The sun never sets rose

The turbulent waves brought a cool sea breeze, and the air was filled with a faint smell of salty humidity. Jiang Xinyan woke up in a jolt, opened his eyes, and saw a hanging oil lamp in his sight, which swayed with the shaking of the sky. small noises.

where is this?

After a few seconds of stunned, there was a persistent soreness in the back of the neck...

"Hiss..."

She raised her arm and rubbed it, but it still hurt, but it also allowed her to sort out some memories in her chaotic brain.

She remembered that she was doing fieldwork in the city of London.

then……

Was knocked out!

Jiang Xinyan propped himself up and sat up. The touch in his palm was as soft as cotton wool. He lowered his head and found himself sleeping on a simple bed.Looking around, it was a small narrow room, which could only accommodate this bed and a dilapidated wooden table, and the remaining space was barely enough for two people to turn around freely.

It was pitch black outside the grid window, and the crackling sound of waves beating against the hull could be vaguely heard. The hanging oil lamp shook violently, as if it would fall off at any moment because the rope broke, causing a fire.

The wooden door was suddenly pushed open, making the sound of being old and scrapped, and a black figure stepped in. Jiang Xinyan was so frightened that he instinctively folded his arms and shrank back, pressing his back against the hard wooden board behind him.

With the help of the flickering candlelight, she could clearly see that this figure was a man, wrapped tightly in a black robe and wearing a strange mask...

This is the mask!

Jiang Xinyan's eyes widened in horror, knowing that there was a plank behind him, he kept shrinking.

"Yo, are you awake?"

"You... who are you...?"

A muffled smile came from behind the mask, and he sat down on the edge of the bed: "You don't need to know who I am, there is not enough food on board, in order to save some money, you will sleep for another two days."

As he spoke, he took out a small bottle and shook the dark liquid inside.

"Come on, open your mouth and drink it."

"Where are you taking me?" At this moment, his mind suddenly became surprisingly calm.

No matter who is arresting her, to be able to successfully attack her during the rare time when she goes out, it must be when she has been watching her for a long time and picks when she is not accompanied by guards.But in this era, except for Elizabeth and Olo, she has no acquaintances, and she has always kept a low profile, and she doesn't go out very much. Who can she have a grudge against and use this method to arrest her?

Listening to the sound of the waves outside, she can probably tell that she is no longer in England. No one can come to rescue her in a short time, and she is not sure about escaping by herself. She can't even swim.

Fear of the unknown broke her brief calmness.

Does Elizabeth know...

"Take you to an interesting place." As he spoke, he shook the small bottle in his hand again, motioning for her to take it, "Here, drink it, and you'll be there after a night of sleep. If you play tricks, you'll go to see God."

It feels like this man...is gay in gay.

Are you going to sell her?Such as brothels and the like.Jiang Xinyan stared at the bottle, and quickly calculated various plans in her mind. If she drank it, maybe it was poison|drug, and the so-called "interesting place" might be heaven. If she didn't drink it, she didn't know what this person would do to her.

God, who will save her...

"Will you die if you drink it?" He pretended to be calm, but his palms were wet with sweat.

"No, it'll just make you... sleep."

After a while, he still didn't move.

"You'd better hurry up, little girl, I don't want to be rough on women, especially... a beautiful and exotic woman like you." He lowered his voice, licked the corner of his mouth like a pervert, and disappeared in the darkness His shadow is like a ghost.

Jiang Xinyan was frightened, his temples throbbed, he grabbed the bottle, opened it, and poured it into his mouth. The tip of his tongue was covered with a strange taste, and the cold liquid was poured down his throat.

No matter, just die, she is unlucky enough.

"So, good dream."

There seemed to be a wretched and disgusting smiling face behind the mask, and he got up and left without stopping any longer.

Now she is [-]% sure that she is going to be sold to a brothel, because those people just arrested her, but did nothing to her, probably waiting to sell her for a good price.

Thinking about it, tears welled up in my eyes.

Sure enough, after breaking away from Elizabeth's protection, she is an out-and-out idiot when she walks outside. Anyone can bully her. For a moment, she hopes that there is poison in the bottle, and it is best to poison her Dead, so as not to cause Elizabeth to worry all day long, if she knows that she is gone now...

Don't save her, let alone look for her, just treat her as a passerby, so that you can feel less guilty.

The feeling of dizziness was accompanied by overwhelming sleepiness. At the last moment when she closed her eyelids, she murmured a vague word.

"Liz..."

A crystal tear slipped down the corner of the eye.

London, Windsor Castle.

Elizabeth was lying on the bed with her eyes half open, still clutching the letter in her hand, surrounded by her imperial doctor, gesturing with a knife and discussing something, needless to say, preparing to bleed her again.

"You all go out."

"Your Majesty, you..." The old man approached with a knife, hesitant to speak.

"go out."

"Kate stays."

Everyone in the room looked at each other, and among them several ministers of the Privy Council, such as the Duke of Norfolk, kept staring at the heraldic ring on her hand.That look seemed to be thinking about which heir she should give the ring to if she couldn't wake up.

Preferably Mary Stuart, his preferred Catholic queen.

When everyone withdrew and closed the door, Elizabeth stretched out her hand to Ashley who was standing beside the bed with a worried face. She was comforted by the warmth of her palm, and her heart calmed down.

"Port, any news?"

Ashley nodded and shook her hand vigorously: "Someone saw Miss Jiang being taken aboard a French cargo ship this afternoon. According to the wind direction of this season, it should have landed in Calais."

The heart suddenly dropped rapidly, and fell heavily into the abyss, and the gray eyes were filled with chaos, showing unprecedented exhaustion and despair.She turned her head suddenly, away from Ashley's face, and let the salty tears fall in the dark shadows beyond the reach of the candle.

Since she was ten years old, she has never cried for anything or anyone. Her pride and self-esteem made her not allow others to see her dejected appearance.

"I've failed too much..." suppressed the trembling in his voice.

"I didn't protect her well... let her be taken away right under my nose, and I still can't find her to save her. Tell me, what is the use of this crown..."

The warm liquid wet the pillow, and he couldn't help but take a deep breath.

It is impossible to go to war. She will not lose the whole country for one person, but such a "insignificant" person to England has a lot of weight in her heart. What she is facing now is a choice.

"Your Majesty, we must first determine whether this letter was written by Queen Mary. If someone uses her hand..."

Elizabeth, who was immersed in self-blame, her IQ was still online: "Do you think that anyone can use the royal coat of arms? Besides, 'Mary.R' is a special abbreviation for her correspondence with me, and no third person knows."

"I don't understand why she wants to arrest Miss Jiang..."

After a long silence, Elizabeth raised her hand and wiped her eyes, then turned her face and showed a mocking smile: "She claims to be the orthodox heir of the King of England, so naturally she compares herself to me in everything, from birth, bloodline to marriage, there is nothing wrong with her." Wrong, she can be called superior in every point."

"But she has no reason to openly provoke you like this, whether she is the Queen of France or the Queen of Scots, it's too stupid, isn't it? If there is another reason behind it..." Suddenly, Ashley was stunned and turned pale with shock. "Could it be that she knows about your relationship with Miss Jiang? What if... Oh, God..."

Thinking of some kind of terrifying possibility, Ashley, who had always been protecting the lord, suddenly panicked, and countless consequences evolved in his mind. His slightly distorted face looked a bit cold in the dim candlelight.

Knowing what she meant, Elizabeth curled the corners of her mouth feebly and pulled a sad smile.

"What should I do, Kate."

"Your Majesty, you must not let Miss Jiang become your weakness! If there is such a risk, if necessary, you can..." Put your fingers together like a knife, and make a gesture of wiping your neck.

After staring quietly for a few seconds, Elizabeth suddenly shook off her hand: "No, no..."

She looked like a frightened child seeking protection from her mother, and no one could soothe her crumbling heart.Until this moment, without Little Rose by her side, all the disgusting things filled with filth and darkness appeared around her, making her unable to breathe.

This beam, she and Mary have made a deal.

France, Paris.

When Jiang Xinyan woke up again, she was no longer on the boat. A ray of dazzling red light shone into her dimly opened eyes. Looking along the light, she vaguely saw the wedding ring on her hand, but it went out in an instant, without waiting. She sees clearly.

The damp musty smell penetrated into her nostrils, and she gradually regained consciousness. She stared and looked around, and found that it was a dilapidated stone prison cell, with a flaming torch burning on the thick wall outside the wooden fence door, which could only illuminate the front of the door clearly. A short section of dark road, other than that, the only bright light source is the small square window on the wall above the head.

She, is she not dead?

So where is this...

The pile of straw under her body made her face hurt, she moved her body, arms and legs, the sound of metal clashing was still piercing in the surrounding quiet as if condensed air, she was stunned, and quickly got up to sit up. Bowing his head, his wrists and ankles were tied with rusty iron chains, and there were dried and coagulated blood stains on them.

A gust of wind blew by, bringing the sound of footsteps slowly approaching in the darkness.

Jiang Xinyan shivered from the cold, her stomach grunted non-stop. The accidents she had encountered in the past few days made her feel like a frightened bird. When she heard a little movement, she held her breath and shrank to the corner.

Now she desperately hopes that she is a dead person...

Two people stepped out from the shadow of the torch, among them the guard in disguise led the way, holding a bunch of big keys in his hand, nodding and bowing, talking to the well-dressed man behind him.

"It was delivered this morning, and it's here."

When he came to the prison door and stood still, Jiang Xinyan could see the man's face clearly. He was about 40 years old. He was well-mannered, with a thin face with clear outlines, a small beard around his lips, and the clothes on his body were brand new brocade. And velvet, it should be someone of status.

The man narrowed his eyes and looked at the girl curled up in the corner, his gentle and elegant face was unknowingly tangled, his eyes fell on the ring between her fingers, and he was stunned.

"Hey, why are you in a daze, this is the Duke!" the guard yelled at Jiang Xinyan fiercely, with a standard and pure spitting tongue.

Jiang Xinyan understood this sentence in French, but she shook her head with a dazed expression, and replied in English: "What... what did you say?"

"Open the door."

"But my lord...what if she hurts you?"

"Open."

The guard bowed his head resentfully and turned over the key, unlocked the chain on the wooden fence door, and did not forget to tell me: "Be careful..."

A tall and slender shadow shrouded his head, Jiang Xinyan stared at him in horror with his dark eyes, shrunk to the corner of the wall desperately, and pressed his back against the cold stone wall.

The man knelt down and grabbed her left wrist, and what he expected was a fierce struggle and resistance, pulling the iron chain and making a sharp and piercing friction and collision sound.

"What's this?" Broken English with a thick French accent.

Looking closer, he has a pair of dark green eyes. His probing eyes glanced at the red dragon and lion pattern on the ring, and a playful smile appeared on the corner of his mouth, tugging at his mustache.

"Tell me first, who are you?" Jiang Xinyan was angry and anxious, and gave him an angry look.

"Do you know the Guise family?"

Keith...

Duke of Guise?Queen Mary's uncle?

Jiang Xinyan stopped struggling and took a deep breath silently.The man's gentle smile made people feel very uncomfortable, like a needle hidden in the cotton, she couldn't help but feel a chill down her spine.

"This is...France?"

The Duke nodded and looked at her with interest: "Her Majesty is very interested in you, and I don't know what medicine she took wrongly, but..."

Pause, eyes fell on the ring.

"Looking at it now, you are indeed curious, ma'am, please explain this ring, why is the coat of arms of the royal family of England worn on your hand?"

He is a gentleman and polite, but these are not enough to dispel Jiang Xinyan's defense and fear of him. When he knows that he is in France, apart from being inexplicable, it is more of a feeling of despair and helplessness like a catastrophe is imminent.

Who did she provoke?

Why, fate treats her like this...

"Since you don't say it..." You Youyou's green eyes narrowed into a smile, he reached out and took off the ring, held it in his palm, let go of her arm, and got up.

"Then I have to take it back and study it."

"Give it back to me!" Jiang Xinyan panicked, dragged the iron chain to get up, and rushed over to grab the ring back, but unfortunately she was too small to reach the man's raised hand, and stumbled and staggered.

Stepping out of the prison door with long legs, the guard quickly put the lock on.

Knees and elbows hit the hard stone floor, the pain caused her to shed tears, but she could only watch the man's proud back gradually go away, disappearing into the darkness at the end of the corridor...