Stupid bitch! The previous king is dead, and I am following the order of the current king."
The current king?
Needless to say, he was referring to Sean.
Sophia was deceived by Sean, what the queen said was true!
Sophia was still in shock, but the quarrel outside the door escalated further.
"Get out of the way, stupid woman!"
"You can't go in, the princess is taking a bath!"
"It doesn't matter, I can put her clothes on!" Butcher laughed horribly.
"You are too presumptuous, please leave me immediately!"
"You say I am arrogant? Crazy bitch, you are too arrogant!"
puff!
A familiar sound reached Sophia's ears, it was the sound of a knife cutting her neck.
Gudong!
This sound is also very familiar, it is the sound of a head falling to the ground.
Butcher killed a maid.
Another maid locked the wooden door, and soon there was a crash outside the door.
The maid pressed her back against the wooden door and shouted desperately: "Your Highness! Run away!"
A sharp knife was inserted into the wooden door, directly penetrating the maid's body.
The maid fell down, and Butcher kicked the door open and walked into the house.
The house was empty and Sophia had fled.
Butcher turned around and issued an order to the guards: "Block all exits to the palace and block all roads leaving the royal capital."
Butcher was still an idiot, and blocking the exit was meaningless to Sophia. She only used the wall penetration technique three times to successfully leave the palace.
Before Butcher's order was conveyed outside the palace, Sophia fled the royal capital as quickly as possible.
Braving the wind and snow, Sophia ran all the way south.
But where can she escape now? There is no place for her in the entire Bayer Country.
She can only go to Golden Light City, where Nehruv and Salah are still there. This is Sophia's only hope.
We should really listen to their advice, we should really let Sean die in Shattered Snow City!
Tears hung on her face, as if they had frozen, and Sophia felt a sharp pain.
…
Today is a special day for Suixue City, because two major events are about to happen.
The first thing is that the restored pier has made its maiden voyage. Old Hill will take two warships and a hundred crew members to the Blue Bay.
It was not Doranor who taught them driving skills. The poor wizard was still lying in the hospital. The coach was Modesa, the God of Death. He accepted Reggie's employment. After charging a gold coin, he spent five days
Time has trained the first sailors and will follow them to the Blue Bay.
Reggie wrote a list to Old Hill, which included the purchase quantities of grain and various ores. He also brought two hundred pounds of white phosphorus to Old Hill, hoping that he could sell it at a good price in Blue Bay.
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The fleet set off and the moment the sails were raised, Reggie was very excited.
What made him even more excited was that the first steam engine could be put into use. After Khalaf improved it, the steam engine drove a grinding machine to rotate rapidly through the connecting rod and crank structure. Workers continued to pour white stones above the grinding machine.
Below the mill, fine powder pours down like a waterfall.
In less than an hour, the grinder ground a total of two thousand pounds of white stone, which is equivalent to the workload of ten workers in a day.
"Did you see it?" Reggie stood in the center of the smelting plant and laughed loudly, "This is the power of industry! Let the workers do more meaningful work! Leave the heavy physical labor to the machines, Shattering Snow City
We have entered the industrial age!"
Noros took the lead in responding: "Long live the King of Shattered Snow! Long live Shattered Snow City!"
The workers shouted together, and a female worker shouted excitedly: "No more grinding, no more backbreaking work!"
People cheered one after another. Calaf walked to Reggie and whispered: "Sir, we may need to buy more charcoal in the future. The steam engine burned more than two hundred pounds of charcoal in total."
"How many?"
"Two hundred pounds, my lord."
The smile on Reggie's face froze, and he forgot the steam engine's other nickname, Coal Tiger.
Using a steam engine to convert thermal energy into mechanical energy, Reggie did it.
But he ignored another thing. The conversion efficiency of the steam engine he built was only about 5%. It would consume two hundred pounds of charcoal for one hour and two thousand pounds of charcoal for ten hours. If this steam engine was allowed to work
After working for a month, the price of charcoal consumed is hundreds of times higher than the salary of all workers.
Without coal, using a steam engine is equivalent to burning gold.
Reggie calmed himself down first, then calmed down the workers.
Then he calmly announced something: "I was joking with everyone just now. You can go do your own thing!"
After saying that, Reggie awkwardly left the smelting plant, leaving a group of workers behind, struggling to figure out Reggie's intentions in the cold wind.
It seems that Broken Snow City is still far away from the industrial age.
…
Sophia spent three days on the run in the country of Bayer. She had no place to stay, no source of food, and she couldn't even drink a sip of clean water.
Word spread so quickly that the messenger's horse could move faster than her pair of legs.
Sean has been crowned the king of the Bayer Kingdom, and the first order he issued is to arrest the murderer of the previous king, Sophia Bayer.
What a shameless act, he actually blamed Sophia for his father's death.
Late at night, Sophia trudged hard through knee-deep snow. She stole a piece of bacon from the farmhouse and swallowed it with snow water. This was the only food she found today.
Her legs had lost all feeling, and she didn't even know if she was walking in the right direction.
There seemed to be a fire ahead, but before Sophia lost her alertness, she immediately lay down in the dead grass on the side of the road.
A group of cavalry came over. It seemed that they were just patrolling sentries and were not here to arrest Sophia. If they noticed the footprints on the snow, Sophia would really be unable to fly.
The cavalry were gone. Sophia tried to get up from the grass, but she failed.
A wave of tiredness came over her, and she could hardly open her eyes. She rubbed her cheek with a snow towel and tried her best to stay awake. If she fell asleep here, she would definitely freeze to death.
After several struggles, she finally stood up and took the first step with difficulty.
As soon as her foot landed, she received a violent blow from behind.
Butcher the Cow Eater wore heavy leather boots and kicked Sophia to the ground, then stepped on Sophia's head.
"Your Highness Princess, I finally found you!"
Butcher's ferocious laughter came to her ears, and Sophia, who had her mouth full of mud and snow, completely lost the strength to struggle.
"Guard, cut off her legs. Don't let our princess escape again."
"Sir, is this really allowed?"
"There is nothing to worry about," Butcher said with a smile. "Anyway, His Majesty the King just wants her to go back alive. It will be enough for her to climb onto the guillotine."