"Margery, what are you talking about?" Earl Macdonald deliberately showed an angry expression, and his features were squeezed together, "She is my cousin, how could I harm her."
After saying that, he stretched out his palm and pretended to hit her. But he was hesitating between hitting her or not.
Because Margaery was also a member of the Duck family and the daughter of the baker, with a distinguished status, he did not dare to take action. If Margaery was just a servant, his slap would have fallen long ago.
Seeing his appearance, Margery was so frightened that her eyes were wet, but she still held her neck and said: "Auntie must have been in the reception room just now. There were only a few of you in the reception room. Brother Werther will definitely not harm her, and she herself is better
If you don't poison yourself, then the only ones who can harm her are you."
After hearing this, Werther was worried that she would be scolded by Earl Marton, and even more worried that Earl Marton would actually slap her. So he stood in front of her, protecting her behind him, and looked directly at Earl Marton.
With a calm face and firm eyes, he said slowly: "Your Highness, Margaery is your junior, you cannot beat her indiscriminately."
"But she framed me!" Earl Marton's tone was extremely angry. "It is precisely because I am her elder and a noble earl that I cannot allow her to say this about me."
Werther smiled calmly: "Before confirming whether you are the murderer who poisoned Mrs. Alice, it is indeed too much for her to say this. But she is so rude to you because of me. If you want to hit me, why not hit me?"
Bar."
Seeing that he was not afraid at all, Earl Marton lost his confidence. He knew that if he really started a fight with Werther, he would definitely not be able to defeat him.
Seeing him put down his hand, Werther said slowly: "Now it's important to wait for Mrs. Alice to wake up. As for who poisoned her, I will definitely find out."
Earl Marton suddenly began to look ferocious: "Your Highness, please don't think that you can escape the crime you committed by saying this. My cousin was clearly healthy before she came to this castle, but after she came here, she was suddenly poisoned.
, whoever hears this kind of thing will be suspicious of you. If you ask me, it was clearly you who poisoned me, so don’t cry out to catch the thief."
Noli also echoed: "You are right, the earl has no reason to kill the lady, but the eldest prince has enough reasons."
After saying that, they looked at Hugh who was silent next to him, expecting him to say something to frame Werther. Hugh's eyes seemed to be evading, and his face was very unhappy. He lowered his head and looked at his shoes.
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Earl Macdonal seemed to be dissatisfied with Huum's performance and looked at him angrily with bloodshot eyes.
Werther saw all this, and he was very clear in his heart that the poison was indeed caused by Noli, and Hume seemed to still have a trace of conscience. If he could be made to change his ways, maybe he could tell some truth in front of the king.
This is in your best interest.
He carefully observed the attendant's demeanor and wanted to find an opportunity to take him to a place where no one was around and have a good talk with him.
At this time, Ivan was working hard to treat Mrs. Agnes, and other maids were also helping.
Earl Marton and Noli had sinister eyes, staring motionlessly at Mrs. Agnes in the room, as if expecting her to never wake up.
Margaery was now worried about her aunt and worried that Earl Macdonald would do something unfavorable to Werther, so she stood next to Earl Macdonald and stared at him.
Earl Martoner didn't have a good impression of her, and now that he was treated like this, he couldn't help but feel even more resentful. He still didn't dare to take action, so he stayed two meters away and said viciously: "You...
Guy, don't stare at me like a thief, I
It's not as bad as you think."
Margaery was so angry that she stamped her feet: "Ever since I can remember, you have been very bad. Do you think I don't know? When I was three years old and you were twelve, I saw with my own eyes that you would pursue one of your maids.
Pushed into the pool one by one! You were only twelve years old at that time, and it was really too much to have such thoughts."
Earl Marton retorted angrily: "I was only twelve years old at the time, and I didn't want to fall in love at all. Those maids pestered me every day, which made me very irritable. Besides, they were pushed in by me voluntarily!"
"Uh..." Werther was dumbfounded and couldn't help breaking out in a cold sweat.
Earl Marton turned around and looked at him: "Why, Your Highness, do you have any opinion?"
"I have nothing to say, I just think your behavior at that time was quite cruel."
"No matter what you say, I don't want to talk to you right now. I'm just worried about my cousin's safety. If something happens to her, just wait and go to the dungeon!"
"The truth will come out, but it may not be me who goes to the dungeon."
Werther looked at Noli with deep eyes, and saw that he was still standing calmly beside Earl Marton.
He was clearly Mrs. Agnes's spy, but he was so calm at the moment, obviously not taking his master seriously at all. Werther looked at him coldly, which made him feel terrified.
"Your Highness, the Great Prince, please stop looking at us with such suspicious eyes." Noli said to Witte, and then pulled Earl Marton, "Your Highness, let's sit in the reception room, so as not to be an eyesore here."
"That's right. These people want to frame us. We don't want to stay here any longer. We'll go back to the reception room and wait to see how our cousin is doing. If she doesn't wake up, we will tie up the eldest prince and take her away.
Go to the royal palace in Fran City and let the king deal with him."
With that said, the two men walked into the reception room while looking at Werther with hateful eyes.
The two servants behind them also followed.
When Hume, who was looking very bad, passed by Werther, Werther carefully took his arm and whispered: "It seems that Your Highness the Earl will be here for a long time. Dinner may be late today. Why don't you go to the kitchen to make some desserts first?"
Bring it to His Highness the Earl."
Xium raised his head and looked at Werther blankly: "Yes, Your Highness, but when will we have dinner?"
"Now that Mrs. Agnes has been poisoned, everyone in my castle is too busy. I'm afraid we won't be able to eat until nine to ten o'clock."
"That's fine. Anyway, my Earl often has dinner at this time recently. He has a lot of things to think about, so he often doesn't have time to have dinner and often postpones it until so late." Xiumu spread his hands helplessly.
At this time, Earl Macdonal, who heard their conversation, was extremely angry with Hume. He shouted loudly: "Don't talk too much. You don't have to talk so much to the eldest prince! Since the eldest prince asked you to get dessert, you go to the kitchen to get it."
That’s it.”
"Yes, Your Majesty."
Hume immediately went to the kitchen.
"Wait a minute, I'll take you there. If someone is in the kitchen and sees you entering as a stranger, they will definitely not give you anything." Werther said as he followed.
He walked beside Xium, carefully observing Xium's expression, and saw that he still looked gloomy, and there seemed to be guilt in his eyes.
"What are you sad about? Are you feeling guilty because you didn't stop your master and Noli's actions?" Werther blurted out without wanting to beat around the bush.
Xium immediately stopped and was stunned. After a long time, he turned back to look at Werther and whispered: "Your Highness, why would you ask such a question?"
Werther smiled: "Because I won't poison Mrs. Alice. At that time
In that room, only Noli was closest to her, so the most likely person to poison was Noli. Noli appeared to be Mrs. Aglis's servant, but in fact he was actually a subordinate of Duke Duke. Since it was Noli,
If he is a subordinate of Duke Duke, then his master is not just Alice."
Xiumu was stunned. He looked around nervously. When he saw no one else, he interrupted him and said, "Your Highness, please be careful. Don't let my earl hear what you are saying, otherwise he will kill you."
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"Didn't he originally want to deal with me? I'm not afraid of him." Werther continued, "If I guessed correctly, Noli is no longer of the same mind as Mrs. Alice. He is actually helping Madonna today.
The count was doing something, and what he was doing was to poison Lady Agnes, then frame it on me, and tell my father to take the opportunity to get rid of me."
He told all his guesses, which frightened the attendant opposite him.
"Your Highness, please stop talking." Xiumu boldly took a step forward, covered Werther's mouth tightly, and then looked left and right with very frightened eyes.
Werther was shocked by what he did. He took his hand away and asked in a low voice: "What's wrong with you? Even if my guess is right and your count hears it, then I am the one who is being resented. Why are you like this?"
nervous?"
"His Royal Highness, you don't know that my Earl has a very cruel character. If he is angry with you, he will definitely vent his anger on the attendants and servants. It may be me or someone else, and he will definitely give him a good beating.
Or locked up in a dungeon."
"What!" Werther opened his eyes in surprise, "He would actually do this. No wonder you are so afraid!"
"Yes, so please don't do anything to anger him, otherwise it will be us attendants and servants who will be unlucky." Xiumu said almost pleadingly.
This time, Werther was even more sure of his idea.
"Since you said this, does it mean that all my guesses just now are correct?"
"Uh, well..." Xiumu lowered his head in embarrassment.
"Why don't you tell me the truth? Is it as I said just now that Earl Marton asked Noli to poison Mrs. Agnes to frame me?"
"I can't say. Please forgive me, Your Highness." He took a few steps back and bit his lip tightly.
"Is it possible that you still have a master-servant relationship with him, so you are unwilling to betray him?"
"In the past few days, the last bit of affection he has left has been exhausted by him." Xium sighed, "And I can no longer bear to help them do bad things. I suffer every day and am tired of this."
life. I really want to find a chance to atone for my sins."
Werther thought for a while and said: "In this case, why should you be loyal to him anymore? Why not choose another path. If you are willing to follow me to tell the truth in front of my father and be my witness, then I will protect you.
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Hume looked at him gratefully, but still sighed and said: "If I were alone, I would definitely go to the king with you to tell all the crimes of Earl Macdonald, let alone what happened today, what happened in the past
I will tell everything. However, my father and uncle are Duke Duke's subordinates. Once I do that, they and my family will be implicated."
"So you are worried about your family, I can understand that." Vittor nodded, "I now understand what's going on. In this case, I won't force you. I won't tell you what happened today.
When you go out, be careful yourself."
Hearing this, Hume felt a warm feeling in his heart. He put his hand on the other shoulder, bent down, saluted Werther respectfully, and then walked towards the kitchen.
"Hey, wait!" Werther shouted from behind, "I want to go to the kitchen too!"