Chapter 80: Meeting the Second Prince and the Third Princess
Werther wanted to go back to the bedroom, but when he passed the window in the third-floor corridor, his attention was attracted by the scene outside.
Several gorgeously dressed boys and girls were practicing riding horses and running around the open space outside the castle. Next to them, there was a brown-haired boy who was slowly practicing sword skills.
"That boy, I remember he was practicing swordsmanship more than two hours ago, and he is still practicing now." He couldn't help but mutter to himself.
The young man's level has reached a certain level, which is much worse than the average person's level when they first learn swordsmanship. He might as well not practice at this level. Witte also noticed that there was a senior palace guard standing next to the young man, who would occasionally give him guidance.
Most of the time it seemed like they were forcing him to practice, but the young man's face was full of reluctance, and he looked at the children riding horses with envy.
"Children of royal families and nobles should start learning swordsmanship when they are seven or eight years old. He must be over sixteen years old. How could he be able to practice like this?"
Werther thought for a while, even if a noble wanted to practice swordsmanship, it was impossible for him to be accompanied by palace guards. Could it be that this young man was the second prince? Looking at his hair and the eyes that occasionally entered Werther's perspective, they were both brown, similar to Werther. As for
His facial features are as if the king has become younger.
It can be preliminarily judged that he is the second prince. At this time, the young man's hand suddenly couldn't hold the hilt of the sword. His hand shook and the sword fell to the ground. Werther saw the red gem on the hilt. It turned out that this young man was really the second prince.
Second prince, he thought.
Among the children riding horses was a girl of thirteen or fourteen years old. There was also a senior guard riding behind her. Maybe she was the third princess.
There are two other children who are also riding horses. One looks to be thirteen or four years old, and the other looks to be only about ten years old. The people following them are not palace guards, but ordinary servants. Judging from the clothes of these servants,
They are not people from the royal palace.
"Your Highness, what are you looking at?" Maier appeared next to Werther again.
"Among those children who are practicing sword riding on horses, except for the second prince and the third princess, who are the other two?" Werther asked while looking out the window.
Maier also came to the window, took a look and said: "The other two young masters are your cousins, don't you remember? However, you probably haven't seen them in a few years, so it's normal that you don't recognize them.
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"I should be able to remember them this time." Vit nodded.
At this time, Werther saw that several children on horseback were beginning to rest, and their servants handed them handkerchiefs to wipe their sweat, while the second prince was still being forced to practice swordsmanship by the servants.
"His Royal Highness, the king asked me to inform you to attend today's afternoon tea." Maier reminded beside Werther.
Werther turned sideways and saw Maier's sincere eyes, so he nodded: "Okay. But it's already five o'clock now... Will having afternoon tea affect dinner? Forget it, I'm very hungry now.
It doesn’t matter that much. Maybe I’ll have an appetite again in half an hour after having afternoon tea.”
He thought to himself that since he had come to the palace anyway, he might as well choose something he couldn’t eat in Daybreak Town. He remembered that Wile once mentioned to him the more delicious snacks in the palace. Thinking of this, he couldn’t help but look forward to it. I don’t know.
What do the snacks in King Notland's Palace taste like?
"Well, I want to eat chocolate cake and soufflé. As for drinks, I want black tea and coffee." He said these words pretending to be calm.
"Well, Your Highness wants so much."
Maier was a little surprised. In his memory,
In the past, Werther was not allowed to have afternoon tea. When other members of the royal family had leftover food, he could only eat or drink some leftover food. In addition, he had never taken the initiative to ask for so much food.
"Can't we have so much?" Werther looked at Mel curiously.
"Of course not. Your Highness finally came back and it's right to use more food from the palace." Maier smiled, "It's just that this time I'm not asking you to reserve what you want to eat, but the queen has already prepared it."
Great food.”
"That's it. I don't know what afternoon tea he will prepare for me. I hope he won't put ginger in the cake, garlic in the coffee, and soy sauce in the black tea. Send it to my room for me later."
"Your Highness, actually, you are going to have this afternoon tea with the queen, the second prince, the third princess and several other young masters who are coming to the palace."
"With them?" Werther raised his eyebrows in surprise, nervousness flashing in his eyes.
"Yes, your highness, join them." Maier's face looked a little embarrassed, "The queen didn't allow you to have afternoon tea before, but now you finally have this opportunity, you might as well go and participate happily."
"But, it's dinner time in an hour. Why do they have afternoon tea at this time? They're not waiting for me."
Maier looked a little embarrassed: "What the queen means is that indeed they have been waiting for you until now."
Werther was a little helpless, as if it was his own fault. These little tricks of his stepmother were really boring. Instead of doing this, it would be better to skip the afternoon tea and just have dinner directly.
Werther really wanted to complain in front of Maier, but he opened his mouth and closed it tightly. Although Maier seemed to be a good person, he was his father's personal servant after all, so it was still inappropriate to complain in front of him.
So appropriate. When Werther was thinking about this, his face looked a little depressed.
"Your Highness." Maier reminded again, "Remember, you can show such a negative expression in front of me, but in front of other people in this palace, you must not show any dissatisfaction or loss in any case.
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Werther smiled and said: "I know, Mr. Maier, and I also know that you don't have any malicious thoughts towards me, so I show my mood in front of you."
"Your Highness, don't be careless. Sometimes you think you control your expression well, but when your opponent keeps irritating you, you are likely to forget to control your expression and show great dissatisfaction. If the queen said something that made you dissatisfied
If you write it on your face, it will be detrimental to you if the king sees it. The king will not consider it from your perspective, he will only think that you have resentment in your heart."
Maier reminded him seriously, his words were sincere and his eyes were sincere, as if he really thought about Werther.
Werther thought to himself that what he said made sense. In fact, he accidentally showed an unhappy expression in the hall just now. Fortunately, his subsequent performance made up for this mistake, so that his father would not be more jealous of him.
But...why was Maier so kind to him? Werther was a little curious. He looked at Maier, as if he was hesitant to speak.
Maier seemed to have read his thoughts and explained with a smile: "Your Highness, don't worry about my intentions. I am just thinking about the king. I think your Highness is a good person and you will be helpful to the king, so I will
You give kindness.”
"Well, I understand." Werther also smiled, suddenly remembering that the commander of the guards of the palace once said something similar to this.
"Your Highness, I will go and help you now
Now that you're ready, go to the garden outside quickly, they should be waiting for you."
"Dine in the garden?"
"Yes, Your Highness."
"I know, I'll go right away."
After Maier left, Werther looked out the window again. Several servants were already placing food and drinks on the small white table in the garden.
"Forget it, just go for it." He quickly walked down the stairs, then walked out of the palace. When he reached the open space in front of the palace, he stopped and looked at the garden in front of him where afternoon tea was about to be held.
The stepmother should be changing clothes, so she hasn't arrived yet, but the second prince, the third princess and the other two young masters are already here, playing and teasing each other.
Werther learned the names of his younger siblings from the names they called each other.
The second prince Lehn took off his armor vest, put it together with the sword, and threw it to the servant. He was now wearing luxurious prince costumes, and his curly brown hair, which was neither long nor short, looked quite neat, except for the hair on his forehead.
Part of it was wet with sweat. He swaggered onto the seat next to the afternoon tea table, leaned on the backrest, looked up at the blue sky, and gasped.
It could be seen that Lern was extremely tired, even though he was just clumsily swinging the sword in the air with weak movements. To be honest, it couldn't even be called a swordsmanship, at most it was just moving around with a sword.
Werther looked at the third princess Doris again. She was sitting across from Lern, with her hands folded in front of her chest, chatting happily with her cousin who was about the same age. Doris looked smart, and her tawny eyes were full of emotions all the time.
Shining with a smart light, and occasionally flipping up her tawny hair, she looks even more refined and elegant.
Even Doris's dress is very smart and natural without losing her princess status. There is no gold jewelry embellishment on her clothes, just made of yellow silk thread. Her shoes are also simple in style. She also wears a string around her neck.
A shell necklace is used as an embellishment. Her overall temperament is completely different from that of Lern, and her appearance is also very different. She is more like her mother and aunt. She is a beautiful embryo.
Werther also noticed two other children, a cousin who was practicing horse riding with Doris. They looked a little naughty, and they were very disrespectful to the servants in their words. They even tore up the tablecloth that the servant had just laid out. Because they also
It belonged to the royal family, so the servants did not dare to say anything, so they had to take away the broken table and bring a new one.
These two cousins look more arrogant than the second prince, and they are about to catch up with my two elves, Werther thought to himself, I hope they will become more sensible in a few years, otherwise it will be difficult to take over the fiefdom with such characters.
Maybe, I can show up now, Werther thought to himself, I wonder what their reaction will be when they see me? Forget it, never mind, let’s go there first.
He walked towards the tea table.
Doris heard his brisk footsteps first, moved her head a few centimeters, and saw Werther's figure. She opened her eyes wide in surprise at first, and then opened her mouth slightly, looking a little happy but unaware of it.
She looked at a loss. In panic, she stretched out her hand and waved it in front of Le En, with excitement in her voice: "Look, Le En, it's our king brother!"
After hearing this, Lern sat up straight and turned around slowly, his eyes facing Werther. Unlike Doris, his face did not have any happy expression, but was full of contempt and hatred.
When the other two cousins saw Werther appear, they showed mocking expressions and whispered something.
Werther now probably knows the attitude of these people towards him.