The Sensory Animals of Ston Hill

Chapter 110 Hug

Grace played with Alan Stone's hair twice, and finally remembered something more important: "Are you injured?"

Allen shook his head with a smile, and proudly opened his arms to show his health, "Napoleon was only injured once."

Grace pressed his raised arm down hard, and stared: "You must never mention Napoleon again! Do you know how much William paid to make those people trust you and send you reinforcements? He In order to say good things for you, I almost lost the trust of those people!"

The complacency on Alan Stone's face disappeared. He was unconvinced at first, but soon, he looked away like a child who has done something wrong in front of adults, "Is William angry?"

"I'm not angry... He's worried about you too much." Grace saw the guilt on Allen's face became more obvious, and took the opportunity to say, "Don't quarrel again in the future, okay?"

"...we're not arguing, it's—"

"I know, 'political views,' 'nuances,' that's what you love to say. But you're not like them, you're not just allies, you're brothers—"

Allen raised his hand and stopped him from continuing, "There will be a meeting soon, and you have to tell me about important things that happened recently. I heard that the court and the church got mixed up?"

Grace had no choice but to swallow the words in her mouth, and nodded slightly, "I just received the news yesterday that the court called for the resumption of the national meeting."

Allen frowned, "What national conference? The conference where representatives from all regions are selected? But this tradition has been suspended for almost 200 years... What's the idea of ​​the court? Don't tell me they want democracy."

"William said that it is impossible for those nobles to really hold a meeting. They just want to blackmail His Majesty to change his mind...William also said that the noble court does not have to listen to His Majesty. If they insist on refusing to register those new policies, we temporarily There is no way."

He said "William said" twice without paying attention, which made Alan Stone smile wryly.

He lowered his head and gently pressed his brows, "The cities in the Border Province happen to be traditional 'meeting cities'. I went there this time and found that those cities have long been out of the hands of the lords. The so-called 'meeting cities' It has long been controlled by some nobles who are not so pushy."

"There is one more thing that surprises me the most, Grace, you will never think of it. I checked the archives of one of the cities and found that almost all the officials and conference members got their positions by buying officials! This income is so large that you I'm afraid, but these people don't have to do anything after buying official positions, and the way they increase the income of the city is to sell these positions again."

Grace did look surprised, but not because of the fact that their country could openly buy and sell official positions.

"How can you see the files of the Border Province? How can you have such great power? William has been stationed in the Border Province for two years, and he hasn't..." He thought of something terrible and couldn't help lowering his voice, "William Said that you did not cross the border on purpose, he said that you did not deliberately drive the enemy army back to the country as those people suspected, and then... Alan, William, is he right?"

Alan Stone laughed, stretched out his hand to him, and then bent his fingers upwards twice.Like greeting a puppy.

Grace hastily moved closer, as if preparing to hear a secret.

He felt Alan Stone lower his head and his lips almost touched his ears, which made his heart skip a beat.He also felt his hand on his shoulder.Today it was Eva who combed his hair in a high bun, because he always wears clothes with high collars to protect his throat, so Eva let the back of his neck be exposed as much as possible to make his neck appear slender.He felt Alan Stone's hand move, and his fingers touched the skin on the back of his neck.

He couldn't help lifting his shoulders, trying to keep Alan from being so close to him, but he was immediately attracted by the words that got into his ears:

"I haven't told anyone about this... If I had brought two more legions, I could have reported one day later, and the situation would have been very different..."

Grace made sure that Alan Stone's lips were touching her ears, and pushed the man away from her side forcefully.

At the same time, he heard the door being opened and his nominal father walked in with the real Miss Nakoren.

Grace took a few steps back away from Alan Stone in a panic.He didn't know what he looked like at the moment, but after the Marquis entered the room, he was taken aback for a moment, then quickly closed the door, and smiled at him—"I saw it, but I won't say it", Or, "We shared some fun privacy," that kind of laugh.

And the real Miss Nakoren looked at him with unabashed envy.

She had asked herself about Alan Stone, Grace remembered, and thought, his heart beating so fast, that she was in love with him.

"Grace..." Alan Stone came over from behind and put his arms around his shoulders.Grace turned her head to look at him in horror, like a madman.

But what he saw wasn't a mad profile.Alan Ston smiled calmly and said, "Don't worry, Lord Marquis knows our relationship best."

The Marquis of Nacolon smiled and clapped his hands, "Yes, yes, but Grace will always be my smartest daughter!"

Grace leaned into Alan Stone's arms limply, only then did she realize that the "relationship" he said meant "blood relationship".

The real Miss Nakoren looked at him even more jealously.

So she was jealous of this!Grace almost laughed because he was the more favored "Miss Nakoren" now.

But in fact, the Miss Nakoren in front of her can't be regarded as the real Miss Marquis.Lord Marquis has more than a dozen illegitimate sons and daughters, this one is just one of them.The reason why she can always lift her chin is because she is the most beautiful of all the Marquis's children.

But it's a pity that her beauty didn't come in handy in the palace, so she fell out of favor.

Lord Marquis rushed towards Grace, embraced him emotionally, and tried to kiss Grace on the cheek.His teeth were almost black, and he smelled as horrible as he looked, and Grace desperately avoided his mouth, trying to escape from his sweaty embrace.

Alan Stone picked up the Marquis's arm, pulled the man away from Grace, and asked him with a smile if he came so early, did he have anything to say.

Lord Marquis had an exaggerated expression. I don’t know if he was really surprised or he was used to this kind of performance. He praised Alan Stone’s wisdom vigorously, and then pulled Miss Nakoron to Grace, saying that he hoped that Grace would let Marquis The young lady also moved to the Summer Palace, leaving her by her side to continue working as a maid.

Lord Marquis tried to ask Grace to hold Miss Nakoren's hand, but both of them resisted very much, making this intimate action impossible.

Alan Stone looked at all this with interest, and asked Grace in a low voice: "Did she offend you?"

"Please, Captain, stop trying to make girls angry with each other," begged the Marquis. "Young girls are always short-tempered. You must help me. I am old, times have changed, and I I can't figure out what these little girls are thinking every day..."

"Okay, okay!" Grace interrupted him disgustingly, and said to Miss Nakoren, "You can't bully Eva and Anna again, if I hear one more complaint about you from them—"

The Marquis of Nakron hurriedly hugged him again, "My dear daughter, don't say such heartless words!"

Grace was kissed to the temple by him, and stomped her feet depressingly.Alan Ston laughed, dragged him behind him, and then used the excuse of political affairs to drag the Marquis away.

Other adults who attended the meeting came in one after another. They were surprised to see Alan Stone here, and then hugged him warmly.

Miss Nakoren was not qualified to stay here, she left with a look of jealousy, and only went out after giving Alan Stone a reluctant look.

She's really in love with him, Grace thought gloatingly, this annoying lady is doomed to be sad.

William was almost the last to come in.

Allen was surrounded by people, and it seemed that because of this, he didn't go to hug his brother.The brothers just glanced at each other from a distance, and soon, the meeting began.

The Earl of Arundel and Admiral Cromwell both went to the border to negotiate with the Empire. Without two people who could speak, Alan Ston made up his mind to attract less attention, making this meeting dull Tasteless and finished earlier than usual.

As if they had made an appointment, neither William nor Allen left, and soon there were only three of them and Grace left in the room.

"Did you come back alone early?" William asked first, "I haven't heard from you."

Alan Stone showed that expression again, a little unconvinced and a little guilty, he pursed his lips and said nothing.

Grace stomped his back secretly behind him, and Alan Stone took a small step forward.

William strode towards him, hugged him vigorously, and patted his widening back twice, "Those battles were fought beautifully!"

Grace walked around to them and saw Allen's face flushed with excitement, and he raised his arms to hug his elder brother.He also saw tears in their eyes.

Grace felt like she was going to cry too.It was only now that he realized that the risk Alan Stone took was more terrifying than he thought.

William threw an arm around Grace.He didn't speak, just kissed each of Grace and Allen's heads.

Grace pressed her face to William's chest and heard William's strong heartbeat.Alan Stone on the side suddenly broke away from the hug and left alone.