The sun never sets rose

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Back in London, where she had been away for more than half a month, when the army entered the city, they were warmly welcomed by the common people. Elizabeth smiled cordially at her people sitting on horseback, and there were cheers one after another in her ears. is a beloved queen.

The majestic and majestic Hampton Court Palace stands in front of you. The royal guard of honor dressed in red and black dresses is lined up in two rows, and they all blow the majestic and magnificent horns. Several Privy Council ministers headed by William Cecil stepped forward , holding their heads high in high spirits, to welcome the return of their queen.

Sitting in the carriage at the back, Jiang Xinyan watched Elizabeth being greeted into the palace by the nobles and ministers. She was arrogant and proud as a victor. At this time, she would feel that she was far, far away from that woman.

- I've been waiting for you to say it yourself

- because I like you too

This time it was not a dream, she heard it with her own ears.

Mrs. Ashley's words echoed in her ears, beating her heart fiercely, and she began to understand why that arrogant and powerful woman insisted on her speaking first, except for the lack of security in her heart, maybe... It's also about faith.

"Ugh…"

The news of the sudden death of the Queen Mother of Guise, together with the news that the French army was repelled by the British army to the Firth of Forth, spread throughout the European continent. In the past few days on the way back to London, the situation reversed.

Elizabeth brought back the head of the French general and ordered it to be hung at the entrance of the market for a week, and then it would be given to the French authorities as a gift when it was almost rotten.

The Englishman suddenly felt elated...

At the meeting of the Privy Council, the ministers of the war faction began to clamor again to send troops to attack France in one fell swoop, all of them were full of complacency, as if the whole of Europe should surrender to them.

"France has been messed up by the Huguenot War, and there must be no time to take care of other things. This is a good time for them to return Calais!"

"Yes, the King and Queen have to pay a huge sum of money for using Your Majesty's coat of arms and title without authorization!"

"There is no need to negotiate peace with them!"

Elizabeth watched them chattering with cold eyes, her calm face showed no ups and downs, and the more favorable the situation, the calmer she was, because victory often dazzles people's minds.

Glancing at Cecil, who was silent, he saw that he was frowning for some reason, stroking his beard, and he, who had always advocated war, did not express any opinions this time.

She raised her eyebrows, cleared her throat, and raised her hand, "Okay, everything is quiet."

"..."

"Adults, please restrain your impulse." Knuckles tapped the table lightly, and the deep voice slowly escaped from the throat, "Have you forgotten how the last battle was a disastrous defeat? No matter how you look at it, Our strength is not as good as that of France. This time, it was just God's favor that caused the enemies to encounter troubles. We had no time to take care of the situation in Scotland, so we were able to win. Don't think that we can act recklessly in this way, and we can even talk about conquering Europe. come out??"

A certain minister who accidentally blew past just now quickly lowered his head, his face turning blue and white...

For a while, there was no sound.

"It is in England's best interest to seek peace now. We need a stable environment to develop the domestic economy. Do you care about the empty treasury and fiscal deficit? Do you care about soaring prices and currency devaluation?" The cold tone revealed a fierce threat Pressure, as the sharp eyes like ice skates swept over everyone, a layer of low-pressure clouds shrouded the huge Privy Council in midair.

These days, Cecil has always been in charge of the expedition to Scotland. She believes in his ability, but after all, she is not a god. Have fun.

The financial officer told her that the government is currently in debt of 40 pounds, which is the poorest in history since the founding of the Tudor dynasty. As a queen, she may have to sell jewelry and dresses for money...

Money money money, she needs money.

Cecil, who had been silent all this time, raised his head, stroked his beard, and said cautiously: "Your Majesty is right, thanks to God, the current situation is extremely beneficial to us, and it is best to strive for peaceful development. If we wait until If the enemy takes a breather and then makes peace with him, I'm afraid the result will be very bad."

The main combat faction was originally headed by Cecil. Seeing that he had already spoken, his emotional appearance immediately changed, and he nodded in agreement with a sneer.

Elizabeth rubbed her temples, leaned on the back of the seat and changed into a comfortable position, and cast an appreciative glance at Cecil, as expected of her left and right hands, and understood her.

Then he went on to say: "The Protestant nobles headed by the Earl of Murray have taken over the Scottish government|government, and now we have another Protestant ally, so we don't need to worry about it for the time being. negotiation."

The country across the sea is England's century-old enemy, and the grievances have never ceased. Now she has successfully driven the French from the British island, which undoubtedly greatly increased her prestige, but this is just the beginning.

The dumplings just out of the pan were hot and still emitting white smoke. Jiang Xinyan looked at her masterpiece with satisfaction, thinking that her model worker queen had been busy just after returning to the palace, so she made dumplings by herself to comfort her, and her heart was sweet.

This time she developed pure seafood stuffing and pure vegetable stuffing, plus the original pork and cabbage stuffing, to give Elizabeth a different taste. In the future, she will develop more Chinese delicacies, which is bound to conquer the stomach of the proud queen.

"Hmm~ the aroma of dumplings~"

Two arms wrapped around her waist from behind, popped out suddenly, whispered to her ear, and sucked her nose.Jiang Xinyan was taken aback, and turned around: "When did you come in? You didn't make any sound when you walked, it's scary..."

"I want to give you a surprise." Kissing her earlobe, the hand around her waist moved slowly along the ribs, inadvertently brushing the slightly bulging softness, and chuckled, "Are all oriental women's breasts so small?" ?”

Embarrassed, she blushed and pushed away the octopus on her body, "Laugh at me again, I won't give you dumplings next time!"

"Okay, don't laugh."

After finishing speaking, Elizabeth really put away her joking expression, sat down, picked up the tableware, and began to feast on those white and fat dumplings.

Watching her eat is a kind of enjoyment. No matter how bad the environment is, no matter how ordinary the food is, she can always eat with an elegant sense of ritual, as if admiring a dynamic landscape painting, her gestures are so natural, without artificiality It's like, like, born this way.

It's hard to imagine that this woman, who was eating gracefully in front of her, would chop off the head of the enemy general without blinking her eyes. Isn't there any fear in such a bloody scene...

"Why don't you eat?"

After recovering, he lowered his head in embarrassment, "Oh, eat..."

The fork stabbed heavily into the body of the dumpling, once and again, piercing densely packed holes, and the remaining soup inside slowly flowed out. Before it was smashed, Jiang Xinyan finally took a fork and took a bite. It was very fragrant. It's a little hot.

"Words."

"Ah...?" He raised his head and answered vaguely.

Elizabeth put down the tableware, looked at her seriously, and looked a little embarrassed, "Jane will be executed in Tower Green this afternoon, you... want to go and see?"

There was a faint shadow cast on the deep gray-blue pupils, she was a little nervous and apprehensive, caring about the girl's reaction.In fact, the "witch" prisoner should have been burned to death according to the law. The reason why it has been delayed until now is firstly because of the war, and secondly because...

The silver fork fell to the ground with a bang, and Jiang Xinyan quickly picked it up, and put it aside, her long black hair slid across her cheeks, and her reddish eyes could be seen faintly, like an illusion, and quickly disappeared.

"Thank you, Elizabeth." She brushed her hair, blinked, and smiled brightly.

"what?"

Jiang Xinyan knew that the Green Tower was the place where beheadings were carried out, but according to the laws of England, witches should be burned at the stake, tied to the central square by the market and burned to death. The process was slow and painful.

The beheading is different, the end is just a moment.

Knowing that she is powerless to change anything, this is already the biggest concession, so she is very grateful to Elizabeth for being willing to accommodate her. The feeling of being understood quickly swelled in her heart, filling her countless moments of sadness due to emptiness, she should be content Already...

"I won't look anymore, I'm afraid." With a slight smile, he shook his head, picked up his fork and prepared to continue eating.

Elizabeth pressed her hand and passed her own tableware, "Your one is dirty, use mine."

In fact, the maid could have brought another one, but she suddenly had some bad taste in her heart, how romantic it was for the two of them to share a fork.

Dazed, he took it over, "Okay."

"feed me."

"..."

Slightly squinting her deep blue pupils, she looked at the embarrassed girl across from her leisurely, licked the corner of her mouth with her tongue, raised a seductive smile, and said softly: "If you use my tableware, you are mine."

"Okay, your people."

It is better to admit it generously than to be evasive.

Jiang Xinyan raised his eyebrows at her as if in protest, forked a dumpling and brought it to her mouth, when she opened her mouth to bite it lightly, with a force of her wrist, she stuffed her mouth full...

"Hahahahaha!"

"..."

"See how reserved you are, hahaha..." Smiling, Jiang Xinyan noticed that the face of the person opposite was getting darker and darker, stood up and ran away, "Ah...I'm just joking, don't hit me..."

Crackling finger bones, Eliza stood up with a dark face, grabbed her arm and pulled it into her arms, leaned her head against her lips, and the half of the dumpling that was exposed went into her mouth.

Jiang Xinyan bit subconsciously——

Chewing on the seafood flavor in their mouths, their eyes widened, they swallowed half of each dumpling at the same time, their oily lips were moist and slippery, they entangled and invaded unexpectedly, drowning out the remaining gasps...

"If you eat my dumplings, you are mine," she said to Elizabeth.

"Okay, your people."

Her gentle and watery eyes reflected in her lacquered black eyes, that kind of expression that did not belong to her Elizabeth before, hot, strong, gorgeous...

Give up your faith, she thought.