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When Alfred returned to the main indoor venue, only Xiu and the Dukes were there.

The farewell ceremony was held at the outdoor venue, and food and drinks were arranged at the main venue indoors. It was almost lunch time, and everyone began to enter the venue one after another.

After all, this was a funeral hosted by the royal family, and all the nobles were very cautious. The emperor went to the palace behind to find Mrs. Hart, so Yuxiu led several dukes and clan members into the room, and the others would naturally follow.

The duke is the biggest title other than the prince, and there are not many people. There are only a few people standing in the huge indoor banquet hall, and even their family members are no more than a dozen people.

The one standing closest to the crown prince was the current high priest. After changing the venue, the crown prince finally had a few words with the high priest.Although the high priest is the crown prince's teacher in name, everyone in the aristocratic circle knows that the two are in name only, and they hardly see each other in normal times, and they are just a greeting at ceremonial activities.

Alfred entered the door, and all the nobles saluted him from a distance, he went straight to Xiu's side, and looked at the high priest after saluting.

"Master Priest." He greeted with a relaxed tone, "Long time no see."

Joshua stood behind the high priest, but neither the high priest nor Alfred acted as if the interrogation never happened.

"Your Highness, long time no see." The high priest said kindly as usual, "Tonight is your canonization ceremony, and we will spend a long time together today."

"I'm afraid I don't have the honor to spend a whole day with the high priest." Alfred said, "The evening ceremony should be postponed."

The high priest was slightly surprised, and asked, "Postponed? I haven't received any news, why the delay?"

"There is no birthday celebration and funeral on the same day." Alfred took it for granted, "It's not appropriate, so I want to postpone it."

Xiu asked, "Father agrees?"

"Not yet," Alfred said, "I'll talk to him about it before dinner."

The disdain in Joshua's eyes flashed, and he couldn't help saying: "Your Highness said it so easily. If you say it, will His Majesty agree?"

Alfred looked at Joshua behind the high priest, and seemed to realize that there was still someone there. He looked at Joshua in surprise for two seconds, and his tone was not so kind when he spoke to the high priest.

"My lord priest, you are a duke and a high priest. I respect you. But what title and position is your son? Is he worthy to interrupt our conversation?"

Joshua's already pale face turned even worse, but the high priest said without changing his expression, "It's true that there are no rules. Joshua, please apologize to Your Highness."

Xiu Dao: "Forget it. After all, Joshua has served Alfred for two years, and the two have a friendship, so why don't you ask for an apology. Isn't that right, Alfred?"

Alfred raised his eyebrows and said, "The prince said yes, of course it is."

When these few people spoke, other nobles did not dare to approach them, and no one could hear them clearly. However, if Joshua saluted and apologized, the entire banquet hall would be able to see it.

Xiu defended, and Joshua didn't have to plead guilty in front of all the dukes and relatives, so his expression softened a little, and he silently backed away and shut his mouth tightly.

"Father, you don't have to say it anymore." Xiu continued, "When the oral order was just issued, I reminded Father of the conflict between the two days for you. changed."

Alfred said: "His Royal Highness said it is useless, because you used the wrong method."

"Really? So what is the correct way?"

Alfred gave Xiu a big smile.He was tall and handsome, and when he smiled, he was as dazzling as the sun, Xiu felt a little dazzled.

It seemed that Alfred hadn't shown such a cheerful smile for a long time.When he was young, he often laughed like this.

"It's like this knife." Alfred said, picking up a knife beside the table.

This knife is not long, but thin, straight and sharp. It is a steak knife for the servants to cut steaks for the master and VIPs after the meal is opened for a while.

The high priest's expression couldn't help but tense a little, but Alfred didn't make any dangerous moves, but pointed the blade at him very politely, and handed the handle to Xiu.

"Although this is a special knife, as long as the thinking is not limited, there are other ways to use it." Alfred said, signaling Xiu to take the knife, as if he wanted to demonstrate something to him.

Xiu paused for a second, then reached out to pick it up.

In the next instant, before everyone could react, several things happened at the same time.

Marshal Stone and his wife walked towards the prince and the others, stopped not far from them, and reached for a small cake on the dessert table.

The high priest opened his mouth slightly, as if he wanted to object to the prince's taking the knife.

Xiu held the handle of the knife, but Alfred held his hand tightly almost at the same time, together with the knife in his hand, ruthlessly moved in his direction.

The door of the banquet hall opened suddenly, and the emperor arrived with Mrs. Hart. Behind them were other nobles.

"Big brother!"

Alfred screamed, and everyone looked at him.

I saw that he and the prince were standing very close together, their hands were entangled in Alfred's abdomen, in a strange posture.Immediately, Alfred staggered back a step, and collapsed at the prince's feet.

Everyone saw that the prince's hands were covered with blood, and the third prince had a sharp knife for chopping steaks stuck in his abdomen.

There was an uproar inside and outside the hall!

"What's going on!" the emperor roared angrily, "What are you making a fuss about on this occasion?"

"Brother..." Alfred fell into a pool of blood, looking up at Xiu in pain, his bloody hands tightly clutching Xiu's pants, "Brother, why did you kill me? Brother... why did you want to kill me?" kill me!"

He asked so unwillingly, so unbelievably, it moved people.

The servants ran in a panic, those who called the doctor called the doctor, those who took the first-aid kit took the first-aid kit, but none of the nobles dared to move for fear of being involved.

In this strange scene of stillness and movement, the emperor strode in.Well-trained attendants began to bandage Alfred urgently to stop the bleeding. The emperor looked around like an angry old lion, and finally he stared at the prince.

"Prince, what's going on?"

Xiu didn't answer the emperor's question immediately, he stared at the first aid work on the ground, his face turned pale, and after a few seconds, he looked at the emperor, gritted his teeth and said, "Father, it's not me!"

He seemed to be a little panicked very rarely, turned his head to look at the high priest, and spoke faster than usual.

"The high priest can testify for me! It's Alfred himself..."

"Could it be possible that he can still stab himself!" The emperor said angrily, "High Priest, tell me!"

In just 2 minutes, the situation changed suddenly, and the name was suddenly called. The high priest lowered his eyes and had no time to react in a very short time. He tried his best to organize his words and said: "Your Majesty, just now...Your Highness, he picked it up by himself." The knife, missed and injured, His Highness wants to save him..."

Alfred reluctantly said: "High Priest! No wonder you kept talking to me just now and refused to let me go. You and him are in the same group..."

The emperor ignored any of them, turned around and asked solemnly, "What did you see?"

Several dukes shook their heads, saying that they were standing too far away and didn't pay attention to this side.

When it was Marshal Stone's turn to make a statement, the emperor said, "Marshal, you are standing very close, you can't see anything."

Marshal Stone glanced at the high priest, snorted and said, "I'm afraid the dukes didn't see it, but they didn't dare to refute the high priest? I saw that the crown prince stabbed the third prince."

"I want to eat this dessert. When we came to get it, we saw the crown prince said something to the third prince. The third prince went to get the knife and handed it to the prince. His Royal Highness took the knife and directly..." Madam Marshal On the side, he said in shock, "It happened so fast, I didn't even have time to shout out."

Mrs. Hart stood at the door, frantically scanning the dining table and Alfred who was being taken over by the rushing doctor, wondering what she was thinking.

Xiu immediately said: "Father, seeing is not believing! I was holding the knife, but I didn't intend to stab him. The high priest can testify, and I didn't ask Alfred to get the knife, it was him himself. want……"

"Enough." The emperor said darkly, "At your second brother's funeral, do you want to send your third brother away again?"

The word "again" made many people's faces change slightly.

If this happens, the evening celebration will definitely not be able to be held, and it will be postponed.

Alfred let the doctor carry him away, and before he left, he turned his head and glanced at Xiu one last time, he seemed irrefutable, and only looked at the emperor with a pale face.

Two years ago, in the face of Xiu's slander and the chain of evidence, Alfred couldn't say a word, and stood in front of the emperor in despair.

Alfred only felt that the depression was relieved, and it no longer weighed heavily on his heart, making him toss and turn every midnight.

It's just that this scene is not so perfect... It would be even better if the person Xiu surrenders to and fears, the person who can give Xiu the judgment, and the person who controls Xiu's fate is not the emperor, but himself.

When the third prince was carried out of the banquet hall, Marshal Stone and Marshal's wife looked over briefly, and the three of them exchanged a touch-sensitive look, and then looked away.