The sun never sets rose

Jiang Xinyan vowed to study hard.

The next day, her queen issued an edict and called her some famous elites from Oxford University and Cambridge University to be her teachers. The battle frightened her.

The two oldest prestigious schools in the English-speaking world, she couldn't get in even if she sharpened her head in modern times, but here it was just a word from the queen, and Cecil, the principal of Cambridge, just turned a blind eye.

The carriage team stopped at the gate of the palace, and Jiang Xinyan was picked up to visit Trinity College, Cambridge University. He was escorted by Sir Norris, Captain of the Royal Guards, and Mrs. Ashley and Hannah took care of him. Teachers accompanied him. If Elizabeth was not busy with state affairs, She must accompany Little Rose in person.

Jiang Xinyan wants to cry but has no tears...

She just wanted to relax. The reason why she chose Trinity College was because it was founded by the Queen's father, Henry VIII. Others such as King's College, Christ's College, and Queen's College were not that interested.

After being manipulated by Elizabeth, she seemed to be the leader who went to inspect.

The whole day, exhausted.

"Miss, do you want to take a bath?"

Back in the room, Jiang Xinyan couldn't wait to collapse on the bed, she was sweating but didn't want to move, it was early summer, the season when she had to take a bath every day.

"Wash later, I'm so tired..." He hummed weakly.

"Yes."

Hannah is a quiet, introverted, careful and prudent maid. She was trained by Mrs. Ashley. She has a clean family background and doesn't usually talk much, but she is very considerate in taking care of Jiang Xinyan. It's just because she is too disciplined and cautious, but she doesn't have the lively atmosphere of a girl .In her opinion, Jiang Xinyan is the master and she is the servant, and this relationship cannot be overcome.

I kind of miss the days when I used to talk to Jane all the time.

I don't know how she is doing in heaven...

Tired, my brain is groggy, I want to sleep, my eyelids are drooping and they are about to close...

"what!!"

Hannah, who was going to the window to feed the rabbit, suddenly screamed and took a few steps back, "Miss... the rabbit... the rabbit is dead..."

"?!!"

Jiang Xinyan was jolted all over, bounced up, woke up instantly after dozing off, rolled and scrambled and fell to the ground, grabbing the big wooden cage that had just been replaced not long ago, in which lay a ball of gray fur quietly, his plump body motionless , as if asleep.

There are unfinished vegetables and radishes in the cage. The rabbit she raises knows her temper. This point is usually when the radish is chewing well, and she is used to the squeaking noise made by this fat guy eating. No wonder I came back today I always feel that something is wrong.

Dazed, she stretched her hand into the cage...

His fingertips trembled slightly, and he touched a piece of fur that had no body temperature.

Tears immediately poured out, crackling and falling down like broken beads, the field of vision was foggy and blurred, and the throat was choked and trembling: "How could it be dead... It was fine when I went out in the morning... I watched it eat carrots of…"

The rabbit who has been raised for nine months has long had a deep relationship, not to mention that it was hunted and given to her by Elizabeth herself, just like a witness of the change in the relationship between the two.

Without warning, he died so suddenly...

Jiang Xinyan sobbed and opened the cage, took out the ashes-soaked corpse, gently stroked its ears that could no longer stand up, a few crystal tears slid down its face, and wet its gray-brown hair.

"Miss…"

Hannah didn't know what to do for a while, and was at a loss.

Until Mrs. Ashley came to call Jiang Xinyan to have dinner, she saw such a scene, and went back to report to the queen helplessly. After a while, Elizabeth came in person.

Jiang Xinyan smashed his fat body with ashes in his arms, squatted on the ground and cried, his thin shoulders trembling unceasingly, his lonely figure was lonely and embarrassed, like an abandoned kitten, sad and helpless.

As if she heard the sound of approaching footsteps, she raised her head, revealing a pair of red and swollen eyes, and Elizabeth's standing figure was reflected in the chaotic black eyes washed by tears, her heart relaxed, and her tears became more turbulent...

"It's dead..." Crying with a strong nasal voice, panting, "You gave it to me...I didn't take good care of it..."

Empathetic sadness gradually spread from a corner of her heart, and her chest felt like suffocation pain. Elizabeth squatted down, took her petite body, and pressed it in her arms, "I said, it's not your fault, we will bury it properly, Then I'll catch another rabbit and give it to you, okay?"

Little Rose cried until her heart was broken...

That hard and cold heart, honed in the sea of ​​evil in the palace and the conspiracy of power desire for many years, was shattered into dross.

Not to mention rabbits, Little Rose can catch anything she wants, even the most ferocious beasts. Of course, she has caught many of her prey in Greenwich Palace, all of which kill adult mothers. After spotting the cubs, they should be grown up by now.

Jiang Xinyan shook his head, twitching and saying intermittently: "No more...I don't keep small animals anymore..."

In addition to the rabbit, when she was a child, she also raised a golden retriever dog, which accompanied her from the age of four until she passed away peacefully on the eve of her departure after she applied to a school in the UK.She was so sad that she stayed up all night and almost missed her flight to London the next day.

Compared with the lives of animals, the lifespan of human beings is too long, so long that people like her who love to keep small pets are always facing life and death, so she never wants to keep any pets anymore, it hurts her heart.

"Okay, then don't raise it." Kissed away the salty liquid from the corner of her eyes, touched her face distressedly, and wiped it gently with her fingertips.

"But why did it die when it was fine... Before going out in the morning, I smashed the ashes and prepared all the food I would eat for the day, and the door was locked. It is impossible for someone to come in and kill a rabbit..." Jiang Xinyan leaned on her queen's arms Li was talking to himself, breathing convulsively, and his eyes were swollen like walnuts.

Elizabeth looked down at the dead rabbit in her hand. There was no trauma, and she couldn't see anything. She frowned in confusion...

"Your Majesty, Your Majesty...!"

Mrs. Ashley, who was waiting outside, ran in in a panic, followed by a little maid who was doing rough work in the bedroom.

"what happened?"

The little maid's face turned pale, and she fell to her knees with a "boom", "Your Majesty...the two maids who tried your dinner for you died...it seems...poisoned..."

"Which dish?" His pupils narrowed slightly, his arms around Jiang Xinyan tightened, and he subconsciously glanced at the rabbit in her hand.

"I don't know... After eating all the dishes..."

Elizabeth looked calm, but she frightened her little Rose. She was still in grief, and was frightened by the sudden accident. Her hands trembled, and her tears flowed uncontrollably.

After living in a stable life for a long time, it is inevitable that she will lose her vigilance. Jiang Xinyan almost forgot the threats from all directions against the people around her. The scar left by the arrow on Christmas Eve that made her feel lingering fear is still on her shoulder, ugly and hideous.

"I'll go and see, you're here." With a serious face, he still didn't forget to smile gently at her, and patted her on the back in a comforting manner.

"No, I'll go too."

"Wait for me here, be obedient." She frowned slightly, and held down the girl's restless body.She didn't want Little Rose to see those conspiratorial and bloody scenes, which would stain the purest treasure she carefully treasured in her heart.

However, Little Rose is disobedient.

Wiping away her tears, a firm light burst out of her dark and bright eyes, and she assured her in a slightly hoarse voice: "I won't make trouble, and I'm not afraid, let me go."

Perhaps, she could still know what the poison was.

A certain queen sighed helplessly and pinched her little face. Even if she agreed, she knew she couldn't refuse this little girl.

The air was filled with a strange mixed smell of blood, garlic, and excrement. The two poisoned maids were black and blue, and they spit out muddy debris, and a pool of red and yellow excrement soaked their clothes. Lie on the edge of the front flowerbed, curled up, in a tragic death.

All the maids and guards in the bedroom were so smoked that they stood outside the gate. Mrs. Norris was walking around anxiously, seeing the queen and the others coming back from a distance, as if seeing a savior.

"Your Majesty... don't go there, it's too scary..."

Elizabeth frowned, covered her mouth and nose, and walked in regardless of persuasion. Even though she had seen too many people who died, she couldn't help but feel a chill when she saw the two corpses...

The other maids who were frightened gathered into a group and whispered, and then Jiang Xinyan also squeezed over, terrified by the horrific scene, and hugged her arm.

Kind of like acute arsenic poisoning|poisoning...

He didn't catch his breath, and his face was as pale as paper.

"Your Majesty! Are you okay?!"

A high-pitched and sonorous male voice came from behind the crowd, and everyone stepped out of the way. Cecil and Worthingham hurried in, followed by Sir Norris and a group of guards.

The sky was getting dark, and the light from the torches illuminated the panic and anxiety on their faces. When they saw that the queen was safe and sound, they were relieved, but the next second, they covered their noses at the same time and looked towards the ground...

"This…"

"Why are you here?" Looking up, there was no emotion in the indifferent voice, and she held the frightened little Rose in her arms.

He shouldn't have agreed to let this girl follow.

Cecil stared straight at the two corpses, furrowed the deep folds between his brows, and a curly beard was blown up and down with his angry breath.

He and Worthingham looked at each other, hesitated to speak.

Glancing at them, she remained silent, her cold eyes swept over everyone, and finally stopped on her captain of the guards, and said in a deep voice: "Take the corpse away, clean up this place, and the others can do what they have to do." .”

The little maids who were so frightened that they would be implicated and arrested all heaved a sigh of relief, although they didn't quite understand why the queen didn't arrest everyone and interrogate them one by one...

Elizabeth hugged Little Rose tightly, stroking her back constantly to comfort her, and continued: "Also, bury those two maids well, and send some money to their families in my name."

"Yes, Your Majesty."

Seeing that her queen was as calm as an ice sculpture, giving orders in an orderly manner, Jiang Xinyan lowered her head in shame, thinking to herself that she was still a long way behind, and she had to work hard to catch up, at least to stay calm in the face of danger...

"Come here."

His eyes signaled the two men to follow, and he turned around and walked outside while holding Jiang Xinyan.

The air in the study can breathe freely.

Cecil and Worthingham obviously wanted to say something, and it was an urgent and important matter, but they all looked at Jiang Xinyan who was sitting obediently aside, and stopped talking again.

"Don't worry about her, tell me."

"Uh……"

After pondering, Walsinghan spoke first: "Your Majesty, we just caught a few insiders lurking in the palace. One of them was working as a helper in the kitchen. He was recruited after he didn't even stand a single torture."

"Oh?"

"He said that he was ordered to poison you twice, the first time because the manager failed, and the second time... is tonight."

Sneered, dismissive: "It's just a little guy, don't tell me you haven't figured out the person behind it yet."

"Very likely the Duke of Norfolk."

In the quiet space, the breathing of the four people froze for a moment at the same time.

"Maybe?" He raised his eyebrows in displeasure.

Walsingham handed over the things in his hand, his face became more and more serious: "This is a letter found from several bishops, which has not been destroyed in time. It mentioned the battle against Scotland in April, about the mobilization of reinforcements, they Cooperate with the Duke of Norfolk, and involve the cooperation plan of the second battle, but it has not been put into action, perhaps because I did not expect that you will personally conquer."

There are dense cursive letters, the signatures are vague, and some places are written in code. One of them is a map of the surrounding areas of Leesburg.

Elizabeth read the letter with downcast eyes, her pupils dimmed, and her fingertips pinched the paper to leave deep scratches...

If she hadn't temporarily changed the battle plan, if she hadn't placed spies around the Queen Mother in advance, and if there hadn't been Worthingham's careful deployment, I'm afraid, she would have died in Scotland.

Nice Norfolk...

"At present, I can only confirm that he has a rebellious heart, and I have not been able to find out the forces he colluded with. The people who were arrested have not seen the behind-the-scenes, so I don't know if the person who ordered you to poison you was Norfolk, but , Your Majesty, please be careful of him."

No one who fell into Worthingham's hands and was interrogated ended up telling the truth. His methods were so clever that those guys hiding in the dark were afraid of him.

But he is not a god after all, the enemy is very cunning, and it will take time to find out, but what he is most worried about is that the longer the delay, the more dangerous the Queen will be.

Cecil nodded thoughtfully, stroking his beard, "Your Majesty, do you remember that when Her Majesty Mary was around, Norfolk urged her to execute you?"

"of course."

She will never forget anything about the past.

"At that time, because of the marriage of Her Majesty Mary and Philip of Spain, England became pro-Western. Moreover, he has always been on good terms with the Spanish ambassador."

Pausing for a while, his eyebrows were furrowed, and he continued, "But what he did this time is obviously helping the French..."

"No, he's just watching the wind." Interrupting his words, Elizabeth stood up and threw the letters on the ground heavily, her eyes suppressed blood, "It was true that England was pro-Western at that time, and the dominance of the Catholic Church must be consolidated." , it is necessary to rely on the power of Spain, and now the crisis for England, or the threat to me, is France, and Scotland, which was pro-French before, is also a Catholic power, and he is watching on both sides."

"If we fail in terms of the situation in Scotland, it is his success with the Catholic Church, and it will be easier for him to overthrow me next."

Cecil and Walsingham's faces turned black beyond the horizon...

Walking in front of the two, Elizabeth looked at them solemnly and firmly, with a cold look in her eyes, "His father died at my father's hands many years ago, but today, he will die at my hands."