The sun never sets rose

In the dim candlelight, Jiang Xinyan stood in front of the desk with her head bowed, waiting for training. The big bag of bulging gold coins reflected the golden fire, almost blinding her eyes.

After honestly explaining who she was hanging out with today, and apologizing for her concealment, she hesitated to talk about bringing the wrong money.

"Words."

"Um…"

The white skirt caught her eyes, Elizabeth walked slowly in front of her, with a faint smile on her lips, she reached out and hugged her in her arms, and sighed: "Am I... too unreasonable? Let you even compare with your peers." There is no freedom to make friends.”

"No, I shouldn't have kept it from you..."

Her lips kissed the fine strands of hair on her sideburns, her eyes filled with pity, "I'm jealous, but I won't restrict your freedom. As long as you don't violate the law or betray you, you can do whatever you want, and I just want you to be jealous." happy."

"I'm very good..." His eyes were slightly wet, but he smiled with tears in his eyes. He didn't cry, which was fine.

She always felt that Elizabeth had changed, became more and more gentle, and loved her more and more, which made her feel like she was in happiness but afraid of being drowned.Because, she has not seen all the faces of this woman, what she fears the most is that she will fall from heaven to hell, which is also the so-called love turns into hate.

So she also has requirements for herself, not only to be good, but also to stand firmly on the side of her lover, even in matters that violate conscience and morality.

Olo is right. The thinking concepts of modern people are not suitable for this era. Here, the strong is justice.

"I know that Little Rose is the most obedient, but be vigilant in everything and be careful not to be used by others." Smelling the fragrance of the girl wantonly, her mind wandered.

Ever since she tasted the taste of this little girl, her self-control has become worse and worse...

"Is it the same for you?"

The little man in his arms raised a pair of dark eyes and looked at her cautiously, with a slight frown between his brows.

Startled, suddenly chuckled, pinched his little nose: "If you want, you will, if you don't, then you will not."

Jiang Xinyan nodded with a half understanding...

"By the way, that..." Pointing to the gold coins on the table, blushing with shame, "I didn't mean to take you so much money, I... don't know the price, so..."

"So you took it all back?"

"Well, I'm so embarrassing today, Olo still joked that I want to spend all your treasury...!" pouted arrogantly, buried her face in her neck, feeling hot for a while.

"Ha ha ha ha…"

"Don't laugh!" Pretending to be fierce.

"Okay, don't laugh." Elizabeth rubbed her little head, bent her face down, and put the corner of her mouth against her soft earlobe, "My dear queen, you have a salary of ten thousand pounds a year, and I originally planned to let you plan and manage it freely. , doesn't seem to work now?"

"Ten thousand pounds?" What kind of concept is this, I don't understand.

"I think it's necessary for your teacher to teach you something about...all aspects, my dear."

Jiang Xinyan lowered her head in embarrassment, curled her lips: "I will study hard, just don't dislike me for being stupid."

After learning how to ride a horse for half a month, she was barely able to control the speed and direction of the horse. Sitting on the horse's back and trotting, she had to be followed by someone to feel at ease.Then there is the language. French is improving very fast. I can do some daily conversations and my vocabulary is slowly increasing. Spanish is more difficult. She can't learn the tongue-like pronunciation...

As for art, literature, dance and musical instruments, we are still working hard.

The more she thinks about what she doesn't know, and Elizabeth knows it, the more she feels a sense of gap in her heart. It doesn't matter if she loses a bit in culture, but also in IQ and courage.

"How could you dislike it? Little Rose is the person I love the most." He held her frustrated face, and gently smoothed the wrinkles between her brows with his fingertips, thinking that he had spoken inappropriately just now, secretly annoyed.

"But I'm useless at all..."

"Didn't you say you wanted to draw a map of the world for me?" She raised her eyebrows, interrupted her grievances in a brisk tone at the right time, walked around behind the desk with her arms around her, spread out a piece of white paper as big as a tapestry, and whispered: "Draw Well, there is a reward."

"Ang...? What reward?"

Elizabeth blinked, leaning against her fair and tender face, her charming voice gently brushed her cheeks with her fiery breath: "Of course it's... a reward on the bed|."

Dazed, his finger bones trembled slightly, and he swallowed quietly.

Seductive... Seductive | Lure?

A few days later, the jury responsible for investigating Amy's death made a final judgment and characterized it as an accident-the Countess of Leicester, on a morning when the servants were all going to the market, He accidentally fell down the stairs and broke his neck.

Some believe it was an accident, while others still insist it was murder.

The speculation about who committed the murder quickly aroused people's gossip. The majority believed that it was Robert, while the minority believed that it was the Queen. Such a so-called "mystery case" became a topic of discussion after dinner.

Elizabeth attended Amy's funeral. In St. Mary's Church in Oxfordshire, she watched the bear and staff emblem of the Dudley family slowly pass by, followed by a beautiful coffin covered with black cloth. His face was calm, his eyes were indifferent, but there was a bit of regret in his brows.

Maybe she was really mourning for this innocent woman, or maybe she was just used to seeing big and small scenes, and the drama came from her heart.

According to the usual practice, Robert didn't need to be present, and only Amy's family and friends came. There was no such thing as "the earl's announcement of his marriage to the queen". Everything was so ordinary and followed the rules.

On the way back, for the first time, she did not choose to ride a horse, but shared a carriage with Cecil.

"Your Majesty, do you plan to let Robert return to the palace?" The atmosphere was a bit cold, and he tried to ease it.

"Wait until he finishes his mourning."

With her elbows resting against the window frame, Elizabeth propped her head up to look at the scenery along the way, her eyes were stiff, as if she was absent-minded.

After deliberating over and over again, he pondered: "But... he is suspected of killing his wife, so he is no longer qualified to stand by your side. This is what you want to see, isn't it?"

"Want to urge the marriage, William?"

"..."

Being spotted by the queen, Cecil didn't feel embarrassed. He just nodded slightly, stroked his beard, and said with a sad face, "Now your marriage is a top priority. If there are no heirs and heirs, all our efforts will be in vain. Lost the purpose."

"Tell me, whoever you like." Still looking at the roadside scenery, without raising his eyelids.

"The younger brother of the King of France, the Duke of Anjou, the Spanish Crown Prince Don Carlos, the Grand Duke Charles of the Habsburg family, the Swedish King Eric, and the Tsarist Russian Emperor..."

"Forget about Tsarist Russia, it's too far away." Waving his hand, his tone was impatient.

In fact, it was she who didn't want to have any relationship with the warlike and violent Emperor Ivan.

"The Duke of Anjou is too young, don't want it, the king of Sweden is worthless, don't think about it, Grand Duke Charles... Hasn't he rejected him before? Who is left?"

"The Crown Prince of Spain, Don Carlos." Wiping off his cold sweat, he was secretly delighted. It was rare for the Queen to listen to him talking about his marriage, but she had to seize the opportunity to marry her.

"Is that the little kid who coveted his stepmother?"

"..."

The King of Spain was once Elizabeth's brother-in-law. After the death of her sister Mary, he shamelessly proposed to her. After being rejected, he married the French princess. The princess was originally going to marry his son.

Cecil was at a loss for words, not knowing what to say.

If he knows his queen well enough, he should know that this is the queen's usual trick in dealing with marriage.

After chuckling, Elizabeth withdrew her gaze, sat up straight, changed her casual attitude, and said sternly: "Heirs are important, but you all want to urge me to have children, but you really think that as long as you can have children, you can guarantee the right of inheritance Is it? You will only let me attach or take refuge in other powerful countries, look at my sister's example, what will happen to the combination of Britain and the West!"

"William, your real thought should be...women can't rule independently, or don't know how to rule a country, right?"

"Your Majesty, I..." Cecil lowered his head helplessly after being told, and argued, "I am only for you, and also for England."

"I know."

"..."

In this world where men are in power, she wants to survive without being dependent on men, only to make herself and the country stronger, arguing about marriage is meaningless, she knows in her heart that marriage is a tool for the weak to consolidate power The diplomatic game of the

He sighed helplessly, rubbed his forehead, and simply closed his eyes and remained silent.

It was evening when we returned to Greenwich Palace.

Hundreds of candles were lit in the study, and all the candelabras were moved to the front of the table, making the area brighter than usual, but even this was not comparable to modern electric lights. Jiang Xinyan buried himself in the last line and finally let go She took a deep breath, she didn't want to be short-sighted.

Carefully removing the candlestick, the door was suddenly pushed open, and Elizabeth's slender figure walked in. Unable to adapt to the brightness for a while, she squinted her eyes.

"You're back, my map has just been drawn, take a look." He stepped forward and took her arm, and walked to the table as if offering a treasure, shaking his little head triumphantly.

Under the bright candlelight, a world map with clean lines and an open view is placed on the desk, drawn in black and red ink, clear and clear, and some annotations are written on the other small paper, which is too small country or region.

It took Jiang Xinyan three days to finally complete it. Although it is not as accurate as the satellite map, it can basically blow up all the maps of this era. She is very proud of this.

"Here, England is here. The area here is Europe. To the east is Central Asia. Here is the Mediterranean Sea, Africa, Egypt, and the Nile River. After passing Central Asia and then east is my motherland. The area is very large. Of course, this is only a land route. .”

The fingertips carefully slid across the dry ink, and the words could not conceal the joy.

"Cross the Atlantic Ocean to the west, enter the Pacific Ocean through the Strait of Magellan, and then go straight on, or don't go through the Strait of Magellan, and go around the bottom of the New World. Well, the bottom is the Antarctic continent. There are no people there, only penguins, that is. A kind of... a very cute and cute creature that is not afraid of the cold."

Almost talked about the Panama Canal that has not yet been dug...

It is much more convenient to have this river, and there is no need to detour.

Elizabeth stared at the map closely, her deep eyes flickering on and off, and burning flames danced in the bottom of her eyes, refracting a ray of unruly light.

There was a feeling of looking down on the world, stirring in her heart...

The world is big and England is small.

Thinking of the science advocated by the scholars in Florence, it is said that the sun is the center of the universe, the earth revolves around the sun, and the sun rises and sets on this land, but it is just a corner of the world...

"Words."

"Huh??" A certain girl was so proud that she was about to float up.

"I remember, what did you say to me...'the empire on which the sun never sets'?"

"..."

"What does that mean?" He raised his eyes and slightly hooked the corners of his mouth.

The passionate and strange smile was blurred in the dim candlelight, and the deep gray-blue eyes set off surging waves, shining with arrogant ambition.Jiang Xinyan stared at her blankly, and faltered: "It's just...there are England's territory everywhere in the world...sunshine..."

This is what she said out of her mind in a hurry. If history is changed because of this "prophecy", she will become a sinner.

"When the sun sets on one British land, it rises on another, forever, there is no night, right?"

"Um……"

After a long silence, the eyes fell back to the map, and the index finger covered the location of England, gently rubbing.

"Liz?" whispered her.

Suddenly, being hugged into a soft and fragrant embrace, Elizabeth's hoarse and deep voice came from beside her ears: "Xinyan, you are the sun in my heart, and every corner has the light you give, so you are my 'sunshine'. Little roses never fall'."

The chaotic heartbeat is clearly audible...

The moment their eyes met, her cheeks were blushing and burned to the roots of her ears. Jiang Xinyan put his arms around her neck and kissed her shyly.

"As I said, if you draw a map well, you will be rewarded."

"Really?"

"You have no jokes."

A seductive smile crept up to the corner of her mouth, her eyes flashed seductively, she bowed her head, her thin|thin lips brushed against her ears: "Tonight, you are on top."